Mayor's Blog
“Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.”
Ryunosuke Satoro, Japanese author
Every year, I accept an invitation to speak to High Ponies participants, a springtime gathering of youth built around the topics of citizenship, exercise and activity, developed by Jill Wigand of Jasper. My 2017 message was about CITY:
Communities
Investing in
Today’s
Youth
It’s rather fascinating to see what our youngest citizens know about local government. For me, it’s back to basics as we explain about the obvious – police and fire – to the not-so-obvious such as running water and lights which magically come on with the flick of a switch.
Then I speak about citizenship and how many of them it takes to make us a community. Finally, we wrap it all up with a message about what Jasper will be like when they grow up and how Jasper leaders are focused on our future.
CITY – Communities Investing in Today’s Youth – is an acronym which represents the approach we are taking with Jasper today. We are very fortunate for the vision, plans and implementation underway and for the city staff, boards and elected officials who are striving to make a better tomorrow possible.
Mayor Terry Seitz
