Mayor Anne Eadie (L) read "Casey at the Bat," eloquently and clearly. She was responding to the Mayor's Poetry Challenge, thrown down by the municipality's arts, culture and heritage committee chairperson, Kim Schubert, at the March 16 council meeting.

At that meeting, Schubert noted that the Mayor's Poetry Challenge began in 2012, and she invited Eadie to read some poetry at a council meeting.

Eadie took up the challenge and fulfilled her obligation Wednesday night.

Meanwhile, Harleen Gill, Grade 5, and Vana Palominos, Grade 7, of Huron Heights, read their Remembrance Day poems which won them first place in their division in the Kincardine Legion competition. Harleen's poem was entitled, "Thank you, Soldiers," while Vana's was entitled, "We Will Remember."

Robert Forrest, youth education chairman for both the Kincardine Legion and Zone C-1, presented plaques to the girls. Harleen also won first place for her essay at the local level, and second place for her essay at the zone level.