PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- Being the face of municipal government for Port Orange Mayor Don Burnette entails some really exciting duties like sitting through long-winded city council budget hearings, posing for grip-and-grin ribbon cuttings and sitting some more for the steady diet of community chicken dinner events.
Talk about tedium and stress!
So what better way to walk it off than tagging along with Spruce Creek Elementary students and their mascot in a 1.1-mile-long stretch during Friday's National Walk to School Day.
"It’s a great way to start the day with these kids," Burnette told Headline Surfer later in the day. "Their energy and enthusiasm is amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with them."
So what better way to walk it off than tagging along with Spruce Creek Elementary students and their mascot in a 1.1-mile-long stretch during Friday's National Walk to School Day. "It’s a great way to start the day with these kids," Burnette told Headline Surfer later in the day. "Their energy and enthusiasm is amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with them."
National Walk to School Day is observed annually on the first Wednesday in October.