Grade 4/5 students at Resurrection School in Brantford took their civics class to city hall.

The students – 16 in total – took turns explaining why lights are needed at Cedarland and Cameron Heights parks at a the city council’s committee-of-the-whole meeting.

“It’s more important than you might think,” Emmy Miaco, a Grade 4 student, told councillors. “If we don’t have lights our mental health will suffer and people might get sick.

“And where will we go if the hospitals are already full.”

Emmy told the councillors that it is sad to see kids playing video games all day, if they didn’t have lights in the park.

“Kids will become depressed and if you become depressed, you can also develop social anxiety,” Emmy said.

Collectively, the students said lights in the park would enable youngste

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