WATERVILLE, Maine (WABI) - Students and city leadership came together today at a school in Waterville to spread a simple message: everyone is welcome.

It’s the seventh year of the Alfred S. Hall School’s Day of Welcome celebration.

Frida morning, students held up signs in multiple different languages telling all members of the community they are welcome.

They also held up a banner the students made.

It’s put on by the school’s Civil Rights Team, a group of students who meet once a week to discuss issues both in the past and present.

“I think it’s good to welcome all people of origins and different sexual orientations,” answered 5th Grader Waylon.

“I think it like matters that everyone is included and welcomed and stuff like that and that it doesn’t really matter that you have any dif

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