Each year, Mayor Michael Copeland would visit Olathe elementary schools with the neediest kids to read to first-graders and pass out book bags, paperbacks and stickers. “He didn’t do it to get credit. He absolutely loved it,” Olathe Superintendent John Allison said Thursday. “There was a bounce in his step when he went through the school doors and could talk to students. You could just see his smile and his enthusiasm, and how the students got so engaged. That will always be a vision I will carry of the mayor.” The mayor’s children literacy program is only one example of how Copeland chose to serve the Johnson County city for nearly 30 years.
Source: Joco 913 News
