Editorial: A true champion

“Don’t try to ride two horses at once. I’ve always been straight up. And I’ve never backed down from a fight. If you believe in something, you fight for it.”
Those were a few parting words from Ron Hayter in 2010 when he announced that he was retiring after a record-breaking 33 years on council.
Leave it to perhaps the best orator ever at city hall to sum up concisely the qualities that made him the hard-nosed champion for Edmonton that he was.
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