Students at Southside Elementary School received a special surprise Friday from an unexpected visitor, Vice President Mike Pence.
Pence, a Columbus native, visited the elementary school Friday afternoon around 1 p.m. He told the more than 900 students that he had received letters from fourth-grade teacher Mark Yeaton’s students inviting him to stop by the school the next time he visited Columbus.
The vice president arrived in Indianapolis Thursday for an event promoting the benefits of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, also known as USMCA.
Yeaton’s former third-grade students wrote congratulatory letters to Pence in 2016 after he had been named vice president. In the letters, the students asked Pence to visit their elementary school the next time he stopped in Columbus.
Pence responded to the letters, reassuring the students that he would visit at a future date.
“I told my kids realistically this might not happen for years; he’s a really busy guy,” Yeaton said. “So, when I got a call Tuesday that this was going to happen, his people came over, walked through the building and asked a lot of questions.”
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