Junior deputy mayor Binti Christiansen and junior mayor Elizabeth Eppen-VanDerAa with Mayor Rhys Williams.
Camera IconJunior deputy mayor Binti Christiansen and junior mayor Elizabeth Eppen-VanDerAa with Mayor Rhys Williams. Credit: Supplied/Supplied

Mandurah Junior Council elects new mayor and deputy

Jill BurgessMandurah Coastal Times

MANDURAH’s new junior Mayor is St Damien’s Catholic Primary School student Elizabeth Eppen-VanDerAa.

The deputy junior mayor is Binti Christiansen from Falcon Primary School.

Junior councillors from 19 local primary schools cast their votes at the council chamber this morning and nominees had the chance to tell their schoolmates why they should be elected.

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There were 18 nominations.

The two will serve for two months.

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