1/15/2010

Area Events Honor Dr. Martin Luther King

ROCKY MOUNT CELEBRATIONS

Saturday, Jan. 16th

Program Unity Breakfast
Nash Community College
9:00 AM – Breakfast 10:00 AM
Cost - $5.00
Naomi Tutu, Daughter of Bishop Desmond Tutu – Speaker

Saturday, Jan. 16th
MLK Blood Drive
9:00 AM
Ebenezer Baptist Church

Sunday, Jan. 17th
MLK Candlelight Service
5:00 PM 
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Rev. John Mendez-Speaker

Monday, Jan. 18th
MLK Service
9:00 AM Breakfast; 10:00 AM Service
Word Tabernacle Church, Rocky Mount
For more information contact: 252-442-2925

Saturday, Feb. 20th
International Festival of Cultures
12:00-4:00 PM
Nash Community College

Sunday, Feb. 21st
Talent Hunt Competition-Imperial Centre (Black Box Theatre)
3:30 PM
Entries due February 12, 2010
For more information, call 252-972-1182; TT(TTD) 1-800-735-2962
VOICE 1-800-736-8262


HALIFAX COUNTY CELEBRATIONS

Saturday, Jan. 16th
6:00 PM
Mystique Multi-Venue Complex, Hwy 125- Roanoke Rapids, NC
For information contact: 252-535-2284 (David Harvey, President).
Tickets available at H.D. Pope Funeral Home - $25.00.

Monday, Jan. 18th
King Day Celebration Dutch Brunch
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Resettlement Café; 8311 Hwy 561, Halifax, NC
For information contact 252-826-3244.


WHITAKERS CELEBRATIONS
[Sponsored by the CDC Workers Unity Committee/Carolina Auto, Aerospace & Machine Workers Union-UE150 and the Bloomer Hill Community Association]

Sunday, Jan. 17th 
18th Annual Martin Luther King Memorial Concert
4:00 PM
Mann’s Chapel AME Church, 9992 Red Oak Road, Whitakers, NC
Ffeaturing Youth and Gospel Choirs from Whitakers, Battleboro Area

Monday, Jan. 18th
13th Annual Mlk Community Empowerment Breakfast Monday
7:30 AM
Franklinton Center at Bricks, US 301 North, Whitakers, NC
Speaker: Rev. Leon White, Ministers for Racial, Social & Economic Justice
Sponsored by Community Empowerment Alliance

Monday, Jan. 18th
11th Annual Whitakers Mlk Day Motorcade & March
9:30 AM
Start at Whitakers Town Park, NW Railroad Street; March Ends at Bloomer Hill Community Center
Sponsored by the Whitakers Community Club

Monday, Jan. 18th
20th Annual Martin Luther King Day Celebration
11:00 AM
Bloomer Hill Community Center, US 301, Whitakers, NC
Keynote Speaker: Melvin MAClin, Vice President, UE Local 1110, Chicago, IL
Former Republic Windows & Doors Worker


NASHVILLE CELEBRATIONS

Monday, Jan. 18th
MLK Day 
9:00 AM 
Nashville Celebration, OD Moore Center
District Attorney – Robert Evans, Speaker


TARBORO CELEBRATIONS

Saturday, Jan. 16th
MLK Banquet
6:00 PM
Edgecombe Community College Auditorium Atrium
Contact Linda Knight – 252-823-1599

Saturday, Jan. 16th
MLK DAY Unity Breakfast
8:00 AM
Edgecombe Community College, Administration Building
For information contact: Roosevelt Higgs – 252-907-8311

Friday, Jan. 15th
Poster Exhibit 
St. Luke Episcopal Church, Tarboro
For information contact: Judy Moss – 252-823-8496 

Monday, Jan. 18th
Commemorative March
10:00 AM
St. Luke Church of God; Tarboro, NC
For information contact: 252-823-7171 


PRINCEVILLE CELEBRATIONS

Monday, Jan. 18th
Lunch with the King
12:00 Noon
St. Luke Church of God, Princeville, NC
For information contact: 252-823-7171

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