Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration is Monday in Canton
CANTON − The 48th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration, “Stop the Hate! Stop the Violence!," will be at noon Monday at the Edward “Peel” Coleman Center, 1400 Sherrick Road SE.
The program is free and open to all of Stark County.
The event is sponsored by the Leila Green Alliance of Black School Educators.
Keynote speaker will be Elder Patty Stokes Williams of Union Baptist Church. Honorees are Hammer & Nails Ministries Faith-Based Mission; Kim Brown, Board Member At Large, Canton City School District; Mr. C’s Mastery Cutting Barbershop; George Lancaster, School Community Worker at STEAMM Academy @ Hartford and Senior Pastor Zion’s Temple Church of God. Special performance by Canton Community Choir under the direction of Christopher Gales.
Program participants are Thomas West, Ron Ponder, Chris Smith, Brenda Kimbrough, Pastor Hubert M. Carpenter, Jeffery S. Talbert, superintendent of Canton City School District, and Yvonne Parks, president of Leila Green Alliance of Black School Educators.
Doors open at 10 a.m. for attendees to browse entrepreneurs’ exhibits and tables. Coffee and doughnuts will be available in the Community Room from 10 to 11:45 a.m.
Exhibit and entrepreneur tables are available for $60. Deadline to reserve tables is Friday. For further information and to reserve exhibit tables, contact chairwoman Stephanie Rushin Patrick at 330-495-2658.
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