{"id":24285,"date":"2014-12-24T09:34:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=24285"},"modified":"2014-12-24T09:34:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:34:22","slug":"mlk-community-breakfast-jan-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=24285","title":{"rendered":"MLK CommUNITY Breakfast, Jan. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rev. Martin Luther King. Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n

KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 \u00a0The 14th Annual Martin Luther King Junior CommUNITY Breakfast will be held at the Red Clay Room, Dalmatian Street, Kennett Square on Monday, January 19, 2014 at 8:00 AM.\u00a0 \u201cThe mission of the Martin Luther King CommUNITY Breakfast is to promote peace and harmony throughout our community,\u201d according to Jerry Poe, Chairman of the organizing committee.\u00a0 The theme for this year\u2019s event is \u201cJusitice<\/i>\u201d.\u00a0 The 2015 keynote speaker will be Dr. Marjorie G. Adams, Professor at Morgan State University in Baltimore, speaking to the past, future, and ongoing issues of justice in our world.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the event are $15.00 and are available online at http:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?llr=unhmmecab&oeidk=a07ea5jbi4p525cf232<\/a> and also may be obtained by calling the United Way of Southern Chester County office at (610) 444-4357 or emailing mlkjrbreakfast@verizon.net<\/a>. \u00a0Tickets must be purchased in advance and the event typically sells out quickly.<\/p>\n

The MLK CommUNITY Breakfast was originally founded by the late Mabel Thompson.\u00a0 The event has become the catalyst for several other community activities to highlight the Martin Luther King Day of Sharing. \u00a0The MLK Day of Sharing honors Dr. King’s ideals by engaging the community in service to others.\u00a0 On Monday, January 19th<\/sup>, volunteers will work to support projects at various non-profit venues throughout the area.\u00a0 Community members interested in participating should e-mail mlkdayofsharing@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the month of January,\u00a0 a CommUNITY Food Drive in support of the Kennett Area Food Cupboard encourages the donation of non-perishable food items.\u00a0 Donations may be brought to the January 19th Breakfast or dropped off at Kennett, Unionville-Chadds Ford, or Avon Grove schools prior to January 17th.\u00a0 Coordination for the seventh annual food drive is being handled by Dori Roper and Ginny Levy and will culminate with a community celebration at 6:00 pm at the Kennett Food Cupboard to unload the tractor trailer truck provided by Phillips Mushroom Company.\u00a0 For more information on the food drive, email mlkfooddrive@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 \u00a0The 14th Annual Martin Luther King Junior CommUNITY Breakfast will be held at the Red Clay Room, Dalmatian Street, Kennett Square on Monday, January 19, 2014 at 8:00 AM.\u00a0 \u201cThe mission of the Martin Luther King CommUNITY Breakfast is to promote peace and harmony throughout our community,\u201d according to Jerry Poe, Chairman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,924],"tags":[376,190,6573],"class_list":["post-24285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-events","tag-breakfast","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}