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SO/M Community Coalition
Citizen
Username: Coalition
Post Number: 152
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 9:25 am: |     |
January 16th - Our Lady of Sorrows, SO
SOM Community Coalition sponsors
5th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration
Join your neighbors during a time for reflection and a time for service to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Interfaith Worship Service
1 pm - 2 pm
Guest Speaker: Dr. Clement Price noted historian and director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience speaking about the Academic Achievement Gap — what would Dr. King have us do?
Action
Each year we urge residents to make the MLK holiday a day on, not a day off! Here’s what you can do:
+ Bring new or gently used K-12 books which will be sent to hurricane-ravaged Slidell, LA.
+ Donate canned and other non-perishable food for the OLS Food Pantry.
Collection hours: 12 – 4
+ Volunteer to work with community organizations focusing on closing the academic achievement gap. Volunteer fair will run 2-4 pm at Our Lady of Sorrows.
Call the Coalition Office at 973-761-6116 x6 for more information.
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Barbara
Citizen
Username: Blh
Post Number: 589
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 10:30 am: | |
Don't forget to bring your new or gently used books to OLS today, between 12-4. All books collected will be sent down to Slidell LA to restock school and public library shelves.
For 2006, this book drive replaces the Reading=Success book drive held each year to benefit the SOMSD classrooms and libraries -- so don't hold back your books!!
Collection will be held today only.
Thanks!! |
Pizzaz
Supporter
Username: Pizzaz
Post Number: 3061
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 12:49 pm: | |
Here's a nicely produced video geared toward school children to watch in rememberance.
http://www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/tct/reading/grade2/core_lit/happy_birthday_martin_ luther_king/movie/Martin_s_Big_Words.asf
Happy MLK Day! |
Deidra
Citizen
Username: Deidralynn
Post Number: 466
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 4:13 pm: | |
WONDERFUL!
My son got that book for his 5th birthday and it's one of his favorites (which he reads all year around).
Thanks for that video. We have other Scholastic DVDs but I am going to download this to my pc - to share with others.
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Barbara
Citizen
Username: Blh
Post Number: 592
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 6:51 pm: | |
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? (Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Once again, our two town community has demonstrated that we know that "we are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality." Neighbors today again redefined the boundaries of our neighborhood by caring for our extended family who were so hurt by the autumn hurricanes. Dozens and dozens of you gave of yourself on this “day of service.” From the precious Girl Scout Troop 230 and the equally precious and stalwart volunteers who have come out every year of the Reading = Success program to help sort and pack books to the families who lugged in boxes, bags and crates of books; today you moved us further toward building our beloved community.
Through your efforts, we will be sending an amazing Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Six (5756) books to our neighbors in Slidell, LA!
Congratulations and great thanks to you all,
Barbara Heisler Williams |
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