Martin Luther King Jr. Day events will be held in Littleton, Whitakers and Enfield Monday.
Littleton
Oak Grove Baptist Church in Littleton and Piney Grove Baptist Church in Halifax are sponsoring the annual MLK Day Parade.
Line-up will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Mosby Avenue near Lakeland Cultural Arts Center in Littleton and go down Main Street at 10 a.m.
The churches will sponsor the tenth annual MLK program and reception at Oak Grove Baptist Church on Highway 158 outside Littleton.
The Reception will begin at 10:45 a.m. in the C. E. McCollum Fellowship Hall and the program at noon in the Promise Land Sanctuary.
Keynote speaker is the Reverend Thomas L. Walker.
The churches Monday will also sponsor the 2012 MLK Service Project that will benefit The Learning Pot, an after school center in Littleton serving students in second through fifth grades.
The project will be to collect snacks for the students at the center.
For more information contact Ophelia Gould-Faison at 252-532-0071 or email
Whitakers and Enfield
At 11 a.m. Monday the CDC Workers Unity Committee/Carolina Auto, Aerospace & Machine Workers Union-UE150, and the Bloomer Hill Community Association sponsors the 22nd Annual Martin Luther King Day Celebration at the Bloomer Hill Community Center, on Highway 301, Whitakers. Keynote Speaker will be Representative Angela Bryant.
At 7:30 a.m. the same group will hold the 15th Annual MLK Community Empowerment Breakfast at the Franklinton Center at Bricks, on Highway 301 outside Enfield. The speaker will be Enfield Mayor Barbara S. Simmons.
At 9:30 a.m. the group will sponsor the 13th Annual Whitakers MLK Day Motorcade & March which will start at the Whitakers Town Park on Northwest Railroad Street and end at Bloomer Hill Community Center. The event is sponsored by the Whitakers Community Club. For more information call 252-641-0294.
