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The City of Burlington's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
of Service and Celebration!

Free and open to all! Please join us for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and Celebration! All are welcome to experience a "Day On not a Day Off" on January 16th.

Get an early start on MLK Day festivities! Participate in the Food Drive January 9th to 16th. As part of the events organized by the CEDO AmeriCorps VISTA Team, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service and Celebration, there will be a Burlington-wide Food Drive. HELP US TO FIGHT HUNGER THIS SEASON!

Please drop off Non-Perishable Items at the following food collection sites:

• Nectar's (188 Main Street), 5-7 pm, January 9-13. Bring in a food donation and get a small gravy fry!

 ALL THIS WEEK:

• Center for Community and Neighborhoods-CCAN (82 S. Winooski Avenue, 2nd Floor of City Market building)
• The Cathedral Church of St. Paul (2 Cherry Street)
• ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain
• Ethan Allen Family Housing (Essex Junction)
• Fletcher Allen Health Care (http://www.fahc.org/Quick_Links/maps.html)
• Fletcher Free Library (235 College Street)
• Greek Orthodox Church (600 S Willard St)
• Merchant's Bank (http://www.mbvt.com/branch_locations/branch_index.htm)
• Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (255 S. Champlain Street, Suite 7)
• YMCA (266 College St.)

MLK Day activities will be taking place throughout the day on January 16th to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. King. Come to Contois Auditorium (149 Church Street in City Hall) and join us for one event or the whole day! Organized by the Center for Community and Neighborhoods and the AmeriCorps*VISTA team. For more information call Susan Elliot at 802-865-7547.

Schedule of Events:

12 noon-1: 00 Community Speak Out: Contois Auditorium, City Hall featuring community leaders discussing the legacy of Dr. King, to inspire conversation, dialogue, and thought before Service Projects.

1:00-1:15 Register for service projects

1:15-1:30 Depart for service projects

1:30-4:30 Service Projects throughout Burlington at area non-profit organizations. Projects include: flyering, organizing, canned food drive. There is something for everyone; all ages welcome.

Sites for the service projects:

  • Change a light, through Vermont Energy Investment Corp. (40 volunteers)
  • Food Drive, collecting canned food for Food Shelf (10-20 volunteers)
  • COTS (6-10 volunteers)
  • Recycle North (10 volunteers)
  • Old North End flyering information about low-income services (10-20 volunteers)
  • Visiting Nurse Assoc. (5-6 volunteers)
  • Mercy Connections (5-6 volunteers)
  • Winooski Family Center (4-5 volunteers)
  • Big Heavy World (5-6, would like kids)
  • Association of Africans Living in Vermont -project with kids
  • Franklin Sq. Comm. Ctr. (5-10 volunteers) clean-up project
  • Welcome Baby; assembling baby bags for new parents (up to 5 volunteers)
  • Burlington Emergency Shelter
  • Women Helping Battered Women
  • Bike Recycle Vermont

5:00-7:00 Free Community Dinner and Celebration with live music and entertainment at Contois Auditorium, City Hall.

Jeh Kulu and Northern Women's Voices will perform at the celebration. There will also be a reflection on the day led by Emma Mulvaney-Stanak of the Peace and Justice Center. Community and Economic Development Office Director Michael Monte and Mayor Peter Clavelle will serve as MCs.

AmeriCorps VISTA members will be preparing two homemade soups, Vermont Minestrone and Butternut Squash. Both are recipes from the Burlington School Food Project, and have been served in the Burlington School District schools. We will also be featuring pesto pasta, using pesto donated from the Burlington School District Food Service who processed a large bumper crop of fresh basil from the Intervale Community Farm at the end of last summer into pesto to be used throughout the year in the school district. We'll also have various side dishes, bread, dessert and beverages from local businesses.

Donors include: O Bread Bakery, Klinger's Bakery, Cabot Cheese, City Market, Healthy Living, Shelburne Farms, Cloud 9 Catering , Sugar Snap, Rhino Foods, Shaw's Supermarkets, Price Chopper Supermarkets, Burlington School District Food Service, Burlington Department of Parks and Recreation, Hannaford Supermarkets, Recycle North.
 

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Page last updated January 11, 2006

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