Join together with the community, friends and family on Monday, January 15 from 10 AM – 2 PM for the 9th Annual Martin Luther King Day of Service, held at the Recreation Center of Highland Park, 1207 Park Avenue West. Purposeful service projects and entertainment will engage all ages. The Jesse White Tumblers will perform their amazing feats. Listen to Highland Park’s very own Lynn Epps perform a portrait of Dr. King, and the Edgewood chorus perform a variety of civic minded songs.
Free parking for the event is available in the Recreation Center Parking Lot. Overflow parking is available at Wolters Field across the street from the Recreation Center.
Service projects will include, assembling toiletries for Hospitalized Veterans and the USO, creating Valentine messages for Operation Support Our Troops (Braeside PTO), decorating squares for Project Linus (Lincoln Service Club), decorating tablecloths for the USO (Wayne Thomas PTO), helping prepare soup packets for Moraine Township Food Bank (Red Oak PTO), decorating book marks for Bernie’s Book Bank (Ravinia CARE Club), and decorating and filling book bags for distribution at North Shore Health Clinic.
The MLK event will be accepting collections for a variety of causes including food for Moraine Township Food Pantry, glasses for Lions Club, instruments for Ravinia Foundation, toiletries for Veterans and USO plus bicycles for Working Bikes; please bring and drop off donated items to the event between 10 AM - 12 noon.
This is your chance to turn community concerns into citizen action. For more event information, please contact Terry Grossberg at trpltung@gmail.com or 847.204.4815.