Pierce County’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances will include the annual program and parade.
A program will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday, January 18, at the Scott Chapel Methodist Church, 420 Highway Avenue South, Blackshear.
Annual awards including the grand marshal, the citizen of the year and the business of the year will be presented during the program.
The parade will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 20.
The parade will assemble at 9 a.m. at the Board of Education Central Office on Main Street. Parade organizer Isaac Moses reminds participants to come early for line up.
“We are asking all participants to be at the BOE for line up at 9 a.m. so that we can be ready to start on time,” he said.
The parade will travel down Main Street to the Courthouse and then turn left on to U.S. Highway 84. The parade will travel down Highway 84 and turn right on Ware Street and will disband at the Lee Street Resource Center.
“We encourage everyone to come out and participate in the MLK observances,” said Moses.
The parade is always held on the Monday of the federal holiday celebrating MLK’s birthday.
For more information, contact, Isaac Moses at (912) 552-0118 (cell) or Jacqueline Moses at (912) 552-4243.
