Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration Announced

LIBERTY, December 5, 2007 - The Liberty County Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Committee,  Incorporated invite your support and participation in our 10th Annual Celebration to be held Saturday, January 19, 2008, at Nottingham Elementary School Auditorium, 302 South Cleveland Street, Dayton, Texas beginning at 1:00 P.M. 

The speakers for the event will be Dr. Alma A. Allen, State Representative for District 131, Grover “Deacon” Jones, the first black to enter Baseballs Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., and Elvin Hayes, Basketball Hall of Fame.   

Special recognition will be given to Coach Jerry Stewart and the Dayton High School Football Team.  Special music will be rendered by Dayton High School Choir under the direction of Ann Marie Smesney, the Dayton High School Band under the direction of Betty Woods, and the Liberty County Mass Choir, under the direction of Jazette Simmons, Minister of Music of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church of Dayton. 

Special awards will be given to five outstanding citizens of Liberty County for community service.  The theme for this year is “A New Generation Keeping the Dream Alive.” 

For additional information please contact Dr. Henry L. Dugat, Sr., Chairman of the Board of Directors at (936) 336-7393 or Martha A. Braxton, Secretary at (936) 336-6601.  Mistress of Ceremony for the event will be Professor Rita Gilmore.

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