L-r: Holloway, Rice, Ammons, Owens-Lee, Protho, Allen; seated, Brewer. Dillard not pictured.
Frontiers' MLK Breakfast honors community servants
Contributed By:The 411 News
Eight nominated for Marchers Awards
In its 38th year, the Gary Frontiers Service Club’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast will celebrate the legacy of the man who epitomizes the American civil rights movement and has become a worldwide icon for human rights.
It’s not a breakfast for Dr. King, said Atty. Clorius Lay, Frontiers’ breakfast chairman, it’s a recognition of people who, like Dr. King, are champions for the underprivileged and who put it in practice to serve others.
Each year, the club recognizes mainly Gary residents for their service to the community. At Saturday’s event, eight champions will be honored. The Frontiers have honored all eight with the Dr. Martin Luther King Marchers Award. One will receive the Drum Major Award.
The Marcher and Drum Major awards are named for the "Drum Major Instinct" sermon King gave on February 4, 1968, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, two months before his assassination. King talked about his own funeral and the eulogy that might be given, and asked that he be remembered as a "drum major" for justice, peace and righteousness.
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Marchers are:
Dr. Vanessa Allen, Urban League of Northwest Indiana
Natalie Ammons, WLTH AM 1370 Radio.
W.D. BREWER, Businessman
Denise Dillard, Methodist Hospitals
Deacon James Holloway, Trinity Baptist Church
Patrician Owens-Lee, Guy & Allen Funeral Directors
Rev. R. Jerry Protho, Unity Baptist Church
Cmdr. Kerry Rice Sr., Gary Police Department
The Gary Frontiers Service Club is part of Frontiers International, a community service organization founded in 1936 by black professionals and businessmen in Columbus, Ohio. The Gary chapter was started in 1953 and includes male and female business people, educators and social and civic leaders. Members are called Yokefellows.
The breakfast will be held at 8 a.m. Saturday, January 14 at the Gary Genesis Center, 5th and Broadway.
Story Posted:01/12/2017
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