The wind blew cold and the participants in the annual Martin Luther King Day/Equality Day events remembered those less fortunate than themselves, even without the annual march and service at First United Methodist Church.
Vicki Pollock was among those who donated coats for Project Homeless Connect in the parking lot between the Wyoming Food for Thought Project and the James Reeb Memorial Park.
Pollock handed them to volunteer Janet deVries, whose SUV was already stuffed with coats collected during the day.
The donations were part of the alternative to the annual march canceled due to COVID-19.
But changes wrought by the pandemic spurred some creativity.
This year s Martin Luther King Day of Service and Remembrance on Monday won t feature a rally, a march or a service at the United Methodist Church.
Like so many other events affected by the coronavirus pandemic, it will go virtual with the launch of a multi-year community service project, according to Servewyoming.org.
The Casper Freedom Trail project features a virtual tour of locations related to the civil rights movement in Casper.
Servewyoming will post an online presentation of the trail. After you have watched it, the organization invites you to drive through Casper to view the places featured on the trail map, starting in north Casper on East H Street, then to Second Baptist Church on North Durbin Street to the Mathew Campfield Park on East M Street.