Hattiesburg celebrates MLK Day with community service
Hattiesburg celebrates MLK Day with community service By WDAM Staff | January 18, 2021 at 6:13 PM CST - Updated January 18 at 6:13 PM
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Hattiesburg encouraged residents to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with service in their own community.
To celebrate the day of service, the city held a mask and hand sanitizer giveaway Monday morning, with the Forrest County Emergency Management Agency providing supplies. The city distributed 2,000 masks and 300 bottles of hand sanitizer to community members.
The Hattiesburg Community Arts Center has also placed card-making kits in little free libraries across Hattiesburg for people to pick up and write notes to local nursing home residents.