Yellow Springs celebrates MLK Day
Charles Caperton | Greene County News
A little girl marches during the 2021 Yellow Springs Martin Luther King Jr. Day Peace March.
Charles Caperton | Greene County News
The 2021 Yellow Springs Martin Luther King Day Program hosted by Antioch College included virtual performances by the World House Choir, in a video where choir members recorded themselves singing from their homes.
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Yellow Springs Schools hosted their own MLK Day essay contest, with Jaime Adoff, Language Arts teacher at McKinney Middle School, presenting the winners during the virtual events.
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Yellow Springers were undeterred by cold and snow as the village conducted its annual Peace March on MLK Day.
Yellow Springs kicked off the beginning of 2020, as always, with the traditional ball drop overseen by Lance Rudegeair; MTFR personnel handed out hot cocoa, and at least one marriage proposal greeted the new year.
The Reach Out Free Clinic, which was held each Tuesday evening at Central Chapel AME Church, celebrated a year of operation in early January. The free, donation-based clinic, a satellite location of Reach Out Dayton, closed due to the pandemic in March; the Dayton location shuttered permanently later in the year.
Nan Harshaw, longtime chair of the MLK Day Planning Committee, was awarded the annual Peacemaker Award at the 2020 Martin Luther King Day celebration. The late Willa Dallas was also recognized for her civil rights efforts and her role in initiating the annual local event.