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Montgomery, Ala. In the summer of 1979, Stevie Wonder called Coretta Scott King to tell her about a dream he had.
“I said to her, you know, ‘I had a dream about this song. And I imagined in this dream I was doing this song. We were marching, too, with petition signs to make for Dr. King’s birthday to become a national holiday,’” he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2011.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow was excited, but doubtful.
CNN s Anderson Cooper interviews Stevie Wonder in 2011 about the Motown star s years-long push for a M.L. King holiday.YouTube screen capture
UpdatedMon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:01 am PT
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Dublin s annual tree lighting in honor of Deputy John Monego went virtual this year but had been standing room only in years past. (Renee Schiavone/Patch)
DUBLIN, CA If he were alive today, John Monego would be 55 years old.
He would have watched his son, Dominic, grow up and graduate from high school. He would have seen himself in his son s dry sense of humor. After spending his career serving the residents of Dublin, he would have celebrated his retirement and had more time to spend with his wife, Tammy, and the rest of his family and friends. He would even have seen his son follow in the footsteps of his wife and pursue a career with the California Highway Patrol.