<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Greetings, </span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The 2013 MLK event is finally finalized. We hope it poses no conflict.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Our annual celebration of MLK Day here on the coast will be held at noon on Monday, January 21, at the Trinity Lutheran Church at 620 E. Redwood at Corry, in Fort Bragg. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Please join us in remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">We’ll commemorate the Selma bus boycott by marching through Fort Bragg from noon to 1 <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">PM </span>(let’s congregate at 11:30 at the Trinity Lutheran Church at 620 E. Redwood in Fort Bragg). Then enjoy a hearty lunch from 1 to 2 <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">PM.</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Our program so far includes the wonderful singing group, River, made up of Carolyn Carleton, Cynthia Frank, and Sari Scanlon. Their <i>a capella</i> repertoire is spectacular. Another treat will be singing along with the Fort Bragg Peace Rappers, led by Irene Malone. They'll sing freedom songs in Spanish and English--a treat for both young and old. Other music groups, including the Occupy Songsters performing rousing songs. </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Our panel of activists who worked in the south for civil rights in the 1960s includes Steve Antler, John Fremont, and Tom Wodetski. It's a program that includes hearing from you on what Dr. King would say today about workers’ rights, unions, bank foreclosures, gun control, peace, freedom, and more.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">We can use some help in putting on the event and are asking for those of you who want to pitch in to step forward. Here are the tasks we could use help with:<br><br> 1. We need 6 or 7 people to cook a dish to feed around 20 people (vegetarian or non-vegetarian). Reimbursement for food supplies is available.<br><br> 2. We need help with setting up the at the church starting around 11 am.<br><br> 3. We need people to help serve food at lunch.<br><br> 4. Last but certainly we need help with cleanup and breakdown.<br><br>If you would like to help out, please email <a href="mailto:john@cypresshouse.com">john@cypresshouse.com</a>.<span id="ecxemailVal_0" class="ecxcd_merge"> </span></span></font></div><div><span class="ecxcd_merge" style="font-size: 13px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="ecxcd_merge">Let's make this year's event the best ever!<br><br></span><span class="ecxcd_merge">Thanks, </span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The MLK Organizing Committee</span></font></div></body></html>