On behalf of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Local Host Committee, I thank the Madera Tribune for its fantastic coverage of the MLK celebration held Sunday at MLK Middle School. Special recognition and thanks to Wendy Alexander, who once again came to our auditions of the student speeches on Jan. 11 and then attended the entire program on Sunday. As Monte Pistoresi, our emcee, stated at the event, Wendy is the best.

The MLK Local Host committee has been sponsoring this event for over 20 years. When the MLK Middle School was built in 1995, the program moved to the school’s multi-use room. I would agree with our president, Rose Walker, that this year’s event was one of the very best. We had a full house: More than 200 people attended, even in the rain.

Paul Van Loon, new principal of MLK, gave a wonderful welcome to the event. Most appropriately, he even wove part of the MUSD mission statement “students should be bound only by their aspirations, not by their circumstances” into his short speech on Dr. King and all he stood for. The rest of the program was well covered by Else Mejia of the Tribune in her article.

Again, it is a pleasure to do PR for this event when I have the opportunity to work with Chuck Doud and the rest of the Madera Tribune staff. Fantastic group of people.
We do so appreciate our local paper.

Sharon Stockdale, teacher-librarian for TJ and MLK,
MLK Local Host Committee

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