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FEBRUARY, 2020
ISSUE 81
MLK Kitchen For The Poor: Still Maintaining Its Mission We Celebrate Our History Makers! By Interfaith Gazette Staff As we celebrate Black History Month, we would like to celebrate two significant people in the history of the Toledo Community who did make history. John (Jack) Marshal Ford, the First African American Mayor of the City of Toledo, who served from 2002 – 2006, and Rev. Harvey V. Savage, Sr., Founder of the M L K Kitchen For the Poor in 1969. As we think on the contributions of these great men, we celebrate each history maker in our city who enhanced and continues to enrich our lives. WE CELEBRATE YOU!
Harvey V. Savage, Sr
By the IFG Staff What can be said about an institution that has been caring for families since 1969?
That they care no matter what! When Rev. Harvey V. Savage, Sr. shared the story with Board members many, many years ago, it would change the face of how people in this
John (Jack) Marshal Ford
community saw hunger, homelessness, and destitution. Rev. Harvey Savage, Jr., the Executive Director of The MLK Kitchen For The Poor, shares his present insights on
how the mission at The Kitchen, continues to live on. He is determined to let his father's See MLK, on page 6