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The Voice of Seguin Today
Seguin's 2020 MLK Celebration kicks off tonight MLK Holiday observance adds another day, committee notes changes to this year's schedule
Saturday because before, we did the Taste of Soul. We are not doing that this year. That made the committee tired," said Lee.
By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- Seguin's annual MLK Celebration will not only be bigger this year. It will also host a number of new changes -- changes that the MLK Planning Committee is excited to unveil.
Perhaps the third change in this year's schedule is the most exciting for the MLK Committee. Lee says the annual Symbolic March not only will be going a different direction this year but it will include some additional festivities in downtown Seguin.
The first change is that the annual observance for the slain civil rights leader is adding a day to its schedule. The Martin Luther King Day Jr. celebration which begins tonight will go from four days to five days. Regina Lee, a member of the Seguin MLK Planning Committee, says things this year will kick-off tonight with an event being hosted by the Seguin Baptists Minister's Union. "We've entered a new decade. We've seen changes in the past. We are doing changes within our committee and with the concept of MLK because this year, we are going to start on Thursday night. We starting on Thursday night and we are going to support the Baptist Minister's Union who will start with prayer service on Thursday night at 7 o'clock, First Baptist Church. They have to take control but we are their with our presence. So, we are going to start on Thursday night. Everybody will be fresh and that will help us get ready for Friday, Saturday, Sunday and even Monday," said Lee. Lee notes, however, that the event is not anything new but that the additional day allows the group to further incorporate and support a long standing tradition that for years has already been happening in Seguin on that actual MLK Day holiday held on Monday.
Darren Dunn, KWED and Seguin Daily News general manager, right, sits down with MLK Planning Committee Members Regina Lee and Herman Lampkin to discuss some changes being made with this year's annual celebration. is something to energize us and encourage us -"Thursday is a new idea in terms of the Baptist something really positive and so that we can Ministers. They have been doing Monday night support them because in the past, our commitfor years. But by Monday night, people are so tee didn't support them very well because by tired and already ready to go back to work on that time, we were tired," said Lee. Tuesday. We approached them and asked them Lee says the second change to the MLK weekif they would actually flip the script and start us end celebration involves the annual Taste of off. So, they are bringing Pastor (Dr. Lester J.) Soul, a free soul food sampling event for the Gillespie from San Antonio to do some speak- community. ing. It's not going to be long and drawn out. We aren't passing around the collection plate but it "Saturday is going to be a whole different
"First of all, we have found that we have really great response on Monday. We had some children from a school in La Vernia who came to march. They were not off from school but they were allowed out of class for x amount of time and they came over here and actually marched. So that got us thinking. We would get people to march and then they would disperse. We have been blessed with years upon years with decent weather and we are hoping that that continues so what we are going to do this year and we are definitely flipping the script, we are going to start at TLU. We are going to start at TLU in the Wupperman (Little) Theater. We are going to have a very short program. It's going to be a gathering program which we used to do at the (Central) park. It's a gathering program and we will march from TLU down to Central Square. When you get to Central Square, we will have music. We will have a speaker. That's Mike Washington and we are going to have food trucks down there. So there will be food down there. There will be bathroom facilities and there will be plenty of people. If the weather doesn't cooperate. If God decides we need rain that day, then we will start at TLU and we will stay there," said Lee. See M.L.K., page 2
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