The 27th annual Hillsborough County Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Interfaith Memorial Service will be held on Monday, Jan. 21, at Mount Calvary Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 4902 N. 40thSt. in Tampa. The service will begin at 4:30 p.m.
Hillsborough County Board of County Commission Chairman Ken Hagan, District 5, will bring greetings to the congregation, along with U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor. This year’s speaker is the Rev. Dr. Jeffery A.J. Johnson, pastor of Connections Community Church in Lake Wales and executive pastor of the 34th Street Church of God in Tampa.
The county’s Office of Community Affairs Liaison, Albert Coleman, will present this year’s Robert W. Saunders’ Award to Leon W. Russell, who recently retired as Pinellas County’s director of the Office of Human Rights. Russell implemented Pinellas County’s first Affirmative Action and Human Rights Ordinances, along with Pinellas County’s Equal Employment Opportunity program.
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