MLK Week: New Dems Potluck and Food Drive set for Saturday

Plainfield's New Democrats will hold a Potluck Dinner and Party Saturday at the home of Councilor Adrian and Mrs. Amelia Mapp.

Originally scheduled for December, the date was changed as the result of last month's snow storm.

The party is open to all in the community, and attendees are asked to bring nonperishable food items such as canned goods or dry food and pasta products, which will be donated to the city's feeding programs.

"All of Plainfield's food pantries and feeding programs have reported experiencing an extraordinary demand for services," says New Dem chairperson Adrian Mapp, "and it seems particularly fitting that we have an opportunity to help during the week of celebrations commemorating the life and service of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

While we justly honor Dr. King as a civil rights leader and martyr of enormous stature, we would do his memory a disservice if we failed to recall that he was also keenly aware of the need to overcome poverty and hunger. As King said in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize (see here) --

Today, therefore, the question on the agenda must read: Why should there be hunger and privation in any land, in any city, at any table when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life?

Hope to see you all at Adrian and Amelia's!

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New Dems Potluck and Food Drive

Saturday · January 16
7:00 PM
At the home of Adrian and Amelia Mapp
535 West 8th Street

Mix and mingle with new friends and old! Bring a dish to share and one or two nonperishable food items for donation to Plainfield's local feeding programs. Food, fun, music.

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