Community Corner
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
This year will mark the 19th year that the Suffield Interfaith Council has sponsored a community event to observe the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year marks the 82nd birthday of Dr. King and the 26th national holiday in his honor.
The keynote speaker will be the Rev. Hopeton A. Scott, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bridgeport and serves on the Council of Churches' Board of Directors. Pastor Scott has held key positions in the Greater Hartford Neighborhood Housing Coalition, Haymarket's People Fund, the Salvation Army and several non-profit housing corporations. He has been on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Concert Opera Company, the Bridgeport Boys Choir, the Connecticut Program Committee of the American Friends (Quakers) Society and the Ethics Committee of Thirty-Thirty Health Care Systems.
The event will feature the Third Baptist Church W.N.A. Men's Chorus, Gospel Harmonizers and the Suffield's special interracial, interfaith, intergenerational choir.
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