Press Release: No Place for Hate Martin Luther King Day in Harwich

For Immediate Release:

HARWICH Celebrates

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

and joins with

AmeriCorps Cape Cod’s 

MLK Day of Service

“Hunger for Change”

Monday, January, 18th, 2010

The Town of Harwich will be celebrating Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day with festivities planned by the Harwich No Place for Hate Committee in collaboration with Barnstable County AmeriCorps Cape Cod, who will be sponsoring a food drive at supermarkets throughout Barnstable County.  The day will begin with a celebration in the main foyer of Harwich Town Hall at 11am, which will include a flag ceremony with a color guard, music and readings from the works of Dr. King.

Following this hour long ceremony, those who wish are invited to offer some time of service between noon and 4 pm at Shaws Supermarket on Sisson Rd. or at Stop and Shop in East Harwich, assisting the Barnstable County AmeriCorps with the “Hunger For Change” Food Drive campaign.  Volunteers will be needed to greet shoppers and to staff a table at each store, assisting customers to select healthier donated foods.

To conclude the day, volunteers and members of the community will join together for a soup dinner at the Dennis Church of the Nazarene. The dinner will be cooked by a handful of volunteers and orchestrated by two volunteer chefs from the Ring Brothers Marketplace in South Dennis. The service portion of the day will last from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., and the community dinner will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. 

Barnstable County AmeriCorps Cape Cod is hosting its 10th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service (MLK Day) by bringing members of the community together to address the pressing issue of hunger on Cape Cod. This year’s project was designed to help re-stock the shelves of pantries struggling to serve clients, while also helping meet their goal of collecting healthier donated goods,” says Rebecca Wolfson, program specialist at AmeriCorps Cape Cod.  AmeriCorps Cape Cod has partnered with the Cape Cod Hunger Network, the Barnstable County Department of Human Services, and Harwich No Place for Hate, and a number of other organizations to plan the event.

For more information about this event, please call John Bangert, Harwich No Place for Hate, at (508) 432-0545 or Rebecca Wolfson, AmeriCorps Cape Cod, at (508) 375-6869

Harwich No Place for Hate invites all to join us for our Fifth Annual Martin Luther King Jr. observance, which this year will be in collaboration with
the Barnstable County AmeriCorps Cape Cod Food Drive.  Please see the attached press release (in Microsoft Word) and PDF flyer suggested food list for details. 
Also, please place this information in your newspaper event listings, community emails, church and school bulletins, town hall news post, and send to others you feel may be interested.

Many thanks,
John Bangert

Harwich No Place for Hate Committee
(508) 432-0545


noplaceforhate@comcast.net