January 9, 2008

Blair and Dana College will have the opportunity to partner together at a Service Fair on the Dana campus on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 21, from 1-4 p.m. in the Cooperman Atrium of the Gardner-Hawks Center.

Several area community organizations, including the YMCA, the Youth Emergency Shelter, the Goldenrod Hills Community Action Agency, the Crisis Center and others, will be available to let Blair residents know how they can join together to continue to improve our community. Other campus events correlating with MLK Day are also being planned.

The Service Fair is being held in conjunction with the Martin Luther King, Jr. 14th annual Day of Service. Congress passed the King Holiday and Service Act in 1994, which designated Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a day of volunteering and service for one’s community. The MLK Day of Service website encourages people to make it “a day on not a day off.”

The website also states that the MLK Service Say is day that “brings together people who might not ordinarily meet, breaks down barriers that have divided us in the past, leads to better ongoing relationships, and is an opportunity to recruit new volunteers for your ongoing work.”
Dana College seeks to continue in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr that, “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

For more information on the MLK Day of Service, see www.mlkday.gov, and for more information on the Service Fair at Dana College and ways to get involved in Blair, contact Angela Archer, Dana’s service learning coordinator, at 426-7270 or aarcher@dana.edu.