MLK ``ONE OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. IS, `TEN CURES FOR DEPRESSION ARE TO GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE ELSE AND REPEAT IT NINE TIMES.' ''LIFE OF CIVIL RIGHTS HERO HONORED.Byline: RICK COCA Staff Writer To honor a man who spent a lifetime serving others, hundreds of thousands of Americans will roll up their sleeves and spend today -- Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- volunteering. Participation has grown since 1994, when Congress passed the King Holiday and Service Act to encourage community involvement on King's birthday. But it's only been in recent years that all 50 states have participated. Here in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , tens of thousands are expected to volunteer and celebrate the life of the charismatic African-American civil rights leader who was assassinated as·sas·si·nate tr.v. as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons. 2. in Memphis. Tenn., on April 4, 1968. Union Rescue Mission The Union Rescue Mission (URM) is a private, Christian, homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles's skid row. It is the largest, private, homeless shelter in the United States. President Andy Bales said he can't see himself taking MLK MLK Martin Luther King MLK Milk MLK Medialess License Kit Day off. ``I think it's appropriate to honor Martin Luther King Jr. by helping the homeless in the way that we do every day,'' said Bales, president of the mission, which operates on Skid Row skid row a run-down area frequented by alcoholics. [Am. Culture: Misc.] See : Alcoholism Skid Row district of down-and-outs and bums. [Am. Usage: Brewer Dictionary, 1008] See : Failure in Los Angeles. ``One of my favorite My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love at Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. is, `Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.''' The plan today calls for hundreds of volunteers from Hope Worldwide, a nonprofit faith-based organization, to do a ``deep cleaning'' of rooms for the homeless families who live at the mission's downtown shelter. At the mission's Hope Gardens Family Center in Sylmar, volunteers will clear storm drains, remove trash and do some gardening in preparation for the 225 women and children expected to move in by spring. Members and volunteers from the Los Angeles Conservation Corps, which employs at-risk youths during their school breaks, will show up bright and early at the Alicia Broadous-Duncan Multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective Senior Center in Pacoima. After calisthenics calisthenics: see aerobics. calisthenics Systematic rhythmic bodily exercises (e.g., jumping jacks, push-ups), usually performed without apparatus. to warm up for the work at hand, they'll remove graffiti on the facility's walls and clean up a patio area. The facility is named for the center's former director, an African-American woman whose family has worked for generations in the Northeast Valley to protect civil rights. Center Director Patricia Austin said Broadous-Duncan was a kind, considerate leader who, like King, was dedicated to serving others -- a philosophy demonstrated by the seniors who participate in the facility's activities. ``We're a great mix of Hispanics, blacks and Filipinos,'' Austin said. ``Those three communities are a community here and each one takes ownership of that, (but) when we have events, each community becomes one community. ``It's a kind of a neat little thing we've got going here.'' Broadous-Duncan's father was the legendary Hillery T. Broadous, the founder of the Calvary Baptist Church in Pacoima. Her son, Vincent D. Duncan, pastor of substance abuse addiction ministries at the church, said he remembers how his grandfather convinced him and his playmates to ``volunteer'' in the 1960s. ``He gathered up all the neighborhood kids,'' Duncan said. ``He gave us each a burlap sack and he had us walking up and down the streets picking up trash. ```It's your neighborhood, clean your neighborhood;''' Duncan recalls his grandfather telling them. Duncan and Austin said in decades past there was a sense of community responsibility that at times is missing today. ``Those old values of love and neighbors watching out for each other, sometimes we got to go back,'' Austin said. ``That's the only way of going forward.'' Erika Delgado will be at the Broadous-Duncan Center, working with the corps through the Volunteers in Service to America VISTA or Volunteers in Service to America was created by Lyndon Johnson's Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 as the domestic version of the Peace Corps. Initially, the program increased employment opportunities for conscientious people who felt they could contribute tangibly program, which will provide her with money toward a college degree after a year of service. Delgado, 18, of Glassell Park, has climbed the ladder at the corps, participating in youth programs that taught her responsibility and stopped her from making poor lifestyle choices. She appreciates what King did in service to her and millions of other Americans. ``He fought for the rights of everybody,'' she said. ``If it wasn't for him, I would not have been able to attend the schools that I have. Because of him, I can do as I do -- and will do.'' rick.coca(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3329 CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Elizabeth Portillo of Los Angeles takes notes on a photo of Martin Luther King Jr. at the California African American Museum The California African American Museum (CAAM) is a museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, USA. History The museum opened in 1981, in temporary quarters at the California Museum of Science and Industry (now the California Science Center). in Exposition Park Exposition Park is the name of more than one place:
n a spiritual, communal, or therapeutic music experience in which participants join together in a circle with drums, move, dance using various percussion instruments, voices, and other devices. , and arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. vendors. Below, Randall Lindsey, 6, of Beverly Hills plays a drum. (3) Ronald Jackson paints a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. at the California African American Museum in Exposition Park on Sunday. The program included speakers, a drum circle, and a dance performance. It was titled ``One Dream, a World of People.'' David Sprague/Staff Photographer |
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