With caution, Taylor’s Martin Luther King Jr. march will return to an inperson event this month.
On Monday, Jan. 17, the 17th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration will take place from south to downtown Taylor. A march will begin at 9 a.m. and conclude with an abbreviated program afterward close to 10 a.m.
“We will have some people say a few words or so at the program this year,” said Shorty Mitchell, Greater Taylor Area Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Celebration Committee chairman, “but for the most part, it will be done a little different then what we have done in past years because of COVID-19 cases creeping back up.”
The in-person march is still a step toward a normal celebration from last year’s virtual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A video commemoration was produced by Taylor municipal government’s communications department and premiered on the city’s Facebook and YouTube pages.
“With respect to COVID-19 and the fear that a lot of people still have about the disease, we will pretty much just be doing our usual march/walk and have a quick little program over at Heritage Square in downtown Taylor,” said Mitchell. “This is the wish of the committee.”
The march will begin at the Dickey-Givens Community Center at Fannie Robinson Park, 903 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in south Taylor. Participants will then walk west on MLK Boulevard and then turn north onto Main Street and continue across the overpass. The march will then turn east onto Fourth Street for one block before ending at Heritage Square in downtown Taylor.
If rain, snow or other inclement weather occurs, the event will be moved to Taylor City Hall, 400 Porter St.
For more on the event, log into Facebook at http://www.facebook.com and search pages for “Taylor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Celebration.”
