What's Open, Closed on Martin Luther King Day 2013?
Supermarkets and retail stores will be open, but government offices will be closed.
Here's a handy list of what's open (and closed) in Kirkwood during the holiday:
Martin Luther King Day
Monday, January 21, 2013
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebrated through Art
Webster Groves Christian Church hosted a gallery opening and worship service to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Five churches from St. Louis County and St. Louis City, along with two artists, collaborated at Webster Groves Christian Church (WGCC) in Glendale to remember Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday night. About 150 people from WGCC, Affton Christian Church, Centennial Christian Church, Memorial Boulevard Christian Church and Union Avenue Christian Church celebrated Martin Luther King Day in a service called “It’s Time to Sing a New Song.” St. Louis illustrators John Dyess and Kevin Belford showed their work in a hallway of the church that served as an art gallery. Dyess showed work from textbooks he had illustrated, and from a book written by Eleanora E. Tate called To be Free, which is about a runaway slave. Belford's display featured …
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Monday, January 17, 2011
MLK Community Worship Celebration Honors Youth
Keynote speaker stresses importance of community service in realizing King's dream.
To make Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream a reality, we all must take action, Evelyn Opper, a fifth-grade student at Hudson Elementary School, wrote in her award-winning essay. “He was telling us to step up and make a difference in our community,” she said. Opper was one of seven winners honored during the 16th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Community Celebration in Webster Groves on Sunday at Steeger Sixth Grade Center. Keynote speaker Kevin Walker, founder of Project Appleseed, a national organization devoted to parental involvement in education and volunteerism, agreed that King’s dream can center on more people taking an interest in America’s youth and their respective communities. “Service is the most important thing that we …
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Sheri Gassaway
9:20 am on Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Thanks John, we've made the correction. more ›