Residents Come Together for Annual SPF MLK Day of Service
The 2013 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service was successful once again in Scotch Plains and Fanwood.
Check out our SPF MLK DAY photo album and add your own photos or videos - Click here! Although this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day was not a full day off, the half-day did not stop residents from coming out to volunteer once the kids were let out of school. Online registration was lower this year, according to one of the coordinators, Michelle Shapiro, but she said she felt a lot of people were still coming and signing up for same-day registration. Shapiro said last year somewhere around 600-700 people registered online for events, whereas this year it went down to 300-400. She pointed out that having the half-day of school definitely contributed to the drop in numbers. However, she was thankful school was held for a half day rather …
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