MLK DAY LOCAL EVENTS

A list of local activities to commemorate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
MAHONING
Youngstown: The Martin Luther King Planning Committee will commemorate the life and work of Dr. King with three days of observances and activities.
At 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Powers Auditorium, the committee will present "A Musical Tribute to Martin Luther King," a family event, featuring a performance by a multiracial, multidenominational choir in celebration of Dr. King.
Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students and seniors, and available by calling the Powers Auditorium box office at (330) 744-0264.
The remainder of the program, "King's Mandate: Increase the Peace," will continue with a Community Service of Worship at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Price Memorial AME Zion Church, Dryden Avenue, and with a community workshop from 9 a.m. to noon Monday at First Presbyterian Church, Wick Avenue.
Youngstown: A program honoring Dr. King will be at 6 p.m. Friday at Congregation Rodef Sholom, 1119 Elm St. Cliff Johnson, who has led various discussions on race and diversity in the Mahoning Valley, will speak and a film, "A Class Divided," will be shown. A light dinner is planned. There will be an abbreviated Kabbalat Shabbat service at 5:30 in Tamarkin Chapel.
Youngstown: "Stopping The Violence" Committee, which works with youths and young adults at building and maintaining self-esteem, good attitudes and sound minds to develop community and family togetherness with harmony, and Mount Zion Baptist Church will be having a Martin Luther King Jr. & amp; Stopping The Violence Celebration at 6 p.m. Saturday at Mount Zion Baptist Church, 827 Wilson Ave. The Rev. Jack Pettis is pastor.
Youngstown: Cherry Ross-Gooden, associate professor and interim chairwoman of the Department of Curriculum & amp; Instruction in the College of Education at Texas Southern University, will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Diversity Breakfast at 8 a.m. Jan. 19 at Youngstown State University.
She will present "A Salute to Rosa Parks - America's Change Agent."
The event in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus is presented by the YSU Student Diversity Council and the Office of Student Diversity Programs. Tickets are $15 for the public and nonstudents and $5 for current YSU students with a valid I.D. and can be purchased at the Information Desk in Kilcawley Center.
The event also will highlight the accomplishments of diversity programs at YSU over the past year.
TRUMBULL
Warren: State Rep. C.J. Prentiss of Cleveland is the keynote speaker at 3 p.m. Saturday at Leo's Ristorante, 7042 E. Market St., for Trumbull County Chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute's annual salute to Dr. King. Cost is $25 for adults and $15 for children under 12.
Warren: Lenworth Gunther, professor of history and director of the Africana Center at Essex County (N.J.) College, will deliver the keynote address at the 13th annual Martin Luther King Day Celebration.
He is the founder and president of Edmedia Associates, an educational and motivational consulting company that specializes in communications and diversity issues.
The event, sponsored by the Trumbull County Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Team, will be at 7 p.m. Monday at W.D. Packard Music Hall.
Gunther's address will be part of an evening program that also will include the Trumbull County Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance Community Choir and an honor guard from the 910th Airlift Wing in Vienna. The program will culminate a day of activities. The day will begin with a breakfast at 7:30 a.m. in the Warren G. Harding High School cafeteria. The breakfast speaker is the Rev. Kenneth Paramore, pastor of United Baptist Church in Akron and The Christian Revival and Discipleship Center in Youngstown. Cost for the breakfast, catered by Saratoga Restaurant, is $15 per person.
Workshops and programs for children, young adults and adults, will begin at 10:30 a.m. at Harding. Gunther will present a diversity workshop during this segment, and lunch will be provided for participants. Workshops and the evening program are free.
STARK
Alliance: Yvonne Latty, reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News and author of "We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans from World War II to the War in Iraq," will present the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Keynote Address at Mount Union College at 10 a.m. Monday in Dewald Chapel. More than two dozen black American veterans speak for themselves and their peers about their wartime experiences in her book, which is also the basis of an exhibition at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and touring the nation for the next two years. A luncheon and the presentation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Awards will follow the keynote address in the Hoover-Price Campus Center Solarium.