Living in Las Vegas

The 27th Annual Martin Luther King Day parade will begin at Freemont Street in downtown Las Vegas  at 10:00 a.m.  So you still have time to make it! This year’s theme is “Living the Dream: For One America”.

A little history about Martin Luther King Blvd. here in Las Vegas for you per Wikipedia:

“The section of Highland Drive north of Oakey Boulevard was renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in the 1990s. The roadway connects the western edge of Downtown Las Vegas to the newer and more affluent parts of North Las Vegas. Via ramps to the road at the “Spaghetti Bowl” (I-15/US 93/US 95) freeway interchange near downtown, Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard provides the most direct connection between the north-central Las Vegas Valley and the Las Vegas Strip. The road also passes through historic “West Las Vegas”, an older and predominantly Black neighborhood. The city identifies the road as “Martin L. King Blvd”, omitting the Jr. and using L in place of Luther. Most residents in the Las Vegas Valley uses the term MLK. “

Something I didn’t know about Martin Luther King Day was that in 1994 the holiday was deemed by Congress as a national day of community service.  Here is a link to all kinds of service events going on around Las Vegas.  If you can’t participate today, you can sign up with the website, USA Service , to get projects emailed to you all year long. Because of President Obama, this year is expected to be the biggest King Day of Service ever.

Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day!