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Poverty efforts are at focus of local King Day celebration
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Rose Johnson, left, executive director of the Newtown Florist Club, and Frank Medina, pastor of Restoration Community Church in Gainesville, lead a discussion on poverty in Hall County on Thursday night. The event was one in a weeklong series addressing poverty as part of the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday celebration.
When you’re growing up, there’s a natural assumption everyone else in the world lives the same as you do. “I didn’t know I was poor myself,” said Frank Medina, pastor of the Restoration Community Church in Gainesville, recalling his humble beginnings at a community gathering last week that was part of a weeklong series in celebration and commemoration of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Beyond our front doors, there are homes, families and communities entrenched in poverty.