>> AMY AVERY: DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING’S MESSAGE OF TAKING CARE OF EACH OTHER STILL RINGS TRUE. NOT JUST ON THE DAY WE CELEBRATE HIS BIRTHDAY, BUT EVERY DAY ON THIS NATIONAL DAY OF SERVICE, A NUMBER OF GROUPS PITCHED TO HELP MAKE SURE EVERYONE HAS
ENOUGH FOOD. 10 ON YOUR SIDE’S HALEY. MY LAWN HAS MORE FROM THE NEWSROOM TONIGHT. HALEY. >> ME TODAY FOLKS VOLUNTEERED THEIR TIME ACROSS HAMPTON ROADS IN HONOR OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR AND THESE VOLUNTEERS WANT TO REMIND OTHERS THAT TODAY ISN’T
JUST A DAY OFF OF WORK, BUT A DAY TO GET UP, GET OUT AND HELP OTHERS. >> THIS IS OUR DAY OF SERVICE AND WE’VE HAD FUN, LOADING, SWEET POTATOES. CAM SUTTON KNOW PROUD FRATERNITY BROTHER OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING
JUNIOR IS A FORMER ALPHA PHI LAMBDA CHAPTER PRESIDENT OF THE ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY. HIS GROUP OF ALPHAS BAGGED OVER 1800 POUNDS OF SWEET POTATOES TODAY. ALTOGETHER, THE VOLUNTEERS PACKED OVER 800 BACKPACK MEAL KITS AND OVER 400 EMERGENCY FOOD KITS. DOCTOR KING WAS
SOMEONE WHO ESPOUSE SERVICE. >> HE WAS SOMEONE WHO WAS SELF WAS ABOUT HELPING OTHER PEOPLE. AND OUR FOR CHARITY. HE’S DONE THAT ALL THESE YEARS. SO TODAY IS A DAY TO GIVE BACK. >> THE WE’RE JOINED BY VOLUNTEERS FROM OTHER HISTORICALLY BLACK
FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES ACROSS HAMPTON ROADS. SUTTON SAYS THAT ALL TOO OFTEN THE DAY OF SERVICE HONORING DOCTOR KING BECOMES JUST ANOTHER DAY OFF. >> IN LOCATION THAT JUST BE A DAILY BACK, KICK BACK AND DO NOTHING HE WOULD ROLL OVER IN
HIS GRAVE IF HE THOUGHT THAT’S HOW WE HONOR THEM. BUT WHAT WE’RE DOING IS WHAT HE WOULD HAVE DONE HIMSELF. SUTTON SAYS THAT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR HIS FRATERNITY UPHOLDS MANY OF DOCTOR KING’S IDEALS JUST LIKE HELPING PEOPLE. AND SO DOES EVERYBODY WITH ME HERE.
>> AND OUR FRATERNITY MODEL IS SERVICE FOR ALL. >> THE ALPHAS WE’RE JOINED BY MEMBERS OF THE ALPHA KAPPA ALPHAS. THE DELTA SIGMA
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