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Leon County honors local leaders at MLK Day program; Rep. Gallop Franklin urges community to 'keep moving forward'
Summary
Leon County’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day program at the Leon County Courthouse honored multiple community leaders, presented awards to nonprofit and civic figures including Steve Beasley, and featured a keynote from state Rep. Gallop Franklin II urging persistence and public service.
TALLAHASSEE — Leon County officials and community leaders gathered at the Leon County Courthouse for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day program that honored local activists and nonprofit leaders and featured a keynote address by state Rep. Gallop Franklin II.
Rep. Gallop Franklin II used Dr. King’s maxim ‘‘If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl’’ to press an audience of judges, elected officials and residents to persist through setbacks. ‘‘No matter what your circumstances are, you have to take it one day at a time,’’ Franklin said, urging people facing poverty, literacy challenges or mental-health struggles to keep moving forward.
The program, hosted by the MLK Foundation of Florida and supported by Leon County, included welcome…
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