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Reposted from the Montclair Times

Celebrating King's birthday, Montclair NAACP head urges residents to step up and serve

MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012
LAST UPDATED: MONDAY JANUARY 16, 2012, 7:04 PM
BY LINDA MOSS STAFF WRITER
THE MONTCLAIR TIMES

Montclair residents should ask not what their town can do for them, but what they can do for their town, according to the homegrown president of the Montclair Chapter of the NAACP.

That was the essence of the message - reminiscent of President John F. Kennedy - that Thomas Reynolds delivered to a packed audience Monday at the 23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Breakfast. Reynolds received the Martin Luther King Scholarship Fund in 2002, and it helped foot the bill for his degree from the College of Architecture and Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

"I challenge you to reinvigorate the spirit of hope from 2008, and usher in a new era of service, because we have work to do," Reynolds said at the breakfast, citing King's lifelong mission. "Find in your hearts not just a cause you can rally around, but a movement you can be personally invested in."