Local groups work together to feed over 900 families in honor of Dr. King

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Feeding America teamed up with local sororities, fraternities and police departments to hand out boxes of food to families.

“This particular event is in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and obviously we felt that it was important to us to have a day of service and what better way than to serve our neighbors in need,” said Jamie Sizemore, the executive director of Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland.

In Warren County, there are about 21,000 people below the poverty line, according to Data USA.

Monday morning, over 900 households received food.

The Bowling Green Police Department along with the WKU Police personally loaded up 200 meals and delivered them to residents of the Housing Authority.

Some 75 boxes were distributed to an apartment complex off of North Lee drive, while the rest were picked up from the distribution site.

Helping others in need was what Martin Luther King Jr. was all about.

So, to honor him, we should take care of one another, State Representative Patti Minter said.

“There is no better way to honor the work and the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. than doing what he was doing at the end of his life. Dr. King was working on the Poor People’s Campaign at the time of his assassination. He was working on economic justice. One of the things that he said at the end of his life was, ‘Where do we go from here?’ and where we go, he said, was working to end poverty in America,” said Minter.

The regular food distribution will continue at Lampkin Park on the last Wednesday of each month.