M Artin l uther K ing J r .
January 16, 2019
2019 special edition
King County Councilor Larry Gossett will be the keynote speaker for The Skanner
Foundation’s 33rd annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast on Monday, Jan. 21.
Speaker for
MLK Breakfast
The keynote speaker for The
Skanner Foundation’s 33rd an-
nual Martin Luther King, Jr.
Breakfast will be King Coun-
ty Councilor Larry Gossett.
The session will take place
on Monday, Jan. 21 from 8:30
a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Red
Lion at Jantzen Beach.
“We thought it would be
good for him to come down
here and talk about some of the
economic advantages of what
the county has to offer; he was
county chair,” said Bernie Fos-
ter, publisher of The Skanner
News.
A native of Seattle, Gossett
helped found the Black Stu-
dent Union on the University of
Washington campus and helped
organize nearly a dozen BSU
groups in high schools and mid-
dle schools throughout Seattle.
He’s credited with starting a
minority recruitment program
at the UW and is the former
executive director of one of
the oldest and largest commu-
nity action agencies in Seattle.
In 2007 Gossett became just
the second African American
elected to be chair of the King
County Council.
Intelligence
plus character--
that is the goal of
true education.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
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