January 13, 2021 The Skanner Portland & Seattle Page 3
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Skanner Foundation’s 35th
Annual Martin Luther King, Jr.
Breakfast Goes Virtual
The event will stream on Youtube, and features
special addresses from our elected official and
entertainment by local musical talent
The Skanner News
T
he Skanner Founda-
tion’s 35th annual
Martin Luther King
Jr. Breakfast will
take place online from
9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
next Monday, January 18,
2021.
This year we cannot
join together in person
because of the corona-
virus pandemic. But we
invite you to bring your
own breakfast and join
us online from our own
homes to enjoy our usu-
al full program of enter-
tainment and inspira-
tion.
As always we will be
offering you a mix of mu-
sic, song and inspiration-
al speakers.
Our keynote speaker
will be General Arthur
T. Dean, executive chair-
man of the Community
Anti-Drug
Coalitions
of America (CADCA)
Board of Directors. Gen-
eral Dean will speak on
health care a topic that
we are sure you will
agree is more timely than
ever.
And during this tu-
multuous time for our
nation we will hear from
Sen. Jeff Merkley and
Sen. Ron Wyden who
are serving Oregonians
in the U.S. Congress. We
look forward to hearing
their insights into the
state of our nation.
Oregon
Gov.
Kate
Brown and Portland
Mayor Ted Wheeler will
also be joining us to share
their thoughts on events
closer to home. And Nate
McCoy, the executive
director of the Oregon
Chapter of the National
Association of Minority
Contractors, will give us
his perspective on how
our economy is treating
small business people.
Join us in song as we
“Lift Ev’ry Voice” in the
Black National Anthem.
And sit back and be en-
tertained by the fabulous
Portland
singer/song-
writer Tahirah Memory,
and jazz musician Mike
Phillips.
Join us to celebrate
our journey toward Dr
King’s Dream of an equal
and just America and
to bring it a little closer
through supporting the
dreams of our students.
The Skanner Foun-
dation couldn’t do this
without our sponsors
so we hope you’ll join us
in thanking them with a
round of applause. This
year they include: Ore-
gon Lottery, PGE, Pros-
per Portland, *RALI Ore-
gon, Providence Health,
Pepsi, the U.S. Forest
Service, Chenoweth Law
Group, Safeway, the Uni-
versity of Oregon, the
City of Portland, Metro,
Wells Fargo, HomeFor-
ward, Turner Construc-
tion, Pacific Power,Enter-
prise Holding, Oregon
Alliance of Clinical Re-
search, Meyers Memori-
al and Kaiser Permanen-
te.
As always your hosts
will be Bernie, Bobbie
and Jerry Foster.
Our theme this year is
“Changes Require Sacri-
fice”. During his lifetime
Dr King sacrificed his
safety, his time and the
comforts of family life.
And in 1968 his life was
taken from him- the ul-
timate sacrifice. We’ll be
looking at the meaning
of his dream for each of
us as we celebrate those
who sacrifice so all of us
can live in freedom and
equality.
This year’s breakfast
will be unlike any other,
but it will bring us to-
gether as a united com-
munity as it always has
done.
Visit
TheSkanner.
com for more infor-
mation or subscribe to
our Youtube channel at
http://youtube.com/c/
TheSkannerNews.
Portland singer/songwriter Tahirah Memory
Jazz saxophonist Mike Phillips