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Speakers Set for Lions Park Celebration on MLK Day

PORT ANGELES — A community celebration is planned at Lions Park on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. Save Our Sequoia is hosting “Infinite Hope” from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Port Angeles park at 601 E. Whidby Ave.

Speakers will discuss civil rights, ecology, affordable housing, education and other issues. “Meet fellow community members and organizations working toward positive social and environmental change,” the group said. Community members will give short speeches inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. quotes, including “We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.” Hope also was the name given to a 110-foot sequoia tree that stood in Lions Park until the city cut it down Jan. 3…