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Name: MLK Day of Service Community Cleanup
Start: 2024-01-15T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-01-15T10:00:00-05:00
Location: 252 N Mc Laughlin Street

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MLK Day of Service Community Cleanup

January 15 @ 8:00 am - 10:00 am

| Free

Join the annual MLK Day of Service Community Cleanup event in St. Augustine on Monday, January 15, 2024 — 8:00am-10:00am. Hosted by the West Augustine Nature Society and the West Augustine Improvement Association.

● Meet at 252 N. Mc Laughlin St, St. Augustine. You’ll be able to park there.

The 2024 MLK Day of Service Cleanup Event will take place in and around some of the oldest African American cemeteries in Florida; The Pinehurst & San Sebastian Cemeteries on Pearl Street in St. Augustine and around the historic New Augustine Colored Elementary School #36, known to locals as #6.

Please dress warm, bring grabber tools, gloves and your own water bottles. If you’re doing the cemetery cleanup, bring gloves and gardening tools such as clippers, rakes and pruners.

After the clean-up, join us at the Silent March downtown to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement in St Augustine. It starts at 86 MLK Ave at 10:30am. Marchers will walk together from St. Paul AME Church where Martin Luther King, Jr, once spoke and proceed to the Plaza de La Constitución in downtown St. Augustine.

For more information, please click the event website link. For questions about the event, email westaugustinenaturesociety@gmail.com