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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, January 11,2023 9
Mosley Elected President of International
Longshoremen Association Local 1414
Economic Opportunity for Savannah-Chatham
County Area, Inc. Mobilizes Residents in
Honor of the King Holiday
Volunteers will unite in service through revitalizing a Community Garden
Paul Warfield Mos
ley Sr. has been elected as the
19th President of the Interna
tional Longshoreman Associ
ation (ILA) Local 1414 and is
the youngest President in Lo
cal 1414’s 87-year-old histo
ry. Paul began his tenure with
Local 1414 as a Rank-and-File
member and have since served
as a Board Member, Business
Agent, Vice President, Trustee,
Delegate and Safety Instruc
tor. In his role as a Delegate,
Paul has represented Local
1414 at numerous meetings to
include Docker Marine, Coali
tion of Black Traders Unionist
(CBTU), A. Phillip Randolph
Institute National Education
Conference, Savannah Cha
tham Day, Blue Ribbon Panel
for Longshore Labor Unions,
International Longshoreman
Association Convention, Inter
national Longshoreman South
Atlantic and Gulf Coast Dis
trict Conference, International
Transportation and Intermodal,
and AFL-CIO Martin Luther
King Day Observance Conven
tion along with serving in the
role of National Sergeant-At-
Arms for A. Phillip Randolph
Paul Mosley, Sr.
Institute and the CBTU. Fur
ther, Paul is the Co-Organizer
for the South Atlantic and Gulf
Coast District of the Interna
tional Longshoreman Associa
tion.
Paul has been recog
nized for his selfless acts over
the years to include 2016 A.
Phillip Randolph Member of
the Year for Outstanding Cit
izenship, 365 Pink honoree
for his sponsorship to support
Cancer Research and Father
of the Year for Jack and Jill of
America, Savannah Chapter.
He has also coached basketball
for the Delaware Center and
Notre Dame Academy, football
for the Shooting Stars Associa
tion and soccer for the Coastal
Georgia Soccer Association.
His community in
volvement expands across sev
eral organizations to include
Curtis V. Cooper Board of
Directors, Queensborough Na
tional Bank and Trust Coastal
Advisory Board, City of Sa
vannah Pension Board, South
eastern Quarterback Club,
Omar Temple #21 PHA Shri-
ners of Savannah, and Prince
Hall Free and Accepted Ma
sons Eureka Lodge #1.
Paul shares his life
with his beautiful wife Dr.
Keenya G. Mosley and his
eight children. Paul will be
sworn in on Saturday, January
21, 2023, at 3:00pm at the In
ternational Longshoreman As
sociation Local 1414 221 N.E.
Lathrop Avenue Savannah,
GA.
Local residents will
step up to serve as volunteers
on January 12, 2023, in honor
of the annual Martin Luther
King, Jr., holiday. Volunteers
will plant, weed, and cultivate
a community garden join
ing hundreds of thousands of
Americans across the country
in volunteer service.
Economic Opportu
nity for Savannah-Chatham
County Area, Inc. will leverage
the strength of local citizens
to help tackle local problems
and advance Dr. King’s dream
of opportunity for all. Terry
Tolbert, Executive Director
of EOA stated, “to celebrate
our success and raise aware
ness of food insecurity in our
community, EOA will host
Revitalizing the Garden.” He
said 35,000 Savannahians live
more than a mile from a gro
cery store and lack easy and
affordable access to fresh and
nutritious food. Local statis
tics show 17.6% of residents
are food insecure. Tolbert said
brown bags will also be dis
tributed to low-income seniors
60 and over. Attorney Wendy
A. Owens currently serves as
Chairman of the EOA Board of
Directors.
Thomas J. Vilsack
The Martin Luther
King, Jr., Day of Service is a
defining moment each year
when Americans across the
country work hand in hand to
make communities more equi
table, underpin racial equity,
expand civic opportunities, and
foster respect for individual
differences. Citizens will take
action to create the Beloved
Community of Dr. King’s
dream.
Special guest will be
Thomas J. Vilsack who was
confirmed as the 32nd United
States Secretary of Agriculture
on Feb. 23, 2021, by the U.S.
Senate. He was nominated by
President Joe Biden to return to
a role where he served for eight
years under President Barack
Obama.
Partnering organiza
tions and businesses include
Home Depot Store #122 and
the Senior Companion Pro
gram of Senior Citizens, Inc.
AmeriCorps is a
federal agency that leads the
annual MLK Day of Service,
working with the King Cen
ter, thousands of nonprofit
groups, faith-based organiza
tions, schools and businesses
nationwide. For more infor
mation about the MLK Day of
Service, visit AmeriCorps.gov/
MLKDay.
WHO: Local Elected Officials,
National Service Participants,
Community Volunteers, etc.
WHAT: Revitalizing the
Community Garden
WHERE: 618 West Anderson
Street, Savannah, GA 31415
(Back parking lot)
WHEN: January 12,2023
TIME: 10 a.m. to 12 noon
Historic Savannah Loundation Opens
Nominations Lor 2023 Preservation Awards
Nominations are now
being accepted for Historic
Savannah Foundation’s 2023
Preservation Awards. Each
May, HSF celebrates the ar
ea’s best preservation projects
with a program that recognizes
individuals, organizations, and
companies who embody and
practice excellence in preser
vation in Savannah and Cha
tham County.
Historic Savannah
Foundation members who have
completed a restoration project
within the past three years, or
who know of a restoration proj
ect that may be award-worthy
are encouraged to submit a
nomination.
Projects must have
been completed within the past
three years, and entrants must
have the consent of the prop
erty owner for a nomination.
Self-nominations will be ac
cepted. Nominations that were
previously submitted but were
not selected to receive an award
may be revised, expanded, and
resubmitted. To be eligible for
an award, nominated projects
must have adhered to the appli
cable Secretary of the Interior’s
Standards for Rehabilitation.
For more information on these
standards, visit www.nps.gov/
tps/standards .htm.
The general evalua
tion criteria include:
1. Quality and degree of diffi
culty of the nominee’s project
or effort.
2. Degree to which the nomi
nee’s project or effort is unusu
al or pioneering or serves as an
example that influences good
preservation practices.
3. Demonstrable or measurable
impact of nominee’s project on
the community.
A jury of local pro
fessionals with representation
from the fields of architecture,
preservation, academia and
planning is invited to review
nominations for HSF’s Preser
vation Awards.
Nominations should fall under
at least one of the following
categories: restoration, reha
bilitation, new construction,
stewardship, craftsmanship or
archaeology.
The deadline for all
award nominations is 5 p.m.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
Mailed entries must be post
marked or dropped off at HSF
by this date. The application
cost is $50 for HSF members.
Non-members are asked to
join HSF by visiting http://
www.myhsf.org/giving/gener-
al-membership/ prior to sub
mitting the application. Preser
vation Award recipients will be
notified by the end of March.
The nominator or primary con
tact will be notified for those
not selected. Award announce
ments and presentation will be
made at HSF’s Preservation
Awards Ceremony in May.
Mail entries to:
Historic Savannah Foundation
Attn: Preservation Awards
P. O. Box 1733
Savannah, Ga 31402
Hand deliver entries to:
Historic Savannah Foundation
Attn: Preservation Awards
321 East York Street
Savannah, Ga 31401
Historic Savannah
Foundation, a leading non
profit preservation and cultur
al institution, saves buildings,
places, and stories that define
Savannah’s past, present, and
future. Following its forma
tion in 1955, the organization
started a Revolving Fund to
save endangered historic prop
erties, now totaling nearly 412
buildings throughout several
of Savannah’s historic dis
tricts. HSF continues to build
capacity within its operations,
secure new financial resources,
improve its image and visibil
ity, and increase public policy
efforts to protect Savannah’s
historic districts. For more in
formation about the work of the
Historic Savannah Foundation,
visit www.myhsf.org.
For more information
about the awards or Historic
Savannah Foundation, please
visit www.myHSF.org or con
tact Kimberly Newbold, Edu
cation & Research Associate , at
912-483-7294 or knewbold@
myhsf.org. For sponsorship
information, please contact
Colleen Reynolds, Events &
Development Associate, at
912-483-7190 or creynolds@
myHSF.org.
City To Rollout New Glass Recycling Program
The City of Savan
nah’s Sanitation Department
is partnering with Glass WRX
to create convenient glass re
cycling drop off locations
throughout the community for
residential use. A ribbon-cut-
ting ceremony for the new pro
gram will take place Wednes
day, Jan. 11, at 1 p.m. at the
Bacon Park Transfer Station,
6400 Skidaway Rd.
The City will debut
an additional glass-only recy
cling container at the Dean For
est Road Landfill, 1327 Dean
Forest Rd. More locations will
be announced in February.
Residents are encour
aged to visit either of the two
locations to transport and dis
pose of glass recyclables at no
additional cost. This program
will help remove glass recy
clables from the City’s current
single-stream recycling pro
gram to limit contamination
and increase material value.
Glass collected at
glass recycling drop off loca
tions will be recycled in the
U.S. for reuse in the glass in
dustry. Glass recyclables will
be made into various products,
including new glass containers,
recycled glass countertops, and
foamed glass—which can be
used in construction projects,
as a water filtration medium,
and in lightweight concrete.
To learn more about
what items are acceptable or
the benefits of the program,
visit www.savannahga.gov/
glassrecycling
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“What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?”
by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Continued from Page 1
An excerpt of a speech de
livered to students at Barratt
Junior High (Philadelphia -
October 26,1967), nine years
after Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. was stabbed in Harlem, NY
(1958)
They in their own
lives have walked through long
and desolate nights of oppres
sion, and yet they’ve risen up
and plunged against cloud-
filled nights of affliction, new
and blazing stars of inspiration.
And so from an old
slave cabin of Virginia’s hills,
Booker T Washington rose up
to be one of America’s great
leaders. He lit a torch in Ala
bama and darkness fled in that
setting.
From a pover
ty-stricken area of Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania, Marian
Anderson rose up to be the
world’s greatest contralto so
that a Toscanini could say that
a voice like this comes only
once in a century, and Sibelius
of Finland could say my roof is
too low for such a voice.
From the Red Hills of
Gordon County, Georgia and
the arms of a mother who could
neither read nor write, Roland
Hayes rose up to be one of the
world’s great singers and car
ried his melodious voice into
the palaces and mansions of
kings and queens.
From crippling cir
cumstances, there came a
George Washington Carver to
carve for himself an imper
ishable niche in the annals of
science. There was a star in the
diplomatic sky, and then came
Ralph Bunche, the grandson
of a slave preacher, and he
reached up and grabbed it
and allowed it to shine in his
life with all of its scintillating
beauty. There was a star in the
athletic sky.
And then came Jackie
Robinson in his day and Wil
lie Mays in his day with their
powerful bats and their calm
spirits. Then came Jesse Ow
ens with his fleet and dashing
feet. Then came Joe Lewis and
Muhammad Ali with their [ad
judicated] fists.
All of them came to
tell us that we can be somebody
and to justify the conviction of
the poet:
Fleecy locks, and black
complexion Cannot forfeit
nature’s claim.
Skin may differ, but af
fection Dwells in black and
white the same.
And if I were so tall as to
reach the pole. And to grasp
the ocean at a span.
I must be measured by my
soul. The mind is a standard
of the man.
#3: Commitment to the
Eternal Principles
And finally, in your
life’s blueprint must be a com
mitment to the eternal princi
ples of beauty, love, and jus
tice. Don’t allow anybody to
pull you so low as to make you
hate them.
Don’t allow any
body to cause you to lose your
self-respect to the point that
you do not struggle for justice.
However young you are, you
have a responsibility to seek to
make your nation a better na
tion in which to live.
You have a responsi
bility to seek to make life bet
ter for everybody. And so you
must be involved in the strug
gle for freedom and justice.
Now in this struggle
for freedom and justice, there
are many constructive things
that we all can do and that we
all must do. And we must not
give ourselves to those things
which will not solve our prob
lems.
You’ve heard the
word “nonviolent” and you’ve
heard the word “violent.” I
happen to believe in nonvio
lence. We’ve struggled with
this method with young peo
ple and adults alike all over
the south. And we have won
some significant victories. And
we’ve got to struggle with it
all over the north because the
problems are as serious in the
north as they are in the south.
But I believe as we
struggle with these problems,
we’ve got to struggle with
them with a method that can
be militant but at the same time
does not destroy life or proper
ty-
And so our slogan
must not be “Burn, baby, burn,”
it must be “Build, baby, build.”
Organize, baby, organize.
Yes, our slogan must
be “Learn, baby, learn” so that
we can earn, baby, earn.
And with a powerful
commitment, I believe that we
can transform dark yesterdays
of injustice into bright tomor
rows of justice and humanity.
Let us keep going toward the
goal of selfhood, toward the
realization of the dream of
brotherhood, and toward the
realization of the dream of un
derstanding and goodwill. Let
nobody stop us.
I close by quoting
once more the man that the
young lady quoted, that mag
nificent black bard who is now
passed on, Langston Hughes.
One day, he wrote a poem en
titled, “Mother to Son.” The
mother didn’t always have her
grammar right, but she uttered
words of great symbolic pro
fundity.
Well, son. I'll tell you: Life
for me ain’t been no crystal
stair.
It’s had tacks in it. And
boards torn up, And places
with no carpet on the floor
— Bare.
But all the time I’se been
a-climbin’ on. And reachin’
landin’s. And turnin’ cor
ners, And sometimes goin’
in the dark Where there ain’t
been no light.
So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don't you set down on the
steps ‘Cause you finds it’s
kinder hard.
Don’t you fall now — For
I’se still goin’, honey, I’se
still climbin', And life for me
ain't been no crystal stair.
Well, life for none of us has
been a crystal stair. But we
must keep moving. We must
keep going.
If you can’t fly, run. If
you can’t run, walk. If you
can’t walk, crawl, but by all
means, keep moving!"
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