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Marade Organizers Expect Record Turnout
POSTED: 7:28 pm MST January 18, 2009
UPDATED: 10:56 pm MST January 18, 2009
DENVER -- Organizers expect a record turnout for Denver’s MLK Day celebrations.Vern Howard, chairman of the Martin Luther King, Junior Colorado Holiday Commission, predicted up to 40,000 people for what the city calls the “Marade”, a combination of the words “march” and “parade.”Volunteers worked all weekend, picking up trash and shoveling snow, to get the Marade route ready.
The combination of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 80th birthday, the inauguration of Barack Obama and beautiful weather could lead to huge crowds.Already, organizers have had a record number of applications for participants.“I believe that it is so beautiful how everything is coming together under those words,” said Howard. “I’m not saying that the dream is being realized, but I am saying it’s being embraced and it is evolving.”The Marade gathering starts at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the King Statue in City Park.The program begins at 10 a.m. and the march goes down Colfax to end at the Civic Center.
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