Honoring MLK with service to the community

Signs of servitude are seen throughout Ball Junior High during the Anaheim school’s fourth Servathon held Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Stuffed animal making left a Ball Junior High School batty. Batting fell all over the floor and tables during Servathon for MLK Day on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. The toys are for CHOC patients. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Ball Junior High’s Julienne Zamora, 12, makes dog toys from stretchy felt during the Anaheim school’s fourth Servathon on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Servathon lived up its name at Ball Junior High where students and volunteers created 138 paracord bracelets (survival bracelets), 213 thank you cards for the troops going to Operation Grattitude, 62 stuffed animals and get well cards for CHOC Hospital, 400 catnip toys and 500 chew toys created today will be donated to the OC Animal Shelter for dogs and cats and 520 Valentine Grams will be sold by ASB in February with those proceeds donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Orange County. Photographed on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Alyssa Patino, 12, of Ball Junior High, right, makes catnip toys during the Anaheim school’s fourth Servathon on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes were sprinkled throughout Ball Junior High during its Servathon on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Ball Junior High jazz band members Karen Saucedo, from left, Maite Navarro give a group hug to Judy Turner, 79, of Anaheim’s Acaciawood Village Senior Apartment Homes. Turner’s only complaint about the band’s performance was that it wasn’t long enough. “You are fantabulous and I should know because I’m a great singer,” Turner exclaims. The teens, both 13, visit as part of Servathon for MLK Day on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Ball Junior High jazz band members Karen Saucedo, from left, Maite Navarro applaud Judy Turner, 79,of Anaheim’s Acaciawood Village Senior Apartment Homes, who belted out a couple of bars. She tells the 13-year-olds she recently revisited MLK’s, ÒI Have a DreamÓ speech after first hearing it for the first time 54 years ago. It reminded Turner that we are all united. “I was labeled a dirty Jew growing up. To me all people, black, yellow, green or purple are all the same,” she says Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Megan Keeney, 8, of Lake Elsinore, center, makes a stuffed bear for CHOC patients during a MLK Day Servathon at Ball Junior High School on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)It’s a far cry from a pillow fight as Megan Keeney, 8, of Lake Elsinore is handed batting to stuff an animal during a Servathon for MLK Day at Ball Junior High School on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. The stuffed animals are for CHOC patients. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)“Bingo” yells winner Joan McMasters of Anaheim’s Acaciawood Village Senior Apartment Homes. The activity was of part Ball Junior High’s Servathon for MLK Day. The Anaheim school, located across the street, visited the facility with its jazz band and helped seniors play Bingo on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Georgia native Annie Jefferson, 91, of Anaheim’s Acaciawood Village Senior Apartment Homes, didn’t have much to say about MLK Day, other than it’s a nice holiday. She never met the American Baptist minister and activist. Jefferson looks at her Bingo prizes which included a patriotic blanket at the Anaheim complex Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Leigh Steudler of Torrance-based Keenan and Associates gives an “I love Bingo” bag, a blanket and Sees candy to Annie Jefferson, 91, of Anaheim’s Acaciawood Village Senior Apartment Homes, who won. Volunteers and Ball Junior High School students participate in a Servathon for MLK Day. The Anaheim school’s jazz band performed for senior and helped them play Bingo on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Juliana Pham, 2, left, and Megan Keeney, 8, alternate play and stuffing during a Servathon for MLK Day at Ball Junior High School on the civil rights leader’s birthday, Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. They make stuffed animals for CHOC patients. Pham’s mom is a counselor at the Anaheim school and Keeney lives in Lake Elsinore. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Show Caption of Expand
They stuffed 162 teddy bears for patients at Children’s Hospital of Orange County and made 138 bracelets for military troops.
They donated hundreds of toys for cats and dogs at the Orange County animal shelter.
That’s how students throughout Anaheim honored the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan. 15, during the annual Servathon event.
“Servathon is such an important example for our young people,” said Karen Dabney-Lieras, principal at Ball Junior High School. “Participating in Servathon allows them to see firsthand how they can make a difference in the community, by volunteering their talents and time to be of service to others and thereby honoring Dr. King Jr.’s legacy of service on his birthday. “
Source: Oc Register