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Call to service honors King

by Pat Coate | January 21, 2009
"People used to think young people didn't care, but that's not true. We've seen a growth in youth volunteering."
- Bob Young, local nonprofit official

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA - Benardo Dargan urged his students at Queens University of Charlotte to consider Monday's national holiday not as a day off, but as “a day on.”

Heeding his call and that of President-elect Obama, 31 Queens students joined hundreds of thousands of Americans, coast to coast, giving up a part of their Martin Luther King Jr. Day to enrich the lives of others

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