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Garland will hold its inaugural Juneteenth occasion this month at Audubon Park, town introduced.
“This is something we’ve needed to do in this community for a very long time,” Mayor Scott LeMay stated in a news launch.
The household festival will function dancers, youngsters’s actions, audio system, music, an essay contest, meals vans, distributors and academic alternatives to find out about Juneteenth’s historic significance.
Gwendolyn Daniels of the Garland NAACP, who was on the committee that developed the occasion, will learn the e-book Juneteenth: A Children’s Story by Opal Lee, who is taken into account the ”grandmother” of the motion that made Juneteenth a federal vacation.
Attendees can deliver pre-packed picnic baskets, however open flames and grilling gained’t be allowed.
2 to five p.m. June 19 at Audubon Park, 342 W. Oates Road.
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