Friday, January 15, 2021 by Joe Byrnes (WMFE)
Play Audio
Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected.
Ocala’s Martin Luther King Day march has been transformed this year because of COVID-19 into a food caravan to help those in need.
Hundreds of people usually gather to parade down West Silver Springs Boulevard, and that raised pandemic concerns.
The Rev. Eric Cummings of New Zion Missionary Baptist Church suggested the food drive.
“We knew that because of covid we did not want to have a big superspreader event,” he said.