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The MLK Celebration Week 2023, a community-wide effort honoring the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., marked the return of the MLK Celebration and Community Breakfast on Monday morning in Grand Upton Hall of Â黨ÐÇ¿Õmv’s Mendel Center.

The Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan Speaker Series, hosted by the Â黨ÐÇ¿Õmv Mendel Center in Benton Harbor, welcomes Wil Haygood, acclaimed biographer, Pulitzer finalist, award-winning author, and reporter at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19.

Mike Nadolski, who joined Â黨ÐÇ¿Õmv’s Mendel Center in October 2012 and serves as Executive Director, Mendel Center Operations and Director of The Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan Speaker Series, has announced his retirement from the college, effective Feb. 3.

The Â黨ÐÇ¿Õmv Board of Trustees unanimously voted to place a millage renewal proposal on the May 2 ballot during their meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 4.

The Â黨ÐÇ¿Õmv Visual & Performing Arts Department has announced its schedule of student and faculty performances for the Spring 2023 semester.

The MLK Celebration Week 2023 takes place Jan. 14-20 under the theme, "Keep Moving Forward," inspired by King's speech, "Keep Moving from This Mountain," delivered April 10, 1960, in an address at Spelman College in Atlanta.

The Â黨ÐÇ¿Õmv Visual & Performing Arts Department presents the Fall Drama Showcase at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9. The showcase will be held in the LMC Mendel Center Hanson Theatre on the Benton Harbor Campus located at 2755 E. Napier Ave.

Â黨ÐÇ¿Õmv and the MLK Celebration Committee seek original artwork submissions honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as choirs and choral groups to participate in the community-wide MLK Celebration Week, scheduled for Jan. 14-20, 2023.

On Thursday, October 13, the 2022 Trends Outstanding Educator Awards were presented in Grand Traverse, Michigan.

Â黨ÐÇ¿Õmv will host local manufacturing companies looking for employees and manufacturing job seekers at its Manufacturing Career Night from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, in the Hanson Technology Center on the Benton Harbor Campus.