MLK Celebration Committee teams up with local celebrities to play ball

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The weather was a little toasty for a softball game Saturday, but that didn’t anyone from having a good time.

Southeastern North Carolina Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration Committee held a celebrity softball game in the Love Grove community this weekend.

Several local business owners, law enforcement officers, and politicians all joined in for this fundraiser.

“You want people to get together,” Hollis Briggs Jr., SE NC MLK Celebration Committee Chairman, said. “You want people to play together and enjoy a nice Saturday. It’s a fundraiser so that’s what we are doing and also commemorating Dr. King’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech.”

The organization says one of the goals is to have various family fun activities to unite our Wilmington community and surrounding counties.