{"id":15956,"date":"2026-01-15T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=15956"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:56:48","slug":"street-closures-set-for-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/street-closures-set-for-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Closures Set for Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Drivers will find sections of some streets temporarily closed Monday, January 19th<\/sup>, for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration March. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The march will begin Monday at 12:00 pm at Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and North 5th<\/sup> Avenue. From there, it will proceed east on the boulevard to 8th<\/sup> Street. Participants will then head south on 8th<\/sup> Street to the Yakima Convention Center, 10 North 8th<\/sup> Street. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizers will begin setting up at 11:00 am Monday. The march is scheduled to begin at 12:00 pm and organizers anticipate it will end at 1:00 pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling street closures are planned along the parade route. Yakima Police Department officers will manage the temporary closures as participants make their way through each block along the march route. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard will be closed from North 5th<\/sup> Avenue to North 8th<\/sup> Street. Eighth Street will be closed from Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to Yakima Avenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is open to the public. Organizers anticipate more than 400 participants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The march and related activities will honor the slain civil rights leader. A schedule of events is available on OIC of Washington\u2019s Facebook<\/a> page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drivers will find sections of some streets temporarily closed Monday, January 19th, for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration March.  The march will begin Monday at 12:00 pm at Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and North 5th Avenue. From there, it will proceed east on the boulevard to 8th Street. Participants will then head south on 8th Street to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15958,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956\/revisions\/15958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}