{"id":15959,"date":"2026-01-15T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=15959"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:58:16","slug":"closures-planned-for-martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/closures-planned-for-martin-luther-king-jr-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Closures Planned for Martin Luther King Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many City of Yakima facilities will be closed Monday, January 19<sup>th<\/sup>, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That includes City Hall, Y-PAC, Public Works, and Parks and Recreation offices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Business offices for the Police and Fire Departments will be closed. Emergency services will remain available.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yakima Transit will not provide bus service&nbsp;Monday,&nbsp;and the City\u2019s Harman Center will be closed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City of Yakima garbage pick-up service will continue as scheduled Monday, but the Refuse Division\u2019s office will be closed. There will be no delays next week for refuse collection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lions Pool will remain open to the public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a meeting on Tuesday, January&nbsp;6<sup>th<\/sup>,&nbsp;the Yakima City Council proclaimed the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday to be a Day of Service in the city of Yakima.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-3ed18b08-ddb5-438a-9de8-8198f63f1acf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/MLK-Jr.-Day-Closures-News-Release.pdf\">MLK Jr. Day Closures &#8211; News Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/MLK-Jr.-Day-Closures-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-3ed18b08-ddb5-438a-9de8-8198f63f1acf\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many City of Yakima facilities will be closed Monday, January 19th, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.&nbsp; That includes City Hall, Y-PAC, Public Works, and Parks and Recreation offices.&nbsp; Business offices for the Police and Fire Departments will be closed. Emergency services will remain available.&nbsp; Yakima Transit will not provide bus service&nbsp;Monday,&nbsp;and the City\u2019s Harman<\/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-15959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959","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=15959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15961,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions\/15961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}