MLK discussed, celebrated by ML students

Day honoring civil rights leader holds different meanings for Medical Lake's middle school, elementary students

By RYAN LANCASTER

Staff Reporter

Besides a day free from the classroom, what does Martin Luther King Jr. mean to students in the Medical Lake School District?

To eighth-grade student Wil Noble, it's a chance to shine some light on a problem that hits close to home.

“I think it's a really big deal, I have a lot of family that's black,” he said, describing how he used to be the target of racism while walking home from elementary school in Airway Heights. “I lived a block away from the...