WPCNR MAIN STREET JOURNAL. January 15, 2007: A crowd of approximately 300 joined together at the Crowne Plaza Hotel this morning to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr on his Birthday. The throng was sent on its way with a clever and powerful message delivered by the Reverend Natalie Wimberly, Pastor of St. Francis A.M.E. Zion Church of Port Chester who roused the breakfasters to their feet with her impassioned withering delivery to "look beyond what people think they see in you and to be what you see," calling on all to go beyond first impressions and look for the potential in everyone.

Dr. Martin Luther King Breakfast at the Crowne Plaza this morning.

Reverend Wimberly asked all to reflect on what would have happened if Dr. King had stopped and given up on his mission and not carried it on. She called on all to look within for what God sees in you. Calling out the names of pioneers of equality of the past: Rosa Parks, Barbara Jordan, George Washington Carver -- she bade the multitude reflect on what would have happened if they had been discouraged by people's first impressions of them. In tears, she remembered her youth as one of 11 children in a 3-bedroom house in Terre Haute, Indiana, when she was told she did not speak well. She spoke well today and the people heard. They heard.