There was just five of us, but that didn’t matter. The beauty of community service is that every little bit helps. Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2014 was no different.

Over a hour’s time on Jan. 20, three of our Park Hill South high school volunteers and two others were able to collect eight bags of trash at Ermine Case Jr. Park in downtown Kansas City. As Dr. King once said, “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”