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President marks MLK holiday WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton marked the birthday observance of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., today by helping volunteers refurbish a computer lab at a local Boys and Girls Club. The president has encouraged Americans to use the federal holiday to help their neighbors who need it most, rather than as just another day of rest, saying it should be ``a day on, not a day off.'' ``Every time you give a little, you always get more back,'' Clinton said. ``Let's remember that as Dr. King's enduring legacy.'' Under the auspices of Greater DC Cares, volunteers were pitching in at 25 sites around the city today. Clinton joined a half-dozen students at the youth center who were painting walls and staining bookshelves to spruce up their computer lab. King, recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his work for racial equality, was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968. ``We are in this together. We are members of the community of this city, the community of this country and the community of humanity,'' Clinton said. ``In the 30 odd years since Martin Luther King left this earth, we have forgotten that too much.'' In Atlanta today, Vice President Al Gore announced that the administration will seek $1.5 million in the fiscal 2001 budget to help protect the place where King was born and was buried. ``We must honor and uphold the dreamer,'' Gore said in a speech at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached. ``For we have come many miles toward justice, but have not yet fulfilled the dream.'' Visit our back issue library Email your... Technical questions & comments to: WebMaster Daily Tidings editorial comments & questions to: Editor Visit our other Western Oregon Newspapers... | Albany Democrat-Herald | Corvallis Gazette-Times | Lebanon Express | Newport News-Times | | Ashland Daily Tidings | Gresham Outlook | Springfield News | Ashland Daily Tidings 1661 Siskiyou Blvd. Ashland, OR 97520 Telephone 541-482-3456 © Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999 Lee Northwest Publishing