PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM PETERSON
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 150 volunteers gathered at the Somerset Academy in Bridgewater to participate in various service projects including painting a mural in the school and assembling kits to be distributed to homeless individuals on their first night in a shelter. The project, coordinated by Jersey Cares, included several students from Middlesex County College’s Democracy House. Pictured are Daniela Campos of the Fords section of Woodbridge, right, and Ariana Simon, Democracy House coordinator, making a blanket to be included in a kit.