Wilmer celebrating Juneteenth Saturday

WILMER – The City of Wilmer will hold its Juneteenth celebration a little late this year on June 30, but “residents can be sure it was worth the wait.”

A free event is to be held at the Wilmer Community Center from 1 to 3:30 p.m. there will be music, food and vendors for all who join.

The city will also be having its first Farmers Market at the Community Center during the celebration.

“This is Wilmer’s first Juneteenth Celebration and Farmers Market” said Emmanuel Wealthy-Williams, Wilmer’s mayor.

“It will be the first time we as a community come together to celebrate this landmark occasion,

“I am so proud to serve a city that is ready to embrace cultural freedoms.”

Juneteenth is also recognized as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day.

It is an American holiday commemorating the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in the United States’ state of Texas.

The date is also known for the day of the emancipation of African Americans who were in slavery throughout the former Confederate States of America.