FRIDAY, Sept. 12 — Lansing’s Hispanic Heritage Month kickoff event at City Hall has been postponed out of caution over “general concern about what is going on in the world,” city spokesperson Scott Bean confirmed today.
No new date has been selected by the event’s “five or six” organizers, whom Mayor Andy Schor clarified were a separate group distinct from the city. It was originally slated for 11 a.m. Monday.
“They organized it, they asked to use City Hall, and we approved it, and they made the decision to postpone it until later in Hispanic Heritage Month,” Schor said…