Local vendors excited for MLK March after last years cancellation [Video]

SAN ANTONIO – A local food vendor, like several others, is excited to return to the Martin Luther King Jr. March after the event was canceled last year due to weather.

Vida Floyd, who teaches special education at Ed White Middle School, is the owner and operator of Jewel’s Cajun Cuisine.

“I named it Jewel’s Cajun Cuisine in honor of my mother, who passed away,” Floyd said. “I have been cooking since I was 10 years old and always wanted to have a food trailer, so it was a no-brainer to name it after my mother whenever I started my business.”

Floyd said it was also a no-brainer to participate in the country’s largest Martin Luther King Jr. march.

“When I first moved here, I was on the other side marching every year, and then in the end, I would always go to the food vendors and search for all the foods …