Mount Hebron High School parent Larry Walker, 50, was the winner of the first statewide Comcast Parent Involvement Matters Awards. He received a $1,000 prize for a nonprofit of his choice and a chair, symbolizing “a seat at the table of education.” The Ellicott City resident is a full-time staff pastor at Celebration Church in Columbia and married to Stevens Forest Elementary School teacher Alfreda Walker. Their sons Lawrence and Brandon are graduating this year ? Lawrence from the University of Maryland, College Park, and Brandon from Mount Hebron. He is the outgoing president of Parents of African American Students at Hebron, co-chairman of the county budget review committee and a Community Advisory Council member.

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