February 12, 2005Our Tsunami Relief Fundraiser/ Chinese New Year Celebration was a great success! It started with students and their families helping to clean the studio prior to the event. The Vacuum King may not have the mythical powers of the Monkey King, but he did discover that Shaolin techniques can be adapted to modern technology to create new weapons in the ongoing battle against evil (or at least dirt).
Many thanks to Terri Hogue of
Mountain Yoga Studio for starting off
the
Next, our own Shifu Sean Marshall provided a free introductory Kung Fu class
There was a steady stream of people coming in for the
great yard sale bargains
The Greer kids provided a Lion Dance demonstration and
managed to go up
At noon, we had our kick-a-thon. We had a room full of
participants who did
We had great demonstrations by several martial arts
schools. We really
Sifu Scott Dobbins brought students from the Mid-Atlantic Chinese Martial Arts Center
Sifu Ramon J. Martinez brought students from the Heaven Mountain Gongfu & Taiji school
Sifu Shawn Smith with students from her Silk Dragon Chinese Martial Arts school
Students from Goh's Kung Fu & Tai Chi
Students from the Jing Ying Institute self-defense classes.
Many thanks to Debi Jasen who had the idea of
organizing an indoor yard sale
Also, many thanks to the
Office Depot in Severna Park for
loaning us tables on short notice, Office Depot - 569 Ritchie Hwy, Store# 2106, Severna Park, MD 21146. 410-544-0615 The Big Bean - 558 Baltimore & Annapolis Blvd, Severna
Park, Maryland 21146. 410-384-7744 We raised over $2,000 to support the Tsunami Relief
efforts of Mercy Corps and
donated |