Martial-arts schools raise $15K for CISR

Published 2:36 pm Thursday, August 2, 2012

Four martial-arts schools in the Renton area have collected $15,319 for Communities in Schools of Renton.

The schools are Kim’s Tae Kwon Do, Exceed Martial Arts, Ms. Mari’s Martial Arts Club and Lee’s Martial Arts Renton/Maple Valley.

Receiving the donation last week was CISR executive director, Sue Paro.

Last Friday students from all four schools  broke boards at the IKEA Renton River Days’ Kids Fair in Liberty Park. This was the fourth year that the students, dressed in bright orange shirts, and marched to Liberty Park to break boards with their martial arts kicks and strikes.

This is the biggest fundraiser for the schools: all the money goes to keeping Renton’s youth in school.

This year, students made a small detour and march past the Salvation Army’s booth to drop off their canned food donations for the “Feed the People, not the Ducks” campaign.