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- February 20 - Applications Due by 11:00am
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- February 26 - Gup Exam 6:45pm
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- March 6 No Class - Annual Instructor Meeting,VA
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- April 24 - Black Belt Exam, Richmond,VA
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| We have Expanded! |
| Great News! We have recently expanded into a 3,100 square foot facility. The new school has been completely remodeled with new mats, paint and equipment. We are very proud of our new facility as it has made classes much more comfortable and enjoyable. If you have not seen the new school yet, please stop in to visit with us. |
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| Tournament! Congratulations to all students and instructors of Dong's School for raising over $26,000.00 at this years Annual Tournament for Charity. Your efforts and hard work are greatly appreciated and the much needed funds will most definitely be put to good use through the Children's Hospital. Your efforts have helped to share the true martial arts spirit with our community. |
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| Food Drive We want to thank all of the students of the Dong's School Wilson Branch for helping to make our annual food drive such a success. Your generosity helped us to collect over 1540 pounds of non-perishable food items. All the food was donated to the Community Soup Kitchen of Wilson. This organization serves hot meals five days a week year round. Your generosity will help to make a diffence right here in the Wilson Community. |
| | New Black Belts On Saturday, April 5th, our semi-annual black belt exam was held in Richmond, Virginia hosted and administered by Grand Master Dong. Congratulations to the following students for earning the rank of 1st degree black belt: Gage Campbell, Joshua Edwards, Zack Metta, Connor Pittman, and Matt Weatherford. A special congratulations to our new 3rd degree black belts, Mindy Smith and Bryson Deanhardt. |
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| Seminar! On Saturday, September 27th, a black belt seminar was held at our school led by Grand Master Dong. Grand Master Dong shared his philosophy on the martial arts as well as advanced principles and techniques of our school specialty - Ta Kyuk Do. All participants were very excited to have the opportunity to once again train with Grand Master Dong. Janet Knox of the Wilson Daily Times was present and took quotes from Grand Master Dong, Instructor Mercer and Students to be included in a write up for the paper. Our sincere appreciation goes out to Grand Master Dong for sharing his time and knowledge with us. |
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Black Belt Test! On Saturday, October 4th, our semi-annual black belt exam was held in Richmond, Virginia. 23 students from our Wilson, NC branch school were candidates for promotion. 14 tested for the rank of 1st degree black belt, and 9 tested for the rank of 2nd degree black belt. All students did an outstanding job and were promoted by Grand Master Dong. Congratulations to the following students who received their 1st degree black belts: Elizabeth Albarren, Joe Benson, Will Benson, Martin Cooper, Sean Gettys, Tyler Nichols, Ashley Robbins, Tanner Robbins, Derek Ricketts, Haley Sigmon, Monty Sigmon, Connor Thayer, Matthew Tyson, and Hunter Welfare. A special congratulations goes to the following new 2nd degree black belts: John Dickens, John Holder, Robert Lewis, Tee-J Luper, Lauren McCall, Max McCall, Philip Sulivan, Alexis Wilber, and Brett Wilber. |
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| Food Drive 2009 We want to thank all of the students of the Dong's School Wilson Branch for helping to make our annual food drive a success once more this year. Your generosity helped us to collect over 1500 pounds of non-perishable food items. All the food was donated to the Community Soup Kitchen of Wilson. This organization serves hot meals five days a week year round. Your generosity will help to make a diffence right here in the Wilson Community. Your generosity is greatly appreciated! |
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