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AKANA Monthly Newsletter
We are excited to be celebrating another year of Hanshi Jerry Piddington's AKANA. This is going to be the best year ever in the history of our organization. AKANA has teamed up with Hawaii Rock Productions to present The Living Legends Celebrity Roast and the Man of the Hour/Roastee will be our Hanshi -- Mr. Jerry Piddington! This will be a once in a life time event. It will never happen again. Professor Gary Lee, my wife, and I have been working hard to make this celebration an event to tell your grandkids about. There is already a lineup of guest that include some of the greatest martial artist and sport karate competitors that ever played the game. This will be a fun-filled weekend that you do not want to miss. So don't be a sleeper; get your tickets now! It would really be nice if every single AKANA member was present at this reunion to celebrate with their Shihan. I know it would mean a lot to Hanshi. Living Legends is offering AKANA members a limited number of special reserved tables. Click here to read about the Living Legends Jerry Piddington Celebrity Roast! I will also keep this newsletter updated with a lineup of roasters, special guest, inductees of the Pioneer Living Legends Award, Living Legends alumni, and recipients of the Living Legends Sport Karate Awards. Check out some of our very own AKANA Living Legend Sport Karate inductees! Unfortunately, I can not list the surprise guest, but I can tell you, people are going to be surprised! Click here for Living Legends Alumni. One of the Living Legends projects will be a fundraiser for Chuck Norris's KICKSTART formerly known as Kick Drugs Out of America. Our goal is to get all the AKANA schools to do a KICK-A-THON. There are cool prizes and each school will have an opportunity to receive local publicity. Living Legends will host a final KICK-A-THON on the Saturday of October, 18, 2003 for the top 10 fundraisers of each school. The top fundraiser of each school can present their school check at the Living Legends Banquet. Living Legends will sponsor a grand prize for the top fundraiser. School owners can email me if they are interested. It would be cool if every school did their fundraiser on the same date. I am thinking when school starts around the second or third weekend in August. Give me some feedback. Any school can participate; the more the better! Now for some AKANA business: 2003 AKANA are past due . If you are becoming a first time AKANA member or renewing your AKANA membership, please click on the AKANA Membership Form and get with it. All dues past June 30th of 2003 will require a $10 late fee. Your AKANA dues will help sponsor 2003 events such as, Living Legends, Hanshi's Black Belt Tests, Hanshi's Tomoe Warriors Exam, and Hanshi's American Open Style Seminars. Remember, only active AKANA yearly memberships count for time-in on AKANA belt rank promotions signed by Hanshi Piddington. I will post all members by the end of June on this newsletter. Also, AKANA school charters are due. AKANA is running a school charter membership drive. Until the end of June, if an AKANA school signs up 10 members or more, AKANA will waive the school charter fee! Unfortunately, schools that are not chartered or renewed by the end of June will have to be taken off the website and will no longer be considered an affilliate of AKANA. There will also be an AKANA sponsorship program for schools that join 25 AKANA members or more. AKANA will sponsor a percentage of a Hanshi Jerry Piddington seminar with the respective number of AKANA students. For example, a 50 AKANA unit school will receive a 50% sponsorship from AKANA on a Hanshi seminar. How about that for a membership drive! AKANA is also introducing a program that will endorse certain events throughout each year. Credit hours for these events will be recognized toward each AKANA member's rank by AKANA chartered schools and Hanshi Jerry Piddington. AKANA members can click on AKANA Training Log to record their AKANA events such as tournaments and seminars. Members can click on AKANA Events to receive an updated schedule of events. Hopefully, this will encourage AKANA students to expand their martial arts ability, sweat together, compete together, and establish friendships. Our goal is to create a network of karate-ka who have a common interest (AOS) to develop their martial arts skills. So as you can see, AKANA is going to have an exciting year. I would like to personally thank Kyoshi McCall and Kyoshi Wilson for their support.
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