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Effective May 1, there will be no Saturday classes or open gym at any of the schools. We will be participating in many parades and other activities this summer - see up coming events for a list.

Also effective May 1, you may wear a tshirt instead of your uniform top if you would like for the summer. You will still need to wear your uniform pants and belt, but may wear a Rising Sun tshirt or a plain red or plain black tshirt. No shirts with any kind of writing will be permitted except for our Rising Sun shirts.

Rising Sun has purchased the prior Ackley Hardware store and will be moving to the larger building soon. An open house is being planned during Ackley's Fun Days in June. This will give us more room for our growing class sizes along with a permanent home.

Starting on August 30th we will have a satellite school at the Nazareth Lutheran Church gym, on the corner of Main Street and University Avenue in Cedar Falls. Classes will be on Thursday nights.

On May 10 we held a special Black Belt promotion ceremony, called a Kamiza ceremony, and seven students were promoted to first degree Black Belt. Teresa Gnade was promoted to 4th degree Black Belt. Congratulations to all of the students for their hard work and achievement! See photo below.

Pictured kneeling left to right are: June Vogelman, Cheri Peters and Grant Truax, all promoted to first Degree Black Belt and Teresa Gnade, promoted to 4th degree. Center row are Amy Truax, assistant, Sensei Fuller and Angie Buffington, assistant. Back row are Doug Buffington, Manny Collazo, Jean Stauffer and Heather Benson, all promoted to first degree Black Belt.