Breakathon raises $11,000 for schools

For the sixth year in a row, martial artists in brightly colored shirts marched to Liberty Park and broke boards at the Renton River Days Festival.

July 30, 2014 7:18 pm
The annual breakathon raised $11
The annual breakathon raised $11

The Renton Breakathon raised more than $11,000 for Communities in Schools of Renton at IKEA Renton Rivers Days last weekend.

Martial artists from  Kim’s Tae Kwon Do, Ms. Mari’s Martial Arts Club, Chuan Tao Kung Fu and Lee’s Martial Arts Renton/Maple Valley have raised more than $68,000 for the organization.

For the sixth year in a row, martial artists in brightly colored shirts marched to Liberty Park and broke boards at the Renton River Days Festival. This is the schools’ biggest fundraiser and all the money helps keep Renton youth in school.

This year, more than 100 students marched together in the Renton River Days Parade, and for the second year in a row, made a small detour and marched past the Salvation Army’s booth to drop off their non-perishable food donations for the “Feed the People, not the Ducks” campaign.