With Lance Giroux. Since 1990, Lance has facilitated the Samurai Game in public seminars, at academic conferences, for universities, schools and at corporate retreats – throughout the US, Asia, Europe and Mexico. Some of the many organizations that Lance has provided the Game are: The United Nations Secretariat, Verizon Wireless, Nokia, University of Nevada Las Vegas, University of San Francisco, Oklahoma State University, Texas A&M University and many others.

This event will be the first time the Samurai Game has ever been offered in NevadaCounty.

Tuition for the entire seminar is $150.00. Ask about our amazing family discount. Youth 8 years old and up are welcome. Please keep in mind that the Samurai Game is challenging. For that reason, young people should only attend if they are very motivated to do so.

Check out the official Samurai Game website for more information.

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Free Self-Defense Day was a huge success! The events were free to all. As you probably know by now, a key aspect of our training at Aikido'Ka is community service. As aikidoists, we are peaceful warriors for ourselves, our families and communities. As such, we have a duty to serve. At Aikido'Ka, we put our duty to serve into action through Project Based Leadership Training (PBLT). When our students, individually or as a class, plan and carry out service projects, they grow their character and become real leaders in the community.

Everyone at Aikido'Ka performs community service projects. Frank Bloksberg Sensei, as part of his 18-month-long Ultimate Black Belt test (for his next level black belt), is performing 5 to 10 community-based projects. Each project must involve more than 10 people.

On April 4, Frank Sensei provided three self-defense classes, free of charge. The classes will be split up by age: 7 - 11, 12 - 16, 17+.

We had belt testing, aikido demonstrations and Grass Valley Taiko performed fantastically.

We Can . . . Drive Through 2
October 25, 2008
11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Last year, we learned that the Food Bank was experiencing a tremendous increase in demand and had been running out of food. In fact, the Food Bank inventory was down to one case of cans. When the Food Bank runs out of food, children go hungry.

In emergency response, Aikido'Ka held We Can . . . Drive Through. On October 27, 2007, at the bottom of Broad Street in Nevada City the community raised approximately $2,500 in cash and over 1,600 pounds of non-perishable food. This year, the problem of hunger in our community continues to grow and the Food Bank is busier than ever.

In response, we are holding We Can . . . Drive Through 2 on Saturday, October 25 from 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. – rain or shine. Our goal is to double last year's results. In other words, we intend to raise $5,000 in cash and over 3,000 pounds of non-perishable food.

The Food Bank does necessary work in our community and needs our support. The Food Bank provides food to senior citizens, single parents, working poor, families and homeless in our county. They are serving more families than ever before, on a budget made up of 80% donations. While our Food Bank is one of the smallest food banks in California, it is one of the few that provides food 7 days a week.

Consider Project H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People Eat), for example. In 2005, the Food Bank received a letter from Melissa Fowlkes, a 3rd grade teacher at Hennessy School. Ms. Fowlkes shared that many of her students come to school hungry. Even though the school provided some breakfast and lunches daily, these kids were still hungry. They simply did not get enough food at home and the school was not giving them enough food, either. Teachers throughout our community were buying food for hungry students so that they would at least have a nutritious snacks. The Food Bank responded with Project H.O.P.E., providing over 4,000 snacks every week to 15 community schools. The Food Bank continues Project H.O.P.E. through the summer when none of the school food programs operate. "With Project H.O.P.E. and our Nutrition Education program, we try to give out fresh fruits and vegetables to the kids. Project H.O.P.E. has pretty much tripled each new year and this year it is only 1/3 funded," Cassy Benuzzi of the Food Bank says.

We Can . . . Drive Through 2 is an easy and effective way for you to support the Food Bank and our community. Clean out your pantry and drop off your extra non-perishable food items at the corner of Broad and Union Streets in Nevada City. Just pull in on either side of the street, drop off your cash and/or food donation and drive away. We will be there rain or shine. It's that easy!

Here is a list of the food items that the Food Bank needs (the items with an * are those that the Food Bank needs the most):

Granola bars and cereal
Apple sauce and fruit cups
Dried fruit and nuts
*100% juice – individual juice boxes and bulk juice containers
*Cans of fruit, *vegetables, soups, *fish and *meat
Tomato products – spaghetti sauce, tomato paste
Dried beans and enriched rice
Peanut butter – plastic containers only

If you have any questions, want to make donations or would like to volunteer, please contact Frank Bloksberg at (530) 273-2727.

AIKIDO’KA “WE CAN DRIVE-THROUGH” FOR FOOD BANK
A ROUSING SUCCESS!

Aikido'Ka
142 E. McKnight Way
Grass Valley, CA 95945
(530) 273-2727