Making the Season Bright

This was a month of giving back to the community. ATA Martial Arts of West Chester adopted 4 children through St. Agnes Parish and filled up a bag of Holiday gifts for each child. We also collected many gifts for the children's mothers and fathers. The gifts truly helped make the families' seasons brighter by allowing them to have new gloves, hats, clothes, scarfs, and other necessities so that they may live more comfortably this winter.

We also did our annual bell ringing for the Salvation Army this month. We stood in front of the West Goshen K-Mart for 4 hours on a Friday night and collected a lot of money. Although it was very cold outside, the Leadership Team was proud to represent ATA in uniform and spread Holiday cheer.

A special thanks to everyone who contributed a gift and helped ring bells!

Getting To Know The Community

Along with enrolling and meeting new students, we have done many other activities to get to know the community better. We have even given back to the community in ways such as ringing the bell for the Salvation Army. We stood outside the East Bradford Acme for a couple of hours this Saturday. Although it was very cold outside, it was wonderful to see the community be so generous to such a great cause! Also, we are scheduled to read at the West Chester County Public Library this Tuesday at 1:00. We are so excited to team up with such wonderful organizations.

ATA Martial Arts has also gone through many buildout phases too. We got our rough wiring inspection completed and passed on Friday. We will soon be able to begin putting up the rest of the drywall, tile, install the counters and paint. January 2nd, our official grand opening date, is only right around the corner! We will have everyone's first class as well as uniform fittings that Friday as well as Saturday. We have already started to receive sponsors, like Brothers Pizza, who will help by donating refreshments that day! Hope to see you there.

Electricity!!

Today was the first day that our electricity worked!!! We solved the 3 week mystery and it was officially turned on. Once the electricity worked, we did some more cleaning and set up a small area in the front of the school where potential students and their families can learn more about ATA Martial Arts and take an introductory lesson if they wish.

We also went to West Goshen today and introduced ourselves to the stores in a local shopping center. We scheduled a book reading of the Kung Fu Panda books for Wednesday December 17th at 10:30 at Chester County Books & Music. The ladies who worked there were very welcoming. ATA Martial Arts of West Chester has also volunteered to ring the bell for the Salvation Army on Saturday December 6th from 2 until 4 at the Bradford Acme.

Today we took a trip to the West Chester Post Office and finally got the key to our mailbox on site at Bradford Plaza. We can officially receive mail at our 658 Downingtown Pike address. How exciting!!