Despite rain, Lincoln Elementary students keep walking toward $45,000 goal

Childen walk with parents in the rain on a city street. Two facing the camera are girls with umbrellas, to the right of them are two women, to the left is a child in a yellow raincoat holding a woman's hand, and in front of that mother and child are two boys in long red T-shirts holding hands with a woman.

Kid-friendly covers of today’s hits echoed through Oakland Chinatown Sunday morning as students walked laps around Lincoln Elementary to raise money for school activities.  “Good job, dragons,” teachers and volunteers chanted, as the children splashed through the rain. “Keep on walking!” The goal was to raise $45,000 in Lincoln Elementary’s 14th annual Walk-a-Thon.  Each student found…

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Chinese music program unites cultures, educates youth

Thompson Purple Silk Foundation

Judging by the audience’s loud cheers, fifteen-year old Tyler Thompson’s opera rendition of Justice Bao, a Chinese judge who fought government corruption, was spot-on. He hit all the notes, his Mandarin flawless, and the cheers he received from the nearly-packed Rawley Farnsworth Theater at Skyline High School Saturday evening were the loudest of the night at a performance to raise money for the Purple Silk Music Education Foundation.

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