The smart-alecky, mouthy middle child from Newark, N.J., suddenly became a wide-eyed youth full of wonder. In an instant, karate grabbed his attention. “I wasn’t really paying attention at first,” Jenkins recalls. “They were doing these moves, and I was thinking ‘I can do that.’ I was just sitting on the sidelines.” He stopped making […]
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Jenkins kicks off national tour
LEWISTON — John Jenkins recently provided two inspirational seminars to the 2014 state conference of the New Jersey Association of Student Financial Aid-Advisors at the Tropicana Hotel and Resort in Atlantic City, N.J. The presentations were the start of a national tour of PepTalk.com seminars. The response to the “Tai-Chi Therapy Experience” resulted in an […]
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They came. They studied. They stayed. Bursting the Bates bubble.
They’re leaders. Business owners. Volunteers. A look at some of the Bates College grads who decided to stay in L-A and the difference they have made. LEWISTON — Ben Chin was a newly minted Bates College freshman — an 18-year-old kid who’d grown up in Syracuse, N.Y., and Pittsburgh, Pa. — when Lewiston’s mayor hinted […]