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Lucille Spencer fits a bit of exercise into every morning. She touches her toes and stretches; if there is music on, she will dance.
The 95-year-old thinks her efforts are one of the reasons she has aged well — most people assume she is years younger...
DATE: Apr 17, 2018
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Dancing in front of Debbie Allen was tough, but Ava Moreno won her over.
The legendary performer was “very intense” said the 11-year-old, who was a bundle of nerves during the last-minute audition.
She and seven other members of DanceSations School o...
DATE: Apr 12, 2018
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At 25, Porsha Kimble lost her job after a drug test showed she had been using cocaine.
She thinks baking saved her life.
As she worked on getting herself clean, she decided it was a way to pay her bills.
“Nobody in my family knew, but I’d been abusi...
DATE: Apr 11, 2018
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James Delgado started in archaeology anticipating a career with his feet firmly on dry land. What changed his mind was an old whaling ship under San Francisco's financial district, six blocks from the ocean.
“In 1978, my employers, the US National Pa...
DATE: Apr 05, 2018
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Hillary Williams still remembers the first time he read one of his poems in public. At 5, his voice boomed as he stood bravely in front of the church congregation: “Mattock, shovel, rake and hoe, plant some beans and let them grow. When they’ve grown...
DATE: Apr 03, 2018
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After the Boston Marathon bombing, Claire de Ste Croix thought she’d never run another big race.
She crossed the finish line only minutes before the 2013 explosion that killed three and injured hundreds along the route.
In 2017, however, the 53-year-...
DATE: Mar 28, 2018
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People seemed so welcoming when David Garland arrived in Bermuda in 1961 he instantly fell in love. He soon got to see the darker side of things.
On February 2, 1965, he had the dubious honour of being the first officer injured in the Belco riots.
H...
DATE: Mar 27, 2018
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JayLynn Hines’s family was flabbergasted when she won Intense Mas’s song competition.
Although she’d written tunes before, she couldn’t sing a note.
It didn’t matter. The 23-year-old had YouTube on her side.
“I found a video that suggested using a pl...
DATE: Mar 26, 2018
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Gina Thompson started face painting, certain she had all the popular characters down pat. Then a little boy asked for Barney.
“I couldn’t remember for the life of me what Barney looked like,” she said of the Tyrannosaurus rex whose television show, ...
DATE: Mar 22, 2018
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Growing up, Wentworth Christopher never dreamt of one day travelling the world.
Somerset and St George’s seemed far enough away for the Devonshire boy.
“In those days children tended to stay in their neighbourhoods,” the 79-year-old said.
“Going to...
DATE: Mar 20, 2018
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