Longtime Teacher Buys Pueblo, Colo., Karate Franchise.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: March 21, 2001 | Copyright information

By Gail Pitts, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 21--Santiago Barela was a freshman at Colorado State University in 1989 when he took a self-defense course.

"I just ate it up," he recalled Tuesday. And it set him on a course that has evolved into the franchise ownership of AKKA Karate USA martial arts school at 1035 S. Pueblo Blvd., most recently owned by the Albuquerque-based parent, American Kenpo Karate Academy.

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