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On a boxing kick
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On a boxing kick
Sport's fitness appeal luring females, strengthening families
By JACQUELINE SEIBEL
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Sunday, December 23, 2001
The family that kicks together sticks together.
"When I heard those words, I knew this was the place to be," said
Pam Terry, a Hartford mother who heard those words from Waukesha's
Oscar Medina, owner of a boxing and kick-boxing gym and school.
She joined -- and signed up her three children.<...
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