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Kudos & Kindness: Blue Lake Aikido, Jared Manninen bring great after-school activities to PAL participants

PAL participants study aikido with Blue Lake Aikido. Eighth-graders draw during an eight-week graphic novel course taught by Jared Manninen.

BPD officers studying Aikido

Saturday April 28, 2012 NEAL P. GOSWAMI Staff Writer BENNINGTON -- Bennington police officers on the department's special response team have begun training in Aikido, a Japanese martial art focused on self-defense, harmony and peace. Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette said the special response team members have attended several classes so far.

Life after fifty-five: Making the best of your golden years

What a drag it is getting old, the Rolling Stones once lamented. But they haven't met local aikido instructor Mutsuko Minegishi.

Santa Rosa festival honors Japanese culture

Now in its second year, the Matsuri Japanese Arts Festival drew hundreds to Juilliard Park in Santa Rosa for food and music, folk dancing and martial arts.

Big martial arts secret in small kampung

FOLK of the small town of Kuala Pilah have more to be proud of than their pre-war Chinese shophouses and Minangkabau delicacies. Not many know that a master of the martial arts master resides in one of the shophouses in Jalan Tung Yen lives.