Larade earns seventh degree black belt

By
Grant McDaniel
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Master Kempie Larade pulled out all the stops in an effort to garner his seventh degree black belt. He successfully earned his seventh dan last Saturday.

PORT HAWKESBURY: Garnering a black belt requires years of practice, training, discipline, proper diet, and devotion. Kempie Larade has seven of them. “This was a big day,” an exhausted Larade told The Reporter just after finishing his black belt exam last Saturday. “This is the last one you can do with your friends and family….

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Grant McDaniel

Sports reporter Grant McDaniel is a Port Hood native, who after graduating from StFX University, joined The Reporter in 2001.