Power Force wows Youngstown kids

YOUNGSTOWN — Jason Dunkle watched as a telephone book was torn in half and a steel bar bent into a circle, but it was seeing a man break a baseball bat across his own back, using only his arm strength, that really got his attention.

“That was sweet,” the Eagle Heights Academy eighth-grader said.

Dunkle was one of about 400 fourth- through eighth-graders attending a school assembly Tuesday featuring members of John Jacobs’ Next Generation Power Force, a troupe that combines feats of strength with motivational messages.

Hold onto your dreams and don’t give in to temptations that will deter you from those dreams, was the focal point of Tuesday’s message.

The international team came at the suggestion of a member of the school board, and visited several other area schools Tuesday.

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