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    "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
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    :: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 ::

    A cut above - By JOHN ANASTASI, phillyBurbs.com, PA
    Middletown's Bobbijo Lahm has learned that female carpenters tend to stick out, especially those in the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.

    “When I say I'm here to work, sometimes people look at me like I've got two heads,” said the 26-year-old Lahm, who recently graduated from the four-year Carpenters Apprentice School of Philadelphia & Vicinity.
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