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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.
Lincoln High grad beats the odds, heads to college
- Margaret Reist
- May 25, 2014
- May 25, 2014 Updated Jun 1, 2018
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Lincoln High School senior Je'Kerra Hopper will be the first member of her family to attend college.
- KRISTIN STREFF/Lincoln Journal Star
Lincoln High grad Je'Kerra Hopper is making the most of her opportunity to be the first member of her family to attend college.
- KRISTIN STREFF/Lincoln Journal Star file photo
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Je’Kerra Hopper struggles to answer the question, the one posed to her fairly often these days as the scholarships pour in and she prepares to don a cap and gown and take the first steps into the future she imagines for herself.
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