The thing that keeps popping up in obituaries for Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr., from the New York Times to National Public Radio to the local press, is that his music was known around the world, but “he stayed grounded,” and never let fame and success go to his head.
From the October 1998 files of The Eunice News.
Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie is scheduled to perform at 6 p.m. Oct. 22 for the Rendez-Vous des Cajuns Radio Show at the Experience Louisiana Festival. The show is broadcast live and usually it is from the Liberty Theatre in downtown Eunice. For the festival, the show moves to the LSUE campus and the festival’s music stage. (File Photo)
As a child growing up in rural Evangeline Parish, Geno Delafose always imagined himself becoming a rodeo cowboy, and not a famed zydeco musician.
Katie Richard, a Glendale Elementary teacher, explains the Belly Buddies program that provides weekend food to students. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
Katie Richard says when she started teaching a year ago at Glendale Elementary she discovered there were hungry children in her class.
Albert Hayes Jr.
Perhaps finances will be a top issue on St. Landry Parish School Board members’ list of priorities for a new superintendent.
The board’s finance committee recently learned student enrollment and health insurance costs are biting into the school system’s budget.
