The St. James Boys & Girls Track & Field teams saw the Boys taking first place in team total points while the Lady Wildcats finished as the District 73A runner-up in their respective Divisions.
ENJOYING COLIN’S BOOK: I waited patiently to receive one of Colin Gravois’s new book entitled “The Company I Kept.” The pages are full of poignant stories of people Colin has known and loved. Among those is an autobiographical short by JuJu Child, a well-known blues singer and guitarist. Much like Colin, Child goes back and forth to Paris from New Orleans and rural Mississippi. I met JuJu on an Amtrak train ride from Memphis to New Orleans early one Sunday morning. My friend and I shared a dining car table with him and another gentleman from New Orleans who were on their way home after attending a wedding. In our introductions we said we were from St. James Parish. When I said I lived in Vacherie, JuJu said he had been there to visit Colin Gravois and had also visited him in Paris. The four of us had a very delightful conversation and shared stories about growing up in rural areas. One never knows who they might meet and where.
there are tornado warnings creeping across the bottom of my TV screen with additional cautions for the Lutcher area. I prayed for all of us and wished that I still had a “holy candle” like the ones my grandmother always lit when the weather was bad like this.
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