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  • Dyngus Day Celebrated In Buffalo

    Dyngus Day Celebrated In Buffalo

    Dyngus Day or Easter Monday, is a Slavic holiday that signifies the end of the Lenten season. It is celebrated on Monday following Easter Sunday.

    This year’s Dyngus Day celebration in Buffalo was bigger than ever. The festivities were complete with polka dancing, a parade, feasting, and squirt-gun flirting. Polish kitchens were busy preparing food for the celebration, as Polish food is the fuel for the celebration.

    Dyngus Day celebrations first started out on a smaller scale in the Polish Neighborhoods of Buffalo’s East Side. Lotti Pikuzinski, owner of the R&L Lounge at Mills street said that the celebration “brings families together” and allows citizens to “not forget their Polish culture.”

    Each year, the R&L Lounge serves plates of “lazy pierogi” noodles with onion and sauerkraut to Polish-Americans and their friends.

    Rev. Czeslaw Krysa, rector of the St. Casimir Catholic Church, said that “Buffalo’s approach to Dyngus Day is wondrous.” Krysa’s church is located on Cable Street, which is considered the second-most concentrated Polish neighborhood in the entire region.

    Dyngus Day was also celebrated in New Orleans, the location of the Slavic restaurant called Kukhanya. The restaurant comes alive, as it is the hub for Dyngus Day celebrations in the area. The restaurant offers delectable Polish dishes, such as kielbasa, Polish meatballs, bigos, and Polish pretzel dogs.

    Aside from celebrating with food, citizens also pull pranks on each other. Men pour buckets of  water over the heads of young ladies. However, ladies need not fret. According to tradition, the women can get their revenge the day after Dyngus Day by throwing dishes at the men.

    Although some Polish neighborhoods in the United States have abandoned Dyngus Day celebrations, the tradition is still very much alive in Buffalo and New Orleans where Polish families look forward to the Easter Monday festivities year after year.

    Dyngus Day 2014 Celebration

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  • Peaches Geldof: Funeral Scheduled for Easter Monday

    Peaches Geldof will be laid to rest on Easter Monday. The daughter of Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates was found dead in her apartment on April 7th. Officials say no foul play was involved in the 25-year-old mother of two’s death, but the cause of her passing remains unexplained.

    The funeral service for Peaches will take place at the same church where both she and her parents were married–St. Mary Magdalene and St. Lawrence Church in Davington. It will be a private service.

    It could still be one or two more weeks before the toxicology report on Peaches Geldof arrives. The results of her autopsy were deemed inconclusive. Authorities say detectives are still in the process of investigating the surrounding circumstances of Geldof’s untimely death and will hand their report to a coroner. It is likely at that point that an inquest will be held. This is a legal procedure in the U.K. used for determining the facts when an unexplained or violent death has occurred.

    Peaches Geldof was initially well known for her teenage rebellion. Often in trouble, she frequently drew attention in the public eye. She settled down, however, and later became known for her successes as a model, writer, and TV presenter. She embraced motherhood. She and husband Tom Cohen, who survives her, had two sons together. One of those sons, 11-month-old Phaedra, was reportedly by her side when she died.

    It is heartbreaking when a beautiful young mother dies at just 25 years old, leaving behind two very small children. Hopefully the answers reached in the inquest will be ones the family can use to find closure from this horrific ordeal.

    As Peaches Geldof is laid to rest on Monday, may her loved ones find some sort of solace–the kind that seems almost unfathomable when someone so young and so vibrant is taken away much too soon.

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