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CBS News
23-05-2025
- Health
- CBS News
North Texas grandfather organizes fundraiser for his 3-year-old granddaughter
The grandfather of a North Texas girl who is fighting a deadly disease is doing what he does best to help her get the treatment she needs. A fundraiser called 'Mudbugs for Mabel', scheduled for Saturday, May 24, in Lewisville, will hopefully raise money for medical expenses that the 3-year-old girl's family needs. "It's kind of hard to explain leukemia to a 3-year-old so we're using the term the big sick," said Mabel's mother Sarah Manchey. The 3-year-old was diagnosed with cancer in April, forcing her mother, a kindergarten teacher, to take leave from work because Mabel needs regular chemotherapy treatments. The medicine and other treatments Mabel needs are costly. "It definitely has us a little concerned, but you do what you do for your kids, but you figure it out, and you make it work," said Manchey. Mabel's grandfather owns a Cajun food store in Lewisville, where someone suggested a crawfish boil as a fundraiser for the family. "I went 'oh my gosh that's a fantastic idea' so it was a God thing," said Mabel's grandfather Billy Howell. 'Mudbugs for Mabel will be on Saturday, May 24th from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at The Cajun Turkey Company. "When he suggested the idea, I thought it was awesome, it's our favorite time of year with crawfish," said Manchey. Mabel plans to be there wearing a smile and what's become her signature pink chemo cap. A family relying on a love for each other and a love of crawfish to help a little girl overcome 'the big sick.'
Wall Street Journal
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
Al Scramuzza, the ‘Crawfish King' and a New Orleans Folk Hero, Dies at 97
Approximately 330 million years ago, a creature completely void of charisma called the crawfish evolved to live inconspicuously in the mud at the bottom of swamps. And approximately 329.9999 million years after that, a second creature came along that was pretty much the opposite: a swaggering, wide-smiling showman who got famous boiling and selling the first. This second creature was Al Scramuzza.
