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MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
02-28-2006
Dateline: NEW ORLEANS


The King Isaac Wheeler, second from left, and Queen Cheryln Wheeler of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club arrive at the Lundi Gras celebration in New Orleans on Monday Feb. 27, 2006. With Mardi Gras only a day away, the celebration is in full swing.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Some may question the appropriateness of having a raucous party in a city still devastated and in mourning six months after Hurricane Katrina. But for Monk Boudreaux and Pete Fountain, tradition is thicker than flood water.

Fountain, 75, is the celebrated New Orleans jazz clarinetist who on Tuesday morning was to lead his Half Fast Marching ...

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