{"id":42323,"date":"2025-11-23T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42323\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:42:08","slug":"celebrating-the-life-and-legacy-of-paul-yoculan-sr-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42323\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Paul Yoculan Sr. | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a one-time memorial scholarship dance in the name of musician and baseball coach, Paul Yoculan has turned into a sold out annual event.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"yoculan.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1593\" height=\"542\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>A crowd of 14 hundred people turned out at Rainbow Gardens to dance the night away and to raise money for a scholarship endowment fund at Mercyhurst Prep on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Yoculan jr. and other friends wanted to make sure Paul Senior&#8217;s memory and legacy would support deserving students.<\/p>\n<p>Our Mike Ruzzi emcee&#8217;d the big event.<\/p>\n<p>Those who came out enjoyed the sounds of several outstanding bands including Ron Seggi and the Jays, a group founded by Dave Dennison, who&#8217;s been performing nearly 70 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What started as a one-time memorial scholarship dance in the name of musician and baseball coach, Paul Yoculan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4662,524,1338,1681,136,138,137,2350,25320,7865,25319,24645,9746,2920],"class_list":["post-42323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-baseball","tag-community","tag-dance","tag-entertainment","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fundraiser","tag-mercyhurst-prep","tag-music","tag-paul-yoculan","tag-rainbow-gardens","tag-scholarship","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}