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PHOTO BY HUNTER CLOUD The Brookhaven VFW collects items to donate to tornado victims.

PHOTO BY HUNTER CLOUD The Brookhaven VFW collects items to donate to tornado victims.

PHOTO BY HUNTER CLOUD The Brookhaven VFW collects items to donate to tornado victims.

PHOTO BY HUNTER CLOUD The Brookhaven VFW collects items to donate to tornado victims.

PHOTO BY HUNTER CLOUD The Brookhaven VFW collects items to donate to tornado victims.

BROOKHAVEN — Cathy Stroud continued to direct the sorting and boxing of donated items for Walthall County tornado victims Wednesday. She and others with the Brookhaven Veterans of Foreign Wars Captain Danny D. Entrican Post #2618 and Socks for Heroes have come together again to lend a helping hand to storm victims.

Readers may recall the group’s efforts to aid Hurricane Helene victims in Oct. 2024 where they sent trailers full of donations to victims in North Carolina. Donations dropped off at the VFW building on Industrial Park Road are bound for the National Guard Armory in Walthall County where they will be distributed to victims there.

Two tornadoes moved through Tylertown and through the Salem and Darbun communities on March 15. NWS Jackson reports 17 tornadoes tore across Mississippi on March 17 killing seven people. Walthall County was one of the hardest hit parts of the state as four people were killed, including a 7-year-old boy.

Co-Lin’s Radiology Department is also collecting donations for the VFW to take to the tornado victims March 28, Stroud said. The first round of donations ended March 19 at 1 p.m. but people can still lend a helping hand.

“If people reach out we will find a way to get donations there,” Stroud said. “Most of the churches are handling clothes. We are taking non-perishable food items, paper towels, cleaning materials, gloves, toilet paper, clothesline rope, fleece blankets, flashlights and batteries, garbage bags and sponges. Non-perishable food items are more important for people who don’t have a home anymore.”

Stroud said her friends Samantha and Tommy Sivils, formerly residents of Bude, are taking a pair of dogs to provide therapy to victims in Walthall County as part of their Canines for Christ ministry. The dogs are named Love and Paddington.

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