Leaders, candidates, volunteers pitch in for tornado relief

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  Three tornadoes touched down in Ouachita Parish on Easter Sunday causing considerable damage in selected areas, but even before the clouds moved away outreach groups, politicians and churches were organizing to get relief to as many as 400 families that were either displaced or suffered damages during the storm.

GOVERNOR JOHN BELL EDWARDS made an emergency tour of the area and promised state support. Soon after a sup

 

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