{"id":157182,"date":"2026-01-30T23:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157182\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:17:15","slug":"coast-cities-hold-donation-drive-for-town-affected-by-winter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157182\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast cities hold donation drive for town affected by winter storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GULF COAST, Miss. (WLOX) &#8211; The cities of Gulfport, D\u2019Iberville, and Long Beach are holding a donation drive to help the town of Coldwater, Mississippi after it was hit by a major winter storm earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The cities announced Friday that they will accept donations until Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a Friday Facebook post from the Gulfport mayor\u2019s office, the small town of 1,300 lost one of its wells during the storm. It also has no local grocery store and 70% of residents are elderly or disabled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The following items have been requested for donation:<\/p>\n<p>Bottled waterBlanketsNew portable electric heatersHygiene products Bread Canned goods<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Donations can be dropped off at any Gulfport fire station. You can also donate at the following locations:<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Central Fire Station645 Klondyke Rd., Long Beach, MS 39560D\u2019Iberville Fire Department<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Donations will be delivered to Coldwater on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in this story? Report it to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/page\/error-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WLOX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GULF COAST, Miss. (WLOX) &#8211; The cities of Gulfport, D\u2019Iberville, and Long Beach are holding a donation drive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[76881,21072,131,133,132,76882,4453],"class_list":["post-157182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-coldwater","tag-gulfport","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-mayor-hugh-keeting","tag-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}