{"id":612820,"date":"2017-05-03T13:24:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T18:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=612820"},"modified":"2017-05-04T13:24:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T18:24:03","slug":"red-cross-tells-how-you-can-help-tornado-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=612820","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross Tells How You Can Help Tornado Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/redcross-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/redcross-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-612821\" \/><\/a>CANTON &#8212; The American Red Cross is putting out the word on how you can help victims of last weekend&#8217;s tornadoes.  Katrina Farmer is executive director of the American Red Cross Serving Texas Big Country.  Farmer says volunteers who want to help with cleanup efforts are being asked to sign-up at the Canton Fairgrounds. Donations of cleaning supplies have been requested. These can be taken to the Fairgrounds as well. Items needed are work gloves, heavy duty trash bags, and plastic bins to store recovered items.<!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Farmer supplied information about a Multi Agency Resource Center that is scheduled to open Thursday morning in Canton:<\/p>\n<p>Government and community-based agencies will be available to assist with needs including new clothing, groceries, replacement of prescriptions and more. Hot meals will be available! <\/p>\n<p>Canton Civic Center<br \/>\n800 Flea Market Blvd.<br \/>\nCanton, Texas 75103<br \/>\nThursday, May 4-Saturday, May 6<br \/>\n10 am-6 pm<br \/>\nSunday, May 7<br \/>\n1-6 pm<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/easttexas\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/easttexas<\/a> or call 1-800 RED CROSS for more information.  You can also go to @redcrosseasttx to follow the Red Cross on Facebook. Farmer says as always during a disaster, the best way to help is to provide funding. Donations can be mailed to the American Red Cross, 320 E. Rieck Rd, Tyler, TX 75703. Online donations are also accepted through the weblink at the beginning of this paragraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANTON &#8212; The American Red Cross is putting out the word on how you can help victims of last weekend&#8217;s tornadoes. Katrina Farmer is executive director of the American Red Cross Serving Texas Big Country. Farmer says volunteers who want to help with cleanup efforts are being asked to sign-up at the Canton Fairgrounds. Donations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=612820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red Cross Tells How You Can Help Tornado Victims<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":612821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 23:44:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612823,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612820\/revisions\/612823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}