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• Lights in the Beau Rivage tower shared a message of “Hope”, prompting similar messages of “Love” from Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort and “Miss U!” from Harrah’s Gulf Coast.
• After their wedding was postponed, Coast couple Lanie and Brittany Kovacevich donated their wedding owers to seniors at the Dixie White House Health and Rehabilitation Center.
• Businesses and individuals alike donated food and funds to help keep food pantry shelves stocked.
• With people staying at home, photographers came to them o ering front porch sessions so that families could still take their Easter photos.
• Local distilleries and breweries, including Crittenden Distillery and Lazy Magnolia, shifted their production to start making hand sanitizer.
• Coast churches held Park and Pray events in hospital parking lots, praying over the hospital sta and patients.
• In nity-AP, a Waveland company that designs and manufactures retail facades across the U.S. started making medical shields for healthcare workers, working 24/7 to produce 4,000 units per day.
• Colton Hale, owner of Man and a Mower Lawn Care Business, o ered free lawn care to medical professionals as a sign of his appreciation.
• Several Gulf Coast restaurants joined together to support food pantries, asking customers to round up their bills to an even dollar amount.
• Seymour Law Firm called in a favor with the Easter Bunny and drove through local neighborhoods, bringing smiles to countless children’s faces.
• Even though their doors were closed, local museums and artists turned to social media and digital platforms to share educational resources, activities and live concerts.
• Bridal & Formal Boutique turned their alterations department into a mask-making assembly line. Many other community members picked up their sewing needles to help with the shortage of masks.
• Teachers quickly turned their classroom curriculum
into online lessons for their students, even going the extra mile to visit their kids through neighborhood drive-bys.
• Gulfport High School’s robotics team used their 3D printers to produce face masks for local hospitals based on a design by a doctor in Montana.
• Though operations at Mary Mahoney’s were temporarily suspended, the Mahoney/Ezell family took care of their employees by providing them with much-needed groceries.
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