After setback, aid delivered

Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, Tony Parkhill and Mike Cade were turned away when they brought a truckload of nonperishable food and supplies to a hurricane-wracked Mississippi town.

The supplies were loose, not wrapped on pallets, and the local charity said that storing and distributing the donated items was not practical.

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