People who cannot attend a teddy bear drive-through Saturday can drop off donations at eight locations through noon Friday, Sept. 18, according to Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers.
Drop-off sites are Jerry Lawrence Memorial Library, 10391 Automall Parkway, and Hall's Engraving, 10470 D'Iberville Boulevard, both in D'Iberville; The Cypress Taphouse, 6616 Rose Farm Road, and St. Martin East Elementary, 7508 Rose Farm Road, in St. Martin; and Gunter Library at Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, 7030 East Beach Drive, and Lost Pizza Co. Ocean Springs, 4006 Bienville Blvd., in Ocean Springs.
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Additional collection points are Sunshine's Elite Pet Services, 287 Gulfwater Drive, Biloxi, and the D'Iberville High School Key Club at 15625 Lamey Bridge Road.
Jon Ross Myers founded Mississippi News Group in 2013. Before founding the organization, he worked at The Daily Mississippian, The Marion Salute and The Southern Sentinel. A Mississippi journalist and writer based in Ripley, he received second place in poetry in the 2025 William Faulkner Literary Competition for "The Garden."
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