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Trampoline lost to tornado to be replaced

(KAIR)--When tornadoes struck the local area counties of Atchison, Jackson, and Nemaha, on May 21, property destruction was left in their wake.

A casualty of the Atchison County tornado that touched down in the Effingham area was a trampoline belonging to kindergarten student Gracie Sinclair.

According to a release received by MSC News, a group of Gracie’s kindergarten classmates, being billed as “Friends of Gracie,” are holding a fundraiser to help her replace the trampoline.

That will happen Thursday, May 30, from 9:30 until 12:30, on Main Street in Effingham.

It’s there that the group will hold a cookies and lemonade sale to help raise funds for the cause.

According to the National Weather Service, the tornado confirmed in Atchison County on the evening of May 21 was an EF-1 that destroyed an abandoned home, and several outbuildings at a farmstead, as wind speeds reached up to 90 mph.

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