Minden St. Jude Auction 2024 is in the books and those books show more than $2.5 million was collected for the children of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Above, Laura Hollingsworth and Jeff Haynes hold the check for $2,538, 444. Hollingsworth and Melissa Brown (far right) are coordinators of the annual event. In 2023, the auction garnered $2,030,000. This year’s event takes the total earned since the auction’s inception to more than $30M for St. Jude. See more in Tuesday’s Webster Parish Journal.