LAUREN WOOD | THE NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT — Master Trooper James Farris tells Christian McGuire, 10, not to throw the football at the nurses as he and another Louisiana State Trooper give him a bag full of toys Monday morning at Natchez Regional Medical Center. The Christmas With A Trooper program is in its 14th year of Louisiana troopers distributing toys to children who will be in the hospital on Christmas.

LAUREN WOOD \ THE NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT — Farris and Master Trooper Linda Vachula give Kameron Grover, 7, a bag full of toys Monday afternoon at Natchez Regional Medical Center as part of the Louisiana State Trooper’s Christmas With A Trooper program.

LAUREN WOOD \ THE NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT — Grover checks out one of the many toys he just received from Farris and Vachula as part of the Christmas With A Trooper program.