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One Year, One Community, One Direction
Submitted by Clare Holdinghaus, Year 18 ERT
This month I got to return to Joplin for the one year anniversary of the tornado. Being in the AmeriCorps Recovery Center, seeing the destruction and talking to homeowners again brought back all the stress and frustration and all the sadness that [...]
February 29th, 2012 was a day of destruction in Southwest Missouri. Tornadoes ripped through the area leaving hundreds of families with severely damaged or destroyed homes. The AmeriCorps St. Louis Emergency Response Team was called into action by the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to provide volunteer management to both Stone and Taney county. Being a State resource for [...]
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