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Several senior centers and area libraries were open to the public to view films documenting the Joplin destruction, and the progress that has been made in the past year.
We spent Tuesday evening at the Southern Boone Senior Center in Ashland.
At times the film, "Deadline in Disaster", was clearly hard to watch.
There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
It was as if the people in this senior center hundreds of miles from Joplin were reliving the pain that city felt one year ago.
Diane Oerly said the documentary moved her, "To think of all the horrific pain and agony and destruction that tornado created, but at the same time you hear about how the community has rallied and come back and held each other up and survived".
They watched as the film took them through the cleanup, and through the rebuilding.
Doug Crews with the Missouri Press Association spearheaded the the film, hoping to spotlight how the Joplin Globe Newspaper has been there every step of the way, “What to take away from this film is that the community newspaper documents the history of the community. It writes the first chapter of what's going on in the community, and in this case it was the Joplin Globe and they just covered every inch of that tornado", he said.
Local film makers Beth Pike and Steve Hudnell spent months editing more than 70 hours of video.
An earlier showing at the Missouri Theater netted about $4,000 in donations for a tornado museum in Joplin.
Wednesday, the film will be shown at the Columbia Public Library at 6:30, and the same time Thursday night at the library in Fulton.
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