Obama to Speak at Joplin High School Graduation

It's been almost a year since the deadly Joplin tornado. That town is still rebuilding. It's going to take a long time.

And now, there's news that President Obama will speak at Joplin's High School Graduation in May:

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Obama-to-speak-at-Joplin-High-graduation-3382308.php

Last year, the high school was wiped out with the tornado. Luckily, the graduation that day was moved to the college auditorium at Missouri Southern. If not, all of those children and their families would have been right in that tornado's path.

It's nice to see President Obama make a visit to Joplin.

And the rebuilding continutes....

Check out Dixie Films' funny Pepsi commercial: GRANDMA GETS REFRESHED!!! Filmed outside of Joplin:

Joplin Tornado Survivors

There's a lot of survivors here from the Joplin tornado in the local SW Missouri four state area. Too many stories of survival to tell. Thousands of people whose homes were lost, applying for FEMA assistance, and looking for any kind of help they can get.

We will help share their stories.

These first couple of months since the deadly Joplin tornado on May 22nd, there's been countless survival stories coming out of the woodworks daily. Let's share them here.

Joplin Tornado Survivor's Stories: 2 Months Later

Joplin, Missouri has been doing a lot of rebuilding in 2 months time since the deadly tornado hit on May 22nd.

Debris removal has been happening daily, through 6 straight weeks of deadly 100 plus degree heat, volunteers daily from across the country, and rebuilding with FEMA, the state and federal government, and locals.

On the daily news here on location in SW Missouri, every day and evening on the local Joplin TV news, the entire newcasts have been devoted solely to Joplin tornado survival and rebuilding stories. Same with the front page news stories with the Joplin Globe. Every day in the media are stories of survival from the deadly Joplin tornado. Everyone has a story to tell here.

Joplin Tornado Documentary Feature Film: Survivor's Stories

Dixie Films and Dark Victory Productions are teaming to create a feature documentary film about survivor's stories from the deadly Joplin Tornado.

The film will be directed by local Joplin native and award-winning filmmaker Jack Truman.

100% of the film's profits will go to the joplin tornado victims.

For more information, or to help with the film, contact the film's producers at joplindocumentary@gmail.com