Nearly 3,000 photos collected after being scattered by the May 22 tornado in Joplin have been returned to their owners.
That's a start, but a volunteer says up to 20,000 other photos HAVEN'T been returned. Some of those photos have been claimed via a Facebook page called the Lost Photos of Joplin, but many people haven't been able to get to a church in Carthage that is holding the photos to claim them. To speed up the process, volunteers will be at the Joplin Public Library from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. this coming Saturday to help those who have claimed the photos on the Facebook page retrieve them. Last week, the project reunited one family with 1,500 of its photos.
That's a start, but a volunteer says up to 20,000 other photos HAVEN'T been returned. Some of those photos have been claimed via a Facebook page called the Lost Photos of Joplin, but many people haven't been able to get to a church in Carthage that is holding the photos to claim them. To speed up the process, volunteers will be at the Joplin Public Library from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. this coming Saturday to help those who have claimed the photos on the Facebook page retrieve them. Last week, the project reunited one family with 1,500 of its photos.
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