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Rooting for Joplin Kicks Off

By: Eric Crosswhite
Updated: May 4, 2012
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NEOSHO, MO---Today, volunteers with Phi Beta Lambda at Crowder College and Missouri Southern kicked off the Rooting for Joplin project. Organizers have spent the last eight months collecting more than 1,100 trees. The event will continue tomorrow, as 900 college students arrive in Joplin from all over the state. They will begin planting trees at 9 A.M.

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