The lights are finally back on at Taija Keyes’ apartment in the Fountain Park neighborhood in north St. Louis.

Keyes and four of her five children were home on May 16 when a powerful tornado blew through the neighborhood, reducing many of the buildings to piles of bricks and rubble. She remembers fighting against powerful winds to close the front door to her apartment while instructing her children to take shelter in the bathtub.

It’s a moment she’ll never forget.

“It was very devastating for me and my family,” Keyes said. “It’s something I’ve never experienced in my 40 years of life.”

Almost three weeks after the storm, she decided to get her kids out of the apartment and to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in Midtown, which is offering a free summer camp for families impacted by

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