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A year after a devastating tornado leveled Greensburg, Kan., on May 4, 2007, a Frederick, Colo.-based contractor has helped the first commercial reconstruction take root along the rural town's main street. More than 95 percent of the structures were rubble when Del Fast, CEO of Mishler Construction Co. arrived on the scene with equipment to extend help within days of the F-5 storm. Fast's wife is from a small town west of Greensburg. "Four of us, including Howard Kelley and Stu Featherston, from my church in Niwot, and Gary Jantz, a friend from Greeley who grew up in Greensburg, headed out to survey the area," Fast said. "I had done similar volunteer work with Mennonite groups. We have since collaborated with another Butler metal building contractor based in Olathe, Kan., that I've come to know through our mutual interest in church construction. They led the donated project for the reconstruction of a non-profit store operated by the Greensburg Ministerial Alliance."