🌱 Patch AM: What surveillance video showed in the Budgetel Inn shooting case

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In today's newsletter:

• What surveillance video showed in the Budgetel Inn shooting case
• Where Columbus-area residents can turn today for domestic violence help
• How Columbus helped launch the Salvation Army's statewide mission in 1895

Also on today's calendar: Soulful Sounds in Columbus and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: What is the longest word in the dictionary? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Hot with a t-storm in spots, with a high of 96 and low of 69 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Sunday: Mostly sunny and hot, temps: high: 97, low: 67.
• Monday: Partly sunny, with a high of 94 and low of 69 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• 'He pulls the gun out and shoots him in the stomach': Investigator testifies budgetel Inn shooting (wrbl.com) — A Columbus man has been charged in a shooting at the Budgetel Inn on Victory Drive after investigators say surveillance video contradicts his self-defense claim. Recorder's Court bound the aggravated assault and weapons case over to Superior Court, set bonds totaling $30,000, and heard that the victim remains unconscious in critical but stable condition following surgery.
   

• 'Failure in our system.' How domestic violence ended in tragedy in Harris and Russell counties (ledger-enquirer.com) — A deadly domestic violence case in nearby Harris and Russell counties has left three children without their mother and raised concerns about gaps in the system. For anyone in the Columbus area facing abuse, Hope Harbour offers confidential help online and through its 24/7 crisis hotline at 706-324-3850, emphasizing that support and safety planning are available right now.
   

• Thomasville Corps History (salvationarmyusa.org) — Columbus appears here as one of the earliest Georgia cities where the Salvation Army opened a corps back in 1895, part of a rapid statewide expansion from its Atlanta beginnings. The piece traces how the organization grew through Georgia's cities and now provides extensive social services, from shelters to youth programs, funded largely by community donations.
   

📸 Around Columbus

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Columbus

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Monday August 24
• Fall Universal Academic & Dyslexia Screening
  Muscogee County School District School sites
  8:00 am
• Sister City Cultural Exchange Reception
  Muscogee County School District Columbus Museum
  5:00 pm
Tuesday August 25
• Fall Universal Academic & Dyslexia Screening
  Muscogee County School District School sites
  8:00 am
Wednesday September 9
• Soulful Sounds in Columbus →
  Elizabeth Bradley Turner Center, 4225 University Ave, Columbus
  7:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday August 22
• Harris County Banquet →
  The Lodge and Spa at Callaway Gardens, 4500 Southern Pine Dr, Pine Mountain
  5:00 pm
Monday August 24
• HCHS Softball (V/JV) vs. Northgate @ home
  Harris County High School Hamilton, GA 31811
  5:00 pm
• HCCMS Softball vs. Kennedy Rd (B team)
  Harris County Carver Middle School Home
  5:30 pm
• HCCMS Volleyball vs. Glenwood
  Harris County Carver Middle School Glenwood
  6:30 pm
Tuesday August 25
• HCHS Boys Basketball Workouts
  Harris County High School Hamilton, GA 31811
  6:30 am
• HCHS Volleyball (V/JV) vs. Northside/ Central PC @ home
  Harris County High School Hamilton, GA 31811
  5:00 pm
• HCCMS Softball vs. Cowan Rd (B team)
  Harris County Carver Middle School Away
  5:30 pm
• HCHS Softball (V) @ Lithia Springs
  Harris County High School Hamilton, GA 31811
  5:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Understand this: you can sound confident and have anxiety.
  You can look healthy but feel like crap. You can look happy and yet be miserable inside. So be kind, because every person is fighting a battle you… (Nextdoor Edgewood Addition)
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• Hughston Clinic posted a job opening for Surgery Scheduler Full Time in Columbus. Apply here.
• ABM Industries, Inc. posted a job opening for Muscogee County South Custodian in Columbus. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Columbus here.

🗞 Nearby News

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• Rotary district governor shares updates with West Point Rota... (lagrangenews.com)
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Lumpkin

• 104 Georgia sheriffs endorse Rick Jackson for Georgia governor (fox5atlanta.com)
• Senator Warnock, members of congress take aim at Stewart Detention Center (nowgeorgia.com)
• Advocates entered a Georgia ICE detention center to visit a queer detainee and felt 'darkness' (advocate.com)

LaGrange

• LaGrange officers investigating potential Flock System misuse (8newsnow.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Smiles, because it has a mile between "s". (Thank you Sharon M. for sending it in!)
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