Community Corner
🌱 Meet the Capitol Heights boxing family rewriting what legacy looks like.
And check out Spanish Conversation Club: Beginner on the Capitol Heights Patch calendar
Good morning Capitol Heights! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- Meet the Capitol Heights boxing family rewriting what legacy looks like.
Today's riddle: What did one strawberry say to the other strawberry? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Tuesday: Plenty of sun, with a high of 83 and low of 60 degrees.
- Wednesday: Some sunshine, temps: high: 85, low: 68.
- Thursday: Humid with drenching t-storms, with a high of 83 and low of 68 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Gary Antonio Russell (premierboxingchampions.com subscription) — A well-known boxing family is training at the Enigma Boxing Gym in Capitol Heights, where six southpaw brothers, all named after their father, continue building a shared legacy. Rising contender Gary Antonio Russell balances intense training with fatherhood and sign-language outreach, even developing a clothing line to better connect with deaf and hard-of-hearing fans. 
📸 Around Capitol Heights
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Capitol Heights
Add your event to our calendar and newsletter!
- Spanish Conversation Club: Beginner
Spaulding Branch Library Spauldings - Large Meeting Room
5:30 pm - Get Active: Quick Sweat Zumba
Spaulding Branch Library Spauldings - Large Meeting Room
12:15 pm - Needlework Social
Spaulding Branch Library Spauldings - Storytime Barn
4:00 pm - TOCH Police Department Community Neighborhood Walk Initiative →
Capitol Heights, MD Calendar Capitol Heights, MD 20743 - Caseworker in the Library
Spaulding Branch Library Spauldings - Group Study Room 1
10:00 am - Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 2-3
Spaulding Branch Library Spauldings - Storytime Barn
11:00 am - Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 3-5
Fairmount Heights Branch Library Fairmount Heights - Large Meeting Room
11:00 am - Public Safety Meeting →
Capitol Heights, MD Calendar, 1 Capitol Heights Blvd, Capitol Heights
7:00 pm
Tuesday August 25
Wednesday August 26
Thursday August 27
📣 Capitol Heights Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Caseworker in the Library
Hillcrest Heights Branch Library Hillcrest Heights - Study Room
12:00 pm - Pins and Needles: Knitting
Prince George's County Memorial Library System Surratts-Clinton -
12:30 pm - English Conversation Club
Bladensburg Branch Library Bladensburg - BL Activity Room
1:00 pm - Movie: "Holes" (PG)
South Bowie Branch Library South Bowie - Large Meeting Room (213)
1:00 pm
Tuesday August 25
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Checkers & Rally's - Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. posted a job opening for Team Member in District Heights. Apply here.
🗞 Nearby News
District Heights
- Weeks-worth of trash piling up at District Heights apartment complex (wjla.com)
Suitland
- Driver fatally shot by Prince George's police after turning vehicle toward officers (baltimoresun.com)
Landover
- Afro Plus Fest Drew 20,000 People Last Year — Now It's Expecting 120,000 (travelnoire.com)
- 'I Feel Awful': ESPN Analyst Dan Orlovsky Makes Feelings Known About the Cleveland Browns Starting Deshaun Watson at Quarterback – [your]NEWS (yournews.com)
Ok Capitol Heights! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!
-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: If you weren't so sweet, we wouldn't be in this jam! (Thank you Patti F. for sending it in!)
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