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🌱 Patch AM: How Billings is honoring Chase Lantz and pushing for safer streets
Happening soon: 2-For-Tuesday! on the Billings Patch calendar
Morning Billings! We've got the scoop on the latest happenings in town. Read on to get looped in. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How Billings is honoring Chase Lantz and pushing for safer streets
- Why Billings SWAT was called to a deadly Harlem standoff
Also on today's calendar: Free Bra Fittings to Support Breast Cancer Awareness and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: How do you know the moon is going broke? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Monday: Rather cloudy with a shower, with a high of 71 and low of 49 degrees.
- Tuesday: Partly sunny and warmer, temps: high: 80, low: 54.
- Wednesday: Mostly sunny and nice, with a high of 72 and low of 41 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Community prepares memorial for Billings teen struck by car while walking to school (ktvq.com) — Billings students and neighbors are rallying around Will James Middle School seventh-grader Chase Lantz with red ribbons, bracelets, and a fundraiser at Mackenzie River Pizza Co. after he was critically injured walking to school. The crash near Grand Avenue and Rehberg Lane is also prompting a renewed citywide "Go Slow, Be Safe, Be Kind" traffic-safety push and an active Billings police investigation. 
• 2 dead after suspected homicide, officer-involved shooting in Harlem (kpax.com) — Billings residents should know that the city's police SWAT team was deployed overnight to assist in a deadly standoff in Harlem, where a woman was found dead and the suspect was killed after exchanging gunfire with officers. Multiple agencies, including FBI negotiators and regional tactical units, responded amid concerns about a possible hostage situation and nearby school safety, and state investigators are now reviewing the homicide and officer-involved shooting.
📸 Around Billings
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Billings
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★ Featured events ★
- 2-For-Tuesday! →
214 N Broadway, Billings
9:00 am
Tuesday September 29
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Other local events
- Daycare Story Time →
Billings Public Library, 510 North Broadway, Billings
9:15 am - Adventures in Story Time - Preschool →
Billings Public Library, 510 North Broadway, Billings
10:00 am - Billings upLIFTT Thrift Open →
UpLIFTT Thrift, 1201 Grand Avenue, Billings
10:00 am - Not Your Typical Lending Class | 2 CE Credits →
Keller Williams Yellowstone Properties, 80 25th Street West, Billings
11:00 am - Tai Chi for Arthritis & Fall Prevention →
Billings LIFTT Office, 1241 Crawford Drive, Billings
11:30 am - Community Week: Tuesday in the Taproom →
The Pub Station Taproom, 2502 1st Avenue North, Billings
4:00 pm - Laser Engraving/Cutting Basics →
Billings Public Library, 510 North Broadway, Billings
6:00 pm - Cell 211 | Free Admission | MSUB Presents →
Art House Cinema, 109 N 30th St, Billings
7:00 pm - Magic City Jazz Jam →
Craft Local, 2413 Montana Ave, Billings
7:00 pm - Scowcroft Photograph Collection (Digital Display) →
Billings Public Library, 510 North Broadway, Billings - Free Bra Fittings to Support Breast Cancer Awareness →
Dillard's, 320 S 24th St W, Billings
10:00 am
Tuesday September 29
Wednesday September 30
Thursday October 15
📣 Billings Shout Outs!
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Calling all small business vendors and food trucks!
We invite you to the "Billings Vendor Market". Come out and showcase what you have before the holidays! (Nextdoor 10-13 Avenue D) - Moved to Billings at the beginning of this year and i could really use some good recommendations.
I am looking for someone who can cut some trees down that won't cost me a few months' mortgage. I am also looking for a CPA. (Nextdoor Broadwater / 14 West)
- Town Pump posted a job opening for STORE CLERK $15.00 3411 Grand Avenue in Billings. Apply here.
- Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC posted a job opening for Boilermaker in Billings. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Billings here.
🗞 Nearby News
Laurel
- Mont. Personal Trainer Flips Giant Tire to Raise Funds for Tim Tebow Foundation (news-usa.today)
Hardin
- About 1,000 students gather in Hardin to celebrate Native American Heritage Day (ktvq.com)
Ok Billings! 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: It's down to its last quarter. (Thank you Linda H. for sending it in!)
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