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Morning Newscast for June 19, 2025

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Morning Newscast for July 1, 2025

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Operations Manager Jacqie Melloway prepares to make a bedroll with clean laundry on Dec. 19, 2024, at Room at the Inn in Columbia. Melloway said each guest's bedroll consists of a pillowcase containing a sheet and a blanket. "I know that I have a home to go to at night. Obviously, this place is not going to burn up if I say, 'I can't do this anymore.' But it also makes me feel like I have a purpose, if that makes sense. And I didn't, I didn't have that before, from a job," Melloway said. "It makes me feel good, even after you'll have a guest cuss at you, and five minutes later, you know they'll apologize. Or you'll have a guest tell you how great you are, ask you how my kids are doing. They don't have to do that, and they do."

"If my family hadn't stepped in and helped me, I might have been here on one of these cots."

Jaquie Melloway and John Trapp are the leadership team that run Room at the Inn, the local overnight shelter in Columbia that serves unhoused people. They spoke about some of the things that have surprised them about the folks they serve.

Morning Newscast for June 30, 2025

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"People don't have to show up as the perfect person to receive help or care from their community."

CoMo Mobile Aid is a local grassroots organization that sets up outside the local overnight shelter, Room the Inn [RATI], twice a week – offering a pop-up thrift store, a wound care station and a large, converted van where folks can get all sorts of essentials: from band aids and Tylenol to menstrual pads and shampoo.

Afternoon Newscast for June 30, 2025

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Morning Newscast for June 26, 2025

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