AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Bethel community church held a community health fair Saturday.

It gave people the opportunity to get health screenings.

More than 70 vendors, including 40 medical professionals, were at the event for the screenings.

This is the 5th health fair after the organizer said she wanted to support people who had breast cancer, like her mother.

“I created this because my mother is a 23-year breast cancer survivor, had three heart attacks, diabetes, arthritis. But she’s in good health because my father was military, so she’s got good health insurance. So I decided to create something so other people can have the benefits my mother has. So this was the creation of it. I’m loving the fact that the community came out in support because it’s so important for us to get early detection of cancer and other things,” said Michael Jones, organizer, One Dollar at a Time Productions.

The organizers plan to have the event next year as well.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Three people were injured, including a Burke County Sheriff’s deputy, after being struck by gunfire following a block party in Waynesboro, officials said.

According to the sheriff’s office, deputies responded to reports of a large block party, attended by thousands of individuals, taking place in the 100 block of Virginia Avenue on Saturday, shortly after 11:30 p.m.

Authorities stated that while deputies were working to disperse the crowd and shut down the gathering safely, numerous gunshots were fired.

During the incident, three individuals were struck by gunfire, including a Burke County deputy who sustained a graze wound.

One additional victim was shot at least once and is reported to be in stable condition. A third victim suffered multiple gunshot wounds and remains in critical condition.

Investigators urge anyone who may have witnessed the shooting or has information about possible suspects to contact the Sheriff’s Office at 762-225-6342.

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Tiger Woods has gone through a seventh back surgery, this time to replace a disk in his lower back and had caused pain and mobility issues.

Woods said in a social media post he had the surgery in New York and said it was the right decision for his his health and his troubled back.

He did not mention how long it would keep him out of golf, though it was unclear if he was going to try to play in his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas or the PNC Championship with his son, Charlie. Both tournaments are in December.

He hasn’t played since a playoff loss in the PNC Championship last year.

It was his second surgery of the year — he had surgery in March after rupturing his left Achilles tendon — and second back surgery in the last 13 months.

Woods said he consulted doctors and surgeons have experiencing pain and lack of mobility in his back.

“The scans determined that I had a collapsed disc in L4/5, disc fragments and a compromised spinal canal,” Woods said Saturday. “I opted to have my disc replaced yesterday, and I already know I made a good decisions for my health and my back.”

Woods had the first of his seven back surgery in April 2014, which eventually led to having his lower back fused in 2017. A year later, he won the Tour Championship and then captured his 15th major and fifth green jacket at the 2019 Masters.

Now his back is only part of a body that has been broken over the last five years. Most serious was a car crash in February 2021 that shattered his right leg and ankle, which Woods has said nearly led to a decision to amputate.

He managed to return a year later at the 2022 Masters.

Since the car crash, Woods has played only 15 times in the last four years, four of those at the PNC Championship where he can use a cart for the 36-hole event.

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