Crescent City Playhouse recaptures ancient charm
The Crescent City Playhouse in Salley reopens after years of disrepair with a variety show attracting about half the town. Local children from Creative Dramatics Players, singers Chris Hartley and Saundra Powell, and TV personality Joe Piner performed. Visitors from nearby towns helped fund a fledgling entertainment center, amid praise for Beaufort Hartley’s restoration. A July 19 follow up show is planned, with plans for continued events and community support.
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Salley
Crescent City Playhouse
Creative Dramatics
Chris Hartley
Saundra Powell
Steve Wanamaker
Orangeburg
Joe Piner
Columbia
Wis-Tv
Springfield
Iris Gleaton
Arvone Jones
Beaufort Hartley
Martina Cox
Lottie Joe Dennis
Hemingway
Bil Bengtson
Pennies for the Park Parade at Virginia Acres Park
The second annual Pennies For The Park will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday July 5 at Virginia Acres Park. Residents may enter decorated children's wagons and tricycles while prizes go to the cutest prettiest funniest and most unusual entries. Raffle items include a water ski boat and trailer a week at Edisto Beach dinner for two at the Willcox Inn and more. Proceeds support the Carolina Bay Nature Reserve with donations accepted. event is sponsored by Aiken County Open Land Trust and Security Federal Bank. For info call Lucy Knowles or Scott Finn.
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Virginia Acres Park
Edisto Beach
Willcox Inn
Security Federal Banks
Southside Gallery
Eulalie Salley Inc
Fascopy and Lionel Smith Ltd
Carolina Bay Nature Reserve
Aiken County
Lottery debate echoes across South Carolina streets
Langley references a state run lottery to fund schools roads and services while condemning video poker profits and crime. He cites bingo as inferior and claims lawmakers tolerate gambling costs, urging abolition and predicting no future lottery support or reform by politicians ministers or voters.
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Video Poker Gang
Ryan
South Carolina
Grossette
Sen
Georgia
Local volunteers turn seed money into large service value
MAD NO CHALLENGE from Ga wuliams Sand and Gravet and Metal Retrievers and Warner Grading Company plus Hind and Even Food Lion fed volunteers. They turned $1,000 county seed money into about $8,000 in services. Land cleared and site prepared for a 48,000 square foot station due to be finished by September or October with diligent effort.
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Wuliams Sand and Gravet
Metal Retrievers
Warner Grading Company
Food Lion
Hind
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Aiken
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North Augusta
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North Augusta High School
Cathy Newsome Grant
Patricia Dais Blaylock
Stephanie ‘Thomas Williams
Count Irama
Advanced Air Ene
Iwo Ion Unit & Labor
Managan
Carolina Bay
Langley
Ryan Shealy
Era Olives
Cmia
Comere
Liver Blut Road
David G. Harris
Aiken Chiropractic Associates
Iken Chiropractic Associates
Uso
Arene Street
Dowatoven
Whihey
Uy 195
Saint James Lutheran Church
Laurel Drive
Graniteville
Barry T. Antley
Usc-A and
Aiken Regional Medical Center
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