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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 2003
Page
2
A string of letters from SC residents criticizes teacher qualifications, calls for salary cuts, questions lottery education funding, and complains about golf course prices. Notable points include disputes over educators degrees, administrative pay, and price variances between Aiken and Columbia areas.
Travel & Leisure spotlights Aiken as an equestrian wonderland in a multi page April feature by John Seabrook. The New Yorker writer, whose family home is in Aiken, recalls Hitchcock Woods and The Willcox, and shares how the town’s history, polo, horses, Magnolia Willcox porch and local spots shape a visitor’s eye. The piece notes Seabrook’s lifelong ties to Aiken and his son Harry’s polo interest, with a guide to where to stay shop and play. The magazine lists a $4.50 stand price.
Eight-week to three-month-old puppies from the shelter visited Schofield Middle School after-school program. Students Calvenia Weaver and Rashawn Isaac enjoyed handling the dogs while SPCA pet therapy coordinator Gregory stressed dogs aid learning and empathy. Teachers noted the program adds hands-on activities and seeks community involvement after spring break. Contact Elizabeth Simpson at 641-2770 for visits.
Local blood centers including American Red Cross and Sheppard Aiken Community Blood Center are coordinating with America's Blood Centers to supply the Department of Defense during wartime in Iraq. They urge donors of all blood types aged 17 or older to help replenish perishable blood, noting hub shipments and specific local donation sites with hours and contact numbers.
Secret Service backed updates reveal Norfolk Southern crews near Montmorenci have begun timber and surface work. About 50 workers may stay two more weeks, closing some 30 crossings for repairs and asphalt laydown while rains delay progress. Motorists urged to yield at crossings and proceed with caution. Public Safety responds to fire at Southern Sales when a dishwasher utensil melts on a hot element, creating smoke with no injuries.
An Aiken man Charleton B. Breland, 28, pleaded guilty in Federal Court Friday to using a wrong Social Security number to obtain a South Carolina driver’s license. Breland visited the DMV on October 10, 2001, in the name of Bernard C. Breland. Sentencing is deferred pending a background check. The offense carries a maximum penalty of up to $250,000 fine and up to five years in prison.
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