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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1986
Page
11
An Aiken Department of Public Safety sergeant was assaulted after stopping a vehicle on Park Avenue near Fairfield. A 50-year-old Trenton man, James Woodrow Padgett, faces charges including driving under suspension, DUI, resisting arrest, and failure to register an automobile. he remained in the Aiken County Jail.
Clearwater Aiken County Public Service Authority to vote tonight on a resolution establishing fees for septic tank wastes treated at Horse Creek Wastewater Plant. Meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the plant conference room on S.C. 125. Also to create a surplus funds account of 328,929 from a June 1985 audit to cover future or prior liabilities of the facility.
CLEARWATER The Valley Recreation Association will meet Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Clearwater Elementary School cafeteria. The new recreation site will be discussed. The public is invited.
Court documents accuse PTL television ministry of backing out of 11 of 13 property contracts near its headquarters, failing to pay a contractor for a planned water park, with land values cited around 10.8 million dollars. The ministry closed one deal but later missed a mortgage payment, per seller reports.
Immediate past president Jim Stewart awarded Sharon Stewart with an appreciation honor at the weekend Jaycee banquet for handling the presidency duties. The speech likened the role to a hog donating bacon to a hungry family, noting the demanding nature of the position.
New Ellenton Greendale Elementary gains community help as the PTO and the New Ellenton Jaycees organize painting sessions funded by the PTO. Jaycees members, including six to seven professional painters, paint over weekends while others display student art at local venues and firefighters share safety lessons.
South Carolinians worry more about violent criminals than crime in general. The sixth annual Fear of Crime Poll by the University of South Carolina notes 76.4 percent believe today’s criminal is more violent than five years ago, while over 80 percent favor community-based penalties for non-violent offenders.
Traci Grant, a North Augusta High School junior, won the 12th annual North Augusta Junior Scholarship Program in the school gym. She also claimed the physical fitness poise appearance talent and Spirit of Junior Miss honors, with Tricia Capps and Tami Blevins as runners up and Jill Clark winning the scholastic award.
Tina Spradley, 13, from North Augusta, won the regional spelling bee at the State Fairgrounds in Columbia after spelling vulcanization correctly to beat a Pinewood 6th grader who failed on xerography. The victory earns her The New Encyclopedia Britannica and a Washington, D.C. trip to meet 173 regional champions.
Aiken County officials present a tentative budget to the Board of Education at 7 PM in the new North Augusta Elementary with dedication ceremonies to precede the session. The draft shows operating expenditures surpassing revenues by about 1.9 million, with alternatives to balance to be shared separately.
South Carolina bankruptcy filings grew 41 percent last year and 64 percent in early 1986, driven by textiles trucking and farming woes. Officials note most filings are personal and a Columbia court is overwhelmed, with records stored in hallways and even a bathroom due to space shortages.
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