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Aiken Standard

Location

Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Apr 27, 2002

Page

6

Medicaid Funding Faces Recurrent Strain From Cigarette Tax Debate

Michelle Baker says her 7-year-old Jeanee with cerebral palsy needs 10 daily medicines costing 1500 dollars monthly plus feeding tubes weekly therapy and doctor visits. She welcomes Medicaid funding but criticizes cigarette tax failures, urging stable funding to avoid yearly budget panic. Hodges opposes tax hike and supports Medicaid funding. Land expects cigarette tax issue to re emerge next year.

Michelle Baker Jeanee Baker Hodges Senate John Land Manning

Impaired Olympics Draw Students Back to Field Night

Proper Budd-Dawson warned inappropriate choices have long term effects. A drug dog handler Budd-Dawson said her firm conducts a decade long background check. Students were invited Friday for an Impaired Olympics to test opponents’ impairment while teacher Todd Bornscheuer framed it as awareness. Earlier, he noted a ghost out project with victims representing 50 US deaths per day to teach consequences.

Budd-Dawson Todd Bornscheuer

Dunn takes helm of rural health center overhaul

Dunn was hired in 1998 from a North Carolina community health agency to lead a rural medical services agency facing internal turmoil and threatened federal funding. Amid cash flow crises, the Margaret C. Weston center overhauled procedures as staff turnover hit levels, with directors and a nurse practitioner leaving. Dunn later stabilized finances, earning praise from former board directors for balancing the center’s books. The Clearwater center, founded in the 1970s by Margaret Weston, runs a satellite in Aiken.

Dunn North Carolina Margaret C. Weston Center Roger Davis Clarence Flanigan Davis Blaine van der Linden Michelle Marrs Marrs Clearwater Aiken Margaret Weston

Erfurt school mass shooting shocks Germany

An expelled 19 year old opened fire at the Johann Gutenberg Gymnasium in Erfurt, eastern Germany, killing 18 people including 13 teachers, two girls, a school secretary, and a policeman before killing himself as commandos closed in. About 4 others were injured and 500 rounds were found near the gunman’s body. Witnesses recalled a terrified, chaotic scene as students were trapped inside the building and flags were ordered at half staff.

Erfurt Germany Johannes Rau Dunblane Scotland Columbine High School Littleton Colo Melanie Steinbrueck Gerhard Schroeder Schroeder Johann Gutenberg Gymnasium AAP

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