Girl Scouts Create New World at Fort Gordon Encampment
Girl Scout troops from 15 counties gathered at Fort Gordon for an encampment themed Round-Up America. About 56 troops participated with exhibits from four world regions and five scouting worlds, including hands on demonstrations, state symbols, and a historic relay game.
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Fort Gordon
Aiken County
America
Northeast
South
Midwest
West Coast
Aiken Troop 234
Louisana
Georgia
Massachusetts
Erie Canal
Week of the Child in Aiken County highlights parenting and youth
Community event led by USC Aiken education experts runs through Saturday focusing on parent education, child development, and family challenges. Highlights include discussions on working and single parents, divorced families, and fostering self concept, with a Saturday Fun Fair centering on learning as fun.
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Paul Wirtz
Usc-Aiken
Aiken County
Dr. Wirtz
Wirtz
Division of Education
USCA
S. C. Association of Children Under Six
Ginny Coughenour
Holy Trinity Lutheran School
North Augusta
Connie Dukes
Stepping Stones School
Aiken
Parents and Teachers Mini-conference at USC Aiken
Monday to Saturday daily features highlight a Thursday mini conference for parents and teachers in USC Aiken classroom 116 led by Dr. Leroy Baruth on Meeting the Needs of Children of Divorce from 6 30 to 7 50 p m. Dr Beverly Belk of MC Georgia presents Fostering Self Concept in Children from 8 to 9 30 p m. Fees are 5 dollars for couples and 3 dollars for SCACUS members and students. Saturday Children’s Fun Fair from 10 a m to noon outside the student activities center.
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Usc-Aiken
Leroy Baruth
University of South Carolina
Beverly Belk
Medical College of Georgia
Scacus
Tired of Being On the Outside She Tries Park Routine
The piece laments social exclusion in conversations and mocks fitness pretenses. The speaker recalls a park moment in casual attire and jokes about Rosie Ruiz in Boston, describing a minimal daily effort of five minutes of groaning against a tree.
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Rosie Ruiz
Running and social life in midlife from a humorous columnist
A humorous Erma Bombeck column describes a midlife runner who shares how running changed her social life. She notes compliments about health and weight loss, strangers confiding private pains, and the joke about the carrying handbag exposing a runner.
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Girl Scouts
Pine
Vinny Southworth
Everybuddy
Linda Stoddard
Aiken Troop 52
New Jersey
Adrienne Williamson
Shannon Murphy
Peggy Stoming
Reel Virginians
Virginia
Erma Bombeck
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