Midland Valley Prep stages talent show and festival
Midland Valley Preparatory School marked its 135th day with a talent show and festival led by Director Lilian Thomas. Jazz band director Joe Laurena and teacher Melvin Blakely praised the event, with art contests, a pie in the face contest, parent dance, and 10 student performances by grades 5 to 7.
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Midland Valley Preparatory School
Lilian Thomas
Aiken High
Joe Laurenza
Laurenza
Melvin Blakely
Special Olympics event expects 700 participants at Midland Valley
Organizers anticipate about 700 Olympians from Aiken Saluda and Edgefield counties in athletics and arts and crafts at Midland Valley High School. Volunteers are still needed with buddy volunteers welcome from 8 a.m. The torch run and opening ceremonies start around 9 a.m. Marine Corps League ROTC and band will join the opening ceremonies.
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Janice Pressley
Tri-Development
Midland Valley High School
Pressley
Sarah Younts
Aiken
Precious Corner
Busbee
Younts
Saluda
Edgefield
Marine Corps League
Midland Valley Rotc
Neighborhood Diamonds helps kids through city baseball program
Cops and public safety volunteers run Neighborhood Diamonds at Perry Park near Schofield Middle School from August to October. The program mentors 11 and 12 year olds in a noncompetitive league, raises community support, and correlates with a drop in local crime statistics.
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Gary Reynolds
LaLita Ashley
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Leadership At Public Safety
Neighborhood Diamonds
Public Safety
Ashley
Richard Abney
ADPS
Schofield Middle School
Abney
Perry Park
North Augusta senior named Journalist of the Year
Lindsay Wilkes-Edrington, 17, of North Augusta High School, earned the South Carolina Scholastic Press Association Journalist of the Year award. She plans to attend the University of Missouri as a Journalism Scholar and remains editor in chief of The Yellow Jacket.
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North Augusta
Lindsay Wilkes-Edrington
America
North Augusta High School
South Carolina Scholastic Press Association
University of Missouri
Lindsay
Yellow Jacket
North Augusta High
Chris Emerling
SPSPA
Emerling
The
SCSPA
FAA grants bolster Palmetto area airport and solar at USC Aiken
Barnwell County receives 117 188 for design of full parallel taxiway rehab and safety lighting via the FAA Airport Improvement Program part of nine grants totaling 11 465 835 across South Carolina. USC Aiken secures 25 000 from the DOE to install a solar heated pool system expected to cut nat gas use and save about 12 750 annually with a 40 000 total project funded mostly by university funds.
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Barnwell County
Federal Aviation Administration
Barnwell
Palmetto
Berkeley County
Cheraw
North Myrtle Beach
Allendale
Horry County
Marlboro County
Beaufort County
Richland
Lexington
FAA
USC Aiken
S.C. Department of Energy
DOE
Deidre Martin
USCA
Tony Ateca
Golf film review previews Bobby Jones biopic
The Your Aiken Standard notes a review of the Jim Caviezel portrayal of golf legend Bobby Jones. Also previewing Friday events, South Aiken and Aiken renew a soccer rivalry in Region 4-AAAA at Aiken, and Wagener-Salley High School hosts Step-A-Rama with the A.L. Corbett Roaring Lion Steppers performing.
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Golf
Bobby Jones
Jim Caviezel
Sites&Sounds
South Aiken
Aiken
Wagener-Salley High School
Wagener-Salley
A.L. Corbett
City of Character Aiken April Trait and Winning Numbers
The notice lists April focus as Dependability for Aiken and provides winning numbers for Pick 3 Midday 0-2-2, Pick 4 Midday 7-9-3-4, Pick 3 Evening 4-2-5, Pick 4 Evening 9-8-1-0, Cash 3 and Cash 4 drawings, Fantasy 5, Change Game variants, and Mega Millions results with the Mega Ball 45.
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Aiken
Cash
Publisher's Number for Aiken Standard Departments
The Aiken Standard lists Scott B. Hunter as publisher contact with responsibility for all departments The publisher can be reached at 648 2311 extension 203 and mail shunter aikenstandard com for departmental inquiries.
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Scott B. Hunter
Shunter
Aikenstandard.com
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