Clyburn pushes early childhood funds in Week of the Young Child
South Carolina Representative Bill Clyburn urged directing money to early education at USC Aiken launching Week of the Young Child. Community leaders and agencies like United Way and First Steps backed the effort while DSS Director Austin Scott called for prevention of abuse. Republicans questioned budget priorities for 2003 04 and per pupil funding. events including seminars Read Across Aiken and a multicultural kids event were planned through Friday.
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Bill Clyburn
D-Aiken
Clyburn
Usc Aiken
United Way
Aiken County
First Steps Board
Austin Scott
Social Services
DSS
Scott
First Steps
Peggy Wertz
Ken Clark
Lexington
Aiken County Library Hosts Mother Daughter Party May 10
The Aiken County Public Library invites mothers and daughters to a Mother Day themed party at 11 a.m. May 10 for daughters in grades one to five and visiting mothers of all ages. For details call 612-2020 or 642-7585. Separately the Parks Department seeks sites for the 2008 USDA Summer Feeding Program for Children, running June 2 to August 8, with meals provided daily. contact Tony Littles at 594-0040. Deadline to request a site is May 16.
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Aiken
Aiken Technical College
USCA
Nina Nicifer
ATC
Mar ‘Keting
Aiken County
County Parks and Recreation
Aiken Housing Authority seeks broader home ownership
Director Reggie Barner dismisses myths that the Aiken Housing Authority serves few residents and outlines a plan to add over 50 new homes annually for a decade. He stresses home ownership as wealth building and notes the agency serves families up to 80 percent of the $49,900 area medium income, not only low wealth families.
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Aiken Housing Authority
Reggie Barner
Barner
America
Franklin Roosevelt
Aiken Sunrise
Roosevelt
Aiken Housing
Aiken
Gas drive-off and burglaries reported in Aiken County
A driver with South Carolina plates pumped about $20 of gas at a Silver Bluff Road station Friday after 5 pm and left without paying. Aiken resident on Aldrich Street returned Sunday evening to a burglary between 7 and 11 pm, with a VCR and Polaroid camera valued at about $200 missing. Two men were taken to the Aiken County Detention Center after 3 am Sunday, one charged with cocaine trafficking and related offenses near a school, and the other with possession of marijuana. An incident on Bradley Lane left two men under arrest for disorderly conduct and related charges, with warrants for throwing bodily fluid and threatening an officer, plus a second man cited for false information and trespassing after notice.
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Silver Bluff Road
Aldrich St
Aiken County
Bradley Lane
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