Firm assists with move during SKB 10th anniversary
SmithKline Beecham employees volunteer at North Aiken Elementary to aid its relocation to a new building near Aiken Middle School. Forty workers work the move and another 40 join the effort today, earning a full day’s pay. Volunteers cover furniture assembly, shelving, and classroom equipment setup and maintenance tasks.
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SmithKline Beecham
SmithKline and
Beecham
Aiken SmithKline Beecham
North Aiken Elementary School
Rutland Drive
Aiken Middle School
Wire Road
SKB
Dennis Bartholomew
North Aiken Elementary
Retired teachers gain return-to-classroom option with higher pay
State budget allows full-time teaching jobs for retirees with a 25000 cap, up from 15500, for districts facing shortages. Area leaders praise the plan while noting potential early retirements as schools seek qualified staff in critical areas.
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Troy Nobles
Area Three
Teresa Pope
Redcliffe Elementary
Greendale Elementary
Red Cross appeals for blood as South Carolina crisis deepens
The American Red Cross warns blood levels are critically low in South Carolina amid a state of emergency. The Aiken collection site at 950 Millbrook Ave opens late today to boost donations, with regular hours listed later in the week. A separate note mentions the Amick Farms silo explosion injuring ten, several severely burned.
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American Red Cross
South Carolina
Carolyn Weisberg
ARC
Aiken
Shoney’s
Millbrook Avenue
Shepeard Community Blood Center
Augusta
SRP Federal Credit Union
Whiskey Road
Sheppard
Amick Farms
Monetta
Singer files petitions to place name on SC House 81 ballot
Singer plans to submit petitions today to elections officials to have his name on the South Carolina House District 81 ballot. He and 70 volunteers collected well over 1,000 signatures in two weeks, surpassing the 5 percent of registered voters required. Signatures must be certified by the Aiken County Elections office. The special election to fill the late Rudy Mason’s seat is set for Oct. 5. Kathryn Kling, Skipper Perry, and Rebekah Sutherland compete in a GOP primary to determine the candidate.
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Scott
Singer
S.C
Rudy Mason
Kathryn Kling
Skipper Perry
Rebekah Sutherland
Pastor Williams fined for sinners remark in church case
Rev. Alex Williams was ordered to pay $2,100 to each of two female congregants, Josephine Green and Alstyne Martin, after a magistrate court jury found simple battery with $100 and $2,000 in punitive damages. The 1998 suit named Williams and two others as co conpirators.
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Aiken County
Alex Williams
Aiken
John Harte
Josephine
Mobile home fire claims dog at Taylor's Trailer Park
A dog chained to concrete blocks died when a mobile home burned while owners were away. Fire Chief Brian Kersh said responders found the dog alive but the trailer severely engulfed and hot enough to melt a neighboring panel. Owners moved out after a window AC unit burned wiring in the elderly trailer.
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Taylor’s
Reynolds Pond Road
Brian Kersh
Eureka Volunteer Fire Department
Tommy Taylor
Classifieds Comics and Notices Fragment
Partial index style text with scattered headlines and digits. Fragments reference classifieds comics Dear Abby and movie notes with stray letters and numbers. No cohesive story or named entities readable.
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Ginny Southworth
Sam Smith
New North Aiken
Red Cross
Shepeard
Millbrook Ave
Green and
Alstyne Martin
The
Park Missionary Church
Plastor's
Melissa Hanna
By Melissa Hanna
Mobile
Dear Abby Eeneee
Ora Mae
Cash
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