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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1980
Page
5
After years of failed lifelong aims, the narrator is drawn to a flood of short term courses offering varied topics from sex and nutrition to ghosting stress. He muses that September enrollments rarely stick, and jokes about retreating to his old ambitions of world peace and shedding five pounds by Christmas.
Dear Abby column discusses proxy marriage viability for a soldier overseas and scope of state recognition. Reader asks about legitimacy of a baby and mail-in clergy marriages. Abby notes only 12 states recognize proxy marriages and urges consulting a chaplain promptly.
George Herron, an Aiken craftsman since 1954, designs and makes handmade knives in a home workshop. He sources rare materials like pink ivory and works with neighbor Dick Gillenwater to fulfill a six to seven year waiting list, selling mostly to private collectors and displaying at shows such as the Third Annual Gun and Knife Show at H. Odell Weeks Activities Center.
The Garden Theater Festival wraps with an arts fair in Hopeland Gardens offering art displays, a wandering minstrel and roaming clowns before evening performances. Schedule includes Lovers and Other Strangers on Wednesday, Death Knocks and Pistols For Two on Thursday, and Love? on Friday.
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