AHS band boosters meet Thursday at AHS cafeteria
Aiken High School band boosters will meet Thursday August 21 at 7 pm in the AHS cafeteria. Parents of band members are invited to attend both the covered dish dinner and meeting. For more information call 641-9696. The Aiken Center of the Arts hosts Valentini exhibit through August 23 with prints for sale. Valentini and related events include amateur talks and USC Aiken partnership noting an American debut in November. Soccer tournament runs August 23 24 at Polo Fields with 60 teams and 1500 players. Motorcycle show at Aiken Mall on August 23 open to spectators with entry details via mall.
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Aiken Center of the Arts
Livio Orazio Valentini
Aiken
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Valentini
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Etherredge Center
Usc-Aiken
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Aiken Mall
Aiken Standard
Stocks to Closing as of 8 19 97
Formation provided by Greg Paschal of Edward Jones. An items list and closing values are shown for market sectors and major stocks with daily changes noted. This summary captures the compiled data from the Edward Jones report dated August 19, 1997.
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Greg Paschal
Edward Jones
Pulitzer Prize author readings at Aiken store event
Gregory White Smith, Pulitzer Prize winning author, reads from Making Miracles Happen at Aiken Office Supply and Book Shop on Whiskey Road. Co author Steven Naifeh will sign copies of both Making Miracles Happen and On A Street Called Easy In A Cottage Called Joye from 5 to 8 p.m. at the shop. Greg will read prior to the signing.
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Aiken
Whiskey Road
Greg
Steven Naifeh
Easy
Joye
Letter stirs sewer controversy over plant dig
Former New Ellenton engineer George Cantelou questions the legality of an April 19 excavation at the sewage facility. He says the unsupervised dig occurred without mayoral or council approval and may violate deed covenants tied to land deeded for the plant. Cantelou notes the land could revert to Brenda Cantelou. City attorney Frances Draine defends the dig as legal and says Cantelou overstates objections.
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Pete) Cantelou
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Frances . Draine
Norman Strader
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Tink) Sanders
Louis Whit
Jaw
Draine
Denny Out Of District 83 Race Amid Divorce and Flight
Cheryl Denny says Don Denny has skipped the country near the Canadian border and has not made mortgage payments, after being declared out of the District 83 House race by the state Democratic Party. A divorce is under way as the couple’s finances and candidacy unravel. The party will decide if a substitute candidate can be entered before the Sept. 9 deadline, with election officials awaiting approval.
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Democratic Party
Cheryl Denny
Don Denny
Jason Linde
Denny
Scott Beck
State Election Commission
Frances Pennington
Aiken County Elections Commission
Election Commission
Pennington
State Elections Panel
Video poker store robbery in Aiken police seek suspect
The Aiken Department of Public Safety seeks a man who robbed Eubanks video poker store on Beaufort Street around 8 30 p m. He showed a handgun, forced the clerk to open a cabinet taking 12480, then fled with a second suspect in a stolen four door Hyundai. A security guard fired a shot in the air, and the pair fled on foot after abandoning the car. Bloodhound teams traced a money bag and found clues near Orangeburg Street and Barnwell Avenue.
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Beaufort St
Barnwell Avenue
Orangeburg Street
Marlboro Street
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Orangeburg
Edgefield writer earns 1997 OWAA First Place Magazine Award
Jay Langston wins Outdoor Writers Association of America and Browning prize for Habits and Habitats Wild Turkey Unplucked. The conference in Haines City Florida announced the honor. The feature appeared in Outdoor Life February 19 and earned 1996 SC Outdoor Press Association Excellence in Craft for Magazine Feature. Langston edits Turkey Call and formerly The Caller. He has contributed to Peterson's Bowhunting and North American Hunter.
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Outdoor Writers Association of America Inc
Browning
Jay Langston
Haines City
Fla
Outdoor Life
South Carolina Outdoor Press Association
Langston
Turkey Call
National Wild Turkey Federation
Peterson
Search for the King editor's note to Elvis pilgrims to Graceland
A narrator recounts a cross state journey to Memphis in search of Elvis Presley. He cites a radio cue during the Graceland anniversary crowds and describes fans from across the country converging on Elvis Presley Boulevard. The tone blends personal quest with cultural obsession as Graceland is contrasted with Mount Vernon.
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Wal-Mart
Memphis
Elvis Presley
Elvis
Tennessee
Graceland
Maine
California
Mt. Vernon
Elvis empire grows around Graceland museum complex
Elvis Presley’s Graceland grounds include a two story plantation house built in the 1990s and purchased in 1958. The site now hosts an Elvis Museum Car Museum Airplane Museum pavilion and more, expanding beyond the house into a broader Elvis empire across the street.
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Monticello
Elvis
Graceland
Aiken County Council rejects vacation leave bill
The Aiken County Council on Tuesday night voted 62 to reject a proposed ordinance that would have let employees count prior breaks in service toward annual leave accrual. Critics warned it could create a revolving door and unfairness to other staff. The meeting also approved an $881,000 contract for a new communications center at the Sheriff’s Office and actions with the Best Friend Dial-a-Ride, surplus Burnettown property, and law enforcement collaboration with Salley.
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Jim Baggot
Baggot
Eddie Butler
Joe Randall
Aiken County Sheriff's Office
Aiken Area Council On Aging
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