Aiken Center for the Arts Reopens With New Look
The Aiken Center for the Arts celebrated a grand reopening marking its 30th anniversary. Renovations costing about 700000 updated the ground floor galleries with new lighting and paint while plans continue for upstairs work and facade restorations on Laurens and B streets. Pat Koelker’s show opened in the Westinghouse Group Gallery alongside live piano entertainment and a Buy A Key campaign to fund the piano.
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Aiken Center For the Arts
Mike Kavanaugh
Laurens
B Streets
Edmunds
Celeste Dixon
Pat Koelker
Westinghouse Group
Art Center
Melinda Starnes
Cam Scott and Cheatham
Fletcher & Sears
Augusta
H.G. Reynolds
Loren Schneider
Rotary appeals for aid to Haiti projects
Ralph Byrd spoke to the Downtown Aiken Rotary Club and the Aiken Sunrise Rotary Club about aid for Haiti. He described poverty, water scarcity, and education programs in the mountainside town of Cange, inviting members to donate ten dollars per person to fund feeding and schooling efforts for two years.
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Haiti
Ralph Byrd
International Service Club
Aiken
Rotarians
North Augusta 2000 campaign surpasses $1.55 million goal
Former Mayor Tom Greene praises North Augusta 2000 as it clears $1,782,713 raised toward a $1.55 million goal with optimism to reach nearly $2 million. The two year effort started with a 65 member task force and funds 32 initiatives including road, education, riverfront park, and life skills programs.
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North Augusta
Tom Greene
Greene
Randy Cooper
Cooper
Felines Strut at Masters CFA Championship Cat Show
North Augusta hosts a two day Masters Cat Club CFA Championship Cat Show at Riverview Park Activities Center August 25 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. featuring over 200 felines with a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy clinic and Maine Coon Breeders and Fanciers Inc summer meeting. Show manager Dan Butler Susan Murphy show secretary Mona Cherrington entry clerk.
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North Augusta
Riverview Park Activities Center
Sanc
Sharon Butler
Sharonbutler
Earthlink.net
Maine Coon Breeders and Fanciers Inc
Vicki Shipp
Yahoo.com
Dan Butler
Evans
Susan Murphy
Mona Cherrington
Judge removes defense attorney in York race riot homicide case
York County judge bars Harold Fitzkee from defending William Ritter in the 1969 murder of Lillie Belle Allen amid conflicts of interest. Fitzkee, ex-district attorney, could be called to testify about investigation delays and deemed unable to represent without bias. Prosecutors seek fair trial questions over prosecution delays. Ritter fired shots at a car carrying Allen and relatives on July 21, 1969.
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York
South Carolina
Harold Fitzkee
William Ritter
Ritter
Lillie Belle Allen
Aiken
York County Common Pleas
John C. Uhler
Fitzkee
Uhler
Fitzbee
Bill Graff
Allen
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Aiken Sunrise Rotary Club
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Anthony
Almar Atkinson
Ashley
Lladro
Heaven
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