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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1997
Page
6
Registration for the Sunday December 14 Aiken Jaycees Christmas Parade continues with a parade at 3 pm in downtown Aiken. Theme this year is The Magic of Christmas. Entry categories include Religious Commercial General Float School Group and Miscellaneous. Call 648-8955 for information.
Police blotter reports a burglary at a Charleston Highway business where bars were pried, three video poker machines opened, phone lines damaged, alarm tampered and a camera lens broken. A Graniteville home shed theft included a four wheel vehicle, chainsaw, tools and fishing gear. An audio shop on Whiskey Road lost 2643 in gear and had 505 in door damage. A 1987 Chevy Cavalier was stolen from an Aiken dealer, crashed through a fence after theft of a radio. A burgundy 1988 Hyundai Excel theft from Wal Mart parking lot was reported by a teenage owner hours later. (Updated 12/6/97).
A corrections note states that the children from Children's Place designed the "Holly Day in Aiken" T shirts sold by the Aiken Downtown Development Association with all proceeds benefiting Children's Place. The paper regrets the error and acknowledges a separate misidentification involving Ed Hammons at the Veterans Memorial site honoring Aiken County veterans who died in war.
Wilma Becker Marcia Harris and Terry Young lead a book club of seven friends at a Christmas gathering. A full-size creche with lattice sides collapsed as members attempted a group photo, the Nativity tableau resembling the Walls of Jericho.
Workers at the Firestone Building Products roof ing materials plant in Kingstree voted 145 to 75 against unionization. Liz Victor of BridgeStone Firestone South Carolina praised the team effort and downplayed concerns over race scheduling and management raised by some employees.
At the Christmas Craft Show on Whiskey Road the H Odell Weeks Center overflowed with vendors from 165 crafters stalls. Visitors watched a clay pot wheel spinning as youngster Nina marveled at a tornado shaped creation. The event featured jewelry woodwork ornaments and handmade clothing, plus a charity room with jams jellies and pickles. Outside vendors braved 40 degree weather while TEARS volunteers offered crafts in the Crafts For Critters room.
The Aiken Civic Ballet Company offered an evening of grace and whimsy in an encore performance of Hansel and Gretel at Etherredge Center. The Friday night show drew a mixed audience after a school matinee for about 1,000 USC Aiken students. The cast featured Lanthern Jenkins Emily Hare Hilary Brooks Veronica Loucks Martha Clyatt Latasha Key Julie Fitzgerald Elizabeth Britt Margo Brown and JR Williams Jr with Sara Seisler Nina Whitaker and others. The tale of a forest bread crumb trail and a witch ended with Gretel pushing the witch into her oven and the children returning home to reunion. The firefly dance added a bright note as the 28th season opened_continuing the company’s legacy.
Beech Island and Augusta host Once Upon a Christmas through next Saturday. The event features holiday scenery and decorations, storytellers, and music at two historic homes and Redcliffe State Park. Admission is 2 adults and 1 for students.
The narrator recalls a Sunday marble game with friends as the Pearl Harbor attack unfolds in 1941. He describes rural Southern life, family labor, and wartime shifts from plow to factory output, noting relatives who served and the town’s early industrial efforts, before wartime news and memory fade.
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