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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 2008
Page
3
A reader warns that abandoning the auto industry harms manufacturing and risks national decline. They compare gun control and pet spaying to broader rights and question enforceability, urging consideration for the elderly with limited incomes and tipping customs.
Resident calls for right turn only access on Whiskey Road from Aiken Estates to Powderhouse Road with no left turns except at signals. Protests previous floods four times this year and notes Hawaii statehood in August 1959. Questions foreign influence on worker pay.
Residents vent that a regular group lights hundreds of luminaries at Aiken Memorial Park while management watches. They urge seeking assistance from Boy Scouts or another organization to help with the effort.
Readers ask downtown property owners to ease rents for merchants amid the downturn. Vacant properties generate no income, so comments propose targeted relief. Call the TalkBack line or email editorial to share views. names may be withheld and edits may occur for space.
ETV will run a five minute nationwide digital test at 7 30 p m on Wednesday to mark the switch from analog to digital broadcasts on Feb 17 Viewers with digital sets should see no screen change while analog viewers may see on screen transition information A 7 p m program Digital 101 will explain the DTV transition and converter coupons A free online course at myetv org offers the same topics and a shopping guide is available for viewers buying new sets.
Mary-Louise Pawlowski and family celebrate a $10,000 gift from her father, Auburn coach John Pawlowski, to the Medical College of Georgia Children's Medical Center. The money funds a blanket warmer for the pediatric hematology oncology clinic and may aid clinic renovations.
Reader submissions are encouraged by the Aiken Standard. For information contact Managing Editor Michael Gibbons at 644-2381 or email mgibbons at aikenstandard.com. Newsroom line is 644-2401. Office hours are 8:30 p.m. to Friday.
The North Augusta City Council granted unanimous third reading approval for two items. A 19 acre annexation at 415 Hamburg Road owned by Fannie Lamback Stewart near Riverfront Antique Mall. Also approved Communigraphics General Development Plan changes by Tracy Hooks to add 10 000 square feet mainly for retail use on Georgia Avenue.
Tiffany Carter of Aiken earned Cum Laude BA from Coastal Carolina University in Fall Commencement. Daniel Boorn of North Augusta earned BS from Coastal Carolina University in Fall Commencement. Byrd Elementary named December Good Citizens including Gage Morris and many others. Zachary Rahsaan Raiford of Aiken earned a BS in biology from Francis Marion University on Saturday December 13.
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