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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 2000
Page
1
Ambassador Alan Keyes, Republican presidential candidate, will visit USC Aiken on Friday at 12 30 p m in Room 107 Administration Building. The event is sponsored by the College Republicans of USCA and follows a South Carolina tour with speeches to college audiences.
The piece describes annual Groundhog Day forecasts from Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania and Gen Beauregard Lee in Lilburn Georgia. Beau, a groundhog at the Yellow River Game Ranch, is noted for his mansion like features including a water fountain and granite monument.
Joan Tower 72 longtime Aiken resident dies at home. She led the effort to create Aiken s Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and drove renovations to Rye Patch and Hopelands Gardens as part of her lasting impact on the local equine heritage.
Aiken County officials will study and propose upgrades to the Judicial Center security at an estimated under 50 000. County Administrator Bill Shepherd said the plan aims to cut entrances and update monitoring with a non X ray baggage scanner while avoiding extra staff.
Prospective jurors in the David Mark Hill capital case faced questioning in York as attorneys trim a pool from about 40 to 12 jurors and two alternates. The defendant, 89, is charged with killing three DSS workers in North Augusta in 1996 and wounding a fourth.
Aiken Chamber of Commerce names Joe Babb Man of the Year at a banquet. Friends describe him as a selfless helper who fixes cars at midnight and supports education for at risk youths. Babb, a Sebrell, Virginia native, moved to Aiken in 1962 with a large family and built a career in real estate and insurance.
The notice lists obituaries and funeral arrangements for Thomas Callaham in Brooklyn and Minnie Collier Harmon in Jackson-Brooks Funeral Home. It also names Larrykin Shadazie Dukes in Williston, Freida Louise Hawkins in Beaufort, Charlie Butler Key in Belvedere, Ralph Newman in Belvedere, Morgan Leroy Pender in Springfield, and Margaret Elizabeth McCarty Williams in Aiken with respective funeral homes: G L Brightdhorp Sons, Simmons, George, Rowland, Folk, Shethouse.
A local presentation of My Cousin Rachel is scheduled for tomorrow at In Community Playhouse. The production features a cast of local actors and aims to attract theater enthusiasts in the area.
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