Excellence in Teaching grants open for area teachers
The Westinghouse Savannah River Company invites applications for its 1999 Excellence in Teaching mini grants up to 1000. Proposals are due March 5 with awards in April. Details call 7259014. Hitchcock Hospice offers three Greeting Card sets by Shelly Marshall Schmidt at 10 for four cards each sold at 721 Richland Ave West and local outlets. Call 643-0001 for more information.
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Westinghouse Savannah River Company
Hitchcock
Hitchcock Hospice
Shelly Marshall-Schmidt
Hitchcock Home Health and Hospice
Richland Avenue West
Rec Department to Celebrate Peanut Month Event
Aiken County Recreation Center will sponsor a National Peanut Month celebration on Friday March 12 1999 from 1 pm to 3 pm with free admission. Learn peanut history and enjoy treats featuring the month’s celebrity the peanut.
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Rec Department
Aiken County Recreation
Police blotter items from Aiken County blotter
Aiken County Sheriff’s Office investigates a possible child neglect case after a Redcliffe Elementary student was returned to school by a bus driver when no adult was found at home. Aiken woman arrested for gross intoxication at a park while drinking in public with vodka nearby. A shopper at Shoe World creates a scene stealing shoes and displaying them to clerks before fleeing in a white 805 Oldsmobile. A 27-year-old man robbed at gunpoint leaving Ponderosa on Richland Avenue by three young black men. gunman described as 25 to 30 years old.
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Aiken County
Shoe World
Richland Avenue
Aiken
Valentines Tree at Earle Church of God
A children's group decorated a tree at Earle Church of God with valentines. Each valentine carries a short verse about love reflecting the group’s warm message to the community.
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Earle Church
Surplus Equipment Sale Clears Board Path at Aiken
The Aiken County Board of Education fast tracked consent items to declare surplus equipment and furniture for sale. An auction is set for Saturday, freeing hundreds of items from a 1986 Plymouth to telephones and computer mice. The meeting also touched on a proposed campus site swap involving Busbee Elementary and Corbett Middle, with Rev. William R. Thompson voicing concerns about crowding and youth behavior if move proceeds. No action was taken in response to his remarks.
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Aiken
Busbee Elementary
Corbett Middle
William R. Thompson
Salley
Busbee
Corbett Campus
Thompson
Corbett
Wagener Salley High
Wagener
Aiken woman rescues lost child on trail with dog Bristo
Amy Gratch and her golden retriever Bristo discovered 2 year old Catherine Anne Jackson near Hitchcock Woods in Aiken South Carolina after the child disappeared from her yard. Catherine was taken to a hospital and delivered back to her family in good condition.
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Catherine Anne Jackson
Amy Gratch
Runner's World
Ms. Gratch
Bristo
Aiken Standard
Bill Bengtson
Ginny Southworth
Amy Slatch
Hitchcock Woods
Aiken
S.C
Gratch
Catherine
University of South Carolina At Aiken
United Way to honor volunteers at banquet
The United Way of Aiken County will hold its annual meeting and awards dinner on Thursday Feb 11 at 6 pm at Houndslake Country Club. Guest speaker Betti M Sands president/CPO of the United Way of South Carolina has led multiple United Way agencies and co authored Head Start legislation. Reservations are required. tickets are $25 per person.
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Aiken County
Houndslake Country Club
Betti M. Sands
Presient
CPO
United Way of
South Carolina
Ms. Sands
University of South Carolina
Bay Area
San Francisco
Dade County
Miami, Fla
Coastal Empire
Savannah
New United Way
Fresno
Calif
Ms Sands
Chicago
Miami
Fla
County considers alcohol ban at official events
Aiken County Councilman Phil Napier expects a county ordinance banning serving alcohol at events with county employees to pass after Judicial and Public Safety Committee approval. The panel also discussed EMS purchases, freezing a Sage Mill ambulance order, and exploring two additional ambulances under state contract for 138000.
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Aiken
Phil Napier
Council
Judicial and Public Safety Committee
Napier
Council For
JPS
EMS
Industrial Park
Sage Mill
Incumbents Re elected to North Augusta City Council
In North Augusta the Republican primary produced no surprises as three incumbents won four more years on the city council. Kent Sullivan led with 722 votes, Ken McDowell had 704, and Carolyn Capers Baggott 582, while challenger Henry Dukes netted 316. Turnout under 800 of about 7,000 registered voters.
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North Augusta
Carolyn Capers Baggott
Ken McDowell
Kent Sullivan
Henry Dukes
Hammond Hill
North Augusta High School
Sullivan
McDowell
Baggot
Dukes
Inmate Missing From Work Release at Golden Corral
State prison officials searched Tuesday for William Salmon a 23 year old inmate missing from the Golden Corral Restaurant where he was assigned to work. Salmon had been serving a 40 month forgery and unauthorized use of a vehicle sentence in Aiken County. He has been in the system since December 1997 and was assigned to the Aiken center in June. Salmon is white 6 foot 1 240 pounds with blond hair and blue eyes.
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William Salmon
Golden Corral
Lower Savannah
Corrections Department
John Barkley
Salmon
Aiken County
Barkley
Aiken Center
Plans continue for Wagener Outdoor Expo
The Wagener Volunteer Fire Department hosts the second annual Wildlife and Outdoor Expo in Wagener on Saturday February 27 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Vendors and outdoor groups will attend. The event takes place at the Wagener Fire Department building on 299 Park Street off Highway 39.
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Wagener
Hitchcock burning continues in Hitchcock Woods
Prescribed burning resumed in Hitchcock Woods near Rabbit Valley Pigeon Loop and the Ridge Mile Track on the Dibble Road side. About 100 acres of woodland floor were burned Tuesday and officials expect overnight rain will not halt today’s controlled burn managed by a certified fire crew with Aiken Public Safety on alert.
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Hitchcock Woods
Aiken
Rabbit Valley
Pigeon Loop
Ridge Mile Track
Dibble Road
Aiken Department of Public Safety
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