Aiken trash cart rollout prompts questions on costs and waste disposal
Readers discuss the planned replacement of backyard cans with 10000 wheel-out carts, potential charges, and landfill needs. They urge plastics upgrades for wet weather, reflect on a motorcycle death in North Augusta, defend bikers, ask about school renovations at Brook Elementary, and mention Graniteville train wreck coverage and Talkback procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavelle McCampbell
Graniteville
Aiken County
Darr resigns to lead St. Mary on the Hill School in Augusta
Keith Darr will leave after eight years as principal of St. Mary Help of Christians Church School and take a similar post at St. Mary on the Hill School in Augusta. During his tenure the school grew to 270 students and added a parish life center gym and new classrooms. He plans to help form a search committee for the 2005 2006 school year.
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Darr
St. Mary Help of Christians Church School
St. Mary On the Hill School
Augusta
Keith Darr
St. Mary On
Carr
St. Mary
Our Lady of the Rosary
Greenville
Eva
Mary
Aiken
Aquinas High School
James LeBlanc
Rob Novit
Movit
Aikenstandard.com
Weyerhaeuser Quail Ridge Nursery Harvests 87 Million Trees
Weyerhaeuser harvests pine seedlings at the Quail Ridge Nursery in Aiken County where 87 million trees are in this year’s crop. The facility, 248.2 acres irrigated, ships by refrigerated trucks with local delivery up to 100 miles and employs about 800 statewide. Bruce G. Francis notes past highs of 100 million trees per season while detailing packing, storage, and production capacity.
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Weyerhaeuser
Quail Ridge
Bruce G. Francis
Francis
Nications
Aiken County
Larkin
Fredrick
S.C. 78
Hathaway Bridge Road
Jason Watson
Weyerhaeuser Road
Philip Lord
Plord
Aikenstandard
Nine medical screening centers added for former nuclear workers
Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman announced nine new screening centers under the Former Worker Medical Screening Program. The program offers free medical exams to former DOE employees, contractors, and subcontractors to identify illnesses from potential job exposure. Centers include Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, Ames, NNSA Kansas City, Mound, Fernald, Brookhaven, and Pinellas projects, expanding the current network of clinics serving 10 to 15 workers weekly. The Augusta Building and Trades office administers the program through September 1998 and coordinates referrals to University Hospital for evaluations.
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Secretary of Energy
Samuel Bodman
Bush Administration
Department
DOE
Bodman
America
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratory
Ames National Laboratory
National Nuclear Security Administration
Kansas City
Mound Closure
Ohio
Fernald
Brookhaven National Lab
New York
Pinellas Project
Florida
Savannah River
Augusta Building and Trades Office
Charles Jernigan
Jernigan
University Hospital
Philip Lord
Plord
Aikenstandard.com
BNFL and DOE settle two cleanup projects in US
BNFL and the U S Department of Energy reach agreements on two fixed price cleanup contracts. One site in Tennessee ETTP Oak Ridge will be completed with BNFL receiving about 500 million dollars and the AMWP Idaho transfer to DOE on May 1 2005. BNFL Inc president Philip Strawbridge and CEO Michael Parker comment on ongoing U S work.
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BNFL
U.S. Department of Energy
Tennessee
Idaho
DOE
East Tennessee
Oak Ridge
U.K
Secretary of State Trade and Industry
Patricia Hewitt
Savannah River
U.S
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Michael Parker
Philip Strawbridge
Bnfl Inc
ETTP
AMWP
Philip Lord
Plord
Aikenstandard.com
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