Churches Mirror Face Of The World In South Carolina
Diverse congregations in Aiken and surrounding towns discuss inclusion across races languages and classes. Pastors Peter Einsenmann and Augusto Soler advocate openness and outreach while acknowledging ongoing segregation in American church life.
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Our Lady of Peace Church
Covenant
North Augusta
St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church
Aiken
St. William
Saluda
Augusto Soler
Colombia
Father Soler
South Carolina
America
Florida
California
Soler
Aiken City Council Sets Growth and Safety Goals
The council targets property maintenance, annexation efforts, better city entrances, and a blighted area improvement plan. It prioritizes reducing youth violence in schools by expanding the PACT Team and placing resource officers in campuses. Airport space and funding for economic development studies are also on the agenda with a $1 million DOE grant program.
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Aiken
P.A.C.T
Public Safety and
Stanley Quarles
Francis Thomas
Quarles
Thomas
Department of
Accused Killer Seeks Klan Robes and "Hi Hitler" Title
Donald Leroy Evans, charged with the 1985 strangling of Fort Lauderdale prostitute Ira Jean Smith, asks permission to wear a Ku Klux Klan robe and to be called "Hi Hitler" at his murder trial. Court staff report Evans believed Adolf Hitler followers said the greeting.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Hi Hitler
Donald Leroy Evans
Ira Jean Smith
Evans
Adolf Hitler
Heil Hitler
Aiken Officials Debate Local Homeless Situation
City leaders say Aiken lacks a broad homelessness crisis though a minority of street people are seen. Chief Busbee notes some may be released from state institutions or depend on drugs, with downtown housing used for such individuals. Mayor Cavanaugh hopes for HUD funding to develop or renovate low income housing.
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Busbee
Aiken
Karen Papouchado
Cavanaugh
Housing and Urban Development Administration
Pro
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Hitchcock
Peter
Pete) Einsenmann
North Aiken
Einsenmann
Pastor Peter Einsenmann
Trinity
River Bluff
Crosland Park
St. Gerard’s Catholic Church
Thomas Gillin
Gillin
Martin Luther King Jr
North Aikien
Council
Savannah River
Georgia
Hitler
Reycle
Hampton Avenue
Augusta
Eeam
3NSOE
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