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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 2013
Page
4
The Aiken Hickory Classic at Aiken Golf Club on March 1 features vintage clubs with hickory shafts and gutta-percha balls. A practice round is Feb 28 at 10 am, shotgun start. Players experience 80 year old play, with learnings and humor, as the historic course, built in 1912, provides an authentic backdrop.
The Aiken County Historical Museum sponsors the event at Aiken Golf Club on March 1 with a shotgun start at 10. Entry is 75 dollars per person due by February 26, with registration details at the museum and club. Pro golfers Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Patty Berg played there, supporting efforts to preserve Hickory golf in the area.
The Aiken Women in Black host a Vigil for Peace today from 4 30 to 6 p m on Whiskey Road in front of Bethlehem Lutheran Church near Moe s and the Fresh Market. The North Augusta Junior Women s League hosts a second Oyster Roast on March 16 at Boeckh Park with 20 tickets prepaid 25 at the gate includes all you can eat oysters and sides two cocktails live entertainment and raffles with prizes from Windsor Jewelers River Clubs and Lowe s Proceeds support needy children in Aiken County elementary schools.
The Aiken County Historical Society will unveil a marker detailing Aiken Graded School, the county’s first black public elementary, opened in 1925 and operating 44 years. President Allen Riddick notes the site preserves African American community memories. marker at Hampton Avenue and Kershaw Street.
A meeting to introduce the new historical marker will be held Sunday at 3 pm at the Aiken County Historical Museum, 433 Newberry St SW. The event is free to the public. Zack Townsend, attorney from Orangeburg and son of Aiken Graded School principal (1934 1944), will speak.
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