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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 2000
Page
2
The calendar lists a 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. South Carolina presidential primary with polling places on page 5A. At 2 p.m. Horse Creek Midland Valley Veterans Park hosts a Purple Heart ceremony at the park on S.C. 421.
A student found a dark leafy bag on Schofield Middle School grounds Friday. A Nokia phone was found Thursday in the 300 block of Fairfield Street. A Monetta woman was arrested Thursday for shoplifting cheese and two pounds of hamburger at Publix. A burglar damaged a Bradley Plumbing fence Thursday, stole a drill worth 150 dollars from a company vehicle. An Edgefield Road residence was vandalized Thursday. Call numbers for reporting crimes include Aiken DPS 642-7620 or Sheriff 642-1761, toll free 922-3211, or Crime Stoppers 612-1798.
A 2 p.m. Purple Heart program at Horse Creek Midland Valley Veterans Park S C 421 Bath honors Purple Heart recipients from all wars with emphasis on Korean War veterans. Col Richard Noble will speak. Sen Tommy Moore and Rep J Roland Smith will present concurrent resolutions. Eugene Chen Yu will recognize Korean War veterans.
The Georgia lottery produced numbers for the Friday drawings: Cash 3 Midday 7 4 3, Cash 3 Evening 9 7 3, Cash 4 8 9 0 3, Fantasy 5 34 29 31 11 12, and The Big Game 8 15 1 37 21 plus 25.
Democrats nominate Rev. Nathaniel Irvin Sr and Evelyn T. Robinson for the state House District 83 seat after Rep. Beck resigns to join the attorney general's office. Republican candidates Arthur Shealy Don Smith and Eddie Butler are filed. Primaries set for April 4 with the general election on May 23.
Plans for the American Cancer Society event are under way with the next team captains meeting set for Thursday at 6 p.m. on the 6th floor, Rooms A and B, at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. Call 648-1208 to RSVP.
Nominations continue for the Celebration of Character, a program of the Character First committee for 15 Aiken women’s clubs. Residents may nominate youths based on virtues like sincerity, attentiveness, respect, responsibility, and compassion. A May celebration will recognize all nominees and nominations stay open through summer for next school year.
Aiken and North Augusta chambers join Economic Development Partnership director Fred Humes and lawmakers in a new committee created by Rep. J. Roland Smith to assist video poker employees facing job loss when video poker is outlawed on July 1. The panel will hold public meetings in Aiken, North Augusta, and Wagener Valley to help workers find training and new jobs with benefits.
The CSRA Diversity Forum in cooperation with Aiken Tech and the City of Aiken invites businesses civic leaders employees and students to a two day workshop titled Diversity for the New Millennium The event runs Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 12 15 p.m. at the Aiken Technical College amphitheater Jane Elliott famed for Frontline documentaries will headline with Derrick Brown as Wednesday’s keynote. Lt General Robert Gray will conduct a Tuesday workshop and youth focus will be emphasized for registration details call 803 593-3030 or 803 952-9597.
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