Poll Respondents Call for Repeal of Blue Law in Aiken
Aiken County residents urge repeal or modification of South Carolina's Blue Law. In a reader poll by the Aiken Standard, 94 percent seek change with about two thirds favoring full repeal and the rest favoring modification. The survey drew 327 responses.
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Donald Elsasser
Elsasser
Lundee Drive
Aiken
South Carolina
Emil
Sandra Roy
Fauburg Street
Aiken Standard
Aiken County
Aiken County Schools Drill For Tornado Preparedness Day
Aiken County schools planned a tornado drill today in recognition of tornado preparedness day. The drill began with a mock tornado warning from the National Warning Advisory Service and was coordinated by Bobby Mauney of the Aiken County Civil Defense with deputies directing students and teachers to protective shelters.
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Aiken County
Tornado Safety Rules From National Weather Service
The National Weather Service outlines tornado safety steps for threats. Seek interior areas away from windows go to basements or lowest interior levels and use interior closets bathrooms and halls for protection. In schools hospitals and similar buildings move to designated shelters and avoid mobile homes or vehicles unless you can reach a sturdy structure. If no shelter is near lie flat in a ditch shielding your head.
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National Weather Service
Aikens Temperature Forecast Sees Clear Cold Tonight
The forecast calls for a clear and colder night with a low near 40. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high in the mid 60s. The outlook shows fair skies and a warming trend through the weekend with lows in the 30s Friday and warming to the 40s by Sunday. Highs Friday in the 50s warming to the 60s by Sunday.
Rotary speaker misses faces amid facial hair craze
Ken McKellar a Aiken High graduate planned to recognize men important to him but their bristly chins blocked it. Rotary members in observance of the sesquicentennial sport unshaved looks while Aiken AMBACS Club member Ron Newman reveals he was named after President Ronald Reagan.
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Rotary
Ken McKellar
Aiken High
Aiken
Ron Newman
Newman
Legislation OK’d for headlights and mopeds rules
The House Education and Public Works Committee approved bills requiring headlights in fog or rain and setting a 14 year minimum with licensing for mopeds. An amendment delays tickets for one year with warnings only, and licensing starts after 1986. A grandfather clause and separate moped rules were discussed.
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Columbia
House Education and Public Works Committee
Rep. R. Linwood Altman
Georgetown
Fair
Moore Rips Not Hiring Magistrate
Sen. Thomas L. Moore accuses Aiken County Council of mishandling the decision to delay filling the North Augusta magistrate position, proposing Raymond C. Baynham to replace Judge Nichols upon retirement March 1. Gov Riley has accepted Baynham’s nomination, with Senate confirmation expected this week.
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Thomas L. Moore
D-Aiken County
North Augusta-Belvedere
Aiken County
Fay S. Hatcher
Mike Toole
Toole
Graniteville
Graniteville Com
School Board Allows Public Presentations at Monthly Meeting
RIDGE SPRINGS The Aiken County Board of Education approved a policy revision to permit 15 minutes of public participation at the start of the second monthly meeting. Parents from Concerned Parents of Aiken High School voiced parity concerns with South Aiken High School and questioned stadium spending versus academic facilities. The board ordered a priority list for 1985 86 improvements focusing on accreditation deficiencies and voted to seek up to 45000 from Fund 5 for energy grant applications with T B Cox and Associates.
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Ridge Springs
Aiken County
J. P. Kneece
Robert W. Paskel
Warrenville
Gloverville
Freedman School
Aiken High School
T. B. Cox and Associates
Concerned Parents Group Rips Aiken County School Board
About 100 supporters traveled the foggy two lane road from Aiken to Ridge Spring to address the school board. The newly formed Concerned Parents of Aiken High Students CPAHS held a rally in the Ridge Springs Elementary cafeteria with members wearing CPAHS stickers.
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Concerned Parents Group
Rips Aiken County School Board
Aiken
Ridge Spring
South Carolina
Ridge Springs Elementary School
CPAHS
Aiken High
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