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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1999
Page
6
The Best Friend Express, part of Aiken County Public Transit, updates schedules on Tuesday adding a Graniteville Express on the North Augusta route and another run to the Aiken Mall on the Aiken Mall New Ellenton route. Public schedules available via contact numbers and local offices.
The Willcox Inn is honored with its fourth Golden Fork Award from the Gourmet Diners Society of North America for professionalism, food quality, service, and hospitality. Jan Wade of St. John's United Methodist Church has a church sale of Primitive Poems of a Psychotic Poet to raise funds for the Building Fund. information at 648-6891.
Clemson Extension backs a newly formed Wagener 4H club with 14 members aged 7 to 17, drawing riders from Augusta. Members learn horse health, ownership, and care, ride after meetings, and participate in local events such as Wagener Christmas parade where cedar garlands were made for a winning float. Local youths Carl Metcalfe Shea English and Philip Demara share highlights. Contact Wanda English Debbie Roberson or the Aiken extension office for more details.
Dr. Jay Jones of Aiken outlined zoonotic diseases spreading from animals to people at a Houndslake Country Club session. He noted rabies as a leading example, compared global deaths from Ebola and AIDS, and warned anthrax risks tied to its spores and history of use in warfare and terrorism.
Two early Saturday incidents occupied Aiken firefighters. At about 7:30 a.m. a house on Duches Road at Richland Avenue sustained fire damage mainly in the hallway and a nearby bathroom with smoke in the home. investigators believe a floor furnace caused the blaze with combustibles near vents. The house was partially vacant during move out. About an hour earlier at Steeplechase Apartments on Silver Bluff Road Building D produced smoke only after children burned incense and discarded leftovers in a trash can. no flames were seen.
The Youth Wing of the Aiken Community Playhouse presents the coming of age comedy Cheaper By The Dozen in January. Christopher Sergel adapts Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in a tale of a large family facing a drama of teenage dreams with twelve children in a lively stage version.
Whit Gibbons, a herpetologist, promotes the free 32 page color guide from the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. The booklet identifies 40 snake species, includes maps and habitat notes, and aims at environmental education for Georgia and South Carolina residents, libraries, hospitals, teachers, and Scout leaders.
A reader recalls a Christmas letter about two dogs and two kittens left alone by their owner on a country road. The writer and a friend try to earn the pets’ trust and hope for a loving home, while fearing the owner may return. The tale ends with thePets possibly reunited and the friend planning to help.
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