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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 2012
Page
2
Fatz Cafe hosts a Saturday breakfast to aid the family of slain Aiken Public Safety Officer Scotty Richardson. Proceeds go to his widow and three children. pancakes and sausage breakfast, 8 to 10 a.m. at 996 Pine Log Road. Tickets are $7 with about 250 pre sold.
The South Carolina Department of Education will hold a public meeting in Aiken on Tuesday at Millbrook Elementary School to discuss a waiver from parts of the No Child Left Behind Act. Officials cite flexibility to focus on bottom performers and adjust assessments while limiting federal SES requirements and conflicts with disability laws.
Residents invited to a Tuesday 6 PM meeting at Millbrook Elementary to discuss the proposed No Child Left Behind waiver. An online comment form is open through Jan 23 at ed.sc.gov for public input and to view the state waiver request.
The Board of Education will delay its meeting to Tuesday to allow members to join a community meeting. The session starts at 7 30 p m and will be held at the district office located at 1000 Brookhaven Drive.
Tickets are on sale for the ACTS Icicle Ball to be held Saturday January 28 at Newberry Hall. The annual event, presented by Area Churches Together Serving, has sold out each year since its 2008 inception.
An event features a social hour at 6 p.m. dinner live music by Palmetto Groove Party Band and a silent auction with a cash bar. Tables eight cost 520 or 65 per person. Tickets from ACTS office 340 Park Ave SW or call 649-3800. Also a National Active and Retired Federal Employees meeting at Golden Corral Whiskey Road Wednesday 1 a.m. Pat Boardman of Mended Hearts speaks. Betty Crowther offers Starting Seeds Indoors January 16 noon to 1 p.m. at Aiken County Agricultural Building 1555 Richland Ave E. The Aiken Master Gardeners Lunch Box Lecture series is third Monday monthly. bring lunch. For more info call 649-6297 ext 122.
Jeff Scott, owner of Jeff's On Laurens, publishes Beneath the Glass Door a fiction set in Vaucluse and surrounding Aiken area. The story follows Cross Padgett a troubled man haunted by childhood memories and past events including a Graniteville train wreck in 2005.
Jeff Scott holds a book signing for his first title Behind the Glass Door on Saturday January 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Jeff's On Laurens 135 Laurens St SW. The cover artwork is a Scott painting of three white buildings on Senn Street in Vaucluse.
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