Community Calendar Enumerates Local Meetings and Activities
A dense list of events across Aiken and surrounding areas includes Alcoholics Anonymous style groups, computer and genealogy clubs, Rotary and Toastmasters meetings, library hours, hobby circles, garden clubs, and public notices. Notable entries mention adult children of alcoholics support, Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame events, and various civic association gatherings with times and venues.
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Charter Counseling Center
Lancaster St. SW
Aiken
Apple Computer Users Group
Pine Log Road
Aiken County Public Library
Aiken County Rescue Squad
Aiken Lions Club
Lions’ Hut
Aiken Sertoma Club
Houndslake
Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame
Hopeland Gardens
Aiken Composite Squadron
Civil Air Patrol
Federal
York Street
Barnwell Avenue
Body Dynamics
Crosland Drive
Ryan Bruorton
Crosland Park
Kalmia Court
Order of the Amaranth
Masonic Temple
Laurens Street
Kalmia Toastmasters
North Augusta
Mental Health Association
Carol Jennings
Billy Finley
Trenton
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
Cherbourg Place
Jimmy A. Widener
J.W. Mercke
Martha Mercke
Aiken Board of Realtors
Houndstake Country Club
Aiken County Council
Richland Ave
Aiken County Historical Museum
Newberry
Aiken Optimist Club
Mattie C. Hall Health Co Center
Joyce Riddick
R.N
Ambucs
Aiken-Barmwell
H. Odell Weeks Center
Wilcox Inn
Ginny Sherman
Center Fire Department
CSRA
American Society For Quality Control
Houndslake Country Club
Russ Holloman
Berrie Road
Ikebana International
Scott's Way
Augusta
Scott Nixon
G.H. Weisemann
Savannah
Jaycees
Jaycee Hut
Mental Retardation Board
Aiken County
Senior Citizens Club
Aiken County Recreation Center
St Alumnae Panhellenic
Friendship Baptist Church
American Society of Safety Engineers
Red Lobster
Gordon Highway
H. Odell Weeks
Country Gardeners
Robert C. Jones
A.C. Butterbaugh
Roy Stein
Paul McCreery
Garden Makers Garden Club
Graniteville Exchange Club
Midland Valley Country Club
Waterloo St
Grace Woodhead
Keith Parker
Ponce de Leon Ave
Area 4 Council Plans Thursday Meeting
The Area 4 Advisory Council will meet Thursday at the Area 4 Office in New Holland. The regular session begins at 7 30 p m. Area 4 schools include Ridge Spring Monetta High Wagner Salley High A L Corbett Middle Ridge Spring Monetta Elementary and Busbee Elementary.
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New Holland
Aiken
Area 4
Ringe Spring- Monetta
Wagner-Salley High
A.L. Corbett
Ridge Spring-Monetta
Busbee
Turn of the Century Dreams and 2000 World Series Dread
A speaker imagines living to the year 2000 and hosting a lunar party, pondering the logistics of calling a future World Series. He notes turning sixty in 2060 and muses on the awkwardness of naming events in the new century while reflecting on life expectancy and possibilities beyond Earth.
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Moon
Predictions for the year 2000 from Lewis Grizzard
A humorous spoof imagining the turn of the millennium cites checks replaced by bank tubes at home, ultra fast airliners, dental lasers, goat burgers at McDonald’s, and talking dogs. It notes Elvis and the Falcons remaining dead, with other absurdities and economic woes forecast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street Journal
USA Today
McDonald’s
North Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Elvis
The
Atlanta Falcons
Erma on Marriage as the Relationship Super Bowl
An Erma column argues marriage signals distinct intimacy versus living together. It notes the challenge of defining commitment and responsibility, contrasts shared routines with deeper unity, and cites a TV show example of a widowed father seeking marriage for ongoing partnership.
Marriage as a lifelong game with no guarantees
Erma Bombeck reflects on marriage as a permanent career not a casual partnership. She argues that marriage brings defined duties and shared rights, not guarantees, and compares it to a high stakes game where surprises arise and fear of perfection is misguided.
Rural South urged to press candidates on economy
Washington AP report notes MDC Inc and Sunbelt Institute lead a bipartisan effort by Southern lawmakers to press presidential candidates to address the rural South's widening economic gaps. Sen. Wyche Fowler Rep. Ed Jenkins and Rep. Sonny Callahan back the push.
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Washington
Congress
South
MDC Inc
Sunbelt Institute
Wyche Fowler
D-Ga
Ed Jenkins
Sonny Callahan
R-Ala
Fowler
Jenkins
Homer
Georgia
MDC
Chapel Hill
N.C
Sunbelt
Nine Die On South Carolina Roads In Weekend Toll
The Highway Patrol reports nine fatalities from weekend traffic crashes across South Carolina. Victims include Karen Ann McLane and Richard A. McLane in an Orangeburg County head on collision on U S 321, along with Harold A. Dowling in Cheraw, Harold Sanders in Forest Acres, Keith Gillespie, Phillip Shillinglaw, Paul Milton Baine, Dawn Amanda Carter, and others in Berkeley York Dillon and Darlington counties. The Associated Press tally covers 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday.
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South Carolina
Orangeburg County
State Highway Patrol
Karen Ann McLane
Richard A. McLane
North
William H. Dunbar
Blackville
U.S
Columbia
Harold A. Dowling
Uneraw
Cheraw
Harold Sanders
Forest Acres
Keith Gillespie
Dillon
Florence County
Phillip O. Shillinglaw
St. Stephen
Berkeley County
Paul Milton Baine
Sharon
York
South Carolina Highway 49
Dawn Amanda Carter
Lamar
Darlington
Associated Press
Aiken DSS Announces Surplus Food Distribution Schedule
Aiken County Department of Social Services releases dates for USDA surplus foods including butter cheese honey corn meal and rice. Eligibility requires food stamp certification or income below 130 percent of poverty with ID and county residency.
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Aiken County
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Aiken Standard
Lewis
Lewis Grizzard
Erma Bombeck
DSS
Beech Island
Gloverville
Stackson
Monetta
White Pond
Porky Bradberry
Reel
Reel’s Shoes
Laurens St