Police blotter highlights multiple local burglaries
Burglary reports show several break ins from Jan. 15 to Jan. 19 at Kendricks Gas and Games Bear Circle Wren Road Pipeline Road Camp Marie Road Damon Street and a truck on Laurens Street Tools worth 100 dollars stolen from a pried auto. An assault at gunpoint Jan. 16 in an Aiken County home left the victim injured and treated at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. A DUI arrest followed Jan. 19 after a crash on Whiskey Road. Vandalism reported Jan. 19 at an Oxford Trace Apartment windows with broken panes.
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Stocks Closing as of 1 20 98
Edward Jones provides a stock summary for January 20 1998 highlighting closing figures, market movers, and notable price shifts. The brief notes key gains and declines across major sectors and lists select company names with closing values.
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Edward Jones
Beech Island Man David Towles Appears on 20/20
Beech Island resident David Towles, employed by the Augusta based sperm bank Xytex, appeared on ABCs 20/20 this week. The broadcast focused on the rights of children conceived via donor sperm and Towles discussed his work with the organization.
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David Towles
ABC
Towles
Xytex
Augusta
Autism Not An Impossible Barrier In Megan Weeks Case
Amy and Bill Weeks describe their daughter Megan's autism, noting language and social delays became evident in preschool. They explain autism as a developmental disability from a neurological disorder, with about 400,000 affected individuals.
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Amy
Bill Weeks
Megan
Autism Month Celebrates Victories and Awareness
National Autism Awareness Month highlights progress and advocacy. The Autism Support Group in Aiken meets the third Thursday each month at 7 p.m. in Dining Room B of Aiken Regional Medical Centers. Mrs. Weeks, facilitator, can be reached at 642 6712 for more information.
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Aiken
Amy Weeks
Aiken Regional Medical Centers
Ambitious facelift restores 1920s style to Holley House inn
New owners Richard and Stephanie Friedman and Jim Cantalupo renovate the Holley House in downtown Aiken. They have finished the 30 motel units, lobby, ballroom and bar and are restoring 47 second and third floor rooms to evoke the 1920s with original pieces preserved.
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Aiken Relay for Life Plans 12 Hour Cancer Fundraiser
Local American Cancer Society boosters prepare for the Relay for Life overnight event May 15 16 at Hagood Stadium Aiken High School. Mick Perkins chairs the 1997 plan as teams of 8 to 12 raise funds while participants walk the track through the night to support cancer research and education. The annual event draws speakers including John and Mary Hunter long-time residents diagnosed within days of each other.
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Relay For Life
Aiken
Hagood Stadium
Aiken High School
Mick Perkins
John
Mary Hunter
Aiken County Schools plan citizen survey on ideas
The Aiken County Board of Education approved a study to survey hundreds of randomly chosen parents of public school students. The one page form includes four questions on school grades and problems, with deadlines and return methods. The district aims for at least a 75 percent return and will use funds to hire a certified teacher for eight students for home based instruction.
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Aiken County
South Carolina
Frank Roberson
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