Dr Botsch to speak at AAUW Educational Foundation Dinner
Dr Carol S Botsch will address the Aiken AAUW branch on February 9 at 6 30 pm at First Presbyterian Church. The event honors local contributors and includes dinner reservations due by February 3 via Fern Brooks 649 0883. AAUW membership is open to accredited colleges and universities.
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AAUW
Carol S. Botsch
Aiken
American Association of University Women
First Presbyterian Church
Educational Foundation
Fern Brooks
Police blotter items in Aiken area report arrests and incidents
A Limerick Drive resident was arrested early Saturday for bizarre driving and suspended license. Aiken woman and Graniteville man passengers released after background check. Two gas drive-offs at Be Gollan Migron station totaling 20 dollars. Murrah Drive resident charged with drunk driving after leaving an Aiken restaurant with a dog bite victim. bite victim transported. Vandalism cut telephone and electric wires at Barton's Package Shop. Burglary on John Nunn Highway in Salley Jan 18. tools and a gun taken. Updated 1/25/98.
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Colleton Avenue
Aiken
Graniteville
Gollan Migron Station
Richland Avenue
Murrah Drive
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Sunrise Rotary member Steve Black wins big in Rich Man's Draw
Sunrise Rotary member Steve Black pulled a single lucky card during a recent meeting of Rich Man's Draw. With four cards left in the deck he correctly chose the winning card, securing $617.50.
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Sunrise Rotary
Steve Black
Bridgestone Firestone Signs Five Year Natural Gas Deal
South Carolina Pipeline Corporation will supply Bridgestone Firestone with natural gas for five years. The plant in Aiken County, a $435 million facility, will use gas to fuel boilers for steam in the production process and will create local jobs. The agreement covers 820 000 decatherms annually.
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South Carolina Pipeline Corporation
Bridgestone/Firestone
Scana Corp
Aiken County
Berry Gibbes
Aiken
South Carolina Pipeline
Bridgestone
Firestone
South Carolina
South Carolina Electric & Gas
South Carolina Writers Workshop nourishes creativity
Local SCWW chapter members meet to read and critique each other with seminars and an annual Myrtle Beach conference. The group publishes The Quill newsletter and Horizons anthology, which features fiction poetry and essays. Howington, a New Ellenton resident, is represented with two short stories and a poem in Horizons. The anthology uses a blind judging panel and assigns numbers to protect entrants' anonymity.
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South Carolina Writers Workshop
SCWW
Millard R. Howington
Ence
Myrtle Beach
Horizons
Howington
Ellenton
Aiken County
St Marys to break ground for Family Life Center
Groundbreaking for the 2.3 million St Mary Help of Christians Family Life Center will be held at 1 30 p m Monday on St Marys school property York Street The Most Rev David B Thompson Bishop of the Diocese of Charleston will officiate with Pastor Rev Thomas A Evatt The project covers 19 000 square feet and includes four Kindergarten classrooms a full size high school basketball court a commercial kitchen a stage and seating for over 20 teams Two State Construction Co of Thomson Ga is general contractor Completion: Kindergarten by May and the Center by early 1999.
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St. Mary Help of Christians
St. Mary's
York Street
David B. Thompson
Diocese of Charleston
Thomas A. Evatt
Boudreaux, Halstrand
Quackenbush and
State Construction Co
Thomson
Family Life Center
Aiken Franchise Fees Lift City Budget Pressure
City manager Steve Thompson explains franchise fees as the rent of public rights of way passed to utility customers. Southern Bell and SCE&G pay 3 percent, others 5 percent, with $2.2 million expected next year and franchise fees making up about 35 percent of the general fund.
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Aiken
Steve Thompson
Public Service Commission
Columbia
Southern Bell
Sce&g
Thompson
State of the State and Union orations criticized
A columnist ridicules annual political speeches by governors and presidents as empty rhetoric. He notes the ritual timing of the State of the State and State of the Union, argues audiences want action, and mocks the endless “New Beginnings” and similar phrases while recalling his own survey of public reactions.
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