Brief Aiken woman dies in head on crash
A 39 year old Aiken woman Sharon Bush died in a late Tuesday head on collision two miles south of Aiken on 8.C 19. The other driver Carla Brown and a passenger were listed in critical condition at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. The accident is under investigation by S C Highway Patrol. This item also covers Greenville NAACP leadership election results and a police scoreboard policy with mixed details.
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Aiken
S.C
Deaths of Samuel Lindell Easter and others in Denmark and Union
Obituary note listing deaths including Samuel Lindell Easter Aiken Ollie Pruitt Keith Union George Bernard Limehouse Denmark and Alphonso Ray Denmark with brief notice of passing.
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Samuel Lindell Easter
Aiken
Ollie Pruitt Keith
Union George Bernard Limehouse
Denmark
Alphonso Ray
Lottery Wins Tuesday Drawn Numbers Reported
The Georgia lottery Tuesday results show Cash 3 with digits 9 4 4 and Fantasy 5 matching 61417. No further details on prizes or drawing locations are provided.
Shelter license on the line
Helping Hands fights to keep its shelter license after a state DSS report downgraded it from standard to temporary effective Jan 10. A Jan 6 fire inspection found five deficiencies. interim director Sue Christopher says corrections are underway. DSS plans flexible extensions if safety remains intact.
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Helping Hands
S.C. Department of Social Services
DSS
Boards of
Helping Hands, Children’s Place
Sue Christopher
Jerry Adams
Adams
Good service requires a plan by Michael W. Gibbons
A four part series in the Aiken Standard surveys customer service in today’s market. SCE G investigative report notes a local outage recovered in 45 minutes and quotes SCE&G district manager Rusty Harris on measuring delight. Amigo’s Mexican Restaurant manager Ubaldo Cortes discusses staff attentiveness amid lunch rush. Readers invited to share service tales.
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Sce&g
Rusty Harris
Aiken Standard
Fea
Ubaldo Cortes
Kalmia Plaza
Ginny Southwort
Amigo
Judge orders games back on video poker outlets
Judge Costa M Pleiones issued a temporary injunction forcing three local governments to permit video poker operations that were active before June 30 1995 and curb further bans. The ruling ties to zoning litigation while county officials start issuing licenses to eligible outlets.
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Barnwell
Costa M. Pleiones
Aiken County
State Supreme Court
Columbia
Richard Harpootlian
Pleicones
Gary Smith
Aiken
Smith
Pleiones
Accountability plan studied in Aiken County schools
The Aiken County Board of Education expressed unanimous support for the School and Community Accountability Plan at Tuesday night’s meeting. Dr. Frank Roberson outlined a nine page booklet and summary, detailing a system for schools and local planning teams to assess progress toward benchmarks through student performance, staff development, and factors like funding and parental involvement. Dr. Linda Eldridge joined in discussing district implications.
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Aiken County
Linda Eldridge
DOE seeks tritium producers in civilian reactors
The Department of Energy issued a draft request for commercial power plants to irradiate lithium targets in civilian reactors to produce tritium for weapons. SCE&G offered its V C Summer plant near Jenkinsville, while Georgia Power declined. Greenpeace protested the plan as undermining civilian military nuclear boundaries. DOE aims to award contracts in early 1998 for irradiation services or reactors.
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Department of Energy
South Carolina Electric & Gas Co
V.C. Summer
Jenkinsville
Greenpeace
DOE
Sce&g
South Carolina
Bruce Hall
Washington
Plant Vogtle
Georgia Power Co
Brian Duncan
Duncan
Federal Regis
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