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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 2001
Page
3
Augusta native Don Edmunds named director of the Aiken Center for the Arts plans to expand the center beyond visual arts by adding performing arts. After 17 years with the Augusta Opera he aims to broaden offerings even though music has not yet been attached to the center.
Edmunds envisions the Center for the Arts as a community hub for all art forms. He seeks collaborations, a public information center, and upstairs renovations to meet code for offices classrooms studios and performance space. Community input will shape the facility’s future, not the director alone.
Terry Rhinehart, director of Parks and Recreation for the City of Aiken, preserves a worn yellow-page notebook called Windham's Words of Wisdom. The notes trace lessons from former City Manager Roland Windham, shaping Rhinehart's 20 plus years in recreation and guiding major local projects like Citizens Park and Newberry Street Festival Site.
At Grace United Methodist Church, Joey Hartzog, born with cerebral palsy, shares his life story to inspire others. He describes early surgeries, adoption, and a path from limited schooling to self taught learning, a brain implant, and eventual full participation in church work and daily life. He urges respect for wheelchair users and emphasizes faith, humor, and acceptance.
Dr Allen Dennis a geology professor and chair at USCA will address the Central Savannah River Geological Society meeting Tuesday at 7 PM in Room 327 Sciences Building University of South Carolina Aiken His talk titled Basement Geology and Controls on Faulting and Fluid Flow at the Savannah River Site.
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