City Council weighs road width cut and truancy pilot
Aiken City Council will review a Planning Commission plan to reduce local road pavement from 30 to 22 feet with 18 inches curbing, arguing benefits like lower costs and runoff reduction. The session also considers a public safety truancy initiative funded up to 80 percent by the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice. Council meets at 24 Park Ave SW at 6:30 PM for work session and 7 PM main meeting.
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Aiken City
Aiken Planning Commission
City Planing Commission
Planning Commission
South Carolina
State Department of Juvenile Justice
Aiken
Park Ave
S.W
Area instructor makes a splash in summer swim lessons
Frances Reynolds turned her life into a long running family business teaching children to swim at multiple clubs in Aiken and Saluda County. She runs two week sessions, hires college students, and uses candy incentives while stressing swimming as a vital life skill and sharing her faith with families. Reynolds estimates about 350 students each summer, possibly three to four thousand total over the years.
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Frances Reynolds
Persimmon Hill
Saluda County
Reynolds
Aiken
Aiken Preparatory School
Highland Park Country Club
Houndslake Country Club
Richardson's Lake
Aiken Golf Club
Highland Park
Learning to swim draws students of all ages
A swim instructor notes students return for years of advanced work and that lessons start as young as age three. She mentions a 79 year old signing up, highlights the hard work of running the business, and says she loses weight in summers while finding the work rewarding as other facilities offer classes after the summer.
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Reynolds
Swim lesson classes offered through summer sessions
Formata Club offers Level 1 and up classes through Aug 2 for all ages with times 7:30 8:20 and 9:15 a.m. Cost 55 for two weeks 25 for one week. Smith Hazel Recreation Center runs today to July 18 and July 22 to Aug 1 with multiple levels times from 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. and evening slots for 2 4 year olds and adults. USCA schedules sessions for children five and up with Monday Wednesday or Tuesday Thursday options 6 to 6:45 p.m. and 7 to 7:45 p.m. Cost 35 for two weeks. Sign up and pre-pay at pool. Contact numbers: 648 5673 642 7631 649 3356 641 3431.
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Smith-Hazel Recreation Center
Odell Weeks Center
USCA
Reunion briefs from Orangeburg Wilkinson Aiken Windsor School events
Orangeburg Wilkinson Class of 1992 plans a reunion July 19 to 21 in Orangeburg with a $50 per person or $75 per couple registration and a July 12 deadline. Aiken High School Class of 1972 aims a 90 year reunion and seeks updated info via a site and two phone numbers. Former Windsor School students will meet for breakfast at Shoney's in Aiken on the second Tuesday of each month at 9 a.m. Frances Bell provides contact details.
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Orangeburg-Wilkinson
Orangeburg
Wendell Green
Aiken High School
Windsor School
Aiken
Windsor
Shoney’s
Whiskey Road
Frances Bell
North Augusta to fill council vacancy with special election
North Augusta officials meet with the Aiken County Elections Office to craft an ordinance setting a special election for the city council vacancy left by Kent Sullivan. If needed a Sept 11 primary and Oct 29 general election are considered, with possible one-week delay due to statewide timing.
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North Augusta
Aiken
Aiken County Registration & Elections Commission
Aiken County Council
Stuart Bedenbaugh
Vaucluse Road
Carolina Rebels to Highlight Hopelands Gardens Concert
The five member Carolina Rebels perform blue grass bluegrass gospel and old time country at Hopelands Gardens tonight at 7 p.m. The band has 22 years together and tours nationwide with past appearances at bluegrass festivals from Alabama to Michigan New York to Iowa. They will feature mandolin bass guitar banjo fiddle and four vocalists. Parking at Rye Patch lot on Dupree Place. If rain, show moves to H O Weeks Center.
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Carolina Rebels
Hopelands Gardens
United States
Alabama
Michigan
New York
Iowa
Rye Patch
Dupree Place
H.O. Weeks Center
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Lacie Carolina Leach
Woodside Plantation Country Club
Hopelands
PMC
Floyd¢ Greene
Centre South
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