Women Take On Non-Traditional Jobs in Construction
Clemson student Becky Harrison, a rising architecture sophomore from Aiken, works for Acorn Corporation learning construction from the ground up. She paints, nails, drafts, and helps plan a Teen Town renovation with the Aiken Area Council on Aging, gaining hands on insight into budgeting and practical building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Becky Harrison
Miss Harrison
Clemson University
Rodney Smoak
Acorn Corporation
Aiken
Harrison
Smoak
Teen Town
Acorn’s
Clemson Architecture School
Local Briefs from Aiken Area Annotations
July 10 1980 Aiken area items include community notices sports results and social notes. Readers find concise briefs on local happenings with names places and dates reflected in this page five roundup.
Doomsday Shelter Group Faces End Time Claims
A Montana and multi state group, holed up in fallout shelters, awaited a nuclear war ending, after months of doomsday prep and social gathering at a local restaurant. The April issue notes the claim that today is the last day with followers in shelters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Cronkite
John Anderson
NFL
Ford
Charlie Brown
Snoopy
ABC
Angel
Wig City
Trisha Rosy
Fort Romeo
France
Montana
Walter
Ford Motor Company
Dwight
Claude
April 29 Reflections Spark Domestic Quiet Moments
A narrator contemplates the small details of everyday life after a hypothetical front page news moment. The text wanders through personal memories from high school to lip gloss and a trip with Erma, noting a Tuesday routine, a birthday and cleaning the oven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lionel
Washington
Family Roots Unveil Surprising Hidden Truths
In a Dear Abby column, readers reveal family secrets including double marriages, adoptions, out of wedlock relationships, and teenage pregnancy. The writer questions privacy while Abby notes facts may reveal personal history and cautions about overexposure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abby
Track Work Turns To Track Work in Aiken
Yolanda Ebel, a New York native, stayed in Aiken after wintering with the horses and now works for the City of Aiken Public Works in the Parks and Streets division. She drives the tracks, picks up leaves, and dumps trash, proving she can keep up with the male workforce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yolanda Ebel
Aiken
City of
Sarah Caskey
New York
Ms. Ebel
Public Works Department
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Parthenon
St. Peter’s
Rome
Kathryn Smith
Aiken County
By Erma Bombeck
Erma
Abigail van Buren
F.A.S
M.D
Coward-Corley Seed Co., Inc
Park Ave
Garden Center
Dial
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