Windsor to Hold Town Meeting and Budget Final Reading
Windsor plans its monthly meeting Tuesday at 7 30 pm in Town Hall with final reading of the town budget on the agenda. A $285 000 grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development will boost housing conditions in Aiken's low and moderate income areas, funding renovation of structures and street drainage around housing projects.
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Windsor
Aiken
US. Department of Housing and ——Urban Development
Tarpon Tug Ends When Shark Snags Big Catch
Hillman, from Hitchcock Rehabilitation Center, battled a six foot tarpon off Pawley's Island pier as a crowd watched. a shark rose from the depths and seized the fish. Carol Gibbons faced a storm tied vacation offer as Bertha neared landfall, a telemarketing pitch for a South Carolina North Carolina coast time share.
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Dan Hillman
Hillman
Hitchcock Rehabilitation Center
Pawley's Island
Carol Gibbons
Hurrican Bertha
S.C
Stone Soup nets national honor for Aiken clubs
The Aiken Junior Woman's Club and the Sana River Woman's Club won a national award after their two year Stone Soup community outreach project captured a General Federation of Women's Clubs state honor in April and earned a $5,000 prize. Volunteers mapped four pilot neighborhoods Hahn Village Smith Hazel Westcliff and the area Hispanic community to unite diverse groups in after school programs crime watch and children's activities. Suzanne Jackson said funds will support community identified projects while Becky Robbins emphasized neighborhood participation as key to self sufficiency with Stone Soup expanding county wide by 1997 to other target areas.
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Woman's Club
Sana River Woman's Club
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Hahn Village
Smith- Hazel
Westcliff
Suzanne Jackson
Peace Heart medal proposed for peacetime injuries
Vietnam veteran Greg Topliff says there should be a new award to honor Americans wounded or killed in noncombat peacetime incidents. He designed the Peace Heart, modeled on the Purple Heart, featuring a white dove, olive branch, and red white blue ribbon.
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Ginny Southworth
Greg Topliff
Topliff
Miitary
Saudi Arabia
White House
Civil War symposium planned in Aiken February
Aiken will host a Palmetto State War Between the States symposium February 14 to 16. The event is sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans Bee Camp USC Aiken history department and the SC Center for the Book. Authors will discuss Civil War books and answer questions while a genealogy booth will help residents trace ancestors who fought in battles in South Carolina.
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Aiken
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Harry Woodward
SCV
Barnard E. Bee
Woodward
South Carolina
Lee promoted to director of human resources at Avondale
Derrick Lee is promoted to director of human resources for Avondale Mills Graniteville Fabrics Administrative Services. Sharon L. Rodgers announces the assignment. Lee will oversee HR activities including training and policy administration for Graniteville Fabrics with Terry King and Frank Harling reporting to him on hiring.
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Graniteville
Derrick Lee
Avondale Mills
Graniteville Fabrics/ Administrative Services
Sharon L. Rodgers
Avondale
Lee
Graniteville Fabrics
Terry King
Sylacauga
Frank Harling
Lee to lead in Graniteville reporting to Ms. Rodgers
Lee, a native of Aiken and Aiken High School graduate, will be located in Graniteville reporting to Ms. Rodgers. He holds a business administration degree from Newberry College and previously served on the Aiken Chamber of Commerce board. He also sits on boards for United Way and Aiken Technical College Foundation and is involved with St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Council. He and his wife Kathy have two teenage children.
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Rodgers
Lee
Graniteville
Aiken
Aiken High School
Newberry College
The
Aiken Chamber of Commerce
United Way and
Aiken Technical College Foundation
St. Paul's
Flower fund in county budget raises questions
A city council budget controversy emerges as an informant alleges a contingency fund line item of 1000 dollars funded snacks and get well cards. The tip suggests the expense was tucked into a resolution during a work session and went by unnoticed, prompting planned scrutiny at a future meeting.
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County Council
Jimmy Baggett
County Counci
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William Perry
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