Rain Eases as Aiken Sees Brief Dry Spell This Week
Weather patterns shift to a more typical summer regime with scattered thunderstorms. Forecaster Jeff Linton of the National Weather Service in Columbia says drier air is moving in from the north under high pressure, with rain chances dropping to 30 percent today and Thursday and rising to 50 percent Sunday. Temperatures will stay in the lower 90s through Sunday as rainfall totals vary by location with July totals already tallied by local observers.
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Jeff Linton
National Weather Service Forecast Office
Columbia
National Weather Service Cooperative Observer
Touch-A-Truck Returns To Aiken For Family Vehicle Walkthroughs
The 11th annual Touch-A-Truck opens Saturday at 9 to noon at the H Odell Weeks Activities Center fields in Aiken. Children can explore service vehicles including bulldozers police cars and ambulances with open access and kid friendly activities. Vendors provide organization info and Sam's Club hosts a membership drive while book donations support Take a Look Buy a Book. Weather look is clear but event proceeds rain or shine with expected turnout near 2000 people.
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Kiersten Warfield
Aiken
Moms Club of
Aiken Mother’s of Preschoolers
Safe Kids Aiken County of Tri-Development Center
Sam’s Club
Touch
Hopelands Gardens
Warfield
Price Avenue
Touch-A-Truck Event At Odell Weeks on Saturday
The free Touch-A-Truck event runs Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the H. Odell Weeks Activities Center 1700 Whiskey Road. For more information call 803-642-7631 or visit Experience Aiken.
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Warfield
Whiskey Road
Experience
H. Odell
House bill to seize MOX funds retracted in U S move
U S Representative Earl Blumenauer withdrew a proposed amendment to divert 30 million dollars from the Savannah River Site MOX project to nonproliferation programs. The measure, linked to the FY 2014 Water and Appropriations Bill, aimed to fund the Global Threat Reduction Initiative and Nonproliferation and International Security.
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Earl Blumenauer
U.S. House
Oregon
Savannah River
House
Blumenauer
National Nuclear Security Administration
Congress
Patrick Malone
Middle East
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