Belvedere concession stand longtime operator to retire
Lou Berry, longtime Dixie Youth League concession stand manager in Belvedere, will retire after this week’s tournament. She helped with food service and league administration, while husband Sammie coached and son Dennis played. The stand raised funds for umpires and equipment, with aims to reach 1500 dollars this season.
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Belvedere
Lou Berry
League
Sammie
Dennis
Dixie
Susan
Ball Park
Berry
Ward
Don Ward
Belvedere Dixie
Veronica Maguire
Royal wedding invitation beware a modern marriage mystery
A reader muses on how to gift the Prince and Princess of Wales and laments not receiving an invitation. The column riffs on possible gifts from towels to phone gadgets, luggage, cake slicers, and Neiman Marcus fantasies while noting the June wedding and the national rate joke.
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Rock City
Winston Churchill
Rex Harrison
Prince Charles
America
Austin
Texas
Miami
Neiman- Marcus
Charles
Diana
England
Aiken County Leader to Meet Silver Bluff Zone Council
Jackson readers are told the Aiken County School District superintendent will join the Silver Bluff Zone Council for an ideas exchange at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Silver Bluff High School library. The session includes a request to approve local expenditures to refinish New Ellenton Middle School gym floor.
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Jackson
Aiken County
Silver Bluff
Robert W
Bob) Paskel
Silver Bluff High School
New Ellenton Middle School
Lifeguard Alexis Gregorian Faces Busy Public Pools
The 17 year old lifeguard works at Eustis Park and Smith Hazel Recreation Center pools, teaching swimming, collecting entrance fees, balancing chemicals, cleaning facilities, and making rescues. She notes the job is far from leisure and involves multiple guards on shift.
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Alexis Gregorian
Eustis Park
Smith Hazel Recreation Center
Alexis
Smith Hazel
R.S. Gregorian
Aiken
Fran Dickinson Champions Farming Fight in W I F E
Fran Dickinson, wife of a cattle farmer near Waggener, joins Women Involved in Farm Economics to advocate for the family farm. W I F E mobilizes members to study bills on target prices parity and costs, testify at hearings, and push farm-friendly policies nationwide. She aims to organize a local chapter in her county. Her husband praises their lobby work.
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Fran Dickinson
W.I.F.E
Washington
South Carolina
W.il.f.e
Dickinson
Aiken County
Hell
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Lynne Katonak
Aiken Standard
Dr. Paskel
Elizabeth Harrington
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