USCA Aiken Alumni Meet Includes Three Awards
The University of South Carolina Aiken Alumni Association will hold its annual meeting Thursday at 6 30 pm at Eejay's restaurant. The $16 per person covers meal and dessert. Reservations: Gia Johnson 641 3480. The event will present three awards: distinguished alumnus outstanding alumnus and honorary alumnus.
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USCA
University of South Carolina Aiken Alumni Assocition
Eejay’s
Gia Johnson
Police blotter tales from Wagoner and Graniteville
A sequence of local incidents includes a bike theft on Festival Trail Road in Wagoner, a 1 year old from Aiken stopped for weaving and found with marijuana, and a Gloverville woman whose tires were slashed after an argument. Burglary at Bath Mill yielded two air conditioning units. An elderly man was assaulted near Hampton Avenue. A keyboard was stolen from Camellia Street. Updated 6/3/98.
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Festival Trail Road
Wagoner
Aiken
Hampton Avenue
Kershaw Street
Gloverville
Durden Lane
Bath Mill
West Avenue
Graniteville
Lincoln Avenue
Camellia Street
Wagener Deaf Student Johnnie Mae Garvin Stars in Ballet Recital
Johnnie Mae Garvin, 12, a deaf student at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, danced with classmates in a ballet recital themed Love in Any Language. The program referenced Sandi Patty and Heather Whitestone, both deaf, in a tribute section. Daughter of Diane Wise.
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Wagener
Johnnie Mae Garvin
S.C. School For the Deaf and Blind
Sandi Patty
Heather Whitestone
Johnnie Mae
Diane Wise
Wackenhut earns record DOE rating at Savannah River Site
Wackenhut Services Inc. has earned a record performance rating from the Department of Energy for Oct 1 1997 through Mar 31 1998 at the Savannah River Site. The 97 out of 100 score earns a 1.9 million award fee and marks the fourth straight outstanding rating.
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Wackenhut Services Inc
Savannah River
Department of Energy
DOE
SRS
Wackenhut
SRS funding may assure job security
The Savannah River Site could receive 1.46 billion dollars through Senator Hollings efforts for the 1999 fiscal year. The funding backs DOE studies on a tritium accelerator, upgrades to the Defense Waste Processing Facility, and infrastructure at SRS. Thurmond emphasized securing new missions for SRS to maintain a strong nuclear deterrent.
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Savannah River
Ernest F
Pritz) Hollings
D-S.c
Hollings
SRS
Senatenergy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee
Department of Energy
Senate Appropriations Committee
Greg Rudy
Strom Thurmond
S.C
United States
Thurmond
HIV disclosure law cited in Georgia case mirrored in South Carolina
A North Augusta woman charged with felony reckless conduct in Augusta for not telling a sexual partner she had HIV faces a similar charge in South Carolina where exposure to HIV is a felony with up to a $5,000 fine or 10 years in prison. The Georgia case involved Amy Marie Johnson, 26, who disclosed after intercourse after believing it was the partner’s responsibility to know and to use protection. The couple, coworkers, then returned to the man’s apartment for consensual sex. she informed him afterward and he contacted police.
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North Augusta
Augusta
South Carolina
Georgia
Amy Marie Johnson
Students cook lunch for staff at Chukker Creek Elementary
Laura Webster's first to second graders prepared a free lunch for faculty and staff with a menu choice of pepperoni or cheese pizza along with salad cookies tea and lemonade. The class learned money handling grocery shopping and cooking through a Westinghouse grant during the school year.
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Laura Webster
Chukker Creek
Westinghouse
Rashawn Isaac
Rashawn
Arts Center Seeks Good Junk For Rummage Sale
The Aiken Center for the Arts invites donations labeled good junk for a fund raising rummage sale at 122 Laurens St. SW Aiken. The sale runs Friday noon to 4 30 and Saturday 9 to 4 30 with items including jewelry books frames clothing toys a bicycle paintings and tools. Donations accepted today 10 to 3 30 and all proceeds support the arts center. Call 641 9004 for details.
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Aiken Center For the Arts
Laurens St
Aiken
Michael Vinella
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Greg Ryberg
Depot Food Stores
Dick Frushour
Aiken County
Habitat For Humanity
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Ryberg
Depot Food Store
Lexington- Columbia
Greenville-Spartanburg
By Thomas Smith
Sharon Taylor
Danny Minolfo
Arts Center
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