School board weighs 11 month contracts to save funds
Aiken County Board of Education explored trimming administrator contracts from 12 to 11 months as a potential budget cut if state cuts hit next year. Superintendent Linda Eldridge noted $134000 in possible savings already identified, with $500000 cut from district office staff and vacancies held.
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Blood supply at risk as travel bans shrink donor pool
Widespread disease fears hit the blood supply with shortages coast to coast. Restrictions bar donors who spent time in England Scotland Portugal and Romania amid concerns over mad cow disease and CJD. Aiken Community Blood Center and the American Red Cross in Aiken urge donations to offset the decline.
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Rock and Roll Up Your Sleeves Blood Drive at USC Aiken
Youth oriented blood drive hosted by the Shepeard Aiken Community Blood Center at USC Aiken Student Activity Center gym from 3 to 9 pm Saturday invites donors 17 and older with free T shirts. Pizza Hut provides free pizza and door prizes. bring a friend if you cannot donate.
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One Stop Career Center keeps Aiken working in SC
Earl Simmons praises Aiken One Stop Career Center at 1571 Richland Avenue as a premier program linking businesses, education, and community to build a stronger workforce. The center offers a resource hub with computers and a soon to open learning lab for resumes, career research, typing, software training, and job matching. The facility emphasizes cross training and unemployment services plus referrals to other agencies, with services ranging from interview spaces to an electronic employer employee match system. The Aiken Sunrise Rotary meets Thursdays at 7 00 a.m. at Houndslake Country Club.
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Aiken Regional Nurses Win State Palmetto Gold Awards
Two Aiken Regional Medical Center nurses Marilyn Swanson and Dottie Turner received the Palmetto Gold Award from the South Carolina Nurses Foundation for outstanding nursing. Turner emphasizes continuing high care and mentoring new nurses, while Swanson notes her Stroke and Gastric Bypass Support Group initiatives and 22 years as a nurse.
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Marilyn Swanson
Dottie Turner
South Carolina Nurses Foundation
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