Summer drains local blood supplies across region
Summer toll hits blood stocks as vacations accidents and fewer drives hurt donations. Red Cross aims for 500 units daily to serve 54 hospitals while Shepeard Community Blood Center reports arrears to area hospitals. Factors include West Nile and SARS safety concerns plus new drive limitations. Donors can visit Aiken center at 950 Millbrook Ave open 12:30 to 7 pm Tue Thu. call 1 900 GIVE LIFE to schedule.
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Shepeard Community Blood Center
Lems
Nancy Szocinski
Shepeard
National Science Center
Fort Discovery
Augusta
Shepard
Barnwell
Edgefield
O’banion
Aiken
Millbrook Ave
Man gets 25 year term for mistreatment of six girls
Aiken jurors convict Frain on eight counts of improper acts on a child two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and one count of exposing private parts in a lascivious act The defendant must serve 65 percent of the 25 year sentence before parole and will face five years probation plus sex offender registry upon release The acts occurred over four years at sleepovers involving a girl in Frain's house and friends with eyewitness testimony in court
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Frain
Brenda Brisbin
Brisbin
Kang Jetcoats
Akenstandard
Red Hat Society Dames celebrate chapter anniversary in style
Eight women ages 50 plus, members of an Aiken Red Hat Society chapter, marked their first anniversary with a luncheon and strawberry colored wine. Founder Bobbie Ann Roberts notes the group’s continued fun and life, inspired by a Jenny Joseph poem.
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Red Hat Society
Dames
Bobbie ‘Ann Roberts
International Club
California
Sue Ellen Cooper
Jenny Joseph
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Red Hatters
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Aiken Technical College
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