Jobs For The Jobless aids Aiken County recovery effort
The Aiken Standard reports Ross receives two weeks of sheet tracking work through the Jobs For The Jobless program. The initiative, backed by the Aiken County Economic Recovery Committee and Job Service, aims to place unemployed residents in temporary tasks to ease hardship amid 12 percent county unemployment and textile cutbacks. Donations and funding decisions will shape its continuation through September.
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David Koss
Aiken
Ross
Aiken County
Jeff Spears
Jobs For the
Spears
Flags Fly High as Aiken County Honors July Fourth
Lloyd Olsen and his wife Crystal epitomize patriotism by flying the American flag daily and also displaying the Norwegian flag born in Norway. They have lived in Aiken for 31 years, with Lloyd retired from Du Pont after 37 years in design and construction.
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Aiken County
Lloyd and
Crystal Olsen
Norway
Lloyd
Aiken
du Pont
Lions Club
Salvation Army
First Baptist Church
Phil Jones
Jobs For The Jobless program aids Aiken recovery effort
The Aiken County Economic Recovery Committee sponsors the initiative with Job Service and the Aiken Standard to speed hiring after the recession. It invites money, jobs, or ideas to fund supervised projects and place workers, with forms available in the paper on Page 8B.
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Aiken County
The
Economic Recovery Committee
Job Service
Aiken Standard
South Carolina
Rudnick pushes Senate map change for Aiken area
Rep. Irene Rudnick advances a plan to move Jackson and New Ellenton into District 24. The measure, in conference, would reconfigure Aiken County districts and faces consideration July 27 as lawmakers reconvene.
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Jackson
New Ellenton
Aiken
Irene Rudnick
Rudnick
Senate
Aiken County
Lexington
Edgefield County
Aiken Lexington
Barnwell
Lexington County
Thomas Moore
D-Aiken County
U.S. District Court
House
L. Marion Gressette
Calhoun County
Wagener
Salley
South Carolina Unemployment Dips to 10.1 Percent in May
Statewide unemployment fell to 10.1 percent in May with 148 000 jobless, down from 150 000 in April. Aiken County’s rate declined from 12.5 to 11.9 percent, while textile jobs continued to lag as economists forecast limited post recession growth.
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Columbia
Employment Security Commission
Commission
Robert David
Aiken County
David
Richard Ellison
University of South Carolina
Ellison
South Carolina
Have You Heard and the 35 Million Laws in Motion
A stray collection of questions and anecdotes verses a 35 million laws claim by Senator Tommy Moore about enforcing the Ten Commandments. A Kwik Shop clerk Roslyn Widener helps a smoker with her own lighter. An Aiken couple travels from 82 to 103 degrees in Maine. The Laurens Street Philosopher cites silence as the School of Experience yell.
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Sen
Tommy Moore
Kwik Shop 100
Hampton and
York
Roslyn Widener
Roslyn
Aiken
Maine
Laurens Street
School of Experience
Pope Flies To Meet Walesa At Remote Mountain Resort
In Poland the pope flies by helicopter to Zakopane to meet Solidarity leader Lech Walesa after unscheduled talks with military ruler Gen Wojciech Jaruzelski at Krakow's Wawel Castle. Government spokesmen call the talks a deepening cooperation that may speed political evolution toward peace.
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Krakow
Poland
John Paul II
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Communist Party
Wojciech Jaruzekski
Wawel
Jerzy Urban
Urban
Zakopane
Tatra Mountains
Romeo Panciroli
Vatican
Rome
Walesa
Henryk Jankowski
Solidarity Union
John Paul
Panciroli
Franciszek Macharski
Stanislaw Dziwisz
Stanislaw Nagy
Lublin Catholic University
Adam Kubis
Theological Academy
Gdansk
Jaruzelski
Kings
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Jeffery P. Spears
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Pope
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