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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 2007
Page
3
A letter stresses that subdivision behind 10 Downing Avenue will alter the city’s character. The writer scolds the Board of Zoning Appeals for granting variances to build behind one of Aiken’s oldest houses.
A commentator asserts that many immigrants arrived legally, citing his father who entered via Ellis Island, worked diligently, and raised a family with honor and dignity, contrasting with the notion that all immigrants migrate illegally.
Thank you to the Good Samaritan who helped when a motorcyclist laid it down near his driveway on Whiskey Road around 9:30 to 10 pm. Readers are invited to send TalkBack messages to the Aiken Standard with brief constructive comments.
The Aiken Standard corrects a photo on page 3A mislabeled as a submitted photo. The image was taken by staff reporter Ben Baugh. The paper also corrects page 30 Saturday June 23 edition with Robyn Scott’s title clarification. she is the reigning Miss Junior Teen SC American Queen 2007.
A fragmented OCR item shows lottery numbers and postal notices from the Aiken Standard. It mentions Evening 052-8 and cash draw numbers 7-7-64, alongside postal box details and address lines for Aiken.
Stephanie Adams, Wagener resident and single mother of three, enrolled at USC Aiken in 2004 after divorce and then worked eight hours a day while studying four hours. Now a senior sociology major with a 3.875 GPA, she will graduate in December and share the Eddie and Lillian Ross Memorial Scholarship with Erica Reed. Adams aims to motivate her children and pursue a master's degree, using her experience to support other young single parents.
James Newman, who opened the White Midget Restaurant in 1951, reflects on North Augusta’s early dining scene. He notes pioneering a drive-through with Biddy Banquet and claims offering 19-cent hamburgers before national chains entered Augusta. Now 45, he also helps run Newman's BBQ in Clearwater.
Sculptor and horsewoman Beverly Zimmer, famed for meticulous detail in jewelry and bronze works, balances Aiken and Florida fashioning life size horse busts Question and Curious. Her work, including two busts at Gallery Biba, links sculpture with dressage, while she shifts from jewelry to functional pottery with Equine Divine and pursues selling her jewelry business.
Readers in Aiken are invited to send pictures of themselves or their children as clowns for a chance to win circus tickets. The winning photo will be printed the day before the Barnum and Bailey show opens, with entries sent to com or 326 Rutland Drive, Aiken 29801.
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