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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1986
Page
15
Aiken County government offices and the Aiken County Public Library will be closed tomorrow and in observance of Good Friday. North Augusta city offices will also close. emergency services remain staffed. The U.S. Postal Service maintains normal windows and delivery. banks stay open.
Sam and Mary Schofield found a card attached to a balloon about 34 miles west of Aiken near Addie Agnes Corbett's pond. Lucy Scott wrote the message during a weekly reader class at Sylvania Elementary in Sylvan ia Ga. The card urged sending messages in envelopes with name address phone and finding city state.
Cleanup continues in Bath where about 120 drums contain toxic chemicals. HAZTECH of Atlanta began moving the chemicals to a secure county site under EPA Region 4. Methlyene chloride found among the drums poses fire corrosive or reactive risks. EPA and DHEC officials discuss site action and potential Sumter County disposal while EPA Superfund money funds the effort.
The South Carolina Senate passed a resolution by Sen. Ryan Shealy praising Congress for funding a robust defense amid the U.S. Libya confrontation in the Gulf of Sidra. It lauds lawmakers for supporting necessary appropriations as missiles and naval power clashed with Khadafy forces in the South Mediterranean.
Jackson town council members Jean Collier and Bill Good may vote on a business license ordinance after the South Carolina Ethics Commission reversed an earlier decision. Mayor Hoyt Dunfieth said a public hearing is set for 7 p.m. next Tuesday at Jackson Middle School with a final vote tentatively pushed past July 1.
A Wagener man, Matthew Day, 25, was found guilty yesterday of sexually assaulting two boys aged 1 and 3. He was sentenced to 10 years on the first degree count and 30 years on the second, to be served concurrently with 10 years in jail and five years probation. The judge said the maximum is 30 years per count. The case featured testimony of the boys’ mother and a physician describing tears in the rectums, indicating penetration.
Aiken woman Ruby Lundy was found guilty by a 10-woman jury after 30 minutes of deliberation of aggravated assault and battery for whipping a foster child with an extension cord. She received eight years in prison, suspended after 33 months with four years probation. The judge ordered probation conditions and DSS supervision.
Aiken County Councilman J Michael Toole 30 filed with the Democratic Party to seek re election for District 5. Republican Eugene A Duckett of Belvedere also filed to run for the same district. Toole lives in Belvedere and works at the Savannah River Plant in reactor operations. He chairs and serves on several county and national safety and public safety committees and belongs to local and national organizations.
CBS on track interviewer Charlsie Cantey covers horse races from horseback while in Aiken on her way to Tampa to report for a CBS connect. She notes her long career, the challenge of on track interviews, and plans to leave CBS to work the Triple Crown for ABC.
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