High School Adopts D A R E Program Amid City Violence
South Aiken High School initiates the D A R E program with assistance from Bob Best of the Aiken Public Safety Department. The first high school D A R E program on the East Coast focuses on drugs alcohol and violence with role play to prevent confrontations. Students simulate conflicts then learn halfway responses and apologies to avoid escalation.
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Los Angeles
Reid Wightman
Mike Hicks
South Aiken High School
Bob Best
Aiken Department of Public Safety
South Carolina
Virginia
Besley
Aiken
South Aiken High
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L A Riots Enter a New Phase as Troops Move In
Los Angeles faced looting arson and street violence despite a dusk to dawn curfew. Police reported no curfew arrests as bands roamed Hollywood Koreatown Westwood and the San Fernando Valley. Guardsmen in Humvees patrolled amid gunfire near a Koreatown arcade and a guard was killed.
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Los Angeles
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Holly ‘Wood
Koreatown
Westwood
San Fernando Valley
Steve Gates
South Central
Phil Hamm
Aiken city council weighs budget with fees and expansions
The proposed budget for the fiscal year ending June 30 shows general fund revenues of 13.57 million and utility funds of 8.23 million, with no millage rate increase. It outlines 1.2 million for a recreation complex project, possible 22 million Weeks Center expansion, and stormwater utility fees raising about 427,000 next year. City Manager Steven T. Thompson defends user fees as fair to citizens.
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Aiken
Steven T. Thompson
Palmetto CableVision
Thompson
General Fund
Aiken Mile Track
City Hong
Banks Mill
Pine Log Roads
1.C. Weeks Center
Eubanks
Park Avenue
Laurens Street
Richland Avenue
Ed Emerson to Sign Prints at Belk-Aiken Mall
Charleston artist Ed Emerson known for Charleston scenes will sign prints this Saturday at Belk Aiken Mall. Buy a framed print of equal size and receive a free unframed signed print, a Mother's Day gift idea. Emerson, a Wake Forest and Yale divinity graduate and Navy chaplain, settled in Charleston after a varied career.
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Muriel
America
Belk-Aiken Mall
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Emerson Prints Charm Charleston Scene in Watercolor
Emerson’s watercolor works capture historic Charleston by the sea with grace and warmth. His pieces are shown in galleries across the Southeast and in homes in all 50 states and abroad.
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Augusta
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Saad
Gladys McGee
Mattie C. Hall Health Care Center
National HealthCorp L.P
Gladys
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