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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 03, 2001
Page
2
City of Aiken reveals its Youth Court through two mock trials held Wednesday. About 24 middle and high school participants act as advocates clerks and judges while discussions stressed accountability and constructive alternatives to family court.
The 17th annual Coors Light Lobster Races fundraiser kicked off with a party at the Home Depot lot. Local charities Aiken County Special Olympics Tri Development Center and Hitchcock Rehabilitation Center each received 3333 dollars. The event at the Newberry Festival Site begins Friday at 5 30 p.m. with 13 races and a Band of Oz performance. Sponsors include Home Depot Coors Light Carolina First Bank and WBBQ.
Harold D. Nichols a 57 year old Vietnam veteran who barricaded himself in a North Augusta home during a police standoff will not face jail. The Aiken Solicitor agreed to hold charges in abeyance while Nichols remains under VA doctors care for PTSD. A circuit judge allowed continued medical supervision after a two hour standoff with police in 1999 related to threats against South Carolina House Speaker David Wilkins.
Leaders from around Aiken County gathered for a breakfast meeting to back a large fund raising effort by Public Education Partners to aid local schools. The drive targets 425000 annually for four years totaling 1700000, with pledges from Bridgestone Firestone South Carolina and Aiken Regional Medical Centers, plus donations from Dr Cindy Besson and other civic figures.
DOE assistant manager Sachiko McAlhany said rising costs may force the department to drop plans to vitrify about 3,500 gallons of americium and curium waste at the Savannah River Site. The project, forecast at 129 million dollars, could rise by 68 million by contractor Westinghouse Savannah River Co. The glass would have gone to Oak Ridge National Laboratory for cancer research, which declined due to budget concerns.
Joseph Palmer, 34, a Saluda County funeral director, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to repay over $200,000 after pleading guilty to 43 counts of breach of trust with fraudulent pre-need burial contract ties. Prosecutor Donnie Myers said Palmer took funds from elderly clients including his grandmother and a man who died last week, using a cocaine addiction as a defense. Victims numbering over 40 spoke, three of whom have died since the scheme began in May 1991, while Margie Minick lamented the loss of her father Leonard Dozier, who paid Palmer over $10,000 in 1996 for prepaid funeral expenses.
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