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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 03, 2010
Page
3
A terse editorial calls for sobriety over flash in national style urging practical progress over showy fashion. It argues that excessive flash in leadership and public life distracts from meaningful policy and results. The piece stresses pragmatism and accountability.
A reader complains about deteriorating streets in South Carolina and especially Aiken, urging repairs amid pothole hazards. The letter criticizes state action, police raids on bait shops with video poker, and calls for religious liberty in line with constitutional principles. The writer defends teachers and stresses freedom from religious persecution.
Readers urge changing course on federal deficits and taxation. The letter criticizes President Obama for spending and calls for tax policy changes while inviting public comments via the Aiken Standard TalkBack line and email. Names may be withheld and submissions edited for space.
The Links organization and the City of Aiken sponsored a county wide art contest drawing 329 entries from 11 schools. The event moved to Schofield Middle School due to weather with strong attendance and praise for judging. Aiken High sophomore Rashad Heyward entered a jaguar portrait titled Silent Kill.
Winners across two dimensional and three dimensional art categories include high school teams from Aiken and North Augusta and middle school students from Aiken and New Ellenton. Notable names include Matthew Berry Ashley Hood Kelly Cercy Cait Moreland Alyssa Coppock Sydney Beckner Emmy Judd Zack Glave Miguel Carradheo and Yuma Ortiz.
The notice provides newsroom and editor contact numbers, submission emails, and delivery support hours. It lists managing editor Michael Gibbons and other staff contacts, plus subscription rates, delivery times, and late 2010 Sunday Plus delivery dates.
About 300 USC Aiken seniors qualify for graduation exercises at the Convocation Center on Thursday at 7 p.m. Dr. Nils Diaz will give the commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate. Also honored is artist Jim Harrison of Denmark for his decades of work and state recognition. Michelle Killian will deliver remarks for the class of 2010 after earning summa cum laude in chemistry.
Aiken Design Review Board on May 4 at 214 Park Ave Room 204 530 pm reviews new matrix for downtown and old Aiken districts. Aiken County Council at 736 Richland Ave 700 pm holds public hearings on Greenway Energy LLC lease for Center for Hydrogen Research and other items including mobile home regulations and wireless facility height rules.
A May feature in Aiken highlights discretion as the city character trait. Georgia Lottery results list Sunday and Saturday drawings with Cash 3 and Cash 4 Midday and Evening numbers, plus Fantasy 5 and Win for Life numbers and a Free Ball.
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