New Aiken Bloodhound Team Receives New Transport Vehicle
The Aiken Bloodhound Team, a joint effort of Aiken Public Safety North Augusta DPS and the Aiken County Sheriff, acquires a 1993 GMC Suburban as vehicle two. The three agencies fund and outfit the dog wagon with lights sirens and radios to shuttle two dogs per call and plan adding two more personnel by fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Hunt
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Aiken
Public Safety
North Augusta
Hunt
Edgefield County Sheriff's Department
Edgefield County
Adell Dobey
Aiken Bloodhound
Aiken County
Pete Frommer
Vent Les
Diploma Day Marks ATC Graduates in Aiken Commencement
ATC held commencement for hundreds of spring graduates at Aiken Technical College. Joy Martin and Ava Victoria Mason, both in human services, received degrees while Ernest A. Finney Jr former SC Supreme Court chief justice delivered a speech urging reverence for past sacrifices and rejection of racism and fanaticism. Theresa Turner, a computer science and business programming graduate, aims for work in Alaska and praised the college for supporting her dyslexia. Philip Butler of Aiken graduated in machine technology and anticipated a computer related job amid campus growth and enhanced student services.
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Aiken ‘Technical College
Aiken
Joy Martin
Ava Victoria ‘Mason
Ava
Ernest A. Finney Jr
S.C. Supreme Court
Theresa Turner
Cincinnati
Alaska
Philip Butler
ATC
Local 8 and 6 year old win in Reading Rainbow contest
SCETV honored home schooled brothers Brandon and Sheldon Poole for entries in the Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest. Brandon, 8, won first place in third grade with Getting out of a Jam with Jelly, while Sheldon, 6, earned honorable mention for his cowboy and horse story The Cowboy and the Horse.
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Smart Cat
SCETV
Aiken
Brandon
Sheldon Poole
Reading Rainbow
Sheldon
Patti Meredith
Jelly
Cowboy
Stephanie Poole
Meredith
Scott Wests
Smartcat
ETV
Brandon Poole
Fights, crowds and assaults spark Friday disturbance in Aiken
Police respond to multiple Friday night fights at TNT Bar on Richland Avenue, with a 200 plus onlooker crowd. Donald Gifford Jr. 18 of Walker Avenue New Ellenton was assaulted early, sustaining a head injury and memory loss. Officers cleared scenes at a liquor store disturbance and the emergency room.
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TNT
Richland Avenue
Department of Public Safety
Donald Gifford Jr
Walker Avenue
New Ellenton
Gifford
ACTS Names New Board for Community Service
In 1986 ACTS began with 16 Aiken churches and now a 20 member board with a six figure budget guides its work. New director slate includes Rev Alfred Holmes Rev Beth Barkau Robin Widener James Schumpert Sandy Bartlett Bill Collins Jack Hamrich James Marvin Annette Michaels Kay Miller Pat Pallen Don Shires Dennis Simmons and Tom Williamson. The board met under President Father Howard Hess at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church to review policies, volunteer training and community outreach as the organization enters a new phase of service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken
Howard Hess
St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church
Hess
Harriet Murray
Regina Potentis
Aiken County
Bob Alexander
USC Aiken
Vicki Bukovitz
United Way
Betty Christensen
ACTS
Alfred Holmes
Mt. Anna Baptist Church
Beth Barkau
Robin Widener
James Schumpert
Sandy Bartlett
Bill Collins
Jack Hamrich
James Marvin
Annette Michaels
Kay Miller
Pat Pallen
Don Shires
Dennis ‘Simmons
Tom Williamson
Pat Bisscop
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Howard Sellers
Wetherington
Scott Webster
Lee Wetherington
Tex
Atc’s
Bill Benson
Jennifer Lee Duches
Marilyn Jean Greggs
Jim Schmidt
Alt Nose
Fred Feekart
Marilyn Winn
al Jennings
Brian Eberhard
Floyd & Greene
Floyd@ Greene
Centre South
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