Fire House Party Recalls Pleasures at Rye Patch
The Aiken Department of Public Safety hosted a Fire House Party at Rye Patch with 300 attendees enjoying lunch by Up Your Alley and entertainment by Kathy Bradley and Chet Williamson The Fabulous Porkskins. Visitors toured old fire engines and watched hands on firefighting contests led by Pete Fromer.
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Rye Patch
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Up Your Alley
Kathy Bradley
Chet Williamson
Avi Kolton
Public Safety Department
Carroll Busbee
Public Safety
Pete Fromer
Black contributions to Aiken told during pageant preshow
Two speakers Earnestine Gadsen and Dr. Edward B. Williams outlined the role of black history and business in Aiken. Gadsen traced education from the Schofield School started by Martha Schofield in 1868 to later schools. Williams described black entrepreneurs and workers in the winter colony era and noted Jackson-Brooks Funeral Home as enduring.
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Aiken
Earnestine Gadsen
Edward B. Williams
Ms. Gadsen
Aiken County
Gadsen
Deacon
Frank Ernest Weaver
Benedict College
Columbia
S.C. State College
Orangeburg
Dr. Williams
Williams
Morehouse College
Atlanta University
Columbia University
Schofield High School
Moorere College
Industries salute Aiken 150th anniversary at Houndslake
The Industries of Aiken and Aiken County hosted a 150th anniversary tribute at Houndslake Country Club with a dinner and music. A symbolic check presented to Mayor H Odell Weeks supported Sesquicentennial operating capital moving a county building to the library and museum grounds and city entrance improvements. Over 120 corporate attendees from Airco Industrial Gases Beecham Graniteville Company DuPont Owens Corning Fiberglas and more contributed funds.
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Aiken
Aiken County
Houndslake Country Club
John Ellis
Sesquicentennial Operating Capital
Jerry Johnson
Sesquicentennial
H. Odell Weeks
Ellis
Jerry
Johnson
John
H Odell
Weeks
Agriculture Day Offers Return To County Roots
The Agriculture Day Committee invites Aiken residents to explore their heritage with a Friday morning tour from 9:30 to 11:30 starting at the Agriculture Day Festivity Center near Consolidated Implement on Old Wagoner Road. The trip includes stops at a horse breeding farm and a traditional row crop beef cattle operation with transportation provided. Reservations are due by noon tomorrow via Sesquicentennial Headquarters at 649-6618, or call Allen F. Bayles at 649-6671 for details.
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Agriculture Day Committee
Aiken
Agriculture Day
Consolidated Implement Company
Old Wagener Road
Park Avenue
Sesquicentennial Headquarters
Allen F. Bayles
Sesquicentennial Games Coordinated by Scout Troop 121
Boy Scout Troop 121 from St Johns United Methodist Church hosts Sesquicentennial Games on May 9 from 4 to 6 pm at H Odell Weeks Activities Center. Children 3 to 12 may play hopscotch marbles bindmans bluff and hoop roll with all supplies provided. Admission is free.
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St. Johns United Methodist Church
H. Odell Weeks Activites Center
Proposal asks to fire Brooks in Columbia
A resolution to fire Woody Brooks, director of the Division of Local Government Affairs, was sent to a House committee after lawmakers blocked immediate action. Rep. Moffatt Burriss plans to move the issue to the Invitations and Memorial Resolutions Committee and push for a House floor vote or, failing that, seek a Senate path to remove an age exemption in the state budget. Brooks oversees about 5 million dollars in annual government grants.
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Columbia
State Budget and Control Board
Woody Brooks
House
Moffatt Burriss
R-Richland
Burriss
Brooks
Marker Presented For Transit Of Venus Ceremony At Weems
The original limestone Transit of Venus marker from 1882 in Aiken was presented to USCA Chancellor Dr. Robert Alexander by John W. Weems Jr. in a 3:30 p.m. ceremony. Weems noted German observers visited Aiken. the transit helps calculate Earth sun distance and detailed historical attempts since 1639, with Cook’s 88 million mile estimate, the marker to be stored in Gregg Granitteville Library foyer until the science building is built.
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Aiken
USCA
Robert Alexander
John W. Weems Jr
Weems
Venus
Capt
Cook
Tahiti
Sesquicentennial Volunteers Help Mark Historic Anniversary
Public Safety officer Pete Frommer staged a two location appearance in a single cast photo for Hoofbeats Through History while nurses at Aiken Community Hospital joined in period dress. Walking Tours guide sheets available at headquarters detail a downtown historical path with over 30 participating merchants. windows displays stay through May 12.
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Pete Frommer
Frommer
Aiken Community Hospital
Pat Bean
Rent Bill Clears Senate on Consumer Protections
State Consumer Advocate Steve Hamm says he has House support to pass a Senate-approved rent-to-own appliance bill. The measure cleared the Senate Tuesday by voice vote after Sen. John Lindsay pledged a compromise acceptable to Hamm and industry representatives.
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Columbia
Steve Hamm
House
Senate
John Lindsay
Hamm
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Schofield
Hopeland Singers
Airco Industrial Gases
Beecham Products
Beloit Manhattan
Chivas Products Ltd
FMC Comp Gentry Instruments Inc
Gorham Bronze Textron
Harvey Hubble
Metal
Therm-O-Disc
Ryder Machine
Riegel Textile
the Aiken Standard
DuPont
Kimnerbly-Clark
United Merchants and Manufacturers
Graniteville Company
Pepperidge Farm
Owens-Corning Fiberglas
Aiken Sesquicentennial
Aiken Area Industries
Boy Scout
John Weems
Frederick Carl
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