Aiken High School Hosts Youth History Forum
The Sesquicentennial Student Committee at Aiken High presents a Youth History Forum aired on WAKN this week. Participants include Stan Perry Lynn Bailey Jody Socha senior class Kevin Kingery Anne Whitlock Seth Okeson junior class Tommy Ingram Lynn Giard Billy Osborne sophomore class Camille English Enid Blount Charles Rai.
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Aiken High School
AHS
WAKN
Stan Perry
Lynn Bailey
Jody Socha
Kevin Kingery
Anne Whitlock
Seth Okeson
Tommy Ingram
Lynn Giard
Billy Osborne
Camille English
Enid Blount
Charles Rai
Milton Levy offered reward for 1921 Aiken Institute graduation photo
Milton Levy of Silver Spring Maryland will donate 100 dollars to Aiken Elementary for anyone providing a copy of the 1921 Aiken Institute graduating class photo. Levy's late wife Sadie Polikoff won a gold medal in an Aiken Institute essay contest and was in the 1921 class. Contact Maria Taylor at Aiken Elementary with information. Shoes figure in Sesquicentennial event as Miss Robin Mee Han hosts.
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Milton Levy
Silver Spring
Aiken Elementary
Aiken Institute
Levy
Sadie Polikoff
Sesquicentennial festival features youth focused events in Aiken
Activities run May 9 to May 12 highlight Young American Day and American Day with tours, displays, fashion show, autographs, parades, farm demos, crafts and a moonlight dance. Notable venues include Kalmia Mall Hagood Stadium Odell Weeks and Aiken Technical College.
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Aiken
Aiken Celebrates Sesquicentennial With Weekend Events
Weekend activities wrap the celebration as Aiken hosts the Aiken Homestead Days Art and Crafts Show Strawberry Festival Barbeque and the Sesquicentennial Parade. Highlights include artists at work on Saturday and Sunday in the Park Ave area, a Sunday parade led by Sen. J. Strom Thurmond, and charity fundraisers across city venues.
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Aiken
Aiken Homestead
St. Thaddeus’ Episcopal Church
Park Ave
Laurens St. Fountain
Sen. J. Strom Thurmond
Hagood Stadium
Public Safety
Thoroughbred Hall of Fame
Roland Geddings
Kalmia Mall
Kalmia Plaza
Sesquicentennial
Post Office
Sesquicentennial Committee
Aiken Festival Agriculture Day Showcases Tours and Demos
Aiken Sesquicentennial Agriculture Day highlights farm tours starting 9:30 a.m. at the Festivity Center with visits to a horse breeding farm and a beef cattle operation. Demonstrations include weaving, meat preservation, rug making, soap, quilting, and blacksmithing. A moonlight sale, ethanol demo, and music precede the pageant and youth dance, with admission $1.50 in advance, $2 at door.
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Aiken
Consolidated Implement Co
Old Wagoner Road
Judith Rodrigues
Clinton Hallman
Tom Earle
Charles Gresham
Debby Gresham
Effie Simmons
Robin Glenn
Burnie Cragg
Mary Ann Thompson
Grandma
Aiken Community Hospital
Roland Geddings
Kalmia Plaza
Fred B. Christensen
Consolidated Implement
Aiken High
Hagood Stadium
South Aiken High School
Governor's School Mini Session Set at College of Charleston
Charleston the College of Charleston announces a pilot Governor's School Mini-Session for rising ninth graders this summer. The two week program July 7 to 20 offers advanced education in computer and physical sciences to students with exceptional academic achievement. Nominees are selected from eighth grade schools, with up to two per school, through a statewide screening process to choose 50 participants.
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Charleston
College of Charleston
South Carolina
Area One Advisory Council Meeting Tonight in Aiken
The Area One Advisory Council meets at South Aiken High School with a closed session at 5 30 p m and an open session at 7 p m The public is invited The meeting covers Area I schools including Aiken High South Aiken Kennedy Middle Schofield Middle Aiken Elementary East Aiken Laurens St Elementary Lever Millbrook North Aiken Oakwood Windsor Elementary
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Laurens St
Aiken Technicalee
Public Safety Building
George’s Funeral Home
Newberry St
American Legion Post No
Arimae Burrell
Air Force
Ronald E. House
Area One Advisory Council
Aiken
South Aiken High School
Area I
South Aiken
Kennedy
Schofield
East Aiken
Lever
Millbrook
North Aiken
Oakwood/Windsor
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Ford
Robin Meehan
Mary Cole
Ida Mae Holley
Aiken Technical College
Eejays and
Palmers Foods
Belk’s
Kalmia
Boy Scout Troop No
H. Odell Weeks Activities Center
Odell Weeks
Busy Beaver
Njrotc
Hagood
Chemical Company
Consolidated Implement Company Inc
Wagener Road
Consolidated Implement Co. Inc
Kalmin Mall
Burnie Cragg - Consolidated Implement Co. Inc
Amick Poultry Co
First Baptist Church
Laurens Street
Aiken County
Army
Navy
Marines
Kaimia
Park Avenue Park
American Legion Post
Newberry Street
George Funeral Home
St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church
Kailmin Mall
Sen Strom Thurmond
S.C
Park Avenue
Sesquicentennial Headquarters
Mary Anne Browder
By Phil Jones
Mimi Wiland
Carol Leyes
Lisa Weatherly
St. Thaddeus
Robbie Pitts
Old Wagener Road
Governor’s School
Dso
Hwy
East Yu
Judith Warner
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