Aiken County Events Highlight Local Festivals and Racing
Aiken County hosts a packed schedule with the Strawberry Festival at Mead Han and St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Pendleton Street and Richland Avenue, plus jet ski and 2002 Jet Ski Races at Langley Pond starting noon, and Hopelands Garden Summer Concert Series featuring the Evans High School Jazz Ensemble at 7 p.m. A new exhibit at the Aiken County Historical Museum showcases works by staff and volunteers. The “More Quilts” exhibit features five women—Carlyn Miles, Carolyn Tyler, Carolyn Gibbons, Elaine Profit, and Joyce Ross—showing varied quilt designs from animals to patriotic motifs.
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Mead Han Episcopal Day School
St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church
Pendleton Street
Richland Avenue
Speenswers
Langley Pond
Aiken County
Hopelands Garden
Evans High
Two elderly men die in separate vehicle crashes
Aiken physician Dr. Martin Zwerling, 76, died after a Nissan Xterra left Wire Road near Bacon Road. In Batesburg area, Gaston church camp volunteer Silmond V. Tucker, 75, was killed in a separate vehicle crash. Authorities investigate possible medical factors.
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Wire Road
Gaston
Batesburg
Aiken
Martin Zwerling
Wire and
Bacon
Silmond V.tucker
Relay for Life brings hundreds to South Aiken High
The Aiken American Cancer Society event drew hundreds for the Relay for Life at South Aiken High. Donna DeTroye led the night while her mother Rosalie Deragon traveled from Florida to support her daughter and the cause. Honorary co chairs Lynn Drinkwater and Kayla Moore helped honor survivors and victims as nearly five dozen teams planned to walk through dawn.
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Aiken American Cancer Society
Relay For Life
South Aiken High
Donna DeTroye
University of South Carolina Aiken
DeTroye
Rosalie Deragon
Florida
First Baptist
Lynn Drinkwater
Aiken
Kayla Moore
South Aiken
Paul Gerstenberger
Sophia
Lydia
Missing mother, family grieves as Mother's Day nears
Mary Alice Dixon, 86, hasn't been seen since March 20 near New Ellenton on US 278 at Highway 19. Her daughter Annie Dixon says the family has heard nothing and fears for her safety as Mother's Day approaches. Mary Alice is mother to five children and many grandchildren.
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Annie M. Dixon
Mary Alice Dixon
S.C. Highway 19
New Ellenton
Dixon
Aiken County
Annie
Annie Dixon
Thurmond amendment sets MOX facility schedule in NDAA
The Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously adopted Thurmond and Allard amendment to the 2008 NDAA. It requires a construction and operation schedule for a mixed-oxide fuel fabrication facility and plutonium removal if production proceeds. DOE must provide initial schedule progress reports and a disposition completion plan.
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Thurmond
Sen. Allard
R-Corp
Senate Armed Services Committee
Department of Energy
Allard
Savannah River
Jim Hodges
South Carolina
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Berry
Edward E. Bowersox
Lanny T. Cook
Noth Iniaantio
Fla
Willie Bee Moore
Akon
Roscope
Asahi Ryokuken
Lance Cpl
Kelley Hughes
S.C. Highway Patrol
Hughes
Zwerling
Saf
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Survivor
E Kayla Moore
and Lynn
United Against Cancer
Sen
Strom Thurmond
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