North Augusta Planner Rogers resigns to join new center
Wayne Rogers, director of North Augusta Community Development and Planning, will resign effective June 14 to join the Business Assistance Network in the new 8 million dollar Business Technology Center. He helped plan annexations and has led the peers division since 1981.
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North Augusta
Wayne Rogers
New Business and Technology Center
Rogers
Charles Martin
Business Assistance Network
Hillto Drive-In
Sth Street Bridge
Georgia State University
Aiken Weather Sees Heat Wave and Humid Skies
The forecast calls for hot and humid conditions with a tomorrow high in the 90s. Tonight will be fair with lows in the 60s and light variable winds. South winds 5 to 10 mph tomorrow as the day turns partly cloudy.
ANN PALAZZO TO HOST ROCK AWAY REVUE LUNCHEON
ANN PALAZZO will host a luncheon for the Rock-Away Revue, a senior citizens group from New York City. The event honors area seniors at Schofield Middle School with a 6 30 p m performance.
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Ann Palazzo
New York City
Schofield Middle School
CSRA
Citizens Speak At EIS Meeting On SRP Waste
Interested groups voiced views on the Savannah River Plant waste management EIS aimed at hazardous low level radioactive and mixed wastes. Beatrice Jones questioned cost accounting of health effects and life value, and criticized NUS Corp’s $10.7 million three year contract with DOE. Frances Hart urged adherence to the federal water pollution act and state laws for groundwater protection and monitoring.
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Savannah River
DOE
Beatrice D. Jones
Columbia
EIS
South Carolina
Department of Health and Environmental Control
Philadelphia MOVE siege ends with helicopter attack and arson
Police hunted armed MOVE members after a siege ended when a police helicopter bombed their Philadelphia headquarters. The blast sparked a fire destroying up to 60 houses and leaving the area as a war zone. Detectives said officers surrounded the row house and evacuated about 200 residents as warrants were issued for four MOVE members.
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Philadelphia
MOVE
Thomas McCormick
Ter
al Lewis
Aiken Sesquicentennial ends year of hard work
A year of planning and effort culminated in a ten day Sesquicentennial Celebration ending Sunday. The organizing committee evolved into Aiken Sesquicentennial Inc, led by Jerry R. Johnson, contracting the Rogers Company for coordination and paying $17 765 plus $1 800 for a nine week director’s living expenses. The nonprofit plans to wind down by September 30 and hopes to finish in the black with gala events and a commemorative history book.
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John B. Rogers Company
Rogers Company
Roland Windham
Aiken Sesquicentennial Inc
Jerry R. Johnson
Sesquicentennial Inc
H.W. Thurlow
Johnson
Rose Hill to serve as Anglican Catholic Diocesan HQ
The Rose Hill house in Aiken will become the Diocesan headquarters for the Anglican Catholic Church of the South under Rt. Rev. Tillman B. Williams. The estate once part of Miss Claudia Lea Phelps, who died in 1984, hosts the Rose Hill Arts Center and a 1974 National Register listing. An auction at Chariton Hall Galleries in Columbia will offer items from the Phelps Estate. Williams, a former Navy veteran and Augustinian monk, will relocate to Rose Hill and may establish a priory on site.
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Tillman B. Williams
Order of Saint Augustine
Garden Club of
South Carolina
Rose Hill
Miss Phelps
Chariton Hall
Gervais St
Columbia
Williams
Harrisburg
Lake Worth
Fla
South
Oxford Center For Learning
Gettysburg College
Wittenberg University
General Theological Seminary
New York
Florida
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Mary Anne Browder
By Phil Jones
Claudia Lea Phelps
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