March for Jesus event planned at Odell Weeks Center
A nondenominational March for Jesus is set for Saturday at the Odell Weeks Activities Center from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. A 2.5 mile walk along Two Notch Road Palm Drive and Maple Drive will be followed by prayer entertainment meals fellowship and music. The event is part of a worldwide annual celebration. For more information call 652-6140. Mental Health Center board to meet in June at 5330 p.m.
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Maple Drive
Aiken
Mental Health Center Board
Aiken-Barnwell Mental Health Center Board of Directors
Aiken-Barnwell Mental Health Center
Police blotter reports in Aiken with gun threat and thefts
Aiken residents report incidents including a red light pursuit after a man in a motorcycle was threatened by a woman in an Escort who produced a gun. Police also arrest a man stopped for false ID on York and Hampton, find a gun turned in by a mother, report a burglary attempt, and note a bike and a four wheeler stolen on Glover Street.
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Gregg
York Street
Hampton Avenue
Greengate Circle
Chalkbed Road
Batesbury
Sherif
Glover Street
Children’s Place surpasses goal at celebrity waiter event
Peggy Ford, executive director, said the fundraiser raised 18 707 10 dollars from tips and sponsorships on Monday, surpassing the 25 000 goal for the Children’s Place thanks to supporters and volunteers.
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Sage
Peggy Ford
School attack suit settled at Aiken County Board of Education
Aiken High School student Danielle Daniels and her parents settled a 1997 lawsuit against the Aiken County Board of Education over a May 1996 attack. The plaintiffs alleged negligence for lacking protective measures despite a violent history of the attacker. Terms were undisclosed.
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Aiken County Board of Education
Lloyd Daniels
Connie
Danielle
Columbia
Heather Glover
Space program at USCA this weekend with Larry Cat in Space
DuPont Planetarium on USC Aiken campus invites families to view Larry Cat in Space at 7 pm and More than Meets the Eye at 8 pm on Friday and Saturday. The shows offer a cat’s eye view of the Moon, backyard astronomy, space travel, and how to identify constellations nebulae and galaxies. Admission is 4 for adults, 3 for seniors, 2 for K 12 students, and 1 for USCA students. call 641 3313 for details.
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DuPont Planetarium
USC Aiken
Larry Cat
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Subscribe and contact extensions for newsroom tips
Switchboard provides numbers to subscribe and share story ideas. Editors can be reached at 648 2311 with extensions 219 for Local News 218 for Features and 220 for Sports. Public access lines include 649 5315 for subscriptions and idea submissions.
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Aiken
Scott B. Hunter
Hotter summer ahead warns state climatologist
State climatologist Mike Helfert says Columbia region may face a hotter and stormier season due to global warming. He expects temperatures a degree or more above normal and about double the hurricanes, with easterly waves forming tropical systems and about one in ten becoming hurricanes.
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Mike Helfert
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Land and Water Advisory Committee
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Senegal
Gulf of New Guinea
Atlantic Basin
Atlantic
South Carolina
Abstinence Workshop Planned for June in Area
Heritage Community Services hosts speaker Patricia Funderbark Ware to promote abstinence in the African American community. The local session is set for Sunday June 13 from 2 to 6 pm with a location pending. Ware leads the Preserving Family Well Being Foundation and is a noted teen pregnancy and HIV AIDS prevention advocate and trainer. For information call (706) 72-7872.
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A Speer
Patricia Funderbark Ware
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