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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1987
Page
11
The Development Committee meets at 5 p.m. followed by an Administrative Committee at 6 p.m. and a budget session at 7 p.m. County Administrator W Scott Barnes will present the expenditure side. Location is the County Council Building 736 Richland Ave W in Aiken.
A special town meeting will be held tomorrow at 7 p.m. on Main Street in New Ellenton to discuss commissioning an engineering study of the town sewer system. The study would estimate installation costs and required work.
Edgefield County Council will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Edgefield County Courthouse to take a third reading of the 1987 1988 budget on the agenda.
An attempted break-in at Schofield Elementary School was reported by the Aiken Department of Public Safety. Officers chased a suspicious person who fled. a broken mop handle used to pry a door was found. Windows were found open but no damage or items missing.
Planning Commission reports on a 16 acre Dibble Road rezoning request between Dibble Road and the Southern Railway east of Rhone Drive with protesters at the May 12 meeting. First reading of the fiscal year 1987 88 budget ordinance is scheduled. Meeting set for 7 30 p.m. in City Council chambers Municipal Building Park Avenue.
The Greater North Augusta Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular monthly breakfast at 7 30 a m Wednesday at the North Augusta Community Center. Dennis Rogers director of the Economic Enterprise Institute at USC Aiken will speak.
The Sun day edition corrects an omission in the Aiken High School award winners list. William Arthur Osborne received the Army Scholar Athlete Award. The Aiken Standard regrets the error.
The Aiken County Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. at South Aiken High School to honor academic achievement and retirees. Agenda items include a 1987-88 district testing plan, second readings on student conduct revisions and class rankings, a lease-to-purchase proposal for word processing equipment, and an April financial report with personnel and summer program staffing updates.
The Pickens-Salley House from Edgefield County will be relocated in three sections to USC Aiken 101 Gregg Ave. The move hinges on $200000 fundraising with costs estimated at 55000 for moving and 100000 for restoration plus 45000 for finishing. Oswalt House Movers contracted for the move. Bolton Group leads the project with USCA involvement.
The Pickens Salley House built in 1829 by Francis W. Pickens and later moved to Aiken is preserved as a historic site. The university plans to create an endowment funded by donations and sales, preserving artifacts and honoring the Pickens and Salley families. The Bolton Group donated the property to the USC Educational Foundation via the Aiken Partnership.
William R. Smith partner in the Body Talk spa in Aiken and Jerry Jerome director of Family Fitness Sports Center in Augusta were named in multi-state fraud indictments. Smith faces 31 New Mexico counts tied to a Santa Fe spa and extradition issues loom. Jerome faces charges over spa operations in Connecticut and Charleston amid overlapping disputes and past arrests.
Gov. Carroll Campbell backs his auto insurance reform bill as a full House debate looms, boosting hopes for passage this year. Proponents cite its moderation of future rate increases and a letter campaign plus targeted meetings that drew lawmakers into the discussion.
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