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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 25, 2009
Page
1
The Aiken Standard presents a patriotic video honoring Aiken’s fallen heroes for Memorial Day. View the segment on www.aikenstandard.com under Video and attend today’s Memorial Day ceremony at 7A.
Several offices shut for Memorial Day including federal post offices and the U S Standards front office. A Tennessee company won a $795 million biomass facility contract at the Savannah River Site.
Obituary notices list deaths of Cathy Shirley Barnes Graniteville Charles Don Myers Riker Helen Corbett Jeter Spears West Columbia Billie Jean Swartz Zimmerman Leesville with funeral details and memorial information for each individual.
The 25-year-old Marine Lt George H Mead from Aiken County died in the Solomon Islands after aiding a comrade under heavy fire. His actions were cited by The Philadelphia Bulletin. Also noted are brothers Houston W Beard and Sailor Oswald Beard who died in 1943 off Salerno and in France in 1944. Their parents and extended family faced multiple losses across the war.
The Girl Scouts of South Carolina Mountains to Midlands Council approves a long range plan that includes selling Camp Cofitachiqui near Aiken. The council spans 22 counties and surveyed 17 000 members before outlining the sale of most camps except three.
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