Numbers Behind Disabled Veterans Struggle With Jobs
Robert Wilkie of the Aiken DAV outlines how disabled veterans face employment barriers due to wounds and education gaps. The DAV assists through retraining, SCES referrals, and programs like CETA while stressing veterans must seek VA help and are often unaware of available widows’ benefits. There are 3,210,000 service connected disabled veterans in the U.S. with about 50,000 jobless.
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Robert Wilkie
Aiken
DAV
Wilkie
Army
Marine Corps
South Carolina Employment Service
SCES
IBM
U.S
Debbie Icard
Hearts of Fire band led by Lester Small shows at Atlanta Jazz Festival
Hearts of Fire from Aiken, led by Lester Small with agent Thomas Cook, performed at the Atlanta Jazz Festival. The group, formed nearly three years ago, travels with a full sound and lighting system and offers rock and soul with novelty songs like Indian Hustler and The Disco Duck.
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Hearts of Fire
Atlanta
Andrew Beckett
Ike Best
John Cunningham
John McRae
Rodney Paige
Tony Simmons
Sam Curry
Lester Small
James Gantt
Lynne Katonak
Aiken
Thomas Cook
Cook
Small
Best
Ony Simmons
Ernest Smith
North Augusta
Capricorn Records
Macon
Weekly Reader celebrates 50 years educating children
The 1928 Founded weekly paper marks its 50th anniversary with current events based curricula for grades kindergarten through sixth. New editions and a 10 part program for teachers aim to boost reading, writing, science and maps while connecting classrooms nationwide through shared writing projects.
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Middletown
Conn
Kennedy
Nixon
White House
Weekly Reader
Xerox Education Publications
Eleanor Johnson
York
Miss Johnson
William C. Blaky
American Education Press
Columbus
Ohio
South Pole
North
Central
South America
Belgium
News of
London Bridge
Anwar Sadat
Israel
Menachem Begin
Terry Borton
Johnson
Borton
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