Belvedere Elementary Learns Drug Free Message During Red Ribbon Week
Belvedere Elementary School students led by Rosemary Quarles and teachers celebrated Red Ribbon Week with door decorations, reader visits from North Augusta High athletes, and themed days like 2 Cool 4 Drugs and Sock It to Drugs. Second graders shared a unity board signed by the whole school while parents assisted with door readings and activities supporting a drug awareness program.
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Belvedere
Jonathan
Ayers
Rosemary Quarles
Belvedere Elementary School
Quarles
North Augusta High School
Laurie
Rob Novit
Unity Board
Food Bank hosts Taste of the Harvest fundraiser in Aiken
Golden Harvest Food Bank honored donors and sponsors at its fourth Taste of the Harvest-Aiken event at Houndslake Country Club. Executive director Michael Firmin said the dinner was the largest fundraiser, with 225000 plus raised from more than a dozen area restaurants. The nonprofit, 25 years old, serves 150 churches and agencies in NE Georgia and 11 SC counties and plans a third distribution center in Anderson this week to boost Upstate operations. Since founding it has distributed about 130 million pounds of groceries, with 10 million pounds nationwide last year. Firmin credited community support as key to ending hunger and invited further aid via goldenharvest.org or 648-0752.
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Golden Harvest Food Bank
Aiken
Houndslake Country Club
Michael Firmin
Food Bank
Augusta
Savannah River
Georgia
South Carolina
Anderson
Upstate
Firmin
Goldenharvest.org
Josh Voorhees
Jjvoorhees
Aikenstandard.com
Motorcycle crash kills Graniteville man on Ludlow Lake Road
Aiken County coroner reports 68 year old Johnnie R. Green died at the scene when his eastbound motorcycle swerved into a westbound lane and collided with a 1998 Lincoln Continental after sideswiping a Ford F150 on Ludlow Lake Road Sunday evening. The Lincoln driver was taken to hospital. Ford driver’s condition was unknown. This is Aiken County’s 37th fatal crash this year and third on Ludlow Lake Road in 2007. South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating.
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Graniteville
Ludlow Lake Road
Aiken
Johnnie R. Green
Green
Aiken County
South Carolina Highway Patrol
Aiken colleges mark 10 years of PATS transfer program
USC Aiken and Aiken Technical College celebrate a decade of the Parallel Advisement for Transfer Students program. Since 1992, over 600 ATC students transferred to USCA, aided by coordinated course planning, with ongoing collaboration like joint events and shared guidance services benefiting students in the CSRA.
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USC Aiken
Aiken Technical College
USCA
ATC
Susan Winsor
CSRA
Winsor
Tom Hallman
Natalia Surzenko
Aiken
Surzenko
University of North Carolina
Aiken Tech
Andrew Hendrix
Aiken County
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Tiffany Davis
Hayden Boyette
Casa Bella
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Aiken Colleges
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Porky Bradberry
Whiskey Road
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