Victorian Afternoon Tea Art Show and Sale in North Augusta
North Augusta Cultural Arts Council presents A Victorian Afternoon Tea Art Show and Sale from 2 to 5 pm at Rosemary Hall with artists Elizabeth Moretz Britt Barbara Davison Doris Sorge and Beth Welch. Admission free. Victorian Tea is 15 dollars with advance tickets via Royal Boutique Art Gallery North Augusta Chamber of Commerce and Stamper's Loft. call Virginia Douglas at 803-279-3382 for details. Tryouts for Aiken Civic Ballet today 4 to 6 30 pm during a master class by Mary Claire Miranda of Columbia City Ballet. Crosby School of Dance 648-5771 for info.
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Arts Council
North Augusta
Cultural Arts Council
Rosemary Hall
Elizabeth Moretz- Britt
Barbara Davison
Doris Sorge
Beth Welch
Royal Boutique Art Gallery
Aiken Civic Ballet
Mary Claire Miranda
Columbia City Ballet
Crosby School of Dance
Burglaries reported in Aiken area with suspect descriptions
Police blotter details two white men ages 17 to 21 seen at Nations Bank on Laurens Street. Bloodhounds failed to locate them after they fled toward Park Avenue. Other incidents include a woodside executive park break in with a computer stolen, a .22 pistol found at a Salvation Army thrift store verified as stolen, a York Street break in with a television and stereo taken, and a Beech Island Todd's Shop & Go break in for cigarettes by a black man 5 foot 10, 175 pounds. Call 642 1761 with tips.
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Park Avenue
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Woodside Executive Park
Silver Bluff Road
Salvation Army
York Street
Todd
Aiken County
Shelter tale: turkey adopts hen’s abandoned eggs
At the AIKEN COUNTY animal control shelter a hen’s abandoned clutch is cared for by a female turkey. The eggs hatched and the chicks now follow the turkey around calling her Mom, with staff joking about whether they will cluck or gobble.
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Aiken County
Osbon Home Donated to Create Osbon Park in Aiken
The Osbon siblings donated their former home to Aiken to be converted into Osbon Park a garden or playground for children. The council unanimously approved the gift with a final action due at the next regular meeting. The property cannot be sold or leased until 2033 and may add soccer fields and playgrounds.
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Osbon
Aiken
Geddings and
Bessie Osbon
Steven Thompson
Run For the Woods sets course record in Hitchcock Woods
Dick Young, from Augusta now in Michigan, wins 5.4 mile cross country race in 31 17 at Hitchcock Woods fundraiser. Betty Ryberg tops women with 39 15 as sixth Run For the Woods aids purchase of adjoining 200 acres. Race draws 150 plus from Atlanta Charleston Greenville with youth and masters divisions noted.
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the Woods
Hitchcock Woods
Dick Young
Augusta
Michigan
Aiken
Betty Ryberg
Hitchcock Foundation
Dacre Stoker
Atlanta
Charleston
Greenville
Cvn Wampole
Amen
Anna Day
Jon‘ler Howel
Alison Black
North Augusta
Emly Hil
Isate Hanna
Ft. Gordon
Rachel Astin
Akon
Caroline Amador
Joan Garbold
Barmwel
Kim Cater
Aken
Judith Stanton
Brideget Reicha
Linda B Stone
Trenton
Susan Houtlon
Mary Thompson
Columbia
Jonathan Huber Fillet
Laur Res Brawner
Aiken approves 89,983 for 13 tourism projects
City council approves 89,983 in hotel tax funds for 13 tourism related programs. The Accommodations Tax Advisory Committee recommended the packages, listing recipients such as Battle of Aiken, Aiken Steeplechase, Aiken Center for the Arts, Links Inc Festival of Trees, and Aiken 20/20 pledge. The committee dropped the prior three year funding limit, allowing ongoing events that promote overnight stays to qualify.
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Aiken
Tri-Development Center
Links Inc
Festival of Trees
Aiken Center For the Arts
City of Aiken Parks and Recreation Department
City of Aiken
Remembering OConnor the linotype master and veteran editor
On a rainy Veteran's Day memory, I recall Tom O'Connor a Boston Irishman who made his home in the South He battled polio since age three spent 64 years on crutches yet mastered the linotype and word craft in Allendale He rose from Augusta Chronicle reporter to weekly publisher and earned praise from Erskine Caldwell and peers before his passing.
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Tom O'Connor
Buffalo
O'Conner
Mr. O'Connor
Augusta Chronicle
Augus
Allendale
Erskine Caldwell
God's Little Acre
Allendale County
O'Connor
New York Times
Boston
South
Calhoun States
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Nations Bank
Laurens Street
James Osbon
Fred Cavanaugh
Hoe
Danny Swit
Marines
Mar Pipl
Bid Hit
Sung Wook Son Sd
Mark Devine
Jetery Massey
Greenooo
Menge
Bachang
FL. Gordon
Joe Sanders
Im Harris
Isaael Piece
Biyhe
Y Thomas Smith
Langley
Carl Langley
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