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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 2005
Page
1
Grace Taylor, a top national gymnast for five years, will join the University of Georgia next year on a full four year scholarship with the Georgia Gymnastics program listed as the national champions.
The Aiken Standard offers this space to highlight readers and arts. Kim Burdette contributes Alien Hussy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews 5C as part of ongoing cultural features.
Area deaths note names Micxey Sims Ashe Aken Hastings Arthur Wise in Columbia. Funeral services listed by local mortuaries and communities, with brief notices of survivors and service details as available from public notices.
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Aiken Public Safety reports a Wednesday burglary on Lyon Drive with rear window forced, interior ransacked, smoke odor, and the family dog found dead. Police and fire crews responded after the 3:30 pm call. investigators label it a crime like never seen locally.
Five Avondale Mills employees died when a car and train collided at Graniteville crossing in downtown Graniteville in 2004. Monica Myers Tammy Wilson Michael Mack Nathaniel Hay perished. The wreck was the area's deadliest train disaster and a precursor to later events in January.
The Aiken County School District earned a good or better rating from the State Department of Education for the fifth straight year though several individual schools declined in 2005. Statewide results show 43 percent of the 1,083 schools rated excellent or good, with Aiken schools including six earning excellent or good.
Aiken County schools communities and Veterans organizations plan Veterans Day events. The James L Hammons Marine Corps League detachment hosts a 4 p.m. ceremony at the Aiken County Veterans Memorial Park on Richland Avenue with Donald C. Skinner a 25 year Air Force veteran who served in Korea and Vietnam as guest speaker. Skinner says the speech honors all veterans and recalls Korea era. He authored Winters Road a wartime tale including the Battle of Chosan Reservoir in December 1950.
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