Bridgestone opens plant marker honors BFSC team in Aiken
Bridgestone/Firestone celebrates its plant opening in Aiken with a permanent BFSC marker and a $100000 five year pledge to United Way. Officials praise local workforce and community support while Senator Thurmond and Gov Hodges send messages of congratulations.
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Bridgestone
United Way
Ono
Firestone
BFSC
Steve Sucher
Strom Thurmond
Thurmond
Palmetto
Jim Hodges
South Carolina
Aiken
Hodges
Aiken County
Bridgestone/Firestone
Memorial ceremony honors veterans and calls for support
Ryberg praised veterans as role models in a ceremony that honored living and fallen service members. Guest Ola Hitt, longtime caregiver for disabled veterans, urged citizens to back the memorial park and noted bricks for the patio wall remain to be funded.
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Ryberg
Ola Hitt
Ms Hitt
Band adds pep to football routines at home games
Pace said the band has added popular tunes and few serious pieces to liven home games. He noted the group helps excite the crowd and, in turn, energize the football team. The NAACP pushes a boycott starting Jan 1 to remove the banner from the Statehouse. The Diversity Council and state Chamber of Commerce offer cautious stances on Hodges proposed boycott and flag location.
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Pace
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Statehouse
Diversity Council
Hodges
Glenda Thompson-Norton
State Chamber of Commerce Board
Paula Harper Bethea
North Augusta honors veterans at Legion Veterans Day ceremony
North Augusta held a Veterans Day observance sponsored by Jesse C. Lynch Post 71 with about 200 attendees. The event featured wreaths for deceased veterans, a POW MIAs memorial, patriotic music, a Flanders Field recitation, a 12 gun salute, taps, and benedictions. Broadus Carter, a World War II survivor, received replacement medals from the Vietnam Veterans of America, while Rev John Newell urged guests to thank veterans and broaden the honoring gesture annually.
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Slackville
Georgia
Broadus Carter
Ed Carter
Millbrook Baptist Church
Vietnam Veterans of America
Carter
Danny Black
Barnwell County
VVA
Waynesboro
Fum
Jesse C. Lynch
Post 71
American Legion
Nat Wolfe
Cream of the Crop
Jerry Matthews
Flanders Field
Paula Wahl
North Augusta Elemen
Dave Hill
Merriwether Middle School
Carl Schutte
American Legion Post 71
Robert Ledbetter
Newell
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Bridgestone Tram
Scott Webster
Tyanna Hutton
Aiken Veterans Memorial Park
North Augusta
John Newell
Wade Hampton Park
Veter
Nnaf
Edpen
Mirac ‘Center
Ry Watsch
Lamb
Augusta Mall
Aiken Mall
BIG Screen
Jvc
Nelerans
Tosmipa
Fay. Hee
Fralarg
SONY
Joshiba
TEAC
Eer
Don "A
Ston ‘Remor
Jensen
Anon Am Honder Wn Sh Oprical
Pioneer
R. Lee Grantham
Center For Sight
University
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