Millbrook Students Receive Dictionaries From Rotary Clubs
Nearly 150 third graders at Millbrook Elementary got dictionaries through The Dictionary Project funded by Aiken County Rotary clubs. Citizens Ivanna Yaga Kenta Murakami and Gabi Layfield explored words and maps including Japan and Mexico while teachers praised the gift as lasting educational resource.
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Millbrook Elementary
Aiken County
Ivanna Yaga
Kenta Murakami
Gabi Layfield
Llike
Gabi
Aiken
Everitt
Aiken Club
Joe Shields
Millbrook
Vanessa Stone
Scott Wheatley
Bryson Weatherbee
Wilson seeks to shield SRS from sequestration cuts
U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson writes to the Budget Conference Committee in Washington DC urging federal officials to minimize budget cuts at Savannah River Site while acknowledging sequestration is needed. He cites risks to national security and rising costs from cuts and notes recent layoffs and furloughs at SRS.
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Joe Wilson
Washington
SRS
U.S
Rl.c
Savannah River
Budget Conference Committee
Wash
Wilson
Local authors Betsy Wilson Mahoney and Mike Gibbons Reading
Betsy Wilson Mahoney and Mike Gibbons will hold a reading and signing of When I Think of Aiken Reflections of Two of Her Children at the Aiken County Public Library 314 Chesterfield St S W on Tuesday from 7 to 8 30 p m Information at wwwwhen ithinkofaiken com or email semgibbons gmail com
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Betsy Wilson- Mahoney
Mike Gibbons
Aiken
Aiken County Public Library
Chesterfield St. S.W
Ithinkofaiken
Beech Island Historical Society to Meet Tuesday
The Beech Island Historical Society will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the History and Visitors Center 144 Old Jackson Highway Beech Island. Flo Carter will discuss her singing career and early television days on WJBF. Contact Jackie Bartley at 803-827-0184 for details.
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The
Beech Island Historical Society
Old Jackson Highway
Beech Island
Flo Carter
WJBF
Jackie Bartley
Mt. Salem Ministries feeds needy in the Valley
Reverend Rob Lane leads Mt. Salem Ministries with His Table Soup Kitchen in Bath providing free takeout lunches Monday to Friday 11 am to 2 pm. The group funds a 16 bed overnight shelter in Gloverville and a warehouse chapel and office in Langley. Lane aims to expand the L.LF.E. program to 75 acres for cabin housing and to raise funds via a Sleepout for the Homeless event October 18–22 and 2000 partners donating $5 each in November.
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Bath
Rob Lane
Mt. Salem Ministries
Mt. Salem
Augusta Road
Lane
Gloverville
L.lf.e
Aiken
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Texas
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Rob Novit
Aiken Standard
Walterboro
University of Georgia
Aiken Rotary Club
Derrek Asberry
Dasberry
Aikenstandard.com
Ington
Vidalia, Ga
Georgia Southern University
Gmail. Com
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Horse Creek Valley
Victory Baptist College
North Augusta
Dede Biles
Dede Riles
Porky Bradberry
Whiskey Road
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