Editorial honors for Jim McNeill mark teaching excellence
A Silver Bluff High School history teacher receives national recognition as an Outstanding Social Studies Teacher of the Year. Jim McNeill, a long-time educator in Aiken County, is praised for subject mastery, high expectations, and engaging lessons.
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Jim McNeill
Silver Bluff
National Council For Social Studies
McNeill
Aiken County
Schofield Middle School
Silver Bluff High
Columbia
S.C. Department of Archives and History
Bonnie
National Council For History Education
Jim
Todd Bornscheuer
Mr. McNeill
Senior Shield program fight in budget constrained South Carolina
The Greenville News argues Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer's plan to help seniors avoid fraudulent businesses is well intentioned but ill timed amid 7 percent budget cuts. It urges evaluating duplicative services and delaying new programs like Senior Shield until finances improve.
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Andre Bauer
Bauer
South Carolina
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Greenville News
Aiken Standard Staff Directory List
The Aiken Standard lists its leadership and contact editors including Publisher Scott B. Hunter Editor Jeffrey B. Wallace Advertising Director Arthur T. Zappa News Director Timothy E. O Briant Production Director Phillip Yates Circulation Director Scot Newcom Business Manager Terri Cheek Managing Editor Michael W. Gibbons Customer Service Manager Letitia Jefferson.
Downtown Aiken boutiques warn of decline without local support
A letter writer laments Wall Street effects on Main Street in downtown Aiken. She warns small boutiques and galleries face closure as prices drop and corporate stores like Wal Mart and TJ Maxx thrive. She pleads for community buying to preserve the downtown destination.
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Laurens Street
Aiken
Southern Living
New York Times
Wal-Mart
Stein Mart
T J Maxx
Charleston
Asheville
Broad Street
Augusta
Aiken Relay for Life Team recounts long battle against cancer
Dr. Holly Woltz recalls 12 years of fundraising and local Relay for Life efforts in Aiken. The team has raised about 188000 dollars through five plus years of fundraisers led by Lynn Drinkwater and Veterinary Services staff. The 2009 Relay is set for May 15 at Aiken High School, with the Luminary Service and continual outreach to communities.
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Paws For Cancer
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Aiken Regional Hospital
Holly Woltz
Aiken
Pelosi demands plan before bailout for Big Three
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats will not consider a auto industry bailout without a rebuilding plan. Victor Clark of the Nacional Center for Human Rights notes Mexican emigration has fallen 42 percent in two years per a government study.
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Nancy Pelosi
D-Calif
Victor Clark
Binational Center For Human Rights
President Obama’s promised leadership for veterans
The text questions if President elect Obama will follow through on his pledge to create equal opportunities for veterans and to be a unifying leader. It stresses hope that the executive branch will promote non discrimination and allow veterans to compete for employment based on merit.
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Letters to the Editor Guidelines and Contact Details
Readers are invited to send opinions on issues of concern. Letters should be 200 words or less and may be edited. Mail to Letters to the 456 Aiken SC 29802 or email letters aikenstandard com. Fax line is 648 6052.
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Leaders’ bike path resurfacing sparks renewed faith
Reader revisits a 2006 TalkBack note about a worn bike path on heavy use, notes plans to extend it, and expresses renewed faith in local leaders praising them as potential U S Congress contenders in this time of need.
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U.S. Congress
Global warming hysteria echoed in health column
Reader criticizes an Aiken Standard Health Matters note that linked kidney stones to dehydration from a hotter climate and global warming arguing the Earth has cooled in the last decade and a one degree rise is tolerable. He questions screening.
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Aiken
Russell Harmon Aiken
Marriage is about love and equal rights for gays
Michael Powell of Trenton argues that marriage is about love not procreation and asserts gays deserve full equality in housing jobs public benefits and law. He challenges the fertility requirement for marriage and defends same sex couples as loyal monogamous community members.
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Michael Powell Trenton
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