Holly Days lights up downtown Aiken with camel rides and Santa
The Aiken celebration drew families to the center for crafts, Christmas music, and pictures with Santa. Bubba the Christmas Camel delighted Elizabeth Raezer and many youngsters as volunteers led festive activities and performers from local groups added Victorian carols and student piano pieces. The event runs on December 3, 10, and 17 with ongoing arts and crafts and wares by downtown vendors.
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Aiken
Grea
Elizabeth Raezer
Bubba
Jim Raezer
Tim
Nishet
Eudora Farms
Aiken Center For the Arts
Santa
Kristin Brown
Brown
Aiken ‘Singers
St. Mary’s
Judy Sauls
Sauls
Janet Augeri Morris
Suzanne Jaroszynski
Suzanne
Jim
Eva Swenson
California
Carol Barrow
USCA Aiken auditions for The Mikado musical
USC Aiken announces spring production auditions for Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado at the Etherredge Center. Open to ages 17 to 60, five male and four female principal roles plus chorus. Auditioners bring a ballad and perform a cold reading. Directed by Prof. Jack Benjamin, auditions run Nov 30 and Dec 1 at 7 p.m. with an April 2023 production. Contact 681-3327 for details.
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USC Aiken
Department of Visual and Performing Arts
Etherredge Center
USCA
Ko-Ko
Titipu
Yum- Yum
Nanki-Po
Japan
Jack Benjamin
Nore
USCA hosts 11th Feast of Carols at Etherredge Center
UDS Aiken's Department of Visual and Performing Arts presents the 11th Feast of Carols at 7 pm in the Etherredge Center. Tickets are 35 dollars, call 641-3305 for box office seating. Proceeds fund scholarships for visual and performing arts students. Singers actors and instrumentalists recreate a Renaissance feast with dinner theater and concert elements in a medieval setting.
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UDC Aiken
Department of Visual and Performing Arts
USC Aiken
Etherredge Center
England
Bethlehem Lutheran Christmas Concert Marks 2nd Pipe Organ Anniversary
The Bethlehem Lutheran Church hosts a free Christmas concert featuring choral music solos and carols on Sunday December 11 at 4 p.m. at the corner of Whiskey Road and Hitchcock Drive entrance to Aiken Estates. Rev. Gerald Reiter invites all to sing along and enjoy the holiday program. In 2003 the church purchased a small Moller Ariste pipe organ built in 1946.
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Whiskey Road
Hitchcock Drive
Aiken Estates
Gerald Reiter
Pine beetle outbreak in South Carolina declared over
State Forester Bob Schowalter announced the eight year pine beetle epidemic in South Carolina is officially over. The outbreak killed more than 26 million pines and caused losses totaling about 360 million dollars, with a peak year in 2002 exceeding 220 million.
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South Carolina
Bob Schowalter
Schowalter
York County
Upstate
Midlands
South
Reading teacher honored in Aiken for inspiring fifth graders
Denise McCray, a fifth grade teacher at Chukker Creek Elementary, was named Aiken School District Distin guished Teacher of Reading by ACIRA. The award followed a district-wide recognition of 12 school based winners noted for championing reading and literacy across schools.
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Joe Nathan Wright
Denise McCray
Burt
McCray
Chukker Creek
Aiken
ACIRA
Holly Palmer
East Aiken
Melanie Royster
Millbrook
Sara Jonson
Hammond Hill
Elizabeth Supan
Vernon Wiiess
Babee Lamestry
Thelma Oakwood
Windsor
Melvin Kerby
Ridge Spring-Monetta
Gwendolyn Byrd
Greendale
Jodia Lintner
J.D. Lever
Apri Fair
Redcliffe
April Hanna
Warrenville
Michelle Fernandez
Byrd
Vanessa Stone
Rob Novi
Lever
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Swenson
Ben Dickert
Munity Playhouse
Charles Dickens
Holly Days
John Moore
Ymoore
Tam
Bethlehem Lutheran
Bethehem Lutheran Church
S.C
Forestry Commission
Contad Rob Novit
Ovitiwaitmstandard
J.M. Greene Company
Aiken Munday
Rtoye
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