Local groups collect Christmas aid for Aiken County residents
Three Aiken groups the Valley Empty Stocking Fund the Salvation Army and the Aiken Jaycees launched drives to help hundreds of residents. The Valley fund raised 11000 last year aiding 223 families and will print donor names unless anonymous.
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Aiken
Valley Empty Stocking Fund
Salvation Army
Aiken Jaycees
Aiken County
Valley Empty
P.O
Clearwater
Langley
Graniteville
Aiken Youth Correction Center
Gayle Ave
N.W
Jaycees
State Mental Hospital
Columbia
Jaycee
P.O. Box
Inside Today Aiken County Highlights
Local listing recap features classifieds comics community calendar obituaries and brief notices across Aiken County sections. Readers see upcoming events and community updates alongside entertainment and weather glimpses for the day.
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Aiken County
Abby Erma Bombeck
Letter bomb explodes at 10 Downing Street injuring official
A yellow envelope exploded in a first floor mail room at 10 Downing Street. The official opened it and sustained a superficial facial burn. Thatcher was in her study and uninjured. No group claimed responsibility.
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London
Margaret Thatcher
Downing St
Scotland Yard
Gordon Shepherd
Thatcher
Hyde Park
Regents Park
Britain
Michael Fagan
Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Charles
Conservative Party
Labor Party
10 Downing St
Semantics Aim To Solve North Augusta Sewer Rift
City and county officials at a Public Service Authority meeting discussed reconciling differences over a countywide federal sewer plan. They weighed a temporary North Augusta pump station to connect Pine Crest Oxidation Lagoon with a gravity sewer to Horse Creek Facility and potential federal funding implications.
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North Augusta
Public Service Authority
Pine Crest
Bill Day
Davis and Floyd Engineers
Horse Creek
Fed
Day
EPA
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
Charles Martin
PSA
Don Hartwig
Martin
Belvedere
Hartwig
Roger LeDuc
Houndslake Rezoning Fight Over Apartment Plan
Houndslake residents opposed to a proposed rezoning seek multi-family rental housing on 10 acres off Woodbine Drive next to the golf course. Arkenites for Planned Development warn property values would fall and a local sale to an out of state developer may follow. The plan, filed by Dye Mill Tucker and Everitt for Continental Fairview Group Inc, goes to the Aiken Planning and Zoning Commission on December 16.
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Houndslake
Arkenites
Houndslake Group
Means Apartments
Woodbine Drive
Houndslake Corporation
Robert Penland
Penland
Dye, Mill, Tucker and Everitt
Augusta
Continental Fairview Group Inc
Terry Kay family reunion highlighted in Atlanta Sunday magazine
The feature notes Kay family gathering with sisters Mrs. J. P. Huskey and Mrs. David Nix from Aiken attending. It cites local sayings about success and happiness and references quotes attributed to Patrick Henry, though the article omits the liberty or death phrase.
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Terry Kay
Atlanta Constitution
Kay
J. P. Huskey
David Nix
Aiken
Patrick Henry
County Tax Books To Open Tomorrow In Aiken
Aiken County tax books will open tomorrow for 1982 property tax collection after a three month delay due to reassessment and millage changes. Treasurer Margie Plunkett notes notices mailed yesterday and urges taxpayers to review notices before paying. Taxes may be mailed or paid at the County Office Complex on Richland Avenue with a total 1982 millage of 138.5 for county and schools and 93 for Belvedere water and 29.4 for College Acres Public Works.
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Aiken County
Margie Plunkett
Richland Avenue
Belvedere Water District
College Acres Public Works
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Aiken County Revenue Sharing Fund
T.L. Brantley
G.H. Momeier Jr
C.M. Kenney
James Mortimer
Marcie
Metairie
New Orleans
Laurens Street
Aiken Standard
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