Rainy day can't stop 2008 Chitlin Strut festival crowd
Rain soaked weather did not deter residents from attending the 2008 Chitlin Strut festival and parade Saturday as participants braved the rain to celebrate with music floats and community cheer.
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 2008
Page
2
Rain soaked weather did not deter residents from attending the 2008 Chitlin Strut festival and parade Saturday as participants braved the rain to celebrate with music floats and community cheer.
Local author and USC Aiken English professor Roy Seeger won the Main Street Rag poetry book contest and was named co winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Contest. He also won the 2007 Gribble Chapbook Contest. Seeger will host a reading at Davor's in The Alley.
The Aiken County Public Library plans a December slate of events including a final “Masters of the Mother Tongue” session with Suzanne Ozment, a USC Aiken talk by Carol Shields’ The Stone Diaries, a “New Technology for Computers in 2008” program, a screening of The Christmas Cottage, and a slideshow “South Carolina, A Day at a Time.” The month features author and illustrator Maggie Thurmond Dorsey and Lorenzo Williams with My Hero My Dad the Nurse, and an Angel Tree gift drive. library hours and details are at abbe-lib.org or 642-2020.
Nandina Home & Design hosts Shopping for a Cause on Thursday and December 11 and 18, donating 10 percent of sales to local nonprofits. Aiken Nutrition offers a lecture on Fats and Cholesterol on December 16 from 6 30 to 7 30 p m with reservations required at 644 4446.
The Hopelands Christmas event runs from December 11 to 27 with evenings 6 to 9 PM. It closes December 17 24 and 25. Shuttle service will run from the Goodwill parking lot from 6 to 8 30 PM each night.
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