Aiken Weekend Festivities Highlight Local Events
Aiken hosts a weekend of festivals and activities led by the Sassafras and Bluegrass Mini-Fest. Highlights include St Marys Chocolate Festival at Fairfield and Park, Perry Park Family Festival at Perry Park, Sassafras Festival with rides and a parade, Applefest at the Farmers Market, and a nonprofit benefit mini concert at Whitney Polo Field featuring Martha Scanlan and The Fabulous Stringdusters. Memory Walk and Blessing of the Animals also scheduled with contact numbers for details. Proceeds support local charities and services.
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Aiken
St. Mary’s
Fairfield
Park Avenue
Perry Park
Williamsburg Street
Abbeville Avenue
Horse Creek
Midland Valley
Whitney
Grace Avenue
Whiskey Road
Palmetto Alzheimer’s Association
Aiken Regional Medical Centers
St. Fra of
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Trail Ridge Road
Cumbee Center
H. Odell Weeks Center
John Moore
Jmoore
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St Marys hosts pets and a therapy dog visit
St Mary Help of Christians School welcomed Nancy Drannon and her 11 year old Rottweiler Lance to a first grade class for a therapy dog visit. Students petted fed and praised the calm dog. Later that day the church held The Blessings of the Pets ceremony led by Father James LeBlanc with families and their animals.
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Father LeBlanc
St. Mary Help of Christians School
Nancy Drannon
Lance
Drannon
Michael
St. Mary Help of Christians Church
James LeBlanc
Karen Henry
St. Mary’s
St.Francis of Assisi
Henry
LeBlanc
Dawn Hightower
Alex
Cullen
Willie
Hightower
Rob
St. Mary Help of Christians
Jenna Thompson
Ghost Tour director entertains with stories at USC Aiken club meeting
The October Town and Country Club gathering at the Etherredge Center UC Aiken featured Kent Cubbage founder of Aiken Ghost Tours sharing lore from the Winter Colony to Annie's Inn. Members gathered from 9:30 to 11:30 am hearing tales of haunted sites and a gas explosion near St Thaddeus Episcopal Church while planning fall trips and a basketball game outing.
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Town and Country Club
Susan Herbst
Etherredge Center
USC Aiken
Atlanta
Ridge Spring
Herbst
Aken Technical
Activites
Judy Couch
Kent Cubbage
Aiken Ghost Tours
Aiken Technical College
Cubbage
Aiken
Charleston
Savannah
Winter Colony
Annie's Inn
Montmorenci
St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church
Cabbage
Suzanne Stone
Sstone
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Suzanne Stone Kent Cubbage
Aiken's
Ghost Tours
Applefest at Aiken County Farmers Market Saturday
Applefest returns to the Aiken County Farmers Market on Saturday from 8 am to noon at Williamsburg Street and Richland Avenue. Fresh fall apples including Granny Smith and Rome will be available along with tomatoes okra cucumber and other locally grown produce. Milk butter baked goods herbs and plants will also be sold and the Aiken High School FFA will sell mums. The event runs 8 to noon with early arrival recommended and the Old Time Homecoming is planned for November 4 from 8 am to noon.
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Aiken ‘County
Aiken
Whitney Polo Field
Martha Scanlan
Real Time Travelers
Candlewyck
The
Fabulous Stringdusters
Savannah River Grass
Star Riding and Driving
Chidren
Aiken County
Coleen Reed
South Carolina
Reed
Golden Delicious
Arkansas
Wiliamsburg Street
Richland Avenue
Aiken High School
FFA
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Brady O'Leary
St. Mary's
A End
Amy Nicole Daughtery
Yuki Morningstar
Carolanne Proto
York Street
Richland and
Pak
Sun
Wed
Rose Hill
Old Aiken
Greenville St. NW
Aiken, SC
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