Weather outlook with chances of showers across regions
Partly sunny today with a 20 percent chance of showers and highs near 80. Tonight, partly cloudy with diminishing rain. Sunday, partly cloudy and mild with a slight shower chance, highs in the 80s and lows in the mid 50s. Monday and Tuesday trend mostly sunny with highs in the 80s and mild to mid 60s. Regions show similar patterns with 20 percent showers in mountains and Midlands, and the coast to the mid 80s with a 20 percent shower risk. Beach area forecast calls for partly cloudy Saturday, slight showers, and a return to mostly sunny Sunday.
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Midlands
Flood of Rolling Wood Road Describes 1990 Weather Event
A first person account details a once in a century flood on Rolling Wood Road during October 1990. Water surged down Augusta Road and East Rolling Wood flooding homes, garages, and a rail embankment caused by drainage from Laurens and Richland area. The writer evacuates with family, salvages belongings, and notes damage across about a dozen homes with losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The narrative mentions the Aiken Standard and Review offices flooded, volunteer rescue efforts, and the Kalmia Hill drainage project as tested and adequate.
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Rolling Wood Road
Aiken Standard and Review
Holley Inn
Laurens and
Richland
Uptown
Augusta Road
East Rolling Wood
Edisto Valley Drive
Bill Thurlow
Gregg Avenue
Hampton and
Edgefield Avenues
Kalmia Hill
Deaths And Funerals In Several South Carolina Communities
Multiple obituary notices list individuals including Virginia Williams 77 Annie Mae Walker Hersell Newsome Lewis Thomas and Dorothy Harper. Services are set at churches and chapels across De Land Columbia Barnwell Jackson Augusta and Graniteville with various funeral homes handling arrangements.
Benefit for Rev and Mrs Adams at Hayden Bay Church
A community sponsored musical program to aid Rev. and Mrs. Adams, incapacitated by illness, will be held today at 5 p.m. at Hayden Bay Church. The Rev Adams is pastor at Ocean Grove Baptist Church in Aiken County. Several CSBA choir groups will perform. Public invitation.
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Amos E. Adams
Hayden Ba
Adamses
Adams
Ocean Grove Baptist Church
Aiken County
CSBA
Literacy Council Sets Tutor Training
The Aiken County Literacy Council schedules a Laubach reading workshop for Oct. 16 18 23 and 25 at Aiken Technical College in the new E building auditorium. The 12 hour video based tutor training invites registrations by phone with early sign up advised for vehicle passes.
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Aiken
Bryan Family Reunion Set for Saluda Area
The Bryan family reunion for descendants of Robert and William Bryan will meet Sunday at Trinity Community Center on S C 178 west of Saluda with a noon business session and dinner on the grounds. Attendees are asked to bring a picnic dinner and seating. contact James at 663 6448 or Dot at 648 3361 for details.
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Brown and Hawkins
Fish Lake
Aiken State Park
James
Dot
Saluda
Bryan
Trinity Community Center
S.C
Robert Bryan
William Bryan
Old Edgefield
Obituary notices for DeClercq Doolittle and Duncan
Obituaries notice three local residents: Robert A DeClercq of Aiken died October 10 1990 with a funeral Mass October 13 at St Mary Help of Christians and burial in Calvary Cemetery. Ernest Brother Doolittle of Graniteville died October 11 1990 with memorial service October 14 at J M Posey Sons Funeral Home. Martin Willis Duncan of Warrenville died October 11 1990 with funeral October 14 at J M Posey Sons Funeral Home and full military honors at Aiken Memorial Park.
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Robert DeClercq
St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church
Joe Roth
Calvary Cemetery
Mr. DeClercg
Plantation Drive
Aiken Regional Medical Centers
George Funeral Home
Arvine Walter McElroy
U.S. Army
Dupont Drive
Arlington Cem
First Baptist Church of
Jackson
Donald Lumpkin
Jackson Memorial Cemetery
Harper
Stephen D. Posey
North Augusta
Grace Ella Lee
Lee
Hampton Ave
Jackson-Brooks Funeral Home
Aiken
Augusta
Lilly White Garrett
St. Joseph Hospital
Garrett
McDowell St
Apt. A
St. Paul Episcopal Church
Jacob B. Berlin
Westover Memorial Park
Business and Professinal Womens Club
Martin Willis Duncan
HCA
Martin
Whaley St
Warrenville
J.M. Posey and Sons Funeral Home
Graniteville
Youn Kim
Aiken Memorial Park
Duncan
Brashear
Texas
Aiken County
Ington
Martin William Duncan Sr
N.C
Barbara Toll
Greenville
Ella Kay Duncan
J. M. Posey and Sons Funeral Home
Lorraine B. Davis
Alpine Dr
Eras — Dorothy Jean Harper
Malson St
Toombs County
Margaret Hiers
Tom McElmurray
James Kennedy
James Copeland
E.E. Bunch
William McDaniel III
Richard Russell
St. Joseph Hospice
Earnest
Clarence Doolittle
Daisy Harris Doolittle
Vickie Doolittle
Langley
Pam Beltran
April Parker
Belvedere
Rachel Doolittle
Savannah
Ernie Doolittle
Charleston
Ricky Doolittle
Ruby Downs
Annette Baughman
Kannapolis
American Cancer Society
Declercq
Aiken Regional Medical Center
Robert Arthur DeClercq
S.C
St. Mar
York Street
S.E
All Saints Anglican Church
Fairfield St. N.E
George Funeral Home, Inc
Evelyn Seagroves Duncan
J.M. Posey & Sons
Contex Fabric TurnsElectric. Miliken Researchers Suit Up
Spartanburg textile chemists unveil Contex an electric conducting fabric with potential self heating clothing and radar evading airplanes. Milliken & Co. Research Center manufactures limited runs led by Hans H Kuhn senior researcher. News coverage includes Business Week Popular Science WSJ. Kuhn 67 Swiss consul says breakthrough stemmed from 15 year effort with a black silvery substance.
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Spartanburg
Contex
Milliken & Co
Kuhn
United States
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Virginia Williams
DE Land
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Double Pond Baptist Church
Blackville
William A. Sandifer
Williams
Chipola Ave
Folk Funeral Home
Williston
J. Benjamin Swearingen
Columbia
J. Benjamin
Columbia Seventh-day Adventist Church
Annie Mae Walker
Barnwell
Ms. Walker
Barnwell County Hospital
Lebby
Hersell M. D. Newsome
Palmer Memorial Chapel
Palmetto Cemetery
Hersell Marie Deborah Newsome McIntosh
St. Paul Baptist Church
Winnsboro
N. Garden Street
Lewis Thomas
Dallas Circle
Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church
Arthur Holmes
Willie L. Span
Church
Mr. Thomas
Jimmy Thomas
Ralph Thomas
Ronnie Thomas
James Thomas
Daniel Gaffney
Willie L. Jamison
Col
Arvine McElroy
Dorothy Jean Harper
Lilly White
Earnest Doolittle
Literacy Council
George
JM. PO
Georgia Avenue
Main Street
The
Associated Press
South Aiken
South
Whiskey RD
South Carolina
Bill Waters
Doctor of Optometry
Southside Vision Center
Silver Blutt
Pine Log
Os Vision 52
Westside Vision Center University
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