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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 2006
Page
1
Iraqi youths in Arab regions claim violence would drop and security would improve if U S forces depart immediately. Archaeologists report tomb robbers led to three graves cursed and buried in desert sands for millennia.
The newspaper opens a daily reader discussion space to spark talk about literature. Anne Rice is featured with Interwoven with a Vampire. James Thomas is noted for deaths and funerals. INSIDE TODAY appears on the page.
Aiken High School band director Joe Laurenza arranged a clinic and concert with Everett Beale a retired Boston Pops timpanist who spent 43 years with the orchestra Beale is to conduct and perform with the percussion ensemble at the Etherredge Center on November 13 Beale connected with Furman University percussion professor John Beckford who arranged the meeting Beale formerly taught at Lowell University near Boston
The Aiken High School wind ensemble performs at the Etherredge Center on the USC Aiken campus Monday November 13 at 8 pm. Admission is free for the first time this year, according to Director Joe Laurenza. Previously a fee covered facility rent. BAND, page 10A.
The Redcliffe Plantation Historic Site staged a program titled Beyond the Gravestone on Saturday, inviting visitors to explore markers in Beech Island Cemetery. The event traced graveyard evolution from family plots to modern headstones and perpetual care, with insights from park interpreter Trampas Alderman.
Aubrey Donath was crowned Miss Western Carolina State Fair 2006 after tie-breakers in a pageant featuring 23 contestants from Aiken Edgefield and Lexington counties aged 13 to 22. Runner-ups included Jessica Baumgardner and DeKoyoia Bailey with honors across Teen Junior and Miss divisions and special awards for congeniality and photogenic traits.
The article notes the name Fermata gains significance in Aiken with pianist Josef Hofmann using a two room built in the city for rest during tours. Marie Eustis Hofmann moved to Aiken in 1885 and was first married to William Eustis of New Orleans, brother of George Eustis Sr.
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