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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1985
Page
6
Erma Bombeck humorously argues football games resemble perpetual motion with fans scrambling for seats programs pillows and souvenirs. She notes long queues for tickets the impossibility of sitting amid crowds and the joke that seats exist mainly to hold belongings and stubs rather than people.
Aiken Community and area hospitals report multiple October births. Names include Leland Jerrell Johnson at Graniteville, Latoya Green at New Ellenton, Eric Burgess at Reeves Air Force Hospital in Lubbock, William Bruker III at Humana Hospital in Georgia, Shanna Martin in Aiken, and others. Details cover parents and grandparents across Aiken, New Ellenton, Williston, and surrounding communities with dates from September to October.
A long list of marriage licenses recorded includes James O Neal Arthur of Warrenville with Jacqueline Delle Antley of North Augusta. Daniel Rodger Bolen with Dawn Renee Meseher of Blackville. Joe Donald Brown of Belvedere with Mary Maxine Wren of North Augusta. Additional couples span Hephzibah, Augusta, Aiken, Harlem and nearby locales in Georgia and South Carolina, with partners from Diamond Bar California to North Carolina.
Mrs. Norman Woodward announced winners of the American Camellia Society National Arrangements Contest. Lavern Kinney won first place and the creativity award in Class V Virgo and Prosperina. Kinney also placed in Birmingham with blue ribbons, while Dorma Guyton James F. Bell shared third in Class II Sagittarius. The 1985–86 show will be at USC Aiken January 18–19 with Dorma Guyton and Mackey Scott Jr. as co chairs.
The South Carolina VFW celebrates 50 years since forming in 1935 at the Jefferson Hotel in Columbia. The organization now fields 118 to 120 posts with more than two and a half million members nationally and promotes veterans benefits, youth programs, and community service. A monument drive in Columbia, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, is under way with an appeal for contributions to the Monument Committee.
Riverbanks Zoo starts winter hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with gates closing at 4 p.m. It remains closed only on Christmas Day. A new addition, a pair of Suni antelopes from southeastern Africa, has joined the collection. Located off I 26 at Greystone Boulevard Exit, call (803) 779 8717 for details.
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