Etherredge Center hosts Robert Campbell art show at USCA Aiken
The Etherredge Center Gallery at the University of South Carolina Aiken will feature Robert Campbell from Sept 3 to Oct 16 in the Lower Gallery. Campbell, a Florida native long based in Aiken, studied at USCA and has exhibited across North America. His works are in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum collection and have been commissioned by major conservation groups. The gallery is open weekdays 9 am to 5 pm. For more information call 641.8306. The Aiken County Veterans Memorial Park Coalition seeks brick engraving donors and asks anyone with contact info for James P. Mates, Rudolph Blackwell, Viewpoint, or Walt Stang to call 648-2692 and ask for Susan.
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Police blotter items from Aiken and Richland venues
Aiken city report cites $750 dashboard damage to a Pontiac Sunbird parked at a department store. Vehicle vandalism damaged a local school and two windows at another site. A black leather pouch with credit cards vanished from a Ford Explorer on Chesterfield Street. A Richland Avenue store theft involved wallet loss with about $380 cash. Two shoplifters, a 16-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man, stole $170 in jeans and a shirt. one suspect hid in the car.
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Hummingbird Feeder Draws Crowds in Aiken City
DORI BRENNEMAN notes residents are amazed by hummingbirds visiting the Birds and Butterflies of Aiken feeder attracting many feathered customers. People stop to watch as the tiny birds feed in city spaces.
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Alexis de Tocqueville Society helps county infant program grow
The Alexis de Tocqueville Society funded an expansion for the Children's Place infant and toddler program in Aiken County, doubling its capacity with a $10,000 gift from founding members Rod and Geneva Grandy Deborah Brooks John and Anne Elliott and Mackey and Barbara Scott. Peggy Ford calls it a critical early intervention for lifelong learning.
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Anne Elliott
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Book Comes to Life in Fly-Fishing Lesson at SAHS
South Aiken High School students learn fly-fishing craft as librarian Carole Wise uses Norman Maclean’s River Runs Through It to connect reading to angling. Wise describes lures like hair bugs and wooly buggers, while students, including Aaron Marshall, engage with gear, techniques, and nature, with Wise keeping locations vague for good measure.
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Labor Day Celebration and Pit Stop in North Augusta
North Augusta hosts a Labor Day event at Riverview Park featuring games rides live entertainment and a fireworks show from 2 to 7 pm. Local groups distribute safety information and a 8 pm headliner Brad Hawkins closes the concert. Proceeds aid Muscular Dystrophy Association and North Augusta Youth Scholarship Fund. The 12th annual Pit Stop at the South Carolina Welcome Center on I 20 runs 10 am to 4:30 pm Friday and Monday offering coffee drinks snacks and litter bags. Last year drew 3,200 travelers. organizers anticipate more this year.
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Seat belt laws enforced in Labor Day crackdown
North Augusta Public Safety and area law enforcement will check for seat belt use during the Labor Day weekend. The campaign motto Buckle Up or Body Bag The Choice is Yours signals zero tolerance for belt, child restraint, and drunk driving violations. Nationwide Insurance sponsors the sixth year. Last year 236 people died nationwide in alcohol related crashes during Labor Day.
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Site Utilities Round-up raises for United Way
The 1998 Site Utilities Department Round-up at Westinghouse Savannah River Company raised $180 for the United Way of Aiken County via a dunking booth. The event tied to a reunion of former power department workers and current site unit staff. Ted Griffin and Missy Hanna led fundraising at the booth with several participants named.
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