Readers’ Letters Reflect Aiken Voices On Transplants Birds and Fashion
A letter page collects varied opinions from Aiken readers. Topics include generalizations about residents, job creation by newcomers, a favorable DMV visit, concerns over birds at Wal Mart, youth dress at a South Asian game, requests for school and security policy, critique of repeated use of a 2001 song, support for nurses and doctors, and instructions to send comments via Talkback.
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Aiken
Holiday Pit Stop draws Labor Day travelers to Welcome Center
North Augusta witnesses a 16 year old program by AB Beverage and Anheuser Busch promoting safe driving during Labor Day travel. Volunteers from Aiken Junior Woman's Club greet visitors at the I 20 Welcome Center offering coffee drinks snacks and educational materials on responsible drinking. Local sponsors include Circle K Commercial Coffee Dixie Riverside Earthgrains Bak ing Krogers Murray Biscuit Pepsi Cola Southern Beverage Speedway Starvin Marvin and Wal Mart Supercenter Aiken.
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North Augusta
Mike Drayton
Macon
Winston-Salem
N.C
South Carolina
Drayton
Parker's Body Shop
Graves Auto Salvage
A.B. Beverage Company
Bob Westmoreland
Department of ‘Transportation
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism
Department of Public Safety
Circle K
Commercial Coffee
Aiken
Dixie Riverside
Augusta
Earthgrains Bak
Scott Webster
Christi Wiliams
Willie
JoAnn Hollingsworth
Atlanta
Hit and run forces second wreck on Interstate 20
Aiken man Darrell Roberson, 44, and off duty Columbia County volunteer Travis Daves, 24, faced multiple traffic violations after a car chase began at an Amoco station and ended with a collision at mile marker 181 on I 20. No injuries reported. both were detained and bonded.
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Columbia County
Interstate 20
Aiken
Darrell Roberson
Travis Daves
Harlem
Amoco
Steve Morris
Columbia County Sheriff's Office
Robertson
Daves
Roberson
Morris
Aiken’s Makin Festival Weekend Returns With Crafts and Food
The Aiken Chamber of Commerce presents the 26th annual Aiken’s Makin Festival on September 13 and 14. Park Avenue downtown hosts more than 250 crafters and about 30 food vendors from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Opening ceremonies are at 9:45 a.m. Friday in Regions Operations Center parking lot. Local musicians perform both days as featured acts include cloggers ballet dancers gymnasts a sax quintet and the Double Dutch Force National Champs jump rope act.
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Aiken
Festival Park
Children seek annulment of mother's marriage to younger man
Olive Elizabeth Handley 86 married Daniel Jefferson Hartzog 34 on April 11 at Laurens Street chapel. Handley cared for out of state after removal from Brandy Road home. Handley Edwards dispute with Hartzog over marriage. Attorney Brown seeks annulment in Aiken County Family Court. Hartzog contests, says cohabitation occurred and wife was mentally competent. Guardian ad litem Paige Weeks Johnson appointed.
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Olive Elizabeth Handley
Daniel Jefferson Hartzog
Handley
Brandy Road
Guy Rayner Handley
Florida
Pamela Handley Edwards
Georgia
Aiken County
Hartzog
Laurens Street
Edwards
Lawrence Brown
Brown
Paige Weeks Johnson
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DMV
Division of Motor Vehicles
Wal Mart
Health Department
SEC
Holtz
David Gibbs
Editorialaaikenstandard. Com
Jack Vaughan
Vaughan
Westmoreland
Woman’s League
Robin Guy
Janet Wertz
Guy
Carl Langley Senior Witer
Centre South
FloydandGreene.com
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