Aiken Standard readers comment on taxes schools and safety
A reader urges cutting top brass instead of raising sales tax and questions revenue losses to Georgia and North Carolina. They call for a 10 year millage freeze, critique Hopelands Gardens fate, and urge local investment, policing, and open minds in Aiken and Edgefield while praising a Good Samaritan who found a lost dog.
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July event at Village at Woodside raises funds for veterans
The Village at Woodside donated 7422 dollars to the Aiken Augusta Wounded Warrior Charity Golf Classic committee for the annual July Fourth celebration open to the public. Proceeds support USC Aiken Veteran Success Center Fort Gordon Warrior Transition Battalion and Camp Gravatt retreat. The event features the Mike Frost Band and a 92.7 FM live broadcast.
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Aiken groups plan meetings and classes at city venues
The Aiken Artist Guild meets Monday in the Brown Pavilion Room at the Aiken Center for the Arts with a 6 30 p m social period and a 7 p m business session. The Aiken Singers unveil Aiken at Christmas book and CD, with presale at $40. The Academy for Lifelong Learning starts fall classes through Dec 8 featuring gardening painting history and more. USC Aiken room 113 catalog copies available Mondays to Wednesdays.
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Business and Education
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Executive Editor Melissa Hanna listed for Aiken Standard
Melissa Hanna is identified as executive editor at the Aiken Standard, with contact details including a phone number 803-644-2364 for editorial inquiries and press communications.
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Spaces open for Camp Sharigan reading program
The Camp Sharigan Project a yearlong supplementary reading program for first through third graders returns this month in Aiken. Dr Elaine Clanton Harpine offers free sessions focusing on phonemic awareness vowel clustering and decoding to rebuild brain white matter for struggling readers. She partners with USC Aiken.
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Elaine Clanton Harpine
Aiken
Clanton Harpine
USC Aiken
Reading Camp Sought for Grades 1 to 3 at Local Church
Grades first through third are invited to join a free reading camp from Sept 15 to May 7, 4 to 6 pm on Mondays and Thursdays at St. John’s United Methodist Church. Registration closes Sept 14. Email clanton harpine hotmail com or call 803-593-4988. Professors Keri Weed and Meredith Elzy will send psychology students to work with the children to boost reading and confidence.
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Keri Weed
Meredith Elzy
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