North Augusta Rotary sees strong youth focus at NAHS tour
Students Maryann Saggus and Kimberly Stewart outline NAHS clubs and activities during a Rotary Club visit. The tour highlights the Academic Team chorus band Beta Club National Honor Society KOOL and service groups plus Miss NAHS powderpuff football and the Future Business Leaders of America program. Students emphasize wide opportunities and community outreach through Food Drives Red Cross blood drives and Interclub Council projects.
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North Augusta
Maryann Saggus
Kimberly Stewart
Rotary Club
North Augusta High School
Yen
Assy Sagens
Carnegie Hall
Interclub Council
Stewart
Business Leaders of America
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Health Occupations Club
American Red Cross
Media Club
Adaptive Golf Workshop slated for Oct 23 24 in North Augusta
The second Adaptive Golf Workshop sponsored by Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics and Walton Rehabilitation Hospital will run October 23 and 24 at North Augusta Country Club. Sunny Ackermann leads sessions showing golf as rehabilitation for people with physical disabilities. The first day targets professionals and students. participants learn adaptive equipment and exercises to teach golf to disabled players. Registration closes October 17. Fees are 20 for pros, 10 for students, free for disabled players. Clubs provided. bring own clubs if desired.
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North Augusta
Hanger Prosthetics
Walton Rehabilitation Hospital
North Augusta Country Club
Sunny Ackermann
Sassafras Festival Committee Meets Weekly in September
The Sassafras Festival Committee will meet at 6 30 p m each Thursday in September at the Burnettown Municipal Building to organize the October festival. The opening reception is Sunday Sept 8 from 2 to 4 p m at 122 Laurens St SW. The exhibit runs until Sept 2 with gallery hours Wed Fri 11 50 a m to 5 0 p m and Sat 10 a m to 3 p m.
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Sassafras Festival
Midland Valley
Sassafras Festival Committee
Burnettown
Laurens St. SW
Local political and cultural events listed for Aiken area
The Aiken County Libertarian Party meets at 6 30 p m today at the Buffet Restaurant University Parkway Aiken public invited Area One advisory council meets at 5 30 p m today at 105 Gator Lane Aiken public invited session will be closed afterward For details call 641 2720 Area Four council meets Sept 12 at 1 30 p m in Old 96 Indian Trail New Holland details 64 3196 Sunrise Rotary golf tourney planned Oct 9 at Woodside Vernon Hyman 648 3411 Court ney to show Longing artworks at Aiken Center for the Arts in September featuring Columbia artist Richard Coatney
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Libertarian Party
Aiken County
University Parkway
Aiken
Area One Advisory Council
Advisory Council
Area One
Gator Lane
Area Four
Old 96
Indian Trail
New Holland
Coutney
Arts Center
Aiken Center For the Arts
Columbia
Richard Coatney
Visions of Langley Pond showcased by Graniteville group
Graniteville Exchange Club members viewed a Forestry Service produced video on Langley Pond at Savannah River Site. The film highlights the pond as a Midland Valley landmark and promotes tourism through bass fishing power boating and rowing regattas along with Sasafras and Arts and Crafts festivals on its banks.
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Graniteville
Graniteville Exchange Club
Langley Pond
Midland Valley
Forestry Service
Savannah River
Horse Creek Valley
Lynn Kirkland
Valley tourism plan teased with canoe and nature trails
Kirkland outlines future plans to develop a canoe trail and nature trail to attract visitors to Midland Valley. He promotes the quarterly Horse Creek Valley Guide Lines magazine as a tool to highlight local businesses and culture. He argues even 100 daily visitors would boost the area economically.
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Kirkland
Club
Horse Creek Valley Guide Lines
Midland Valley
Georgia
Preventive Vaccination Debate for Horse Disease Strangles
Dr Handy cautions against routine vaccination for strangles noting vaccine reactions can exceed infection symptoms. She advises horse owners to isolate any suspected case and contact a veterinarian immediately to manage an outbreak.
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Dr. Handy
From Greenville Tech to a statewide technical education push
Don Campbell recalls starting at Greenville Tech in 1965 amid limited skills and growing into administration at Piedmont Technical College and later ATC. He says technical education provides career paths beyond dead ends, with graduates earning bachelor’s or advanced degrees while the system continues to attract industry and build a skilled labor force.
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South Carolina
Greenville Tech
Dave Lennox
Maytag
Greenwood
Piedmont Technical College
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By Bill Bengtson
Sunrise Rotary
Aiken Sunrise Rotary Club
Woodside Plantation
Vernon Hyman
Valey
Don Campbell
PTC
ATC
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