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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1996
Page
11
A rock shattered a window at Jones Supply on Laurens Street causing $950 damage. A Chevy van on York Street at 2 Fine Fellows Car Lot was broken into on Saturday with several windows broken and $300 damage. Updated 9/10/96.
The Aiken County Board of Education meets today at 7 pm to vote on personnel appointments revise a bookkeeping manual for student activity funds and arrange an interpreter for deaf students. An executive session will discuss legal and personnel issues and student appeals at the Educational Center 843 Edgefield Ave Aiken. Windsor council also meets tonight at 7 30 pm at Town Hall Mount Beulah Road for details call 649 0852.
Aiken boy Justin Neill names his salt-water aquarium newt Gingrich after the political figure. Steve Price carded a hole in one on Cedar Creek fifth hole, reaching from 118 yards with a D wedge.
Aiken celebrates Hopelands Christmas festival earning the 1996 Dorothy Mullins Arts and Humanities Award. The event, adding to regional honors, began in 1992 and drew nearly 17,000 attendees last year, raising over 6500 in donations. Concerts run nightly with the hall of fame and Rye Patch hosting seasonal crafts. June Murff credits volunteers and tourism boosts from the event.
The Aiken Planning Commission presented a two page action plan to the City Council outlining heavy items for planning including a tower control ordinance a revised zoning code amendments to permit cluster housing and studies to make Aiken more business friendly A committee led by Sidney Ernest will draft recommendations and meet first on Oct 1 Mayor Cavanaugh praised parts of the effort but warned of continued controversy as the council moves forward with business friendly reforms and streamlined permitting
The City of Aiken passed the Vendor Outreach Program proposal after the Local Purchasing Task Force recommended it. Council members and local business leaders expect vendors from the county to have first shot at city procurements without creating bureaucracy or extra staff. The plan includes phone and goods lists, a fair to boost interaction, and guidance for new licensees on how to bid for city work.
Aiken Preparatory School plans to seek Planning Commission approval to use an existing building at Florence Street and Richland Avenue as a private middle school for grades six to nine. The plan includes parking behind the building and landscaping the rest of the lot. City Planning Director Ed Evans backs the proposal as consistent with local zoning. The commission will also weigh annexing 48 acres east of Beaufort Street, part of which houses the old city landfill, seeking R-2 multi family zoning.
The Very Rev Gregory Rogers notes a rare visit by Bishop Demetri Khoury of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese to St. Catherine Church in Aiken for matins and the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m. Sunday. Rose Hill College marks its first class matriculation with a campus garden ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday and a post service dinner priced at $6 adults $3 children.
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