Summer program lets kids learn in dirt at Riverbanks Zoo
The Junior Master program at Riverbanks Zoo & Garden in Columbia turns 70 acres into a classroom for students. A separate note mentions a school standoff and a girl texting her parents saying she loved them. Heating bills may ease this winter with plentiful supplies as the region contemplates relief. The Aiken Standard offers reading discussions centered on literature and the NIV Bible.
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Riverbanks Zoo & Garden
Columbia
Area Deaths and Funerals Notice
Area obituaries list Harry K. Bethmann Lisa Butler Fie Spring Helen T Laid Aen Jerry D Pollardies two M Watson St Akien and notice of funeral services and memorial dates published in the Deaths and Funerals column.
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Harry K. Bethmann
Lisa Butler
Fie Spring
Helen T. Laid
Aen
Jerry D
Underdog Gamecocks Ambush No. 2 Auburn in 24 17 Tilt
The South Carolina Gamecocks gave highly ranked Auburn a tough battle at home in a 24 to 17 game. The crowd stayed engaged as the underdogs pressed the defending foe, delivering a strong showing despite the final outcome.
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Gamecocks
Auburn
Two arrested for bank robbery in Aiken
Gregory Allen Thompson and Shannon D. Smith, both of Cutler Circle, were arrested Thursday in connection with the Security Federal Bank robbery in the Target shopping center. They face charges of entering a bank with intent to steal and are being investigated for a prior Monday robbery at First Citizens Bank on Silver Bluff Road.
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Montmorenei
Aiken
Gregory Allen Thompson
Shannon D. Smith
Cutler Circle
Security Federal
Target
First Citizens Bank
Silver Bluff Road
Aiken Public Safety
David Turo
Thompson
Smith
Whiskey Road
Aaron ‘Dobbs
Tumo
Sheriffs Office
Political sons behind McCain PAC measure
Strom Thurmond Je and Carroll A. Campbell IM, sons of late political figures, join McCain's Straight Talk America PAC in South Carolina to help direct its work. Thurmond says he has no assigned role yet. The release notes McCain’s Senate career and prior presidential bid.
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John McCain
Strom Thurmond Je
Sen
Strom Thurmond
Carroll A. Campbell IM
Carroll ‘A. Campbell
McCain
Straight ‘Talk America Pac
South Carolina
Thurmond
Aiken
MOX Permit Filed for Savannah River MOX Plant
Duke group Gogema Stone & Webster filed an operating license with the NRC on Sept 27 for a mixed oxide fuel plant at Savannah River Site. The MOX program envisages blending weapons grade plutonium with natural uranium and burning assemblies in Duke Energy’s Catawba Unit I reactor.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Savannah River
NRC
United States
Russia
Urani Giusti
U.S
SRS
Duke Energy
Duke
Citizens For Nuclear Technology Awareness
Mal McKibben
Work To Ride program helps inner city youth through horses
The Work To Ride program in Philadelphia operates as a 501(c)3 nonprofit guiding urban youths through equine activities since 1994. Executive director Lettie Hiner notes funding remains the main challenge while showcasing the program’s impact on discipline self esteem motivation social development and physical fitness through year round activities.
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Lettie
Aiken Polo Pony
Hiner
Springdale
Camden
Joe Cantey
University of South Carolina
Inner City
Aca
Demic
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