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AIKEN-AUGUSTA’S MOST SALUBRIOUS NEWSPAPER • FOUNDED IN 2006
JULY 1, 2016
THE BIG ONE-OH!
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Hot enough for ya? Looking over ten years of back issues led us to this article from 2008 that, according to our thermometer, deserves a reread. Summer. It’s here, and it’s Augusta, and it’s hot. Are you cool with that? Yes or no, you need to read this article. If you say yes, you’re probably one of those who loves hot Hot weather kills weather, the hotter the better. As a result, you’re exposed. You’re out more people every in it, and there are a few things year than tornadoes, you need to know. hurricanes, And if you say no, I’m not cool with heat, then you need the expert lightning, floods information that follows even more and earthquakes because, after all, no one — at combined. least not in this town — can escape the heat completely. Sooner or later even the most hard core AC addicts will be out there in it. That can be downright dangerous. Even though heat-related deaths and illnesses are preventable, excessive heat exposure caused 8,015 deaths in the United States Oven knob graphic created for the Medical Examiner by Ginny Millar
Please see HOT page 2
es friends, your favorite newspaper — Aiken-Augusta’s Most Salubrious Newspaper, in fact — has hit the ripe old age of 10. Issue #1 was dated July 1, 2006. Back in those primitive times, we published on the 1st and 15th of every month, forgetting that those days would fall on Saturdays and Sundays from time to time. So within a few months we changed to 1st and 3rd Fridays and never looked back. Until this week, that is. Looking back on 240 issues, one thing is very clear: it’s a miracle this paper survived. Why? For one thing, many of our earliest issues could be described in a single word: boring. It’s a fear-inspiring task to fill up 16 jumbo-sized pages from top to bottom once a month, let alone twice. So back in 2006, if we got a press release from Hospital X announcing that Mildred Perkins of Dietary Services had been promoted from Assistant Tray Washer to Apprentice Jell-O Maker, we ran it — with a photograph. It didn’t always make for the most fascinating reading. It took some time to attract the likes of Bad Billy Leveau, Kim Beavers, Alisa Rhinehart, Trisha
Many of our earliest issues could be described in a single word: boring.
Whisenhunt, Clayton Quamme and Bill Cleveland, Ken Wilson, Chris Davidson, Dr. Darren Mack and Dr. Caroline Colden and a host of dietitians to grace our pages, not to mention the late great Cindy Crawford (of Cindy’s Catering), who inaugurated the recipe feature we still continue. Among her epic column headlines: “A Cautionary Tale of Fudge. And Failure;” “Did You Ever Have One of Those Dads?” and perhaps her all-time best, “If You Don’t Fry Food Are You Really a Southerner?” Other notable columnists who have graced these pages
Our Top Ten years so far are: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Funny how that adds up to 11 years, isn’t it?
during our first ten years: past president of Augusta College William Bloodworth; WRDW anchorman and true gentleman Tom Campbell; mayoral candidate and all-round do-gooder Helen Blocker-Adams; world-famous comedian Dave Barry and celebrity chef Rachael Ray; and long-time columnist Cindy Elia, an experienced dietitian and loyal Examiner advocate. Of course, we fully realize that sometimes we’re still pretty boring. The trouble is, a lot of very important subjects don’t exactly make for gripping reading. It’s not easy to make eating vegetables not named french fries seem important. So if it sometimes seems like we’re deliberately trying to be cute or clever, it’s not your imagination. The most informative article of all time about preventing gout, let’s say, will do no one any good if the only people who read it doze off in the middle of paragraph two. So the goal is to attempt to entertain while we inform. It’s like putting sprinkles on broccoli. You might be tricked into actually eating the stuff. Have you ever stopped to think about the ratio of healthful and salubrious messages we receive compared to those urging Please see ONE-OH page 3
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