/images/headlines/022202/AIKEN_BATTLE_CANNON.jpg||1||A cannon belches fire as it is shot by a Union crew during the reenactment of the Battle of Aiken in 1998. ||FILE/STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/met_237-5580.000.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/AIKEN_BATTLE_TROOPS.jpg||2||Union troops advance on retreating Confederate soldiers during during the reenactment of the Battle of Aiken in 1998. ||FILE/STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/met_237-5580.000.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/BERG_SUBSCRIBER.jpg||4||Joanne Berg ||STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/met_172-2649.000.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/Cookies_Unloaded.jpg||7||Charlie Walton slides boxes of Girl Scout Thin Mints cookies along the floor of the tractor-trailer holding 3,412 cases of cookies. The delivery was made Thursday morning to the Girl Scouts' office on Greene Street. ||ANDREW DAVIS TUCKER/STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/met_043-1051.000.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/Jr_Lynx_Lambert.jpg||11||Junior Lynx squirt goalie Taylor Powell, left, coach Judd Lambert for the Jr Lynx Midgets, Jared Balbag, pee wee goalie, coach Keith Powell and in front, Drew Slaton, squirt player. ||ANNETTE M. DROWLETTE/STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/lyn_youth.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/LeBlanc_Acquitted_Laugh.jpg||12||Accused rapist Aaron LeBlanc, left, talks with his private investigator Gene Staulcup after he was acquitted of all nine charges against him.||ANDREW DAVIS TUCKER/STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/met_192-6660.000.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/LeBlanc_Acquitted_Victims.jpg||13||Two of Aaron LeBlanc's accusers comfort each other as the third weeps on her boyfriend's shoulder after the not-guilty verdicts are read. Mr. LeBlanc was acquitted of all nine charges against him Thursday afternoon.||||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/met_192-6660.000.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/LeBlanc_Acquitted_Walk.jpg||14||Aaron LeBlanc, left, looks back towards his accusers as he is escorted from the courtroom after he was acquitted of all nine charges against him Thursday afternoon.||ANDREW DAVIS TUCKER/STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/met_192-6660.000.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/PATS_RESTAURANT.jpg||21||Trish Mason, who had been a waitress at Pat's Restaurant from 1979 until it closed last year, takes orders. Longtime customers Barbara Hamilton (center) and Annette Bracco eat at the restaurant, which reopened Feb. 15. ||RON COCKERILLE/STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/met_110-5785.000.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/PATS_RESTAURANT2.jpg||22||Tish Mason, left, Rose Williams, center, and Peggy Surry, worked at Pat's since 1979.||RON COCKERILLE/STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/met_110-5785.000.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/PATS_RESTAURANT3.jpg||23||A sign in the restaurant's window advertises its reopening. Many Aiken residents who considered Pat's a favorite returned to eat Thursday. ||RON COCKERILLE/STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/met_110-5785.000.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/ROSE_PRUNING4.jpg||24||Chris Randall, a consultant with the Augusta Rose Society, prunes his rosebushes. Mr. Randall and his wife, Sandy, have more than 300 roses at their home in Aiken. ||RON COCKERILLE/STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/gar_221-6187.000.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/Shooting_scene.jpg||26||Columbia County investigators examine the mobile home on Giesela Drive near Grovetown where a man attempted suicide by shooting himself in the stomach and injured his mother who was standing behind him. ||JIM BLAYLOCK/STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/met_082-8153.000.shtml||||1 /images/headlines/022202/long_employee2.jpg||30||Dump truck driver Sidney Waltower looks at his reflection in a mirror on a Thermal Ceramics truck. He began a job at Augusta's Babcock & Wilcox plant in 1942. Thursday was his last shift at the company, now called Thermal Ceramics. ||ANNETTE M. DROWLETTE/STAFF||||http://augustachronicle.com/stories/022202/bus_072-3756.000.shtml||||1