February 10,
2014
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Please
remember that I send in my column on Mondays and the papers are not published
until the middle of the week. I wonder
what the weather will be like this week. I hope all is well with us and for us.
Valentine’s
Day is Friday and Harriet’s Garden has plenty of roses. Hope you get pecans from the Nut House,
Flowers from Harriet’s Garden, that steak from Cones or dinner at Juniper or
High Cotton and that special treat from one of our unique shops in Ridge Spring
such as Pat’s Corner, Ridge Antiques and Dry Goods, Olde Treasures, Carlene’s,
Primitives at the Ridge and/or Stuff & Things.
Market on the Ridge
Antiques, Artisans
March 22 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Mark your calendars
Friends
of Ridge Spring will meet at the Library on Thursday, February 20th
at 5:00 PM.
February
23rd, 11:00 a.m. -
the congregations of the Ridge Spring Charge (Spann UMC and Ridge Spring UMC)
will join the congregation of Mt Calvary Lutheran Church in worship and a
spaghetti lunch at Mt Calvary Lutheran Church, 11:00 a.m. The congregations are celebrating
their collaboration to help with Mt. Calvary's Kangaroo Kids Backpack Meal Program.
There will NOT BE morning worship services at Spann UMC or Ridge Spring UMC on
this date. February 16th,
Reverend Steven King will bring the message and share Holy Communion with the
congregations at Spann UMC (9:45 a.m.) and Ridge Spring
UMC (11:00 a.m.). God's table is open to all believers;
please join us in this celebration.
Save the date May 17th for
the 4th Annual Magnolia Ridge Art and Antique Gathering!
If you would like the same location
as last year, or would like to request another space, please feel free to email
us at magridge12@gmail.com If you would like to fill out your vendor form online please
go to wwwridgespringsc.com annual events.
We look forward to seeing you all
again this year!
OLDE TREASURES and
CARLENE’S: Who
loves Valentine’s? We do! Our people have brought in some really
neat items for gifts and décor. Come by and check it out. Thanks to
all of our customers who constantly love to come in and see what we have
new and what they may find here before heading to the BIG RETAILERS in other
towns. We appreciate you so much. Saturday we had quite a
few NEWcustomers who say they will come back and when they do, they
will be considered regular customers too. We had a really great first week in
February and for that we say thank you to all of you.
I love getting to know
new people and we had quite a few Saturday. One gentleman came in
with our ad from THE STATE paper which he had cut out and had in his
hand. He was checking off the shops as he went into them. He
said he had been looking at that ad for several weeks and he told his wife,
“You love antiques; get in the car. We’re going to Ridge Spring
today.” What a delightful couple they are and they plan to come back and
bring friends. Yeah for our hospitality and our small town.
We are brimming over
with excitement in our two shops! We are adding another artist to our
list. Danny O’Driscoll is joining us this week and will be displaying
some his renown artwork on a wall in Olde Treasures. Be sure
to come by and check it out. Some of his work might just fit the bill for
that special Valentine in your life.
Carlene’s is hosting a Chalk Painting Class on
Monday, February 17th from 1 until 3 pm. We have room for four more
people if anyone is interested. The cost is $40 and all you need to bring
is a small piece of furniture, a frame, foot stool, or any other small wooden
item you would like to paint. You will need a 2” paint brush (Wooster
brand has been recommended-Lowes or Home Depot), and an old white sock.
Everything else will be provided. If you don’t have something small to
paint; you can pick up something at the shop before the class. You
will learn how to make chalk paint and how to paint with it
and finish your piece. You need to let me know a.s.a.p. and drop a $20
deposit by to secure your place. Refreshments will be served. You
can come early to shop, and eat at Juniper’s if you like. We’ll be here
by 12:00 if you want to come then. Come for a time of learning,
creating, eating, shopping and fun!
Also, just a reminder
that we still need vendors for the Market on the Ridge. Noel
Steele, Harriet Householder, and I can help you with information concerning
this. The cost is $45 per booth. The date is March 22nd from 9
am until 5 pm.
AMERICAN LEGION
The Ridge Spring
American Legion Post 133 is selling raffle tickets to help pay for building
improvements and maintain its support of sending local students to Boy’s State
each year. There will be six winners: 1st $200 gift
certificate to Academy Sports, 2nd Bear folding Knife
& Case ( collector’s edition, Wild Turkey series, value $250), 3rd Butterball
Turkey Fryer, 4th $50 credit at Cone’s Meats, 5th $50
BP Gas card, 6th $25 Pizza Hut gift card. The tickets are $5.00
each, and can be purchased at The Nut House, Harriet’s Garden , or from any
Legion member. The drawing for the six winners will be held at the Legion
Meeting on Tuesday, March 4th at 7:00 PM. You do not have to be
present to be a winner. Help support this local organization’s fund raiser, and
win a prize for your donation.
JOHN
KNEECE (Mission to Cuba – Part 3 – Work on pouring
the roof for the fourth floor of John Wesley Methodist Church in Santiago de
Cuba) After lugging materials to the fourth floor our first two days on site,
the concrete pour on day three was almost anti-climactic. We started work early in the morning. Again, we were joined by a team from the
church congregation approximately equal in size to our team. This gave us some “spares” so we were able to
spell one another and keep the pour continuous.
Two people shoveled sand into buckets and passed it to the two person
mixer team. Another two people shoveled
aggregate into buckets and passed it to the mixer team. Still another person broke bags of cement and
put cement into buckets to pass to the mixer team. Sand plus aggregate plus cement all went into
the mixer with the “mixmaster” governing the amount of water added. After about 5 minutes, the mix was ready and
was turned out onto the concrete floor.
Then, two people shoveled the mix into buckets and two other people
passed the buckets overhead to two people on a ladder. The folks on the ladder passed the buckets to
the two men who did the actual pouring.
Someone from our team took part in each step of the process except for
the actual pouring into the form. Oh,
did I mention? All the shoveling and mixing was done beside the scaffolding
that held up the form for the slab…so as the pour progressed, fresh concrete
would drip down on us below. We worked
straight through lunch and completed the pour in the early afternoon. We clapped one another on the back and shook
hands and cheered as the last buckets went up the ladder. After lunch, we spent an hour or so cleaning
up the job site and washing tools, buckets, mixer, etc. as the team on top
“finished” the concrete with trowels and floats.
That
evening, our team, the church members who worked on the project plus the pastor
and his family, and their worship team (praise band) all gathered after supper
and celebrated our successful effort with cookies and sodas and praise choruses
(yes, in Spanish). Our team leader
(through the interpreter) spoke to everyone from the church about how excited
we were that we could help them get the roof on the church. The pastor (through the interpreter) thanked
our team and then led us all in prayer, thanking God for guiding our work and
for keeping us safe. (Next week, I will
try to wrap up this story as we visit several
other churches and travel back to Havana.)
Josie
Rodgers
Happy birthday to my fabulous mother, Rosalyn Pressley,
and my amazing daughter, Annalee Rodgers:
Annalee is officially a teenager today! Round 2 for me! Amber will turn 25 this May. Also, my
precious niece Savannah turned 14 Feb. 11.
Thank you for all the prayers during the past couple
of weeks as Leagrace was hospitalized for sickness and then had surgery to
install a port. She came through her
surgery beautifully! That little girl is
a testament to God’s work in this world!
She is a miracle each and every day.
And such a tough little cookie! She
goes through so much and still smiles and laughs more than any child I have
ever known! Baby brother River is due to
arrive around the middle of March.
Aiken County will have the snow make-up day on
Presidents’ Day, Feb. 17.
Little
Peach League Baseball sign-ups will be held Feb. 15 from 10-1 at the ball
field complex in Monetta. For questions, call 480-2290.
Aiken County Public School District would like to invite
parents and members of the community to take part in a Stakeholder Input Meeting for the development of the District’s
Five-Year Strategic Plan. This plan includes goals and activities for improving
student achievement, teacher/leadership quality, and school climate. A meeting
will be held on March 6 at RS-M
Elem/Med Media Center from 6 pm until 7:30 pm to obtain your input and
feedback. Your attendance will be greatly appreciated.
Right Choices--Right
Track---Bright Futures Rally will be held Sat.,
Mar. 15, from 9:30-12:45 at Schofield Middle School for grades 5-8. This is
a free, informative rally that will
feature
guest speakers, exhibition booths of Aiken County middle schools and outside
agencies, and breakout sessions on topics including: All You Need to Know About
IEPs, Promoting Positive Behaviors, Internet Safety, Preparing for Your Future
Now, etc. Food, and door prizes will be given away.
Rene
Miller, RSM Elementary/Middle School
Right Choices--Right Track---Bright
Futures Rally will be held on Saturday, March 15, 2014 from 9:30 to12:45 at Schofield
Middle School and includes Grades 5-8. This
is a free, informative rally that will have guest speakers, exhibition booths
of Aiken County middle schools and outside agencies, and breakout sessions on
topics including: All You Need to Know About IEPs, Promoting Positive
Behaviors, Internet Safety, Preparing for Your Future Now, etc. Food, and door
prizes will be given away.
As part of the South Carolina Fresh
Fruit and Vegetable Program, our school will be participating in a drawing
contest. Students in 3rd-5th grades will be participating at our school. Time will
be allowed during art class with Mr. Fulmer. However, students are also allowed
to work on their entry at home. The deadline to submit artwork to Amy Cooper is
March 5. The school will select three winners to submit to the state department
of education.
• The physical size of submitted
artwork must be 8 ½ inches by 11 inches.
• Image layout must be
horizontal/landscape.
• Image must portray a fruit and/or
vegetable theme.
• Entries should not be matted.
• There should be no border around the
image.
• Entries must be multi-colored and
can be drawn with ink, paint, pastel, crayons, or pencil.
• Design entries must by the
contestant’s original, handillustrated creation, and may not be traced or
copied from published photographs or other artists’ works.
Please include the student’s name and
grade on the back
of the artwork.
If you have any questions about the
drawing contest,
please contact Ramey Fulmer (art
teacher) or
Amy Cooper (assistant principal).
Reminders:
Ridge
Spring Library hours:
Mon/Tues 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.; Thurs 8:30 am - 12:30 pm; Fri 12:30 pm -4:30 pm;
Sat 9 am -12:00 noon.
Every Friday & Saturday: AARS hours 10 – 4
Every 2nd & 4th
Monday: Kids' Corner Story Time 10:30-11:30 a.m., at the Ridge Spring Library.
Every first Tuesday of
the Month: AARS meets 685-5783
Every Wednesday: AA
meets at Recovery Works
Every
Monday & Friday: Narcotics Anonymous
and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings
7:00 pm at The Ridge Spring Library
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