November 30,
2015
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
The Shoppes
of Ridge Spring had their own extravaganza with Black Friday and Saturday
Extravaganza. It was a wonderful success.
So much so that the Shoppes of Ridge Spring want to have “Customer Appreciation
Day” on December 12th. There
will be more about this in the next column.
Now we get in
gear for Christmas season. The Christmas
Tree Farms are gearing up for the season too.
We have several around our community for you to choose from. The weather has been pretty good for it was
70 degrees Saturday and the commentators for the Palmetto Bowl commented how
they broke into a sweat just getting into the stadium.
The Christmas
Tree Lighting Ceremony will be Sunday December 6. Santa will be coming too. The
group singing will be from Pastor Key's group from Helping Hands Ministry. We
will begin at 4:30 with
the tree being lit and Santa arriving soon after.
The Green Thumb Garden Club will again host the Christmas
Tour of Homes on December 13th from 2:00 to 5:00. Tickets may be purchased the day of the tour
at all the homes. Tickets are $10.00 for
the tour. The homes on tour are Gene Ray and Sue Fulmer, Kevin and Ann Marie Taylor,
and John and Nola Burger. Two churches will be part of the tour with Ridge
Spring Baptist Church and Ridge Spring United Methodist Church. Cake and spiced
ea will be served at the Joe and Betty Watson Family Life Center Which is next
door to the Ridge Spring United Methodist Church.
Leonard
Bell will be at the Ridge Spring Town Square selling fresh produce on December 12th
and 19th with January 31 being his last day until June.
Joanne
Crouch, AARS, president
ART CLASS FOR KIDS
Christmas Workshop-December 5th from 10-12
Children ages 5 & up.
Design Christmas ornaments just in time to decorate for the Christmas
season. The cost is $20 for the first
child, $15 for the second. All supplies
provided. Mary Zelmer and Barbara Yon,
instructors. Call (803)685-5386 or email artassnridgespring@gmail.com to register.
We again have the
pleasure to offer another Silk Scarf Painting Class with Libby Bussinah on
Saturday, December 12th from 9-1. Cost
is $45. All supplies will be supplied. Contact Joanne Crouch to register @
(803)685-5577 (leave message) or email joanne.crouch26@gmail.com to register.
Josie
Rodgers:
Our first Thanksgiving without Leagrace was bittersweet. Even without our precious princess, we have
so much to be grateful for. Let us not
forget to praise God in the storm and thank Him for all of the many blessings
and gifts he bestows upon us each day. Decorating
the Christmas tree was very hard this year, but I am grateful to have the
opportunity to celebrate our Savior’s birth and teach my children and others
about God’s love and his Heavenly Kingdom.
I am thankful for the chance to prepare myself for His coming—Christmas
AND His final appearance. I’ll see Pooky
then! And as always, I know where she is
and what she’s doing, and though we miss her with a pain that is sharp and constant,
we take comfort in the fact that she is dancing and singing in Heaven. I know I say that all the time, but it’s
exciting! And it keeps me sane.
The
annual Rodgers Family Thanksgiving Cup was played Thanksgiving
afternoon. Mark’s team of Annalee,
Aiden, and Taylor took on Lang’s team of Isaac, Jon, and Savannah. It was a hard-fought game (what with no
referee and all!) and was close until Savannah batted the ball out of her
opponent’s reach. Lang’s team won again,
and Savannah was dubbed MVP. More
exciting than the actual game was the banter between the teams and between Mark
and Annalee. It is hilarious and keeps
us laughing until the last down. My
people have already started practicing new moves for next year!
RSM Elem
News (Rene Miller): Music
classes, under the direction of Becky Hughes, will present a Christmas musical entitled The Twelve Days of Christmas at 9
am Dec. 18.
RSM Middle News: Members of the 4-H participated in a lock-in recently. Sponsor Crystal Coleman said that Clemson
Extension came in and showed them how to birth a baby calf and build working
robots Friday. On Saturday, the 4-H had
an opportunity to learn basic first aid from Ms. Middlebrooks and had a session
again with Clemson Extension about ATV safety.
The parents came together and fed the students and the students had a
blast.
RSM
High News: The Trojans traveled to Lamar with a large fan following to fight
for the Upper-State Championship. While
they didn’t bring home that title, they certainly earned the title of Warriors
with Heart. We are very proud of these
young men and their coaches for an incredible season. School spirit has been running high this
year, and we hope it continues on through basketball season and into the
classrooms.
The FFA is sponsoring a school dance
and collecting pet toys and pet food to donate to the ASPCA. Items will be collected on Dec. 11 in the RSM
High cafetorium as admission to the school dance. No monetary funds will be
accepted.
Book Review from David Marshall James:
"Creating the Illusion: A Fashionable History of
Hollywood Costume Designers" by Jay Jorgensen and Donald L. Scoggins:
This "epi-" tome of cinema glam gowns and glad rags from
the Griffith-ian era forward sparkles like the sequins on a Gilbert Adrian
confection for Greta Garbo, or a Travis Banton dazzler for Marlene Dietrich,
who was fond of freebie-ing her film wardrobe, although Paramount said,
"No," to an eight-thousand-dollar dilly for "Angel" (1937).
Eight G's for a costume
at a time when that sum could have purchased a house, with plenty left over for
furnishings: No wonder the era is known as "The Golden Age of
Hollywood." Moreover, as the
multitudinous photographs in this lustrously illustrated volume display, many
of the golden gowns are nothing short of works of art, as envisioned by the
more than fifty designers who are featured herein.
From one angle, an
ultra-luxe (marble-topped, gilt-legged) coffee-table volume, this oversize work
also serves as a reference source, with biographical highlights of designers
both well-known (Edith Head, Orry-Kelly, Jean Louis) and less-so. The text underscores the fickleness of studio
politics and temperamental producers, which caused many of these great talents
to jump ship and change lanes during the course of their careers. Some
returned to the stage, while others opened their own boutiques or free-lanced
for individuals. Some stars flexed enough pull to demand a certain
out-of-studio designer for a particular picture.
Television attracted some
displaced designers: Lucille Ball hauled Edward Stevenson, from her RKO
days, onboard "I Love Lucy" as well as her later TV offerings.
Who can forget Lucy's and Ethel's burlapped Parisian couture, with
ice-bucketed chapeaux? William Travilla,
one of Marilyn Monroe's favorite designers from Twentieth Century-Fox, went on
to design for "Dallas" during the 1980s. Bob Mackie raised the
curtain on his Hollywood career (which included Carol Burnett’s and Cher’s
shows) by bedazzling Judy Garland on her 1963-64 CBS variety show. Judy-- by
that point well-versed in the Dietrich-ian method of wardrobe acquisition--
made off with her Mackie's, popping up in them on concert stages for the
remainder of her life.
Hollywood's Golden Age is
gone with the wind-- gone are the vast studio sewing rooms and beading
departments-- but Walter Plunkett's green-plush-curtain Scarlett O'Hara dress
remains: One of the great works of art on display in this much-deserved
tribute to the men and women who designed for Hollywood's glitz-and-glamour extravaganzas.
Reminders:
Dec.
6: Christmas Tree Lighting at Gazebo
Dec.
12: Shoppes of Ridge Spring Customer Appreciation Day
Dec.
13: Green Thumb Garden Club Tour of Homes
Ridge Spring Library
hours:
Mon/Tues 8:30 am - 12 pm; Wednesday 9:00 to 4:30, Thurs 8:30 am - 12:00 pm; Fri
8:30 am -4:30 pm, Saturday from 9:00 until noon,
Every 2nd
& 4th Monday: Kids'
Corner
Story Time 10:30-11:30 a.m., at the
Ridge Spring Library.
Every 2nd
Monday: RSM Elem PTO meets at 6:30 pm in the media
center.
Every Friday &
Saturday: AARS hours 10 – 4 or
by appt, free admission
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