August 15, 2016
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
The Harvest Festival will be Oct. 13-15
FORS Meeting Thursday 5:00 Library
While Joe Cal
Watson is recuperating, the Nut House
will be open on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from
9 to 5. It will be closed on Monday, Wednesday, and Sunday. Joe had a medical procedure last week to insert bone cement
between two of his vertebra. The procedure seems to have reduced the back pain
he had been experiencing the last few weeks. He is having physical and
occupational therapy to help regain his strength. Please keep him in your
prayers.
Ridge Spring Farmers’ Market: We had five vendors at the market but we had plenty of fresh
produce to sell. George Raborn will be
back with his peas as well as Leonard Bell.
Leonard will have plenty of other fresh produce. WE still have peaches. Those vouchers have a
deadline when they can be used, too. To continue the SAGA of the sweet potato
story: You can boil sweet potatoes in
their skin and the skins will come right off when they are done. Sorry, I did not know that. Potato pies and apple pies are the same
except for the fruit. Make pie dough, roll
out into squares or circles, fill with your choice of fruit, pinch closed with
fork and then fry’um!!! You can also peel,
slice and fry with sugar, brown sugar, or honey…yummy… WE do have a few extra chairs so come on by
and visit. More next week
Cal Forrest of Prices Metalwork is the official sponsor of the 2016 RS Harvest Festival
Bar-b-que Cook-off. All can
participate. Get an application and pay
your $30.00 fee submitting it by August 31st. The Harvest Festival will provide a Boston
Butt for each team and judges will blind sample your team’s BBQ after the
Saturday morning parade. Prizes will be awarded
to the top three teams. Forms can be
found at Ridge Spring Harvest Festival web site.
There will be a
community wide pep rally for the RS-M-Saluda game on Thursday, August 26th @ 7 p.m. in
Ridge Spring. Everyone is invited to meet the Trojans and cheer them on
to a victory!
Effie Martin: Mount Alpha Union had their Back To School Blast August 13, 2016
at the Ridge Spring Star Community Center. The speakers for the occasion were
Rev. Preston Winkler, Ms. Joyce Davis, Mr. Gray J. Coleman and Mr. Melvin Abney.
There were approximately fifty in attendance. We were very glad to service them
with school supplies and lunch. The moderator is Mr. Kenneth Johnson.
The women auxiliary of
the Ridge Hill Baptist Educational Association had their parade of Babies
Program on July 30, 2016 at Reedy Branch Baptist Church in Ward, SC. They raised
over $10,000 for the students in college and member of one of the churches in
the association. Rev. Donald Hall is the
Moderator and Mrs. Effie T. Martin is the president of the women auxiliary.
One Ash Farm and Dairy (Lee Ann Perez)-Did you know that here at One Ash we write a
really popular, far-reaching blog all about Homesteading? Our farm, located
between Ridge Spring and I-20, produces Grade A Raw Milk, pasture raised eggs,
homemade soap and various other products depending on the season. In our blog
we take our thousands of readers along on our journey of living off the
homestead with Recipes, Inspiration, Homesteading Tips and Instruction, and
Book Reviews. And we are right here in your back door!!! If you haven't
visited our blog yet, please head on over and join the fun! www.OneAshHomestead.com
Jane Autrey Insurance Services has added 2 new agents, Kristin Stoudemayer and Derrick
Jones both of Saluda, SC. Parents of college students who will be
taking a car to school need to change their insurance policies to show the new
garage location. They might also consider renters insurance if they are living
off campus in an apartment.
Judy: We miss one of our town mascots......Charles Patterson. He always could be found at Juniper. I
have a friend who did a painting of Charles while he was at Juniper one
day.......big painting, black and white checkered floor and all. Trish
has a print of the painting that they hope to frame and hang on the wall in
Juniper. I remember him from helping
with the Farmer's Market and collecting fees for the spaces......little
K.D.Adaire was selling lemonade, (she was about five at the time) and with a
wink Charles just walked on by and did not collect the fee. What a Santa Claus and gentle soul.
George Pastor Key. Helpful
Hands Min 109 Pecan Grove Rd, Ridge Spring: Sunday August 21st Helpful
Hands Min will be at Elijah Clark State Park for Old Time Baptism
Services. Services will begin at 11:00 am at
Shelter 2 and Baptism will follow. Don't
miss this event. Food will be served.
Also Helpful Hands food Bank is open every 2nd and 4th
Saturdays 10am to 12 noon. Food bank is located 512 Merritt St, Ridge
Spring
I prefer to be
here in 2016 but sometimes it is nice to remember the way it was. John C Howard passed away. In 1959 I remember him putting out the correct
sign or flag or telegraph message for the train to stop in Ridge Spring for my
mother and me to get on board. We were
traveling by train to New York and then flying to Germany to meet my father. I
never really knew what he did but he did it right. Just five years later we had
to go to Columbia to board the train for our Senior Trip.
Review from
David Marshall James: "Killfile" by
Christopher Farnsworth
Since Wolf Messing
astounded Russian intelligence during the 1950s with his phenomenal psychic
abilities, the CIA has been attempting to keep pace, seeking its own mind
readers or, better yet, mind benders.
Let's step briefly back
to note some commander-in-chief facts during the midst of this presidential
campaign: Abraham Lincoln participated in seances in the White House;
Franklin Roosevelt summoned psychic Jeanne Dixon to the White House; and the
Reagans actively consulted an astrologer.
In his latest novel,
Christopher Farnsworth presents a glued-to-your-hands, stuck-to-your-seat
thriller concerning an ex-CIA psychic, John Smith, whose powers were discovered
during the course of his Army basic training and employed in black ops in
assorted Middle East locales.
Now that Mr. Smith has
left Washington, he's jobbing for the one-percenters (The Hillary and The
Donald can tell you that they're the uber wealthy, and indeed she did in her
convention acceptance speech) with serious problems, such as kidnapped
teenagers, that they want kept out of the media, and thus out of the hands of
the police.
So, who ya gonna call?
Brainbusters!
As the action takes
shape, Smith accepts a task from a Warren Buffett-y type who claims that one of
his former employees, now head of his own tech firm preparing to make an
initial public stock offering, has stolen a computer algorithm than can collate
all kinds of personal information in order to give an advanced read on any
individual's likely thoughts and actions.
Ya gotta hate when that
happens. But, you know it does. There's a reason that the grocery
store is printing out those Cheetos coupons for you-- all your buying practices
are recorded through your customer card. That's just a single, obvious
example. Then, there're your
credit cards, debit cards, passwords, and pin numbers. Anything that's on
computer file can be hacked like John Belushi, Samurai Swipe-It.
Thus begins a
round-the-World chase of a plot, with more twists than a
three-for-one-gin-and-tonic happy hour. Like observing a convincing
psychic, it's scary good.
REMINDERS
Ridge
Spring-Monetta Elementary School 2016-2017 Registration is August 8, 9:00 a.m. -
2:00 p.m. and August 9, Noon - 7:00 p.m.
RSM Mid/High School: Registration will be held Tues., Aug. 9 from 12 pm to 7 pm. Parents/guardians need
two documents that show proof of physical address and mailing address. Please see the school’s website for more
information
Trojan
football kicks off Fri., Aug. 19 @ Batesburg at
7:30! Go Trojans! Beat those Panthers!
A community wide pep rally for the
RS-M-Saluda game on Thursday, August 26th @ 7 p.m. in
Ridge Spring
Narcotics
Anonymous will hold meetings
at The Ridge Spring Library on Fridays from 7:00 to 8:00 pm.
Recycling Center Hours
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1-7; Saturday 7-7; Sunday 3-7
Closed Tuesday and Thursday
Ridge Spring Library
hours:
Mon/Tues 8:30 am - 12 pm; Wed., 8:30 – 4:30; Thurs 8:30 am - 12:30 pm; Fri 8:30
pm -4:30 pm
Narcotics Anonymous: The Ridge
Spring Library on Fridays 7-8 pm
1st
Tuesday of the Month: AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783
2nd
Tuesday: Harvest Festival
3rd
Thursday: FORS at Ridge Spring
Library 5:00 pm
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