Monday, September 5, 2016

September 5, 2016
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder

The Shoppes of Ridge Spring will have a SIDEWALK SALE on Saturday, September 10 from 9:30 until … Check us out on Facebook: Town of Ridge Spring

The Harvest Festival will be Oct. 13-15
The next Harvest Festival meeting is Tues., Sept. 13, at 7 pm at the RS Library.

AgSouth gave the Ridge Spring Farmers’ Market a grant for $1000.00 to help support us, Friends of Ridge Spring.  We have used the money to purchase three tents and four signs for the entrance ways to Ridge Spring.  There were four for one was torn up and we had to replace it.  We have bought ad space too.  They also gave us reusable bags to distribute to the shoppers. 
We have placed three banners on light poles for the Market.  I hope you see them. The Farmers met is the spring and liked the red back drop so thanks to Raybird Signs, we were able to order them a week ago and they got them up.  They were going to put them up this past Friday but Hurricane Hermine interrupted and they got them up Saturday.
We also need to thank the Saluda County Council on Aging for distributing the vouchers on the second Saturday in June.   
David Day sold at least 10 pints of his local honey Saturday.  Neither he nor Leonard Bell will be at the market this coming Saturday but they will be back on September 17.  George Raborn may be there with sweet potatoes and peas. I will no longer have boiled peanut or Ayla have lemonade at the market.  I have to get ready to reopen the Shop!!!
Mike Cook is seeking someone in the area who shelters stray animals.  Anyone interested can call or text him at  803 275 7387  He also has hubcaps at the Town Maintenance shop.
Callie Herlong, Principal Ridge Spring-Monetta Elementary School: September 8th there will be a RSM Elementary Fun Run on September 8th as a PTO fundraiser.

Pastor Key: Helpful Hands Ministries founders Day Celebration. Sunday September 11th at 1:00 pm. Guest Speaker will be Rev. Dr James Abraham. Pastor of the Bethlehem Baptist Church Graniteville S.C... All are welcome.

The Young Adult Ministry of Ridge Hill Baptist Church announces A Family Fun Day and Community Cookout on the grounds of the Ridge Hill Baptist Church in Ridge Spring on Saturday, September 17 from 11 am-3 pm. 

As a child my grandmother would send me to the kitchen to get her a tumbler.  I always knew which one she meant but then I learned this past Farmers’ Market the difference between a tumbler and a glass by George Raborn, Jr., who happens to be younger than me.  A tumbler has a heavier bottom so it would not tumble over. A glass did not.  You are never too old to learn a bit of nickel knowledge.

Rene Miller at RSM Elementary School
Grandparents' Breakfast will be Sept. 8 and 9.  On Sept. 8, those whose youngest grandchild with a last name beginning with A-M.  On Sept. 9, those whose last names begin N-Z are slated for Friday the 9th.  Invitations with details will be coming home.  This is a perfect way to celebrate Grandparents’ Day which is Sept. 11. 
Please save your Box Tops for Education and tabs off of soft drinks. Box tops are used to help purchase needed items for our school, and the tabs go to a community service project which helps sick children and their families stay at the Ronald McDonald House.  You may send these to the Media Center and they will be distributed to the right person.
We will be collecting bottle caps for Coke Rewards again this year to raise money for PE.  These can be caps from any Coca Cola product, Minute Made, Powerade, or flaps from 12 or 24 packs of cans.  Caps can be turned into Coach Shealy or Coach Bundrick. 
Student summer reading program participants will be receiving a free ticket to the RSM vs. Williston football game which is Sept. 23.  Way to go readers!
School pictures are set for Sept. 14.  Smile!  A Fun Run is planned for Sept. 8! 
Notes from the Nurse: If your child has a medical problem (asthma, seizures, diabetes, allergies, etc.), please contact the nurse so that we can ensure we have everything in place to accommodate your child's health care needs while at school. This includes all food allergies. If your child will be taking medications at school, please stop by the office to get a medication permission form. All PRESCRIPTION medications require a doctor's signature on the permission form OR a copy of the original prescription. Any over the counter medications must be in the children's form (Children's Tylenol, etc.). If you have any questions, please contact the nurse, Brittany Bearden, at 803-685-2004.

Josie Rodgers

The next Harvest Festival meeting is Tues., Sept. 13, at 7 pm at the RS Library.  The festival will be here before you know it!   Enter your team in the local BBQ cook-off at the Festival for a chance to earn prizes and bragging rights. As part of this year’s festival theme, “Bluegrass and BBQ,”
RSM Mid:  We are collecting Box Tops for Education. They can be turned into the office. We collect them year round, but to make our fall cut-off for submission, they must be turned in before Oct. 28. 
RSM High: the RSM Young Farmers meeting will be held Sept. 15 in the middle school cafeteria. The topic is Solar Energy for the farm and for the home. A meal will be served and is sponsored by our presenter, Southern View Energy. Please RSVP by Sept. 13.
Austin Scott, FFA treasurer:  The RSM Young Farmers Association is working on a community calendar for our diverse community.  The money raised from the calendar will be used to help establish an RSM FFA Scholarship. The RSM FFA is supporting the young farmers in this effort by contributing to this worthwhile community project by collecting local birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and memorials of both birthdays and anniversaries.  Deadline for submission is Sept. 15.  Contact the RSM FFA for more info.
The varsity Lady Trojans volleyball team is 2-1 on the season! They beat BHHS in Region opener 25-12, 25-13 in the first match and 25-15, 25-22 in the second match.  The next day, they traveled to Saluda but dropped the match 2-3. The JV team beat Saluda's JV team 2-0! The varsity team traveled to Estill Tues., Sept. 6, to taken new Region 4 opponents Estill High School! The team us VERY young after graduating 8 players from the 2015 squad!

Review from David Marshall James:
"One Writer's Garden:  Eudora Welty's Home Place" by Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown Photographs by Langdon Clay

   When Chestina Andrews of West Virginia wed Christian Welty of Ohio a few years after the turn into the twentieth century, the couple had been contemplating where to settle.
   The Progressive Era was wrought with many changes-- and with them, opportunities-- and Mr. Welty had narrowed the search to Thousand Islands, New York, and Jackson, Mississippi:  two locales ripening with good prospects.
   Chestina, possessed of a Southern leaning through ancestry, may well have been planning her future garden when she selected the warmer clime.
   Until the couple's only daughter and eldest surviving child, Eudora, had finished high school, the Weltys resided "in town" in Jackson, on North Congress Street, with a cow and chickens earning pride of place in the backyard.
   The city's new extended trolley line led the Weltys to the undeveloped Belhaven suburb, where "salubrious pines," as Chestina termed them, shaded over a deep lot.
The spacious brick house with Tudor-style gables was designed with the garden in mind, focusing on a side porch instead of a more-conventional front one.
   Although Eudora would soon be off to the University of Wisconsin, her high-school graduation party was held on the lawn of the still-unfinished Belhaven house.
   With Eudora's father's death from leukemia just six years later, and with Chestina's declining health setting in during the following decade, Eudora found herself a frequent resident of the house, where she immersed herself in what she termed "My Mother's Garden," for work and pleasure.
   While Chestina kept an extensive journal of her designs and plantings, her daughter began writing stories in which the characters were frequently defined by their "home place," including the vegetation with which they were surrounded.
   Chestina's garden on Pinehurst Street in the Belhaven suburb was strictly ornamental, save for a World War II victory garden, yet many yards, particularly in rural parts of the state, proved far more utilitarian, as Eudora discovered more and more while traveling Mississippi as a photographer for the WPA during the Depression.  On the Delta, cotton could be viewed growing in rows right up to sharecroppers' front doors.  Humble "dogtrot" cabins were often obscured in front by butterbean climbers.
   As the authors relate, Eudora experienced an early writing epiphany while gardening with Chestina and a yard man in the backyard, which was divided into upper and lower sections by an extended trellis.

   This incident resulted in what would become the title story of her first short-story collection, "A Curtain of Green" (1941), concerning a widow who withdraws into the protective womb/cocoon of her garden.
   Although the authors do not hard-pedal the connection between the garden, along with Eudora's own horticultural interests, and the Welty literary oeuvre, such confluences of nature and writing are so apparent, so rife, that they demand note.
   Following World War II until Chestina's death in 1966, the garden fell into a figurative winter, with Chestina's beloved roses-- her favorite-- succumbing as early victims.  Eudora's favorite, camellias, proved hardier, and many of the bushes she set out survive.
   Chestina's labor-intensive enterprise had lost its principal caretaker and visionary to the indoors, although Eudora continued as best she could, but her caretaking was focused on her Mother, and even her writing fell to the wayside for much of the 1950s into the 1960s.
   Today, however, Chestina's garden has been painstakingly excavated and rehabilitated, with one of the authors, Susan Haltom, in charge of the project.  The entire Welty property has been named a National Historic Landmark, and the house and garden are open to the public.
   This sumptuously inviting and informative volume from the University Press of Mississippi will delight any gardener, with or without an interest in Eudora Welty.  Nevertheless, one of the benefits of this keepsake work is that it will undoubtedly lead the reader down the garden path into the Welty oeuvre.
   When Chestina Welty placed the first seeds and bulbs, the first cuttings and cultivars, into the clay-rich earth beneath her "salubrious pines," little could she have realized what she was planting in the heart and mind of her daughter-- and of generations of readers to follow.


REMINDERS
September 10: Shoppes of Ridge Spring Labor Day Sale
September 13: Harvest Festival meeting 7:00 library
September 17: A Family Fun Day and Community Cookout at Ridge Hill Baptist Church
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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