Monday, October 3, 2016

October 3, 2016
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder

The Harvest Festival will be Oct. 13-15
October 13 Bingo-Thursday
October 14 Cake and Pie Contest, Bluegrass Music - Friday,
October 15 Parade, BBQ contest, BLUEGRASS MUSIC,
More information on web site and facebook

The Harvest Festival: You may still enter the BBQ Contest.  You can get your Boston Butt and grill it however long you want to.  You can begin Friday night or start anytime Saturday as long as it is ready for judging by 6:00 PM on Saturday.  Entries are still being accepted.  Pay the entry fee, pick up your butt, and start grilling in the designated area. 

The Harvest Festival is 2 weeks away.  The Ridge Spring Monetta Four H Club with parents, teachers, Harvest Festival committee members, the mayor, councilman, and others helped to decorate the town with the Fall Spirit this past Saturday.  There are orange lights, scarecrows, straw bales, orange bows, pumpkins and mums displayed on Main Street and around the Gazebo.  Fun and civic pride showed. Check out the banners across the street and the toppers on the Welcome to Ridge Spring signs at the entrances to the town.

The Harvest Festival Musical Line-up: Friday from 6:00 PM Carolina Rebels play.  Saturday Back Porch Bluegrass kicks off a day filled with music at 1:00 PM; West End String Band plays at 3:00 PM; Columbia Bluegrass Company performs at 5:00 PM; and Steam Drill plays at 7:00 PM. All performances take place at the Gazebo. Festival goers are encouraged to bring chairs or blackets and relax on the grass around the Gazebo.

Juniper will set the night on fire again this year on Thursday, October 6th from 6-9pm in support of the Ridge Spring Fire Department. Come on out and enjoy a delicious buffet dinner prepared for you by Chef Brandon Velie. You don't need a reservation. This year we will set up "family style" seating to accommodate as many people as possible.

 Harriet’s Garden is open and has a beautiful array of fall bedding plants, flowers, and pumpkins.  The shop is open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays or if the car is there.  You can also call the shop’s number and I will get it because of call forwarding.

Field of Worship: You are INVITED! Hollywood Baptist Church is hosting our 3rd annual “Field of Worship” on Saturday, October 22nd @ 6pm and we want YOU to join us! 

Helpful Hands Ministry will be holding their Light the Night as a Halloween alternative on October 31 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

Congratulations to the Ridge Spring-Monetta True Blue Marching Band for their outstanding performances.   Next up for the True Blue Band will be the Palmetto Esprit de Corps Invitational at Irmo High School on Saturday, October 8th RS-M performs at 11:45 AM and the awards ceremony will be at 4:00 p.m. 
RS-M True Blue Marching Band Competition Schedule:
October 8--Palmetto Esprit de Corps Invitational at Irmo High School
October 15--Garden City Classic at Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School
October 22--Class A Lower-State Championships at Hartsville High School
October 29--Class A State Finals at Batesburg-Leesville High School

The Art Center of Ridge Spring: Joanne Crouch, AARS president
     The Art Center will offer a stained glass class on Thursday evenings soon.  If you are interested in this class, please let us know because the class is limited to six students.  Each person will make a large suncatcher.  Contact Barbara Yon at (803)685-5386 or Joanne Crouch (803)685-5577 for more details. 
    Winter's coming--what better time to learn how to quilt!  The Art Center in Ridge Spring will offer a quilting class on Thursday, October 20, 2016 6pm-9pm at the center.   All materials for the class will be provided to make a 12'x 12" sampler for $50  You will be to taught  all the steps you will need to make a  larger quilt later.
Call or e-mail the instructor, Ann Forrest Watkins, at 864 941 0022 (cell) or email  helpinghearts4u@yahoo.com. for more information or to register. Hours of operations are 10-4 on Fridays and Saturdays.
Josie Rodgers:
RSM Mid:  (Monica Johnson)  We have started an after-school Lego Club. Building and creating with Legos promotes creativity, problem solving, and team work. We are using Legos to learn STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) concepts. We would LOVE donations of Legos - even kits with missing pieces.
RSM High:  It’s Homecoming Week!  Mon: Hat Day; Tues: Salad Dressing Day; Wed:  Wacky Tacky Day; Thurs: Cartoon/Action Hero Day; Fri: Trojan Spirit.  Friday’s class competitions will include tug-of-war, obstacle course, dance-off, dizzy bat, hula hoop, chant, and banner.  The Trojans will take on Blackville, and the Queen will be crowned at halftime.
RSM High has applied for and been award funding and resources to support our Unified Champion School (formerly Project UNIFY) for this school year.  They will by promoting respect, acceptance, and inclusion of all students through the various programs and initiatives developed through Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools. The school received money in direct school support as well as School Resource Kits that will include a variety of tools for advocacy campaigns and program coordination.
Choral director Becky Hughes began the after-school high school chorus rehearsals and will rehearse every Tuesday from 3:05-4:00. We are very excited about this new venture for the high school!
Jeff Clamp:  The Aiken Performing Arts is having a pancake breakfast on Sat, Oct. 29, from 8-10 am at the Fatz Cafe in Aiken.  This group has contributed a lot to bands in Aiken County, especially to our students.  We currently have at least 25 students who have a decent instrument in their hand now because of this group.  They have already donated 3 very nice instruments this year (a flute, a trumpet, and a trombone) valued at about $1,000.  This group has given so much to our students over the past 14 years.  Tickets are for $8, and they also will accept donations.  If you would like a ticket or would like to make a donation, please let Jeff Clamp know. 

The Ridge Baptist Association is sponsoring a Fall Festival on Mon., Oct. 31, at the Monetta Walking Park beginning at 7 pm. Last year we had 1,200 people come for the celebration
Rene Miller, RSM Elementary School
RSME 5th Grade Walk/Jog Club Our 5th grade RSME Walk/Jog Club has started again this year. We meet each Friday morning from 7:15-7:45. Our Goal this year is to walk from RSME to the White House in Washington D.C.! Our first two meetings we have walked/jogged 17 of the 516 miles needed to make it to the White House. We need many more students participating to make our goal, so please come out and participate. The Class with the most participants for each nine weeks will win a game of 10 base for their class! Hope to see you Friday morning!
Read Your Way to the Big Game: You can show your support for Clemson or Carolina and possibly win a ticket to the big game by simply reading! Reading logs have already gone home. All you have to do is read 6 books to qualify. YOU could win a ticket to the Clemson/Carolina Football game this fall! Keep reading and turn in those logs! Check out the bulletin board outside the library to see who has completed their reading!
Internet Safety Advice
Taken from: http://www.webwise.ie/parents/advice-top-10-tips-for-parents/
1 - Discover the internet together.
2 - Agree with your child rules for internet use in your home.
3 - Encourage your child to be careful when disclosing personal info.
4 - Talk about the risk associated with meeting online “friends” in person.
5 - Teach your child about evaluating information and being critically aware of information found online.
For more information on these tips and to find more tips go to the website listed above.

Review from David Marshall James: "Soulmates" by Jessica Grose

   A partner-track NYC attorney has been putting in 90-hour work weeks in hopes of moving up the letterhead.
   In the meantime, she's lost a husband whom she took largely for granted, as they had been together since undergraduate days.  She simply didn't have the time to deal with his "changes in attitudes, changes in latitudes," as Jimmy Buffett would term it.
   Specifically, he fell in the thrall of an intensive yoga program that turned out to be a portal into a Buddhist-oriented group with a charismatic leader.  His capitulation was hastened by a nubile member of the group's inner sanctum, a young woman fond of "going commando" in diaphanous gowns.
   The man's wife is thus devastated, yet not all that surprised, when he runs off with his well-ventilated new friend and her group.
   With his well-invested "tithing" booty, the dynamic group leader-- a self-anointed "lama"-- has founded a retreat out in the wilds of New Mexico that's so remote it isn't even on the Roswell aliens' GPS.
   Nevertheless, the retreat manages to pull in all manner of New Ager's, who pony up small fortunes to be roused at dawn's early light and fed gruel.
  Meanwhile, the ex-husband and his well-ventilated hookup become YouTube sensations with their sensuous yoga videos.
   Back in NYC, the ex-wife follows them on YouTube, sipping her bodega coffee and sifting through endless stacks of briefs.  If only she had shed some of HER briefs ....
   Then, come one early morn at the bodega, she espies a lurid (is there any other kind?) headline in The Post:  The "joy of yoga" couple's remains have been discovered in a New Mexico cave, the victims of what is believed to be a murder/suicide.
   The ex-wife, being a good attorney, feels compelled to clear her husband's name.  So she's off to New Mexico faster than you can say "ashram" in order to look into the New Age Xanadu.
   What begins as a darkly humorous urban break-up tale sharp-turns into all sorts of territory, as the widow picks up the threads of her dead husband's family history, going back to before he was born.
   Although author Jessica Grose doesn't bill her novel as a mystery, that's what it is, albeit cut from an unusual cloth, woven with modern parables, not the least of which is:  Should one fall down Alice's rabbit hole, beware of cups tagged, "Drink me."

REMINDERS
October 5: Meet the Candidates at Persimmon Hill
October 13: Harvest Festival Bingo
October 14: Harvest Festival Blue Grass, Cake and pie Contest
October 15: Harvest Festival Blue Grass, parade, BBQ Contest and much more
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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