December
5, 2016
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
From the Mayor's Desk: Because of rain Sunday, the Christmas tree lighting had to be cancelled. The
volunteers who decorated the gazebo and caboose hope that you enjoy the lights.
The Town Hall will be moving to the Peach Tree Clinic on December 13
through the 15th. Bills may be paid at the present location until the 13th of December.
Late bills may be paid at the new Town Hall located beside the Dollar Store
beginning the following Monday. The Town has hired Gerry Grenier as a full time
police officer beginning December 5th. Town employees would like
to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
Let us not
forget “The Day that will Live in Infamy”, December 7, 1941.
The playground beside the
Civic Center is open again. This was a
project for Boy Scout Andrew Girard to become an Eagle Scout with the support
of Sherald Rodgers. . Just waiting on new picnic
tables to be brought to the playground and the project will be finished. THANK YOU!!!!!
Let Off the Beaten
Path help you with your Christmas list. We have
lots of unique gifts for your family and friends. We just received new
merchandise this past week. You must come by and see all the incredible
new things. There are even sales on select items. Stop by and let
us help you. Open Monday and Tuesday 11:00-3:00 and Thursday-Saturday 10:00-5:00.
The Gables Inn &
Gardens is excited to be
hosting Celebrate A Dicken's Christmas Saturday evenings, December
10th and 17th from 2:00 PM-:00 PM. Cost is $5
per person up to $25 per family. Enjoy hot chocolate, s'mores, carriage
rides, Christmas shop, cookie decorating, petting zoo, and much more.
Great family fun! We are located at 105 Ward Ave., in Ward.
The Christmas Tour of Homes of Ridge Spring will be December 11th from
2:00 until 5:00 PM. Tickets are $10.00 and may be purchased at all homes and
the Baptist Church. The tour is sponsored
by Green Thumb Garden Club and assisted by Ridge Garden Club. For more
information call 803 685 7397 The homes on tour are: Sarah
and Jack Schwarz, 171 Joes Trail, Monetta; Amy and Dean Derrick, 217 Burton
Drive, Monetta; Rudy and Diane Stoddard, 2698 Hwy 23, Ridge Spring; Primitive
Immanuel Lutheran Church, 206 Boatwright Street, Ridge Spring; and Ridge Spring
Baptist Church, 108 Church Circle, Main St, Ridge Spring.
The
Nut House and Country Market is enjoying a busy
Christmas season! The Yons continue harvesting pecans, while the ladies
at the Nut House and Country Market are busy in the kitchen making tasty
candies, pies and roasted nuts. In addition to Ridge Spring Pecans, many
other SC grown products are now available in store including Hickory Hill Milk,
Clemson Blue Cheese (chunks, crumbles, and dressing), Yon Family Farms Beef,
West End Coffee, Keisler Heirloom Grits, and Charleston Tea Plantation items.
Stop in or visit our website at www.nuthouseandcountrymarket.
Jane
Autrey Insurance: Reminder deadline for Health Care with January 1 effective date is December 15.
Call for help with Quotes or Information. 803-685-0090 or 803-685-0092
Helpful Hands
Ministries Inc.
presents “God’s Got the Power Crusade”.
It will b held December 17th at 4:00 PM at the Saluda
Theater, 105 Law Range St., Saluda, SC.
Alexandria Michelle, Confident Praise, Dr. James Abraham, Chico Gantt,
Deacon Fatback, H.H.P.D. and many more will take the stage.
Leonard
Bell will be at the Town Square this coming Saturday with collard
greens, turnip greens, and other items and will continue on the Saturdays
through December and finish up the Saturday before New Year’s Day
Joanne Crouch, AAG member, President of AARS and of Ridge Spring,
will be the featured artist at the Aiken Artist Guild Gallery December 5
through January 20 at the Aiken Center for the Arts. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, December 8 from
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm and is free to the public. The Aiken Center for the Arts is
located at 122 Laurens Street SW, Aiken.
Joanne has
always loved a new box of crayons. As a child, she loved the finely sharpened
points and the colors and the smell. Who would ever imagine years down the road
that she would experiment with techniques that coerce layers and layers of wax
to become one, in the creation of her waxed art pieces.
Her
encaustic wax are painted on birch plywood supports built for her by a
craftsman in Columbia, SC. The pigmented wax can be painted onto parchment or
rice paper. The wax lends itself to manipulation with a brush, propane torch,
tack iron, and razor blades. Because it works as a great “glue”, an artist can also
use it for collage art. Joanne is also experimenting with using encaustic wax
and gourd pieces in jewelry projects.
Joanne has
taken workshops from Mary Farmer in Asheville, North Carolina and K Rhynus
Cesark at Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Her
works are exhibited in the Art Center of Ridge Spring and Juniper Restaurant in
Ridge Spring. She has had works juried in the Aiken Artists Guild shows, the
North Augusta Art and Heritage Center, the Anderson Arts Center, the SC State
Fair, and the Trenholm Artist Guild. Joanne is the president of the Art Center
of Ridge Spring, and holds memberships in the North Augusta Art and Heritage
Center, the Aiken Artist Guild, the Anderson Artist Guild, the South Carolina
Gourd Society and the National Gourd Society.
Josie Rodgers:
RSM Elem: The elementary chorus will present All-American Christmas Fri., Dec. 16, at
9 am in the gym.
The
school has a “Giving Tree” located
in the main entrance lobby.
Parents/guardians are encouraged to stop by the tree and select an
ornament if you would like to help with a variety of classroom needs.
Terrific Kids for the month of November, character word Thankfulness, are Tiffanie Rocia,
Alejandro Perez-Ramirez, Conner Cockrell, Khy’ree Valentine, Christian Finnie,
Brooke Blume, Aaden McCormick, Jose Perez, Emely Jimenez, Gisela Figueroa, Krista
Hall, Trevon Williamson, Javonte Wise, Gaby Valeriano, Faith Steele, Gracie
Temples, Alyssa Whitfield, Lauriana Cabana, Makayla Manning, Latrez Nicholson,
Nashara Williams, & Lacie Gibson.
School Improvement
Council
members for this year include Callie Herlong, Tonya Rodgers, Linda Whorton,
Tamala Mims-Hererra, Pam Miller, Lydia Yon, Harold Padgett, Richard Centerfit,
Monica Miller, Kimberly Whitfield, Maretha Harris, Janice Hopkins, Lindsey
Lewis, Gayle Wilson, John Bundrick, & Erin Ford.
One
of RSM Elem’s best students has been cast as a Bon-Bon in The Nutcracker ballet in Columbia SC. Roxy
Khan is 8 years old and in the 2nd grade.
The
school received a George Washington print of the painting done by Gilbert
Stuart in 1796. It was purchased and presented
to the school by the brothers of Travis Masonic Lodge No. 241. The Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Mason of SC
wants to make sure there is a portrait of our first President in every
school. All proceeds of the purchase go
to the research of juvenile diabetes.
RSM High: During the annual SC Division of Career
Development and Transition Awards held in Myrtle Beach, former RSM student
Damien Dennis received the Outstanding Student of the Year Award for SC. RSM teacher Joey Middlebrooks received the Outstanding
Special Educator of the Year Award, and his wife, RSM teacher Tiffany
Middlebrooks, received the Outstanding Regular Educator of the Year Award. This is a testament to the dedication and
commitment of the educators and the school to make sure all students have a
bright future.
Corey
Hopkins and Rakeem Israel, members of the varsity football team,
have been selected to play in the Border Bowl.
Select players from the CSRA are chosen to play for the Georgia team or
the SC team. The game will be play Sat.,
Jan. 14, 2017, at Laney High School in Augusta, GA. Congratulations!
National HOSA Week was celebrated by RSM’s local
chapter. Each member made a poster
highlighting either a career in health occupations or about a type of health
problem. The group also delivered goodie
baskets to local health care professionals.
The Middle/High School
Winter Concert is Tues., Dec. 6, at 7 pm in the gym. This will involve band, chorus, drama, and
art classes.
The RSM English Honor
Society collected
almost 400 books during their November Book Drive. The books will be donated to
local children and the GRU Children’s Hospital.
Ingredients:
4 cups cooked egg noodles, 2 cups diced, chopped or cubed ham (this can
be any kind of ham, even deli style!), 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, 1 can
cream of celery soup, 2/3 cup milk, 2 tsp. finely chopped onion, 4 tsp. butter
(2 tsp. for filling, 2 tsp. for topping), 1/2 tsp. dried oregano, 1/4 tsp.
dried basil, 1/4 tsp. salt, 6 TBS. seasoned dried bread crumbs, (the same ones
you use for our Fried Green Tomato recipe)
Directions:
Mix the following together in a bowl: Ham, Cheese, Celery Soup, Milk, Onion, 2
tsp. Butter, Oregano, Basil, Salt, add the cooked Noodles and mix. Pour mixture
into a 9×13 casserole pan that has been coated with spray cooking oil. Mix the
bread crumbs with the remaining butter and sprinkle over the top of the
filling. Bake uncovered at 325° for
30-35 minutes or until heated.
Book Review from David Marshall James: "A
Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote
“ Truman Capote's triumvirate of holiday stories-- including "A Christmas Memory," "One Christmas," and "The Thanksgiving Visitor"-- join as one in this Modern Library edition to portray the author's childhood relationship with his much-older, childlike cousin, Sook Faulk, during the early years of the Great Depression in Monroeville, Alabama.
The title piece is simply one of the best American short stories ever written, as Sook and Buddy (the eight-year-old Capote) prepare for Christmas 1933. "It's fruitcake weather!" Sook proclaims, which entails the gathering (then cracking and shelling) of windfall pecans in an old baby buggy, with moral support from their beloved rat terrier, Queenie. Then, the coins they have been hording since the past summer are counted out, in order to purchase the canned and candied fruit and spices necessary.
The finished fruitcakes will be mailed and hand-delivered to people who have struck the duo's fancy, including President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Two journeys are involved: one, to the disreputable hangout of Mr. Haha Jones for some Prohibition-era whiskey (a key ingredient in any good fruitcake). The second entails a foray deep into the piney woods, in search of the perfect Christmas tree.
Buddy realizes that the excitement of the holiday lies in the preparations-- in the anticipation thereof-- and in having a friend as special as his cousin.
That theme is reinforced in "One Christmas," in which a thoroughly miserable Buddy is put on a bus to New Orleans to spend Christmas away from Sook, with his father, who has been divorced from his mother, now living in New York. Presents abound under the tree in his father's Vieux Carre townhouse, site of a glittering Christmas Eve party attended by wealthy, unattached older women and cigar-smoking men on the prowl for them.
However, the celebration-- as enticing on the surface as a department-store window display on Canal Street-- proves a fiasco of shattered innocence and loneliness.
"The Thanksgiving Visitor," a literary gem, recalls Buddy's difficult encounter with a schoolyard bully, Odd Henderson, whom Sook insists be invited to the huge feast held at the family home, overseen by maiden cousins and a bachelor uncle. The story vividly evokes the arrival of the guests and their anticipated culinary specialties, including ambrosia, whipped sweet potatoes with raisins, and banana pudding (this last supplied by a centenarian aunt, and Buddy's favorite).
Capote's literary touches are deceptively simple yet enormously powerful, as Buddy's intended sweet revenge on his nemesis forces a bitter lesson handed down by the kindly Sook. Among the many feathers flying in the literary cap of the chameleon like Capote is that of Southern writer, and these stories belong in the highest echelon of the region's short fiction.
“ Truman Capote's triumvirate of holiday stories-- including "A Christmas Memory," "One Christmas," and "The Thanksgiving Visitor"-- join as one in this Modern Library edition to portray the author's childhood relationship with his much-older, childlike cousin, Sook Faulk, during the early years of the Great Depression in Monroeville, Alabama.
The title piece is simply one of the best American short stories ever written, as Sook and Buddy (the eight-year-old Capote) prepare for Christmas 1933. "It's fruitcake weather!" Sook proclaims, which entails the gathering (then cracking and shelling) of windfall pecans in an old baby buggy, with moral support from their beloved rat terrier, Queenie. Then, the coins they have been hording since the past summer are counted out, in order to purchase the canned and candied fruit and spices necessary.
The finished fruitcakes will be mailed and hand-delivered to people who have struck the duo's fancy, including President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Two journeys are involved: one, to the disreputable hangout of Mr. Haha Jones for some Prohibition-era whiskey (a key ingredient in any good fruitcake). The second entails a foray deep into the piney woods, in search of the perfect Christmas tree.
Buddy realizes that the excitement of the holiday lies in the preparations-- in the anticipation thereof-- and in having a friend as special as his cousin.
That theme is reinforced in "One Christmas," in which a thoroughly miserable Buddy is put on a bus to New Orleans to spend Christmas away from Sook, with his father, who has been divorced from his mother, now living in New York. Presents abound under the tree in his father's Vieux Carre townhouse, site of a glittering Christmas Eve party attended by wealthy, unattached older women and cigar-smoking men on the prowl for them.
However, the celebration-- as enticing on the surface as a department-store window display on Canal Street-- proves a fiasco of shattered innocence and loneliness.
"The Thanksgiving Visitor," a literary gem, recalls Buddy's difficult encounter with a schoolyard bully, Odd Henderson, whom Sook insists be invited to the huge feast held at the family home, overseen by maiden cousins and a bachelor uncle. The story vividly evokes the arrival of the guests and their anticipated culinary specialties, including ambrosia, whipped sweet potatoes with raisins, and banana pudding (this last supplied by a centenarian aunt, and Buddy's favorite).
Capote's literary touches are deceptively simple yet enormously powerful, as Buddy's intended sweet revenge on his nemesis forces a bitter lesson handed down by the kindly Sook. Among the many feathers flying in the literary cap of the chameleon like Capote is that of Southern writer, and these stories belong in the highest echelon of the region's short fiction.
REMINDERS
December
11: Tour of Homes
December
11: Hollywood
Baptist Christmas Musical
December
17: Helpful Hands Crusade
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
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