Monday, March 6, 2017

March 6, 2017
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder

Harvest Festival plans are in the air.  Will report next week about the meeting on Tuesday March 7 at the Ridge spring library at 7:00 PM.

Benefit for Ricky Rodgers- March 11 4:00 to 7:00PM RS Civic Center:
The benefit will be selling Chipped BBQ plates including: cole slaw, baked beans, bread, and tea.  The plates are $10 each and are to be purchased in advance to allow us a head count. We are also raffling off a Yeti Cooler. Raffle tickets are $5 each. The drawing will be held at the benefit. You do not have to be present to win.

All proceeds go to the Cancer Fund for Ricky Rodgers. An account has been opened at First Citizens Bank for anyone wanting to make a donation, or you can contact one of the below coordinators. Donations, Ticket Purchases or Questions contact:
Joe Rodgers-864-992-2257; Phyllis Shealy-803-369-4553;Joni Pope- 803-687-4006; or
Jenifer Gentry- 864-323-4140

Tickets are still available for the BBQ Benefit for Joey Fox – Saturday, March 18   - 4 – 7 pm The Lutheran Men in Mission at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church are sponsoring this benefit for Joey, a member of our church, who has leukemia. He is currently awaiting a bone marrow transplant.  Tickets are $10/plate (pulled pork, slaw, baked beans, bread) – eat in or take out. In addition to dinner, we will have a Bake Sale with lots of homemade goodies and a Silent Auction. A number of items will be up for auction including a condo for a week at Fripp Island, gift certificates, basket of “Southern Things”, artwork…. Tickets can be purchased from: Church Office (685-7523) Monday thru Wednesday 9:30 am – 2:30 pm; Maxwell & Halford Drug Store-Johnston; Larry Hatcher (275-4839); Eric Carlson (275-3140); and Joe Derrick (803-480-0067).
Anyone who would like to make a donation can sent it to Mt. Calvary to the attention of LMM. Checks should be payable to Mt. Calvary LMM. The benefit will be held in Mt. Calvary’s Fellowship Building. The church is located at 1186 Mt. Calvary Road, Johnston.

Harriet's Garden will be opening soon.  Get ready for beautiful plants to start showing up.  Have you noticed the tulips popping up.  I do love my surprise pots.  Next year, try planting bulbs in th lower part of your planter and then plant your winter bedding plants on top.  I select tulips because I find them striking and then I can toss them into the compost pile for they never seem to be as beautiful as they were the first time they bloom.  I also know there are those who disagree with me.  While I am on gardening, don't forget to deadhead bulbs, fertilize bulbs after they bloom, and mark any that you want to move so you can find them when the leaves are dead.  I have tried to mark the spot with white golf tees but that did not work.  The tees disappeared.
This year has been a bumper crop for pecans.  (I hope it will be the same for peaches.) A friend said they had collected 600 pounds under their three trees in their back yard.  Even I got at least 200 pounds from the two pecan trees at the shop.  I am still finding them in my flower beds.  The squirrels have planted quite a few, too.  They like to plant them in flower pots because the soil is nice and loose. I found a pecan buried in 6 pots that were in a tray of 8 pots.  How did they miss the two pots that had no pecans?

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Big Red Box is FULL of soup and the final count is 119 with a slight edge to the Falcons. Thanks to those in the community who left soup on the porch of the FLC. These have been counted and along with the others will be delivered to local food banks. Thanks members and community for your help.
Beginning on March 21, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at the Family Life Center, Pastor Miriam Hadden will conduct a series on the Book of Revelations. All are welcome to participate. This is a free series and no reservation necessary

Monetta Asparagus Farm:  We are the fourth generation family farmers of asparagus run by the Andrew Fallaw family.  Our asparagus roots go back to the first world war and the height of the asparagus boom that saw Monetta labeled as the asparagus capital of the world.  farms family has had ties to asparagus dating back to 1913. Those days saw the vast majority of land surrounding this area covered with asparagus and box cars being loaded daily with "captains" and "majors" that took the place of small grade and colossal grade spears. Along with the Watsons and other farms, we were part of the Monetta Asparagus Growers Association that at its height had hundreds of farmers. The asparagus varieties have changed to higher yield hybrids but asparagus has stayed in our family these many years while it became unprofitable for many.  The vast majority of asparagus production domestically has waned while internationally it has flourished in countries such as Peru and China.  There remains nothing quite like fresh local asparagus which we aim to provide our patrons for generations to come.  Our asparagus harvesting season is at the mercy of Mother Nature but typically lasts six to eight weeks ending around the end of May.  Our sales building is located at 205 Born Again Road, Batesburg SC right on the outset of the Monetta Town limits.  Just follow the signs on Farm View Road.  Our sale hours are from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM daily to help us harvest in the early morning to supply fresh cut asparagus daily.  We can arrange to meet at later times for those with 9-5 hours.

Josie Rodgers
Lent has begun, and with that reflection and sacrifice.  Everyone always talks about what to give up for Lent.  How about what to ADD for Lent? Whatever you decide, make it special and don’t feel the need to advertise it (unless you need accountability!).  April 16 will be here before you know it. Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead 1 hour this weekend.  Oh how that 1 hour is truly felt this time of year!
RSM Elem (Rene Miller):  4-K registration for the 2017-2018 school year begins March 6 and ends April 28. Parents must bring the following items for children to be considered for the program: Official (long-form) birth certificate (short form will not be accepted), updated immunization record, 2 proofs of address (electric bill, water bill, mortgage/rental agreement) , either the child's Medicaid card OR a W2 form and pay-stub (if child does not have Medicaid), parent ID.  For more info, please ask for Mrs. Abellan or Mrs. Mims-Herrera.
The RS-M Elem Natural Pageant will be held March 16 @ 6:30pm.  Registration fee of $20 & application fee are due by March 3. The pageant is open to girls & boys in Miss and Master categories.  Admission to pageant is $5.  See Mrs. Cockrell for more info.
RSM High:  The Miss Odyssey Pageant is this Sat., Mar. 11, at 6:00 in the gym.  Admission is $6.  A new Miss Odyssey and Junior Miss Odyssey will be crowned along with several other awards.  Young ladies in grades 6-12 will compete for the various titles as well as scholarships for the upperclassmen.  Scholarships are based on interviews with judges:  Miss Scholastic (contestant with highest GPA), Miss All-Around (contestant involved in school academically and in extracurricular activities/sports, and the Miss Odyssey Scholarship. 
All third-year students took the ACT last Tuesday.  They can send their scores to several colleges.  The teachers and staff worked so well together to make the testing day go so smoothly.

Review from David Marshall James:  "Judy and I:  My Life with Judy Garland" by Sid Luft, edited by Randy L. Schmidt
   Sid Luft-- Judy Garland's third, and longest-wed husband-- still elicits strong responses from longtime La-La Lander's.
   However, he did raise his future wife's career from its near-death experience, putting her in touch with real people in live audiences, not bottom-line-or-bye-bye movie-studio bigwigs.  He states that the 28-year-old performer, who had done almost 30 films for MGM over 15 years, was examined by three psychiatrists in 1950 who claimed she wouldn't live out another full year.
   Yet, away from the pressures at MGM, Garland's prescription-pill (the studio referred to it as her "medicine") consumption to remain "camera thin" melted away, and Luft encountered a voluptuous Garland during a sweltering late-summer in New York City, 1950.  Both were in marriages on-the-rocks:  She, to MGM director Vincente Minnelli; he, to B-movie beauty Lynn Bari.
   Luft, a test-pilot and aspiring movie producer, had engaged in an affair with MGM dancing star Eleanor Powell.  Seven years her senior, Luft first met Garland on the set of "Broadway Melody of 1938," starring Powell and Robert Taylor.  In this production Garland introduced "(Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You."
   The year was 1937, Garland's 15th birthday, and Gable had gifted her with a gold bracelet with a lucky-penny charm.  She was still wearing the bracelet that summer of 1950, and one of the major calling-cards of this volume is the profusion of such details.  Plus, Luft fills in his personal biography pre-Garland, and it's never dull.
   It's a treat to read about Garland's triumphs:  Her 1951 U.K. tour and sensation at the London Palladium; her 19-week, record-breaking run at New York's Palace Theater, for which she won a special Tony Award; and, of course, her tour-de-force film return in "A Star Is Born" (1954).
   Still, she could never shed her financial woes.  She left MGM owing the IRS $80,000, a debt cleared by her proceeds from The Palace.  Nevertheless, at her death in 1969, the IRS was hounding her to the tune of $450,000.
   Her longtime friend/sometime lover Frank Sinatra helped cover her funeral costs. Daughter Liza Minnelli recently had Garland's remains relocated, from Ferncliff Cemetery in Westchester, NY, to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
   Luft relates much about the Garland/Sinatra connection.  He was their first choice to portray Norman Maine in "A Star Is Born," and he wanted the part badly.  However, Sinatra had yet to regroup from his infamous early '50s career slump, remedied (and chronicled, thinly veiled, in the book and movie "The Godfather") by his Supporting Oscar win for "From Here to Eternity" (1953).
   Twice, before and after that Oscar, Warner Bros. chief Jack Warner vetoed Sinatra as Maine, claiming, "He's finished!"  A Garland/Sinatra "Star" would have been incredible, complete with duets.  Luft systematically dismantles Warner in his memoir.
   Luft delivers bountiful dossiers on a Who's Who of 20th-century notables, from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (Luft seems to have had a thing for the Duchess) to Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and John F. Kennedy, whom Garland knew and predicted would be president five years before the event.
   Luft died in 2005, aged 89.  This memoir was going to be published by HarperCollins during the early 1990s, but the deal fell through, and it remained uncompleted until editor Randy L. Schmidt constructed the final fifth from unpublished Luft interviews.

REMINDERS
March 11 Benefit for Ricky Rodgers at the Civic Center from 4-7pm.
March 18 BBQ Benefit for Joey Fox at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church

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
Ridge Spring Post Office hours:  Mon-Fri. 7:30 am – 11:30 am; Sat 9 – 10 am
Saluda County Library Hours:  Mon/Wed 8:30 am-5 pm; Tues/Thurs 8:30 am – 6 pm; Fri 8:30 am – 5 pm; Sat closed
Recycling Center Hours: Mon/Wed/Fri 1-7; Sat 7-7; Sun 3-7; Tues/Thurs closed
First Thursday of the Month:  AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783

Third Thursday of the Month: FORS at Library at 5:00

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