Monday, April 24, 2017

April 24, 2017
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder

The Ridge Spring Fire Department is sponsoring a benefit in memory of Michael Adamick which will be held on Saturday,  May 6th starting at 5 p.m. BBQ tickets are $10.00 each and may be purchased from any of the fire department members.  An auction will  immediately follow dinner.  Please join us at the Fire Department in the center of Ridge Spring for an evening of fun.
Vouchers will be distributed on Tuesday June 6th
at Town Hall in Ridge Spring.
Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Gathering is May 20, 2017 from 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM.  Check it out at MagnoliaRidgeSC.com.
Jerusalem Baptist Church will have its Mother's Day program Sunday, May 14th at 10:30.  The speaker for the occasion will be Mrs. Earline Coates. The public is invited as we honor all  mothers.  If you require additional information please call Yvonne Kenner at 803-685-7257.
Reverend Christi L. Pursey: Join Mt Calvary Lutheran social ministry & youth in honoring all of the special women in our lives on  Saturday, May 13th, at 11:00 am. A Buffet brunch will include grits bar, pancake & omelet stations, crab cakes ... & much more.  There will be complimentary photo booth for a quick pic with your favorite gal, a Massage raffle & silent auction.  All proceeds to benefit  "icare4" a nonprofit group  working to rescue, restore, & rehabilitating local victims of trafficking.
*Tickets should be purchased in advance $12.00 a plate, $10 for any additional person, Children under 8 will be $6.00. Sponsor the event $20 or purchase a table for 8 for $50.00. *Questions or ticket sales please notify Janna Yonce at 803.215.5090 or Pastor Christi Pursey at 803.297.5879.
RSM FFA Plant Sale is from April 19 to May 11 at the RSM High school, 10 J> P> Kneese Dr. Monetta.  Baskets and potted plants are available such as Geranium, Lobelia (hot blue), Lobelia (hot snow white), Verbena, Begonia (big red with bronze leaves), Geranium Begonia (cocktail mix), Petunia (easy wave white), Impatiens (mix mystic), Marigold- French (Durango mix), Zinnia and Boston Ferns.  Quantities are Limited $2.00 for  pots and $10 Baskets.
Friends of Ridge Spring (FORS) is working on an update of the Ridge Spring Brochure.  I is amazing how our community grows and yet keeps its wonderful charm.  Suggestions are always welcomed.  You can contact me at Harriet's Garden at  803.685.7970.
Sunday night many patrons of Juniper got to help them practice with their menu for their trip to cook for the James Beard Foundation in New York.  More on that next week.  By the way, the food was absolutely fantastic.
Rene Miller, RSM Elementary School
New Flags: Peyton, Parker and Riley Holsomback displayed the new American and South Carolina Flags, which were generously donated by their uncle, The Honorable Shane Massey. Mr. Massey is a member of the S.C. Senate representing the 25th District. We are very proud to have the new flags to fly on our school grounds. We appreciate Mr. Massey donating the flags to our school. The RS-M Color Guard’s job is to raise the flags every morning and lower them at the end of the school day. Members of the the RS-M Color Guard are: Cody Davenport, DeAnte Hopkins, Anthony Gallegos, Brayden Barton
Testing: This year all state assessment testing will be done online. SC READY will be administered in English Language Arts and Math to students in grades three through five. SC PASS will be administered to students in grades four and five in Science and Social Studies. Your child’s schedule for testing will be included in the classroom weekly newsletter listing specific dates your child will test for each subject. Please make sure your child is well rested, has had a nourishing breakfast and arrives to school on time the day of their test.
Reminders: Please be reminded that the end of the year is approaching quickly. You must have all your child’s fees paid by the end of the year. This would include lunch money and lost or damaged library books.
Josie Rodgers
Monica Smith: On Tues., April 18, RSM High School Juniors joined over 1,000 other Aiken County Public School Juniors at the University of South Carolina-Aiken's campus for the first ever Junior Preview Day event.  USC-Aiken hosted the Junior Preview Day event to expose every 11th grader in all seven Aiken County Public High Schools to college life.  The juniors were also extended the offer to apply to USC-Aiken for free for the first 36 hours after the event. 
The RSM High Interact Club hosted a pancake dinner April 20 to raise money to create projects for the community.  Students Jermois Morris, president of the club, Cassidy Gerry, Alika Oakman, Linet Figueroa, Ariday Figueroa, and Breana Diaz were assisted by Batesburg-Leesville Rotary Members Stephanie Widman and Kathy Padgett. Teachers Amber Moody and Carmen Holley also assisted.
The National English Honor Society will host a Poetry Café on Thurs., May 18, in the high school cafeteria.  For more information, contact Josie Rodgers, sponsor.
FCA Summer Power Camp:  FCA Power camp flyers are in the office if anyone is interested. Enjoy 4 days of worship, games, and learning new skills in football, baseball, basketball, softball, and cheerleading. The camp is from June 5-8 and for ages 8-12. It is located at JET middle school and it will be from 8:30am-1:00pm.  For more information please pick up a registration form in the office.

Harriet's Garden Tips: No matter how  hard you try to keep pots watered, they do dry out in our heat.  Here are some tips to help.  If  you see the sides of the dirt shrink away from the side of the pot, set it in water and let water come over the edge if possible.  Let it soak for 30 to 45 minutes. You will be filling in the air pockets that have developed.  Then work the soil back around the top and if need be add some more soil or just repot it.  Before I plant anything I try to set it in water for the air pockets, too. Don't forget to fertilize.
Review from David Marshall James:  "Laura" by Vera Caspary:
   A successful New York advertising copywriter, just on the upside of thirty, is betrothed to a model-handsome fellow worker whom she discovers has been dallying with an actual model employed by their agency.
   On the eve of her wedding, Laura Hunt quaffs a couple of dry martinis with her intended, Shelby Carpenter, then stands up her mentor-- syndicated columnist Waldo Lydecker-- for dinner, then hightails it to her Wilton, Connecticut, country retreat, this being August and Le Tout of NYC's haut monde have fled to cooler and/or beachier climes till the Fall Season commences.
   Sounds like an episode of "Mad Men." Well, keep turning the clock back, all the way to 1941, as this is the novel from which the 1944 film of the same title was adapted.
   Whether you've viewed that or not, the book offers so much more. And, a brief commentary on the casting: Gene Tierney was far too lovely for the role of Laura, as former ad copywriter Vera Caspary penned her. Hedy Lamarr turned down the part-- something of a mistake for her career-- but she of course was even more eye-catching than Tierney.
   Interestingly, Lamarr is referenced in the novel as the ultimate in women with whom the detective, Mark McPherson, daydreams about taking a powder. Judy Garland would have been perfect as Caspary's "doelike" Laura-- attractive, but with little confidence in her good looks. Had but the film been made by MGM... .
    As for the effete, champagne-and-caviar-tongued Waldo Lydecker, Clifton Webb proved good casting on one level, but Caspary's Lydecker is so corpulent that his face shakes like "cafeteria Jell-O." Webb, as you may recall, was rail-thin.
   Caspary's "Laura" is neither a hard-boiled nor a scientifically dry murder mystery. Rather, it's a psychologically centered story of a woman's attraction to a trio of men.
   Laura, late of Colorado Springs, has reinvented herself in NYC (again, along the lines of many characters in the more modern "Mad Men") to the degree that she's playing a romantic game for which she is woefully unprepared.
   To wit: How does a well-to-do career woman balance work with romance, particularly when she is attracted to men (Shelby Carpenter, Det. Mark McPherson) who earn less than she and have the bruised egos to show for it?
   The novel's outstanding stylistic feature is that it is related through multiple points of view, with accompanying shifts in narrators. Caspary's adoption of Lydecker's creme-de-la-creme-de-menthe manner of both conversation and exposition is nothing short of a tour de force.
   In moving from the perspectives of Lydecker to McPherson to Laura in different parts of the novel, Caspary brilliantly underscores the psychological contrasts of her characters in a manner in which a single narrator, however omniscient, could not.
   This new edition of "Laura" is a selection from the "Femmes Fatales" series published by the Feminist Press of the City University of New York. 
REMINDERS
May 6: Ridge Spring Fire Department Benefit
May 13: Mt Calvary brunch benefit
May 20: Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Gathering
June 2& 3: Peach Tree 23 Yard Sale
June 6: Vouchers given out at Town Hall
June 10: RS Farmers'' Market Opens
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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