Ridge Spring News: August 2017

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

August 21, 2017

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

The day has finally arrived and the eclipse has come and gone. It was a wonderful experience and no damage to my eyes. NASA was at College of Charleston and we watched it some. It did get very dark here and it was exciting. You could look at the sun during the totality and it was just WOW!!! This is one of those events that you will always remember. People remember where they were when they got the news of tragic events, but this one was a super-duper one. Nice!!!!

The Ridge Spring Farmers' Market is slowing down. We still had six vendors and fresh local vegetables such as scuppernongs are here as well as peas, tomatoes, corn, peppers, baked goods and more. This will be my last Saturday of having boiled peanuts. Okra is now in and I am trying to roast it like I have been given the recipe. Chop off the ends, slice it down the middle length wise, spray it with olive oil, salt them and then roast at about 400 for twenty minutes, shake a little about half way through the roasting. Enjoy... I am going to try it again. While at the market Ed Gregory relayed some history as he remembers it. I will put that in next week's column.

Two events are happening in the Ridge during the month of September..

1. End of the Summer Sidewalk Sale on Saturday September 9. Bargains can be found. Participating will be Ridge Antiques and Dry Goods, Olde Treasures, the Nut House, Off the Beaten Path, Stuff and Things, and the Farmers' Market. Stroll down Main Street, enjoy ice cream from Bank's Drugs, Enjoy the Ridge spring Art Center, dine at Juniper, and as you get ready to leave, purchase some of that sausage from Cone's Meats. What a day!!!!!

2. Farm to Table and Honey Tasting Event will be September 16th from 5:00 to 9:00PM at The Gables Inn and Gardens. A dining and entertainment experience to celebrate and support local area agriculture. Tickets are on sale now.

The Ridge Spring-Monetta Band will be having a car wash this Saturday, August 26th at the Ridge Spring Fire Station from 8:00 a.m. to 12 noon. The cost for a car wash is whatever you wish to donate to the band. Please come out and support the RS-M Band Students.

More about the Farm to Table and Honey Tasting event: The "farm to table" is an opportunity to raise scholarship funds for future farmers and other students entering into the agricultural field in and to bring focus to the agricultural community in Saluda County. To accomplish this we are focusing on several farmers and Chef Brandon Velie is specifically using them and their products to cook the food. So it is a multi-purpose event. It is to bring awareness and focus to the agricultural community in Saluda County and The Ridge area and also introduce local honey which makes this event a little bit different then the other farm to table events. The money raised will go towards scholarship for the future farmers and young people in Saluda county committing to Agriculture as a profession. The scholarships will be divided up between Saluda High School and Ridge Spring-Monetta High School. Sponsorships are necessary in order to cover the costs associated with putting on this event so that we can look to making a profit for those interests. Please check out SaludaFTT on facebook.

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: The Big Red Box (BRB) is overflowing with school supplies BUT always room for more. These supplies will be taken to Ridge Spring Elementary School to help supplement what was not purchased. If you would like to help, please leave your donation on the porch of either the Church or Family Life Center and a member will make sure it makes its way into the BRB! Plans are to contact the School and get the supplies to them end of this coming week. Thanks if you have already contributed.

The Prayer Box is located on the porch of the FLC. If you have a prayer request, need a call from our Pastor, please use the material there to write it down and place in the box. It is checked right before Service on Sunday.

Another thoughtful message from Pastor Ashley this Sunday. Don’t look down (i.e. phone, tablet, iPad) look up. That’s where your strength and answers come from. The congregation was treated to a solo song by Pastor Ashley. What a lovely gift. Thanks.

The Church Council met and plans for outreach and fellowship have been firmed up for the next several months. Join us as we begin the next leg of our faith journey. Service is 11 a.m. on Sunday unless otherwise noted. We will save you a seat!

Spann United Methodist Church in Ward welcomed new pastor, Rev. Ashley Buchanan, in July. Her timely messages and beautiful singing voice make for a very meaningful and uplifting worship experience. Spann always has a warm welcome for visitors. Worship service is at 9:45 every Sunday except fifth Sundays. (803-430-1314)

Leonard Bell is offering Market Boxes on Thursdays at the Johnston Farmers Market. Each box will contain a variety of, in season, fruits and vegetables as well as offerings from other farmers and artists at the market. If you are interested in ordering a box they are $20 and available for pick on Thursday around 5pm. Please call Mr. Bell at 803-646-2169 or Janet Burgess @ 803-275-8030

Art Center by Joanne Crouch

Get started on Christmas early with Christmas in August at the Art Center on Thursday, August 24^th from 5:30-7:00. Using pinecone petals, gold leaf and a gourd to make an ornament that can be used on your tree or displayed year-round. Cost is $30 ages 10 & up. You can see a picture on AARS facebook page or our website. Text instructor, Joanne Crouch at (803)480-0576, call (803)685-5577 or email joanne.crouch26@gmail.com to pre-register for this class. Pre-registration is required for this class.

Ridge Spring Rocks! The Art Center is initiating a movement that takes the simple rock and paints images on them. The rocks are then hidden around town. When the rock is found, a picture is taken and put on the group’s facebook page, Ridge Spring Rocks! The finder then hides the rock for others to find. If you need help getting started, please contact the Art Center on Fridays and Saturdays from 10-4 for more information. Please join Ridge Spring Rocks! on facebook.

The Art Center is open on Fridays and Saturday from 10-4. Come and enjoy the work of local artist.

Josie Rodgers:

All Aiken School District employees gathered at the USC-Aiken Convocation Center for the second annual pep rally. Schools represented themselves with various spirit items and cheers and chants. The very large crowd enjoyed some very special guests, including our very own Melvin Gibson of RSM High. We all love us some Melvin! Now everyone is ready to kick off the school year as the students arrive Wednesday!

RSM High: The True Blue band will have a car wash this Sat., Aug. 26, at the Ridge Spring Fire Station from 8 am to noon. The band members will be taking donations instead of charging a price. Please come out and support the RS-M Band Students.

The Trojans opened football season at home last Friday hosting the B-L Panthers. They lost 40-16, but are ready to get back on the gridiron this Friday as they host the Saluda Tigers for Military Appreciation Night.

Review from David Marshall James: "Ava: A Life in Movies" by Kendra Bean and Anthony Uzarowski

How fitting that Ava Gardner portrayed both Pandora and Venus in the movies-- an earthly goddess playing real ones. To think, she hailed from near-poverty, born and raised in the midst of eastern North Carolina tobacco country. However, she came from a loving family who watched over the youngest child and baby sister. When she was summoned to MGM in Culver City, California, at age 19, her sister and frequent future companion, Bappie, accompanied her.

It was through a window display in Bappie's husband's New York City photography studio that an MGM executive discovered her. After a mercifully silent screen test in New York, she was hired as a starlet-in-grooming. After all, Leo the Lion didn't need glasses.

From the outset, Ava's career proved far from conventional. Mickey Rooney, then the no. 1 movie star in the World, took one look at her and flipped. Ava became the first of many Mrs. Rooney's, rather reluctantly. He pursued her relentlessly and that was that, for a brief while.

Bandleader Artie Shaw soon followed Rooney as Ava's no. 2 husband, after his brief union with Lana Turner, Ava's good friend and fellow MGM-er. Meanwhile, the studio's voice coaches managed to eliminate the more untenable aspects of Ava's thick-as-grits Southern accent, although, throughout her life, her friends often spoke of her "sweet drawl."

The studio really had nothing for her-- Turner and Hedy Lamarr were its reigning glamour gals-- so they loaned her out to other studios. But, when she and newcomer Burt Lancaster clicked in 1946's "The Killers" from Universal Pictures, MGM chief Louis B. Mayer sat up straight at his famous white desk.

The role that finally put Ava into The Big League at Metro came, oddly, in a musical-- the 1951 version of "Show Boat." Lena Horne and Dinah Shore were both hot for the part of Julie Laverne, which had been beefed up considerably for Judy Garland, whom MGM fired just before production began.

(Garland would have a great "eff-you, MGM" moment twelve years later, when she gave a for-the-ages rendition of "Ol' Man River" on her CBS-TV show.)

For the next five years, MGM placed Ava in one blockbuster after another. Thus, a full decade had passed before her true arrival at the studio.

Also blockbuster-y was her third-- and final-- marriage, to Frank Sinatra. Their tempestuous wedlock held for just a few years, but their love carried on until Ava's death at 67. As Tina Sinatra recalls, her father and Ava spoke on the phone several times a week until her death in 1990, from which she says, "He never recovered."

This magnificently photo-illustrated volume overseen by the talented Kendra Bean, with a well-researched text by Anthony Uzarowski, will remind readers just how goddess-y Miss Gardner could be. Her couture often dazzles, too, her image offering a bittersweet reminder that Hollywood glamour died some decades ago.

The text illuminates her many film accomplishments and international friendships-- including Princess Grace of Monaco, English poet Robert Graves, Ernest Hemingway, and Tennessee Williams-- as she lived abroad for more than 30 years, mostly in London. Ava Gardner is buried beside her parents in Smithfield, N.C., where one can visit the Ava Gardner Museum. As Truman Capote reflected, "Sooner or later, all Southerners return home, even if it's in a pine box."

Harriet's Garden Tips: Still have some parsley left. Looking at my flowering pots, I see that many of the annuals have bit the dust, but there are a few that have remained strong. Geraniums, vinca, zinnias, Persian shield, the dark colored potato vines, and a few more have done well.. Time to start thinking about fall

REMINDERS

All Summer Saturdays: Ridge Spring Farmers' Market

Sept. 9: Ridge Spring Sidewalk Sales Event

Sep. 16: Farm to Table Event

October 14: Ridge Spring Harvest Festival

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; Sat 9-12

Ridge Spring Library Toddler Time Mondays at 10:30

Sunday, August 13, 2017

August 14, 2017

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

This is a complicated story line and I hope I get it right. Carol M. is related to Joe Cal Watson and has visited here. When she saw George Raborn's name in the news column she contacted me and asked me to forward an email to George. Note that I sent the email to his son. George does have a cell phone but let's his children and grandchildren deal with computers. Carol was from California, had been doing genealogy research and found a connection to the Raborn name. Well, George called her and they began discussing names, dates and places. He remembered a family member had moved to Texas. When he said the person's name, Carol M. in California remarked that that lady was her great-great-grandmother. It sure can be a small world.

Coming soon will be the end of summer sidewalk sale. Remember the date SEPTEMBER 9TH. Many businesses will have specials for you to browse and the Farmers' Market will still be going on.

Judy Adamick ,local artist, was accepted into "With These Hands Gallery" on Edisto Island, SC. She delivered six paintings including "Pond Turtle". See her website: Judyadamickfineart

School is gearing up. The school buses are geared up and all is ready to go. Have a great year.

As if you have not heard enough about the Solar Eclipse here is a little more about it.

Even if you get clouded over, you'll still feel the world plunge into darkness, yet parts of the distant horizon, depending on where you are, will still appear sky-blue in color. Overhead, where the Sun was in the sky, especially if it's clear, you'll be able to see:

· the Sun's corona, an extended mass of ultra-heated gas which goes out more than five million miles into space,

· a very bright star right next to the Sun: Regulus, whose position will be slightly distorted owing to General Relativity,

· and, if you're lucky, the planets Mars and Mercury, ahead and behind the path of the Sun through the sky, respectively.

· There will be plenty of other interesting facts about the eclipse for those who view it from space or with scientific goals, such as the fact that the shape of the eclipse's shadow itself isn't a sphere, or that the bending of starlight is how we measure the gravitational field and effects of the largest mass in our Solar System. For those experiencing it from the ground, these are the top seven practical things you should do. Be early, be safe, be warm, and as soon as totality comes to an end, put those eclipse glasses back on. Do not view the eclipse with binoculars or a telescope, as even the slightest sliver of direct sunlight through a device like that can cause permanent blindness! If you do it right, the memories and sights you'll see will be sure to last a lifetime!

Art Center by Joanne Crouch

Ridge Spring Rocks! The Art Center is initiating a movement that takes the simple rock and paints images on them. The rocks are then hid around town. When the rock is found, a picture is taken and put on the group’s facebook page, Ridge Spring Rocks! The finder then hides the rock for others to find. If you need help getting started, please contact the Art Center on Fridays and Saturdays from 10-4 for more information. Please join Ridge Spring Rocks! on facebook.

AARS is also looking for someone who could help us revamp our website. We also need a way for folks to register for classes online. If you know someone reliable that we get to help us, please notify me at joanne.crouch26@gmail.com of call (803)658-5577 and leave a message and I will return your call.

The Art Center is open on Fridays and Saturday from 10-4. Come and enjoy the work of local artist.

Review from David Marshall James: "Y Is for Yesterday" by Sue Grafton

Kinsey Millhone-- Santa Teresa, California, P.I.-- has gumshoe-d her jeans-clad way through 25 novels over the past 35 years. And she's only 39. Author Sue Grafton wisely left her protagonist time-encapsulated during the 1980s, at which point the writer sent her detective out on the literary stage.

Date-wise, in this 25th Kinsey Millhone mystery, it's still 1989, as she wraps up her latest rounds of business. People still use pay phones (Kinsey hath not a cell phone-- I don't recall someone using one until 1993), and she's still typing reports on her portable Smith Corona. Her P.I. biz is still mostly concerned with legwork, with hours stuck on the freeway (or staked-out at some curb), in her Honda.

Kinsey works off intuition, reading people's faces and voices, when she gleans information. Life doesn't come processed through a computer or a texting device. Rather, it hits Kinsey like a gust off the Pacific Ocean. She breathes in its saltiness, tastes it, feels it in her nooks and crannies.

The clock turns back even further in Kinsey's latest case, as she deals with a passel of twenty something's who attended an elite private school in 1979, when one in their midst was murdered.

After serving an abbreviated juvenile sentence, the boy who fired the murder weapon is back in Santa Teresa, living with his parents, who find themselves blackmailed. This powder-keg mix of high-schoolers generated several scandals, including the production of a sex tape. The tape's existence is known to a group of students and parents, some of whom have viewed it.

The police have heard about it, but it did not surface during legal proceedings. Hello, here it is ten years later.

Additionally, Kinsey is preoccupied with protecting herself against Ned Lowe, the psychopathic serial killer who darned near notched Kinsey's name on his vic-list. He's also stalking his ex-wives.

Grafton's plotting, stylistics, and characterizations demonstrate why she's been a major player on the publishing scene for 35 years. The almost-500 pages of her latest novel flip by as if propelled by a Pacific gust.

All bets are still off as to how Grafton will tie up the matters of Kinsey Millhone in her "Z" narrative. No deaths of recurring characters, please. Howzabout fading out on Kinsey in a beach chair, watching the sun set over the Pacific, sipping her beverage of choice (a fine Chardonnay), while dining on one of her favored peanut-butter-and-pickle sandwiches? With perhaps an engagement ring from Det. Cheney Phillips, STPD, glistening in the waning sunbeams?

Harriet's Garden Tips: The caterpillars have found my hidden parsley. I will tell you that I do not kill them, I just remove them. With all the rain and the ground being soaked, it is a good time to dig up those trees that are in the wrong place. The longer you wait, the deeper those roots will grow. I am still finding pecan trees in the oddest places. The morning glory vines are not nice vines. They are flimsy and small at the base but then grow thick and unyielding as they get to the top of the plant they are growing on. Get your soil tested for your fall garden of vegetables or plants.

REMINDERS

All Summer Saturdays: Ridge Spring Farmers' Market

August 21: Total Solar Eclipse

Sept. 9: Ridge Spring Sidewalk Sales Event

October 14: Ridge spring harvest Festival

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; Sat 9-12

Ridge Spring Library Toddler Time Mondays at 10:30

Saluda County Library Hours: Mon/Wed 8:30 am-5 pm; Tues/Thurs 8:30 am – 6 pm; Fri 8:30am – 5 pm; Sat closed new fax machine and can send toll free

Narcotics Anonymous Fridays at RS Library at 7:00 PM

Ridge Spring Post Office hours: Mon-Fri. 7:30 am – 11:30 am; Sat 9 – 10 am

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

Every Friday & Saturday: AARS hours 10 – 4 or by appt, free admission

Third Thursday of the Month: FORS at Library at 5:00; no meetings in July & August

Monday, August 7, 2017

August 7, 2017

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

Ridge Spring Harvest Festival: We are holding steady at 8 BBQ contestant entries. Remember, you do not have to be a big time BBQ Cook team to enter the competition… bring your fire barrel, old washing machine converted into a smoker, Big Green Egg®, or whatever you have that can cook 6 or more Boston Butts on. This may be your chance to break into the Big League of BBQ cookers. Please visit www.ridgespringharvestfestival.com to download the official Cooker’s Package from the Bar-B-Q Entry Form link. Fill it out and send it along with entry fee and you are all set. 1^st Place will receive $750, a cool trophy and a flag with your team’s logo flown over Ridge Spring as the BBQ King of Ridge Spring! We’ll see you at the Harvest Festival!

The Shoppes of Ridge Spring will be holding our annual Sidewalk Sale the Saturday after Labor Day. That will be September 9th and deals for all!!!!

The Farmers Market is slowing down but fresh produce is still available. Baked goods and plants are available too.

The Nut House and Country Store: Show your heart some love with pecans! Pecans contain 20 grams of fat per ounce, with unsaturated fat making up the majority. Unsaturated fat is a healthier form of fat attributed to cholesterol reduction and heart health. This type of fat not only aids with heart health, but it also prevents stroke, controls blood clotting and builds brain cells, according to the Harvard School of Public Health.

Josie Rodgers: Ridge Spring-Monetta Elementary School Registration will be August 9 9:00 am - 4:00 pm and August 10 Noon - 7:00 pm.

RSM Middle: Monica Johnson, coach: the middle school cheerleaders will have shirts for RSM classes of 2024 -2018 on display at registration on Aug. 8-9 for pre-order. These would be a great gift for the RSM students in your life!

RSM High: Registration will be held Aug. Thurs., Aug. 10 and Mon., Aug. 14 from noon until 7 pm.

The Mount Alpha Educational Union will have a Back to School Blast on August 12, 2017 at the Ridge Spring Star Community Center from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. The Presenters for the occasion will be Mr. Kenneth Johnson, Mrs. Callie Herlong; Mrs. Sharon Padgett; and Ms. Joyce Davis. School supplies will be given and lunch. Everyone is invited.

DETAILED FACTS ABOUT THE COMING ECLIIPSE

Ridge Spring, South Carolina, USA

Total solar eclipse visible (100.00% coverage of Sun)

Magnitude: 1.0079

Duration:2 hours, 53 minutes, 49 seconds

Duration of Totality:2 minutes, 18 seconds

Partial eclipse begins: Aug 21, 2017 at 1:11:53 pm

Full eclipse begins: Aug 21, 2017 at 2:40:56 pm

Maximum eclipse: Aug 21, 2017 at 2:42:06 pm

Full eclipse ends: Aug 21, 2017 at 2:43:14 pm

Partial eclipse ends: Aug 21, 2017 at 4:05:42 pm

Times shown in EDT

Thursday Joe Cal Watson called and invited me to join his Grammar School Classmate Ben Kilgo for when he was in the early grades. I hope most of you know that Joe is 93 or 94 years old. AND his fourth grade teacher was my mother. They knew her as Miss Harriet. In their reminiscing , they told of how they rode mules and there were hitching posts on Main Street of Ridge Spring. I forgot to write down the names of their mules though. Jan Brown brought Ben and Elsie Cannon to meet Joe at Juniper to dine and enjoy the company of each other.

Art Center by Joanne Crouch

AARS is proud to announce that we are offering introductory pottery classes. As these classes fill, more classes will be offered. These classes will be taught by Kim Ruff. Kim is a retired from teaching but it busier than ever with pottery classes. Please take notice of the children and adult introductory classes that are now being offered.

An Introduction to Pottery for children will be held August 14-18 from 3:30-5:30. Class includes instruction and all supplies for $15 per day. Please wear old clothes or wear an apron. This class requires pre-registration. Text Joanne Crouch at (803)480-0576 or contact instructor Kim Ruff at artmaker@aol.com.

We are excited to announce the beginning of our adult pottery class at the Art Center. The first class is a two-hour session on Monday, August 14^th 6:30-8:30. Spots are limited. The class instruction and all supplies are provided for $35. Class pre-registration is required to be in this class. Text Joanne Crouch at (803)480-0576 or email Kim Ruff at artmaker@aol.com. Bring your water bottle and an apron. More class will be available in the future.

Officers for AARS 2017-2018 are Joanne Crouch, president; Kedryn Evans. vice-president; Carolyn Boatwright, secretary; Barbara Yon, treasurer; and DS Owen, bookkeeper. Let members of AARS know if there is a particular class that you would be interested in. We will see if we can get an instructor for that class.

The Art Center is open on Fridays and Saturday from 10-4. Come and enjoy the work of local artist.

Review from David Marshall James: "Sting-Ray Afternoons" by Steve Rushin

Once upon a time in America-- the 1970s, that is-- the president farmed peanuts and taught Sunday School. Sears was the nation's no. 1 retailer, its catalog the bane of mail carriers from Paducah to Pocatello. Air rage was something that happened during warfare. In the new 747's, passengers enjoyed the ultimate in travel, with smoking sections and a second-level lounge accessed by a spiral staircase. Sports Illustrated columnist Steve Rushin recalls his "growing up" decade with a wily (or Wile E.) perspective, through a prism refracting harvest-gold and avocado-green light.

His Dad held the ultimate '70s job: Selling eight-track tape for 3-M out of the corporate headquarters in Minnesota. His Mom was a housewife and a homemaker in excelsis, with dinner on the table soon after Dad arrived home, but only after a fresh application of lipstick for his cross-the-threshold smooch. Moreover, she had to shepherd her flock during her husband's frequent sales sojourns, many abroad.

The author, his parents, and his four siblings lived in suburban Bloomington, where the Vikings and the Twins games were played, along with other professional sports. If any big concert act were gigging it up in The Twin Cities, it performed in Bloomington, from The Beatles to Led Zeppelin.

A Catholic-school student throughout the decade, Rushin fondly recalls snow days, given to outdoor mayhem, and sick days, given to "The Price Is Right" and other offerings from their Zenith TV.

It can be difficult to explain the core feeling of the '70s to younger generations. On the surface, the years provided a tacky tribute to painted-grain, processed-wood-laminate fixtures and furnishings, to aluminum siding and behemoth station wagons, to synthetic fabrics and bat-wing collars.

Nevertheless, people seemed positive-- happy, even. They smoked and drank and had laughter-filled house parties every weekend, all of which the author relates. Yet they weren't naive. Vietnam and Watergate dominated the first half of the decade, and you could scarcely escape the news, what with two thick daily newspapers-- morning and afternoon-- in every American city of 100,000 or more, ubiquitous newsmagazines, and evening newscasts rendered inescapable because there were no cable channels.

And, as the author recalls, students discussed current events. If you didn't know current events, how could you possibly hope to understand the hippest show on TV, "Saturday Night Live"? Amazingly, it's still on the air, with its original producer. "The Price Is Right" flourishes, sans Bob Barker, who's enjoying some well-deserved R&R on the golf course. And that peanut-farming president? You can still catch him teaching Sunday School in Plains, Georgia. Now, let us pray.

Harriet's Garden Tips: So far the caterpillars have not found the second set of pots of parsley. What is your prediction for the coming winter? Check the weeds that you pull and make sure their seeds do not fall into the flower bed. This is a good time to cut out any dead branches of plants such as roses, especially old fashion roses. They will winter better and look better in the spring.

REMINDERS

All Summer Saturdays: Ridge Spring Farmers' Market

August 12: Mt. Alpha Back to School Blast

August 21: Total Solar Eclipse

Sept. 9: Ridge Spring Sidewalk Sales Event

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; Sat 9-12

Ridge Spring Library Toddler Time Mondays at 10:30

Saluda County Library Hours: Mon/Wed 8:30 am-5 pm; Tues/Thurs 8:30 am – 6 pm; Fri 8:30am – 5 pm; Sat closed new fax machine and can send toll free

Narcotics Anonymous Fridays at RS Library at 7:00 PM

Ridge Spring Post Office hours: Mon-Fri. 7:30 am – 11:30 am; Sat 9 – 10 am

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

Every Friday & Saturday: AARS hours 10 – 4 or by appt, free admission

Third Thursday of the Month: FORS at Library at 5:00; no meetings in July & August