September 11, 2017
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
The
anniversary of 9/11 is this week and many of us have such vivid memories. You know where you were and what you were
doing if you were old enough. When I see
reruns on TV and the New York sky line is in it, I notice whether the twin
towers are in the scene or not. The Pentagon is another reminder, too. The twin towers site has been reborn and so
has our country. Let us continue to go
forward into the future together.
Art
Center in Ridge Spring Adult Pottery
Classes: September 18th 3 legged cup and frame, October 9 coiled pumpkin cup,
November 13 box with a ribbon and spoon rest.
All classes will be from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Class fee is $35.00 and reservations required
for space is limited. Email artassnridgespring@gmail.com, joanne.crouch26@gmail.com, or or makerart@aol.com or
call (803)315-9203.
Contact members of the Art Association of Ridge Spring on Fridays or
Saturdays from 10-4. For those who took the first class, the pieces are ready to be
picked up during Fridays or Saturdays 10-2.
We're ready
for fall at the Nut House & Country
Market! Stop and pick up cotton from Cumbee Farms and cornstalks, sorghum,
and straw bales from Yon Family Farms - all locally grown by your friends &
neighbors right here in Ridge Spring.
Jerusalem Baptist Church will celebrate its 140th church anniversary Sunday,
September 24th at 10:30 AM. The speaker will be Rev. Sim E. Murray.
You are invited to come and worship with Jerusalem. If additional
information is required please call Mrs. Marlene Murray at 706-210-0433
RIDGE SPRING UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH: September the Big Red Box
is collecting water and Gator Aid for the all volunteer RS Fire
Department. Please look for flyers and signs around Town to remind you to
purchase these items. RSUMC will host a BLITZ on September 30th to
round out the month of contributions. Want to help? Leave items on the porch of
the Family Life Center or church and a member will make sure they are placed in
the BRB. There is paper on
a clip board to record your donation.
Don’t forget RSUMC is
on Face Book. Check the page out and like us to keep up with activities, events
and church services. Church Service is at 11 a.m. unless otherwise
noted.
Joe
Cal Watson and I ate lunch together and as I was taking him home he asked if I
knew about the pecan orchard next to the
Pecan Grove Road. When he and Betty
moved back to Ridge spring, he wanted to buy the property and plant pecan trees.
It would have cost $10,000.00 an acre so he and Maynard Watson came up with a
deal that Watson Farms could plant peach trees on the land but skip every
fourth spot on a row. Joe then planted
his pecan trees. While the pecan trees
grew, the land was profitable for him in leasing the acreage and the peach
trees lasted about 15 years.
Another
time we were dining at Juniper and the conversation came around to the naming
of streets and roads or the un-named streets.
Bob Householder's father Bob Sr. was a deputy sheriff for Saluda County beginning
in the 50s. He kept a notebook with him
for directions to places and to people's houses. You see, the streets and roads had no
names. To get somewhere, you went down
to a person's house or property turned there and went down to so forth and so
on. His notebook came in handy. His son Bob still has the notebook.
Rene
Miller, RSM Elementary School
A
special thank you to the following for their generous donations to our school:
Aiken Co. United Way Jason Hall with Greater Ministries of Aiken Saluda County
EMS Margaret Nickerson & Dr. Jumelle Brooks RSM PTO - Faculty & Staff
Breakfast We would also like to thank Coach Lipsey and some members of the
football team for helping teachers move furniture around in their rooms and to
their rooms. We also thank our many volunteers, many who are members of our own
families, for giving of their time to help us get settled in for a new school
year. We would also like to thank Coach Lipsey and some members of the football
team for helping teachers move furniture around in their rooms and to their
rooms. We also thank our many volunteers, many who are members of our own
families, for giving of their time to help us get settled in for a new school
year.
We
would like to extend a warm RSM welcome to our new faculty and staff for 2017-
2018.They are: Sharon McCain, Tiffany Upchurch, Summer Mundy, Judy Kopp, Casey
Powden, Tieshia Walker, Kristen Sojourner, Joni Ray, Kellie Watson, Robin
Etheredge, Amy Ciravolo, Lauren Tacchi, Lois Workman, Crystal Ford, Patricia
Douglas, Barbara East, Roland Smith, and Cherrish Jones
REMINDERS
Miranda Banks: The Young Adult
Ministry of Ridge Hill Baptist Church announces A Family Fun Day and
Community Cookout on the grounds of the Ridge Hill Baptist
Church in Ridge Spring on Saturday, September
16 from 11 am-3 pm. All are invited to come and bring a
grill, some food, your favorite chair, and a good attitude. and festivities. This
year we will be sponsoring a bottled water and Gatorade drive in honor of the
Ridge Spring Fire Department. If anyone at your church would like to present
a talent (sing, dance, poetry), please free to share your talent for the glory
of God. If there are any questions, contact Lacey Brunson
at 803-507-2526.
Remember The first annual
Saluda County Farm to Table and Honey Tasting Celebration. Come celebrate the
bounty of The Ridge through local fresh foods prepared by Brandon Velie, drinks
from local breweries, wineries, (artisanal wares) and music entertainment by
Shelby Raye. Honey producers, from The Ridge will be on hand for a honey tasting. Honey will be available for tasting and sale
and other products from local apiaries will also be available for purchase. Come
experience The Ridge’s Finest Cuisine and help provide financial support for
future agriculture students from The Ridge Community.
Review from
David Marshall James: "Lana Turner:
Hearts and Diamonds Take All" by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
When asked who could
portray her in a biopic, screen goddess Lana turner quipped, "Honey, she
hasn't been born yet." True, no
one springs to mind, but let's hope she's out there on some malt-shop stool,
waiting to be discovered, a la Lana herself when she was a mere 16-year-old at
Hollywood High, skipping her typing class for a nickel Coca-Cola across the
street. For there's enough sin and
scandal in this massive tell-all-and-then-some to turn Turner's life into a
full-season TV series, like the recent, excellent "Feud: Bette and
Joan."
Incidentally, Miss
Crawford figures throughout this account, as she and Lana had a feud of their
own, both "sharing" many men, notably Hollywood attorney Greg
Bautzer. Miss Joan even crashed Lana's third wedding
(there would be seven at final count) on the arm of invitee Bautzer.
Lana gleamed unsurpassed
throughout the 1940s as Hollywood's premier blonde beauty, in spite of plenty
of competition. She bridged the gap between Jean Harlow, who died just as
Lana was breaking into pictures, and Marilyn Monroe, who hero-worshiped Turner.
Yes-- they met. And Lana had her
first encounter with Jack Kennedy (note, first) while he was still in the Navy,
a sometimes roommate of Robert Stack.
Eva Peron was also
fixated on Lana, copying her hairstyles, jewelry, and couture. They met during
Lana's MGM publicity tour of South America. Lana also drew the attention
of Eva Braun, who sent a fan letter via an intermediary and translator in
England. Braun assured Lana that she would be spared once the Germans had
conquered America, although the Roosevelts and many others would be executed.
Lana got busy selling war bonds, setting a record for $20 million-worth
in one day.
Aside from her on-again,
off-again fling with Kennedy, Lana had an affair with Ronald Reagan when they
were both at Warner Bros. during the 1930s. Neither admitted as much in
their respective memoirs. That's one reason to read posthumous tell-all's, as
memoirists are notorious self-editors.
Enough of future
presidents-- how about scores of leading men, from Clark Gable (four films
together) and Spencer Tracy (two films together) to her favorite, the one that
got away, Tyrone Power.
Why Lana would want to
wed Power, who was well known to her as bisexual, is a matter of her own heart.
Besides which, he left her expecting, off to make a film overseas.
Power had left Judy Garland in the same state prior to his WWII service.
Howard Hughes proved a
here-and-there romance as well as a powerful ally when Lana skidded into
horrific scandal.
Somewhere amid all her
affairs, Lana managed to star in glossy, high-grossing dramas for MGM,
including her favorites, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) and
"The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952). Lana's contracts with MGM
ultimately ran 21 years, longer than Gable's and Crawford's.
When the studio cut her,
darned if she didn't jump into the mega-hit "Peyton Place" (1957), earning
her first Oscar nomination. "Imitation of Life" (1959) would
set her for life, as a profit participant. That four-hankie weepie has been
minting money for the past fifty-plus years and has been shown on cable TV
hundreds of times. Indeed, TBS viewers voted it their all-time favorite.
Tragically, one of
Hollywood's worst scandals has cast a long shadow over Turner's life and
career: The murder, by butcher knife, of gangster Johnny Stompanato in her
boudoir.
Turner's 14-year-old
daughter, Cheryl Crane, took the rap. Nevertheless, she has never
recanted her story, even though she has written two books. The authors do
a good job of looking at the murder from several angles, through multiple
sources.
Most of all, they
demonstrate how well-known Stompanato was to many Hollywood celebrities,,
female and male, whom he was blackmailing.
Lana Turner, from
malt-shop stool to hellish Hollywood scandal, leaves the impression of being
the creation of a film scenarist, or a novelist. As her longtime friend
and confidante, actress Virginia Grey, noted: "If the movies had not
existed, they would have had to be invented just for Lana Turner. She could
have been nothing less than a movie star."
Harriet's
Garden Tips: I know we need the
rain but hurricanes are not wanted. Hope all are safe. When this weather settles down it will be a good
time to dig up more trees and weeds for the roots will be looser. By the way
when you talk to truck farmers and they discuss going to the bank, it can be
the bank of sweet potatoes they are saving for fall and winter.
Herbs:
Plant cilantro now. Cut and freeze
chives. Dry basil, oregano, sage and
tarragon. Gardening can be 12 month job.
It is also great therapy.
An
Irish potato pie that is sweet will be in next week's column.
REMINDERS
Sep. 16: Farm to Table Event
Sep. 16: Ridge Hill
Baptist Church Family Fun Day
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
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