September 25, 2017
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Great News!!!!
Security Federal Bank came to meet with potential customers last week. Mobile Banks are wonderful!!!
Ridge Spring Harvest Festival
October 12-14
The Ridge Spring
Harvest Festival
planning is in full swing. We are now taking BBQ orders for individual
pounds for $8.00 and whole butts for $25.00. Please submit payment at the Ridge
Spring Town Hall. You
can purchase a pound or a Boston butt,
go to town square, taste the 15 different BBQ's and then select which one you
want. Supplies are
limited so get yours before they get gone!
See y'all at the Harvest Festival!
There will also be
games and a few rides but they will all be free. The train, the climbing wall, and the
trampoline-bungee jump will be there.
You can paint your own rock and
then hide it. There will be the Country
Store with support from local farmers who are greatly appreciated, the Cake and
Pie contest, music at the Gazebo, and the parade too. The dates are October 12
for Bingo, October 13 dance at the gazebo and the Grills heat up, and Saturday
October 14 when it all comes together.
We have two B & Bs in the
area if you want to spend the night or
the weekend. They are Gables Inn and
Gardens and Magnolia Shadows.
The Harvest Festival Committee will be decorating the Town for Fall and
the Festival on September 30 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. All are welcome to help!!!!
Mayor's Desk: Thanks to Ridge Hill Baptist Church who
culminated their Community Cook-Off with a generous donation to the Ridge
Spring Fire Department. Their thoughtfulness and continued involvement
with the Town is much appreciated.
Congratulations
to the RS-M True Blue Marching Band for
their First Place finish in Class A at the "Blue Machine
Invitational" at Edisto High School this past Saturday.
RS-M also received the awards for "Best Drum Line" and "Best
Drum Major". At the competition the True Blue Band scored higher
than two Class 4-A schools. The next competition for RS-M is
this coming Saturday at the "Mustang
Classic" at Midland Valley High School. The Ridge Spring-Monetta
performs at 2:00.
On Saturday, September 23rd
the Ridge Spring-Monetta True Blue
Marching Band competed in the "Mustang Classic"
marching band competition at Midland Valley High School. RS-M won 1st
Place in Class A and also received the award for "Best Overall
Effect". Results from Class A were: 1. RS-M; 2.
Williston-Elko; 3. Fox Creek (2-A school); 4. Crescent
(3-A school); 5. Wagener-Salley; 6. Emerald (3-A
school). Next up for the True Blue Band is the "Fin Fest
Tournament of Bands" at St. James High School on Saturday, October 7th. For more
information about the True Blue Marching Band please visit our website at
www.acpsd.net/domain/3827.
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.
RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH: Big Red Box (BRB) is sending out an
ALERT to all citizens that this is the LAST week to donate water/Gatorade to
the all volunteer Ridge Spring fire department. If you have already donated,
thank you and those who haven’t we will look for you on September 30th from 8
a.m. – Noon at the Fire Department. There will be volunteers there to help
unload. Monetary donations will also be accepted. Let’s rally behind these
individuals who put their life out there to protect us. Don’t forget, RSUMC is
on Face Book. Visit our page, like us and keep up with what’s going on. Next
Sunday Communion will be served. This is open to all people, all faiths.
Join us. Pastor Ashley delivered another meaningful and timely message this
Sunday. If you have not heard her messages you are missing out. She also shared
her faith by singing a solo. So blessed Prayer box is located on the porch of
the Family Life Center (building next to the church). Leave your prayer
requests and they will be added to the morning’s prayer. Service is every
Sunday at 11 a.m. unless otherwise noted. We will save a seat for
you.
Rene Miller, RSM
Elementary School
High Five Fridays! Thank you to members of
our RSM High Football team who come bright and early every Friday morning to
help us greet our students as they get to school. We appreciate you! Go
Trojans!
Congratulations to our Summer Readers!
Congratulations to the following students for completing their summer reading
logs. They will be receiving a free ticket to the RSM High football game on
September 29. Tickets will be handed out next week. Hope you all can make it to
the game. Aaron Aimar, Quarmaine Allen, Matthew Cockrell, Conner Cockrell,
Addison Cooper, Drayton Cooper, Dylan Harris, Aaliyah Hartzog, Yalexia Jeffery,
Ryland Johnson, Makenna Lipsey, Jamirah Lites, Heaven McField, Miracle Morphy,
Gracie Myers, Nikolas Myers, Randy Renteral, Logan Risinger, Tara Robinson,
Lacey Rodgers, Hailey Rodgers, Ty’rell Smith, TyZai Smith, Chance Snipes,
Maryann Sterling, Wilbur Story, Alyssa Whitfield, Marcellus Wideman, Arianna
Williams
Review from David Marshall James: "Midnight at the
Bright Ideas Bookstore" by Matthew Sullivan
Mood, setting, and
characters-- chrysalis-ized in an engrossing plot-- are the order of the day in
Matthew Sullivan's top-shelf debut mystery novel.
Nothing out of the
ordinary would seem to attach itself to these heads-just-above-water denizens
on and just off Colfax Avenue in Denver, living and working in neighborhoods on
the verge of gentrification.
The three-storied Bright
Ideas Bookshop (formerly a lightbulb factory) is frequented by a regular array
of lost souls, well known to the staff. Many of these lower-tier patrons
are homeless or close to it, seeking warmth, enveloping armchairs, and
filch-ies from the in-house coffee bar. Some are even bibliophiles of an offbeat
sort, including twenty-year-old Joey Molina, a favorite of Bright Ideas
employee Lydia Smith, nee Gladwell.
To Lydia's horror, she
discovers that Joey has hanged himself in the bookstore just before closing
late one night. Furthermore, she finds that he's in possession of a photo
of the young Lydia and two of her fourth-grade friends, celebrating her tenth
birthday. How did Joey come by this
picture? Why has he hanged himself?
And who are those two
youngsters at Lydia's birthday party? And what, pray tell, is Lydia's
back story, the proverbial pages of her life? After all she's just a
skimpy paycheck and a cheap rental away from the Bright Ideas hangers-out who
live out of shopping carts and generally alarm the gentry who aim to redo the
neighborhood sans scruffy faces framed by crusty watch caps.
Sullivan's tightly woven
story surfaces because of Joey's death. The plot exists as an
intertwining extension of the characters' lives, characters who snare the
reader's attention and feelings and don't let loose, even after the last page
is turned.
The reader oughtn't be
misled by the cozy-esque title. It's a ruse not unlike the cozy world of
happy families and fondly recalled childhoods that has eluded Joey, Lydia, and
her fellow partygoers. The author's fluid prose sweeps the reader away in
a novel that will snag many a bookstore patron-- and habitue.
Harriet's
Garden Tips: Have you begun to see
more and more bulbs for sale? If
purchased and not planted they need to be kept cool. Temperatures higher than 70 degrees can
damage the flower so here are some tips to protect them before you get them
planted. Store them in ventilated bags
but not paper or plastic shopping bags.
You can add some peat, perlite, or vermiculite to protect them. Bulbs can be stored for several weeks in a
cool place such as a refrigerator drawer.
A vegetable crisper can be used but avoid storing bulbs in the same
drawer as ripening fruit. Since some
bulbs are poisonous this storage method is not recommended for households with
young children. The best idea is to be
prepared to plant them ASAP. Harriet's Garden is reopening.
Check out the pansies and pumpkins and more.
REMINDERS
September 30: RSUM church Beat the
Heat Blitz
Town Decoration from 4-6 PM
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
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