November 6, 2017

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

We need to remember why November 11is called Veteran’s Day.  It began with “The War to End All Wars” World War I.  The powers to be decided that all guns would go quiet on the 11^th hour of the 11^th day of the 11^th month to end The War.  How were we to know that in less than 30 years there were would be another war known as World War II?  So instead of being Armistice Day it became a day to honor all veterans of all services.    Even today Marines are being sent to the Philippines to help with the disaster of the typhoon.  How fortunate we are to be here today to celebrate this day

The Nut House & Country Market has started harvesting this year's pecan crop. The nuts look great and are available in store now. Pecans are sold in-shell, cracked, or halves and pieces. 

The Shoppes of Ridge Spring and The Art Gallery  are beginning to gear up for Black Friday Sales and Small Business Saturday.  There will be a food truck coming Friday and Saturday 24th and 25th. He will be doing Coffee and Hot Chocolate in the morning with something kind of Breakfast style and then Hamburgers and Fish dinners and sides for lunch.

Juniper will be closed for Thanksgiving November 22-25.  They will be open for Sunday Buffet on November 26.

Jerusalem Baptist Church male chorus will celebrate its 17th anniversary Sunday, November 19th at 3:30 PM.  Various choirs will be their guest as they lift up their voices in praise.  The public is invited.  If you require additional information please contact Deacon Arthur Kenner at 803-685-5453.

The Farmers' Market with the fresh local greens is getting started around 9:00 to 9:30.  No need to rush for Leonard Bell will be there ready to sell those fresh locally grown greens and other vegetables.

The Ridge Spring Harvest Festival will meet Tuesday November 14th at the library at 7:30 PM.  Hope you will join us.

FORS meets next Thursday November 16 at 5:00 PM at the library.

Judy Adamick and Anne Rauton Smith will be having an Opening artist reception, November  9th, from 6:00 to 8:00  pm at Aiken Center for the Arts. The show hangs from Oct. 31st thru Dec. 2nd. Come see!

Ridge Spring – Monetta hosted a Litter-Free Game with PalmettoPride

On Friday, October 27, 2017, Ridge Spring – Monetta Middle High School’s Lady Trojan Softball team partnered up with PalmettoPride, your anti-litter and beautification organization, to help turn their high school campus into a litter-free zone.  Fans representing RS-M and HKT were challenged to the keep the football stands and stadium grounds free of litter before, during, and after the game that evening.  Student volunteers handed out personal-size litter bags to fans of both schools as they entered the stadium.   Fans used the bags to dispose of their trash in order to keep the stadium from being trashed by bottles, wrappers and other concession items.  During and after the event, the “Green Team” collected 17 bags of litter.  RS-M won the football contest by a score of 43-0 and had a very clean stadium after the game.

If you have not purchased your copy of the November issue of Southern Living, you need to get one now!  Monetta is featured in the magazine as one of the best tiny towns in the South!  It is located on page SC2.  IT Nantes Monetta is the home of the "BIG" Mo.  It definitely earned the Big for it has three screens and runs usually first run movies.  It even tells the cost and they only take cash.  The article also mentions Watsonia, Peaches 'n' Such,  and peach ice cream.  Check it out.

I attended the Farm to Table and Honey Tasting Event at Gables Inn and Gardens in Ward.  It was delightful. The rain had come and gone!!! The Moonshine from Hollow Creek Distillery was stronger than I thought it would be. I only took one sample but it was really smooth.  The two honey producing farms were there and their honey tasted better than any you could buy in the store.  One was KP's Honeybees of Saluda and the other was Lange's Smiling Acres of Ward.  The food was delicious and prepared by Chris Hamilton from Higher Ground Char House , the entertainment was great and the two young men spoke of their desire to work with and through agriculture.   Larry Lange Jr. is a junior at Clemson and Ken Palmer is a junior at RSM High School.   They are part of our future for this area is agriculture to the core. There will be agriculture scholarships, too. A BIG thanks goes to: Lange's Smiling Acres South, Ridge Recycling, The Town of Ward, Hallmark Outdoor Services
Heritage Hardware & Supply, Jerrold A. Watson & Sons,  Log Creek Thinning, Ridge Poultry, Jimmy Forest Farms, Lake Murray Properties, and Tidwell Jewelers

Art Center in Ridge Spring by Joanne Crouch

     Don’t miss the last pottery class with Kim Ruff on Monday, November 13^th from 6:30-8:30.  Cost is $35 and for ages 12 & up.  The projects are a Christmas box with ribbon and a Christmas tree.  Contact  Kim Ruff at makerart@aol.com or Joanne Crouch at joanne.crouch26@gmail.com to pre-register for the class.  You can also sign up on Fridays and Saturday from 10-4. 

    Please shop local on Fridays and Saturdays from 10-4.  Works of 15 plus artists are available.  Get your unique gift here. 

RSM Elem (Rene Miller):  “PJs and Pancakes” is the theme of our Literacy Night this year! It will take place on Nov. 14 at 5 p.m. in the main office building. This fun-filled event will promote a love for reading and writing in your child’s life.

After-School Program:  The YMCA of Aiken is offering Primetime, an after-school care program.  For more info, call the school at 803-685-2000.

RSM High:  The Trojan football team defeated HKT 43-0.  This secures a home play-off game on Nov. 10 against Timmonsville or Denmark.  Kick-off is 7:30. 

Ms. Janice Douda’s classes are expanding the Coffee Bean Café to offer a coffee house atmosphere for poetry reading, guest speakers, and other artistic ventures during 2 ILT (independent learning time) periods.  Mrs. Bedenbaugh’s and Mrs. Rodgers’ honors English classes will be the first to enjoy this new experience!

Ms. Powell, the new media center specialist, sponsored a Spooky Halloween Story contest for the middle and high school.  Eighteen students submitted their creepiest stories to compete for the prize of a bucket full of Halloween goodies.  Congratulations to William Luarca for his story “12:00” and Jordan Grantham for his story “The Farm Maniac.” 

On Oct. 23, the RSM Trojan Champs had a blast eating and painting pumpkins together with their buddies during lunch.  The pumpkins were then randomly placed around the school for all to enjoy.  The Trojans Champs are spending lots of time with their buddies getting to know them and participating in all kinds of activities with them. 

Review from David Marshall James:  "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet" by James Bawden and Ron Miller

   This handsome, photo-illustrated volume from the University Press of Kentucky is subtitled "Interviews with Stars from Hollywood's Golden Era," and that's the grabber.

   Both former newspaper TV editors-- Bawden, for The Toronto Star; Miller, for The San Jose Mercury News-- the authors assimilate much previously unused material with their published print interviews.

   Subjects include Academy Award winners and longstanding friends Henry Fonda and James Stewart, with Fonda candid about his desire to win an Oscar, this being before "On Golden Pond" (1981).

   Non-Oscar-ees Walter Pidgeon, Vincent Price, and Robert Young put the "did" in "candid," as do Yvonne De Carlo and Esther Williams.  Jane Russell was known to speak her mind, and she's particularly revealing about costar Marilyn Monroe, whom she claims did not commit suicide, but was "disposed of."

   Bette Davis's middle name ought to have been "Frank."  She once referred to costar Miriam Hopkins as "the most thoroughgoing b---- I ever knew," and Davis carries the ball even further here.  For "Old Acquaintance" (1943), Davis has a scene in which she slaps Hopkins in the face:  "I really slugged her, and her head bobbled, and I felt ever so much better."

   Turnabout is fair play in these interviews, and some of Davis's other costars dish on her.

   The authors include Q&A's with lesser known (today) child actors and character actors, all at an age when their attitudes were loosened and their tongues thus much freer, making for a sometimes snippy and altogether catnip-py collection of Hollywood remembrances.

REMINDERS

November 13: Art Class

November 14: Harvest Festival Meeting 7:30

November 16: FORS Meeting at 5:00

November 25 & 26: Ridge Spring Shoppes Specials

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