April 9, 2018
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Vouchers will be distributed on Tuesday June 5,
at Town Hall
from 1:00 to 7:00 PM
Come Celebrate Joe Watson's
95th Birthday!: Everyone is invited to Joe Watson's 95th birthday party on Saturday, April 21,
2018. It will be at the Joe and Betty Watson Family Life Center
next to the United Methodist Church. Drop in anytime from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00
p.m. No presents please; your gift will be your presence.
The
Ridge Spring Fire Department Benefit in memory of Michael Adamick will be held on
Saturday, May 5th beginning with a BBQ dinner at 5:00 PM to be followed with an
auction at 6:00 p.m. and live entertainment by Steele Justice Band with
festivities held at the new fire house near the town square. Tickets may be
purchased for $10.00 per plate for dinner, auction and entertainment at the
following locations: Ridge Auto, The Nut House, the Town Hall or local
firemen/women. Many, many thanks to previous donors of this special town event.
It is so appreciated by the hard working volunteers of this community. The fire
department will soon be accepting donations for this year's auction.
The second big event in Ridge Spring will be Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Gathering featuring
the Palmetto Tractor club. This will be
held May 19, 2018 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
RIDGE SPRING UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH: Easter Sunday was
lovely with a fine message from Pastor Ashley. The Lenten season flew by and we
look forward to spring and summer.
The Big Red Box (BRB)
full of Easter egg hunt items was delivered to Helpful Hands to help with their
Annual Easter Egg Hunt. Pastor Key stated: it was the best one yet! We were
glad to help. The BRB also collected non perishable food items for Helpful Hands
food pantry. Those were delivered last week. A big thank you to the community
food angels who donated food. Reminder: The Pantry cannot accept food that has
been open and/or out of date food.
April has 5 Sundays
and what does mean? Fifth Sunday Sing at RSUMC. Watched this column,
our Face Book page and the Town sign for information regarding this event. You
don’t want to miss it. Regular Church Service is at 11:00 a.m. every Sunday unless
otherwise noted.
The Peach Tree 23 Yard
Sale is
around the corner. If you want to see if
there are any slots left open, go to ridgespringsc.com, click on the Peach Tree
symbol, go to map and enlarge until you find your place.
Ridge Spring Famers Market will be opening in June. Come get your tomato plants now from
Harriet's Garden. The varieties
available now are better boy, whopper, and celebrity. There are a few red, orange, and yellow
pepper plants too. You can enjoy eating
them or selling them at the market. Sometimes
we trade too.
My grandparents lost their youngest child Alexander
for he was hit and killed trying to cross Main Street in front of what is now
Jim Campbell's business. I found the
scrapbook that Grandmother made of all the cards, visitors, etc. from this sad
event. She had made a list of food
brought and yet I found this so interesting for this was the end of January
1928. Some of the foods brought were milk,
cracklins, butter, fresh eggs, fish, sandwiches, cakes, pineapple, peaches,
pies, lard, liver pudding and many more.
Many people today are going back to fresh eggs, and Cone's Meats still
has liver pudding.
I remember when listening to a news report
about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, it was pointed out that there would be no
more unknown soldiers for DNA would identify remains of soldiers. This was proven to us again this time when
the remains of a World War II soldier, Lt William Harth, Jr. were identified
and returned home from Belgium. He was
buried with military Honors at Fort Jackson National Cemetery, Columbia SC. First
buried in Romania then Belgium, and finally in his hometown Columbia, South
Carolina.
Saluda County lost a deputy sheriff last
week. Cpl. Dale Hallman was on his way to aid the sheriff's office
in their pursuit of an armed man.
A bar-be-que place may be going into the
building that is across from the Dollar General.
Art Center in Ridge Spring by Joanne Crouch
Six little artists from the Girl Scout Troop 1900 from Edgefield painted
gourds at the Art Center on Saturday, March 31st. Be on the lookout for these creations around
town.
Kim Ruff will host a pottery class making a Garden Angel (male or
female). This class will be held on
Monday, May 14th at 6:30 at the Art Center. Students may make a herb
pot and possibly some garden stakes (“dill”, basil, etc). Class cost is $35 and includes clay, glazing
and firing. Students can bring apron to
protect clothing. Contact Kim Ruff at
(803)315-9203 or by email at makerart@aol.com
or Joanne Crouch at (803)685-5577 or by email at joanne.crouch26@gmail.com.
Members, Ron Buttler won 2nd place in painting and D.S Owens
won 3rd place in photography at the Dogwood Festival held at the Jim
Harrison Gallery in Denmark, SC.
DS
Owens won an Honorable Mention for his photography at the Spring Fest Show at
the North Augusta Art Center.
Hours
of operation at the Art Center are Fridays and Saturdays from 10-2. Join us for our membership meetings on the
first Thursday of the month at 6:30. The
Art Association of Ridge Spring meets at the Art Center the first Thursday of
the month at 6:30. Everyone is
welcomed.
Josie Rodgers:
Fourth
quarter! If you’re a teacher, you know
what that means! Our spring break
included celebrating Aiden’s birthday for days!
We went to the zoo on his birthday and ate at his favorite burger joint,
Smashburger. When we arrived home, one
of his nanny goats had given birth to a set of twins (Spike and Arrow). Then we learned that a baby giraffe had been
born at the zoo that day as well! In addition to a lot of cleaning up and
cleaning out, we spend time with River and Pressley and relished every moment
of down time.
Members of the RSM High Class of 1976 are
meeting for reunion plans. Go to Facebook and search RSM High Class of 1976 for
more details.
RSM Elem (Rene Miller): Registration for 4K will end on April 13. There are limited slots available.
RSM Elem’s Day of Caring is will
be April 14. If you are good with
handiwork and outside projects, we need you!
We are also accepting financial donations to purchase materials and
supplies for this project. Contact the
school at 803-685-2000.
The
Spring Title I planning meeting will be held April 19 at 12 pm in Tonya
Rodgers’ classroom.
RSM High: RSM Middle High’s Day
of Caring will also be April 14. The project will be construction a
little free library at the front of the school.
This project is an outreach opportunity to the community that promotes
the district’s literacy initiative. The library will be maintained by the
school’s media specialist and will include reading material for all age
levels. In addition to books, the media
specialist will include brochures of tips for parents to promote literacy in
their homes. Because RSM High will be a
farm-to-table school, we will eventually include a seed swap in the free library with brochures that have nutrition
and gardening tips. Please bring a
hammer and safety goggles. We will also
need post hole diggers, shovels and electric saws. The project begins at 8 am.
Review from
David Marshall James: "The Downfall of
Galveston's May Walker Burleson: Texas Society Marriage & Carolina
Murder Scandal" by T. Felder Dorn
May Walker Burleson led a
fascinating life, up to and including her incarceration for the murder of her
ex-husband's second wife.
Burleson probably would
have adopted the song "(S)He Had It Comin' " from "Chicago"
as her theme song, had it been written.
Moreover, Burleson's life
embodies modernity, a sense of its being ahead of its time. When she
returned to Galveston to live out her last decade, she remained just short of a
social pariah. 'Twouldn't be the same today.
Lookie-loo's would celebrate
her Wagnerian divorce proceedings, her revenge on her errant former spouse, and
her getting away with murder-- for the most part-- owing to her social position
and (at least) a veneer of being crazed.
In T. Felder Dorn's
richly detailed and documented account, the reader moves from May's marriage to
a future Army colonel at age 18, to her teaching art in Manila, to her European
travels, to her study of archaeology at Harvard. She participated in
several Mexican archaeological digs, part of an in-absentia pattern of life
with her husband.
Mrs. Burleson also spent
prolonged periods with her mother, a failure-ridden recipe for connubial
solidity.
Nevertheless, the Texas
couple experienced their own brand of happiness together when Col. Burleson was
stationed in his home state, including Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
May obviously wanted to maintain her marriage, even with knowledge of her
husband's indiscretions.
However, he flaunted
those affairs with wealthy, widowed women, whose affections were often
manifested in opulent gifts and reckless billets de doux. Indeed, he
wound up wed to two of his extramarital inamorata. May dispatched the
first one in the cafeteria of the Jefferson Hotel in Columbia, S.C., in 1940.
Col. Burleson sought
extrication from a marriage that May fought to preserve. Had he simply
been highly discreet about his philandering, he could have sustained the
marriage, but that apparently wasn't a goal he considered worthwhile. In
modern parlance, he wanted "to trade up."
Even during the late
1940s, the first Mrs. Burleson spoke of "a book that she was writing that
would make some people 'wish that they were dead' when exposed by the book and
resultant motion picture."
Here, we see a woman 30-plus years ahead of her time, who would have
doubtless found fame as a memoirist. Furthermore, were she living today,
she probably would have her own cable-TV reality show.
Harriet's
Garden Tips: Hard to believe but
we had such cold weather Saturday and Sunday morning. It was below 40 degrees and I took in my
thunbergia and mandevilla, just in case.
Tomatoes survive. A few reminders: do not cut down bulb leaves for they
are storing food for next year's bloom, prune spring flowering plants after
they bloom, pull out those pesky vines that have gotten into your plants such
as in your spirea bush soon after they
finish blooming so not to damage next year's growth and blooms, and get ready
for a beautiful spring and summer
REMINDERS
April 19: Friends of Ridge Spring Meeting
May 5: RS Fire Depart. Benefit
May 19: The Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Festival
June 2: Peach Tree 23 Yard Sale
June 5: Voucher Distribution
June 9: Farmers Market Opens
Ridge Spring Library hours: Mon. Tues. 9:00 - 12:00; Wed. Thurs. Closed;
Fri.
10:00 - 4:00; Sat. 10:00 - 1:00.
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
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