May 28, 2018

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

Memorial Display: American Legion Post 133 has a Memorial Day display in the Ridge Spring Town Square in memory of servicemen killed during wars. Names of each serviceman from the Ridge Spring, Monetta and Ward area are displayed on a memorial ribbon. There are (13) from World War II: Getson Leon Boatwright, Guy D. Fallaw, Eldred L. Holmes, Andrew Jordan, Wallace A. Kneece, Elbert H. Lott, Harvey Haskell Miller, Wallace Oakman, Sim Riddlehoover, Thomas Jefferson Rutland, Carroll B. Salter, Roy Warren and Manchester Boykin Watson; (4) from Korea: John Earl Cockrell, Solomon Emmanuel, John Gilmore Miller and Bogus Padgett; and (3) from Vietnam: Cleveland Cue, James Pierce Powell and Elijah Williams. (If anyone knows of other servicemen or women killed in wars, please contact Post 133 so a ribbon can be dedicated in their memory.) John and Nola Burger designed and made the display, and this is the thirty-second consecutive year that the fallen soldiers have been honored on Memorial Day Thanks to John and Nola Burger for their initiative in making this display each year.

Check out the Gazebo this week. You will see the flags of each branch of the military of the United States.  The American flags on the lamp posts on Main Street were purchased a few years ago with funds from the Ridge Spring Harvest Festival.

TAKE TIME to join Mayor Pat Asbill and Aiken County Public School Superintendent Dr. Sean Alford on Tuesday June 5th for an open forum at Ridge Spring Town Hall to discuss education in the Ridge Spring - Monetta Community 6:30 PM

Boiled Peanuts... The Caviar of the South... Goobers... They go by many names and everyone has a different way of making them. One thing we can all agree on is no one does them better than the South, more specifically in South Carolina. Is your recipe the best?

Come rain or shine the Peach Tree 23 Yard Sale is here!!!!!  The Highway 23 goes through Modoc, Edgefield, Johnston, Ward, RIDGE SPRING, Monetta, and Batesburg-Leesville.  Friday and Saturday are the days to come.  Who knows what you will find.  You know the saying, “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.”

The updated brochures will be ready to distribute at the yard sale as well as T-shirts .  Check out the welcome center at the Gazebo.

On June 16 Cub Scout Pack 555 Fundraiser at the  Ridge Spring Baptist Church from 5:00 to 7:00pm.  It will be eat In or take out for $8.00 per plate. Menu with be Wings, Celery, Potato Salad, Dessert, Tea/Lemonade with Wing Choice:Hot, Mild, Teriyaki, or Plain Please contact Melissa Stover, mostover310@gmail.com, or 864-323-5419

The Nut House and Country Store right there on Main Street, Ridge Spring now carries Clemson's Best Gourmet Ice Cream.  Come by and fill your freezer.

Peaches are here.  The clingstone peaches, white and yellow or gold, if you prefer, are ready.  Dixie Belle has them in front of the packing house on Main  Street. Cotton Hope has them ready to sell. Titan Farms has them at the Nut House and Country Store.   Get those cobbler and jam recipes ready.

Review from David Marshall James:  "The Fame Thief" by Timothy Hallinan

   Sometimes, it takes a benevolent thief-- with access to a rogues gallery of fellow thieves, fences, and con artists of every stripe-- acting as a far-from-licensed private investigator in order to solve your mysteries, great and small.

   A Junior Bender, if you please.  And, he will.

   Because a legit P.I. wouldn't even get past the gate to the manse of a benevolent gangster such as Irwin Dressler, who helped direct the movie biz back when it was olden-golden, who helped build up Los Angeles as a suitable metropolis to service the needs of the hordes who came to Hollywood but who had to settle on something more mundane, career-wise, on the fringes.

   Dressler summons Junior to solve a fifty-plus-year-old mystery:  Who set up up-and-coming actress Dolores La Marr (nee something else, to be sure, in Scranton, Pee-A) so she would look like the biggest gangster's moll since Jean Harlow went from redhead to platinum blonde, thus snuffing out any hopes of a career in The Movies, or Hollywood In-General, as the 1950s would have them?

   At present, Miss La Marr would just join the ever-swelling ranks of Reality TV Stars.

   Why now, does Dressler care so much about whatever happened to Dolores La Marr?

   The answer would be more than a bit of a spoiler to this deliciously consumable detective story (quite the anti-hero, that Junior Bender) that reads as if it were your favorite fantasy of every vintage, Hollywood-set P.I. novel rolled into the finest cigarette, off of which every Golden Age character could take a nice, deep, life-affirming drag.

   Author Timothy Hallinan includes a note in which he remarks upon the fun he has experienced in creating this novel.  Boy, does it show.  The character descriptions alone are as glistening as a cut-crystal tumbler full of 12-year-old whiskey resting on a sterling silver tray under a fully lit Tiffany-glass chandelier.

   Oh, to be an Irwin Dressler, to be able to package a film version of "The Fame Thief"!  Angela Lansbury-- there's a great role here for you.  It's not the female lead (after all, she weighs in at 300 lbs.), but the part is pithy, pivotal, and altogether pizazzy.  Go for it!

Harriet's Garden Tips: The Heat is On!!!! Hope  you have or are beginning to plant your vegetables.  A rain gauge is valuable to make sure you have had enough rain.  Last night it rained but I do not know how much.  When you are not sure you can over water plants and drown them or underwater them and cause the roots to come to the surface searching for water. They dry out more quickly, weaken and become more susceptible to disease and other maladies.  I have always heard an inch of water a week is what plants need. 

.  Thunbergia is fun to grow as a vine.  It is also known as the black-eyed Susan vine.  Every day I have to check to see if the vine has grown out of the basket and gone up the post. (I do want to sell t hem so I need to try to contain them somewhat.) It has to be turned around and encouraged to climb back down to the bottom of the hanging basket.  Just have fun with plants.  I do.

REMINDERS

June 2: Peach Tree 23 Yard Sale

June 5: Voucher Distribution

June 5: School Open Forum at Town Hall at 6:30

June 9: Farmers Market Opens

June 16: Cub Scout Pack 555 Fundraiser

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