June 24, 2018

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

Ridge Spring Farmers' Market, Open on Saturdays only: You know I have to start with the market!!!! We had 10 venders today. Four had fresh corn and I bought a dozen from each vendor.   We had honey from Dry Creek Honey Bee Farm, peaches, yellow and white, Crowder peas, zucchini, squash, tomatoes - grape, Cherokee purple, chocolate cherry,  celebrity, and with some of those green tomatoes to pickle or fry. You should have seen the choices of peppers, green, cayenne, poblano,  banana, and more.  We had string beans, pickling cucumbers, watermelon, cantaloupe, and of course boiled peanuts.  28:8 Farms had Pork Chops, Bacon, Picnic shoulders and butts, Onion Sausage, Mild Breakfast links,  Jalapeno & Cheddar Sausage, and Bratwurst along with their vegetables. WOW!!!! What choices you will have!!!

This year I am bringing pots of herbs for customers to cut what they would like for a small fee. A lady got some lavender to put in an arrangement on a picnic table so as to keep the mosquitoes away.  I think I will try that too. We start setting up around 7:00 and all are ready around 8:00 AM.  Many stay until lunch time too. WOW!!! Summer is here.

Dry Creek Honey Bee Farm is back in business.  David Day and his three children were at the market with a great variety of honey products.  He has honey for sale and h also does bee removal.  He will be back too.

I have a great quote from Denise Covington of Ridge Antiques and Dry Goods, "I am healthy, wealthy, wise, happy, joyous, and free."  What a wonderful attitude and she did have a bag of boiled peanuts to help her continue the feelings.  Another saying I had never heard was "Can't make it to market, got an ox in the ditch." Leonard Bell sent that last Saturday and I did not know he had an ox.  Later he told me it was an old saying his father taught him and it means he has too much to do.  I knew the saying as too many irons in the fire, but we both got the point.

Juniper Restaurant will be closed July 4th and 5th.   

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH:

The first delivery of cleaning items were taken to Killingsworth this past Friday. RSUMC will collect cleaning supplies until Wednesday of this week. Those items will be delivered on Wednesday. An urgent email from Killingsworth Home (safe haven for women in transition) was received that they were out of basic cleaning needsGeneric brands/store brands are fine! The items are as follows:  pine-sol liquid, fabuloso liquid cleaner, furniture spray cleaner/polisher, windex for glass and mirrors, Swiffer wet mop sets, large sponges for cleaning, bathroom specific cleaners, and paper towels. We also need standard size bed pillows and zippered covers for them!

If you would like to help with this, leave your donation on the porch of the church or the Family Life Center and a church member will make sure they will make into the Big Red Box. Thanking all the community angels in advance.

A fine message was delivered by Pastor Ashley this Sunday. Theme was make sure you are connected: God, church, community. Remember if you are in despair or lose your way, Jesus can ‘jump start’ your connection. Church service is at 11 a.m. unless otherwise noted. Join us. We will save you a seat.

 Art Center of Ridge Spring (Joanne Crouch):  The watercolor workshop with Anne Hightower Patterson was rescheduled due to the illness of Anne.  She has been hospitalized with pneumonia.  The workshop will be rescheduled until early fall after she gets well. In addition to the watercolor in the fall, there will be basic sewing classes, stained glass and pottery classes.  A list will be released soon.

Ron Buttler is the featured artist for June at Jim Harrison Gallery for the month of June. Barbara Yon is the solo artist in the member’s gallery at the Aiken Art Center.   Her abstracts were admired by many at her reception on Thursday, June 21^st.  Her work will be there until mid July. 

Hours of operation at the Art Center are Fridays and Saturdays from 10-2. There is no admission fee.   Join us for our membership meetings on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30. Check out our face book page at Art Association of Ridge Spring& Gallery.

Josie Rodgers

Registration News for Aiken County Schools:  Registration can be completed ONLINE this summer!  You will still need to go to your child’s school to verify registration information and to show proof of address.  Parents/guardians of NEW students are asked to come to their respective schools to complete the registration process.

RSM Elem: Summer reading logs will be due when school is back in session.  Don’t wait until the last minute!  Read all summer!  Read what you like!  Read what you love!  Just READ!  Did you know that the more a child reads the higher level  his vocabulary will be and the more successful he will be in ALL of his classes?  Get to the library and explore!

Elem Registration:  New students & their parents/guardians are asked to come to the school on Aug. 11 between 11am and 6 pm to register for school.  Meet the Teacher will take place Thurs., Aug. 16, from 3-6 pm.  Parents are asked to visit the school before Aug. 11 to verify the online information. 

RSM High:  RSM Lady Trojan Volleyball and Basketball summer schedule will resume Tues., July 10, at 8:30 am in the gym!  All mid or high girls interested in playing for the Lady Trojans should be at the gym with 2018-2019 sports physical in hand.

Registration will be held on Tues., Aug. 7, from 11 am until 7 pm in the cafetorium.  Even if you complete registration online, you must still come to the school to verify that information and show proof of address.

RSM High Class of 1988 will have a reunion on July 14.  If you are an ’88 graduate and interested, contact Carol Pittman via Facebook for details and payment information.  She needs a final count by July 2.  The page is RS-M Class of 1988. 

Book Review from David Marshall James: "Accustomed to Her Face:  Thirty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood" by Axel Nissen

   Ona Munson, in her Belle Watling finery, graces the cover of Prof. Axel Nissen's third volume concerning classic Hollywood character actresses, following "Actresses of a Certain Character" and "Mothers, Mammies and Old Maids."

   Munson, who starred in "No, No Nanette" on Broadway, never knew the success in films that she found on the stage when she was younger, in spite of her role in "Gone With the Wind" (1939).

   To be sure, Hollywood provided a monetary refuge for actresses who had once been ingenues, or even leading ladies, on the stage.  Of course, many had to be content with supporting roles, but, with enough artistry, they often stole a film from its stars.

   For instance-- in addition to other GWTW players Barbara O'Neill (Ellen O'Hara) and Isabel Jewell (Emmie Slattery)-- this volume includes that great Irish expounder of Brooklynese, Connie Gilchrist, who proved unforgettable in the Oscar-winning "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) as Linda Darnell's kitchen-table-poker-playing mother.

   Gilchrist displayed her range in another unforgettable part, as the theater maid who duets with Judy Garland on "Ev'ry Little Movement" in "Presenting Lily Mars" (1943).  Come to think of it, Gilchrist's maid could well have been the model for the mop-wielding character Carol Burnett portrayed on her TV variety show.

   Author Nissen-- a professor at the University of Oslo-- turns his European sense of scholarship on his subjects, compiling domestic and personal data from official sources on them.

   As aforestated, many of these ladies ventured to Hollywood via the New York stage, touring companies, and/or vaudeville.  Some of them had always played supporting roles, often owing to their having been born more beautiful on the inside than the outside.

   Case in point here is Margaret Hamilton of Cleveland, Ohio, who maintained an apartment on Gramercy Park in New York City, as she preferred stage roles, appearing at age 70 in Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music."

   However, she gained immortality for a film character she played back in 1939, a sterling example of the adage, "There are no such things as bit parts, only bit actors."

Harriet's Garden Tips:  I sold a clipping of the herb lavender to a lady at the market for she was going to put it in an arrangement for her table that night.  She said it would keep the bugs away.  I went to the internet and found the following information.  Amazing what you can learn from customers and the internet. "All About Lavender: Lavender has been known for its gentle and soothing fragrance since ancient times. Used by Greeks and Romans in the public baths, the word lavender is derived from the Latin word lavare, or to wash. As a strewing herb, lavender not only offers a pleasing scent to us, it also repels insects. It was used to mask the scent of foul smells in the streets of old, and remains a universally delicate and lovely scent for households worldwide."  I think I will grow more of it  next year to sell at the market

REMINDERS

June-August: Ridge Spring Farmers Market

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

Saluda County Library Hours:  Mon/Wed 8:30 am-5 pm; Tues/Thurs 8:30 am – 6 pm; Fri 8:30 am – 5 pm; Sat closed

Every Friday & Saturday:  AARS hours 10 – 4 or by appt, free admission

Every first Tuesday of the Month:  AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783

Every 1^st Thursday:  Audibel Hearing Center

Every Friday:  Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings 7-8 pm at The Ridge Spring Library

Every 4^th Saturday:  The Helpful Hands Food/Clothing Bank