July 16, 2018
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Watson Reunion Cancelled: Unfortunately, the Watson Reunion has been
cancelled for this summer. We will look forward to rescheduling at a later
date. For more information, contact Joe Watson at 803-685-7815 or joewatson@comporium.net or
Mary Watson Edmonds at marywedmonds@gmail.com or
803-790-7780.
The Ridge Spring Famers' Market Report: The
produce was abundant. Again three
vendors had corn, tomatoes, and more.
Watermelons cantaloupe, peppers, and okra were available. George Raborn hopes to have peas in about two
weeks. He will have Mississippi purple
hull, Mississippi silver and old timey peas.
They may have been called iron or clay peas. They got the names because they would come
back up the next year. Day's Honey will
be back in three weeks. The family needs
to get the hives producing the
honey. The Rustic Rose Paint Brush was a
new vendor. Beautiful signs for all occasions. They will be back August 4. When I get to the market I always seem to
need help getting set up. The tent, purchased
from the grant we received from AgSouth, takes four people to set it up. Vickie Miller and her aunt are early customers
and Vickie always is in the right spot to help me set up everything. She has been known to help Ayla mix her
lemonade and put peanuts in the basket.
Saturday it took Bubba, Sherald, Ayla, and Vickie to get that wonderful
tent up. The weather has been difficult
for the farmers and the lack of rain has not helped. The positive attitude that is at the market
is a joy to experience. Do come by and
visit.
Bandon Velie, chef at Juniper was featured in South Carolina
Farmer Summer issue. The article
included his recipe for his Creamy Adluh Grits and for two other recipes. Juniper
also celebrated its 13th year in Ridge Spring. Time flies when you have good food to
eat. Thanks!!!!
The Art Association of Ridge Spring: Everyone was invited to come to Ridge Spring, SC on
Saturday at the gazebo to paint an old piano and they did. Several people have already posted pictures
of the fun had by all at this artistic
event.
Ridge Spring
has several events planned for September so keep in mind the Saturday after Labor
Day there will be a side-walk sale.
September 22 will be the Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Gathering which
had to be postponed due to weather. Then
there will be the Harvest Festival in October.
Haley Bee's Boutique
has new summer hours and is closed on Wednesdays. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday she opens
at 11:00 and Saturdays she is open from 10:00 to 2:00.
Harriet's Garden is closed
until the middle of September. If my car
is there stop by, smell the peanuts boiling, and just chat..
RIDGE
SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: It’s summer and the Big Red Box (BRB) is taking the month of
July off. But the BRB will be back in
August and hungry for school supplies. Hard to believe it’s that time again!!!
If you want to purchase school supplies that will be donated to Ridge Spring
Monetta Elementary School, please do so and leave them on the porch of either
the church or FLC. A church member will make sure they make it in to the BRB. Cleaning supplies and various other items
were delivered to Killingsworth and they were much appreciated. Thanks to those
who donated. Pastor Ashley has been at
school for the past two Sundays. Messages were delivered by two lay speakers
and the members of RSUMC enjoyed them both. Pastor Ashley will return for the
July 22nd Service.
There will be NO Service
on July 29th….please make a note of the change.
Art Center in Ridge Spring by Joanne Crouch:
Check
out the piano at the gazebo. Visiting
painters helped during the piano painting project.
A Beginner stained
glass class with instructor, Vernon Robinson on Tuesday evenings from 6-9
beginning July 17th-August 7th. Cost of the class is $250 which includes all
supplies. Each student will complete an
8x10 piece.
Anne
Hightower-Patterson White, watercolorist, will have an intermediate-advanced
class on Fri, September 14th and Sat, September 15th from
10-4. Cost is $130 and must be paid
before September 10th.
Pre-register at the Art Center on Fridays or Saturdays from 10-2, or contact
Joanne Crouch @ (803)685-5577 (leave message) or by email joanne.crouch26@gmail.com.
Two pottery classes
are planned by Kim Ruff. A small
casserole class will be held on Monday, September 10th from
6:30-8:30. Cost is $35 and includes
glazing and firing. On October 15, a
clay Christmas tree class will be held on October 15th from
6:30-8:30. Cost is $35 and includes all
firing and glazing. During Kim’s class, the students will be allowed to
make additional small pieces to use all the clay that is allotted for the
class.
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
Have you seen the colorful piano
inside the gazebo in Ridge Spring? The Art Association of RS invited the
community to come out and add special touches to the masterpiece. My amazing mom was taking Aiden, Annalee, and
River to Aiken for their annual IHOP breakfast and Hallmark ornament event, and
they stopped by the gazebo to put their own special Picasso touches on the
piano! What a fun way to get the
community kids together to do something special for our town! Pictures are on Facebook! Thank, AARS!
We're making memories!
RSM
High Class of 1988 celebrated their 30-year reunion last Saturday
at the Variety in Aiken. The classmates
had a wonderful evening with food and drink and catching up on each other's
lives. Of course, there were plenty of
funny stories shared! The group was joined by family members of classmates who
have passed away. The class shared a
special memento for each family to let them know their loved one will never be
forgotten. It was refreshing to witness
these people get together after many years and love each other the way they did
in high school. Even though I wasn't a
graduate of this class or school, they all made me feel like I was family,
too. Key word of the night: family.
Always.
Distinguished
Young Women of SC: Good
luck to local Distinguished Young Women as they spend the last week of July
with their host families in Lexington preparing for the competitions on July 27
and 28. They will compete in categories
such as Talent, Your Best Self, and Fitness, as well as academics and
interview. The goal of the competition
is scholarship money. The young ladies will participate in various events
throughout the week including a trip to Riverbanks Zoo, a visit to Columbia
College, time with the Boys/Girls Club, a Lexington Blowfish baseball game, a
tea party, a luau, and a cowgirl event.
More importantly, these ladies will focus on how becoming their best
selves involves giving back to their communities and our world to make it a
better place. Local DYWs are Sara
Miller, North Edgefield DYW; Jenna Crase, South Edgefield DYW, and Annalee Rodgers,
Saluda County DYW. Current DYW of SC
Jessie Miller of Lexington recently competed in the National DYW competition in
Mobile, Alabama. She represented the
state of SC with grace and dignity. .
Kenneth
Way, member of St. William Catholic Church and Saluda
County school student, represented Boy Scout Troop 31 at Camp Barstow last week
as they participated in many activities and earned merit badges and
patches. They went on a Bull Moose hunt
and were inducted into the Royal Order of the Bull Moose, an event that hasen't
happened in this area in 25 years. They
also won the Honor Troop Award. Earlier this summer, they attended Camp Barstow
as Baden Powell Scouts.
Registration
for Aiken County Schools can be completed ONLINE this summer, but
parents will still need to go to their 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
instead of the online 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.
1 between 11am and 6 pm to register for school. All parents are asked to visit
the school BEFORE Aug. 11 to verify the online registration information. 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: 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.
Open
House will be held Thurs., Aug. 30, at 6 pm, along with
the Annual Title I/SIC Meeting.
Review from
David Marshall James: "One Summer Day in
Rome" by Mark Lamprell
The Eternal City of this
novel beckons pilgrims who have fallen-- or are falling-- in love amidst its
marble columns and travertine fountains.
The elder pilgrim--
accompanied by her self-proclaimed "scary old lady" sister-in-law--
has journeyed from London to scatter her husband's ashes into the Tiber, off
the Ponte Sant'Angelo.
They had first connected
in Rome, and we eventually learn of the circumstances and fallout of their
union.
Meanwhile, the youngest
pilgrim-- a New Yorker with an overachieving, highly judgmental mother-- has
made her way overseas to do something "voosh," in the terminology of
her sculpting teacher.
However, the ambitious
young man-- a rising partner in the mother's law firm-- with whom she's been
cohabitating has decided they should rendezvous in Florence and become
officially engaged.
Mom would be so happy,
but her daughter's about to discover some literal and figurative
"voosh," Roma-style.
The two other pilgrims,
who honeymooned in Rome some twenty years before, have found equal shares of
discord and prosperity in their marriage. They bicker, one-up one other,
and otherwise give the term "Ugly American" fresh meaning.
They seem to be escapees
from a play by Harold Pinter or Edward Albee, not loving one another so much as
needing one another for the warped codependency to which they have succumbed.
Although the wife refers
to their brief trip as a mission, the husband considers it frivolous, what with
her design to match up an old tile that originated in Rome with a fresh order
for more, in order to re-do a kitchen for her home-makeover presentations.
If that tile could talk--
well, it does seem to communicate. It's a talisman of sorts, with ties to
the three couples: past (the widow and her late husband), present (the
dysfunctional duo), and future (the voosh girl and her fellow voosher).
A film and television
writer, Australian Mark Lamprell narrates the proceedings in the guise of
an ancient, sometimes meddling, spirit of Rome. As such, he can supply
sidebars with geographical and historical points of interest.
The novel thrives and
blooms in the atmosphere the narrator captures, sensuously cinematic with some
memorable secondary characters. With a hinted-at surprise to piece it all
together, the story emerges as a paean to a city whose piazzas and courtyards,
palazzos and guest houses, appear to overflow with amore in all its many ages
and stages.
Harriet's Garden Tips: Enjoy.
Seeds
“Sow
the living part of yourself in the furrow of life.”
Miguel
de Unamuno
A
friend said “write me a poem about seeds”
Simple,
powerful, tiny, they are life waiting to happen
Their
script has been written and waits to be played out
They
are the promise for the future
A
new beginning
Life
lives on through seeds
Hope
and optimism live within seeds
Mirror
images of their parents,
they
wait patiently for the right time
2000
year old seeds have been know to germinate
If
we listen hard enough,
we
can hear God speaking through seeds.
One
of God’s miracles,
we
believe that seeds can be our example
Be
patient, be hopeful, the plan will unfold
what
seeds have you sown today?
Seeds
of kindness to be passed on?
Disperse
your seeds of hope and love
and
watch them grow.
Some
will, some won’t.
Like
seeds, there is something yet to be in all of us.
By Roger Brock
REMINDERS
June-August: Ridge Spring Farmers Market
July 29: No service at RSUM Church
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 1st Thursday: Audibel Hearing Center
Every
Friday: Narcotics Anonymous and
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings 7-8 pm at The Ridge Spring
Library
Every 4th
Saturday: The Helpful Hands Food/Clothing Bank
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