August 27, 2018
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Ridge Spring Sidewalk Sale on September 8, 9:30 AM
Bargains For All
Sept 22 Magnolia
Ridge Antique and Art Festival.
All vendors returning
and looking forward to a fall event.
The Ridge Spring
Farmers' Market
is still going well. We had 6 venders
again Saturday and will probably have six this coming Saturday. We had
Tupperware, watermelon, okra, boiled peanuts, honey and lip balm from Dry Creek
Honey Bee Farm, and sweet potatoes.
Right now we are just waiting for the crop of peas and butterbeans to
mature enough to pick. George Raborn did
bring Crowder peas and a few speckled butterbeans but they were sold before he
could get them out of the truck.
Mr.
and Mrs. Herlong came to the market looking for Tupperware. Of course we started talking. He remembered back in the 30s and early 40s
walking the Saluda town streets selling candy bag full of peanuts for a
nickel. He liked mine and bought a bag
or pound for $3.00. I asked him if got to keep the money and the answer as no, it went to his
daddy. Then he told of growing up on a
farm, how he plowed with a mule, picked cotton, and pulled fodder for the
animals. They had to explain what fodder was -the leaves
off a corn stalk which was used like hay is used today. I said to feed the cows and the answer was
the herbivores such as cows but also mules and other herbivores on the
farm. You learn something new every day. He also told of his dad giving him the chore
of dropping bulldog soda (nitrogen) on each corn stalks in a 16 acre
field. The stalks would be about 3"
to 4" high. He got back home too
early. So his dad and he went back to the field and they saw that he had skipped
every other row. He was not punished but
he did go back and complete the field before sundown.
The Ridge Spring Library is open Mondays and
Tuesdays from 9-12 and closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays. It
reopens on Friday and is open then from 10-4
and on Saturday from 10-1. The library
has moved to 108 Maintenance Shop Circle and is the same building as the Art
Center.
Nut House and country Store: NEW PRODUCT! We are so excited to share these towels and
prints of “Papas Tractor” done by @ln_calligraphy! This tractor is an icon in
Ridge Spring and we’re so excited for y’all to add one of these to your homes!
They are not on the website quite yet but we can take your order via phone or
private message
Harvest
Festival Visit our Country Store this year at the Ridge
Spring Harvest Festival, October 13th. It will be open early and throughout the
day at the Ridge Spring Fire Department. We will have local produce for sale
from the farms in the area. This is a great opportunity to stock up for winter!
IF you are interested in selling your farm's goods at the Country Store please
visit our website for more information,
Rikard's Roadside Bar-B-Que is now
open in Ridge Spring, SC! They will be serving BBQ, ribs, hash, onion sausage
and sides. Mmmmmm, Some can smell em cooking. Stop by and see them, Fridays and
Saturdays.
RIDGE SPRING UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH: It's that time again,
yes time to purchase school supplies. The Big Red Box is getting full but
always room for more. The supplies will be delivered to RSM Elementary School.
RSUMC is also collecting dried up markers. A bucket is on the porch of the FLC.
If you have dried markers and who doesn’t, bring them and place them in the
bucket. These will be delivered to RSM High School to help with a Beta Club
Project. Pastor Ashley’s message was teachers, teachable moments and being a
good example to others. Perfect for this time of year. September has 5 Sundays, what does that
mean???? Sing, Sing and more singing….look for information on the 5th Sunday
sing in this column. Church service is at 11 a.m. unless otherwise
noted.
Josie Rodgers
RSM High: The first week of school is in the books with
lots of excitement for the coming of the new school. Open House will be held Thurs., Aug. 30, from 5-7
pm, along with the Annual Title I/SIC Meeting.
Come out and meet your child's teachers and start the year with a
positive dialogue and support.
The Trojans welcome several
new teachers and staff this year. Angela
McDowell comes to us from 15 years in the healthcare field. She is currently pursuing her teaching degree
(English!) and is our V-tell proctor this year.
Mrs. McDowell is also the asst cheer coach with her daughter being a
senior cheerleader this year. TJ Bueno
is our new science teacher who has been in education for 25 years. He is originally from Pueblo, Colorado, and
currently resides in Aiken with his wife who is a special needs teacher. Zachery Keisler is a recent graduate of
Lander University, and is the new geometry teacher. Mr. Keisler is from Gilbert, and he loves
everything dealing with mathematics.
Bailey Coble is also in his first year of teaching with a degree in
history. He is teaching various social
studies classes. Mr. Coble is from
Batesburg. Ron Toth is the new Learning
Strategies teacher. He is also assisting
with various coaching duties. Brenda
DeLoache is the new asst principal at the high school, moving from the middle
school Welcome to the Trojan family!
Art Center in Ridge Spring by Joanne Crouch
Intermediate-Advanced Watercolor
Anne Hightower-Patterson White,
watercolorist, will have an intermediate-advanced class on Fri, Sept 14th and Sat, Sept 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 email at joanne.crouch26@gmail.com.
Pottery
Kim Ruff, instructor A small casserole class will be held on Monday, Sept 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 Monday, Oct15th
from 6:30-8:30. Cost is $35 and
includes all firing and glazing. Kim’s
class will allow the students to make additional small pieces to use all the
clay that is allotted for the class.
Contact Kim Ruff at makerart@aol.com
or Joanne Crouch at joanne.crouch26@gmail.com
to register.
Mosaic
On Sept.
29th at 8:30,
Barbara Yon and members of AARS will demonstrate the basics of
mosaics. Students will apply cut glass
to the risers of the steps at the Art Center.
There is no charge for this event.
Contact Barbara Yon at btonart@yahoo.com
or a member of the AARS if you would like to participate in this event
.Gourd Art
Sept 10th
@ 6:00- Create a pumpkin
(gourd) that will be part of your fall décor for many years to come. This is for ages 10 & up. Costs will be $30 which includes all
supplies. Contact Joanne Crouch at joanne.crouch26@gmail.com to
register
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 facebook page at Art
Association of Ridge Spring & Gallery
Review
from David Marshall James:
"The Darkest Time of Night" by Jeremy Finley
When a Tennessee
senator's grandson disappears from the woods behind the boy's home, worry
immediately centers on pedophiles as well as domestic terrorists, given some of
the senator's hard-line opinions on foreign policy.
Then again, did some
unthinking nabob who receives all opinions-- and ensuing knee-jerk reactions--
from slanted TV "news" respond to an unthinking TV "news"
figure's exhortations to punish the spawn-of-Satan senator?
Everyone's looking down
and around for answers, not up, except for the senator's wife, Lynn Roseworth,
who grew up on the property on which she and her husband reside. One of
her daughters, her husband, and their three sons (Lynn's grandsons, including
the one who is missing) live on the other side of said woods.
First-time novelist and Nashville
investigative broadcast journalist Jeremy Finley places Lynn at the forefront
of the action. As the story unfolds, so does her past, not only in
Tennessee, but also in Champaign, Illinois, where her husband attended law school.
There, at the University
of Illinois, Lynn worked as an office assistant and researcher for the
astronomy department. However, her most significant experiences in that
venue were undercover, with the guidance of an unusual, obsessed young professor.
Gotta watch out for them.
Given her grandson's
ongoing absence, Lynn must reconnect with her past in order to put the pieces
of her present together. When she, after several months, at last broaches
the subject of UFO abductions, she is shot down as a cuckoo by just about
everyone.
Everyone except for some
super-scary Feds, on whose radars Mrs. Roseworth is pinging like an Avon Lady
on a Starbucks binge. These guys (and gals) make 1930s G-men look like
The Lollipop Guild.
Luckily, Lynn is more
than ably assisted by her BFF, Roxy, who can drop-kick a four-letter bomb
through the "Say What?" goalposts from the opposing end zone.
Roxy about steals the show; indeed, the author possesses an obvious affection
for all his of-a-certain-age Southern female characters. That Lynn and
Roxy pull protagonists' duties gives the novel a fresh, original feeling.
Once the author sets up
his premise and turns the novel over to Lynn and Roxy, it's high old times,
particularly during the final third of the narrative. That such a
multiple-award-winning journalist chose such a subject supplies depth and
thoughtfulness to a topic that certainly warrants further discussion.
The Ridge Spring Library
is now open Mondays and Tuesdays from 9-12 and closed on Wednesdays and
Thursdays. It reopens on Friday and is
open then from 10-4 and on Saturday from 10-1
Harriet's Garden Tips:
I am
late on taking cuttings but better late than never or waiting until next
year. I am also pruning for the same
reason. Just remember that when you are
pruning a shrub make sure when you
finish the bottom is wider than the top.
It should look like an upside down paper cup. If you try to prune straight down the bottom
of the plant will get less light than the top which means the bottom part will
lose leave and possible die out. Have
you seen those pruned boxwoods that look top heavy with little or no bottom
limbs.
REMINDERS
June-August: Ridge Spring Farmers Market
Sept. 8: Ridge Spring Sidewalk Sale
Sept. 20: FORS meeting at Town Hall
Sept. 22: Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art
Gathering
Harvest Festival Beauty Pageant
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 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 in the back room of Bank
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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