October 29, 2018

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

The Ridge Spring Shops are planning their Christmas Open House on Saturday, November 17 from 10:00 to 4:00 PM.  Bargains, unique gifts, and decorations galore will be available.  Even pansies, pink tulip bulbs, and herbs can be purchased.  All shops and the Art Center are working together.  There will even be refreshments at most of the shops.  Come check out our town.  We have three antique shops, Stuff and Things, Haley Bee's Boutique,  the Glass Dragonfly, and Harriet's Garden.  Don't forget our super restaurants and Cone's Meats.  Then on the way home, get ice cream from Watonia's Peaches and Such. 

Ridge Spring Police Department has teamed up with Toys for Tots this year.

You can bring in your Donations to Ridge Spring Town Hall.

Juniper Restaurant: Being a Chef can be a tough and demanding job, and then again sometimes it can be a lot of fun and very cool! This was one of the very cool days. Got to cook back stage last night at Country Stars and Their Guitars Concert. Craig Campbell & Morgan Wallen, we really enjoyed getting to cook for you guys! Thanks Saluda Motor Sales for thinking of us. On November 1 Juniper Restaurant and Ridge Spring Fire Department will hold  the annual buffet to benefit the Fire Department from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM.  All proceeds and tips go to benefit the department. These volunteers will also be your servers.  It is a buffet but make your reservations.

One more story about the Harvest Festival:  A friend showed me how her friend kept up with the number of steps she took.  She wore her fit bit on her flip-flop.  Who knows, there still may be more stories or observations coming in the future.  Qwendolyn Etheredge will head up the removal of the Harvest Festival decorations from the Civic Center on Saturday, November 3 from 9:00 to 11:00.  Come help.

Have you visited the Dollar General lately?  They have rearranged the store and it looks bigger and better designed.  I like it.

James E. Williams Jr.: We are excited to introduce you to a new program coming to the town of Ridge Spring, SC. Vision of Love Community Outreach has been a much needed asset to this community and the citizens of Ridge Spring. The goal of this program is to be an outlet of strength, empowerment, and support to both the young and the old. Adult Daycare, enrichment program, arts and crafts, gardening, cooking, science games, day trips, homework, math, stem/ELA recreation and much more will be offered. The program will be  held at the Cumbee Place,401 E. Main Street, Ridge Spring, SC 29129, (803)594-3587, visionoflove.sc@gmail.comThe goal of this program is to be an outlet of strength, empowerment, and support to both the young and the old.

Boy Scout Troop 555 and Pack 555 are collecting old, worn out American flags to retire. The troop and pack will be conducting a flag retirement ceremony on November 10 at 4:00 pm at the fire station. If you have a flag you would like to retire contact Melissa Stover mstover310@gmail.com or you can drop it off at Ridge Spring Baptist Church's fellowship hall on the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at 7:00-8:00 pm

Ridge Spring Farmers' Market: Leonard Bell will be there and those greens will start coming in soon. Who knows who may be joining him on the plaza.

Richland Antique Fall Festival will be held on November 2, 3, and 4.   This is held on John F. Berry's farm with a lot of tractors pulling weights to see which can do it best.  There are more things going on now such as syrup making, saw milling, slow tractor race, and so much more.  Put this on your calendar.  John F Berry is chairman and his son Chad Berry is the event planner. 

Josie Rodgers

RSM Elem (Tonya Rodgers): Read Your Way to the Big Game: All students who read 6 reading-level appropriate books, and return their reading log by Nov. 2, will be entered into a drawing for a chance to attend the Clemson vs. Carolina game. Schools with at least 70% student participation will be entered to win a $2,000 school library grant. Five participating teachers will be randomly selected to win $500 for their classroom.

            Congratulations to McKinley Wideman, who was the elem school’s winner of the $100 Golden Ticket from the chocolate fundraiser!

RSM High: The True Blue Marching Band competed in the 1A State Championship last Saturday. Out of 16 bands, True Blue came in 11^th, but their performance was so much more than the placement shows. As a friend noted, this band has done quite well, especially after overcoming plenty of obstacles this season due to the crazy weather as well as a practice area being constantly displaced due to construction of the new high school. We are extremely proud of the True Blue members and director Jeff Clamp, and we look forward to an amazing 2019 season!

The Trojans football team traveled to HKT last Thurs and defeated them 33-0. There will be no game on Fri., Nov. 2, because North has forfeited. More info about play-offs later.

The Trojans volleyball team will compete in a home playoff game Mon., Oct. 29.

It’s SOCKTOBER!  HOSA and the Beta Club are collecting socks to donate to nursing homes and the children’s hospital. Send new adult or children’s socks to school with a member of these clubs or their sponsors Tiffany Middlebrooks (HOSA) or Josie Rodgers (Beta)

On Nov. 8, the school will honor veterans with a Veterans Day Program.

On Nov.7, Jenna Beauregard, NCAA Compliance Officer from USC-Aiken will be presenting on NCAA eligibility requirements at 6 pm in the media center. This event is open to any RSM High School student who is interested in playing college athletics and their family.

Review from David Marshall James:  "Forever and a Day" by Anthony Horowitz

   James Bond is about to earn his license to kill and to embark upon his first assignment in this retro-jazzy prequel to Ian Fleming's first Bond novel, "Casino Royale" (1953).

   Literary fiction's (and you might as well say, "cinema's," too) best-known spy has landed in the crafty hands of British novelist and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz, whose original novel, "The Word Is Murder," stands as one of the best mysteries of the year.  Horowitz, commissioned by the Fleming estate, has already presented one Bond novel, "Trigger Mortis" (2015).  Busy writer, he.

   "Forever and a Day" finds the neophyte M16 (British Intelligence, as compared to the CIA) operative taking the 007 number of a recently deceased agent, shot three times whilst on an M16 mission in Marseilles, a bubbling bouillabaisse of crime, both petty and hefty.

   The fallen 007 was delving into the busy port's drug trade, which has inexplicably taken a nosedive, so to speak.  Something's afoot and afoul, and M16 wants a peremptory handle on it before any big surprises explode.  Risky business, this, yet a fella could land in worse stench than the Cote d'Azur, which allows Bond the opportunity to don his double-breasted duds in the Monte Carlo casino.

   Indeed, that's where he encounters femme fatale Sixtine, dazzling in her Dior haute couture.  She seems to be the prized bit of all the puzzle pieces Bond is fitting together, so he must get to know her-- Biblically and otherwise.  She may not be much of a cook, but her Cap d'Antibes villa is to die another day for.

   When Horowitz shifts the action into high gear, the thrills come in waves, especially in the latter half of the novel.  He concocts a grotesque villain and plenty of other baddies, so the bullets fly fast and furiously.

   With a well-established sense of the period and the political issues du jour (six years post World War II), Horowitz layers many motivations in the action.  Then, of course, pure greed never strays far from the top of the list.  Sixtine, actually forty-plus, acts as a compelling counterpart to Bond, delivering an indispensable punch to the proceedings.

   The driving point of the narrative is as relevant today as ever.  Bond, of course, never goes out of style.

Harriet's Garden Tips: I am enjoying the cooler weather.  I can get out there and dig up some of those weeds and those small trees that are weeds for they are in the wrong place.  I know morning glories are in that song about "Carolina in the Morning" and are blooming, but they are weeds to me!!! I have noticed that Redbud trees seem to be producing a lot of offspring.  The pecans that the squirrels are planting are really their attempts to store food for the winter. Some of the pecans are rooting too.  Those roots are deep so dig deep to get them up.  Camellias produce seed, too.  Aunt Adeline said they are good only for grafting for they do not produce a true copy of the camellia.  The blooms may be the same color but do not open up fully.  Grafting is a good technique to learn if you are interested in getting quicker blooming camellias.  Otherwise root them and they will bloom in about four or five years.  Planting a fall garden is fun.  Next week more about fall gardens. 

REMINDERS

November 2, 3, 4: Richland  Creek Antique Fall Festival

November 10: BS Troop flag burning ceremony

November 17: Ridge Spring's Christmas Open House

Ridge Spring Library Hours: Mon. Tues. 9:00 - 12:00; Wed. Thurs. Closed;

            Fri. 10:00 - 4:00; Sat. 10:00 - 1:00.

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

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

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 in the back room of Bank

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