May 3, 2019
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Peach Tree 23 will be held on May 31-June 1.
The next event
for our community is Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Gathering on May 18. The
vendors set up outside on the grounds of Magnolia Ridge and have wonderful
treasures on display. I found a pink
glass cake stand that almost matched the set that my mother had bought 25 years
earlier. I do not know where she bought
it, but she sure loved to fill the bowls
full of SC fresh peaches our special
desserts.
Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Gathering is being held at 216 Mt. Calvary
Rd., Ridge Spring this coming Saturday May 18th. It is located at the intersection of Hwy #23
and Mt. Calvary Road. Feel free to call
for directions. Besides the antique and art
vendors, Palmetto Antique Tractor Show will be joining us on the grounds as
well. Come early and enjoye free coffee. There will be breakfast and lunch foods available
for purchase as well as baked goods from the Mennonites. Admission to the event is free as always!!!. It is both a vendor and shopper delight.
Magnolia Ridge is a 36 acre working horse farm boasting
a 6 bedroom, 5 bathroom Victorian farm house bed and breakfast along with an
eight stall center aisle barn surrounded by large beautiful pastures.
Art Center Class: Joyful Cups with instructor Kim Ruff will be held Monday, May 13 6:30 - 8:30 pm at
the Art Center. It is for ages 10 and up
and the cost is $35.00. A hand built cup that has a statement of joy for its
maker. A second cup could be made as a companion- both will be stamped and
painted with stroke n coat glazes.
Jeffrey Clamp Band Director, Ridge Spring-Monetta
Middle / High: On Friday, April 26th members of the Ridge Spring-Monetta Middle
and High School bands participated in the Solo and Ensemble Festival at Aiken
High School. RS-M earned all Superior and Excellent ratings.
Students receiving a rating of Excellent were: Quamaine Allen, Jarvis
Bush, Jemmell Morris, James Smith, Montana Hartley, Kyla Padgett, Joanna
Kaiser, Cheyenne Hartley, and Kelsey Moore. Superior ratings were earned
by: Jarvis Bush, Cassandra Oakman, James Smith, Maryann Sterling,
Aubrianna Wise, Landon Hastings, Natalie Maltese, Ben Padgett, Chris Story,
Daijah Anderson, Chesley Cooper, and Ta'Neisha Patterson. Congratulations
to all of these students for their hard work.
Josie
Rodgers, RSM High School
RSM High: Congratulations
to senior baseball player Kelson Palmer for being chosen to play in the North/South
All-Star Baseball Game. This is the first time since the 70s anyone that
we’ve had a baseball player chosen for this honor! The games will take place
between May 20-22 at Lexington High School. Kelson is the son of Ken and Kipp
Palmer of Saluda.
The Class
Ring Ceremony was held Monday, April 22, in the cafetorium.
Parents attended to present the rings to their student and enjoy refreshments
afterwards. Many thanks to Melinda Brown who hosted such a classy event for the
students and parents. We received many compliments about how wonderful and
special the event was.
Poetry
Night was a huge success! More than 45 students, faculty, staff, and parents
showed up to read poetry and enjoy hearing others. Participants read original
poetry as well as published poetry. We were even treated to a song by Maurii
Bing who had also read some poetry. Attendees enjoyed refreshments.
Centerpieces were provided by the FFA. The National English Honor Society set
up and cleaned up. Special awards presented: Best Original Poems, Montana
Hartley & Arturo Contreras; Most Expressive, Cheyenne Hartley; Best
Published Poem, Johnathan Cumbee; Most Creative Poem, Sarah Lambert; and Best
Overall, Maurii Bing. Other stellar performances included “Phenomenal Woman” by
Maya Angelou read by Ms. Jackson, “Another Statistic” by Camila Du read by Ms.
Jones, “Hope is a Thing with Feathers” by Emily Dickinson read by Mrs.
Bedenbaugh, and Boyz II Men’s “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” read
by Mr. Blankenship.
Prior to Poetry Night, media center specialist Patti Powell hosted a Book
Club Mixer with refreshments and fellowship. The Book Club read All We Have Left by Wendy Mills. The
story is built around 2 girls whose experiences with the tragedy of 9/11
eventually leads them to connect, though they are from different backgrounds
and were different ages. This was a novel I couldn’t put down. Those who
attended the mixer put their names in a drawing for a Kindle Fire, and ESOL
teacher Leslie Lybrand won!
Many of RSM’s students traveled to Midland Valley
last Friday to assist with the Special Olympics. Our students look
forward to this event every year because they love helping the athletes compete
and make friends. They develop bonds with the participants, and the experience
leaves a lasting, positive impression on the high schoolers.
On May 10, RSM’s drama program, under the
direction of Ms. Kerry Jackson, will travel to USC-Aiken to
compete in the Garcia Theater Project along with Fox Creek, North Augusta,
and South Aiken. Before performances, students will have the opportunity to
participate in Musical Theatre Dance and Improvisation workshops. In addition,
students competing for scholarships will have auditions and interviews.
Performances begin at 12:30 with RSM hitting the stage at 1:25.
RS-M Elementary
Kindergarten
Registration: Students must be five by
September 1st. Visit
ACPSD.net ~ About Us ~ How to Enroll ~ 5K Registration or stop by any one of 20
Aiken County elementary school for detailed information.
2019-2020 Online Registration: Registration will be completed online for
next school year. You must have access
to PowerSchool/Parent Portal to register your child. Please contact Mrs. Workman in the office before
June. You will need to bring your
i.d. Having access to PowerSchool/Parent
Portal will also allow you to view your child’s grades.
Edmentum: Online summer learning from June
17th - August 1st for all rising 2nd – 9th
graders. Interested parents should
register their child by May 31 at:
( http://www.surveymonkey.com/r/summerchallenge2019
). Email questions to:
( alogan@acpsd.net ).
March
of Dimes:
RS-M Elementary is aiding in the fight for the health of all moms and
babies! Our school's goal is $1,000.
Through May 10th, families can send donations to place in one
of the following containers: Clemson, Carolina, or Other. Let us
have some fun and see which team will win as we raise money for healthy moms
and babies! Please consider sharing the
following link on your social media pages: http://www.marchforbabies.org/team/RSM. You can also make your family’s donation on
the link. On May 10th we will end the
campaign with everyone wearing purple.
Review from
David Marshall James: "Cheer Up, Mr.
Widdicombe" by Evan James
Yes, please do so, Frank
Widdicombe-- even though your annual French getaway/bacchanalia has been
cancelled, owing to your buddy's giving up the host to his honeymooning niece.
It's not as if the
titular Mr. Widdicombe is truly suffering, what with his ensconcement at
Willowbrook, a not-insubstantial residence on a Puget Sound isle a ferry ride
from Seattle.
It's just that his wife,
Carol, has decided to Kaufman & Hart Willowbrook into a getaway for a
self-help guru who's working on her latest tome. Frank would call it a
"tome-maine," and it's a mite surprising he never brandishes that
particular epithet.
Carol, who realizes that
her husband is Frank-en-furting over his lost trip to summer camp a la
francaise, has nevertheless been going gaga with the Google, acquiring all
sorts of furnishings-- some outré, some traditional, the better to mix them
up-- for Willowbrook, including a green circular couch (the kind seen in hotels
of yore, as well as in MGM period pix, such as "In the Good Old
Summertime") topped with a potted palm.
In all fairness to Carol,
she's fantasizing about a layout; that is, in "Inside Spaces"
magazine, with its hoarders of readers; she can already picture Willowbrook in
the inside pages of "Inside Spaces"-- perhaps even on the cover,
glory of glories.
Carol's redecorating
(after all, that's her trade, even when she's not at home) fixation makes Frank
yearn to run for cover. However, he's about to experience a
staying-in-one-place epiphany that will render him most cheerful.
Author Evan James peoples
his first novel with other personages, among them the Widdicombes' sole son,
Christopher, a watercolorist who appropriates the miseries of others to
substitute for his lack of what he deems artistic suffering. Marooned on
the isle during his summer off from the Rhode Island School of Design,
Christopher will undergo a Frank-onian turnaround of his own.
The guru herself, Grace
Sloane, eventually gains center stage, expounding upon miseries that young
Christopher would embrace. However, the highly successful self-help
author would suggest instead a seven-to-twelve-step-and-beyond program (some of
it indeed prescribing artwork) for getting the most out of the angst of modern
living.
Nothing compares to the
heaping helping of self-helping that Grace encounters at Willowbrook, thanks to
a most unlikely local.
Not all the characters
experience Mr. Widdicombe's cheering up, although the ones who take the time to
stop and smell-- better yet, to stuff, fry, and eat-- the zucchini blossoms do.
With the aforementioned
soupcon of Kaufman & Hart, along with a dollop or two of Sir Noel Coward's
"Hay Fever"-- and with pinches of this and dashes of that--James
fashions a sort-of extended summer garden party that proves most inviting,
considering its done the Widdicombe way. My California by Lisa D’Amour.
Harriet's
Garden Tips: When planting in your
old pots look at the soil to see if it has pulled away from the sides. Mine had pulled away due to just sitting
there for months. I broke up the top
layer but decided to see what it looked like lower in the pot. I really needed to break up the soil all the
way down. I did and I also added a layer
of new soil and mixed them up. Add a
little slow release fertilizer and away I go putting in those glorious
annuals. Annuals have more blooms than perennials
for they have a shorter life span. Perennials
do not bloom as much for the opposite reason.
Mixing them in flower beds is wonderful but difficult in pots. Do enjoy our short spring for I feel the heat
of summer coming faster each year.
REMINDERS
May 18: Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art
Gathering
May 31-June 1: Peachtree 23 Yard Sale
June 6: Vouchers distributed at Town
Hall
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
Fridays &
Saturdays: AARS hours 10:00-2:00
or by appt, free admission
Every first Thursday
of the Month: AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783
Third Thursday: FORS at Town Hall at
5:30 PM
Every 1st
Thursday: Audibel Hearing
Center in the back room of Bank
Security
Bank Hours: Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 9-12 1-5, Wed. 9-12
Ridge Spring Town
Hall: Monday
- Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm, Sat. 8:30am - 12:30pm
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