Ridge Spring News: August 2019

Monday, August 26, 2019

August 26, 2019

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

The Ridge Spring Farmers' Market continues. Do come and get some of those fresh fruits and vegetables. Peaches here are the best. There will be mountain apples, cabbage and tomatoes, too. Scuppernongs are coming in.

The town election was held for all the council members. Two new council members were elected. Qwendolyn Etheredge and Patrick Arnold replaced Geneva Harris and Capers Asbill. Thank you for y our services to those who have served and I look forward to the future with the new council members and Mayor Pat Asbill, Cris Lybrand, and Richard Christie.

August 31Town-wide Sidewalk Sale: Main Street will be lined with deals. Check it out on facebook. All the shops are participating. There will also be a Fall Gathering at Ridge Antiques and Dry Goods. There will be fall decorations including hand crafted scarecrows, gourd garlands, pumpkins, sparkleberry and grapevine wreaths, handcrafted log cabins, and candles tot fill your home with the wonderful scent of fall. and a great selection of quality primitive antiques.

Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Festival: will be held September 21. This will be the second fall event for a Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art festival. Last September we had such a great show with both vendors as well as buyers!!!!

We are sorry to see that the Glass Dragonfly has closed.

Art Center of Ridge Spring News:

Gwen Power has brought to the gallery a new series of original watercolor paintings of daylilies. These small, unframed pieces make lovely gifts that can be shipped easily and cheaply. Come by the Art Center and enjoy browsing these 25 pieces before the holiday rush.

BEGINNING SEWING: Maryellen Rover, Instructor begins Fridays September 6, 7pm-9pm or Mondays September 9 9:00-11:00.

To Begin Quilting I, you must have finished Beginning Sewing. To begin Quilting II you must have finished Beginning Quilting I

Bring: Sewing machine, thread, bobbin, scissors, cotton fabric, pencil and paper. There will be 4 classes for $35

If the class or time you need does not work for you, call Maryellen at 864 230 0031 to check if class or time could be moved to please everyone. Ages 12 and up

GOURD BOWL CLASS: Joan Crouch is the Instructor. It will be Saturday, September 7^th 1:00 until 4:00 pm. Cost will be $35 – All Supplies provided. Sign up now, class size is limited! Contact Joanne at joanne.crouch26@gmail.com.

FOOTBALL PLATTER CLAY CLASS: Kim Ruff is the Instructor. It will be held Monday, September 16^th at 6:30 pm. The cost will be $35. You can make a football platter for your fan or for yourself! Get signed up soon!

We have new teachers who have joined our association so keep an eye out for new classes coming soon

Josie Rodgers

It’s back-to-school week for RSM and others who didn’t start last week. Families will get back to structure, routines, and packed schedules. Be sure to set aside time each day to talk to your kids about their day and fill their minds with positive thoughts and affirmations before bedtime. Also remember that some people are not “morning people.” They prefer to quietly begin their days without a lot of noise and conversation. Others wake up cheerful and ready to go! Be mindful of each other and start each day with thoughtfulness and kindness. I miss taking my kids to school when we would pray together on our ride each morning. Do something special each day as your kids grow and eventually leave the nest. Memories will carry them through the tough times.

Palmetto Dance Academy is in full swing! They are bringing back the Christmas show. We can’t wait to see what the show will bring this holiday season. The studio also has a new dance instruction room. Heather Riley Shealy, Shannon Black, and the rest of the crew are celebrating year 19! Come be a part of this amazing group of talented people!

RSM Elem: The Quest Zone is an after school program being offered this year. Students received homework assistance and have extended learning time. Fun and focus are the keys to making after-school hours both beneficial and exciting. Registration is free. Visit https://thequestzone.com. For more info, go to the website, call 1-800-551-1561, or email info@thequestzone.com.

RSM High: Teachers and staff came together last week to meet and learn and prepare for the new year. We enjoyed breakfast together on Monday and met our new people. At lunch, Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church treated us to Shealy’s BBQ! It was delicious! We even enjoyed leftovers Tuesday! Also on Tuesday, Friends of Ridge Spring treated us to Watsonia ice cream and goodie bags with pecans from the Nut House, mints from 23 Mercantile, water, and coupons! Wednesday brought our E2 Conference at various schools and the One Team Event at the USC-Aiken Convocation Center. We were quite proud of our teachers, staff members, and principals of the year. We were also impressed by the RSM Elem step team who led the pledge and performed for us. On Thursday, we held our first meet-and-greet as parents and students enjoyed meeting teachers and eating hamburgers and hot dogs. Several Beta Club members and football players helped with the event and getting food to teachers who stayed in their rooms ready to meet their new students. On Friday, a Home Group of Cedar Creek Church fed us a delicious baked spaghetti lunch with all the fixings. They also prayed over us for a blessed school year. Many of us returned to school Saturday to put the finishing touches on our rooms.

RSM High has several new members in the Trojan family. Dr. KaRon Webb is the new principal, coming to us from Chester High School. Coach Brian Smith is the new football coach and math teacher. Cayce Spire is the new ESL teacher. Cayce isn’t really new to us; she’s taught ELA at our middle school for several years. We also welcome Frances Coleman, Herbert McElvain, & Veronica Sharpe.

Another new member of our faculty is Shontell Jackson, a SPED teacher. She is going to fit right in to our Trojan family! RSM beat Midland Valley in the Aiken County Jamboree last Friday night. Students began classes last week with only months to go before they move into the new building. It’s hard to believe that where we teach and learn each day will soon be a parking lot! We are so excited about our move!

Review from David Marshall James: "The Man in the White Linen Suit" by David Handler

Literarily, and in love, things are on the up-and-up for Stewart Hoag, who's finally got his muse and his groove back, working on a novel and reveling in a rapprochement with ex-wife Merilee Nash, of cinematic fame.

Merilee is mostly in absentia here, however, after downing some serious liver-and-onions in Greenwich Village and hightailing it to a movie location in Budapest. All the better for "Hoagy" (as in Carmichael, cheese-steak sandwiches, and our protagonist, who's definitely a Dapper Dan but not the white-linen-clad titular character) to pursue a paying job on the side, still in publishing.

Hoagy's agent, who apparently has logged more hours in The Algonquin hotel than Dorothy Parker, connects him with the fire-breathing-est dragon-maven of New York City publishing. Seems her father-- the title figure, a James Michener-esque author who's the most successful novelist in the U.S. and hotter than a stack of wheats at IHOP on the international scene-- is ghosting his readers.

According to his daughter, Sylvia, who runs the publishing house behind them, Addison James's last three books have been ghostwritten. His latest typescript has been heisted from said ghostwriter, Tommy O'Brien. Would Hoagy please recover it?

Considering that the best-selling author is worth hundreds of millions, and that his daughter ain't doin' too shabby her ownself, the vermin are worming their way out of the woodwork in hopes of a big-bug prize.

As ever, Hoagy is ably assisted by his basset hound, Lulu. She may reek of anchovies, pickled herring, tuna melts, and fried shrimp, but nothing nefarious escapes her formidable schnozzola.

As ever as well, author David Handler keeps his story popping with fresh action and plot-pleasing personages. Fortunately, Hoagy hooks up with his old acquaintance, the youthful NYPD Detective Romaine Very, hot stuff in spite of the bubblegum he frequently chomps. Although his surname results in some Clouseau-like dialogue, make no mistake: He means business.

Handler has put his hand to multiple mystery series, all of which have this in common: He means business, too. He's a stick-to-the-story guy. Readers can pick up one of his books on a Friday and have it finished by the time the Sunday-night pasta hits the table. Call him traditionally fresh-- or freshly traditional: He's hot stuff.

Harriet's Garden Tips: To Dry Herbs: Gather bundles of each type of herb and spread on cheesecloth or hang upside down in a warm, dark, dry place. Harvest garlic when the leaves turn yellow. Lift the entire plant and dry it in a well-ventilated covered space. Save some for replanting and eat the rest. You can set out garlic cloves now to be harvested early next summer. Sunflower seeds gain flavor it flower heads are left on until their backs turn brown. Then you can rub two heads together to knock off the seeds. Dry them for a few days, pack in airtight arts and refrigerate to retain that flavor.

REMINDERS

June 8 - Labor Day in September: Ridge Spring Farmers' Market

August 31: Town Wide Sidewalk Sale

August 31 Fall Gathering

Jeannette Carr Memorial: 864.656.5896, www.clemson.edu/isupportcu, Jeannette Carr Memorial, Annual Giving Office, 110 Daniel Drive, Clemson, SC 29631

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

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 1^st 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 - 11:30pm

Monday, August 19, 2019

August 19, 2019

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

I enjoyed my vacation, but it is always nice to get home. My family and I went on my first cruise and it was nice, too. Yet again I say it is nice to get back home and into the routines of life.

FORS sponsored an ice cream social to welcome back our teachers. There were two events, one at the Elementary School and one for the Middle and High School. Mayor Pat Asbill welcomed all, spoke briefly about Ridge Spring, gave out ice cream cups from Peaches 'n' Such at Watsonia, and gift bags from the town. In the gift bags were pecans from the Nut House, mints from 23 Mercantile, brochures, coupons to Pat's Antiques and a bottle of water from FORS. WELCOME BACK!!!

August 31Town-wide Sidewalk Sale. Main Street will be lined with deals. Check it out on facebook. All the shops are participating. There will also be a Fall Gathering at Ridge Antiques and Dry Goods. There will be fall decorations including hand crafted scarecrows, gourd garlands, pumpkins, sparkleberry and grapevine wreaths, handcrafted log cabins, and candles tot fill your home with the wonderful scent of fall. and a great selection of quality primitive antiques.

Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Festival: will be held September 21. This will be our second fall event for a Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art festival. Last September we had such a great show with both vendors as well as buyers!!!!

Laura Walker: Community Cat Clean-up!!!! The Town of Ridge Spring will host a mobile unit from the Humane Society of Columbia on for the spading or the neutering of our overpopulation of cats soon. Stay tuned for the new date.

While moving some papers I came across the first "Harvest Festival" Brochure dated 1982. Ridge Spring was celebrating its One Hundred Year of PROGRESS. The event was titled the Centennial. When the committee reviewed the event and the success of it, they decided to do the event every year and call it The Harvest Festival. . By the way Wade Nobles was mayor and Mrs. D. C. Bomar was General Chairman. So which date do you consider the start of the Harvest Festival, 1982 or 1983? Over the years there have been themes for each Harvest Festival. For the past two years it has evolved into the Harvest Festival: BBQ Battle for the Ridge. This upcoming year will be the third year of delicious Bar-Be-Que again. It will be October 10, 11, and 12 this year.

The remodeling of the Town Square will begin after the Harvest Festival.

Upcoming Classes at Ridge Spring Art Center:

GOURD BOWL CLASS with Joan Crouch, Instructor, will be held on Saturday, September 7^th from 1:00 - 4:00 pm. The cost will be $35.00 – All Supplies provided.

FOOTBALL PLATTER CLAY CLASS: with Kim Ruff, Instructor. It will be held on Monday, September 16^th at 6:30 pm. The cost will be $35.00. You can make a football platter for your fan or for yourself! Get signed up soon!

We have new teachers who have joined our association so keep an eye out for new classes coming soon.

Josie Rodgers

It’s back-to-school week for many teachers and staff! They will all be busy preparing for the children to come through the doors. It’s the most exciting time of the year (besides the end of school!). Everyone gets a fresh start and are motivated to make this year better than the last. Please pray for these folks as they prepare to care for and guide our children.

RSM High: Registration was held last week, and this week teachers and staff are preparing for the return on students on Mon., Aug 19. Some positive changes have been made in many areas that will benefit students, parents, teachers, and staff. This week will be a week of learning, working, and getting ready to ignite the minds of our youth!

Review from David Marshall James: "Stone Cold Heart" by Caz Frear

A top-notch police-procedural mystery must offer top-drawer authorial performances in two departments, most vitally in characterization, in and out of police HQ.

Secondly, the narrative must transport the reader around the precinct-- and preferably beyond-- to back streets and byways where many people lead shut-off lives, bolted and barred in from what they rightly consider to be a surfeit of crime in their third-tier neighborhoods.

In this, her second novel, British author Caz Frear earns a check-plus in both categories, with a story featuring a spectacularly dysfunctional family in a North London postal code containing some dramatically divergent neighborhoods.

Some of said family members are living up, beyond their means, while the others are dead-bolted and security-chained in a development that was of-its-day back in the early 1970s.

The author also deserves a check-plus for her consistently on-key dialogue, along with her ripe phrasing as she presents the interior monologues of detective Cat Kinsella, not-so-proud bearer of her own family dysfunctions, including her publican father, who has played some down-and-dirty hands with some unsavory characters, one of whom proves an Androclean thorn in Kinsella's side.

Meanwhile, her father's an albatross with its head dangling over his daughter's constabulary badge.

Kinsella generally sees him only by appointment, but, with the advancing years, he's reaching out more through moth-worn notions of sentimentality.

However, Cat's too tied up with her murder investigation to pilgrimage to Walton's Mountain (one of her wonderfully sarcastic phrases). Everyone in the familial suspect pool is lying like last night's sprouts on cold stacked plates in a dripping sink.

Frear gains another check-plus for her already stellar scorecard with her running commentary on today's London, its expensiveness and expansiveness, rendering it more a combination of NYC and LA, with its residual "Ye Olde" flavors diluted.

It's up to Kinsella to sort through the modern metropolis's sprawling criminal elements. Call her "She-lock."

Review:

In December, Mary Watson Edmonds and her son Michael are planning to take 96-year-old Joe Watson back to Belgium where he fought 75 years ago in the Battle of the Bulge. They have contacted museums in Belgium and he has been invited to participate in several events honoring the service of American soldiers. They have also arranged a tour of battle sites and villages that he helped to liberate from the Nazis. Michael has set up a “Go Fund Me,” site to help make this trip a gift to his grandfather.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/send-joe-cal-back-to-belgium?pc=em_dn_contacts_r&rcid=r01-156476947254-6546d72f95974f00&member=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2Binvitesupporters

The Nut House and Country Market in Ridge Spring is also accepting donations. If you have any questions, you can email Mary Edmonds at marywedmonds@gmail.com.

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: The Big Red Box took the summer off but the members of Ridge Spring United Methodist Church did not.

In keeping with the legacy mission work in Haiti set forth by Mr. Joe Watson and his brother decades ago the members of RSUMC spent the summer months helping with the upcoming mission trip set to leave in October. 200 tarps were purchased and 60 personal hygiene bags were made. These were delivered to the Volunteers in Mission warehouse located in Batesburg. Also two significant monetary donations, one to help with the cost of shipping the container and one for the school lunch program, were made. Items collected by RSUMC and other churches will be delivered to the community of Jeremy. This community is located in a rural area away from large cities. This has been a ongoing Methodist mission and many personal and loving relationships have been developed. We are proud to be part of this and glad to be able to carry on Mr. Joe’s work.

Harriet's Garden Tips: (Good advice that I gave last year.) 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, it will get less light than the top which means the bottom part will lose leaves and possible die out. Have you seen those pruned boxwoods that look top heavy with little or no bottom limbs or leave?. Good advice that I gave last year.

REMINDERS

June 8 - Labor Day in September: Ridge Spring Farmers' Market

August 31: Town Wide Sidewalk Sale

August 31 Fall Gathering

Jeannette Carr Memorial: 864.656.5896, www.clemson.edu/isupportcu, Jeannette Carr Memorial, Annual Giving Office, 110 Daniel Drive, Clemson, SC 29631

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

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 1^st 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 - 11:30pm

Friday, August 9, 2019

August 9, 2019

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

I am on vacation. I appreciate the help with the article this week from all who contributed to it early.

The first Clinic event of the Community Cat Clean-Up with Fido Fixers of the Columbia Humane Society in Ridge Spring on August 5th was a huge success!!! 28 cats were spayed or neutered and all were given a rabies vaccine. 16 of the surgeries were spays and 12 were neuters with that kind of result eliminating the need for upwards of 100 homes for 100 kittens that won't be conceived in the coming year. And our work continues! The Clinic was so popular some left their contact information about their cats until it was far too late. We were already overbooked over the goal of 25 cats! There will be another Clinic date next month and the date will be announced soon. It is important that we finish obtaining our needed equipment before that date though. We had a slight bump in the road the Clinic. We were going to rely on inexpensive cardboard cat carriers to house the cats in after their surgeries. These boxes were not acceptable to the Clinic. They hardly contained some of the more rambunctious tomcats and we had to send out a quick SOS on social media for hard plastic carriers as loaners. We promised Fido Fixers we would have hard plastic carriers for all our patients on our next Clinic date. Here's a list of things we need donated: New or used cat carriers ( or donations to purchase them, please send check to Town Hall with Animal Cat Carriers written on the check's memo line) AND raggedy towels or throws. These are needed to cover the cats in their traps. It was amazing to see how a simple throw calmed them while they waited on their turn with the Vet. All in all it was a very productive day spent with good neighbors and teamwork! Together we are going to do wonders for our local feline friends.

Watson Reunion: Aunt Elizabeth, 100 year old birthday lady, was a little late getting down, but she smiled and sang along to "You Are My Sunshine." Her ex son-in-law and her grandsons had made up verses about her life and sang with guitars and banjos. She obviously recognized Daddy and told me the party was "wonderful." Aunt Elizabeth is Joe Cal Watson's older sister.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/send-joe-cal-back-to-belgium?pc=em_dn_contacts_r&rcid=r01-156476947254-6546d72f95974f00&member=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2Binvitesupporters

The Nut House and Country Market in Ridge Spring is also accepting donations. If you have any questions, you can email Mary Edmonds at marywedmonds@gmail.com.

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: The Big Red Box took the summer off but the members of Ridge Spring United Methodist Church did not.

Art Association of Ridge Spring

RESIN PLAY (16 & up): Joanne Crouch, Instructor; no previous experience is required.
The class will be Saturday, August 17th 10:00-4:00 with 1 hour lunch break from 12-1.
Cost will be $75 Must pre-register! In this class, students will explore and play within the world of resin. Exercises will include mixing dry pigments, acrylics, and glitter in resin. Student provides: apron, gloves, paper towels, 2-12x 12 canvases or 2-12 x 12 wooden supports or combination of both. Student will also create a resin jewelry piece and an ornament. Cost includes two-part epoxy (retail $30-will do multiple pieces), tutorial from artist, dry pigments, acrylics, glitter and assortment of items to embed in resin.

Contact Joanne at joanne.crouch26@gmail.com to secure your spot. Class is limited to 6 students. If class fills, another class will be scheduled. Pre-registration can also be paid at the Art Center of Ridge Spring on Fridays and Sat from 10-2.

Barbara Yon won a merit ribbon and donation from the Anderson Guild Members Show.

Clemson Extension endowment continues legacy of ‘Queen of the Market’

RIDGE SPRING — Jeannette Carr passed away April 1, 2019, after a battle with cancer, but more than three months later as the Ridge Spring Farmer’s Market bustled with its regular Saturday crowd, her community spirit and passion for produce were still plenty palpable.

“I kind of feel her presence a little bit,” said Katie Pfeiffer, Carr’s granddaughter who has worked the market alongside her on summer visits since her teenage years. “It's just feels so much like her, like something she would enjoy doing, so it makes me happy to be here.”

And thanks to the Emma Jeannate Carr Memorial Endowment being established by her husband, Brig. General Chalmers “Hap” Carr (’60), the family is making certain that the legacy of the woman who has been called “The Veggie Lady” and “Queen of the Market” continues.

“It feels good to remember her and support her legacy, and customers will come up and ask about what happened and it makes them happy that we’re continuing to (sell produce at the market) too,” Pfeiffer said, “and they care about the endowment, as well, and what that's going to support.”

The endowment is to be used to advance vegetable gardening education and outreach through the Clemson Cooperative Extension Service, and all proceeds from the sale of produce from the flat-bed trailer overflowing with fruits and vegetables grown at nearby Titan Farms are to be donated to the endowment honoring her love of gardening.

“Jeannette was well known to those who knew her for her love of gardening fresh vegetables and fruits, and the Carr Family has been and continues to be tremendous supporters of Clemson Extension,” said Extension Director Tom Dobbins. “We’re excited and honored to partner with Jeannette’s family in working to continue her legacy and advance vegetable gardening across the state of South Carolina.”

“That was back in the days where they grew everything in the summertime and would can everything that they eat for the wintertime; that was the way things were running back in small farms in the sand hills in North Carolina — and that's where she grew up,” Hap Carr said.

Jeannette met Hap in 1960 after graduating from nursing school, and with her husband joining the Air Force after they were married, she worked as a nurse in a succession of stops throughout his career — and, of course, tended to various gardens.

“Generally speaking, almost every place we were, we would find a way to have some kind of garden,” Hap said. “She used to be called ‘The Veggie Lady’ because she would go to her garden on the military base, and she'd take her vegetables and drop them off on people’s doorsteps every morning.”

Hap retired from the Air Force and the couple moved to Charlotte, N.C., where Hap worked for private industry, around the turn of the century. Soon thereafter, son Chalmers began running a farm in Ridge Spring and asked his father to help with the packhouse. While Titan Farms eventually grew into the largest peach grower on the East Coast — with over 6,200 acres of peaches in production, along with 600 acres of bell peppers and 1,000 acres of broccoli — Jeannette continued her own smaller-scale operation.

“Chalmer would build her a garden plot, and she and I kind of worked as a team, but then when it came to harvesting, she would harvest the stuff every morning,” Hap Carr said. “But her passion was growing Blue Lake bush beans and, even in her later years with a walker, she would go out there early in the morning, and it was her and God and her bush beans, picking her beans.”

That was in the early days of the Ridge Spring Farmer’s Market, conceived by the group Friends of Ridge Spring (FORS) in the late 1990s soon after the town had lost its grocery store as a way to not only allow locals to sell the produce from their gardens, but also to help draw visitors to the downtown stores, shops and restaurants.

But even once the market was started, Harriet Householder, one of the founders of the market and the owner of Harriet’s Garden, admitted it “really struggled” to get off the ground.

“It was small and we did not have a lot of variety, and somehow Jeannette found out we just didn't have enough produce,” Householder said. “So, next thing I knew, she was getting that wagon up here and it was loaded with produce. We even had fun figuring out which pepper it was and how to cook it — because she had such unique varieties.”

Jeannette and Harriet quickly built a connection — Harriet shared her boiled peanuts with Jeannette; Jeannette shared her white peaches with Harriet — and as their friendship grew, so too did the farmer’s market. But even now, after about two decades at the market and three months after the passing of her friend, Householder said Carr’s influence on the market is still plain to see.

Jerrold Watson has been part of those efforts since the inception, and the Ridge Spring resident is still an active part of the market — selling Titan Farms products out of the bed of a truck just a few feet from where Katie Pfeiffer manned the flat-bed trailer.

“I was here when (Jeannette) was in good health and was jumping around and crawling up on the trailer and picking up watermelons and throwing them out to people,” Watson said. “And then the next couple of years were kind of rough, and the cancer was very aggressive. So, they’re trying to keep her legacy going — and it’s worthwhile because she was a major part of this. She was a major player here, and we all thought the world of her.”

After Jeannette passed in April, there was some initial doubt about whether her produce — and in turn, her presence — would still be felt at the Ridge Spring Farmer’s Market on Saturdays. Hap said he quickly realized it was important to continue her legacy for at least another year, but also decided on one major caveat: that all the proceeds go toward her endowment.

“The first few weeks there was always somebody come by and say, ‘Where's Miss Jeannette?’” Hap said. “And we'd go through that and explain that. I think it's been nice to see that we're trying to do something in her memory, and this endowment will give us a legacy to create.”

For her granddaughter, Katie, the chance to continue working at the market during the summer was also a way to continue Jeannette’s legacy. But perhaps more importantly, it was also a chance to spend one more summer alongside her grandmother — even if only in spirit.

“I've been coming here for as long as I can remember and seeing all the familiar faces; they always come back around each summer and remember Grandma, and a lot of times it was just me and her working, and she always just loved it,” Katie said. “When I think about Grandma, I think about her gardening and harvesting and even her jarred items. She really did love it.”

Harriet's Garden Tips: Mulching materials do vary. The box stores have quite a variety and in various colors. Nothing is wrong with the natural stuff we rake up though. Here is a list of mulching materials from the Clemson Extensions Service booklet: sawdust, wood chips, wood shavings, pine needles, peanut hulls (raw), cotton screenings, tree leaves, grass clippings, pecan hulls, gravel, newspaper, pine bark, shredded paper and compost. Each has its pluses and minuses but mulching is needed with our HOT climate.

REMINDERS

June 8 - Labor Day in September: Ridge Spring Farmers' Market

August 31: Town Wide Sidewalk Sale

August 31 Fall Gathering

Jeannette Carr Memorial: 864.656.5896, www.clemson.edu/isupportcu, Jeannette Carr Memorial, Annual Giving Office, 110 Daniel Drive, Clemson, SC 29631

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

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 1^st 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 - 11:30pm

Monday, August 5, 2019

August 2, 2019

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

The Ridge Spring Farmers' Market continues. Do come and get some of those fresh fruits and vegetables. Peaches here are the best. Dixie Bell sponsored a Summer Time Social on the Ridge Spring Town Plaza. This family fun day included a “taste-n-see” of Dixie’s products. The Truly Scrumptious Creamy ice cream truck could not make it and no replacement could be found. By the way, figs are ripening. My grandmother loved to peel figs, cover with cream and enjoy eating. She always had to make all of us grandchildren leave the kitchen or else she never would get enough peeled. We loved them too.

Magnolia Ridge Antique Festival was blessed with a beautiful day in May!! We were surrounded with beautiful people and an incredible energy that makes us look forward to September 21 for our next event! It will be our second fall event for a Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art festival. Last September we had such a great show with both vendors as well as buyers!!!!

Laura Walker: Community Cat Clean-up!!!! The Town of Ridge Spring hosted a mobile unit from the Humane Society of Columbia on August 5 for the spading or the neutering of our overpopulation of cats.

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH BIG RED BOX: I’M BACCCCK! Yes and hungry for school supplies. RSUMC collecting school supplies for Ridge Spring Elementary School and we could use your help. Lists of needed items are placed in local retails stores. If you would like to help leave your purchased items on either porch of the church or FLC. Members will make sure they make to the BRB. Plan to deliver to the school mid -August so you have time. Please join us on Sunday at 11 a.m. church service. Promise you will leave inspired and with a smile on your face. We will save you a seat.

Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Homecoming & Revival with Evangelist Bobby Earls

Sunday, August 11th @ 11:00 am with Homecoming Dinner served immediately following the service. Revival services continue Sunday evening @ 6:00 pm; Monday - Wednesday services held at 7:00 pm. Come join us and prepare your hearts to receive a blessing.

Art Association of Ridge Spring

Please join us in supporting our own D.S. Owens with his upcoming show at the Arts & Heritage Center of North Augusta from August 15^th to October 6^th. He will be showing a special exhibition of Fine Art Photography. The show will include paintings by M. Drake as well as Pottery by “CASE” artist. The opening reception is on August 15^th from 5 to 7 pm. It is free and open to the public.

GOURD BOWL CLASS: Joan Crouch, Instructor will be hled on Saturday, September 7^th from 1:00- 4:00. Cost will be $35.00 and all Supplies will be provided. Sign up now, class size is limited! Contact Joanne at joanne.crouch26@gm

Review from David Marshall James: "Finding Zsa Zsa: The Gabors Behind the Legend" by Sam Staggs

In the 1953 film version of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee quips, "You wouldn't marry a man just because he's rich-- but, my goodness, doesn't it help?"

The speaker could just as well have been Magda (the oldest), Zsa Zsa (the middle), or Eva (the youngest) Gabor. As captured in this en-famille biography, the three sisters could have become rich and famous sans husbands. But my goodness, the fellas they accrued, like compounded daily interest, did help, in and out of matrimony.

University of South Carolina graduate Sam Staggs, who has written four first-rate film studies and a champagne-corker of a biography of party giver Elsa Maxwell, acquits himself in plush-box style in his latest literary foray. Staggs has been following the Gabor saga since Zsa Zsa's daughter and sole blood grandchild of Mama Jolie Gabor, Francesca Hilton, was alive and sharing her memories. Staggs attended Zsa Zsa's funeral mass, which you'll read about here.

Truth be told in Staggs style, the Gabors were secular Jews. Magda, Jolie, and the sisters' father, Vilmos, who chose to remain in Budapest, almost met the fate of Jolie's mother and only brother, who were taken out and shot near the end of World War II. Even so, all family members were required to wear the infamous yellow star when they ventured in public.

Eva came to Hollywood in 1939, and made a few programmers for Paramount, whose founder, Adolph Zukor, was also a Hungarian Jew. Zsa Zsa, married to a Turkish diplomat and residing in Ankara, fled to join Eva in the U.S. During the height of WWII, it took her nearly three months to reach New York, via the Orient and the Panama Canal.

Nevertheless, the Gabors, particularly Eva and Zsa Zsa, became devout Catholics, often worshiping several times a week at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills.

With the help of Gabor relations, Staggs strips away the fake tinsel to get at the real tinsel. You'll have to procure a copy to savor the scores of details. Here's the thesis: Jolie tried to create the daughters in the "Don't you want to be a star?" image that she craved for herself. Instead, she became a successful businesswoman, a jewelry-store owner in Budapest and later in New York. Magda, with that surname, couldn't avoid some of the limelight, yet the family considered her the sensible one, an even more acute businesswoman than her mother.

Meanwhile, Eva aspired to be a serious actress. Her sticktuitiveness-- in films, on TV, and in the theater-- ultimately made her a cultural icon, via 170 episodes of "Green Acres" during the late 1960s to 1971. Incidentally, all the sisters loved pets, supporting many animal rights organizations. Eva was even fond of the resident pig on "Green Acres," Fred and Doris Ziffel's TV-loving Arnold.

And then there's Zsa Zsa, who epitomizes what Jolie thought her daughters should be: An international cause celebre. If she wanted to do movies, fine (among them, the classics "Lili" and "Moulin Rouge" [both 1953] ). If she wanted to marry Conrad Hilton, fine. Anything to contribute to that good cause.

Zsa Zsa and Eva benefited from the huge audiences garnered by pre-cable TV. You cannot be a Baby Boomer and not recognize their voices and images, although many viewers confused the two.

All in the family, then. To paraphrase George Sanders, Zsa Zsa's much-beloved third husband, as Addison DeWitt in "All About Eve" (1950): "There never was and there never will be another family like them."

Harriet's Garden Tips: A good point was made by an author in "SC Gardener's Journal". Don't be afraid to downsize or remove plants that you find troublesome. Do you dislike a certain shrub or tree. Cut it down, dig it up or give it to a friend. I love all of my mother's irises but when is the last time I had time to weed through them. I am going to select a few of the best next time they bloom and give away the rest. Day lilies need no help so I will keep them. Even I am beginning to take my own advice. Have a hot summer in which you protect yourself from that pesky sun.

I have been trying to write something about the two mass shootings in our country but words have failed me. Is this censorship? These murders are pure evil that have been entering our civilization.

REMINDERS

June 8 - Labor Day in September: Ridge Spring Farmers' Market

August 31: Town Wide Sidewalk Sale

August 31 Fall Gathering

Jeannette Carr Memorial: 864.656.5896, www.clemson.edu/isupportcu, Jeannette Carr Memorial, Annual Giving Office, 110 Daniel Drive, Clemson, SC 29631

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

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 1^st 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 - 11:30pm