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.
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.
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 7th 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 16th 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 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: 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!
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.
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.
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 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 - 11:30pm
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