September 9,  2019

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

How fortunate we have been with hurricanes.  Dorian missed our area yet the coast suffered a lot of destruction.  I am sure most of you have seen the red car at Myrtle Beach that decided to go surfing. It did get rescued with ceremony and a bagpipe playing. The humanitarian aid going to the Bahamas was amazing.  My family and I visited Nassau , Bahamas 4 weeks ago.  It was so beautiful. It was not hit, but other parts of the Islands were devastated. I know the beauty will return.

Josie Rodgers and I were both teaching when 9/11 occurred.  This is what she wrote and I think it is perfect. Sept. 11, 2001. "I was making copies at BL High. Amber was in 6^th grade, and Annalee was 7 months old. A fellow English teacher came in and told me about a plane hitting one of the towers. Not long after, I stepped into this teacher’s room where he and the students were watching the live reports. We saw the second plane hit. The rest of the day is a blur. We all had our TVs on the news, in utter shock as events unfolded and fears grew. For the next few days, our TVs and radios stayed tuned into news shows, waiting to hear about rescues and retaliation. Our communities and country came together and held each other a little tighter. We swore that we would never forget how we felt that day. We must revisit that day, in memoirs, articles, pictures, videos, and conversation, so that we don’t become complacent in our patriotism and our commitment to protecting our country. God bless America."

 23 Mercantile in Ridge Spring wishes to thank everyone that came through this weekend for the Sidewalk Sale.  You made our week very successful and we enjoyed meeting so many new folks.  We loved our conversations with you and are thrilled that we had customers from as close by as Batesburg-Leesville and as far away as Canada.  We have been overwhelmed with the support from so many people in our new journey as 23 Mercantile.  As always, we are striving to bring you the absolute best in a small town vintage and antique shop mixed with everyday essentials and home decor items.  We want to be your destination shop for home furnishings, decor, everyday essentials and gift purchases for others as well as your shop for the best chalk and mineral paint to be found, Frenchic®️.  We aim to deliver the best in customer service and friendliness.  
Thank you again for your support and we look forward to seeing you the next time you stop in

The spade and neuter project of feral cats will again be done this month.  If you are interested please contact Town Hall who will help you get in touch with Laura Walker. There is a fee for residents and the fee goes up if outside of town.

Yon Family Farms: 6 LOADS of premium Angus feeders influenced by Yon Family Farms Genetics were sold via Mid-Atlantic Cattle Sales in Virginia and the Carolinas broadcast on DV Auction.  It is a small world yet we are far away.  Fascinating!!!!

The Nut House & Country Market: We have added Covered in Cotton Blankets and farm inspired greeting cards and graphic tees to our ever growing selection of local goods from our friends and neighbors.  There is a lot more that just pecans to be found at the Nut House & Country Market.

The Ridge Spring Harvest Festival Beauty Pageant will be held on September 21.  The Junior division will be Baby Miss, Toddler Miss, Wee Miss, tiny Miss and Little Miss.  Senior Division will be Young Miss, Young Teen Miss, Teen Miss, and Miss.  The winner of Miss Harvest Festival 2019 will receive a $750.00 scholarship check made out to the college of her choice.  Application can be found on line at www.ridgespringharvestfestival.com or ridgespringsc.com or call town hall at 803.685.5511.  Register by Wednesday September 11.

Come to the Beauty Pageant and enjoy Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Gathering. Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Festival:  will be held  September 21, too.  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!!!!

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: The Big Red Box (BRB) outdid itself the month of August. Over 184 school supplies made their way into the BRB! Everything from glue sticks, note cards, paper towels, crayons and everything in between. These items along with a $250 check (this to help purchase kinder mats for those who might need one) were delivered the last week of August. RSUMC is proud to work closely with RSM Elementary. Well done!!

RSUMC is on Face Book. Visit our page, like us and see what’s going on with our vibrant and exciting church family. Pastor Ashley continues to ‘serve up’ meaningful and joyful messages both in words and music. Visit us soon. We will save you a seat.

 Service is every Sunday at 11 a.m. unless otherwise noted.

Art Center of Ridge Spring News:

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:

RSM Mid: Coach Tisha Ward is proud to announce the middle school cheer team: Andrea Castro, Alya Dowling, Natalie Mitchum, Bianca Romero, Heather Osbun-Shirey, Lyndsey Flores, Lidia Renteria, & Melannie Valencia Hernandez.

RSM High: RSM Health Science program wants to give a big shout out to Russell Derrick and the Ridge Spring Fire Department for teaching our classes about fires and fire extinguishers. It was extremely helpful to be able to practice what we learned using real fire and fire extinguishers.

The Trojans football team traveled to Whitmire last Friday and defeated the Wolverines 68-28 to gain their first victory of the season. Key players included Daniel Harris (5 TD), Remedee Leaphart (5 TD), Keflin Jones (1 TD) Collier Sullivan (1 TD), Nehemiah Brooks (2 pt XP), Mike Summer (8 tackles), Bret Smith (2 pt XP), & Dantrell Weaver (2 pt XP). Coach Brian Smith also celebrated his 100^th career win as a head football coach!

The team also participated in a community service project on Mon., Sept. 9, at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. The team has an open date this week and traded a day of practice for an opportunity to help beautify and clear the graveyard to honor those who have gone before us.

The True Blue Marching Band is ready for competition season! Competitions include the Blue Machine Invitational, Edisto High, Edisto, Sept. 14; the Mustang Classic, Midland Valley, Sept. 21; Fin Fest Tournament of Bands, St. James High, Murrell’s Inlet, Oct. 5; Garden City Classic, Orangeburg-Wilkinson High, Oct. 12; Lower State Championship, Westwood High, Blythewood, Oct. 19; & State Finals, Chapin High, Oct. 26.

RSM Elementary School:

Please join us at our Annual School-Wide Title One Meeting and Open House on Thurs., Sept 12, from 5:30 pm–7 pm. Sessions will be held in each teacher’s classroom to introduce you to the new school year. If you miss the first session or have more than one child, the same information will be presented at each session. Teacher presentations will include an overview of Title I, curriculum, policies, and special events for the year. Sessions run from 5:30-5:55, 6-6:25, and 6:30-6:55. We ask that you please not enter the classroom if the door is closed. This is a signal that the teachers have not completed the presentation. Volunteer orientation will be held in the library. You must attend volunteer orientation if you plan to go on a field trip or volunteer in your child’s classroom. We look forward to seeing you! 

Yearbooks will be sold through the websiteTreering.com.  You can purchase a yearbook by going to Treering.com and using the school's validation code.  The price for a softcover yearbook is $22.00.  Hardcover yearbooks start at $28.95.  If you purchase one before September 30th, Treering will give you a 15% discount.  Yearbooks will be shipped to the school and given to your child by the end of May.  Validation code:1014410540564413

Morning car rider drop off begins at 7:15 am at the side door by the gym.  If you need to walk your child to class, please enter the building by the gym and stop by the office to receive a visitor’s sticker.  All car riders must be at school by 7:30 am in order to eat breakfast.

Afternoon Procedures:  1. Please display your child’s name or children’s names on your dash or visor.  Name cards will be sent home soon. 2. The driver of the vehicle must remain in the driver’s seat.  3. Please move forward when the vehicle in front of you moves forward.  4. Please don’t pass other vehicles.  If you want to walk up to get your child, please park in the bottom parking lot.  Please wait for your child in the area marked for parents.  Please don’t walk up to the area where children are sitting – your child/children will come to you.  Thank you for helping us ensure the safety of our children.

Review from David Marshall James:  "The Nanny" by Gilly Macmillan

   Gotta love a mystery set in an English manor where the secrets cling to the crevices like lichens, moss, and ivy, where startling revelations fairly drip from the timbered eaves, like something dragged up from the depths of the nearby lake.

   Jocelyn "Jo" Holt is expecting none of this when she returns to her ancestral home following the advent of a premature, penurious young widowhood, with her daughter Ruby in tow.

   Then again, Jo's a bit of a dolt.  Psychologically speaking in kinder terms, she's suffering repressed memories, although even Sigmund Freud couldn't suppress an eye roll on that line.  Basically, Jo is naive to the point of blind faith and hung up on her childhood emotions.  She's far from the sharpest blade in her Mum's set of top-drawer knives.  Hhm-- and what are those all about?

   Thankfully, this-- postmodernist Gothic, shall we call it, to be all posh-- novel switches points of view to other characters, including Jo's scrumptiously bee-achy Mum, Virginia, also a widow.  You may call her Lady Holt, thanks ever so. 

   Milady's as cool as a three-tiered serving of cucumber sandwiches at high tea, with lots of lemon in the Earl Grey.

   You would think pence-less daughter Jo would be happy to return to Lake Hall, with all its bell pulls and whistling teakettles.  Yet, we've already mentioned she's more than a tad doltish.  And, not surprisingly, she has more mother issues than an elementary-school parking lot at three p.m.

   So, who's the titular nanny and what are her back and forward stories?  Suffice to say she's neither TV's Fran Drescher, nor Bette Davis (in the 1965 British thriller of the same name).  And she's sho-heck not Mary Poppins.

   British novelist Gilly Macmillan has crafted a noteworthy mystery steeped in classic traditions but with plenty of modern drizzle.  Her wicked wisps of humor impart the sense that she's having a fine time of it all, a feeling that is most infectious for the reader.

   Tuck into your cream tea (Nanny says the jam goes on top of the cream on the scone), and then dive into this lip-smacker.

Harriet's Garden Tips: Many people have been amazed at the plants growing at the shop and ask how?  Simple, my parents worked on the soil for years, adding compost, cow manure, peat moss, and more.  Soil can be improved over time, just keep at it.  Providing  your plants with healthy soil gives them the optimum opportunity to grow to their full potential. The old fashion roses in the back have been loved but not tended to as you can see those mean trees growing up in their spots. When plants are in pots, fertilizing is a must.   Osmocote-like fertilizer can work for 6 months, but  you still need to add diluted liquid fertilizer often.  Mums are coming in.  Just remember to deadhead the blooms to keep  that beautiful plant blooming for a long time.

REMINDERS

August 31: Town Wide Sidewalk Sale

August 31 Fall Gathering

September 21: Ridge Spring Harvest Festival Beauty Pageant

            Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art 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