March 16, 2020

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

The Town of Ridge Spring was decorated with quilts and more quilts.  Quilts of history, old, new, and just quilts that need to be seen.  They were in shops, the Civic Center and the Art Center .  They were even up on walls of buildings as part of the quilt trail.  There even was a scavenger hunt among the shops and the Art Center.  The Art Center will begin a quilting awareness program year-round.

Always around St. Patrick's time the peach trees bloom.  How wonderful.

We are all concerned about the Corona virus.  Number one rule is to wash your hands thoroughly.  The goal is for 20 seconds so it has been suggested to sing Happy Birthday.  I tried it and finished the song in 10 seconds.  So I have learned to sing Happy Birthday almost twice.   I was planning to go on a European River Cruise in April.  The trip has been postponed.  One suggestion I learned from my sister-in-law, make sure when you make reservations at hotels or such, they have a cancellation policy.

ART ASSOCIATION OF RIDGE SPRING & GALLERY Quilting on the Ridge occurred Friday March 13th and Saturday March 14th.  The quilts on display around town were beautiful and reminded  us of the past and the present.

Pottery Classes Monday, March 16, 2020 Garden Lantern Time: 6:30 pm Cost: $35.00 Instructor: Kim Ruff To sign up: Message Joanne Crouch at (803) 480-0576 or by email joanne.crouch26@gmail.com or stop by the Art Center.

 Bowl Turning Class Saturday, March 21 1:00 PM – 3 PM *UPDATE*- CLASS FULL! Saturday, March 28 1:00 PM – 3 PM Instructor: Nick Watson Cost: $80 Includes all supplies. Session will be held in front of the Art Center of Ridge Spring in Nick’s travel workshop. To sign up: Message Joanne Crouch at (803) 480-0576 or by email joanne.crouch26@gmail.com or stop by the Art Center.

Pen Turning Class Monday, April 12 Cost: $35.00 Each class is 1 ½ hours at Larry’s home workshop. Please email {Marlene_Sides@yahoo.com} or Call: 706-829-4929 to book your session and directions.

Exercise Class Get a new spring in your step with our made-for-your-needs exercise classes! Marlene Sides, RN, CES is the instructor. She is a NASM certified personal fitness trainer and Registered Nurse. Equipment for strengthening exercises provided. Drop-ins welcome! Every Tuesday and Thursday there will be a 4pm, 5pm and 6pm class. Come join in! Fee: $5 per session Please email {Marlene_Sides@yahoo.com} or Call: 706-829-4929 to book your session and directions.

Remember May 16, we have the Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Gathering.  Carter and I will have our first batch of fresh boiled peanuts.  Don’t miss this wonderful event beneath the beautiful magnolia and oak trees on this lovely horse farm.

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Welcome to Spring!

 Ridge Spring United Methodist Church (RSUMC) during the month of March will be collecting items for an Easter Egg Hunt. The Big Red Box (BRB) will be hungry for candy, plastic eggs and other fun Easter items. If you would like to participate, leave your donation on either the porch of the Church or the Family Life Center (FLC) and a member will make Sure your donations makes it to the BRB. We will deliver donations to Helpful Hands Ministry prior to their Annual Easter Egg Event.

 Pastor Ashley is taking us through the Lenten Season with meaningful messages and music. If you have not heard her sing and/or her messages you are missing out. Service at 11 a.m. We will save you a seat.

 RSUMC is on Face Book. Find us, like us and keep up with what is going on.

 There will be NO Church Service March 29, 2020.

Josie Rodgers

My only thoughts on the pandemic: get educated, stop panicking, take precautions, be patient, use your common sense. My students have been studying Brutus’ and Mark Antony’s speeches in Julius Caesar and learning about ethos, pathos, and logos. They can’t believe how easily and quickly the mob was swayed by each speaker and the chaos that ensued shortly thereafter. Sound familiar?

My little River Man turns 6 years old this week! He is growing and learning all the time! I love when he reads to me! Last week, we talked about all of my names: Josie, Josianna, Jo, Joey, JoJo, Nana, Mom, Mama, etc. I asked him first what my real name was, and he replied, “Jose!” Yes, that is one of my nicknames bestowed upon me by Annalee’s friends when someone thought my personalized tote said Jose instead of Josie. And yes, I answer to it! I actually had a science teacher in 8^th grade who called me Jose just to be funny!

RSM Elem: On Sat., Mar. 28, the PTO will sponsor a Spring Craft Fair and Yard Sale from 9 am to 2 pm. Spaces are $15. If you would like to register for a space or find out more, contact Kristine Sasser at ksasser@acpsd.net or 803/479-0883. RS-M Elementary students who shop on Mar. 28 will have a chance to win 1 of 4 zoo passes!

Yearbooks are being sold only through treering.com and will not be available to purchase at school. Through treering.com, you can customize two pages for free if you purchase a yearbook before May 4! Yearbooks purchased by May 4 will be shipped to the school with no added shipping cost to you and given to your student during the school day by the end of May. Use the validation code below to order your standard or custom yearbook today, starting at $22 for softcover and $28.95 for hardcover! Validation code is 1014410540564413.

RSM High: Coaches Johnson and Johnson are excited to kick off the first season of boys’ volleyball. We are having fun learning and competing against each other. The Trojans were set to open up at RSM High this week with a tri-match vs Wagener-Salley and Richland-Northeast. However, with the recent suspension of athletics, that event must happen at a later date.

Review from David Marshall James:  "The Museum of Desire" by Jonathan Kellerman

   Jonathan Kellerman has cruised the pages of his "Funk & What-All's" deluxe dictionary of Los Angeles for his 35th Alex Delaware novel, what the "Glibster's Guide to Modern Fiction" would term a police procedural, although Delaware is a doctor of psychology, not a cop.

   However, he consults with singular sensation Lt. Milo Sturgis of the LAPD, a detective who satiates his ongoing affair with bakery boxes and whatever's du jour in Dr. D's fridge.

   Best believe that with his, and Alex's, current case, the LT-- as his team detectives at the PD affectionately refer to him-- is plowing through the pastries like Little Debbie in a Maserati.  Sara Lee in a Lamborghini.  Sister Schubert on a Harley.

   By the by, among Kellerman's cast of characters is a most unexpected and somewhat unlikely nun.  Well, the city was founded as a mission.

   The case involves not a simple murder, but a murder tableau, with four victims who constitute a most puzzling assemblage, so Milo and Dr. D are having the three a.m. heebie-jeebies trying to get a bead on how they connect.

   It's a story that offers the author the opportunity to ply his piece de resistance:  Creating a large, diverse cast of L.A. habitues.  The narrative also affords Kellerman ample interludes in which to reflect on the locale's culture.

   Fortunately, the LT can restrict the particulars of the murder tableau from the media.  Yet, when another homicide occurs in a crowd well-armed with camera phones, you might well think, with all the ensuing pandemonium, that space aliens had landed, and all the Sasquatches have come out of the woods to greet them.

   Lest the grotesqueries overwhem the novel, Kellerman allows for running humorous commentary from the LT.  Primed with his most-anti-L.A. diet of sugar and carbohydrates and sliced pastrami (please don't trim the fat), Sturgis can deliver a punch line to match his waistline.

   Kellerman may be the best writer of police procedurals on today's shelves.  A longtime resident of the City of Angels, and a psychologist himself, he infuses his novels with a verity bolstered by a fluidity developed over the course of his prodigious output, dating back to the 1980s.  And let's not forget the "Funk & What-All's."  Pass the pastries, LT.

Harriet's Garden Tips: This is the last chance to plant trees. Remember to use Epsom Salts this spring. For sick-looking azaleas try giving them a dose of 6 tbsp. salts to 1 gal of water.  To discourage rabbits, sprinkle the salts on the ground.  To encourage berries on hollies, work salts (1 cup) into the ground around them in spring and water well.   After march 15, fertilize the whole garden.  In our area, the last frost date is April.

   REMINDERS

May 16: Magnolia Ridge Antique & 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

Second Tuesday: Ridge Spring Harvest Festival