March 23, 2020

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

We recently treated a patient at Ridge Spring Family Practice who was later tested at Lexington Medical Center and found to be positive for COVID-19. In compliance with the CDC guidelines for healthcare workers, we are restricting our staff from coming into the office for 14 days. After consultation with DHEC, we have already contacted any patients that may have come into contact with the affected patient.

We have routed the phones to another of our sites so that we can continue to respond to your questions and needs. We have staff available to take your call and, where possible, are happy to assist you with possibly being seen at another one of our locations. We are also working with our pharmacy to help ensure seamless access to prescriptions you may be needing. For all patient questions or concerns, please call 803-685-3100. We plan to reopen this office on April 1.

From HH: 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.

I am also on facebook.  My goal is to post at least 3 humorous posts each day for as long as I can.  So far, I have been fortunate to meet my own quota for four days in a row.  Denise from Ridge Antiques and Dry Goods has been posting some great ones.  Did you hear of the person in Walgreens cussing out a person with a shopping cart full of Toilet Paper.  When the person finally took a breath the cart pusher said, "maam,  I'm trying to restock the shelves."  Summerville, SC was on the ABC National news this morning  for giving out rolls of toilet paper and not tickets.

The Art Association of Ridge Spring has decided in the best interest of our community and its individuals to cancel all classes and to remain closed for the rest of the month of March. We will be contacting those who had signed up for classes during the month of March to make arrangements for future dates. We hope this does not inconvenience any one too much. We look forward to opening our doors again and hosting classes as soon as we are assured that it will be safe for the general public. Thank you for your understanding.

The Blue Canoe that is in the old Bank building is taking advantage of the drive through windo to get the best cup of coffee around. Check out its menu, too.  Enjoy

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.  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?

Camp Gravatt News: During this time of uncertainty and fear, please know that our Gravatt family is constantly lifted up in prayers of protection and peace. Our staff is closely monitoring the updates concerning the spread of COVID-19. All decisions made will be in the best interest of our campers, guests, and staff. In the mean time, please look over our procedures and policies to minimize exposure AT Gravatt on our website (linked below). If you have any questions regarding camp programming, please contact Camp Director Danielle Steger at danielle@campgravatt.org. Health and safety is Gravatt’s number one priority at this time. As always, remember those affected in your thoughts and prayers, as we fight this thing together as one Body of Christ.

Review from David Marshall James:  :  "The Holdout" by Graham Moore

   The sleeper hit of 2020 is bounding out of bed while the year is young:  A murder-mystery/legal thriller that will have book clubs dashing out the dishes and dialing up the dialogue, with ethical issues abounding.

   Novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Graham Moore sets the stage in Los Angeles with the ten-year, reality-TV-extravaganza reunion of a jury that turned in a hotly debated (during and after the trial) verdict in a sensational trial involving a young, black male defendant and a 15-year-old daughter of a billionaire.

   Because one crusading juror, Maya Seale, swayed all the doubting Thomas's and Thomasina's of the jury-- much like Henry Fonda in the film "Twelve Angry Men"-- and because one disgruntled juror, Rick Leonard, called her out after the trial (and even went on to write a book, in which he blasted her all over again), sparks are expected to fly on that reality-TV reunion.

   On, how the sparks flew during the months Maya and Rick were sequestered with the others, but for different reasons.  All this toxic personal history makes Maya-- the Fonda figure, Hank not Jane-- all the more determined to skip the televised gathering.  Yet Rick ambushes her one month before the reunion, claiming that he has unearthed proof that the defendant in the trial, Bobby Nock, murdered the teenage Jessica Silver, a student at the private school where Bobby, originally from Virginia, was teaching.

   Rick informs Maya that he's saving the big reveal for the TV cameras.  Furthermore, she has since become a successful L.A. defense attorney, and her boss believes Maya will generate boffo biz for their firm if she reunites with her eleven compatriots of yore, regardless of how much she'd like to bail on the event.

   While the author presents his case, the reader may wonder:  Where is this headed?      The first plot twist heralds the procession of many to come, with some biggies stacking up toward the finish.  And why bother with a trial without witnesses?  It's positively un-American.  Make that un-Constitutional. We want to see the lady with the shapely gams, clad in black, her face covered by the veil on her hat, take the stand to deliver enriched-uranium testimony.  (Bonus points if you remember that pop-cultural showstopper from the 1980s.)

   No spoilers on any of the many page-stoppers and jaw droppers that red-pepper this novel.  Plus, plenty of sidebars-for-thought unscroll, concerning the grinding wheels of American jurisprudence.  Above all, how fickle was the fate that drew Maya, Rick, and the ten other jurors (plus three alternates) together to determine the future of an alleged murderer?  The simple act of jury compliance transforms way more than one-dozen lives, a perverse catalyst that wields its seismic power in this surprise standout novel of the New Year.

Harriet's Garden Tips: This is a good time to start those seeds for this summer.  This year I am going to plant daylilies among or by my beautiful daffodils.  Those daffodils are so beautiful but once they have bloomed, you have to wait such a long time for those leaves to die down.  It takes forever.  I always want to cut them back too soon.  So If the daylilies are near them, their foliage should help cover up the ugly leaves of the daffodils.  It just might work.  We have two sources of daylilies in Ridge Spring.  By June we should have them for sale at the Farmers' Market too.

   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