May 11, 2015
Ridge Spring News
The Harvest
Festival meeting is May 12th, 6:00 pm at
Cumbee Place. Please mark your calendar. The next one will be June
16th at Cumbee Place also. Another reminder to all is that the Harvest Festival
date has been changed to September 19th.
If there is
anyone who throws trash on the sidewalk or highway because they don't have a
bag to put it in to carry it to a dumpster, come by The Nut House. We
will be glad to give you a bag.
FORS meeting
is Thursday
May 14th.
The Ridge
Spring Fire Department’s Benefit was a huge success. They cleared over $10,000.00 again. How fortunate we all are.
The Ridge Spring Fire Department Auxiliary: Many thanks to all who kindly donated bake goods to
the Fire Dept. Benefit. There was realized OUTSTANDING support.
The State Highway
Department will not allow a handicap parking place if it is parallel parking. Ridge Spring has one better. If you are handicapped and need medicine from
our own Drub Store Bank’s Drugs,
call them and they will bring your medicine out to you in your car. Just call them first. For those who are house-bound, they will
deliver, too. I remember how many times
they helped my mother out. That is small
town living at its best.
Helpful Hands Community Mission announcements: The Helpful Hands Mission will be distributing
food and clothing every 2nd and 4th Saturday 10am- 12-noon.
(This Saturday) There will be Baptism
Services at The Brush Arbor Park 1095 Keys Pond Rd Ridge Spring Sunday
May 24th 11 am. Cookout will follow. Helpful
Hands Mission would like to thank all Ministry Partners for their support...
Effie Martin: Aiken County Education Association-Retired gives two $500
scholarships each year to students who plan to major in education. This year
the scholarships go to Rebecca Shaw from Silver Bluff High School. Rebecca was
number nine in her class of 125. The second scholarship went to Quameshia Gantt
the daughter of Janice Gantt. Quameshia is number two in her class at Ridge
Spring Monetta High. Quameshia plans to attend Clemson University in the fall.
On May 16th, Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Gathering
Sixth annual Show..Featuring: Palmetto
Antique Tractor Club Coffee will be on….
The Mt Calvary Men’s Mission Group will again be serving a delicious breakfast
and lunch! There is no fee to spend a wonderful day on this farm in Ridge
Spring! The Farm is at intersection of Rt 39 and Rt 23 on Mt Calvary Rd.
Diagonally across from John Deere… Just minutes out of Ridge Spring * A
wonderful touch of small town South Carolina!! Our web site is
Magnoliaridgesc.com or call Bev 561-262-7475
RIDGE SPRING UNITED
MEHTHODIST CHURCH: During the month of May the collected food will be
delivered to Bethel Baptist for use in the Back Pack Ministry. If you would to
participate, leave your donation on the porch of the Family Life Center (FLC)
and a church member will make sure it finds its way into the Big Red Box.
Also on the porch of
the FLC is a prayer request box. The Box is checked before regular Church
service on Sunday and requests are added to our prayer list.
Ridge Spring United
Methodist Church has a Face Book page. Take a moment to visit it and find out
what’s happening around the Church. We are trying to reach 100 likes, like us
and help us reach our goal.
Joe Cal Watson: The Watson Family Reunion will be held at the
Watson House in Ridge Spring on Saturday, August first. All descendants of John or William are
invited to attend. If you plant to be
here, please let me know so your name will be in the pot.
Rene Miller, Ridge Spring Elementary School
First
in Math
For the week ending April 24: Our school has completed 1,169,115 math problems.
We have earned 389,705 stickers. The team of the week is: Mrs. Shealy’s Second
Grade Class. The player of the week is: Montana Hartley. She earned 344 stickers. She is in Ms. Young’s
5th grade class. The top team for each grade level is:
Kindergarten: Mrs. Hallman’s class
1st Grade: Mrs. Willing’s class
2nd Grade: Mrs. Shealy’s class
3rd Grade: Mrs. Matthew’s class
4th Grade: Mrs. Lee’s class
5th Grade: Ms. Young’s class
Our students continue to work hard
using the First in Math program. We have met our goal of One Million math
problems well before the end of the year! This will help increase fluency with
math facts and, therefore, increase our test scores in the spring! Way to go,
Ridge Spring Elementary students!
The
faculty and staff will be
participating in Olympic Games on
Fri., May 22, at 1 pm. The cost to attend this exciting and sometimes comical
event is $1.
New
Standards
You may find the new SC state
standards at: http://ed.sc.gov/scde-grant-opportunities/
NewSCStandards.cfm
AD Brian
McCormick: The RSM Booster Club is sponsoring a Captains Choice golf outing at Persimmon Hill Golf Course on May 23
at 8 am. Cost is $200 a team or $50 a player. This includes 18 holes with cart,
lunch, door prizes, and free soft drinks. If interested, please contact Brian
McCormack at 803/960-0508.
Josie Rodgers
We
spent lots of time at the softball field this past weekend, watching girls from
Wardlaw and King play their hearts
out. Both teams won one and lost one
Friday night and ended up playing each other Sat morning. It was a very close and exciting game! Wardlaw came out on top and played St.
John. Again they played with heart but
St. John won. We are very proud of the
young ladies from both teams who showed great sportsmanship and lots of heart.
Mother’s Day
was wonderful for our family! Our 5
generations spent time together eating, telling old stories, laughing, and
loving on the babies. My dad was feeling pretty well and joined in telling
stories about his mother. Then we
traveled to my in-laws’ and played in the pool, laughing and sharing. The highlight for the kids was probably
trying to pitch the ball to Grandma and strike her out! What a good sport she is!
RSM Mid/High news: Congratulations to the varsity baseball team for a super
season! They finished the season 11-3,
11-1 in region play, won the Region
Championship, and made it to the 4th round of playoffs.
Several
varsity baseball players were
nominated by other Region IV A coaches for the 2015 All-Region Team: Johnathan Gibson, Dustin Ferguson, Bra’Quon
Preston, and Miguel Leaphart. The
Player of the Year is Johnathan Gibson,
and the Coach of the Year is Heath
Corley! All will be honored at the
school’s athletic banquet.
The Joint Women's Club of Aiken is sponsored a Celebration of Character reception last Saturday at St. Mary's
Catholic Church in Aiken. Nominations
from teachers are based on excellent character traits such as determination,
gratitude, generosity, resourcefulness, and fairness. Jermois Morris and Cristal Gonzalez were
nominated from the high school. Jordan
Stone was chosen from the middle school.
Many thanks to Cedar Creek Church for providing a baked potato buffet, salad, and
desserts for middle and high staff on National Teacher Day. Teachers were also
entered in daily drawings for donated gifts. The church also put goodies
in the teachers’ boxes each day to remind them how loved they really are.
Ashley
Burns, English teacher, wanted to let everyone in the community know that she
is transferring to Strom Thurmond. She
has truly loved her time at RSM and notes how friendly the teachers are and how
sweet the students are. She will miss
RSM, and we will surely miss her!
AD Brian McCormick: The RSM Booster Club is sponsoring a Captains Choice golf outing at Persimmon
Hill Golf Course on May 23 at 8 am. Cost is $200 a team or $50 a player. This
includes 18 holes with cart, lunch, door prizes, and free soft drinks. If
interested, please contact Brian McCormack at 803/960-0508.
Prom news: Prom royalty crowned included Prom King Bobby Pixley, Prom
Queen Ty-miyah Tyler, Prom Prince marquis Hopkins, and Prom Princess Destinee
Brewer.
On
Mar. 11, senior Quamesha Gantt
participated in job shadowing at the SC
State Capitol. She was able to
attend Senate and House sessions. She
had lunch with Senator Tom Young, Jr. and Representative Bill Taylor. She was able to discuss issues with them
including Common Core and the inequalities Title I schools face.
On
April 22, several honor roll students
from the middle and high school were able to attend an Augusta Greenjackets game with Ms. Carges and Ms. Coleman.
On a personal or farming note: I have always been proud of my tomato plants
that I raised from seed. This year with
my trip down memory lane my plants did not like it. They were not up to the quality I liked either. So I have a new set in and they look great. Come by and check them out. The varieties include whopper, better boy,
sweet 100, chef’s orange, celebrity, a few stripey, Cherokee purple, roma, and
patio. Next year I will plan a vacation
with better timing. By the way when I
worked for someone else this was not such a problem with taking time off. Times do change, but I sure am happy about my
tomato plants making a comeback.
Reminders:
May
16: Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Gathering
May
23: RSM Golf Tournament
June
5 & 6: peach Tree 23 Yard Sale
Aug.
1: Watson Reunion
Sept.
19: Ridge Spring Harvest Festival
Ridge Spring Library
hours:
Mon/Tues 8:30 am - 12 pm; Wed., 12:30 – 4:30; Thurs 8:30 am - 12:00 pm; Fri
8:30 am -4:30 pm, Saturday from 9:00 until noon,
Every 2nd
& 4th Monday: Kids'
Corner
Story Time 10:30-11:30 a.m., at the
Ridge Spring Library.
Every 2nd
Monday: RSM Elem PTO meets at 6:30 pm in the media
center.
Every Friday &
Saturday: AARS hours 10 – 4 or
by appt, free admission
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