June 29, 2015

Ridge Spring News

Ridge Spring Farmers’ Market: We had 8 vendors but the food was plentiful and the there was plenty of variety.  Some of the items available were string beans, peaches, corn, butterbeans, crowder peas, squash (several varieties) tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, and several varieties of peppers, home-baked goods, and fresh milk.  The milk has to be ordered in advance (more about that later).  Samantha had flavored honey sticks that I did not get a chance to taste but I had three grandchildren with me helping and we ate breakfast at the market with fresh muffins.  Don’t forget daylilies and boiled peanuts.  At least five vendors will be there Saturday so come by and get your Fourth of July veggies and fruit for that celebration meal. 

Noel Steele: I am looking for people that make children clothes and other items. We are looking into opening a handmade children's store. If you would like your Handmade Items to be considered please message me. If you know someone that might be interested please share this message with them. The shops name is Nonies Hand-Made Children’s Clothing and Accessories. Call me at 803.609.7152

Samantha McClure: Ridge Spring Baptist Church had a wonderful turnout June 22-25, 2015. We started the week with 64 in attendance and ended it with 83 in attendance. Six children were presented with a Bible. Children discovered God's Plan was “To Be with us, to Save us and to Love us Forever”.  They learned how sin separates us from God, how Jesus transforms us and how showing love to others can start a chain reaction. Supper was served each night. Everyone is excited to see what next year brings.

Lee Ann Perez, One Ash Farm and Dairy-We are taking pre-orders for milk to be picked up at the Ridge Spring market. We will be there on Saturday from 10-11:30.  If you would like to pick up/pay for milk at that time please call us at (803) 649-9172.  We will also have baked goods and our wonderful apothecary items at the market.  Hope to see you there and have a blessed week!

I feel a need to repeat what I wrote last week about the tragedy: The horrible tragedy that occurred at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston has had the opposite affect the murderer wanted.  Instead of hate, it has brought so many together.  I pray for the love and forgiveness to continue and that this will help us all come together. 

Josie Rodgers: Please keep Shaun Steele in your prayers, also.  Shaun is married to Alex Stone Steele, and they have a precious little girl, Harper Quinn.  Alex is Leagrace’s caregiver and is very special to our family.  Shaun is fighting colon cancer and has completed chemo and radiation and will have surgery next week.  He will be in the hospital about 10 days and out of work about 3 months.  A raffle ticket fundraiser is being held be friends and family to help offset the cost of medical bills and living expenses.  Tickets are only $1.00.  Prizes include a 60” flat screen TV, a Yeti cooler, a Cody Webb package, Webb Photography $100 gift certificate, vehicle oil change at Stone’s Service Center, gift certificate to Coffee Shop Wine Stop, $50 gift card to HT Hackney Cash & Carry in Newberry, 1-hour massage at Calm Rivers Massage, a basket of hair products from Tangles, 3 ten-minute aqua massages from B-L Spine, a free class for a year ($500 value), T-shirt, and $25 shoe credit at Central Carolina Performing Arts Center.  Drawing will be held Aug. 1 @ 2 pm at CCPAC.  You do not need to be present to win.  Help support this wonderful family!

Book Review from David Marshall James:

Would The Algonquin Hotel in New York City go to seed after World War II?  Its famed “Round Table” had already gone the way of King Arthur’s, and the twelve-story landmark on 44^th Street, in the heart of the Broadway theater district, needed some major fixing-upping.  Enter neophyte hoteliers Ben and Mary Bodne of Charleston, S.C., with Southern accents thicker than the cheesecake at Lindy’s.  The Bodnes’ hands-on, meet-and-greet, personal-touch style ensured that The Algonquin’s glory days were not just reserved for the past, but also for the present and yet-to-come. 

In “The Algonquin Kid,” the eldest of their three grandsons, Michael Elihu Colby, remembers life at the hotel, where his grandparents resided full-time on the tenth floor.  Writers for all media still favored the hotel, and not just for lunch in the Rose Room or drinks at the Blue Bar.  William Faulkner composed his Nobel Prize acceptance speech while staying in an Algonquin suite (oh, to have been a housekeeper emptying the wastebaskets of draft sheets; then again, Faulkner probably didn’t require revisions).  Fellow Mississippian and Pulitzer Prize winner Eudora Welty made the hotel her home-away-from-home during her frequent trips to the city.  Indeed, her home state could have well lost her during the early 1930s, when she was attending graduate school at Columbia University, had not her father died unexpectedly.

Can you imagine walking down a hotel hall and hearing Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner working out the scores for “My Fair Lady,” then later “Camelot”?  The songwriting team preferred to check into the hotel, for weeks at a time, when they were down-to-the-piano-wires on their shows.  The hotel gladly supplied that piano.

The Bodnes remained close friends with Sen. Ernest Hollings, who attended the author’s bar mitzvah in 1964.  Later that day, following the celebratory party, Hollings escorted the family to a nearby town where Robert Kennedy was stumping in his bid for the U.S. Senate.  The group sat behind Kennedy during his speech.  Talk about a memorable day—and Colby recalls many others from his family’s four decades of ownership of the much-storied Algonquin Hotel. (PS: I had to go on the internet to see what the web site for the Algonquin Hotel looked like.  It looks beautiful.)

Callie Herlong: Ridge Spring-Monetta Elementary School Registration Dates are as follows:

August 11, 2015: 9:00 am-4:00 pm

August 12, 2015:   12 noon-6:00 pm

Location: RSM Elementary Gym

Bus Registration:

July 29: 10:00 am-2:00 pm

July 30: 1:00-5:00 pm

Location:    RSM M/H School Cafeteria

Saluda County Library Summer Reading Program 2015

Come by the library to sign up for summer reading or sign up at our website starting June 1st! www.youseemore.com/saluda There are prizes for all ages, including babies, children, teens and adults!

Friday, July 10th, 11 a.m.

Greg Zelnik performs “Amazing Magic Man” sharing his adventurous and patriotic story to find his superhero sidekick, the loveable and adorable basset hound MAGIC-Dog.

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 plan to be here, please let me know so your name will be in the pot.

FYI:  Two phone scams are going around.  One says that you are near arrest from the IRS for back taxes.  We have received this call three times.  Please ignore.  The IRS would not call you.  They mail letters to you.  Do not give any personal information over the phone with either scam. 

Reminders:

July 14: Harvest Festival Meeting

July 16: FORS Meeting

Aug. 1: Watson Reunion

Sept. 17: Harvest Festival BINGO

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 2^nd & 4^th Monday:  Kids' Corner Story Time 10:30-11:30 a.m., at the Ridge Spring Library. 

Every 2^nd 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

RSM Elementary Summer hours:  Mon – Thurs 8 am – 4 pm

RSM High Summer hours:  Mon – Thurs 8 am – 4 pm

Wardlaw Academy Summer hours:  Tues, Wed, Thurs 9 am – noon

King Academy Summer hours:  Mon – Fri 9 am - 1 pm or by appointment