December 7,
2015
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Sunday at 4:30 Ridge Spring
had its own Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony and it was delightful. Rev. Keys of Helping Hands Ministry and his
choir with band presented a program of the Christmas message and songs for all
to sing. Mayor Pat Asbill with the help of Noel Steele, Chairperson of the
Ridge Spring Harvest Festival, turned on the lights before Santa arrived. This
year Santa arrived in a boat being pulled by a John Deere tractor and Santa’s
own elf Jim Campbell driving it. The
children got to see and speak to Santa and also got a candy cane. Thanks goes to Richard Elders for his help
and his help over all the years, too. Small town living at its best!!!
There will be not FORS
meeting this month.
Saturday five shops in
Ridge Spring will be having customer appreciation day and sharing a coke with
peanuts or pecans with our customers.
You will also be able to register at each shop for a drawing of a $50.00
Visa Gift Card. Actually we have two
cards so come by and sign up at each shop to win. Participating shops are Ridge Antiques and
Dry Goods, Off the Beaten Path, the Nut House, Olde Treasures and Harriet’s
Garden, which will be on Main Street this time with the help of my grandchildren.
I do have a limited supply of poinsettias that will be available too.
Mt Pleasant Baptist Church: The Church wide Christmas Dinner will be held
on Sunday, December 20th following the Morning Worship
Service. Everyone bring your favorite covered dish and join together to
celebrate our Saviors birth. Christmas Eve Service & Communion will be Thursday,
December 24th @ 6:00 p.m. “To remember the real reason for the
season!”
RIDGE SPRING UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH: Big Red Box: First thanks to the Big Red Box (BRB) Angels. Found on the
found porch of the Family Life Center, bag after bag after bag of food for the
BRB. Perfect timing too. The month of December the BRB goes to the Helpful
Hands ministry for use in their food bank. Approximately 200+ families use this
food bank. Thank you again BRB Angles. ( the empty bags are on the porch) It’s
not too late to contribute to the BRB for December. Leave your donations on the
porch of either the Church or FLC and a church member will make sure it finds
its way into the Box.
The Back Pack Ministry
sponsored by Bethel Baptist church received items from the BRB in November. We
are proud to participate with them in helping to make sure our neighbors don’t
go hungry over the weekend. Thanks Bethel for taking the lead on this.
Killingsworth Home, a
place for women in transition, received items collected in the BRB in October.
Shoes, shower curtains, umbrellas as well as other items were delivered to the
Home, with a $100 check. This money helps residents with bus rides they use to
and from work.
Christmas: RSUMC is in the Christmas spirit! The
Advent Wreath’s 2nd candle, the peace candle, was lit during
services on December 6th. The Church and the FLC are being
decorated, tree is up, manager scene in place and wreaths on the doors.
The FLC will be home to the refreshments during the Garden Club Annual
Tour of Homes on December 13, 2015. The Church and the FLC will be open
from
2 – 5 on the 13th and
live music will be playing in the Church. Join us during this very special
event.
Face Book: RSUMC has a Face Book page. Visit us and see
what’s going on.
Services: Unless otherwise noted, service at RSUMC is
at 11 a.m. every Sunday.
The
Green Thumb Garden Club will again host the Christmas Tour of Homes on
December 13th from 2:00 to 5:00.
Tickets may be purchased the day of the tour at all the homes. Tickets are $10.00 for the tour. The homes on
tour are Gene Ray and Sue Fulmer, Kevin and Ann Marie Taylor, and John and Nola
Burger. Two churches will be part of the tour with Ridge Spring Baptist Church
and Ridge Spring United Methodist Church. Cake and spiced ea will be served at
the Joe and Betty Watson Family Life Center Which is next door to the Ridge
Spring United Methodist Church.
Leonard
Bell will be at the Ridge Spring Town Square selling fresh produce on December 12th
and 19th with January 31 being his last day until June.
2016 Baseball/Softball
season is coming soon. Registration
dates are every Saturday in January from 9:00 to 1:00 PM at the RSM Little
League Ballpark, 217 Musketeers Rd. Monetta, SC. There will be T-Ball, Coaches Pitch, Minors,
Ozone, and Pony League. This year parents will need to register their own
children and bring their birth certificates for proof of age. Also parents will
be required to work in the concession stand and provide snacks at least once,
per child during the season. If you have
any questions or concerns regarding registration please contact Leslie Long at
803.687.0857 or Ashley Bradley at 803.645.1433.
Leonard
Bell will be at the Ridge Spring Town Square selling fresh produce on December 12th
and 19th with January 31 being his last day until June.
Joanne
Crouch, AARS, president
We again have the pleasure to offer
another Silk Scarf Painting Class with Libby Bussinah on Saturday, December
12th from 9:00-1:00 at the Art Center behind the Civic Center (the old gym). Cost is $45.00. All supplies will be provided. The instructor will take the pieces and heat
set them to protect the colors. Contact Joanne Crouch to register @
(803)685-5577 (leave message) or email joanne.crouch26@gmail.com to register.
Josie Rodgers:
The tree lighting at
the gazebo in Ridge Spring was absolutely
delightful! Mayor Pat Asbill welcomed
everyone, and Rev. Key gave the invocation and a brief spiritual message. Then the singers with Helping Hands Ministry
serenaded the crowd with song of the season.
Everyone sang along and even danced.
River (Josie’s grandson) got his praise on as well, dancing to the
upbeat music. Then Santa arrived…this
year in a boat pulled by a John Deere tractor!
It was fabulous! This was River’s
first time seeing Santa Claus, and he didn’t cry. He did study Santa, though, and accepted his
candy cane with a smile. As my daughter
Amber remarked, this is one reason we love our small town.
Ridge Spring Baptist
Christmas Cantata "O Holy Night" will be Sun., Dec. 13 at 6
pm. A covered dish meal will be served directly after.
RSM Elem News (Rene
Miller): Music classes, under the direction of Becky Hughes, will present a
Christmas musical entitled The Twelve
Days of Christmas at 9 am Dec. 18.
The school thanks Stephanie Clark and Vicky Ricker for donating
classroom supplies. The supplies were handed out during American Education
Week.
We would like to
thank those who participated in pictures with Santa, especially Santa, Elf
Josh, Lois Workman, Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Platts, and Mrs. Padgett. The PTO will be
selling Smencils until Christmas break. They are $2 each and are crayons
that smell like cotton candy, pineapple, watermelon, bubble gum, or pineapple.
The smell of the crayon lasts as long as the crayon. These make wonderful
stocking stuffers. You can see them at www.scentcoinc.com.
PTO will be
sponsoring Holly and The Secret Santa, a live production from Pork Chop
Productions of Aiken, on Dec. 15 at 1:15 pm. This is the PTO’s Christmas gift
to our students, faculty, and staff in appreciation for all their support.
RSM Middle News: On Oct. 29, young ladies in grades 6-8
participated in a powder puff football
game. “Team Never Scared” took on the “Lady Trojans” as Jacob Williams
called the game. The high school
football players were the coaches, and “Team Never Scared” took home the
victory.
RSM
High News: Senior football players Stanley Rolland & William
Bedenbaugh have been selected to play in the Border Bowl on Jan. 9 at Laney
High School in Augusta. The two players were nominated by Coach Lipsey and
chosen by the Border Bowl coaches.
The Drama Club and HOSA will present a Dinner
Drama on Dec. 11 at 6 pm at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. Tickets are $10 per person. Each student will be hosting and decorating
his or her own table, so there will be a wide variety of decorations around the
room. The menu consists of chicken,
green beans, field peas, and rice with a variety of dessert options. After dinner, the drama club will be
presenting “Divided We Fall” by Bryan Starchman. Drama
teacher Kerry Jackson says, “This
play consists of a series of monologues that look into the lives of students.
This monologue-based play is intended to show students that any frustration,
loneliness, embarrassment, and grief they may experience is not limited to them
alone. The play is designed to show students that although they may think they
are alone, there is really love and hope all around them.”
Joey
& Tiffany Middlebrooks: Project
Unify is a nationwide effort at increasing socialization
of "exceptional" students. It
is an expansion of Special Olympics.
Special Ed students are assigned a "buddy" for the year. Throughout the year, there are various
activities for the athletes and their buddies.
RSM students have been to a kickball tournament and the fair so far. They are planning on hosting a bocce ball
tournament in April. There should be at
least one activity each month. This
year, the buddies were chosen through HOSA.
This is the first year for this group, and they are looking forward to
building and getting stronger as time goes by.
Teacher of the Month for November was Ms. Monica
Jones, English teacher. Student of
the Month was Jatavis Burton, nominated by several faculty & staff
members.
Book Review
from David Marshall James: "Phantom Angel"
by David Handler--
This sequel to "Runaway Man" is nothing short of a
scarf-o-rama. Author David Handler
brings back (way-up Broadway) P.I. firm Golden Legal Services, home to
once-aspiring actor Benji Golden; his mom, Abby (a retired pole dancer);
and the office computer whiz/Gal Friday, Rita (a retired lap dancer).
Abby and Rita are the
kind of dames about which the fictional gumshoes of yore used to fantasize
knocking on their pebbled-glass doors, in-between puffs of Lucky Strikes
and belts of Old Crow. The tables turn,
the worm turns, and the world goes round, and round and round, to a Kander
& Ebb beat.
Benji's Dad was a retired
NYPD detective who founded the firm, which occupies its own building, not
counting the diner and nail salon at street level, or the crotchety (on several
fronts) tenants on the third floor. This
juicily Big Apple-ish story is loaded with even more cinematic potential than
"Runaway Man." Not to spoil the plot, which features:
An independent Broadway
producer, the last of his breed; a Tony-Award-winning director; two of the
hottest young stars in Hollywood, come to play on Broadway;
an eminence-noire Hollywood mogul; a runaway Southern high-school
cheerleader, hoping to play on Broadway; various and sundry webcam ingénues;
various and sundry mobsters; a trio of Feds; Benji's unofficial uncle, Lt.
"Legs" Diamond of the NYPD, a protégé of Golden pere; and the
titular Phantom Angel.
There's also a cricket in
Times Square-- Miss Cricket O'Shea-- a Wilma Winchell if you will, who reports
on the Great White Way in real time, straight to her web site. She's all
thumbs, in more ways than one.
Enough already… If
you're not tempted by now, you'll be missing a treat. In the immortal
words of “Saturday Night Live” licensed joyologist Helen Madden:
"I-love-it-I-love-it-I-love-it!" With an all-out Broadway
chorus kick.
On a personal note, my article goes
into the newspapers on Mondays and today is Monday December 7th “the
Date That Will Live in Infamy” as quoted from our President F. D.
Roosevelt. Let us not forget the
tragedies and triumphs of our great nation.
Reminders:
Dec.
12: Shoppes of Ridge Spring Customer Appreciation Day
Dec.
13: Green Thumb Garden Club Tour of Homes
Ridge Spring Library
hours:
Mon/Tues 8:30 am - 12 pm; Wednesday 9:00 to 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
