April 26, 2016

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder.

. The Annual RS Fire Dept Benefit in memory of Michael Adamick will be held Saturday, May 7, at 5:00 PM until at the RS Fire Department. Food, music, and an auction are all happening at this event.  Tickets are $10 and can be bought in Ridge Spring or from any RS fireman. 

Friends of Ridge Spring will meet Thursday at 5:00 PM at the Library.

SIDEWALK TABLE TASTINGS AND DEMOS
             RIDGE SPRING, SC Hwy 23
                   Saturday, April 30th
                Demos 10:00 until 3:00
          Shoppes open 10:00 until 5:00

Come enjoy some of the best in chocolate, homemade breads, and pecan goodies. Some of these goodies are beyond amazing in flavor!
Watch as artists, do-it-yourselfers, and merchants demonstrate how to projects for your pleasure. The list of demonstrations is growing daily. For starters we have  how to make or do Garden Pot planting, Chalk Painting, pyrography  on gourds, vintage style paper recipe book, lavender essential oil Linen Spray, and demo of wood cleaning product for antiques and fine furniture.
Donna Fleetwood will have an array of Dove Chocolate products for sampling including chocolate meatballs. WOW, you won't want to miss this. She will be set up inside of OLDE TREASURES.
Pecan goodie tastings will be inside THE NUT HOUSE. All other demos and tastings will be along the sidewalk in front of the shops on East Main Street: RIDGE ANTIQUES and DRY GOODS, OFF THE BEATEN PATH, and OLDE TREASURES.
If we are fortunate, we may have some recorded street music. Come out for a Festival Style atmosphere on a much smaller scale.

The Ridge Spring Farmers Market: FORS will be holding a vendor luncheon on May 7, 2016 at 11:30am. The luncheon will be held at the Parrish Hall at the Episcopal Church in Ridge Spring located at the end of Green Street. We ask each guest to please bring a side dish to add to the meat dish we will furnish. At the luncheon, ideas and information for the upcoming Farmers Market will be shared. We invite all past, present and interested, future vendors to come fellowship with us. Farmers Market opening is getting closer.

Meet the Candidates: The Saluda Investment Club will host a “Meet the Candidates” Forum May 11, from 6:30 to 8:30 at Persimmon Hill.  The public is invited.  Light refreshment will be served.

Rick Hairston and Canines for Service: The Women’s Study Club of Ridge Spring would like to extend an invitation to all civic minded groups in our area. We will be hosting an informative presentation by Rick Hairston with Canines for Service. He will have a service dog to demonstrate a few of the things they are capable of doing. He will also give a talk along with a slide presentation explaining a few of the things their organization does. He will be available for questions as well. This organization is located in Wilmington, NC, and is kept going completely by donations and grants. They have four different branches: Canines for Service, Canines for Veterans, Canines for Literacy, and Canines for Therapy.

Our club has been donating to this organization since 2013 when Mrs. Alma Holston, Mrs. Faye Powell, and Mrs. Denise Boatwright heard Rick and “Titus” (his service dog until this March when they lost Titus to cancer.) We were all so amazed at the work these animals are able to accomplish. It takes years of training, and a lot of money, before a dog is placed with a patient. Our hope is that some of the other organizations/clubs in the area would see the need for these dogs and want to help support the training and placement of these dogs. We will have sandwiches, chips, tea, water, and a dessert available.  The meeting will be in the Fellowship Hall of Ridge Spring Baptist Church on Thursday, May 12^th, at noon. The sandwiches will be available beginning at 11:45am. If you have questions or are interested in attending the meeting, please contact Denise Boatwright at 864-445-1121 or email her at dbshorse@aol.com.

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: We asked and you delivered!! Over 400 pairs of shoes have been collected in the 2016 shoes4water campaign. These shoes will go to South American or Africa to be sold for pennies in villages. That money will stay in the village to help drill wells for clean water!! But we can do better. We have until the end of the week, April 29^th to reach the goal of 500 pair. Can we reach it? We think we can. Leave shoes on the FLC porch. Be part of something bigger and help people who are shoeless get shoes and people with no clean water have some.  

Services for RSUMC are at 11 a.m. unless other noted. We do have 5^th Sunday Services. RSUMC has a Face Book page. Like us and see what’s going on. Last count, RSUMC had 89 likes.

Jeff Clamp, Band Director Ridge Spring-Monetta Middle / High School: Congratulations to the Ridge Spring-Monetta Middle / High School band members for doing a great job at the Solo and Ensemble Festival this past weekend at Aiken High School.  RS-M scored either Superior or Excellent in 9 out of 10 events.  From the high school Katara Coleman and Nick Jones each scored Superior ratings on their solos and the trio with Tyler Rowe, Katara Coleman, and Nick Jones scored an Excellent rating.  From the Middle School scoring an Excellent rating on their solos were Joanna Kaiser, Mikala Middlebrooks, Jason Orantes, and Kandon Hastings.  Lincoln Edwards and Brayan Valeriano earned a Superior rating for their duet and Kenyon Ligons and Denard Wise also earned a Superior rating on their duet.  Special thanks to RS-M Elementary / Middle Chorus Teacher Ms. Becky Hughes for playing the piano for all of the soloists.

ART CENTER OF RIDGE SPRING BY Joanne Crouch, AARS president:  Our members have really been busy. There are many competitions during this time of year. Barbara Yon won “Best of Show” at the North Augusta Art and Heritage Center in the show that is running until the end of the month. DS Owens won 2nd place and Ron Buttler won Honorable Mention. At the Anderson Annual Juried Show, Donna Minor won a purchase award and Ron Buttler won a Merit Award. DS Owen, Barbara Yon and Joanne Crouch had some pieces accepted for the Art Around Town in Anderson. AARS will again participate at the Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Gathering on May 21st. Look for signs off of 23 to attend this event. The Art Center is open on Fridays and Saturdays from 10­4. Check us out on FB and on our website. The Art Center is a great place to display and sell your art. Contact Joanne Crouch at joanne.crouch26@gmail.com for more information.

Josie Rodgers: Gracie’s Gowns (est 2012) is a nonprofit organization based in Virginia that creates special, personalized hospital gowns (with snaps that don’t interfere with X-ray or MRI) for children battling cancer and other life-threatening conditions.  There is no charge to these precious patients.  This group runs on donations only.  Several years ago, I contacted them and gave them information about Leagrace, and they created a pink cupcake gown for her with her name embroidered on it.  Gracie’s Gowns has grown from a community service project to a multi-faceted nonprofit that does much more than the gowns:  tubie covers, un-diaper bags, butterfly beads, stuffed animals, and so much more.  Last Saturday, they sponsored a lantern release in memory of each child who received a gown and passed away over the past year.  We have a picture of Leagrace’s lantern:  it is white and looks like a magnolia.  It has her name and her condition as well as her birth and death dates.  I’m sure the release of these many lanterns at dusk was a beautiful yet very sad moment.  It is painful to realize how many, many children are affected by life-threatening conditions and how many of them leave us all too soon.  Thank God for people like those at Gracie’s Gowns who make the pain more bearable by helping and making them feel special when they are alive and fighting and by honoring their memories when they are gone.  Visit www.graciesgowns.org for more info or to learn how to donate or help.

RSM High: On Wed., April 13, Interact Club members of RSM High were inducted into the organization by leaders of the Twin City Rotary Club of Batesburg-Leesville.  Rotary Club Members introduced themselves and shared with students what attracted them to the service-oriented club.  Members include Alika Oakman, Ariday Figueroa, Linet Figueroa, Jermois Morris (President), Dominique Lee (VP), Cassidy Gerry, & Ally Poe.

RSM High celebrated its 3rd quarter Renaissance Rally Tues., April 12.  Students with perfect attendance, honor roll students, and "Grade Jumpers" were heralded.  Students of the month for February and March were recognized, along with faculty members for those months.  Several seniors spoke to underclassmen about what they wish they would have known as underclassmen.  Our goal with Renaissance is to encourage our students and faculty to reach for academic and characteristic excellence in the effort of making our school a great place to learn.

The FFA greenhouse is full of potted marigolds, lantana, and begonias. The price of the pots is $2. We also have hanging baskets with geranium and lobelia with a few petunias mixed in for character $10.  Flats include begonias, impatiens, vinca, and more.  

 Reminders:

In May, the Ridge Spring Volunteer Fire Department will have their Annual Benefit in memory of Michael Adamick.  This is a wonderful time to support our local volunteers. 

The third Saturday will be MAGNOLIA RIDGE ANTIQUE AND ART GATHERING. This will be held on MAY 21^st from 9:00 AM UNTIL 4:00

This leads into June with the Peach Tree 23 Yard Sale. Have you begun to clean out those closets in preparation for that big weekend?

Recycling Center Hours

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1-7; Saturday 7-7; Sunday 3-7

Closed Tuesday and Thursday

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 pm -4:30 pm

Ridge Spring Library Toddler Time Mondays at 10:30

3^rd Thursday:  FORS at Ridge Spring Library 5:00 pm

1^st Tuesday of the Month:  AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783