June 27, 2016
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Town Hall now has a drop
box at their new temporary location for those needing to pay bills when they
are not open. The building is located
behind Cumbee Place. How long will they be at this location is depending on
many variables. I am just glad they are
no longer exposed to that massive accumulation of mold. Someone did pick the white eggplants at the
town square location. Now the question
is how did you cook them??? Go by and
check on the vegetables growing there.
If anything is ripe it is yours.
It was planted by RSM Elementary students for the community.
The Ridge Spring Farmers’
Market was as busy as ever Saturday. We
had 10½ vendors. George Raborn came with
4 pecks of Crowder peas and they were gone in less than an hour. He sure enjoyed seeing all of us too. We had two vendors with corn which leads to
Sherald Rodgers getting 12 dozen orders for this coming Saturday. We had three kinds of peaches, peppers,
tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, zucchini, bread, jam, cookies, cakes, cupcakes and
more. There were watermelons and cantaloupes, too. I actually had a half bushel
of plums picked off our tree by grandson Carter Senf and Bob. The Yonces had their beautiful plants and day
lilies with their gourds. We had
muffins, spice mixes, plants from Harriet’s Garden at a bargain price, and of course
boiled peanuts. The lemonade stand will
be back this Saturday. I hate to throw
way plants, but I do not mind selling them to others at a very reasonable
price.
This coming weekend is
the 4th of July weekend. It
is a time to celebrate our liberty and our freedom!!! Come by the market and get home-made hotdog
buns, hamburger buns, corn, slicing tomatoes, and fresh peaches. Then go to Cone’s Meats to get that hamburger
meat. Samantha McClure will have homemade buns and there will be plenty of
produce to complete your menu for the Fourth. Enjoy the cook-out for all!!!
The next program from
the Saluda County Library will be Friday,
July 8th at 11 a.m. at the Saluda Theatre. Steve Langley, the Bubble
Guy, will use the magic of soap bubbles to educate, engage, and enlighten
everyone. There will be all kinds of fun and exciting bubbles!
The Ridge Spring Library
has received donations and in the back room of the library there are
new donations for adults as well as children. Be sure to stop by the
library and check out a book today!
Juniper will be CLOSED for July 3, 4, and 5 in celebration of our
Independence!!
The blueberries are
plentiful at the Daylily Depot (381
Trojan Rd. Ridge Spring, telephone 685-7219). It’s pick-your-own, $3 a
quart or $10 a gallon; it’s best to go early before it gets too hot.
RIDGE
SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCHRSUMC is partnering with Mt.
Calvary Lutheran on one of their ongoing outreach ministries. This summer the
Big Red Box’s cousin, The Little Red Bucket will be collecting box tops for
Education and pull tabs from canned beverages. On
cereal, granola bars, etc. the top will say: Box Tops for Education. The
teachers can use them as points for stuff. If you would like to
participate, leave what you have collected on the front porch of the Family
Life Center and we will make sure they find their way to the LRB. RSUMC
is also partnering with Ridge Spring Baptist and will be collecting clothes
detergent for their ongoing ministry for the Sheppard’s Hand. The Big Red Box
is asking for donations through the months of June and July. Again, if you
would like to help, leave your donations on the porch of the FLC and we will
MAKE sure they find their way. Thanking you in advance for ALL your community
support for these worthwhile endeavors.
JOHNSTON FARMER’S & ARTIST’S
MARKET is held on
Thursdays from 4:00 to 6:00 PM In front
of the Library/Warehouse building on Calhoun Street. Available will be local artworks and
vegetables: tomatoes, corn, green beans, potatoes, cantaloupes, yellow squash,
watermelons, peaches, fresh baked breads, cinnamon buns and other baked goods. Italian Ice – come cool
yourself with this treat!!!
ART CENTER OF RIDGE SPRING: Joanne Crouch, president
Barbara Yon will teach a collage class at the Art Center on Saturday,
July 16th from 10-1 for $30.
The students may bring items to put in the collage if you like. Supplies will be provided. Call Barbara Yon to reserve a spot @
(803)385-5396.
Stay tuned for information on stained glass classes that will be coming
to the Art Center in the fall.
The Art Center of Ridge Spring is open each Friday and Saturday from
10-4. Contact joanne.crouch26@gmail.com or artassnridgespring@gmail.com or call
(803)685-5577 and leave message to reserve place in classes. .
Review from David Marshall James: "Burn What Will Burn"
by CB McKenzie
Way out in West Pigtrack,
Arkansas, not-so-old-or-young widower Bob Reynolds is slumming, along with a
front porch packed with poultry, collecting his dividend checks. He's
blissfully isolated, or so he thinks.
Out for an early
perambulation on the dirt road that connects him with what passes for
civilization, Bob discovers a body floating in a creek over which he crosses.
He would happen to be nursing a grand-mal hangover when he fishes the
body away from the fishes, though it's still laden with crawdaddies.
Worst of all, he is about
to upset a carefully-stacked line of dominoes in a community in which it would
seem that nothing much ever rattles the status quo-- not even the snakes--
except when Miss Ollie changes her diner's blue-plate special from chipped beef
to something other than chipped beef.
Blissfully ignorant at
the time, Bob doesn't realize how he has stacked himself into that
precariously-set line of dominoes. Too many hangovers, too many nights
next-big-town-over, at the Crow's Nest Lounge in the Holiday Inn, where he
mingles with would-be poets, moonshiners, and the occasional college student
schlepping hooch in quest of bettering herself.
CB (no periods) McKenzie,
author of "Bad Country," presents a novel that reads as if he were
writing a combination scenario/script for the late film director Nicholas Ray.
The reader can picture Joan Crawford, hair dyed to the fiery red of her
1950s movies, as Miss Ollie, arms-a-loaded with blue-plate specials, in garish
Technicolor.
McKenzie sets each of his
major players onstage one at a time, vis a vis Bob Reynolds, so that each human
domino in the chain of the plot has a star turn of his/her own.
This hard-boiled novel
doesn't waste pages, yet it's filled with cinematic images and laced with humor
that rises off the proceedings like a heat mirage over sun-seared asphalt,
drenched with Southern flavor, like the ice-covered Coca-Cola that Bob procures
at his neighborhood filling station.
Because of its cinematic
qualities, it's easy to picture "Burn What Will Burn" as a film
project. Tom Cruise ought to purchase the property, casting himself
against-type as the corrupt "Lord High Sheriff," Sam Baxter.
It's a supporting role, but it has Oscar written all over it.
No matter how good a film
version will be, it will probably not be better than the book, so don't miss this.
Harriet
Householder: Watch out for standing water.
The Zeka-virus carrying mosquito is here according to an article in the
State Newspaper. Usually mosquitoes
ignore me but they have started trying to bite.
Keep vigilant for all!!! Change
the bird bath water often and just be aware we need to take precautions to
protect all.
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
3rd Thursday: FORS at Ridge Spring Library 5:00 pm
1st
Tuesday of the Month: AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783
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