September
5, 2016
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
The Shoppes of Ridge Spring will have a SIDEWALK SALE on Saturday, September 10
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The Harvest Festival will be Oct. 13-15
The
next Harvest Festival meeting is
Tues., Sept. 13, at 7 pm at the RS Library.
AgSouth
gave the Ridge Spring Farmers’ Market a grant for $1000.00 to help support us,
Friends of Ridge Spring. We have used
the money to purchase three tents and four signs for the entrance ways to Ridge
Spring. There were four for one was torn
up and we had to replace it. We have
bought ad space too. They also gave us
reusable bags to distribute to the shoppers.
We
have placed three banners on light poles for the Market. I hope you see them. The Farmers met is the
spring and liked the red back drop so thanks to Raybird Signs, we were able to
order them a week ago and they got them up.
They were going to put them up this past Friday but Hurricane Hermine interrupted
and they got them up Saturday.
We
also need to thank the Saluda County Council on Aging for distributing the
vouchers on the second Saturday in June.
David
Day sold at least 10 pints of his local honey Saturday. Neither he nor Leonard Bell will be at the
market this coming Saturday but they will be back on September 17. George Raborn may be there with sweet potatoes
and peas. I will no longer have boiled peanut or Ayla have lemonade at the
market. I have to get ready to reopen
the Shop!!!
Mike Cook is seeking someone in the area who shelters stray animals. Anyone interested can call or text him at 803 275 7387 He also has hubcaps at the Town Maintenance shop.
Callie Herlong, Principal Ridge
Spring-Monetta Elementary School: September 8th there will be a RSM
Elementary Fun Run on September 8th as a PTO fundraiser.
Pastor Key: Helpful Hands Ministries founders Day
Celebration. Sunday
September 11th at 1:00 pm. Guest Speaker will be Rev. Dr
James Abraham. Pastor of the Bethlehem Baptist Church Graniteville S.C... All
are welcome.
The Young Adult Ministry of Ridge
Hill Baptist Church announces A Family Fun Day and Community Cookout on
the grounds of the Ridge Hill Baptist Church in Ridge Spring on
Saturday, September 17 from 11 am-3 pm.
As
a child my grandmother would send me to the kitchen to get her a tumbler. I always knew which one she meant but then I
learned this past Farmers’ Market the difference between a tumbler and a glass
by George Raborn, Jr., who happens to be younger than me. A tumbler has a heavier bottom so it would
not tumble over. A glass did not. You
are never too old to learn a bit of nickel knowledge.
Rene Miller at RSM Elementary School
Grandparents'
Breakfast
will be Sept. 8 and 9. On Sept. 8, those
whose youngest grandchild with a last name beginning with A-M. On Sept. 9, those whose last names begin N-Z
are slated for Friday the 9th.
Invitations with details will be coming home. This is a perfect way to celebrate
Grandparents’ Day which is Sept. 11.
Please
save your Box Tops for Education and
tabs off of soft drinks. Box tops are used to help purchase needed items
for our school, and the tabs go to a community service project which helps sick
children and their families stay at the Ronald
McDonald House. You may send these
to the Media Center and they will be distributed to the right person.
We
will be collecting bottle caps for Coke Rewards again this year to raise
money for PE. These can be caps from any
Coca Cola product, Minute Made, Powerade, or flaps from 12 or 24 packs of
cans. Caps can be turned into Coach
Shealy or Coach Bundrick.
Student summer
reading program participants will be receiving a free ticket to the RSM
vs. Williston football game which is Sept. 23.
Way to go readers!
School
pictures are set for Sept. 14. Smile! A Fun Run is planned for Sept. 8!
Notes from the Nurse: If your child has a medical problem
(asthma, seizures, diabetes, allergies, etc.), please contact the nurse so that
we can ensure we have everything in place to accommodate your child's health
care needs while at school. This includes all food allergies. If your child
will be taking medications at school, please stop by the office to get a
medication permission form. All PRESCRIPTION medications require a doctor's
signature on the permission form OR a copy of the original prescription. Any
over the counter medications must be in the children's form (Children's
Tylenol, etc.). If you have any questions, please contact the nurse, Brittany Bearden,
at 803-685-2004.
Josie Rodgers
The
next Harvest Festival meeting is
Tues., Sept. 13, at 7 pm at the RS Library.
The festival will be here before you know it! Enter
your team in the local BBQ cook-off at the Festival for a chance to earn prizes
and bragging rights. As part of this year’s festival theme, “Bluegrass and BBQ,”
RSM Mid: We are collecting Box Tops for Education. They can be turned into the office. We
collect them year round, but to make our fall cut-off for submission, they must
be turned in before Oct. 28.
RSM High: the RSM Young Farmers meeting will be held
Sept. 15 in the middle school cafeteria. The topic is Solar Energy for the farm
and for the home. A meal will be served and is sponsored by our presenter, Southern View Energy. Please RSVP by Sept.
13.
Austin
Scott, FFA treasurer: The RSM Young
Farmers Association is working on a community
calendar for our diverse community.
The money raised from the calendar will be used to help establish an RSM FFA Scholarship. The RSM FFA is
supporting the young farmers in this effort by contributing to this worthwhile community
project by collecting local birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and memorials of
both birthdays and anniversaries. Deadline
for submission is Sept. 15. Contact the
RSM FFA for more info.
The varsity Lady
Trojans volleyball team is 2-1 on the season! They beat BHHS in Region opener
25-12, 25-13 in the first match and 25-15, 25-22 in the second match. The next day, they traveled to Saluda but
dropped the match 2-3. The JV team
beat Saluda's JV team 2-0! The varsity team traveled to Estill Tues., Sept. 6, to taken new Region 4 opponents Estill High School! The team
us VERY young after graduating 8 players from the 2015 squad!
Review from David Marshall
James:
"One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place" by
Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown Photographs by Langdon Clay
When Chestina Andrews of
West Virginia wed Christian Welty of Ohio a few years after the turn into
the twentieth century, the couple had been contemplating where to settle.
The Progressive Era was
wrought with many changes-- and with them, opportunities-- and Mr. Welty
had narrowed the search to Thousand Islands, New York, and Jackson,
Mississippi: two locales ripening with good prospects.
Chestina, possessed of a
Southern leaning through ancestry, may well have been planning her future
garden when she selected the warmer clime.
Until the
couple's only daughter and eldest surviving child, Eudora, had finished
high school, the Weltys resided "in town" in Jackson, on North
Congress Street, with a cow and chickens earning pride of place in the
backyard.
The city's new extended
trolley line led the Weltys to the undeveloped Belhaven suburb, where
"salubrious pines," as Chestina termed them, shaded over a deep lot.
The spacious brick house with Tudor-style gables was
designed with the garden in mind, focusing on a side porch instead of a
more-conventional front one.
Although Eudora would
soon be off to the University of Wisconsin, her high-school graduation party
was held on the lawn of the still-unfinished Belhaven house.
With Eudora's
father's death from leukemia just six years later, and with Chestina's
declining health setting in during the following decade, Eudora found herself a
frequent resident of the house, where she immersed herself in what she termed
"My Mother's Garden," for work and pleasure.
While Chestina kept an
extensive journal of her designs and plantings, her daughter began writing
stories in which the characters were frequently defined by their "home
place," including the vegetation with which they were surrounded.
Chestina's garden on
Pinehurst Street in the Belhaven suburb was strictly ornamental, save for
a World War II victory garden, yet many yards, particularly in rural parts of
the state, proved far more utilitarian, as Eudora discovered more and more
while traveling Mississippi as a photographer for the WPA during the
Depression. On the Delta, cotton could be viewed growing in rows right up
to sharecroppers' front doors. Humble "dogtrot" cabins were
often obscured in front by butterbean climbers.
As the authors relate,
Eudora experienced an early writing epiphany while gardening with Chestina and
a yard man in the backyard, which was divided into upper and lower sections by
an extended trellis.
This incident resulted in
what would become the title story of her first short-story collection, "A
Curtain of Green" (1941), concerning a widow who withdraws into the
protective womb/cocoon of her garden.
Although the authors do
not hard-pedal the connection between the garden, along with Eudora's own
horticultural interests, and the Welty literary oeuvre, such confluences of
nature and writing are so apparent, so rife, that they demand note.
Following World War II
until Chestina's death in 1966, the garden fell into a figurative winter, with
Chestina's beloved roses-- her favorite-- succumbing as early
victims. Eudora's favorite, camellias, proved hardier, and many of the
bushes she set out survive.
Chestina's
labor-intensive enterprise had lost its principal caretaker and visionary to
the indoors, although Eudora continued as best she could, but her caretaking
was focused on her Mother, and even her writing fell to the wayside for much of
the 1950s into the 1960s.
Today, however,
Chestina's garden has been painstakingly excavated and rehabilitated, with one
of the authors, Susan Haltom, in charge of the project. The entire Welty
property has been named a National Historic Landmark, and the house and garden
are open to the public.
This sumptuously inviting
and informative volume from the University Press of Mississippi will delight
any gardener, with or without an interest in Eudora Welty. Nevertheless,
one of the benefits of this keepsake work is that it will undoubtedly lead the
reader down the garden path into the Welty oeuvre.
When Chestina Welty
placed the first seeds and bulbs, the first cuttings and cultivars, into the
clay-rich earth beneath her "salubrious pines," little could she have
realized what she was planting in the heart and mind of her daughter-- and of
generations of readers to follow.
REMINDERS
September 10: Shoppes
of Ridge Spring Labor Day Sale
September
13: Harvest Festival meeting 7:00 library
September 17: A Family Fun Day and Community Cookout at Ridge Hill Baptist Church
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., 8:30 – 4:30; Thurs 8:30 am - 12:30 pm; Fri 8:30
pm -4:30 pm
Narcotics Anonymous: The Ridge
Spring Library on Fridays 7-8 pm
1st
Tuesday of the Month: AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783
2nd
Tuesday: Harvest Festival
3rd
Thursday: FORS at Ridge Spring
Library 5:00 pm
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