October
3, 2016
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
The Harvest Festival will be Oct. 13-15
October 13 Bingo-Thursday
October 14 Cake and Pie Contest, Bluegrass Music - Friday,
October 15 Parade, BBQ contest, BLUEGRASS MUSIC,
More information on web site and facebook
The Harvest Festival: You may still enter
the BBQ Contest. You can get your Boston
Butt and grill it however long you want to.
You can begin Friday night or start anytime Saturday as long as it is
ready for judging by 6:00 PM on Saturday.
Entries are still being accepted.
Pay the entry fee, pick up your butt, and start grilling in the
designated area.
The Harvest Festival is 2 weeks away. The Ridge Spring Monetta Four H Club with
parents, teachers, Harvest Festival committee members, the mayor, councilman,
and others helped to decorate the town with the Fall Spirit this past Saturday. There are orange lights, scarecrows, straw bales,
orange bows, pumpkins and mums displayed on Main Street and around the Gazebo. Fun and civic pride showed. Check out the
banners across the street and the toppers on the Welcome to Ridge Spring signs
at the entrances to the town.
The Harvest Festival
Musical Line-up: Friday
from 6:00 PM Carolina Rebels play.
Saturday Back Porch Bluegrass kicks off a day filled with music at 1:00
PM; West End String Band plays at 3:00 PM; Columbia Bluegrass Company performs
at 5:00 PM; and Steam Drill plays at 7:00 PM. All performances take place at
the Gazebo. Festival goers are encouraged to bring chairs or blackets and relax
on the grass around the Gazebo.
Juniper will set the night on fire again this year on Thursday, October 6th from 6-9pm in support
of the Ridge Spring Fire Department. Come on out and enjoy a delicious buffet
dinner prepared for you by Chef Brandon Velie. You don't need a reservation.
This year we will set up "family style" seating to accommodate as
many people as possible.
Harriet’s
Garden is open and has a beautiful array of fall bedding plants, flowers,
and pumpkins. The shop is open Thursdays,
Fridays and Saturdays or if the car is there.
You can also call the shop’s number and I will get it because of call
forwarding.
Field of Worship: You are INVITED! Hollywood
Baptist Church is hosting our 3rd annual “Field of Worship” on
Saturday, October 22nd @ 6pm and we want YOU to join us!
Helpful Hands
Ministry
will be holding their Light the Night as a Halloween alternative on October 31
from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.
Congratulations to the Ridge Spring-Monetta True
Blue Marching Band for their outstanding performances. Next up for the True Blue Band will be
the Palmetto Esprit de Corps Invitational at Irmo High School on Saturday,
October 8th. RS-M
performs at 11:45
AM and the awards ceremony will be at 4:00 p.m.
RS-M True Blue Marching
Band Competition Schedule:
October 8--Palmetto
Esprit de Corps Invitational at Irmo High School
October 15--Garden City
Classic at Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School
October 22--Class A
Lower-State Championships at Hartsville High School
October 29--Class A
State Finals at Batesburg-Leesville High School
The Art Center of Ridge Spring: Joanne Crouch, AARS
president
The Art Center will offer a stained glass class on Thursday evenings
soon. If you are interested in this
class, please let us know because the class is limited to six students. Each person will make a large suncatcher. Contact Barbara Yon at (803)685-5386 or
Joanne Crouch (803)685-5577 for more details.
Winter's coming--what better time to learn
how to quilt! The Art Center in Ridge Spring will offer a quilting class
on Thursday, October 20, 2016 6pm-9pm at the center. All materials for
the class will be provided to make a 12'x 12" sampler for $50
You will be to taught all the steps you will need to make a larger
quilt later.
Call or e-mail the
instructor, Ann Forrest Watkins, at 864
941 0022 (cell) or email helpinghearts4u@yahoo.com.
for more information or to register. Hours of operations are 10-4 on Fridays
and Saturdays.
Josie Rodgers:
RSM Mid: (Monica Johnson) We have started an after-school Lego Club. Building and creating with
Legos promotes creativity, problem solving, and team work. We are using Legos
to learn STEM (science, technology,
engineering, math) concepts. We would LOVE donations of Legos - even kits with missing
pieces.
RSM High: It’s Homecoming Week! Mon: Hat Day; Tues: Salad Dressing Day;
Wed: Wacky Tacky Day; Thurs: Cartoon/Action
Hero Day; Fri: Trojan Spirit. Friday’s
class competitions will include tug-of-war, obstacle course, dance-off, dizzy
bat, hula hoop, chant, and banner. The
Trojans will take on Blackville, and the Queen will be crowned at halftime.
RSM
High has applied for and been award funding and resources to support our
Unified Champion School (formerly Project UNIFY) for this school year. They will by promoting respect, acceptance,
and inclusion of all students through the various programs and initiatives
developed through Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools. The school
received money in direct school support as well as School Resource Kits that will
include a variety of tools for advocacy campaigns and program coordination.
Choral
director Becky Hughes began the after-school high school chorus rehearsals and will
rehearse every Tuesday from 3:05-4:00. We are very excited about this new
venture for the high school!
Jeff
Clamp: The Aiken Performing Arts is having a pancake breakfast on Sat,
Oct. 29, from 8-10 am at the Fatz Cafe in Aiken. This group has contributed a lot to bands in
Aiken County, especially to our students.
We currently have at least 25 students who have a decent instrument in
their hand now because of this group.
They have already donated 3 very nice instruments this year (a flute, a
trumpet, and a trombone) valued at about $1,000. This group has given so much to our students
over the past 14 years. Tickets are for
$8, and they also will accept donations.
If you would like a ticket or would like to make a donation, please let
Jeff Clamp know.
The
Ridge Baptist Association is sponsoring a Fall Festival on Mon., Oct. 31, at the
Monetta Walking Park beginning at 7 pm. Last year we had 1,200 people come for
the celebration
Rene Miller, RSM Elementary School
RSME 5th Grade Walk/Jog Club Our 5th
grade RSME Walk/Jog Club has started again this year. We meet each Friday morning
from 7:15-7:45. Our Goal this year is to walk from RSME to the White House in
Washington D.C.! Our first two meetings we have walked/jogged 17 of the 516
miles needed to make it to the White House. We need many more students
participating to make our goal, so please come out and participate. The Class
with the most participants for each nine weeks will win a game of 10 base for
their class! Hope to see you Friday morning!
Read Your Way to the Big Game: You can
show your support for Clemson or Carolina and possibly win a ticket to the big
game by simply reading! Reading logs have already gone home. All you have to do
is read 6 books to qualify. YOU could win a ticket to the Clemson/Carolina
Football game this fall! Keep reading and turn in those logs! Check out the bulletin
board outside the library to see who has completed their reading!
Internet Safety Advice
Taken from: http://www.webwise.ie/parents/advice-top-10-tips-for-parents/
1 - Discover the internet together.
2 - Agree with your child rules for
internet use in your home.
3 - Encourage your child to be careful
when disclosing personal info.
4 - Talk about the risk associated
with meeting online “friends” in person.
5 - Teach your child about evaluating
information and being critically aware of information found online.
For more information on these tips and
to find more tips go to the website listed above.
Review from
David Marshall James: "Soulmates" by Jessica Grose
A partner-track NYC
attorney has been putting in 90-hour work weeks in hopes of moving up the
letterhead.
In the meantime, she's
lost a husband whom she took largely for granted, as they had been together
since undergraduate days. She simply didn't have the time to deal with
his "changes in attitudes, changes in latitudes," as Jimmy Buffett
would term it.
Specifically, he fell in
the thrall of an intensive yoga program that turned out to be a portal into a
Buddhist-oriented group with a charismatic leader. His capitulation was
hastened by a nubile member of the group's inner sanctum, a young woman fond of
"going commando" in diaphanous gowns.
The man's wife is thus
devastated, yet not all that surprised, when he runs off with his
well-ventilated new friend and her group.
With his well-invested
"tithing" booty, the dynamic group leader-- a self-anointed
"lama"-- has founded a retreat out in the wilds of New Mexico that's
so remote it isn't even on the Roswell aliens' GPS.
Nevertheless, the retreat
manages to pull in all manner of New Ager's, who pony up small fortunes to be
roused at dawn's early light and fed gruel.
Meanwhile, the ex-husband
and his well-ventilated hookup become YouTube sensations with their sensuous
yoga videos.
Back in NYC, the ex-wife
follows them on YouTube, sipping her bodega coffee and sifting through endless
stacks of briefs. If only she had shed some of HER briefs ....
Then, come one early morn
at the bodega, she espies a lurid (is there any other kind?) headline in The
Post: The "joy of yoga" couple's remains have been discovered
in a New Mexico cave, the victims of what is believed to be a murder/suicide.
The ex-wife, being a good
attorney, feels compelled to clear her husband's name. So she's off to
New Mexico faster than you can say "ashram" in order to look into the
New Age Xanadu.
What begins as a darkly
humorous urban break-up tale sharp-turns into all sorts of territory, as the widow
picks up the threads of her dead husband's family history, going back to before
he was born.
Although author Jessica
Grose doesn't bill her novel as a mystery, that's what it is, albeit cut from
an unusual cloth, woven with modern parables, not the least of which is:
Should one fall down Alice's rabbit hole, beware of cups tagged,
"Drink me."
REMINDERS
October
5: Meet the Candidates at Persimmon Hill
October
13: Harvest Festival Bingo
October
14: Harvest Festival Blue Grass, Cake and pie Contest
October
15: Harvest Festival Blue Grass, parade, BBQ Contest
and much more
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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