November
21, 2016
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
HAPPY
THANKSGIVING TO ALL!!!!
After
Thanksgiving is Black Friday shopping where bargains are great!!! Ridge Spring Shoppes will be having their own
Black Friday/Saturday Shopping Sales Event. Great Sales in all stores and win a gift
certificate at participating Shoppes.
Come join us and enjoy small town living!!!!
Juniper will be closed for Thanksgiving from November
22-25.
The playground beside the
Civic Center will be closed November 19th until December 15th
while it goes under renovation. This is
a project for Boy Scout Andrew Girard to become an Eagle Scout with the
support of Sherald Rodgers. It had been
proposed to build a ramp at the Gazebo for handicap accessibility but the ramp
would have been 48 feet long. With it being so close to the train tracks, it
was not feasible. Other alternatives for
accessibility are being investigated.
The Red Flag alert continues
for us. Be careful and no outside burning.
Leonard Bell will not be at the Town Square this coming
Saturday but will return the following Saturday with collard greens, turnip
greens, and other fresh vegetables and will continue on the Saturdays through December
and finish up the Saturday before New Year’s Day.
Ridge Spring Christmas
Tree Lighting Event will be December
4th at 4:00 PM at the Ridge Spring Gazebo. We will be hearing from the Cedar Creek
Praise and Worship Band and signing Christmas Carols too. Get ready for
some hot chocolate and cookies and we may even see Santa!
The Christmas Tour of Homes of Ridge
Spring will be December 11th
which is the .second Sunday. The times are from 2:00 until 5:00 PM. Homes
on tour are Sarah and Jack Schwarz, Amy and Dean Derrick, and Rudy
and Diane Stoddard with primitive
Immanuel Lutheran Church and Ridge Spring Baptist church. Cake and Spiced Cider will be served at Ridge
Spring Baptist Church Fellowship Hall. Tickets are $10.00 and may be
purchased at all homes and the Baptist Church Sponsored by Green Thumb
Garden Club and assisted by Ridge Garden Club. For more information call 803 685 7397
Off
the Beaten Path will be open for Black Friday Shopping. We will be open from 12:00 PM
until 8 PM. We will be offering free gift
wrapping for shoppers on Friday. We
have what you need to help with decorations and with that long Christmas list.
Saturday is Small
Business Saturday. We encourage and appreciate your shopping our local
businesses. Because we want to help foster the local small business, we
will be helping our friend, Christie Harris, get her bakery business
started. She will have many of her baked goods in the store for purchase on
Saturday and will be taking orders for your holiday parties and dinners.
The Gables Inn &
Gardens is excited to be
hosting Celebrate A Dicken's Christmas Saturday evenings, December
3, 10 & 17th from 2:00 PM-8:00 PM. Cost is $5 per person up to
$25 per family. Enjoy hot chocolate, s'mores, carriage rides, Christmas
shop, cookie decorating, petting zoo, and much more. Great family
fun! We are located at 105 Ward Ave., in Ward.
Ridge Antiques & Dry
Goods extends a big
"thank you" to all who attended our annual "Shoppes of
Ridge Spring Open House" which was held on Saturday and Sunday
the 12th & 13th of November. We enjoyed getting to see and chat with
you and hope you enjoyed all the tasty treats that the various shops provided
for this event. Mark your calendars now for next year.
Big news from your
technologically challenged shopkeeper - we now, finally, have an
"official" FaceBook page - Ridge Antiques & Dry
Goods. Many have tried, as you will see when you search on
FaceBook (not google) so please be sure you are on the page that says
"verified" with the little check mark. We are in the process
now of trying to get all those past attempts out of the search results so
that when you visit our page it directs you to the correct one on the first
try! Please bear with us as we try to join the 21st century. A big
thank you goes to Randy who has the Dixie Belle Paint booth for spending many
hours of his personal time to make this possible. Give our page a visit
and I sincerely hope you "like us".
Black Friday &
Small Business Saturday are just around the corner - come by either of those days (or even
both) to enter our drawing for a gift certificate. The drawings will be
held at closing time on each day so everyone has a chance to win
regardless of which day you shop.
There will be sales and
big discounts throughout the store for this event - you do not want to
miss it! Find that special one-of-a-kind gift for that special
one-of-a-kind friend or family member without all the stress of traffic, long
lines, and less than helpful clerks. When you visit Ridge Spring, SC we
are always happy to see you and glad to help in any way we can.
COME SEE!
Lee
Ann Perez, One Ash Farm and Dairy: Thanksgiving
is almost here and this is an easy way to have fresh cranberry sauce on your
table! Enjoy!
Fresh Cranberry Sauce from One Ash Farm Recipes
Ingredients: -1 cup water, -1 cup sugar, -1 bag
fresh cranberries
Directions: 1.Combine the sugar and water in a
saucepan and bring to a boil. 2. Add the cranberries and bring the mixture back
to a boil. 3. Turn down the heat and keep at a low boil for 10 minutes. 4. Cool
in the pan to room temperature, then transfer to a jar or bowl.
Hollywood Baptist
will be having their Christmas Musical December 11th at 10:45 a.m. The address is 340
Hunters Lane, Saluda SC come join us!
RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH:
Ridge Spring United Methodist Church
has had a busy late summer and early Fall.
Donations of school supplies and
cash were made to RSM Elementary School in August. It was our pleasure to help
make sure students had the necessary items to succeed.
In September non perishable food and
drink was collected to help with the Bethel Baptist Back Pack Ministry. It is
hard to believe that some of our neighbors’ children are going hungry over the
weekend. November is also Back Pack Ministry month too. If you would like to
help, leave your donations on the porch of either the Church of Family Life
Center or a church member who will make sure they make their way into the Big
Red Box. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the church collected
items for the residents of Killingsworth Home. (safe home for women in
transition). This is the 4th year we have done this and are
pleased to be able to help alleviate some of the costs of supplies, etc. A
check for $150 was also delivered to help with bus passes.
Also in October the church supported
the Harvest Festival by placing an AD in the brochure. Also free water was
placed in front of the FLC for Festival participants.
Church Services are at 11 a.m. unless
otherwise noted. A prayer request box is located on the porch of the Family
Life Center. The box is checked prior to Service and requests are added to the
church prayer list.
Mt.
Calvary Lutheran Church is having a Thanksgiving Eve Worship Service Wednesday, November 23 at 7:00 pm. All are welcome to attend the service, followed by
refreshments in the Educational Building of the church.
Ridge Hill Baptist Church:
Ridge Hill Baptist Church observed
Education Sunday on Sunday, November 13th. Guest Speaker Dr. Sean Alford,
Superintendent of Aiken County Public Schools, charged the congregation to
value children as talents that God has entrusted to their care. He stated that
God has endowed all children with abilities; he challenged adults to
acknowledge and nurture the abilities of children entrusted to their
care.
Dr. Alford made a commitment to
serve all regions of the APCS well and asked the congregation to hold him and
the schools accountable.
Will celebrated the liquidation of
the mortgage on The Ridge Hill Baptist Church Community Life Center on
Sunday, November 20th. The celebration included a Fellowship Breakfast, Worship
Service, and Mortgage Burning. All activities were held in The Community Life
Center.
FALL RAFFLE AND BAKE
SALE: Starting
November 1st tickets go on sale for $1.00
For
a chance to win a fire pit, 43’TV, Ham & Turkey The drawing will be held on
November 18th. Also on November 18th starting from 10am-
until We will be selling homemade cakes, pies, cupcakes, cookies, jellies etc. Come
out and support the
Edgefield
County Hospital Auxiliary Fundraiser
Edgefield Baptist Church
will be holding their annual Christmas Cantata on Dec. 3rd @ 4pm and Dec. 4th @ 7:00 PM. Five churches will be represented by a 70 member
choir.
Chef Brandon Velie is
participating as a judge on WLTX-TV (19) Breakfast Cook-Off. Monday they had him cook with the secret
ingredient which was peanut butter. Chef
Brandon included South Carolina products in his recipe including Clemson Blue
Cheese. Stay tune to see what the
winners do cook.
Review from David Marshall James:
"The Inheritance" by
Charles Finch
There're now ten Charles Lenox mysteries from Charles Finch, and readers
have followed Lenox from being a bachelor amateur detective to being a married
father of a four-year-old daughter and partner in Victorian London's premier
detective agency-- Lenox, Dallington & Strickland-- with an expanding
retinue of employees and many fiscal responsibilities.
En route from pro-bono to professional, Lenox was
also elected to the House of Commons, but that service didn't call to him as
profoundly as it has for his older brother, Edmund, so Charles has moved on to
his true avocation.
His rapid life changes dovetail with the flux of the
Victorian era. Lenox, 46, cannot help but think back on how life used to
be, and he's at that more so in this volume, when one of his chums from Harrow
surfaces with an odd request.
Gerald Leigh proved an oddity back when he and Lenox
were schoolboys at Harrow. Indeed, Leigh was sent down after barely one
year there, and he's since been traveling the Seven Seas and thus largely
out-of-touch with Lenox.
Many surprises await the reunited,
unlikely-from-the-beginning friends. Meanwhile, Lenox's partners-- Sir
John Dallington and Polly Buchanan (aka Miss Strickland) -- are covering a
strange incident at Parliament, which retains the firm for such incidents,
strange or otherwise.
The mystery that Leigh brings to Lenox gathers a full
head of steam, surging into some unexpected waters, while the imbroglio at
Parliament does likewise. No fair spoiling either engrossing plot line.
Finch does a smashing job of depicting a character,
Leigh, who turns out light years ahead of what his schoolmasters would have
predicted. Similarly, Dallington and Polly have remade themselves:
He, from a dissipated past as an idle nobleman; she, as a successful
businesswoman following widowhood.
Their personal histories speak to their changing times
as residents of a burgeoning metropolis spreading crime in its wake.
Hence, the rise of private detectives to assist the overburdened Scotland
Yard.
Along with his nostalgic, Harrovian schoolboy
touches, Finch liberally sprinkles his narrative with period details, including
some fascinating etymological lessons. Furthermore, he closes the novel with a
serving of sentimentality worthy of the era that he chronicles.
Each Lenox novel now seems even better than the ones
before it, which is a fine place for a mystery series to be.
REMINDERS
November
23: Mt.
Calvary Lutheran Church Thanksgiving Eve Service
November
25-26: Black Friday Saturday Sales at Shoppes of Ridge
Spring
December
4: Christmas Tree Lighting at Gazebo
December
11: Tour of Homes
December
11: Hollywood
Baptist Christmas Musical
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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