March 6, 2017
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Harvest Festival plans are in the
air. Will report next week about the meeting
on Tuesday March 7 at the Ridge spring library at 7:00 PM.
Benefit for Ricky
Rodgers- March 11 4:00 to 7:00PM RS Civic Center:
The benefit will be
selling Chipped BBQ plates including: cole slaw, baked beans, bread, and tea. The plates are $10 each and are to be
purchased in advance to allow us a head count. We are also raffling off a Yeti
Cooler. Raffle tickets are $5 each. The drawing will be held at the benefit.
You do not have to be present to win.
All proceeds go to the
Cancer Fund for Ricky Rodgers. An account has been opened at First Citizens
Bank for anyone wanting to make a donation, or you can contact one of the below
coordinators. Donations, Ticket Purchases or Questions contact:
Tickets are still
available for the BBQ Benefit for Joey Fox – Saturday, March 18 - 4 – 7 pm The Lutheran Men in
Mission at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church are sponsoring this benefit for Joey, a
member of our church, who has leukemia. He is currently awaiting a bone marrow
transplant. Tickets are $10/plate
(pulled pork, slaw, baked beans, bread) – eat in or take out. In addition to
dinner, we will have a Bake Sale
with lots of homemade goodies and a Silent
Auction. A number of items will be up for auction including a condo for a
week at Fripp Island, gift certificates, basket of “Southern Things”, artwork….
Tickets can be purchased from: Church Office (685-7523) Monday thru Wednesday
9:30 am – 2:30 pm; Maxwell & Halford Drug Store-Johnston; Larry Hatcher
(275-4839); Eric Carlson (275-3140); and Joe Derrick (803-480-0067).
Anyone
who would like to make a donation can sent it to Mt. Calvary to the attention
of LMM. Checks should be payable to Mt. Calvary LMM. The benefit will be held
in Mt. Calvary’s Fellowship Building. The church is located at 1186 Mt. Calvary
Road, Johnston.
Harriet's Garden will be opening
soon. Get ready for beautiful plants to
start showing up. Have you noticed the
tulips popping up. I do love my surprise
pots. Next year, try planting bulbs in
th lower part of your planter and then plant your winter bedding plants on
top. I select tulips because I find them
striking and then I can toss them into the compost pile for they never seem to
be as beautiful as they were the first time they bloom. I also know there are those who disagree with
me. While I am on gardening, don't
forget to deadhead bulbs, fertilize bulbs after they bloom, and mark any that
you want to move so you can find them when the leaves are dead. I have tried to mark the spot with white golf
tees but that did not work. The tees
disappeared.
This year has been a bumper crop for pecans. (I hope it will be the same for peaches.) A
friend said they had collected 600 pounds under their three trees in their back
yard. Even I got at least 200 pounds
from the two pecan trees at the shop. I
am still finding them in my flower beds.
The squirrels have planted quite a few, too. They like to plant them in flower pots
because the soil is nice and loose. I found a pecan buried in 6 pots that were
in a tray of 8 pots. How did they miss
the two pots that had no pecans?
RIDGE SPRING UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH: Big Red Box is FULL of
soup and the final count is 119 with a slight edge to the Falcons. Thanks to
those in the community who left soup on the porch of the FLC. These have been
counted and along with the others will be delivered to local food banks. Thanks
members and community for your help.
Beginning on March
21, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at the Family Life Center, Pastor Miriam Hadden will
conduct a series on the Book of Revelations. All are welcome to participate.
This is a free series and no reservation necessary
Monetta Asparagus Farm: We are the fourth generation family farmers
of asparagus run by the Andrew Fallaw family.
Our asparagus roots go back to the first world war and the height of the
asparagus boom that saw Monetta labeled as the asparagus capital of the world. farms family has had ties to asparagus dating
back to 1913. Those days saw the vast majority of land surrounding this area covered
with asparagus and box cars being loaded daily with "captains" and "majors"
that took the place of small grade and colossal grade spears. Along with the Watsons
and other farms, we were part of the Monetta Asparagus Growers Association that
at its height had hundreds of farmers. The asparagus varieties have changed to
higher yield hybrids but asparagus has stayed in our family these many years
while it became unprofitable for many. The
vast majority of asparagus production domestically has waned while
internationally it has flourished in countries such as Peru and China. There remains nothing quite like fresh local
asparagus which we aim to provide our patrons for generations to come. Our asparagus harvesting season is at the mercy
of Mother Nature but typically lasts six to eight weeks ending around the end
of May. Our sales building is located at
205 Born Again Road, Batesburg SC right on the outset of the Monetta Town limits. Just follow the signs on Farm View Road. Our sale hours are from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
daily to help us harvest in the early morning to supply fresh cut asparagus
daily. We can arrange to meet at later
times for those with 9-5 hours.
Josie
Rodgers
Lent has begun, and with that reflection and
sacrifice. Everyone always talks about
what to give up for Lent. How about what
to ADD for Lent? Whatever you decide, make it special and don’t feel the need
to advertise it (unless you need accountability!). April 16 will be here before you know it. Don’t
forget to set your clocks ahead 1 hour this weekend. Oh how that 1 hour is truly felt this time of
year!
RSM Elem (Rene
Miller): 4-K registration for the 2017-2018
school year begins March 6 and ends April 28. Parents must bring the following
items for children to be considered for the program: Official (long-form) birth
certificate (short form will not be accepted), updated immunization record, 2
proofs of address (electric bill, water bill, mortgage/rental agreement) , either
the child's Medicaid card OR a W2 form and pay-stub (if child does not have
Medicaid), parent ID. For more info,
please ask for Mrs. Abellan or Mrs. Mims-Herrera.
The RS-M Elem Natural
Pageant
will be held March 16 @ 6:30pm.
Registration fee of $20 & application fee are due by March 3. The
pageant is open to girls & boys in Miss and Master categories. Admission to pageant is $5. See Mrs. Cockrell for more info.
RSM High: The Miss Odyssey Pageant is this Sat., Mar.
11, at 6:00 in the gym. Admission is
$6. A new Miss Odyssey and Junior Miss
Odyssey will be crowned along with several other awards. Young ladies in grades 6-12 will compete for
the various titles as well as scholarships for the upperclassmen. Scholarships are based on interviews with
judges: Miss Scholastic (contestant with
highest GPA), Miss All-Around (contestant involved in school academically and
in extracurricular activities/sports, and the Miss Odyssey Scholarship.
All
third-year students took the ACT last Tuesday.
They can send their scores to several colleges. The teachers and staff worked so well
together to make the testing day go so smoothly.
Review from
David Marshall James: "Judy and I: My
Life with Judy Garland" by Sid Luft, edited by Randy L. Schmidt
Sid Luft-- Judy Garland's
third, and longest-wed husband-- still elicits strong responses from longtime
La-La Lander's.
However, he did raise his
future wife's career from its near-death experience, putting her in touch with
real people in live audiences, not bottom-line-or-bye-bye movie-studio bigwigs.
He states that the 28-year-old performer, who had done almost 30 films
for MGM over 15 years, was examined by three psychiatrists in 1950 who claimed
she wouldn't live out another full year.
Yet, away from the
pressures at MGM, Garland's prescription-pill (the studio referred to it as her
"medicine") consumption to remain "camera thin" melted
away, and Luft encountered a voluptuous Garland during a sweltering late-summer
in New York City, 1950. Both were in marriages on-the-rocks: She,
to MGM director Vincente Minnelli; he, to B-movie beauty Lynn Bari.
Luft, a test-pilot and
aspiring movie producer, had engaged in an affair with MGM dancing star Eleanor
Powell. Seven years her senior, Luft first met Garland on the set of
"Broadway Melody of 1938," starring Powell and Robert Taylor.
In this production Garland introduced "(Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me
Love You."
The year was 1937,
Garland's 15th birthday, and Gable had gifted her with a gold bracelet with a
lucky-penny charm. She was still wearing the bracelet that summer of
1950, and one of the major calling-cards of this volume is the profusion of
such details. Plus, Luft fills in his personal biography pre-Garland, and
it's never dull.
It's a treat to read
about Garland's triumphs: Her 1951 U.K. tour and sensation at the London
Palladium; her 19-week, record-breaking run at New York's Palace Theater, for which
she won a special Tony Award; and, of course, her tour-de-force film return in
"A Star Is Born" (1954).
Still, she could never
shed her financial woes. She left MGM owing the IRS $80,000, a debt
cleared by her proceeds from The Palace. Nevertheless, at her death in
1969, the IRS was hounding her to the tune of $450,000.
Her longtime
friend/sometime lover Frank Sinatra helped cover her funeral costs. Daughter
Liza Minnelli recently had Garland's remains relocated, from Ferncliff Cemetery
in Westchester, NY, to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Luft relates much about
the Garland/Sinatra connection. He was their first choice to portray
Norman Maine in "A Star Is Born," and he wanted the part badly.
However, Sinatra had yet to regroup from his infamous early '50s career
slump, remedied (and chronicled, thinly veiled, in the book and movie "The
Godfather") by his Supporting Oscar win for "From Here to
Eternity" (1953).
Twice, before and after
that Oscar, Warner Bros. chief Jack Warner vetoed Sinatra as Maine, claiming,
"He's finished!" A Garland/Sinatra "Star" would have
been incredible, complete with duets. Luft systematically dismantles
Warner in his memoir.
Luft delivers bountiful
dossiers on a Who's Who of 20th-century notables, from the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor (Luft seems to have had a thing for the Duchess) to Marilyn Monroe,
Elizabeth Taylor, and John F. Kennedy, whom Garland knew and predicted would be
president five years before the event.
Luft died in 2005, aged
89. This memoir was going to be published by HarperCollins during the
early 1990s, but the deal fell through, and it remained uncompleted until
editor Randy L. Schmidt constructed the final fifth from unpublished Luft
interviews.
REMINDERS
March 11 Benefit for Ricky
Rodgers at the Civic Center
from 4-7pm.
March 18 BBQ Benefit for Joey
Fox at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church
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
Ridge Spring Post Office hours: Mon-Fri. 7:30 am – 11:30 am; Sat 9 – 10 am
Saluda County Library Hours:
Mon/Wed
8:30 am-5 pm; Tues/Thurs 8:30 am – 6 pm; Fri 8:30 am – 5 pm; Sat closed
Recycling Center Hours: Mon/Wed/Fri 1-7; Sat 7-7; Sun 3-7; Tues/Thurs closed
First Thursday of the Month:
AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783
Third Thursday of the
Month: FORS at
Library at 5:00
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