May 8, 2017
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
What a wonderful
time was had by the community at the annual
Ridge Spring Fire Department benefit
in memory of Michael Adamick which was held on Saturday. The Bar-be-que meal was delicious, the
auction was perfect, the entertainment was super, and they added a new treat- a
boot raffle. There were 10 boots which designated
certain prizes. You could buy 10 raffle
tickets and place each ticket into which ever boot you want or place them all
in just one boot. The choice was yours. Fun was had by all. Oh, the boots were
the fireman's boots!!!!
The Seventh Annual Magnolia Ridge Antique and
Art Gathering
will be held on Saturday May 20 from 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM. The Palmetto Tractor Club will be featured.
The farm is located at 2136 Mt. Calvary Rd .
Do not use the address for GPS.
It does not bring you to the farm but google does. The Farm is located at Hwy 23 and Hwy 39 and
Mt. Calvary Rd in Ridge Spring. (Turn and cross the railroad at the John Deere
place). There will be antique, vintage,
and art vendors set up for you to explore.
Come early and enjoy free coffee.
There will be breakfast and lunch foods available for purchase as well
as baked goods from the Mennonites.
Peach Tree 23 is fast
approaching. The Town Hall has really
cute T-Shirts for sale for $12.00.
Select from green, gray and yellow.
Check out Town of Ridge Spring
on facebook for more information for t he designs on the T-shirts.
The Nut House and Country Store: Mother's Day is
right around the corner on May 14th!
We have the perfect gift for Mom including pecan candies, coffee, tea,
candles and more. This week only our gift tins are 15% off and we're
offering a special breakfast bundle including Faithful Foods Pancake &
Waffle Mix and your choice of Blackberry Patch syrup.
Harriet's Garden will have hydrangeas and other beautiful
plants for Mother's Day.
JEFF CLAMP Band Director, Ridge Spring-Monetta
Middle / High School: On Saturday, April 29th several high school bands from Aiken
County joined together to provide a pep band for the runners in the Aiken
Electric Cooperative's "Run United" event. All of the Aiken
County High Schools were represented except for North Augusta, who was
performing in the District Arts Festival. The pep band was led and
organized by Seth Forston, Wagener-Salley band director. Ten students
represented Ridge Spring-Monetta Middle/High School. They were:
Joanna Kaiser, Kelsey Moore, Cameron Davis, Jonathan Cumbee, Alex Timmerman,
Christian Key, Xavier Harling, Demerius Daniels, Jakobe Erving, and Denard
Wise. The band members all had a great time performing with students from
other schools, and the runners seemed very appreciative of the band being there
to cheer them on.
Janice C. Douda, Ridge Spring-Monetta High: The RSM-High School Career Fair included 21
guest speakers from 21 different industries. This year our students were
blessed to be able to chose to sit down and visit with their choice of three
industries including : a chef, criminal justice, broadcast journalism, music
producers, florist, welders, cosmetologists, educators, vets, manufacturers, DNR,
law enforcement, physicians, colleges, military, and others. Students were
given an overview of what each career involved and were allowed to ask
questions of each presenter to get a real feel for the level of interest that
they might have for that particular career. This was the first year that both
high school and middle school students were involved in the career fair, a
collaboration that we hope to continue for many years to come.
Reminder:
Mount Calvary Lutheran Church - Bible Study - The Lord's Prayer: Beginning May 9 at
11:00 am and 7:00pm, Pastor Christi will lead a six week Bible study focusing
on the Lord’s Prayer.
Joanne Crouch, AARS: We are currently looking for
students for the Monsters
to Dinosaurs Handbuilding Pottery workshop on June 12th-16th from
9-12. The week of instruction
will be taught by Kim Ruff. Cost
is $100 for the week-$80 for the second child from the same family. Reserve
spots at the Art Center on Fridays or Saturdays from 10-4. You may also contact Kim Ruff by
email- makerart@aol.com.
Rene
Miller, RSM Elementary
Thank You: RSM appreciates all our volunteers
who have volunteered in some capacity throughout this school year. An
appreciation gettogether was held on Monday for these special friends. Erica
Burdett, Richard Centerfit, Mirelia Cockrell, Doug Edwards, Lara Edwards, Paul
Fulmer, Maretha Harris, Sharon Harrison, Janice Hopkins, Kelsey Jerry, Pamela
Jerry, Monica Johnson, Rosa Johnson, Mary Lipsey, Blanca Lopez, Laura Lopez,
Wendy Lopez, Michael Moyer, Harold Padgett, Sandy Platts, Katrina Rodgers,
Kimberly Whitfield, Linda Whorton, James Williams.
Reminders
Please be reminded that the end of the year is approaching quickly. You must
have all your child’s fees paid by the end of the year. This would include
lunch money and lost or damaged library books.
First Grade Egg Drop: On Friday, April 21,
first grade held its annual Egg Drop Contest. Students designed containers to
prevent a raw egg from cracking when tossed from the roof of the first grade
building. The container could be made of and padded with any material. Each
year we are intrigued by the creative projects. We also had a picnic for the
students. We would like to thank Doug and Lara Edwards for providing the hot
dogs. Mr. Doug even came and cooked for us!
Josie Rodgers
It’s Teacher
Appreciation Week!
RSM High: On Sat, April 29,
several high school bands from Aiken County joined together to provide a pep
band for the runners in the Aiken Electric Cooperative's "Run United"
event. All of the Aiken County High
Schools were represented except for North Augusta, who was performing in the
District Arts Festival. The pep band was
led and organized by Seth Forston, Wagener-Salley band director. Ten students represented Ridge Spring-Monetta
Middle/High School. They were: Joanna Kaiser, Kelsey Moore, Cameron Davis,
Jonathan Cumbee, Alex Timmerman, Christian Key, Xavier Harling, Demerius
Daniels, Jakobe Erving, and Denard Wise.
The band members all had a great time performing with students from
other schools, and the runners seemed very appreciative of the band being there
to cheer them on.
The FFA is selling
baskets and potted plants from April 19 – May 11. Plants include Geranium, Lobelia
(hot blue), Lobelia (hot snow white), Verbena, Begonia (big red with bronze
leaves), Geranium Begonia (cocktail mix), Petunia (easy wave white), Impatiens
(mix mystic), Marigold- French (Durango mix), Zinnia and Boston Ferns. Quantities are limited; $2 pots and $10 baskets.
The National English
Honor Society
will host a Poetry Café on Thurs.,
May 18, in the high school cafeteria.
For more information, contact Josie Rodgers, sponsor.
St. William Catholic
Church celebrated First Communion last Sunday for Jon
Rodgers, son of Lang and Brandie Rodgers of Ward. The parish also honored all the moms and Jon
with a covered dish luncheon after mass.
The Saluda SC Truck and Tractor Pull will be June 9 and 10 with 8
classes this year. Check out the website
at SaludaYoungFarmer.org.
Persimmon Hill will serve a Mother’s
Day lunch buffet from 11 am – 2pm for only $10.
For reservations, please call 803/275-3788.
Harriet's
Garden Tips: When
looking for bedding plants (annuals) there are specific requirements to get the
best blooms. Is the location you want to
plant them have sun, shade or part shade?
Does it take the heat and dryness or needs more water? Hardiness is so important. I find certain plants to be hardier that
others. Afternoon sun is harder on
plants than morning sun. Some plants do
surprise me. Begonias are hardier than
they look. Zinnias are beautiful but you
can't let them dry out that often. Geraniums
are hardy for sure. AND there are so
many more. Thunbergia is fun to grow as
a vine. It is also known as the
black-eyed Susan vine. Every time I have
to check to see if the vine has grown out of the basket and gone up the post. It has to be turned around and encouraged to climb
back down to the bottom of the hanging basket.
Keep a journal of what did great
where and what did not. I have one I
jsut have a hard time remembering to write in it. Just have fun with
plants. I do.
From David Marshall James: The Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” at the Shubert Theater is
nominated for 10 Tony awards (to be broadcast June 11th on CBS),
including one for Bette Midler as Best Actress in a Musical. News of this revival prompted “The History of
‘Hello, Dolly!’ “ as my presentation subject for The Ridge Spring Woman’s Study
Club this February, and that presentation will be presented here, in four
parts, this being the first:
The show “Hello, Dolly!” and its title
song seem so much a part of the American cultural fabric that it’s hard to
believe that both were introduced just 53 years ago this past January, when the
show opened at the St. James Theater on Broadway.
It would hold on for the next six years,
becoming the longest-running Broadway musical up to that date, with a veritable
parade of performers filling out the title character’s high-button shoes: Carol Channing, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable,
Phyllis Diller, Pearl Bailey (with an all-black ensemble featuring Cab Calloway
as Yonkers, New York, merchant Horace Vandergelder), and last but never least,
Ethel Merman, for whom composer/lyricist Jerry Herman had originally intended
the role of Dolly Gallagher Levi.
That doesn’t include road-show companies
that starred Dorothy Lamour, Mary Martin, Ann Miller, Debbie Reynolds, and,
recently, Sally Struthers, among at least one-dozen others. Indeed, no role in 20th century
American musical theater has attracted such a large, impressive, and diverse
list of leading ladies. How does one
explain this phenomenon?
Well, for one, Dolly’s age is never
specified. We know that she is the widow
of Ephraim Levi, but, as the show is set in New York in 1890, he could have
been felled by a runaway team of horses crossing Delancey Street, aged 29, for
all we know. Still, it’s most plausible
to think of Dolly as at-minimum 40. Had
Merman accepted the part that was written for her, she would have been 56
opening night.
So, age is not a drawback to playing Dolly,
unless you’re too young, as Barbra Streisand, at 24, was for the film
version. How refreshing that must be
for actresses of a certain age—as long as they can sweep down the staircase at
the Harmonia Gardens restaurant to the strains of the title song, they can be
75 for all the audience cares, which is exactly how old Carol Channing was when
she starred in her second Broadway revival of the show in 1996. She turned 43 one week after the show
originally premiered. And Bette Midler
puts her hand into the role at 71.
REMINDERS
May 13: Mt Calvary brunch benefit
May
14: Jerusalem Baptist Church Mother's Day program
May 20: Magnolia Ridge
Antique and Art Gathering
June 2& 3: Peach Tree 23 Yard
Sale
June 6: Vouchers given out
at Town Hall
June 10: RS Farmers' Market
Opens
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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