August 7, 2017
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Ridge Spring Harvest Festival: We are
holding steady at 8 BBQ contestant entries. Remember, you do not have to be a
big time BBQ Cook team to enter the competition… bring your fire barrel, old
washing machine converted into a smoker, Big Green Egg®, or whatever you have
that can cook 6 or more Boston Butts on. This may be your chance to break into
the Big League of BBQ cookers. Please
visit www.ridgespringharvestfestival.com to
download the official Cooker’s Package from the Bar-B-Q Entry Form link. Fill
it out and send it along with entry fee and you are all set. 1st Place
will receive $750, a cool trophy and a flag with your team’s logo flown over
Ridge Spring as the BBQ King of Ridge Spring! We’ll see you at the
Harvest Festival!
The Shoppes of Ridge Spring will
be holding our annual Sidewalk Sale the Saturday after Labor Day. That will be September 9th and deals for
all!!!!
The Farmers Market is
slowing down but fresh produce is still available. Baked goods and plants are
available too.
The Nut House and Country Store: Show your heart some love with pecans! Pecans contain 20
grams of fat per ounce, with unsaturated fat making up the majority.
Unsaturated fat is a healthier form of fat attributed to cholesterol reduction
and heart health. This type of fat not only aids with heart health, but
it also prevents stroke, controls blood clotting and builds brain cells,
according to the Harvard School of Public Health.
Josie Rodgers: Ridge Spring-Monetta Elementary School
Registration will be August 9 9:00 am - 4:00 pm and
August 10 Noon - 7:00 pm.
RSM Middle: Monica Johnson, coach: the middle school
cheerleaders will have shirts for RSM classes of 2024 -2018 on display at
registration on Aug. 8-9 for pre-order. These would be a great gift for the RSM
students in your life!
RSM High:
Registration will be held Aug. Thurs., Aug. 10 and Mon., Aug. 14 from noon
until 7 pm.
The Mount Alpha Educational Union will
have a Back to School Blast on August 12, 2017 at
the Ridge Spring Star Community Center from 10 a.m. to 12
noon. The Presenters for the occasion will be Mr. Kenneth Johnson, Mrs.
Callie Herlong; Mrs. Sharon Padgett; and Ms. Joyce Davis. School supplies
will be given and lunch. Everyone is invited.
Leonard
Bell is offering Market Boxes on Thursdays at the Johnston Farmers Market.
Each box will contain a variety of, in season, fruits and vegetables as well as
offerings from other farmers and artists at the market. If you are interested
in ordering a box they are $20 and
available for pick on Thursday around 5pm. Please call Mr. Bell at 803-646-2169 or Janet
Burgess @ 803-275-8030
DETAILED FACTS
ABOUT THE COMING ECLIIPSE
Total solar eclipse visible (100.00%
coverage of Sun)
Magnitude: 1.0079
Duration:2 hours, 53 minutes, 49
seconds
Duration of Totality:2 minutes, 18
seconds
Partial eclipse begins: Aug 21, 2017
at 1:11:53 pm
Full eclipse begins: Aug 21, 2017 at
2:40:56 pm
Maximum eclipse: Aug 21, 2017 at
2:42:06 pm
Full eclipse ends: Aug 21, 2017 at
2:43:14 pm
Partial eclipse ends: Aug 21, 2017
at 4:05:42 pm
Times shown in EDT
Thursday Joe Cal Watson called and invited me
to join his Grammar School Classmate Ben Kilgo for when he was in the early
grades. I hope most of you know that Joe
is 93 or 94 years old. AND his fourth
grade teacher was my mother. They knew
her as Miss Harriet. In their
reminiscing , they told of how they rode
mules and there were hitching posts on Main Street of Ridge Spring. I forgot to write down the names of their
mules though. Jan Brown brought Ben and Elsie Cannon to meet Joe at Juniper to
dine and enjoy the company of each other.
Art Center by Joanne Crouch
AARS is proud to announce that we are offering introductory pottery
classes. As these classes fill, more
classes will be offered. These classes
will be taught by Kim Ruff. Kim is a
retired from teaching but it busier than ever with pottery classes. Please take notice of the children and adult
introductory classes that are now being offered.
An
Introduction to Pottery for children will be held August 14-18 from
3:30-5:30. Class includes instruction
and all supplies for $15 per day. Please
wear old clothes or wear an apron. This class requires pre-registration. Text Joanne Crouch at (803)480-0576 or
contact instructor Kim Ruff at artmaker@aol.com.
We are excited to announce the beginning of our adult pottery class at
the Art Center. The first class is a
two-hour session on Monday, August 14th 6:30-8:30. Spots are limited. The class instruction and all supplies are
provided for $35. Class pre-registration is required to be in this class. Text Joanne Crouch at (803)480-0576 or
email Kim Ruff at artmaker@aol.com. Bring your water bottle and an apron. More class will be available in the
future.
Get started on Christmas early with Christmas
in August at the Art Center on Thursday, August 24th from 5:30-7:00.
Using pinecone petals, gold leaf and a gourd to make an ornament that
can be used on your tree or displayed year-round. Cost is $30 ages 10 & up. You can see a picture on AARS facebook page
or our website. Text instructor, Joanne
Crouch at (803)480-0576, call (803)685-5577 or email joanne.crouch26@gmail.com to pre-register for
this class. Pre-registration is required for this class.
Ridge Spring Rocks! The Art Center is initiating a movement
that takes the simple rock and paints images on them. The rocks are then hid around town. When the rock is found, a picture is taken
and put on the group’s facebook page, Ridge
Spring Rocks! The finder then hides
the rock for others to find. If you need
help getting started, please contact the Art Center on Fridays and Saturdays
from 10-4 for more information. Please
join Ridge Spring Rocks! on
facebook.
Officers for AARS 2017-2018 are Joanne Crouch, president; Kedryn Evans.
vice-president; Carolyn Boatwright, secretary;
Barbara Yon, treasurer; and DS Owen, bookkeeper. Let members of AARS
know if there is a particular class that you would be interested in. We will see if we can get an instructor for
that class.
AARS is also looking for someone who could help us revamp our
website. We also need a way for folks to
register for classes online. If you know
someone reliable that we get to help us, please notify me at joanne.crouch26@gmail.com of call
(803)658-5577 and leave a message and I will return your call.
The Art Center is open on Fridays and Saturday from 10-4. Come and enjoy the work of local artist.
Review from
David Marshall James: "Sting-Ray
Afternoons" by Steve Rushin
Once upon a time in
America-- the 1970s, that is-- the president farmed peanuts and taught Sunday
School. Sears was the nation's no. 1
retailer, its catalog the bane of mail carriers from Paducah to Pocatello. Air
rage was something that happened during warfare. In the new 747's,
passengers enjoyed the ultimate in travel, with smoking sections and a
second-level lounge accessed by a spiral staircase. Sports Illustrated columnist Steve Rushin
recalls his "growing up" decade with a wily (or Wile E.) perspective,
through a prism refracting harvest-gold and avocado-green light.
His Dad held the ultimate
'70s job: Selling eight-track tape for 3-M out of the corporate
headquarters in Minnesota. His Mom was a housewife and a homemaker in
excelsis, with dinner on the table soon after Dad arrived home, but only after
a fresh application of lipstick for his cross-the-threshold smooch.
Moreover, she had to shepherd her flock during her husband's frequent sales
sojourns, many abroad.
The author, his parents,
and his four siblings lived in suburban Bloomington, where the Vikings and the
Twins games were played, along with other professional sports. If any big
concert act were gigging it up in The Twin Cities, it performed in Bloomington,
from The Beatles to Led Zeppelin.
A Catholic-school student
throughout the decade, Rushin fondly recalls snow days, given to outdoor
mayhem, and sick days, given to "The Price Is Right" and other
offerings from their Zenith TV.
It can be difficult to
explain the core feeling of the '70s to younger generations. On the
surface, the years provided a tacky tribute to painted-grain,
processed-wood-laminate fixtures and furnishings, to aluminum siding and
behemoth station wagons, to synthetic fabrics and bat-wing collars.
Nevertheless, people
seemed positive-- happy, even. They smoked and drank and had
laughter-filled house parties every weekend, all of which the author relates.
Yet they weren't naive. Vietnam and Watergate dominated the first
half of the decade, and you could scarcely escape the news, what with two thick
daily newspapers-- morning and afternoon-- in every American city of 100,000 or
more, ubiquitous newsmagazines, and evening newscasts rendered inescapable because
there were no cable channels.
And, as the author
recalls, students discussed current events. If you didn't know current
events, how could you possibly hope to understand the hippest show on TV,
"Saturday Night Live"? Amazingly, it's still on the air, with its
original producer. "The Price Is Right" flourishes, sans Bob
Barker, who's enjoying some well-deserved R&R on the golf course. And
that peanut-farming president? You can still catch him teaching Sunday
School in Plains, Georgia. Now, let us pray.
Harriet's
Garden Tips: So far the
caterpillars have not found the second set of pots of parsley. What is your prediction for the coming
winter? Check the weeds that you pull
and make sure their seeds do not fall into the flower bed. This is a good time to cut out any dead
branches of plants such as roses, especially old fashion roses. They will winter better and look better in
the spring.
REMINDERS
All Summer Saturdays:
Ridge
Spring Farmers' Market
August 12: Mt. Alpha Back to
School Blast
August 21: Total Solar Eclipse
Sept. 9: Ridge Spring Sidewalk
Sales Event
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; Sat 9-12
Ridge Spring Library Toddler Time Mondays at 10:30
Saluda County Library
Hours: Mon/Wed 8:30 am-5
pm; Tues/Thurs 8:30 am – 6 pm; Fri 8:30am
– 5 pm; Sat closed new fax machine and can send toll free
Narcotics Anonymous Fridays at RS Library at 7:00 PM
Ridge Spring Post Office hours: Mon-Fri. 7:30 am – 11:30 am; Sat 9 – 10 am
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
Every Friday & Saturday:
AARS
hours 10 – 4 or by appt, free admission
Third Thursday of the
Month: FORS at
Library at 5:00; no meetings in July & August
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