September 4, 2017

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

September 9th-Sidewalk Sale

September 16th-Farm to Table & Honey Tasting

Harvest Festival:  Weeeeedawgie! We only have 3 spots left in our 1^st annual BBQ Battle for the Ridge competition. We have BBQ cookers from all over the state coming together in downtown Ridge Spring to throw the BIGGEST Harvest Festival this town has ever seen! From newbie backyard cookers entering for the first time to grizzled veterans and champions of SC BBQ. Don’t miss the opportunity to say you were at the 1^st BBQ Battle for the Ridge at this year’s Ridge Spring Harvest Festival. Tickets are only $1 to be purchased at the festival. We will also be taking preorders for whole butts and individual pounds of BBQ, so check www.ridgespringharvestfestival.com or check in on our Facebook page for prices and availability. See y’all at the Harvest Festival.  Harvest Festival will be decorating the town on September 30 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.  Volunteers are apreciated.

Members is AARS will be showcasing some of their work during the Ridge Spring After Labor Day Sidewalk Sale.  Additional works will be available at the Art Center of Ridge Spring.  Check around town and find a rock with AARS written on it and get a10% discount off during that day. 

Miranda Banks:  The Young Adult Ministry of Ridge Hill Baptist Church announces A Family Fun Day and Community Cookout on the grounds of the Ridge Hill Baptist Church in Ridge Spring on Saturday, September 16 from 11 am-3 pm. All are invited to come and bring a grill, some food, your favorite chair, and a good attitude. The event is being planned as a day to celebrate community life in Ridge Spring, promote harmony and goodwill, and share helpful information. The general public, all churches, local government leaders and representatives, civic, and service organizations as well as the business community are invited to come out and enjoy a day of food, fun, family, and festivities.  This year we will be sponsoring a bottled water and Gatorade drive in honor of the Ridge Spring Fire Department. Please assist us in our efforts to show our appreciation for their service to the community. If anyone at your church would like to present a talent (sing, dance, poetry), please free to share your talent for the glory of God.  If there are any questions, contact Lacey Brunson at 803-507-2526.

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: The Big Red Box ( BRB) was fill to the RIM and overflowed to the floor with school supplies. These were delivered to RSM Elementary School. It is our pleasure to help the hard working teaches and employees make sure the students have what they need to succeed. Thanks to all that contributed.

September the BRB is taking another route. Not school supplies but water and Gator Aid for the all volunteer RS Fire Department. Please look for flyers and signs around Town to remind you to purchase these items. RSUMC will host a BLITZ on September 30^th to round out the month of contributions. Want to help? Leave items on the porch of the Family Life Center or church and a member will make sure they are placed in the BRB. Don’t forget RSUMC is on Face Book. Check the page out and like us to keep up with activities, events and church services. Church Service is at 11 a.m. unless otherwise noted.

Josie Rodgers

RSM High: The Trojans football team whooped some Wolverines last Friday in Whitmire.  The final score was 39-0.  This was a great win for the Trojans!  This week, the Trojans have Friday off, but  will travel to North Fri., Sept. 15. 

Summer Cherry, RSM HOSA Historian:  “At Jim Satcher Motor Dealership, RSM HOSA hosted a fundraising car wash on September 2. The sunny day brought in many cars to be washed by RSM HOSA members. The members made 135 dollars. The money made goes to the HOSA members that volunteered to work so they can attend the HOSA State Leadership Conference in Charleston, SC. RSM HOSA will be doing another car wash on September 23rd, location is to be announced soon.”

The Beta Club and National English Honor Society will kick off the year with their first meeting planning service projects and fundraisers as well as electing new officers.  These organizations try to complete at least 3-4 service projects per semester, which has led to the Beta Club being name a Beta Club School of Distinction. 

Review from David Marshall James:  “Miss D & Me:  Life with the Invincible Bette Davis" by Kathryn Sermak, with Danielle Morton

   This past spring's "Feud" miniseries on FX has resulted in a renaissance of all things Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, down to the hateful memoirs of their ungrateful daughters, B.D. and Tina, respectively.

   Davis lived to see her daughter's screed, on the heels of a stroke that resulted in a three-month hospital stay, plus a protracted recovery period.  B.D., it seems, signed the book deal when Doctors announced that Davis only had a week to live.  Only a fool would have underestimated Davis.

   B.D.'s venomous swipe at her mother prompted Davis to encourage her longtime, live-in personal assistant, Kathryn Sermak, to write a more balanced account of life with the cinema legend, so this volume received Davis's blessing.

   Not that Davis couldn't be tough as nails; however, that was part and parcel of her survivalist manifesto.  Nevertheless, she was often generous to a fault, especially with B.D., whom she openly adored, as Sermak recounts.

   The B.D. issue was more rooted in her husband, whom Sermak writes was openly contemptuous of Davis, particularly as witnessed at a Fourth of July gathering on Long Island.

   Sermak's memoir includes trips to New York City with extended stays at The Lombardy, along with overseas journeys, often on the Concorde, as well as experiences on film sets, at home and abroad.

   If Sermak needed to learn ballroom dancing, Davis summoned an Arthur Murray instructor.  A butler popped in to teach the author formal table manners.  When a hairdresser was required, Jose Eber blew in at Davis's beck and call, to re-style Sermak's tresses.

   As such, Davis never relinquished her star perks.  She enjoyed cooking and gardening, but when someone was needed to provide goods or services, Davis did her dialing, and whatever or whoever appeared at her doorstep.

   Sermak's memoir of the latter-day Davis serves as a diagram of the differences between her and Crawford.  For Davis, work was the be-all and end-all, the great sustainer.  It was, after all, her legacy.

   In 1974, when some unflattering photos of Crawford ran on the AP wire, she declared:  "If that's what I look like, I'm not going out anymore."  True to her word, Crawford spent her final three years in reclusive withdrawal in her NYC apartment. Davis, however, kept in front of movie cameras following her stroke, even though the event had taken a toll on her face and body.  Work was her fire and water, her bread and wine.

   She surmounted B.D.'s book with Davis-esque invincibility.  A few days before her death in 1989, she was celebrated at the film festival in San Sebastian, Spain, where thousands thronged the streets to cheer her and filmgoers gave her a ten-minute standing ovation.  Amost thirty years later, she probably wouldn't be surprised that she's more popular than ever-- just maybe a mite testy that she's sharing the marquee with Crawford.

Remember the Saluda County Chamber of Commerce has partnered with The Town of Ward, The Town of Ridge Spring, Gables Inn and Gardens, Clemson Extension, and Juniper Restaurant to bring you the first annual Saluda County Farm to Table and Honey Tasting Celebration. This exciting event will benefit aspiring young farmers from The Ridge area.

Come celebrate the bounty of The Ridge through local fresh foods prepared by Brandon Velie, drinks from local breweries, wineries, (artisanal wares) and music entertainment by Shelby Raye. Honey producers, from The Ridge will be on hand for a honey tasting.  Honey will be available for tasting and sale and other products from local apiaries will also be available for purchase. Come experience The Ridge’s Finest Cuisine and help provide financial support for future agriculture students from The Ridge Community.

Harriet's Garden Tips:  Have you started dreaming about all those beautiful spring blooming bulbs? Have you seen the catalogs?  Daffodils, jonquils, tulips and so many more need to be planted in the late fall in the South.  Tulips are beautiful but the moles love to munch on them. Try to protect them when planting such as cages.  For future reference you fertilize the bulbs after they bloom when they are storing up nutrition for next year.  If you want to transfer some bulbs such as ones that were planted  years ago, if you know where they are, dig them up, and transfer them to that new spot.  Sometimes when the bulbs stop blooming, just dig them up and you will realize that they had worked their way down to a deeper depth and therefore did not or could not bloom.

REMINDERS

All Summer Saturdays: Ridge Spring Farmers' Market

Sept. 9: Ridge Spring Sidewalk Sales Event

Sep. 16: Farm to Table Event

Sep. 16: Ridge Hill Baptist  Church Family Fun Day

October 14: Ridge Spring Harvest Festival

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