October 30, 2017

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

Saluda County Farm to Table and Honey Tasting

on November 4 at the Gables Inn and Gardens Ward SC

from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM.:

The Saluda County Chamber of Commerce has partnered with The Town of Ward, The Town of Ridge Spring, Gables Inn and Gardens, and Clemson Extension 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 Region through local fresh foods, drinks from local breweries, wineries, artisanal wares, and musical entertainment.  Honey and other products from local apiaries will be available for tasting and for purchase. Come experience The Ridge’s Finest Cuisine and help provide financial support for future agriculture students from the Ridge Community.  For more information contact 864.445.4100.

The Farmers' Market is still going on at our Town Square.  Leonard Bell wanted to make sure you knew there were LOCAL fresh greens available. We have had our first frost.

Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church: On Sunday, October 21, Our "Spooktacular" Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Packing Party was a huge success. 56 children, youth, and adults enjoyed an afternoon of fun, fellowship and food while participating in a ministry that blesses children around the world. Each shoebox is a tangible sign of love for the children. Each one is also a Gospel Opportunity.  136 shoe boxes were packed. Our goal was 120. Awesome!!
After the packing, the kids enjoyed games and popcorn. The day ended with a hayride to see Larry's baby goats.

Art Center in Ridge Spring by Joanne Crouch

 Don’t miss the last pottery class with Kim Ruff on Monday, November 13^th from 6:30-8:30.  Cost is $35 and for ages 12 & up.  The projects are a Christmas box with ribbon and a Christmas tree.  Contact  Kim Ruff at makerart@aol.com or Joanne Crouch at joanne.crouch26@gmail.com to pre-register for the class.  You can also sign up on Fridays and Saturday from 10-4.  Please shop local on Fridays and Saturdays from 10-4.  Works of 15 plus artists are available.  Get your unique gift here. 

Three large trees were cut down on Main Street.  They were magnificent but were a danger to all.  The SC Highway Department of Transportation took them down.

The Friends of Ridge Spring or FORS is an organization of businesses and friends of the town who want to promote our town.  There will b two events in the upcoming months.  In November we will have Black Friday and Small Business Saturday on November 25 and 26.  Special deals  and beautiful art will be available with some nice surprises.  Then on December 9 and 10, there will be Shoppes and Art Center of Ridge Spring Open House with holiday music and refreshments.  Keep us in mind!!!!!

Rene Miller RSM Elementary:

“PJs and Pancakes” is the theme of our Literacy Night this year! It will take place on Nov. 14 at 5 p.m. in the main office building. This fun-filled event will promote a love for reading and writing in your child’s life.

The YMCA of Aiken is offering Primetime, an afterschool care program. For more information, contact the school at 803-685-2000.

Read Your Way to the Big Game You can show your support for Clemson or Carolina and possibly win a ticket to the big game by simply reading! Reading logs have been sent home. They are due back to your teacher by November 8. All you have to do is read 6 books to qualify. YOU could win a ticket to the Clemson/Carolina Football game this fall! Keep reading and turn in those logs!

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH:

 The Big Red Box (RBR) is filling up but always room for more!! This month is BRB is hungry for pillows and pillow cases, standard size and washable blankets suitable for a twin bed. These items will be delivered to Killingsworth Home. This is a Methodist mission providing shelter, counseling, life and work skills training for women. Staff likes to provide each resident with a new pillow, case and blanket. Goal is 17! But hey, if we go over these items have a long shelf life. If you would like to help, leave donated item on porch of the Family Life Center and a member will make SURE to get it in the BRB.

Review from David Marshall James:  "Gin and Panic" by Maia Chance

   A 31-year-old Manhattan society live-it-upper is widowed with nary a penny.

   So, what's the merry widow to do?  Join the cast of "Real Housewives of New York"?

   Ix-nay to at-thay, because it's 1923, and radio's the rage.  Lola Woodby could open a tearoom off Union Square, where she's residing with Swedish cook and former employee, Berta Lundgren.

   After all, Berta is to baking as the Real Housewives are to vodka-martini quaffing.

Not that Lola doesn't enjoy her own highballs; Berta, her Brandy Alexander's; besides, they're both known to tote a flask of gin-- soothes the nerves.

   And their nerves do jingle-jangle in this, their third mystery-novel escapade.  Their lifelong consumption of pulp-fiction magazines has led the ladies to fancy themselves as detectives, chief operators of their "Discreet Retrieval Agency."

   In this adventure, they're asked to retrieve a stuffed rhinoceros head from a stately manse in a seaside Connecticut college town.

   Lola and Berta descend upon a Gatsby-esque hunting party at the estate, and wouldn't it just happen that the lord (actually, just a plain-ol' American) of the manse would wind up with a bullet in his head?

   Another lord (a genuine, British one) of another manor hires Lola and Berta to solve the murder, which the police deem a suicide.  He's also the chappie who sent the ladies to bag the rhino head in the first place.

   Has Lola quaffed one too many highballs, or is the British lord itching to drop to one knee for her? What about Ralph Oliver, an NYC gumshoe who is to hotties what Berta's fresh-baked gingersnaps are to hot cookies?  He seems to relish tailing Lola, whether he's paid or not (it's a bit of both here).  Meanwhile, Berta attracts the seemingly unlikely attention of an unlikely gangster.

   This set-up provides the mere prelude to a Toad's Wild Ride of a mystery, in which author Maia Chance handles her material with comedic legerdemain.  Always fun and often funny, Lola and Berta re-jazz the Roaring Twenties in a hard-to-beat period mystery.

Harriet's Garden Tips:  I forgot to do a tip last week. As Gomer Pyle would say, "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise" to me.  I guess that gives you an idea of my age.  I am enjoying the cooler weather.  I can get out there and dig up some of those weeds that are small trees.  Get them before they get too big.  I have noticed that Redbud trees seem to be producing a lot of offspring.  Camellias produce seed, too.  Aunt Adeline said they are good only for grafting for they do not produce a true copy of the camellia.  The blooms may be the same color but do not open up fully.  Grafting is a good technique to learn if you are interested in getting quicker blooming camellias.  Otherwise root them and they will bloom in about four or five years.

Hope you had a pleasant Halloween with no tricks, only treats!!!!

REMINDERS

November 4: Saluda County Farm to Table

November 13: Art Class

November 25 & 26: Ridge Spring Shoppes Specials

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