February
19, 2018
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
March 9 and 10 Quilting
on the Ridge
Take
part in the Ridge Heritage Quilt Trail and visit the shops of Ridge Spring as
they showcase beautiful, handmade, and historic quilts. Participants are encouraged to start at The
Art Center of Ridge Spring at 108 Maintenance Building Circle, behind the Civic
Center. For an optional $5 registration fee, participants will receive a Ridge
Spring Goodie Bag containing a map, one free raffle ticket, and discounts to area
stores.
Our featured handmade
quilt will be raffled off at the conclusion of the weekend. Tickets
will be available at the shops for $1 each or 6 tickets for $5.
AARS: If you have been waiting
for the class on how to paint quilt blocks for your house or barn, please call
Barbara Yon 803 685 5386 to get in the next classes.
American Legion Post 133: The Post
is selling Boston Butts on Good Friday, March 30, Easter Weekend. The proceeds will sponsor local students to Boy's
State. Contact any Legion member for tickets or call Phillips Boatwright at
685.7753. Ticket are $35.00 each and the
Boston Butts can be picked up at the Legion Hut on Pecan Grove Road on March 30
between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM.
This past week I went
to THREE meetings in Ridge Spring. One
was the Harvest Festival meeting led by our trusty Patrick Arnold where we went
over the successes and notes on a few improvements. All were really pleased with the BBQ.
I went to the branding
meeting with Alison South's presentation as to how to help bring Ridge Spring under
one umbrella using a theme. It was great. Check by town hall to see some of the ideas. I hope you will see them being used soon,
too.
The next meeting was FORS, Friends of Ridge Spring. WE are working on the "Quilting on the
Ridge" Theme which will be March 9 and 10.
Even Harriet's Garden will have a quilt and tickets to sell. Maybe a few plants to check out. If I have any pansies left, they are
yours. Check out the Art Center
for there will be several on display as well as quilts in the shops.
Harvest Festival: The king has planted his flag into the gazebo
to proclaim his title of BBQ King of Ridge Spring. Dean & Valerie Price of
Batesburg-Leesville were the first to write their name in the history books
last October at the BBQ Battle for the Ridge! Dean & Val went on to lay
waste to the BBQ landscape until they made their final stop at the South
Carolina State House where Pimp My Pig was awarded BBQ KING of SOUTH CAROLINA! Team
Pimp My Pig was 1st in BBQ and 1st in Ribs for
the state and shows no sign of slowing down for 2018. PmP will defend their
title this year as the fierce competition closes in on all sides to remove
their flag from the castle (aka the gazebo).
Who will reign
supreme this year? Well, that’s for the judges to figure out. Our job is to
plan and organize for the next Harvest Festival. Patrick Arnold is the Chair
for the upcoming Festival and he is raring to go. The BBQ cooking field may be expanded to
include a few more. Next meeting is
March 13 at town Hall.
Cub Scouts: We would like to put that Pack 555 is
recruiting new members. Boys and girls are invited to join. We meet
every 2nd and 4th Monday at Ridge Spring Baptist Church at 7:00. Any questions, contact Melissa Stover at mostover310@gmail.com
Security Federal Bank
will be opening accounts for its customers
from 1-5 March 7, 8, 14, 15, 20 and from
9-12 and 1-5 March 26-30. Their plans
also include having a soft opening on April 2.
Wendy Arndt, Magnolia
Ridge:
The 9th Annual Antique and Art Festival
is May 19 2018. Horse riding Summer programs available for children or adults
beginner through advanced. The flag on the gazebo it is from the winners of the
Harvest Festival BBQ.
Callie Herlong Principal: Ridge Spring-Monetta Elementary School will have 4K Registration
on March 5 through April 13 at RSME. There are limited slots
Jeff Clamp RSM MH band director: Ten students
represented Ridge Spring-Monetta Middle / High School at the Claflin
University Invitational Honor Band Clinic on the weekend of
February 9 - 11. Representing the Middle School were Kyla Padgett,
Paola Trinidad, Amia Green, Savannah Minor, Nehemiah Singley, and Landon
Hastings. High School students attending the clinic were Joanna Kaiser,
Jonathan Cumbee, Kandon Hastings, and Zachary Truesdale. They
rehearsed Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning with clinicians from Penn State University, University of
Washington, and with the Claflin University students. On Sunday afternoon the
students performed in a concert with students from several other schools
from South Carolina.
Josie
Rodgers
RSM High: Nine
members of the Beta Club attended the SC Beta Club Convention at Myrtle Beach
this past weekend along with over 1,000 other Beta members from around the
state. All types of competitions took
place including talent, art, and academics.
Competing for RSM were Arturo
Contreras (math), Morgan Berry
(science), Summer Cherry (photo), Rachel Burger (on-site pencil drawing),
Perla Hernandez (Spanish), Lexi Sterling (group scrapbook), and
group banner. Our very own Perla Hernandez won 3rd
place for Spanish, 11th grade!
Also, Arturo Contreras was
asked to lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the opening session on Friday
night! RSM Beta sponsors are Josie
Rodgers and Kelly Bedenbaugh. Chaperones
included Ken Lipsey and Amber Moody; special guest was Ruby Powell.
College
Football Signign: Congratulations to Melvin Alewine who signed to play for Newberry College and to Jacob Williams who signed to play with
SC Faith Athletics and Music College in Charleston.
The basketball teams have enjoyed much
success this season! The girls ended
their road to state with a loss to McCormick Thurs., Feb. 15. The boys hosted Denmark and were victorious,
leading them to another game Tues., Feb. 20, in Spartanburg against High
Point. Good luck, Trojans!
Ms.
Jackson’s English 4
students have been reading Night by
Elie Wiesel and studying the Holocaust.
On Tues., Feb. 20, Mrs. Judith
Evans, a Holocaust survivor who resides in Aiken, will visit these classes
and speak to them about her experiences.
On Feb. 8, Sgt.
Byers, Aiken’s recruitment officer, visited the English 2
classes at RSM High and spoke about the Army, education, future goals, and his
own journey through school and the military.
He also brought Mrs. Rodgers Army goodies (which will ensure that she
will invited him back!). The students
were quite receptive and asked excellent questions. Some are even considering the military as a
future option to help pay for their education.
Big things are
happening at RSM High! The school is
taking its Farm to Table theme and putting the plans into action even before
ground has broken for the new high school.
The new building will be located beside the new middle school; the
façades will face Trojan Road.
Eventually, the new elementary school will also reside next to these
schools, uniting the campus in convenience while keeping the individual schools
separate for obvious reasons. We are all
very excited to begin this new phase in our school system. The students of the Ridge truly deserve
facilities that are cutting edge and competitive with other schools in our
state and across the nation.
The Black History
program will be held Thurs., Feb. 22, in the high school gym. Mrs. Felicia Key is in charge, and we are
excited about what the program will bring.
Review from David Marshall James: "Bad Housekeeping" by Maia Chance
Great-Aunt
Euphemia: The name conjures up images of blued & bunned hair,
hand-knitted sweaters, and velcro-strapped support shoes & hose, all
powdered down with something from the Walgreen's beauty-aid aisle.
Scratch that: In
author Maia Chance's first "Aggie and Effie Mystery,"
"Effie"-- accent on the first syllable-- arrives in Naneda, New York,
in a stolen Cadillac, looking very much like the fashion model that she once
was, thanks to assorted cosmetic procedures and a steady diet of
nicotine. When Effie shops for fruits and vegetables at the farmers'
market, they're to garnish her panoply of cocktails.
As for the Agnes (Blythe)
in the series title: She's Effie's great-niece, back in her hometown of
Naneda so her longtime, live-in boyfriend can commence a professorship at the
local university.
He's gotten his dip
thanks largely to Agnes's support, and he promptly dumps her. Note to one
and all: It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that ring.
So, Agnes has been traded
out for a Pilates instructor, which further reinforces her insecurities in
regard to her lifelong love of muffins, cupcakes, and Jell-O with marshmallows.
As the reader would
anticipate, Effie and Agnes are going to bond at their respective moments of
need, with each bringing out the best, and sometimes the worst, in the other.
Effie has come to stay,
on a mission: To rescue the historic inn she inherited, now facing
imminent demolition. With only one week to bring the wiring up to code,
both Agnes and Effie become seriously sidetracked as murder suspects when the
town's largely loathed, ersatz do-gooder is found dead, by our heroines, at the
inn.
Agnes and Effie want to
clear their names and thus take it upon themselves to conduct their own
investigation, resulting in tire-squealing turns throughout town in the
purloined Caddy, pursuing and being pursued by a lengthy list of suspects.
This fun-- and funny--
mystery has lots going for it, with characters and plotting that bring to mind
the best of Janet Evanovich. If the author can keep her deck stacked with
extra Jokers, she could earn a wide readership for her two bad ladies.
Harriet's
Garden Tips:
The daffodils and other spring bulbs are looking beautiful. I have heard and read that you fertilize
after they bloom but before the leaves turn brown. I have also read the opposite. A good 10-10-10 fertilizer is good when the
leaves start emerging. Make sure you
wash off any fertilizer that may be on the plant. The one thing the experts do agree on is you
can add natural compost to improve your soil.
As hard as it is to not cut the browning leaves of the spent bulbs, the bulbs need the leaves to get and store
food for next year's blooms. You can
intersperse planting of other flowers, such as annuals or other perennials. You are also encouraged to separate the bulbs
after a few years for they do get crowded.
On a personal note, I have these grape hyacinths that I have tried to
dig up after they bloom, but I can't seem to get deep enough. I guess I will try again this year. They need to be moved.
REMINDERS
March 9 & 10: Quilting on the Ridge
March 13: RS Harvest Festival meeting Town Hall
March 15: Friends of Ridge Spring Meeting at Town Hall
May 19: The 9th Annual Antique and Art Festival
Ridge Spring Library hours: Reopen soon
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
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