July 9, 2018
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
The Ridge Spring Famers' Market Report: It started really slow Saturday morning but did it pick up
or what? We had 9 vendors. The produce included
watermelon 2 kinds, cantaloupe, two different corns from two different vendors,
squash, spring onion, zucchini, sweet onions, two kinds of peaches, string
beans, zipper peas, small amount of okra, many tomatoes, eggplant, peppers -
white, green, poblano, habanera, cayenne, Jalapeño, beautiful plants, fresh cut herbs and boiled peanuts. I sold out of peanuts at 10:30. Just remember what George Raborn said about
his watermelon, "Eat the meat, preserve the rind, save the seed for
another time." A poet in our midst.
The
Art Association of Ridge Spring: Everyone
is invited to come to Ridge Spring, SC on Saturday, July 14th at 9 0'clock at
the gazebo to paint an old piano. Young and old are welcome to come
and help decorate the piano for everyone to enjoy playing as soon as the paint
dries! Paint will be furnished by the
Art Center of Ridge Spring. The piano
will be left in the gazebo to play anything!
D.S. Owens took 2nd place in the Juried Exhibit at the Arts
and Heritage Center of North Augusta for his work, “Morning Calm”.
A Beginner stained glass class with instructor, Vernon Robinson on
Tuesday evenings from 6-9 beginning July 17th-August 7th. Cost of the class is $250 which includes all
supplies. Each student will complete an
8x10 piece.
Anne Hightower-Patterson White, watercolorist, will have an
intermediate-advanced class on Fri, September 14th and Sat,
September 15th from 10-4.
Cost is $130 and must be paid before September 10th. Pre-register at the Art Center on Fridays
,contact Joanne Crouch @ (803)685-5577 (leave message) or Saturdays or by email
joanne.crouch26@gmail.com.
Two pottery classes are planned by Kim Ruff. A small casserole class will be held on
Monday, September 10th from 6:30-8:30. Cost is $35 and includes glazing and
firing. On October 15, a clay Christmas
tree class will be held on October 15th from 6:30-8:30. Cost is $35 and includes all firing and
glazing. During Kim’s class, the students will be allowed to
make additional small pieces to use all the clay that is allotted for the
class.
Barbara
Yon is the solo artist in the member’s gallery at the Aiken Art Center. Her work will be there until mid July.
Hours
of operation at the Art Center are Fridays and Saturdays from 10-2. There is no
admission fee. Join us for our
membership meetings on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30. Check out our
face book page at Art Association of Ridge Spring& Gallery.
One more bit of information about
the "ox in the ditch". It was Luke 14 when Jesus was discussing
work on Sunday, “And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass
or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the
Sabbath day? And they could not answer him again to these things.” I love to have comments and to be corrected
by readers. You can teach old dogs new
tricks even if it was my half brother.
The live Oak trees that are in the
bump-outs on the square were looking like they were dying. The trees' root systems were restricted and
could not get enough water. With the
advice of Vivian Mann, watering the
trees began. Look at the branches that
appeared to be dead for small leaves are appearing. Thanks to Donna Lybrand and the town employees
for watering and bringing the trees back to life. The Farmers' Market loves the natural canopy
to block the sun.
Sometimes over lunch at Juniper with
Joe Cal Watson and his daughter Mary, interesting reminders of history come up
in conversation while we are sitting at the table. I mentioned that I remember my mother talking
about when Grandfather was able to put screens on the window to keep the bugs
out. Joe told us of his father when he
was building the big house and putting screens on the windows. Some men told him it was a waste of money,
but he did it anyway. Joe told us he got malaria every spring and
every fall. He just got some quinine and
was cured - no lasting effects. Yet today
we here of outbreaks of malaria in other countries and the disease is so
destructive. How fortunate we are.
The
Watson Family Reunion (Mary Edmonds): The reunion will be on Sat., Aug. 11,
in the old peach packing shed behind the Watson House on East Main Street in
Ridge Spring. All descendants of John or William Watson are invited to visit
cousins, learn more about our ancestors, and visit sites associated with the
family. The cost will be $20 per person. We need to know by July 20 if
you will attend so that we can make arrangements with the caterer. For more
information, contact Joe Watson at 803-685-7815 or joewatson@comporium.net or
Mary Watson Edmonds at 803-790-7780 or marywedmonds@gmail.com.
We hope to see you there!
RSM High Class of 1988 will have a reunion on July 14. If you are an ’88 graduate and interested,
contact Carol Pittman via Facebook for details and payment info. She needs a final count by July 2. The page is RS-M Class of 1988.
Josie Rodgers
As I
ventured to Walmart Sunday to pick up a few things, I saw the aisles already
bursting with school supplies. Part of me sang, “Yes! I LOVE school supplies!” and the other part wailed, “Noooo! I’m not ready!” Looking at some of the supply
lists from the past, we need to plan ahead to get the best deals. And if you have a little
extra, share with your school for those in need. There are always students who don’t have the supplies they need for
whatever reason.
Registration for Aiken County Schools can
be completed ONLINE this summer,
but parents will still need to go to
their child’s school to verify registration information and to show proof of
address. Parents/guardians of NEW
students are asked to come to their respective schools to complete the
registration process instead of the online process..
RSM Elem: Summer reading logs will be due when school is back
in session. Don’t wait until the last
minute! Read all summer! Read what you like! Read what you love! Just READ!
Did you know that the more a child reads the higher level his vocabulary will be and the more
successful he will be in ALL of his classes?
Get to the library and explore!
Elem Registration: New students & their parents/guardians
are asked to come to the school on Aug. 1 between 11am and 6 pm to register for
school. All parents are asked to visit the school BEFORE Aug. 11 to verify the
online registration information. Meet the Teacher will take place
Thurs., Aug. 16, from 3-6 pm. Parents
are asked to visit the school before Aug. 11 to verify the online
information.
RSM High:
RSM Lady Trojan Volleyball and Basketball summer schedule
will resume Tues., July 10, at 8:30 am in the gym! All mid or high girls interested in playing
for the Lady Trojans should be at the gym with 2018-2019 sports physical in
hand.
Registration
will be held on Tues., Aug. 7, from 11 am until 7 pm in the cafetorium. Even if you complete registration online, you
must still come to the school to verify that information and show proof of
address.
Review from David Marshall James: "The Word Is
Murder" by Anthony Horowitz
Novel and television
writer Anthony Horowitz proves a wise, old (in the most complimentary sense)
hand at mystery authorship with one of the best books in that genre in many a
month.
In a sense, it's
traditional in its elements, like a full English fry-up offered at some country
cafe where everything on the plate is fresh, down to the butter and strawberry
jam for the bread, from scratch, natch.
In another sense,
Horowitz gives his narrative a verity in presentation by rendering it
metafictional; that is, he places himself as "real life" participant
in the action, researching the book-in-hand during the course of a murder
investigation in which he's shadowing the investigator, former D.I. Daniel
Hawthorne.
Hawthorne has been cut
from the police force (the reader eventually discovers why), but his detecting
skills are well-nigh Sherlockian, so he's brought in to consult on difficult
cases.
By the writer's putting
Hawthorne at such a literary remove-- with no omniscient authorial insights or
credit for creating the character-- the reader has no entree into his
personal life. Therefore, Hawthorne emerges as more real, as someone even
the author doesn't know very well.
Horowitz thus gives the
reader a mystery on top of a mystery-- who is this man, when he's at home
and/or otherwise off-the-clock?
The main mystery grabber
here is that a well-to-do, fiftyish London matron goes into a well-established
undertaker's emporium at midday to plan her funeral and is murdered before
nightfall.
She's also the mother of
a famous son, an actor whose personal story looms large within the plot.
She's also at the center
of a tragic, ten-year-old court case, from which she got off scot-free.
Nevertheless, has justice finally reared its karmaic hand to strike down Diana
Cowper?
With former D.I.
Hawthorne, a master at interpreting minute clues, on the case, the reader ought
to pay attention to the nitty-gritty of the details. Horowitz supplies
several twists, and he sets them up nicely, so the reader ought to catch them
coming and derive some satisfaction therefrom.
Everything about this
book clicks into place like a model car or airplane, from its jaunts through
London neighborhoods as well as out of the city, to its finely hewed
characters. Tuck in, and smack thy lips.
Harriet's
Garden Tips: Sometimes I am reminded of my own
advise. I was wanting to plant my last
purple hyacinth bean vine, also called lab-lab, and just wanted to hurry and get
it in the ground. Then I remembered
that old saying, "dig a $10.00 hole for a $5.00 plant." Well, the plant did not cost me anything for
I grew it from seed I saved from last year.
I decided to keep digging and do it right. I dug up two nails a foot long piece of
barbwire and 8 small rocks. At least the
plant has a better start for the future of producing more seeds for me. This is
also a good time to start cuttings of roses and camellias for the new growth
has hardened.
REMINDERS
June-August: Ridge Spring Farmers Market
July 14: paint the piano at the Gazebo 9:00
Ridge Spring Library hours: Mon. Tues. 9:00 - 12:00; Wed. Thurs. Closed;
Fri.
10:00 - 4:00; Sat. 10:00 - 1:00.
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
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
Every Friday & Saturday:
AARS
hours 10 – 4 or by appt, free admission
Every first Tuesday of the Month:
AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783
Every 1st Thursday: Audibel Hearing Center
Every
Friday: Narcotics Anonymous and
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings 7-8 pm at The Ridge Spring
Library
Every 4th
Saturday: The Helpful Hands Food/Clothing Bank
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