January 11, 2019
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Ridge Spring Harvest Festival: The
BBQ King's flag is flying prominently above Ridge Spring! CBF QUE reigns for 1
year until the next BBQ Battle for the Ridge takes place. Congratulations
to Pimp My Pig BBQ for
taking home the SCBA's state championship in pulled pork and JT's BBQ taking
home 1st in ribs! The state of South Carolina has 2 great ambassadors to
represent the SCBA and #scbbq.
Next battle is October 11th and 12th here in Ridge Spring!
Security Federal Bank Hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 9-12 1-5, Wednesday
9-12.
Reminder about the Farmers'
Market being moved to the Civic Center Parking lot due to construction at the
Town Square. This will be after the
Peach Tree 23 Yard Sale.
Narcotics
Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous has cancelled its
weekly meetings at the Ridge Spring library.
It will be started back up in the new year. There are meetings in Aiken if interested.
On
a personal note:
I had three friends who I taught with at Lexington Intermediate
School a few years ago come to visit me
in Ridge Spring. After a wonderful lunch
at Juniper we toured some of the Ridge Spring Shops. How delightful it was for me to show this
town off to my Lexington friends. We did
not visit all but we got to the two clothing stores and two antique shops in
town. They also thought I lived in Ridge
Spring. I wonder why.
Ridge Spring Monetta Elementary
Terrific
Kids for December (Honesty): Emma Mitchum, Natlie Williams, Demir
Gantt, Starla Lance, Kamiah Smith, Braylynn Thomas, Aiden Love, Zy’kiel Hope,
Easton Crosby, Alex Fierros-Garcia, Katelyn Jones, Shamira Gibson, Natily
Roccia, Colton Hartley, Jayden Mancilla, Riley Holsomback, Breonna Jamison,
Landon Loudon, Selena Pavon-Rivas, Brailon Frazier, Jaiden Gibson, Brianna
Henley
Security Federal Bank: Giving children the basic foundation to
understand how to properly budget and save for the future is extremely
powerful. You can do this by taking
advantage of the services provided by Security Federal Bank. A bank representative comes to school every Friday
from 7:15 am to 7:45 am. to collect deposits for Savings’ Accounts. If you have already set up an account for
your child, remember to make frequent deposits.
If you haven’t set up an account, please come on a Friday morning to
complete the necessary paperwork or stop by the bank on Main Street in Ridge
Spring.
Yearbooks: Yearbooks will be sold through the website
Treering.com. You can purchase a
yearbook at anytime by going to Treering.com and using the school's validation
code. The cost of a softcover yearbook
is $22.00. You have the option of
customizing 2 pages in the yearbook for your child. The yearbook
will be shipped to the school and given to your child by the end of May. The school will not be purchasing extra
yearbooks, however, you may purchase yearbooks after the school's deadline, May
2, but there will be an added shipping charge.
Validation
code: 1014410540564413
Setting
Goals for the New Year: A goal is something
that you are trying to do or achieve.
Setting a goal will: Improve your confidence, Help you make better
decisions, Give you motivation in life
Have children
start by setting small goals that can be achieved quickly. This will help them understand the process of
setting and achieving a goal. Once they
grasp this concept, have them set more goals.
This story was in my
column back in January 2015. It is a
good memory for this time of the year.
Enjoy and perhaps enjoy again.
Joe Cal Watson,
Wallace Steadman and Their Long Trip from Clemson College to Ridge Spring,
A Really, Really Long
Trip Home
The time was
1943 All airports were Army Military
Bases
True story by Joe
Watson and written by Harriet Householder
Joe and Wallace were students at Clemson. They had joined the Army Reserves so they
could complete ROTC at Clemson. While
being in the reserves they were allowed to ride if space were available on
military planes ( this is often referred to as space A). They also had been
promised to be allowed to finish College.
By the way this did not happen, either.
After the war both men went back under the GI Bill and finished Clemson,
It was Christmas break, they were in uniform,
and they were ready to get home. In the
past they hitch-hiked a ride to Greenville and caught a plane to Columbia where
they hitch-hiked to Ridge spring which was home for both. This time when they got to the Greenville
airport they had to wait and wait and wait; between them they had less than
$5.00. Finally they took a flight
heading to Atlanta. They might be able
to catch a plane to Columbia from Atlanta.
Once in Atlanta, they were given a place to sleep and breakfast. The homefolks did not know where they were so
they sent them a telegram, “In Atlanta headed to Richmond” for Wallace had an
uncle in Richmond, Virginia. There were no flights going north so they decided
to keep going south.
They flew on a B17 and ended up in
Brooksfield, Fla. It was 40 miles from Tampa where Joe’s Aunt Chloe Edwards and
cousin lived. So they took a cab for ten cents to her house. Back then gas was
being rationed, so military could ride for a dime but it was a complicated
ride. Once you got in the cab the driver
may pick up and let out others along the way. He went where the riders wanted
to go as long as it was a continuous route which meant you could ride all
around Tampa until they got close to Aunt Cloe’s House.
That Sunday night the men went with their
hosts to Sunday night service and heard a lade recite from memory “The fourth
Wiseman.”
They
stayed in Tampa until Monday. Joe and
Wallace went to the army base to catch a ride back north. When they got to the
gate they were told that they could only ride on a plane if they had their own
parachute. Neither had one so back to
hitchhiking they went. They then spent money for a bus ride to get to the north
side of Tampa to hitch a ride home. They did buy lunch in Tampa for $0.30 which
was cheese and bread. That left them
$0.20 to get home on.
They were able to get a ride to the Florida
Georgia border, but then they had to ride in the back for the company did not
want the drivers picking up hitch-hikers.
Joe and Wallace didn’t mind for they ate tangerines. They got to Savannah and spent $0.10 on two
cups of coffee and went back to trying to get a ride home. They caught a ride to Summerton and spent the
rest of their money: $0.06 or a package of rolls and $0.04 on 4
cigarettes. By now it was Tuesday. From there they got a ride easily to
home.
They did not see Richmond but they did get
home after having a meal of tangerines, rolls and finished off with two
cigarettes each.
Harriet's
Garden Tips: The weather is
so mixed up for us now. If it is not raining we are waiting for the
ground to dry. Raking pine straw is needed
but how dry should it be before you start raking it. If you rake it damp, should you spread it out wherever you want to put
it? Here is my rule of thumb; Do what you can when you can. Just know that leaves rot nicely and pine
straw does not. But pine straw is
wonderful and a natural cover for those flower beds. Have you got your dream garden planned and
are you ready to get those seeds?
Are you going to have a spring
garden, summer garden, fall garden or all three?
REMINDERS
Ridge Spring Library Hours: Mon. Tues. 9:00 - 12:00; Wed. Thurs. Closed;
Fri. 10:00 -
4:00; Sat. 10:00 - 1:00.
Saluda Library Hours:
Mon/Wed
8:30 am-5 pm; Tues/Thurs 8:30 am – 6 pm; Fri 8:30 am – 5 pm; Sat closed
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
Fridays & Saturdays:
AARS
hours 10:00-2:00 or by appt, free admission
Every first Thursday of the Month:
AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783
Third Thursday: FORS at Town Hall at 5:30 PM
Every 1st Thursday: Audibel Hearing Center in the back room of Bank
Security Bank Hours: Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday & Friday 9-12 1-5, Wednesday 9-12
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