February 8,  2019

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

Yon Family Farms: Make plans to attend our parent company's Spring Sale at Yon Family Farms - offering 175 breeding-age bulls and 75 females (including fall cow/calf pairs, bred cows and heifers) February 16, 2019 at 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM at 318 Aiken Rd, Ridge spring, SC

Juniper will be having their annual Valentines Dinner which includes a three course meal with delightful choices.  Make your reservations fast.

The Nut House and Country Store: Come by the store to check out our great selection of homemade pecan candies and local goodies that you (and, more important, your special someone) will love.  We know quite a few of you have been patiently waiting for a specific shade of Palmetto Pride tins...Garnet Palmetto Tree and Moon tins are now available.  Visit us Monday through Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Did you notice the WIS van in town Thursday?  They were visiting the Nut House and Juniper Restaurant to highlight them in their Palmetto Weekend Magazine. 

The next coming event sponsored by the Friends of Ridge Spring (FORS) will be:

Quilting on the Ridge

March 8 and 9

The town will have lots of quilts on display.  You may start at the Art Center,  108 Maintenance Building Circle (behind the Civic Center).  Purchase a bag of Goodies for $5.00.  View the painting of a guilt block.  Visit the Civic Center where Creative Sewing Machine Center will have a long arm machine with sewing and quilting machines on display and a sewing machine as a door prize.  The shops downtown will have more quilts on display.  Enjoy the walk, visit the antique shops and boutiques.  There are three restaurants in town, Juniper Restaurant, Migulitos, and Rikard's Roadside BBQ.  Additional raffle tickets will be available for our featured quilt for $1.00 each or 6 tickets for $5.00. i Raffle tickets are available at most stores. 

The beautiful quilt made by Anne Curley is on display at the Security Federal Bank. The bank is located  at 636 E. Main Street.  Their phone number is 803.674.1165.  If the bank happens to be closed when you want to view the quilt, it is in plain sight for all to see.  The mailing address is

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: 

February means Super Bowl AND Souper Collection! The month of February the Big Red Box will be collecting soup. Any kind, all kinds are appreciated. At the end of the month the soup will be distributed to local foods banks. Want to make a monetary donation? Send a check to the Church, on the FOR Line write soup and we will make sure it is designated for food banks. Another way to help: the Little Buckets are taking up money in support of favorite Super Bowl Team. Support donations will run until the end of the month so even if your Team didn’t win, you can still show support. Join us in this fun project and let’s fill the food bank shelves with soup. There is plenty of cold weather ahead. Service is at 11 a.m. unless other wised noted. Join us on Sunday for a praise filled message and fellowship. Don’t forget to ‘like’ us on Facebook.

The Garbles Inn and Gardens in Ward has closed.  The Inn and those who ran it will be missed.  Ridge Spring does have Magnolia Shadows that is located on the Aiken Rd. Ridge Spring.  If offers horse boarding, training and bed and breakfast.  Restaurant services are offered with the traveling horseman in mind.

Jeff Clamp, Band Director RSM: Six band students represented RS-M High at the 2019 Limestone College Honor Band Clinic in Gaffney, SC.  The clinic was held Thursday, January 31st through Friday, February 1st.  Senior Kelsey Moore, Juniors Jonathan Cumbee, Kandon Hastings, and Joanna Kaiser, Sophomore Chesley Cooper, and Freshman Kyla Padgett participated with students from other high schools across South Carolina.  The students rehearsed Thursday evening and Friday morning and afternoon with their respective bands, and the clinic concluded with an outstanding concert performed by the students on Friday evening. 

Josie Rodgers

My students have been talking about Valentine’s Day and wondering what to get for their sweethearts. Besides the traditional stuffed animals, roses, and candy, a sincere card or letter of love is a perfect (and economical!) choice. Stuffed animals tatter, roses wither, and candy gets eaten, but words on paper are sweet and lasting. According to Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18,” the written word can last forever: “As long as men can breathe and eyes can see/so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

I took nine of my Beta Club members to the SC Beta Club Convention at Myrtle Beach last weekend. I always get to see former colleagues who are sponsors. This past weekend was a first for me as one of my friend sponsors from Whitmire turned my eyes to another of their sponsors. I looked at her face and then her nametag. Oh my! She was one of my very first students my first year teaching at Whitmire! She’s 39 (made me feel old) and had her 16-year-old daughter at the convention. I was blown away at how this beautiful freshman I taught was now all grown up and teaching special education at her alma mater. Of course, I realize that it’s been 25 years since then, but in my mind, my students are all still young. It was a wonderful reunion.

RMS High: Nine Beta Club members traveled to Myrtle Beach last weekend for the SC state Beta Club convention. The club competed in the two-dimensional art (banner) competition and the portfolio (scrapbook) competition. Individuals competed in academic tests as well as visual and performing arts.  Jason Rodgers, senior, won 2^nd place in the visual arts painting competition with his painting “Reflections of Autumn.” This is the second year RSM has been honored with an award. After all the campaigning, students voted on state Beta officers, and winners were installed Sat night at the last general session. In addition, the finalists in Show Choir, Group Talent, and Solo/Duo/Trio Talent performed Friday and Saturday. The Betas enjoyed a dance after the last general session.

The following student athletes were named to the All State Class1A Football Team: Hayden Cherry, Trey Dean, and Collier Sullivan.

Troop 555 and Pack 555 meets 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at 7:00 pm at Ridge Spring Baptist Church. You may contact Melissa Stover  at mostover310@gmail.com. They are recruiting new members.

Review from David Marshall James:  "Killer Thriller" by Lee Goldberg

   The fun-filled action fairly careens off the pages in this second Ian Ludlow (creator of action hero Clint Straker) novel, which finds fictional novelist Ludlow Hong Kong-ing for a dimsum of publicity while one of his Straker novels is being filmed.

   Anything to boost sales and all that, although Ian is a two-for-one Jos. A Bank suits, Doritos-munching sort of fellow, far from conspicuous spending.  The only thing washboard-y about his physique is the back of each fleshy thigh, recliner-chair imprinted from his latest binge-watching episode.

   But, here's the thing about Ian, which makes him similar to his save-the-day-if-not-the-World protagonist, at least in foresight:  He's forever flushing out international intrigue and then plotting for the failure of any nefarious plans thereby retrieved.

   In "Killer Thriller," our washboard-thigh-backed writer discovers that China is on the verge of taking over the United States.

   Well, quelle grande surprise, as the French would say, and let's duly note that this novel approaches its grand finale in Paris.

   Real-life author Lee Goldberg is obviously having a blast lampooning and satirizing whomever and whatever, from endless Hollywood script rewrites to a certain diminutive, aging action star who's playing Clint Straker in the Hong Kong production.

   Goldberg also places several well-known politicians in his satirical crosshairs, and he's not above a good flatulence joke, what with the proliferation of greenhouse gases.

   Seriously, this amounts to a rollicking binge read.  Go back and catch last year's "True Fiction" first for a super-duper double feature.  Don't wait for a film version.  No telling how many rewrites it'll undergo first, or which diminutive, mid-fiftyish star may be miscast as Straker.  Now, if he wants to play Ian Ludlow, he can find the Doritos on the aisle with all the good stuff.

Harriet's Garden Tips:  Much to my surprise I have some tulips blooming in my pots.  They are called surprise and they really are.  Remember to fertilized bulbs after they bloom.  Making potpourri our of those red roses you received for Valentine's Day  is a sweet idea and should smell sweet, too.  But you have to add more than rose petals. First pluck the petals off the stem, lay out on newspaper and allow to dry for a day or two.  Then sprinkle with ½ teaspoon each of ground cinnamon and ground lavender.  Sprinkle with four or five drops of rose essential oil or rose water.  Close up in a glass container and shake.  Leave in a warm dry spot for 24 hours then shake again.  Enjoy.  

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 1^st Thursday:  Audibel Hearing Center in the back room of Bank

Security Bank Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 9-12  1-5,        Wednesday 9-12