July 19, 2019
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Laura
Walker: Community Cat Clean-up Coming Soon!!!!
I am pleased to announce that the Town of Ridge Spring will be hosting a mobile
unit from the Humane Society of Columbia on August 5. Why you ask? Well, we
have a threat of RABIES on our doorstep after the rabid animals in Ward..PLUS
we have real problems with overpopulations of feral cats. So love our Mayor
Pat Asbill and so many more community-minded animal-loving souls for they
have made it possible to get your feral cat/barn cat spayed or neutered plus
vaccinated for RABIES for a
mere $19....right here in town!!!. Benefactors have provided
the hardware for humane trapping and then carrying your post-operative
patient home in a clean cat carrier in addition to that great deal of a reduced
cost.. So here's the deal. let's stop inviting the coyotes into town to feed on
kittens, let's stop flirting with RABIES, let's show how we really want the
best for our furry friends, let's start reducing our homeless pet populations
and the spread of disease from wandering cats,, and let's stop feeling alone in
dealing with this. It's $19 in 2019, August 5, if you want
to reserve your cat's appointment call or write me Laura Walker at (803)
685-6189 tandwalker@comporium.net! And don't worry if
you are disabled or elderly, someone will help you with the traps and animals.
FORS would like to give a big thank you to James
Scott for speaking and signing his book, Changing Faces, in Ridge
Spring. This book is about hardships, heartaches, having fun, working and
growing up in and around Ridge Spring. He also goes on to tell of his career
life in the military. This book can be bought from Amazon or checked out from
the Ridge Spring Library. You want be disappointed. Thanks to James's
family, Mayor Pat and Capers, and all others whom helped with this event. Mayor
Pat reported that they did have 50
chairs, but quit counting the number of people at the signing when it
reached 103.
Mt. Pleasant Baptist
Church Homecoming & Revival with Evangelist Bobby Earls
Sunday, August 11th @ 11:00 am with Homecoming Dinner served immediately following the
service. Revival services
continueSunday evening @ 6:00 pm; Monday - Wednesday services
held at 7:00 pm. Come join us and prepare your hearts to receive a
blessing.
The Ridge Spring Farmers' Market is a wonderful asset for our town. We were so fortunate to have had Emma
Jeannette Carr to be a great part of it.
Titan Farms is continuing to share the bounty of the land with customers
each Saturday. The Market is still going
strong so visit the town square between 8:00 and 11:00 or 12:00
Mercantile 23: Just a note about our beautiful new-to-us French doors with
individual beveled glass panes. They were black and rough when we purchased
them but thanks to the dedication of my talented husband Pat, they are smooth
and lovely. Painted with a special Blend of Frenchic Furniture Paint they
make a statement of their own. Thanks, Pat for all the adjusting of the size to
make them fit and the tedious scraping of the windows. You really made them
shine. We have the formula for the paint color if you like it. Drop by to
check out our complete line of Frenchic Chalk and Mineral Furniture
Paint. We are thankful for the many that came to the
book signing in the old bank building. It was a huge success. So thrilled to
meet Lieutenant Colonel James J. Scott and members of his family. I have known
his mother, Ms. Rosa for quite a while. I found Mr. Scott to be very gracious.
May God continue to richly bless you and your family. Thanks again and
welcome to the next chapter of our business in Ridge Spring. We truly do
believe the best is yet to come!!
Upcoming events in Ridge Spring include August 3, Dixie Bell sponsoring a Summer Time
Social and August 24Town-wide sidewalk Sale. Main Street will be lined with deals. Check it out on facebook. All the shops are "rearing" to
participate.
Saturday August 31 there will be a Fall Gathering at Ridge Antiques and
Dry Goods. There will be fall decorations and
a great selection of quality primitive antiques with Ann Myers,
High Grove Farm, Marie Widener,
Primitive Pickens. Stay tune.
Then on September 21st, we have the Magnolia
Ridge Antique And Art Gathering.
Watson Family Reunion, August 3, 2019:. If you will attend the reunion, please send a check for
$16.97 by July 22 made payable to Mary Edmonds, 4202 Sequoia
Road, Columbia, SC 29206. Please let Mary know if you have questions
(803-790-7780 or marywedmonds@gmail.com.) We hope to see you there!
Josie Rodgers
(Leagrace
was Josie's young granddaughter who had died. The family allowed her organs to
be donated) . Just last week, Amber
& Anthony received a letter from the parents of the two-year-old boy
who received Leagrace’s heart. Jacob (whose mom’s name is also Amber!)
lived for a year after he received Leagrace’s precious heart. Amber was so
hoping to hear LG’s heartbeat again one day. Jacob’s parents have two other
sons, and they want to meet Amber & Anthony. Please pray for them all
because they have suffered such heartbreaking losses and meeting will be
another emotional encounter but one full of love and healing.
Attention softball players: On
Aug. 3, Annalee Rodgers and Davis Wash,
recent graduates of Wardlaw Academy, will host a softball clinic from 8 am- 12
pm at the Edgefield Rec Baseball Fields. Participants will learn sliding and
bunting skills, basic hitting skills, infielding and outfielding techniques,
and those crazy chants and cheers players yell from the dugout. The day will
also include an athletic devotional as well as snacks and drinks. Cost is $50
per girl and is open to girls in 2nd to 6th grade. Rodgers
& Wash were starters for the varsity softball team that played for the
SCISA state championship for the past 3 years. Both have been consistently won
athletic awards from the school and been recognized state-wide for their
athletic skill. Text or call 803-480-4783 or 803-522-0586 to reserve your spot.
RSM High: Registration will be held Aug.
6 from 10 am to 6 pm. We will also hold a make up day Aug. 7 from
8:30 am to 4 pm. Complete the online registration prior to your visit or
get help from our staff using the computer lab.
Art Association of Ridge Spring
BASIC QUILTING: Mackenzye Barfield will be the instructor and
held August 3 from 12:00-3:00 pm. $35
includes top cloth and batting. Students will bring scissors, quilting
thread, water soluble pen, safety pins, quilting needles, 10” embroidery hoop,
pin cushion, thimble and backing for your practice piece. The focus of this
class is the stitch work and basic quilt construction process. Students
will draw their own design and execute with stitching. The project is intended to be a start in
class to be finished outside of class.
Future classes will add additional stitches and techniques. Pre-register is a MUST. To register, contact Joanne at Joanne.crouch26@gmail.com at the Art Center of
Ridge Spring on Fridays and Saturdays from 10-2. Class limit: 8.
Review from
David Marshall James: "The Right Sort of
Man" by Alison Montclair
It's postwar London,
still picking up the pieces from the Blitz. Ration coupons are the order
of the day. A pair of black-market nylons will set milady back four
pounds (about 50 bucks in today's $$$).
Still, there's hope,
springing eternal in the human breast if not the gams, and there're Miss Iris
Sparks (never wed tho' much-loved) and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge (a war widow
with a young son; both women in their late twenties). They've set up the
Right Sort Marriage Bureau in the midst of bombed-out Mayfair; indeed, all the
neighboring edifices have been reduced to rubble.
The two women have only
recently met themselves, but they've made quite a match. The event being
a wedding reception, the idea for their biz has come quite naturally,
particularly after repeated replenishment of their champers flutes.
As for the Bureau:
What better way to get the general population back to populating?
Things are going
swimmingly until one young woman seeking the Right Sort's services turns up
stabbed to death in an alley. All ridiculously hyper-obvious clues point
to the young man with whom the Bureau matched the deceased. Not a good
advert for business, that.
"Sparks" and
"Gwen" must save the day, the Right Sort, and the unfairly
incarcerated young man who sought the Bureau's services. Seeing as how
Sparks is former Special Forces (she'll have to kill you after she tells what
she did for King and Country during World War II) and Gwen is filled with
righteous rage at her tyrannical mother-in-law, who has seized custody of
Gwen's son, you had best believe that the duo are going to outfox Scotland Yard
and spring their client from the clink.
The dialogue fizzes like
fine champagne in this delightful, caper-filled mystery-series debut, as
irresistible as a bag of butter toffees at a West End matinee. Iris and
Gwen lead a cast of characters seemingly fresh out of some theatrical
confection of the day. A particular standout is the gargantuan,
gangster-ish secretary/aspiring playwright/bill collector who met up with Iris
in espionage-training at Cambridge and has carried something of a torch-- and
we don't mean a flashlight-- for her since.
It's full-up, all-out
teatime throughout the novel, as if Dame Agatha Christie and Sir Noel Coward
had devised a collaboration to lift London out of its postwar gloom. Get
yourself a copy, lie back, and think of England.
Harriet's Garden
Tips: From
Month to Month Gardening in the Carolinas The seeds of many perennials
can be sown either in pots of directly in the garden. It may take seed-propagated perennials from
two to three years to bloom from seed, but some will bloom in less than a year.
Start the seeds now outdoors in partially shaded location or in trays indoors.
Some examples are Butterfly Weed, Maltese Cross, Purple Cone Flower, Shasta
Daisy, and Yarrows.
REMINDERS
June 8 - Labor Day in September: Ridge Spring Farmers' Market
August 3: Watson Reunion
Summer Time Social
August 24: Town Wide Sidewalk Sale
August 31 Fall Gathering
Jeannette Carr Memorial: 864.656.5896,
www.clemson.edu/isupportcu, Jeannette Carr
Memorial, Annual Giving Office, 110 Daniel Drive, Clemson, SC 29631
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
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, Wed. 9-12
Ridge Spring Town
Hall: Monday
- Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm, Sat. 8:30am - 11:30pm
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