October
14, 2019
Ridge Spring News
Harriet
Householder
Ridge Spring Harvest Festival News: There were 15 competitors at the BBQ
Contest.
Bingo was a success
with 24 games. Hope you won or at least
24 people won. WIS's weather man Tim Miller was the parade's Grand Marshal and
the weather was perfect. The decorations
were around the gazebo this year for in the next few weeks they will start
construction of revamping the town square.
It will be beautiful but it will take time. They are planning to do half at a time to
keep half the parking lot available for the businesses.
BBQ Battle for the
Ridge:
The winners are:
1st Place-
S'Lowcountry Q- THE NEW BBQ KING OF RIDGE SPRING. They
won $1200, a trophy and will have flag made with their team logo to
fly above the town for one year!
2nd Place - CBF QUE
last year's BBQ King came up .074 of a point from repeating. $800
3rd Place - Backwoods
Bar-B-Que $600
4th- The Hog Mafia
5th- All Smoked Up
RIBS- 1st place
Blazing Bullets
Backyard BBQ Cook-off-
Local, Billy McCurry with Holy Smoke BBQ won $300, title of Backyard
Champion and free entry into next year's BBQ Battle for the Ridge!
Effie Martin: The winners from the Show
Time at the Ridge Spring Star community center are: first place Ahmaurinah
Bing; Second Place Charity and Shatoya Prescott; and third place was Mrs. Alma
Finnie, former basketball coach at Ridge Spring Middle school.
Celebrate fall's bounty amidst the
season's brightest foliage Saturday, November 2nd 6-9 pm at Somewhere in Time Manor. A
benefit for The Courage Center of Lexington SC, Carmen Holley and Amy Derrick
are hosting a farm to table to celebrate Sweet Magnolia Travel’s 3rd
Anniversary. Dinner will be prepared by award winning chef Branon Velie, owner
of Juniper of Ridge Spring, music by Henry and the Wynns, videography by
Charles Anderson, and photography by Shane Jackson. Feast your eyes on
the menu with food provided by farms in our community: Adluh Mill, Watsonia Farms, Titan
Farms, Roland Organics, Yon Family Farm, Walter P. Rawl, and Trail Ridge.
Barbara Yon is sponsoring the Sweet
Magnolia Travel Benefit for The Courage Center; she will have original art on
display at the Farm to Table event to benefit The Courage Center; twenty five
percent of any items sold will be donated to The Courage Center and there will
be a special piece offered in a Silent Auction will all proceeds going to the
center.
Barbara Yon, a resident of Ridge
Spring, South Carolina, is a member of Anderson Artist Guild, Aiken Artist
Guild, North Augusta Artist Guild, Artist Guild of Ridge Spring and the South
Carolina Water Media Society. Barbara is recipient of numerous awards at
the state and local level with latest award being "Best in Show" in
North Augusta. Her art from the South Carolina Water Media Society Show
traveled the state for one year. She also was guest artist at Pearl Gallery in
Portland, Oregon and the Paper Mill Art Gallery of New Jersey.
The purpose of The
Courage Center is to fill the gaps in the recovery community specifically for
young people and families. A key part of fulfilling this purpose is by raising
hope in the community that recovery from substance use is a reality in the
lives of many individuals and families in our community. Another part of this
is inclusion of the voice of both members of the recovery community, and the
community at large, so that The Courage Center remains centered in meeting the
needs of the community.
High School Art Students at Ridge
Spring High School will prepare table decorations for the event as well as a
display of fine art photography with the theme of celebrating life.
Let
us come together to translate our compassion into action as a community. Don’t
miss this opportunity to enjoy the company of other philanthropists while
positively impacting others’ lives. "The greatness of a community is most
accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its
members" – Coretta Scott King. Farm to Table tickets may be
purchased through Eventbrite @ http://bit.ly/happybirthdaysweetmagnoliatravel.
Jeff Clamp Band Director, Ridge Spring-Monetta Middle / High: On
Saturday, October 5th the RS-M True Blue Marching Band competed in the
"Fin Fest Tournament of Bands" at St. James High School in Murrells
Inlet, SC. RS-M was again up against much larger schools (3A Marion, 4A
Airport, and 5A South Florence). Despite being the only 1A school in
their class the True Blue Band won awards for 2nd Place Colorguard, 2nd Place
Music, and 2nd Place overall in Class 1-A. After the competition the band
members enjoyed a well-deserved "mini-vacation" in Myrtle
Beach. The next competition for the RS-M Marching Band will be Saturday,
October 12th in the "Garden City Classic" at Orangeburg-Wilkinson
High School. The True Blue Band performs at 2:00 p.m.
Art Center of Ridge Spring
We have an exciting demonstration coming to
the Art Center! Have you ever seen a beautiful pen that was made of wood? Larry
Sides will be showing pen turning. He will be demonstrating beginner and
advanced pen turning techniques and lathe safety/use. Samples of various lathe
projects (bowls, pens, etc.) will be on display. Please, come to our
center on Saturday, October 19th from 10 to noon. Demo is free to
all, it’s an opportunity to learn and to see if you’d like to try your hand at
this wonderful craft!
Congratulations to
Kedryn Evans for coming in third place in the Open Media Professional category
at the SC State Fair. This is Kedryn’s first time entering the state fair. Her
piece is a glass-on-glass mosaic of a colorful crab. Make sure you stop by the
Cantey building and take a walk down Winners Row to see it!
Get ready for the holidays by making
some fun gifts with clay. Make a ceramic tree and a platter to put Santa’s
cookies on! Acrylic Paint Pour Class on Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 10
a.m. till 2 p.m. Cost is $30.00. All supplies furnished. Class size
limited to 6 adults only. Teacher: Carolyn Boatwright
We will explore several ways of doing pour paint. You
will be pour painting on a 11"x 14" canvas. Painting will take
3 days to dry and will then need to put coat of varnish on painting to keep
dust from sticking to canvas. We will discuss when to come back to finish this
process. Bring an apron or wear clothes that you don't mind getting paint on. Bring
something to drink and a snack if you think you will need something to eat or
drink during this time. We can take a short break if needed.
Review from David Marshall James: "Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years" by Julie
Andrews, with Emma Walton Hamilton
Millennials and Gen X's and Z's (those who grew up with cable TV and the
Internet) will never be able to fathom how huge a star Julie Andrews was during
the mid 1960s, on the heels of "Mary Poppins" (1964), which supplied
the funds for Disneyworld, and "The Sound of Music" (1965), which remained
in theatrical release for years and became the top-grossing film of all time to
that date.
It's
thus only fitting that Dame Julie recount her instantaneous rise to film glory
as well as her marriages to film & theater set & costume designer Tony
Walton, whom she had known for more than a decade, then film writer &
director Blake Edwards.
Andrews and Edwards were two ships who literally passed one another on
their way to see their analysts. The
author is utterly frank about her many years in counseling, having suffered a
wrecked psyche from a childhood spent touring on the vaudeville boards
throughout the U.K. Born Julia Wells,
her mother divorced Julie's beloved father and married a man who later became
an abusive alcoholic. Teenaged Julie
quit school to support her family, and by age 14 was spending the night in
hotel rooms by herself while performing away from her home in a London suburb.
Her
first volume of autobiography, "Home:
A Memoir of My Early Years," includes her coming to America in
1954, aged 19, to star in the Broadway production of "The Boy
Friend." She followed that with
"My Fair Lady" (more than 2,500 performances, on Broadway and then in
London) and "Camelot," in which she was still playing Guenevere when
Walt Disney came backstage to offer her the title role in "Mary
Poppins."
Incidentally, she has only good things to say about Disney and most of
her coworkers, including Christopher Plummer in "The Sound of
Music." The only celebrity who comes
under major fire is Peter Sellers, who apparently gave Blake Edwards fits
during the last two "Pink Panther" movies, before his untimely death
from a massive heart attack at age 54.
At that, Andrews wonders whether Sellers' medications were the source of
his highly erratic, often bizarre behavior.
This
highly readable memoir will grab any Andrews fan; meanwhile, post-Baby Boomers
ought to experience what a true star really is.
The author is ably assisted by daughter Emma Walton Hamilton (born just
prior to the production of "Mary Poppins"), although she has written
many a children's book, dating back to the 1970s. Mother and daughter take the reader up to
1986, so it would seem likely that a third volume of remembrances is
forthcoming.
Andrews, who prefers life in Gstaad, Switzerland, has never been big on
the Hollywood social circuit, so gossipy star tales do not pour forth with
abandon. Still, there's an occasional
treat here, such as a Christmas-season
gathering in Switzerland with David Niven, Sir Noel Coward, Richard Burton
(Andrews' costar in "Camelot"), and Elizabeth Taylor: "Elizabeth Taylor flashed an
astonishingly large diamond ring that Richard had given her for Christmas, and
remarked, 'It's a bit of a giggle, isn't it?' "
Looking forward to Part Trois, Dame Julie,
and many thanks for this.
Josie Rodgers: RSM High:
There’s
nothing like a BIG small-town festival! The
Harvest Festival did not disappoint! The parade was short but exciting with
beauty queens, fire trucks, students, Scouts, athletes, and super cool
motorcycles. The crafters showed out with their amazing creations, and the food
vendors kept everyone well fed with delicious food and treats. The
entertainment was fun. My favorite part of the festival is the gathering at my
mom’s home on Main Street. Annalee was home from Wofford. We always have
friends come from our hometown of Winnsboro, and mom enjoys using her Martha
Stewart persona with the décor and food. On Sat morning, we drank gingerbread
hot chocolate, ate pumpkin muffins, watched the parade, and then headed to
town. Later, we had the most scrumptious chili with rice and tons of sweet
treats. Then it was back to town for more treats and fun.
Sunday
would have been my sister’s 48th
birthday. One of her best friends spent Harvest Festival weekend with us at
my mom’s, and the fact that Sunday was Letitia’s birthday made everything all
the more special. She’s been gone 9 years now, but we talk about her all the
time and keep her spirit alive! We miss her so very much but know that we will
see her again! As we spread awareness about domestic violence, be sure to
listen carefully to your loved ones who may be victims or future victims. Don’t
judge; just listen and try to help the abused person get stronger, more
confident, and more independent.
Congratulations to Alyssa Derrick who competed in the SC State Fair Horse Show this past
weekend. She competed in 7 events and place in 4: 1st in Novice
Western Showmanship, 2nd in Novice Walk/Trot Arena Race, 3rd
in Hunter Showmanship First Year, and 3rd in Hunter Under Saddle
First Year. Alyssa has only recently begun training with horses and has already
taken the equestrian world by storm! Alyssa is the daughter of Russell and
Amanda Derrick of Ridge Spring and is an 8th grader at RSM Mid.
RSM Elem:
Student Recognition: A student recognition assembly will be held on Oct.
17 at 1:30 pm. We will recognize our Summer Readers and the students who
currently qualify for Beta Club. Students will still receive the
incentives for completing their reading logs. Students who turned in their
Summer Reading forms will receive a ticket for free admission to the Nov. 1 RSM
High football game.
RSM High: The Trojans traveled down to Blackville last week and
were defeated 42-14. They will travel to Wagener this week to take down the War
Eagles. The last 2 games of the season will be home games: Oct. 25 vs Estill,
and Nov. 1 vs HKT (Senior Night). If you didn’t make it to our fabulous
Homecoming game, you should come out to see these Friday Night Lights!
The Beta Club and
NEHS are
spreading awareness about breast cancer and domestic violence awareness. They
are selling pink and purple rubber awareness bracelets to raise money to help
provide service to our local organizations.
Harriet's
Garden Tips: Pansies
are here. They are so varied and
beautiful. As with any annual make sure
the plant has not dried out. Check by
placing in a bucket of water and if it floats it has dried out. Leave in the
bucket till it sinks or you push it down in the water because you are tired of
waiting. Plants are blooming when you buy them but you must continue to
fertilize them to keep them in bloom. Do
so with a weakened solution but twice as often.
Can you believe it is that time of year to plant bulbs, yard plants and
if possible a fall garden. Life is good for the
gardener!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
REMINDERS
October 26: Yon Family Farm Cattle Sale
November 2: Celebrate fall's bounty of foliage 6-9 pm at Somewhere in Time Manor
November 1,2,3: Richland Creek Tractor Pull
November 2: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 Ridge Spring
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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