February
10, 2020
Ridge Spring News
Harriet
Householder
Peaches
are good for digestion. They provide 10%
of daily minimum fiber, One medium peach
supplies over 15% of the daily goal for vitamin In addition to their
anti-inflammatory antioxidants, peaches have beta carotene and vitamin C to
support healthy skin The lutein and zeaxanthin in peaches help protect the
retina and lens, and have been shown to reduce the risk of macular degeneration and
cataracts, two common eye disorders. Recent research shows that bioactive compounds
in peaches have
anti-inflammatory and anti-obesity properties.
February 14 & 15 Juniper
Restaurant will be celebrating
Valentine's day with our annual four course dinner with wine pairing options.
Reservations are required and filling up fast. 803-685-7547. Check us out on Facebook for the menu
posting.
Come and create with clay on Friday, February 21st
at The Ridge Clay Arts while Chef Brandon of Juniper prepares classic culinary
pairings that are delightfully delicious.
Bring a friend or make it a date. All you need is your creative spirit
& an empty stomach. Space is limited and experience is not necessary, book
your reservations today for this fun night! www.theridgeclayarts.com 803-334-7060, 6-8 pm $60.00 per
person includes, food, wine, clay, studio time & supplies.
Jeff Clamp, Band Director RSM middle /High
School: On January 30th eight
members of the Ridge Spring-Monetta High School Band traveled to Gaffney, SC to
participate in the Limestone College Honor Band Clinic. The students
rehearsed with their bands on Thursday evening, had some fun bowling after rehearsal,
and again rehearsed with their bands on Friday morning and afternoon before
giving an outstanding concert. The students also got to see a little snow
while in Gaffney. Representing RS-M at the clinic were Seniors Jonathan
Cumbee, Joanna Kaiser, and Makayla Lee, Juniors Chesley Cooper and Zachary
Truesdale, Sophomore Kyla Padgett, and Freshmen Nehemiah Singley and Daniel
Trinidad.
ART
ASSOCIATION OF RIDGE SPRING & GALLERY
For
all art lovers we have lots for you to see and enjoy! We are open Friday and
Saturday 10 am to 2 pm and you can also check out what’s new on Facebook or our
website at http://ridgespringlovesart.weebly.com. For those of you who are
artists or just love getting creative we’d love it if you’d become a part of
our association! If you’d like to learn more or would like to hear what’s going
on behind the scenes, we have monthly meetings held at 6:30 pm on the first
Thursday of the month. This month’s meeting (which has been rescheduled for
Saturday, February 8 at 1 pm so you can still join us!), we will be talking
about the upcoming quilting weekend which is being held March 13 and 14th. We
are at Art Center Ridge Spring 108 Maintenance Building Circle.
Exercise
Class
Come
join in on our exercise classes. Marlene Sides, RN, CES is the instructor. She
is a NASM certified personal fitness trainer and Registered Nurse. Equipment
for strengthening exercises provided. Drop-ins welcome!
We
now have more classes added!
Starting
Feb 11th every Tuesday and Thursday there will be a 4pm, 5pm and 6pm class.
Come join in! Fee: $5 per session Please email {Marlene_Sides@yahoo.com} or
Call: 706-829-4929 to book your session and directions.
Bowl
Turning Class
Saturday,
February 22, 202 1:00 PM – 3 PM Instructor: Nick Watson, Cost: $80 ncludes all
supplies. Session will be held in front
of the Art Center of Ridge Spring in Nick’s travel workshop. To sign up:
Message Joanne Crouch at (803) 480-0576 or by email joanne.crouch26@gmail.com
or stop by the Art Center.
Acrylic
Paint Pour
Saturday,
February 29, 2020 Time: 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. Cost: $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 pouring 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 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.
Contact
Carolyn at 803-685-7688 or e-mail irvcar@yahoo.com
Helpful Hands Ministries: "I'm Pressing To My Blessing, Philippians
3:14" is located at 109 Pecan Grove Rd., Ridge Spring, SC Contact fullygospelpraise.com.
Josie Rodgers
RSM Elem: On Sat., Mar. 28,
the PTO will sponsor a Spring Craft Fair
and Yard Sale from 9 am to 2 pm. Spaces are $15. If you would like to
register for a space or find out more, contact Kristine Sasser at ksasser@acpsd.net
or 803/479-0883.
RSM High: Congratulations
to Kelly Bedenbaugh, Teacher of the
Month for February, and veteran RSM teacher of 29 years! Also
congratulations to Staff Member of the
Month Amanda Derrick! She is one of the smiling faces you see when you
enter our school!
Teachers nominated Premier Trojans for Quarter 2: seniors Ali Gilliam & Collier Sullivan, juniors MaKayla Carson & Javier Lott, sophomores Mikenzie Kinard & Johnathan Venable, and freshmen Ariona Kinard & Joseph Bush.
Jeff Clamp, RSM Band Director: On Jan. 30, members of the RSM High School Band traveled to
Limestone College in Gaffney to participate in the Honor Band Clinic. The
students rehearsed with their bands on Thurs evening and then had some fun
bowling. On Fri., they rehearsed in the morning and gave a concert that
afternoon. The bands even got to see a little snow while there! RSM band
members attending included seniors
Jonathan Cumbee, Joanna Kaiser, & Makayla Lee; juniors Chesley Cooper &
Zach Truesdale; sophomore Kyla Padgett; and freshmen Nehemiah Singley &
Daniel Trinidad.
The Senior Beta Club and National English Honor Society will hold an induction ceremony on Tues., Feb. 18, at 6 pm
in the new media center. These two honors organizations provide service to our
school and community with individual and group projects. Members must maintain
high grades and show good moral character. By induction, the both clubs will
have members in grades 9-12. Sponsors are Josie Rodgers and Kelly Bedenbaugh.
The Beta Club is
collecting items for goodie bags to distribute to an Aiken nursing home Feb.
17. Items needed include nonskid socks & slippers, shampoo/conditioner,
toothpaste, body wash, combs/brushes, mouth wash, stuffed animals, happy cards,
lotion, deodorant, tissues, after shave, drawing pads, lip balms, puzzle books,
adult coloring books, colored pencils, and more. Contact Josie Rodgers or Kelly
Bedenbaugh about how to donate.
The RSM
High School Improvement Council will meet Tues., Feb. 18, at 4 pm. The PTO will meet the same day at 5 pm.
Then the Beta Club and NEHS will
have an induction ceremony.
HHouseholder: The "old"
RSM High School was torn down this past week to make room for the new
campus. Good Memories abound for us all. Yet the future is in our student body and the teachers and staff who are helping them
reach their goals. Thank you for the
memories and the wonderful future that lies ahead.
Here is
a trip down memory lane from the Augusta Chronicle, 1957.
"Ridge Spring Monetta High Building
Moved From Old
Williston Site and Metamorphosed into
Brand New Structure on US#1 as Economy
move for 2-County Area School
Aiken
June 9, (1957) - Ridge Spring and Monetta High School children will enter
school in September in a brand new "imported" building which has recently
been erected at a saving to Aiken County taxpayers of more than
$100,000.00.
In
these days of high costs one may wonder how a modern 15 classroom building
valued as $250,000.00 could be erected at a total cost of $135,533.00.
Aiken County was faced with a problem when the
State Department of Education engineered the consolidation of three school
areas composed of sections of Aiken and Saluda Counties in order to have an
accredited high school in that immediate area.
The
consolidation was placed by the state under the administration of the Aiken
County Board of Education, but was found that state funds were limited for
purposes of building a new high school in that area...
Superintendent
A. J. Rutland learned that surplus temporary school building in Williston, built
by the government at the height of construction of the Savannah River Plant
were soon to be sold. In addition, a
home economics laboratory, science laboratory, library, and manual training
workshop were incorporated into the building.
The
total cost of t his conversion was $132,783.00 including new specialized
equipment...
John
Worms, the architect, said he believed
this was t he first larfe school ever to be moved. .. He described the project as a "work of ingenuity"
on the part of Rutland and school officials who provided a find new permanent
school building when it has first been believed one was impossible.
Review from
David Marshall James: "The Holdout"
by Graham Moore
The sleeper hit of 2020
is bounding out of bed while the year is young: A murder-mystery/legal
thriller that will have book clubs dashing out the dishes and dialing up the
dialogue, with ethical issues abounding.
Novelist and Academy
Award-winning screenwriter Graham Moore sets the stage in Los Angeles with the
ten-year, reality-TV-extravaganza reunion of a jury that turned in a hotly
debated (during and after the trial) verdict in a sensational trial involving a
young, black male defendant and a 15-year-old daughter of a billionaire.
Because one crusading
juror, Maya Seale, swayed all the doubting Thomas's and Thomasina's of the jury--
much like Henry Fonda in the film "Twelve Angry Men"-- and because
one disgruntled juror, Rick Leonard, called her out after the trial (and even
went on to write a book, in which he blasted her all over again), sparks are
expected to fly on that reality-TV reunion.
On, how the sparks flew
during the months Maya and Rick were sequestered with the others, but for
different reasons. All this toxic personal history makes Maya-- the Fonda
figure, Hank not Jane-- all the more determined to skip the televised
gathering. Yet Rick ambushes her one month before the reunion, claiming
that he has unearthed proof that the defendant in the trial, Bobby Nock,
murdered the teenage Jessica Silver, a student at the private school where
Bobby, originally from Virginia, was teaching.
Rick informs Maya that
he's saving the big reveal for the TV cameras. Furthermore, she has since
become a successful L.A. defense attorney, and her boss believes Maya will
generate boffo biz for their firm if she reunites with her eleven compatriots
of yore, regardless of how much she'd like to bail on the event.
While the author presents
his case, the reader may wonder: Where is this headed? The first
plot twist heralds the procession of many to come, with some biggies stacking
up toward the finish. And why bother with a trial without
witnesses? It's positively un-American. Make that
un-Constitutional. We want to see the lady with the shapely gams, clad in
black, her face covered by the veil on her hat, take the stand to deliver
enriched-uranium testimony. (Bonus points if you remember that
pop-cultural showstopper from the 1980s.)
No spoilers on any of the
many page-stoppers and jaw droppers that red-pepper this novel. Plus,
plenty of sidebars-for-thought unscroll, concerning the grinding wheels of
American jurisprudence. Above all, how fickle was the fate that drew
Maya, Rick, and the ten other jurors (plus three alternates) together to
determine the future of an alleged murderer? The simple act of jury
compliance transforms way more than one-dozen lives, a perverse catalyst that
wields its seismic power in this surprise standout novel of the New Year.
Harriet's
Garden Tips: Took
my soil samples to be tested. Cost is still 6.oo unless you want a printed copy
to be mailed to you then it is $7.00.
Great bargain for us all. Cut
back that liriope, fertilized the bulbs
after they bloom, and start dreaming about that garden whether it is vegetable,
herb, or annual. Do not prune blooming
shrubs until after they bloom and before they start showing new growth.
REMINDERS
March 13-14: Quilting on the Ridge
May 16: Magnolia Ridge Antique & Art
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 Ridge Spring
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