March
16, 2020
Ridge Spring News
Harriet
Householder
The Town of Ridge Spring was decorated with
quilts and more quilts. Quilts of
history, old, new, and just quilts that need to be seen. They were in shops, the Civic Center and the
Art Center .
They
were even up on walls of buildings
as part of the quilt trail. There even
was a scavenger hunt among the shops and the Art Center. The Art Center will begin a quilting
awareness program year-round.
Always around St. Patrick's time the peach
trees bloom. How wonderful.
We are all concerned about the Corona virus. Number one rule is to wash your hands
thoroughly. The goal is for 20 seconds
so it has been suggested to sing Happy Birthday. I tried it and finished the song in 10
seconds. So I have learned to sing Happy
Birthday almost twice. I was planning to go on a European River
Cruise in April. The trip has been
postponed. One suggestion I learned from
my sister-in-law, make sure when you make reservations at hotels or such, they have
a cancellation policy.
ART
ASSOCIATION OF RIDGE SPRING & GALLERY Quilting on the Ridge occurred Friday
March 13th and Saturday March 14th. The
quilts on display around town were beautiful and reminded us of the past and the present.
Pottery Classes Monday, March 16, 2020 Garden
Lantern Time: 6:30 pm Cost: $35.00 Instructor: Kim Ruff To sign up: Message
Joanne Crouch at (803) 480-0576 or by email joanne.crouch26@gmail.com or stop
by the Art Center.
Bowl
Turning Class Saturday, March 21 1:00 PM – 3 PM *UPDATE*- CLASS FULL! Saturday,
March 28 1:00 PM – 3 PM Instructor: Nick Watson Cost: $80 Includes 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.
Pen Turning Class Monday, April 12 Cost:
$35.00 Each class is 1 ½ hours at Larry’s home workshop. Please email
{Marlene_Sides@yahoo.com} or Call: 706-829-4929 to book your session and
directions.
Exercise Class Get a new spring in your step
with our made-for-your-needs 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! 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.
Remember May 16, we have the
Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art Gathering. Carter and I will have our first batch of fresh
boiled peanuts. Don’t miss this
wonderful event beneath the beautiful magnolia and oak trees on this lovely
horse farm.
RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH:
Welcome to Spring!
Ridge Spring United Methodist
Church (RSUMC) during the month of March will be collecting items for an Easter
Egg Hunt. The Big Red Box (BRB) will be hungry for candy, plastic eggs and
other fun Easter items. If you would like to participate, leave your donation
on either the porch of the Church or the Family Life Center (FLC) and a member
will make Sure your donations makes it to the BRB. We will deliver donations to
Helpful Hands Ministry prior to their Annual Easter Egg Event.
Pastor Ashley is taking us
through the Lenten Season with meaningful messages and music. If you have not
heard her sing and/or her messages you are missing out. Service at 11 a.m. We
will save you a seat.
RSUMC is on Face Book. Find
us, like us and keep up with what is going on.
There will be NO Church
Service March 29, 2020.
Josie Rodgers
My only thoughts on the pandemic: get
educated, stop panicking, take precautions, be patient, use your common sense.
My students have been studying Brutus’ and Mark Antony’s speeches in Julius
Caesar and learning about ethos, pathos, and logos. They can’t believe how
easily and quickly the mob was swayed by each speaker and the chaos that ensued
shortly thereafter. Sound familiar?
My little River Man turns 6 years old this week! He is growing and learning
all the time! I love when he reads to me! Last week, we talked about all of my
names: Josie, Josianna, Jo, Joey, JoJo, Nana, Mom, Mama, etc. I asked him first
what my real name was, and he replied, “Jose!” Yes, that is one of my nicknames
bestowed upon me by Annalee’s friends when someone thought my personalized tote
said Jose instead of Josie. And yes, I answer to it! I actually had a science
teacher in 8th grade who called me Jose just to be funny!
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. RS-M Elementary students who shop on Mar.
28 will have a chance to win 1 of 4 zoo passes!
Yearbooks are being sold only
through treering.com and will not be available to purchase at school. Through
treering.com, you can customize two pages for free if you purchase a yearbook
before May 4! Yearbooks purchased by May 4 will be shipped to the school with
no added shipping cost to you and given to your student during the school day
by the end of May. Use the validation code below to order your standard or
custom yearbook today, starting at $22 for softcover and $28.95 for hardcover!
Validation code is 1014410540564413.
RSM High: Coaches
Johnson and Johnson are excited to kick off the first season of boys’ volleyball. We are having fun
learning and competing against each other. The Trojans were set to open up at
RSM High this week with a tri-match vs Wagener-Salley and Richland-Northeast.
However, with the recent suspension of athletics, that event must happen at a later
date.
Review from David
Marshall James: "The Museum of Desire" by Jonathan
Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman has cruised the pages of
his "Funk & What-All's" deluxe dictionary of Los Angeles for his
35th Alex Delaware novel, what the "Glibster's Guide to Modern
Fiction" would term a police procedural, although Delaware is a doctor of
psychology, not a cop.
However, he consults with singular sensation
Lt. Milo Sturgis of the LAPD, a detective who satiates his ongoing affair with
bakery boxes and whatever's du jour in Dr. D's fridge.
Best believe that with his, and Alex's,
current case, the LT-- as his team detectives at the PD affectionately refer to
him-- is plowing through the pastries like Little Debbie in a Maserati.
Sara Lee in a Lamborghini. Sister Schubert on a Harley.
By the by, among Kellerman's cast of
characters is a most unexpected and somewhat unlikely nun. Well, the city
was founded as a mission.
The case involves not a simple murder, but a
murder tableau, with four victims who constitute a most puzzling assemblage, so
Milo and Dr. D are having the three a.m. heebie-jeebies trying to get a bead on
how they connect.
It's a story that offers the author the
opportunity to ply his piece de resistance: Creating a large, diverse
cast of L.A. habitues. The narrative also affords Kellerman ample
interludes in which to reflect on the locale's culture.
Fortunately, the LT can restrict the
particulars of the murder tableau from the media. Yet, when another
homicide occurs in a crowd well-armed with camera phones, you might well think,
with all the ensuing pandemonium, that space aliens had landed, and all the
Sasquatches have come out of the woods to greet them.
Lest the grotesqueries overwhem the novel,
Kellerman allows for running humorous commentary from the LT. Primed with
his most-anti-L.A. diet of sugar and carbohydrates and sliced pastrami (please
don't trim the fat), Sturgis can deliver a punch line to match his waistline.
Kellerman may be the best writer of police
procedurals on today's shelves. A longtime resident of the City of
Angels, and a psychologist himself, he infuses his novels with a verity
bolstered by a fluidity developed over the course of his prodigious output,
dating back to the 1980s. And let's not forget the "Funk &
What-All's." Pass the pastries, LT.
Harriet's Garden Tips: This is the last chance to plant
trees. Remember to use Epsom Salts this spring. For sick-looking azaleas try
giving them a dose of 6 tbsp. salts to 1 gal of water. To discourage rabbits, sprinkle the salts on the
ground. To encourage berries on hollies,
work salts (1 cup) into the ground around them in spring and water well. After march 15, fertilize the whole garden. In our area, the last frost date is April.
REMINDERS
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
Second
Tuesday: Ridge Spring Harvest Festival
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