March 2, 2020

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

Quilting on the Ridge

March 13and 14

Come enjoy the weekend in Ridge Spring, SC while exploring the history of collection of area quilts. Start the day at the Art Center where $5 gift bags are available which contains a raffle ticket for a quilt, rack cards for areas of interest, and a fabric swatch. Vintage quilts will be available for view. Each will contain its history whenever available. Visitors can also view the art of local artists. Visitors are also welcome to visit the RS Civic Center where vendors will offer wares that are quilt related. You may become a vendor for $25 for 10 x 10 spot. Antique quilts will be on display in other stores downtown.

Downtown Ridge Spring had those unique flower beds that held beautiful crepe myrtles for several years.  Over the years several of the crepe myrtles disappeared but the flower beds stayed and took up valuable parking spaces.  The town has continued to grow with new businesses.  Well, they are now gone.  The Main Street looks wide and clean.  You still have to parallel park on Main Street, but it is looking great.

Ridge Spring Monetta High School and Elementary School had a ground breaking and dedication February 24, 2020.Two alumni for the 1959 class got to participate in the groundbreaking, Cort and Lona Proctor.  I may have the date wrong but they were in the second class to finish at the "New" now old RSM.  Dr. Sean Foster, Pastor Peter Blacks, Mrs. Sandra Shealey, Mrs. Callie Herlong, Dr. KaRon Webb, Keith Liner, and Mr. King Laurance spoke.  It was rainy but all smiles with a sense of success by all..  The event was in appreciation to voters who approved the Educational Capital Improvements Sales and Use Tax in November 2014.

Jeffrey Clamp, On February 21 - 22 two students represented the RS-M Band program at the SCBDA Region Two Honor Band Clinic.  Eighth grader Landon Hastings and Sophomore Kyla Padgett earned this honor through their auditions in January.  Their selection signifies that they are among the best from all schools in the following counties:  Abbeville, Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Edgefield, Greenwood, Lexington 1, 2, 3, 4, Lexington/Richland 5, McCormick, and Saluda.  As you can see it is quite an honor to be selected considering the number of outstanding schools in those counties.  Congratulations Landon and Kyla! 

ART ASSOCIATION OF RIDGE SPRING & GALLERY

Ridge Spring is a small town with lots of BIG things happening! Our downtown is being updated and the changes already look wonderful. We have events and fun things to do, such as Quilting on the Ridge coming up on March 13 and 14. Plus, our Art Center has beautiful art and lots of great classes! We are open Friday and Saturday 10 am to 2 pm for you to see our art and sign up for classes. You can also check out what’s new on Facebook or our website at http://ridgespringlovesart.weebly.com

Pen Turning Class Monday, March 9, 2020 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.

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 – Sign up NOW, classes fill up quickly! 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.

Exercise Class: Come join in on our exercise classes, they are lots of fun and are fine-tuned to your health needs! 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.

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: February the Big Red Box is collecting soup and other non-perishable food items. These will be delivered at the end of the month to a local ministry, Helpful Hands. If you would like to help out, leave your donation on the porch of either the Church of Family Life Center.  Pastor Ashley returned safely from her Mission Trip. So much to share. We are working on a Sunday for her presentation. Will keep you posted. RSUMC is on Face Book. Visit our page.

Still Waters Baptist Church REVIVAL With Roger Clark (In the Potter’s Hand) You’ll be glad you came!!  Friday, March 13. 6:30 pm; Saturday, March 14.   6:30 pm; Sunday. March 15 10:00 am. Still Waters Baptist Church, 374 Delmar Rd., Leesville, SC.  29070.
Two miles from the traffic circle

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

Review from David Marshall James:  "Name Drop:  The Really Good Celebrity Stories I Usually Only Tell at Happy Hour" by Ross Mathews

   With his 20 years on talk shows, infotainment reports, and reality programming, Ross Mathews has emerged, like Venus rising from under a Craft Services table, as the television love child of Paul Lynde and Wayland Flowers.

   (Which causes us to ponder:  It's high dang time for another reboot of "Hollywood Squares," with RM in the Center Square-- one can almost hear the Lyndean wisecracks and comebacks, the Flowersian cackle.  Plus, RM modeling the latest in faux fur from Dicker & Dicker of Beverly Hills.)

   In his latest book (the first being the memoir "Man Up!"), RM recounts Celebrity Encounters of the Third Kind.  Sadly, a few sore-thumb-out as Celebrity Encounters of the Merde Kind (read:  Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Walters, and "Friends" Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry, although LeBlanc offered a heartfelt mea culpa for his inconsideration some years later).

   Thankfully, the Celebs-with-Heart win the day:  Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Rosie O'Donnell, Jason Priestley, and Jackie Collins among them.

   RM, a regular hot-spot dinner companion of the late La Collins, remembers our favorite Hollywood tittle-tattler, whom we recall from a vintage People magazine spread, graciously showing off her gleaming Spago-esque kitchen and sharing her dinner-party meatloaf recipe, featuring Lipton Onion Soup Mix.

   Gotta love a soup-mix maven. Hard to beat the retrolicious spinach/sour cream/Knorr vegetable soup mix dip.  Some people serve this with crudites.  Mais non-- we head directly for the Fritos:  C'est tres magnifique.

   Speaking of retrolicious hors d'oeuvre recipes, RM serves one up with each chapter as a "Rossipe," along with instructions on mixing a proper cocktail.

   After all, the whole vibe of this book is you're sharing cocktails and canapes and delicious dish with RM at a happenin' happy hour.  Indeed, that would make a tres-fab premise for a chat show:  "Sip 'n' Share with Ross," to include a cooking spot for the hors d'oeuvres.

   Still and all, we're eagerly awaiting the latest incarnation of "Hollywood Squares."  Can't you imagine the possible theme shows?  "Real Housewives" (BTW:  Ross's Brandi Glanville chapter is a hooter), "Boy Bands of Yore," "Million-Dollar Listers," "Truly Horrifying Politicians," "Vintage Sitcommers," "Primo Politicians" (that includes you, Sean Patrick Maloney), and many another mind boggler.

   Be sure to fight for that Center Square, Ross.  Papa Paul would be proud.

Harriet's Garden Tips: Do you have moss growing in your lawn?  If so, this means you need fertilizer, or that the drainage is pour.  Give mossy spots extra fertilizer, and check drainage carefully. 

If evergreens have not been pruned, do get it done by the end of the month.  This must be done before new growth starts. 

Sweet peas may be planted this month.  Did a deep trench, add compost and dehydrated manure.  Next add good garden loam, mix with a small amount of ground limestone.  Plant the seeds 6 inches deep, cover with 2 or 3 inches of soil. As the plants grow fill in around them until the earth is level.  Be sure to thin plants if crowded.  I have tried sweet peas, and I just planted them in good soil.  Do it either way, but  just try something new.

   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

Second Tuesday: Ridge Spring Harvest Festival