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Grange hosts a “Dial 811” program for their local community. | I belong to Indian Trail Grange in Lowell, Indiana. This is our second year for the “811” presentation. Last year an “811” representative from Indianapolis came up to give the information. “811 Call Before You Dig” program has very important lifesaving and cost saving information and many do not know it is the law to call “811”. Respectfully, Sandy Linden Indian Trail Grange |
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Grange splits wood for the Historic Ramsey House. | My Grange, Sunbeam Grange, splits wood for the Historic Ramsey House in St Paul. They use the wood in their kitchen stove where their interpreters bake cookies for their holiday tours. We also deliver it and stack it for them. We send one or two pick up loads to them each fall/winter. Donna Champion Minnesota State Grange President |
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Hosts a combined event with the local library. | Florissant Grange (CO)
- This year we combined with the Florissant Library Drama Club play “Cowgirl Cookie and the Mysterious Disappearance of Grandma Cookie”. On Friday night parents, relatives and community members crowded the Grange Hall to see the performance and on Saturday 67 community members purchased dinner tickets for the first ever Dinner Theater at Florissant Grange. Florissant Grange also works with the local Rotary Club to purchase and deliver dictionaries to local elementary schools for the “Words for Thirds” project. The Grange lets the local VFW use the Grange Hall for meetings at no charge and in return the VFW maintains the flag flying outside the hall. Their Grange works with several other volunteer organizations in the community throughout the year such as the 4H, volunteer Fire Department. The open their doors to the community by having western music nights at the hall on many nights during the year. Renee and Alan Caldwell Colorado State Grange Community Service Directors |
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Washington State Grange | Every successful Grange completes at least two community service projects each year. Here is a list of projects being completed by Granges across our state: Potential Projects 1. Assist with the local Veteran’s Museum (provide coffee, cookies, supplies, etc) 2. Laying a wreath at a local cemetery 3. Place flags throughout the community on Memorial Day and other holidays 4. Swags on Veteran’s Graves for Christmas 5. Words for Thirds Dictionary Project 6. Food Collection for Food Bank and Feeding Programs (monthly or quarterly) 7. Collect school supplies 8. Educational Garden for 2nd and 3rd graders 9. Community Gardens 10. Public Access Computers in the Grange Hall 11. Candidate Forums 12. Collect eyeglasses, aluminum can tops, stamps 13. Linus Blankets 14. Quilts for the Brave 15. Stockings for Veterans 16. Washcloths and soap for the homeless 17. Support Ag in the Classroom 18. Child ID Program 19. Camp Volunteers 20. Rest Area Coffee Stops 21. Grounds Maintenance at Local Cemeteries 22. Reading Volunteers at Schools 23. Make a Difference Day – clean up your town 24. Baby Items for Care Centers 25. Cancer Care Items – scarves, caps, etc 26. Volunteer Services – seniors, food bank, schools, youth clubs 27. Open Hall for Non-Profit Afternoon Programs 28. Visit the Elderly 29. Knitted Items for At-Risk Pregnancies 30. Roadside Clean Up 31. Christmas Breakfast with Santa’s workshop 32. Community Forums 33. Resource Information Night 34. Farm City Dinner – rural people and city people come together 35. Compost Project – bag it and sell it 36. Fair Booths 37. Sponsor a Local Festival – bluegrass, jazz, local interest 38. Adopt a Family for a Year (through school, churches, DSHS) 39. Collect gently used items – coats, blankets, etc 40. Support the USO – toothbrushes, care cloths, food items, etc 41. Donate socks to homeless shelter 42. Socks for the local elementary school 43. Rehabilitate bicycles for elementary schools 44. Sponsor a car care clinic 45. Give ham radio classes 46. Food baskets for needy families at the holidays 47. Lap quilts for retirement homes 48. Love quilts for homeless shelters – made of old jeans 49. Sponsor a Junior Grange Tom Gwin, State Lecturer |
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Kansas State Grange | I'm sure others do this, but just wanted to pass on what we are doing here in Kansas. In addition to each Grange's community service activities (and there are many, many great ones), I implemented a state wide community service C.A.R.D.S. project three years ago wherein Grangers were encouraged to decorate the fronts of greeting cards for servicepersons all over the world. This project is in conjunction with the United Methodist Church in Augusta. Each month, approx. 1,000 handmade cards are made by persons, including Grangers all over our state, collected at the church, tucked in envelopes, put on transport planes out of Wichita or mailed directly to contact soldiers in the field. These contact soldiers then share cards with others in their platoons to use in writing family and friends back home. As director of KS State Community Service, I am proud to say Kansas Grangers made over 1,000 cards last year in support of this large overall project. I send the Grangers kits containing pieces, along with samples, and they put them together. I make a big push for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas cards, but some work on cards all year around. They also color, stamp, fold paper, tuck envelopes. They make these in small groups in homes with friends, at family functions, and/or at Grange meetings. New Grange members have been realized through this project. The support of this project has truly been grasped by KS Grangers and I am totally overwhelmed. A thank you was recently sent back to the Church by a wife who received a Valentines card made by someone in Kansas from her husband stationed overseas. She said of all the care packages received at his post, the most favorite was the homemade cards to send home to family and friends. She thanked C.A.R.D.S. for the working hands, thoughts, and prayers behind the card she received, made by someone she would never know. While it isn't known, of course, if it was a card by a Granger specifically, it is a reminder of how our efforts as Grangers are touching others....we are making a difference. Randee Farmer Community Service Director |
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