Hi, meet "Halo" my guardian angel bear who sits at my computer with me and keeps track of me all day long.  She will be helping me write my grange blog so I always remember my grange oath to "do not harm to another brother or sister".  I want this blog to be friendly, positive and helpful to those of you who might be interested in knowing more about the grange.  Many people when they think of Grange, remember only the dances, potlucks or card parties their parents or grandparents went to. We  still do some of those, but we are so much more.  Each week, I will pick a subject about my life, my grange life and hopefully give you some insight to what we really stand for and are still doing in our communities and our nation.

Currrently, I am assisting Adna Grange in Lewis County, Washington just outside of Chehalis a few miles to re-vitalize their grange.  They serve a great a potato bar once each month and have a square dance clinic and blue grass music at least monthly.  We need to get more people interested in attending the meetings so we can keep the grange going.  They have been very active in helping their community.  During the past flood when the river devastated the west end of our county, they served meals to workers and people whose homes were knee deep and higher in mud and water.  So come to our open forum meeting if you live in the area on November 15 at 4:30 pm and check us out.

For those of you who don't know, the Washington State Grange has a full-time staff member devoted to legislative issues in Olympia.  I will share more about some of those when we get closer to the legislative session.  Stay tunes to be surprised at how much the grange is really involved in.

For now, thanks for visiting and I welcome your comments.  Halo and I say bye for now.