Grange Notes by Tim Swartz, October 26, 2016
The last chance for a few years….
…will come this Saturday, and then not until 2020. That will be the next year for a Halloween Contra Dance in the CDU series…because that will be the next year with a 5th Saturday in October. SOOOOO—-you’d better take your chances in the HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST this year!–this weekend! On October 29th! With Luke Donforth calling and Tempest playing for the dancing!
As we have before, Merry and I will pick some excellent costumes from the multitude of creative choices we expect–and we’ll be giving out prizes! What will the categories be? You’ll have to wait and see, because we won’t know until we see who–or what–shows up. We will give out prizes, and bragging rights, but mostly we will all have fun…Which is one of the things the Grange is about! Join us on Saturday evening!
Grange meeting on Nov. 5th, and the moving of the Treasurers
Once you have gotten the dreams (and nightmares) of Halloween out of your system, come on back to the Grange Hall on the following Saturday, to join us in guiding the CCG into the future. As you may have gathered, keeping our Grange and our Hall going don’t just happen–it’s a participatory sport, and we’d love to have you on the team!
At this month’s meeting, we will be proposing a change in our financial management team, as long-time Grange stalwart Les Skinner passes on the responsibility of Grange Treasurer. For many years, Les has served the Grange, including about 15 or 20 years as Master and 10 more as Treasurere; at age 89, he is finally ready to pass on the Treasurer’s sash, while still retaining the right to express his opinions!
At this month’s meeting, we will be proposing a change in our financial management team, as long-time Grange stalwart Les Skinner passes on the responsibility of Grange Treasurer. For many years, Les has served the Grange, including about 15 or 20 years as Master and 10 more as Treasurere; at age 89, he is finally ready to pass on the Treasurer’s sash, while still retaining the right to express his opinions!
Merry Shernock has volunteered to serve as Treasurer, subject to the Grange meeting voting her into the office. She will be working along with accountant (and well-known member of the dance community) Justin Sargent to transfer the bookkeeping to a computerized system, using QuickBooks. The goal is to reduce the work of paying bills, accepting deposits, tracking rental deposits, creating statements and understanding our cash-flow. Merry’s service as Rental Agent has exposed her to the complexities of those transactions. Once we have a system set up that does not require the paperwork and manual calculation which has been the standard, we will be looking for someone with the aptitude to take on the office–if you want to volunteer to be part of the team setting up the systems, contact Merry!
This Grange Meeting will also feature the debut of a “Community Service Report”, which we are setting up to spread the news about the good works that our Grange and its members do. This one will feature a “guest speaker”, Patty Paola, who is an Americorps volunteer serving with Home Share Now (https://www.homesharenow.org/)
The meeting will segue into a potluck dinner, as usual, about 6:00 PM, please bring your favorite dish to share, and then stay for the dance at 8:00!