Grange Notes by Tim Swartz, Grange President (with everyone’s help) July 30, 2025
Come and feast with us on Saturday!
Setup at 5:00 and start making ice cream! Bring your potluck dishes at 5:45, and enjoy the music!
6:00: grills start producing, and eating begins
Every year, the Grange holds a free, extra-special potluck picnic, on tables outdoors at the North end of the building, next to the ADA entrance ramp. The Grange will be providing grills, vegan and beef burgers, hot dogs, buns and condiments. This year, we will have 2 ice-cream makers, too, producing Blueberry and Vanilla! Come between 5:00 and 5:30 to help crank the ice cream.
Everyone can bring potluck side dishes–salads, veggies, appetizers, chips, salsa, beverages, dessert choices–whatever you want to share, bring them by 5:45 so everything will be set up for dinner.
That’s also when the Senior Jazz Ensemble will start performing jazz standards from the porch, so you can enjoy the live music, too.
Starting at 5:00, we’ll be setting up tables and chairs outside–we’d love your help! Please bring a folding table, if you’ve got one, so that we have room for all the food and all the people. We’ll use some of the Grange’s vintage melamine and china dishes and stainless steel table-ware. No disposables!
During the meal, we’ll have a West African Dance demonstration. Plus–the Grange will be “burning the mortgage” to celebrate paying off a 2008 loan from the VT State Grange. Just Food Hub will be selling their chocolates, coffees and other Fair Trade food treats (with a portion of the revenue donated to the Grange!)
The Friends of the Capital City Grange Hall will be kicking off their annual Challenge Fundraiser at this event, to keep improving the Grange Hall. $2,000 has been pledged already–can the dance and Grange community match it, by the end at the Sept. 6 contra dance?
We hope we’ll see you there, for a great meal and a great time. Below is a picture from last year’s picnic, taken by Jonathon Blake:
