February Meeting & Bowling Party

CANCELLED!!!!
Due to a scheduling conflict the bowling alley could not accommodate us @ 1pm. The next meeting will be at the Perry's on March 11

The February 2011 meeting of the Corfu Grange will be on Sunday Feb 13 @ 1pm at Scopano Lanes in Oakfield.


Photo contest entries are due


Be there or be square!

Christmas Party

The Corfu Grange Holiday Party will be on 12/10 @ 7:30

National Grange Action Alert

 

 

Contact Your U.S. Senator to Urge Their Opposition 
to S.510 The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
November 19, 2010
S.510 would prohibit farmers, food producers, food manufacturing facilities, and U.S.

 importers from retaining full control of their operations, products, product

 distribution, and business records by granting unprecedented authority to the 

 Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and Homeland Security. 

S. 510 is currently on the floor of the U.S. Senate and a vote on Final Passage 

 in the Senate is scheduled for November 29, 2010. Please Email your Senator

 today and let them know that Food Safety is important in rural America but

 this measure misses the target.

Roast Pork Dinner

Roast Pork at the Corfu Grange

ALL YOU CAN EAT
Sunday November 7th

Starting at 12
Eat in or take out
Adults = $8.50
Children 5-12 = $4
Menu:
Roast Pork
Mashed potatoes
Squash
Dressing/stuffing
Rolls
The Corfu Grange is located across the street from the Pembroke Intermediate School on Rt-77 and next to the former Corfu IGA
corfugrange.blogspot.com/
thanks and see you there!!

October Meeting and Grange Hall clean up day

The October Meeting of Corfu Grange #142 will be on October 9th @ noon (note the time change) at the hall. Pizza will be provided by the Grange.

Topics to include:

- planning for Roast Pork Dinner on November 7th

- Clean up the Hall, it will take much more than one afternoon to accomplish all that needs to done at the Hall but have to start somewhere. 

1- Discuss the larger repairs.

2- Assign smaller groups for each room of the Hall.

3- Clean clean clean clean.

Thanks again everyone for a fantastic officer installation ceremony last month. 

Lots of local Grange doings in September

Hello-

The September meeting of the Corfu Grange is Friday September 10
6pm Tureen Supper 8pm Installation of Officers

Rehearsal will be on Thursday evening

In other local Grange events:
East Pembroke will be putting on the 1st and 2nd degrees at the East Pembroke Grange Hall (on School St) Tuesday Sept 28 @ 7pm

Western NY Legislative Day will be Saturday Oct 2 at the East Pembroke Grange Hall.
http://www.nysgrange.org/Legislative/Genesee_Oct_2_2010.pdf
This is always a great event where you can often meet your local state representatives and other govt officials.

What Can One Person Do?

What Can One Person Do? 

A message from National Grange President Ed Luttrell

What can we do about economic uncertainty, the oil spill in the gulf, runaway government spending, and all the other challenges that face us in America? How do we deal with the immense flow of information that seems to overwhelm us on a daily basis?

Family, friends, and community are the answer.

As individuals, we often seem to be powerless against the huge challenges that are before us. One person can’t fix the economy, the actions of one individual will not stop the oil from escaping from the sea floor, and one lone voice will not slow the spending of our government. However, when people start to seek common ground and work together they can, and will, make their community a better place to live. Once that happens communities can start to band together and solve state-level problems and the process continues onward to our national government.

Organizations like ours are the real community organizers. Unlike other groups, the Grange doesn’t depend on the government for funding and we don’t presume to speak for our members until they have had the opportunity to be a part of the discussion.

Since 1867, Granges have been organized in tens of thousands of communities. Fire departments, FFA, co-ops, credit unions, ambulance services, fairs, 4-H, and so much more have been started because people found they had power together through the Grange. Schools have been supported, parks and other recreational opportunities have been started, and cemeteries maintained due to the muscle of people coming together through the Grange.

That process continues to this very day. We are an old organization that is constantly renewed and kept young by people who add their ideas and voices to their community as members.I’ve seen a lot of new Granges formed over the past few years. From New Hampshire to Alaska to Arkansas, people are seeing
that there is power when you belong to a grassroots organization that allows the local members to determine the direction of our organization.

So what can one person do about the huge issues of the day? They can join the Grange, get involved as their time allows, and make a difference in their community.

Membership is not about money as ours is an inexpensive organization to join. Most of the budget of a local Grange comes from fundraising rather than the voluntary dues paid by members. This is due to a focus on the family and the knowledge that we must be affordable to the entire family.

Grange membership is not about everyone agreeing, it is about different ideas and perspectives being discussed in a friendly civil fashion and each member learning during that debate. It is about the search for common issues and solutions, not about total agreement. The only issue we are in agreement on is that our debates and actions must be that of honorable, moral people.

Many times over the past 143 years, our organization has rallied the forces of our American communities to change our nation. History teaches us that individual Americans can make a difference; it is just that we must work together through organizations like the Grange to do it.

What can one person do? The real question is what can stop a group of people, a Grange, from accomplishing anything?

Ed Luttrell
National President