{"id":21070,"date":"2024-06-26T00:30:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T06:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=21070"},"modified":"2024-06-27T12:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:24:01","slug":"2024-fourth-of-july-parade-grand-marshals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/2024-fourth-of-july-parade-grand-marshals\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Fourth of July Parade Grand Marshals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honoring 100 years at the Grange<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

By MIKE MCKENNA<\/em>
\n\"\"\u201cHome, home on the grange \u2026\u201d That\u2019s not exactly how the famous song goes, but perhaps it should. The Upper Big Wood River Grange is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and the small, tan building in Old Hailey has been like a second home to local folks for a century.
\n\u201cTo me, the Grange means community,\u201d said Manon Gaudreau, an officer for the Grange. \u201cGrange people are very welcoming and caring. Helping people realize they belong to such a kind and caring community is what the Grange is really all about.\u201d
\nFounded on Feb. 11, 1924, the Upper Big Wood River Grange #192 was actually the third \u201cGrange\u201d in Blaine County. Carey and Gannett also had
\nchapters of the national organization. Granges were created in 1867 as community-based organizations to help connect people in rural areas and make positive changes through grassroots efforts. Granges have long been an advocacy voice for rural communities and gathering places for all kinds of events that make places like Hailey feel like home.
\n\u201cGrangers,\u201d as their members were called in the Idaho Statesman in 1926, have always been about supporting families and communities and putting on events to bring them all together \u2014 like the \u201cMustache and Nightcap Dance\u201d the Statesman was covering back then.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s such a wonderful place for people to get together and have a good time,\u201d Maryann Knight said.
\nMaryann, who\u2019s also a member of the Heritage Court, has been involved with the Grange for most of her life. She\u2019s watched the volunteer-based organization evolve from being primarily agriculturally-focused, back when \u201cWoodside was all farms and there were sheep and cattle on every corner,\u201d as she recalls, to becoming more of a community service group.
\nOver the decades at its South 3rd Avenue location, the Grange has hosted countless dances, tai chi classes, and box and ice cream socials. It has been home to Cub Scouts and ballerinas, 4-H and veterans groups, and the Wood River Seed Library. It has hosted family gatherings, Business After Hours, Farmers\u2019 Markets and Trailing of the Sheep classes. The Grange also gives scholarships to local graduating high school students, while adding community and pollinator gardens are in the plans.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s important to have a space like this in the community. We don\u2019t want to let go of it,\u201d said Maryann, who is credited with keeping the Grange going strong for so many years.
\nIn honor of its centennial and its invaluable and often-overlooked role in Hailey, the Grange has been selected as the Grand Marshal for this year\u2019s Hailey Days of the Old West Fourth of July Parade. Members of the Grange expected to be in the parade include Joan Davies, Grace Eakin, Julie Fox, Manon Gaudreau, Maryann Knight and Hilarie Neely.
\nThe Grange is a fitting Grand Marshal since it\u2019s always been about building and supporting our community, helping make sure this part of the Northern Rockies range feels like home to so many of us. The Grange is the kind of place \u201cwhere seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Find out more at TheGrange.org\/UpperBigWoodRiverId192.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Honoring 100 years at the Grange By MIKE MCKENNA \u201cHome, home on the grange \u2026\u201d That\u2019s not exactly how the famous song goes, but perhaps it should. The Upper Big Wood River Grange is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and the small, tan building in Old Hailey has been like a second home to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chamber-corner","8":"category-sponsored"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21072,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070\/revisions\/21072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}