Happy New Year, and welcome to 2010 at the Aromas Community Grange! I’m very excited about the coming year. We’re starting it off with a bang—back-to-back concerts on January 29th and 30th and a $10,000 two-year grant from the Community Foundation of Monterey County.

The grant is designed to help non-profits build their fundraising expertise, so they can improve their programs and better serve their communities. It is specifically intended to support fine art and performance artists in rural Monterey County. So look for even more concerts and cultural events at the Aromas Grange Hall in the coming years.

When I moved to Aromas in 2003, the Grange became my connection to the people

NEW PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS…

2010 JANUARY Aromas Community Grange No. 361

AROMAS GRANGE NEWS

2010 Grange Board

President: Jan Saxton

Vice President: Paul Lapidus

Secretary, Communications: Trish Duarte

Secretary, Financial: Michelle Faeth

Treasurer: Ted Anderson

Chaplain: Patty Brown Musician: Bill Hunter

Lecturer: Rich Saxe

Executive Committee: Barbara Scoles, Leslie Austin, Loren Jones Scholarship Foundation Director: Leslie Austin

who live here and all the goings on around town. It is the heart of our little town, reflecting the best that Aromas has to offer, a gathering place for the exchange of ideas, and the sharing of food, fun and fellowship with neighbors and friends.

Our aim is to provide a great place to meet people while giving back to the community. Please tell your friends about the Aromas Grange and all the great activities and opportunities we provide. Come for breakfast on the last Sunday of the month and stay for a Swing Dance. Enjoy a movie night with us, showcase your hidden talents at Aromas Live!, or come for an evening of informative entertainment provided by our Grange Lecturer’s Program. Join us for our potluck and business meeting at 6:30 on the second Friday of each month and get involved!

FUN TIMES IN 2009!

The Aromas Grange was formed in 1913, and became one of the first “Action Granges” in the

nation in 2001.

P.O. Box 562 Aromas CA 95004

Phone: 831-726-9906

Email: info@aromasgrange.org

Website: www.aromasgrange.org

Check the online calendar for Grange activities info!

Eagle Scout project underway: the Grange gets a new barbeque, to be completed this summer, thanks to Ryan Suess.

Gathering for the annual Holiday Potluck and Adopt-A-Family gift wrapping is a heartwarming year-end tradition.

Halloween Bunco night was a costume extravaganza. Twice-a-year Bunco games can raise $2,000 or more towards our planned kitchen renovation. Come play with us in April!

Grange Musician Bill Hunter shares a music break with Christopher McDougall.

COMING SOON IN 2010 Lou & Peter Berryman Friday, January 29th, 8:00 PM

The whimsical and wonderfully accessible performances of their hilarious, quirky, yet oddly profound songs leave audiences with cheeks aching from smiling. The Grange is thrilled to have this dynamic duo back for another fun show.

Suggested donation: $12 Adults, $6 Children

For tickets or more information call Doug Clark at (831) 726-2322.

A Fantastic Double Concert: Keith Greeninger and Dayan Kai and The Rayburn Brothers Band

Saturday, January 30th, “Meat & Greet” at 4:30 PM, Music at 6:00 PM

Keith Greeninger is a seasoned troubadour, political activist, award-winning songwriter. Dayan Kai is a true musical force of nature with a voice and talent for harmony that most angels would trade their wings for. Together they bring a rich and authentic slice of California’s acoustic soul to the stage.

The Rayburn Brothers Band, with their rough-hewn folk-rock sound, is comprised of gifted singer/songwriter Craig Rayburn, a well-seasoned musician with a powerful voice and lyrics, and brother Keith Rayburn, also a talented singer/songwriter, who brings his stellar dobro and slide guitar playing to the mix. Deftly combining acoustic and electric instruments, they play songs ranging from heart-rending ballads to foot stomping rockers.

$15 ADMISSION at the door, $12 in advance

$12 for Aromas Grange members, seniors & students with ID; Children under 10 are free

The Grange will be cooking Corralitos sausage sandwiches, baked potatoes with all the trimmings, salads and more! Come early for a “meat & greet” with the musicians. Doors open at 4:30 pm – come hungry!

For tickets and additional info, call Bill Hunter at 254-2444.

Proceeds benefit the Grange Scholarship Fund

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A quilt based on this Tina Baine illustration could be yours! Raffle tickets will be available at Aromas Grange 2010 events and special Quilt Viewing opportunities – raffle

ticket sales support the Scholarship Foundation.

2010 Aromas Hills Quilt Raffle

The Teressie White Memorial Scholarship Foundation is busy creating a beautiful, handmade quilt of the Aromas Hills, in the likeness of the illustration created by local artist, Tina Baine, and featured on the 2009 Aromas Day T-shirt (see photo, bottom left). This one-of-a-kind original piece of artwork will be raffled off to raise lots and lots of money for the Grange scholarship fund.

To purchase raffle tickets, or for more information about how you can participate in the scholarship foundation, please call Leslie Austin at 726-6242.

February Movie Night – “King Corn” Friday, February 26th 7:00 PM

In the documentary King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm. Don’t miss it!

Aromas Live! Saturday, April 24th, 7:00 PM

Aromas Live! is our very own vaudeville-style variety show featuring local music, comedy, and commentary at the Aromas Grange. Held twice a year in April and October, Aromas Live! features local singers and songwriters, musicians, storytellers, skits, jingles, jugglers and other amazing feats of legerdemain. If you would like to help out or perform in the show, call Maureen Cain at 726-1757.

Keith and Craig Rayburn of

The Rayburn Brothers Band

Lou and Peter Berryman,

authors of twelve recordings and

three songbooks of original material,

have performed together for more

than twenty years.

Keith Greeninger and Dayan Kai

Home, home on the Grange, Where the kids and the animals play,

Where often is heard An encouraging word, And the skies can be

foggy all day!