Community Service

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="9ee285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>PERRY VALLEY GRANGE #1804, INC.</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><B>       H</B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PERRY VALLEY GRANGE 1804, INC."><B>ome</B></A><B>       |     </B><A HREF="id356.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="index"><B>index</B></A></div> <div> <B>Community Service</B>   |   <A HREF="id368.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daffodil Sales">Daffodil Sales</A>   |   <A HREF="id369.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Deaf Essay Poster Contests">Deaf Essay & Poster Contests</A>   |   <A HREF="id370.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FFA Support">FFA Support</A>   |   <A HREF="id371.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Free Thanksgiving Dinner">Free Thanksgiving Dinner</A>   |   <A HREF="id550.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Safe Driving Course">Safe Driving Course</A>   |   <A HREF="id372.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="High School Awards">High School Awards</A>   |   <A HREF="id373.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Holiday Cheer Baskets">Holiday Cheer Baskets</A>   |   <A HREF="id374.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Major Annual Project">Major Annual Project</A>   |   <A HREF="id375.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Operation Shoebox">Operation Shoebox</A>   |   <A HREF="id376.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recycling ">Recycling </A>   |   <A HREF="id378.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Summer Reading Programs">Summer Reading Programs</A>   |   <A HREF="id377.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Senior Citizen Dinner">Senior Citizen Dinner</A>   |   <A HREF="id946.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Christmas in Millerstown 2006">Christmas in Millerstown 2006</A>   |   <A HREF="id692.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Free Thanksgiving Dinner 2005">Free Thanksgiving Dinner 2005</A>   |   <A HREF="from_the_perry_county_times_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="From the Perry County Times online">From the Perry County Times online</A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="9edd2c00dkelyh.png"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Community Service</I></div> <div> One of the primary purposes for the existence of Perry Valley Grange is to provide service to its community. For many years, the Grange has devoted considerable amounts of time, money and energy to a variety of projects. Descriptions of specific service projects may be found on individual pages in this section. </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Each fall a notebook is compiled to report the year's community service work to the State Grange. Perry Valley Grange has won many awards for their reports, the most recent being a first place recognition in 2003 and 2005.  </FONT>(Read about Perry Valley Grange Community Service Projects in the <A HREF="http://www.perryvalleygrange.org/advocate-2006.pdf" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.perryvalleygrange.org/advocat">Grange Advocate March 2006 .pdf)</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="620" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 334 WIDTH="302"><div>  <A NAME="anchor"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="13b129370.jpg" border=0 width="297" height="311" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> <IMG SRC="13b9231d0.jpg" border=0 width="291" height="285" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 115 WIDTH="302"><div> <B>Betsy Huber (left), President of the Pennsylvania State Grange, was a recent guest of Perry Valley Grange. The 2005 state award for outstanding community service by a local Grange was presented to Doug Bonsall (right), Perry Valley's president and community service chairperson.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="307"><div> <B>Doug Bonsall shows the Perry Valley Grange community service notebook report that earned the top statewide award.</B></div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Description of the Community</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Perry Valley Grange is located just outside the small town of Millerstown, Perry County, about 25 miles northwest of the Pennsylvania state capital Harrisburg. The Grange Hall itself sits immediately adjacent to U.S. Routes 22-322, a limited access four-lane highway. Although the community is still basically rural and has a strong agricultural economy, the improved highway has brought development so that there are increasing numbers of new residents who commute into the city for their employment. The Grange seeks to serve both the needs of this changing community.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Funding for Community Service Projects</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Much of the funding for the planned projects comes from the Grange's general fund, most of which is raised by the serving of public dinners, catered banquets and wedding receptions. Special fund raising was included in the plan of some projects and other projects relied on donations-in-kind from members and community sources.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Cooperation with Other Community Groups</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Also fundamental in the plan and key to the success of the Grange's community service program was involvement of other groups within the community. The Grange, in seeking ways to be of service, also sought to partner with other groups to take advantage of a larger pool of resources and increase both the quality and quantity of the various project results.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>