On Friday, December 1st, County Line Grange worked the kitchen to serve delicious food to the community as they came in to admire the wonderful trees donated by various people/organizations in the community. We even got a surprise visit from the Grinch and some residents of Whoville!

Myron, Jean and Barb helped get the holiday spirit started by decorating a tree for the annual Trim-A-Tree at Belvidere’s Hometown Christmas. This tree goes to a family in need to help them have a Merry Christmas.

Our members, Myron and Jean, went to National Session in November and had a grand ol’ time!

On October 11th, we had a frightfully fun meeting! Lots of neat costumes and delicious food. Hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween coming up!

For Illinois State Grange, our Grange nominated Jeanne Westholder of Alpine Academy of Rockford for Teacher of the Year. Little did we know, she won the award! We are so proud of the work Jeanne does for her students. Way to go Jeanne!

On Thursday, September 14th, we held our monthly meeting and two of our Grangers celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary! Happy anniversary Doug and Kathy and many more to come!

Last weekend, September 9th 2023, some of your County Line Grangers entered items into the Home Ec competition and came out strong! Below are the entires and how they placed. Great job County Liners!

On July 16th, members of County Line Grange spent time at the Boone County Fairgrounds helping to clean-up the grounds from the dog show. It was a hot day, but good work was done to make sure the grounds were clean for the next event.

Tim, Heather, Jo, Kathy, Barb (not pictured: Anna, Butch)

From Friday July 7th through Sunday July 9th, County Line members were hard at work cooking breakfast and lunch for the guests of the MOPAR Car Show that was held at the Boone County Fair Grounds. Everyone loved the food and we even ran out and had to go get more! The double cheeseburgers were a smash! We have a fun time with this event and the coordinators sure do appreciate us for cooking for the guests of the show. Just smell that delicious food!

We had a blast (of water!) on June 24th for Belvidere’s Heritage Days Parade! Your County Liners, and a family guest from California, enjoyed throwing out candy and spraying the crowd. Everyone got into the excitement and some folks got wet more than they would have liked, but it was all in good fun.

There has been a change this year in the Heritage Days Parade. It will now be on Saturday June 24. If you would like to ride the float Saturday, please meet at JoEllen’s house no later than 3 pm. The float MUST be lined up no later than 3:30 pm. The float will come back to Jo’s house for tear down. We need bodies on the float!!! We have candy and water guns. Bring your patriotic spirit and get ready to show off County Line Grange! See you Saturday!

We held our monthly meetings and during these meetings, we celebrated the amazing mother’s and father’s present. During our Mother’s Day meeting, we completely forgot to get a picture of the mother’s present, but got a picture of the beautiful decoration Kathy Loy made for us! She also made the amazing decoration for our Father’s Day meeting. Thank you Kathy!

On April 8th, members of County Line Grange got dressed up warmly and put on their boots and work gloves to help clean-up our very own Kim’s property from the tornado we experienced recently. Kim says thank you to all who came out to help with the cleaning. What are your fellow grangers for if not to lend a helping hand when you need one? Great work everyone!

On March 25th, County Line Grange in conjunction with LeRoy Grange held our spaghetti dinner for the 4H. A good time was had by all and everyone enjoyed the delicious food as well as the raffle baskets!

We are having our annual Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser March 25 at Zion Lutheran Church. Come on out and enjoy some great Spaghetti and win some great prizes. We will have raffle baskets and a 50/50 raffle.You may win the pig! This Charlie Brown handpainted piggy bank contains County Line’s tip money from Hometown Christmas. No one knows how much is in it. This is one of the raffle items.
See everyone there!