Pennsylvania State Grange

Pennsylvania State Grange: Cultivating Community Champions

The Grange is a place for people of all ages to connect with others and with their community. We offer programs to develop leadership skills, build character and provide service to your community. In the spirit of friendship, Grangers accomplish great things while having a great time. Our gatherings are designed to be enjoyable for the WHOLE family.

Our Motto
In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity.

Our Mission
The Pennsylvania State Grange supports the local Granges to help members grow as individuals, unify their communities and create opportunity through legislation and community service.

In the news...

Pennsylvania Grange News November/December 2019

Congratulations to the 2020 National Junior Grange Ambassadors Miss Brianna Gervais from Connecticut and Mr Bryce Danko from Pennsylvania.

L-R: Samantha Wilkins National Junior Grange Director, Miss Brianna Gervals and Bryce Danko.

2019 Pennsylvania State
Grange Junior Royalty

Congratulations to the new 2019-2020 Pennsylvania Junior Grange Princess Elisabeth Reich from Valley Grange #1360 in York County and Prince Bryce Danko, Community Grange #1767 in Perry County. We are very proud of these two Juniors. They would love to come to your Grange and do a presentation to help grow your Junior Grange program. Contact Lurae Benzio to schedule Elisabeth and Bryce.

2019-20 Pennsylvania State Grange
Youth Ambassadors

Congratulations Isabella Boone from Baileyville Grange #1991, Centre County and Josh Mengel from Fleetwood Grange #1839 Berks County on being selected as the 2019/20 PA Grange Youth Ambassadors. Isabella and Josh will be representing the PA State Grange for the upcoming year. They are both looking forward to promoting the State and National Youth programs and would
love to speak to your members at a Grange meeting or special event.
Please contact Ellen Wadsworth
(Youth Director) to schedule.

2019-2020
Pennsylvania State Grange
Young Patrons
Congratulations to Derek Snyder,#1360 Valley Grange in York County and Braden Gourley #1980 Hookstown Grange in Beaver County they are the 2019-2020 Pennsylvania State Grange Outstanding Young Patrons.
Derek Snyder is a graduate of Penn State and is employed by Pennsylvania State Representative Torren Ecker.
Braden Gourley is also a Penn State graduate and is employed by Merck & Co. They are looking forward to promoting the State and National Youth programs and would love to speak at a Grange meeting or special event. Please contact Ellen Wadsworth (Youth Director) to schedule.

Are you looking for a
Legislative speaker?
Call Vince Phillips
at 717.346.1063

Ag One Newsletter

2018-2019 Legislative Priorities

PA STATE GRANGE TESTIFIES on MILK MARKETING ORDERS

Sunday Hunting
Message from
President Wayne Campbell

Download link
Farm Show PCN Mini w/President Wayne Campbell.

http://pcnftp.pcntv.com/main.html?download&weblink=8f76d35e9b92fc074b95a8458f0b9894&realfilename=FS$20M$20State$20Grange$20CC.mp4

State Grange History Committee

At the direction of the State Grange President, the History Committee has begun brainstorming ways to celebrate the organization’s 150th anniversary in 2023. We are aware from the various printed State Grange histories that historical pageants were presented at the annual sessions of 1923, 1948, 1973 and 1998 when the 50th, 75th, 100th and 125th anniversaries (respectively) of the State Grange were celebrated. We have found programs for several of the pageants listing topics and participants in each of the various acts/scenes but we have not found the more detailed scripts for any of the pageants. Unfortunately, all the persons who chaired the various pageants are deceased so we are unable to contact them to see if any copies of the scripts still exist. If anyone happens to have a copy of scripts from any of these pageants, please consider sharing that information with the State Grange History Committee by contacting Chair Doug Bonsall at 717-921-1957 or douglas.b@verizon.net.

The History Committee has been hard at work adding new information to our website. The Journal of Proceedings from 1873 to the present have been uploaded. Use the following link to access the information:
http://www.pagrange.org/journals-of-proceedings.html

The History Committee would like to thank Granges and individuals for their generous financial support and asks for your continued support to its most recent appeal so that the final phase of microfilming/digitizing can be completed to permanently preserve and provide on-line access to Executive Committee minutes, officers' registers and the three published State Grange history books (1949, 1973, and 1998).

Upcoming Events

In the news...

Statement on Sunday hunting by PA State Grange

Please remember to send us your Grange Events
to post on the website

Pennsylvania State Grange Convention

Schedule
Hotel Information
Registration

National Young Farmers
Educational Institute
hosted by
Pennsylvania Young Farmers

December 11-14, 2019

Downtown Marriott Convention Center in Lancaster, PA