08/20/2026
Good morning from the Grange. Wow, what a week this past week has been. First before I get to business, I just want to say thank you to every single person in our community for everything they have done. I am overcome with sadness for what has happened to our community with this flooding, but also feel such pride with just how well our community has come together and shown just what we are made here in our little community. We are strong, we are resilient, and we are a team. Giving up or waiting for someone to come along and fix it is not an option for us. We love our town and its people. We are proud to live here. We give what we can to our neighbors, be it time, money, help, food, love or anything else we can think of. When we drive down the street and see the desctruction that has taken place we know who lives there. It is a friend or family, a neighbor, or the person who we see everyday at the post office or the grocery. It's the person we went to school with. It's personal. It's heartbreaking to look at. It is not just a pile of debris to us, it's our friends whole lives there on the curb. This is why Cambridge City is rising to the challenge and doing whatever it takes as a community. It's personal, and it always will be. I just want to say thank you to everyone in this community. I wouldn't ever want to live anywhere else. ♥
Business wise, it was my intention to not open at all this weekend out of respect for our community struggling. It just didn't seem right to me. Survivors guilt I guess, but then a good friend told me that people want normalcy. There is comfort in normalcy, and that is something I can try to provide. My compromise between the two is this. Gabbard Grange will ONLY be setting up this weekend at Pilgrimage's benefit concert for the town on Saturday. They are donating 100% of their proceeds from this concert to Cambridge City and Hagerstown's recovery efforts. I can support their incredibly kind fund raising efforts, and at the same time provide a little bit of normalacy. I normally post a menu of what we are going to have, but to be honest I am having a very hard time making decisoins right now, so all I can tell you is that we are going to have Original Bread only and cookies of assorted variteties, and after that I dont know. I will post pictures of what makes it to the table on Saturday. We will NOT be setting up at Archway Days as planned, and the Bread Shed will be CLOSED this weekend.
*Susie's Pies-- Mom is not able to make pies this week. She is still not feeling back to normal from being sick and they are dealing with basement flooding. She really wanted to, but her back is very unhappy and it is just not possible. A huge thank you to Dungan's Plumbing and Heating. Mom and Daddy's basement flooding would have been so much worse than it was without their quick thinking, kindness and help.
