A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR GRANGE NEWS |
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The Washington State Grange News began in 1890 as the Pacific Rural Press of California, becoming Pacific Northwest Farmer in 1892. In 1905, State Lecturer A.A. Kelly issued a four-page monthly bulletin dedicated to the State Grange. The Oregon State Grange proposed a joint effort, resulting in the Pacific Grange Bulletin, an eight page monthly that ran for four years and grew to 16 pages. The Agricultural Grange News was launched in 1912, with Fred W. Lewis as editor. The paper went through various publication schedules, becoming monthly in 1980. In 1927, the title was changed to Grange News. The publication continues to report on the goings-on of Subordinate, Pomona, State and National Granges, as well as reporting on issues important to our membership. Two other publications, the legislative handbook and the program handbook (which went to Web only distribution in 2009) detail the Grange's legislative priorities and policies and the Grange's many programs, contests and the like. Source: Washington Grangers Celebrate a Century by Gus Norwood, 1988 |
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GRANGE LEADER PROFILES |
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June Hendrickson, State Master |
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In 1987 Hendrickson was elected treasurer of the Washington State Grange and she held that office until 1996 when she was elected to a post on the State Grange executive committee. In 1999 she was elected to the number-two officer spot for the State Grange -- Overseer (vice president). When the State Master resigned his post in 2008, June was sworn in as Master, per Grange Law, on April 20th, 2008. Hendrickson's husband Jack is also a past president of the Grange Camper Association and is Past Master of Steele Lake Highline Grange. The couple have three children, all of them longtime Grange members. (Back to TOP) |
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Terry Hunt was chosen by Past State Master Rob Horgen to his position in June 2007. Previously, Hunt was elected State Master of the Washington State Grange at the organization's annual state convention in June 1999 and held that office until 2007. He was vice president of the National Grange from 2003 through 2007. Hunt is a lifelong resident of Central Washington, and currently operates a cattle and wheat operation in Douglas County. The beginnings of the ranch belonged to his parents, Bertha and Russell, and was purchased by Hunt in 1967. The operation has since been expanded, but the family tradition continues: His sons, Rusty, Scott and Derek, continue to work the ranch, along with Hunt's wife, Mary, who is also active in the Grange and serves as a Douglas County Commissioner. | ||
Hunt attended Ephrata High School, where he was named president of the school's Future Farmers of America chapter. Four years after graduation, and while working on the ranch, he was elected Master of Two Springs Grange in Grant County. Two years after purchasing the ranch, Hunt became president of the East Banks Irrigation Association, a Coulee City area organization responsible for conducting studies on the feasibility of resourcefully irrigating the East Bank area. In 1988, Governor Booth Gardner appointed Terry to the Environmental 2010 Council. During his time on the council he graduated from the Washington Agriculture Forestry Education Foundation. In 1995, Hunt was appointed by then State Master Bob Joy to act as Director of Legislative Affairs for the Washington State Grange. Around this same time, Hunt was named president of the Washington Chapter of the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep, an organization dedicated to improving and enhancing wild sheep populations, and an organization Hunt was a large part of bringing to reality in the state of Washington. Just before becoming State Master in 1999, Hunt was appointed by Governor Gary Locke to represent agriculture on the Washington State Rural Development Council. Hunt is active in many conservation-minded enterprises and was presented with the Wildlife Conservation Farm of the Year Award for Douglas County in 1997. He works to preserve the Conservation Reserve Program, and has given his time and energy to such causes as the Adopt-a-Highway Program, the Ronald McDonald House and Feed the Hungry. The family belongs to St. Andrews Grange, Douglas County. He may be contacted at the State Grange headquarters in Olympia. (Back to TOP) |
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| Dan Hammock took over as editor of the Washington State Grange News in October 2009 following the retirement of longtime editor Dave Howard. He served as State Grange information coordinator from 1999-2001, and rejoined the organization’s staff as communications director in 2005.
Hammock studied communications at Washington State University from 1986 to 1990. It was in 1990 he secured an editorial assistant position at the now-defunct Seattle-based Fishing and Hunting News. He rose steadily in the ranks, working as a copy editor, then edition editor, ultimately landing the flagship Washington state issue of the nation’s largest outdoor news magazine. In between stints with F&H News and the Grange, Hammock did freelance work for a number of outdoor publications, furnished the text for the national hunter education Web site and worked in the communications department of the Washington State Secretary of Health’s office. |
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