Long Beach Grange Re-Organization Meeting

Long Beach Grange To Re-Organize. Since the early 1980’s, the Long Beach Grange operated Bingo very successfully, entertaining people on the peninsula four nights a week. After years of additions and remodeling, the Grange Hall is quite impressive and in very good condition. There are two nice kitchens - one set up as full on commercial grade as it was leased to the food concession servicing the Bingo. The hall itself is large and like a traditional Grange there’s a stage. But the floor is divided with a glass enclosed non-smoking section that was rendered obsolete with the state smoking ban. Downstairs is a large dinning room connected with the second kitchen.

The Long Beach Grange did good community service and sponsored programs like Angel Lights - which decorated the main strip during the holidays. Bingo also maintained four employees. But due to the economy, other gaming venues and perhaps even the wheels of time, Bingo started to fall off. The demands of the operation seemed to be the singular focus of the Grange and the small group that maintained it.

The Bingo gear has been sold off. Longtime Grange Master Opal Oseth turned 80 this year and is ready to give the reigns over to new people. The State Grange membership team, Ted and Zula Bryant - T & Z Team - are working with the Long Beach folks to help re-organize the group. I attended a meeting at the hall last Saturday with 14 people. There is a follow-up meeting to be held on September 9th at 6:30 so people who said they couldn’t make the last meeting can attend.   

Long Beach Grange - 5715 Sandridge Rd Long Beach 98631.