Help us replace the roof on the Grange Hall!
Willamette Grange #52 is replacing the roof structure on our 98 year old Grange Hall. The original Grange Hall roof was built with rain in mind, but in 1959 a snowstorm dropped 52″ of snow in three days which caused the rafters to break and the roof to sag. Grangers sistered new rafters to the old as a fix which mostly worked, but was never quite strong enough. By the early 2000s the roof had been patched with 12 different kinds of roofing material and had sagged again, causing the walls of the hall to bow out by up to a foot on either side. Grangers installed logging cables with turnbuckles as “rafter ties” and slowly, an inch at a time and over a period of weeks, tightened the turnbuckles to straighten the walls, but this was never a permanent fix. In 2020, Grangers brought in a structural engineer who looked at various permanent solutions before determining that it would be more cost effective to remove the entire roof structure, fro the wall tops on up, and replace it with a new, custom, truss package. We have secured enough funding to install the new trusses and roofing material, but your support will help us complete the job, including replacement of the 15′ flagpole at the front of the building. Thank you!
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