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EMERGENCY PARKING - When the Skagit River has threatened to top its banks and flood farm fields as in recent years, the Rexville Grange is ready to help farmers keep their expensive machinery safe. The Rexville Grange fed and housed 300 people displaced in 1990 by Fir Island flooding.
After almost a century of hosting potlucks, weddings and receptions, rummage sales, art shows, dances, memorial services, service projects, polling sites and parties, the Rexville Grange #815 on Summers Drive is showing its age.
Water seeps into the below-grade kitchen whenever it rains on Strawberry Hill. "That has caused a lot of rot in the lower cabinets, and damaged the water heater," says Cathy Savage, Grange president. With a kitchen unsuitable for cooking or catering, hosting indoor community events is next to impossible.
Installing a French drain on the north side would stem the seepag...
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