Fairfax Grange 570

10/22/2026

📣 NO FRIDAY NIGHT SOCIAL DANCE — OCTOBER 23

Our regular 7–9 p.m. social dance at Fairfax Grange is canceled this Friday. The hall will host Reverend Horton Heat with The Soda Crackers that evening.

Please let your dance friends know so nobody makes the trip expecting our usual dance!

Interested in the concert? Details and tickets at Eventbrite

10/21/2026

Fairfax Grange officer nominations: Monday, November 9. Elections in December.

First up: the Greeter.

The job description is short. Stand by the door. Say hello. Learn names. Point people toward the coffee. Make sure nobody new ends up alone in the back row, wondering if they walked into the right building.

That’s it. No speeches, no spreadsheets and no minutes to type up at midnight.

You also carry a staff. Very few jobs come with a staff.

In the old days this office was called Gatekeeper, and the job was keeping people out. We’d rather you bring them in.

If you’re the one at every party who ends up knowing everybody’s name and half their life story, you’re already qualified. Any member in good standing can be nominated on November 9 at Fairfax Grange Hall, 4 Fairfax Rd.

Not a member yet? Come by anyway and say hello.

10/21/2026

Congratulations to Greenhorn Community Grange #384. The National Grange named them a Distinguished Grange for 2025-2026. It’s their first time.

Fifty-four Granges across the country earned it this year. Five are in California.

The recognition goes to Granges that serve their communities, keep members and neighbors informed, run real programs, take part in advocacy, and welcome new people. Then somebody has to fill out the application and turn it in on time. Greenhorn did all of it.

Here at Fairfax, we’re working on the same things. Dances, concerts, classes, and a hall restoration that’s still going. We’re not on that list yet. We’d like to be.

What would you like to see Fairfax Grange take on next?

10/21/2026

Help shape your Fairfax Grange.

What would you like to see happen at Fairfax Grange? More opportunities to learn? Music? Activities that bring neighbors together?

Our members bring ideas, vote on decisions, and elect the officers who help put those decisions into practice.

As we prepare for our 2027 officer elections, we’ll introduce some of the lesser-known positions and explain what each involves. You may find a role that fits your interests.

We’ll take nominations at our November 9, 2026 meeting. Officers must be Fairfax Grange members in good standing.

Interested in membership or curious about a position? Send us a message.

10/20/2026

Shoutout to Mt Bolivar Grange #218 in Callahan.

This Saturday, October 24, they’re throwing the Buck Hunters Ball. Stew dinner at 6 p.m., with a venison stew contest, an antler contest, and a silent auction. The Rosa Lees play at 8.

The best venison stew takes home $100 cash. Hunters 12 and up can enter a 2026 B-zone buck for largest, smallest, or most unique antlers. Kids 11 and under compete for the largest shed.

Stew and music cost $20. Music only is $10. Kids 10 and under get in free.

12507 S Hwy 3, Callahan.

Who in Kern County makes the best venison stew?

10/19/2026

Fairfax Grange is now an official California filming location.

The California Film Commission approved our hall for CinemaScout, the state’s location library. Producers, location scouts, and photographers search it when they need a place to shoot.

Our 1940 hall has the original maple floor, knotty pine walls, a stage, and a basement dining room. That’s hard to fake on a soundstage.

Filming will never bump our dances, classes, or community rentals. Any fees go toward keeping this old building in good shape.

See the listing: https://ca.reel-scout.com/locs_detail.aspx?id=10319610

Production and photo inquiries: 661-731-3671

Fairfax Grange No. 570 is a working 1940s community hall in Bakersfield. Knotty-pine walls, an open-beam ceiling, string lights, and about 2,000 square feet of maple dance floor give it a period look no set can match. A curtained stage anchors one end of the hall. Downstairs, a dining room with boot...

10/18/2026

Shoutout to Valley Grange .

On Sunday, October 25, they’re hosting the Pumpkin Fall-Fest from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Expect vendors inside and out, plenty of pumpkins, and an auction stocked with items donated by the vendors themselves.

Rainbow sits in northern San Diego County, about 200 miles south of us. The hall is at 2160 Rainbow Valley Blvd. If you’re headed that way, stop in.

Where does your family get its pumpkins in Kern County?

10/17/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined us Friday. Every conversation and invitation to dance helps make this a place people look forward to coming back to.

If you’re thinking about joining us, there’s another Friday coming. We’d be glad to meet you.

10/16/2026

Our neighbors at Rosedale Grange 565 made the trip to the California Grange Expo at the 151st State Grange Convention, and they didn’t come empty-handed.

Suzanne Laskowski entered a plate of sandwich molasses cookies in the Senior division. Crackled tops and a thick layer of cream filling. They looked better through the plastic bag than most cookies look on a plate.

Shannon Willet entered “Hummingbird,” a machine-quilted wall hanging. Look at the tail. Each feather is its own strip of fabric.

The Expo exists to gather “the choicest products of orchard, farm, garden, dairy and household skill, that we may incite one another to good works.” Rosedale did the inciting this year.

Two Granges, one town. We’re glad to share Bakersfield with you, Rosedale.

What was the first thing you ever entered at a fair?

10/16/2026

Tonight’s the night. Bring the steps you know and a friend who could use an evening out.

Friday Night Dancing at Fairfax Grange.
7–9 PM • $10 • All levels welcome.

See you at 7!