FUN DAY!

All Day Fun from Lions' Breakfast to Parade to Street Dance, Beer Tent

The annual Grand Junction Fun Day will be Saturday, June 27, with a parade, Lion's Club pancake breakfast, the Peoples Trust and Savings Bank Triathalon, and water fights sponsored by GJ Fire Department.

Other events include bingo, family games sponsored by the GJ Public Library and Naked Ladies Garden Club, and ITC 3-on-3 basketball. All-day activities include miniature golf, food booths, craft vendors, and Kennedy's Museum.

The Stone Age Romeos band will perform at the street dance in the evening and the fire department will sponsor a beer tent.

For updates on Fun Day, check out the library's website, http://www.grandjunctionlibrary.com/.

EYE ON GJ SAYS: It looks to be a great weekend in GJ on June 26-28, as the Class of '64 will be back in town to celebrate its 45th Reunion. The '64 bunch was a standout class and was just the second class to graduate from EG after its merger with Rippey in 1962 to form the "complete EG" that we know today, as the Classes of '60, '61, and '62 were the EG kids of Grand Junction and Dana while Rippey's last three graduating classes were '60, '61 and '62. The Class of '63 was the first to graduate from EG after the Rippey-EG union.

Notables among the Class of '64 were longtime EG educators Jan (Carter) Scharingson and Buddy Fagen. Buddy was a standout athlete those years at EG as was B.J. (Barbara Jean) Carey, who was also crowned homecoming queen that fall of 1963, which was also the first year for EG football. Go Hawks! The football games in those first few years were played on a field mapped out on the Rippey ball park, with bleachers put up for the fans. The football field in Grand Junction, since renamed Karber Field after longtime school board member Dr. Melvin "Doc" Karber, was not completed until 1966 and the new track was finished a couple of years later.

B.J. Carey was a forward for the Hawkette basketball team and was on the first EG softball and girls' track teams. She married classmate Dale Robson and they settled down in Colorado. Jan also married a classmate, the late Bob Scharingson. Other "kids" all grown up now (and then some) from '64 were Lynda Moranville Cochran and her brother, Buddy Moranville, Sue Thornton, Sue Culley Juhl, Julie Thompson, Marna Rittgers, Ron Bouchard, John Rains, and Royal II "Curly" Holz, to name a few.

Be sure to check out the library website if you are headed to GJ or surrounding communities this summer to see what's happening in town--bake sales, ice cream socials, events at the local churches and so forth. The library actually has two websites. The one listed above takes you the community announcements page, while at the bottom is listed the link to take you to information about the library's collections and services: http://www.grandjunction.lib.ia.us/.