Vale Club Today & the Fall Fair Tradition.
In 2011, the Vale School–Community House is still owned and maintained by the women of the Vale community.
Many longstanding traditions established by the Home Demonstration Club are still practiced
today:
convening monthly meetings, hosting neighborhood events, offering the building to
other community groups, helping community members in need, and, of course, raising money for the upkeep
of their much-loved building. Each year the Vale Club hosts a Fall Fair, a tradition of many decades. Photos (clockwise): Fall Fairs in 2005,
2001, ca. 1970, and ca. 1980, and Vale Club members pictured in 2008.
(Photos courtesy
of (clockwise) P. Strat, Vale Club Archives, Ricci Family, Vale Club Archives, and Carol Cross.)