The eighth annual Community Wide Reunion for both former Churchill County High School graduates and friends of the Greenwave is this weekend beginning with a concert on Friday night and also with individual class gatherings or dinners.
Classes who have signed up are from the 1950s, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1992, 2000 and 2012. The honored class is from 1962.
Teachers, parents and friends in community are invited to the yearly event beginning with the opening night at the Fallon Theatre. Dineen and Larry Little, local musicians who play with The Great Basin Band, perform at 7 p.m. The main day for reunion activities begins from 8-11 a.m. on Saturday with a catered breakfast at the Oats Park Art Center’s Lariat Courtyard. Also that morning near the arts center will be a show ‘n shine car show with antique tractors. During the day, tours and activities are scheduled for the Churchill County Museum, the Old High School, Oats Park Arts Center, the Douglass House, the Old Post Office, Cottage School, Frey Ranch, Fallon Police Department and the Fallon-Churchill Volunteer Fire Department.
For those who want a glimpse of local government, Mayor Ken Tedford will offer tours of the Fallon City Hall. The individual high-school classes will begin gathering at Oats Park at 4 p.m. Classes usually set up their tents earlier in the day, and many of the groups bring their own food. The Greenwave Hall of Fame, which will induct its fourth and fifth classes in September, will be selling T-shirts. For those not involved with a class, beer and wine, along with food, will also be sold from vendors set up on the west side of the park. Mile Twelve begins playing at the Oats Park Centennial Stage at 7:30 p.m. The band’s name comes from a mile marker found on Boston’s southern border. The free performance is presented in cooperation with Mayor Tedford, the city council and city of Fallon. Earlier in the day at 3 p.m. members of Mile Twelve will conduct a conversation about their music and band, and the arts center will be open for a tour of the galleries. Two new displays recently opened at the arts center. New Mountains is on display in the E. L. Wiegand Gallery, and Where We Connect is on display in the Kirk Robertson Gallery. The exhibits in both galleries are on display through Nov. 12
