The Haxtun community offers options these days for hosting community events, including two fine school gyms and an elegant community center. That was not the case in the 1920s and 1930s when the large capacity of the Haxtun Church of the Brethren building served the community by hosting events such as eighth grade commencement, high school graduation, funerals and marriages.

Today, the school, other local churches and the community center meet the space requirements for those events, but there are times that conflicts call for additional space or a specific project needs long-term space. An ex...