The Gnarly Barley 5k Run/Walk/Crawl

07/30/2026

Making a list and checking it twice!! Then I’ll put those names in a Spin the wheel winner picker deal and we will find out soon who is the 🍀 lucky winner of two Grain Palace concert tickets to see The Long Run—the ultimate Eagles tribute and Forever Seger—the Silver Bullet Band experience!
Stayyyyyy tuned for a live drawing hopefully by 12:30!

07/28/2026

HeyyyyyOhhhhhh!!! 🪎Concert tickets giveaway AND other 🤩🫶🏼tremendous🫶🏼🤩 news!!
Holy cow I can’t believe it has been 4 1/2 weeks since the amazingly fun and successful👀 GBR 2026 Ray, ND that was on June 27th! (Keep reading to see how much y’all raised for the West Side Complex community center!)
We are coming up fast on another BIG event in Ray town! The 🌾 Ray Grain Palace Days, Ray, ND 🌾 is coming up this weekend July 31-Aug 2nd!
We want to give one lucky winner TWO tickets to the Friday night concert! $100 value!
Grab a chair and some friends and come listen to The Long Run and Forever Seger—tribute bands to the Eagles and Bob Seger respectively! Lots of food and truck vendors, b**r gardens, vendor show, the Combar (a real combine retrofitted to dispense b**r grown here in America—a celebration of our farmers!) and, weather permitting, a skydiver will land within the concert venue!
So!
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Drawing will be held around Noon on Thursday!

**If you don’t win go buy yourself some tickets on:
www.zeffy.com/ticketing/en-US/2026-ray-grain-palace-days-concert
Thursday will be the last day to get online or paper tickets. Friday you will have to buy at the gate and the price goes up $15!

Now. Drum 🥁 rolllllllllll please!! Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. We are again floored at the support and encouragement we got for bringing back the Gnarly Barley!!! We had hoped to raise at least $17,000-$20000 so that we could say we’ve raised over $200,000 in all the years—but no! Not to be! InSTEAD you blew us wayyyyy over and we are going to donate $43,500 😲🤩😃in the name of the 2026 Gnarly Barley to the future community center! We also sponsored Grain Palace Days and the Grain Palace City Rodeo Association! That’s right in total we raised just over $50,000!! Whaaaaaat?!!! aMAZING! That means $233,000 raised and given in the eleven events we’ve held since 2014!
THANK YOU to all the sponsors and to ALL of you that registered and participated! You guys are amazing!! 🤩
We will see you next year on June 26, 2027! 😎✌🏼
And we will post a winner on Thursday around Noon!

07/03/2026

Thanks City of Ray for supporting us all these years! So glad we can give back to an ALL community centered project—a Community Center! How exciting! Who’d a thunk Ray town would be planning and executing such a project?!! So cool!! Exciting times!

07/02/2026

You all are big news!!! 🗞️ Thanks again to all attended, volunteered and sponsored!!

The Gnarly Barley 5K Run/Walk/Crawl made its return to Ray on Saturday after a two-year hiatus, and many participants dressed up for the occasion. The event, which raised funds for the proposed new community center and outdoor athletic complex in Ray, included free drinks along the route as well as....

07/01/2026

Who loves the 2026 GBR Koozies?!! Happy birthday America!! 250 years of FREEDOM!! Hope you all enjoy your Independence Day!! Show us some 🙌🏼 and 🇺🇸’s!!! Share and like our page so everyone stays up to date for NEXT YEARS The Gnarly Barley 5k Run/Walk/Crawl on June 26, 2027!! YEP! That’s right! You guys have lit our 🔥 FIRE! Thank you for all the support, encouragement and love!
GBR 2026 Ray, ND

07/01/2026

Look at this fun group!! Such a great and FUN crowd!! The GBR 2026 Ray, ND was a great success!!
Stayyyy tuned for the MANY thank you’s!!
AND the final tally on what we will be able to donate to the development of the future Ray Community Center and west side complex!!
WHOOP WHOOP!!!!🙌🏼

06/27/2026

06/27/2026

Shenanigans have begun!!! Balloon weiner races!