sentences:  There are regular visits back and forth by each municipality's councils.As a nascent tourist destination, Gries has a series of festivals, the foremost among which is the kermis (church consecration festival, locally known as the "Kerb"), which since 1950 has been held on the last weekend in August, complete with a parade, the hanging of the garlands, the kermis speech, dancing events, the "Frühschoppen" (roughly “morning half-pint”) and the burial of the kermis.Before 1950, this village festival was held in the rather inhospitable month of November.