A BINGO club that has raised money for charity for more than 30 years has been forced to close after the death of its caller and dwindling attendances.
Alec Geddis, caller and treasurer of the Binfield Friendship Club, died on December 14 at the age of 75.
The group, which met on Tuesday nights for 32 years, was going to finish at the end of this year anyway, after numbers fell to just 14.
Catholic Outreach, the Flint charity that assists the poor, will donate proceeds from two weekend bingo fund-raisers to victims of the southeast Asia tsunami.
The bingos will be at 6 p.m. Saturday at Mikatam Hall, 4571 E. Stanley Road, Genesee Township, and 2 p.m. Sunday at Players Hall, 7160 Highland Road, Waterford.
It’s been 20 years since Congress tried to put a lid on “high stakes bingo” and other forms of gambling on Indian reservations.
One of the now most successful gaming tribes in America, the Shakopee Mdewakanton, was facing its own demons. And down in New Mexico, Senator Pete Dominici was trying to block the Santa Ana Pueblo from implementing greyhound racing.
A Meadow Lake woman had a $50,000 windfall after scratching a couple of Scratch N’ Win tickets.
Lydia Murray, a 49-year-old cashier and mother of four, bought two $3 tickets including her winning Casino Bingo from Eastside Confectionery in Meadow Lake.
After she scratched the ticket, she thought she had won $5,000 prize but looking closer, she realized she had uncovered an ‘X’ pattern and the prize was a whopping $50,000.
Just 500 tickets are now being sold for the annual New Year's Eve bingo extravaganza held every new years at the Haney Bingo Plex in downtown Maple Ridge, B.C., Canada. Previous new years parties have always sold out in advance so bingo players are well advised to buy their tickets now from the bingo hall's BC Lotto Centre booth.
The featured jackpot for this new year celebration is a "free bingo game" for $2,500 cash! Plus there is $2,500 Travel Voucher Game and another $2,500 in Gift Certifcates given away through the night!
Over the background cacophony of 1,500 electronic slot machines, Randy Dugger is confident the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde will be able to meet new competition for its Spirit Mountain Casino.
"Whenever someone says the market is this big," Dugger says, as the casino's guest services director holds out his arms, "it always turns out to be that big." And he stretches his arms wider.
The New York State Racing and Wagering Board on Thursday revoked the charitable gaming licenses of the Syracuse Brigadiers for a year, shutting down the multimillion-dollar bingo operation.
The two members of the board said during their ruling in Albany they concurred with a hearing officer who concluded the Brigadiers were guilty of all 28 charges of charitable gaming rules violations brought against them.
The charges include paying people to conduct bingo sessions, improperly spending bingo earnings and organizing the bingo operation in violation of state regulations.
Eunice Easter, like many others, thought she was doing good by playing bingo, even if it was only 25 cents at a time.
She thought she was providing local charities with some money while she engaged in a favorite pastime.
But news that the bingo parlor operators have been accused of keeping money that should have been turned over to charity has Easter and others feeling betrayed.
On Friday, Saskatchewan News Network Senior Reporter Jason Warick looks at lottery winners who find out money doesn't always buy happiness.
On Saturday he takes an inside look at casino poker tournaments.
On Friday, Saskatchewan News Network Senior Reporter Jason Warick looks at lottery winners who find out money doesn't always buy happiness.
On Saturday he takes an inside look at casino poker tournaments.
