NUMBER'S UP FOR BINGO GAME; SIMI BOYS & GIRLS CLUB LOSES MONEY ON SUNDAY FUND-RAISERS.Byline: Lisa Mascaro Daily News Staff Writer Bingo, the game that spells windfalls for winning players, has created only losses for the Boys & Girls Club Girls Club is a 2002 American television series created by David E. Kelley, who was also it's producer and executive producer. Only two out of a total of thirteen episodes created were broadcast on Fox Television in the United States and Global Television in Canada. , which will no longer host its Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. afternoon game. The activity was started in January January: see month. in the hope of raising $5,000 a month for computers and sports programs for members. But club officials said the games were halted after losing more than $10,000. ``We just didn't did·n't Contraction of did not. didn't did not didn't do seem to get enough people there,'' said Linda White '''Linda Marie[1] White''' was Alpha Kappa Alpha's twenty-sixth International President, who served from 2002 to 2006. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in political science from Clark College, and attained a Master of Arts in political , executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. . ``You just couldn't break even.'' The club drew about 130 players on Sunday afternoons, most paying more than the standard $27 fee for a game, she said. But White said the games would pay out $250 to winners, and there were costs involved with renting the equipment. Also lost is the chance for the club to create a computer lab for the youngsters, form more sports teams and provide other programs at the center that sees 400 children and teens daily during the school year and 500 daily during the summer months. White said the club tries to consistently update its programs for the young people to keep them interested in participating, and it was hoped the bingo fund could help create some of the new programs. The board of directors, which had approved the bingo game as a fund-raiser, will be working on other alternatives for the club, said White. Sunday was the last day for the game that had already built a following of players in its short history. ``There were regulars,'' said White. ``We had fun with them.'' |
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