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| Bingo Archive (July 2005) |
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Bringing Bingo Back to Sherwood Park, Alberta, after the Smoking Ban
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| In Sherwood Park, Alberta, Danny Hollands, who owns the building that had been used as the Sherwood Park Bingo Hall, is working on bringing bingo back to the hall. Despite some significant hurdles, Hollands thinks there’s a good chance that he can re-open the bingo club and make a go of the business. |
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| Saturday, 30 July 2005 |
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Hammond, Florida to Double Bingo Hours and Keep Video Bingo
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| Despite Hammond, Florida mayor’s July 12 veto of a City Council bill to allow video bingo and increase bingo hours, the bill has now become law. Mayor Mayson Foster vetoed the ordinance, saying that allowing video bingo in Hammond would create more gambling problems, possible damage to local businesses, and a possible rise in crime. |
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| Friday, 29 July 2005 |
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Catawba Indians to File Suit against South Carolina Over Bingo Hall
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| The Catawba Indian Nation is preparing a lawsuit against South Carolina. South Carolina, according to the tribe’s lawyer, has repeatedly changed the terms of the tribe’s bingo operations unilaterally. The tribe says that their bingo hall in Rock Hill has suffered significantly due to these changes. |
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| Thursday, 28 July 2005 |
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British Grandmother Wins Almost $350,000 in National Bingo Game
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| Doreen Love from Horncastle, England, and her daughter Pauline were going to watch television after a day out with Doreen’s three grandchildren, but there was nothing on. Now Doreen is thrilled that there was nothing to watch, because that’s why she and her daughter decided to go play a game of bingo at Lincoln’s Gala Bingo. |
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| Wednesday, 27 July 2005 |
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Guam’s Tax Agency Cracks Down on Non-Profit Bingo Earnings
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| Guam’s bingo games are a little more complicated than they used to be, since the Department of Revenue and Taxation decided to crack down on non-profit organizations. Accordingly, non-profits that don’t report their earnings will risk their non-profit status. |
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| Monday, 25 July 2005 |
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Bingo Baby Born in Barrow-in-Furness, England
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| Bingo got a little more exciting than usual at a club in the Western England Borough of Barrow-in-Furness. Trish Harker was playing bingo at the Top Ten Bingo Club, when she realized that she’d played a little too long, into her pregnancy. |
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1 comment | Sunday, 24 July 2005 |
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Carthage, Missouri Chamber of Commerce Introduces Business Bingo
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| Carthage, Missouri has a new kind of bingo. Instead of the sidewalk sales of previous years, this year the Chamber of Commerce will be holding what they call a "Sale-Bration." Players will be able to get bingo cards at a variety of locations, including eighteen local stores |
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| Friday, 22 July 2005 |
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Bingo Supplier Sues Hall for Breach of Contract
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| A bingo hall in Northern Texas is being sued for violating its contract with bingo supplier Pacific Gaming, Inc. According to Pacific Gaming, the bingo hall had signed an exclusive contract, agreeing not to use any other bingo supplier. |
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| Thursday, 21 July 2005 |
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Bingo Robbery in Middleton, Leeds
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| Two masked men recently raided a bingo hall in Leeds. For weapons, the two carried only a hammer and a crowbar. On Monday, July 18, two men entered Tivoli Bingo in Middleton, on Acre Street, threatened staff members, and demanded money. |
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| Wednesday, 20 July 2005 |
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Raising Bingo Jackpots May Help Charities Compete Against Slots
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| With the recent ruling to allow slots in Pennsylvania, many charities are concerned that bingo gamblers will turn to slot machines instead of bingo. The House Tourism and Recreational Development Committee is considering raising regular game limits from $250 to $500 |
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| Monday, 18 July 2005 |
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Bayonne, NJ, Residents Angry About Bingo Lock-Out
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| In Bayonne, NJ, residents at the East Side complex are complaining that they have been locked out of their community room, which is used for bingo and card games. The Tenants Council is responsible for the community room, and currently, the Tenants Council president... |
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| Saturday, 16 July 2005 |
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Bingo off the Port Bow! Florida Gets Ship-Shaped Bingo
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| Bonita Springs, on Florida’s west coast, is about to get one of the most unusually-shaped bingo halls ever seen. A building shaped like a Spanish galleon, originally built as a restaurant, was purchased for use as a bingo hall. |
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| Friday, 15 July 2005 |
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Women Get Stoned on the Way Home from Bingo
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| Fourteen elderly women were on their way home to Limavady, a borough in Northern Ireland, from a bingo game in the city of Londonderry when their bus was attacked. An attacker or attackers threw stones and paint bombs at the bus, shattering windows. |
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| Thursday, 14 July 2005 |
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Golf Fans can Play Golf Bingo
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| With the 2005 Open Championship in golf, better have your bingo cards ready! If you think that sounds funny, just wait until you see the bingo card that BBC sport has made for their golf fans. |
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| Wednesday, 13 July 2005 |
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Gala Bingo Hires Experian Intact to Clean Mailing Lists
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| Gala Bingo, one of the UK’s largest bingo operators, has hired Experian Intact to help manage mailings. Gala Group regularly sends out mailings to Gala Bingo and Gala Casino patrons. In order to raise the efficacy of the mailings, Experian will be working with Gala to help expunge irrelevant addresses from their mailing lists. |
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| Tuesday, 12 July 2005 |
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Kiwi Bingo Operator Opens Online Skill Gaming Site KiwiSkill
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| Christchurch Casinos E-Gaming Investments Ltd, called CCEgaming, is opening a new site. In addition to Kiwi Bingo, Tiki Bingo, and the Kiwi Casino, CCEgaming will be adding a skill gaming site called KiwiSkill. KiwiSkill, unlike online bingo and casino sites, will allow players to play head-to-head against each other in a variety of skill games. |
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| Monday, 11 July 2005 |
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Brighton, Colorado Brings Back Bingo
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| The city of Brighton, Colorado banned bingo four years ago, but now the City Council has given preliminary approval to bringing bingo back. According to the plan, a group called Casa Bingo will be allowed to hold bingo sessions as many as seven nights a week. |
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| Sunday, 10 July 2005 |
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Alabama Charitable Bingo Operators “Disrespected” by Local Newspaper
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| Limestone County, Alabama, has been the scene of some disagreements between veteran organizations and the local newspaper. Officers from three veterans organizations approached the Limestone County Commission on Tuesday protesting a series of articles... |
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| Thursday, 7 July 2005 |
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Gala Bingo Buys New Bingo Hall for $31 Million
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| Last week, Gala Bingo completed a buyout of New Generation Bingo, operators of Basingstoke’s Club 2000, a 25,000 square foot bingo club, which attracted about 250,000 players in the past year alone. |
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| Wednesday, 6 July 2005 |
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Edmonton, Alberta’s Smoking Bingo Players Head for Spruce Grove
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| Spruce Grove Bingo has seen a 25% rise in business since nearby Edmonton, Alberta banned smoking in bingo halls. With both Edmonton and St. Albert banning smoking in bingo halls, Spruce Grove is expecting a significant rise in players. |
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| Monday, 4 July 2005 |
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Child Crashes Bingo Game, Literally
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| A Cayce, South Carolina bingo game went terribly wrong Saturday night. A child outside in a parked car accidentally pulled it into gear. The young girl mistakenly rammed the car through the door of the bingo hall, and bingo players fled, trying to escape the oncoming vehicle. |
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| Sunday, 3 July 2005 |
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Wal-Mart Closes Down Bingo Games
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| Wal-Mart has sent out an internal memo telling managers to shut down the bingo games operated in stores around the United States. Utah’s senior citizens are concerned that with the closure of Wal-Mart’s bingo and the recent crackdowns on bingo halls |
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| Saturday, 2 July 2005 |
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Walker Leisure Bingo Clubs Bought Out by Top Ten Holdings
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| Top Ten Holdings, the UK’s third largest bingo chain, has purchased Walker Leisure’s 13 UK bingo clubs. Following the buyout, managing director of Walker's parent company, Westvale Leisure, Graham Kerr, will become the executive director at Top Ten. |
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| Friday, 1 July 2005 |
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