Club forced to bid farewell to bingo night

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Sunday night bingo has ended at Dakota Community Centre. The centre’s board of directors voted to end bingo night because of declining attendance, according to Dakota’s website. Bingo directors Lynne Barr and Carol Cordingley agreed with the decision.

The last bingo event will be held Sun., Feb. 26. Any remaining accumulator pots will be paid out that evening. In the interim, any accumulator games that are won will be changed to a percentage payout for the remaining events.

Barr and Cordingley left this message on the Dakota website: “We thank the board, the volunteers and especially our players for their support over the years.”

Dakota will offer a dodgeball league beginning Sundays this spring. League play will begin March 3.

Teams are guaranteed 10 games plus playoffs. Games will be 55 minutes and start between 3 and 10 p.m. once a week. The team entry fee is $300. For more information contact Anthony Knapp at 254-1010 (Ext. 201) or by email at dakotaccpm@shaw.ca

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Jim Sutton from St. Vital wants to keep Winnipeggers safe from fires.

He’s proposed four changes to Winnipeg city council to improve fire safety. Sutton said “four simple changes could be made to improve the fire safety for the citizens of Winnipeg.”

The four changes he proposed are:

1. Change any public awareness campaign to include the information that your smoke alarm needs to be replaced every 10 years and that photo-electric-based smoke alarms are much more effective than the more common ionization smoke alarms.

2. Ban the installation of single technology ionization detectors. They should be either photo-electric or a combination of photo-electric and ionization.

3. Stop restricting the use of low voltage smoke alarms in new homes.

4. Require ULC certificates to be required for any fire alarm system that is required to be monitored by code.

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The St. Vital Historical Society Inc. is selling calendars to support the St. Vital Museum. The museum used to be a police station located within a former fire station at the junction of St. Mary’s and St. Anne’s Road.

Calendars are $5 plus $2 for postage. Cheques and money orders are payable to St. Vital Historical Society at 600 St. Mary’s Rd., Winnipeg MB, R2M 3L5.

Some of the highlights of the museum’s displays are gold records from the Guess Who donated by bassist Jim Kale and archives dating back to the 1800s.

Krystalle Ramlakhan is a community correspondent for St. Vital. You can contact her at krystalle.ramlakhan@gmail.com.