Cow Chip Bingo Winners Announced  


The Crescent City, California, chapter of Soroptimist International, a worldwide organization for professional women who work through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women, recently hosted its 15th annual Cow Chip Bingo fundraiser. In Cow Chip Bingo, a large field is marked off in a grid of one-yard squares. Several cows are released into the field where they relieve themselves somewhere within the grid. Prizes are awarded to the persons who “own” the square where the cow drops a cow patty. Soroptimist International raised more than $5,000 through the Cow Chip Bingo event, which went back into the community for youth scholarships and service projects. Alexandre Dairy provided the cows. —tonic.com 


 


Obama Wins Novel Piece Prize Playing Bingo 


Humor web site The Spoof (http://www.thespoof.com) poked fun at President Barack Obama’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize win by running a story claiming that the award was in fact a mistake, and that Obama had actually won a “Novel Piece Prize” after playing Bingo at an online Bingo site. “The prize was won at a Norwegian online gaming site when Obama managed to win Bingo in under 45 balls,” the story reads. “The confusion arose in the English translation of the site. In Norwegian the letters B and V are actually pronounced the same way. When the e-mail was sent to the White House informing the President, who is an avid Bingo player, of his win, the staff was totally surprised…” and immediately announced erroneously that the President had won the Nobel. 


 


Bingo Volunteer Becomes Washington Insider 


The Washington Post reports that multiple Super Bowl champ Sherman Lewis, who recently joined the Washington Redskins as an offensive consultant, formerly worked as a volunteer at the Novi (Michigan) Senior Center, where he was one of the center’s top Bingo callers. Lewis reportedly called games several times a month in Novi—coming in when he wasn’t scheduled if the center was in a pinch, helping to set up the games, and establishing a relationship of trust and friendship with the seniors. A supervisor described Lewis as having a “gentle” calling voice, and that he called Bingo “with perfection.” 


 


92-Year-Old Bingo Fan Tries Skydiving 


If it’s true that age is really just a number, then Jane Bockstruck is living proof. The Bingo-loving New Hampshire grandmother demonstrated that when she attempted skydiving for the first time...at the ripe old age of 92. Why did she do it? “I have no idea,” she admitted to The Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire. “I must have read it someplace and all of a sudden decided, ‘I’m going to go skydiving.’ So I did.” Bockstruck admits skydiving at her age was adventurous, even for her. That’s probably why she really can’t remember the jump. “I must have blacked out or something,” she said, laughing. “When you get that close, you say, ‘Oh God. How stupid can you be?’” —triplicate.com 


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