Bingo…that’d work! Seriously, though, just offer a Moms and Tots reading program and a lot of Moms will show up! These tots will soon be reading primary and chapter books, and so the love of lifelong reading gets started… ;)
And that is why, some places should be shut down, and the people that run them, sent to prison or hit over the head with a baseball bat, to knock some sense into them.
Come on, a child care center doing sex toys and strippers??? They really need to rethink that.
How about an adult book club (by adult, I don’t mean they read x-rated books, just that they are over 21) where they meet in a room and can serve wine?
I was a member of the Art Centre board in North Bay for a few years. In an effort to make the theatre more profitable, a friend and I drove to a neighbouring town’s theatre to find out how they managed to stay in the black. Thinking they had a magical formula, I begged them to tell us the secret to their financial success. The answer, sadly, was Bingo. Bingo became one of our main resources, too. You’d think the wonderful art of live theatre would have brought in enough to pay the bills!
A local childcare center is planning a “Ladies’ Night” – with scantily-clad male waiters, spa treatments, facials and a display of sex toys.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~They’re just trying to drum up more business (creating more kids!)
Yes, our libraries here in Seminole County offer authors as well as speakers who help people trying to set up new businesses, and provide computers for kids to do homework who don’t have home computers. And they are always packed. HOWEVER, this does not constitute raising funds to keep the doors open.-The library can’t charge the kids to use the computers (or the job hunters who use the computers while the kids are in school), because the computers were bought with tax dollars. Similarly, the authors and speakers get the meeting rooms for free and the library can’t charge people for coming to the programs, because the libraries were built with tax dollars.-So all of our libraries are limited to 6 days a week instead of 7, in order to be able to keep all the libraries operating and not shut one down.
We have a rather good library for a small town, but one in a tenth the population on the edge of the county is half as good. A philanthropist offered a million dollar for cultural development that had to be spent in a year. Our county seat turned it down, the little village took it and has a community center and excellent library as a result. The county seat was given a surplus national guard armory and it stayed vacant for over a decade and only now is getting use by the community band for concerts and rehearsals – and nothing else.
Not sure about Canada, but in many jurisdictions of the United States gambling is illegal, so bingo is out. From what it looks like gambling is illegal in Canada too, as Elly remarked to apply for a license. Black’s Law Dictionary defines license as “government permission to do something that would otherwise be illegal”.
ORMouseworks over 9 years ago
Bingo…that’d work! Seriously, though, just offer a Moms and Tots reading program and a lot of Moms will show up! These tots will soon be reading primary and chapter books, and so the love of lifelong reading gets started… ;)
burkeknight over 9 years ago
And that is why, some places should be shut down, and the people that run them, sent to prison or hit over the head with a baseball bat, to knock some sense into them.
Come on, a child care center doing sex toys and strippers??? They really need to rethink that.
lightenup Premium Member over 9 years ago
How about an adult book club (by adult, I don’t mean they read x-rated books, just that they are over 21) where they meet in a room and can serve wine?
Mumblix Premium Member over 9 years ago
Lynn’s Notes:
I was a member of the Art Centre board in North Bay for a few years. In an effort to make the theatre more profitable, a friend and I drove to a neighbouring town’s theatre to find out how they managed to stay in the black. Thinking they had a magical formula, I begged them to tell us the secret to their financial success. The answer, sadly, was Bingo. Bingo became one of our main resources, too. You’d think the wonderful art of live theatre would have brought in enough to pay the bills!
BarBaraPrz over 9 years ago
My local library branch is very disheartening with its lack of books!
goweeder over 9 years ago
A local childcare center is planning a “Ladies’ Night” – with scantily-clad male waiters, spa treatments, facials and a display of sex toys.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~They’re just trying to drum up more business (creating more kids!)
Argy.Bargy2 over 9 years ago
Yes, our libraries here in Seminole County offer authors as well as speakers who help people trying to set up new businesses, and provide computers for kids to do homework who don’t have home computers. And they are always packed. HOWEVER, this does not constitute raising funds to keep the doors open.-The library can’t charge the kids to use the computers (or the job hunters who use the computers while the kids are in school), because the computers were bought with tax dollars. Similarly, the authors and speakers get the meeting rooms for free and the library can’t charge people for coming to the programs, because the libraries were built with tax dollars.-So all of our libraries are limited to 6 days a week instead of 7, in order to be able to keep all the libraries operating and not shut one down.
hippogriff over 9 years ago
We have a rather good library for a small town, but one in a tenth the population on the edge of the county is half as good. A philanthropist offered a million dollar for cultural development that had to be spent in a year. Our county seat turned it down, the little village took it and has a community center and excellent library as a result. The county seat was given a surplus national guard armory and it stayed vacant for over a decade and only now is getting use by the community band for concerts and rehearsals – and nothing else.
USN1977 over 9 years ago
Not sure about Canada, but in many jurisdictions of the United States gambling is illegal, so bingo is out. From what it looks like gambling is illegal in Canada too, as Elly remarked to apply for a license. Black’s Law Dictionary defines license as “government permission to do something that would otherwise be illegal”.
naniboy over 9 years ago
Use bingo for year round audiences, not Christmas programs.