American Legion Post 215 to begin hosting Bingo Feb. 19

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American legion Post 215 will begin regularly scheduled Bingo games on Sunday, Feb. 19 at the Post building located at 3386 River Road West in Goochland. Admission is $35 and includes a pack of play sheets for 20 games with various cash prizes and jackpots. In addition, instant games (pull tabs) will be available for purchase at $1 each. Refreshments will be available for

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Barefoot-Reid said.

District 3 representative Karen Horn said she recalled late former Goochland County School Board member William Quarles suggesting a school board salary review in 2021, and added that the Code of Virginia allows a school board to increase salaries prior to July 1 of any year in which purchase as well. Doors will open at 1 p.m. Games will be held on the first Saturday and third Sunday of each month.

The Post recently acquired a computer-operated Bingo machine that randomly selects and tracks balls for each game. The machine will be operated by Post members who are state licensed Bingo game callers.

According to Post Commander George Mitchell, a USMC Vietnam veteran, a school board election will be held. By code, the new salary does not become effective until the new board takes over, Horn said, adding that if the pay increase is not initiated this year it will not be until 2028 that a school board raise could go into effect.

Underscoring the fact that the raise would only impact current school board members if they were to be reelected, Horn agreed with Barefoot-Reid that the time money earned from the games will be used to support and enhance all the Post’s community-based activities.

“We really hope to use much of these proceeds to help veterans through our programs,” Mitchell said.

The four pillars of the American Legion, which was founded by Congress in 1919, are Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation, National Security, Americanism, and has come for an increase.

“None of us come here for the money, absolutely not,” Horn said, “but we all use a lot of our time, and we use our gas to get here.”

Horn suggested revisiting the discussion once more state budget figures become available and asked GCPS school superintendent Jeremy Raley about the procedure for implementing the pay increase after the school budget has been finalized and adopted.

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