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No. 14 Vol. 22
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November 21, 2018
Bloomingdale Fire Dept. Chemical Co. #1 To Hold First Cornhole Tourney
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By Steve Sears he Bloomingdale Fire Department Chemical Company #1 is holding its first Cornhole Tournament on Friday, Nov. 30, at 6:30 p.m. John D’Amato and his son Bryan, both firefighters with Bloomingdale Fire Department Chemical Company #1, are
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seeking 40 teams for the tournament. All participants must be age 18 or older, and the entrance fee is $50 per team, and $20 for spectators. All proceeds will go to the Bloomingdale Fire Department Chemical Company #1, and gift card prizes will be awarded to first and second place winners. Deadline for entry is Monday, Nov. 26, and in addition to getting the satisfactory number of teams, D’Amato also encourages spectators to come. “Spectators we would hope would be coming to support the teams in the event,” he says. “The story of it [the idea for the tourney] is I had a barbeque in my backyard,” he explains. “It was a family barbeque and we did a tournament of our own, a
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friendly thing. So, my son Bryan said, ‘This would be a really neat fundraiser for the fire department. We could do that and get a bunch of teams in.’ So, that’s really where it started, and we ran with it,” explains D’Amato. Cornhole, which was invented by Heylinger de Windt in 1883 and is popular in North America and Europe, resembles horseshoes, with a board on each side and a center hole. Each competitor gets an equal amount of bean bags, which they tempt to toss into the hole. D’Amato further explains. “When you get the bean bag in the hole it’s three points, and if you land on the board it’s one point,” he says. “You play to 21 like you do in horseshoes, and continued on page 3
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