The Bolingbrook High School Music Boosters, as a group, support the music program at Bolingbrook High School. The main staple of the Boosters’ budget is our Bingo effort. Although the Boosters look for Bingo floor workers for the second Sunday of the month, there is a desperate need for volunteers to manage and operate the Bingo hall for all the other Sundays of the year.

The Boosters started Bingo over three years ago. Since that time, there have been a handful of dedicated volunteers that give of their time Sunday after Sunday to manage Bingo so that our children may have a quality music program.

It has come to a critical stage in our Bingo operations that there are too few operators to adequately be at Bingo each Sunday. We have lost people through graduation of their children, personal scheduling conflicts, and their children dropping out of the music program.

We need two operators each Sunday. One operator works in the back room at either a cash register or passing out Bingo sheets. One operator works at a counter near the front of the hall, manages the floor workers, and determines what raffle games are played for the evening. Neither operator has to do nearly the amount of walking that an average Bingo floor worker does. The operators do have to have an aptitude for handling large amounts of cash and reporting the proceeds.

Given that there are over two hundred students in our music program, I challenge each class of students’ parents (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) to have two to four volunteers become Bingo operators. With a dedicated team of eight to sixteen operators, no operator would have to give more than one Sunday a month. Currently we have so few operators (4) that one operator must work every Sunday; two of those four operators have a graduating senior. The burden is too great.

We cannot continue our Bingo fund raising efforts with so few operators beyond the end of February. Consider giving of your time and talents so that Bingo, as significant contribution the Bolingbrook High School Music Boosters budget—and consequently a financial benefit for each music student, does not fail.