Adams Bingo Hall
1069 Old Route 30 PO Box 172 Cashtown, PA 17310 (717) 334-3838 Fax (717) 334-2872 www.cashtownfire.org |
Free Bingo Cards with the purchase of a Raffle Package Doors open at 5 p.m./Bingo at 6:45 Wild Star/ 6:50 G-Ball Bingo at 7 p.m. Bingo Hotline: 815-988-6063 $2,400.00 minimum in Payouts $50.00 VIP Includes-Speed Ball, 2- Early Birds, 2-Odd Even’s, 1- Dual Dab, 12. Southeastern Adams Volunteer Emergency Services, Hanover, Pennsylvania. 3,073 likes 12 talking about this 1,754 were here. SAVES is a Fire/Rescue/EMS department dedicated to providing the highest.
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| Event Date: March 13, 2021 Orders Due: March 1, 2021 |
| Tickets are available for $20 for our carry-out shrimp and wing feed. Tickets must be purchased (turned in) by March 1, 2021 so that we can order and prepare food accordingly. Each meal includes:
Meals can be picked up from 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. at the fire hall. You can indicate your desired pick up time along with your choice of wing sauce on your ticket stub. Please contact a member, message our Facebook page, or call 717-334-3838 and leave a message to order tickets. Contact us with any questions! |
| Winter 2020 |
Tickets for our winter round of the Four Seasons Raffle are available for sale. There are a total of 3 prize options on this ticket!
Tickets are $10 each and the winning ticket will be drawn at the monthly fire department meeting on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Please message our Facebook page or call the station at (717) 334-3838 for tickets. |
| Drawing to be held: April 17,2021 |
| Tickets for the April Guns & Cash Drawing are available. There are 500 tickets available. If all 500 are sold the value of Prizes #4, #44, and #444 will double! We'd like to give a shout out to the following companies and individuals that sponsored the tickets or prizes for this drawing:
Tickets are $20 each and the event will be streamed on Facebook Live at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 17, 2021. Please message our Facebook page or call the station at (717) 334-3838 for tickets. |
| Orders Due: January 19, 2021 Orders Delivered: January 27, 2021 |
| CCFD is currently taking orders for subs and pretzel sandwiches. Orders are due by Tuesday, January 19, 2021 and will be delivered on Wednesday, January 27, 2021. All subs are $6.00 and all pretzel sandwiches are $5.00. Orders will be prepared by R&K Subs in Palmyra, PA. 12' sub options are available as follows:
12' whole grain roll sub options are available as follows:
Pretzel sandwich options are available as follows:
To place an order or obtain an electronic (PDF) version of the order form, contact a member, call the firehouse at 717-334-3838, or message the Facebook page. As always, contact us with any questions! |
| November 20, 2020 |
| For those who may not be aware, the CCFD membership voted at the March meeting to purchase a new, custom rescue pumper from Sutphen Corporation. With the current rescue being 30-years old and the engine approaching its 20-year mark, the apparatus spec committee set out to design a modern unit that could function as both a rescue squad and a front-line engine. The committee met for months with various manufacturers to develop specs and comb through all of the options that are available. At the same time, the apparatus finance committee developed a plan to fund the new truck through a variety of means including earmarked funds set aside each month for this purpose, as well as grants, fund drives, a loan, and municipal support. At the end of the long process, the final recommendation made to the department was to award the bid to Sutphen Corporation, headquartered in Amlin, OH. The chassis will be constructed at the Springfield, OH plant and will then move to the Sutphen East plant in Lake Ariel, PA (near Scranton) for final pump and body assembly. The unit will be a 2021 Sutphen with a 73' Monarch custom cab with a 10' raised roof and seating for 6 personnel. It will be powered by a 500 hp Cummins X12 diesel motor. The body will house a 1,500-gpm Hale Qmax pump, a 1,000 gallon water tank, SmartPower generator, and low hosebed. Additional details and features can been be viewed on the production page. The department received notification this week that production has started on the pump module framework and a few pictures are shown below. We expect to receive weekly pictures and will post them as we get them. Final inspection is tentatively slated for May 2021, barring any delays related to COVID-19, etc. |
| Orders Due: November 30, 2020 Orders Delivered: December 15, 2020 |
| We are conducting our first ever Rada Cutlery fundraiser. Items available for purchase include an assortment of kitchen knives, knife sharpeners, kitchen utensils, seasonings, soups, sauce mixes, dips, cheeseballs, marinades, baking pans, and cookbooks! All orders will be delivered on December 15 making these items a perfect Christmas gift! The catalog and online ordering are accessible by using the following link: https://radafundraising.com/?rfsn=4719967.e7a259. Alternatively, you can go to https://radafundraising.com/ and enter 'Cashtown Community Fire Department' in Support a New Fundraiser. Hard copies of the catalog and order form are also available from our members. Thanks for your support! |
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| December 2020 |
| Lottery calendars are now available for the month of December! A cash prize will be awarded each day based on the 3-digit PA Lottery Daily Number drawn at 7:00 p.m. The dollar amount varies by day as noted on the calendar. Each calendar contains two 3-digit numbers. Winners will receive their checks by mail. As always, contact a member, message our Facebook page, or call 717-334-3838 to get your calendars. They will also be available for purchase at the carry-out dinner on Saturday 10/17/2020. |
| October 17, 2020 |
We'd like to thank everyone for supporting our first ever carry-out shrimp and wing dinner today. Planning the logistics of this event was a bit different than our usual dine-in shrimp feed but we can easily say it was a success as we sold 305 tickets/meals with a smooth flow of customers. Again, thank you to everyone and please let us know if you have any suggestions or comments for changes or improvements!
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| Event Date: October 17, 2020 Orders Due: October 5, 2020 |
| Tickets are available for $20 for our carry-out shrimp and wing feed. Tickets must be purchased (turned in) by October 5, 2020 so that we can order and prepare food accordingly. Each meal includes:
Meals can be picked up from 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. at the fire hall. You can indicate your desired pick up time along with your choice of wing sauce on your ticket stub. Any leftover steamed shrimp will be available for purchase after all ticket orders are filled and picked up. Please contact a member, message our Facebook page, or call 717-334-3838 and leave a message to order tickets. Contact us with any questions! |
| September 29, 2020 |
| Members gathered for the last of our scheduled demonstrations of battery-powered vehicle extrication tools. We'd like to thank Jim Artz from ESI Equipment for providing us with the opporunity to try out Holmatro's Pentheon tools. Another shout out to B&C Auto Menders for providing us with yet another vehicle. We appreciate your assistance! The membership hopes to make a decision on which brand we will be purchasing by the end of October. |
| October 2020 |
| Update: The winning ticket was #405. The secondary winners were #404 and #406. |
| Break open tickets are currently being sold for a chance to win three prizes based on the PA Lottery Daily Number drawn at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 17, 2020. Each break open ticket contains four possible winning numbers.
Tickets are $2 each and are available from any member. * Winners will be responsible for claiming their prize by contacting the member who sold the ticket or by contacting us at 717-334-3838. Winners will have 30 days to claim their prize. * |
Adams Bingo Hall
| Orders Due: October 20, 2020 Orders Delivered: October 28, 2020 |
| The sandwich sale for October will be ham and cheese sandwiches. Orders are due by Tuesday, October 20, 2020 and will be delivered on Wednesday, October 28, 2020. Sandwiches are $2.50 each. To place an order, contact a member, call the firehouse at 717-334-3838, or message the Facebook page. If you would like an electronic (pdf) version of the order form, please message the Facebook page or email webmaster@cashtownfire.org. |
| September 2020 |
| Update: The winning ticket was #822 (Paul McGraw & Brandon Huff). The secondary winners were #821 (Crystal Arter & Dodie Brown) and #823 (Marie Pritt & Marg Howery). |
| Break open tickets are currently being sold for a chance to win three prizes based on the PA Lottery Daily Number drawn at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 15, 2020. Each break open ticket contains four possible winning numbers.
Tickets are $2 each and are available from any member. * Winners will be responsible for claiming their prize by contacting the member who sold the ticket or by contacting us at 717-334-3838. Winners will have 30 days to claim their prize. * |
| August 27, 2020 |
| Members attended another battery-powered vehicle extrication tool demo, this time featuring Amkus' 'ION' product line. Thanks to Jason Topper and Bob Linster from Fire & Rescue Products for the presentation and demonstration and thanks to B&C Auto Menders for providing us with a vehicle to work on! |
| August 22, 2020 |
Thanks to all who sold and purchased tickets for this event! Keep an eye on our Facebook page and web site for information on several upcoming fundraisers! |
| August 19, 2020 |
| A group of CCFD volunteers spent nearly 3 hours this evening demoing HURST's eDRAULIC battery-powered vehicle extrication tools in the fire hall parking lot. Thanks to John Sileski and John Morgalis from MESFire for providing us with a wealth of information and thanks to B&C Auto Menders for providing us with a vehicle to destroy! Additional demos from other dealers are scheduled in the coming weeks with a final decision to be made by year's end. |
| August 22, 2020 |
| Each $10 ticket provides you a chance at winning 20 cash prizes. Only 250 tickets are being sold. The drawing will be held on Saturday, August 22, 2020. The tentative time is 1:00 p.m. and it will be live streamed. Results will also be posted on our Facebook page and web site. Please contact any member for tickets, message our Facebook page, or leave a message at 717-334-3838. |
| There will be a membership meeting on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. at the fire hall. A relief association meeting will follow. Adams County is now in the Yellow Phase which allows gatherings of up to 25 people. This meeting will provide the opportunity to catch up on current department business matters. |
| Spring/Summer 2020 |
| Update: The winning ticket was #180. |
| Tickets for our next 4 Seasons Raffle are hot off the press. The prizes this time are a Stihl MS 251 Wood Boss chainsaw with an 18' bar AND a Stihl BR 200 blower. Tickets are $10 each and the winning ticket will be drawn at the monthly fire department meeting on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Please message our Facebook page or call the station at (717) 334-3838 for tickets. |
| The monthly membership meeting scheduled for Tuesday, April 21, 2020 has been cancelled in the interest of social distancing. |
| March 22, 2020 |
We appreciate your ongoing support and patience as we all work through this day by day, and week by week! As always, if you have any questions, please message our Facebook page or call us at 717-334-3838. |
| January 18, 2020 |
Thanks to all of the patrons and sponsors who supported this event! Our next drawing is scheduled for Saturday, April 18, 2020. See you there! |
| October 19, 2019 |
Thanks to all of the patrons and sponsors who supported this event! Our next drawing is scheduled for Saturday, January 18, 2020. See you there! |
| Fall 2019 |
| Update: The winning ticket was #169. |
| Tickets are available for the fall round of our 'Four Seasons Giveaway' raffle. The prizes this time are a Stihl MS 251 Wood Boss chainsaw with an 18' bar AND a Stihl BR 200 blower. Prizes are being purchased from Harrington & Sons in Emmitsburg, MD. As in the past, the winner also has the option of taking $500 cash. Tickets are $10 each and the winning ticket will be drawn at the monthly fire department meeting on Tuesday, November 19, 2019. Please message our Facebook page or call the station at 717-334-3838 for tickets. Tickets will also be available at our October gun & money drawing and November shrimp feed. Thanks to L & L Lawnmower & Small Engine Repair for sponsoring the tickets! |
| October 19, 2019 |
| Tickets for the October gun & money drawing are available. Tickets are $20 each and you do not need to be present at the drawing to win. Tickets are available from any member or you can leave a message at the station at 717-334-3838, email us at cashtownfire@embarqmail.com, or message our Facebook page. ** Please note that the ticket has been revised from previous events and includes new prizes! ** We would like to thank all of our sponsors for their generous support! |
Adams Bingo Hall
| Summer 2019 |
| Update: The winning ticket was #009. |
| The Department is selling tickets for the summer event in our Four Seasons Giveaway which is for the chance to win a Yeti Tundra 75-quart cooler with 4 accessories or $500 cash, winner's option. The Yeti accessories include: - Rambler Colster Beer Insulator - Rambler Bottle Chug Cap - Rambler Bottle Straw Cap - Rambler 26 oz bottle The drawing will take place at the Department's monthly meeting on July 16, 2019. Tickets are $10 each and were sponsored by Top Notch Auto Repair & Detailing, LLC located at 1080 Old Route 30 in Cashtown. |
| Spring 2019 |
| Update: The winning ticket was #047. |
| The Department is selling 200 tickets for the chance to win a leather helmet or $500 cash, winner's option. The drawing will take place at the Department's monthly meeting on April 16, 2019. Tickets are $10 each and were sponsored by Bucher Meats. |
Last update: 02/14/2021
Why Walter Adams Cheated at Bingo
'Why am I here Nani?' I asked my great-grandma. I was standing in the miniature doorframe of her bedroom in her nursing home, Happy Homes, at two a.m. on a Saturday morning, and I wanted to know why. I wasn't mad, just curious.
Happy Homes was a simple kind of nursing home. On the outside it resembled a hospital, a multiple story building with a white exterior and plenty of windows, and it carried that appearance inside. The front doors led you straight into the grand room, the Happy Homes employees' fancy term for the mess hall. The grand room was the space where the old folks watched television, talked, played checkers and chess, and did all of the other activities that Happy Homes offered. The residents' rooms made a U shape around the grand room, and another U of rooms was stacked above it. Nani had better knees than most of the patients there, so she had a room on the top floor. The entire place smelled sterile and my nose always curled at the odor, and the entire place was eerily quiet except for the daytime soap operas that ran on the T.V. Nani claimed that she liked it though, so she stayed put.
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Nani cackled. She was ninety eight years old and going strong. She had worked on a farm until she was eighteen years old, when she married my great-grandpa, so she was full of muscle. That is, until old age started to hit her. As soon as her health started to decline, Nani told my grandma to put her in a home, and she's been there ever since. I liked to visit her because it wasn't often that she got company, and it always seemed to brighten her day. The old woman had a quick wit and a cunning mind, and was the luckiest lady I knew. Whenever I saw her she'd tell me about the crossword she accomplished or the sudoku puzzle she'd finished, and when I'd leave she'd still have a smile on her face. I loved the way she could still get a kick out of life, and would do anything for her...which is exactly what she wanted me to do that day.
'I need you for something,' Nani exclaimed cautiously to me, scanning the hallway for any eavesdroppers. The only person still up was a nurse examining health records silently. 'Walter Adams is cheating at bingo, I'm sure of it! I would try to catch him in the act myself, but the arthritis in my hands has flared and I'm going to have to skip the Monday night bingo. If it's not too much trouble, I need you to be there and expose the trickster once and for all!'
I resisted the urge to giggle. It was a trifling thing to be caught up in, an old man cheating in bingo, and an even more trifling thing to be caught cheating in, but my great-grandma had her mind set on catching him. Once she put her mind to something, there was no going back. 'Sure Nani,' I responded. 'I'll help you catch him.'
'It's nothing to laugh about,' she cautioned me sternly. 'If he's cheating in bingo, who knows what other fraudulent crimes he's committing? Be careful!' I promised that I would, and she handed me a small envelope.
'This is everything you need to know about Walter Adams for Monday night.' Nani told me. 'Just read this, look at the pictures, and you'll be all set. Let's get him!' I grinned at her, kissed her wrinkled cheek, and went home for the night.
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The next morning, I studied the envelope. Inside was a small description of Walter Adams on bingo night. It read in my great-grandmother's loopy cursive,
'On Mondays, Walter always wins. The retirement staff doesn't bother to check whether they actually drew the cards that Walter claims he has, so it's easy for him to cheat. He always waits until the seventh round to call out bingo, and always sits in the middle row in the leftmost chair.'
The fact that Walter cheated so often for my great-grandmother to take detailed notes on it astounded me. Why did someone need to cheat at a silly game like bingo? What was the point?
There was also a few pictures. It showed Walter as an old man, approximately in his mid seventies, who had a large, zucchini shaped nose, a white, whiskery face, and a green tweed jacket. In every picture, he was looking at something in the far left corner of the room, something not in the picture, and never looking at the bingo board. That struck me as odd. If he wasn't looking at the board, how was he putting bingo chips in the right places? Even more interesting, what was he staring so intently at?
I also made a call to Happy Homes and asked if I could volunteer to help out on Monday night working bingo. They gladly accepted the offer, and the lady on the line was so grateful and pleased that someone finally wanted to help the older generation. All was set for the Monday night stakeout. Nani could catch the cheating old man, and I could get my answers.
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When I walked into Happy Homes on Monday, the mess hall was ready for bingo. The room held several large tables, with fold-up chairs dotted around them. The center table had the bingo cage, bingo cards, and a prize box filled with goodies for the winner. There were tops, stickers, Groucho glasses, chattering teeth, and other silly prizes for the winner. Many elderly people were already there, picking out their bingo cards and choosing their seats. I walked to the nearest nurse and asked if there was anything I could do to help, but she said that all was fine and that I could go ahead and play with the old folks. I quickly chose my bingo card and sat down right next to the chair that I knew Walter Adams would be.
Well, just as I expected, Walter hobbled over to the chair next to me, and began to eye me curiously. I'm not normally a self conscience person, but he was staring at me rather intently. I decided that speaking would be my best route.
'Hi!' I said with a cheery tone that I usually didn't use with strangers. 'I'm Jessica Reyes. I'm Natalia Dage's great-granddaughter.' He gave a huff that suggested approval, and I asked,
'Do you know her?' He gave another puff of air and I took it as a yes. He then turned his eyes off of me and to the left corner of the room, like he did in the pictures. When I took eyes off of Walter and to the corner, I saw that there was a small room there.
Is it his room? Does he think that someone will steal something from there? Does this have anything to do with his cheating in bingo? These were some of the thoughts that rushed into my head when I saw what he was looking at. It's none of your business what the old man stares at, my brain reprimanded me after a few seconds. You just want to see if he cheats or not. The game soon started and I focused on it and on Walter.
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'B4,' the caller voiced blandly, checking his watch for the fourth time since that start of the game. I snuck a peek at Walter. He had a bingo, B4 through O4. I'd seen him cheat twice, once when they called G2 and again when they called N1. Still, I was hesitant to rat him out and decided to tell Nani first. If she wanted me to tell on him afterwords, then I would.
'Bingo,' Walter called out next to me, and I wondered why it was so important for him to cheat. It was just a bingo game, after all. He limped up to the prize table and looked carefully at the prizes. His hand reached for the chattering teeth, but after a moment of indecision, chose the simple yet silly Groucho glasses instead. He promptly squeezed them on over his gargantuan squash of a nose and shuffled to the small room in the left corner of the mess hall. After peeking over my shoulder to see if anyone was watching, I followed him.
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'I won bingo for you,' Walters announced softly, entering the white room and sitting on the twin bed. The space was small, with eggshell colored walls and a small window with closed curtains. It was dark there and smelled like disinfectant. There was an old woman in the little bed with tubes stuck in her arms. A beeping machine was hooked up to her small frame, and she sighed deeply. Her white hair littered her pillow. Her old silver eyes opened sluggishly and rested on Walter. She was clearly ill, but Walter pretended not to notice. He grinned her like she was the most angelic woman on earth, and the lady looked at him and smiled right back.
'Oh Walter, that's wonderful!' she exclaimed in a warm voice, laughing at the silly glasses that were squeezed onto his enormous face. He laughed with her, and my heart contracted. Walter picked up her bony hand gently, and they continued talking merrily as I slowly backed away from the door. They seemed so happy to be with each other, so complete. They didn't mind the fact that they didn't have much time left with each other, they just seemed to enjoy the fact that they were together. It was obvious by the way Walter looked at her that he loved the woman very much, and I finally realized why Walter Adams cheated at bingo.