Of course I missed something important.

I don't know how I managed to miss posting about this, but we had our casino fundraiser volunteering on November 27th and 28th at Cash Casino in Red Deer.  To those of you who aren't familiar with the way casinos work in Alberta, all casinos need to 'share' their profits with not-for-profits, societies and charities in Alberta.  The not-for-profit or charity registers for a casino and once the dates are selected the group has to provide a number of volunteers over 2 days to 'work' at the casino.  Casino profits are pooled over 3 months (I believe there are several different sectors in the province that are lumped together) and then shared with the groups who worked the casinos during that period.  Thank you to Janine for being our casino chairperson, and to Kathleen and her stand-in Brenda who were our casino advisers (people you hire to help you figure out what you're doing!).  Thank you to everyone who volunteered to work the casino - Janine, Mike D., Charlotte, Peter, Randi, Kendra, Dot, Tracey, Michelle, Terri, Janneane, Theresa, Jen, Mike M., Alison, Ben, Darla and Katelyn.  From the feedback it seems everyone had a great time once again! 

We are allowed to have a casino approximately once every 3 years (not sure why, but urban Calgary and Edmonton sectors are allowed to have one every 18 months, plus their pooling is about 3 times as much $$, but our request for an urban centre has been denied).  We've already been scheduled for early 2017 for our next casino, though as with this last one I'll put in for an earlier date in case they have a cancellation so hopefully we'll be able to move up the date to some time in 2016, or maybe even late 2015.  Information on the next casino will be posted on the website closer to those dates.