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BINGO! NORTHERN COLLEGE HITS THE JACKPOT

The Northern College Alumni Association is celebrating hitting the jackpot, with an initiative that has been paying off for two years now.

It’s called “Bingo for Bursaries” – a partnership between the college, the Timmins Charity Bingo Association and Ontario Lottery and Gaming.

Alumni development officer Nicole Gingras says $38,000 has been raised so far. All of it goes to $500  bursaries for students at all the campuses of Northern.

All Gingras has to do is provide two volunteers two Mondays a month at the Timmins Gaming Centre… to help operate a bingo.

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“Our slot,” says Gingras, is Mondays from 11:30 to 1:45.  And then all we do is we show up there and we assist with the bingo that’s in session. And so it’s a two-hour-and-15-minute donation of our time, if you will, and then we get our share once a month from the OLG-Timmins Gaming Centre.”

“It’s an opportunity for friends of Northern College, alumni alike.  Anybody who goes through the training can go and help us and collectively we all make a difference in our students’ lives.”

The resulting bursaries are handed out in the fall, winter, and at graduation.

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