By Pepper Parr
May 19th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
Are photo ops the bread and butter of political life in Burlington?
Sometimes, there is a genuine public benefit.
Ward 2 Councillor Lisa Kearns has made the photo op both an art and a science. She frequently outdoes the Mayor and THAT is saying something
One that caught our attention recently was Kearns and a bingo card – a huge bingo card.
What was all that we wondered – so we asked.
The Bingo games that take place at the Polish Hall donate a portion of their revenue to local charities.
Excited? Lisa Kearns was – did any of her cards win?
She didn’t say
These are the organizations that benefit from the Bingo Games played regularly at the Polish Hall.
Decades ago, my parents used to help run a local bingo when the charitable host was one which they did a lot of volunteering for, The Canadian Mental Health Association and Summit House. Back then, the bingo players smoked so much that the air was blue and when my parents came home at 2:00 am exhausted, they’d have their pyjamas in the laundry room so they could walk in from the garage, strip their very stinky clothes off, put them in the washing machine, put on their pyjamas and go to bed. (They still smelled like smoke the next day regardless). My mom used to marvel at how players could play with a huge number of cards in front of them and have so many games on the go at once.