Bunco For Backpacks

Plans for Amina's Bunco For Backpacks fundraiser are well underway! We currently have 26 of 48 players confirmed to play and have 1/2 a dozen people lined up to be "backup" players in case we have any empty seats. The big event will be on Thursday, February 12th, 6:30 pm at the Cimarron Montessori School gym. We're planning on 12 tables - 4 groups of 3 tables. Players will be asked to make a minimum $10 donation. We're planning on having snack foods (sandwiches, girl scout cookies, fruit/veggie trays, brownies, cookies, etc), punch, and water. Tables will be decorated with a Valentine theme and each player will receive a "goody bag". We're planning on playing 3 rounds. The grand prize for the most buncos will be a Chinese dinner for 2 at our house (Amina will help cook, of course). Boxes of Girl Scout cookies will be the prizes for the most wins, losses, baby buncos, and wipeouts.

Amina is planning on taking the proceeds from her fundraiser and buying food for the Backpacks for Kids program through the OKC Food Bank which also provides backpacks full of food for Enid area children. We're hoping to take the food to the Food Bank and then helping them put together the backpacks. Amina designed an invitation and invited our bunco group as well as teachers and students/parents from Cimarron. I've contacted 2 other bunco groups in town as well as my FaceBook friends and invited others via email. Amina and I have worked on her "game plan" and we still have a lot of planning/legwork to do before the big game. We also found out that Etown magazine is interested in attending Amina's event and doing a story in the March issue about bunco. Amina's pretty excited about that.