The 2024 colleen court with different designer bag prizes for each bingo winner.
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CHICOPEE — For the second year in a row, the St. Patrick’s Parade Committee of Chicopee is hosting Designer Purse Bingo on Saturday, Sept. 6 at the Portuguese American Club, 149 Exchange St.
All guests must be 18 years of age or older. Doors will open at 4 p.m. and games will start promptly at 5 p.m.
Admission is $35 and will include 10 bingo card games and a door prize entry ticket. Dabbers will be available for purchase. Additional bingo card games can be purchased during the event.
Tickets will be available for purchase at the door. Tables of eight can be also reserved for $240.
For more information or to reserve a table, readers can call or text Alivia at 413-378-5694 and leave a full name and good contact number where you can be reached. Messages left will be returned as soon as possible.
Checks should be made out to Chicopee Parade Committee and mailed to 1 Central Ave., Chicopee, MA 01020. They may also be delivered to 1 Central Ave. during regular business hours, which is Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Prizes for the lucky winners will be designer handbags, where each round, a different purse is auctioned off before that specific game. Designer bags will be from places like Michael Kors, Coach, Vera Bradely, Marc Jacobs, Kate Spade and Tory Burch.
Designer Purse Bingo Chair and 2022 Chicopee colleen court member Alivia Mendes said the event will also include raffles and door prizes where tickets for donated baskets will be available for purchase.
Photos will be posted on the committee’s Facebook page for those interested in a preview of the prizes.
Attendees are welcome to bring snacks, but must purchase beverages from the bar.
Mendes said the inaugural purse bingo event went “very well” last year and the committee was excited to bring it back for its second iteration. “It went very well for our first year. We have a really good turnout so far of people who have made a reservation, but obviously we’re always trying to strive for that upper number just because this is for the girls. This money goes right back to the parade committee,” Mendes explained.
Proceeds from this event will support the Chicopee contingent’s participation in the Holyoke St. Patrick’s Parade. The St. Patrick’s Parade Committee of Chicopee strives to promote Irish pride and culture through its many events.
For over 70 years, the committee has organized the annual Colleen Contest and Coronation Ball, constructed the colleen’s award-winning float, and awarded scholarships to young women who plan to further their education at a college or university.
Other upcoming events and fundraisers to which the public is invited will be posted on the group’s Facebook page at facebook.com/chicopeespc.
