The Greenbelt Bingo Association Moves Into Old Davey Home

The Greenbelt Bingo Association has been given the go signal by the City Council to move into a new location, breathing new life into the operations of the organization, albeit temporarily.

The Greenbelt Charity Association was given a new home in the Old Davey Home, located on Great Northern Road, for at least two years where they can resume their operations after it was stopped temporarily because the organization has been homeless for a short time. The City Council has rezoned the Old Davey Home to allow Greenbelt Bingo to operate there.

According to the President of the Greenbelt Charity Bingo Organization, Scott Reid, they are grateful for the two years that the City Council has given to them and it would be enough to see if Greenbelt Bingo Association's 34 member groups can pull in enough bingo players to start raising some income for the struggling association.

He also added that if they are successful in this endeavour they would consider moving up to another more permanent location for the organization, like the corner of Great Northern Road and Third Line in particular, and develop the vacant lot there. He also thinks that two years would be enough to show the residents in the place that the bingo operations of Greenbelt Bingo would not be a bother on their lives and routines in a daily basis.

Though some residents opposed Greenbelt's application to rezone so that they could conduct bingo operations in the Old Davey Home.

Stadyn Orchard and the other residents told to City Council that they are concerned about property devaluation, noise problems and bingo players taking the parking spots that are alloted for the residents of the area. He and other individual condominium owners were not notified of the council's plan of the rezoning the area unlike the adjoining property owners of the Old Davey Home. The announcement was just posted on the bulletin board.

According to Pat Mick, Ward 3 Councillor that although recent ammendments in the Municipal Act obligates the City to notify the owners of the building not the tenants particualrly of the possible changes to a zoning law, it more morally correct to notify everyone living near the area or anyone else that would be affected by the said change.

Stadyn Orchard said that he and the others are disappointed with the City Council's decision to rezone the Old Davey Home so that it can be used for the association's bingo operations for almost two years.