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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeniors' line dancing, bingo canceled over Pence visit
Pence visit Friday bumps bingo, line dancing at Bethel ParkBRIAN BOWLING | Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, 8:36 a.m.
A Republican candidate's private fundraiser will push a senior citizen program out of the Bethel Park Community Center Friday, a municipal official said Thursday.
Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to appear at the fundraiser for congressional candidate Rick Saccone, and that raised security concerns, said Municipal Manager Shawn Arbaugh. The municipality decided to close the center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. From a security standpoint, we can't allow the general public in there, he said.
LifeSpan, a nonprofit that provides services to senior citizens, rents space at the center and holds a luncheon on weekdays that usually includes other activities, he said. On Friday it was going to have bingo and line dancing.
The municipality offered the use of a fire hall across the street or the council chambers, but the group hasn't taken it up on either offer, he said.
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Seniors' line dancing, bingo canceled over Pence visit (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2018
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I honestly thought that would be an Onion piece about bingo and line-dancing being too wild for
highplainsdem
Feb 2018
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highplainsdem
(49,041 posts)1. I honestly thought that would be an Onion piece about bingo and line-dancing being too wild for
Pious Pence.
TlalocW
(15,392 posts)3. I honestly thought that would be an ACTUAL news item about bingo and line-dancing being too wild for
Pious Pence.
TlalocW
Weed Man
(304 posts)2. Pence better fork over $300 per player
for cancelling bingo!
tanyev
(42,620 posts)5. Hey, I take a line dancing class at a senior center.
And there are always bingo players in the next room that often complain that our music is too loud. There would be hell to pay if we both got shut down for a political fundraiser.