Turkey Carnival crowd down but raffle winners happy

 

Last updated 11/23/2016 at 3:19pm

--Photo for The Record by Terrie Schmidt-Crosby.

Lions Club members Dale Ramm and Chuck Watkins handled the bingo calling duties for most of the day Saturday until all 120 turkeys had been won by members of the public.

The 75th annual Turkey Carnival put on by the Odessa Lions Club drew a smaller than normal crowd last Saturday, as quite a large number of townspeople opted to attend the quarterfinal football game in Spokane between Odessa-Harrington and Almira/Coulee-Hartline (won by the Titans, see article on sports page). The Odessa Community Center opened at 2 p.m. to begin serving hamburgers, hot dogs, nachos, soft drinks, water and pie by the slice. The coffee was free.

The club had purchased 120 turkeys for the bingo games which began at 3 p.m. Also running concurrently until about 6 p.m. were child...



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