Have you Chased the ACE yet? Chase the Ace is a very popular fundraiser currently taking the Maritimes by storm. Most are familiar with the high stakes games in Inverness and Sydney, Cape Breton. These prizes are over a million dollars – in fact, Sydney’s prize is expected to top 3 million! Riverside-Albert’s Fundy Curling Club’s jackpot is more modest, but still sizeable by our rural standards. With 32 cards left in play, on April 29, the jackpot will start at $6060.30, with the addition of 30% of the night’s ticket sales.
For those who are confused here is how we play the game (and there are dozens of variations around the Maritimes): A person buys a set of 3 tickets for $5, from 6 pm to 7:15. All tickets are placed in a rolling container, and after the money is counted, a single ticket is drawn. That ticket holder wins 20% of the evening’s ticket sales, and the CHANCE to draw the ACE OF SPADES from the cards lain face down on the table. If the person is successful, he or she also win the jackpot to that point.
This fun takes place at the Fundy Curling Club in Riverside-Albert, where a light supper may be purchased, and a beverage of choice. The Curling Club needs a new ice plant, and they have partnered with the Chipoudy Communities Revitalization Committee, who is raising money for a preschool and Lifelong Learning Centre at Riverside Consolidated School. These two community groups share the other 50% of each evening’s ticket sales.
People have been coming each Friday night, playing cards, dice, cribbage, darts, and sharing conversations with old and new friends. The increased sense of community has been the highlight of the winter and spring, a bonus to the fundraising for worthy causes! We look forward to seeing even more people come as the jackpot grows. The Curling Club is only allowed to hold 150 people, by regulation of the Fire Marshall, so additional patrons may wait under a tent, in the parking lot, take a lovely spring walk around the village – but be back for the announcement at 7:30!
For more details, go to the Facebook pages of Fundy Curling Club, or Chipoudy Communities Revitalization Committee.
This fun takes place at the Fundy Curling Club in Riverside-Albert, where a light supper may be purchased, and a beverage of choice. The Curling Club needs a new ice plant, and they have partnered with the Chipoudy Communities Revitalization Committee, who is raising money for a preschool and Lifelong Learning Centre at Riverside Consolidated School. These two community groups share the other 50% of each evening’s ticket sales.
People have been coming each Friday night, playing cards, dice, cribbage, darts, and sharing conversations with old and new friends. The increased sense of community has been the highlight of the winter and spring, a bonus to the fundraising for worthy causes! We look forward to seeing even more people come as the jackpot grows. The Curling Club is only allowed to hold 150 people, by regulation of the Fire Marshall, so additional patrons may wait under a tent, in the parking lot, take a lovely spring walk around the village – but be back for the announcement at 7:30!
For more details, go to the Facebook pages of Fundy Curling Club, or Chipoudy Communities Revitalization Committee.
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