Bingo!

As mentioned before, there were numerous fund raisers in the 1960s and '70s. There was a building to furnish, a parish to establish, a mortgage to be paid off and while the individual parishoners contributed generously, there were simply limits to what they could do. In addtion to the fund raisers mentioned already, church members ran a bingo game for some years in the 1970s. They rented a Knights of Columbus Hall on South Avenue and many parishoners worked these games. The top image is of Marge Cavalcanti, tallying up the proceeds by the looks of things.

Some other people who helped out were the folks shown in this next image. In the back we see Gretel Stavrevsky and Cora Joseph, and on the right in the
foreground is Lillian Stavrevsky.

Not just adults, but younger members worked these games too, as shown here with two of the Joseph brothers, Nick and David.