The Brownwood Senior Citizens Center was packed Friday morning for Christmas Bingo, the first of three holiday-themed events over the next few days.

“At 7:15 this morning there was a line from the door out to the street. This is the busiest day of the year,” said Brownwood Senior Citizens Center Program Director Angie Dees. “We provide breakfast for them and now we play Bingo until we run out of prizes. We have 120 prizes valued from anywhere to $2,000 to $3,000 that were donated for Christmas Bingo.’

The facility opened its doors at 8 a.m. and both rooms were full of Bingo participants competing for dozens of prizes.

“It’s great for us but it’s more important to them because it may be the only gift they get because they may not have family here,” Dees said. “We’ll have a Christmas party Monday with a visit from Santa and our Christmas dinner is Wednesday, but after that if they don’t have family they may be alone for the holidays so we try to make it as special as we can.”

At Tuesday’s Brownwood City Council meeting, an expansion of the Senior Citizens was approved with completion anticipated for mid-Spring 2023. More information on that decision can be found here: https://www.brownwoodnews.com/2022/12/13/city-council-approves-expansion-of-brownwood-senior-citizens-center/