1.   An organization called the Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, affiliated with the New Democratic Party, spent years staging charity bingo games on Vancouver Island.

2.   As for getting the money to do the mural, Fallier said bingo games financed the ones in Harper.

3.   At the Knights of Columbus hall, the only contentious event in sight lately was a bingo game.

4.   Besides Malone and DePhillippo, testimony is also expected today from antigambling activists and operators of bingo games for charity.

5.   A big draw here is a bank of Rocket Bingo machines, an electronic bingo game that hooks up to other casinos for big-bucks jackpots.

6.   A new computerized bingo game that was designed to increase sales turned out to be a bust.

7.   Alaska law limits gambling to charities, which operate small-scale bingo games and raffles to raise money.

8.   But at the bingo game at Gordon Technical High School on the northwest side, the machine still matters.

9.   But it also is illegal, a felony crime, no less, because Kroger does not have a license to run a bingo game.

10.   But many bingo games are struggling, and operators wonder how much longer they will be able to keep the game alive.