Bingo: Bingo queen enjoys spending time while volunteering at County Fair

"When I get to the county fair, I don't even have to show my lifetime pass," Drumm said. "The people that are running the fair, they say 'oh there comes the bingo queen.' It is fun."

Drumm has volunteered with the fair by working with the bingo games for more than 30 years, she said. Drumm also can be seen at the fair while she serves food from the concessions at the flea market.

Her work at the fair led her to be named the volunteer of the year in 2007, she said.

All it took to stir Drumm's interest in volunteering was a phone call.

"They called me and said 'how would you like to work bingo at the fair?'" she said. "I said I know how to play it, but to work it, I don't know anything about it. They said we will show you what to do."

Since that phone call, she has volunteered with bingo at the fair, a local nursing home and church.

Drumm collects the cards after bingo has been called. Bingo will be played at the fair from noon to 4 p.m. on Thursday and Sunday in the Manitowoc County Ice Center.

The first time Drumm helped collect cards for bingo, it started raining at the fair and they had to move the game indoors.

"We held it outside in a tent and then it started raining so hard that we had to go in the building," she said. "They moved the band that was playing there for the afternoon and moved that in the building. Here the band is playing and the people are trying to play bingo at the same time."

The fair begins today and concludes Sunday.

Written by Sarah Millard

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