Bingo Playing Eighty Year Old Finally Retires From After School Club

Eighty year old Joan Farrell who has worked at the Ickford Combined After School Club for the past six years has finally retired following on her eightieth birthday last month. Joan who loves playing bingo, was responsible for organising "bingo evenings" at the club and was always on hand to help the children to mark their bingo tickets.

She is still very involved with many community projects in the Village and is well known by the residents. She played a very important roe lint he After School Club and was regarded as a surrogate grandmother to many of the children. She said that she really enjoyed her time at the Club and was sad to leave. She had spent many happy times watching the children grow up and go on to secondary school. This vital and energetic woman, not only got involved in the bingo games held at the club, she was interested in all the children's activities including playing tennis and football. It just goes to show that not everyone has to retire at sixty and in fact this remarkable woman only started working at the club when she was seventy four. Playing bingo has been attributed to keeping the elderly sharp of mind, and feeling young and vital, in this instance it has certainly proved its worth. Joan has provided the children of the club with certain skills that the modern parenting of the day doesn't, and one of these is how to play bingo.