{"id":13223,"date":"2026-02-27T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-rotary-bingo-night-sets-record-with-3400-raised-for-operation-graduation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:36:06","slug":"dolores-rotary-bingo-night-sets-record-with-3400-raised-for-operation-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-rotary-bingo-night-sets-record-with-3400-raised-for-operation-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores Rotary Bingo Night sets record with $3,400 raised for Operation Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7da441b4-902a-5df6-8be1-bd0ebd826b13&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1381\" height=\"854\" alt=\"The Bingo Night fundraiser will help send Dolore\u2019s Class of 2026 to Bananas Fun Park in Grand Junction immediately following their graduation ceremony. (Photo courtesy of Staci Cost)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Bingo Night fundraiser will help send Dolore\u2019s Class of 2026 to Bananas Fun Park in Grand Junction immediately following their graduation ceremony. (Photo courtesy of Staci Cost)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Rotary Club of Dolores bingo night fundraiser for the Operation Graduation program broke its previous fundraising record, bringing in $3,400 for Dolores High School\u2019s 2026 graduating class.<\/p>\n<p>The donation\u2011based event was held at the Dolores Community Center. The Rotary Club said the evening drew the largest attendance for a fundraiser of this kind to date, surpassing the previous record by about $1,000.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees were served chili and soup, played bingo and competed in a \u201chighly energetic\u201d dessert auction.<\/p>\n<p>Rotary Club members voted on Tuesday to contribute an additional donation from club funds to Operation Graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Parents of the incoming senior class were key to the bingo night\u2019s success, helping secure prizes from local businesses, organize the meal and handle other tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The dessert auction was the highlight of the evening. The Rotary Club said business owners and family members competitively bid on items to benefit the students. Several county commissioner candidates were also in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Graduation was created by Dolores parents to offer a supervised, drug\u2011 and alcohol\u2011free celebration for seniors on their commencement night. Students travel to Bananas Fun Park in Grand Junction and have the opportunity to win baskets and prizes to support life after graduation.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Rotary Club of Dolores, contact Susan Lisak at (970) 426\u20119902.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Graduation provides a safe place for graduates to celebrate <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44,103,155,574,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-13223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores","tag-dolores-schools-re-4a","tag-education","tag-graduation","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18869,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions\/18869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13223"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=13223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}