KINBURN – The 2020 West Carleton euchre season is heating up, so don’t be a loner and make sure to hit one of the smoking hot community games being hosted in West Carleton this winter.

The Kinburn Seniors Association’s annual six-handed euchre series kicked off Jan. 2 and goes every Thursday in January at the Kinburn Community Centre.

Last Thursday (Jan. 9) was the second in the five-day series and West Carleton Online was there.

Week Two of the Kinburn seniors’ euchre series saw six tables of six-handed euchre being played and one table of four-handed euchre due to the numbers of attendees.

“If you got here earlier, we could have made it seven tables of six-handed,” volunteer coordinator Anne Levesque told West Carleton Online. “If there was one extra person, I’d be playing.”

But then this story would be a conflict of interest. So, Levesque spent her time speaking with West Carleton’s premier euchre journalist. Levesque was helping to coordinate the first two Thursdays of Kinburn euchre as association president Judith Wadell was on vacation.

“My husband and I are her replacements,” said Levesque who joined the association when she lived in Vydon Acres but now calls Kanata home. “We have 40 players today. We have the exact same number as last week, just different people.”

Levesque says there’s lots of room for more players.

“We need more people,” she said.

The euchre series is a fundraiser for the seniors’ association.

“I think it’s the only fundraiser we have,” Levesque said.

The series costs $5 per player each Thursday and gives prizes to the first and second place player as well as a “boobie” prize, a door prize and a ‘Share the Wealth’ prize. While euchre is a team game, each player keeps their own score, and switches teams each round. At the end of the tournament, players count up their points and a winner is declared.

Anyone interested in playing just needs to show up at the Kinburn Community Centre Thursdays in January just before 1 p.m.

That’s not the only euchre going on in West Carleton in January. This Saturday (Jan. 18) is the first of the monthly Carp Fair euchre series. The Carp Fair series, once a month for the next four months, features $800 in prize money and starts Saturday at noon. Click here for more info.

The Kinburn Seniors Association also hosts a euchre series in April.