Three years after moving from St. Charles Parish to Houma, the Luling-Boutte Lions Club’s bingo hall is coming back to Boutte.
With a grand open tentatively scheduled for the first weekend of November, the bingo hall will host games Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights at its new location at 13117 Highway 90. Doors will open at 5 p.m. and games will start at 6:30 p.m. A $10 buy can be paid at the door. Bingo players can win up to $300 with a jackpot prize of $1,000. Concessions will also be available.
Phyllis Breaux, the Luling-Boutte Lions Club president, said about 160 people would play bingo at the old bingo hall in Boutte. The new location has space for about 240 people.
“We did so well in St. Charles Parish before,” Breaux said. “We know we’re going to get our people back.”
For 20 years, the Luling-Boutte Lions Club hosted its bingo games at the St. Charles Room Bingo Hall in Boutte. When the building was sold to the United Way of St. Charles in 2020, the club relocated to VFW Hall in Luling. Games were put on hold when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and the club moved its games to Houma in 2021.
Breaux said club members felt they needed to move back to the parish to better serve the community.
“We do a lot of giving all year long,” Breaux said. “We enjoy helping the community any kind of way we can.”
All proceeds from the bingo hall go toward community service organizations, like the Destrehan/Hahnville scholarship funds, the Louisiana Diabetes Association, the Louisiana Lions Eye Foundation, Louisiana Lions Children Camp, Catholic Charities, and local food banks.
The Luling-Boutte Lions Club is working with another chapter of the international service organization, the New Orleans Filipino American Lions, to open the new hall. With 1.4 million members across the globe, Lions Club International is the world’s largest service club organization. It seeks to strengthen communities and support those in need.