{"id":5112,"date":"2025-06-03T03:40:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T03:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2025-06-04T19:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:30:31","slug":"asrab-volunteers-needed-for-calgary-casino-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/?p=5112","title":{"rendered":"Reminder &#8211; ASRAB &#8211; We still need Volunteers for Calgary Casino Fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5113\" src=\"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/volunteers-needed.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers Needed\" width=\"170\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/volunteers-needed.jpg 170w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/volunteers-needed-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/volunteers-needed-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-top:6px;\"><strong>Volunteers Needed for ASRAB Casino Fundraiser<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alberta Sports and Recreation Association for the Blind (ASRAB) is once again holding an upcoming casino fundraiser! We are looking for a few persons to fill volunteer positions that are required over the two days.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hosting a Casino is a primary fundraising event for ASRAB. These funds go a long way towards enabling ASRAB to meet our mandate of supporting sport and recreation opportunities for people who are visually impaired including our gymnastics, soccer, physical literacy, cross-country skiing, dragon boat, goalball programs and many more! This is a great event to meet and work alongside other ASRAB volunteers and members.<\/p>\n<p>The positions that are available are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cashier<\/strong>: Redeems players&#8217; chips for cash. Little data entry required.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Chiprunner<\/strong>: Delivers chips from the Banker to the game tables as required. Will count chips with the gaming floor staff as required. A fair amount of data entry is required.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Countroom Staff<\/strong>: Will sort and use money counting machines to count money. Some data entry required.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>General Manager<\/strong>: Responsible for overall continuity of casino, including filling any position as necessary to facilitate breaks.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Banker<\/strong>: Controls all cash and chip inventories. Data entry required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that all positions involve doing some data entry by the volunteers on PDAs (small handheld computers) &#8211; but it is very easy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where<\/strong>: Elbow River Casino (218 18 Ave SE) in Calgary<\/p>\n<p><strong>When<\/strong>: Wednesday, June 18 and Thursday, June 19, 2025<\/p>\n<p>The shifts that are available for both days are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Day shift for cashier and chiprunner &#8211; 11:15am to 7:30pm.<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Night shift for cashier and chiprunner &#8211; 7:15pm to 3:15am.<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Count Room shift &#8211; 11:15pm &#8211; 3:30am.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ages<\/strong>: 18+<\/p>\n<p>Registration: email <a href=\"mailto:program.operations@asrab.ab.ca\">program.operations@asrab.ab.ca<\/a> with your shift\/ position preference. Please also provide your contact phone\/ cell number.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks very much for your consideration! We look forward to working with you on this key ASRAB fundraiser. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ASRAB relies on support from community members like you to make adapted sport accessible and affordable to all Albertans with a visual impairment. <a href=\"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/?page_id=99\">Please donate today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers Needed for ASRAB Casino Fundraiser Alberta Sports and Recreation Association for the Blind (ASRAB) is once again holding an upcoming casino fundraiser! We are looking for a few persons to fill volunteer positions that are required over the two<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/?p=5112\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5277,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/5277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}