McSherrystown card night vs. borough council | FOX43 Finds Out

For more than 20 years, no matter what life has dealt them, a group of seniors has come together once a month at the senior center in McSherrystown to laugh, eat, and play cards.

About 50 seniors would show up to the center and pay a $5 buy-in for the monthly card club.

Sharon Ingram, who used to host the monthly event, says that money would pay for a meal and then the winners would walk away with the leftover cash.

"If we had a big crowd, $25, $20, 2 $15's, and a couple of 10s and 5s, and the rest went to the banquet, the food," said Ingram.

The group would also pay $20 back to the borough, for things like utilities and paper towels.

Then, back in January, the McSherrystown borough council voted to charge $100 to anyone who uses the senior center for a private event. It happened when Mark Staub took over the monthly card night. He says the group couldn't afford that and because of that fee, the event folded.