Last Friday, an event went up on Facebook for a German Club benefit. Why a benefit? Apparently, they got robbed.
Bryce Van Loosen, a member of the German Club’s Board of Directors, confirms as much. I called him earlier today, and he says they lost close to $3,000 in cash. And that’s not counting the cost of fixing the damage of the mid-January break-in.
They’ve made the building more secure since then, but that doesn’t get back the money they’ve already lost, nor what they lost from an earlier, similar break-in. As bartender Amy Dakue put it in a Facebook message to me, “As we are nonprofit, we don’t have a lot of beans to pass around.”
So that’s why they need a benefit. It’s happening this Saturday, February 23 and door is $10. You’ll get to see the Lonesome Weekends, the Slim City Pickers and DJ Verbal. Best of all, you get to help out a unique piece of Regina’s drinking establishment tapestry.
Over the next few days, I’ll be posting people’s favourite memories of the German Club. Check back.
With all due respect, why did they have so much cash on the premises, and why didn’t they learn from the previous break-in?
I have worked at many bars that would have much more than that on hand. Not unusual in the least.
$3000 is not a lot of money for a bar to have on hand.
OK, that answers my first question, but the second?