Fans young and old get into Star Wars act at Warren library

WARREN

They did not need to awaken the Force to get into “Star Wars” today at the Warren-Trumbull Public Library. All they needed were bingo cards, pseudo light-sabers and even Darth Vader himself, much less villainous than he is in the films.

Taking advantage of the box-office record-setter, the library drew more than 60 very young and not-so-young people, none of them in costume, who clearly enjoyed getting into the act with “Star Wars”-themed activities.

The bingo cards, consisting of 16 pictures of characters from the movies were created by Sarah Amazing of Warren. “Yes, that really is my name,” she said. Amazing said she downloaded characters’ pictures from the Internet and transferred the pictures to different cards. Bingo winners won packages of candies.

“I don’t know who some of these characters are,” said Ed Politsky of Howland, who brought his wife and grandson Colin Brown, 6, to the festivities. Colin won one of the games.

“My daughter and son-in-law have seen the movie and they wouldn’t tell me about it,” Politsky said. “They don’t want to spoil it for me.”

Read more about the party in Sunday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.