Slot Machines for Fraser Valley

Slot machines seem to be breeding in Fraser Valley, because where before there were few, now there are more than you can shake a stick at. According to recent reports, not only are slot machines increasing in massive numbers across the country, but businesses are getting smarter about how they package them so that they can get them brought in.

Community bingo halls are some of the worst – in that they are now restructuring themselves into Community Gaming Centers which means that they are allowed to bring in slot machines. They cannot offer other kinds of expanded gambling, but they don’t care because they know that they will bring in millions just from the slot machines. Under B.C. Lottery Corporation regulatory control this is all very legal.

They get permission from the BCLC and the municipality and instead of bringing in some money for the charities that they represent; they now bring in much, much more money. They are now moving through the application process faster than ever, and all of those locations that were normally seen as simply a place for fun and a way to help a charity are now major gambling establishments.

Not only that, but it does not stop at these small slot machine locations. There are also major plans by many business people to bring in more full service casinos that would offer much more than just slot machines. Between the larger casinos and the small slot machine halls, the area and its surrounding counties are being inundated with slot machines and gambling.

There is a fear among residents that with so much to choose from in terms of gambling, that addiction will become a major problem and that crime will increase as a result of it. Each one is fighting the other to try and get a jump on the slot machine invasion, and the residents are the only ones left hanging.
 

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