Slot Machines are Celebrating 10^th Anniversary 

The Ottawa Rideau Carleton is excited to announce that their slot machines are celebrating ten years of being up and running. They say that as of February 18^th, the slot machines will have been running for ten years as they first started in 2000. The slot machines started off very well back then with a lot of people wanting to try them out and play them, and in the interim they have seen millions of dollars come into the country from them. 

Back then there were a lot of people who didn’t want to see the slot machines legalized, and even today there are those that maintain that the amount of money that they bring in is not worth the cost of offering them. Some say that the slot machines might bring in more money for the track and the community, but that they ultimately harm the community by offering slot machines to their citizens. 

The corporation that runs the slot machines could not be happier with their performance. They say that they have spent ten years offering slot machines to their patrons and that they are the reason that they are still in business. They said that on their opening day so many people showed up to play the slot machines that they had to stop letting people in. They said that since the raceway opened in 1962 they had not seen these kinds of crowds. 

The slot machines have seen more than 15 million people come in to play them, and they have brought in more than $140 million according to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. They said that about three million dollars of the slot machine revenue went directly into the City of Ottawa which helped them pay for things that they would not have been able to afford otherwise.