Even as Rhode Island lawmakers recently approved a November 2012 public referendum on Twin River’s bid to add table games, for many parishes offering bingo, the financial damage was already done.Īcross the United States, religious leaders routinely band together to protest plans for new casinos, state lotteries or off-track betting. Others say the state bans on smoking in schools and public places scared players away. Some say commercial bingo halls and local casinos, such as Foxwoods, which offers “high stakes” bingo every day, twice a day in a 3,600-person capacity bingo hall, provided too much competition. The game of chance long subsidized many parishes and schools, bringing in tens of thousands of dollars a year in some instances.īut today, group after group reports that the fundraiser stopped delivering, forcing parishes to cross it off their lists of moneymakers. WOONSOCKET-It seems that the “bingo bubble” in many areas of the Diocese of Providence has burst. BY LAURA KILGUS, Staff Reporter & ANGELA CAVE, Catholic News Service
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