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As opening nears, casino opponents refuse to leave the table.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-MAY-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: As opening nears, casino opponents refuse to leave the table.(Gambling)(The PACT group still believes it has a strong enough hand in court to stop the controversial Florence project)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard

FLORENCE - Against a backdrop of flashing lights and spinning screens, Bob Hardy and Judy Holm have their eyes trained on a felt table stacked with playing cards and fake poker chips at the Three Rivers Casino.

She's dealing blackjack. He's playing three hands at once.

"Place your bets, sir," Holm says, and Hardy complies, dropping chips on the table.

It's a practice hand, one of thousands that dealers-in-training will play before the casino's grand opening at the end of June. But for the first time since construction began last December, it feels like Vegas inside the 16,000-square-foot tent.

The 268 slot machines and six blackjack tables are in. The valet parking shelter is up. The billboards and advertisements are out. The security cameras are online. The vault is sitting empty, awaiting its first shipment of cash and real chips.

And still, with as much or more fervor as they had before the first shovel struck dirt, casino...

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