Seniors dissapoint following Arkansas town’s bingo ban

<p>BALD KNOB, Ark. (AP) — The slight for Joyce Landers is a same any Tuesday: The 71-year-old packs adult snacks and her propitious markers, heads to an aged glow hire that now houses a comparison core and gets prepared to try her chances during bingo.
The Arkansas lady sat during her favorite list as common this week, though it wasnt a same. She knew her chances to win and spend time with her bingo-night friends during a Bald Knob Senior Center were tighten to ending.
Bald Knob, about an hour northeast of Little Rock, has motionless to anathema a customarily bingo operation in town, a pierce thats a initial of a kind given Arkansas ratified charitable gaming 6 years ago. Religious leaders and residents lobbied a City Council to absolved a 3,000-person village of gambling. And a legislature thankful progressing this month by unanimously voting to anathema bingo from a core starting May 1, upsetting Landers and other seniors.
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