Fair to feature Senior Day
Senior Day at the fair will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 12 at the Leavenworth County Fairgrounds in Tonganoxie. There will be bingo with prizes at 10 a.m.; old time music with Jerry Uppman at 11 a.m.; lunch at noon; and after lunch ride the trolley and tour the fairgrounds.
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Casino gambling facts:
- 1951: On September 4, Frank Sinatra makes his Vegas debut, performing in the Crystal Room at the Desert Inn.
1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino. - When playing blackjack, always split Aces and never split 4's, 5's or Tens. You would be surprised at how many players split Tens. Why risk getting a lower hand when you already have a twenty value? Also note that at most casinos, you are not allowed to re-split Aces.
- The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.
- Las Vegas in Nevada owes its success to the mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel who organized gaming and bookmaking operations for The Mob (the Mafia).

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