Church slates fundraiser

FLINT TWP. - The Altar Society of Our Lady of Lebanon Catholic Church, 4133 Calkins Road, will conduct its annual salad supper Wednesday, with proceeds going to the church. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. with supper served at 6 p.m. Bingo will follow. Persons must be at least 18 years old to participate.

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Tue, May 9th, 2006

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  • The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
  • Legal gambling activities include state lotteries; parimutuel betting on horses, greyhounds, and jai-alai; sports book-making; card games; keno; bingo; slot machines; progressive slot machines; video poker machines; video keno machines; video blackjack machines; and video roulette machines.
  • At land-based casinos, both the player and the boxman need to be on the lookout for crooked dice in the game of craps. Each number when added together with the number on the side opposite it, will add up to 7. For example, 6 is opposite to 1. When the dice are crooked, they do not add up to 7.
  • Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.