Heading for the gold - 2004-02-22
The trouble started early one morning. The manner the regulars tell it, two women wanted to sit in the lucky seat, the one right behind the driver. On the bus, luck is everything.
The casino runs such free trips every day throughout the Willamette Valley and along the coast, roughly 60 every month. Riders must join the casino's Winners Circle club -- also free -- and call a few days ahead to reserve a spot. Each year, almost 20,000 gamblers take "fun buses," as they're called, to the casino. During the week, almost every rider is a senior citizen.
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