NEWS & NOTES

Washington’s Stillaguamish Tribe celebrated the expansion of their Angel of the Winds casino on October 24 with a ribbon cutting. The expansion includes a redesigned casino floor, more dining, two bars, a 16-lane bowling alley called “Strikerz Bowling” and a concert space. “All Things Sports” includes simulators for many games from golf to zombie dodgeball. New restaurants include Whiskey Prime Steakhouse, Jade Fusion and the Riverside Buffet. • East Windsor, Connecticut voters last week rejected a measure that would have put all decisions relating to $3 million in annual mitigation funds that would be collected from the state’s gaming tribes for their proposed East Windsor casino into the hands of the town’s First Selectman. “I’m excited. I think the voters in East Windsor have sent a pretty clear signal that they want people putting forward ideas that benefit the community in a more thoughtful way,” said Selectman Jason Bowsza, a candidate for First Selectman. Many felt the decision shouldn’t be made until a new Board of Selectmen is selected in November.  • Intel will partner with Caesars Entertainment and the University of Nevada Las Veas on their joint-venture Black Fire Innovation center set to open on the UNLV campus in January. The 43,000-square-foot lab will allow students, entrepreneurs and partners to develop and test an array of cutting-edge hospitality technologies. Intel has signed on to provide technology and computing resources, along with research and internship opportunities for students and others. • New York’s Oneida Indian Nation plans to expand its Point Place Casino north of Syracuse by 100 machine games, bringing the property’s total to 600. The expansion, which includes a dealers’ school and administrative offices, is slated for completion by late spring. Point Place, which opened in March 2018 in the town of Bridgeport, is the newest of the tribe’s casinos and its third in the central state market. It features restaurants, bars, a bakery and a recently opened sports book. • A former bank worker in the Netherlands has been banned from the profession for 2.5 years after setting up multiple bank accounts so he could gamble with 68 credit cards, raising the limits to the max and using one card to pay off another. The bank estimates the former staffer cost it €850,000. • The Chilean Gaming Board has suspended the obligation of casinos to stay open amid days of unrest in Chile with tens of thousands of protesters taking to the streets of the capital, clashing with riot police as they demand economic improvements in education, health care and wages. •