Lyon County, IA May Vote On Proposed Casino

a casino, while bringing lots of wealth to the area would ruin the life style many residents live there for. Once the casino is built, the comfortable country lifestyle, the friendliness of the people, the home town feeling will be gone. Business attracts business and in a short time a new business residential corridor will emerge from Sioux Falls to Larchwood. It will make many people rich (especially landowners, and business owners)) but leave in its wake a way of life gone forever. In its place will come traffic, smog, crime, and the hustle and bustle of bigger city life. The very thing people living and moving into the area are there to avoid. It boils down to a choice between greed and lifestyle.

The casino is most likely going to happen and Lyon County will vote to approve it. Rick, go ahead and think what you want, but you are wrong.

The proposed casino was on the news again tonight. I am saddened by the proposal because I am one of those that truly enjoys the country life. The new casino will be just a few miles from where I live; and because I live on the SD side I can just sit back and watch. I guess I can sell my place for hopefully a nice profit and relocate. Just when I thought I had a place to call home.

This casino is exactly what the area needs. There won't be smog and the crime won't go up any. Yes there will be more traffic but nothing like in Sioux Falls. I have grown up by communities with casinos my whole life and they have done nothing but good for the area. They supply huge amounts of money for the local schools and local emergency responders. This is going to benefit the people of South Dakota as well. This will probably trigger the east side of Sioux Falls development.

The unfortunate truth is that the damage done when a gambling enterprise invades an area is not easily seen. When a person is killed by a drunk driver the news story may not mention that the death was caused by a person who sat, drinking free drinks, for 3 hours at the casino. Nobody hears about the 3rd grader that goes to school in worn out jeans and holy shoes because mom has maxed out all the credit cards and continues to waste 100's each week due to her gambling addiction.

I don't know what kind of dream someone is having about casinos, but they are a major drain on any community, but they area able to sweeten how it is communicated. The 3-5% that they return to the community gets big publicity, but since the bankruptcies are private no one can keep track of them and blame the on the casino. Ours opened in '04 and the firemen have new trucks, but their businesses are being threatened and we have lost several small businesses. What a mess.

i understand some peoples concerns about the casino. but look at lyon county. it is dying and no one cares. all the young kids graduate from school and leave never to come back cause there is nothing here for them. hell the average age for rock rapids is 57. what is going to happen when these older people pass on. there will be no one left. then what? this casino will bring jobs for people that need it and it will sure pay better than 7.00 an hour. and just like everything it has its pros and cons. but dont be so negative about everything that is new. and i dont believe crime will go up any. i dont know of to many legal cases that involve some one stealing or shooting someone for money to go gamble. if people knew of all the crime that was going on now in the area they would be asking what do the cops do all day. and as for people with gambling addictions, well should we close all the bars because people become alcohlics or shut down the cig companies cause people get addicted to it. we dont bitch about all that do we. people dont understand all the money this will bring to the community. like helping with the high taxes in this county. hell i have a house that is 50 years old and my taxes are higher than people that have new houses which are double the size. and as for people with small business bitching about this is cause they know they will have to pay the employee a better wage instead of paying pennies and then pocketing all the extra and acting like they are broke. with this casino people wont have to bust there butts all week for barely making 300 a week. i know i work 2 jobs to support my family and it is tough. maybe if this casino passes i could get a job there and only have to work one job and then be able to see my wife and kids more. and i know there are alot of people like me out there. so people dont be so negative. look at both sides of the fence. not just the negative ones cause everything has them. and by the way, it is just not a casino they want to build it is also a resort. which would give a better area to put on some good shows and maybe draw some of the younger people back to the area. just think long and hard before you vote on this. cause i believe this is going to decide the future of this dying county. really think about it.

I may not agree with Gambling but Lyon county is dying as the above poster states. We need to allow seeds to be planted to allow it to grow with the future. If we don't then we are all living in houses that are destined to be bull dozed and become future government corn rows.

Casino Passes with 62%+ in favor. Appears most of Lyon County did not fall for the lies that Gene and John were putting out in their ads.

If casinos are good at anything, it is blinding people’s eyes to reality. Propaganda like “jobs” and “revenue” are required to sell casinos, because they have left a sorry path of ruin and destruction everywhere else they’ve been built. According to research:

-the House ALWAYS WINS

-casinos attract organized crime

-casinos dry up businesses around them

-people tap themselves out financially at nearby ATMs so they can blow their money at the casino

-casinos create new compulsive gamblers who don’t pay their utility bills

-the marriages and families of compulsive gamblers disintegrate, bringing sorrow and poverty to children and adults

-some of the VPs of big companies in Sioux Falls will embezzle from their employers to feed their gambling habit … on their way to jail; it’s happened elsewhere and it will happen here, too

-state commissions that oversee casino gambling set up contingencies for problem compulsive gamblers, but the truth is these people are welcomed into casinos because they are its lifeblood

-the revenues from casinos used to build roads and schools is collected off the backs of the people mentioned above … at great social costs: fractured marriages and families, lives and careers ruined, prison time; do the gains outweigh the negatives? Negatory

-since most casinos in the U.S. are located on Indian reservations, unemployment there has actually risen since gambling houses opened

-casino advertisements brag about the winnings paid to gamblers, but they never advertise their profits, which are many times more than the winnings paid out

Men and women are far better off working hard at farming and respectable businesses that don’t destroy their marriages and families.

A casino is NOT the answer for Lyon County’s problems. It will not make young people stay in the county, and it will not create any socially redeeming value whatsoever.

Local elementary schools will not be bringing third-graders to field day at the casino to see where their father ruined his life.

Lyon Countyans and South Dakotans will rue the day they built a casino. If they were smart, they would bury this serpent far beneath the county’s rich, black, fertile soil. Beneath a cornfield or factory.

Look to the southeast where Sioux Center and Orange City have prospered and grown in recent decades because of sound planning, recruiting and investment. No casinos in sight.

A casino is the last hope of desperate people and the greedy few who will profit from investing in ownership of the Larchwood casino.

A wise man once said there is a way that seems right … but in the end it leads to death and ruin.

most of you people need to stop watchin tv shows just because there's a casino doesn't mean crime is just gonna pop up and if someone has a gambling problem their gonna gamble either way. There is a casino 40 minutes north of sioux falls and it hasn't ruined life in that town. "could be good"'s statements are some of the best on here. I think it would be good for the community

As a former resident of AZ I can attest to the Former Larchwood residents post.

Indian reservations with Casino's are turned to dumps! In fact most of the residents turn to jobs from the casino and never grow.

As an employer in the Sioux Falls area, I can also confirm several gambling problems that have caused me to lose employees. We even lost a soccer mom to a gambling addiction for bouncing checks.

Onyl time will tell.

People can say what they want about the casino. Anyone can find facts to support or condemn it. People have the right to believe in whatever they want. The part that is getting under my skin, is when people blame casinos for gambling addiction and ruining homes. Grow up and take responsibility for your own actions. Seriously, if you can't control yourself, STAY HOME!

I don't think it's fair to dangle crack in front of a recovering crack head... apparently you do.

I have gambled most of my adult life and always believed I had it under control. Till later in life and when I realized I was alone, I ahve lost 2 homes I owned and almost all my retirement savings. I keep telling myself I have 10 more years to work and save, Dah just to give to casinos and money bought government.

Believe that larchwood should have a casino.there not going to be any more crime than any other casino. actually i work in several bars and casino never one seen any crime.so i believe the comments are just trying to add problems that lyon county needs. i several friends that play golf if that what ur interest in so be it

I live in Sioux Falls, and I'm addicted to video lottery. Just because I'm an addict doesn't mean that I play anymore. I have gone to treatment twice, and quit for a 4 month stretch before I relapsed. I do realize that it's MY problem, and not the casino's fault. It sure doesn't make things easy when there are casinos near residential areas. I wouldn't be able to get from the bank to my house without passing dozens of casinos. It'd be 10 times worse if they were open 24/7. There's been a lot of casino robberies in Sioux Falls this year!

Too many casinos will hurt any state or locality. I am more interested in more sinister things like Gwen Towers. I am trying to find as many of these towers as possible in the next few months.

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