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Bingo: Three county bingo halls will soon go smoke free
FAIRMONT --
Although bingo
halls are exempt from the newly revised Clean Indoor Air ordinance,
three of the bingo establishments in the county will be going smoke free in
the next few days.
West Virginia Three Rivers Festival Bingo, the Baxter Fire Department bingo hall and the Fairmont Knights of Columbus bingo hall will all become smoke-free establishments voluntarily.
The Three Rivers Festival Bingo Hall will become smoke free this Friday, said Joe Merendino, festival president and manager of the bingo operation. For the past five years, the festival bingo hall had both a smoking and a non-smoking section during games.
He added that the decision to go smoke free in bingo halls was made because of numerous reasons, the first of which was the health of the patrons. Merendino said he had talked to bingo players with health problems who had told him they would not come to the bingo games because people were allowed to smoke there.
"We'll probably lose some people when we enact this," he said. "But we'll pick some people up, too."
Merendino also said breaks would be given between bingo games so smokers could go outside to light up.
"In the long run, this will benefit the bingo operators and the people who come to the bingo games," he said.
The Fairmont Knights of Columbus bingo game will go smoke free on Thursday, said Angelo Viani Jr., grand knight. He said the Knights of Columbus bingo members decided to have smoke-free bingo games because they were having trouble keeping workers for the events.
"We had a couple of people quit because they couldn't tolerate the smoke any longer," he said.
Like Merendino, Viani said that he believed the Knights of Columbus members would see fewer people attend the bingo games soon after the events become smoke free. But he added that business would increase once word got out to non-smokers.
The bingo game sponsored by the Baxter Volunteer Fire Department will go smoke free on Sunday, said Destry Jones, fire chief. Jones said he firmly believed that making the bingo game smoke free would cause attendance to plummet.
Written by Paul Fallon
www.timeswv.com
West Virginia Three Rivers Festival Bingo, the Baxter Fire Department bingo hall and the Fairmont Knights of Columbus bingo hall will all become smoke-free establishments voluntarily.
The Three Rivers Festival Bingo Hall will become smoke free this Friday, said Joe Merendino, festival president and manager of the bingo operation. For the past five years, the festival bingo hall had both a smoking and a non-smoking section during games.
He added that the decision to go smoke free in bingo halls was made because of numerous reasons, the first of which was the health of the patrons. Merendino said he had talked to bingo players with health problems who had told him they would not come to the bingo games because people were allowed to smoke there.
"We'll probably lose some people when we enact this," he said. "But we'll pick some people up, too."
Merendino also said breaks would be given between bingo games so smokers could go outside to light up.
"In the long run, this will benefit the bingo operators and the people who come to the bingo games," he said.
The Fairmont Knights of Columbus bingo game will go smoke free on Thursday, said Angelo Viani Jr., grand knight. He said the Knights of Columbus bingo members decided to have smoke-free bingo games because they were having trouble keeping workers for the events.
"We had a couple of people quit because they couldn't tolerate the smoke any longer," he said.
Like Merendino, Viani said that he believed the Knights of Columbus members would see fewer people attend the bingo games soon after the events become smoke free. But he added that business would increase once word got out to non-smokers.
The bingo game sponsored by the Baxter Volunteer Fire Department will go smoke free on Sunday, said Destry Jones, fire chief. Jones said he firmly believed that making the bingo game smoke free would cause attendance to plummet.
Written by Paul Fallon
www.timeswv.com
