Because of this merger, we've become a much bigger and financially stronger company.

We absolutely did not know. We feel that we gave them our best bid possible - something that they could work with and we could work with.... It's a very competitive industry, and you don't know until the lottery announces and a contract is signed.

We are highly regulated, so those are issues that we expect to work through. But we expect to be able to do that in a three- to six-month time frame.

Since 1993, they have gone from a four-man business to an $8 million company that employs 100 people locally. Plus, they really give back to the community from donating to the Special Olympics to the Belleville East Band Foundation.

One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.

Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.