HARRISBURG: Susan Hensel, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s Director of Licensing, has been appointed Executive Secretary of the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). The two-year appointment was made by IAGR Chair Dennis Neilander, the current Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Hensel replaces Alicia Gibson of South Africa.

Neilander stated that he wished to thank Susan for accepting the position as Executive Secretary and the state of Pennsylvania for allowing her to fill this important and demanding position.

HARRISBURG: During "Problem Gambling Awareness Week" March 9th through 15th, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board encourages anyone who thinks they may have a gambling problem to seek help and consider taking advantage of the voluntary Self-Exclusion Program. This program permits an individual to voluntarily request to be excluded from all gaming activities at all licensed slot machine facilities within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for one year, five years or a lifetime.

HARRISBURG: Recognizing the effects problem gambling can have on citizens, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is actively promoting National Problem Gambling Awareness Week, March 9 through 15, 2008 with outreach efforts and helpful information.

In addition, Governor Rendell, the House and Senate of Pennsylvania, the Gaming Control Board and the Secretaries of Agriculture, Health and Revenue have all proclaimed that week as “Problem Gambling Awareness Week” in the Commonwealth.

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced today that it has cancelled its Thursday, March 13, 2008 meeting.

In addition, the next regularly scheduled meeting on March 27, 2008 will now begin at 12:00 noon in Hearing Room #1 in the North Office Building in Harrisburg.

HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has released its first diversity study of the Commonwealth’s gaming industry.

The report, required under the Pennsylvania Racehorse Development and Gaming Act, outlines the actions taken by licensed slots gaming facilities to enhance the representation of diverse groups in the ownership and employment of its businesses and in associated enterprises that provide goods and services.

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today approved three new grant requests totaling $200,444 to local law enforcement agencies to fund programs designed to thwart the operation of illegal slot machines in the Commonwealth.

HARRISBURG: Speaker of the House John M. Perzel (R-Philadelphia) today named Philadelphia businessman and former chairman of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission Joseph W. "Chip" Marshall III as his appointee to the Pennsylvania State Gaming Control Board.

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HARRISBURG: House Democratic Leader H. William DeWeese will appoint retiring state Rep. Jeff Coy of Franklin County to the seven-member Pennsylvania State Gaming Control Board.

DeWeese said Coy’s appointment will be effective Sept. 3, the day after his resignation from the House of Representatives. Coy previously announced his intention not to seek re-election to a 12th term in November.

HARRISBURG: Kenneth T. McCabe, a twenty-year veteran of the FBI who currently heads the regional field division in Pittsburgh, is the appointee of Senator Robert C. Jubelirer for the newly created Gaming Control Board.

“Ken McCabe has the experience, the character, and the commitment needed to make sure that gambling expansion is implemented honestly, and that the oversight structure contains suitable safeguards against corruption,” Jubelirer said.