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>>> Northern ontario's first casino is being celebrated today and is to say merry. Originally called ol g. Now gateway casino sault ste. Marie held a ceremony to mark 25 years since it first opened its doors. Cds cory nordstrom reports. >> Reporter: this week marks a quarter-century of legalized gambling and gaming and sault ste. Marie. Casino was the third overall in the province and the first outside of niagara falls. First in the north and the first purpose built casino. >> This is an anchor property it was one of the first casinos in ontario. And so we learned an awful lot of great lessons on how we would expand across rest of the province. >> Reporter: over 25 years there been many changes including ownership, and technology on the casino floor. >> We went from a to point in type of business we put tokens into a machine to a ticket in to get out and call it lips and then open the door for the business to develop and progress. And so now there's a number of machines that there's more video machines,. >> Reporter: 36 employees have remained at the company where they first started with in the late nineties, referred to as a day wonders, some have moved around on the casino floor, but say is the energy of the job and the patrons that have kept them here. >> You get to know the customers. You when you lose pr you build up a rapport with them and he tried to make it the best environment for them. >> I check was presented to the mayor at the anniversary celebration, representing more than $35 million the casino has gave the city since 1999. >> About 1,000,000-point to, millie .3 dollars per year. Historically it went to the hospital until the hospital was built and outfitted with new agreement, then it's gone to physician recruitment, it's gone to asset management things like upgrades to the gardens, john rhodes, the museum, the library's. >> They only have the casino contributed millions to the cities, it is also raised over half million dollars from a stats campaign to fund 50 local charities. By employing 140,000 city officials say the success of the casino it's critical to the growth of the sioux. Cory nordstrom ctv news sault ste. Marie. >> Marina: the calendar museum near north bay at displaying previously unseen photos of the beyond quintuplets. It's a commemorate their birthdays. May 28th 1934, the event runs may 26 from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm at the museum online sound street east, in the community. You can read more on this story by going to our website ctvnewsnorthernontario.ca. Sault ste. Marie stores and department is preparing for acquired or than usual cruise ship season, but while tourist and officials are expecting fewer cruise ships that visits to the port this summer, they don't anticipate this to be a significant challenge for the local tourism industry. Ctv's mike mcdonald reports. >> Reporter: cruise ships will still be making stops at the port of zeus emory the summer, but they will not be as many ships. >> It's a bit of an anomaly with the sales some of the cruise ship companies, we are down, we do see a very strong impact and ones that are here have very meaningful visits of forgetting off and they're getting out and they're pouring in the committee. >> They say cruise ship visits plain important role in the sault's tourism season and offers benefits to nearby attractions and shops. >> What happens win people come all the cruise ships is a lot will get on excursions and then they'll head out to visit attractions, art galleries, so I deftly see a direct benefit, and then they go out and they goes to exploring in the downtown and season local shopping. >> Reporter: the location of the port plays a closed on number of number of tourist amenities and city officials say it's identified as a highlight of great lakes cruise experience. >> We do here in the gas and even from the crew as well we are very fortunate that most of our attractions and amenities are well within a five-minute walk away away. And they really enjoy being able to rent a bike at the marina or walk to the location. They leave happy they come back happy all the time. Be five tourism officials say the vast majority of cruise ship visitors to the sault are international travellers, and they bring a lot of money with them. Great lakes cruise can run anywhere from about $6000 to as much as $20,000 depending on the length of the crews. Mike mcdonald ctv news to say merry. >> Marina: time for a first check on whether and temperatures have dropped a little today plus the rain could be on the way. Ctv's tony ryma is on assignment, and rick wyman is filling end with the details. >> Rick: there are those who told me this morning that they like the cooler weather, the wind blowing in their hair and not as hot as a human across

northeastern ontario is what we experienced, we have some rickets it -- precipitation coming up will have details and inseminate forecast. A lot more you can see the band a precipitation making its way through that northeast. Details and a lot more we even have a frost warning for wawa, we will pass along a little bit later on. Back to you. >> Marina: we look forward to that. Thank you. A sports attack startup based out of sudbury recently received a quarter of a million dollars in funding from the sudbury catalyst on. The money will allow for the development of a device called the arc, it aims to strengthen neck muscles while decreasing the risk of concussions and athletes. Cds lyndsay aelick has more. >> Reporter: playing in the nhl wreck is unfortunately no stranger to concussions. >> Luckily I say I've only had two. Unlikely I've had two. Whereof had to deal with some things are never dealt with before I never had an experience with concussion until it played in the nhl. >> Reporter: in nova scotia based chiropractor invented a device called neck tronic's. Which later became the key metric arc. The idea came following years of frustration with no other means to measure neck strength. >> Unable to secure financing he reached out to the physician and investor dennis. >> We have a really rich health, hub and people that were excited in technologies, we brought it here and we were able to raise 250, with a matching 250 from the sudbury catalyst on which were very grateful for. With that now were basically done a prototype that the doctor invented and create commercial version of a. >> Reporter: to start five units are being developed arc with one going to the chicago blackhawks as the ambassador. >> I thought it was a way of, were not just putting a band-aid on it or saying, were finding out why. Were getting real data of why this might be happening. Or how to prevent it from happening. >> We'll be running for people with no neck injuries, no history of concussions, just to get the whole way it's going to work and what programs were going to use with her. And get up kinda figured out in terms of protocol. >> Reporter: they have an unalike therapist for over 25 years. And says much has changed and how concussions are treated. >> We understand a lot more about the systems are involved, and one of those things is a fact that it takes about 4.5 g.'s of force to injured the neck and depending on the ligature between 40 and 70 does then concussion. >> Reporter: while the devices will first be used to help a personal athletes the hope it will be eventually something that can help anyone no matter their age or career. To decrease the severity and the incidence of concussions. Lyndsay aelick ctv news sudbury. >> Marina: still to come on ctv news. Big news from a forth world today with toronto getting the first wnba franchise outside of the U.S. and the sudbury police officer preparing to run a marathon in full gear. Why he is . Firefighters... What we do is hard. Hard on the body... On the mind. It's not enough to be strong. You have to be tough. Let's move! Get down! Get into a new station 19 on ctv catch up on ctv.ca and the ctv app ( ) ( ) ( ) For 30 years, Walmart's helped Canadians save through a lot. The Elmo Craze in ‘96. Your endless wait for dial-up. Sfx: Iconic dial up ‘trying to connect' sound Those wide, shapeless jeans... that hair thing with the uh teeth. In the 2000s, you were all doing this. So we did this. In 2020, the race for toilet paper was won here. Whatever was happening, we made it happen - for less. 30 years later, we still are. ( ) Meet my boyfriend. Jake. Sup everyone. What is all over your feet? They're flowers, I study botany. Resting dad face back there likes plants too. Grab some pruners. Let's prune. Some days you just need an easy win. So why not start saving with Eastlink's Perfect Pair. Gig internet and unlimited mobile for $99 a month. For cashing in before we come to our senses.

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