Attention, Walter Ray Williams Jr.! J and J Fireball Lanes in Portage, Wis., is planning to add outdoor horseshoe pits to its property in time for the summer season. The center normally closes on Mondays and Tuesdays during the summer months, but owners Jim Baures and Jeff Bender say the pits would enable J and […]
Archive | 2017
CENTERS CAN HOST QUALIFIERS FOR 2018 U.S. OPEN
Bowling centers across the country will have the opportunity to host a pre-tournament qualifying event for the 2018 U.S. Open starting in November, and centers also can submit applications to serve as host center for the major tournament. The U.S. Open features a limited field based on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour money list and […]
28-LANE CENTER COMING TO STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
The Texas community of Stephenville next year will welcome a 30,000-sq.-ft., 28-lane bowling facility, part of a 100,000-sq.-ft. retail and business development. Ernie and Geneva Brooks are the owners, and Rick Heim of Cornerstone Consulting is working on the design, according to this report: http://www.yourstephenvilletx.com/news/20170307/stephenville-to-get-new-28-lane-bowling-alley. Stephenville is located about 100 miles southwest of Dallas.
BOWLING COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO’S UNION SQUARE
San Francisco’s Union Square neighborhood is getting a new “bowling center” — a three-lane facility called The Fifth Arrow, which will be the downstairs partner of a new music venue to be called August Hall. The partners in the project are Nate Valentine, Chad Donnelly and Scott Murphy, and the facility will replace a nightclub […]
INDIANA CENTER EYED FOR RE-OPENING; INVESTORS NEEDED
Veteran bowling center operator Rudy Hinojosa is working to put together an investment group that would fund the re-opening of a bowling center in Seymour, Ind. Hinojosa was the general manager of the center when it was known as Starlite Lanes. Its owners changed the name to Kingpins Bowl and brought in a new manager, […]
MICHIGAN CENTER RECEIVES SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
Michigan’s Monroe County Chamber annually awards its Eagle Trophy, emblematic of the Small Business of the Year Award. This week it was announced that the award for 2016 went to Forest View Recreation Bar & Grill in Bedford, Mich. Criteria include that a nominee be an independent, for-profit, small business that has been in existence […]
LESLIE BOHN NAMED YOUTH VOLUNTEER OF YEAR
Leslie Bohn of Jackson, N.J., wife of PBA and USBC Hall of Famer Parker Bohn III, has been selected to receive the Volunteer of the Year Award by the International Bowling Campus Youth Committee. The award is presented each year to an adult volunteer who displays outstanding efforts to foster, organize and promote certified youth […]
KERM HELMER AWARD GOES TO JUNIOR TOUR DIRECTOR
David Yamauchi of La Palma, Calif., the executive director of the Junior Amateur Tour in Southern California, has been selected by the International Bowling Campus Youth Committee to receive the Kerm Helmer Horizon Award. The award recognizes leaders in the sport of bowling who have displayed courage, determination and the ability to develop far-reaching programs […]
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