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Products & Services – July 2024
BRUNSWICK BOWLINGBrunswick’s Sync Service Kiosk alleviates labor concerns while improving the guest experience. This fully integrated technology reduces wait times, streamlines ordering, improves accuracy and upsells on every transaction. It features two new convenience-oriented additions: a game card dispensing system and league payment options. Guests can build and purchase personalized experiences — including bowling, food, […]
SCHEDULE UNVEILED FOR SOUTHWEST PROPRIETORS SHOW
The full schedule has been unveiled for the 19th annual Southwest Bowling Proprietors Show, which will take place Sept. 29-Oct. 1 at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center in Denton, Texas, on the far north side of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The opening day will include the Texas and Louisiana state meetings and conclude […]
MICHELLE JOHNSON WINS PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD FOR BCM
The inaugural International Bowling Media Association Visual Media Awards, comprising works published during the 2023 calendar year, have been announced, and BCM’s Michelle Johnson earned the award for still photography in news feature/documentary accompaniment. The winning photo is shown on the August issue’s Up Front page, depicting Andrew Amore, the inaugural recipient of the Daroll and Dolores Frewing Scholarship, […]
BUSINESS OWNER KILLED IN PINSETTING MACHINE ACCIDENT
Scott Willoughby was found dead this morning after being crushed by a pinsetting machine at a two-lane facility he was working to restore and reopen in Esmond, North Dakota. Willoughby was the owner of the Esmond Bar, and the bowling alley is attached to the bar. The Benson County Sheriff said he was alone at the […]
NEW ‘SEASON’ FOR SMART SCHOLARSHIPS
With the goal of quickly moving expiring Scholarship Management and Account Reporting for Tenpins unassigned funds to recipients and keeping the funds within the same geographic area, the United States Bowling Congress has announced a policy change to provide new bonus scholarships in the fall to active SMART recipients. Now, when SMART-deposited unassigned funds in […]
AZIA MARTIN RECEIVES $25,000 FREWING SCHOLARSHIP
Azia Martin has been honored as the 2024 recipient of the Daroll and Dolores Frewing Scholarship for children or grandchildren of Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America members. Martin, the granddaughter of Linda Gamble, proprietor of Paradise Lanes Family Entertainment Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina, was brought to the stage this morning at the Gaylord Rockies […]
NEW YOUTH RESOURCE GUIDE RELEASED
The International Bowling Campus Youth Development team has developed a new “Youth Resource Guide” for use by bowling centers and United States Bowling Congress associations. The guide is designed to aid in the creation of new youth bowling programs in local communities and was created to help bowling centers and USBC associations work together to […]
USA BOWLING SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED FOR 2024-25 SEASON
The 2024-25 USA Bowling tournament schedule has been finalized, and more than $120,000 in scholarships will once again be made available to youth bowlers from across the country during regional and national competition. The schedule: Nov. 17, Upper Midwest, Bowlerama Lanes, Des Moines, Iowa; Nov. 24, Lower Great Lakes, Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl, Lafayette, Indiana; […]
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