Our tournament has been in existence since 1989. It all started out with a group of us from the King’s Rook Club. We all thought we were better than one another at bowling. One night John Lytle stopped in at the Rook and heard us all bragging about how good we are at bowling and invited us to bowl off at Eastway lanes. So we decided we would have some fun and make it a handicap tournament. We also decided we could charge a little extra and give whatever we could to the top scores, and they would have the opportunity to donate that money to their choice of a children’s charity. We had 123 adult guys and girls compete in this great sport of bowling. We also had a spaghetti dinner that was cooked up for us by Brenda Moore and we joined up at the Kings Rook Club for the banquet and announcements. 5 sponsors donated sponsor fees, door prizes and give-a-ways. Our first year we collected $481.00 for 2 different Children’s Charities, and had $276.00 given away in prize money. After the 1st year we decided that no more prize money would be given away and all money raised would be donated to the top bowler’s charity choice. We started to name the tournament each year using a name from the bowler who came up with the best name, and they would have money donated to their charity. We did that for 12 years.

We are now over 30 years and still going.

We understand the needs families have with their childrens abilities, and we want to try to help them with the money we raise.