For the 5th year the Green Lake Kiwanis Club is sponsoring a 9-Pin Tap Bowling Tournament benefiting special needs kids from Green Lake County. Last year the Club sent three kids to Camp Wawbeek, an Easter Seals Camp in Wisconsin Dells. The cost for a week is approximately $650 for each camper.
The club is trying out a Kiwanis interclub competition, with prizes for the highest and lowest team scores. Reduced rates are available at Comfort Suites across from the Plaza Bowl in Ripon. Sign your teams up soon. Two clubs from Mauston are coming for the noon slot, and several other clubs are signed up.
The event this year will be held at Plaza Bowl in Ripon on Saturday February 27th, with squad times at noon and 3 pm. A 9 am slot will open up if these fill. The teams are five members with a cost of $25 each. This includes three games of 9-Pin Tap format, All You Can Eat New Orleans buffet with roast beef Po Boys, red beans and rice with all the trimmings, as well as a door prize ticket or 6 raffle tickets. Plaza Bowl will be providing free shoes, a quarter barrel of beer, a door prize, and Cajun Music. The buffet alone is open to the public for$7.50, served from 11am till 4pm.
Raffle tickets are sold in advance as well as at the event $1 each or 6 for $5. The first prize is $500 cash donated by Green Lake Bank, second prize a 2009 Signed Packer Team football, and third prize is 2 tickets to an event at Thrasher Opera House and dinner for 2 at Tuscumbia's 680 North. Winners need not be present for the raffle to be held at 3pm. Door prize winners must be present to win. Tickets will be sold for $5 each or 6 for $25 at the event. Also a silent auction will be featuring many great prizes such as, but not limited to, a 4 day and 3 night stay at Blind Pass Resort with a $40 gift certificate at Sea Critters Restaurant in St. Pete Beach, Fla (Donated by Tom Giambetti), a Japanese Grill Dinner served in your home for 8 (Donated by Bill and Mevi Bannasch an Dr. Jim and Karen Williams), 2 handmade Packers, 1 football, and 1Badgers blankets (Donna Moore), and a half day pontoon rental (Bay View Motel and Resort), as well as others to be announced.
A big thanks to area sponsors for many door prizes to date: Green Lake Title and Abstract, Pinnacle Plumbing, Malcolm Bay Realty, Ed and Donna Moore, Doc Mike Seitzinger, Tina Schultz, Berlin Beauty, Bill and Mervi Bannasch, Norton's of Green Lake, Dr. Eric Ratering, Goose Blind, Tuscumbia Golf Course, Lakeway Property Mgmt., Zacatecas Mexican Restaurant, Two Oaks North Golf, Pick and Save Ripon, Kwik Trip Princeton, Harbor Lights, Dennis Walker Fishing, North Bay Sports/Liquor, Fox River Auto Princeton, Dr. Jim and Karen Williams, Tom Giambetti, Bay View Motel, Hairitage Barber/Beauty, Crossroads Market, Ace Hardware, Salty's Seafood Fond du Lac, Tina Schultz, Family Video, Baird's GM, Active Family Chiropractic, Wisconsin Gold and Gem, Don Sonntag, Adam's Rib, Green Lake Bank, Badger Mining Berlin, CHN Berlin, Hillside Dental Ripon, Yeomans-Edinger Chiropractic Ripon, Vision Care Asssociates Ripon, Headturners Salon Green Lake, Plaza Bowl, Green Lake Power Sports Outlet. Others will be listed next week. Thank you all for helping to make this one of the best Mardi Gras Bowling Tournaments. Public is invited to join the fun even if you don't bowl.
Be sure and book your team at Plaza Bowl to get the time you want. They are filling up the 3 o'clock time slot already. Call (920) 748-2100. Reduced room rates are available across the street at Comfort Suites. Mention Green Lake Kiwanis Bowling. (920) 748-5500.
Caption for picture: Pictured are Mary Rowley, owner of The Goose Blind Restaurant, Chef Patrick Morack, and Mervi Bannasch, Kiwanis Bowling Food Chair, putting the final touches on the New Orleans Buffet.
