By:George S. Kulas
On any given Monday afternoon during the bowling season a large group of senior keglers converge on Ledgeview Lanes in Fond du Lac to participate in the Pizzaville Senior Men’s Bowling League. Many of these sportsmen are well prepared and arrive early, ready for some serious competition. Lugging carts filled with two, three [...]
On October 28, 2011 seventy-three senior sanctioned league bowlers in either the Fond du Lac Bowling Association (F.B.A.) or Fond du Lac Women’s Bowling Assoc. (F.W.B.A.) converged on Ledgeview Lanes to participate in the second annual Fond du Lac area Senior Singles Handicap Bowling Tournament.
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A half-century is a long time to compete in any sport. But Lorin Orvis enjoys bowling and after 50 years of competing in it Lorin has done, at age 81, what most bowlers will never do.
Bowling in the Wednesday afternoon Pizzaville Senior Men’s League at Parkway Lanes on January 19 2011 Orvis shattered the pins [...]
Monday December 13, 2010 is a day that John Kryzanowski will always remember. On that day John walked into Ledgeview Lanes carrying his bowling ball, a Brunswick Twisted Fury. Although the ball wasn’t heavy the monkey that had been on his back for years was continuing to weigh him down. When John left the lanes that [...]
By George S. Kulas
On October 22nd 2010 sixty-four senior sanctioned league bowlers in either the Fond du Lac Bowling Association (F.B.A.) or Fond du Lac Women’s Bowling Assoc. (F.W.B.A.) converged on Ledgeview Lanes to participate in the first Fond du Lac area Senior Singles Handicap Bowling Tournament.
The tournament was organized by Norb Wetzel with [...]
The senior bowling leagues in Fond du Lac have started a new season with two more of its bowlers now members of the Fond du Lac Bowling Association (F.B.A.) Hall of Fame. At the association’s annual awards banquet Dennis Schabel and Roger Behnke were inducted into the Hall of Fame. They joined a soon to [...]
The Fond du Lac senior bowling league’s have completed another banner season. Highlighting the 2009/2010 men’s season was Larry Secord, who at age 75, set a Fond du Lac Bowling Association (FBA) senior league record series of 859 on games of 300, 279 and 280. Secord’s gem was also the highest series rolled [...]
The baby boomers of the post World War II era are coming of age. Many are now retiring and have more time to enjoy one of America’s greatest pastimes–bowling! The senior leagues around Fond du Lac are a place where, on cold Wisconsin winter days, new retirees can get out of the house, [...]
