It’s time again for Bowl for Kids’ Sake! Bowl for Kids’ Sake offers everyone in our community a chance to positively impact a child’s life.  The children served by Big Brothers Big Sisters are among our county’s most vulnerable, often living in a single parent household, growing up in poverty, or coping with parental incarceration.  By participating in Bowl for Kids’ Sake, your team helps children reach their potential and, through them, transform families, schools, and communities.

To participate, each bowler commits to raising a minimum goal of $50.00.  Everyone is invited and encouraged to go beyond the $50.00 goal by asking family and friends for sponsorships.  Each bowling team can consist of 4-6 bowlers.  Each team member will receive a free game of bowling, lunch, entertainment, and this year’s Bowl for Kids’ Sake t-shirt!

As in years past, we have gift cards available for those who reach specific fundraising goals, as well as trophies for high male bowler, high female bowler, team challenge winner, and highest fundraiser. The lowest male and female scorer will each receive a “Golf Trophy.” The top three bowlers in each time slot can bowl it out in the “Single Frame Showdown” for a $50.00 cash prize.

Lane sponsorships are also available for businesses and individuals. For More information, please contact: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lawrence County – Allisyn Wolfe or Steve Landman

At (724) 657-3680 or bbbslawco@excite.com.

For flyers to post at your convenience, please download from  BFKS-Flyer2013

BFKS team registration: 2013 Bowl For Kids Sake registration

For BFKS Team Captains: Team Captain Letter

For BFKS Sponsors or donations: Sponsor/donor sheet 2013

 We would like to thank the Trustees of the Giant Eagle Foundation for their second installment of a three-year pledge to Cray Youth and Family Services. Giant Eagle has been a partner and friend to our agency and our Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lawrence County program for the past five years.  Giant Eagle has been instrumental in our endeavor to provide mentoring through the community match program and site-based programs to at-risk children.  Their support has also aided our efforts in volunteer recruitment and training and supported our Club Of Unmatched Littles (COUL) program by enabling us to provide activities and services to the children on the waiting list.

Giant Eagle has also provided gift cards to the agency annually, which we in turn distribute to the families we serve to help them purchase groceries.  The generosity of the Giant Eagle Foundation and its Board of Trustees has helped to ensure that the children in our community have the support and services they need through mentoring, and that families who are facing financial hardships are able to purchase groceries.  We are truly grateful to have the support of the Foundation and the positive impact they make in the lives of children and families throughout our community.

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A sell out crowd of 240 contestants enjoyed an entertaining evening of music, pizza, wings, beer and pop at Pizza Joe’s 5^th Annual fundraiser to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lawrence County.

Joe Seminara, Mr. Pizza Joe himself, ran the evening’s festivities, that proved to be the social event of the season.  This year’s event raised $10,292.00 to help Big Brothers Big Sisters in their endeavor to provide one on one mentoring to at-risk children, as well as help us to maintain our site-based mentoring programs and aid in volunteer recruitment.

We would like to thank Joe for his generosity, Jessica Tomczyk for all of her hard work and efforts to make the event the success that it was, the employees of Pizza Joe’s for volunteering their time and preparing all of the food for the event and all of those wonderful individuals who purchased tickets.

We would also like to thank all of the sponsors from this year’s event: