February is “Bowl for the Cure” Month
By Walt Reichenbach—CARA Sunday Night
Secretary/Treasurer
Republished from October 2006 IGBO Newsletter
 October 2006—I’m sure some of you have heard of the Susan
G. Komen “Bowl for the Cure”. It is a USBC
sponsored event that helps raise money for
Breast Cancer research. Below is a letter from
one our leagues in Washington, DC regarding
this event. If you have ever thought of doing
something like this, I suggest you go onto
www.bowl.com, and check out the “Bowl for
the cure” link, they have wonderful and fun
ideas for leagues to run this event. Good luck!
June 25, 2006
Subject: Susan G. Komen - Bowl for the
Cure
Rob,
I am Secretary/Treasurer of the CARA Sunday
Night League. We are in the Washington
DC metro area and a member of IGBO. Our
local USBC associations are NCABA and
WDCAWBA.
For the second year in a row, our league participated
in the USBC Bowl for the Cure which
benefits the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Fund.
Patti Kay Dunlap, Vice-President of the
league and a cancer survivor herself ran this
campaign. It ran for about a month. She
handed out a flyer to each team asking for
donations. Another league, Sunday Nite Mixed
that bowls at the same time was also provided
the flyer. Contributions/pledges started coming
in. In fact, one of our bowler’s Mother,
who is a regular supporter of the league and
comes every week and is a cancer survivor, took
it upon herself to collect donations. She alone
collected $1100.
The other league collected $230. Earlier in
the year, they had a bowler to suddenly die.
Our league took up a collection for his family
of $250. He had no family so the money was
held and added to the Bowl for the Cure fund
in his name.
The total donation sent to USBC was $2800.
We had another successful campaign. We are
currently listed on the top 10 leagues in the
nation on contributions.
www.members.bowl.com/
ww.bowlforthecuredonations/
Last year this league collected $5000 in donations
for the campaign.
Yours truly,
Walt Reichenbach
CARA Sunday Night
Secretary/Treasurer
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