Article: Bowling in school a hit: Activity called good exercise, now and in future.

Byline: Paul Westmoore

Jan. 31--NORTH TONAWANDA -- After listening to teachers lecture for several hours, Spruce Elementary School pupils like nothing better than to knock down a bunch of bowling pins. For the past month, all children -- kindergartners through sixth-graders -- have been doing just that because physical education teachers Robert J. Keohane and Lori Rogers started a new bowling course that simulates the real thing. And it's a course that could be rolling into more school districts next year. Using five 20-foot-long carpets that look just like bowling lanes -- arrow locators, 10 sand-weighted plastic pins and all -- the pupils, like soldiers in a ...

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