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Article: Spare change; Bowl-a-thon raises $13,500 for Elizabethtown Boys Club
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- January 14, 2002
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About 300 Elizabethtown residents took to the alleys Sunday for a
Bowl-A-Thon fund-raiser for the local Boys Club.
Held at Clearview Lanes, the event raised $13,500 for the
improvement and expansion of sports facilities at the Poplar Street
park, where the club leases 13 acres from the borough.
The Boys Club sponsors a variety of athletic activities, such as
baseball, football, wrestling and cheerleading, and has more than 500
children, from ages 4 through 14, in its baseball program alone.
The park has a Little League baseball field, another baseball
field and a football practice field.
"We want to expand by adding two baseball fields and a football
field," said Terry Cover, president of ...