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Oct. 16 Is Deadline for BJI Design Awards Competition No one needs to be told that 2020 has provided the bowling industry with far more opportunity for stress than celebration. As readers of Bowlers Journal International will see in the
Bowling center proprietors in Illinois were allowed to reopen by Governor J.B. Pritzker on June 26, but with perhaps the most unusual limitation yet seen in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic: Centers could open, but all were limited to no more than 50 people at a time for bowling.
The same
Considering BPAA Past President Nancy Schenk is North
Carolina Legislative Chair of the Bowling Proprietors Association of the
Carolinas and Georgia, it should come as no surprise that the 75 BPAC/GA-member
centers in the Tar Heel State were allowed to open their doors.
Not long after businesses began to reopen in North Carolina,
Schenk publicly
The Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America Board of Directors has voted to suspend national domestic dues for the 2021 season as its members continue to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The
suspension of dues will apply to BPAA domestic member centers in good standing
as of Aug. 1, 2020, and
Bowling center owners in Illinois are now being allowed to reopen by Governor J.B. Pritzker, but with perhaps the most unusual limitation yet seen in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Centers may open Friday at 9 a.m., but all will be limited to no more than 50 people at a time
Even after providing a detailed, 17-point plan for a safe reopening, bowling centers in North Carolina were denied the ability to reopen by Governor Roy Cooper, prompting proprietors to consider suing the governor.
Nancy Schenk
“We don'’t understand where the line in the sand was drawn,”
Nancy Schenk, owner of B&B Lanes in
The Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority — which owns the National Bowling Stadium, Reno Events Center, Reno-Sparks Convention Center and Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center — has been forced to furlough employees, implement pay cuts and encourage early retirements as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Twenty-five of 55 positions were furloughed,
The timetable for reopening accelerated considerably for bowling-center operators in Pinellas County, Fla., this week after a key executive order from Governor Ron DeSantis. A little extra help from Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gaultieri and County Administrator Barry Burton set things in motion in a big way.
Governor DeSantis's Executive Order
There is no one-size-fits-all reopening plan for those in
the bowling business, given the numerous business models that exist today,
whether a center sits on leased or owned-by-the-proprietor land, and whether
the business itself is “free and clear” or there’s still a mortgage to be paid.
As we’re seeing across the country as states
As a five-time PBA Tour champion who now works on the proprietor side of the industry, Mike Fagan brings a unique perspective to COVID-19’s impact on both of those segments of the bowling world. The Director of Business Development for Triple Shift Entertainment, a chain of 10 bowling centers in
