{"id":34731,"date":"2023-08-17T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=34731"},"modified":"2023-08-17T12:12:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:12:51","slug":"pba50-professional-bowling-tournament-comes-to-orange-bowl-lanes-local-bowlers-can-bowl-with-the-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/08\/17\/pba50-professional-bowling-tournament-comes-to-orange-bowl-lanes-local-bowlers-can-bowl-with-the-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"PBA50 Professional Bowling Tournament Comes to Orange Bowl Lanes\u00a0Local Bowlers Can \u201cBowl with the Pros\u201d\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The PBA50 Johnny Petraglia BVL Tournament of Champions is coming to Orange Bowl Lanes in Lakeland, Fla. Aug. 26-30. A major stop on the PBA50 professional bowlers tour, the tournament kicks off with a \u201cBowl with PBA50 Legends\u201d event, in which members of the bowling public can bowl with the best bowlers in the world.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u201cBowl with the PBA50 Legends\u201d event, which is open to both juniors and adults, will take place Saturday, Aug. 26, with two squads beginning at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The $75 entry fee includes a generous donation made in the participant\u2019s honor to the Bowlers to Veterans Link (BVL), the industry\u2019s oldest charity, to benefit local programs for veterans.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are proud to bring the PBA50 tour to Orange Bowl Lanes. We are excited to give our customers the opportunity to bowl with the world\u2019s best bowlers and to demonstrate our commitment to growing competitive and league bowling at Orange Bowl Lanes,\u201d said Joe LaSpina, Vice President of Maple Family Centers, a three-generation family business that purchased Orange Bowl Lanes two years ago.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over the years, Maple Family Centers has generously supported BVL, raising more than $600,000 for the charity. Maple Family Centers President John LaSpina, who is Joe\u2019s father, has chaired BVL since 2014. John was instrumental in growing BVL into an industry-wide charity by encouraging proprietors and manufacturers to become actively involved. BVL supports America\u2019s veteran and active-duty service men and women by raising money for and funding recreational therapy programs and other services to speed recuperation and boost morale. Since 1942, BVL has raised more than $57 million for this cause. On August 12, John LaSpina appeared on the national Fox News network to present $1.25 million to veterans\u2019 organizations on behalf of BVL.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The upcoming tournament was named in honor of Johnny Petraglia, a professional bowler who grew up bowling with John LaSpina at the original Maple Lanes in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFor the last 50 years, Johnny has been the voice of BVL; he\u2019s visited the wounded, he\u2019s spoken to bowling and veteran\u2019s groups about BVL and has raised tens of thousands of dollars for his fellow veterans. He is indeed our hero!\u201d John LaSpina said. \u201cWe thought naming the tournament after him would be a way to honor his 50 years of commitment to BVL.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The PBA50 Johnny Petraglia BVL Tournament of Champions is coming to Orange Bowl Lanes in Lakeland, Fla. Aug. 26-30. A major stop on the PBA50 professional bowlers tour, the tournament… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}