Bowling event to benefit Hope Agency

MOSES LAKE - Moses Lake High School student Kayla Steffler's senior project combines two of her passions - bowling and helping The Hope Agency.

Steffler said she's been bowling since she was about 8-years-old. She's on her school's bowling team, according to a previous Columbia Basin Herald article, and has also worked at Lake Bowl in Moses Lake for the past two years.

"I love bowling," she said. "It's something that's been passed down in my family."

Steffler said she also has a soft spot for giving back to her community. She's been a volunteer with The Hope Agency for about a year now, she said.

"They provide supervised visitations for families," Steffler said. "It's a great organization."

So when it came time to decide what she would do for her senior project, Steffler said she knew it had to benefit The Hope Agency.

"Throwing a bowling fundraiser for them seemed like a good idea," she said.

Buck-A-Roo Bowling Night takes place Jan. 17 at Lake Bowl. Check-in begins at 5:30 p.m. and bowling starts at 6:30 p.m.

Registration is $40 per person, for a four-person team, Steffler said. The price includes three games of bowling and a prime rib dinner.

"It's a really good deal," she said. "And everything we raise goes to The Hope Agency."

Money raised will specifically help fund the organization's new transitional home project, Steffler said. The agency normally provides shorter visitation sessions for parents, but the transition home will be a place for parents to live for six to 12 months at a time, she said.

"A provider will teach them how to cook, clean, do laundry and other things parents might have lost when they didn't have their kids," Steffler said. "Then they'll transition to a home or apartment with their kids."

Steffler said there are also ways for businesses to get involved with the fundraiser. An Indian sponsor is a business that buys a lane for $250, she said. A Cowboy sponsor is a business that buys a lane for more than $250 and donates an item to be given away as a prize.

"There will be door prizes and we'll be giving away things all night," she said. The event has a Western theme, so there will be a prize for the best-dressed cowboy, Steffler said.

There will also be a couple of carnival-style games that night and a 50/50 raffle.

"The goal is to raise as much money as we can for The Hope Agency," Steffler commented.

For more information, or to register for the event, call 509-760-9518.