Lukemia and Lymphoma Society fundraiser

A local fundraiser for a good cause is happening tomorrow, and it can also be a fun night out for the family.

March 25, 2011
Smyrna Bowling Center
2:00pm until 5:00pm
12.00 for 2 games and shoes. 8.00 for kids under 10. All proceeds go to the Lukemia and Lymphoma Society
There will be door prizes. Come and have a great time for an awesome cause!
Please RSVP so we know how many lanes to provide!!
If you are interested in making a donation instead, please check out my site for more information

Being prepared.

The Governor has declared September as National Preparedness month.
With that in mind, and the memory of the great flood last year you might want to go to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency and see what you might do to prepare for possible problems in the future. Most are as common sense as having some extra canned food set back, some bottled water, medical records in one area if you need to grab and run. A lot of people in Smyrna had to leave and their houses were cut off for days, and poor LaVergne at one point had all roads to it cut off and closed. Being prepared does not cost much, but you can reap great rewards from just a little forethought today.

Kids can bowl free

Our Local bowling alley is taking part in a program for kids. This summer during certain times your child can bowl free...but you will need to rent shoes and pay for adults.

The Smyrna Bowling center has a page here where you can register your child for the program to receive the coupons. The times they can bowl free are...

Monday 12:00am — Midnight
Tuesday 12:00am — Midnight
Wednesday 12:00am — Midnight
Thursday 12:00am — Midnight
Friday 12:00am — 5:00pm
Saturday 12:00pm — 5:00pm
Sunday 8:00am — Midnight

This is for 18 and under so even high schoolers can take part in this great program.

Big event reminder

Today is the grand re-opening of the Smyrna Bowling Center.

Nashville, TN. The Smyrna Bowling Center in Smyrna, TN will be hosting a re-grand opening of "THIS END" from which the ceiling collapsed on Jan 30th at 2am due to the snow and ice. We have been open with our 36 lanes and with the re-opening of " THIS END" will put us back to our 52 lanes..

A family friendly festival will include: Smyrna Police Department, inflatables for the children, fire trucks, D.A.R.E child id kits, pony rides,bungee ru, door prizes, contests, vendors, The Tennessee National Guard display including a Hummer and rock climbing wall, and much more at the Smyrna Bowling Center from 11a-6pm. The children are asked to come in costume so the can trick or treat outside with the vendors.

Everyone will be getting one free game and shoes when they come during this time. We have made alot of changes to the center and hope everyone stops in for a visit.

Be there!!!

Let's make Smyrna shine.....

I wanted to let everyone know that tomorrow Oct. 30th is the grand re-opening event of "THIS END" at the Smyrna Bowling Center. This is a family event with pony rides, inflatables, many vendors, and everyone gets one free game and shoes from 11am till 6pm. Also WSMV and WTVF will be coming by tomorrow to fill their stories for the news so we are asking everyone come out and show Nashville that we support local events. Let's make Smyrna shine!!!

Grand reopening Oct 30th

After the weight of snow collapsed part of the Smyrna bowling centers roof they had to rebuild. Well Oct 30th is the big re-opening of the center with new lanes and a lot of fun planned by our own Mark Gunn.

Mark gunn 615-220-0902
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Nashville, TN. The Smyrna Bowling Center in Smyrna, TN will be hosting a re-grand opening of "THIS END" from which the ceiling collapsed on Jan 30th at 2am due to the snow and ice. We have been open with our 36 lanes and with the re-opening of " THIS END" will put us back to our 52 lanes..

A family friendly festival will include: Smyrna Police Department, inflatables for the children, fire trucks, D.A.R.E child id kits, pony rides,bungee ru, door prizes, contests, vendors, The Tennessee National Guard display including a Hummer and rock climbing wall, and much more at the Smyrna Bowling Center from 11a-6pm. The children are asked to come in costume so the can trick or treat outside with the vendors.

Everyone will be getting one free game and shoes when they come during this time. We have made alot of changes to the center and hope everyone stops in for a visit.

For more information on being please contact Mark Gunn 615.220.0902

Mark has moved mountains to help plan this event and more. The more is that with this experience and other events he has done he now is starting his own event planning business. Take a bit of time to drop by and get a view of what he can do for you. Details on his business to be posted in the future.

"Raise the Roof"

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After 8 months of hard work following the roof collaspe at the Smyrna Bowling Center we are about ready to re-open "This End". The center has been open all this time while we have been working hard to get things back to normal. We have brand new 40 inch flat screen monitors now, new carpet being installed, and a much larger meeting room. October 30th is when we plan to have our grand re-opening of "This End". The event will be a huge event with many vendors outside in the parking lot, while those that come inside will get "One free game and shoes"! I am currently looking for a few more vendors that have something for the young people to do. We are asking that the children come in costume so they can trick or treat outside with our vendors. This is going to be as family event for all!!

Vendors that are attending:

Smyrna Fire Dept.

D.A.R.E

National Guard (rock wall)

P.A.L.

Pony rides

inflatable

Divilla's chocalote

Ron Knight Art

Chris' Gifts

and

much much more

Make plans now to attend this event starting at 11am and running until 6pm on Oct. 30th

WE ARE OPEN!!

Smyrna Bowling Center is pleased to announce the re-opening of 36 of our lanes. We sincerely appreciate the outpouring of support from our customers and the bowling community. We officially will open at 5 PM on Thursday, February 11th. Please feel free to contact us at (615) 355-0501 to inquire about lane availability for your next visit. Once again we appreciate everyone's support and hope to see you soon.

UPDATE FROM SMYRNA BOWLING CENTER....

This was posted last night on our website from the new GM Mark Hubbuck:

To all of our extended Smyrna Bowling Family…thanks so much for the thoughts, prayers, comments, and offers to help us during this trying time! Roy & Sue are strengthened by the show of support this community has already given. We are all working very hard to do what we can to reopen as quickly as possible, but this will be a slow process. The damage was quite extensive, and we are still in the beginning stages of repair. Please stay tuned with us as we will give updates every few days to keep all informed.
Our community is such a great one to live in and I know once we reopen  everyone will be stopping by to show support. Thanks to all who are concerned.

Smyrna Bowling Lane images

Mark Gunn aquired some more interior shots of the Bowling lanes and it is simply bad.





Credit to Timbo and a mechanic there...maybe the same person. The DNJ has a good write up on the story.

I drove over and took this picture of the backwall and a lot more then just the roof was badly damaged.

A Smyrna Get-together

The bloggers in the area once in a blue moon get-together to talk and say hi, but it is a rather small tight group.

I'd like to throw an iddea out to ALL readers. If I can convince our intrepid co-blogger that works at a local bowling lane to try to get us a deal I was thinking of having a larger get-together. We have regular readers and I want to try to meet more of you and give you the chance to meet each other.

If we can get about 15 RSVP's I'd love to try to have a "This is Smyrna, TN. " night at the lanes. Leave a note in comments if you feel this would work.

Weekend events...

Well Summer is right around the corner but with the weather nice and hot, there is much events going on this weekend. If you notice more traffic than normal this weekend this is why. As most of you know starting on June 11Th it's the annual CMA Music fest in the downtown Nashville area with over 50,000 fans descending on the area. Also gates open at 7am on June 11Th for the biggest party in the south. That's right, it's Bonnaroo time!. Make sure you plan for travel delays if you heading south on I-24 towards Manchester Tn. Also there is another event going on in our great town which is expected to bring about 1,000+ visitors to Smyrna. It's the annual Tn Top 5 YABA bowling tournament over at the Smyrna bowling center. This where the top 5 out of each division from every bowling center in the state are coming into town to compete to see who is the best! We are gearing up now to have over 52 lanes full on Sat and Sun starting at 8am both days! Stop by and show your support for your local bowlers!

One week to go....

Just an update on how things are looking for our Heart of Tennessee Red Cross fund raiser for May 30th, next Saturday from noon till 4pm. As it looks now there are many things planned for this day. If you are a vendor that is going to be there and confirmed by myself I want you to know you may get there as early as you like to set up. I will be there around 6am and there most of the morning until our big event kicks off at noon.

For those that are attending event: remember I will be selling wristbands for those that want to do the dunking booth, inflatable, rock climbing wall. The Price of wristbands will be $5.00 each. Also O'Charleys will be there selling hamburgers and hot dogs for $1.00 each. The airbrush tattoo airtist will be in the cafe selling her famous tattoo's. Stevie J will be doing karaoke and anyone that wants to sing will be able to donate $1.00 to be able to sing. Also the bowling inside will be going on and I hope everyone will at least bowl one game with shoes. Remember this is for a great cause I want to raise money to help those in future disasters. Our neighbors are counting on us so lets stand up and help them now before anything happens!

for more info please call me at 220-0902

Volunteers and more...

The article in the .D.N.J.
UPDATE AS OF 5/13/2009: I have also confired that Progressive Martial Arts will be demostrating. Also Sport Clips will be there to cut hair and give away coupns. We are now up to about 18 to 20 vendors for our fund raiser.

Silent Auction update: Progressive Martial Arts has given me a 1 yr membership valued at $1045.00. This is great deal as is the 6 month membership from Cox's Martial Arts valued at $650.00. Other itmes donated are some hair care products, a double feature dvd, lunch at Cuzumels in the Boro, Salon Nikki has given me 2 $35.00 gift cert., Krogers in the Boro has given us a $10.00 gift card, StarBucks has given us a pound of coffee, Blockbuster-5 free movie rentals, and much more to come. The silent auction forms will be up on Monday next week so you can stop by and place your bid! see ya then!!!


I am giving everyone an update on the fund raiser for the Heart of Tennessee Red Cross Chapter. The owners of the bowling center have decided to lower the price of bowling. It is now going to be $3.00 for children and $4.00 per adult per game plus shoe rental with half of all proceeds going to the Red Cross. This is going to be a great value that is also helping those in need out. I have confirmed that the firetruck, firehouse from the Town of Smyrna will be coming along with the Dare officers, K-9 unit, D.J., Karaoke, inflatable, dunking booth, airbrush tattoo artist, O'Charleys will be bringing their mobile kitchen, games, P.A.W.S, and much much much more. What I am needing now from the people of our great town is volunteers and items donated for the silent auction. Also O'Charleys is only going to donate one case of small burgers and buns so I would like for those with a group or church to come forward and donate food items to sell to raise money. If you or your group can help please email me at bearroller9640@yahoo.com.

Also we will be selling wristbands for all events except for food and airbrush artist for $5.00 for unlimited play outside.Food will be sold through the mobile kitchen and all money will be donated. So come on Smyrna stand up and help with this event!

UPDATE: Confirmed today that the National Guard will be bringing a rock climbing wall along with one of their Hummers

Fund raiser update:

As the month of April comes and goes and we get ready for the month of May, I am working hard on a fund raiser for the Red Cross, Rutherford county chapter. I have secured a dunking machine that is provided by the La Vergne Lions Club, also an airbrush tattoo artist, A d.j. spinning 70's music, Smyrna fire dept will be bringing a firetruck, and our very own congressman Bart Gordon is going to try to attend this event. What I need from the people of Northern Rutherford county is things for donation to the silent auction. I am also needing volunteers to help with getting things together plus help out the day of the fund raiser. anyone want to work the dunking booth would be great too! Our state is known as the Volunteer state so Smyrna and La Vergne step up and lets make this event one to remember. Feel free to comment here or email me at bearroller9640@yahoo.com.

UPDATE: I have now reserved an inflatable from spacewalk of Murfreesboro and they also own Cox martial arts which they are donating a gift cert for 6 months of martial arts class valued at $650. this is a great item for our silent auction!

update #2: Our sponsors:

I wanted to give a big shout out to our sponsors so far that are helping us with this huge event coming up at the end of May. I want to thank them and hope we get many more that want to attend this event.

here are their links:

Totally connected D.J. service

Spacewalk of Murfreesboro and Cox Martial Arts

Check these great people out and do business with them because they care about our community!

Fundraiser planned for the Red Cross!

I am planning on holding a fundraiser on May 30th (Sat.) from Noon till 4pm at the Smyrna bowling center. Tickets will be $10 for one game and shoes. Also there will be activities out in the parking lot for all to enjoy. I am going to try to get the blood mobile to come out so those of you that to donate blood can and you will receive a pass for 4 free games. anyone interested in volunteering or donating can email from the left side of this site! would love to have many turn for this event! Let's make this one of the biggest event in town this year!! The Red Cross helps with many that are in need of help. Fires, floods, and tornados so lets show our support and help raise money!

I have confirmed that Smyrna fire dept will have a firetruck on hand for the kids to play on. Many things are in the work for this event.

email me at: bearroller9640@yahoo.com if you want to help or donate something for this event.


UPDATE: HERE IS WHY WE ARE DOING THIS.

Help people affected by disasters like the recent tonradoes by donating to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.  On those rare occasions when donations exceed Red Cross expenses for a specific disaster, contributions are used to prepare for and serve victims of other disasters.

The American Red Cross name and emblem are used with its permission, which in no way constitutes an endorsement, express or implied, of any product, service, company, opinion or political position.

The American Red Cross will not receive your contact information.  Should you require a receipt from the American Red Cross, please call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) to donate by phone or give online at www.redcross.org.

For more information about the American Red Cross, please visit www.redcross.org.

Congrats to the Smyrna bowling team

After a couple of years not making it to the state tournament the Smyrna bowling team will be attending the high school tournament this week at the Smyrna bowling center. I am so very proud of the teams that made it this year. Candy lindsey and the team did a great job in Soddy Daisy today! If you want to attend the tournament this week please feel free to do so. The TSSAA will be holding this event and they do charge to get in to watch but the charge is well worth the excitement! I know that there will be way over 1000 people watching this event. This event starts on Thursday and runs till Sat and the time is 8am till 4 or 5pm. Get there early if your going to attend because you will have to park somewhere and find a good viewing place. Once again WAY TO GO GANG! Good luck at state!!

Welcome our visitors that are coming!

Well, it's that time of year again and all the businesses are gearing up for the amount of folks coming in for a 3 day event. The event is the TSSAA High school bowling tournament held over at the Smyrna Bowling Center, on Jauary 28th thru January 31st. This event brings around 40 teams of 10 plus all the parents and family members. Working at the bowling center I have grown use to the huge crowds that attend every year. We see about 1000 plus visitors and traffic over at the entrance is terrible! I want to see if anyone in the city wants to donate coupons or meals tickets for free. I am in charge of getting gift bags for all the team members. If your interested in donated for the gift bags please feel free to leave a message here or email me at bearroller9640 at yahoo dot com. Lets all put on our best faces and welcome everyone from all over the state on January 28th thru January 31st.

Vanderbilt bowling in Smyrna.

I found this picture spread of the Vanderbilt bowling team. Seems that they practice here in Smyrna at the Smyrna Bowling Center .

The Smyrna Bowling Center is where the Commodores practice. The center is considered the finest in Middle Tennessee.

One of the pictures shows how technologically advanced their computer system is there. The system can set up any combination of pins so you can get practice on the hard sets.