Heading Due North, Plaza Lanes team up to raise money for Toys for Tots
NORWICH – Finding a way to dispose of used bowling pins is never an easy task for Plaza Lanes Manager Mark Ewen. Other than the odd birthday souvenir, he says the old battered pins usually end up cluttering the workspace behind the lanes. So, when Heading Due North Owner Dave Francis offered to take 200 off his hands to use as target practice, Ewen jumped at the chance.
The day after Francis and his son Adam picked up the pins, Ewen received a call from the gun store owner. The bowling center manager said he was worried that Francis had changed his mind, but what he heard next touched his heart.
Francis’ idea was to sell the pins for $2 each and donate the proceeds to the local Toys for Tots campaign.
“One man’s junk will be turned into a child’s toy, by two caring members of this community,” Ewen said, referring to Francis and his wife Maureen.
The used bowling pins are already proving popular with the shooting enthusiasts who frequent Heading Due North – a popularity which the gun shop owners credit to the composition of the pins.
According to Ewen, the pins, which weigh approximately 3 pounds, 8 ounces each, are made of multiple pieces of hard maple that are glued together and coated with Surlyn – a resin made by DuPont also used as a coating on golf balls.
“They’re a very reactive target,” Maureen Francis reported.
She and her husband believe strongly in the Toys for Tots cause, and have supported the program in the past.
“This is the time of year when no kid should be without,” explained Dave Francis.
In addition to proceeds from the sales of the pins, Heading Due North will also be donating $5 to Toys for Tots for each firearm sold between Nov. 1 and Dec. 25. The shop will also be a Toys for Tots collection site, where community members will be able to drop off new, unwrapped items for the local toy drive.
According to Roots and Wings Director Melinda Mandeville, who oversees the sorting and distribution of toys for the program, Toys for Tots delivered a total of 6,819 toys to 2,066 local children last year thanks to the generosity of Chenango County residents.
Families will begin signing up to receive toys for their children this holiday on Nov. 1, she said. Names will be taken through Dec. 15.
For more information on Toys for Tots, contact The Label Gallery at 334-3244 or Roots and Wings at 336-7897.
Heading Due North is located at 97 East Main St. in Norwich. For more information on the used pins, call 334-1960.
The day after Francis and his son Adam picked up the pins, Ewen received a call from the gun store owner. The bowling center manager said he was worried that Francis had changed his mind, but what he heard next touched his heart.
Francis’ idea was to sell the pins for $2 each and donate the proceeds to the local Toys for Tots campaign.
“One man’s junk will be turned into a child’s toy, by two caring members of this community,” Ewen said, referring to Francis and his wife Maureen.
The used bowling pins are already proving popular with the shooting enthusiasts who frequent Heading Due North – a popularity which the gun shop owners credit to the composition of the pins.
According to Ewen, the pins, which weigh approximately 3 pounds, 8 ounces each, are made of multiple pieces of hard maple that are glued together and coated with Surlyn – a resin made by DuPont also used as a coating on golf balls.
“They’re a very reactive target,” Maureen Francis reported.
She and her husband believe strongly in the Toys for Tots cause, and have supported the program in the past.
“This is the time of year when no kid should be without,” explained Dave Francis.
In addition to proceeds from the sales of the pins, Heading Due North will also be donating $5 to Toys for Tots for each firearm sold between Nov. 1 and Dec. 25. The shop will also be a Toys for Tots collection site, where community members will be able to drop off new, unwrapped items for the local toy drive.
According to Roots and Wings Director Melinda Mandeville, who oversees the sorting and distribution of toys for the program, Toys for Tots delivered a total of 6,819 toys to 2,066 local children last year thanks to the generosity of Chenango County residents.
Families will begin signing up to receive toys for their children this holiday on Nov. 1, she said. Names will be taken through Dec. 15.
For more information on Toys for Tots, contact The Label Gallery at 334-3244 or Roots and Wings at 336-7897.
Heading Due North is located at 97 East Main St. in Norwich. For more information on the used pins, call 334-1960.
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