Bowl With Your favorite CT Whale Players

Press Release from Jackie Turro, Director of Development, Special Olympics Connecticut, (860) 887-1555 x502, jackiet@soct.org:

Bowl with your favorite CT Whale Players!

The annual “CT Whale Bowl-a-Thon” will be held Sunday, November 27 at AMF Silver Lanes in East Hartford, CT.  The event supports Special Olympics Connecticut. The CT Whale Bowl-a-Thon features the entirety of the Whale player roster.  The hockey players will be bowling with teams of four bowlers, who have collected pledges to benefit Special Olympics Connecticut Eastern Region.  A minimum pledge level of $200 is required for a team to enter, and the top fund-raising teams will win prizes, including the use of luxury suites at Whale home games. A registration and pledge form to enter the Bowl-a-Thon is available on-line at www.SOCTBowlathon.com.  There will be two sessions of bowling, the first starting at 11:00 AM and the second at 2:00 PM.  AMF Silver Lanes is located at 748 Silver Lane in East Hartford.  Event sponsorships and raffle prizes are currently being accepted. 

For further information, Jackie Turro of Special Olympics Connecticut at (860) 887-1555. 

About the CT Whale: The AHL's CT Whale is operated by Whalers Sports and Entertainment, a Hartford-based sports marketing and event firm founded by Howard Baldwin.  The team is the top player-development affiliate of the NHL's New York Rangers.

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About Special Olympics Connecticut: Since 1969, Special Olympics Connecticut (SOCT) has been changing attitudes and changing lives through year-round sports training and athletic competitions for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.  SOCT currently serves 13,180 athletes (with intellectual disabilities) and partners (without intellectual disabilities) from across the state.  Athletes and partners compete in 26 different Olympic-type sports thanks to over 100 local coordinators, 900 coaches and 10,000 additional volunteers.

SOCT Partner Sponsors: Adams Hometown Markets / IGA Hometown Supermarkets, Connecticut Light & Power, Guardian, Law Enforcement Torch Run, NBC Connecticut TD Bank, United Technologies and Yankee Gas.

SOCT Year-Round Suppliers: Adams Hometown Markets/IGA Hometown Supermarkets, The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New England, Crystal Rock Water and Coffee Company, Graebel Trucking, Guida’s Dairy, Marcus Communications, State of Connecticut Judicial Branch Community Service and Worx Branding & Advertising.