The Topeka Capital-Journal each year raises money to donate to Junior Achievement, a program to -- you guessed it -- help juniors achieve through showing children how class applies to the real world in a practical way.
Each year, in thanks, Junior Achievement hosts a night of bowling in Topeka for businesses who raise and donate money to the program. And, yours truly, enjoyed a night of copious amounts of alcohol and bowling to support Junior Achievement.
Incidentally, Junior Achievement came to my third or fourth grade class (details are sketchy because that was a long time ago) and showed us the importance of working together as a team on an assembly line type project to accomplish our goal quicker and easier (we built pens in teams, how cool is that?).
The Capital-Journal had enough people at Gage Center to fill four lanes. It was cool to see a lot of local businesses and organizations getting together in support of such a great program. The TPD were their, Security Benefit, etc. It is a nice community effort.
But I must say, nothing beats the feeling of racking yourself while bowling in front of the managing editor of a publication while trying to pull off a move affectionately termed 'the finisher.'
A proud moment? Not necessarily. A memorable one? Yes.
As is Junior Achievement's long-time-ago effect on me.
