Strikes and spares add up to fun on a Saturday night

Kaleb Keep, 15, of St. Martins, picks out a bowling ball during a game at the Lincoln University bowling center Saturday night. Keep played with his friend, Rory Clay, 13, of Holts Summit as part of a bowling night organized by the Jefferson City Suicide Prevention Coalition. 
Kaleb Keep, 15, of St. Martins, picks out a bowling ball during a game at the Lincoln University bowling center Saturday night. Keep played with his friend, Rory Clay, 13, of Holts Summit as part of a bowling night organized by the Jefferson City Suicide Prevention Coalition. 

The bowling center at Lincoln University was filled with laughter and chatting Saturday night as a dozen children from around the city laced up their shoes, picked out different colored balls from the racks and hurried to lanes.

Then, a few minutes after 9 p.m., Extreme Bowling Night began.

Joy Sweeney, director of the Jefferson City Council for Drug Free Youth, stood watching the children have fun.