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The competitive side of bowling is honored at Enterprise Park Lanes with displays of
vintage black-and-white photos of former PBA stars and award emblems from the
ABC and WIBC.
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for dumpsters during community
clean-up efforts, hosted pet adop-
tion days (in the parking lot for
dogs and inside the center for cats)
and made the center available as a
pick-up location for local students
in need of back-to-school items.
Charitable bowling events also are
welcomed, particularly those that
benefit local homes for veterans.
Wiemer has served on BPAA’s
Legislative Committee for years
and isn’t shy about urging fellow
proprietors to support the commit-
tee’s efforts. He’s also a Missouri
BPA past president and long-time
association advocate.
And somehow in-between all his
business, neighborhood, and state
and national association work,
Wiemer found time to coach the
Southwest Missouri State (now
Missouri State) University men’s
and women’s bowling teams for 24
years.
Despite his lengthy resumé of
success and service, Wiemer says
being selected for the BPAA Propri-
etor of the Year award “was prob-
ably the biggest surprise of my life.
When you look at our organization
and the great centers and people
we’ve got, some days I feel like I’m
scrambling to keep up.”
Does that mean Wiemer may be
considering retirement?
“No way,” he says. “I might retire
if I found something that was more
fun. But I still have fun every day.
“I don’t work as much as I used
to, which in our business could be
70 hours a week. That’s because the
kids want to do the job. They don’t
need me to be there to tell them
what to do. As long as they want to
stay in the business, I’ll stay in it.
They’ve all expressed that they’re in
it for the long haul, so we’ll figure
out a way to make it work.”
Adds Wiemer about his “bonus
daughter”: “I tell Keegan I’ll retire
when she fires me.”
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