WINTER PARK, Fla. – News 6 reported last month about a teenager’s fight to keep the Aloma Bowl open instead of it being turned into a home improvement store.
Danielle Allison, 15, started the fight to keep the Winter Park bowling alley from closing because her Winter Park High School team bowls there.
"I love to go here with friends, and I've had birthday parties here," Allison said. "This place has basically changed people's lives."
Allison collection more than 2,300 signatures to keep the bowling alley, which opened in 1977, in business after Winter Park commissioners planned to vote on whether to turn it into a two-story hardware store.
The planning and zoning commission initially approving the zoning change to allow for the hardware store and it came down to the commissioners who ultimately decided not to change the zoning, allowing the bowling alley to stay open.
“Aloma Bowl is open and operating as it has for the past 40 years. We are signing up bowlers for the summer and fall leagues,” William Wellons, president of Wellons Communications, said in an email to News 6.