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May 7, 2021 WILKES-BARRE, PA Chacko’s Family Bowling Center, an early recipient of The Barstool Fund, was built during hard times. So when the coronavirus hit and lockdowns swept the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the family-owned business was ready to do whatever it took to survive. What they have, a 38,000-square-foot bowling alley in Wyoming Valley, was built in 1998 after Hurricane Agnes demolished the other facility near the Susquehanna River that started in 1972. Elizabeth and John Chacko Sr., who were 45 and 44 at the time, had just signed the paperwork to start converting the business into their own. To save his business, John Sr. took a boat and went out to the river. He piled sandbags on the building, but the levee broke, and it was still destroyed. The rest of the family was home, and a son with muscular dystrophy and a daughter with lupus were not about to enter a storm. So the Chacko sons, Daniel and John Jr., who were 15 and 17 at the time, were soon d ....
The owners of a family-run Pennsylvania bowling alley react on America s Newsroom to getting assistance from Dave Portnoy s Barstool small business fund. National digital media company The Barstool Sports is making an impact on small-business owners who are struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic through a fund to help keep them afloat. The owner of the Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based Chacko s Family Bowling Center got a call on Christmas Eve telling them they had been chosen for The Barstool Fund. The fund is a COVID-19 relief effort started by Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy, who has been frequently vocal about the plight of small-business owners during the coronavirus pandemic. ....
WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania (WNEP) A longtime business in Wilkes-Barre has been handed a lifeline from the website Barstool Sports. The owners of Chacko’s Family Bowling Center learned during an unexpected FaceTime call that they won money to help them stay afloat during the pandemic. Kara Hodorowski was wrapping presents on Christmas Eve when she answered a video call on her phone. On the other line was Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports, letting Kara know that her family’s business, Chacko’s Family Bowling Center in Wilkes-Barre, had been chosen to receive grant money from what Portnoy has dubbed the “Barstool Fund”. ....
WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania (WNEP) A longtime business in Wilkes-Barre has been handed a lifeline from the website Barstool Sports. The owners of Chacko’s Family Bowling Center learned during an unexpected FaceTime call that they won money to help them stay afloat during the pandemic. Kara Hodorowski was wrapping presents on Christmas Eve when she answered a video call on her phone. On the other line was Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports, letting Kara know that her family’s business, Chacko’s Family Bowling Center in Wilkes-Barre, had been chosen to receive grant money from what Portnoy has dubbed the “Barstool Fund”. ....
Chacko s Family Bowling Center has won $15,000 a month for the foreseeable future. Author: Stacy Lange Updated: 10:15 PM EST December 26, 2020 A longtime business in Wilkes-Barre has been handed a lifeline from the website Barstool Sports. The owners of Chacko s Family Bowling Center learned during an unexpected FaceTime call that they won money to help them stay afloat during the pandemic. Kara Hodorowski was wrapping presents on Christmas Eve when she answered a video call on her phone. On the other line was Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports, letting Kara know that her family s business, Chacko s Family Bowling Center in Wilkes-Barre, had been chosen to receive grant money from what Portnoy has dubbed the Barstool Fund. ....