District Three Junior Bowling Tournaments east and west took place on Sunday February 24 and March 2 respectively. Tournament east was held at the Holiday Bowl in Struthers Ohio and coordinated by Nancy Kovach. Thirty-five GCU bowlers and guests participated in the east tournament. Following the event they were treated to pizza, soft drinks and cookies. Nancy and Betty Stanko served the refreshments.
     Afterwards, all bowlers were awarded ribbons and winners were given trophies. The following bowlers won their division. Girls: (2-3) Sophie Butchko; (4-5) Alexandra Bisel; (6-7) Kacie Roth and (12-13) Tiffany Komara. Boys: (4-5) Joseph Roth: (8-9) Nick DeSalvo; (10-12) Adam Macala and (16-18) Erik Buerhle.
      Tournament west was held at Cloverleaf Lanes in Independence, Ohio and was coordinated by district Athletic Director Jean Karaffa. Thirty-three bowlers and guests participated in the west event. They too were treated to refreshments after finishing the competition. Ribbons and trophies were then given to the bowlers. Winners of the West Tournament are as follows: Girls: (203) Alayna Karaffa; (4-5) Gabi Atanaskovic; (6-7) Payton Ambrose; (8-9) Angela Sidoti; (10-12) Annika Kisha; (13-15) Amanda Trompak; (16-18) Jennifer Trompak. Boys: (4-5) Gregory Karaffa; (6-7) Joe Wuff; (8-9) Cade Ambrose; (10-12) David Bratnik; (13-15) Mark Primuth.
      Erik Buerhle and Jennifer Trompak will represent the district in the National Junior Tournament Rolloff in July during GCU Family Fun Week. Winners of that tournament will be awarded a scholarship.

The Foul Shooting Contest was held on Saturday March 15. Winners of the Hoop Shoot were as follows: Sr. Men: Ed Keshok, Girls: 5 th & 6 th grade–Emily Havrilla, Girls: 7 th & 8 th grade–Andrea Trompak, Boys: 7 th & 8 th grade–Brian Havrilla, Girls: 9 th through 12 th grade–Rebecca Havrilla, Boys: 9 th through 12 th grade–Carl Kaczor.
     Carl and Rebecca are eligible to participate in the national hoop shooting contest to be held in July during GCU Family Fun Week. Winners receive a scholarship.

District 3’s second quarterly meeting was held on April 20 in Warren. Eighty-three members and guests attended. National officers in attendance were National Directors John Urban and Michael W. Karaffa, Fr. Richard Lambert, Spiritual Advisor, Judy Weitzel member of the Supreme Tribunal, and Helen Yurko, Honorary Officer.
     We thank Sr. Margaret M Schima and members of Lodge 814 for graciously hosting this meeting.
     The membership chose St Mary’s Catholic School in Cleveland and the Byzantine Catholic Central School in Youngstown as the recipients of monies to be raised from our national funds project.
     Bunny Hlivko addressed the membership and spoke about her lodge’s February “Through the Heart” food drive to help the disadvantaged. Many of the people from the disadvantaged neighborhoods helped with the drive.
     Nancy Kovach gave the athletic director’s report in the absence of Jean Karaffa. She recapped the junior bowling tournament and hoop shooting contest (see related articles). John Keblesh suggested that applications for the Davey Petrus Memorial Golf Tournament be sent to all golfers in the district. Dennis Chrustic responded and said he would ask the Home Office to send applications to all lodge secretaries for distribution to their lodge members.
     Dennis said that he is working on a trip to the Youngstown Scrappers baseball team in August.
     John Urban spoke briefly about National Convention procedures and what would be taking place at the convention in June. He said that National President George Juba would be in Cleveland on June 16 to meet with the District 3 delegates and answer any questions.
     Our next quarterly meeting will be held on July 20 at St. Nicholas Church in Lorain, OH.

The 7th annual Mystery Doubles Tournament took place on April 26. Twenty-seven bowlers and 5 guests attended the event. Bowlers competed at Cloverleaf Lanes. Bowlers checked in with assistant athletic director Jerry Holderbaum for their lane assignment and filled out their “guess who my partner is” slip. Following the competition, bowlers drove to St. Joseph Byzantine Activities Center for dinner, prizes and fraternalism.
     Winners are as follows:1st Bonnie Ciresi and Carl Emch; 2nd Jean Karaffa and Ralph Contipelli; 3rd Rose Bero and John Reiger; 4th Julie Tirpak and Michael Karaffa; 5th Jean Karaffa and Paul Maruna; 6th Bonnie Ciresi and Jack Arrowrood, 7th Mary Biros and Mic Cimperman and 8th Rita Contipelli and Wally Christy.
     Individual High Game winners were Carl Emch with a 279 and Jean Karaffa with a 201. Doubles High Game winners were Bonnie Ciresi and Carl Emch with a 442.
     We thank Jerry Holderbaum and Dorothy Tyburski for their help with the tournament. Special thanks go to Bea Chrustic for catering our dinner. Also, we thank Andy Zeedick, Martha Seech, Dave Oleksa and Mike Karaffa for the door prize donations.