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Frederick Lanes is coming back!

A few weeks ago I posted about AMF Frederick Lanes closing its bowling lanes. That post got a lot of love from this community, and I want to say — genuinely — thank you. The comments, the signatures, the emails, the shares. It mattered.

(Original post: AMF Frederick Lanes is closing its bowling lanes permanently next Wednesday — one week’s notice to a community that has been there for decades

A community member and their partner are taking over the lanes. Frederick Lanes isn't closing!!

If you haven't seen it yet, this 5-minute video captures exactly what this place means to the people who've built their lives around it — and the news that Frederick Lanes is coming back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZvjOHCXI1I

fredericklanes.ca is live — subscribe to stay in the loop on the opening timeline and what's coming. 🎳

AMF Frederick Lanes is permanently closing its bowling lanes next Wednesday with less than a week’s notice.

For hundreds of us, this isn’t a bowling alley closing — it’s our community centre.

My partner and I have bowled in leagues at AMF Frederick Lanes on Frederick Street for three years. Tonight, we found out the lanes are closing permanently, starting next Wednesday, May 6th. Just over one week’s notice.

I want to try to explain what this place actually is, because I don’t think “bowling alley closing” captures it.

Some of the people in our leagues have bowled at this location for 42 years. This is where families come every week. It’s where members of our community have structured their social lives for decades. And for a lot of us — people who have spent their lives struggling to find a room where they genuinely fit in, where the unspoken social rules didn’t feel impossible to decode — this was the place. The one place where the rules were clear, the people were familiar, the rhythm was predictable, and we had somewhere to be without having to perform or explain ourselves.

Here is how you can help:
- Sign the petition: https://c.org/ZvQZwCCszt

- Contact Lucky Strike (The venue is owned by Lucky Strike Entertainment (formerly Bowlero Corporation)

https://www.luckystrikeent.com/contact-us

Lucky Strike guest experience email: guestservice@lsent.com

Bowlero / Lucky Strike customer service email: customerservice@bowlero.com

Main corporate phone: 804‑417‑2000

Investor relations email: IRSupport@LSEnt.com

- Email Mayor Berry Vrbanovic directly at berry.vrbanovic@kitchener.ca — tell him this is a community infrastructure loss, not just a business closing.

- Email Kitchener City Council at: council@kitchener.ca

- Tip the media — CBC KW at yournewskw@cbc.ca and CTV Kitchener at news@kitchener.ctv.ca.

And if this place has meant something to you — if you have a story, a memory, a person in your life whose whole week revolved around those lanes — please put it in the comments ❤️