Finding a cache of bowling balls at the site where a new aquatic recreation center will be constructed likely wasn’t on the 2025 bingo card for South Whidbey Parks and Rec.

Last week, the contractor for the pool project uncovered over 30 bowling balls while digging up the ground at the Maxwelton Road address.

“We were able to salvage a few of them,” Executive Director Brian Tomisser said in an email to The Record . “Our recreation supervisor had a vision for using some in a program.”

He believes the final count to be 33. Just 10 were able to be kept; the rest have been discarded by the contractor.

A post on the South Whidbey Parks and Recreation District’s Facebook page caused many jokesters to emerge in the comment section.

“You’ve disturbed the Tomb of the Ancient Bowler, you will

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