COUNTY LIFE
Buzzing cancer – ‘It’s just hair’ says Bowie woman
By DANI BLACKBURN
Sherry Smith is sporting a new look after having her head shaved at the One Mission Buzz Off at Globe Life Stadium on April 23.
The event brings together participants who shave their heads in honor of kids with cancer. Those who take part raise funds by collecting money from family and friends who sponsor their participation.
Smith, 57, and her husband, Tommy, are Bowie residents. Smith moved to Texas from California 18 years ago with her daughters Kristin and Kari. Smith works as a senior operational co-manager for Kroger.
It was on her morning commute that she heard a radio commercial for the Buzz Off event. She immediately called her close friend to tell her she wanted to participate in celebration of her friends’ goddaughter, Ne’Veah, who battled retinal blastoma after being diagnosed at the age of three.
Ne’Vaeh is now 11 years old and in perfect health after having one surgery for her glass eye, which Smith explains will need to be replaced as Ne’Vaeh gets older.
The event is not the first or even second time Smith has shaved her head in honor of a loved one who has battled cancer.
Read the full feature on this Bowie woman in your weekend News.
Top picture: Sherry Smith awaits the barber with daughter Kristin Keith and her son, Kayden. They all took part in One Mission Buzz Off shaving their heads to raise money and awareness for kids with cancer. Courtesy photo.
Sherry Smith, her daughter Kristin and her son, Kayden before the big shave.
This weekend find the deals in the City of Bowie Community-wide garage sales April 26-27.
See the map of a garage sale locations in Bowie in the mid-week Bowie News.
By BARBARA GREEN
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The big take-away from Tuesday’s Bowie Business Boost was time: “It only takes six seconds to make an impression in life.”
Lorie Vincent, certified economic developer, professional trainer and writer, was speaker for program number three of Bowie Boost with a focus on “Memorable Marketing in a Post-Pandemic Era.”
She opened about how she had started her business, ‘Acceleration by Design,’ and things were “rocking,” when 2020 came and things changed with the worldwide pandemic. As things began to reopen it appeared there were more opportunities but also more challenges.
Vincent laughed as she showed a Richard Simmons “Sweating to the Oldies,” infomercial that became one of the most popular and still running ads.
“Can you believe back then we would call a 1-800 number and give someone our credit card? That is crazy. They used big music, big voices and big adjectives,” exclaimed Vincent.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
(Top photo) Lorie Vincent, Acceleration by Design, discussed how marketing has flipped upside-down in this post-pandemic era. She spoke at the Bowie Business Boost part 3. (Photo by Barbara Green)
Enjoy an all-you-can-eat breakfast and support the Bowie Senior Citizens Meals on Wheels program on April 27.
Serving will be 7:30 to 10 a.m. in the center at 501 Pelham. For $10 feast on biscuits and gravy, bacon, sausage, pancakes, scrambled eggs and hash browns, plus coffee, tea and orange juice.
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