COUNTY LIFE
HOT ROD Power Tour rolling through Bowie Wednesday
HOT ROD Power Tour, the largest road trip in the world, with several thousand cars traveling to seven cities in seven days will pass through Bowie on Wednesday as the tour heads north out of Texas.
The 22nd running of Power Tour will be June 11-17 starting in Baton Rouge, LA and ending in Kansas City, KA on a route that includes highways and winding backroads.
According to Hot Rod Magazine officials there was a record number of participants for the tour, 6,095 drivers along the 1,500-mile journey, plus 2,120 drivers and cars making it on the Long Haul Gang for the entire week.
An estimated 116,000 spectators visited the stops throughout the week. Gearheads can join in at any point along the way. According to the tour schedule posted on the magazine website, the tour was scheduled for an 8 a.m. departure from Grand Prairie traveling to Oklahoma City.
The tour route notes an exit at U.S. Highway 81 at Bowie, following the highway all the way into Oklahoma City. Information on the Power Tour can be obtained at HOTROD.com.
Rick Laughton, president of the Piston Heads Auto Club, said the Power Tour is a pretty big deal and brings a huge amount of cars through a town.
The May 8 deadline is almost here for the 2024 Keepsake Graduation section produced by The Bowie News. It is the only section where you will see senior photos of every high school in Montague County and Bellevue.
If you want to honor your graduate with a special ad or your business wants to congratulate a working senior, call 872-2247 or print a copy of the submission form at bowienewsonline.com. The section will publish on May 22.
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)
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