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Longtime thrift store manager set to retire this week

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By BARBARA GREEN
The smiling face of Agnes Matthews Sewell has been welcoming volunteers and customers to the former Bowie Memorial Hospital Hospice Thrift Store and now Thrift Angels for the past 16 years.
This week at the age of 77 and in her second career as thrift store manager, she is calling it quits to retire. Her final day was Tuesday.
Agnes’ fellow workers invite all of her longtime customers and all her friends to a come-and-go reception in her honor from noon to 6 p.m. on March 3 at the thrift store.

The retiring manager reflects on her past 16 years at the thrift store and how important she feels it is to the community in the full feature in the mid-week News.

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Honor your 2024 senior with a special ad in the sr. section

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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.

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Bowie community garage sales this weekend

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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.

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Post-pandemic world changes all marketing

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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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