COUNTY LIFE
24 years of happy clucking for Chicken & Bread Days
The 24th Annual Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival celebrates the pioneering spirit of Bowie, as Bowie Community Development continues to team up with fellow organizations and entities to hatch another great event.
A preview evening Sip & Stroll begins festival weekend on Oct. 4 at 5 p.m. There will be horse-drawn carriage rides (donation only) available during the Sip & Stroll and Chicken and Bread Days.
This year, the Backpack Buddies 5K run/walk will start at 8 a.m. from the main stage downtown on Smythe Street. This helps support weekend meals for students. Call Seth Johnson at 531-1489 or Jerry Cantwell at 447-1653 for more details on the race.
Saturday morning the delightful tunes of the championship fiddlers competition fill the air from the Bowie Fire Hall. Registration opens at 9 a.m. at the fire hall at 203 Walnut Street with bows starting to fly at 10 a.m. There are a variety of age groups for the competition plus accompanist honors. Festival goers are invited to watch the show.
Classic and antique vehicles will be on display for the Piston Heads Auto Club show. Special awards in six various divisions will be presented. Entry forms are at: pistonheadsautoclub.com.
Bowie Community Development is expanding the footprint of this festival as the art exhibit moves to the Bowie Public Library, 301 Walnut.
Read the full story in your weekend Bowie News.
COUNTY LIFE
Bowie community garage sales this weekend
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.
COUNTY LIFE
Post-pandemic world changes all marketing
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)
COUNTY LIFE
Senior center to serve up big breakfast April 27
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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