COUNTY LIFE
‘Great Race’ racers arriving Sunday
Nocona’s title of “Classic Car Capital of Texas,” comes to life this weekend with The Great Race and Cruisin’ Nocona June 18-20.
Nocona has been added as an overnight stop in the 2021 Hemmings Motor News Great Race on June 20. The Great Race, the world’s premiere old car rally, will bring 120 of the world’s finest antique automobiles to Nocona for the $150,000 event.
Great Race participants will cover more than 2,300 miles in nine days starting off in front of The Alamo in San Antonio and traveling to Greenville, NC across 10 states. Teams and cars from Japan, England, Germany, Canada and every corner of the United States will be traveling in their vintage autos dating back as far as 1916. The Great Race vehicles will be showcased on Sunday evening.
The Great Race, which began 38 years ago, is not a speed race, but a time/speed/distance rally. Each vehicle has a driver and a navigator, and they receive precise instructions each day that detail every move down to the second. They are scored at secret checkpoints along the way and are penalized one second for each second either early or late.
Cars built in 1974 and earlier are eligible, with most entries manufactured before World War II.
Since Nocona was a perfect spot for the cars to stop, the community has consolidated its popular Cruisin’ Nocona activities with the Great Race weekend. Everyone is invited to line the streets on June 20 as the racers arrive between 4 and 4:30 p.m. They will park downtown until 7 p.m.
Read the full story and see the full weekend schedule in the mid-week Bowie News.
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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