COUNTY LIFE
By BARBARA GREEN
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Annalysa Elledge calls herself a “big idea girl” and she brings that vision and positive leadership to Bowie Intermediate School as its new assistant principal.
The 32-year-old educator was born in California, but her family moved to Bridgeport when she was a 15-year-old high school student. She adapted quickly to her new hometown graduating in 2006, one year early thanks to some extra credit hours.
Elledge recalls it was not too much of a culture shock moving to small-town Texas because her family came from a farming community that also was very diverse with lots of different cultures in California.
Choosing to go into education was always in her mind, but as a teen, she didn’t always make the best choices.
“I had a hard childhood and was that hard kid in school who got into fights, was suspended, told off teachers, and made some poor decisions with my behavior. I was so angry and it continued into high school, but it was here the teachers made a difference for me. They saw me as more than a kid with an attitude problem and poured themselves into me,” she explains.
Read the full feature in the mid-week Bowie News.
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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