COUNTY LIFE
Chicken & Bread Days featuring fall fun from sip and stroll to pro rodeo
The 27th Annual Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival returns to the historic brick streets of downtown Bowie as the official kickoff to the fall season Sept. 30-Oct. 1.
Sip and Stroll
All the fun begins on Sept. 30 as “Fall in Love with Bowie Sip & Stroll,” welcomes a record-breaking number of participating merchants that tops 27 throughout downtown Bowie.
Strolling will be from 5 to 8 p.m. The participating storefronts are in competition to win the prestigious People’s Choice Awards for their fall decorations.
Prior to the event, armbands for the ‘Sip & Stroll with me’ may be purchased at the Community Development office located at the Bowie EDC Office Building at 101 E. Pecan Street or during the event from any of the participating businesses listed above. Participation is $10 per person.
Stroll by foot or catch a ride on the horse-drawn carriage. See the full list of sip and stroll locations on page 3A of Saturday’s Bowie News.
Read about the full schedule of activities in your weekend Bowie News.
The tap dance countdown is on as many local celebrities will be strutting their stuff on the dance floor on March 25 to help raise scholarship money for Montague County students to attend North Central Texas College.
The Rotary Club of Bowie and the North Central Texas College Montague County Foundation have teamed up to bring back their popular fundraiser, a Dancing to the Stars Competition.
Doors open at the Bowie Community Center, at 6 p.m. with social networking. A catered dinner will be served in the gym.
Tickets are $50 each at the door.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
Things are going to get Western during the Sixth Annual Real West Symposium, April 28-30, in Saint Jo.
The Real West Symposium explores what the West was actually like in the 1800s. An authentic 1850s’ cowtown, Saint Jo, is located on the storied Chisholm Trail. With a tree-covered town square and authentic 1800s’ store fronts, it’s the perfect place for Western history to come to life.
This year’s noted speakers include:
•Michael Grauer, director of the Cowboy Hall of Fame
•Dr. Jody Guinn, director of the Texas Rangers Museum/Foundation
•Dr. Richard McCaslin of the University of North Texas
•Dr. Byron Price, retired director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of the American West
•Art T. Burton, historian and authority on Bass Reeves, accompanied by Ernest Marsh, a Bass Reeves re-enactor
•Michael Martin Murphey, recording artist and authority on the music of the old West.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
Bowie Community Development coordinated the new St. Paddy’s Day Sip & Stroll with Me event that was hosted last Friday night by 25 participating merchants, who had requested a first-quarter event. The open house stores were spread out across downtown welcomed families and small groups going from store to store. (Above) The team at H&R Block were serving up warm Irish coffee which was welcomed by those walking outside in the chill of early spring.
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