COUNTY LIFE
Christmas festival ready to sparkle in Bowie
Christmas comes to Bowie this weekend with Winter Lights Sip & Stroll on Dec. 2 and the Fantasy of Lights Christmas Festival on Dec. 3.
This will be the 31st year for the Christmas festival and lighted parade with this year’s theme “Frosty the Snowman.”
There will be a full day of activities Saturday for the family highlighted by the lighted parade at 7 p.m. as it wraps around the downtown streets of Wise, Mason, Smythe and Pecan. This year’s grand marshals are members of the Friends of the Bowie Animal Shelter, ShelterHearts, Animal Control Officer Willy Conway and Police Commander Lynetta Slaton.
“We are looking forward to another wonderful hometown parade with a nice variety of returning and new participating floats,” said Cindy Roller, executive director of the Bowie Community Development Board.
Read the full story in your mid-week Bowie News.
Schedule of events
Dec. 2 – 5-8 p.m., Sip & Stroll downtown
4-6 p.m., Bowie Economic Development Corporation Open house, 101 E. Pecan.
Dec. 3 – 7-10 a.m., Pancakes with Santa, fire hall.
Elf ‘N’ Magic, 8-11 a.m., Bowie Library.
Christmas Village, 3 p.m. to after parade, 104 N. Smythe.
Live entertainment, main stage on Smythe by Christmas tree, starts at 5 p.m.
Christmas tree lighting ceremony, 6:45 p.m.
Fantasy of Lights parade, 7 p.m.
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
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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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