SCHOOL NEWS
Gold-Burg rehearses ‘Celebration’
The Gold-Burg High School Theatre Arts Department will be presenting its 10th annual musical Celebration at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 in the Gold-Burg High School Gym.
The Bears gym will be magically turned into a performance stage. Tickets for the show will be sold at the door. Adults tickets are $5and students are $3.
At 5 p.m. pre-show there will be a barbecue sandwich dinner for $5, along with a silent auction with many fabulous items. One featured item to be auctioned at intermission are tickets to the Ice Show at the Gaylord Hotel in Grapevine featuring Frosty the Snowman.
Students from pre-kindergarten to to 12th grade will be performing in the musical entitled “November Breeze,” which will feature music from the Beach Boys, “High School Musical,” and many modern day selections which will enhance a fantastic scene for a musical beach party.
A tremendous amount of support from the Gold-Burg staff and parents goes into the finishing touch of the performance, program and ads that are sold for the show.
Director and Theater Arts Teacher Linda Fitzner explains Celebration is a project which introduces students to many areas of the performing arts and adheres to the educational TEKS.
Bowie school trustees began the arduous task of creating a 2024-25 budget during a lengthy workshop this week.
The board also reviewed some possible changes in the student/employee handbooks and codes of conduct.
Superintendent Blake Enlow said the board spent about two hours in discussion Monday night and began crunching numbers; however, many factors still remain unknown including state funding and local ad valorem tax revenue.
Trustees examined where the district stands for the rest of the fiscal year that ends in August. Finance Director Paula Peterson said the district is catching up on the arrival some state revenues, which she hopes will help offset the expect shortfall. The 2023-24 budget adopted with a half-million deficit, but Enlow said they hope to keep that down as much as possible.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
As the Bowie School District launches into its summer projects, several department heads offered their year-end reports to the trustees last Thursday.
Annual reports
Wayne Walker, support services director, told the board the management team for all his departments set a goal to reduce budget expenses this year and so far they are below budget projections as the school year winds down and summer projects kick off.
As of June 6, child nutrition was $235,678.46 below budget; transportation, $217,942.20 below budget and custodial $312,277.44 below budget, for an overall projected amount of $765,898.10 below budget.
“We hope to finish August 2024 under budget to help out the district in recouping some of the adopt deficit budget for 2023-24. We are projecting in the right direction to end the fiscal year,” said Walker.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
Bowie High School’s Mighty Marching Maroon Band will host a fundraiser paint party from 6-8 p.m. on June 18 in the high school cafeteria.
Cost is $30 to paint an 11 X 14 pre-traced canvas with $15 of each prepaid ticket going to the boosters. The band boosters will be providing snacks, and all supplies such as paint, brushes and canvas are provided.
Host will be Shannon Adkins of Texas Gals Creative Studio.
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