SCHOOL NEWS
Nocona readies its triennial
The Nocona High School Ex-Students Association is busy planning the 2016 Triennial Homecoming following a Jan. 13 meeting.
Honor classes for this year’s celebration will be 1964, 1965 and 1966. Nocona will celebrate with the traditional parade, barbecue lunch , Hall of Honor induction and many other festivities.
The committee is still looking for NHS Hall of Honor nominees. Hobie Meekins, committee member, said they hope to have these chosen by May. Anyone nominations should be sent to 105 E. Hwy 82 in Nocona.
A date and a theme for this year’s event will be chosen after the committee receives the football schedule in late February or early March. They are hoping to set the date for a weekend in September.
Anyone who is interested in being a part of the planning is invited to the next meeting at 7 p.m. on March 8 at Meekins home, located at 107 Monroe St. in Nocona.
The committee will in touch with at least one person from every graduating class. These individuals will contact the other members of their class to make sure everyone is invited to the upcoming event.
“We invite around 3,000 people,” said Meekins. “And every year we graduate 50 to 60 kids so we are adding to this huge group and celebration.”
For more information, Nocona graduates can visit the website at http://www.noconagrads.info/ and follow the Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/NOCONAHSHOMECOMING/.
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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