COUNTY LIFE
Love of horses spurs young jumper toward national title
By DANI BLACKBURN
Most typical 10-year-old girls do not spend their days dreaming of being the first 19-year-old to win a million dollar prize at the national horse jumping grand prix, but Bailey Robinson, fourth grader at Bowie Intermediate School, is not your typical girl.
For Bailey, riding horses has been important all of her short life. She was riding before she could walk, and competing by the age of three. Her parents also have always been in the horse business. Her dad, Mikal, is a horse trainer, and her mom, Wendy, competed as a child, but they say her love for horses is something she came across on her own.
“We love to watch her ride. We never pushed her to ride because we didn’t want our passion to be pushed on her, but she came into it on her own so it’s really special,” said Wendy. “It’s a family sport and we are doing it together.”
Mikal loves watching his daughter compete. “It’s great to see because she’s really intuitive and I love to watch it all happen. Things that happen for the first time she handles, and I will ask her how she knew to do whatever it was, and she will say she just knew.”
Bailey currently competes in hunter jumping competitions, usually two weekends every month. The young rider is headed to Kentucky in July to compete in the national competition for the United States Equestrian Federation, where almost 500 kids compete. Read the full feature in the weekend News.
The cast and crew of “A Family Reunion to Die For,” has been busy rehearsing for their murder mystery dinner theater production on May 30 and May 31.
The reunion soon turns sour with murder at a western-style bed and breakfast in the tropics.
Purchase tickets online at https://www.bowieallianceforeducationandthearts.com/events-1.
Show times are 6:30 p.m. on May 30 and May 31 with an afternoon show at noon on May 31 all at the Freedom Life Church. There will be live and silent auction.
All proceeds benefit Montague County students for scholarships in the arts. Come support these thespians.
Top photo – Rehearsals have been underway this past week for the new murder mystery dinner theater of the Bowie Alliance for Education and the Arts. (Photos by Barbara Green)
Speed limit changes are being put in place on FM 103 North of Nocona. The 60-mph zone is being pushed North of Grayson Street.
As part of the transition, the 45-mph speed limit will be extended just North of the Texas New Mexico Power Office. Drivers see 50 mph signs up to Grayson Street where it becomes a 60-mph zone.
Portable message boards were placed on FM 103 on May 27 to advise motorists of the upcoming changes. The new signs will be unveiled and be enforceable starting June 3.
Citizens and officials with the City of Nocona requested the changes. They were approved by the Texas Transportation Commission in April.
Drivers should be prepared to watch and observe these new speed limits signs in Nocona. Drive safely in Montague County.
Top photo – Bowie High’s class of 2025 arrives for the ceremonies. (Photos by Jordan Neal)
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