COUNTY LIFE
Students prepare their stands for Saturday’s Lemonade Day
By DANI BLACKBURN
Nine local students are going into the lemonade business on May 21 as part of “Lemonade Day Houston,” a national foundation out of Houston.
Students from the districts of Nocona, Prairie Valley, Montague, GoldBurg and Saint Jo in fifth through seventh grades were invited to participate in the first time event.
Students take courses in marketing, accounting and business planning to gain knowledge needed to run their own business: A lemonade stand.
Nine students are participating in the event.
The foundation’s website states the event “empowers today’s youth and tomorrow’s entrepreneur’s through helping them start, own and operate their very own business.”
Nocona Economic Development Corporation Executive Director James Yohe said several awards will be given, including: Best Business Plan, Best Recipe, Most Profitable Business and Best Stand. The Best Stand Award will be from a proposed drawing of the students stand and budget, since the NEDC did not have a stand sponsor to provide the materials to all participants the first time.
Read the full story in the mid-week News and see what students are participating and where their stands will be located.
The last big holiday of 2024 arrives on Dec. 31 with News Year’s Eve.
Most government offices and the post office will be closed on Jan. 1. The Bowie News office will close on Dec. 31 and on Jan. 1.
The Bowie News will have an early print deadline on Monday and go out to readers one day earlier on Tuesday. The print edition will be delivered to the post office and racks, while the e-sub will also go out on Tuesday morning.
Bowie Community Development presented awards to the window decoration contest during the Candy Cane Sip & Stroll. Gaylynn Burris of the BCDB presented Rustic Wings/Belle Rose Boutique with the first place award. Second place went to Rustic Rose Furniture and Treasures. Studio 81 Tattoos and Hwy 59 Boutique were third and fourth place winners. The contest is sponsored by Bowie Community Development.
See photos of all the winners in the weekend Bowie News.
Jan. 1, 2025 is the first day of a new elected term for many Montague County officials. There will be a swearing-in ceremony at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 1 in the courthouse annex.
The public is invited to attend with refreshments to follow.
Officials being sworn in are: Sheriff Marshall Thomas, County Attorney, Commissioner One Roy Darden, Commissioner Three Mark Murphey, Constables Jerry DeMoss and Harvey Johnson and Tax Assessor Kathy Phillips.
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