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Community activism helped create North Central Texas College-Bowie
By BARBARA GREEN
This is part of an ongoing series by The Bowie News for its Build a Better Bowie campaign exploring assets and unique aspects of the Bowie community.
The completion of North Central Texas College’s Bowie campus in 2000 was the epitome of community activism. Citizens saw the need for a higher education facility and they took the steps necessary to get it done.
As the 2016 spring semester was completed there were 469 students enrolled, following 573 in the preceding semester.
In May the Montague County Foundation presented 33 students with Fall 2016 scholarships valued at $12,050, plus an additional 79 dual credit students received scholarships valued at $7,482.
Debbie Sharp, vice president for external affairs, reports for Fall 2015 65 students received scholarships valued at $29,836. Twenty percent of the 322 enrolled during that fall semester received foundation scholarship assistance.
Explore the development of the NCTC-Bowie campus since its inception 16 years ago and what the future has in store for the higher education facility.
Pictured above: Students in the Licensed Vocational Nursing program work in the computer lab. (Photo by Barbara Green)
If you’ve been looking for a plump 24-30-inch tall and wide white lantana then you are about to have a new ingredient for all your mixed container and border designs. This breakthrough variety is called Luscious Vanilla Breeze.
The flowers open a soft yellow but as The Garden Guy watches them every day white is the color—or should I say lack of color—that I see. It is truly a beautiful selection. Luscious Vanilla Breeze will be the flowers you see on your patio or deck at dusk and the look on a moonlit night will be magical.
Read the full Garden Guy column in your Thursday Bowie News.
The summer plant trials across the country are always exciting not only from the standpoint of new plants that will be making their debut, but also the new recipes. There are always big crowds around the mixed container recipes. This year one of my favorites is called Sparkle Party.
Sparkle Party really creates a festive atmosphere. Its kind of crazy because the mixed container colors make you think you are on vacation, maybe at an inclusive island resort. Though the recipe contains fairly new Supertunia petunias and Superbena verbenas the colorful look seems tropical in nature.
Read the full Garden Guy column in the Thursday Bowie News.
No plant has been more enjoyable in The Garden Guy’s trials than the Forged in Fire heliopsis or false sunflower. There have been a lot of varieties in recent years, but I am going to have to put this one on the must-have list.
Botanically speaking it is Heliopsis helioanthoides, native to the United States. Despite being native to 42 states, many new varieties, award winners and press coverage notwithstanding, it has not been an easy plant to find at the garden center.
Most likely you have never said, “Let’s go to the garden center and pick up a flat of false sunflowers.
Read the full Garden Guy column in today’s Bowie News.
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