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LOCAL: Food requested for Bowie football camp
The first date for football practice has been set for Aug. 1, as dictated by the University Interscholastic League.
Bowie football parent Jennifer Clement would like to make a request.
Clement said she needs help with fruit, snacks and bottled water for players to have during practices.
Fruit requested are watermelon, bananas, oranges, apples, cantaloupe and grapes. Snacks include granola bars, packaged cheese or peanut butter crackers and trail mix.
Bottled water will be available during break time.
For information, call or text Clement at 1-940-841-1951.
Bowie boosters
The Bowie Athletic Booster Club will have a membership drive after the parents meeting on July 26.
The membership drive will take place at 6:45 p.m.; but, there will not be a meeting that night.
New club president Keith Weber reported the next regular meeting is set for 6 p.m. on Aug. 1 in the Bowie High School commons.
The meeting will feature the installation of new officers including Jill Jones as vice president and Jessica Gresham as treasurer.
The leadership group was selected in May.
There will be an exciting new promotion for those who join the Bowie Athletic Booster Club this year.
For information on joining the club, call Weber at 1-940-366-3672.
Bowie Jackrabbits. (Logo provided by the Bowie Independent School District, used with permission)
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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.
As a card-carrying member of the Sons of the Republic of Texas, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the Shadowland Giant Lone Star hosta.
Make no mistake, I don’t believe this hosta was discovered in the shady soil under a Texas Madrone in Guadalupe National Park. It was actually a sport or morphological change in s hosta named Key West. That sounds like a fairy tale story all its own.
But Shadowland Giant Lone Star has winner written all over it. It is large and has thick leaves. When 12 straight days of rain brought out a rainforest of slugs and other forest floor creatures, the bane of hosta growers everywhere, it didn’t load up with holes but simply got more beautiful.
Read the full Garden Guy column in Thursday’s Bowie News.
Supertunia Mini Vista Pink Cloud petunia is having its debut year or thanks to Susan Middleton Turner in south Georgia’s zone 9 Miller County it’s breakout year.
Susan’s house looks quite like a movie set, and you would have to think that Supertunia Mini Vista petunias play a prominent role.
Last year it was the award-winning Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo that dazzled with incredible color. The petunias were planted in banister baskets across the front of the house. I featured her photos in an article I wrote about Mini Vista petunias.
Read the full Garden Guy column in your Thursday Bowie News.
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