COUNTY LIFE
Community groups helping out during the holidays
Members of the Jackrabbit varsity basketball team helped the Bowie Lions Club Monday morning as they packed up food boxes that will be delivered to 52 families in time for Christmas. The team members and coaches helped fill boxes, label and load them for delivery by the city volunteers. (Photo by Barbara Green)
See more activities by local groups to help out during the holidays in your mid-week News.
Santa Paws is coming to town for a Montague County Animal Rescue event at Tractor Supply in Bowie Plaza from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Dec. 20.
Dress up in your favorite Christmas attire and come see Santa Paws, along with some of the group’s best dogs available for adoption. There also will be a rescue group Angel Tree to help support this county-wide group.
Pictures are donation only and taken with the individual’s personal camera. Visit montagueanimalrescue.org.
A Taste of Bowie open house and holiday celebration at the Bowie Economic Development offices is planned for 4:40 to 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 9.
It is hosted by the board of directors and staff of the Bowie 4B and Economic Development Corporations, Bowie Community Development and Bowie Chamber of Commerce.
This open house will showcase festive treats from local food establishments. Stop in to help open the season.
The Bowie Community Thanksgiving Dinner took place on turkey day as volunteers prepared more than 100 home delivered meals and served a total of 314 throughout the day in the fellowship hall and through pickup.
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