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Bowie Chamber of Commerce hits the trail driving toward the future
Guests arrive for the Bowie Chamber banquet Monday night. (Photo by Barbara Green)
By BARBARA GREEN
The Bowie Chamber of Commerce celebrated the achievements of the past year and its plans for 2018 during its annual banquet Monday night.
“On the Chamber Trail in 2018” was the theme for the night as Emcee Dr. Arn Anderson told the audience they are all “driving to the future,” and asked what role would they play in the drive.
The western format played on the success of the chamber’s 150th Chisholm Trail Anniversary celebration last year that included a longhorn trail drive, western music, a wagon train and more related activities during two days last April. Despite a turn to cold weather that weekend, the event was greeted warmly by the public and the chamber has created the Chisholm Trail Heritage Festival for April 13-15 of this year.
During Monday’s banquet the Outstanding Citizen of the Year Awards went to the many volunteers who helped gather together supplies and deliver them to Hurricane Harvey victims in South Texas.
Read the full story on the banquet and see photo coverage in the mid-week News.
The regular meeting of the Bowie City Council for July 22 has been cancelled. City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris will be attending the Texas Public Power Association conference.
City of Bowie officials were on hand to inspect the emergency electrical generators that were delivered last week.
Mayor Gaylynn Burris and City Manager Bert Cunningham inspected one of three emergency electrical generators purchased as part of an ongoing Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant. They also talked with Jay Evans, head of the city electric department, and Jerry Sutton, director of the water treatment plant about the next step for installation of the generators.
This grant provides funding for one 150 kW and two 250 kW generators for use at the water treatment plant.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris talk with the electric and water department staff about the new generators. (Photo by Cindy Roller)
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