COUNTY LIFE
Backpack Buddy Club packs up meals for Thanksgiving
By DANI BLACKBURN
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This Thanksgiving 80 students will have a holiday feast thanks to the donations of the Backpack Buddy Club, a ministry at Lighthouse Assembly of God focusing on providing food to economically disadvantaged children.
The ministry expanded about seven years ago to include a holiday meal for the students. The week of Thanksgiving, those students will receive a “grocery bag” with sweet potatoes, stuffing, gravy mix and a voucher for a turkey.
“You can’t stick a frozen turkey in a backpack, so we send the voucher for the family. Usually about 30 of the families, so not all of them, come and pick up their turkey,” said Coordinator Kara Harris. “We have noticed when parents do come by and pick up their turkeys or their Bible at the end of the year, the families are always really thankful. We know they are appreciative.”
The students don’t just benefit at Thanksgiving, but all school year long as a bag of 10 items is discreetly placed in a child’s backpack, filled with items they can cook or eat themselves to help them through the weekend. The ministry serves students at Bowie Elementary, Bowie Intermediate and Gold-Burg school.
Read the full feature in the mid-week News.
The 22nd annual July Jam returns on July 27 to the Bowie Community Center West Hall, 413 Pelham Street in Bowie.
There will be a “chickin’ pickin’ fiddling fun time” as guests will be entertained by amazing fiddling tunes and enjoying a chicken meal with delicious homemade jams because it wouldn’t be July Jam without it.
Tickets are just $15 with the event starting at 6 p.m. The funds raised help provide awards for the Championship Fiddler Competition during Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival on Oct. 5.
This attracts talented musicians from all over to visit downtown Bowie to test their fiddling skills on stage in the Bowie Fire Hall on Oct. 5.
Along with the live fiddling entertainment, come hungry and be ready to outbid your neighbors at the silent auction or just stop by for a great meal, fellowship and soak in the air conditioning.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
The Nocona City Council met this past week making plans for budget and tax rate hearings.
Councilors received a brief update on the 2024-25 budget preparations. City Secretary Revell Hardison said the final proposal is almost complete and they now await the arrival of the no-new revenue tax rate that will be reviewed by the council after it is calculated by the tax collector.
The proposal includes a tax rate increase of about 3% similar to last year and there will be a small increase in water and sewer rates, but Hardison said the final crunch on those will come after the tax rate projections arrive.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
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