COUNTY LIFE
Rotary launches Happy Feet
The Bowie Rotary Club, Bowie Mission and Patterson of Bowie are teaming up to support the Bowie Rotary Happy Feet Program.
Kory Hooks, managing partner of Patterson’s of Bowie spoke to the Rotary Club about his business, and why supporting projects and organizations like Rotary are so vital to our communities.
This year Patterson of Bowie is joining Bowie Rotary Club’s efforts to support the Happy Feet Program at the Bowie Mission.
Each year the Bowie Rotary Club’s raises funds to purchase new shoes for children at the beginning of the school year. This year Patterson of Bowie will donate $30 for each car sold in July.
The Bowie Mission will facilitate the purchase of a pair of shoes for needed children in Bowie.
Bowie Rotary members are very excited about this new effort and will let you know how many pairs of shoes will be donated from Patterson’s car sales in July. Bowie Rotary Club will have the Happy Feet Golf Tournament that not only supports the Happy Feet Program, but other projects in the club. The tournament will begin at 8 a.m. on Aug. 3.
Contact any Rotary member if you would like to help sponsor a hole. You also can call Twisted Oaks Golf Course at 940-872-4000 to sign up a team.
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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