COUNTY LIFE
Family fun abounds during Mardi Gras Nocona Style
Nocona once again brought its own unique twist to Mardi Gras with its 10th annual festival this past weekend.
Hosted by the Nocona Chamber of Commerce and other community organizations, the festival offers three days of parades and family fun.
Thursday opened with Krewe de Barkus, the dog parade. Those winners were featured in the weekend Bowie News. On Friday the ATV parade rolled through town.
Saturday opened with the Mardi Gras 5K-10K presented by the Nocona Band Boosters. See results in today’s sports.
The Shoebox Parade was a new event where children were invited to create a small float entry that was mobile. There were 21 who marched around in the H.J. Justin Community Center.
The following youngsters were winners: Ages 4-6, Willow Noreen, first and Tatum Nell, second; ages 7-9, Liberty Nell, first and Josie Parr, second and ages 10-12, Anthony Burrows, first and Zane Luedeck, second. The Krewe De Kiddos followed with the big parade climax at 3 p.m.
Everyone clamored to catch colorful Mardi Gras beads thrown from the floats. First place went to Nocona Feed & Ranch Supply, with their haybale tractor. Second was Guardian Hospice, Sherman (small car with a lady wearing large butterfly wings) and third the Maskat Shrine Clowns from Wichita Falls. See more photos from the festivities in your mid-week Bowie News.
Nocona is preparing for the 74th annual Chisholm Trail Rodeo May 8 and 9 at the Chisholm Trail Arena.
The rodeo will take place at 7:30 p.m. Nightly with the Ryan Ready Band playing for the rodeo dance afterward on Saturday night. Tickets in advance are $12 and $15 at the gate.
All the traditional rodeo events are planned along with non-sanctioned events of junior barrels for 16 and under. There is $250 added each night, a jackpot nightly and contestants have a $50 entry fee. Entries open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 4-5.
The new Chisholm Trail Rodeo Queen and Princess will be crowned during Saturday night’s performance. Read about these young ladies in your Thursday Bowie New.
Clara Anderson
TxDOT is hosting a virtual meeting to review projects included in the 2027-2030 Rural TIP.
The program is at 4 p.m. on May 6 and 11:59 p.m. on May 19, all online at https://bit.ly/4uhDwMG
The Rural TIP is a list of local projects to be funded during the next four years in the Wichita Falls District of the Texas Department of Transportation.
The counties included are Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Montague, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, and Young. Transportation projects cannot receive federal funding unless they are included in the Rural TIP. This includes projects for private vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, public transport, and commercial vehicles.
A section of Roach Street has been closed for the last few weeks as a new sewer line was installed replacing old clay tile line. It is phase two of multi-phase sewer line project across the city funded through a Texas Water Development Board loan of more than $9.7 million. The project will replace nearly10 miles of aging lines. (News photo by Barbara Green)
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