COUNTY LIFE
Track Santa’s route via NORAD
Kids and parents (and every other Santa-lover) can track the festive fellow’s whereabouts this Christmas Eve using the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Google’s Santa trackers.
Around 9 million people from 200 countries tune in to watch Santa circumnavigate the world and it will launch on December 24 this year again.
To track Santa’s whereabouts, visit noradsanta.org
What is Santa’s route?
After leaving his elves behind in Lapland, Santa gathers his reindeer (including Rudolph) to begin his 24-hour trip around the world.
To be able to visit every child, Santa travels at an estimated 1,800 mile per second as he needs to visit 390,000 homes per minute (this speed makes him nearly invisible to the naked eye).
Along the way, Santa will consume an estimated 71 million calories thanks to all the milk and cookies left out for him – enough to keep him going for the rest of the year.
His journey always begins in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, before following time zones travelling to New Zealand, Australia and then Japan.
He continues through Asia, Europe and Africa (stopping in the UK along the way) before hopping over the Atlantic (via Iceland and Greenland) to North and South America.
His last stop will be Hawaii before he returns to the North Pole for a well-deserved rest.
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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