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Dana Polk reflects on 28-year career teaching and coaching at Bowie ISD
By Dani Blackburn
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Dana Polk has loved teaching since she was playing pretend school as a child. That passion continued until she set foot in her own classroom and as she retire she reflects on relationships with students and coworkers that filled her heart during a 28-year teaching and coaching career.
“My cousins and I always played school, and I was always the teacher. I never let them be the teacher,” Polk laughed. “When I first went to college, my dad was pushing me to be an accountant, but that was not my thing at all. I think it took me one semester to realize that is not me.”
Polk graduated from Gold-Burg High School in 1986 and went to Angelo State University on a basketball scholarship, where she played two years before transferring to Tarleton State University for her last two years of eligibility.
Polk thought she was prepared for life of college basketball, attending summer workouts before she headed to San Angelo.
“It was very rewarding, but it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Polk recalled.
Read the full story in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.
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)
No action was taken on a legal issue after members of the Bowie City Council met in a called closed session at 4 p.m. on July 12.
City Secretary Sandy Page said the council met for almost one hour for “consultation with attorney – Midwest Waste Services LLC vs. City of Bowie.
This lawsuit goes back to August 2019 when Midwest sued the city for its action requiring those who receive city water outside the city limits to use the designated waste collector, which is Waste Connections. This was shortly after the city signed a new long-term contract with WC.
The suit was dismissed in June 2020 on two points in the suit, but City Manager Bert Cunningham said a third point remained in mediation.
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