COUNTY LIFE
Chicken and Bread Days schedule of events
Friday, Oct. 1
5-8 p.m., Jack-O-Lantern Sip & Stroll With Me, 5-8 p.m., purchase armbands and a wineglass at BCDB office, 101 E. Pecan or at participating merchants for $10
Fiddler’s jam in front of Texas Building, 108 N. Mason.
Preview concert/songwriter’s workshop, The
Chapman Building
Saturday, Oct. 2
8 a.m.: Vendor setup, Main Stage, Tarrant and Smythe Streets
9 – 10 a.m.: Fiddler’s contest registration, Bowie Fire Hall – 203 Walnut Street
10 a.m.: Championship Fiddler’s Contest begins, Bowie Fire Hall.
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Piston Heads Auto Club Antique and Classic Car Show, Tarrant St. between Mason and Smythe.
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.:
Heritage Market – food vendors, food trucks, crafts, gifts, décor and more. Plaza area on Smythe Street. Horse drawn carriage rides will be offered.
Kid’s Coop inflatables, bank lot near Smythe.
Art exhibit sponsored by Bowie Alliance for Education and the Arts, Bowie Public Library.
Live performances
10:45 a.m.: Fourth and fifth grade Bowie Intermediate Fine Arts program
11 a.m. – noon: Kevin Polk, local musician
12:15 p.m.: Bowie youth cheerleaders fifth and sixth graders
12:30 p.m.: Rise Performing Arts Center dancers
2:30 p.m.: Bowie youth cheerleaders, first-fourth
1:p.m.: Pumpkin Sweep /Egg Toss/Stick Horse Races in front of Main Stage on Smythe Street
2 p.m.: Piston Heads Auto Show awards
3 p.m.: Art exhibit awards reception at the library
After Chicken and Bread Days organizers remind you about Cord McCoy’s Bowie ProRodeo on Friday and Saturday nights. On Friday night slack starts at 7 p.m. and on Saturday night the rodeo starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Jim Bowie arena. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. A dance follows Saturday night in the Bowie Community Center.
It has been quite a busy few days at the Montague County Youth Fair with schedule changes, juggling of events and trying to cope with the unexpected snow storm. However, the youth fair always rolls on thanks to the dedicated volunteers, coordinators, parents and students.
Friday the rabbit how starts at 10 a.m., with heifer and steer show at 2 p.m. Ag. mech. check-in at 6 p.m. with that show at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Swine will move into the barn later today with its show at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Saturday the home economics silent auction will start at 6 p.m. and run to 9 p.m. in the show barn. Showmanship buckles will be presented at 6 p.m. in the barn followed by leadership day awards. The premium sale is at 6:30 p.m. Make plans to come out and support these hard working kids and families.
See all the winners in the Thursday Bowie News.
Top photo – Poultry show photo taken by Rashonda Hobbs of Unfazed Creations, official photographer for the youth fair. Make sure and check out her photos.
When we were going through my grandmother’s house in Nocona after it sold, I found a few neat keepsakes, but the biggest treasure I thought I had found was her biscuit cutter. I was so excited to show my mother (her daughter) and just knew she would be happy it was found and would still be used after all this time.
My mother, however, had a different thought about my precious biscuit cutter. She said, “Suzanne, you know that biscuit cutter is just an old tomato paste can that has both ends cut out.”
I was still no less delighted with my cutter. I continue to use it today. My husband has bought me vintage, new and fancier cutters, but this cutter is something I go back to time and again.
My Memaw was recruited to be a lunch lady from 1952 to 1958 at Nocona Elementary, back when lunches were cooked, not “fixed.” Lenora Brown Burnett was an excellent cook and everyone knew it. She went on to work at the Nocona Major Clinic kitchen from 1958 to 1969.
You could only use shortcuts if you knew how to do it the long way. That is how I still approach cooking. You can only use a cake mix if you know how to make a cake with lots of ingredients, time and effort.
Read Suzanne’s Love & Luck column in the Thursday Bowie News on the On the Table page.
Top photo – Grandmother’s biscuit cutter and hand written recipes. (Photo by Suzanne Storey)
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