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.
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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