COUNTY LIFE
Mentor toward success – Positive impact on reading levels, life choice primary focus for new program in BISD
By BARBARA GREEN
“It takes a village to raise a child.”
The statement may seem cliché, but Bowie Independent School District has launched a program to place caring adults into the lives of students in an effort to help them not only academically, but personally.
During the past two weeks, the first two mentors in the newly established Boosting Our Jackrabbits Onward Mentoring Program met and began getting to know their students. School officials are excited to get the program underway where it can impact children.
Mark Neese, Bowie Elementary School counselor, has organized the program that will encompass all four campuses and all grade levels. Neese, who returned this year to BISD this school year, is a former Bowie High principal. Working on his doctorate degree, mentoring is part of his thesis, so the research hits close to home. Read the full feature on this program in your weekend News.
Pictured: Mark Neese, Bowie Elementary Counselor; Mona Millard and John Dunlap, the first two mentors of the BOJO program. (Photo by Barbara Green)
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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