COUNTY LIFE
Friends ready art reception for new local artist
The Friends of the Bowie Public Library will have an art reception for Angela White from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Jan. 13 at the library.
White is associated with Jagged Cat Studio and Time Lord at Amazon.com. She earned a bachelor of fine arts in studio art, drawing and painting at the University of North Texas. She and her husband Scott moved to Bowie from Keller April 2017.
She enjoys painting pet portraiture of all animals for her clients. Her current focus in personal art goes back to her roots of growing up around her “cowboy neighbors” depicting the dusty, hard work, and grit of humans and animals alike. She also is painting multiple murals where she is employed.
The public is invited to attend.
Artist’s biography: Angela L. White was born in Belleville, IL, and moved to Texas with her family in 1976 where she grew up in the small town of Rendon. With horses in her backyard and horse magazines in her mailbox, she had plenty of equine models from which to develop her drawing skills. Attending school in Mansfield ISD, Angela won multiple school art awards. As a teen, art awards were won at the Fort Worth Southwestern Exposition Livestock Show & Rodeo Youth Art Contest and the I Have A Dream Foundation’s “Draw Your Dreams” Art Contest and Charity Auction. Working at a large boarding stable and showing horses around the U.S. helped her to continue to gain knowledge of her favorite subjects. As an adult Angela spent a few years living in Florida and Kansas, but then was happy to return to her “home” state of Texas in 2001. As side projects she had always worked on commissioned artwork for friends and coworkers, but returned to college in 2007 to pursue art at a more professional level. She completed a BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Drawing and Painting at the University of North Texas, graduating magna cum laude. In her limited professional career, Angela has won several awards: Best Work On Paper at the 1st Annual DFW International Airport Art Exhibit juried by the National Arts Council (2007), Best In Show at the “Keller’s Got Talent” Art Exhibit (2011), 1st Place-Painting Division at the “Keller’s Got Talent” Art Exhibit (2015), and 2nd and 3rd Places in Bowie’s own “Chicken and Bread Days” Art Exhibit (2017). She has clients in Canada, Virginia, Florida, and of course Texas. Angela mostly enjoys painting pet portraiture of all animal types for her clients. However, her current focus of personal artwork goes back to her roots of growing up around her “cowboy neighbors” in Rendon, paintings depicting the dusty, hard work, and grit of humans and animals alike. She also has a work in progress painting multiple murals at the Amazon.com warehouse where she is employed. In April of 2017 Angela moved from the Keller suburbs to acreage outside of Bowie where she and her husband Scott are building a home.
In recognition of National Adoption Awareness Month this November, Texas Community Counseling and the Heart Gallery of Northwest Texas are partnering to bring resources to Montague County families.
The two organizations will host an adoption, foster care and kinship care resource fair on Nov. 14 at the United Presbyterian Church of Montague County Fellowship Hall, located at 300 W. Nelson St. in Bowie.
The resource fair will run from 10 a.m. to noon, bringing together local agencies and service providers to answer questions and share information about support available within the county.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
Members of the Montague County Historical Commission invite the community to join them on Nov. 14 for a Rolling Bus Tour.
This tour will cover the cemeteries in the south west corner of Montague County. You will have the opportunity to stroll through some of the cemeteries, others the bus will stop and Commission member Calvin Durham will tell the history of the cemetery.
The bus tour will meet at the Old Jail in Montague at 9 a.m. and return at approximately 3 p.m. The tour will include a sack lunch, a brochure of each cemetery visited and a book “This Soil will Grow Grapes” written by Melvin Fenoglio.
The cost of the tour is $20 for adults. There is no charge for children under 12. The commission members strive to preserve the history of the county and to share as much of it as possible with our citizens. You can RSVP by calling 940-841-2674 or 940-872-1007. Please leave a message with your name if there is no answer.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System at 1:20 p.m. on Nov. 17.
FEMA’s emergency alert system is a national public warning system made up of thousands of radio, TV, cable and satellite and wireline video providers. Through the EAS, the President can address the American people or share life-saving information with the public during a national emergency.
FEMA is required by law to conduct a nationwide test of the public alert and warning system at least once every three years. These tests allow FEMA to identify technical or operational issues before the system is needed during an actual emergency.
FEMA and the FCC are sharing the test date in advance because it is important the public understands what to expect on the day of the test.
At approximately 1:20 p.m. (Central time), on Nov. 17, all the electronics providers will interrupt normal programming to relay a test message.
This message will state: This is a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, issued by the Federal Emergency management Agency, covering the United States from 1:20 to 1:50 p.m. This is only a test. No action is required by the public.”
When the test is concluded, normal programming will resume.
FEMA and the FCC are coordinating with stakeholders, including participating communications providers as well as federal, state, tribal and territorial agencies to prepare for and conduct the test.
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