COUNTY LIFE
Sip and Stroll opens Chicken and Bread
It is time to Sip and Stroll in Bowie, Texas. Back by popular demand, this preview event to the annual Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival will be from 5 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 5.
“We are really excited to continue the success of this event and help promote our local businesses,” said Bowie Community Development Director Cindy Roller. “There are so many wonderful boutique and antique shops offering items from handmade jewelry to school spirit wear to nice home décor and so much more. But what is even better are the interesting people you meet shopping locally and learning about this community.”
Merchants will have evening specials along with refreshments and light snacks. Look for promotional signs in front of the participating businesses.
Shoppers will be able to stroll to the various businesses purchase an armband and/or souvenir glass at any participating retail store for $10. Participants also may use their previous Sip and Stroll with Me glass.
Proceeds will help continue exciting activities for residents and guests alike in Bowie.
Be sure to attend the festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 6 in downtown Bowie. It will include the fiddler’s championship, Piston Heads Auto Club antique and classic car show, Kid’s Coop activities and games, vendors, food trucks, art exhibit and quilt show – truly something for the entire family.
Read about some of the participating merchants in your weekend News.
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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