NEWS
Texoma Gives featuring 21 Montague County nonprofits
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Friends of the Bowie Public Library is just one of the 21 nonprofits that will be part of the annual Texoma Gives donation day on Sept. 12.
Although the focus is on the Sept. 12 giving day, early giving also is welcome now at: texomagives.org.
Giving begins at 6 a.m. on Sept. 12 and runs through 10 p.m. on Sept. 12. The minimum donation is $10 with no maximum. This online giving event was organized several years ago by the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation to philanthropy in Texoma and the surrounding areas. It encompasses a 24-county area in North Texas and southern Oklahoma. There are more than 200 nonprofits involved.
A donor only needs a debit or credit card to make a donation to a nonprofit or multiple nonprofits. Visit texomagives.org to find a list of all the nonprofits and their profiles. The website has them broken out into towns, and type of nonprofit.
If you want to support arts, education and culture in your community consider the Friends of the Bowie Library, Tales ‘N’ Trails Museum, Bowie Alliance for Education and the Arts and the North Central Texas College Foundation-Montague County.
If you support animal rescue all four Montague County shelter groups are represented. Community issues also are supported through the Montague County Child Welfare Board, Wise Hope Crisis Center and Patsy’s House.
Friends of the Bowie Public Library is one of oldest operating groups in the area supporting the library’s operating from its early days in the basement of the city auditorium shortly after it was built in 1926 to the creation of a brand new library at its present Walnut location in June 1972.
Read the full story and see the complete list of nonprofits from Montague County taking part in Texoma Gives in your weekend Bowie News.
Bowie emergency personnel have been working this one-vehicle semi-truck rollover on State Highway 59 in front of the precinct two barn. No details were available at this time. (Photo by Barbara Green)
The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on April 22 in the council chambers.
City Manager Bert Cunningham in his report will discuss the comprehensive planning grant and the substation transformer.
In old business there will be second readings for the water rate ordinance tabled from the last meeting, plus the new ordinances related to the operation of food trucks in the city.
In new business the council will discuss section 3 policy updates for the community development grant for Smythe Street sidewalks and hear a request from public works to use $9,763 out of the tap account to purchase 64 meters.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The City of Bowie received an unqualified audit for 2023-24 presented by its outside auditor during its April 8 meeting.
Valerie Halverson of the Mathis, West, Huffines Group, Wichita Falls, reviewed the extensive report on the city’s funds.
She noted it was a busy year dealing with several major capital projects along with tracking grant funds, but the city met all the general accounting standards.
Read the full story on the outside audit in the Thursday Bowie News.
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