COUNTY LIFE
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By BARBARA GREEN
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As a senior in high school, Rachel Knox felt “called” to be a teacher.
Thirty-four years later she looks back on hundreds of children whom she has loved and taught in her classrooms.
Knox retires as a fourth grade science and social studies teacher at Bowie Intermediate. Friends and co-workers helped her celebrate with a reception during the last week of school, the culmination of a career that includes 27 years in Bowie Independent School District. She felt the time was right to retire so she can enjoy more time with her mother, do some traveling and tackle some of those other things a work day does not allow.
Background
Born in Duncan, OK, the Knox family left the state a short 18 months later later landing in Denver after moving from Kansas during her senior year. After graduation she attended the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.
Knox recalls this school began as Colorado Normal School, where in earlier years when women were not allowed to attend college, they could go to a normal school to prepare them to teach the “norms” to children. The school evolved into Colorado State Teacher’s College and then the University of Northern Colorado, where Knox says they had good nursing and business programs.
“For a long time I wanted to be a nurse, but I realized I didn’t care for blood,” laughs Knox. “I also considered physical therapy, but you have to make people hurt. During my high school senior year I felt called to be a teacher. I always liked children and felt like teaching was where God was leading me.”
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COUNTY LIFE
July Jam planned for July 27
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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.
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COUNTY LIFE
Nocona Summer Reading welcomes animals, insects
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Nocona City Council reviews budget work
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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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