NEWS
Dana Polk reflects on 28-year career teaching and coaching at Bowie ISD
By Dani Blackburn
dani@postoakmedia.net
Dana Polk has loved teaching since she was playing pretend school as a child. That passion continued until she set foot in her own classroom and as she retire she reflects on relationships with students and coworkers that filled her heart during a 28-year teaching and coaching career.
“My cousins and I always played school, and I was always the teacher. I never let them be the teacher,” Polk laughed. “When I first went to college, my dad was pushing me to be an accountant, but that was not my thing at all. I think it took me one semester to realize that is not me.”
Polk graduated from Gold-Burg High School in 1986 and went to Angelo State University on a basketball scholarship, where she played two years before transferring to Tarleton State University for her last two years of eligibility.
Polk thought she was prepared for life of college basketball, attending summer workouts before she headed to San Angelo.
“It was very rewarding, but it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Polk recalled.
Read the full story in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.
On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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