COUNTY LIFE
Chicken & Bread Days adds new activities
By Cindy Roller
Bowie Community Development director
Every year it is a new adventure planning the Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival downtown on the historic brick streets of Bowie. For year 26, the Bowie Community Development Board has been hard at work preparing new activities for the weekend of Oct. 2.
This year a Jack-o-Lantern competition will be the theme of the 2021 downtown Sip & Stroll with Me which opens the festival on Oct. 1. Downtown locations are encouraged to decorate with fall décor and add fun, unique jack-o-lanterns to win the prestigious people’s choice awards.
In addition, the evening will include a preview concert/songwriter’s workshop by the renowned, award-winning Adler & Hearne. The duo has toured nationally, serving up a signature blend of original folk, jazz and blues with deep Texas roots. Honored to be selected by the Texas Commission on the Arts to serve on the state’s official Texas Touring Roster for 2014-2016 and 2016-2018, the duo recently was again accepted to be Official Texas Touring Artists for the 2018-2020 touring season.
Read the full story on the upcoming Chicken and Bread Days in the weekend Bowie News.
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.
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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