COUNTY LIFE
July Jam offers fun for all the family
July Jam
If you are looking for a “Chickin’, pickin’, fiddlin’, dancing good time,” then July Jam is for you.
This popular annual fundraising evening for the Oct. 1 Chicken and Bread Days Fiddle Contest will be at 6 p.m. on July 30 at the Silver Strings Entertainment Center at 500 North Smythe.
Tickets are $12 to enjoy a chicken meal and an evening of live fiddle music from some of the very performers who will compete in October. Dancers also are welcome to boot scoot.
Come hungry and be ready to outbid your neighbors at the silent auction filled with unique items or stop by for a great meal and fellowship.
Poker Cruise
The Piston Heads Auto Club of Bowie will roll out its second annual July Jam Poker Cruise for July 30.
The cruise will start at 8:30 a.m. at Bowie Plaza. Organizers state this is a cruise not a “release run.”
Sign-in time is 8:30 a.m. at $5 per hand. Buy as many hands as you would like to compete. The start is at 9 a.m. after selecting your first card.
This will be a 60-mile round trip cruise with three stops. There will be a 10-minute break at each stop for everyone to draw cards.
The route will be announced and ends back at the start. Some 50% of the proceeds go to the winning hand with the rest to the July Jam fundraiser to support the Oct. 1 Chicken and Bread Days Fiddling Contest. Players will be back in plenty of time to enjoy the July Jam at the Silver Strings Center at 6 p.m. Saturday night.
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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