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Downtown block party set for August 1 - "Back to School Blues"
The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce and Keep Howe Beautiful have committed to having another Downtown Block Party called "Back to School Blues, Pt 2 "
The event will take place on August 1 from 5pm to 9pm and will once again be accompanied by a live performance by The Bill Boyd Band, who rocked the downtown area last August for the event
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Chill Out Shaved Ice has already committed as the first vendor of many and the chamber and KHB want to make sure this event is catered to the youth.
"We want this to be an experience for the children of Howe to put in their memory bank when they're older and remember the great times in downtown Howe We want them to raise their kids here " said Monte Walker, President of Keep Howe Beautiful
The sponsors of the event at Advantage Business Solutions Abby's Restaurant, Howe Development Alliance, Howe Mercantile, TLD Designs, Don's Smokehouse, My Estrella Mexican Restaurant, Salvage Junky, Howe Emporium and Howe Enterprise. The list of sponsors will increase a the organizations have time to ask for more sponsors.
Last year's event saw hundreds in the downtown area
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Jean Norman majored in home economics and then immediately began a three-year teaching stint at Sherman High School before taking 25 years off to make volunteering for the betterment of her new community of Howe. That became her full-time job and what a job she did. Later on, she went back and taught at the at-risk high school in Sherman for nine years. Her family has constantly been active members of the First Baptist Church of Howe where Alton is a deacon and she taught Sundy School for over 30 years
The Normans were equally involved with the Howe ISD as her children Kerri, Jay, and Kelly were going through the Howe school system Alton served on the school board for 18 years and was president for a great number of those
"I decorated a lot of goal posts and drew all of the Bulldog run-throughs too for years " said Norman "I made a sign (nearly 80 ft long) while they were in a bidistrict playoff that said, 'The People of Howe Love the Bulldogs ' I carried that to the ballgames and unrolled it down the bleachers."
Jean Norman was also in the thick of things for Howe's 1986 Sesquicentennial Celebration that started Founder's
