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Choir sings out for their end of the year performance

Olivia Hunter, Dispatch Reporter
May 16, 2025
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ONE TWO STEP: Senior Manning Adkins and junior Weston Strange hold hands as they prepare to start their country dance. Both Adkins and Strange are a part of Bowie’s Country Kickers club where they are taught new country dances. “Every Wednesday we have a country kickers club meeting,” Adkins said. “Most Saturdays we go to a dance hall called Wild West where we mainly just dance and try out new tricks we learned during our weekly meetings.”
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