Southeast Texas Senior Volunteer Opportunity with CASA of Southeast Texas

Southeast Texas Senior Volunteer Opportunity CASA of Southeast Texas Southeast Texas Seniors looking for a meaningful volunteer experience are being invited to join CASA of Southeast Texas’ dedicated team of child advocates. CASA of Southeast Texas has a simple motto: “I AM FOR THE CHILD“. SETX Senior Volunteers Wanted When home is no longer safe for a child, and the child must enter the Southeast Texas foster care system, a judge may appoint a committed volunteer... Read More

Southeast Texas Seniors Cruise the South Texas State Fair

Southeast Texas Senior Calendar Relive fond memories at the South Texas State Fair. There’s something sweetly nostalgic about the South Texas State Fair for our Southeast Texas seniors. The sights and smells of a carnival can transport Golden Triangle seniors back across the decades to when they were teenagers cruising the South Texas State Fair with packs of school chums taking in the sites, laughing, and enjoying the temporary freedom from school and home life. It all seems... Read More

Active Beaumont Seniors Enjoy the South Texas State Fair at Ford Park

Golden Triangle Senior Activities Relive Special Memories at the South Texas State Fair Beaumont seniors have decades of memories from the South Texas State Fair. Many of us remember walking beside our parents or grandparents with a corn dog and looking up at the Ferris wheel in wonder. Today, we are grandparents bringing grandchildren of our own to the South Texas State Fair. We’ll ooh and aah over our grandchildren’s art projects in the school exhibit rooms and help them... Read More

Southeast Texas Senior Outing: Neches River Adventures

One great Southeast Texas Senior Outing is a river cruise in “The Ivory Bill” for their Neches River Adventures. SETX Senior fun abounds aboard the Ivory Bill as it cruises this amazing Southeast Texas waterway. Seniors enjoy learning about the unique ecosystems along the Neches River with their dense bottomland forests of hardwoods and pine trees. The Neches River Bottoms are home to more than 200 tree species, 47 mammals, 300 birds and many reptiles and amphibians. Reservations... Read More

Beaumont Senior Outing: The Art Studio – Neches River Critters

Looking for a fun and fanciful Beaumont senior outing? Consider The Art Studio Beaumont’s exhibit: “Acquae Obscurae: A Menagerie of Neches River Critters”. The show’s idea was hatched when a Neches River Tugboat Captain Beau Dumesnil speculated about what kind of creatures might exist at extreme depths in the river. He and his wife Karen collaborated on putting this exhibit together inviting other Southeast Texas visual and performing artists to participate. Here’s... Read More

Southeast Texas Seniors Support Boy Scout Troop 106 at the South Texas State Fair

Southeast Texas seniors enjoy the South Texas State Fair. In a lot of ways, a great Golden Triangle festival takes us back to our youth. We also enjoy sharing the South Texas State Fair with our grandchildren. Many of us remember money being TIGHT when we were at the fair – some years there wasn’t money for rides. Some there wasn’t money for that enticing South Texas State Fair food. When we can, we like to let our grandchildren get their fill, both of carnival... Read More

SETX Senior Activity: Painted Ladies of Crystal Beach Art Exhibit

Art lovers looking for a fun SETX Senior activity will head to the Beaumont Art League this March for a special exhibit: The Painted Ladies of Crystal Beach. The exhibit will feature artwork by a local art group known as The Painted Ladies of Crystal Beach. Many Southeast Texas senior artists know the artists, particularly if they’ve spend a lot of time in Crystal Beach. Some members of this Southeast Texas art group have been painting together since 2004 on the Bolivar... Read More