Monthly Events Calendar
Please call the Hockley office at (713) 274-3220 to verify times before starting a new activity
Come join us for a 30-minute early-morning walk at your own pace. Our large room is open for walking laps rain or shine.
Sign up is now open for our October Senior Bus Trips.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - Bastrop Museum and Visitor Center and Berdoll Pecan Candy & Gift Shop
Thursday, October 28, 2021 - The Houston International Quilt Festival
Chair exercise that trains flexibility, balance, strength and endurance.
Join volunteer instructors Cindy Schild and Pamela Shepard to learn how and where to trace your family history.
If you like to paint, our group of painters would like to meet you when they get together on Thursdays from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. Everyone is working on their own project, and there is a lively exchange about techniques, color mixing and current events!
Chair exercise that trains flexibility, balance, strength and endurance
Do you want to learn how to crochet? Or did you learn how to crochet at one time, but have not done it in a while and need a refresher on how to do certain basic stitches? If so, this class if for you! All you need to bring is a ball or two of yarn and matching crochet hooks (consult the yarn labels for suggested hook size). This class is taught by Mary Anne McBride.
AmeriCorps Seniors are bringing a combination presentation to us today. They will speak about two topics that have recently affected not only many seniors, but any generation. Did you know there are "10 Top Scams" out there waiting to take your hard-earned money and Medicare dollars? Come learn from RSVP Volunteer Thomas Call how to avoid falling down the "rabbit hole" and finding yourself being lifted up by scammers. In addition, MaryAnn Kelly will explain and answer some of your questions about the Opioid Epidemic among seniors. Become more aware of the dangers that can lurk in the little green OTC pill you may have taken this morning!
Hot Dogs will be on the menu today today in celebration of the upcoming Labor Day Holiday. The dogs, buns, chili, cheese onions and condiments will be provided. Please bring picnic foods to round out the feast and let us know that you are coming a couple of days before Friday so that we will get the right amount of hot dogs.
Come in to play cards, dominoes, or a board game of your choosing. Bring your own game or choose from Sorry, Chinese Checkers, Sequence, Clue, Ghe Game of Life, Spinner, Yahtzee, Rummikub, Battleship, Bunko and more.
This circle is for fluent German speakers who would like to keep up their language skill. Join us to talk about recipes and for general information exchange, crafts and singing.
Join Iris Poteet as she discusses the history and mission behind the Katy Praire Conservancy. Learn about the local birds and wildlife that are making our area their home. Take home some education on plants and grasses that can help with flood migration.
Play '42' or '88' Dominoes, Canasta, Bridge or Mexican Train Dominoes when you join us on Senior Games Day. We also have some board games, or you can play a game you bring in.
Do you want to learn more about all the things you can do with your Smartphone? Technology whiz Michelle Richardson is back to give a presentation and answer your questions about today’s high tech Android phones. Bring your smartphone and get ready to become more familiar with it.
Please let us know that you are planning to attend by signing up in person or giving us a call at (713) 274-3220. Thank you!
Learn how to play Mah Jongg using rules of the National Mah Jongg League. Mary Ann McBride is our instructor.
You can sew, knit, crochet, felt, stitch, tat, embroider or do bead work in the company of others who are passionate about working with needles, fabrics thread and more on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Everyone works on their own project, and there is a lively exchange not just about handwork techniques, but topics of daily life also!
Join us as we create this adorable owl using a tin can to place in your garden or yard.
We promise it will be a hoot!
Join us on a bus trip to Beaumont as we visit the McFaddin-Ward House Historic House Museum. The McFaddin home was one of a number of grand residences built in town by local architect Henry Conrad Mauer in 1905-06. Mauer trained at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and incorporated local materials with the most advanced electrical, heating, and plumbing systems of the time. The home was initially built for Colonel W.C. Averill and his wife Di, the sister to W.P.H. McFaddin. After living in the house for several months, the Averills decided to trade houses with the McFaddins, who lived nearby. In early January 1907, the McFaddins moved in. When W.P.H. and Ida Caldwell McFaddin moved their young family, two sons and one daughter, into their house in 1907, Beaumont was still enjoying the economic effects of oil at nearby Spindletop in 1901. Having already accumulated considerable wealth from the cattle business, rice farming and milling, the family prospered even more after Spindletop, since Mr. McFaddin owned part interest in the land where oil was discovered. The house served as a beautiful backdrop for the frequent entertainments and elegant parties the McFaddin’s hosted. In 1919, the McFaddin’s daughter Mamie married Carroll Ward, and the couple moved into this house with her parents. They lived their entire lives there, making few changes to the house or it’s décor after 1950. The grounds also include the original carriage house added in 1907 and a beautiful garden. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and is now a museum dedicated to the McFaddin family that inhabited it for 75 years. After visiting the museum we will enjoy lunch at the Crazy Cajun.