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Friday, April 19, 2024
The Southlake Senior Activity Center is remembering one of its beloved members, Ruby Louise Buffalo. Ruby passed away on February 9, 2024, at the impressive young age of 105 years, seven months, and six days old.
An active member of the Senior Center, Ruby was honored by then-Mayor Laura Hill, who proclaimed July 3, 2018, as Ruby Buffalo Day in the City of Southlake in celebration of her 100th birthday.
Born in Carlisle, Arkansas, she and her husband, John, made Southlake, Texas their home in 1998 to be near their daughter and grandchildren. Ruby and John attended the Senior Center together before John’s passing after 77 years of marriage. Afterward, Ruby was a frequent visitor of the Senior Activity Center for the weekly lunches.
She loved her family & friends, enjoyed cooking, and spending time with her cherished poodles. She also enjoyed traveling in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Throughout her life, Ruby demonstrated a deep commitment to giving back to the community by volunteering at area hospitals. She visited White’s Chapel Methodist Church often, where she loved attending faith-based classes.
Ruby possessed a brilliant mind, an empathetic heart, and an infectious zest for life.
She will be greatly missed and remembered as the impressive lady she was by those who had the pleasure of knowing her.
This isn’t your grandmother’s book club. It’s not a book club at all!
The Southlake Senior Activity Center strives to provide world-class and engaging programs for its members. The special event, “It’s Not a Book Club,” is no exception! Senior Center members, register for an entertaining book performance by Ms. Janice Byrd held on Tuesday, March 28 at 1:00 PM at the Southlake Senior Center. Don’t worry, no reading is required, and you won’t be quizzed on the material!
Join us as Ms. Janice Byrd incorporates humor and romance in her dramatization of the book, Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan. Ms. Byrd is a true Renaissance woman and a lifetime learner whose interests include the arts, historical associations, youth programs, interpreting for the deaf, and oral book performances. She has been a book performer for over thirty years!
Surviving Savannah tells the story of history professor Everly Winthrop, tasked with curating a new museum collection based on artifacts recovered from a shipwreck that occurred in 1838. Will she solve the mystery surrounding the tragic sinking, known as the “Titanic of the South?” What powerful stories will she uncover along the way?
You don’t want to miss out on this performance! Registration is required, and the admission fee is $5.00. As always, the Senior Center will provide light refreshments for our event participants.
Brush off your dancing shoes and get ready to swing with the best of them because the Legends Hall Dance is just around the corner!
You are cordially invited to join our Senior Activity Center members on Thursday, December 8 at 7:00 PM for the annual Legends Hall Dance. A time-honored tradition, the Legends Hall Dance is your chance to boogie with our 55 and better community!
What better way to kick off the holiday season than by dancing the night away with friends? The Legends Hall team invites you to the beautiful Traditions Ballroom to show off your moves. The Southlake Swing Band will provide the perfect music to get the whole room off its feet! Pull out your favorite business casual outfit and enjoy a delicious spread of light refreshments!
Adults aged 21 and over are welcome to attend the celebrations. Tickets are $6.00 per person. You can click here to purchase your tickets or get them at the door.
We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
September is our favorite month at the Southlake Senior Activity Center because it’s National Senior Center Month!
National Senior Center Month is the perfect opportunity to showcase the vital work senior centers do while celebrating our outstanding members. Last Friday, the Southlake Senior Activity Center hosted a Luncheon with a Taste of Follies to celebrate this month-long recognition with our members.
As always, it takes a village to create these world-class events for our seniors, and this Luncheon was no different. Senior Center members enjoyed a delicious lasagna lunch! Three lucky members also won raffle prizes generously sponsored by The Carlyle at Stonebridge Park. Volunteers from the Young Men’s Service League served our members with the utmost care. Our Senior Activity Staff worked hard all month long ensuring our members felt appreciated and loved.
After enjoying a hearty meal, our seniors experienced a phenomenal performance by the Taste of the Follies, the traveling ensemble group from DFW’s Spectacular Follies. The performance was one to remember.
The show included guaranteed crowd-pleasers from Broadway’s greatest hits such as, “Cabaret” from Cabaret, “Razzle Dazzle” from Chicago, “Hopelessly Devoted to You” from Grease, and “On the Street Where you Live,” from My Fair Lady. Country hits from Patsy Cline to John Denver made our seniors sing along, while two incredible tap dance numbers had the whole room tapping their feet! The best part of the performance? Every member of the cast was 55 years or better!
The show was a wonderful reminder that no matter what age you are, it’s never too late to pursue your passions and live an active lifestyle!
Friday’s Luncheon was a celebration of life, music, and community. Gathering the community together to create life-long memories with our Senior Center members is the highlight of our jobs!
While we don’t need to wait until next September to celebrate our seniors again, National Senior Center Month is our favorite excuse to go big!
The City of Southlake proudly partners with local organizations to enhance the services we provide to our residents.
For the Southlake Senior Activity Center, our partnership with Metroport Meals on Wheels is essential to providing our Senior Center members with a warm meal every week. Our weekly Metroport Meals on Wheels Luncheons regularly draw a large crowd to the Senior Center. For just $5 a week, Senior Center members can enjoy a restaurant-cooked lunch with their friends, volunteers, and Senior Center staff. This decades-long partnership provides Southlake’s 55 and better community with hundreds of delicious meals each year!
Metroport Meals on Wheels aims to build a community of “neighbors helping neighbors to alleviate hunger, isolation, and loneliness in our communities, and to foster the independence, worth and dignity of each individual we serve.” This vision is possible thanks to the help of caring volunteers and generous community partners. We know the Southlake Senior Activity Center wouldn’t be what it is without this crucial partnership. There are several options for you to get involved with Metroport Meals on Wheels if you want to contribute to their cause.
Here’s how you can help:
Become a Full Plate Promise Donor
Help our senior residents maintain access to weekly warm meals by giving a monthly donation amount of your choosing. Learn more here!
Adopt a Senior
Donate any amount to provide warm meals to a senior resident that is unable to prepare meals physically or financially for themselves
Become a Meals on Wheels Partner
Local Southlake restaurants wanting to give back to our community can become Senior Center Meal Partners! By joining forces with Metroport Meals on Wheels, your business can help keep our weekly Senior Center Luncheons going strong. Connect with Meals on Wheels to become a partner today!
There are many ways to get involved with this excellent community partner that does much for our community. Are you ready to join us in our Metroport Meals on Wheels partnership?
The Southlake Senior Activity Center celebrates wanderlust at any age. Programming for our members keeps getting better, and our upcoming overnight trips are no exception. Pack your bags, and get ready to hop on a plane to these must-see destinations!
The Senior Center is partnering with Mayflower Cruises & Tours and The Travel Corporation (TTC Group) to bring our members world-class travel opportunities. Here are the bucket-list journeys available to our members in the coming months!
Tulip Time on Jewels of the Rhine
It’s never too early to start planning your Spring 2023 vacation, and what could be better than a Tulip Tour through the Rhine? Marvel at the spectacular blooms that made put The Netherlands’s economy on the map during the Tulip Mania of the 1600s. Enjoy a relaxing and inspiring cruise along the Rhine as you discover The Netherlands, Germany, France, and Switzerland. This trip is right in time for the end of the tulip season, from May 5 to May 15, 2023. Take advantage of free airfare when you book by September 30, 2022. Don’t forget to reference Group #1190919 Southlake Senior Activity Center when phoning.
New England Rails and Sails
Take an old-fashioned trip by train through the historic New England region of the East Coast. There’s no better way to experience this gorgeous and historically significant area of our nation than by train. This trip leaves on October 4 and returns on October 13, 2023. Take advantage of free airfare when you book by September 30, 2022. Reference Group #1190919 Southlake Senior Activity Center when phoning.
Best of Italy
This 13-day/12-night trip will guide you to Rome, the Ruins of Pompeii and Sorrento, Isle of Capri, Assisi, Verona, St. Mark’s and Venice, Milan and scenic Lake Maggiore, Lake Como, Pisa and Florence, and treasures or San Gimignano. The trip date is April 28 to May 10, 2023. Mention Southlake Senior Activity Center Reference Group B746033 when booking.
Sound of Music Tour
Retrace the steps of the famous Von Trapp family as you take a cultural tour through the beautiful Austrian Alps! Discover Bavarian Munich, Neuschwanstein Castle and Oberammergau, Alpine Innsbruck, Salzburg, Mondsee, and Vienna. This is a once-in-a-lifetime adventure through the beautiful backdrops made iconic in the 1965 film! The trip is scheduled for August 26- September 3, 2023. Mention Southlake Senior Activity Center Reference Group B746033 when booking.
Don’t miss out on these once-in-a-lifetime journeys! Applications are available at the Senior Center’s front desk.
Ridesharing has become as commonplace in our modern culture as Tik Tok challenges. Taking advantage of unused resources like the extra seats in your car to turn a profit converted various startups into multi-million-dollar companies. Call A Ride of Southlake (CARS) also relies exclusively on ridesharing to provide reliable transportation to older and disabled adults, except it does it for free!
The City of Southlake is blessed to partner with various nonprofit organizations to enhance the premier services provided to our residents. A world-class organization, CARS provides transportation services for senior citizens and disabled Southlake adults within a 25- mile radius. Founded in 2000, CARS and its incredible network of volunteer drivers ensure those who cannot drive themselves have access to medical, dental, social, business, and personal services.
CARS volunteers have provided over 400 one-way trips to more than 525 registered clients this year. While their efforts are extraordinary, they need more volunteers to continue providing these vital services to our community. Increasing their arsenal of volunteer drivers is more important than ever as seniors become more and more comfortable leaving their homes after the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is a volunteer opportunity for you if you love to drive and are looking for an impactful way to give back to your community. Help give our 55 and better community their autonomy back and become a volunteer driver!
For more information about becoming a CARS volunteer, visit www.callaridesouthlake.org.
Our Senior Activity Center members’ interests are diverse—that’s why our Senior Services Team works hard to provide programs across various disciplines.
Senior Center members find community with like-minded individuals through our clubs and special programs. There’s something for everyone at the Southlake Senior Activity Center, from Mah Jongg, Poker, and Bridge to knitting, flower arranging, and painting!
There’s no denying that our members love the arts. Our Intermediate and Advanced Art Classes are among our most popular programs! Our members are always ready to share their artistic talents with the 55 and better community. We love displaying their creations and admiring their visions. Whether someone has always dreamt of picking up a paintbrush or has years of prior art experience, our Art Classes consistently fill up! Nothing is more fun than creating art with friends.
For those who prefer to admire art rather than make it, mark your calendars for the Senior Center Art Show on Wednesday, September 7, at 10:30 AM. Members will showcase their artistic talent in a variety of media. You may even be able to pick up an original!
Our members have so much to offer, and we are thankful that they choose to share their talents with us!
The Southlake Senior Activity Center is the place to be for world-class senior services. Not only do we work hard to build a unique community for those 55 and better, but we also want our members to feel connected to the larger community.
This month, we are kicking off a brand-new program, Seniors Coffee and Conversation! Join us at the Senior Activity Center for coffee and conversations with special representatives from the City of Southlake’s Safety Departments.
This monthly program gives the senior community time to ask questions, get to know, and enjoy a casual conversation with Southlake’s Safety staff. This program aims to build a bridge between our safety departments and senior residents to give them the resources they need. In addition, this program aims to help residents feel comfortable with our uniformed staff and make our great City safer overall! It’s also a fantastic opportunity for senior residents to learn about the services offered in Southlake!
The first Coffee and Conversation of the summer is on Tuesday, July 12, from 9:30-10:30 AM at the Senior Center. Representatives from the Fire Department will be available to share a morning cup of Joe! This is a free program, and pre-registration is not required!
Coffee and Conversation will rotate monthly with a new department sending representatives to chat with our seniors. In the next few months, we will also meet with the Police Department and Emergency Management!
See you next week!