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10 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | JANUARY 2015 | COMMUNITY NEWS Activities Director Corner By Cindy Graves, Activities Director January is a month of new beginnings, and nothing begins a year better than exploring new interests and checking out new involvements. This a great month to get acquainted with the more than 70 clubs, groups and classes that are the "added value package" to living here. Since we have the best residents in Beaumont here in the Four Seasons community, it makes sense that we would also have the best clubs, groups and classes around, since you folks make up those gatherings. There are so many talented and "time-generous" folks who are willing to share with their neighbors their organizational skills, their informational skills, sports and craft interests as well as many other personal giftings. Come and bring your curiosity to learn something new or share your expertise with others who are grateful to learn. Perhaps you simply just want to build some new friendships playing sports or billiards, cards or dominoes or bunco or horseshoes or poker? Maybe you want to travel with others on motorcycles, or in RVs or on ships or planes (Travel Club) or basketball (get it? traveling?). Some of you may be looking for a new creative outlet, like the performing arts, or singing in the choir, singing at Karaoke, crafting or doing ceramics or knitting or quilting or painting or drawing and sketching or even photography! Maybe you want to learn new subjects like history or genealogy or Spanish, Bible studies or computer-driven technology like laptops, smart phones, tablets and software? (I so want to break out in song… "and a partridge in a pear tree!") This might be your year to get as healthy as you can be, starting with some weight loss help with our TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) groups. Maybe you just need to tone and firm up for better health. If that's the case, then for you we have tennis, ping pong, paddle ball, pickle ball, bocce ball, hiking, ballroom dance, line dance, Heart and Soul dance, Yoga, aerobics, water fitness classes, Zumba, kick boxing, or Pilates! How about indulging in a little cultural refinement through the Wine Club, Classical Music Club, the Counter Culture Cinema Club? Maybe your passion is Community Service? Neighborhood Watch, Emergency Preparedness or any of the other HOA Committees would love to have you participate. I hope by rattling off so many of our involvements here that you go away from this article being really impressed with how much there is to do here! Start marking your calendars for the upcoming 2015 events, so you don't miss any of the excitement. There is a calendar on the facing page showing you many of the events we have for you. More will inevitably be coming and you'll hear about them as they do. One of the first 2015 events is the "Resolution Fit Camp and Zumba Party" here in the Lodge Ballroom on Saturday, Jan. 10 from 10 am to 12 pm. This is sponsored by our fitness class provider, "For-The-Health-of-It." It is a neat way to get an introduction or small taste of what some of the fitness classes are like. Just show up and get ready to move. For those of you who would like to promote your business, starting this January, we will be reinstating the website business card advertising on our HOA, www.Fourseasonsatbeaumont. com website. Over the last year while we were planning our new website format and then implementing new features, we purposefully did not do much advertising of this opportunity. Now that the website format is well established we can get back into the swing of things, by accepting your business card for a very inexpensive advertising fee. The cost to advertise on the site is only $5 per month in six month increments ($30) or 1 year ($60) available during January and then again in June. If you would like to take advantage of this offer, come on down to the Lodge and sign up anytime in the month of January. This year is bound to be your best year yet as you boldly go where you haven't been before and expand your personal, educational and fitness horizons. I'm looking forward to being there with you!