Faces & Places

Bluebonnet Garden Club

The Bluebonnet Garden Club will meet Sept. 20 at 10 a.m. at Ann Gresham's home, 875 Holly Lane. Members will have a plant exchange and the yearbook will be presented. Call 384-4793 for more information.

Newton Lions

The Newton Lions Club will meet Thuresday, Sept. 20, for lunch at noon at the Baptist Church in Newton.

Social Security

The Social Security Representative will be in Jasper at the Senior Center on Fletcher St. Sept. 20 from 9 a.m. - noon. and in Newton at the old hospital building from 1 - 3 p.m. For more information call the Beaumont office at 924-6413.

Rock hounds

The Pine Country Gem and Mineral Society will meet Sept. 20 at 6:30 at 110 N. Zvalla across from the Jasper courthouse annex. Eva Rosenthal's program will be on using precious metal clay to create jewelry.

Fish fry

Call Community Center Church of God in Christ "YWCC" is sponsoring a fish fry Sept. 21 from 10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. for $6. For more information call 423-6117.

Barbecue cookoff

Newton County Area Go Texans will host a barbecue cookoff at the Newton County Fairgrounds Sept. 21-22. Plate lunches will be for sale Friday from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. A dance will be Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. - midnight.

Dinner and theater

'Death in Them Thar Hills' will be Sept. 21-22 at 6 p.m. and Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Hwy. 190 in Woodville. All proceeds will go to Relay for Life. For more information call 283-3710.

Sowell reunion

The Sowell family reunion will be Sept. 22, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Senior Citizens building by the railroad tracks in San Augustine. Covered dishes and drinks are requested along with recipes for a cookbook. Call Victor Sowell at 903-948-2480 for more information.

Memory Walk

The Beaumont Memory Walk to eliminate Alzheimer's disease will be Sept. 29 with registration at 9 a.m. and the walk at 10 a.m. on Crockett St. downtown. Teams can have one or more members for $25 per adult and $10 per child. For more information contact Debra Brozak at 833-1613.

50th senior class

The class of 2007 marked the 50th senior class to graduate from Bridge City High School; the alumni association invites students and faculty from 1957, '67, '77, '87, '97 and 2007 to a homecoming Sept. 21-22. For more information contact Dee Dee Jones Viator at 313-4486.