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Port Arthur Smiles Next to Wal-Mart

(409) 548-0685 www.PortArthurSmiles.com

on Twin City Hwy.

Medicaid & CHIP accepted Interest Free Financing Weekend and Evening Hours Dr Mahesh Dholariya | Dr Dhaval Thakkar

$29 X-Rays and Exam for Kids. {$241 value}

FULTSChiropractic $25 Adjustments No X-Ray Required

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Orange Family Dental

(409) 330-4252 www.OrangeFamDental.com Next to Wal-Mart Medicaid & CHIP accepted Interest Free Financing Weekend and Evening Hours Dr Yukti Gulati | Dr Dhaval Thakkar

$29 X-Rays and Exam for Kids. {$241 value}

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The New Year. What will it mean for you and your family? Make it a year to remember. That can mean taking a special family trip. 2015 could be the year you make Tuesday the night you turn off the TV and play board games.

2015 could be the year you write a letter to each of your children telling them how much you mean to them. The New Year is a gift – 365 chances to make an impression on your child’s life. Share your New Year’s story on the SETX Kids Directory Facebook page.

Daryl & Jessica Fant 512.567.8068 SETX@KidsDirectory.com www.KidsDirectory.com/SETX To Advertise Call (512) 567-8068 Today!

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JANUARY December 30 Crowns and Tiara’s. 11a. Lake Charles Children’s Museum. 327 Broad Street in Lake Charles. (337) 433-9420. www.swlakids.org Special holiday craft day for your little prince or princess. Call for details.

Through December 31 Christmas Light Boat Tours Lake Charles. Sunset. 900 Lakeshore Drive in Lake Charles. (337) 263-1987 Christmas lights are beautiful – and even more so when viewed from the water.

Lake Charles is offering Christmas light boat tours that will provide wonderful holiday memories for the whole family.

December 31 LEGOs with the Beaumont Children’s Museum. 10:30a. 3590 East Lucas Dr. in Beaumont. (409) 892-4988 Looking to entertain children 5-12 over Christmas Break? Bring them to the Elmo Willard Library for a special Legos event.

Through January 10 Christmas at the W.H. Stark House. Tuesday – Saturday 9a-5p. Last tour at 4p.

Adults: $6. Students and Youth (10+) $5. Members Free. 610 Main St. Orange Tx 77630. (409) 883-0871. www.WHStarkHouse.org The holiday spirit continues at Christmas at the Stark House. Enjoy a historic holiday with special tours, historic collections, and the Stark House decked out in period Yuletide finery through January 10th.

January 1 Resolution Run 5K. 9:30a. Free Admission. Gulf Terrace Hike & Bike Trial. 9310 Phelan Blvd in Beaumont. www.SeaRimStriders.org Start the year for you and your family in a healthy way with the Resolution 5K. Join the Sea Rim Striders along with hundreds of other local runners to kick off the year in a healthy way.

January 3 Liberty Opry. 1816 Sam Houston Ave in Liberty. (936) 336-5830. www.LibertyOpry.com Can’t make it to Branson or Nashville this year? You don’t have to. The Liberty Opry hosts Western Swing, Classic Country, 50s and 60s Rock and Roll, and more. Check out their website for lineup.

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January 8 Beaumont Breast Feeding Coalition – Monthly Meeting. 10a. Theodore Johns Library. 4255 Fannett Road in Beaumont. www.facebook.com Join other breast feeding mothers for inspiration, advice, and support. Door prize.

January 16-17 Lifeway VBS Conference. Travis Avenue Baptist Church; 3041 Travis Avenue. Fort Worth, TX 76110. www.lifeway.com VBS Season will be here before you know it. Have you chosen a theme? Get inspired at the Lifeway VBS preview event. As we get closer to summer get updated VBS information weekly on SETXChurchGuide.com.

January 17 MLK Day Parade Beaumont. 10a-1p. Lamar Institute of Technology. 855 East Lavaca in Beaumont. (409) 338-0105 Few Americans have a legacy to equal or approach Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His vision for equality through peace provided giant steps on the road to progress.

Celebrate his life. Celebrate his legacy. Celebrate the vast improvements he died to bring our nation. Parade will begin at LIT (corner of University Drive and East Lavaca). Parade route will follow Lavaca to Highland to Irving. Left on Washington Avenue, then right on Orange. Crosses over Easy Street and continues left on Orange.

January 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Liberty. 1p. Valley Community Bible Church.

(936) 336-7393. 1507 N. San Jacinto in Liberty Bring your family to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King.

January 21 Harlem Globetrotters “Washington Generals Revenge Tour”. 7p. Tickets start at $22. Ford Arena: 5115 I-10 South in Beaumont. (800) 745-3000. www.harlemglobetrotters.com The world famous Harlem Globetrotters are facing a tough trial as a new and improved Washington Generals team is planning victory over the globe trotters.

Will the Washington Generals defeat the Harlem Globetrotters in Beaumont? Be there to find out.

Ongoing USS Orleck Museum. 604 North Enterprise Blvd. Lake Charles. (337) 214-7447 State of the art at the end of World War II, the Destroyer US Orleck saw service with the US Navy through the Vietnam era. Not only is this a great educational opportunity, the USS Orleck hosts radical birthday parties – laser tag onboard a real US Navy war ship.

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Tough Southeast Texas Families Need Tough Trucks –

Like the All New Aluminum Body F150 available right now at Sour Lake Ford.

Southeast Texas families are on the go more and more often.

We take RVs to baseball and softball tournaments in the spring. We use RVs as home base for family weekends at our deer camps. We pull them around the state to the places we want to create memories – tubing in New Braunfels, building sand castles on Padre Island, and sharing the real wide open spaces of West Texas with our children. Texas is a land of adventure – our RVs let us get our families right into the heart of the experience.

We take our boats to Sam Rayburn, Toledo Bend, and Sabine Pass. We build our too short weekends around father and son fishing trips, family water skiing, even sunset romantic cruises for mom and dad.

Many Southeast Texas families remain centered around a horse culture – maybe you’re raising the next generation of team ropers or barrel riders, or perhaps your family enjoys taking the horses to national and state parks for family camping weekends.

Our SETX families also have lots of projects. We build lamb and calf pens for 4H. We build our own decks and gazebos. We haul in materials and haul out debris. We never seem to finish everything, but we keep on building.

For many of us, this is the Southeast Texas family dynamic. Our activities involve pulling RVs, boats, four wheelers and utility vehicles, horse trailers, and carrying lots and lots of building materials.

These activities all share a common need – dependable trucks.

The latest innovation comes from Ford who is unveiling aluminum bodies for their F150 series.

This is the biggest breakthrough in the truck market in a long time.

We stopped by Sour Lake Ford to get some details on the new F150 and we were really impressed with what we learned.

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Here’s how the aluminum bodied F150 benefits our Southeast Texas families: Military grade aluminum boosts strength while lowering weight Best-in-class towing and payload* - that means it’s easier to pull your RV, boat, or horse trailer.

Improved power-to-weight ratio across the entire 4-engine lineup for greater performance.

Better fuel efficiency by up to 20 percent over the previous year's F-150 – that’s a huge leap in a singl year, saving you 20% on fuel.

Best-ever ride, handling, and braking. The F150 has long been recognized for bringing refined comfort to the truck market- the 2015 F150 takes it to the next level.

New features that redefine the cab and pickup box*Class is Full-Size Pickups under 8,500 lbs. GVWR.

If your family always seems to be hooking up a trailer, then you’ll want to check out the new aluminum body F150s at Sour Lake Ford.

You’ll have more power while saving on gas – and you’ll enjoy a more comfortable ride.

Sour Lake Ford has caring experts to answer your questions, a great selection, and family friendly pricing.

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•Best-ever ride, handling, and braking. The F150 has long been recognized for bringing refined comfort to the truck market- the 2015 F150 takes it to the next level.

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You’ll have more power while saving on gas – and you’ll enjoy a more comfortable ride.

Sour Lake Ford has caring experts to answer your questions, a great selection, and family friendly pricing.

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5 Southeast Texas Family New Year’s Resolutions to KEEP

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Each year we all make New Year’s resolutions and then race to break them.

This year we’re looking at five New Year’s resolutions Southeast Texas families can take seriously.

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As much as we have become a selfie, Facebook, and Instag�am cult�re it is sur�rising how much time goes bet�een getting a nice family photo to remember each stage in our family’s g�owth. If you’re looking around your living room and it looks like it’s been years since your last family photog�aph, take some time and get a pict�re that capt�res your family the way it is now. It doesn’t have to mean a t�ip to the photog�apher (though it can – and Southeast Texas has some g�eat ones). With the qualit� of today’s cell phone cameras, you can really have a friend or neighbor get a pict�re of your family on your porch or in a neighborhood park that will look beautif�l framed and on your wall. If you don’t like a posed photo make a collage of each member doing what they love best – your oldest playing baseball, your youngest catching a fish, your husband manning the g�ill, and you doing what you love most.

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2. Make a Will.

Who is raising your children if something happens to you? If t�o different family members tell a judge they know you would have wanted them to raise your children what will the judge look to for g�idance?

Whether you have a bunch of assets to dist�ibute or not, it’s critical to spell out who will raise your children. No one plans to get hit by a dr�nk driver, but it happens ever� week in Southeast Texas. If you don’t know how to get star�ed, consult a local attor�ey like Malachi Daws of The Daws Law Fir�. (409) 838-6000. 485 Milam St. in Beaumont. DawsLawFir�.com. You’ll be sur�rised how affordable having a will drawn up can be and you’ll sleep better knowing it’s done.

3. Create a Special Memory.

Like a lot of people, I look back on childhood as a series of snapshots. A few highlights, a few bad memories, and ver� little of the ever�day ex�eriences that make up the bulk of our lives. Among the good memories are t�bing with my parents at New Braunfels, swimming par�ies at my g�andparents, and horseback riding with my mom. Each year, make sure you are giving your kids oppor��nities to create those memories- maybe it’s just taking one of your children to a special 1 on 1 dinner. Maybe it’s taking a road t�ip to a state park or an amusement park.

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4. Address planning for your child’s future.

Whether your child will be going to college, joining a t�ade union, or star�ing their own business, there are things they’ll need to maximize their chance for success. If they’re college bound, they need savings plan or financial aid in place. If their headed to LIT or another t�ade school, they need to understand what will be ex�ected of them, when and how to enroll, and you’ll want them to lear� about each school’s job placement prog�am – you’d be sur�rised how many of our kids under�tilize this valuable resource. If they’ll be opening their own business (there are lots of boutiques, businesses, and restaurants in Southeast Texas owned by 20 some things) you can help them t�emendously by making sure they star� with fir� financial t�aining, a business plan, and a mentorsomeone who has done it successf�lly and can help your child avoid lear�ing ever��hing “the hard way”. If they’re heading for the militar�, they’ll want to know what they need to do – and not do- to make sure they can get accepted to their desired branch and dut� (f�i – all branches are really cracking down on visible tattoos). For most of us, it was hard work fig�ring out how to get t�action in adult life- ever� day you have an oppor��nit� to make that t�ansition easier for your child.

5. Life Insurance.

There never seems to be ex��a money and we all pay for g�oceries and utilities first. Life insurance is one of the most cost effective ways of ensuring your children can be taken care of in the manner you want for them. For most of our readers, life insurance is available for $20-$40 a month. For that, many of you can get a $250,000 policy that will cover your child’s needs should something happen to you. We live in a world where many things are out of our cont�ol. Life insurance is a ver� affordable (the equivalent of t�o Whataburger meals or five lattes at Starbucks) means to ensure our children are cared for. A local insurance agent can assist you – it really only takes 5-10 minutes to get star�ed.

Tr� Far�er’s agent Christopher Abrego. 2905 Nederland Avenue. (409) 722-9111.

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The New Year has begun. Make it a wonderful time for you and your family. When we get ready for next New Year’s Eve (it will be here faster than you can believe) it will be wonderful for each of us to close the year knowing that these five New Year’s resolutions have been kept.

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