Are you an active senior looking for fun activities and information to enhance your lifestyle? Then be sure to join us at our senior event Thrive Dover - the connection to active adult living!

For the fifth year, the Delaware State News is proud to present their Thrive Dover senior event! The day will include exhibitors, food trucks, demonstrations, door prizes & giveaways, interactive activities and on-site house tours of the Noble's Pond - a 55+ Lifestyle Community. We'll see you on Friday, July 22 at Noble's Pond for our celebration of senior life after 55!

Check out the photos below to see last year's event, and then scroll below those photos to get the event schedule and list of vendors.

Look for the event program in the Sunday, July 17 edition of the Delaware State News or online beginning on Sunday at this link.

Event Schedule

10:00 a.m. – Welcome

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Noble’s Pond Home Tours – Models and Welcome Village are open for tours throughout the day at your leisure. 

10:30 a.m. – Cooking Demonstration – Anita Wheeler-Bezy – Co-owner and President of La Baguette Bakery & Catering – Kitchen

11:00 a.m. – Modern Maturity Center Steppin’ Seniors – Dance floor

11:30 a.m. – Cooking Demonstration – Anita Wheeler-Bezy – Co-owner and President of La Baguette Bakery & Catering – Kitchen

11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Flower arranging – Potpourri Garden Club – At their exhibit table

12:00 p.m. – Dance Demonstration with Ida Poindexter Kirkendoll – Dance floor

1:00 p.m. – Dance Demonstration with Ida Poindexter Kirkendoll – Dance floor

3:30 p.m. – Final Door Prize drawing and closing comments

4:00 p.m. – Event closes. – Thank you for joining us!

Door prizes will be awarded throughout the day, and you don’t have to be present to win. 

Vendors in the Ballroom 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Bayhealth

Biggs Museum of American Art

Camden-Wyoming Rotary Club

Delaware Council on Gambling Problems 

Delaware Medicare Assistance Bureau 

Delaware Hospice

Delaware Senior Medicare Patrol

Delaware State Housing Authority

DEMCO

DOJ Fraud and Consumer Protection

Dover YMCA

EasterSeals Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore

J Rena Styling Company

Jessie's Bags

Jewish Family Services 

Lean on Me Caregiving

Mary Kay – Tanya McDaniels

Noble's Pond: A 55+ Lifestyle Community

NovaCare Rehabilitation

OVS / DCVA 

Potpourri Garden Club

S & G Accounting and Tax Services

SeaCure Solutions 

SunWise Family Dermatology & Surgery

Willis Chevrolet Buick

Food trucks onsite outside the Clubhouse from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Seating available inside the Clubhouse Conservatory for you to enjoy your food.