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If you haven’t toured the Susan Castor Beach House, you have until Monday, Sept. 6, to see it. Admission is $5 per person, with $4 going to the Port Aransas Education Foundation. The last series of tours will be offered from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, Thursday, Sept. 2, through Monday. After Monday the home will be closed to the public. More ... Stop by The Art Center for the Islands for the First Friday art reception tomorrow, Sept. 3. The public is invited to meet the artists, socialize and enjoy the exhibit, live music and refreshments from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the art center, 323 N. Alister St. The September exhibit will feature “Man Alive!” a group show. More ... “Walk, don’t run,” to the Port Aransas Community Park pool, 700 Clark Parkway, for the annual Labor Day Splash. The City of Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department will open the pool that Monday, Sept. 6, when it’s normally closed, and discount the price for the holiday. More ... Proceeds from drawings for prizes donated by Port Aransas businesses will benefit a fund for Capt. John Stark. More ... Twice monthly tours to the Little Chapel on the Hill resume tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 3. The tours are available through the Port Aransas Museum on the first and third Friday and Saturday of each month at 10 a.m. More ... Marla and John Heinen of Port Aransas, enjoyed the fourth annual summer convention of the Aransas Princess Chapter of the Romeos (Retired Old Men Eating Out.) The Heinens, along with 30 other Romeos a More ... Comedy and worship come together at the First Baptist Church’s Sunday services on Sept. 12. Guest speaker Scott Davis will address “Hope through Hilarity” with music and humor during the 11 a.m. service at the church, 200 N. Station St. A free barbecue dinner will be served at 5 p.m. and a free concert will round out the day at 6 p.m. More ... The Port Aransas Swim Team will continue with practices and competitions this fall. Practices will begin on Friday, Sept. 10, and run through the state swim meet in Frisco in January. Swimmers will meet on Mondays and Fridays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and on Saturdays from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Port Aransas Community Pool, 700 Clark Parkway. More ... In Calgary 2009, the United States received medals only in welding and auto repair. The sheet metal fabrication team was hopeful, but Chinese Taipei wanted it more. The 2011 contest is in London, and our pastry cook team is vowing to bake up a gold. This is no joke. More ... Fifty-four years after moving here from Aransas Pass to take on housepainting jobs with her husband, James, Nettie Mayfield is bidding farewell to Port Aransas. Health concerns are sending her to live with one of her daughters in Chapin, S.C. More ... In less than 30 minutes, in a virtually empty board room, Port Aransas school trustees on Tuesday, Aug. 31, approved an $18,952,082 budget for the coming school year. More ... The holiday is Labor Day, honoring American workers, but the fact is, most stores and other businesses will be open for the Labor Day holiday. Exceptions are city hall and Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District No. 4, both of which will be closed on Monday, Sept. 6. More ... Although the days are not getting any cooler, summer is coming to a close. The long Labor Day weekend is always an indicator of that fact. The water is still warm and fish are still abundant. More ... The Binz and Mongoven families enjoyed the music of Rosewood at Sunset Sounds on Friday, Aug. 13, in Roberts Point Park. More ... Parrot Heads of Port Aransas will discuss plans for the Wings Over Port A: A Beach Ball at their monthly meeting on Thursday, Sept. 9, at 6:30 p.m. The Ferguson-Johns will host the meeting at their home, 612 Lantana Dr. This will be the final full-membership planning meeting before the ball, to be held the weekend of Oct. 8-10. More ... Pat Garrett, right, shows the ropes to Debbie Hall, Garrett’s soon-to-be replacement as executive assistant to the city manager at Port Aransas City Hall on Monday, Aug. 30. More ... Pat Garrett is retiring after 18 years employment with the City of Port Aransas. Garrett first was hired by the city as custodian in 1992. After one year, she moved on to become a receptionist at city hall for two and a half years. She then was promoted to the position of executive assistant to the city manager, and she has held that spot ever since. More ... They are here. The beautiful fall birds are arriving every day: The jewels, the lovelies, the delicate bruisers, the so called “to die for” birds, the ones we all adore and wait for, are migrating through the Coastal Bend right now. More ... “The Tenderness of Wolves,” by Stef Penney will be the first book the Ellis Memorial Library Book Club discussion group will read as it resumes for the fall. The club, open to the public, will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 6:30 p.m. in the library, 710 W. Ave. A to discuss the book. More ... The e-mail read something like, “Are you the Anthony Amos who went to Epsom Grammar school in 1952, and who got into a lot of scrapes and drew men all over the place? If so, I’ve been trying to find you for nearly 60 years!” More ... The Port Aransas City Council is scheduled to vote to adopt a 2010-11 budget and tax rate when the council meets on Thursday, Sept. 9. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. at council chambers, 710 W. Ave. A. More ... Find out what the Port Aransas Garden Club does in the community at its first meeting of the 2010-11 year on Monday, Sept. 13, More ... The Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce Tourist Bureau brought home three awards during the Texas Association of Convention and Visitors Bureau annual convention. Also at the convention, executive director Ann Bracher Vaughan was elected to the TACVB board of directors. The convention was held in Lubbock Aug. 9-12. More ... With Labor Day coming up, it’s a good time to recognize the Port Aransas worker, including those whose toil makes life a little more pleasant for all of us, islanders and tourists alike. Dave Hix is a part owner of Kody’s Restaurant and Bar, but he mostly works behind the scenes, as a chef. More ... Don’t miss the boat! A few tickets are still available for the Rotary Club’s annual Champagne Cruise and Mini-Taste of Port Aransas. Cruisers will be whisked away for an evening of dining and dancing under the stars aboard the Wharf Cat out of Fisherman’s Wharf on Friday, Sept. 10. More ... MONDAY, AUG. 23 8:12 a.m. • Emergency Medical Service (EMS) workers took a sick person from the 2000 block of Eskridge Road to a Corpus Christi hospital. 10:01 a.m. • An injured person was taken by EMS crews from the 1700 block of Palisades Drive to a Corpus Christi hospital. More ... Capt. Bobby Espinoza, formerly of Port Aransas, was honored at Fort Sam Houston’s 243th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4 in San Antonio. More ... A Port Aransas police investigation into the June 1 hanging death of Sherry Black Lancaster has ended, but a Texas Rangers investigation is continuing, police Executive Lt. Darryl Johnson said this week, and another investigation into two air gun shootings is also still going on. More ... We are entering the peak of hurricane season and the Atlantic is starting to get very active. At least for now, everything seems to be staying east; so far, so good. For those of you who missed our town hall meeting on July 20, I thought I would share some information presented by Mayor Keith McMullin. (When I plagiarize someone else’s speech, my column just seems to write itself). More ... A detective investigating a 30-yearold murder case has received two tips as a result of a recent South Jetty article about the case, but neither tip has panned out to identify the victim, the detective said. More ... A man who started near the Dunes Condominium with a hang glider on Sunday, Aug. 29, didn’t get far. He crashed into the Gulf of Mexico not far north of Horace Caldwell Pier at 9:30 a.m. More ... Port Aransas police have charged Braeden Joshua Thomas, 34, of Port Aransas, with Class A assault, saying he assaulted Aaron Daniel, 26, also of Port Aransas, on July 15. More ... WEDNESDAY, AUG. 25 3:10 p.m. • During a traffic stop, a deputy learned that a driver was wanted on an outstanding warrant, and arrested him. 5:30 p.m. • A person was charged in I.B. Magee Beach Park with reckless driving. More ... I have been asked if there is a particular historical event that laid the foundation of today’s Mustang Island. There is. More ... |
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