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This coming Sunday, May 27, is celebrated as the Day of Pentecost in some of our churches. The word Pentecost refers to the "50" and the Day of Pentecost concludes seven weeks of celebrating the redemption we received in Jesus' resurrection at Easter. More ... New Port Aransas City Council members Keith Donley, left, and Charles Bujan, center, and re-elected councilman Rick Pratt, right, are sworn in by Municipal Judge Duncan Neblett Jr. during a council meeting on Thursday, May 17. The three were elected during the city election on Saturday, May 12. More ... Port Aransas City Council member Beverly Charles, right, gets a hug from the city's finance director, Judy Lyle, as Charles leaves council chambers on Thursday, May 17. Keith Donley, elected May 12 to replace Charles, was sworn in during the May 17 council meeting. Charles at first filed to run for re-election to Place 1 but later withdrew from the race. More ... Tomorrow, Friday, May 25, is the deadline for the two remaining Project Graduation fundraisers: Curb painting and a silent auction. Residents may get their house numbers painted on the curbs in front of their homes or on a concrete block that can be placed in front of homes for $20. More ... Five people from Port Aransas were among the more than 800 graduates who received diplomas during the spring 2007 commencement at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. It was held at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi Saturday, May 12. More ... Placing in 11 of 13 categories, including seven first places, netted the South Jetty the Sweepstakes Award in the Texas Gulf Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest. Awards were presented during the association's 69th annual convention held in Galveston Thursday through Saturday, May 17-19. More ... South Jetty reporter/photographer Dan Parker shoots a photo of some of the at least nine Corpus Christi school buses that filled the parking lot at Woody's Sports Center on Wednesday, May 23. Dozens of students were visiting Port Aransas to go on boat rides. More ... Three different businesses were nominated for recognition as part of National Tourism Week last week. A certificate of appreciation and flowers were presented to a business owner/operator, a business manager and an entire business. More ... The baker loves me. He doesn't know me very well, but I can tell from the way he gazes into my eyes as he hands me our daily loaf of soft white bread that he wants to invite me into the back room of the bakery (which no doubt smells of warm bread and pastry fillings) and wrap me in his long, curling moustache. More ... Members of the water exercise class got a sneak peak of the newly reworked Port Aransas Park Community pool prior to the grand re-opening on Friday, May 18. The students gave the remodel all thumbs up. More ... This is a test. This is only a test. Hurricane Dean has been reported in the Gulf of Mexico with winds of 85 miles an hour. The storm is on a course that will bring it to Port Aransas within four days. By that time, winds are expected to increase to as much as 120 miles an hour. A storm surge of as much as 15 feet has been predicted. More ... The Port Aransas City Council, at its meeting on Thursday, May 17, made appointments to two city advisory panels. Also during the meeting, the council took steps toward the possibility of instituting impact fees on construction projects. More ... The Garden Club has chosen Sandy's Surf Shack as May's commercial yard of the month. Don and Cheryl Anz are the owners of the restaurant located at 314 E. Avenue G. The outdoor eatery's container garden consists of groupings of succulents, cacti and agaves including sedum, kalanchoe, aloe, pencil cactus, giant liriope, bulbine, soft leaf yucca and asparagus fern. More ... A new exhibit opening soon at the Texas Surf Museum in Corpus Christi will include a wave of surf memorabilia, some from Port Aransas. The exhibit, titled Surfin' thru the '70s, will celebrate surf culture in Texas and beyond during the decade of the 1970s. The exhibit opens at 10:15 a.m. on Friday, June 1, and will continue throughout the summer. More ... What if your house were on fire and nobody came? While it's certain that Port Aransas firfi.ghters would respond to a report of a house fire, it's not so certain they'd be able to find the right house, city officials say. More ... Ferry passengers who have medical conditions that need medical care can get special passes that will let them board more quickly, according to a Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) news release. People with medical conditions can get an application form for the pass at the Port Aransas ferry operations office, 619 W. Cotter Ave. More ... Judith Large shows off one of the custom-painted bricks with home numbers being used as fundraisers by Project Graduation. Project Graduation volunteers guarantee that homeowners who get the address bricks, or have numbers painted on their curbs, will get the correct address because addresses are cross-checked with the city's database. More ... Port Aransas will join other cities and governments across the nation Friday in observing National Missing Children's Day. In a proclamation setting Friday as that special day, Mayor Claude Brown noted that an estimated 2,185 children are reported missing in the U.S. each day, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. More ... Jewelry and textiles will be the theme for the First Friday reception to be held June 1 by the Art Center for the Islands. From 5 to 8 p.m. live music by Tiddle Caylor, Eddie Lee Skipwith and Jack Gant will entertain the guests as they browse the exhibit. More ... Let's say that a man, we'll call him Mr. X, finds an unassuming soft drink bottle on a Gulf of Mexico beach. It's one of many that litter beaches worldwide, but this one draws his attention: there's a piece of paper rolled up inside. It could be a message in a bottle. More ... |
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