June 7, 2007 RSS feed / Island Life

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PASTOR'S PEN

We can learn from seaweed
Seaweed. Seaweed on the beach. Seaweed in the dunes. Seaweed on the beach roadway. Seaweed in the ocean. Seaweed in the bay. Yes, it is natural. Yes, it helps build our beaches. Yes, it helps provide a natural barrier for storms. More...

Vows planned

Richard and Vernett Safford of Port Aransas announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Amanda Kyla, to Nicholas James Magee, both of San Antonio. The prospective groom's parents are Jim and Janie Magee of Port Aransas. More...

Campbell earns degree despite fighting cancer

Christie Campbell graduated from The University of Texas at Austin College of Education with a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology and a minor in applied learning and development. Ceremonies were held in Austin on Friday, May 18. More...

Bujan urges citizens to join tax appraisal protest

City Councilman Charles Bujan is asking for help in the city's protest of tax appraisal hikes. More...

Free yoga on beach offered

Yoga on the beach will be offered at 8 a.m. on the second Saturday of the month beginning Saturday, June 9. Under the direction of Nancy Myers, the hatha yoga class will meet for one hour. More...

Tourney graphic selected

Teen's design picked for Deep Sea Roundup artwork
BY DAN PARKER SOUTH JETTY REPORTER

Eighteen-year-old Gina Burgess created the official artwork that will go on hundreds of T-shirts and posters associated with the 72nd Port Aransas Deep Sea Roundup this summer. Never mind the fact that fishing isn't one of Burgess's pastimes. More...

Commercial yard

The Port Aransas Garden Club has chosen Venetian Hot Plate for June's commercial yard of the month located at Beach and Station Streets. More...

City council meets to share common goals

BY PHIL REYNOLDS SOUTH JETTY REPORTER

Walking into the conference room at Casa Del Cortes Wednesday morning for their annual goals workshop, city council members were expected to have thoughts on their minds as varying as their backgrounds. More...

POLICE BLOTTER

CITY OF PORT ARANSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT

FRIDAY, JUNE 1 1:04 P .M . Emergency Medical Service (EMS) workers took a sick person from the 700 block of South 11th Street to an Aransas Pass hospital. 9:06 p.m. More...

Council adopts beach cleaning policy

BY PHIL REYNOLDS SOUTH JETTY REPORTER

They fussed, they debated and they grumbled, but in the end - after more than three hours - city council members on Wednesday, May 30, agreed to a city policy on beach maintenance. More...

Help sought for work on historic building

Mayor Claude Brown has offered to set the pilings for the Mercer house to be moved to the property by the Community Center for the Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association. Brown is not charging the organization for his labor. More...

Something right about Wright

RACHEL PEARSON

Chicago is a good city so far. It is a rusted old city, solid brick, lurky with tetanus, with iron bridges and flyovers, with coffee shops inside the hulks of abandoned slaughterhouses. More...

Summer pool hours announced

After the refurbishing of the Community Park Pool, the City of Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department has announced its summertime schedule. More...

Meeting of the minds

With hurricane season starting June 1, Port Aransas leaders met on Wednesday, May 23, with other area leaders to talk about planning for evacuations just in case any of the big storms threaten the Coastal Bend this summer. More...

Presbyterian VBS to begin June 17

Children age 3 to fifth graders are invited to "Soar with God in a Hot Air Balloon", metaphorically speaking, at this year's vacation Bible school at the Community Presbyterian Church. The VBS will be held Sunday through Friday, June 17-22. More...

Community Presbyterian women will meet Tuesday

The Presbyterian Women of Community Presbyterian Church will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday, June 12. It will be held at 7 p.m. in the JELM library, 129 S. Alister St. More...

Rare opportunity

South Texan students may apply to become a Congressional Page

Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz will nominate a young South Texan to participate in the United States Congressional Page program. More...

Tough turtles taken home

TONY AMOS

A green jay, cerulean warbler, two baby black-chinned hummingbirds, a hedgehog, a screech owl baby, a great kiskadee trapped in a warehouse, a 200-lb loggerhead sea turtle entangled in rope, the bed of my truck doubling as an operating room, More...

Surf dogs

Isaac Rodriguez of Corpus Christi rides a skimboard while his blue heeler, Sweedie, follows in hot pursuit. The two were having fun on the beach in Port Aransas on Sunday, June 3. More...

ENJOY DINING OUT WITH JOY MORROW

The Pier House: 'Drift' on over

When I caught a glimpse of the National Spelli ngBee on television the other evening it sent me back to my spelling championship days at Winnetka Elementary School. More...

TINA COMES HOME

FARLEY BOAT, PERHAPS 70 YEARS OLD, RETURNS TO PORT ARANSAS AFTER YEARS AND MILES
BY PHIL REYNOLDS SOUTH JETTY REPORTER

Tina is home again - this time, to stay. More...

Lots of smoke ...

Firefighters work to control an electrical transformer that exploded Tuesday morning in the 1900 block of State Hwy. 361. Smoke obscures some homes near the transformer, but despite the amount of smoke, there was very little flame. More...

CONSTABLE'S BEAT

NUECES COUNTY, PRECINCT 4

MONDAY, MAY 28 + 3 P .M . A deputy constable cited a motorist on the beach for speeding and no liability insurance. + 3:25 p.m. A driver was cited on the beach for speeding. + 5:30 p.m. More...

KPAB members to hear about recycling program

A representative of Allied Waste- BFIwill speak on the city's recycling system at 7 p.m. Monday, June 11. He will speak at the Keep Port Aransas Beautiful (KPAB) meeting, at the Community Center, 408 N. Alister St. More...

Traffic harmony

June 1 was just another day of waterway traffic in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel as the ferry makes its way around a large tanker heading to the Port of Corpus Christi. More...













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