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Four women and five men are needed for the November production at the Port Aransas Community Theatre. Auditions are scheduled for 7 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 5 and 6, and will be held at the theater, 2327 State Hwy. 361. More ... Dr. Lee A. Fuiman, director of the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas (MSI), paints a board that will be part of the MSI exhibit, located in the new park office building at I.B. Magee Beach Park. The exhibit is being put together by MSI and funded by the I.B. Magee family. More ... Only 35 tickets are left for the Port Aransas Rotary Club's Champagne Cruise and Mini-Taste of Port Aransas. "If you want tickets, you'd better come get them," said Rob Phillips at ValueBank Texas of Port Aransas where the tickets are being sold. More ... Jump in and swim for less at the Port Aransas Community Park Pool on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 3. The annual Splash Day allows people to swim for half the regular price beginning at noon at the pool, 700 Clark Pkwy., off Ross Avenue. More ... Spend your Labor Day with relaxing exercise on the beach. A special holiday session of Yoga on the Beach has been set for Monday, Sept. 3. Additionally, the regular monthly class is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 8. Both classes will start at 8 a.m., next to Horace Caldwell Pier, at the end of Beach Street. More ... Well, it is that time of year again: School has started. I don't know about you, but I'm quite ecstatic. We had a good summer, but I am ready for my routine back. So, with that being said, I thought it would be a good time to remind all of us that we need to be praying for all of our kids. More ... Parishioners looked on as Bishop Edmund Carmody blessed the site and ground was broken for a new St. Joseph Catholic Church building Saturday, Aug. 4. Construction is due to start any day, said parish secretary Mary Angel, and costs will run around $2 million for the building. Below is the architect's rendering of how the front of the new church building will look. More ... Ground was broken for a new St. Joseph Catholic Church building Saturday, Aug. 4. Parishioners looked on as Bishop Edmund Carmody blessed the site. Construction is due to start any day, said parish secretary Mary Angel, with costs expected to run around $2 million. More ... MONDAY, AUG. 20 • 6:35 P .M . An officer responding to a report of a drunk driver at Beach Access Road 1A and the beach charged a man with public intoxication (PI). • 8:52 p.m. Ememrgency Medical Service (EMS) workers took an injured person from the 300 block of South Ninth Street to an Aransas Pass hospital. More ... Port Aransas police charged two people with burglary of a vehicle on Wednesday, Aug. 22, after the burglary victim located their car and called police. Detective Lt. Darryl Johnson said the victim noticed that her purse was missing from her vehicle on Aug. 22 after she saw a man walking away from her vehicle. More ... Beachgoers in the background spread towels and umbrellas on the beach near Avenue G as city worker Jimmy Cisneros services a portable bathroom. Equipment such as portable bathrooms and trash cans were moved to the base of the dunes in anticipation of high tides from Hurricane Dean; those tides came early Thursday, and by Friday everything was ready for visitors once more. More ... Port Aransas High School's cross country team members will display their culinary talents when they hold bake sales for the next three Sundays. More ... SUNDAY, AUG. 19 • 9:30 P .M . A deputy arrested two people in the 6300 block of State Hwy. 361 for public intoxication (PI). MONDAY, AUG. 20 • 7:05 P .M . A driver was cited on State Hwy. 361 for having an unrestrained child in the vehicle. More ... Take another look at your auto liability insurance papers. If they're out of date and you're cited for something by a deputy constable from Nueces County Constable Precinct 4, your car is liable to be impounded. More ... Rev. Richard Safford of the Community Presbyterian Church, center, was honored at a surprise party Sunday, Aug. 26. Safford has served as pastor in Port Aransas for 20 years. Community members sent cards and monetary contributions for Safford. At the event, a slide show was shown with landmark events that happened during his tenure. More ... A surfer streaks across a foamy wave near Horace Caldwell Pier recently as offshore winds provide good rides. More ... With city council approval of the thoroughfare portion of the master plan on Aug. 16, Port Aransas is poised to wrap up a complicated comprehensive plan designed to give the city something to aim at in coming years. More ... To you, it's a brand-new building. To Joan Holt, it's another chance to do something nobody's ever done before. It's not as though Holt - and here we're talking about Dr. G. Joan Holt, The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute's (MSI) Associate Director for Mariculture and Senior Research Scientist - is a stranger to that. More ... Calling all schools, churches, youth groups and scouts: Your help is needed in Port Aransas. Port Aransas coordinator Bruce Reynolds is seeking to rebuild the worker base from Port Aransas and other cities for the 21st annual Adopt- A-Beach (AAB) Fall Cleanup. More ... Two people showed up to watch and comment as city council members held public hearings on Port Aransas' proposed new tax rate and budget. Randy Ricks attended the first public hearing, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 23. Ricks did not comment during the hearing. More ... "Two by Two", four women artists in two different mediums, will be the focus of the next First Friday Reception to be held Friday, Sept. 7. The foursome will include Charlotte Shannon, Wendy Maurer, Kaye Hass and Pam Stanley. Two are painters and two are sculptors. More ... The first convention of the Aransas Princess chapter of ROMEOs was held in Minneapolis, Minn., Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 8-9. Present were 34 members and their wives representing seven states. ROMEOs (Retired Old Men Eating Out) was created in Port Aransas in 2004 and currently has a membership of 56, mostly Winter Texans from 17 states plus Canada and Mexico. More ... State Rep. Juan Garcia, whose legislative district includes Port Aransas, surfs at Horace Caldwell Pier on Monday, Aug. 27. Garcia, 40, said he started surfing while a high school student in Southern California and rides waves frequently on Texas beaches today. More ... Ridership on the Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) ferry shuttle, which began promisingly, has fallen off drastically in the past two weeks, figures show. The first week the shuttles began operating, July 23-28, 99 riders boarded the buses. The second week, that climbed to 101. The third week, Aug. 5-11, 95 people rode the shuttles. More ... Some readers have told me they like my recent "road trip" stories, so today, and for the foreseeable future, you'll get installments of a trip I call "Finding Amos". Now before you say "Oh, no! More ... |
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