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The Port Aransas Computer Club will meet Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. in the classroom section of the Computer Center, 430 North Alister. A question and answer and computer troubleshooting session will start the meeting, and at 7:30 p.m. will be followed by a program about Vista, Microsoft's new operating system. More ... Looking more like hieroglyphics than birds, five brown pelicans fly down the Corpus Christi Ship Channel near the ferry landing at sunset on Tuesday, Oct. 2. More ... The City of Port Aransas is looking for a few good people - and in a hurry. Specifically, the terms of three regular members and the alternate member of the city's library board are expiring as well as three regular airport advisory board and one alternate airport board members' terms. More ... A free musical concert by the Gateway Brass will be held Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Port Aransas Community Theatre. It will be at 7:30 p.m., at the theater, 2327 State Hwy. 361. The brass ensemble of the United States Air Force Band of the West is comprised of two trumpets, French horn, trombone, tuba and percussion. More ... Grab a blanket and join fellow yoga lovers on the beach Saturday, Oct. 13, to exercise mind and body in a natural environment. Meet at 8 a.m., at Horace Caldwell Pier, at the end of Beach Street. Nancy Myers conducts the free monthly Yoga on the Beach program. More ... The seventh annual South Texas Music Fest Chili Cook-off attracted 33 chili teams, 12 barbecue teams and hundreds of revelers to Sharkey's Beach Club on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 5-6. "Overall, I think it went very well," said Glenda McCormick, owner of Sharkey's. "We had a very good turnout for the (Kevin Fowler) concert Friday night. More ... Help from people with chainsaws, a trailer or just muscles, is needed by the Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association. Saturday, Oct. 20, volunteers are needed to remove all the bushes, trees and other foliage around the Mercer house on Oleander Street. More ... The Port Aransas Education Foundation held its Mardi Gras in October celebration on the evening of Friday, Oct. 5. But the real celebration started after the event. Foundation officials counted their intake and found that the fundraiser had made a profit of more than $40,000, doubling expectations. More ... Make plans now for the first PA Art About on Saturday, Oct. 20. The "art walk" is being held to encourage and promote art and culture. "We want everyone to know that Port A is Port Arty," said Mary Rose, of the Art Center for the Islands, the nonprofit organization sponsoring the event. More ... John Contreras of San Antonio rests his feet while fishing near the south jetty on Friday, Oct. 5. He said he was planning on spending the weekend in Port Aransas. More ... The Animal Rehabilitation Keep, the ARK, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the treatment and care of injured and sick animals. The ARK offers these animals a safe haven until they are ready to be returned to their natural environment. More ... You may have noticed that the tides have been very high recently. Someone suggested that I explain why this is so and how our tides "work" in this column, so doing things backwards from the conventional way of explaining tides, More ... Anglers fish from J.P. Luby Pier at Roberts Point Park on Sunday, Oct. 7, as the approaching sunset paints the sky yellow. More ... If all blood donors gave an extra donation a year it would help prevent blood shortages, according to the Coastal Bend Blood Center (CBBC). "Consider making an extra donation this year and help end blood shortages here in the Coastal Bend," said Breanna Rye of CBBC's Donor Development and Marketing. More ... Police officer Kevin Quesada, Lt. James Stokes and officer Sandra Flores (from left) show off new Port Aransas Police Department uniforms in front of a vehicle with the department's new decal identifi- cation system. The two changes - uniforms and vehicle markings - are among the most visible made in a virtual reconstruction of the department in the past two years. More ... MONDAY, OCT. 1 • 9:23 A.M . Emergency Medical Service (EMS) workers took a sick person from the 3500 block of State Hwy. 361 to a Corpus Christi hospital. • 9:40 a.m. An officer investigated the burglary of a home in the 100 block of Gulf Wind Drive. More ... An Ingleside woman was taken to a Corpus Christi hospital and was charged with failure to maintain a single lane after her car crossed the center line and hit three others on Harbor Island on Friday, Oct. 5. Police say Heather Pena, 26, was westbound in the 100 block of State Hwy. 361 North at 6:05 p.m. when she apparently lost control of her Ford Escort. More ... SUNDAY, SEPT. 30 • 9 P .M . A motorist was cited on State Hwy. 361 for no liability insurance, no driver's license and speeding. SUNDAY, OCT. 1 • 11:15 P .M . A deputy charged a man at Cotter Avenue and Cut-off Road with public intoxication (PI). More ... Port Aransas police have finished the training needed to make the city part of the nationwide Amber Alert network. The program was started in 1996 after a nine-year-old girl, Amber Hagerman, was murdered in Arlington. Her abductor threw her into a truck and drove off; her body was found four days later after a search, but the killer has never been caught. More ... It was reported as an aircraft accident, but turned out to be somewhat less than a plane crash. Police reports show they were called to Mustang Beach Airport at 12:05 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 5, when a plane went off the runway. More ... Two Tennessee men are charged with aggravated robbery after they allegedly dragged a man out of his pickup truck in the 200 block of North Alister Street, hit him over the head and took the truck. Police say Michael Shane Dennis, 32, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Remington Jett Allison, 24, also of Murfreesboro, are in the Nueces County Jail under bond. More ... A new program, authorized this year by the Texas Legislature, adds older residents to the statewide police dispatcher alert program. More ... I received the following E-mail recently: I'm working on stewardship at my church. I've never been a rector before so I want to run something by you guys. We always talk about encouraging people to increase their pledges from year to year. More ... A stack of massive drain pipes waits in the background and surveying equipment is sheltered from a drizzle by an orange reflective jacket (foreground) as workers continue trenching Oleander Street near Cotter Avenue. More ... Need money for your civic organization but not sure how to raise it? The Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association (PAPHA) will hold a grant writing workshop Saturday, Nov. 3, in the Dolphin Room at Clines Landing, 1000 N. Station St. More ... Get a jump start on Christmas by ordering decorated fresh, balsam fir wreaths to be delivered in time for the Christmas holidays. It's a project of the Presbyterian Women from Community Presbyterian Church. The group will take orders for the wreaths through Thursday, Nov. 1. They will be delivered anywhere in the continental U.S. More ... The annual outdoor pumpkin patch will come alive at the Trinity-by-the- Sea Day School Friday and Saturday, Oct. 19-20. Hours will be 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday and tentatively from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday. The big supply of pumpkins was completely sold out on Friday last year. More ... City council members on Tuesday gave the Dallas planning firm of Dunkin Sefko and Associates the green light to work up more details on the concept of charging developers impact fees to help pay for new stresses on the city's streets. More ... Carve out your own face on a sandy pumpkin at the "Pumpkin" Carving on the Beach. The free event will be held Saturday, Oct. 27, without any real pumpkins involved. Bring the whole family and join in the sandy fun from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., on the beach at the end of Avenue G. More ... Clean up, clear out and give away unwanted stuff at the annual "Dunk Your Junk" trash disposal from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Oct. 20. This event is a joint venture between Keep Port Aransas Beautiful (KPAB), Allied Waste-BFI, the City of Port Aransas and Trailer Trash that have joined together to beautify the town, said event chairman Eliza Large. More ... Fire it! Ceramics held a ribbon cutting Monday, Oct. 8, with the Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce- Tourist Bureau. The shop opened Aug. 3, and is a ceramic shop that allows customers to paint their own creations and have them fired. The shop, at 513 N. Alister St. More ... Chad Reilly, a San Antonio-based country-western musician, is scheduled to shoot a video on the beach in Port Aransas and at Sharkey's Beach Club on Friday, Oct. 12. Reilly is inviting Port Aransas residents to come watch and maybe appear as extras in the video. More ... Scary stories from Port Aransas' past will be told at History's Mysteries, during three bus tours Saturday, Oct. 27. The Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association (PAPHA) has partnered with the City of Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department for the Halloween tour highlighting ghosts, hauntings and stories of the supernatural. More ... The third annual Think Pink Day will be Monday, Oct. 22. The event is held to bring the community together to focus on Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Everyone in the community is encouraged to wear pink all day, then meet at Roberts Point Park at 5:30 p.m. for a "Think Pink" picture". More ... Each fall runners and walkers converge on Port Aransas for the annual Sand and Surf Beach Run. The 15th annual run is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 20. The event is a benefit for the Joint Effort Leisure Ministry program of the Community Presbyterian Church, which sponsors it. More ... For those of you who never had the pleasure of meeting the man known as Stoney Kershaw, suffice it to say that Stoney, like so many near-legends among men, was ultimately the cumulative product of a long string of well-timed natural phenomena that some might call fate. More ... What can I say? It's been a little slow. The birds are simply over-flying us or they are stopping briefly and continuing on to Brownsville for margaritas. We did have an interesting Monday ("Monday-week ago") on Oct. 1. There was a strong push of sharpshinned hawks through the entire area. More ... |
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