PAHS Student Council plans dance Friday night
     Port Aransas High School students are invited to a dance tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 26. The PAHS Student Council is sponsoring the event that will include a DJ and refreshments. The dance will be held from 8 to 12 p.m., at the PAHS cafeteria.
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Contest winners are announced; money raised will benefit school
BY DAN PARKER SOUTH JETTY REPORTER
      The Port Aransas PTO has announced winners of a student fundraising competition. Students throughout H.G. Olsen Elementary School sold a variety of catalogue items including wrapping paper and gift items like picture frames and candles.
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Going crazy
      Sixth grader Ty Morris sports big goggles and colorful hair in class at Brundrett Middle School Tuesday, Oct. 23. Ty and fellow students dressed in nutty outfits for one of the activities related to Red Ribbon Week. Behind Ty are Morgan Milligan, left, and Skyler Fusso.
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Wall against drugs
      Counselor Jeri Franco helps third-grade student Triston Cook place a symbolic brick in a symbolic wall against drugs that students were building at the H.G. Olsen Elementary School cafeteria on Tuesday, Oct. 23.
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Open wide
      Korigan Murray, 4, takes a big bite during the PTO's ice cream social, part of Red Ribbon Week.
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I scream, you scream ...
      We all scream for ice cream! Wearing paper Blue Bell Ice Cream hats, a mob of H.G. Olsen Elementary School students gathered for an ice cream social that the PTO held at the school cafeteria as part of Red Ribbon week on Tuesday, Oct. 23.
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Extreme makeover
      The H.G. Olsen Elementary School reading garden got a 'facelift' Saturday, Oct. 20. Volunteers included fifth-grade teacher Julie Findley and three fifth-grade students, environmental science teacher Jill Smith with four students, Port Aransas Garden Club member Dee Warner with two Brundrett Middl...
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Monster Mash to be big bash this Saturday
      The Monster Mash, that was a graveyard smash in the late 1970s, is coming back - sort of. The Port Aransas Parent-Teacher Organization is trying something new this year for Halloween. The Monster Mash Ball will combine the usual carnival with a dance party with "Witchy limbo", games and a costum...
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PAISD renews property insurance
BY DAN PARKER SOUTH JETTY REPORTER
      The Port Aransas Independent School District is renewing its insurance policy with Texas School Cooperative, a government consortium. The PAISD Board of Trustees voted on Tuesday, Oct. 16, to go with Texas Schools Cooperative, turning down a bid by GSM, a private firm with an office in Port Arans...
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Well watched
      Kids in the Latchkey afterschool program took time away from play and homework to pose for a picture for posterity. The program is run by the City of Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department. At left is Latchkey worker Gail Swenson. At right is Latchkey site director Patsy Balcom.
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Port Aransans helping troops in Iraq
      Items to make life a little easier for U.S. military troops are being collected for the 60 members of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, 380th ECES Squadron in Al Dhafra Air Base, on the desert island of Dubai. Trinity-Day-School is collecting personal items to send to squadron members, one of who...
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H.G. Olsen Elementary fence still awaiting locks
BY DAN PARKER SOUTH JETTY REPORTER
      While H.G. Olsen Elementary School has installed security fencing around the campus, the front gates aren't in use yet because locking mechanisms haven't yet been delivered and installed. Principal Sylvia Buttler said she is hoping the locks will be installed by around Friday, Oct. 26.
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EDUCATION NOTES
Athletics off to a good start
      It's that time of year again. Fall is in the air, and, with it come the sounds of feet hitting the pavement, balls bouncing and just an overall excitement among the kids.
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Competitors
      Jordan Morris, left, and Alyx Henderson, both of Port Aransas, competed in the Spurs Mathletes in Action contest at the AT&T Center in San Antonio last weekend. Both fifth grade girls are in a Challenge Math class at Seashore Middle Academy on North Padre Island.
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Port Aransas School Menus
Oct. 29 - Nov. 2
      Breakfast Monday Assorted Cereal, Graham Crackers, Juice, Milk Tuesday Egg & Potato Flour Tortilla, Juice, Milk Wednesday NutriGrain Bar, Sausage Link, Juice, Milk Thursday Pig in a Blanket, Applesauce, Juice,
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Halloween parade slated to hit streets Saturday afternoon
      The traditional Halloween Parade will go on prior to the Port Aransas Parent-Teacher Organization's holiday festivities. It will be Saturday, Oct. 27. Costumed kids should line up in front of H.G. Olsen Elementary School at 100 Station St. at 5 p.m. The parade will begin at 5:30 p.m.
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