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The Mardi Gras celebration in Port Aransas will continue on Saturday, Feb. 9, with a carnival. The event is sponsored by the Port Aransas Leisure Society (PALS). The Mardi Gras carnival will be on the grounds of Sharkey's, 2600 State Hwy. 361. More ... The annual Mardi Gras Parade heads down Beach Street on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 5. More than 1,000 folks turned out to take part in and watch the parade, which was followed by a carnival. The events were sponsored by the Port Aransas Leisure Society. More ... Need gossip material? Get some juicy tidbits at the last showings of "A Mostly True History of Port Aransas, Texas." See if you know which characters are "loosely represented" in the latest production at the Port Aransas Community Theatre (PACT). More ... Tips for trail riding will be talked about at the next Hands-On Workshops held by the City of Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department and the Joint Effort Leisure Ministry (JELM). The workshops, covering a variety of topics, will continue through the end of February. More ... The next two Brown Bag Lectures will feature music and information on pepper trees. The meetings will be held at noon on Wednesdays, at the Pollock Center, 129 S. Alister St. Community members are invited to bring a lunch to munch as the knowledge is dispensed. More ... If you are a fast reader or have time, on your hands time remains to read the selected book and join the Book Discussion. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls will be scrutinized at the Bill Ellis Memorial Library meeting room at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12. More ... Shoppers stream past Rebecca Splittstoesser, of Houston, Minn., as she loads up her shopping cart with books at the annual book sale to benefit the Bill Ellis Memorial Library on Saturday, Feb. 2. More ... I have always imagined that flying first class is like being in a strange heaven for the rich: The seats roll back into feather beds. You can order a steak medium rare, and the flight attendant who brings it to you will be topless. More ... Love that "scared to death" feeling? Get it for free at the next P.A. Movie Time on Saturday, Feb. 9. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the horror film "Carnival of Souls" will start at 6:55 p.m. The movie will be aired in the council chambers next to the Civic Center, 710 W. Ave. A. More ... "Toxic Fish in the Northern Gulf: What Should I Eat?" is the next presentation by the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute Public Lecture Series. It will be tonight, Thursday, Feb. 7. The public is invited to attend the free lecture at the Marine Science Institute (MSI) Visitor Center Auditorium on Cotter Avenue near the beach. More ... While the dinner is sold out, tickets still may be purchased for musical portion of the Port Aransas Dinner Dance. The Medicare Band will provide music, and tickets may be bought beforehand or at the door. The dinner and dance will be Tuesday, Feb. 12, at the Port Aransas Civic Center, 710 W. Ave. A. More ... Get ready for socializing, music and seafood; it is time for the annual Shrimp Boil. The Rotary Club's seventh annual fundraiser will be held Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Civic Center, 710 W. Ave. A. Tickets may be bought at Value- Bank, 500 S. Alister St.; American Bank, 216 S. Alister St.; and the Family Center IGA, 418 S. Alister St. More ... Frank and Robin Barker of Decatur, Ala., announce the engagement of their daughter, Anna Barker of Decatur to Brian D'Herde of Rome, Ga. He is the son of Donny and Nancy D'Herde of Aransas Pass, formerly of Port Aransas. The wedding will be held Saturday, June 21, at the Beltline Church of Christ in Decatur. More ... Did you see the big game? Maybe more appropriately, did you see the big game commercials? I really didn't care about the game since it featured a team that got caught cheating verses a rival of my team. Oh well, I'm not bitter or anything like that. More ... From left, Pat Reilly of Port Aransas, Peggy Moores of Potsdam, N.Y., and Judy Degraaff of Canton, N.Y., create artwork at an artists workshop social at Communty Presbyterian Church's Joint Effort Leisures Ministry building on Tuesday, Feb. 5. Reilly said they are looking to attract more artists to the sessions, held from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays. More ... Workshops, dances and a show are on tap at the Joint Effort Leisure Ministry (JELM) Center for the next month. Tickets are on sale for a Valentine's dance to be held Wednesday, Feb. 13. The dance costs $5 and will be to be held at 6 p.m. at the Pollock Center, 129 S. Alister St. It will feature live music by The Winter Stars, a drawing, snacks and door prizes. More ... 8 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. 1 p.m. 9:30 a.m. 1 p.m. 9 a.m. 1 p.m. 4 p.m. 9 a.m. 10:45 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 10 a.m. JELM Center, 113 S. Alister St. next to Community Presbyterian Church. www.jelmcenter.com jelmcenter@yahoo. More ... Incorrect information was provided to the South Jetty last week about the Port Aransas Community Theatre Sandy Awards. "Over the River and Through the Woods", directed by Larry Stotts, was named the best production for 2007. More ... Garage sales, prize drawings, a book sale, a barbecue, Sing-A-Grams and more have been scheduled as fundraisers by Relay For Life (RFL) Port A teams. More ... Ember Clark, 7, sips a drink while riding on the back of the threewheel bicycle driven by her father, Charlie Clark, on Roberts Street, on Sunday, Feb. 3. Daddy, Ember and Ember's 11-yearold sister, Jasmine (riding another bike, not pictured), were on their way home from a little grocery shopping trip. More ... Winter Texans' annual coffees continue today, Thursday, Feb. 7, as the visitors socialize with others from their states who are wintering in Port Aransas. All will be held at the Pollock Center, 129 S. Alister St. Participants are asked to bring a snack or dessert to share with others. Coffee will be provided. More ... A multi-million-dollar construction project on Mustang Island is using helicopters for some eye-catching work on power poles. Choppers are helping workers remove old wooden power poles and replace them with bigger concrete poles more powerful transmission lines along a stretch of the island nearly seven miles long, according to AEP Texas, the electrical utility. More ... Due to weather, the sandcastlebuilding event has been changed to Friday, Feb. 15. This is another chance to learn how to build sandcastles on the beach. From 10 a.m. to noon, Capt. Steve Zarych will give a short but in-depth lesson on how to create sandcastles. More ... Tickets go on sale today for "On Golden Pond," the next production at the Port Aransas Community Theatre (PACT). Tickets may be purchased at the theater, 2327 State Hwy. 361, Thursdays and Fridays, noon-5 p.m. and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. They are also available at the Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce- Tourist Bureau, 403 W. Cotter Ave. Mondays through Wednesdays, 9 a. More ... Red hatters that want to be serenaded in their pajamas need to make reservations for their annual pajama party. Members of the Island Trash chapter of the Red Hat Society in whatever state they wake up in - curlers, nightcap, etc. - will meet at 9 a.m. on Valentine's Day, Feb. More ... The Bill Ellis Memorial Library has scheduled Storytime on Saturdays from 10 to 10:30 a.m. Children ages three to six will be able to hear stories read to them by Marion Fersing, shown here. The Storytime will be held at the library, 710 W. Ave. A. More ... John "Bubba" Milina, 88, runs his hand lovingly along the gunwale of the 14-foot wooden skiff sitting under the shed in his back yard. Milina is nearly finished building the boat - his 50th, he reckons, or maybe 75th, or somewhere in between. More ... Members and volunteers for Keep Port Aransas Beautiful (KPAB) have their hands full with a workday and a citywide garage sale on Saturday, Feb. 9. Independent garage sales will be held all around town in the morning and the afternoon. Maps listing the sale sites will be available tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 8, at the Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department, 739 W. Ave. A. More ... Part-time Port Aransas resident Alan Stahlman takes off from Mustang Beach Airport, piloting his Cessna 208 Caravan, heading for his other home in New Braunfels, on Friday, Feb. 1. More ... Two Port Aransas residents were among fall semester graduates from Texas State University in San Marcos. Ceremonies were held Friday, Dec. 14. Kacie Bass earned a Bachelor of Science degree in interdisciplinary studies. She graduated summa cum laude. More ... Enjoy one of the island's natural resources while making your body healthier by attending Yoga on the Beach. It will be led by instructor Nancy Myers at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 9. Bring an old blanket and meet next to the Horace Caldwell Pier at the end of Beach Street. More ... Authors Guthrie Ford, Sheila Bush and Megan Elizabeth (from left) share their knowledge and experience with part of the crowd that attended an authors' workshop at the Bill Ellis Memorial Library on Saturday, Jan. 26. More ... Tony Amos' Beach Sale and Friends of the ARK Garage Sale will be held Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Fred Rhodes Memorial Pavilion at Roberts Point Park. The sale begins at 9 a.m. Included in the sale will be beach treasures that Amos has collected during the last year on his beach surveys. More ... An auction, a prize drawing and pork are on the slate for the Winter Texan Smoked Pork Dinner and Auction scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 16. Members of the Moore-McDonald VFW Post 8967 are selling tickets for the annual event. More ... Port Aransas Computer Club volunteers will be at the Family Center IGA on Saturday, Feb. 9, with tickets for the club's ninth annual computer drawing. Over the nine years, the club has offered major computers as the prize for the drawing with the drawing late in March or early in April. More ... Actors: Try out and let your funny side shine in "A Breath of Dusty Air", the next production at the Port Aransas Community Theatre. Auditions are scheduled at 7 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 19-20, at the theater, 2327 State Hwy. 361. More ... One of the concerns about switching to 95-gallon or 65-gallon "toter" trash bins - what will happen to the bins that belong to weekend owners - is apparently being solved in a neighbor-helping-neighbor way, City Manager Michael Kovacs said. More ... Four Winter Texans were taken to a Corpus Christi hospital with nonlife threatening injuries on Sunday, Feb. 3, after their mini-van was rear-ended by a pickup truck on State Hwy. 361. More ... THURSDAY, JAN. 31 • 12:35 P .M . Emergency Medical Service (EMS) workers took a sick person from the 1500 block of South 11th Street to a Corpus Christi hospital. • 1:05 p.m. EMS crews took a sick person to an area hospital from the 700 block of West Avenue A. More ... SUNDAY, JAN. 27 • 12:30 A.M . Deputies charged one man with aggravated assault and another with public intoxication in the 700 block of Trout Street. • 8:20 p.m. A man was arrested in the 400 block of Oleander Street on outstanding warrants. More ... Former patrol officer Sandra Flores, left, receives congratulations from Port Aransas Police Chief Sam Russell on her promotion to sergeant. Flores' promotion now brings the police department up to having a supervisor for each shift, something that wasn't possible earlier. Flores won the stripes in a civil service competition with other police officers. More ... A Corpus Christi man is out of jail on bond after being charged with making terroristic threats by phone to Port Aransas City Councilman Keith Donley. Police arrested David Misell, 28, on Jan. 25. He is out of jail on $20,000 bond, said Port Aransas police Lt. Darryl Johnson. More ... Jerry Brown, of Little Cooley, Pa., shows off the trophy t-shirt he won for finding the hidden Port A Phil groundhog during the annual Parks and Recreation Department Shadow Stroll on Saturday, Feb. 2, as Parks and Recreation Director Gary Mysorsky congratulates him. More ... A hunter safety course will be held Monday through Wednesday, Feb. 11-13. Attendees may register the first night of the course and must attend all three nights (10 hours total) to complete the course. Nueces County Precinct No. More ... These redhead ducks spent some time recently in the surf off a Port Aransas beach instead of in the wetlands where they're usually found. More ... Registration is ongoing for the fourth annual Beach Dash by the Kiwanis Club set for Saturday, Feb. 23. Comprised of a 5K and 10K run, a 2-mile walk and a kids' dash, the event is held on the beach. More ... Birding tours by land and sea, seminars from world-renowned speakers and more await at the annual Celebration of Whooping Cranes and Other Birds. The festival will held Friday through Sunday, Feb. 22-24, at the Port Aransas Civic Center, 710 W. Ave A. More ... [Editor's note: This is Part II a two-part tall tale.] If the young man was unsettled by the possibility of dealing with not one, but now two commercial fishermen, he didn't show it in the least. His air remained calm and collected if not somewhat contemptuous. More ... Jon McIntyre's Coastal Birding Challenge finished up Monday night, Feb. 4, and after all was said and done the event raised approximately $470 for Tony Amos's ARK (Animal Rehabilitation Keep). There was a good turn-out for this first fundraiser, and fun was had by all. More ... I had watched the little bird all winter long. It was a spotted sandpiper, one of the small brownish sandpipers that often give beginning bird watchers a hard time in telling them apart. The fact that during the winter time when we see them here most often they do not live up to their name (they don't have spots!). More ... Seated by his wife, Maxine, Arnold Lanning of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, takes a bite of gumbo at a gumbo lunch held at H.G. Olsen Elementary School on Sunday, Feb. 3, to raise money for Project Graduation. More ... Learn to write, paint and make things at classes and workshops at the Art Center for the Islands through March. All events will be held at the art center, 323 N. Alister St. Pre-registration and prepayment are required for some classes, and supply lists are available at the front desk at the art center. More ... The Nueces County Appraisal Board is looking for one more member of the district's appraisal review board, but the deadline for applying is Tuesday, Feb. 12. Taxpayer liaison officer Vic Menard said an appraisal board member had resigned, creating another vacancy. More ... Music by Dicky Neely and Friends will be featured at the next Winter Sounds. The concert will be held in the Civic Center, 710 w. Ave. A on Monday, Feb. 18. More ... Earn certification as an American Red Cross lifeguard, for first aid and for CPR for the Professional Rescuer at an ARC lifeguard class. It is scheduled for Monday through Thursday, Feb. 18 to 22, from 5 to 10 p.m. at the Port Aransas Community Pool, 700 Clark Pkwy. More ... Tennis for a good cause is coming to Port Aransas on Saturday, Feb. 16, when the second annual Cupid's Invitational Tennis Tournament gets under way. Entry deadline is Tuesday, Feb. 12, when entry forms and payment must be received. More ... |
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