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Residents and visitors are invited to learn about what washes ashore on the beaches of Mustang Island. A guided beach walk, sponsored by the Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department, will examine beach treasures tomorrow, Friday, June 27. More ... Ali Haider, left, strums his guitar, while friend Robert Cortez plays harmonica while their ferry crosses at sunset on Saturday, June 21. Haider, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Cortez, of San Antonio, spontaneously decided to get out of their car with their instruments and play a little tune during the crossing. More ... Enjoy poetry? Come participate in the next Poetry Slam tomorrow, Friday, June 27. It will be held at Sips Wine and Coffee Bar, 162 W. Cotter Ave., at 8 p.m. Drinks and snacks may be purchased inside. The Slam, open to the public, is a celebration of performance poetry. More ... The dog days of summer are here. No, really. The dog races are on. Dogs wishing to race should bring their masters, on leash of course, to the Port Aransas Community Park, 700 Clark Parkway, at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 28. Heats (no pun intended, hopefully) will be run by size of the dog, not the owner. More ... Keep Port Aransas Beautiful (KPAB) will hold its annual meeting for officers and board members on Tuesday, July 1, at 6 p.m. It will be held in the meeting room at the Ellis Memorial Library, 700 W. Ave. A. No program is planned, but visitors are welcome as always. More ... A grant approved last week by the Senate Appropriations Committee in Washington will add $300,000 to the budget for the Port Aransas Nature Preserve. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, RTexas, said the current Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations bill includes the grant for the nature center. The bill will now be considered by the full Senate, Hutchison said. More ... Last weekend my family and I were driving through town, looking at the "sights" of Port Aransas in the summer. As we were driving, we came upon a traffic accident that our first responders had under control. The problem was that too many people were "rubbernecking" -- you know - slowing down and looking while driving, to see what had happened. More ... Vacation Bible School participants at Trinity-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church included, from left, back row: Hazel Morris (who told stories to the younger kids), Kai Kidd, Zach Parker, Ty Morris (a science activity helper), Hefner Appling and Dr. More ... Alegra Murine Hawkins and Louis Martin Spinn III were married at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 5 at Trinity-bythe Sea Episcopal Church in Port Aransas. The bride is the granddaughter of the late Maurine Crook of Corpus Christi. The groom is the son of Louis and Gail Spinn of Port Aransas. More ... Cliff and Audrey Anthes of El Paso, announce the engagement of their daughter, Sheri Anthes of Alvin to David Carhart of Tulsa, Okla. The prospective groom is the son of Marilyn and the late Bill Carhart of Port Aransas. The couple plan to marry on Oct.18, at St. James Episcopal Church in Eureka Springs, Ark. More ... The Island Worship Center (IWC) will host a performance on Sunday, June 29, and Monday, June 30, by Shekinah Glory. Shekinah Glory is a group of recording artists Ray and Lois Tauscher and Cindy Duvall, who have had many top 10 praise and worship songs in the international music market. More ... Kristy Lynn Horne and Daniel Jackson were married April 5 at mile marker 53 on the Port Aransas beach. The bride is the daughter of Debbie and Eddie Pauschert of Mathis. The groom is the son of Kim and Tommy Jackson of Port Aransas. Donny D'Herde, pastor of Aransas Pass Church of Christ, performed the ceremony. Both are graduates of Port Aransas High School. More ... Lord, love my traveling companion, because after we woke up in the scrub-country of Southern Idaho, after we scrambled up and down a 90-foot sand dune and bought a new frying pan at the Salvation Army and headed down the highway toward the Wyoming border, he was brought low by a terrible case of strep throat. More ... Katy Simpson of San Antonio, left, Cas Ward of Port Aransas, Krista and Jeanna Vetrone of Magnolia, create and color buttons to wear or give away. Button making is part of the summer programs series sponsored by the Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department. More ... Competing against the largest weekly newspapers in Texas, the South Jetty racked up enough points to finish in third place overall in the Texas Press Association's (TPA) Better Newspaper Contest. The South Jetty made history as mews editor Trixie Trout became the first cat to win an award from TPA. More ... Any "sprig-headed" young bird, pin-feathered, with wisps of down showing here and there is a wonderful sight for most birders, and summer is a great time to see these things. I checked on the least grebe family this week to see how they were doing. They were thriving -- a far better fate than some of their neighbors. More ... Capt. Steve Zarych, left, gives a little instruction on the basics of building a better sandcastle, as Joy Black of Austin studies his technique. 'Sandcastles with Steve' is part of the summer programs sponsored by the Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department. More ... Adventures in Mowing: Part V: We decided that the deck of the ocean liner Queen of Bermuda needed sprucing up a bit and offered to mow the deck for them. Unfortunately, we never got to put our proposition to the captain because the gangway steward would not let us come aboard with the equipment (the mower). More ... If agricultural runoff is blamed for a so-called "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, this year's floods in the Midwest should make the zone that much worse, right? Yes, said one scientist at The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute (UTMSI), but not for the reason you might think. More ... City council members took the advice of the Planning and Zoning Commission on Thursday, June 19, and removed restrictions on where recreational vehicle owners can camp on the beach - to a degree. More ... City council members will ask the city's Planning and Zoning Commission for guidance on how to regulate intrusive lighting in Port Aransas. City Councilman Rick Pratt, who brought the matter before the council on Thursday, June 19, said he'd gotten complaints from residents who are next to, or near, lighting that spills from neighbors' properties onto their own. More ... MONDAY, JUNE 16 • 11:10 a.m. A woman was arrested in the 400 block of Beach Street on an outstanding warrant from New Braunfels. • 5:44 p.m. Emergency Medical Service (EMS) workers took a sick person from the 700 block of Island Retreat Drive to a Corpus Christi hospital. More ... Motorists trying to use the beach roadway south of Beach Access Road 1 are finding it tough going. Dry weather and low tides have combined to dry out the sand in the roadway area, prompting city workers to put up signs warning of poor beach driving conditions. The National Weather Service forecast for the rest of this week calls for only a slight chance of rain. More ... A fire that swept upward through three units of the Island Retreat condominiums, 700 Island Retreat Drive, on Thursday, June 19, caused at least one property owner to praise both the Port Aransas Volunteer Fire Department and the property managers. More ... Port Aransas police say they expect to have much better communications with surrounding communities and with each other with two federal grants that will give the department cutting-edge equipment. An interoperable communications grant totaling $1,798,271 for the Coastal Bend will be spent in Port Aransas, Portland and Corpus Christi, said City Manager Michael Kovacs. More ... A barbecue party in Port Aransas turned nasty on Sunday, June 15, when one of the participants threatened others with a knife, deputy constables in the Nueces County Precinct 4 Constable's Office reported. The quarrel started at about 7:30 p.m. in the 600 block of Sanddollar Circle, when one of the men at the cook-out accused the others of stealing from him. More ... Workers just south of Avenue C work on the No. 12 outfall, a concrete drainage ditch that runs between Avenue A and wetlands on the south side of Port Aransas. Part of the 2006 bond project, the drainage ditch reconstruction and clean-out is being done at a cost of $499,298 and is expected to be finished in mid-July, said David Parsons, planning and projects director. More ... SUNDAY, JUNE 15 • 12:20 a.m. A deputy cited five juveniles in the 6300 block of State Hwy. 361 for minor in possession of alcohol, and arrested another person for making alcohol available to minors. • 2:13 a.m. More ... √ -- Approved or Accepted • -- Not approved • √ Proclamation - proclamation honoring Bill Sampson for saving a child's life on the beach. More ... City council members, along with other business on Thursday, June 19 (see related stories) struggled with appointing a member of the city's Board of Adjustments and Appeals. The position was left vacant with the death of member Don Huff last month. More ... Even more startling looking than its fellow parasite, mistletoe, cusp dodder or lovevine appears as an orangish, yellow mass of cobwebby threads draped over its host plant. Unlike most other plants, dodder has no chlorophyll, the substance in green plants that traps the sun's energy in order to make simple carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water. More ... California surfboard maker Robert August, a star of the landmark 1966 surfing movie "The Endless Summer," will make a day-long promotional appearance at Port A. Surf Co. on Saturday, June 28. As part of his visit, August also will greet visitors from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. More ... The Lydia Ann Lighthouse is silhouetted against the setting sun on a recent day as viewed from a passing boat. More ... If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen - or, of course, you can always escape the heat with a visit to the swimming pool at Port Aransas Community Park. Just in time for summer, the swimming pool is boasting a few new features. More ... Workers line a bridge over State Hwy. 361 south of Beach Access Road 1 as concrete for the bridge's final slab is pumped onto the bridge. The bridge will carry golf cart traffic between the east and west sides of the Newport Dunes Golf Course. More ... Independence Day fireworks in Port Aransas can be viewed by land or by sea on Friday, July 4. The city, in conjunction with Charles Butt of H-E-B Food Stores and the Lydia Ann Lighthouse, will present the show starting at "dark-thirty", or about 9 p.m. More ... |
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