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Tomorrow, Friday, Aug. 22, is opening night for the Port Aransas Community Theater production of Radio Notes from an Island. Director Ginny Shaw said, "This family show will have you rolling in the aisles, reminiscing about a bygone age and singing along with the classics. More ... If an evening of poetry with a few friends and a warm summer breeze sounds appealing, the Port Aransas Poetry Sand Slam may be the just the ticket. Audience members and competitors are invited to the slam tomorrow, Friday, Aug. 22. More ... The fourth of six opportunities to inspect decorated aluminum turtles is today, Thursday, Aug. 21, at the Back Porch Bar, 132 W. Cotter Ave., from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. If you've been to one of the socalled "turtle hatchings" before, that's no reason to miss this one: All the turtles at each "hatching" are different. More ... Residents express their discontent over bus; owner moves it and mows over Port Aransas businessman Jim Urban said this week he would have no comment on the former musicians' tour bus that's sitting on his property at the corner of Avenue G and South 11th Street. More ... School starts Monday. In an annual rite, teachers who have worked for the past month setting up their rooms will welcome students who will drag themselves out of bed hours earlier than any time in the past three months. Parents will dance in the streets all the way home. More ... This laughing gull seems to be catching a few winks atop one of the pilings at the ferry landing. More ... There is still time and there are still tickets available for the Port Aransas Rotary Club Champagne Cruise and Mini-Taste of Port Aransas scheduled for Friday, Sept. 5. Tickets may be purchased at ValueBank Texas in Port Aransas, 500 S. Alister St., or from American Bank, 216 S. Alister St. Only 140 tickets at $40 apiece are available. More ... The Coastal Bend Blood Center is holding a blood drive in Port Aransas on Thursday, Aug. 28. The donation center will be in the Family Center IGA parking lot, 418 S. Alister, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Donors will be entered in a drawing for a Coastal Bend Blood Center grill set, and each will receive a T-shirt and a Whataburger coupon. More ... 1. Call to order 2. Pledge and prayer 3. Presentation A. Presentation by a representative from the Texas Water Development Board on Community Rating System with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) B. More ... The Newport Dunes Golf Club isn't even open, but its first golf tournament is already scheduled. The first Port Aransas Kiwanis Club Scholarship Golf Tournament is slated for Saturday, Sept. 13. It is open to the first 120 players to register by Friday, Aug. 29. More ... Voters will be asked in November to approve a total of $4.9 million in general obligation bonds to be used to continue the city's campaign of repairing and rebuilding streets and drainage systems. City council members decided that earlier this month as they took a look at the city's upcoming budget. More ... I'm going to write this column about the process of applying to medical school because a lot of people have asked me about it. As far as I'm concerned, it's in the same vein of "interesting" as diagrams of medieval torture instruments or the recent news coverage of houses on the New Jersey coast being torn to splinters by the sea. But everyone has his/her taste. More ... Dr. Rick Tinnin calls the Wetlands Education Center at The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute "the longest gestation I've ever seen." Tinnin first proposed the idea back in 1989. Events moved at a slightly-slower-than-head-spinning rate. On Saturday, Aug. 16, he presided over the ribbon cutting opening the center, a full 19 years later. More ... Hurrying to catch up with other cyclists, a boy rides his bicycle on the beach just south of Avenue G in Port Aransas on a recent sunny day. More ... 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 explore the tidal offering tomorrow, Friday, Aug. 22. More ... The Labor Day holiday, Monday, Sept. 1, will be a day out of the office for many in Port Aransas, but for those in the hospitality industry it will be business as usual. City hall employees will have the day off, but law enforcement and emergency medical services personnel will be on duty. More ... Ross and Stephanie West of Kingsville announce the birth of their son, Stanton Ross, on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008. The infant was born at 1:31 p.m. at Christus Spohn Hospital South in Corpus Christi. He weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces, and measured 20.5 inches long. More ... Residents will get their first chance to be heard on the city's proposed 2009 budget at 5 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 25. That's the date set for the first of two hearings on the budget and tax rate. The second hearing is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 28, also at 5 p.m. More ... TUESDAY, AUG. 12 • 9:16 p.m. An officer investigating a suspicious vehicle in the 3500 block of State Hwy. 361 charged two people with minor in possession of alcohol, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. More ... An inbound jack-up production rig is moved through the Corpus Christi Ship Channel near the ferry landings in Port Aransas on Monday, Aug. 18. More ... Mayor Claude Brown vehemently denies that he's out to get City Manager Michael Kovacs fired, despite rumors circulating around Port Aransas that Brown is "after" Kovacs. "Oh, that's (expletive deleted)," Brown said, when asked about the rumors on Monday, Aug. 18. More ... SUNDAY, AUG. 10 • 2 a.m. A deputy charged a person in the 700 block of Trout Street with public intoxication (PI). • 11:30 a.m. Deputies assisted in searching for a person who had fled from a stolen vehicle on Cotter Avenue and was later arrested aboard a stolen boat in the Gulf of Mexico. More ... The trials of a Port Aransas woman and her former boyfriend, both charged with aggravated sexual assault on a child, have been postponed. District Judge Thomas Greenwell this week granted attorneys for Benjamin Curcuru, 31, and Erica Friesenhahn 24, more time before trial to prepare their cases. Both Curcuru and Friesenhahn were scheduled to go to trial this week. More ... Recently, I went to a couple of low tide areas to check for missing shorebirds. I am speaking of missing, as in missing from my first of season list for the fall. Sure enough, some of the good birds were in. I checked off semipalmated plovers, marbled godwits, and white-rumped sandpipers. Good birds, of course, are the birds that you really want to see. More ... I'm vacating my office of umpteen years at UTMSI to make way for a new young faculty member. It's not like the clichéd office departure shown in TV skits and ads: I don't have a box with the contents of the desk drawers and a picture of the wife and kids to take with me. I've been in that room for over 20 years and, before that, six years on the East wing and. More ... |
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