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The 22nd annual Adopt-a-Beach Fall Clean Up couldn't have come at a more convenient time. This Saturday, Sept. 27, Keep Port Aransas Beautiful (KPAB), along with the Texas General Land Office (GLO) and hundreds of volunteers, will hold the Fall Clean Up from 9 a.m. to noon. More ... The public is invited to participate in the Poetry Sand Slam tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 26. In last week's issue the incorrect date was reported. Audience members as well as competitors are encouraged to meet at Sips Wine and Coffee Bar, 162 W. Cotter Ave., at 8 p.m. More ... A guided beach walk, sponsored by the Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department, will examine whatever the tides serve up on Friday, Sept. 26. The free beach walk will start at 9 a.m. by the red flag next to Horace Caldwell Pier. More ... Members and their guests are invited to the Port Aransas Garden Club old-fashioned Potluck Dinner and Dance Tuesday, Sept. 30, from 5 to 9 p.m. Festivities will be at the Fred Rhodes Memorial Pavilion at Roberts Point Park. Each member should bring a favorite dish to share along with a serving utensil. More ... The Port Aransas Garden Club has chosen King Fish Court, located at 1610 South 11th St., as September's commmercial yard of the month. Shirley and Thomas Nixon own the property shaded with a mesquite and a poplar tree. More ... I talked my husband into getting another dog. It took some doing. Since our sweet girl went on to beagle heaven, I have wanted another dog. I have grieved, to be sure. I miss her most when I wake up and before I go to bed at night. Those were times when she was always there. She would get up with me in the mornings, ready for breakfast or a walk, or both. More ... Teach Me Tennis night on Tuesday, Sept. 16, was sponsored by the City of Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department. Colin Barr, 11, right, gives it his best shot. More ... Marlin and Lady Marlin supporters are invited to meet with and join the Marlin Athletic Booster Club on Monday, Sept. 29. The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29, in the board room of the Port Aransas ISD administration building, 100 Station St. More ... If you have watched television for any length of time over the past six years or so, you have seen the guy with his cell phone going to different places asking the person on the other end of the line, "Can you hear me now?" He's been through tunnels, wheat fields, stock tanks, the North Pole, etc. We got the point: "The network" is all over the place. More ... Workers install a drainage pipe under Cotter Avenue on Thursday, Aug. 21. The Cotter Avenue work is the last unfinished street and drainage project funded by a 2006 bond issue. The Port Aransas City Council will ask voters to approve a $4.9 million bond issue in November to do more street and drainage work. More ... Alice Hanzel of Port Aransas shows two of the items she recently found lying on the beach. The painting at left and what appears to be the front panel of a bureau, possibly an antique, may have floated here from Galveston after being tossed in the Gulf of Mexico by Hurricane Ike. More ... Matthew Aaron Stringer, a 2005 graduate of Port Aransas High School, was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in maritime administration on Sept. 19, from Texas A & M University at College Station. Stringer, who completed his studies in three years, attended the University's Texas Maritime Academy in Galveston. More ... Veteran and novice volunteers and mentors are invited to a reception tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 26, at 10 a.m. in the Port Aransas ISD administration building, 100 S. Station St. The meeting was cancelled last week due to Hurricane Ike. More ... Herschel Reynolds, captain of the Ambush, polishes the boat's rails at Dennis Dreyer Municipal Harbor on Wednesday, Sept. 17. More ... When the Port Aransas City Council approved final plans for a nature preserve in an area long known as Charlie's Pasture, the action had special meaning for at least one council member: Charles Bujan. The acreage has been called Charlie's Pasture for decades because it was leased in the 1940s and '50s by Bujan's father, rancher Charlie Bujan, for grazing cattle. More ... Man alive - isn't fall an incredible time of the year? The hurricane season is drawing to an end, the cold fronts are blowing birds down out of the north, and our skies are filling up with new surprises everyday. We may have missed the best fall birding day so far because we were unpacking from our hurricane evacuation. More ... The eighth annual South Texas Music Fest - Chili and Barbecue Cookoff to benefit the Jody McCormick Scholarship Fund will be headlined by country and western music star Roger Creager. The event will start on Friday, Oct. 3, with Creager's performance at Sharkey's Beach Club, 2600 State Hwy. 361. Doors open at 8 p.m. More ... Two kayakers -- one of them flying a Jolly Roger flag, catch some waves on their way toward shore near Avenue G on Saturday, Sept. 20. More ... Port Aransas likely will not be targeted in state mandates that could come soon to require that action be taken to reduce pollution in Corpus Christi Bay, an Environmental Protection Agency official said. More ... Soft sand has piled up along the dunes and in places where motorists are accustomed to driving, and, therefore, scenes like the one above occur more frequently. This car was stuck in the sand as the driver attempted to exit the beach to Access Road 1 on Sunday afternoon. The city has erected warning signs that rate driving conditions such as soft sand on the beach. More ... When I try to tell who I am, I talk about my grandmother. To explain what's special about women from Texas, I say "My grandma eats whole, raw jalapenos with dinner." Or, "My grandmother mailed me a summer sausage for my birthday when I was six. More ... The U.S. Coast Guard Station in Port Aransas continued its search Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico for a Rockport-area man who disappeared about 300 feet offshore Monday morning, Sept. 22. First Class Petty Officer Dempsey Logue, the operations officer in Port Aransas, said 34-year-old Larry Tate went swimming with his sister, Kathy Tate, after 9 a.m. More ... MONDAY, SEPT. 15 • 8:22 a.m. EMS personnel treated an ill person in the 1300 block of Port Street. • 8:59 a.m. An animal was impounded when the animal control officer was called to an address in the 700 block of West Avenue A. More ... MONDAY, SEPT. 15 • 7:13 p.m. A man was arrested for possession of a controlled substance when he was stopped by a deputy on State Hwy. 361. THURSDAY, SEPT. 18 • 11 p.m. More ... A photo of the tidal surge around Shorty's that appeared on Page 1B of the Sept. 18 edition of the South Jetty was incorrectly credited. The photo was taken by Debbie Newton. More ... Christine and Mirko Latkovic have invited their neighbors over for a gettogether on many occasions. And they're going to do it again to celebrate the 25th anniversary of National Night Out beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7 at their home, 404 Mercer, in Old Town. More ... From left, Victoria residents Pete Gutierrez and his wife, Cheryl, walk hand-in-hand with Cheryl's mother, Kathleen Hinds, of Brady, at the beach in Port Aransas on Saturday, Sept. 20. More ... The Port Aransas City Council has unanimously passed a resolution calling on residents to voluntarily make their fertilizer use environmentally friendly to waters off Mustang Island. The council held the vote during its regular meeting, on Thursday, Sept. More ... Nominations for the 2008 Citizen of the Year will be taken through Friday, Oct. 17, said Ann Bracher Vaughan, executive director of the Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce Tourist Bureau, which sponsors the award. The recipient will be named in advance of the chamber's annual banquet, scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 13. More ... The Port Aransas Community Theatre is calling for auditions for its January production of "Fourth of July." With all of the holidays between now and then, they aren't wasting any time. The original musical features patriotic music and a cast of six, all of whom must sing well. More ... The Ellis Memorial Library Book Club discussion group will reconvene on Tuesday, Oct. 14. The club, open to the public, meets the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the library. The book to be discussed is "Three Cups of Tea," by Greg Mortenson. More ... Three-year-old Jakob Mosti of Bergen, Norway, gets a hand -- make that TWO hands -- from his mother, Gro Mosti as he jumps a single wave in a sequence of photos shot at the beach in Port Aransas on Saturday, Sept. 20. Gro and her husband, Inge, took up temporary residence in Houston a few months ago so she could do post-doctorate work at M.D. More ... With the anticipation and anxiety that we all go through watching the weather, we all have things we do to cope. I have kept track of storms over 40 years. Some people watch the Weather Channel non-stop. I tend to cook when I am anxious. And when it is a hurricane, I tend to cook comfort food. More ... Jon Forsberg, 11, reaches for a plastic bottle to remove the debris from the beach near Horace Caldwell Pier on Friday, Sept. 19. Forsberg was among a few dozen H.G. Olsen Elementary School fifth graders tidying up the beach as part of the 22nd annual Texas General Land Office Adopt-A-Beach Fall Cleanup. The bulk of the cleanup will be held Saturday, Sept. 27. More ... Many years ago I helped install a remote weather station on the vast Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, the largest piece of floating ice in the world. Two of us, the tower, sensors, two radios and our tools were deposited on the shelf by helicopter. As the thump-thumpthump of the departing 'copter faded into silence, we stopped for a while to take in our surroundings. More ... Port Aransas Mayor Claude Brown has resumed voting at city council meetings and said he intends to start bringing items to council agendas again. More ... The Art Center for the Islands will hold its First Friday reception on Oct. 3, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the art center, 323 N. Alister. The October exhibit will feature Splendor in the Glaze, a group pottery show, and the paintings of Susan Adams. Socialize and enjoy live music and refreshments while perusing the art . More ... |
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