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So many chilis, and just enough time to taste them all! The fourth annual Coastal Bend Law Enforcement Chili Cook-off will be held Saturday, May 9, at Roberts Point Park. The cook-off is sponsored by the Coastal Bend Peace Officers Association. More ... Port Aransas youngsters (from front) Kai Kidd, Ian McClelland, Miles Parsons and Arthur Pecore ride a wave in a kayak pushed by Kai's father, Des Kidd. The boys and their families were enjoying an afternoon at I.B Magee Beach Park on Sunday, May 3. More ... The next Sunset Sounds concert is tomorrow, Friday, May 8, at 7 p.m. in the Patsy Jones Amphitheater in Roberts Point Park. ROMI, with Alma Squillante and Luis Villareal, will play acoustical music with a Latin flair. ROMI performs what they describe as a musical fusion of Latin, pop, rock, folk and jazz. More ... Load up and head down to the Island Animal Clinic for your pets' rabies vaccines. The clinic, at 319 Beach St., will offer rabies and other vaccines at a reduced cost today, Thursday, May 7, from 1:30 to 5 p.m. and Saturday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. More ... If you have talent and would like to get on stage, here's your chance. The Port Aransas Community Theatre will hold auditions Wednesday and Thursday, May 13 and 14, at 7 p.m. for its June production, "Saturday Night Specials." The specials are a variety show to be held each Saturday night during June. More ... Representatives from the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) nutritional program will be in Port Aransas on Monday, May 11. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., at the Family Center IGA parking lot, 416 S. Alister St. For questions or an appointment, call (361) 767-7777. More ... The next meeting of the Ellis Memorial Library Book Club discussion group is on Tuesday, May 12. The club, open to the public, meets monthly at 6:30 p.m. in the library. The book to be discussed is "The Namesake," by Jumpa Lahiri. More ... Spend your lunch hour in prayer for others. The First Baptist Church invites the community to participate in the National Day of Prayer today, Thursday, May 7, from noon to 1 p.m. Seven prayer stations will be set up under the Fred Rhodes Memorial Pavilion at Roberts Point Park; one each for government, military, media, business, education, church and family. More ... Gary Mysorski, Director of Parks and Recreation, will speak about the Nature Preserve at Charlie's Pasture at the next meeting of the Port Aransas Garden Club. The meeting will be on Wednesday, May 13, at 10 a.m., at the Port Aransas Civic Center, 700 West Ave. A. More ... Siobhan Templeton and Monty Allen, both of Port Aransas, were married on the beach in Port Aransas on Saturday, May 2. A private ceremony was performed by Justice of the Peace Judge Duncan Neblett Jr. With them are their children, Mathew Allen and Hannah Templeton. More ... What is a leader? Maybe a better question is, "Who is a leader?" There are more than enough books, tapes, cds, and dvds on leadership to fill an empty oil tanker. If all of this stuff is out there, then why don't we have better leaders? More ... Good news for all the Port Aransas book lovers out there: Many of your favorite authors have published new books this spring. The following is a list of some new titles now in circulation at the library. A complete list of recently added books, DVDs, and audio books on CD can be found at the online catalog by going to eml@cityofportaransas.org/library. More ... Candidates' Night, a voter education forum for candidates in contested races, was held Thursday, April 30. It is sponsored by the South Jetty and is open to the public. It also is broadcast on the Charter Cable local access television channel. Here is a summary of remarks and responses to questions by candidates in races for city council and school board. More ... Port Aransas City council candidates Keith Donley and Elleece Calvert exchanged remarks about development, local history and windstorm insurance concerns when they appeared at Candidates' Night April 30. Donley is running for re-election to Place 1, and Calvert is his sole challenger. More ... Football, finances and superintendent selection were some of the hot topics addressed by school board candidates Margaret Price and Christina Brundrett Milligan at Candidates' Night on April 30. Milligan is challenging incumbent Price for Place 1 on the Port Aransas Independent School District Board of Trustees. More ... Two Port Aransas teams were winners in the 13th annual Great Texas Birding Classic, a week-long birding competition that concluded Sunday, May 3, with an awards banquet in Corpus Christi. The Laughing Gals, a team sponsored by the Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce Tourist Bureau, was runner-up in the Glider division of the Big Sit. Gliders are birders ages 14 to 18. More ... Debra LeBlanc and owner Pat Farley prepare to open the Silver King, a new shop featuring sterling silver jewelry and leather goods, at 210 N. Alister, No. 3. The shop will open tomorrow, Friday, May 8. Hours of operation are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. More ... Texas Tourism Week will be celebrated in Port Aransas May 9 - 17, with stickers welcoming visitors as well as refreshments for those visitors. The annual event is held in conjunction with National Tourism Week to encourage, recognize and promote the value of travel and tourism. More ... The Port Aransas school board will hold a workshop session on the subjects of football and volleyball today, Thursday, May 7. The meeting will be at 5 p.m. at the administration building on Station Street. More ... Look for more Sargassum seaweed on Mustang Island beaches under a new attitude adopted by the Texas General Land Office (GLO). GLO Deputy Commissioner Jodenna Henneke, whose charge includes Texas coasts, dropped that news on a Sargassum symposium being held at The University of Texas at Austin marine Science Institute on Wednesday, April 29. More ... Jenna Ward, an eighth grader at Brundrett Middle School, is an old hand at singing the national anthem. On Wednesday, May 13, she will sing it again at the Hooks' game at Whataburger field in Corpus Christi, at 7 p.m. The Hooks will play the Frisco Rangers. More ... Two Port Aransas birding teams were second in their respective divisions at the Great Texas Birding Classic that ended with an awards banquet on Sunday, May 3. The Port Aransas Spoonbills, above, were runners-up in the Big Sit competition. More ... The Port Aransas Education Foundation sponsored two teams of students who took part in the Great Texas Birding Classic on Saturday, May 2. The foundation also helped buy 12 pairs of high-quality binoculars for students. Birders, both children and adults, compete in the Birding Classic for the highest number of birds species recorded. More ... There's no free lunch, but there is a free Yoga on the Beach class, Saturday, May 9. Nancy Myers will instruct the free class beginning at 8 a.m. next to the Horace Caldwell Pier at the end of Beach Street. The public is invited to attend the class, held the second Saturday of the month. More ... Mother's Day is Sunday, May 10. Celebrate with a free swim at the Port Aransas Community Pool, 700 Clark Parkway. In honor of the day, all mothers will be admitted at no charge from 1 to 6 p.m., when accompanied by a child swimmer, courtesy of the City of Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department. More ... Golf isn't child's play, but the money raised by a charity tournament at Newport Dunes Golf Club on Friday, May 1, will go a long way toward providing recreational possibilities and more for certain young Port Aransans. The tournament's proceeds will be used for playground improvements at Trinity-by-the-Sea Day School and for the school's student scholarship fund. More ... May 14: Fiesta de Mayo benefit for the art center. May 16-17: ArtFest May 18: Songw Showcase Workshops and classes: •Drop in and Draw: Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. $13.50 members, $15 non-members. More ... The Trinity-by-the-Sea Day School in Port Aransas held a benefit golf tournament on Friday, May 1, complete with prize drawings. Helping with the drawings, from left, are Delaney Moss, Jenna Ward, Robbie Clark, Ian McClelland and school director Nana Ward. More ... The Trinity-by-the-Sea Day School in Port Aransas held a benefit golf tournament on Friday, May 1, complete with prize drawings. Helping with the drawings, from left, are Delaney Moss, Jenna Ward, Robbie Clark, Ian McClelland and school director Nana Ward. More ... If you saw what appeared to be ambulance workers trying to talk a distraught-looking man down from the roof of the Port Aransas Civic Center on Saturday, May 2, don't worry about it. And don't be too concerned if you saw ambulance workers laboring to remove people apparently trapped in auto wreckage at Ninth Street and Avenue C that morning. More ... MONDAY, APRIL 27 2:31 p.m. • Firefighters responded to a small fire in an air conditioning unit in the 2000 block of State Hwy. 361. No injuries were reported. 2:51 p.m. • An ambulance took a sick person from the 700 block of Sixth Street to Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial in Corpus Christi. More ... FRIDAY, MAY 1 12:13 p.m. • A deputy arrested a woman on a warrant on State Hwy. 361. SATURDAY, MAY 2 2:25 a.m. • A woman was arrested on suspicion of public intoxication on State Hwy. 361 at Access Road 1A. More ... Business briefs features top level management additions, changes or promotions, professional continuing education or other business news that is not classified as marketing. Deadline for submissions is 10 a.m. Monday for the following Thursday's edition. Submit information and photos to southjetty@centurytel.net or mail to South Jetty, P.O. More ... A warm spring evening under the stars, a comfy beach chair or blanket, a loved one (hopefully one with a cooler) by your side and live, original music sound good to you? Then the 26th annual Songwriter's Showcase on Monday, May 18, is just the ticket. More ... Folks along the shore of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel stopped to view and take photos of the Rowan Gorilla III jackup rig as it passed through on Monday, April 4. More ... The fourth annual ArtFest will feature an array of fine arts and crafts for sale Saturday and Sunday, May 16 and 17, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Keeping with tradition, ArtFest will be held in the courtyard of the Tarpon Inn, 200 E. Cotter St. More ... The location of the Art Center for the Islands' second annual Fiesta de Mayo fundraising event on Thursday, May 14, has been changed. The event will now be held at the Sand Castle Conference Center, 800 Sandcastle Dr. More ... The Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve anniversary celebration on Wednesday, May 6, was postponed until further notice. The event, hosted by the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, was postponed as precautionary measure. No suspected cases of flu have been reported there. More ... Port Aransas' first Pony League team, the Mariners, finished their first season on Tuesday, May 5, with a win against Portland 8-5. They ended with an 8-4 record. The league was formed as a transition league for players as they prepare for high school baseball. More ... It was April 25, 1977, and I wrote in notebook No. 30: "This was a day of incredible movement: The field behind the house was full of rose-breasted grosbeaks, Baltimore orioles, tanagers, Eastern kingbirds - probably several different groups throughout the day. Overhead, groups of solitary(? More ... Seventy-five -year-old Albert E. Burrier, formerly of Port Aransas, finished the 113th Boston Marathon with a time of five hours, five minutes and 59 seconds. Now a resident of Carmine, Burrier took sixth place in 75-to-79 age group. The April 20 marathon was 26.2 miles long. More ... The Harbour Condominiums and IBC of San Antonio hosted an invitational wine tasting and tour of the new facility as a fundraiser for the Port Aransas Education Foundation on Friday, May 1. According to foundation president Janice Roberts, more than $7,500 was raised at the event, which was attended by approximatedly 75 guests. More ... |
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