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Pack up the cooler, a beach chair and a buddy and head down to Roberts Point Park tomorrow to enjoy some live music on the waterfront. The second Sunset Sounds concert of the season is tomorrow, Friday, June 12, at 7 p.m. in the Patsy Jones Amphitheater in Roberts Point Park. Vickie Cross will perform gospel and country music. More ... A sailboat glides through the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, as fishermen cast their lines from the pier at Roberts Point Park. More ... The Port Aransas Community Theater is ready to cast this summer’s youth production. Auditions will be held Monday, June 15, and Tuesday, June 16, at 7 p.m. at the Port Aransas Community Theater, 2327 State Hwy. 361. This year’s play is the melodrama “Shoot out at Darby Wells,” by Nevada Linford and Donna Messersmith. Bill McKinney will direct. The story takes place somewhere in Arizona in the late 1950s, the age of bikers and beatniks. More ... The Parrot Heads of Port Aransas will gather tonight Thursday, June 11, at 6:30 p.m. at Kody’s on 2034 State Hwy. 361, just south of town. Members should bring non-perishable food for the Port Aransas Food Pantry and their pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House, or be prepared to pay a fine. Visitors and anyone interested in the group are invited to visit. Members of the San Antonio Parrot Head Club who are in are particularly invited to join in. More ... Get your exercise in before the heat of the day at Yoga on the Beach Saturday, June 13. 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. The City of Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department sponsors the program. Call 749-4158 for more information. More ... Andy Cannon takes down the flags that were displayed for D-Day, Saturday, June 6. City Ground Supervisor John Owen said the city added DDay this year to its list of holidays slated for flag display. Pearl Harbor Day will also be added this year, bringing the total of those holidays to 11. More ... Looking for some friendly competition this summer? The First Baptist Church of Port Aransas will sponsor two tournaments this summer to raise funds for youth summer camp scholarships. The first, on Saturday, June 20, is a “3 on 3” basketball tournament. The second, on Saturday, June 27, is a dodgeball tournament for teams of five. You read it right, that’s dodgeball, even for the (alleged) grown-ups. Both events will have three divisions: One for ages 10 and 11, one for ages 12 through 20, one for 21 and older. More ... Ed and Nancy Arnold of Port Aransas have announced the engagement of their granddaughter, Christina Arnold of Austin, to Brandon Tabor of Cisco. She is the daughter of Joe and Margie Francis of Port Aransas. The prospective groom is the son of Jim and Joyce Tabor of Sterling, Va. The couple is planning a fall wedding in Leander. More ... Philippians 2:5-11 - “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who did not equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant....being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death...even on a cross.” More ... If you’ve been looking for some cool Saturday night family entertainment, look no further. The Port Aransas Community Theater will present two variety shows on Saturday, June 20 and 27, at 7:30 p.m. Home-grown talent will perform for two nights of fun and relief from the summer heat. A few regular PACT players, including Betty Crawford, Jack Dreessen, Phyllis Capps and David Beane will perform musical numbers, and newcomer Ty Morris will sing and play guitar. More ... June 20: Third Saturday Sale Workshops and classes: •Drop in and Draw: Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. $13.50 members, $15 non-members. •Soft Pastels or Oil Painting: Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. to noon, $13.50 members, $15 nonmembers. More ... The Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department held a session of surf lessons near Horace Caldwell Pier on Friday, June 5, attracting more than 40 students. The session was led by surfing expert Morgan Faulkner of Port Aransas. More ... Visitors walk toward the Southern Living Idea House during an open house Thursday, June 4. One of two Idea Houses sponsored by the magazine this year, the house is open to the public for tours Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Part of the proceeds from the $5 admission charge go to the Port Aransas Education Foundation. Heading for the open house are, from left, George Horner and Nick and Michele Lorette, all of Port Aransas. The foundation reported that 282 people took the tour in the first two days it was open to the public. More ... Rick Tinnin, director of marine education at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, shakes the hand of 14-year-old Matthew Jones, who led other Boy Scouts from Troop 25 of Aransas Pass in the construction of the 11-foot dinghy in the foreground for his Eagle Scout project. Jones donated the boat to the marine science institute’s Wetlands Education Center on Tuesday, June 9. More ... We are fortunate to enjoy seafood all year long, but summer really brings out the seafood lover in everyone. We often think of seafood as a main dish, but seafood can appear in salads and appetizers. Summer is the perfect time for the two appetizers I will introduce in today’s column. These are best with fresh seafood, but canned crab and shrimp will work well. More ... You know that new bridge you’ve seen going up over Redfish Bay, parallel to State Hwy. 361 on Harbor Island? You’ll never drive on it – not unless you decide to do some trespassing. The structure actually is a temporary “work bridge” that provides workers with a place for a crane and other construction equipment and materials as they build a new bridge to replace the adjacent bridge that carries traffic over Redfish Bay, according to Cliff Bost, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Transportation. More ... The wait for the trolley still isn’t any shorter, even though the Port Aransas City Council took action nearly three months ago to keep riders from having to wait so long for the bus-like vehicle to come rolling around. The council voted on March 19 to eliminate four stops on the trolley route to reduce waiting time. Council members wanted to get the route down to a 45-minute circuit, partly as a measure to attract more riders. More ... These folks made a full day of it at the beach on Sunday, June 6. They sailed their catamaran, fished in the surf and picnicked. More ... Lightning courses through the sky over Port Aransas during a thuderstorm that passed through the area on Wednesday, June 3. Scott Huckabee of Kempner was vacationing in Port Aransas when he snapped this photo while standing at 11th Street and Sandy Lane, facing northwest. More ... Port Aransas Volunteer Fire Department Chief Scott Mack makes a cell phone call while monitoring firefighting efforts at a grass fire just off State Hwy. 361 on Sunday, June 7. More ... MONDAY, JUNE 1 6 p.m. • Police responded to a report of a disturbance in the 300 block of South Cut-off Road. 8:48 p.m. • A beer theft was reported in the 400 block of Alister Street. TUESDAY, JUNE 2 10:59 a.m. • An ambulance took a sick person from the 600 block of Cut-off Road to Christus Spohn Hospital Shoreline in Corpus Christi. More ... WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 7:27 a.m. • Loose cattle were reported on State Hwy. 361. The owner rounded them up. 2 p.m. • A man was arrested on a warrant at I.B. Magee Beach Park. THURSDAY, JUNE 4 4:50 p.m. • A man was arrested for public intoxication on Cut-off Road. FRIDAY, JUNE 5 6:15 p.m. • A disturbance was reported in the 900 block of Ninth Street. More ... Fire burned an estimated 18 to 20 acres of grass and brush across State Hwy. 361 from the Grand Caribbean Condominiums on Sunday, June 7. No damage to structures or injuries were reported. First reported at 9:45 a.m., the fire was caused by sparks falling from a power pole, said Scott Mack, chief of the Port Aransas Volunteer Fire Department. The sparks were caused by electricity arcing over concentrations of dust and salt on electrical equipment, Mack said. More ... Dr. John Fucik displays a scrapbook full of drawings, photos and writings created for him as a gift by H.G. Olsen Elementary School kindergarteners and their teachers at the end of the school year. The students gave him the gift in appreciation for the many lessons on plants he gave them as a volunteer visiting school throughout the year. Fucik, who helped the children raise vegetable gardens, among other things, is a retired horticulturalist with the Texas A&M Extension Service and a columnist with the South Jetty. More ... Hope springs eternal in the soul of a birder, and I was full of hope as I entered the Joan and Scott Holt Paradise Pond this week. Before I even got to the boardwalk, I was amazed to see a prairie warbler flying in from the east. He was hungry and stayed all morning. More ... There was an abundance of gulls and terns on the beach on Friday, June 5. They were drawn there by an abundance of things to eat, namely (I was told by a veteran fishing man) Spanish mackerel. The seas were calm, and the fish were concentrated in huge schools. More ... Port Aransan Dan Parker, right, speaks during a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new exhibit at the Texas Surf Museum on Saturday, June 6. Parker, a South Jetty reporter, is co-curator of the surf museum, along with his wife, Michelle Christenson. The new exhibit is titled “Big Shots -- The Work of Texas Surf Photographers.” At center is Jimmy Metyko, a groundbreaking surf photographer from Houston. At left is Californian Sam George, former editor of Surfer magazine and author of multiple books on surfing. More ... |
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