2010-08-26 / Island Agenda

Island Agenda

DAILY • Port Aransas Community Park

Swimming Pool, 700 Clark Parkway: swim lessons, water exercise and lap swimming. Open daily except Monday. Open swim: Tuesday through Thursday,1- 2 p.m., Friday through Sunday, 1 to 6 p.m. Lap swim: noon to 1 p.m. Call 749-2416 for more lap swim hours and information. • Computer Center, Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Closed Saturday and Sunday. Hours subject to volunteer availability. 430 N. Alister St. Free email. 749-4011. • Art Center for the Islands: Classes, workshops. 749-7334. • The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) Visitors Center: Open Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. -- 5 p.m. Free. • Port Aransas Museum, Alister at Brundrett street. 1 - 5 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. • Trolley: 10 a.m. - 5:55 p.m. Wave down anywhere along the route from Roberts Point Park to Beach Access Rd 1A and State Hwy. 361 South. Maps, schedules available at the Tourist Bureau. • Flexi-B bus service between Port Aransas and Corpus Christi by appointment.Call City Hall, 749- 4111 to make reservations. Picks up passengers at 7:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. Mon. – Fri. and at 10 a.m. Sat. Leaves Corpus Christi at 3:30 p.m. Mon. – Sat. $1.25 each way. Del Mar and TAMU-CC students ride free.

BEACH VOLLEYBALL BEACH VOLLEYBALL WEEKLY • Free Wetland Education Center tours, UTMSI, 10 a.m. Tues. and Thurs. • Port Aransas Running Club and Walkers, Too, 7 a.m., Tues., Wed., Thurs., community park swimming pool parking lot. Contact Steve Canion, 749-3388. • Rotary Club, noon Thurs., Pelican’s Landing Restaurant, 337 N. Alister St. • Adult water exercise classes, 60 minutes, 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and noon, Tues.-Fri., community park swimming pool, 700 Clark Parkway. • Alcoholics Anonymous open meeting, 8 p.m. Monday through Sunday, Sharp Pavilion behind Trinityby the-Sea Episcopal Church, 433 Trojan. 749-6449. • Adult tennis, 7:30 a.m. Mon., Wed., Fri., and 7 p.m. Mon. and Wed., PAISD courts on Station Street. Free, no partner needed. Call Murray 749-4861 or 749-5131. • Port Aransas Museum tours of the

Little Chapel on the Hill, first and third Friday and Saturday of each month at 10 a.m. Call or visit the museum for reservations, 749-3800. (Note: only one tour offered in August, on Aug. 20.) • Story Time, 10:30 – 11 a.m. Sat., Bill Ellis Memorial Library, 749-4116. • Summer Reading Club, 11 - noon, Wed.,at the library, ages four to nine. • Port A Pens, 10-noon Mon., Bill Ellis Memorial Library, 710 W. Ave. A. • Port Aransas Volleyball Assoc. Mon., H.G. Olsen Elementary School gym, 100 Station St. • Birding on the Boardwalk, guided bird walk with Nan Dietert, 9 a.m., Wed. 749-4158. • Friends of the Library, alternating Wednesdays at the library, 710 W. Ave. A, 6 p.m. • Kiwanis Club, noon Wed., Jay’s Seafood and Spaghetti Works, 710 State Hwy. 361. • Project FREE Free, anonymous and confidential testing for HIV, hepatitis-C, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia, 10 a.m., first and third Tuesday of every month,JELM Center office,113 S. Alister St. Walk-ins O.K. • VFW Dinner, 6:30 p.m., Wed., 311 N. Alister St., $5 donation.

• VFW Pool Tournament, 7 p.m., Wed., 311 N. Alister St.

THIS WEEK

THURSDAY, AUGUST 26 • Parrot Heads monthly happy hour meeting, 6:30 p.m. at the Mariner Inn Sand Bar, 2607 State Hwy 361. • Free movie, UTMSI Visitors Center, 3 p.m., ‘Planet Earth: Saving Species,’ 60 min. Subject to cancellation without notice.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 • Beach Walk, 9 a.m., meet at Horace Caldwell Pier. (See story this page.) • Texas Women Anglers Tournament, 6:30 p.m., Port Aransas Civic Center, 710 W. Ave. A. (See story Page 4B.)

SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 • Texas Women Anglers Tournament, 6:30 a.m., Fred Rhodes Memorial Pavilion in Roberts Point Park. (See story Page 4B.)

SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 • Texas Women Anglers Tournament, 10:30 a.m., Civic Center, 700 W. Avenue A. (See story Page 4B.)

MONDAY, AUGUST 30 • Free movie, UTMSI Visitors Center, 3 p.m., ‘How the Earth Was Made: Hawaii,’ 47 min. Subject to cancellation without notice.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 31 • Free movie, UTMSI Visitors Center, 3 p.m., ‘If We Had No Moon,’ 50 min. Subject to cancellation without notice. • Keep Port Aransas Beautiful meeting, 6 p.m., Ellis Memorial Library, 710 W. Avenue A. (See story this page.)

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 • Free movie, UTMSI Visitors Center, 3 p.m., ‘Kingdom of the Seahore,’ 56 min. Subject to cancellation without notice. • VFW Dinner, 6:30 p.m., VFW Post 8967, 311 N. Alister St. A $5 donation is requested.Beans, cornbread and dessert.

ON THE HORIZON Sept. 3 • First Friday Art Reception Sept. 5 • Splash Day, Community

Park pool Sept. 10 • Champagne Cruise

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