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May 5, 2011 / Island Life

Artists show color at First Friday

The May 6 First Friday art reception will feature a group show, “Los Colores de Mayo.” The colorful exhibit will be open for viewing from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. for the reception at the Art Center for the Islands, 323 N. Alister St. More...

Tourism workers invited on cruise

Hospitality stars of Port Aransas are invited to a special cruise in their honor in celebration of National Travel and Tourism Week. More...

PASTOR’S PEN

Slowing down

DOUG SCHWERT

Over the past six months or so, I have become a landlubber. When I am down at the ship channel, I merely view the massive vessels slipping discreetly in and out of our local ports. More...

Vows planned

George “Trey” Horner III of Fort Lewis, Wash. More...

Parrot Heads to discuss benefit

Parrot Heads of Port Aransas members are invited to bring their ideas for an Animal Rehabiliation Keep benefit to a meeting on Thursday, May 12. The club will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the home of Jon and Heather Maynard. More...

Pool sets new hours

The City of Port Aransas Community Park Pool has set new hours for spring. Effective immediately, the new pool hours are: Open swim, Tuesday-Sunday, 1-6 p.m., Shared lap swim, Tuesday- Friday 8:30 a.m.-close and Saturday- Sunday, 1 p. More...

From Portugal to Port Aransas

Rotary Club president-elect Jodi Goike, left, welcomes visitors from Portugal on Wednesday, April 27. More...

Volunteers find tons of trash

Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup

Windier than normal conditions on the beach last weekend didn’t hold 251 volunteers from showing up to clean Port Aransas beaches during the 25th annual Texas General Land Office Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup on Saturday, April 30. More...

Three May events benefit art center

The Community Center will be transformed into a Mexican villa for the fourth annual Fiesta de Mayo on Thursday, May 19. An evening of “food, fun and fandango” will begin at 6:30 p.m. More...

Blowin’ in the wind

Those blustery winds Port Aransas has been getting for weeks are good for something. More...

Kicking at cancer

Relay For Life raises money, awareness

STAFF PHOTOS BY DAN PARKER

Port Aransas Relay For Life raised $41,900 at last count, and more money still was coming in at press time, according to Robyn McKinney, event chair. “I feel like things went really well,” McKinney said. “I was happy with it. More...

POLICE BLOTTER

FROM PORT ARANSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT RECORDS

TUESDAY, APRIL 26 2:02 A.M. • Called to a minor accident in the 200 block of East Cotter Avenue, an officer charged a man with reckless driving. 1:08 P.M. More...

CHIEF CONCERNS

Are you ready? Or complacent?

SCOTT BURROUGHS

Hurricane season officially begins in 26 days. Are you ready? Many of you have been here for years, even decades, and have grown bored with hurricane season. You may be thinking, “Here he goes again with another monotonous hurricane column. More...

Austin man is charged after beach stabbing

An Austin man was in the Nueces County Jail on Tuesday, May 2, after a quarrel on the beach in Port Aransas that left another man wounded. More...

Lucky golf ball will be worth $1,000 or more

Feeling lucky? The Port Aransas Kiwanis Club is selling numbered golf balls for a chance to win cold, hard cash. The club will host a fundraiser, “Golf Ball Drop,” at 2 p.m. on Friday, May 27, at Port Aransas High School, 100 S. More...

SLING SHOTS

Mother’s Day specials

BILL SLINGERLAND

This Sunday is a special day for that person in every household who makes every other day special -- Mother. My wife and my daughter make life fun and full. So I want to return love and joy with a breakfast they will both love. More...

‘Spice’ and ‘nice’ on tap Saturday

Coastal Bend Law Enforcement Chili Cook-off

If you think it’s hot now, wait until Saturday, May 7. That’s when groups of law enforcement officers will gather around pots of chili at Roberts Point Park in Port Aransas to decide who’s the best chili cook. More...

VFW collecting items for troop

VFW Post 8967 and its Ladies Auxiliary are honoring U.S. Marine Corps sergeant Todd Burton by holding a collection drive for supplies to be sent to his troop in Afghanistan. More...

HOOKED ON BIRDING

Fantastic fall-out at Paradise

LYNN STEAKLEY

The birder telephone tree is in full swing on this special Wednesday in April. Calls are out for all birders to come to the Joan and Scott Holt Paradise Pond. Due to a cold front, hundreds of birds are grounded for the day. More...

City to treat moms

Help Mom to cool off and destress by taking her to the Port Aransas Community Pool on Mother’s Day for a free swim. More...

Double feature at PACT this weekend

Doors will open at the Port Aransas Community Theatre for two one-act plays to be performed by theatre arts students from Seashore Middle Academy. More...

Rabies clinic offered

The Port Aransas Animal Shelter will offer a reducedfee rabies clinic on Saturday, May 7. Pet owners are invited to bring their four-legged friends to the shelter, at 409 W. Cotter Ave. More...

Grace serves up hot meals

A free hot lunch will be served every Sunday starting this week, May 8, at Grace Community Church, 1801 S. 11th St. The lunch will be served starting at 12:30 p.m. following the 10 a.m. worship service. More...

On the road, again

Ken Dunton of Port Aransas, left, and his daughter, Karli Dunton pause with a group of fellow cyclists on a road about 30 miles south of LaGrange during the BP MS 150 on April 16. More...

AFPA sets meeting

Possible changes to the Animal Friends of Port Aransas bylaws and future project goals will be discussed at a meeting on Tuesday, May 10. Members are encouraged to attend the meeting, to begin at 5:30 p.m. More...

Birders use keen eyes in contest

Three adult and three student Port Aransas birding teams competed in the Great Birding Classic held between April 9 and 16 in the Coastal Bend. More...

Wise elected state director of women’s organization

DAN PARKER
REPORTER

Sarah Jane Wise o f Po r t Ar ans as has been elected state director of t he Pan American Roundtables of Texas (PARTT). More...

Candidates Donley, Sirmon square off

Place 1 is only contested race on city ballot; bond issue also put to voters

DAN PARKER
REPORTER

Seaweed. Police. Eleventh Street. Smoking. Tourism. Taxes. Property values. The Port Aransas Nature Preserve. All of these topics and more were grist for the mill that was Candidates’ Night on Thursday, April 28, at city council chambers. More...

Garden club changes May meeting date

The Port Aransas Garden Club will move its Tuesday, May 10, meeting to the Civic Center at 700 W. Ave. A. Normally held in the Community Center, this month’s meeting has had to be moved due to early voting taking place at the Community Center. More...

Careless limb stacking may get you brush-off

Allied Waste officials want to remind Port Aransans that there is a right way and a wrong way to put your brush out for curbside pickup. More...

‘The Help’ is book club’s pick

Readers wishing to discuss a historical novel about overcoming racism are invited to an Ellis Memorial Library Book Club discussion on Tuesday, May 10. More...

On the rocks

Anglers do some fishing as waves driven by a brisk breeze crash on the rocks at the south jetty on Thursday, April 28. More...

Scuffle leads to arrest, which then leads to ...

A chain of events that started with a scuffle in a grocery store ended with two Port Aransas men in the Nueces County jail on separate and unrelated charges on Wednesday, April 20. More...

CONSTABLE’S BEAT

FROM NUECES COUNTY CONSTABLE, PRECINCT 4, RECORDS

THURSDAY, APRIL 28 1:08 A.M. • A deputy located a woman wanted in connection with an incident on Trout Street; city police charged her with aggravated assault (see related story). 1:35 A.M. More...

Woman charged after bar quarrel

A woman at a bar in the 800 block of Tarpon Street told police at 12:55 a.m. on Friday, April 28, that she had been hit on the head with a beer bottle and stabbed in the leg with a broken wine glass. More...

PA veterans happy with bin Laden news

DAN PARKER
REPORTER

Port Aransas VFW members were among millions of Americans glad to hear about the demise of Osama bin Laden. More...

Sharp shooters

Full Story

Concert in the park is slated for May 13

Head to the park to enjoy some good old-fashioned rockn roll at the Sunset Sounds concert on Friday, May 13. The second concert of the season will begin at 7 p.m. in the Patsy Jones Amphitheater in Roberts Point Park. More...

ISLAND OBSERVER

A royal serenade; it’s turtle time!

TONY AMOS

We have a white cockatiel. His name is Pi (or maybe Pie). He was found when just a baby in a swimming pool in Corpus Christi. He now lives in Port Aransas and spends part of his day in a cubbyhole with a portable vacuum cleaner. More...