May 26, 2011 RSS feed / Youth

For all you do, this ice cream’s for you

H.G. Olsen Elementary School students were treated to an ice cream social on Friday, May 20, by the Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce-Tourist Bureau. More...

Revised final exam schedules released

Port Aransas High School administrators have revised the final exam schedule published in last week’s South Jetty. One major difference is that Thursday, June 2, will not be an early released day. More...

Fall soccer registration begins today

If running and kicking are your kids’ thing, sign them up for soccer. Port Aransas Youth Soccer League is taking fall soccer registrations on Thursday, May 26, and Tuesday, May 31, from 6 to 7 p.m. More...

A step up

Marlin Academy attendees did their second tie-dyed t-shirt project, this one with figures on the shirts, and showed the shirts off on Friday, May 20. More...

KIDS’ CALENDAR

Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Deparment and Other SUMMER PROGRAMS

Pre-register for all Parks and Recreation programs at 739 W. Ave. A, call 749-4158 or e-mail pamg@cityofportaransas.org Parents are welcome at any of the kids’ activities Daily Activities More...

History to come to ‘wax’ Friday

The fourth grade class at H.G. Olsen Elementary School invites the community to visit their Wax Museum on Friday, May 27. Each student will portray an historical or celebrity person in the school cafeteria at 100 S. Station St. More...

Time running out for legislature

News and notes from your state capitol involving issues that affect House District 32: May 12 marked the last day for the Texas House of Representatives to pass out house bills (HB) or house joint resolutions (HJR) from the emergency, major and gener More...

Truancy: District will do better

Saying the school district could do a better job of enforcing state compulsory attendance laws, Port Aransas ISD Superintendent Dr. More...

Bottled up

Tony Amos, a research fellow at The University of Texas Marine Science Institute and director of the Animal Rehabilitation Keep (top photo) shows H.G. More...

It’s magic

Tigers and Bears (no lions) from Port Aransas Boy Scout Troop 29 visited the South Jetty office on Thursday, May 19, to learn about how a newspaper is published. More...

EDUCATION NOTES

Introduction to middle school

The Chinese have a proverb: “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” That really sums up my thoughts as we end the 2010-11 school year at Brundrett Middle School. More...

PAISD band to perform tonight

A band concert that will feature a trip in to the past will be presented tonight, Thursday, May 26, in the Doyle Marek Gym at Port Aransas High School. Port Aransas ISD’s annual district-wide band concert will be at 7 p.m. More...

Couldn’t do it without you

H.G. Olsen Elementary School principal Pat Nelson, left, and Brundrett Middle School principal Gina McKeever, center, greet volunteer Joyce Williams at a tea held Thursday, May 19. More...

Surfing the education

Brundrett Middle School student Monique Lorette and BMS principal Gina McKeever, front, look at an educational program on a mini computer before the school board meeting on Thursday, May 19. More...

Kelton inducted into honor society

Jesse Cole Kelton of Port Aransas was inducted into the Gamma Sigma Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi on Friday, April 15. Phi Theta Kappa is an honor society serving twoyear colleges. More...













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