Since Christmas and New Year’s days fall on a weekend, city hall and banks will take holidays around the weekend. City hall will be closed from Friday, Dec. 23, through Monday, Dec. 26, and on Monday, Jan. 2. Trash and recyclable collections will not be interrupted by the holidays since they fall on Sunday. American Bank Port Aransas will close […]
Christmas show
Audiences at the Port Aransas Community Theatre’s Christmas Party Show were treated to a comical rendition of ‘A Port A Christmas Carol,’ featuring Elvis (Dave Beane) as the ghost of Christmas past, on left. Below, children gather ‘round for the story of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Port Aransas youth also performed a Nativity play from the perspective of the […]
Cart winners named
Golf cart owners and enthusiasts joined in a parade Dec. 16 to show their holiday spirit and give a helping hand to the Port Aransas Helping Hands Food Pantry. The entry fee for the second annual Golf Cart Christmas parade was $5 or five cans of food. About 200 pounds of food and $250 was raised for the Food Pantry. […]
Knitting the nativity
It took Norma Griffith about 150 hours, but she finally got it done. She knitted and hand-sewed an entire nativity scene, complete with Jesus, Joseph, Mary, two shepherds, the three wise men and a sheep. She has it set up on a table in her Port Aransas condominium. Griffith and her husband, Anthony, are Winter Texans from Ontario, Canada.