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As if doing a circus trick,
three dolphins leap in
unison while surfing the
swell pushed ahead of a
tanker heading through the
Corpus Christi Ship Channel
near the Charlie’s Pasture
pier in Port Aransas on
Wednesday, Sept. 18.
Staff photo by Dan Parker
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Anglers on Wheels, a
fishing tournament for
anglers with disabilities,
was held Thursday and
Friday, Sept. 26 and 27.
Page 1B
Big catch
Dan Parker
Reporter
Scientists in Port Aransas
have found that dispersants
used to break up the Deep-
water Horizon oil spill were
more harmful to certain tiny
Gulf of Mexico creatures than
the oil itself.
Researcher Ed Buskey will
present that and other findings
when he attends the Sympo-
sium on Deep Sea Oil Spills at
the Ocean University of China
in Qingdao, China, Oct. 28-30.
Buskey is a plankton ecol-
ogist with the University of
Texas Marine Science Institute
in Port Aransas. The institute
won a grant of nearly $7 mil-
lion - the largest in the facil-
ity’s then 70-year history - in
fall 2011 to fund a project that
will investigate how waves,
currents, tiny organisms and
other Gulf of Mexico features
can disperse oil spills. Buskey
was the one who applied for
the grant.
The Gulf of Mexico Re-
search Initiative (known as
GRI) awarded the grant. The
project has been led by Bus-
key and includes institute
researchers Deana Erdner
and Zhanfei Liu. UTMSI re-
searcher Tracy Villareal also
is involved in GRI-funded
projects. He is one of the
scientists doing research in a
project led by the University
of Mississippi.
Buskey pulled together from institutions including
scientists from around the Johns Hopkins University, the
nation to take part in the University of Wisconsin, Uni-
research. The researchers are versity of Pennsylvania and
the’University of Minnesota.
The GRI was formed to
distribute $500 million in
independent scientific re-
search related to the Deepwa-
ter Horizon oil spill that took
See ‘SCIENTISTS,’ 6A
Schools protect against ants
This 244-pound tiger shark
highlights recent local
catches.
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Surf Conditions
By Taryn Walker
Reporter
With the recent death of
13-year-old Corpus Christi
student Cameron Espinosa,
Port Aransas Independent
School District is doing what-
ever it can to ensure that
anyone who steps on district
property is safe from ants.
PAISD maintenance crews
laid a granule-like product
called Top Choice on the
district grounds, Friday, Sept.
20, to help get rid of ants and
other harmful insects.
Top Choice is a red label
product applied over all areas
of district property, including
playgrounds, softball fields
and the track. It’s distributed
through a spreader and then
watered down.
It had to be applied over the
weekend, so children weren’t
around as a safety precaution
and so it could settle into the
ground.
“We haven’t really seen a
major infestation; to say that
the ants aren’t here, that’s
just not true. I mean we do
have ants, but not any more
than anybody else,” PAISD
maintenance director Pete
Cowen said.
District employee Jesse
Chaires is the licensed appli-
cator and he stays on top of it,
constantly checking for piles,
Cowen said.
Chaires said he spot-treats
with the same product if any
mounds show up, and that
the product targets all kinds
of ants and other insects like
crickets.
Cowen is now working on
a third “set of eyes,” he said.
“We have recently got-
ten with a company in Cor-
pus Christi called Pest Fog;
they’re actually coming out
Friday, Oct. 4. They’ve been
in business for over 60 years
and they’re very reputable,”
Cowen said.
The company is going to
come out to walk the grounds,
give a survey and an assess-
ment to verify that things are
OK, he said. “I just think it
would be better to get some-
one unbiased out here to come
look at it,” Cowen said.
Pest Fog has worked with
at least seven or eight Corpus
Christi schools in the last sev-
eral weeks, Cowen said.
Both Cowen and Chaires
said the rain has really stirred
up the ants.
“Your neighbor can treat
for ants and if you don’t treat
for them, you’re not really
Staff photo by Taryn Walker
Treatment
Port Aransas schools
employee Jesse Chaires
demonstrates how ant
mounds can be spot-treated
on school grounds.
doing anything, you’re just
kind of pushing them around,”
Cowen said.
They’re survivors; you can
never totally eliminate them,
but you can control them,
he said.
“Until everybody in the
community starts some kind
of a treatment, they’re just
going to keep moving around,”
Cowen said.
The most difficult part of
keeping ants under control is
the “unknown” Cowen said.
“We don’t ever know how
children are going to react to
different bites and different
insects have a different kind
of bite. If we can keep them
out and protect the kids and
our staff, and community
members if we can, then that’s
See ‘PORT ARANSAS,’7A
Pop pone, don found
Pooch discovered here after being lost for a year
Toothy smile
Staff photo by Dan Parker
Duncan the dog is happy to be found in Port
Aransas, one year after disappearing from his
home in San Antonio.
Dan Parker
Reporter
Duncan, a Labrador retriever
mix, went missing from her San
Antonio home last fall.
Nearly one year later, the pooch
has been located in Port Aransas,
thanks to some high-tech detective
work by the non-profit Animal
Friends of Port Aransas organi-
zation and plans are in the works
to reunite her with her grateful
owners.
How Duncan got from San
Antonio to Port Aransas - a dis-
tance of more than 175 miles - is
a mystery.
Duncan belongs to Julie Bennett
and her three children: Jared, 12,
Yunique, 10 and Cameron, 5.
The family left the dog tied
to a leash on a wire run in their
unfenced yard close to downtown
San Antonio one night in October
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Cal Thomas...................3A
Mary Henkel Judson......3A
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last year, said Julie Bennett, a call
center worker. When they woke up
and went outside the next morn-
ing, Duncan was gone, she said.
They saw no indication that the
then-two-year-old dog slipped out
of her collar or broke the leash. The
leash was left behind, undamaged,
and the collar was gone, Bennett
said.
See ‘SAN ANTONIO,’ 10A
Obituary
• William ‘Bill’ T. Kelley 3B
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Judson, Mary Henkel. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 3, 2013, newspaper, October 3, 2013; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth505806/m1/1/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.