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4A Thursday, July 31, 2008
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Pastor’s Pen
Staff photo by Marnie Pate
Happy campers
A big group of Port Aransas children attended Zephyr Baptist Encampment in Mathis July 9-12. Among
the campers were, top row, from left: Joel Coronado, Traver Truax, Emma Shannon, Rachel Lyons,
Grace Flood, Devin Pate, Rawley Nixon, Madison Ray, Francine Morgan, Emily Roberson, Daniel
Campbell, Carlie Munoz, James Johnson, Hunter Marabito and J.J. Coronado. Bottom row, from left:
Adults with the children were, bottom row, from left: James Pate, Amy Flood and Danny Burch.
Wiggins may leave PAISD for Salado
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was a Port Aransas High School
teacher and coach of the school’s
Lady Marlins basketball team before
he took an almost-identical job at Sal-
ado High School earlier this year.
Wiggins, who is beginning his
sixth year as superintendent in Port
Aransas, generally has been well-
regarded by the PAISD Board of
Trustees. In fact, trustees last year
nominated him to be the Texas As-
sociation of School Boards superin-
tendent of the year.
Wiggins’ salary is $110,000 a
year.
The Salado school district chose
Wiggins from among 36 candidates
for “his leadership skills, his previ-
ous experience and his instructional
leadership background,” said Miriam
Ervi, a Salado ISD trustee who was
involved in her district’s search for a
new superintendent.
Rick Adams, president of the
PAISD Board of Trustees, said he
wasn’t especially surprised that Wig-
gins was moving on.
“When you have a highly qualified
superintendent,” Adams said, “there’s
always that possibility they will be
sought out and approached.”
While Wiggins and the Salado
trustees expect him to be their next su-
perintendent, Wiggins technically has
Billy Wiggins
not yet resigned
from PAISD. He
said he won’t do
that until he signs
a contract with
Salado.
State law pre-
vents school
districts from of-
ficially offering
__contracts to pro-
spective super-
intendents for 21 days after a board
names someone as the sole finalist.
After Wiggins offers his resigna-
tion, Port Aransas trustees can start
discussing what methods they might
use in conducting a statewide search
for a new superintendent, Adams
said.
Trustees also must appoint an
interim superintendent. That person
could come from inside or outside
the district, Adams said.
News of Wiggins’ likely move to
Salado comes as trustees prepare to
approve a new annual budget and
welcome a new school year, which
begins Aug. 25. But Adams said he
didn’t expect Wiggins’ impending
departure to put the district in a dif-
ficult spot.
PAISD’s business manager, Brian
Schuss, “is an exceptional business
Troutt to celebrate 100th
L Hampton.She Lil^Ia^^r^utt
had seven broth-
ers and sisters, all of whom lived
past 90.
She remembers riding to church
every Sunday in a horse-drawn
wagon, walking a long way each
day to a one-room school house
with a wood-burning stove, the first
automobile she ever saw, and the
first airplane she ever saw. She also
vividly remembers her first airplane
ride, in that same airplane.
After she met her husband-to-be,
Carthal Troutt, in the early 1930s, the
two of them dated in his 1930 Model
A Ford coupe, which her family still
owns. On May 6,1934, she married
Troutt. Together they operated a suc-
cessful business in Arkansas.
In 1941, the Troutts’ only child,
Barbara, was bom in Arkansas, in
a three-bed hospital. The occasion
of her daughter’s birth was the only
time Troutt ever was in the hospital
as a patient.
Troutt was an assistant postmaster
and active church member during
much of her time in Arkansas.
Upon her husband’s death in 1970,
Troutt moved to Texas. In 2001, she
moved to Port Aransas, along with
her daughter and son-in-law, Barbara
and Dennis Richburg.
Troutt is the eldest member of
the First Baptist Church in Port
Aransas.
She still walks regularly for fresh
air and exercise, and is in good physi-
cal health.
In his birthday greetings to Troutt,
Texas Governor Rick Perry described
her as a “true Texas treasure.”
A church for everyone
manager and has a good grasp of
district finances,” Adams said. “I
think our budget is pretty much ham-
mered out.”
For a new superintendent, Adams
said he expects tmstees to seek “an
educational leader, someone who is
a team builder who will work with
his administration, the campus prin-
cipals.”
The next superintendent also should
agree with PAISD tmstees’ philoso-
phy of ensuring a “challenging” cur-
riculum, Adams said.
Trustees also will be seeking a su-
perintendent who is good with money
and especially understands how to
manage the fiscal difficulties faced
by PAISD - a property-rich school
district which, by state law, must give
much of its tax revenue away to prop-
erty-poor districts, Adams said.
PAISD also needs a superintendent
who will continue the successful work
by Wiggins and his wife to move
many special-education students into
mainstream student population and
prepare them so well that they are
passing state-mandated tests designed
for students their age, Adams said.
Gayla Wiggins resigned in June
as curriculum/special programs co-
ordinator at PAISD. She is pursuing
work as an independent educational
consultant. Her former responsibili-
ties at PAISD are going to be divided
between principals and a part-time
contract worker.
Adams said he is hoping the dis-
trict can find a replacement for Billy
Wiggins within three months after the
search begins.
Baptists set
Bible school
August 3-7
The First Baptist Church, 200 N.
Station St., will host a week of vaca-
tion Bible school Sunday through
Thursday, August 3-7.
Kids who have finished pre-kinder-
garten through sixth grade are invited
to attend the “Son World Adventure
Park” themed classes from 6 to 9 p.m.
at no charge.
The last night, Aug. 7, will be
parents’ night.
For more information, contact the
church office, 749-6479
Wow! What a summer. Our tour-
ist population has been incredible,
July 4 was an all-time high for many
businesses and tourists are back im-
mediately after Dolly (thank you,
God, for watching over us).
First Baptist Church of Port
Aransas has already had a great sum-
mer. We’ve had our preteen camp
(25-plus), our youth are at youth
camp right now (over 40 of them)
and Vacation Bible School starts this
Sunday. On Sept. 7, we will have
Memorial slated
for Glen Bearden
A memorial service for Bert G.
“Glen” Bearden will be held on Tues-
day, Aug. 5. The service is set for 10
a.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars
(VFW) Post 8967, 311 N. Alister St.
in Port Aransas.
Bearden was 65 when he died
Saturday, July 19. He was a two-
time world record holder in stock car
racing,Vietnam veteran and former
Marine, and served as chaplain at the
VFW Post 8967.
our Good Sense
Ministry Finan-
cial Workshop.
I really do try
not to brag about
our church, be-
cause we have
some awesome
churches in Port
_____ Aransas. I do
want to express to
our local residents that I believe there
is a church for you in Port Aransas.
At FBC Port Aransas, we really
focus on our local families. We have
even started a children’s church this
year that has exploded. You may not
like our style, though. That is OK,
because there are other churches in
town that may be more to your lik-
ing.
Heb 10:25 NIV Let us not give up
meeting together, as some are in the
habit of doing, but let us encourage
one another - and all the more as you
see the Day approaching.
There are not any perfect churches
in Port Aransas, though. Unfortu-
nately, the churches here are filled
with imperfect people. We tell
people at our church that if you are
perfect, please don’t join us - we
will mess you up! Here is the point:
Believers in Jesus are still human
and make mistakes. Jesus tells us that
we need each other, though. We can
grow to be more like Jesus when we
meet together and learn from each
other.
If you do not go to a local church
here in town, I would invite you to
visit around one more time. The
people in Port Aranss are as loving
and generous as any that I have ever
been around, but even more than that,
you may even find a place where God
wants to use you.
William Campbell is pastor at First
Baptist Church of Port Aransas.
^ /Funerals
Brothers
Ethel Charlyne Strode Brothers,
87, of Hallettsville, died Thursday,
July 24, 2008. She was the mother
of Beverly (Larry) Charles of Port
Aransas.
Brothers was bom on Nov. 4,1920,
to Charles Gear and Veva Mae Timm
Strode in Hallettsville.
In 1942 she married Robert “Ed-
die” Edward Brothers in Slayden.
She was a resident of San Marcos
and a member of the First Baptist
Church there for 36 years.
Besides her daughter, Brothers is
survived by her son Robert Edward
“Bobby” (Tina) Brother Jr.; four
grandchildren and two great-grand-
children.
She was preceded in death by
her husband, her parents and two
brothers, Charles Curtis and Howard
Strode.
A funeral service was held in Hal-
lettsville on Saturday, July 26,2008,
and Brothers was buried in the Hal-
lettsville Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be
made to Mossy Grove Methodist
Church or Hospice of South Texas.
Wigal
Captain Robert
“Bob” Lee Wi-
gal, 63, of Port
Aransas, died
Friday, July 25,
2008.
He was captain
of the Scat Cat
and Wharf Cat fishing boats in Port
Aransas from 1994 until 2003, and
then again in 2008. Wigal is a former
member of the Port Aransas Boat-
men, Inc.
Wigal was bom in Parkersburg,
W.Va. in 1944. He was a member of
the Parkersburg “Big Red” football
team. He served six years in the Unit-
ed States Marine Corps Reserves.
Wigal was an iron worker and
member of Union Local 787 in West
Virginia, where he helped build the
New River Gorge Bridge. He was
also a member of the West Virginia
Masonic Temple.
He is survived by his wife, Dona,
of Port Aransas; his son, Scott (Gloria
Chavez) Wigal of Round Rock; his
daughter Dee (Art) Smith of Palm
Bay, Fla., and two grandsons.
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CHURCH OF CHRIST
James Bruster, Minister
Sunday Bible Class 9 a.m.
Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.
Wednesday Class 7 p.m.
205 Brundrett
749-5498....361-563-8232
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
Paul Campbell, President
Sacrament Meeting: 9:30 a.m.
Sunday School: 10:45 a.m.
Primary: 10:45 a.m.
Priesthood and Relief Society:
11:30 a.m.
3035 Hwy 35 N.
Rockport
(361) 790-5699
COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN
Richard Safford, Pastor
Sunday Worships 1:00 a.m.
Church School 9:30 a.m. Sun.
Bible Study 4:00 p.m. Wed.
113 S. Alister................749-5319
11TH STREET CHRISTIAN
John Pritchett, Minister
Sunday School: 10 a.m.
Worship: 11 a.m.
11th & Nelson Ave.
Aransas Pass....758-5818
FAITH LUTHERAN
James Sturgis, Pastor
938 W. Lott Ave., Aransas Pass
361-758-3145
Sunday School: 9 a.m.
Morning Worship: 10 a.m.
FIRST BAPTIST
William Campbell, Pastor
Sunday School/Bible
Study - all ages 9:45 a.m.
Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Anchor Groups: T.B.A.
Wed.: Tidal Wave Kids
200 N. Station.............749-6479
FIRST CHRISTIAN
(Disciples of Christ)
Rev. David Dear, Pastor
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.
Worship: 11 a.m.
337 W. Nelson & Rife
Aransas Pass....
758-3530
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Sunday small groups for all ages: 9 a.m.
Sunday worship celebraiton: 10 a.m.
15602 Hwy. 361 (by Beach Access Rd. 3)
749-0884 or 361-438-2337
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Pentecostal Sabrina Grubbs, Pastor
Sunday: 10:00 a.m.
Wed. Bible Study - 7 p.m.
1801 S. 11th........749-5772
ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC
Father John Xaviour
Rosary 7:45 & Mass 8 a.m. weekdays
Saturday Mass: 5 p.m.
Sunday Mass: 9 & 11 a.m.
Holy Days, Vigil 6 p.m., Mass 9 a.m.
Confession: Saturday 4:30 p.m.
100 N. Station.........749-5825
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Rev. Al Leveridge, Vicar
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Sunday Eucharist: 10 a.m. & 7 p.m.
Christian Education: Sunday 6 p.m.
Women’s Bible Study: Monday 7 p.m.
Wed. Eucharist: 9:30 a.m.
Wed. Bible Study 4 p.m.
433 Trojan St........749-6449
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