Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 2010 Page: 1 of 16
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Ellis Memorial Library.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
ELLIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY
700WEST A\/E. A
PORT ARANSAS, TEXAS 78373
ELLIS' MEMORIAL LIBRARY
?ORT ARANSAS TX 78373-4128
II
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Vol. 40 No. 16
© 2010 Port Aransas South Jetty - All Rights Reserved
USPS 946-020
750
ghPaQKIas
mtmuaim m wabs or
.......Inside
THIS EDITION
Port Aransas
WDOL
Dave Beane, 27,
became the first-ever Port
Aransas Idol in competition
Saturday, April 17.
Page 1B
Birds of a feather
Tony Amos spied a group
of birds enjoying breakfast
along the Island Road this
week:
Beach & Surf
conditions
www.portasouthjetty.com
• • •
Ferry wait times
Find out how long the wait
times are from both sides of
the ship channel at
www.portasouthjetty.com
Index
Church_
Pastor’s pen.............
Obituary...................
• Donald Ray Avery
This Week_
Island agenda ..
Island Life
Columnists
• Tony Amos........
• For the Birds..
Island agenda......
Law enforcement
Youth_
Education notes.....
School menus ........
School sports
Baseball...
Softball...
Tennis.......
Track.......
Opinion
,4B
,6B
,6B
,4B
Dave McNeely..........
Todd Hunter............
Mary Henkel Judson.
Outdoors
,3A
.3A
,3A
Fishing report ....
Tides & Weather.
Classified
,8A
,8A
Classified ads...............3B-6B
Vote
Early voting starts
Monday in races
for PAISD trustee
The countdown to Election Day begins
Monday, April 26, with early voting in
two races for the Port Aransas ISD Board
of Trustees.
The early voting will continue through
Tuesday, May 4. Election day is Satur-
day, May 8. Voting in both instances
will be at the Community Center, 408
N. Alister St.
Voting hours Monday through Friday,
April 26 - 30, are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Hours Saturday, May l, will be 9 a.m.
to l p.m.
On Monday and Tuesday, May 3 and
4, voting hours will be from 7 a.m. to
7 p.m.
Requests for ballots to be mailed to
voters who will be out of town during the
voting period must be received at city hall
by Friday, April 30. Requests should be
sent to City Secretary Esther Arzola, 710
W. Ave. A, Port Aransas, TX 78373.
On the ballot are Place 5 and 6 on the
Port Aransas ISD Board of Trustees.
Place 5 incumbent Rita Reed has a
challenger in Kelly Owens.
Place 6 incumbent Rick Adams is be-
ing challenged by Tanya Chambers.
Green light
Traffic signal at
Access Road 1A
gets nod by city
By Dan Parker
dan@portasouthjetty.com
The Port Aransas City Council has
given the green light to the idea of install-
ing a traffic signal on State Hwy. 361 at
Beach Access Road 1A.
The Texas Department of Transporta-
tion (TxDOT) wants to put a light at the
intersection, but the agency needed to
get the council to sign off on the concept
before going forward with plans to install
the light.
The council on Thursday, April 15,
See ‘CITY OKs,’Page 10A
Bird brain
‘Now, where did I put those car
keys? This pocket? Nope.’
‘What about this pocket under
here? No dice. Aw, man! Where
are they?’
Staff photos by Dan Parker
‘Dang, not in my back pocket
either! How am I going to get to
the beach for the cleanup Sat-
urday?
Pier slammed again
Wake knocks fishermen off their feet
By Dan Parker
dan @ portasouthjettv. com
A high wake from a passing ship
slammed into the pier at Charlie’s Pasture
on Friday, April 16, heavily damaging
the pier and inflicting minor injuries to
two anglers.
City officials closed the pier indefi-
nitely after the incident.
Interim City Manager Dave Parsons
said it’s too early to say when the pier will
be repaired and re-opened. He estimated
damage at possibly $60,000 to $80,000.
Police received their first call about the
incident at 8:05 a.m. Port Aransan Chris
Morris, who was fishing on the pier at the
time, said the ship that created the wake
was a tanker called the SKS Mersey.
Dan Ralstin of Fairfield was fishing
at the end of the pier when he saw the
wake rolling toward the pier. He said it
was noticeably large even when it was
still 100 yards away.
“I could see it was so high, it was prob-
ably going to get me wet,” Ralstin said.
He started putting his fishing gear away
to keep it from getting splashed around.
But the wake passed under the end of
the pier without doing much more than
slapping at the underside of the board-
walk. Ralstin didn’t even get wet.
When the wake got closer to shore,
Fishermen out of luck Staff ph0to by Dan Parker
Port Aransas Police Officer Amy Garcia adjusts police caution tape on the
pier at Charlie’s Pasture not long after a high ship wake slammed into the
structure, heavily damaging it on Friday, April 16.
it suddenly jacked up higher in the shal-
lower water and smashed hard into the
mid-section of the pier. That’s where
Morris and angler Rick Molina of .Aransas
Pass were.
“All of a sudden, (the wake) grew
about three feet. It slammed me down,
and it threw a trashcan at me,” Molina
said, referring to a trashcan that had been
sitting on the pier.
Molina ended up with a bump on one
leg, and Morris sustained a slight cut on
one foot.
Around the middle of the pier, the
See‘WAVE,’Page 9A
Keep it down!
Residents lobby city hall
to impose noise restrictions
By Dan Parker
dan@portasoutl\jetty.com
City officials are drawing up plans
that could greatly reduce the areas of
Port Aransas where highly amplified
outdoor music legally may be played
late at night.
The Port Aransas City Council voted
6-0 to have city staff prepare a draft or-
dinance describing the parts of town that
would be considered an “amplified music
district.” Councilman Charles Bujan was
absent due to illness.
Creating the district would require
three readings by council of a proposed
new ordinance.
Interim City Manager Dave Parsons
said he plans to have a proposal ready
for the city’s Planning and Zoning Com-
mission to inspect it at the body’s next
meeting, on Monday, April 26.
If the commission passes along a rec-
ommendation in time, the council could
hold its first reading in May.
And the next city manager will be ... staff photo by d«»p«rkM
Gathered at a meet-and-greet event at the Community Center are, from left, Port Aransas city manager candi-
dates Robert Bradshaw, Ronald Stock and Bill Vance on Friday, April 16. Bradshaw is town manager of Indian
River Shores, Fla. Stock is city administrator of the City of Lamar, Colo. Vance is a Wildwood, Fla., resident
whose most recent city employment was as town manager of Lady Lake, Fla.The event was sponsored by city
hall and the Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce-Tourist Bureau. The Port Aransas City Council is scheduled to
meet today, Thursday, April 22, to discuss which man should be the council’s pick.
The move to create an amplified mu-
sic district came after the city received
numerous complaints about loud music
coming from Isla Tiki Bar and Burrito
Shack, a new outdoor nightclub on Av-
enue G. But Isla Tiki isn’t the first club
that has produced complaints. The issue
of loud music has repeatedly popped up
at council meetings over the years.
The district will encompass certain
commercial areas of Port Aransas.
“Within that area, (noise limits) will be
less stringent,” Parsons said. “Outside
that district, they’ll be more stringent.”
The district’s exact perimeter hasn’t
been drawn up yet, but Parsons said the
area could exclude sizable portions of
commercial parts of town where ampli-
fied music currently is allowed. The Plan-
ning and Zoning Commission will look
at a city staff proposal and then possibly
change it up and pass on a recommenda-
tion to the council, Parsons said.
Parsons said he expects the district’s
lines to be drawn to likely exclude “the
vast majority” of the area where ampli-
fied music currently is allowed.
No proposal has been drawn up yet
with specific decibel levels that would
be allowed inside or outside the amplified
music district.
The concept of an amplified music
district first was proposed by Councilman
Mike Hall about 18 months ago, accord-
ing to Mayor Pro Tern Keith McMullin.
As envisioned, McMullin said, the
amplified music district generally will
be surrounded by businesses and won’t
abut residential property.
Live music still will be allowed out-
side the amplified music district, but
ordinances will allow the music to be
played louder and later than in other parts
of town, McMullin said.
Responding to complaints, police vis-
ited the area of Isla Tiki 13 times between
Feb. 27 and March 27, according to Port
Aransas Police Chief Scott Burroughs.
Police took decibel readings and never
See ‘NOISE,’Page 10A
HIGHLIGHTS
Volunteers needed
for beach cleanup
Saturday morning
Give our beach a little TLC this
weekend.
In a joint effort with the Texas
General Land Office, Keep Port
Aransas Beautiful is hosting the
annual Adopt-A-Beach Clean-up
on Saturday, April 24.
Page 2A
Five advance
to regional
track meet
Five Port Aransas track and
field competitors advanced to the
regional track meet after taking
ribbons in the area meet on Friday,
April 16 in Beeville. One of them,
Corban Marcantel, placed in two
different events and set personal
records in both.
Going to the regional meet on
Monday and Tuesday, May 3-4, in
Huntsville are Emily Scott, Megan
Forrest, Brenna Martin, Matt Fries
and Marcantel.
Page 4B
Kids invited to
Bicycle Rodeo
this Saturday
Bike riders from 5 to 12 years
old are encouraged to come to
the third annual Bicycle Rodeo,
scheduled for the parking lot of
Port Aransas High School on
Saturday, April 24. Registration
will start at 8 a.m., with the event
ending at noon.
Page 9A
Men arrested
in death of
fishing buddy
Police have arrested three
San Antonio men in connection
with the death of a fishing buddy
whose body was found near Island
Moorings Oct. 12.
Members of the Port Aransas
Police Department and Texas
Rangers made the arrests in .San
Antonio on Thursday, April 15,
according to PAPD Chief Scott
Burroughs.
Page 2B
PAISD to
survey parents,
school patrons
How are Port Aransas schools
doing? How do they treat
students? How do they treat
parents? How much are parents
involved in education here?
All those are items the school
administration wants to find out
- along with many other opinions
parents may have about the
schools. To learn those opinions,
the school district is making an
online survey available between
Monday, May 3, and Sunday, May
16.
Page 6A
Private group
may take on
animal shelter
The city of Port Aransas has
taken a step toward the possibility
of turning the city’s animal shelter
operations over to a private group.
Page10A
0 0Q000 Q9B0Q0
Online edition: www.portasouthjetty.com -- Follow us on Twitter!
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Judson, Mary Henkel. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 2010, newspaper, April 22, 2010; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth505775/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.