Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 2012 Page: 1 of 20
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PAHS ROYALTY
Port Aransas High School held its homecoming
ceremonies after winning basketball games against
Pettus High School on Friday, Jan. 20. From left
are Austin Scott, 2011 homecoming Queen Kelsey
Ortiz, Chris Eggleston, senior duchess Taylor Griffin,
Jake Roberts, 2012 homecoming Queen Rachel
Davis, Andrew Groseclose, junior duchess Anna
Roberson, Chase Gustafson, sophomore duchess
Savannah Ortiz and Andrew Follett and his sister,
freshman duchess Cless Follett. Tanner Ochoa was
crowned homecoming king. More photos and full
results of the games are inside.
Staff photo by Dan Parker
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Hooping it up
Check out the action over
the past week for the Port
Aransas High School
Marlins and Lady Marlins
as well as Brundrett Middle
School hoops action.
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Fine fishing!
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Fishing both offshore and
in the shallower near-
shore waters has been
excellent according
to docks reporting this
week.
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Ordinance puts teeth in
bicycle ban at skate park
Dan Parker
Reporter
Bicyclists, beware.
The city council has taken a
step toward creating an ordi-
nance that will ban bicyclists
from riding in the skate area
at Port Aransas Community
Park. Violators could be tick-
eted and fined.
It’s been against park rules
to ride bikes in the skate area
ever since the network of
concrete bowls and ramps
opened in March 2010. But
the council’s action Thursday
looks.to make it more than
just a rule. If it becomes a city
ordinance, it will give police
additional power to issue cita-
tions to cyclists.
Despite the fact that signs
long have been posted warn-
ing that bicycle use is against
skate area rules, kids and
young adults alike can be seen
blazing through the skate area
on practically a daily basis.
The council voted 7-0 to ap-
prove passage of the proposed
ordinance, on first reading, on
Thursday, Jan. 19. The council
must vote in favor of the pro-
posal at two more meetings
for it to become law.
Mayor Keith McMullin
said the ordinance is needed
because the city has seen
“continued problems” involv-
ing bike riders in the skate
area ever since the facility was
established.
“This (ordinance) will allow
our officers to go out and write
citations and for warrants to
be issued for arrests if there’s
not follow-through,” McMul-
lin said.
Deputy City Manager Dave
Parsons said cyclists and skat-
ers generally seem to get along
at the skate area. But, he said,
bikes shouldn’t be allowed
there because they could hurt
someone. Bikes are speedier,
and they carry more mass.
“If a fast bicycle has a colli-
sion with a little skateboarder,
you’re going to have injury,”
Parsons said.
Also, Parsons said, bikes’
metal parts have smashed and
ground against the concrete
bowls, damaging them. That’s
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Staff photo by Dan Parker
Spin cycle
A boy on a bicycle spins through the air while riding in and out of the concrete bowls in the
skate area at Port Aransas Community Park. Other cyclists can be seen looking on in the
background. It has been against park rules to ride bikes in the skate area ever since the
facility opened about two years ago, but bikers have ridden there a lot anyway. Now the
Port Aransas City Council is moving toward establishing a city ordinance that would make
it against the law to ride bikes there. Citations and fines could be issued to violators.
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Council OKs selling full bond amount
Dan Parker
Reporter
Port Aransas City Council
members have decided to sell
all $6.4 million in voter ap-
proved bonds for planned 11th
Street road work even though
a construction firm’s winning
bid on the project was about
$1.1 million less than that.
The extra money will be
used to pay for additional road
and drainage projects around
town and possibly for “change
orders” - additional needs that
unexpectedly might crop up as
part of the extensive 11th Street
reconstruction work.
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Rough going
Staff photo by Dan Parker
A car travels past a pothole on 11th Street, near Beach
Access Road 1A, on Monday, Jan. 23. Road work is
scheduled to start soon on this part of the bumpy street. It
will be part of a big project to reconstruct all of 11th Street,
from Beach Access Road 1A to Avenue G. Port Aransas
voters in May 2011 approved a $6.4 million bond measure
to finance the work.
Index
Basketball
BMS..........................9A
Lady Marlins 10A
Marlins ..............11A
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Sports Classifieds
Winter Old-Lympics... 4B Real Estate.........6B-8B
Calendars Opinion
Island agenda............2A » Dave McNeely...........3A
Art Center................6A Cal Thomas...............3A
JELM........................4B Mary Henkel Judson.. 3A
Relay For Life...........6A Letters.....................3A
The council voted 5-2 to
take this route. Voting yes
were council members Glen-
da Balentine, Charles Bujan,
Keith Donley, John Price and
Steve Lanoux. Voting no were
Councilman Edwin Myers and
Mayor Keith McMullin.
McMullin and Myers rea-
soned that the bond was pro-
moted to voters before the
election as being for 11th Street,
with no mention of the pos-
sibility that other road and
drainage projects might be
undertaken with any of the
money.
“I sold this as an 11th Street
bond, so I feel compelled”
not to support spending the
money on anything else, Mc-
Mullin said.
The rest of the council said
using the extra money to fix
additional road and drainage
problems will be for the good
of the city. With interest rates
at historic lows, now is the
time to get the city an espe-
cially large bang for its buck,
council members said.
For at least the past five
years, every bond issue ap-
proved by voters has ended
up with extra money involved,
and councils always have used
the funds to get additional
public works projects done,
according to Assistant City
Manager Dave Parsons.
Donley emphasized that
council members weren’t be-
ing cavalier with taxpayer
money. He said the council
gave the issue careful consid-
eration and is trying to get Port
Aransans the best deal they
can get to improve the town’s
infrastructure.
Port Aransans voted on May
14 last year to approve the bond
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Outdoors
Fishing report...........4B
Tides & Weather........4B
Island Life
Law enforcement ......2B
Youth
School menus............7A
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Kathy and Hoyt Whidbee are ready to welcome folks to
their home as part of the Port Aransas Garden Club’s
24th annual Tour of Homes on Saturday, Jan. 28. For
more on the Whidbee’s home and details about the tour,
go to Page 1B.
Tickets available
for event to honor
Citizen of the Year
Tickets to the celebration
to honor the Citizen of the
Year and introduce new of-
ficers and directors of the Port
Aransas Chamber of Com-
merce-Tourist Bureau will be
available through noon today,
Thursday, Jan. 26, at the cham-
ber office, 403 W. Cotter.
Tickets are $30 each, must
be paid for and picked up by
noon today.
The celebration will be from
5 to 7 o’clock this evening
at the Civic Center, 710 W.
Ave. A.
Six nominations were sub-
mitted for the 2011 Port Aran-
sas Citizen of the Year. The
award recognizes individuals
for past and current services
in several aspects of the com-
munity, according to Ann
Tony Amos.................5B
Bracher Vaughan, president
and CEO of the tourist bureau,
which sponsors the award.
Elected in balloting last
month by the chamber mem-
bership to the board of direc-
tors were William E. “Bill”
Bauder, Deven Bahkta and
Greg Smith.
Bauder is chairman of the
chamber’s marketing com-
mittee and is a past president
and member of the chamber
board. He is president of Re-
sort Group LTD, LLC and
has been general manager of
Coral Cay Condominiums
since 1986.
Bhakta is owner of the
Travelodge, developer of the
Holiday Inn Express & Suites
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Education notes1'........7 A
Church
Pastor’s Pen.............3B
Obituary....................3B
•Gary Einkauf
Columnists
Scott Burroughs......2B
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