Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 2012 Page: 1 of 20
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On stage
Students at H.G. Olsen
Elementary School perform
Farmer Four, a Thanksgiving
play, Tuesday, Nov. 13.
The play follows a farmer
whose turkeys hide for fear
of Thanksgiving. The farmer
assures the turkeys that he
loves all his animals and that
he would never hurt them.
Staff Photo by Alex Scott
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Thursday, November 22, 2012 ©2012
Vol. 41 No. 47
Widening
the
■gateway
The winter 2012
Visitors’ Guide is
inside this edition.
Homecoming
Port Aransas High
School held its
homecoming Friday,
Nov. 16.
1B
11th angst
Tempers flare
during 11th Street
construction talk at
council meeting.
2B
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Dan Parker
Reporter
State officials recently made
moves to fully fund a planned
project to widen a portion of
State Hwy. 361, The Island
Road, in Port Aransas, Mayor
Keith McMullin announced at
a city council meeting Thurs-
day, Nov. 15.
The project, which will
cost about $12.5 million, will
widen The Island Road to four
lanes from Avenue G to Beach
Access Road 1, a distance of
2.8 miles, said Rickey Dailey,
a spokesman for the Texas De-
partment of Transportation
(TxDOT).
Construction is likely to be-
gin in October or November
next year and last probably 18
months to two years, Dailey
said.
Port Aransas city officials
have been working with Tx-
DOT on State Hwy. 361 ex-
pansion plans for years. The
work has included planning
sessions and public hearings.
McMullin in the past has lob-
bied the federal government
to fully fund the project, but
money remained short until
ansion will
now.
“I was delighted to learn
that the hard work of many
people is finally about to
pay off,” McMullin said after
learning that the project had
been fully funded.
“The expansion of Hwy. 361
will help support the contin-
ued growth that is forecast on
the island,” McMullin said.
Traffic regularly has backed
up for hundreds of yards
down The Island Road, start-
ing at Avenue G, on busy sum-
mer weekends. City officials
are hoping the exp
alleviate that.
A 65-acre Schlitterbahn
water park is tentatively
scheduled to open on North
Padre Island in March 2014,
likely bringing still more traf-
fic to The Island Road.
Some $6 million was ear-
marked for The Island Road
project after Texas voters in
2007 approved Proposition 12
for general obligation bonds
for highway projects.
The announcement that
another $6 million to $6.5
million had been appropriated
came after TxDOT had some
projects in the Corpus Christi
region that came in under
budget, Dailey said.
“And we were able to take
a little federal money from
some other projects and shift
it to the project in Port Aran-
Acria.1 view Staff photo by Dan Parker
State Hwy. 361 between Avenue G and Beach Access Road
1A is seen from the air, looking south, on Saturday, Nov.
17. The Texas Department of Transportation is planning
to expand that section of the highway, also known as The
Island Road, to make it four lanes wide, with a center turn
lane and a hike-and-bike trail also built.
sas,” he said.
The project will mean ex-
panding that section of The
Island Road to be four lanes
wide, Dailey said.
The north half of the project
‘Millions,’ Page 8A
Town mourns Farley
Capt. Farley and catch Coi,RTESV PH0T0
Captured in a photo believed to have been shot in the
mid-1960s, Don Roy Farley, left, poses with a blue marlin
caught by Dr. C.C. Shotts. Farley, who died at the age of 82
Wednesday, Nov. 14, was captain of Shotts’ Port Aransas-
based boats, Dos Amigos and Schatzie. Shotts was a
San Antonio physician who owned a second home in Port
Aransas.
Dan Parker
Reporter
Longtime Port Aransan
Don Roy Farley, a retired
hunting and fishing guide
who managed the towns wa-
ter department for 12 years,
has died at the age of 82.
Farley died of natural caus-
es at his Port Aransas home
on Wednesday, Nov. 14, his
family said.
In addition to working as
a fishing and hunting guide
for more than 30 years, Farley
served as a city councilman,
school board member and
as a member of the board of
directors of Nueces County
Water Control and Improve-
ment District No. 4.
Part of a pioneering Port
Aransas family, Farley lived
his entire life on Mustang
Island except for four years he
spent in the U.S. Navy.
“He was proud of Port
Aransas. He loved Port Aran-
sas,” said his wife of 56 years,
Una Farley. “He never wanted
to live anywhere else. Never
wanted to leave, even for a
storm, if he didn’t have to.”
Farley was born to a family
that built boats in Port Aran-
sas from the early 1900s to the
1970s. Over the years, the Far-
ley Boat has become so woven
into this town’s identity that
dozens of Farley Boat planters
- miniature concrete replicas
of the boat design - dot front
yards all over the communi-
ty. (They’re sold by the Port
Aransas Garden Club.)
Earlier this year, the Port
Aransas Museum restored
an old Farley Boat Works
location in town and turned
it into an arm of the museum
where old-time wooden boats
once again are being built, this
time by museum visitors, with
help from the volunteers who
work there.
Una said she drove her
husband up to the restored
Farley Boat Works building,
but his health at that point
was such that wasn’t physi-
cally able to get out of the car
and go inside. Still, Una said,
he was able to see inside, and
he liked it.
“I think he felt honored
they would want to do that,”
Una said.
Don Roy Farley s father was
Don Farley, a fishing guide
who took President Franklin
D. Roosevelt tarpon fishing in
a Farley boat off Port Aransas
in 1937. The president went
out twice - once with Farley’s
father and once with the late
Ted Mathews, also of Port
Aransas.
Both times, Don Roy Far-
ley s great-uncle, the late Bar-
ney Farley, was on board,
helping gaff the fish that Roo-
sevelt caught.
Don Roy Farley worked
at Farley Boat Works while
growing up in Port Aransas.
His uncles, Jim and Fred Far-
‘Farley,’ Page 5A
Christmas food drive
kicks off on weekend
Those “with” can lend
a helping hand to those
“without” this weekend as
the annual Care and Share
Christmas Drive kicks off.
The Ladies Auxiliary of
VFW Post 8967 is collecting
non-perishable foods and
cash to buy perishables so that
families who go without will
be able to have a Christmas
dinner.
Volunteers from the VFW
Ladies Auxiliary and VFW will
be at the Family Center IGA,
418 S. Alister St., from 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m. every Saturday and
Sunday from Nov. 24 through
Moore-McDonald VFW Post 8967
Christmas
Care and Share Drive
Dec. 15. They will accept
donations of nonperishable
foods as well as cash.
On weekdays through
Friday, Dec. 21, donations
of food may be placed in a
designated box at the IGA.
Cash contributions may be
dropped off at the post home,
311 N. Alister St., or mailed
to Care and Share, c/o VFW
Post 8967, P.O. Box 1447, Port
Aransas, TX 78373.
Cash will be used to
purchase perishable items,
such as turkeys and hams.
Eligible families wishing
to receive a box must sign
up at the post any day from
noon to 10 p.m. Organizers
say even those who received
box dinners last year or
who are registered with the
Helping Hands Food Pantry
are required to register for
‘FOOD’ Page 7A
Donations sought
for Toy Round-up
Port Aransas children will
have a merrier Christmas this
year with help from the 15th
annual Emergency Services
Toy Round-Up.
Toys will be accepted
through Friday, Dec. 21.
They should be new and
unwrapped. Organizers ask
that toys be appropriate for
children as well as teenagers.
Donation locations are as
follows:
•Port Aransas EMS and
Police Departments, 705 W.
Ave. A.
•Port Aransas City Hall,
710 W. Ave. A.
•IGA Family Center, 416
S. Alister St.
Round Up
•University of Texas Ma-
rine Science Institute, 750
Channel View Drive.
•ValueBank, 500 S. Al-
ister St.
•Island Toys, 1023 State
Hwy 361 Suite C.
Applications to receive
toys for children can be
obtained at the EMS office
‘TOYS,’ Page 7A
Index
Opinion
L Island Life
Tides/weather...........
.......4B
Columnists
BMS Marlins schedule. 11A
Police blotter........
........2B
Classifieds
Scott Burroughs ....
.......2B
Marlin Classic.....
.... 10-11A
Youth
Real Estate..............
. 5B-8B
Tony Amos................
.......8B
Calendars
.....3A School menus........
........8A
Church
Willis Webb..............
.......3B
Art Center..........
.........12A
......3A Homecoming...........
........1B
Directory.................
.......3B
Basketball
Island agenda......
...........2 A
......3A Outdoors
Obituary...................
.......3B
Marlins schedule......
.....11A
JELM...................
...........3B
i.....3A Fishing report........
........4B
• Cathy McDonnell
Lady Marlins............
.....10A
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