Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1991 Page: 1 of 13
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Traffic talk
Benefitting student scholarships, travel
Spaghetti Supper is Friday
“Chief cooks and bottle washers”
get a night off tomorrow night (Fri-
day, Feb. 8) and two local causes will
be better off for it.
The annual Rotary Club Spaghetti
Supper will be from 5:3C to 8 p.m. at
the H.G. Olsen Elementary School
cafeteria. TicketsareS4.50each.Take
out plates will be available.
The event is benefiting not only the
Rotary Club’s local high school schol-
arship program, but 15 Brundrett
Middle School students in the Ameri-
can Student Travel Club will get a
portion of the proceeds to help fund
their trip to Washington D.C. The
students have been selling the tickets
for the Rotary Club, “a chance for old
men to be lazy for a good cause,” chief
chef Dale Bietendorf commented.
Fifty-cents from every ticket up to
350 tickets will go toward sending the
students to the nation’s capital for an
educational trip. The students get SI
from each ticket over 350 tickets up to
500 tickets.
“All the money we raise from the
public in Port Aransas, stays in Port
Aransas,” Bietendorf explained. Dues
and money contributed by Rotary
members are used to cover Rotary
International expenses and the Paul
Harris Fellows.
All other money raised by the local
Rotary Club goes to local scholarships
for high school seniors and youth ac-
tivities, including the summer pro-
gram sponsored by the Port Aransas
Youth Council, Bietendorf said.
The supper will be from 5:30 to 8
p.m. at the H.G. Olsen Elementary
Cafeteria and plates will include spa-
ghetti, salad, garlic bread, coffee or
tea and dessert.
Tickets will be sold at the door by
the students, but only 500 tickets are
for sale, so once the magic number is
reached, “that’s it,” Bietendorf said.
Donations to the trip may be made
“whether you want to eat the best
spaghetti sauce in the world or not,”
Bietendorf said.
Door prizes of items valued at $20
to $25 each will be given away and
winners do not have to be present to
win. Donations are coming from
members of the Rotary Club since the
club agreed not to reach out to the
business community to solicit door
prize items. However, if anyone would
like to donate a door prize, they may
call Bietendorf at 749 5926.
Donations may be made directly to
the travel club by calling Linda Thur-
man at 749-5197 or Nancy D’Herdeat
749-5193 after 5 p.m.
Book sale is Saturday, Sunday
City officials and Cotter and Alister Street merchants met in a workshop session Wednesday, Jan. 27, in Book lovers will have a heyday this
an effort to come to an agreement on how ferry traffic should be handled. From left, Council members weekend at the Port Aransas Public
Audrey Manning, George Harris, Chuck Borders and Mayor J.C. Barr. With back to camera is Cotter Street Library’s annual book sale, library
merchant Nettie Mayfield. See story for details of the meeting. director Sue Vosseller said.
There are several reasons for that
Ferry landing traffic
Merchants, city agree on
By Joe Coudert
Port Aransas merchants and the city
council are a few steps closer to reach-
ing an agreement on the routing of
ferry traffic.
The informal accord came during a
nearly two-hour workshop meeting
Wednesday, Jan. 30, where merchants
said they objected to the council’s
traffic plan and the council said it was
the best there is for the community.
Both sides agreed to goals as de-
fined by Mayor Pro Tem Chuck Bor-
ders to: 1] take outgoing traffic off
Cotter Street and 2] direct as much
incoming traffic as possible (at least as
much as it has now) down Cotter.
But the council and the merchants
still disagree about the best way to do
this.
Merchants propose several solutions
including leaving the traffic system
the way it is, diverting outgoing traffic
to Cutoff Road and reopening the loop
road in Roberts Point Park.
Merchants have complained bitterly
in the past several months about long
lines of cars slacked up on Cotter
Street at the ferry landing waiting to
leave the island. This traffic blocks
entrances to businesses on Cotter, they
say.
Merchants also have objected to
several plans by the city which, they
say, would divert some incoming traf-
fic from Cotter Street to Cutoff Road,
thus bypassing the downtown district.
“We are just beginning to make a
comeback, and we cannot afford to
lose even one car (from Cotter Street),”
said Glenn Martin, one of the spokes-
men for the merchants’ group.
Martin said he was very much
against the city buying the right-of-
way on Cutoff Road and giving it to
the state for improvements on Cutoff
which is State Highway 361. Martin
also advocated reopening the ferry
loop road in Roberts Point Park and
asking the state for help by making
better use of stacking lanes at the ferry
landing. The loop in the park area was
closed last year for the development of
the park.
liie council took no action as the
meeting was a workshop, and it was
left uncertain whether the council will
hold another workshop on the traffic
problem. However, the mayor was
scheduled to meet again with highway
department officials in Corpus Christi
this week to discuss alternatives.
Mayor J. C. Barr said if the council
adopts a plan, there will be several
opportunities for the public to file
comments.
If the council adopts a plan, it then
has to take it to the state highway
department for approval. If the state
approves, then two public hearings are
required - one by the city and one by
the state - before final adoption of the
plan, Barr said.
The council has been frustrated over
the past several months by the objec-
tions to each of the three plans pre-
sented so far and with suggested
modifications to several of the plans.
besides getting bargains on some great
books.
Vosseller said the selection includes
“lots of kids’ books” and water dam-
aged books, including encyclopedias
goals
“We have been working on this for
a year and a half now, and from the
city’s standpoint we develop plans
beneficial to the whole community,”
Borders said. Several council mem-
bers have noted that in the past when a
public hearing was held on a traffic
See 'TRAFFIC,' Page 2
that had been put out just before the
freeze that resulted in a broken water
pipe that drenched many books in the
library’s collection.
In addition to books, “we’ll have
lots of video tapes and audio tapes for
sale,” library volunteer Jacque Bor-
ders said.
The sale will be held Saturday and
Sunday, Feb. 9 and 10, from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. at the Civic Centerat the comer
of Cutoff Road and Avenue A.
Back by popular demand will be the
Silent Auction, featured for the fust
time last year.
Proceeds from the sale are depos-
ited into the library’s Trust Fund to be
used only for the purchase of library
materials.
For those unable to attend the book
sale, cash donations may be made to
the Trust Fund at any time, and are tax-
deductible.
Local Yellow Ribbon
campaign is sell out
A Yellow Ribbon Campaign
launched last week to help pay post-
age for packages mailed to Port Aran-
sas military men serving in the Persian
Gulf met with unexpected success.
Karen Mason, one of the organizers
of the Port Aransas Military Support
Group, said they sold out of the bows
and now have encountered a shortage
of yellow ribbon. The bows, which
sold for $3 each, will be sold again
when a supply of yellow ribbon is
found, Mason said. Orders for the bows
are being taken by Pat Boulanger at
749-6261.
In the meantime, donations of items
to be included in the Care Package
Program are pouring into City Hall
where a collection box has been placed.
“We appreciate the items donated
to our troops, and want to thank every-
one for the ovei whelming response to
our Yellow Ribbon Campaign,” Ma-
son said.
Mason also expressed appreciation
to WinterTexan Sunnie Rossi of Lake
Bluff, IL, who has “adopted” Port
Aransas servicemen and is making
cookies for them.
Items are still being collected for
the Care Package Program. Items
should be travel size because pack-
ages are limited to 16ounces, for which
it costs $2.90 to mail to the Persian
Gulf.
Items needed include:
• Instant drink mixes including Kool-
Aid, instant tea, or orange drink mix.
• Gum or hard candies.
• Small packages of nuts or sun-
flower seeds, preferably unsalted.
• Condiments, such as hot sauce,
ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise or sea-
sonings in packets or small plastic
containers.
• Batteries, especially AA.
• Stationery, pens.
• Magazines.
• Grooming aids such as disposable
razors, deodorant, moist towelettes,
travel size lotion, toothpaste, sham-
poo, and sewing kits.
The support group continues to meet
each Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Beach-
head Resort Condominium, 131911th
St. Friends and family members of
those serving in the Persian Gulf, as
well as concerned citizens, are wel-
come to attend.
A list of names and addresses, with
photographs, of Port Aransas military
personnel currently serving in the
Persian Gulf will be published next
week, and the public is encouraged to
write the servicemen with news of
Port Aransas and expressions of sup-
port whether they know the service-
men or not.
iarliti Homecoming
Port Aransas High School senior Kim Zahn, third from right
in photo above and in the photo at right, was crowned
Homecoming Queen 1991 during halftime ceremonies Fri-
day, Feb. 1. Above, student council sponsor Leif Johnson, far
left, was master of ceremonies and introduced the duchesses
and their escorts. They are, from left, Sean Maddox with
Shannon Rushing, Brian Martin with Wendy Littleton, Tho-
mas Gallesmore escorting Samantha Martin, James Tanner
escorting Monica Herandez, Trey Zahn escorting his sister,
Kim, and Mike Hayden escorting his sister, 1990 Homecom-
ing Queen Ginny Hayden who crowned Miss Zahn.
(Staff photos by Murray Judson)
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