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Time to
play ball!
The Marlin baseball season kicks off today
when the team hosts the Third Coast
Tournament. Story and schedule on
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Fun fundraiser
The annual dinner and silent
auction to raise funds for the
Port Aransas Museum and
now the Farley Boat Works
Museum is Saturday. The
theme is ‘Boats, Boots and
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art exhibit at the Port
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Port Aransas High School
teacher Melanie Mayer
was surprised to learn she
is an H-E-B Excellence in
Education finalist.
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Drum, big black drum,
have been biting in the
nearshore waters off Port
Aransas. Find out what
anglers are using for
bait and where they’re
dropping their lines.
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Vol. 41 No. 9
Race
ison
Brown, Shelton
are in race for
school board
Mary Henkel Judson
Editor
One race has formed for
school board, but all remain-
ing candidates for school
board, city council and wa-
ter district were unopposed
with three days left in the
filing period, which ends
March 5.
Administrative offices of
all three entities are closed
on weekends.
Candidates may pick up
packets at the respective ad-
‘RACE,’ Page 6A
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Parade royalty
Staff photo by Dan Parker
Kevin Shanahan and Betty Couette of St. Paul, Minn., on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 21. The parade drew dozens of entries
reigned as King and Queen of the annual Mardi Gras Parade and hundreds of spectators.
Foul weather fails
to foil fowl festival
On parade
Staff photo by Dan Parker
A great blue heron commands the attention of birding
enthusiasts who were on their way to a presentation at the
Animal Rehabilitation Keep as part of the Whooping Crane
Festival. The presentation by ARK director Tony Amos (with
the white beard, visible on the stairs) was one of many events
that attracted bird and nature lovers from throughout the
country Feb. 23-26.
Phil Reynolds
Staff writer
For the most part, weather
doesn’t bother true birders.
That’s how Port Aransas
Chamber of Commerce-Tour-
ist Bureau President and CEO
Ann Bracher Vaughan put
it after the 2012 Whooping
Crane Festival - and as it
turned out, she appears to
have been correct. Estimates
are that the doors to this
year’s trade show, held at the
Civic Center from Thursday,
Feb. 23 through Sunday, Feb.
26, opened more than 4,000
times in the four days of the
festival, and Vaughan said
723 people registered for the
event - a clear record. (The
previous record was set last
year, with 611 birders attend-
ing. This year’s crowd was an
18 percent increase over that,
Vaughan said.)
“We had fantastic crowds,”
Vaughan said.
The weather did not co-
operate. Winds on Friday
and rains on Saturday forced
presenters to adjust their
material, and a boat trip to
the Aransas National Wildlife
Refuge scheduled for Friday
had to be canceled.
Not to worry.
We had
fantastic
crowds.
Ann B. Vaughan
Port Aransas Tourist
Bureau
“All of our speakers and
guides, when we had to cancel
trips, bent over backwards to
come up with alternatives,”
Vaughan said. “We even had
seminars in the (city) council
chambers,” which are adjacent
to the civic center.
As for that canceled trip
- participants caravanned
from Port Aransas to Goose
Island State Park, north of
Rockport, where several of
this year’s wintering-over
whooping cranes have been
spotted. They saw some, too.
Flaving already added a
boat trip on Thursday, the first
day of the festival, to accom-
modate increased registration,
workers then added another
trip on Sunday to try to make
up for Friday’s cancellation.
Vaughan said the festival
traditionally draws people
from all parts of the country
as well as from Canada. This
year, 30 states were represent-
ed; a tabulation of registra-
tions showed 10 from Canada,
one from Alaska and 28 from
Minnesota, for example. Bird-
ers also registered from New
‘FESTIVAL,’Page 5A
Here’s thddirt:
City contemplating
building BMX park
Dan Parker
Reporter
Port Aransas city staff is
researching the possibility of
building a dirt bicycle course
suitable for BMX enthusiasts
at Port Aransas Community
Park.
If such a facility becomes
a reality, it might be a relief
for the bikers who have loved
zipping through the concrete
bowls of the park’s skate area
but were chased away because
city rules prohibited riding
there.
The BMX acronym means
bicycle motor-cross - a type
of cycling that’s done over dirt
courses with obstacles.
Colby Powers, a 16-year-
old Port Aransas BMX bike
rider, said a dirt course would
be popular.
“It would be ridden a lot,”
he said. “I’d probably be out
there every day, riding.”
Port Aransan Noyes Liv-
ingston addressed the city
council at its January meeting,
saying that he thought a dirt
bike course was something
that should be considered.
At the council’s February
meeting, council member
Glenda Balentine asked that
the matter be put on the agen-
da for the council’s meeting
in March. The council could
make some sort of move on
Staff photo by Dan Parker
Making do
BMX enthusiasts, from left, Colby Powers, P.J. Schackelford
and Geran Bustamante demonstrate some moves to illustrate
this story, albeit without helmets, which are recommended
-- even by the pros, and required in competitions.
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Varsity tennis...........10A
Spring schedules......10A
Basketball
Marlins....................11A
Classifieds
Real Estate.........6B-8B
Church
Pastor’s Pen.............3B
Calendars
Island agenda............2A
Art Center................8A
JELM........................3B
Relay For Life
Youth
School menus............7A
Education notes .......7A
Columnists
Scott Burroughs......2B
Tony Amos.................8B
Todd Hunter.............9A
Bill Slingerland........9A
History corner...'........8A
Island .Life
Law enforcement......2B
Opinion
Dave McNeely...........3A
Cal Thomas...............3A
It kind of gives
you, like, a
thrill when
you’re doing
it. And you’re
always trying
to learn some-
thing new.
P.J. Shackelford, 10
BMX ENTHUSIAST
the matter at the March meet-
ing, but no one is expecting
action to order construction of
the park yet, since the issue still
is in the discussion stages.
Deputy City Manager Dave
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