Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 2004 Page: 2 of 48
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announcements of meetings and special events. Pall 749-5131 or e-mail
southjetty@centurytel.net BEFORE NOON TUESDAY to list an event or meeting.
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Mesquite-Smoked
Prime Rib
(The best in Texas)
The Wildlife Photo Contest trav-
eling Benefactors Exhibit opens
Tuesday at the Art Center for the
Islands, 32 3 N. Alister.
A formal opening of the exhibit
of winning photographs in the Wild-
life Photo Contest will be held July
16 from 5 to 8 p.m. when live music
will be featured and refreshments
will be served. Photographers and
landowners from the 2003 contest
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winning images taken in the Coastal
Bend. The exhibit will be open
through July 30.
The sponsor-funded traveling ex-
hibit showcases the winning photo-
graphs and sponsors from the 2003
Coastal Bend Wildlife Photo Con-
test. The exhibit travels throughout
11 counties of the Coastal Bend. To
date, it has visited more than 70
venues including libraries, museums,
Wanks, schools, and art centers.
The contest involves photogra-
phers from around the world team-
ing up with Coastal Bend landown-
ers to capture photographs of wild-
life and habitat. Winning teams
equally split the $75,000 in prize
money. This collaboration promotes
awareness of the need for conserva-
tion and protection of wildlife and
habitat in the Coastal Bend. In ad-
dition to the Traveling Benefactors
Photo Exhibit, the Photo Contest
supports several other programs:
• Wildlife Photo Contest- The
second richest wildlife photography
contest in the world in which pri-
vate land owners team up with pho-
tographers to capture winning im-
ages. In 2003, $75,000 in prite
money was awarded.
• Wildlife In Focus — Photogra-
phy book showcases all 150 winning
images from the previous photo con-
i test in 2001. The hook captures an
intimate and artistic view of Coastal
Bend wildlife as seen through the
eyes of the landowner and photog-
rapher. Pre-sale orders for Wildlife
In Focus II are being taken now. The
book will premiere Oct. 23. Contact
Michelle Mauch Horine (361) 881-
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7jiu at huh auvaiiLC uiucn.
• Kritters 4 Kids- This program
brings awareness to youth about the
vastness and variety of habitat in
the Coastal Bend threatened by ur-
banization. Wildlife in Focus is
supplemented by an educational ac-
tivity guide and leads the student
through the varied species of plants
and animals native to the Coastal
Bend. The program’s goal is to plant
seeds of passion for a new genera-
tion of naturalists, biologists, and
nature lovers to protect and preserve
local ecosystems. To find out how
to become a sponsor, book patron,
( or volunteer contact Michelle Mauch
Horine (361) 881-9316.
One of the photos from the Coastal Bend wildlife Photo Contest. An exhibit of the photos opens at the
Art Center for the Islands Tuesday, and a reception will be held July 16.
sell baked goods,
wash cars Saturday
Pick up some baked goods and
( have your car washed - all for a good
cause - on Saturday.
The Port Aransas High School
cheerleaders will sell baked goods
from 7 a.m. until everything is sold
at the Family Center IGA.
Then, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., the
cheerleaders will wash cars in the
Family Center parking lot for a do-
nation.
Proceeds from both will help pay
for uniforms and camp.
Cheerleaders are Stephanie
I Hinojosa, Amanda Moore, Valerie
[ Stern, Julie Cummings, Jade Swindle,
Cat Psensik and mascot Lisa White.
Cheerleader sponsor is Sherry
Henderson.
Friends who go
A friend of mine is flying to Iraq
tomorrow morning, in service to the
U.S. Army. He is among my oldest
friends — our parents once sat on
the porch and negotiated wedding
plans for David and me. The dowry,
if 1 recall, was two tin cans and a
nanny goat.
David and 1 were (briefly) sweet-
arts the summer after my sev-
enth-grade year. It was dork love
at its finest: skinny, knock-kneed
David smiling down at me in the
cafetorium at the End-of-Year
Dance, while 1 pushed my glasses
up my nose and tripped over my
two-step.
The dance ended, David asked me
to be his girlfriend, and I said “sure.”
So he held onto me and kept sway-
ing. I was like, “David, the dance is
over. David. Come on.”
Our romance thrived on mutual
awkwardness: we didn’t speak for
two weeks, and then decided we
weren’t going out anymore. But this
is the really embarrassing part: af-
terwards, 1 denied it ever happened.
David wasn’t very hip in high
school. He hung out with that group
of pale kids who played hacky-sack
and computer games with com-
mands like “Shoot arrow through
enchanted hog.” He had a huge
potato gun that he shot tennis halls
with for his dogs to chase.
We used to stalk around behind
the high-school tennis courts, scav-
Rachel
enging lost balls.
David would
talk real fast,
jumping around
from gossip to
wild architecture
plans, with his
wonderful, dark
sense of humor.
I once saw him
peg a man with
an egg from 50
■vit.
- And all that
aside, David is a sweetheart — he
laughs with his hands over his
mouth, gives big open-armed hugs,
and says, “Well. How are you do-
ing?”
David’s not the skinny, pale heart-
breaker he was in the seventh grade
anymore. For one thing, he’s gotten
all beefy since he joined the Army
after high school. He’s gained some
good things from the military: disci-
pline, self-confidence, acceptance.
But sometimes it scares me how
much he’s changed. He wasn’t the
type for the army before — shy, scat-
tered, sort of twisted and dreamy —
hut now, he is.
Some sad things have happened
to David recently, and a lot of times
he’s hard to get at — l poke around
his feelings, wondering how many
questions I can ask before 1 open up
the well in him.
His mom says she loves him more
than anything. She doesn’t know'
what she’d do without him. (She
cries with her eyes w ide open, as if
she’s used to crying, as she talks.)
Set against her tears, the war on
TV sounds so plastic - innocent
dead people are called “civilian ca-
sualties,” or, even more dehumaniz-
ing, “collateral damage.”
Dehumanizing happens on our
side, too. The soldiers show up in
their gas masks or their hero flags,
and forget that they’re just kids
who used to run barefoot and skinny
around Port Aransas, bouncing ten-
nis balls against the asphalt. We for-
get that they are beloved, some-
where, by friends and family who
Wouldn’t wish their sons to he in
such danger.
And how I would like to put my
arms around him (right now', as
you’re reading this, David is in Iraq)
and say, “1 love you, my old friend, I
will bear you home and we can sit
on the porch and watch fireflies and
talk, like we used to, late into the
night. We can be kids again, at 21
years old, and our dead will rest and
the war will be done and the world,
somehow, will right itself.”
But it isn’t so. God help us all, it
isn’t so.
Rachel Pearson, a graduate of
Port Aransas High School, is a se-
nior Plan II major at the Univer-
sity of Texas at Austin. Contact her
at undenvaterwoTider@hotmail.com
Merida
noon, JELM Center. Call 749-6693
for details.
• Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m.,
Trinity-by-the-Sea Episcopal
Church, 433 Trojan, 749-4797.
Meetings are smoke-free.
• UTMSI free move, The Shape of
Life: Survival Game’, 50 minutes.
6 Tuesday
• Log sheet turn in for teen (ages
10 to 17) reading program, 4-5:30
p.m., Ellis Memorial Library.
• Lunch Bunch for full-time residents
age 55 and over will meet at Roberts
Point Park for a sack lunch
throughout the summer, 11:30 a.m..
• Youth synchronized swimming
class, 4:30 p.m., Community Park
swimming pool. Call 749-4158.
• Alcoholics Anonymous, noon,
Trinity-by-the-Sea Episcopal
Church, 433 Trojan, 749-4797
Meetings are smoke-tree.
• UTMSI free movie, ‘Jack Hann’s:
Turtle Hospital’, 25 minutes.
7 Wednesday
• Summer Reading Program 10-11
a.m., for ages 5-9, Ellis Memorial
Library.
•Adult tennis, 7:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.,
PAISD tennis courts on Station
Street. Free, no partner needed.
Call Murray, 749-4861 or 749-5131
for more information.
• Low impact aerobics, one class
only, 8-9 a.m., JELM Center.
• Birding on the Boardwalk with
Leonabelle Turnbull, 9 a.m., Port
Aransas Birding Center, end of Ross
Avenue.
• Kiwanis Club, noon, Jay’s Seafood
and Spaghetti Works.
• Adult swimming exercise class,
8:15 - 9:30 a.m., Community Park
Swimming Pool, Clark Parkway off
of Ross Avenue.
• Alcoholics Anonymous, noon,
building behind the Trinity-by-the-
Sea Episcopal Church, 433 Trojan.
Meetings are smoke free.
•Ala-teens, 4:30 p.m.. Pollock Center.
• UTMSI free movie, ‘Let’s Explore
a Seashore’, 25 minutes.
• Community Park Swimming Pool
offers swim lessons, synchronized
and lap swimming, water exercise,
open daily except Mondays for
swimming and more. Call 749-2416
for information. • New hours: Free
use of Computer Resource Center
Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. -
4 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.
- 2 p.m.; closed Sunday, 430 N. Alister
St. Free e-mail. • Art Center for the
Islands offers a variety of classes. Call
749-7334 for current information. •
The University of Texas Marine
Science Institute Visitors Center is
open Monday through Friday from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. •
Free trolley service 10 a.m. to 5:55
p.m. Wave the trolley down anywhere
along the route from Roberts Point
Park to Gulf Waters RV Resort on SH
361 South. Maps, schedules
available at the Tourist Bureau.
1 Thursday
• Port Aransas Rotary Club, noon,
Pelican s Landing Restaurant.
• Does someone’s drinking bother
you? There’s help at Inner Peace
AFG Alanon for family and friends
of alcoholics, 8 p.m., Trinity-by-the-
Sea Episcopal Church, 433 Trojan.
749-6449 or 749-2889.
• u I MSI free movie, ‘The Blue
Planet: Frozen Sea's,’ 25 minutes.
2 Friday
• Registration in the SEA Fourth of
July Fishing Tournament. See story
on Page 1A for details.
• Adult tennis. 7:30 a.m., PAISD tennis
courts on Station Street. Free, no
partner needed. Call Murray 749-4861
or 749-5131 for more information.
• Low impact aerobics, one class
only, 8 - 9 a.m., JELM Center.
• Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m.,
Trinity-by-the-Sea Episcopal
Church, 433 Trojan, 749-4797.
3 Saturday
• Bake sale, car wash by Port
Aransas High School cheerleaders,
Family Center IGA. See story for
details.
• Fishing in the SEA Fourth of July
Fishing Tournament. See story on
Page 1A for details.
• Round robin mixed doubles
tournament, open to all, 7:45 a.m.,
school tennis courts on Station
Street See story for details
• Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m.,
Trinity-by-the-Sea Episcopal
ChurCh, 433 Trojan, 749-4797.
Meetings are smoke-free.
4 Sunday
Happ
Independence
Day!
Fireworks
9 P.M.
(See story on 1A for details.)
• Final day of fishing, awards, in the
SEA Fourth of July Fishing
Tournament. See story on Page 1A
for details.
• Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m.,
Trinity-by-the-Sea Episcopal
Church, 433 Trojan, 749-4797.
Meetings are smoke-free.
5 Monday
•Adult tennis for fun, 7:30 a.m. and
7 p.m., PAISD tennis courts on
Station Street. Free, no partner
needed. Call Murray 749-4861 or
749-5131 for more information.
• Low impact aerobics, one class
only, 8-9 a.m., JELM Center.
• Creative writers group, 10 a.m. to
(Patricia Ann’s (Boutique
2217 Ptwu 361 Suite C, Littleton’s Landing. ‘Port A
At a glance
What____
Coastal Bend Wildlife Photo
Contest winners
Where________________________________ _
Art Center for the Islands,
323 N. Alister
WlIBN______________________
July 6-30
Reception
July 16
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Judson, Mary. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 2004, newspaper, July 1, 2004; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth663106/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.