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ELLIS MEMORIAL LIBKAKY
PORT ARANSAS TX 78373-4128
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
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Vol. 41 No. 26
© 2010 Port Aransas South Jetty - All Rights Reserved
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Countdown to the
Centennial
Page 9A
Inside
THIS EDITION
Backstage at Tuna
Two men, 20
characters, 44 costume
changes - backstage at
‘Greater Tuna’ is organized
chaos.
Page IB
Swift swimmers
The Port Aransas
Swim Team aced their meet
over Corpus Christi Santa Fe
on Saturday. Next up is time
trials for regional.
Page 12A
Links
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Beach House
tours benefit PAEF
Video at
www.portasouthjetty.com
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Ferry wait times
Beach & Surf
www.portasouthjetty.com
Index
Church
Pastor’s pen................
.......4A
Movie nights................
.......4A
Obituary......................
.......4A
• Wynn Paul Rummler
This Week
Island agenda..............
.......2A
Greater Tuna..............
.......2A
First Friday.................
.......2A
Island Life
Columnists
« • Tony Amos................
.......6B
• Scott Burroughs.....
.......2B
Law enforcement ........
......2B
Youth
Kids’ calendar..............
......6A
Youth art camp............
......6A
Opinion
Dave Me Neely.............
......3A
Todd Hunter...............
......3A
Mary Henkel Judson....
......3A
Outdoors
Fishing report .............
... 10A
Tides & Weather..........
.... 10A
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Fireworks display
is slated on Sunday
Celebrate the 234th birthday of the
nation by watching an Independence Day
fireworks display in Port Aransas.
Residents and visitors are invited to
watch the fireworks display on Sunday,
July 4.
The city, in conjunction with Charles
Butt of San Antonio and Port Aransas and
the Lydia Ann Lighthouse, will present
the show starting at “dark-thirty,” or
about 9 p.m.
The same company that has produced
the show for the past several years,
Zambelli Fireworks Internationale of
Pennsylvania, will present about 45
minutes of fireworks.
The fireworks will be ignited from
the Corpus Christi Ship Channel side of
Roberts Point Park. Spectators may view
the display from the park, but will be kept
away from the ignition site.
The fireworks should be visible from
just about anywhere in Port Aransas.
City officials remind the public that
law prohibits shooting fireworks in the
city limits of Port Aransas. Shooting
fireworks also is prohibited in the City of
Corpus Christi, the city limits of which
abut the city limits of Port Aransas. Typi-
cally, law enforcement officers confiscate
fireworks from violators.
Monday will be
holiday for some
Independence Day falls on Sunday,
July 4, so many businesses will take off
Monday, July 5.
The exception will be the South Jetty
newspaper, which will close Friday, July
2, and re-open on Monday, July 5.
Closing Monday will be city hall, the
water district office, American Bank and
ValueBank Texas.
Also, no mail will be delivered to or
from the Port Aransas post office on
Monday.
While city hall will be closed, services
such as collection of trash and recylable
materials will continue, and first respond-
ers will be on duty.
Most retail businesses that typically
are open on Sunday and Monday will
remain open throughout the holiday.
Ships ahoy
Courtesy photo
Capitan Miranda, the tall ship from Uruguay, will be among four tall ships passing by Port Aransas, probably on
Friday, July 2, for a Fourth of July holiday visit at what was Naval Station Ingleside. For updates on when the ships
will be passing by Port Aransas, go to www.portasouthjetty.com.
See sails by seashore
Tall ships to pass through jetties
Tropical Storm Alex in the Gulf of
Mexico has caused visiting tall ships to
alter their schedules for the Independence
Day weekend.
Originally set to sail past Port Aransas
today, Thursday, July 1, three ships from
Mexico, Uruguay and Chile are now due
to arrive Friday. They were scheduled to
leave Vera Cruz, Mexico, late Tuesday,
June 29, said Patricia Cardenas, commu-
nications manager for the Port of Corpus
Christi, which is sponsoring the event.
If their arrival is delayed past dusk Fri-
day, they’ll stay offshore until Saturday
morning, Cardenas said.
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle,
sailing from New London, Conn., will
arrive Friday afternoon, July 2, instead
of Friday morning.
Viewing parties are set for Roberts
Point Park and the south jetty, with Port
Aransas Chamber of Commerce-Tourist
See ‘FLAGS’ Page 8A
lye on the storm
City on fringes of first named storm
By Dan Parker
dan@portasouthjetty.com
Port Aransans were feeling some relief
at press time Tuesday as forecasts were
calling for Tropical Storm Alex to likely
strike more than 100 miles south of the
Coastal Bend. But residents still were
keeping wary eyes on the storm, with
at least one forecaster saying it still was
too early to say the Coastal Bend was
completely out of danger.
Alex was expected to become a hur-
ricane late Tuesday. Asked about 5 p.m.
Tuesday if he was prepared to say the
Coastal Bend wouldn’t be directly hit
by the storm, Douglas Vogelsang, a
forecaster out of the National Weather
Service office in Corpus Christi, said,
“I’m absolutely not ready to say that.”
The storm, Vogelsang said, still was too
far out to sea and unpredictable to be cer-
tain it wouldn’t veer north and get closer
to the Coastal Bend than expected.
A map on the National Weather Ser-
vice’s Web site showed that the storm’s
most likely target was between the Rio
Grande Valley and La Cruz, Mexico, but
text on the site said a hurricane warning
See ‘CITY Page 8A
Jackson always ready with a smile
Fishing with a friend
Courtesy photo
Ronnie Jackson does some fishing with Tyler Reichenau, a young
family friend from San Antonio, off Mud Island in about 1995.
Boatmen induct
San Antonio resident
into Hall of Fame
By Dan Parker
dan@portasouthjettv.com
Ronnie Jackson never has lived in Port
Aransas, but he has received one of the most
prestigious recognitions you can get in this
town.
Jackson is one of two people who have
been named to the Boatmen’s Hall of Fame
this year. Also named is Sam Roberts.
Jackson, a member of the Boatmen’s board
of directors, said he’s proud to have made the
Hall of Fame.
“I feel very honored,” he said. “I’m a
foreigner. ... I’m not an island boy. I’m
adopted.”
The Boatmen always have been able to
rely on Jackson, said Georgia Neblett, an
honorary Boatmen member and Hall of Fame
member herself.
“If the Boatmen were looking to count on
someone to do what they say they’re going
to do, when they say they’re going to do it,
there’s no better person than Ronnie Jackson,”
Neblett said.
“His participation in putting on the Deep
Sea Roundup is always with a smile on his
face, a great sense of humor and tireless
work.”
Jackson, 66, was bom and raised in San
Antonio. Involved in the print business all
his adult life, he does sales for Texas Type, a
graphic art supply company in San Antonio.
Jackson has been visiting Port Aransas
steadily since his parents first brought him
down here at about the age of 8. For the past
25 years, he has been visiting just about every
week. He has owned a house in Rockport
since 1975.
He remembers Horace Caldwell Pier well
when it was a wooden structure with two
T-heads.
“I used to dive off that thing and swim
in,” he said, recalling the era of the 1950s
and early ‘60s. “One time, I saw two guys
hanging up two seven-foot hammerheads
they caught off the pier. That was the last
time I dove off that pier.”
For years, Mud Island has been Jackson’s
favorite fishing spot around here.
“I just like the structure on the west end,
the bottom, the pot holes, the heavy grasses,”
Jackson said. “1 started fishing that thing out
of the old Woody’s (Sports Center), about
1959. I had just gotten my driver’s license,
and my best friend and I would come down
here and rent a skiff at the Woody’s, back
when it didn’t even have a bulkhead. It was
just a mud flat. We would chug up there (to
Mud Island), and we thought we were at the
end of the world.”
See ‘JACKSON,’Page 11A
HIGHLIGHTS
VFW plans
4th of July
celebration
The public is invited to
celebrate Independence Day
with the VFW Post 8967 to
honor patriots who have won
our independence and the men
and women who continue to
sacrifice to maintain it.
Page 2A
Kids fish
for bikes
on Saturday
Kids love to fish and this
weekend will be just for them.
The 13th annual Capt. Hope
Devlin Fishing Tournament, for
anglers 16 years and under,
will be held Saturday, July 3.
Page10A
Victims report
coyote bites
Coyotes normally shy away
from people. But two recent
incidents in Port Aransas
served as exceptions to the
rule.
Blanton Robertson, 24, of
Corpus Christi, said he was
bitten by a coyote in a yard off
11th Street, near Access Road
1 on May 22.
On June 13, a 40-year-
old Kerrville man reported
to the Port Aransas Police
Department that he had
been bitten by a coyote while
camping on the beach near
Pole 21 two days previously.
Page 12A
Deep Sea
Roundup
to mark 75th
anniversary
The countdown is on for the
oldest and largest saltwater
fishing tournament on the
Texas coast.
Anglers of all ages will be in
Port Aransas Thursday through
Sunday, July 8 through 11, for
the 75th Deep Sea Roundup.
Page 11A
Youth art camp
slated at center
Oceans of Art-Our
Environment and Nature will be
the theme of the Art Center for
the Islands’ Summer Youth Art
Camp.
Page 7A
Old-fashioned
picnic planned
by PAPHA
An old-fashioned picnic,
complete with hot dogs,
lemonade and beer, will be
hosted by the Port Aransas
Preservation and Historical
Association to kick off its
annual membership drive, 100
at $100.
The free picnic will be held
on Saturday, July 10.
Page 8A
First Friday
to feature
wildlife photos
Award winning photos of
birds, native mammals, insects,
arachnids, reptiles, amphibians
and landscapes of the Coastal
Bend will be featured at the
Art Center for the Islands
First Friday reception on July
2, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.,
accompanied by live music and
refreshments.
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