Trunk or Treat at Calhoun Air Center, October 29th

Calhoun Air Center will be hosting their first Trunk or Treat to conclude the Monster Bash on Saturday, October 29th. Truck or Treat is when the community gather together and park their cars leading up to the airport. You open your trunks, or the backs of your vehicles, and decorate them. Then pass out candy from your trunk. The event provides a safe family environment for trick or treaters.

Be as creative as possible, gather your pumpkins, spider webbing, spiders, brooms, bats, cauldrons, scary stuff…

The best way to plan your trunk is to pick a theme. Think of it like dressing yourself in a costume. Pick a theme and the rest falls into place. There will be a prize for the Best Decorated Trunk!

Don’t forget about a costume for yourself. The best and most interesting trunks have their owners dressed to match the theme. Oh, and bring plenty of candy to pass out to the Trunk or Treaters! Through out the day Calhoun Air Center will pass out Halloween bags to all the kiddos filled with plenty of treats!

Calhoun County Airport, October 29, 2011
Monster Bash: 8am – 8pm
Trunk or Treat: 6pm-8pm
For a complete schedule of events visit:
www.calhounaircenter.com

To date, TPWD we has stocked 288,925 fingerlings into the San Antonio Bay complex and there are more on the way! By the end of the fall, the goal is to have released 500,000 fingerlings into SA Bay. Biologists at Sea Center Texas and Perry R. Bass Marine Fisheries Research Station are working hard to ensure that the goal is met.

Chris Martin’s Bay Flats Lodge assists the stock enhancement program in obtaining broodfish for the hatchery and has been instrumental in the program’s success.

Pictured above is Johnathan with TPWD releasing 202,900 fingerlings into San Antonio Bay at Swan Point Park on October 20.

Several volunteers participated in the Adopt-A-Beach Clean Up on Saturday, September 24, in Port O’Connor. Volunteers have been helping clean up Texas beaches through this Texas General Land Office program for 25 years!

“Since the first cleanup in 1986, more than 422,000 Texas Adopt-A-Beach volunteers have picked up more than 8,100 tons of trash from Texas beaches” according to the Adopt-A-Beach homepage (www.glo.texas.gov/adopt-a-beach).

Twenty-three volunteers came out to help at the fall clean-up at King Fisher Beach. Six members of the local Intracoastal 4-H club cleaned the beach, along with a few adult chaperones. It was also great to see a few local adults lend a hand at the clean-up as well as out-of-town visitors from Conroe, Austin and San Antonio. A couple of volunteers took their own boat out to Sunday Beach to clean up.

Volunteers picked up 17 bags of trash from King Fisher Beach along with 16 bags of trash brought in from Sunday Beach. There were also several items too large to fit into trash bags such as part of a large barrel, food service crates, 2 canopy frames, and large ropes and cables.

This year, volunteers were asked to note items of concern on their data cards. Items of concern listed included a large butane lighter, a few shotgun shells, firecrackers, and a drinking straw with sea turtle bites. Volunteers were also concerned about the innumerable amount of plastic drink lids that were found on the beach.

Unusual items found included four coins from Costa Rica, a plastic toy horse, flip flops, shoestrings, a padded bra, a baby bottle nipple, toothbrushes, a Lavaca Bay oyster tag, a watch, and part of a prop blade.

Local coordinators would like to thank the volunteers for their time and effort. Please join us for the Spring Adopt-A-Beach clean up on Saturday, April 28, 2012.

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R. Patrick Wood took this photo from the La Salle Ranch during the annual Warriors Weekend in Port O’Connor - a reminder to remember our Veterans this Veterans Day.

A flock of pink flamingos descended on Ronnie and Gayle Burden’s Port O’Connor home, prompting the POC Chamber of Commerce’s Beautification Committee to pronounce it “Flamingo Flock of the Week”. -Leah Griffin

Fishing at the Little Jetties - photo by LaJune Pitonyak

The tallest crane I’ve ever seen. (Crane working on Harrison St. in Port O’Connor.) - Johnny Rhyne