Aransas Pass Police Department Weekly Summary of Report Incidents
Editor’s note: street numbers listed below indicate the block on which the incident happened and are not the actual addresses.
Editor’s note: street numbers listed below indicate the block on which the incident happened and are not the actual addresses.
Shelter Fundraiser Early Next Month Pook’s Pub at 402 S. Commercial St. in Aransas Pass hosts a fundraiser Saturday, February 4 from 2-6:00 p.m. to benefit the Sandra Sue Benson SPCA Animal Adoption Center. For the Love of Paws is organizing the event. Pulled pork sandwiches and chips will be sold for $10 a plate. There will be a raffle and bake sale, too. All proceeds help support the San Patricio County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).
Aransas Pass Progress
Danny Roberts, 61, owns DMR Services at 1457 FM 2725 in Ingleside, a custom fabricator for the local marine business. Usually, his staff is busy creating canopies to produce shade for pleasure or sportfishing boats. In a first since he opened his shop, he’s been hired by the City of Aransas Pass to build a huge metal crucifix that will be raised to the top of the Seamen’s Memorial Tower at Conn Brown Harbor, perhaps later this week, replacing the one blown away by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. It’s made from six-inch aluminum pipe, weighing close to 300-pounds. When completed, the city will hire a crane to lift it to the top of the tower where it will be bolted to a heavy metal plate. Roberts said an engineer had to approve the design to ensure it could withstand another blast of high winds – even from a hurricane. “We’re not doing it for the profit,” Roberts said, appreciating the religious significance of the cross, part of a memorial that was erected years earlier to commemorate shrimpers who ventured out to sea to make a living, some who never returned. The cost of the construction is covered by a FEMA grant.
Recreating the Cross
It’s not been easy making ends meet for 23-year-old Jade Rangel of Aransas Pass. The first-time mother is raising son Jasper, now three-months-old and thanks to the Aransas Pass Police Department they will both have a nice meal over the Christmas holiday. The bag she holds is filled with a fresh turkey and all the fixings, part of the annual Sgt. Dennis Anders Cops for Tots campaign that also includes holiday food baskets for several needy families in the community. Like Rangel, 65-year-old Sylvia Cortez of Aransas Pass came to police headquarters Thursday, December 22 to pick up her holiday turkey, assisted by Officer Jack McCarty who carried the heavy tote to her vehicle. Cortez is the caretaker for her disabled husband and called the food package “a precious gift in a time of need.” Blanca Perez, 45 of Aransas Pass is smiling, too, grateful for the Christmas turkey meal she is taking home to her family, assisted by McCarty (right) and Officer Dustin Pridgen (left).
346 S. Houston
Aransas Pass, TX 78336
P.O. Box 2100
Aransas Pass, TX 78336
361-758-5391