Connect with Christmas celebrations in the Coastal Bend, get ready for the runoff elections, and find out how you can help the Shop With a Cop program provide holiday cheer to children in need. That and a story about the opening of a $15 billion LNG plant near Corpus Christi are all on the front page of the December issue of Corpus Christi Business News.
The story of Crocker Moving & Storage, a company with 108 years of Corpus Christi history, unfolds on page 4. Turn to page 5 for a look at two Port Aransas chefs who did so well in the World Food Championships that they are automatically entered into next year’s competition.
Highlights of holiday and other events for December and even January can be found on page 7. A complete listing of Coastal Bend events can be found at 101CorpusChristi.com/EVENTS, where you can download details to your digital calendar, email information to anyone, or build a list of favorites you would like to attend.
In other news, you’ll find stories about:
• Cre8ive Culture, a new art gallery, school, and art supplies store in downtown Corpus Christi;
• the first whooping cranes arriving in Corpus Christi this fall;
• the city’s drive to regulate electric scooters now for rent by the seawall;
• extensions on deadlines to propose buying and developing the Old Nueces County Courthouse and the La Niña caravel replica now docked at the city Marina;
• why the county may have to repay the federal government $746,000 in grant money used to expand Bob Hall pier five years ago;
• construction beginning at the site of the ExxonMobil plastics plant in anticipation of obtaining air quality permits.
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