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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 March 21, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around By the numbers The Island Who Islanders By Dale Rankin Work For Editor’s note: We recently got Spring Break 2019 is now winding numbers from the U.S. Census down and it can be said that other Bureau concerning the population than the swarm of out of town State on Mustang and Padre islands Police in Port A it was not an over- inside the Corpus Christi City attended event. We drove the beach Limits. These numbers are from down to up several times in compiled from data gathered the past two weeks and college kids between 2013 and 2017 and do frolicking on the sand were few and not reflect changes after December far between. Of beachgoers there 2017. This week we look at who were many but their college days for Islanders work for by industry. the most part were well behind them. It is accurate to say that Spring Break 9425 Population of Mustang hereabouts is (thankfully) a family and Padre islands inside Corpus affair and that is just fine. Christi City Limits The exception being the beach 5452 Civilian population 16 and around Mile Marker 34 in Port A over where there seems to be a permanent 299 5.5% Agriculture, forestry, swarm of kids of college age who fishing and hunting, and mining bring in a stage, complete with a guy in a rabbit suit, and have a good time 564 10.3% Construction while surrounded by attendant law 342 6.3% Manufacturing enforcement officers. Cars pulled over are aplenty, kids arrested are Whoopers Away! 82 1.5% Wholesale trade in the 150 range, and then everyone The original Winter Texans – the Whooping Cranes – are beginning their trip north from The Island. 253 4.6% Retail trade goes back to wherever it is they came from. It is certainly accurate to say Flappers Take Notice! 193 3.5% Transportation and on our little sandbar this week… Former Board Member Sues POA warehousing, and utilities what happens on The Island leaves 57 1.0% Information on Sunday. Seashore Restraining Order prohibits board from 315 5.8% Finance and insurance, We’ve survived and now, if the sun Whoop It and real estate and rental and ever finds its way through the clouds, filling empty seat leasing we’re heading into the sweet spot of The Island calendar. By Dale Rankin both took office for three-year terms. Up takes on 811 14.9% Professional, Brian T. McCabe was third with scientific, and management, and High tides The Board of Directors of the Padre Roaring ‘20s administrative and Isles Property Owners Association 662.91 votes, followed by Robert now has six members but cannot Algeo with 415.17, Judith Cutright waste management services legally appoint a seventh member with 118.5, and fifteen write-in votes. Theme April 13 The Whoop It Up “Roaring ‘20s” 1,168 21.4% Educational to a seat which has been vacant for The objections listed in the request services, and health care and several months. Gala will be held on Saturday, April for the restraining order lists the 13th from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the social assistance A board meeting scheduled for following challenges to the outcome brand new Schlitterbahn Ballroom. of the election and the process used. 326 6.0% Arts, entertainment, Saturday, March 16, to name a seventh The event is 21 an older and in and recreation, and member was postponed after former The quote marks denote exact quotes Beaches up and down The Island keeping with the times Prohibition accommodation and food board member Brent Moore filed suit from the pleadings, the others are have been covered in water at high will not be observed. against the organization challenging summations of the arguments. Services tide this week as the local National the results of the election of two board Tickets are on sale now at www. Weather Service office reports that • “Approximately 20 ballots 188 3.4% Other services, except members the previous week. Moore seashorecharterschools.com. $40 large easterly long period swells were reported to be disregarded public administration obtained a Temporary Restraining before April 1st, $50 at the door. combined with moderate to strong due to claimed irregularities.” Order from Nueces County Court Limited general seating is available 854 15.7% Public administration easterly winds produced tides two at Law #3 Judge Deeanne Galvan • Sea Pines – residents there, but tables are available. Reserved feet above Mean Sea Level. That is which does not directly challenge 220, recently petitioned to tables come with tickets for eight and enough to get your tires wet driving the seating of new board members be removed from the POA, are available for a donation of $500. on the beach. The waves have mostly Dan Brown and Kelly McFadden however, the ballots for the Texas Senate been mushy and have drawn scant Island Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 but does challenge the validity of the election had already been interest from surfers around Bob Hall nonprofit that owns and operates election that placed them in office mailed and the position of the Pier. three schools on the island: Seashore Passes and, along with requests from about POA, according to the advice Early Childhood Academy (SECA) House in progress fifty members, asks for a recounting of their attorney, has been that -- a private daycare -- and the two Hurricane of the votes. Moore was a member of the Sea Pines residents have schools that make up the Seashore the board until the election, in which not met the legal requirements Charter Schools district, Seashore Harvey he did not seek re-election. for removing themselves from Learning Center (SLC) and Seashore the POA and are legally still Middle Academy (SMA). Just under 1300 members cast members so their votes were Recovery Bill ballots, each allowed to vote for two counted. It began in an old 7-11 building in The Texas Senate this week candidates with the two top vote 1995 quickly grew to a multi-campus unanimously passed a measure getters taking office. A total of 2581 • Alleged discrepancies in the charter school district that now serves to help Hurricane Harvey victims votes were cast, meaning about 1290 vote totals roughly 500 children from North get help and to study the problems members voted. When the votes were • “Approximately 190 ballots Padre Island, Mustang Island, Flour encountered by those trying to counted Daniel R. Brown III tallied by commercial owners were Bluff, and Naval Air Station Corpus recover. We get regular calls about this house the most votes with 696.33, followed Christi. Senate Bill 6, priority Hurricane in progress on Cane Harbor. It’s been by Kelly McFadden with 673.09, and P.I.P.O.A cont. on A4 Whoop cont. on A4 Harvey recovery legislation authored under construction for more than a by Senator Lois W. Kolkhorst year. Private sources report that the (R-Brenham). The legislation was problem is that it was built on the A little Island history deemed an "emergency item" by wrong lot. The owner of the house is Governor Greg Abbott in his State not the owner of the lot and the owner of the State address, and now of the house didn’t know it until the The Rangers Meet the Devil moves to the Texas House for final owner of the lot informed him. Don’t consideration. Kolkhorst’s district you just hate it when that happens? Editor’s note: This is the latest estimated that more than 2,000 The Border Lord in a running series about the runs north from Packery Channel to ranchers and other citizens had been Most of the trouble was coming Island concert series area between the Nueces and Rio Port Aransas, and north fo Brenham killed and more than 900,000 head of from border lord Juan Nepomuceno Grande Rivers in 1875 as told by northwest of Houston. The Island Moon is putting together stock stolen in the Nueces Strip since Cortina who had been raiding Texas Ranger George Durham in Specifically, Senate Bill 6 will a concert series to run from May the end of the Civil War. Yet there was into Texas since 1859 after the his book The Taming of the Nueces require the Texas Division of through September. We have a no record of any raider ever paying a signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Strip. Durham was a member Emergency Management (TDEM) sponsor that will allow us to provide penalty for his crime through regular Hidalgo. Prior to the treaty Cortina of the Ranger troop formed in to provide guidance for disaster free live music early in the evening court procedures. The Rangers and the had been an heir to huge tracts of Texas by famed Ranger Captain response and recovery, and establish so it will be family friendly. The military had arrested them in droves land in the Nueces Strip but now L.H. McNelly to fight off raids by a wet debris study group to address idea is to run from 6-8 p.m. and give only to see them released within a was operating out of the village of marauding Indians and border the problems encountered by many islanders a place to go and folks from day to continue their banditry. Las Cueves south of the river where bandits who raided Corpus Christi coastal communities in the aftermath OTB a reason to come to The Island. McNelly was out to change that, or he maintained cattle pens which he in the spring of that year. The forty- of Hurricane Harvey. Additionally We will have more information in the make them pay in another way, but used to gather cattle (mostly stolen man troop set out from Corpus the legislation creates an emergency next few weeks. all he had been given by the State of in Texas) for sale to Cuba. and went to the King Ranch to get management work group on Texas was a commission from the In the meantime everybody keep an equipment and horses. At the end of To Texans Cortina was a bandit. credentialing to see that more Texans governor; no money, no supplies, and eye out for a great ball of fire that is the last installment the troop was in To the Mexican people in the quickly receive assistance. no hope of getting either except by his said to live somewhere high above bandit country, camped nine miles borderland he was a folk hero own gathering. He had done that. His "During the ongoing legislative the clouds, maybe it will make an north of Raymondville their second who first ran afoul of the law men now had good mounts provides session, one of our top missions appearance this week. night after leaving the King Ranch. when he saw the City Marshal is to address the loss of life and by Captain Richard King from the in Brownsville brutally beat a In the meantime say hello if you see property from Hurricane Harvey, July 1875 in the Nueces Strip King Ranch and .50 caliber Sharps Mexican prisoner who had once us Around The Island. near Raymondville. rifles donated by Sol Lichtenstein which severely impacted much of whose store in downtown Corpus Senate District 18," said Kolkhorst. Ranger Captain L.H. McNelly Christi had been raided in the spring. History cont. on A4 Senate cont. on A4 March 21, 2019 Island Moon A 2 St. Paddy's Day Island Highlights

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hide with paper. Moon Monkeys In times of action, the Indian had this on his Did Ya Mike Ellis, Founder Letters to the elbow and always aimed to keep it at an angle between you and him. Very few of the old Hear? fashioned rifles would penetrate these shields. By Mary "Scoop" Craft Editor The rifle I carried then (1861), and still have, would knock a hole right through them at any angle. I once shot an Indian down on the Quitaque. Business Briefs I did not kill him, but he dropped his shield. Between the folds of hide was a complete history of Rome, and the boys had considerable The Golf Cart/Jeep Poker fun passing the sheets around and reading Run is back and will take place Distribution them." on Thursday, March 28th with Pete Alsop a March Madness theme. It will Island Delivery Chess start at Black Sheep Bistro at Coldwell Banker 6 pm, then go to Mikel May’s Advertising and end at Angry Marlin where Jan Park Rankin Dunes the cards will be drawn. There Classifieds Island Moon, will be prizes for best decorated Arlene Ritley vehicles. Joyride Golf Cart I don't know exactly who this goes to, but my Production Manager Rental will be renting golf carts husband and I come to Port A almost every Abigail Bair year for vacation, and someday, we want to for $50 for the event and they Contributing Writers call it home. Please leave the surrounding land can be returned the next day. Joey Farah alone. We enjoy looking at the dunes, and if Andy Purvis they start selling land to build high-rise condos Mary Craft and such, there won't be any scenery to look at, The Sand Fest in Port A will be and what about the environmental stand point? Kelly Trevino The dunes are what makes Port A and the happening April 26th weekend. Jay Gardner surrounding area, they're pretty to look at, take You should book a place to stay Todd Hunter from someone who sees nothing but flat, rolling now if you are going to stay in Dotson Lewis plains all the time up here in Vernon, TX. town. Dr. Tom Dorrell Thanks Ronnie Narmour Joelee Ashley Brent Rourk Padre Pizzeria now has a 10 Photographers Circles on San Jose Island inch pizza you can order with Miles Merwin (Emeritus) I suspect the round circles you see on San cauliflower crust and add any Debbie Noble Jose Island are what game managers call ring- of their toppings. It is extra Jan Rankin arounds. Managers protect brush mottes from thin, crispy and tastes like Mary Craft prescribed burns by disking a circle of bare Ronnie Narmour ground around them. The brush provides cover pizza! Guess I’ll be eating a for bobwhites, the bare ground provides areas lot more pizza. They serve Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) for birds to dust and grit, and annual weeds that Riley P. Dog grow up in the disked areas attract insects and pizza by the slice 11 am - 3 pm produce seeds that bobwhite feed upon. Monday - Friday for $3.99 with Tim Anderson one topping. Each additional topping is 25 cents. Comanche Kevlar The following is from Charles Goodnight, as quoted in the Panhandle Plains Historical Dragonfly Restaurant is Review: in the works with Lorelei "When the Indians robbed houses they Brewing to have a Tuesday Pint invariably took all the books they could find, Night during happy hour 4 - 7 using the paper to pack their shields. They pm. They will also have Tapas knew, as well as we did, the resistance paper has Publisher It was great to see everybody at the last against bullets. Paper offered more resistance starting at $1 available. Dale Rankin Boathouse Chess Event. Thank you for to a bullet than anything to be had upon the About the Island Moon coming. The next event is Saturday March 30 frontier, unless it was cotton. The Indians knew The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale at 10:30, weather permitting. People of all ages this and stole all the books and paper they could Riley P. Dog Park should Rankin, Editor / Publisher. are invited. Chess sets will be provided. Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes find. begin construction soon. The delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 Come and have fun. copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, Their shield was made by forming a circular issues with getting access to as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 bow of wood two or three feet across, over each Thanks the park were resolved this copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. side of which was drawn untanned buffalo hide Phil Shaw week. Once the city approves News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, from the neck of the buffalo, the toughest and payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. thickest they cold get. They filled between the the design it will be good to go. Check the park Facebook page The Island Moon Newspaper for updates. 14646 Compass, Suite 3

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The Island Foundation Whoop it Up Fundraiser will Where to Find The be held at Schlitterbahn on Saturday, April 13th 7 - 11 Island Moon pm. Traditionally it has been a Western theme but this year it Port North will be the Roaring 20s. There Aransas Padre will be live music, dancing and Gulf Stream RV All Stripes Stores auctions. Pioneer RV Black Sheep/ Stripes on 1A Barrel The Spring Art & Island My Coastal Home CVS Farmers’ Market will be held at the Presbyterian Church on WB Liquor Store Whataburger Island Wine Room Thursday, March 28th 4 - 8 pm. Doc’s Restaurant Kody’s Snoopy’s Pier Coffee Waves St. Andrew by the Sea Knights Isle Mail N More Moby Dicks of Columbus Fish Fry is every Island Italian IGA Friday 5 – 7 pm until April Brooklyn Pie Co. 12th. The cost of a plate of fish, Treasure Island fries, green beans and coleslaw Ms. Woody’s Ace Hardware Automotive is $8 and you can dine in or Holiday Inn take to go. There will also be Port A Glass Studio Texas Star (Shell) desserts for purchase. San Juan’s Restaurant Jesse’s Liquor Wash Tub Scuttlebutt’s The Spring Craft Fair at Woody’s Sports Restaurant Center the Flour Bluff High School Subway Back Porch Bar Cafeteria will be held on Island Tire Saturday, March 23rd 9 am Shorty’s Place Padre Pizzeria - 3 pm. There will be many Fisherman’s Wharf popular and unique vendors, Giggity’s And all Moon retail advertisers face painting and games for Gratitude WB Liquor kids. The event benefits the The Gaff Class of 2019. Trinity By the Sea Episcopal Flour Bluff H.E.B. I am selling my rental unit Whataburger on #224 at El Constante Condos Waldron on the seawall for $198K. It is Ethyl Everly 2 bedroom - 2.5 bath. Email me Senior Center at [email protected] for more Fire Station info. Police Station Stripes on Flour Bluff & SPID March 21, 2019 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 worked for Cortina. Cortina shot the marshal Just after midnight a guard brought a rider into Corpus Christi in 1887 and rode out of town with the prisoner. Then camp. The troop was saddled and riding out Here is Corpus Christi in 1887, the population has topped 4000. Two railroads and two in September he rode back into Brownsville in minutes and headed for the river which was steamship lines now serve the city done by Augustus Koch (1840-1899). at the head of sixty men and seized control of shrouded in fog. the town. Five men, including the jailer, were The artist first used plat maps and surveys to get the lay of the land, then came the “If shooting starts stop in your tracks and wait arduous task of walking every street, making sketches of the buildings and landscape shot and killed as Cortina’s men rode through for orders,” their Sergeant told them. “Don’t town with shouts of “Death to the Americans” advance. Don’t shoot till ordered.” from various angles. Then adjusting the perspective upward and compiling it all and “Viva Mexico.” That was the First Cortina into a cohesive and accurate map of the town. People of the nineteenth century were Border War but not the last. At sunup the fog cleared enough for the Rangers to see the last of the herd shaking the enthralled. Koch made a career of traveling the country creating these views. He was By the time McNelly road into the Nueces Strip Rio Grande water from their bellies on the far especially fond of Texas, and the feeling was mutual. in 1875 Cortina had already fought off troops side. A group of more than fifty bandits had of Rangers under Captains William Tobin and moved the herd fifteen miles during the night Rip Ford and had for a time been Governor of and Rangers had missed them by half an hour Tamaulipas. He was said to have 400 men in and chasing them across the river was out of the his command and had spies all over the Nueces question. Contina’s scouts had known what the Strip. Rangers were up to. As McNelly’s men awoke from their cold camp near Raymondville Cortina was well aware that Bad day to be a bandit the previous troop of Rangers under Captain Three days later Casoose rode into camp at Neal Coldwell had been recalled from the Strip, noon, his horse lathered and gaunted after a what he didn’t know was that McNelly’s troop hard ride. Sixteen Rangers and the captain rode had already arrived to replace them. McNelly out toward Los Indios along the river. After had the advantage of surprise. sundown scouts brought in a captive riding one of the eighteen Dick Heye saddles stolen from The Devil rides out of the brush Sol Lichtenstein’s store in Corpus a few weeks For three days McNelly kept his troop hidden back. The man said he was a gambler and had in a huge oak mott all day as he began to scout won the saddle in a poke game. about to try and locate the raiding bandits to “Maybe he talk for me,” Casoose said. In an spring a trap. Local scouts who McNelly knew instant he had the man on the end of a rope began to show up at the Ranger camp. First was dangling from a cottonwood. After a few J.S. Rock and later a fierce looking man named bounces at the end of the rope the man said he Jesus – but when the Texans tried to work their was a scout for a raiding party of about fifty tongues around his name it came out Casoose. men who had stolen three hundred cattle up the Casoose wore a straggly red beard flecked river. The men were coming south hugging the with white and red hair dropping almost to his Laguna Madre. They would cross the Arroyo shoulders. His skin was dry and parches “and Colorado that night near Harlingen and cross his light blue eyes seemed to throw off sparks.” the river in nine hours. The Rangers to a man thought he looked spooky and were glad he was on their side. He looked The prisoner was turned over to Casoose with like the devil. his hands lashed behind him and led away. The Rangers found out later Casoose’s means of He had not slept in his house for more than ten dispatching bandits was to tie his neck to a tree years because the bandits threatened to shoot with a leather strap a throw a lariat around his him on sight in revenge for his hanging of four feet, then tie the lariat to his saddle and spur his bandits in a single tree. horse. It was said that the South Texas prairie was dotted with bodiless heads tied to trees marking Casoose’s trail. Such was the law in the Nueces Strip. Before daylight they were in skirmish formation with flank riders and an advanced guard out front. Except for the salt flats it was hardpan country with salt cedars, marsh grass, and scrub-oak motts. As they reached the Laguna they crossed the trail of the stolen herd. The Fight at Palo Alto was about to begin. Next time: The Fight at Palo Alto

King Ranch lookout tower PIPOA cont. from A1 rejected but reportedly later accepted.” His full name was Jesus Sandoval. He lived out in the brush. He had lost his wife and daughter Board President Marvin Jones said the to the bandits and he lived for the sole purpose organization has no comment on the lawsuit. of killing them. He was crazy and word of his A statement put out by the board after on exploits was common fodder around bandit Friday said “The Padre Isles Property Owners campfires. He was not a man a bandit wanted Association continues to conduct the operation to meet on the open prairie. He became the of the services of the PIPOA as usual.” troop’s jailer and it was said of him he never lost A hearing on the case has been set for 9 a.m., a single prisoner turned over to him. What he Friday, March 29, in County Court at Law #3. did with them was another matter. More on that later. Both Casoose and Rock knew every cow Whoop cont. from A1 trail and every river crossing south of Corpus Christi. As a charter school That night McNelly rounded up his Rangers in district Seashore camp and this is what he said. receives 20% less funding annually “We’ve had two good men join up with us and from state and they’ll take us to where the shooting is good. federal resources If two or more of you flush out some bandits, than other district whether they’re running or forted and holed up, schools which put yourselves at five-pace intervals and shoot equates to about only at the garget right in front of you. Don’t $1,800 less per shoot to the left or the right. Shoot straight student per year. As ahead. And don’t shoot till you’ve got your a nonprofit operating target good in your sights.” a charter school, the “Don’t walk up on a wounded man. Pay no Island Foundation attention to a white flag. That’s a mean trick relies upon community support to make up bandits use on green hands. Don’t touch a dead the funding deficit, and events like its annual man except to identify him.” fundraiser Whoop It Up which has been an island institution for over a decade. Traditionally All good advice whether it be in a gunfight western-themed, this year the event is trading in the Nueces Strip in 1875 or the 3rd Ward in in its boots and cowboy hats for flapper dresses Houston today. and fedoras with a “Roaring ‘20s” theme. The Cattle stealing season evening will include live music and dancing, live and silent auctions, a gourmet dinner and They broke camp and by that night had reached dessert bar, cigar stand, cash bar, and photo Rancho las Rucias near the present city of opportunities with a beautiful ‘20s car and other Edinburg. It had once been the hacienda of a ‘20s props. wealthy Spaniard but now seemed to belong to anyone tough enough to keep it. It was ten miles Bring on the glitz and glamour! For information from the river. on becoming an event sponsor or event questions, contact Emma Comery at ecomery@ It was cattle thieving season in the Nueces seashore.esc2.net. Strip. The weather had been dry and the Rio Grande was lazy and shallow, cattle could be crossed in dozens of places. It turned out that Rock had managed to plant an agent in Cortina’s Senate cont. from A1 organization near Matamoros. Through him he "Survivors and victims of Harvey must never be heard that Cortina was shipping more than five forgotten and the best way to pay tribute to them thousand cattle to Cuba every month. He had is to unite as Texans helping other Texans, and succeeded in systemizing depredatory war by creating an action plan for the next disaster." licensing bandits and charged them a four-bit fee for crossing the river and then he took his Kolkhorst said that the legislation was written “royal fifth” of the herd and paid cash money of in conjunction with Governor Abbott's Rebuild two to ten dollars per head. Texas Commission which is led by Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp.

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14254 S Padre Island Dr • 361-949-9310 Running W Brand King Ranch fcbot.com March 21, 2019 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island Tides of the Week By Dale Rankin The Island from Port complete in 2023 will be able to move at night Tides for Bob Hall Pier March 21 - March 28 Aransas to the JFK which will allow for increased traffic through Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon Causeway had some the port. /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible skin in the game at three gatherings going Desal plant Th 21 High 3:24 AM 1.5 7:32 AM S et 8:11 AM 99 on simultaneously downtown on Tuesday where four long-term Island projects were The second matter was approval of an 21 Low 10:40 AM 0.2 7:40 PM Rise 8:39 PM on the venue. One is universally popular with Interlocal Cooperation Contract with the 21 High 4:41 PM 1.1 Islanders, two are controversial, and one is just University of Texas Marine Science Institute coming up on the radar again. 21 Low 10:17 PM 0.6 for $60,000 to develop circulation modeling The first three were on the agenda at the regular to determine the effects of discharging outflow F 22 High 4:42 AM 1.6 7:31 AM Set 8:51 AM 99 monthly meeting of the Board of Directors from a proposed desalination plant on Harbor 22 Low 11:44 AM 0.5 7:41 PM Rise 9:43 PM of the Port of Corpus Christi which gaveled Island into Nueces Bay. The intake for the plant would be located offshore to avoid drawing in 22 High 4:49 PM 1.0 in to a standing room only house at the port offices downtown Tuesday morning. There wildlife, but the outflow would be into the bay. 22 Low 10:53 PM 0.3 were several issues on the agenda but the two As we have reported before the Harbor Island plant is separate from the plans by the City of Sa 23 High 6:00 AM 1.6 7:29 AM Set 9:31 AM 95 that drew the most attention, and the two that Island residents were there to address, were the Corpus Christi. 23 Low 12:54 PM 0.8 7:42 PM Rise 10:46 PM proposed desalination plant and the proposed Port commissioners in their remarks at the 23 High 4:53 PM 1.0 large tanker port on Harbor Island. A long line meeting stressed that the current plan calls only 23 Low 11:35 PM 0.1 of Port Aransas residents lined up to speak for permitting and the plant would not be built mostly against both. unless/until the water is needed by industries at Su 24 High 7:21 AM 1.6 7:28 AM Set 10:13 AM 89 The board was scheduled to vote on a 50- the port. But in listening to the commissioners 24 Low 2:25 PM 1.0 7:42 PM Rise 11:47 PM year lease with Lone Star Ports LLC for a it was clear they want to move things forward. One said that when industries and potential 24 High 4:47 PM 1.1 marine storage terminal on Harbor Island that would play host to Very Large Crude Carriers. industries at the port list their priorities an M 25 Low 12:22 AM 0.0 7:27 AM Set 10:56 AM 82 According to port documents Lone Star Ports is available water source is consistently at the 25 High 8:50 AM 1.6 7:43 PM a joint venture between The Carlyle Group and top of the list. One commissioner put the case directly to the crowd, “There is no more surface Tu 26 Low 1:14 AM 0.0 7:26 AM Rise 12:45 AM 73 Berry Lone Star Ports LLC. When the agenda item came up it was skipped without comment water available – not a drop.” 26 High 10:32 AM 1.7 7:43 PM Set 11:41 AM and later the commissioners went into Executive Cruise Boats W 27 Low 2:13 AM 0.0 7:25 AM Rise 1:41 AM 63 Session to discuss it. They stayed behind closed doors for several hours and the reason became The board in April will consider a proposal by 27 High 12:12 PM 1.7 7:44 PM Set 12:28 PM clear with it was learned that just down the Commissioner Wes Hoskins who made a pitch Th 28 Low 3:20 AM 0.0 7:24 AM Rise 2:34 AM 53 street the 13th Court of Appeals in a another to revisit the idea of a cruise ship port here. A gathering was hearing an appeal filed by former report was done in 2016 and will be revised 28 High 1:22 PM 1.7 7:44 PM Set 1:18 PM port commissioner Kenneth Berry — who is and brought back to the board. Two main sites president of The Port of Corpus Christi LP — have been discussed, Harbor Island and the to reverse the denial of a temporary restraining downtown bayfront, but sites in between could order issued on Tuesday by County Court-at- emerge. Hoskins said that while the cruise Law Judge Mark Woerner. Berry was ultimately industry will never be the port’s largest revenue successful in stopping the vote by the board generator it could help bring more people to the which would have effectively made the tanker area and increase flights in and out of the airport. port a done deal when the 13th Court granted his He asked for a task force to study the idea. State motion for an injunction. Representative Todd Hunter has been an active proponent of a local cruise industry for several The Port of Corpus Christi and CEO Sean years. Demand for cruising in the state is up, Strawbridge counter filed a motion later in the he said, and the only cruise port in Texas is in day for the appellate court to reconsider its Galveston where a new $100 million cruise ship decision. In their filing port attorneys say Berry terminal is being built. is looking to develop a competing crude oil terminal project and wants to “derail the lease Water Exchange Bridge approval by any means possible.” Barry claims The fourth project and the third meeting the port violated the Open Meetings Act in was at City Hall where the Memorandum of negotiating with Lone Star Ports. An injunction Understanding to move the Park Road 22 Water is likely to be no more than a delay and it is hard Exchange Bridge forward was on the Executive to see how even a win by Mr. Berry would derail Session agenda. The MOU would clear the way the port project. The project on two hundred for a re-bidding of the project but when the acres of land on Harbor Island would generate private session was over no action was taken. an estimated $2 billion to $4 billion in new Maybe no news is good news but there is no revenue for the port over the life of the lease, way to know at this point. To the folks OTB it port officials have said. A report to the board may just seem like a bridge, but to we Islanders Ask Ralph indicated that the larger vessels which will be it is the center of retail, commercial, and able to navigate the channel after dredging is residential development. But if progress was Do Smartphones Increase Productivity made Tuesday it was behind closed doors. By Ralph Coker

Q. Do e-mails and E-mail and smart phone "copy" and "reply smart phones really to all" are greatly over used and interfere improve my business with the productivity of the receiver. When productivity? you "copy" or "reply to all" to a dozen or more people it sets off a barrage of replies A. They do to a degree but many business that require several cycles before it finally people seem to be letting e-mails and smart dies. Only "copy" or "reply to all" to people phones control them rather than using them who really need to know. Don't spend time as productivity tools. A previous Harvard reading copies and replies that you recognize Business Review survey indicated US workers as a waste of time. receive 11,680 e-mails each year. Fortunately, 74 percent are junk and never reach the Over-use of e-mails and texts also interfere worker's in box. That still leaves 3037. Those with prompt decision making. For best 3037 consume the equivalent of 111 work productivity, the lowest level person in an days each year for the average worker. That's organization with the authority, knowledge about 45 percent of the average worker's work and experience should make the decision. time. For maximum productivity that should For large or complex decisions, collaboration not exceed 10 percent for total communication and coordination with several others time. That means the average worker is may be necessary but not with dozens of wasting 35 percent of their time. others. Because e-mail and texting make collaboration and coordination convenient, Many business people seem to think they doesn't mean it's productive. Each person have to be 100 percent informed not only consulted feels compelled to reply with input. about their work but about everything else That triggers several cycles of responses to going on in the world. Otherwise, they don't reach a resolution which delays the decision feel like a creditable business person. That's and consumes everyone's time that should be just not true. They only need to know the used for other productive work. It doesn't important information that affects their work. improve the quality of the decision either. The remaining e-mail and text messages Most business people are not likely to curtail Neesy Thompkins and Franny Flynn. appeal to the person's curiosity and personal e-mail and smart phone use voluntarily. It's need to be connected, included and accepted just too much fun. Owners and managers as a member of a group. However, that need to issue policies and follow up to see doesn't produce business results. In business that policies are followed. your time is your most valuable asset. It takes strong self discipline to use your time wisely Bio: Ralph Coker volunteers with SCORE to reach your business goals. which provides free mentoring to small businesses and nonprofits

The Angry Marlin has a walk up doggie door. Just kidding Lizzy stood there and barked until someone brought her cheese. Thanks Tracey! A6 Island Moon March 21, 2019 Senior Moments Anecdotingly Texas Role in World War Two- Part I Not By the Hair on My Chinny-Chin-Chin By Dotson Lewis By Abigail Bair Special to the Island Moon About a decade ago my hot wax on your hairy parts and then rip it off Dotson’s note: In the event it has slipped your friend Kelly sent me a series with a strip. I used to have a lovely Korean lady mind, the 75th anniversary of the Normandy of text messages regarding her recent rash of who would scream-count to three in a language landing is only about 3 months away. To be exact, chin hair growth: I didn’t understand and then cheerfully rip out it occurred June 6, 1944, and by all research my armpit fluff. It wasn’t really that bad after Kelly: I need to pluck my chin hair. I have two, available, it is the second most remembered about the first seven times, or at least that’s and they are hard and black. I’M GROWING A event in the history of the United States of how I remembered it. I kind of conveniently BEARD! America. This accurate fact is the result of my forgot all the times I screamed expletives and questioning more than 100 personal friends, Me: That is so hot! threatened to murder her with a chainsaw. who were born between January 1, 1919 and Kelly: I’m nothing if not hot and classy. Despite the language barrier, I’m pretty sure she January 1, 1935. My thanks to Ralph A. Wooster figured out my intentions. I’m not proud of the and the Texas State Historical Association for 90th Infantry Division Me: If you become a bearded lady, I’m selling pantomime, but it was effective. many of the facts contained in this report. Also, 144th Infantry regiments were other Texas units you to a circus. my thanks to the United States Army Museum to see extensive action in the Pacific. She just smiled. Wax beats chainsaw, I guess. Kelly: I’d do the same for you. for the photos of the division patches appearing Texans in Europe Still, I was dumb enough to be excited about herein. I immediately published this on my blog, having my very own wax pot. It’s given name Texans also played an active role in the war in thinking it was really hilarious that my best is “Happy Pot,” but I call it the “Drippy Death Pearl Harbor Was the Start of WW II for Europe. The Texas’ 36th Division was the first friend was morphing into a Billy goat. I was Danger Device.” Texas and the USA American division to invade Europe. Mobilized sure to escape weird hair growth in the future, Folks, I have never once heard the scream of at Camp Bowie (Brown County) on November right? I mean, what kind of LADY gets chin The Japanese attack on a cat with its tail on fire, but I’ll bet that was 25, 1940, the division trained in Texas, hairs? What possible biological purpose could Hawaii, December 7, one hundred percent what I sounded like the Louisiana, and Florida before landing in North one silly chin hair possibly have? 1941, brought the United first time I slathered 118-degree wax on my leg Africa in April 1943. The division stormed States into World War II. Karma got me again. Lately, I’m sprouting and then ripped it off. Somehow, I managed to ashore at Salerno on September 9, 1943, The aerial bombardment strange hairs with the frequency of toadstool burn myself while simultaneously not pulling participated in the ill-fated and controversial of Pearl Harbor was a appearances in springtime. I, too, have one on out any hair. When I looked down, my little attempt to cross the Rapido River, and took surprise, but the United my chin that by some strange miracle can be leg hairs waved defiantly from the red and part in the liberation of Rome, the invasion of States’ entry into the non-existent one evening and then four and a deepening swelling. I think one of them may southern France, and fighting in Alsace and the war raging in Europe half feet long the next morning. Another, located have even mooned me, but I was too busy Ardennes. and Asia was not totally directly above my carotid artery, waves like an cussing and trying to make an ice pack to pay unexpected. The United When the war ended the division was in Austria. inflatable man at a car lot, making it highly too much attention. States had opposed the In all, the 36th was in combat nineteen months, possible that I will manage so stab myself while 36th Infantry By the way, I tested the wax on my hand and expansionistic moves fought in five major campaigns, engaged in trying to pluck it. Divison wrist first (much like you check a baby’s bottle) of Japan in the Far East, two amphibious assaults, and captured more Cop 1 (staring at my bloodless body clutching and had no problems. I guess my legs are just and Germany and Italy in Europe and Africa than 175,000 prisoners. The division suffered a pair of tweezers): What do you think killed sensitive – or maybe the little kilted Gaels that since the early 1930s. among the highest casualties for any American her? live there sabotaged me. We may never know. World War II Started In 1939 unit: 3,717 killed, 12,685 wounded, and 3,064 missing in action, or 19,466 total. Men from Cop 2 (female): She was probably trying to For awhile after that, my leg hair remained The invasion of Poland in 1939, followed other states served in the division as the war pluck a neck hair, Gordo. unscathed. It didn’t stand proudly, like the by the fall of France in the summer of 1940, went on, but it continued to be identified as a Even regular hair is a problem on my body. I corn gently swaying in a summer’s breeze that increased US concerns for national security. Texas unit. Displaying the Lone Star flag and hate shaving because it requires maintenance you see in beer and pickup truck commercials. While the majority of people in the US opposed wearing the famous T-patch on their shoulders, every couple of days and I always manage to Rather, some of it stood straight up, some direct involvement in the foreign conflict, we men of the Thirty-sixth were proud to be known nick myself and bleed all over the house. It’s leaned, some lay flat on its side, and some supported efforts to aid those nations opposing as the "Texas army." rather disconcerting to have to yell at the dog wandered off (probably to find another drink). aggression and to build up our own defenses. I may be a Heinz 57 kid genetically, but my leg The 90th Infantry Division, was composed for licking your blood droplets off the tile floor. Texans strongly supported President Roosevelt's hair is 100% Scottish and therefore cannot be originally of national guardsmen and draftees I mean, I’m pretty sure Stadler is ultimately steps to aid the British, French, and Chinese buggered. from Texas and Oklahoma, also saw much angling to eat me, but I’d rather not be reminded and to build up our national defense. Texas action in Europe. Activated at Camp Barkeley of the fact. I think my new hot wax scar made friends with congressmen, with the exception of Martin near Abilene in March 1942, the division them. At least it seems happy. Honestly, that Dies and Hatton W. Sumners, who abstained, However, I also like to wear shorts and I swim landed on Utah beach on D-day, 1944. As a area of my leg constantly looks as though it’s voted for the Selective Service Act of 1940, a lot. For awhile (okay, five months – don’t part of General George Patton's Third Army, posing for candid vacation photos. which authorized the first peace-time draft in judge me) I just dealt with the shame of having the 90th took part in Operation Cobra, the American history. Many Texas congressmen, legs that looked like they had been drawn by Finally, in an act of total cultural insensitivity, I Allied breakout in northern Europe. The 90th led by Senator Thomas T. Connally, played an artist who only knew how to crosshatch. I bought an epilator. drove across France in the summer of 1944, leadership roles in the debate over the Lend was raised “right” (probably) because evidently participated in heavy fighting at Metz and in It has 40 whirring sets of tweezers and reminds Lease bill which was to provide needed war even I have a maximum capacity for bodily the Saar, and had a role in relieving besieged me of a combine. Yes, it hurts – but nowhere supplies to nations resisting aggression. The embarrassment. Plus, my eyebrows were American forces in the Ardennes. The division near as much as a hot wax burn – it helps if you Texas delegation, except Joseph J. Mansfield, beginning to look like the Pyramus and Thisbe was in Czechoslovakia when the war ended. pour yourself a glass of wine. voted for the bill, which, early in 1941, passed of caterpillars, desperately trying to meet and the House by 260 to 165 and the Senate by 60 Like the 36th Division, the 90th sustained make out in the middle of my forehead. It works well for the most part -- except for on to 31. Texans reacted quickly to the attack on heavy casualties, especially in the savage I ordered a wax pot and a bunch of wax beads, my burn scar. Pearl Harbor. Connally introduced the joint struggle in the Bocage hedgerow country of intending to take care of the problem once and Looks like my Scottish tenants will continue to resolution for a declaration of war with Japan Normandy. The 2nd Infantry, a Regular Army for all. get haircuts rather than be torn out by the roots. on December 8. Several days later he introduced division, was also a unit that had strong ties similar resolutions for war with Germany and with Texas. The division was headquartered I’m sure many of you ladies (and you My chin hairs, though, are toast. I don’t care Italy, Japan's allies who had declared war on the at Fort Sam Houston before World War II. conscientious man-scapers out there) have had which gene pool they come from. United States. Identified by its Indian-head shoulder patch, experience with having another person pour the 2nd landed at Omaha beach the day after Governor of Texas Urges Support of the the initial American assault. It formed a part of War Effort the United States First Army, first under Omar The then Texas Governor, Coke R. Stevenson, Bradley and later Courtney Hodges. Like the urged support for the war effort, denouncing 90th, the 2nd fought its way across France in the the "cowardly Japanese attack." He accurately summer and fall of 1944. It crossed the Rhine predicted that Texans would respond at the Remagen bridgehead in March 1945 and enthusiastically to defend their country. Long was in Leipzig when the war ended. lines of men gathered at recruiting stations to volunteer for military service. Texans enlisted or were drafted in excess of the percentage of the nation's population. Although the state had 5 percent of the United States population, it provided 7 percent of those who served in the armed forces. Texas A&M University alone provided more officers for the armed forces than both of the military academies combined. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox later reported that Texas had contributed a larger percentage of men to the armed forces than any other state. By the end of the war 750,000 Texans, including 12,000 women, served in the armed forces. During the war 22,022 Texans were killed or died of wounds. Texans Units Served With Distinction *The 1st Cavalry was my outfit in the “Korean Kenneth McLeod sent us this shot of the Wake Maker of the Week taken last Saturday. Among the first to see action were members Police Action” of the Second Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Dotson’s other note: This report was prompted of the Thirty-sixth Infantry Division, the Texas by the visit of the C47 (aka DC 3) that visited Thoughts From Dr. Tom National Guard. Detached from the division here on March 16th. If you did not get out to the in the fall of 1941, the battalion was rushed to airport and visit/ride in “That’s All, Brother” the Far East, where artillery was badly needed. you missed something and may have lost your Abdominal Pain The battalion was captured on Java when last chance for a ride in a “Gooney Bird.” When the Japanese overran the Dutch East Indies. Abdominal pain is a of any area of the body and many of these I started this report, I thought I could get it all Together with captured survivors of the cruiser complicated subject. conditions are dangerous. Things that should in one report…not so, Part 2 will, hopefully, Houston, sunk in the Sundra Strait on March 1, There are numerous things get your attention is severe pain whether appear in the 780th (March 28, 2019) issue of 1942, members of the unit came to be known that can go wrong and due crampy or constant, each can indicate different The Island Moon. Thank you for reading and as the Lost Battalion because for a year no one to differences in anatomy, women are slightly pathology. Persistent vomiting is problematic commenting on Senior Moments. I can be at home knew what had happened to them. more complicated. Of course that should be no for a number of reasons. Dark black stools reached at: [email protected] and/or Land The men of the Lost Battalion spent the rest of surprise to anyone. This week I am going to or coffee ground vomit is very worrisome Line: 361-949-7681 or Cell: 530-748-8475. the war in Japanese prison camps. The 112th touch on a few things to be aware of if you and obvious blood needs to be evaluated Cavalry Regiment, was also a Texas unit to Please note: The next Veterans Round Table or a family member develops abdominal pain. right away. It is never normal. Pain after meals can indicate numerous things. Lower see service in the Pacific; the regiment, made Meeting will be Tuesday, March 26, 2019; 9-11 The first part is an idea of anatomy. The upper abdominal pain can indicate diverticulitis and up mainly of Texans, was the last American AM, 3209 S. Staples. All veterans, their families right hand side of the abdomen is where the appendicitis which can perforate and leave unit to serve on horseback in the war. After and anyone interested in veterans’ affairs, are liver and gallbladder live as well as some parts you with colostomy bag or numerous days being sent to New Caledonia to guard an air invited. Coffee & doughnuts are provided. of the large and small bowel. The pancreas in the hospital and sometimes can be fatal in base, the 112th took part in heavy fighting in Hope to see you there. Also our Veterans Radio and the stomach can sometimes present in susceptible patients. New Britain, Leyte, and Luzon, along with the Round Table is on the air on KEYS AM 1440, this area. They more commonly present in 1st Cavalry Division*, another regular army 8 – 10 AM, Saturdays. The next show will air the middle, what we call the epigastrium. In Lastly we worry about heart disease causing unit stationed in Texas before the war. The March 23, 2019. Please listen and call in. The this area ulcers and pancreatitis can cause abdominal pain; it is actually a very common 1st Cavalry dismounted for jungle fighting, listener/text line is: 361-882-5397…It’s your pain along with viruses and gastritis. Pain presentation and should not be overlooked. captured Los Negros in the Admiralty group in two hours, let us hear from you. here with dark or bloody stools can be acutely Cardiac work up for abdominal pain is needed February 1944. A year later the 1st Cavalry was Hang in there/Have fun! dangerous. Avoiding advil, aleve and alcohol many times. the first American division to reach Manila in is important if you get pain here. The left the recapture of the Philippines. The 103rd and In order to work up abdominal pain it requires upper side houses the spleen and the bowels the ability to do labs and imaging quickly and as well as the tail of the pancreas and so have access to iv fluids and medications. We condition afflicting these organs may present need access to advanced imaging such as cat here. The area around the umbilicus can scan and ultrasound. Unfortunately there is represent numerous things including hernias, not one test for abdominal pain that covers appendicitis or diverticulitis. The left lower everything. CT scanning provides a large quadrant and pelvis is famous for diverticulitis amount of information but sometimes in the and also any left sided gynecological disease case of gallbladder disease ultrasound is more such as ovarian pathology, infections, hernias accurate. This can be true with gynecological etc. the right lower quadrant is most famous disease as well. It takes an experienced for appendicitis although diverticulitis and physician to tease out proper diagnosis and right sided gyn issues play a role just like the treatment in this setting. Missing the diagnosis left side. could result in increased morbidity for the What are the signs to watch out for? The patient. abdomen and pelvis probably have the most Hope this helps you know what to watch out broad differential diagnoses for pathology for. Have a great week, Doc Tom March 21, 2019 Island Moon A 7 Island Moon on a Spoon Let's Talk Cabbage! By Chef Vita Jarrin

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He could have been your next door Dotson’s note: During recent surfing though Despite the fact that Magic Johnson had five will proudly be displayed on his Hall of Fame neighbor and you would have never known he sports historical dates, I noticed this entry: NBA championships and at least 10,000 career plaque. Day after day, he did his thing. He hit was a professional athlete. Now people name “3/22/1994 - Magic becomes Lakers coach.” assists in his record, he only walked away with leadoff homers, doubles up the middle, or took their kids after him. He was ok with who he The foregoing triggered my curiosity since at approximately $22 million from the NBA and a pitch on the elbow and trotted to first base. was and proud to be a professional baseball one time during the “Final Four” (March 24- a few extra millions from endorsements. The Along the way, he began to lead the team out player. I remember being late arriving to a 26, 1979) it appeared to me that I was watching first thing he did was to buy a 4.5 percent stake onto the field at the start of each game. We game once and while standing outside, in line to a surefire hall of famer, and perhaps one of the in the LA Lakers for $10 million, which turned quickly found out that he was a natural born get in, I smiled at hearing this loud roar rumble best basketball players to ever appear on the out to be a lucrative investment in the long run. leader. Very rarely was he hurt, or at least he from deep inside the park, B-G-O, B-G-O. hardwood. I trust that you Moon Monkeys who By 2010, his stake had risen in value to $50 was good at keeping it from us. Little did we Over and over, the crowd chanted B-G-O, as are basketball fanatics, would like to take a million, so he sold it and started Magic Johnson know that he played through illnesses, soreness, he approached home plate. It was just another short recess from you Final Four prep and get Enterprises. injuries to his knee in 2000, shoulder and broken “Day of days,” in the life of Craig Biggio. an update on one of the greats. Thanks to Nat fingers? He never made excuses, busted his tail Baseball, in Houston, Texas, as we know it, was Through Magic Johnson Enterprises, the Berman, Pat Riley and Wikipedia for many of during every at-bat, and man, could he turn on a about to begin. basketball legend progressed to make even fastball. He was always there; in the middle of the facts contained in this report, and as usual, Craig Alan Biggio, who was born in Smithtown, more profitable investments. In 1998, he had a rally, stretching a single into a double, bunting thanks to my old friend Bill Morgan-SWC for New York, on December 14, 1965, announced also partnered with Starbucks to avail the to get on base, and diving to keep a ball in play. the graphics. his retirement from Major League Baseball, coffee chain in economically-disadvantaged For twenty years he showed up for the same today, July 24, 2007. Unlike most professional How Magic Johnson Accumulated a Net neighborhoods. You only have to look at the team and we never noticed he was there until athletes, he will go out on his own terms. After Worth of Over $650 Million success of Starbucks today to realize the something good happened. wisdom of that investment. A few days after twenty years of taking infield practice, twenty selling his stake in Lakers, Magic also sold his years of getting in and out of that batting cage, 50 percent share in Starbucks, bringing his total he’s had enough. “I’m at peace with it and I’m revenue from the two deals to a reported $100 at peace with how things have gone for me. I’m million. in a good place,” said Biggio. “It couldn’t get any better than it did on June 28, when I reached Under the same Magic Johnson Enterprises my 3,000th hit. It can’t get any better than that, umbrella, Johnson also invested in Magic other than winning the World Series. That was Johnson Theaters. He used the same principle the greatest day of my life and my family’s life. as before, putting up theaters in less-fortunate That’s what I want the fans to remember.” neighborhoods. Of course, this turned out to be a massive success as well. But perhaps his most Yes, he will be remembered. He will be significant investment was in the Los Angeles remembered as a first round draft choice from Dodgers, which also involved a number of Seton Hall University, a seven time All-Star at partners to purchase in 2012 for $2 billion. two different positions, winner of four Gold Gloves, five Silver Slugger Awards, 3,060 Magic Johnson also teamed up with a Century hits, 291 home runs, 55 triples and 1014 extra City investment fund – Canyon Capital Realty base hits, 414 stolen bases, six postseason As of 2019, Magic Johnson net worth is Advisors – to form Canyon-Johnson Urban appearances, and the most doubles (668) hit by estimated to be around $650 million. He made it Funds that develops properties in under-served any right-handed batter to every play the game. in the list of highest-paid retired athletes having urban neighborhoods. Some of the projects There is one other record that he accomplished earned around $22 million. Magic Johnson’s net under the funds include condominiums in that no one seems to talk about. In 1997, Biggio worth fortune was made not through basketball Oakland, a retail and residential complex in became the first and only player in baseball career earnings, but through his business Chicago, redevelopment of a previous rail history not to hit into a double play, while investments. yard in Boston, and the $28 million One Santa playing an entire 162-game season. He will This astounding figure is enough to rank Fe residential, office, and retail complex in also be remembered as a Killer Bee forever in him as one of the most successful athletes downtown Los Angeles. Johnson plays a major the minds of Houston fans. For eighteen of his after retirement and one of the wealthiest role in presenting proposals to neighborhood twenty years you could not say Biggio without residents and public officials. Despite his African Americans today. How did he do it? Craig Biggio Final At-Bat saying Bagwell, Jeff Bagwell that is. These two After discovering he had contracted HIV, retirement from NBA in 1996, Magic Johnson have been the heartbeat of the Houston Astros Johnson ventured into entrepreneurship is still highly influential. for as long as most fans can remember. So, He was a grinder, a winner, and an old fashion and introduced popular brands to ethnically goodbye Craig Biggio! Looks like you will He dresses professionally, smiles easily, and is ballplayer. He always respected the game and diverse neighborhoods through Magic Johnson be heading back to your small town beginnings very patient. He prefers being called by his first his ability to focus on the next play separated Enterprises. in the State of New York to pick up your last name – Earvin – instead of his moniker while him from most. Whether something good or award, in a little place called Cooperstown. He formed partnerships with Starbucks (before conducting business. Richard Riordan, former bad happened on the field, he was able to define Then, you will be remembered forever as one of it was cool), AMC Theaters, T.G.I. Fridays, mayor of Los Angeles, commended Johnson’s it as “that’s baseball.” He never charged the the best. It will be just another “Day of days,” and 24 Hour Fitness. In addition, he invested financiers for teaming up with the former mound, never showed up other players or the in the life of Craig Biggio. in urban real estate as well as companies athlete in the Dodgers deal, citing his influence club, and has never been thrown out of a game. providing services to under-served markets in both the game and industry. He also added Oh, there was a fire, a fire burning deep down Andy Purvis is a local author and radio in the U.S through his Yucaipa-Johnson and that his star power would help efforts to revive inside him, but he always had it under control. personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. Canyon-Johnson funds. He has awarded at least the Dodgers brand. His motto may have been, “Never let them see com for all the latest info on his books or to $1.1 million to community-based organizations Current Life you sweat,” like the commercial. He never listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books focusing on HIV/AIDS awareness and grew his hair long, pierced his ears or tattooed are available online and can be found in the prevention. Owing to the massive wealth he has his body. You never read bad things about him local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be accumulated for himself from his successful in the press. The only thing dirty about Craig contacted at [email protected]. Also Basketball Career basketball career and business endeavors, Biggio was his uniform. listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Magic Johnson lives a comfortable lifestyle. His Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. Born in August, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan, He was a husband, a father, a religious net worth has allowed him to own luxury homes com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of Earvin “Magic” Johnson always had a natural man, rancher, head of the Sunshine Kids, (an admiration for basketball from a tender age. in different areas of California that are valued the Houston Astros. Even before he joined high school (Everett at tens of millions of dollars. Additionally, he High School), he had already resolved to play owns a fleet of luxury cars such as Ferrari, basketball as his career. Although the school BMW, and etc., as well as a private jet. was predominantly white and featured certain Magic is involved in a lot of charity work and instances of racism, he was still able to perform has founded his own philanthropic foundation well and graduate successfully in 1977. By this called Magic Johnson Foundation that deals time, Magic Johnson was in high demand by primarily with HIV/AIDS awareness and some reputable and competitive universities. helping its victims. His own infection resulted He would later join Michigan State University, from being physically involved with numerous where he led his team to a tournament women. He has a son with Melissa Mitchell, championship during the 1978-’79 season. who grew up with his mother but under great Throughout his impressive performances care of his father as well. He also has a son and both in high school and college, someone was an adopted daughter with his wife, Earlitha watching closely: the Los Angeles Lakers. He “Cookie” Kelly, whom he wedded in 1991. was drafted to the first overall pick by the LA Dotson’s other note: Not a bad career. For Lakers in 1979. 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Pin The State of the City luncheon was pretty cool Despite all of the masses of bait and gamefish folks giving public comment, and it was pretty fish of all sizes some only the for lunch today. That’s the first one I’ve been to, rushing in, some fishermen are left with limp interesting to say the least. I got up and made size of a dime. Tiger chubs and I mean everyone that was anyone was there. lines, empty stringers, and frustration. The my recommendations, reminded Council that are in the thick grass by the We sat next to Nelda Martinez, and geez! Nelda options for hungry gamefish are limitless. we need to elect “people that play well with millions, mud minnows up has lost a bunch of weight and looks great! There is no lack of abundance of food sources others and help make good decisions”, and let on the beaches, pipe fish and She said she hopes she can keep it off, but I’m out there for the fish your trying to catch. needle fish, striped killifish, them know who I picked. After that, I said bye guessing with the stress of being mayor behind Some small ells, mud worms, clam to Charles from Axys (who had a very long her, she’ll be fine. Mayor Garrett was also there eels fallen worms, glass minnows, crabs, day) and headed out. It was only later after the and seemed to be doing well. The guest list was from a hungry small dog fish, and other meeting when the video became available that long. It was good running into a bunch of those redfish’s adolescent gamefish just to I was able to watch the people before me, and folks who have helped shape the City over the name a few. Funny thing the folks behind me. No wonder Council and past few decades and who helped get us where mouth. is, I believe that the mature staff visibly relaxed when I got up to speak; we are today; we couldn’t have done it without gamefish can identify each of these by sight, they are subjected to 15 kinds of conspiracy- them laying the groundwork. We’re standing on smell, and vibration. Those big lures may not be theory-crazy during public comment! Get on the shoulders of giants. Let’s try not to let them what is on that Monster Trout’s appetizer menu. the website and watch, but make sure to have down. some popcorn ready. You almost won’t be able to stop watching the train wreck. Council has to There is some great news from down south The way I’ve been getting around this and deal with all kinds for sure. on the Seashore; supposedly the contractor putting fish in the box is by matching my lures was able to get back to work to the size of the bait source. The small 3” DOA and has finished the road to CAL SHADS are small but very effective. I Yarborough! Woohoo! The have been using natural colors with chartreuse road has been shut down tails when in grass to imitate perch and other for several years now, and small baitfish. On softer bottoms and sand I’m hopefully folks won’t get too using the 4”jerk shad in blood red to mimic a crazy back there and ruin it small clam eel or worm, along the beaches and again. With these really high spoil islands darker colored 3” paddle tails look tides we’re having lately, like a small crab swimming through the water. Yarborough is about the Keeping your eyes open to small flickers of bait furthest south you’re able to and your lures of that size in the water will pay go. Plus, being on the backside off. of the Island, you can escape these constant northeast winds. Lunar tables I’m really happy that the Park The lunar feeding tables are absolutely key finally got that road rebuilt. when you are catching fish. During those major Everyone I talk to is really times be in your best spots. I do catch bigger tired of this winter-like fish using bigger lures, and when I’m fishing weather we’ve had folks. I’m for myself always concentrate on big fish and Wild poppies ready to sweat myself. While not numbers. Going shallow is a good start Dancing big lures up shallow is a chess in searching for trophy sized gamefish. Just the weather is still mediocre game, both angler and gamefish are at best, all the trees have popped, and there are knocking out the numbers of fish in deeper I also sounded horrible because I’m fighting looking for one big strike! a sinus infection. I had been hacking and wildflowers everywhere from the bounty of rain water can raise the odds of hooking a bigger coughing for a few months (yeah, I know it was we had this past season. Even the wild poppy fish. 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By Stu Duncan finally won the American League West Division and made their franchise’s first postseason Special to the Island Moon appearance before falling to the eventual World Two months after burying my retired U.S. Champion New York Yankees in the opening Marine Corps drill sergeant of a father, I’m round of the American League playoffs. headed back to Arlington, Texas next weekend There were eventually happier times for me to visit the place in which I fully expected to as a spectator at the ballpark, as I watched then have my ashes sprinkled upon when it’s my Rangers starting pitcher C.J. Wilson and closer time to go. Neftali Feliz combine on a four-hit shutout To quote University of Kansas men’s basketball in Texas’ 1-0 triumph over the Los Angeles coach and fellow Oklahoma State University Angels in late July of 2010. That, of course, was alumni Bill Self, “Home is calling” for me again the first of the Rangers’ back-to-back American as I return to the stadium formerly known as League Championship teams. The Ballpark in Arlington to bid farewell to my Professionally this baseball stadium has been favorite sports venue on the planet. There I also every bit of a sanctuary for me for sure as well. plan to honor my departed 84-year-old father, Benjamin -- a 24 year Padre Island resident • It’s where I was once verbally chewed out by and retired 29-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Major League Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Corps, who died in January after he suffered his Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez on Opening Day in second heart attack since 2011 this past summer April of 1996 for being in the Rangers’ training – by wearing his military baseball cap and his room when I wasn’t supposed to. I was covering civilian clothes while eating his favorite, a my first Texas game as a newspaper sportswriter ballpark hot dog, in his memory. and didn’t know any better while trying to follow and interview Pudge’s teammate Craig Worthington that day after Worthington hit a key home run off of then Boston Red Sox ace pitcher Roger Clemens during the Rangers’ 5-3 win. • Following a heartbreaking 9-5 Fourth of July loss to Seattle in 1996, in which Texas’ bullpen blew a late lead by giving up five ninth-inning runs, I was also scolded by then Rangers manager Johnny Oates in his office at the ballpark afterward for my choice of words while asking a question about the importance of the final three games of that series. Oates’ My Dad & I At The Ballpark in Arlington. response, “Vital? Vital’s a word you use in an operating room!” I can’t recall what else Oates This is the final season the Rangers will play said to me in frustration after that because I in what is now called Globe Life Park, as Texas was too stunned and embarrassed considering will open its new stadium, Globe Life Field, there were other reporters in the room with us, next year, which leaves me more than a little but in Oates’ defense, Texas was in a heated heartbroken. pennant chase at the time, as its six game lead in the division to start that month eventually Like so many other Texas Rangers fans twice dwindled to one game before the Rangers this baseball season, the current ballpark -- previously known by so many other names since it opened in April of 1994 – will be tough to let go of because it already stores up a treasure full of life-long memories for me. Kaden Mui, a fourth grader at Seashore Learning Center, received 3rd place in the poison control poster art contest. With over 500 applicants, this was an incredible My Dad -- who served a combined three Tours honor. He was presented with his award, as well as a 32 inch TV, on March 18 at the of Duty in Korea and Vietnam before retiring SLC pep rally. from the military in 1981 with the rank of Sergeant Major -- and I saw Sammy Sosa hit his 600th career home run for the Rangers Science and the Sea from those same stands against Sosa’s former team the Chicago Cubs in June of 2007. Little Baby Sharks Hang Out Off Long Island did I know it was the last time my father and I would watch a game in person there, as my If you’re a baby white shark, could Long Island area from August to October, probably because My Mom & Me At The Ballpark In Pop won’t make it back with me this year to see Arlington June 1995. be your summer refuge? That’s the question a the shallower waters near the shore offer shelter his beloved Cubbies play the Rangers again as team of scientists asked after they noticed a from predators, including other sharks. The we previously discussed doing last year if his responded to win the A.L. West crown by 4 ½ concentration of baby sharks spending time scientists also learned that the baby sharks health would’ve enabled him to. games that season. in the New York Bight. They suspected the headed south in late fall to shallow waters off bight, which is the stretch of the Atlantic Ocean the Carolinas. The sharks remained there for Hence, I’ll be sitting in the stands during • I’m ashamed to admit I also committed between Cape May, New Jersey and the eastern winter and returned to Long Island in the spring. Saturday night’s and Sunday afternoon’s games the Cardinal Sin of reporting in June of that in that final weekend of March in Arlington season for getting busted with another reporter tip of Long Island, was a white shark nursery The tags have now given the scientists a clear without him while wearing my Dad’s red (by the head of the Rangers’ media relations because young sharks had been frequently map of where these little sharks hang out, Marine Corps baseball cap and his favorite department) for cheering in the stadium’s press spotted there for several years. But to confirm it, when and where they move and the routes they Hawaiian shirt doing my best not to shed a box. We can blame then Rangers right fielder they needed to know the sharks actually stayed take. For white shark populations to recover manly tear while chomping on what used to Juan Gonzalez for that. ;) The Rangers rallied there for lengthy periods. from years of overfishing, baby sharks need to be known as a Darvish (hot) Dog and thinking from a four-run deficit late in the game thanks The scientists attached satellite and acoustic grow up and produce their own baby sharks. constantly about him. to Gonzalez’s clutch two-out, bases clearing tags to ten sharks under a year old found This information can aid in conservation efforts double to center field in the bottom of the swimming near Long Island. The tags to ensure the babies of this vulnerable species eighth inning, which capped Texas’ thrilling 6-5 monitored the locations of each shark and reach full maturity. victory over Baltimore that night. revealed that they spent several months in that • Then Texas first baseman Lee Stevens nearly ruined my one and only Rangers’ game story for the Fort Worth Star Telegram in September of 1997 with his walk-off, two-run double in the bottom of the ninth inning in Texas’ 5-4 comeback victory over the then Ken Griffey Jr.- led Seattle Mariners. Stevens’ game-winning hit made me nearly rewrite my entire story My Dad’s 1997 photo of Ryne Sandberg while on deadline that night, but, by the Grace (middle) and Mark Grace (far left) at of God, it still made it into the next morning’s Wrigley Field. editions of the newspaper.

If only My Dad’s memory were the only one • I also watched then New York Yankees hitting close to home or my heart after returning pitchers Orlando Hernandez and Randy Choate to this hallowed ground of mine. combine to break up then Rangers center fielder and current Philadelphia Phillies manager Gabe The year before my mother, Carolyn, died of Kapler’s 28 game hitting streak in August of lung cancer, I spent several hours sitting in these 2000 while covering that particular Texas home stands with my parents during a 1995 pregame game for the Palestine Herald-Press newspaper rain delay -- the Rangers were scheduled to in Palestine, Texas. play Chicago third baseman Robin Ventura and the White Sox that night – that just would not Yet ironically, with the Rangers opening the relent. season against those no longer lovable losers with their cool “Go, Cubs, Go” victory song, my Because of that eventual rainout, I never did Dad will be most on my mind that weekend. It’s get to watch even one inning of a game at the the same Dad I went to a Cubs home game with Young white shark with satellite tag attached. stadium with my Mom, but that’s OK because I (against the New York Mets) at Wrigley Field in still spent hours of quality family time with my Credit: OCEARCH/R. Snow 1997, which was also the final Cubs season for Mom and Dad while eating… you guessed it… both MLB Hall of Fame second baseman Ryne hot dogs in the stands, which now more than Sandberg and renowned radio and television ever means so much to me. play-by-play announcer Harry Caray. This ballpark was therapeutic for me while So when that final pitch is put into play in helping me deal with the reality of my Mom’s Arlington that Sunday and before I leave my eventual death -- she lasted two months after All-You-Can-Eat seat and drive back to South being diagnosed with the disease before passing Texas in my Dad’s car, I plan to give one more away in July of 1996 -- during the summer Mile-High salute skyward to my father, the of 1996, as I spent so many hours watching military warrior and my hero, while saying the Rangers games from the press box while goodbye to more than just another ballpark for covering them for the Stephenville Empire- me and my gone-but-not-forgotten departed Tribune newspaper in Stephenville, Texas. That family members. was a memorable season indeed, as the Rangers twitter@stuslamduncan March 21, 2019 Island Moon A 14 Full Transparency and Disclosure STATE POA News by Marvin Jones, President As always, let me have Bulkheads- The bulkhead located West of your thoughts. You can the German Bakery is broken and in need March is National Nutrition Month reach me at marvin@ of repair. The Urban Engineering firm has pipoa.net been retained to provide the PIPOA with By Todd Hunter, District 32 beneficial alternatives to use in baking or iced/ Engineering plans for its repair. Our PIPOA is as busy March is National Nutrition hot tea and coffee. as ever dealing with Bulkheads- The Board is conducting month. Being informed on Another food group concern is artificial trans issues not related to the day to day operations discussions and research regarding how the basic nutritional facts is important since fats, also known as partially hydrogenated of the PIPOA. to evaluate the bulkheads to determine the our food choices affect our lives in many ways. oils. The negative side effects of this group is best course of action both economically and Election, Recount, lawsuit, Sea Pines- No Nutrition is an important issue in our state. raising bad cholesterol and lowering the good physically to maintain the bulkheads. Comment Texas has also been helpful in promoting good cholesterol. This could lead to health risks CAM Fees- Reminder, members yearly nutrition for our citizens. Billish Park- Bids from contractors for a such as high blood pressure which can cause common area maintenance fee is due by long-term maintenance agreement have been Because of the diversity of Texas’ geography, poor blood circulation in our bodies. Regular March 31, 2019. If you haven’t received a received by Executive Director, Jim Smock. bountiful amounts of naturally grown foods consumption of trans fats have also been billing statement or need another, please call The bids are being evaluated, and hopefully, that are both delicious and wholesome can be shown to lead to possible diabetes, Alzheimer’s the PIPOA office at 361-949-7025. a contract will be executed in the near future. found throughout our State. Our farmers grow disease, and obesity. Litter Critter- There will be no litter critter nutritious vegetables and fruits in our well- Cobo da Bara Boat Ramp- Bids have been Taking advantage of all the wonderful whole in the month of March. kept Texas soils. This enables these foods to received and are being evaluated. Hopefully, foods our state has to offer are beneficial in many have healthy amounts of essential vitamins, a contract will be executed in the near future. ways. Making smarter nutritional choices can minerals, and antioxidants our bodies need to go a long way. The following links contain more function properly. Specific foods rich in these informative nutritional information to help with nutrients are broccoli, blueberries, spinach, these decisions: https://authoritynutrition.com/ cauliflower, tomatoes, peaches, squash, onions, top-10-nutrition-facts/, http://www.eatright. tree nuts (pecans, almonds, etc.), oranges, org/resource/food/nutrition/nutrition-facts- Your Chance to Two Local pumpkin, sweet potatoes, and many more. and-food-labels/the-basics-of-the-nutrition- You can find the best times to buy these foods facts-panel, https://www.texasagriculture.gov/ at:http://www.gotexan.org/Portals/1/PDF/ EducationTraining/FoodandNutritionTraining. Make a Difference Businesses produce%20availability%20brochure%20 aspx, https://www.nutrition.gov/whats-food, The City of Corpus Christi has numerous 2015-nocropmarks.pdf. https://www.nutritionvalue.org, and https:// boards, commissions and committees which Recognized by Texas Our meats come from our virtuous oceans, www.myfooddiary.com/Resources/nutrient_ strive to reflect the diverse interests and abilities facts/nutrient_protein.asp. of our citizens. lakes, land, and farms. Chicken/eggs, beef, Travel Counselors fish, pork, and turkey are all rich in protein and If you have questions regarding any of the The City Secretary’s Office is currently seeking JB’s German Bakery and Schlitterbahn other vitamins and minerals. Along with our information mentioned in this week's article, applications for the following boards: Riverpark and Resort in Corpus Christi have homegrown fruits and vegetables, these foods please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or Airport Board been chosen as the BEST in the category of are unprocessed so none of the nutrients are District Office. Please always feel free to “Best Breakfast” and “Best Hotel” respectively, stripped away, ensuring optimal health benefits. contact my office if you have any questions Board of Adjustment by Texas Travel Counselors during their five- There are some major ingredients and or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if Human Relations day Study Tour of the South Texas Gulf Coast processed foods to avoid. The most prominent you would like to contact my office regarding Region September 4-9, 2018. of these is added sugar. This product is very constituent services. As always, my offices are Water Resources Advisory Committee available at any time to assist with questions, The Texas Travel Industry Association common in many items found at the grocery Animal Care Advisory Committee store. Foods with added sugar are often highly concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- sponsored this 43th annual tour. The tour 463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603). Building Code of Appeals travelled through 11 cities, ate at 14 restaurants, caloric and have harmful effects on our organs. Foods with high fructose corn syrup and other - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 Corpus Christi Commission on Children & and visited 44 attractions. During this time, they selected the best of the best in the different artificial sweeteners have been linked to severe Youth health problems like obesity, cardiovascular Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). categories. He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. Mayor’s Fitness Council (heart) disease and type two diabetes. These Organizers of the Study Tour were thankful sweeteners are replaceable! Using foods like texas.gov or at 512-463-0672 Transportation Advisory Commission for the hospitality they received from the they raw honey or stevia are better and are very Senior Companion Program Advisory met and businesses they visited in Corpus Committee Christi. “The Corpus Christi CVB staff did a phenomenal job in hosting the travel counselors Texas Game Wardens Bust Commercial Civil Service Board and the city should be proud” said Bob Phillips, Civil Service Commission Consultant to the Texas Travel Industry. Seafood Scofflaws If you know of anyone interested in serving Texas game wardens are giving notice there are regulations in place to ensure product on a City board, commission or committee The awards will be presented at the Awards that attempts to circumvent laws regulating quality from source to table. Those who choose please have them go to the City of Corpus Luncheon which will be held at the George commercial seafood operations will not go to violate the law put the health and safety of Christi’s website at http://serve.cctexas.com. R. Brown Convention Center from 11:30 a.m. unpunished. The message was delivered in the public at risk and will be held accountable.” For assistance please call Norma Duran at (361) to 12:45 p.m... at the Texas Travel Counselors several East Texas counties during a recent two- 826-3893 or via e-mail at NormaD2@cctexas. Conference in Houston on Thursday April 4, Jones said several cases are still under day dragnet inspection operation. com. 2019. investigation and could be presented to county More than 50 facilities, including seafood prosecutors for consideration. He also extended restaurants, fish markets, and wholesale a promise to scofflaws, “We will conduct more commercial fish dealers, were targeted in frequent inspections in the future, and warnings the operation. Game wardens issued more will be replaced with citations and arrest Padre Island Real Estate Ticker than 60 warnings and citations for a range of warrants.” commercial seafood health and safety related February 16 - February 28 violations; most dealt with lack of required By Cindy Molnar product origin documentation. Several cases Attention Amazon Coldwell Banker Island Realtors highlighted an ongoing need for compliance enforcement measures. Waterfront Homes Sold 83 Interior Condominiums/ Shoppers Townhomes/Duplexes Listed From Inspections in Polk and Trinity counties 14150 Bounty Avenue resulted in seizure of approximately 300 pounds If you shop on Amazon.com you can now $89,000.00-$489,900.00 designate the Riley P Dog Park as your 15114 Tesoro Drive of illegal fish product after investigators learned Waterfront Condomiums/ it was purchased from an unlicensed source. charitable donation site. Just use amazon. 15334 Bowsprit Court Townhomes Sold All seafood in Texas for resale or consumption smile.com and pick Riley P Dog Park as your designated charity. 0.5 percent of every eligible 13518 Camimo De Plata Court must be purchased from a licensed fish dealer or 14434 Cabana North Street #202 commercial fisherman. purchase will go directly to the Padre Island 65 Waterfront Homes Listed From 15314 Bonasse Court Unit A Dog Park’s account at Frost Bank Padre Island. $285,000.00-$4,500,000.00 At a Wood County establishment, game Please consider designating the Dog Park as 15405 Gun Cay Court #403 wardens seized approximately $1,600 worth your charity as the park is being funded entirely Interior Lot Homes Sold of oysters packaged in 37 undocumented one 78 Waterfront Condominiums/ by donations and volunteers. If you have any gallon plastic storage bags. Other instances 14901 Lighthouse Drive Townhomes/Duplexes Listed From questions about the dog park you can visit our where investigators took possession of $68,000.00-$1,250,000.00 page on facebook at Riley P Dog Park or call 14854 Aquarius Street undocumented oysters occurred in Angelina, Jan Rankin at 361-949-7700. 14029 Coquina Bay Drive Waterfront Lots Gregg and Nacogdoches counties. 47 Waterfront Lots Listed From “Without the required licenses, permits and 15905 Cabo Blanco Drive RILEY P. $129,900.00-$2,000,000.00 invoices showing where the fresh seafood came 14150 Coquina Bay Avenue from, there are no guarantees products like 61 Interior Lot Homes Listed From Interior Lots Sold oysters were harvested and handled correctly,” $221,200.00-$900,000.00 13906 Forestay Street explained Game Warden Maj. Chad Jones. “We were not expecting to find these oyster cases this Interior Lot Condominiums/ 43 Interior Lots Listed From far north, but this does reinforce concerns that Townhomes/Duplexes Sold $30,000.00-$119,000.000 oysters reach every nook and cranny in the state. Texas is renowned for its oyster fishery, and 15010 Leeward Drive #804 Commercial Lots DOG PARK 14721 Whitecap Blvd. #353 10 Commercial Lots Listed From $125,000.00-$1,850,000.00 14721 Whitecap Blvd. #163 Bayou City Brass Band 14915 Village Beach Drive Featured at Corpus Christi Jazz Fest! Friday, March 22nd Richardson Performance Hall Friday Night Fish 7:30 PM Doors open at 6:30. Fry March 8- $10 tickets for students and active military with valid ID. General admission starts at April 12 $25 Call 361-980-1949 for tickets and information or visit St. Andrew by the Sea This program is funded by the Hotel Occupancy Tax funds by the City of Corpus corpuschristilive.com Christi through the Arts & Catholic Church 5-7 & Cultural Commission St. Andrew by the Sea Catholic Church will hold their annual fish fry at the church Family Life Center, 14238 Encantada Avenue from 5-7 p.m. each week from March 8 through April 12. 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The Texas General 2,800 volunteers picked up 124 tons of trash. The first day of Spring is here and that means • Ask for pictures and references.Speaking Land Office Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup Since then, more than 529,000 volunteers have green grass and blooming bluebonnets. Spring with references can give you an opportunity will take place at twenty-seven different removed more than 9,600 tons of trash from is a busy time of year, so keeping up with your to ask about their experience dealing with the locations coast wide across Texas. Volunteers Texas beaches. Each volunteer will be given landscaping and yard maintenance may quickly company and having pictures to look at (or can sign up at www.texasadoptabeach.org or data cards, gloves, pencils and trash bags. All become a hassle. With over 200 industry even looking at the work in person) offers you show up onsite to take part in a fun-filled day of volunteers are advised to wear closed-toe shoes, complaints against landscaping services in the ability to see the quality of their work. You giving back to our community and taking care bring sunscreen and plenty of drinking water. Texas alone in 2018 (including advertising can also view complaint histories and customer of the Texas coast. The Texas General Land Office Adopt-A-Beach concerns, service and billing issues and reviews on business profiles at bbb.org. “The Adopt-A-Beach Annual Spring Cleanup cleanups are held rain or shine! more), choosing trustworthy lawn care can • Learn about timing and seem intimidating. Luckily, Better Business is always an amazing turnout for Texans to join Texans who are not able to attend the cleanup safety. It is important to ask questions such as together and volunteer their time to keep our can help keep our beaches clean by making Bureau has tips on finding a landscaping service whether the work will be done while you are at that is right for you. Texas beaches beautiful,” said Commissioner a tax-deductible donation online at www. home or away. Are there precautions you need George P. Bush. “What better way to serve our TexasAdoptABeach.org. There are several There are generally four categories of lawn and to take for yourself, pets and family if pesticides great state than by spending the day at the beach? different Adopt-A-Beach sponsorship levels plant care: are being used? It is because of our wonderful volunteers, that ranging from $25 to $25,000, allowing both • Landscaping. These companies design • Get receipts for any payments. Request a our annual spring cleanup provides the Texas individuals and corporations to contribute to landscapes for designated areas, select the receipt marked “Paid in Full” once you’ve paid coast with the care it deserves. The dedication this major cleanup effort. of our fellow Texans to help keep our coast in appropriate plants, and install them. for the completed job. It is especially important To learn more about the Adopt-A-Beach pristine condition never ceases to amaze me!” • Lawn maintenance. These businessesprovide to get written verification of payment (with a program, visit TexasAdoptABeach.org. services that may include mowing, edging, list of labor and material charges) and any GLO Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/ verbal agreements you may have. Paying with a TexasAdoptABeach or follow us on Twitter @ weeding flower beds, trimming shrubs, weed Saturday April 13th control, treating for insect disease, irrigation credit card is usually a safer option then paying TXAdoptABeach. systems check, and fertilizing. with cash. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. • Interior plant maintenance. Most of • Find multiple quotes. It’s always best to Clean up will be from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. these companies provide services like design, shop around and make sure you’re getting the Anglers, Boaters best deal and get at least three quotes from Visit TexasAdoptABeach.org to find a watering, fertilizing, pruning, trimming, insect location near you and disease control, and cleaning. Some lease different companies. If you use BBB Request- Stay Clear of Coastal indoor plants with decorative containers. A-Quote, you can get quick and easy quotes from BBB accredited businesses for free. April 6 • Sprinkler systems. Services provided by To learn more, visit bbb.org. Waterbird Rookeries these businesses typically include design With spring approaching, coastal birds like installation, general maintenance and repair. Kelly Trevino is the regional director for CCA Banquet brown pelicans, roseate spoonbills, black Check to be sure the sprinkler system company the Corpus Christi/Victoria area of Better The Redfish Bay Chapter of the Coastal skimmers, and reddish egrets are starting to you choose is licensed, as it is required by the Business Bureau serving the Heart of Texas. Conservation Association (CCA) will hold its build nests, lay eggs, and raise their young in state of Texas. Kelly is available for media interviews and Annual Banquet on April 6, starting at 6:00 p.m. colonies on small, inshore islands along the speaking engagements. You can reach her by at the Port Aransas Civic Center. Once you’ve decided which category your Gulf Coast of Texas. The nesting islands, or phone: (361) 945-7352 or email: ktrevino@ needs fall under, keep the following tips in mind Tickets include 2019 CCA membership and rookeries, often support thousands of birds that corpuschristi.bbb.org. when searching for prospective vendors: a full course meal with beer, wine, soft drinks utilize all available island habitat. The Texas and tea. STAR entries will be sold separately! Parks and Wildlife Department is cautioning • Request an inspection and estimate.You Ticket costs: $75 for an individual and $110 Texas boaters and anglers to watch out for can’t get an accurate estimate from a service for married couples. It is a family event, and nesting birds, which are particularly sensitive to that hasn’t actually seen your lawn. attendance by spouses, young adults, and older manmade disturbances. children is encouraged. Of the 25 or so species considered to be Fishing for Scouts Fishing Tournament There will be a live auction, silent auction colonial in Texas, over half are experiencing and various raffles for coastal art, fishing and major population declines. Colonial waterbirds The South Texas Council, Boy Scouts of serve the thousands of youth who benefit from hunting packages along with many other great typically nest from late February through August America (BSA), is excited to announce the Scouting’s various programs across 17 counties items. when recreational use by coastal anglers and 2019 Fishing for Scouts Fishing Tournament of South Texas. boaters is highest, putting them at greater risk of If anyone is interested in sponsoring a Corporate will be held on Saturday, June 8, 2019 at The The South Texas Council, Boy Scouts of coming into contact with people. Disturbance Waterline at Doc’s Seafood and Steaks, 13309 tables for eight ($600) or in sponsoring items by humans can often lead to nest failure and, America provides outdoor experiences, that will be auctioned or raffled at the banquet, South Padre Island Drive. The Waterline is character development and leadership programs in some cases, complete abandonment of an located at sea level on the deck below Doc’s. please call Norman Oates @ (361) 758-0266 or island. for youth ages 5-20 years old. Youth are via email [email protected] or John Blaha Fishing for Scouts is a team tournament trained in the responsibilities of participating @ (1-800) 626-4222 . Colonial waterbirds and their nests, eggs, and consisting of no more than four anglers. citizenship, team building, individual goal chicks are protected under the federal Migratory Guides, amateurs, general public, and anglers setting, and developing personal fitness. In addition to supporting Texas conservation Bird Treaty Act and by Texas Parks and Wildlife of all ages are welcome to enter as a four-person efforts, the Redfish Bay Chapter is your local Code. The Texas Colonial Waterbird Society Sponsorship opportunities start at $500 for a team in conservation and cleanup activities in team. Teams will compete for prizes in various team entry up to $5000 for event sponsorship. recommends that people fish, swim, and play categories. A silent auction will also take place the immediate area. Our annual Port Aransas from 50 yards away from rookery islands to To register a team or to learn more about Take-a-Kid-Fishing event held at Woody’s at the VIP party Friday evening and Saturday sponsorship opportunities please contact Marty minimize unintentional and potentially illegal during the tournament. Sports Center, which draws more than 200 kids, disturbance. Sepulveda at [email protected] is a great event to encourage future anglers. The purpose of the tournament is to raise funds or 361-816-3825. This event will be held late Friday afternoon of In addition to avoiding rookery islands during to support the South Texas Council’s efforts to May 31 and continue Saturday June 1. the nesting season, it’s important for coastal boaters and anglers to properly dispose of fishing line, tackle, and other waste to ensure TPWD Sets Federal Red Snapper Season that no birds, turtles, or other marine life for 2019 Want to Make a become entangled, injured or killed. Kicks off June 1 for projected 97 days Difference Locally? Steer Clear The private recreational angler red snapper was signed in April 2018, TPWD can establish Veterans Need Our season opens Saturday, June 1, 2019 for a the opening and closing of the red snapper of Ships! projected 97-days in federal waters. Red fishery in federal waters off the Texas coast When it comes to recreational boats and snapper fishing is open year around in state for private recreational anglers fishing from Help! commercial ship traffic, separation is key. waters. The season length is based on historical their own vessels in 2019. When deciding the “Veterans are 22% more likely than non- Some boaters, however, may not recognize the landing data, last year’s fishing effort data and opening of the 2019 season, TPWD gathered veterans to take their lives, according to the dangers of navigating close to a commercial the increase in the state’s allocation from the input from public through an online comment Department of Veteran Affairs, and on average, ship. Two 30-second videos captured by a pilot 2018 stock assessment. Bag and size limits portal and public meetings on the coast. 20 die by suicide each day.” at the helm of 600-plus-foot commercial vessels will remain unchanged; 2 fish per person daily The federally permitted for-hire sector, which We may not be able to change this national navigating on New York’s Hudson River are with a 16-inch minimum size limit in federal allows recreational anglers to fish from charter statistic, but we can make a difference locally. aimed at educating recreational boaters on this waters, and 4 fish per person daily with a 15- boats or headboats, will remain in its current Let’s show our Veterans that our community risk and improving recreational boat safety. inch minimum in state waters. management structure set by the federal cares by joining us at the Coastal Bend Troop In one of the videos, a recreational boat and government. Support Crawfish Boil and Military Tribute, personal watercraft cross directly under the As part of this agreement, also known as Saturday, March 30th from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 bow of a 623-foot bulk carrier underway near an Exempted Fishing Permit, Texas must p.m. the waterway’s Bear Mountain Bridge, then close the fishery when the state’s allotted @ the Fleet Reserve Association 1651 Flour disappear out of view from the ship’s helm for poundage is reached. The red snapper Bluff Drive. more than 7 seconds – plenty of time to put the season can also be closed in Texas if boaters and their passengers at risk. the Gulf-wide Total Allowable Catch is Crawfish plates are $20 Crawfish Plate with all “In both of these situations, all it would take exceeded. TPWD’s Coastal Fisheries the fixings, $40 for two Crawfish Plates ( one is an engine failure, striking a submerged Division will be closely monitoring this for you and one for a Vet. Alternate food and to- object, or any other momentary propulsion or fishery throughout the season and will go orders will be available. The first 50 Veterans mechanical failure to put these recreational close it when appropriate. The public eat free (with military ID) vessels on a collision course with a ship, which will be notified of any closings through Tickets or Donations if you cannot make it, has restricted ability to maneuver and may take TPWD’s website, social media accounts are available at: Berkshire Hathaway Home a half mile or more to come to a complete stop,” and news releases. Services Real Estate Center – 14302 S. Padre said BoatUS Public Affairs Vice President Scott Red Snapper Sharks by Miles Miles Help TPWD better manage this resource Island Dr., or Padre Island Mail Plus, 15037 S Croft. “We hope the videos will educate boaters by downloading the iSnapper app on your Padre Island Drive. For more information or on the need to give ship traffic a wide berth and Under an agreement between the Texas Parks smart phone and reporting your red snapper ways to help: (361) 960-9597 to always avoid passing under a bow.” landings. and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and the For more information on safe boat operation National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) that and ships, go to BoatUS.org/rulesoftheroad. Follow us on Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper Send photos and letters to: [email protected]

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By Stacey Kempf Lethal Control Methods There’s nothing quite like waking up on a Keeping pocket gophers beautiful morning, throwing back the curtains to out of your yard can take in the view, and then realizing that during be challenging, but the wee small hours of the night, your yard there are some options. was invaded. Your once serene and peaceful According to the Texas landscape is now dotted with one or more large A&M AgriLife Extension unsightly heaping mounds of sand, and you’re Service, homeowners left wondering who’s at the root, literally, of all have two choices in this mess and what can be done about them. So, moving forward in let us examine this sandy situation a little more this sandy standoff, closely. those being mechanical or chemical controls methods. Gopher Bait. Mechanical methods involve utilizing specially designed gopher traps that are placed in certain areas of their underground tunnel system. The key to trapping DPS stopped this guy after his dog fell off the back and nearly got run over. gophers is enticing the animal into the area where the trap is set. This is accomplished by triggering their natural instincts. Even though the number of mounds suggests otherwise, gophers actually don’t like holes. In fact, if you look closely, you’ll notice they plug their mounds up in order to keep predators from entering. So by creating a hole above their tunnel in the vicinity of the trap, homeowners can expect that the gopher will seek out the opening and try to fix it, and in doing so, come into contact with the trap. This method works well in a small space like a typical island yard, but it may not be for everyone. Another option is a chemical one. This is done through the use of toxic baits, and according to the extension service, the easiest means of Gopher Mounds baiting in a small yard involves what they refer to as, “hand-baiting.” Homeowners merely place the bait underground inside of the gopher’s tunnels with the hopes that the The Culprit animal will ingest it. These baits are toxic to Lurking underneath our sandy soil is a rodent other animals like birds and pets, so they must whose impacts are seen and felt all over Mustang be handled and placed underground properly to and Padre Islands. Averaging around a foot in avoid poisoning non-targeted species. length (tail included), and about one pound in For more detailed information about how weight, The Texas Pocket Gopher (Geomys to properly set traps or bait for pocket personatus) is the bulldozer of the rodent world. gophers, please take a moment to read Texas In fact, a single gopher can move more than a A&M AgriLife Extension’s pocket gopher ton of soil in a year, and that can amount to a lot informational publication at: https://agrilifecdn. of mounds and tunnels all over the island. tamu.edu/txwildlifeservices/files/2016/08/ Known for being solitary animals, Texas Pocket PocketGopher.pdf Gophers are not to be confused with the smaller Non-Lethal Options Spotted Ground Squirrels (Spermophilus spilosoma) who also live in our area. With While the extension service’s recommendations light to dark brown fur and a scantly haired are lethal ones, there are other non-lethal options tail, pocket gophers are rarely seen, solitary available to try. Sonic spikes are commercially creatures that create extensive tunnel systems. It available that are designed to essentially annoy is inside of these tunnels where pocket gophers the heck out of gophers. Using fabric softener live out the majority of the lives. sheets, peppermint oil, castor oil and even some types of plants (e.g. rosemary, marigolds, salvia) The tunnels aren’t very noticeable to us on are some of the suggested “animal-friendly” the island until they collapse; hence the linear means of keeping gophers away from your pot-holes we have on our island roads. It’s garden too. A quick internet search of “gopher the mounds however that usually get the most deterrents” will provide any homeowner with a attention. As a means of expelling sand from plethora of things to try, but like a lot of things, their burrows, these unsightly hills typically controlling gophers in this manner may mean a arise at the end of a short lateral tunnel that lot of trial and error. branches off the main runway of their sandy home. Helpful Tips These rodents can maintain their subterranean • Control methods work best when lifestyle due to their ability to meet all their implemented in the fall or spring; needs underground. Feeding primarily on roots • Keep pets and children away from traps and other vegetation, pocket gophers can wreak and chemical baits at all times; havoc on your yard by stifling plant growth or even killing everything from lawns to trees. • When removing mounds, the location of Texas pocket gophers are even capable of it is important to consider. 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Shooter Jennings will play the House of tactics have been the hot topic of discussion Rock on Wednesday. around town. I’ve personally witnessed a non- stop barrage of cops (mainly DPS) seemingly a lot of momentum with every performance without reason to my untrained eye, pulling lately. On Sunday, Father James Derkits over car after car after car and I couldn’t see will host a fundraiser and supply drive for the them doing anything wrong. I know I’m not Nebraska Flooding victims at 5:00 at Trinity a trained peace officer, but I know what I see. by the Sea Episcopal Church on Trojan. Carol ACLU would have a field day down here the Elliott and Billy Snipes will perform as well past two weeks. Many, many times these past as Father James. There will be BBQ plates for weeks, I’ve wondered what the probable cause sale provided by Steve Behringer. And next was for stopping a car with young folks in it. Tim Russell and Scarecrow People will Wednesday, the great Shooter Jennings (Los Angeles, CA) will play the House of Rock in Profiling? Maybe. Just doing their job? I don’t play the Back Porch on Saturday. know. Chief Burroughs wrote a column in Corpus. I’ve been waiting for this one for a sense of the word. His show is an explosion of while. I became a fan of Shooter’s through my the South Jetty this week (“No Need to seek music. Also on Friday, our Louisiana cousins offenders”) saying that trouble finds them, pal, Jesse Dayton who has played many stages Mike WIlliams, Denny Larkin and Bill from Baton Rouge, Charlie Hagar and the with him. Shooter is the son of country legends that the cops aren’t looking for it. That’s not Averbach played St. Patty’s Day at the Captain Legendary Band will swamp it up. exactly what I saw. Don’t get me wrong, we Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter. He grew up Gaff. These boys have the swamp roots thing down in his parent’s tour bus literally surrounded by MUST have a strong police presence to protect to a science. They are all good musicians who us from these idgets on parade and they have Hyde After Dark rocked it on Friday and the likes of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Jonmikael MREZ funked it up on Saturday. combine a bunch of different influences to come Kris Kristofferson. He has seven albums and made many necessary arrests with those idiots up with their sound… country, southern rock, who really are looking for trouble and came BTW Jonmikael MREZ is one soulful dude. numerous EP’s since 2005. He stays active on Shorty’s had a couple of good shows, too, with roots, blues, bluegrass. They are foot stompin’ the country and southern rock circuits. I caught with drugs and weapons and little sense. But we good! On Saturday its Selfie again at Shorty’s still have our legal rights to consider plus what our Damn Right Dunebilly boys, Selfie, on him in Corpus in 2012 at the ZiegenFest with Friday and the super cool Laid Back Texas for their text book example of a boogying night Pat Green, Black Joe Louis, Bob Schneider, will this aggressive police policy of stopping at the oldest and friendliest. It’s a guaranteed so many cars do to our Spring Break crowds in on Saturday. On Jesse Dayton and Ian Moore. That ought to Sunday, make that St. good time. Also on Saturday, Tim Russell keep you busy for a while. Be safe out there… the future? If I were a young reveler at Spring and Scarecrow People will represent the Break, I’d think twice about coming here next Patty’s Day Sunday, Spring Break is almost over. the Gaff sponsored reincarnation of Sting and the Police at the Back year… too many cops. Maybe that’s their Porch and the powerhouse blues outfit of Mike ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ motivation… to kill our Spring Break or at least the yearly pub crawl and had crooner O’Neill, Antone Perez and Art Galvan will slow it down. I know many locals who could play Giggity’s. Those guys have been gaining sure live without the stupidity and the trashed Mike Williams on out beaches, saying they (the disrespectful kids) hand singing Irish don’t spend any money in town and are more songs with Denny trouble that they are worth. I can see both sides. Laid Back Texas Larkin on bass and I’m curious how the” higher ups” have directed played Shorty’s last Bill Averbach on these officers. What do you think? Let me know Saturday. trumpet. That was a Live Music at [email protected]. fun day. DO NOT MISS LIST Coming this weekend… Tonight Still lots happening on the live music front this weekend. Spring Break will start to taper Robin Blue @ Island Italian Thursday, March 21 Ruben Limas @ off shortly and we won’t have any more Free Beer Band @ Blackbeards on the Beach th major events until Easter and the Shorty’s 74 Giggity’s CAPT. LEGENDARY MAR 22 Adrian Taylor @ Anniversary in the middle of April and then Adam Berry @ SCARECROW PEOPLE MAR 23 Blackbeards Too DPS pulling over another potential Scuttlebutt’s SandFest at the end of the month. As for this CRUISE CONTROL MAR 29 Kinda Smooth @ Pelican desperado. weekend, the great rocker from Vienna, Austria, Stevie Start @ Angry Bar Butz @ It’ll Do Saloon Ulrich Ellison will bring his Tribe down Marlin MARK MONACO MAR 30 from Austin to amaze us yet one more time. Dave’s Duo @ Waterline JUL & CHROME WHEEL APR 5 Sunday, March 24 at Doc’s Fundraiser for Nebraska Catch Ulrich while you can because they will Ruben Limas @ Island RIPTIDE APR 6 be heading back to Europe shortly and won’t flooding victims (5PM) @ Italian Trinity by the Sea be back here until July. Trust me… this is an Yosh and Yimmy @ 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront Antone & the All Stars @ act not to miss. Ulrich came to UT Austin on Executive Surf Club Giggity’s musical scholarship and is a virtuoso in every Ruben Limas @ Bobby Carter @ Blackbeards on the Beach Blackbeards on the Beach DPS searching another car on the beach. Chris Saenz @ Harrison’s Michael Burtts @ Pelican Landing John Eric @ Scuttlebutt’s Fundaze @ House of Rock Scattered shots… Friday, March 22 Ulrich Ellison & Tribe @ Monday, March 25 We were hitting on Giggity’s Treasure Island Open Jam w/ Ray Summy all cylinders last week. Captain Legendary @ @ Giggity’s The Back Porch was Back Porch Billy Snipes @ Scuttlebutt’s up and cranking with a Marco Ramirez @ LIVE MUSIC Crown the Empire, We couple of good bands, Scuttlebutt’s Came as Romans @ House Giggity’s had the great Hank Reeves @ Angry of Rock guitar master, Ruben Marlin EVERY Ruben Limas @ Michael Anthony Perez @ Blackbeards on the Beach V (San Antonio, TX) Waterline at Doc’s who slayed the crowd Stevie Start @ Island WEEKEND! Ruben V and his 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Tuesday, March 26 on Friday and country Italian James Derkits (6-8) @ The killer band from SA treasureislandporta crooner Todd Dorn on Public Disturbance @ Gaff played GIggity’s Saturday had the dance Executive Surf Club Paul & Victoria @ last Friday floor tore up all night. Ulrich Ellison will play Giggity’s on Seattle Rising @ Brewster Giggity’s Over at Treasure Island Friday. Street Aaron Jacobs @ Pop Rocks @ Rockit’s Scuttlebutt’s Led Zeppelin II @ Open Jam w/ Rev Matt @ Brewster Street House of Rock Blind Owls @ House of Bobby Carter @ Rock Blackbeards on the Beach GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR Ruben Limas @ Blackbeards on the Beach Selfie Mar. 23 Wednesday, March 27 LIVE MUSIC Bobbie Carter @ LIVE MUSIC Ty Dietz Mar. 30 Magnus @ Giggity’s Free Beer Band Every Thurs (7-10) Blackbeards Too Shooter Jennings @ House EVERY Songs for Cecilia @ Starlite & Moonbeam Apr. 06 of Rock Ulrich Ellison & Tribe on Friday (9-1) Pelican Independent Thieves Apr. 20 Marco Ramirez @ NIGHT Mike O’Neill on Saturday (9-1) Soul Fire @ It’ll Do 74th Anniversary Bash Scuttlebutt’s Antone & All Stars Every Sunday (9-1) Saloon Jerry Ward @ Doc’s Open Jam Every Monday (8:30-12:30) Saturday April 13 Seafood Saturday, March 23 Jim Dugan, Selfie, Toman Bros. PA Rockers @ Bernie’s Kitchen Open BELTSANDER RACES Paul & Victoria Every Tuesday (7-10) OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port Aransas Ruben Limas @ @ The Gaff Magnus on Wednesday (8-12) Blackbeards on the Beach Until 1 a.m.! Scarecrow People @ Back John Eric @ Pelican 722 Tarpon, Port Aransas, TX Porch Mike O’Neill @ Giggity’s Thursday, March 28 Selfie @ Shorty’s Free Beer Band @ Saul Padron @ Giggity’s Scuttlebutt’s Karaoke w/ Shari @ OTB @ Angry Marlin Waterline at Doc’s Majors & Taylor @ Black Parker McCollum, Jake Sheep Bistro Ward @ Brewster Street The Heroine, Reely Rotnz Retrovibe @ Executive @ House of Rock Surf Club Seattle Rising @ Brewster Bobby Carter @ Street Blackbeards on the Beach Stevie Start @ Doc’s Chris Saenz @ Harrison’s Seafood Landing San Juan Underground @ Waterline at Doc’s Friday, March 29 Passing Strangers @ The Groove @ Giggity’s Rockit’s Expert Computer Repairs Cruise Control @ Back Porch Easter Crawfish Boil & Devil Egg Contest

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