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Angels, Serpents and Frescos Inside the Moon Remember When A2 Pinewood Derby A6 Cuba A7 Fishing A11 Three Chords and the TruthA16 Photo by Ronnie Narmour Issue 824 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 January 30, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around Public Hearing The Island on Island Police By Dale Rankin Protection Beachgoers in Port Aransas got a Tuesday, February 4 surprise this week when this piece of flotsam washed up on the beach. We after ISAC meeting say flotsam because more than likely the owners will come looking for Corpus Christi Police Chief Mike it. For the record flotsam is defined Markle and Nueces County Sheriff as debris that was not deliberately John (Chris) Hooper will attend a thrown overboard and may be public hearing concerning police claimed by the original owner, jetsam protection on Padre Island after on the other hand was “jettisoned” the February meeting of the Island and belongs to whomever finds it. Strategic Action Committee on Tuesday, February 4. Police cont. on A4 Roseate Spoonbill by Riekie Roncinske By the numbers Nueces Is a Photo by Cathy Fulton The Island’s “Paper Streets” Heavyweight Fins up! Three decades and still waiting for pavement County Padre Island now has a Parrot Head By Dale Rankin development plans shows streets 34.8% Rate of Obesity in Texas Club to go with the longstanding club with names like Isabel Drive and Las When newcomers arrive on in Port Aransas. The club will also Tunas Drive around the Whitecap/ Top 10 heaviest population in Padre Island the second Island include Parrot Heads from all over SPID intersection; Crowsnest Avenue U.S. colloquialism they learn after “OTB” Corpus Christi as well. The motto of which would connect the area around is “Paper Streets.” 40 states reported decrease in the not-for-profit group is Partying Lake Padre south across Whitecap obesity rates in 2019 with a Purpose and they raise money When the original developers of Boulevard and south behind the 234 pounds average weight of for community projects and their Padre Island drew up their plans Dollar General Store to Viento Del male in Nueces County common bond is a love of the music in the late 1960s they included Mar near Padre Balli Park; and Sand of Jimmy Buffett. Members of the streets all over The Island that Dollar Avenue, Gaviota Drive, Ocotal 193 pounds average weight of Port A chapter attend the annual have yet to be built, even as much Drive, and Ribozo Drive in the area female in Nueces County Crowsnest Avenue the Paper Street Parrot Head gathering, called the of the underground infrastructure east of SPID between State Highway behind Dollar General Store looking 34.9% Body Mass Index Meeting of the Minds, which is has been in place and in use for 361 and Verdemar Street, a total north toward Whitecap Boulevard. (percent of body weight that in Key West in October. The first decades. A look at the original Island of eight blocks which the original The underground utilities have been is fat) average male in Nueces meeting of the Padre group is this developers envisioned as the Island in place for decades. County Saturday, February 1st at 6:30 p.m. retail district but which is now weeds at The Boat House Bar & Grill on and oak motts. 33.3% Body Mass Index Leeward Drive. For questions contact average female in Nueces them at padreislandphc@gmail. County com or call Chris “Sunshine” Lee at Paper Streets cont. on A4 361 356-7142. Now we just need a 73 pounds Amount of weight Margaritaville. Fins Up everybody! the average Nueces County resident needs to lose (highest Windstorm news in the state) District 32 State Representative Todd 24% higher than national Hunter, who represents Padre Island Sand Dollar Avenue looking north average and Port Aransas – was appointed to from State Highway 361. 59 pounds Amount of weight the Windstorm Insurance Legislative Crowsnest Avenue looking south the average American needs to Funding and Structure Oversight from Whitecap Boulevard where lose Board this week by Texas House the curb is already cut through Speaker Dennis Bonner. That board in anticipation of the street being *Source: State of Obesity will form the legislation that goes The route of the new sewer line completed in the 1970s. organization back to the Legislature in its 2021 running south from Whitecap session to reform the Windstorm Boulevard is actually the route of a Insurance system in Texas. In the Paper Street. 2019 session an attempt by the Winter Adopt- Windstorm board to raise rates was met with a shot across the bow from A-Beach the Texas House which with less than a dozen dissenting votes made a Saturday, direct threat to sunset the Windstorm board and completely overhaul the February, 8 system. That board backed off but has since tried and continues to try Crowsnest Avenue looking north Sign up today for the 16th Annual to raise rates for Island property from Whitecap Boulevard where the Adopt-A-Beach Coastal Bend Winter owners before the next session of curb was cut through in 1970 but the Cleanup on Saturday, February 8. the legislature when the board that Sand Dollar Avenue looking toward The utilities along Sand Dollar street was never built. Hunter was appointed to this week State Highway 361. Avenue are already in place. Volunteers can sign up at www. will bring a plan for reform of the texasadoptabeach.org or show up system back to the House floor onsite to take part. The event runs where there is a consensus to fix the from 9 a.m. through noon, check-in is problem. Windstorm insurance was A little Island history at one of the locations below: established as a last stop for Texas Padre Island National Seashore - property owners who couldn’t get Kleberg County private insurance. Not to oversimplify but the root of the problem with the Angels, Serpents and Frescos Check-in: Malaquite Visitors Windstorm system is that the current Center, 20420 Park Road 22 bill was written by insurance industry 22 Steps to the Little Chapel on the Dunes: Part III Contact: Chuck Lassiter, 361-949- lobbyists who effectively stop By Brent Rourk 8068 or 8069, chuck.lassiter@ windstorm insurance underwriters texasadoptabeach.org from outside the state from coming [email protected] Dustin Baker, 361-949- in and competing by setting up The little chapel on the hill sits on regulatory barriers to entry. In 2014 8068 or 8069, dustin.baker@ the highest spot in old Port Aransas texasadoptabeach.org when the Windstorm debate heated at a dizzying 26’ above the sea. up there were eleven underwriters It was conceived by and built for Adopt-a-Beach cont. on A4 in Florida who were ready to start the sitting Poet Laureate of Texas, writing policies in Texas. Ever since Aline Carter, in the 1930s. then the fight over Windstorm reform Election Day has centered on that fight and it looks Originally constructed in 1938 like it will come to a head in the 2021 by the Carter Family, this chapel Tuesday, March 3, legislative session. It’s been a long has a storied history, beautifully fight but it looks like the hold the painted frescoes, and a peace that 2020 current Windstorm cartel has on the transcends its location. Built at 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 state is finally coming to an end. The a time when there was no ferry board that Hunter was appointed to service to Mustang Island nor p.m. this week will draw up the blueprint causeway connecting Corpus for what comes next. Early Voting History cont. on A4 Ceiling frescoes. Around cont. on A4 February 18th-28th January 30, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Remember When Here is some of what was going on Around The Island in the first week of March, 2009 The Coast Guard was manning the machine guns The CVS on Padre Island was in the finishing stages and so was the shark sign at Destinations. Seashore Middle Academy was a work in progress. Hobie Juan Canoby was under construction in Port A CVS on Padre Island from March 2009 Seashore Middle Academy March 2009 Hobie Juan Canoby March 2009. S OF ES T H IN E S U Y E B A 2019 R To Go! January 30, 2020 Island Moon A 3 If we have to clear cut property, patrol parks Moon Monkeys Letters to the and wooded areas, look behind dumpsters and Did Ya Mike Ellis, Founder inside the planted areas under our freeways, roads and bridges and run them out we will. Hear? Editor If any of you bleeding hearts want to post By Mary "Scoop" Craft your address I am sure other members of this group as well as others will have no problem in passing it on and letting them know your home will be their sanctuary. New Advertisers Shrimp & Crawfish Cajun Boil with Regarding the issue with the property next to Constable Bobby Sherwood on Saturday, Wranosky park: February 6th 3 - 6 pm at the Briscoe Pavilion. 1. The vagrants have set it on fire. The Ossou Zydeco Band from Louisiana Distribution 2. The vagrants are polluting Wranosky park will be participating in the festivities. There and the property next to it with these waste will be pony rides, a petting zoo, balloon Pete Alsop products. animals and more. It is free and open to the Island Delivery 3.The vagrants are a danger to the general public.
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