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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 April 30, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The What’s Open? Island The Island Reopens By Mary Craft By Dale Rankin Island businesses are coming back to life after the shutdown. The new Our little sandbar was in danger of Visitors packed beaches; ignored restrictions rules kick in Friday morning. Here is a sinking into the Gulf last weekend look at what will be open. as visitors bored with staying home Restaurant and hotels back in business came streaming in from OTB and Restaurants packed the beaches. Texas Governor Snoopy’s Pier will be opening their Greg Abbott took the first step in dining area on Friday 11 am - 9 pm re-opening the Texas economy this daily and will still be offering their week and we include language from curbside service. They now have his order in this issue. The crucial a full bar. You can also have your thing for our Island is that things are meal delivered to Marker 37 with settled by the time summer tourist plenty of outdoor shaded waterfront season rolls around. seating. Call 949-8815 for curbside. One of the items Abbott is pushing, Scuttlebutt’s Bar & Grill is going but not requiring, is that Texans wear to continue serving their happy hour facemasks. Might we suggest that menu as carryout 3 - 7 pm daily. For as many of us flail about to find the now there will be no inside dining. right facemask to suit our needs and You can order online or call personality that we think about putting 949-6769. our names on them. We almost went looking for the shotgun this week Mikel May’s Beachside Grill when a masked man appeared in our will be opening their dining room backyard unannounced. Just as we North Padre Island Beaches on Saturday, April 25th 2020. Photo by Debbie Noble. on Friday and are also taking reservations. Call 949-7437. were looking for the shotgun shells By Dale Rankin he whipped out a hedge trimmer and and Austin media outlets that beaches to door and Island motels opened Brooklyn Pie will not be open for Visitors to Padre and Mustang island we realized it was the yard guy. Has on Padre Island were open during their doors for the first time in several inside dining on Friday until they beaches did not wait for Governor anyone else been halfway through a daylight hours brought crowds that weeks and reported rentals at or have a satisfactory procedure for Greg Abbott’s order this week to conversation lately before you figure were closer to the Fourth of July than near one-hundred percent capacity. keeping their employees safe. They reopen beaches and businesses out exactly who you are talking to? late April. Restrictions remained in place will continue to have take out and across the state. A combination of requiring social distancing on Nueces Social distancing was physically delivery. Call 949-1100. Beach access closed or restricted-use beaches from County beaches but proved difficult impossible in many areas as vehicles, Rock & Rolls Sushi will be opening Galveston to South Padre, the first to enforce as city beach patrols on warm weekend of the season, and mostly from people who live outside on Friday by reservation only. Call word across San Antonio, Houston, the Corpus Christi area, lined up door Beaches cont. on A4 949-1110. Island Italian Restaurant will be opening Friday and hours will be 1 - Lack of Rules Leaves Corpus Attorney 8 pm daily including Sundays. For delivery call 949-7737. Christi Short Term Rentals General Ruling Costa Sur is opening its dining room this Friday and is also taking Beach access north of Packery Untracked Could Impact reservations. They are continuing Channel is limited as the access their curbside service. Hours are 11 road at Newport Pass is closed for Man shot Saturday at short-term rental on FBISD Land am - midnight and they are closed construction and the gate to the beach Sundays. Call 945-8303. at Mustang Island State Park is closed on Padre Island meaning the only way to get to the Padre Island Padre Pizzeria will not be opening public beach at Mustang Island State this Friday but will continue take Park is through Beach Access Road City still working on local ordinance Can the district out and delivery. They are closed 3 just south of Corpus Christi Pass. lease out its 6.7 Sundays. Call 949-0787. The beach gate was open early in the By Dale Rankin Surfside Sandwich Shoppe will week but was closed during the busy some involving shots fired, at short- When Corpus Christi Police arrived be opening their indoor and outdoor weekend. A park spokesperson said term rental properties inside Island acre tract on Island at in the 13000 block of Suntan dining on Friday. Call 949-0505. the opening and closing of the gate is neighborhoods. Officers say there Avenue on Padre Island just after canal? up to the City of Corpus Christi. have also been regular complaints Doc’s Restaurant will be opening midnight on Friday, they found a from residents about noise emanating Friday with tables spaced 6 - 10 feet 35 year-old man with five gunshot from houses in their neighborhoods apart. They offer to-go food that wounds. which are leased out for short-term can be eaten downstairs at also 25% People in the house told officers visitors. capacity where it is puppy friendly. they were sitting in the backyard of They will be utilizing disposable In a related problem there are regular the house when they heard a series of menus and condiments. complaints from short-term renters gunshots in rapid succession but saw who appear at Island homes only to Thai Sun Island Cafe will be nothing. Beyond that they provided find the home occupied. Scammers opening their dining room on Friday little information and a resident who 6.7 acre tract owned by FBISD. use photographs from homes they at 5 pm. For take-out call 949-3128. happened to be outside at the early do not own that are for sale to post 12:20 a.m. hour said he saw a “black By Dale Rankin Angry Marlin Restaurant will With Newport Pass and the beach on short-term rental sites and collect four-door vehicle” flee the scene. A be opening Friday and will also be gate closed the only way to access the rentals fees upfront. When the A pending ruling by the Texas police spokesman said on Monday accepting reservations for both their the beach north of Packery Channel homes sell and new residents move Attorney General’s office could have that investigators believe the shooting indoor and outdoor spacious seating. is through Zahn Road. That will be in the scammers continue to use the a major impact on the future of a 6.7 was gang related but have little The outdoor Tiki Bar will be open the case until work at Newport Pass is dated photographs to list the home as acre tract of land owned by the Flour else to go on. The man is in critical for drinks. The Drive Band will play finished or the beach gate is opened, available for short-term stay. Bluff Independent School District on condition. Padre Island. on the patio on Friday night and the whichever comes first. local “OTB” will play on Saturday 6 But according to officers the April 25 No city rules The land is strategically located Meetings in the time of social - 10 pm. They are closed Sundays shooting has a common denominator In January Austin-based Vrbo at the intersection of Whitecap and Mondays. Call 210-272-9973. distancing with several police calls in recent – Vacation Rentals by Owners Boulevard and the canal just north of Dragon Fly Restaurant will open months on Padre Island; the residents – rated Corpus Christi and Port the roadway and has been owned by Meetings of two Island organizations Friday. Reservations are suggested. of the house were renting it short-term Aransas collectively as the third are being effected by the restrictions Land cont. on A5 Call 949 2224. Open cont. on A3 on public gatherings. to use as a party house. In this case, best destination in the country for officers say, the short-term renters visitors looking for short-term rentals The first is the regular monthly were from Beeville and the shooting in private dwellings with an average A little Island history meeting of the Flour Bluff ISD at is believed to be gang related. A cost of $60 per night to stay in a 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 30. The month earlier another incident was home or condominium. The average public can view the virtual meeting reported in the same area which sent local price was five dollars higher A $6 Bale of Cotton by going to this address: a stray shot whirring over the head of than second place Harrison County, Editor’s note: This story comes https://zoom.us/j/93595028605?p a resident standing in his back yard. Mississippi at $55, and first place from the book Hard Heads and wd=VG1aSWZVdFhJSUFzdmpab Like the current shooting that shot Myrtle Beach, South Carolina at $54, Half Gales – Tales from Tarpon HpVbm02UT09 Meeting ID: 935 was believed to have originated from and $2 cheaper than fifth place South Texas by Islander Jim Wiggins. 9502 8605. The viewing address can a short-term rental property located a Padre Island at $62. The book is available at the Port also be found by going the district’s block away. A check of police records Aransas Museum. It is his story finds at least six recent incidents, But not included in the Vrbo website and looking under the tab information was the fact that leasing called A $6 Bale of Cotton, and for Board of Trustees. It marks the a private residence from the owner – takes place in 1964. first time a FBISD meeting has been while legal in Port Aransas – is not By Jim Wiggins viewable online. Related…on legal anywhere in Corpus Christi. Treasure hunting and tall tales On Tuesday the monthly meeting Had the $60 number in Corpus that from time to time somebody page A4 seem synonymous. For centuries of the Island Strategic Action Christi included the city’s 16 percent razes an ancient building and finds stories of buried treasure, pirate Committee has been cancelled for the Hotel Occupancy Tax the added cost a can of old gold or a stack of bank How other cities in gold or the valuable cargo second time. No agenda was issued would have dropped the local price notes in a mattress. These events of shipwrecked vessels have by the city staff. Texas are regulating out of the top ten. occur with sufficient frequency to short-term rentals stimulated the flow of juices from keep treasure hopes spring eternal. Say hello if you see us Around The While most large cities in Texas have the greed glands, causing normally Island but if you are wearing a mask Why Property Owners enacted rules to track and regulate rational men to behave in an On our own Padre Island there short-term rentals to address the give us a minute to figure out who Associations can’t currently irrational manner. Giving a lift to are confirmed underwater prizes you are. Be safe everybody. these flights of fancy is the fact regulate short-term rentals Short term cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 April 30, 2020 Island Moon A 2 April 30, 2020 Island Moon A 3 Moon Monkeys Mike Ellis, Founder Letters to the Did Ya Hear?

Editor By Mary "Scoop" Craft Business Briefs Marker 37 has added a large new deck that will be later shaded by a canopy. Ace Hardware is expanding their inventory and so far have a wide selection of BBQ grills and some cushioned patio furniture.

Distribution Pete Alsop Island Delivery Coldwell Banker Advertising Jan Park Rankin Classifieds Jailhouse Revelations Arlene Ritley Dear Dale, Production Manager As a past long term resident of Columbus, Ohio I am familiar with the Marion, Ohio Abigail Bair Contributing Writers Prison reputation ( Not personally). The city has a reputation for a lot of drug trafficking out Joey Farah of and to the Michigan areas of Detroit, Grand Andy Purvis Rapids, Lansing and Ann Arbor on a south/ Mary Craft north corridor. Sort of known as a go to place Emily Gaines for what's happening now. It's known for a lot of Jay Gardner drug incarcerations. All this being local legend, Todd Hunter not sure if the numbers you reported present the most interesting info. My understanding is that Dotson Lewis the powers that be used the ANTIBODY testing Dr. Tom Dorrell on those being detained there. Point of interest Ronnie Narmour is that of the 1800 that tested positive(having Brent Rourk had exposure) only 105 had had symptoms. The Front Porch Portrait Fundraiser by Sarah Greaud Photography raised over $5,000 for Photographers Phenomenal herd immunity! I'm sure they had to be reported as having been positive for the Seashore Schools. Miles Merwin (Emeritus) COVID-19 even if they were not sick with The Padre Island Enrichment Club has extended the deadline for scholarship applications Debbie Noble the virus. Proportionately, the death toll is low until Friday, May 22nd due to the delay caused by the Coronavirus. Applications can be Jan Rankin compared to other hotspots. Makes me wonder emailed to students by texting Kathy at 361-774-8994. Please call with any questions. Mary Craft if needle sharing since the last round of corona virus before 19 has had a positive deterrent Ronnie Narmour effect on the virus, or are these guests of the Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) county some really resistant folks. Food for Open cont. from A1 La Palma Mexican Restaurant will not be Riley P. Dog thought. Black Sheep Bistro will be opening on opening their dining room on Friday but will Dr. Linda Gottlieb Friday and also taking reservations for both continue their drive-thru. their indoor and outdoor seating. They will also be taking reservations. Call 210-418- Retail Precautions? 4819. Line around the corner at Lowe’s this afternoon Palmilla Beach Golf Course in Port A has and no one wearing mask Texas Mesquite BBQ will be opening on reopened. The nine hole course can be played Friday and will also still be offering curbside. for $40 and a second time added to make it Rudy’s Barbeque parking lot filled They will have a cornhole competition on 18 holes for $60. There are five par 4 holes Hotels here on the Island was filled and going Friday that is played with four people. Call and four par 3 holes and no par 5. You can towards Lowe’s . 949-3117 to enter competition or to order add a golf board to surf the course for $20. food. Hours are 8 am - 7 pm and they are closed Cause way was filled with campers and cars Mondays. You can book a tee time online or with people in the water one- foot apart. No Island Time will be opening on Friday and Publisher call 749-4653. mask seen request you make reservations because of Dale Rankin capacity constraints. Due to the response My Coastal Home stores are open 10 am - About the Island Moon Restaurant parking lots filled they have already gotten they will be cooking 4 pm. The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale Pawn shops parking lots filled until midnight on Friday. Call 949-3046. Rankin, Editor / Publisher. Church The Boathouse Bar & Grill will be opening Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes Bait shops filled with cars Padre Island Baptist Church will have delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 on Friday with seating downstairs 10 am - 2 copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, Boat dealers filled with cars and people am and upstairs 4 pm - 2 am. You also have their 9 am service on Sunday after seven as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 the option to eat at the outdoor tables. Call weeks off. There will modified seating and copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. So many boats with lots of people on them 589-9601 for to-go orders. the service will also be live streamed. News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, Barber shop open by H-E-B payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. Padre Island Burger Company is working H-E-B employees bring out our food ordered on some upgrades and has not yet announced The Island Moon Newspaper on line had no mask no gloves when they will be opening. 14646 Compass, Suite 3 The line from the bridge to the light to turn unto 361 to Port A was backed up with cars Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Gils nursery on SPID parking was filled with Right in our Bill of Rights to specifically protect 361-949-7700 people with no mask our right to dissent and to express that dissent. [email protected] I just don’t understand ??? What a breakdown While it is probably more terrifying to see the in our society. Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper big tech companies exercising enormous power Gary Balluck over our rights and using that power to influence elections, it was still very disappointing to see someone here locally following that same Protest Facebook abuse of our rights. I’d like to remind would Light up e Sky  e 4 of July! Hi Dale, be censors that Protests are NOT illegal. Where to Find The There seems to be a frightening trend gaining Expressing dissenting opinions is not illegal. Island Blast Fireworks Display steam with this Corona epidemic and that is They are our most fundamental rights and I believe they are one of our greatest strengths. tax-deductible donations are Island Moon censorship. We’ve seen numerous instances of still being accepted. Maybe I’m being Naïve again. 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I’ve heard of Island Wine Room Whataburger many other instances of removal of comments The Port Aransas Art Center has lost an against stay at home orders etc. artist and valued member of the team. Nancy Kody’s Doc’s Restaurant Now I see the admin of one of our local Buskey taught the Art Center’s Friday drop in Coffee Waves Snoopy’s Pier North Padre Island Facebook pages (Not watercolor class after retiring from her career Moby Dicks Island Moon’s page) posting an open policy as a medical professional. Her students loved Isle Mail N More her and thrived under her instruction. Nancy’s IGA of removing any comment that doesn’t follow Island Italian the government Corona mantra. If there is only artwork was inspired by her love of nature, Treasure Island particularly birds, the Coastal Bend and Port Brooklyn Pie Co. one viewpoint allowed on a page, I don’t see any point in even looking at the page. I already Aransas. 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Stripes on Flour Suppression of dissent is one of the first and Bluff & SPID most powerful weapons of dictatorships all over the world. The framers of our Constitution believed this so strongly that they created the Send letters and photos to editor@ first amendment to the Constitution and the first islandmoon.com April 30, 2020 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Short term cont. from A1 these questions will be made at the City Council buildings. The new regulations require short- level, with the possibility of town hall meetings term rental operators to register with San hundreds of years old in the rotting hulls of types of problems now being seen on Padre around the city for input. The current timeline Antonio and pay a $100 fee. Hosts are also sailing ships which foundered there during Island the City of Corpus Christi has yet to still calls for the new ordinance to be in place by required to pay a $100 renewal fee every hurricanes or privateer attacks. Along the area produce an ordinance defining where and under summer 2020 but time is running short. three years. The city estimates it will receive known as Big Shell, which can only be reached what conditions short-term rentals are allowed $320,000 in fee-related revenue over the next in vehicles with four wheel drive, currents are in the city limits. While the City of Port Aransas How Other Cities four years. right for bringing in the colorful glass balls enacted a way to track and tax short-term rentals (see the related story in this issue) in 2016, the The ordinance also limits how many Type which serve as floats for the nets of Japanese Regulate Short-term 2 short-term rentals can exist within a certain trawlers, as well as other flotsam and jetsam. City of Corpus Christi has been working on an ordinance to address the problem since October, area. . Only one Type 2 rental is allowed in a The purchase of mine detectors for searching 2019, but has yet to produce a draft ordinance Rentals multifamily development with fewer than eight out buried metal is an indication of the to present to the city council for approval. A A review of the ordinances in three Texas cities units. In larger multifamily buildings Type 2 continuing enthusiasm of treasure hunters. city officials said this week the ordinance has where this has recently been addressed finds rentals are limited to 12.5 percent of units. Once it comes down to a single equation; how to the density limits are reached, prospective short- One of the most optimistic of these not moved from “internal draft” status. Council balance the property rights of people who want term rental operators can ask for an exception beachcombers was Bill Freeman who, after members told the staff at that time they wanted to rent short-term and those of nearby residents from a Board of Adjustments. This is to five years of careful searching along our Port a short-term stay ordinance in place by the who don’t want it in their neighborhood or regulate how many units in large condominium Aransas coast, especially after hurricane tides summer season of 2020. multi-family development. In many ways it is a developments can be leased short-term and it or heavy weather, was rewarded in a curious A start monetary versus quality of life issue. does not give Homeowner Associations the way. ability to overrule the city regulations. Under Until recent months visitors to the city booking One common line of delineation that could Early on a blustery October morning in 1964, the San Antonio ordinance only about one- short-term through the Vrbo site – or any of the have a big impact on Padre Island is whether Bill and his wife of two years were driving a eighth of units on a single-family residential other dozens which connect travelers directly the dwelling being rented is the primary home lonely section of the beach after a stormy block can be Type 2 units. Like Austin it also with property owners – paid only the state’s of the owner or whether it is a second home, weekend at the port. He had told her of his prohibits large events. 6-percent portion of the 16-percent Hotel the distinction being whether the homeowner previous discoveries; a wooden boat box with Occupancy Tax (HOT). That state portion of the will be present when the renter is there. Here is Type 1 units are allowed anywhere in the city at least fifty feet of polypropylene line attached, HOT generated $637,999 for the state in 2018, what three other cities have done. , as long as the owner lives somewhere on the an almost new Bowie Knife from the sand, a according to numbers from the Corpus Christi property, but Type 2 units must follow density large air-filled rubber boat fender, a thermos Convention and Visitors Bureau. Renters paid Port Aransas rules in an attempt to prevent the proliferation of bottle, one of those kapok boating jackets that the state portion of the HOT since failure to short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods. keep out the cold and you afloat and a green Before 2016 there was no monitoring of do so is a felony under Texas law. However wine bottle still half full of wine which he had vacation rentals in Port Aransas, but there If a complaint is filed against a short-term the city’s 9-percent portion of the HOT went been afraid to drink. (They had put a candle in was no doubt it was a thriving business. The rental property the operator must attempt to unpaid costing the city an estimated $957,000 the mouth of that bottle and used it as a dining city passed a five-page ordinance in January, contact the occupants within one hour of the in HOT in 2018, and that number only includes table light.) True, these finds could not be called 2016 that requires any property owners renting call. If a second complaint is filed and citation accommodations booked through the VRBO valuable, but the thrill of discovery was great short term to register with the city and pay a issued to any part of the occupants or guests, site, not the other sites which do the same thing and the possibilities limitless. nominal fee. A computer program searches the the owner/operator must take appropriate steps and often list dozens of short-term rentals on internet sites and red flags any short-term rental to assure future complaints do not occur. The It was while they were searching the deserted Padre Island. That is a substantial number given property not registered. As a point of reference, short term permit is revoked if three or more beach on this gray day that they sighted a that the Corpus Christi HOT garners about the Cinnamon Shore North development whose confirmed citations are issued at a permitted distant, dark shape in the surf. Bill shucked $16 million each year, and the CVB runs on business model is built around short-term property within any six month period. Fines his shoes, waded out and discovered a bale of a budget of less than $4 million. By state law rentals reported $3 million in rental revenue in for violations such as noise can vary from cotton. The bale had a burned spot on it. Bill HOT funds can only be used to support the local the third quarter of 2018 alone. $200 to $500 per violation and can be issued speculated that it had been thrown smoldering tourism industry. in consecutive days if the violations continue. into the ocean to protect the rest of the cotton Under the Port Aransas rules the property To address the problem the city council in early cargo. He didn’t know what it was worth must be in an area zoned for overnight stay, 2020, approved an agreement with Homeaway. exactly, but with cotton at 30 cents a pound, and with a pyramid of various residential zoning com Inc. to collect the city’s portion of the HOT a bale weighing as much as 500 pounds it could categories, some of which allow short-term Why Property on short-term rentals through that organization. be a nice windfall for a guy making $75 a week. stay and some which don’t. Under zoning rules That agreement is currently in effect but It was relatively simple to move it from the surf short-term rentals are allowed in condo and Owner Associations contains several glaring shortcomings. to the sand; he tied a line to it and dragged it out townhome developments anywhere in the city with his car. But getting it into the trunk of his For instance, it does not cover short- and there is no limit on how many of the units in Can’t Regulate car turned out to be tough. In the process Bill term rentals as a whole, only those booked any multi-family building can be rented short- would discover that the burn spot was bigger through Homeaway.com. Also, while it holds term. Short-Term Rentals than he first thought it was. Homeaway.com liable for any unpaid city HOT A short-term rental permit may be revoked after In May of 2018 a San Antonio homeowner it does not hold them responsible for reporting To spare you, let me telescope the gut- three violations of the city code, such as noise, got transferred to Houston and decided to rent where the short-term rentals are located, when wrenching three hours that Bill and his wife in a year. Each short-term property must have his home in the Timberwood Park subdivision they are leased out. That, combined with the spent, along with five tourists who happened an identification code issued by the city which out on VRBO. He formed a limited liability City of Corpus Christi’s lack of any program along during the operation, before the burden must be included in any advertising for lease of company for his rental business and during a to track short-term rentals means that until a was laboriously laid on two-by-fours extending the property. Advertising a property for lease five-month period rented out the home 31 times new city ordinance is passed there is no way from the trunk of his car. I will tell you that without a permit is automatically a violation for stays ranging between one and seven days. of tracking short-term rental property in the Bill and his new-found friends cleverly used and subject to a fine. Permit suspensions can He dutifully paid hotel taxes to the city for the city, including Padre Island. The lack of an driftwood and car jacks to raise the bale high be appealed through a city process after which rentals. ordinance also means there are currently no city a legal appeal can be filed within thirty days. enough for the automobile to be backed under Then the Property Owner’s Association rules regarding where short-term rentals are Each property must have a designated contact it. Bill, his bride and the trunk heavy car headed demanded that he cease renting out his house, allowed or any way to check the background of person available at all times and occupancy for for Corpus. It appeared to be a triumph of claiming that it violated the deed restrictions renters. the property is established at the time the permit Yankee ingenuity until the right rear tire spring contained in the subdivision’s deed restrictions is issue. collapsed putting her frame dead on the axle What the ordinance will address which stated that “[a]ll tracts shall be used and the fender dangerously close to the tire. It Rick Adams, Port Aransas Director Planning solely for residential purposes, except tracts According to a presentation to the council in turned out to be a $44 collapse. Bill pressed on. and Development reports that the Port Aransas designated for business purposes ….” The deed late 2019 the local ordinance could take many Just inside the city limits of Aransas Pass, seven system has worked well and required no restrictions also provided that only “single forms. For instance, short-term rentals could miles from the beach, he was given a ticket for changes since the ordinance was adopted. family residence[s]” could be built on the lots be allowed in certain types of zoning, from not having a red flag on the boards which were in the subdivision. The homeowner ignored commercial to several various types of single- “It’s worked out well. No changes yet. The sticking too far out of the trunk of his car. It was the POA’s demand, and it began assessing a family residential zoning. Or it could be contact information and one-hour response (for a $10 infraction, but I can’t swear that he ever fine of $25 per day, as allowed by chapter 202 allowed only in multi-family dwellings. Or in complaints) has proven very valuable,” Adams paid it. He bought two red bandannas at a local of the Texas Property Code. The homeowner the alternative a completely new type of zoning said. “The penalties are steep for violations variety store and tied them to the two-by-fours. ended up filing a lawsuit against the POA, could be created just for short-term rentals. which I think have incentivized owners to At the busy intersection where the Ingleside comply.” but lost in both the trial court and the court of Highway meets the boulevard to Corpus Christi, There is also the issue of how to reconcile rules appeals. The San Antonio Court of Appeals Adams said that one result of implementing the the red signal flags became unnecessary when from Homeowner Associations in multi-family ruled that the STRs were “transient” rather than short-term stay ordinance is that it has cut down the bale fell out of the trunk. Now Bill was buildings that allow any or all units to be leased residential in nature, based on the premise that on the number of fraudulent listings for rentals faced with both the loss of his treasure and a overnight, which could be illegal in certain “residential use” implies permanent occupation, on websites. traffic citation for dumping a potentially lethal types of residential zoning. Current state law not short term use. Because the court found the obstruction into a busy thoroughfare. However, places city zoning restriction above any rules Austin residential use restriction to be unambiguous, it his luck, such as it was, held. A wrecker put in place by Homeowner Associations and declined to apply any presumption in favor of operator returning empty from a traffic accident case law restricts a homeowners association’s The Austin ordinance is similar to the Port free use of real property. authority to regulate short-term rentals. (See Aransas rule in that any advertising of a non- stopped, tied his cable to the bale, and in a scant The case went to Texas Supreme Court, the related story in this issue). permitted rental is automatically subject to three minutes put the bale back in his trunk, this state’s highest civil court, where there was a fine, in Austin it is $2000. A $500 non- time more securely. “That will be $10 please,” During their discussion the Corpus Christi a lengthy digression concerning whether refundable registration fee is also charged said the wrecker driver. Bill paid, unaware that City Council said that at this early stage of restrictive covenants should be strictly construed with an annual $300 renewal fee. At the time the heavily laden hook on the wrecker chain had development of the ordinance all options are in favor of free use of property, or liberally the Austin ordinance was passed the city had fouled the mechanism on his trunk lock. That on the table. Based on statements made to the applied in favor of the drafter’s intent pursuant identified $1.87 million in uncollected HOT would require $14 to repair. council and by reviewing the ordinances in to statutory directive. The Supreme Court revenue. They make it to the cotton compress just before other cities here are some key areas the local finally held that the residential use restriction closing time. A man inspected the water-soaked, ordinance likely will contain. There is a limit on the percentage of short- was unambiguous and therefore no presumption term rentals in residential and commercial areas fire-damaged bale and gave the Freemans a The owners/operators of short-term rentals will would be applied one way or another. based on census tracts. There is an occupancy check for $84. be required to register and pay back HOT fees. The court declared the property owner the limit of no more than ten adults or six unrelated winner of the dispute over common deed Now a simple bit of arithmetic will tell you that Noise and occupancy rules will apply with adults and there are regulations on sound restriction provisions concerning “residential” if they paid the traffic fine they had a total of $6 fines for violators, ultimately holding property equipment, live music and noise along with a use and construction of homes. In Tarr v. to show for a truly desperate day, not counting owners responsible. prohibition on outdoor assemblies from 10 p.m. Timberwood Park Owners Ass’n, No. 16- the cost of the bandannas. If he escaped the to 7 a.m. and a ban on commercial events, such Short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods 1005 the supreme court held that the owner’s ticket then he and his wife had $16 to show for as bachelor and bachelorette parties, concerts, will be regulated, if they are allowed at all, and business did not violate the subdivision’s 14 man-hours of work, seven for each of them. weddings and other large events. Sound at will provide police with a contact number of the deed restrictions. The court pointed out that the property line must be below 75 decibels They had the car repaired but it was never the owner in case of problems. the restriction to “residential purposes” was same. They traded it in on a new car which between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. It will also likely address the following not defined in the deed restrictions and that it Bill’s wife wouldn’t let him drive on the beach questions: Like Corpus Christi many homes in Austin did not explicitly require the owner to use the at all. This put a fair sized crimp in his treasure located in areas zoned single-family were property for that purpose. And nowhere in hunting. Will short-term rentals be allowed in areas of already in the rental market before the new the deed restrictions were short-term rentals the city which are zoned residential? Some time later I ran into the Freemans at ordinance was passed, when they went to mentioned or addressed. The court agreed with a party in Corpus Christi. Bill was his old If so, will all residentially zoned areas be register under the new ordinance they were courts in Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado, and ebullient self, talking to me about the potential treated the same, like the San Antonio rules, required to pay any back HOT owed based on Florida that the language focused on the use rewards from beach combing, but when his wife or will different types of residential zoning be the advertisements they had run. The ordinance of the property, not the identity of the person walked up and gave him a real funny look he treated differently? also discontinues short-term term rentals in using the property. The court concluded: “The changed the subject. certain types of residential zoning in 2022. covenants in the Timberwood deeds fail to Will the city write rules that use existing The ordinance also sets limits on the distance address leasing, use as a vacation home, short- zoning or will a new type of short-term zoning between short-term rental properties in a given term rentals, minimum-occupancy durations, or Beaches cont. from A1 be created? neighborhood. the like. They do not require owner occupancy or occupancy by a tenant who uses the home as his What, if any, delineation will be made between San Antonio Padre Island owner-occupied homes and non-residences domicile. Instead, the covenants merely require and in Port (second homes). The City of San Antonio’s passed its ordinance that the activities on the property comport with Aransas were in 2018. At the time the city collected the tax a “residential purpose” and not a “business Will the density of short-term rentals in any overwhelmed. from 363 short-term rental properties, out purpose.” We decline to add restrictions to the neighborhoods be capped? Timberwood covenants by adopting an overly Abbot’s order of 1,600 estimated to be operating in the city What percentage of units in multi-until narrow reading of “residential.” – see the text leaving uncollected revenue at an estimated developments – like condominiums or in this issue $2.4 million per year. The upshot of the Supreme Court’s ruling is townhomes – will be allowed to lease short – opens most Like Port Aransas, San Antonio is taking steps that if a developer of a residential subdivision term? As Texas law now stands the discretion of The beach by Bob Hall businesses at to find the non-HOT payers. A key tenant of wants to prohibit or regulate use of the homes for property owners associations is severely limited Pier on Saturday, April 25th 12:01 a.m. on the San Antonio ordinance, like that of Austin, short term rentals, the deed restrictions need to if it conflicts with the city ordnance. 2020. Friday, May 1. is that any short-term renter who applies for a do so explicitly. After Tarr v. Timberwood Park That includes Delicate balance permit under the new rules will have to pay any Owners Ass’n, Texas courts will not infer such restaurants but (not bars) operating at only back HOT owed before a permit is granted. The restrictions from standard clauses requiring use twenty-five percent capacity, as well as retail As many cities across the state and country City Manager was adamant that no back-taxes for residential purposes or limiting buildings to and some professional services. Most Island have found out regulating the vacation rental would be waved. single-family residences. restaurants reported this week that they intend business is a delicate balance of the rights of The San Antonio rules divide short-term rentals Dale Rankin to be open under the twenty-five percent rule property owners who want the extra income into two major categories; owner occupied this weekend. A few will continue with carryout from short-term vacation rentals and those (Type 1) which consists of homeowners renting only due to the economies of scale between of neighbors who bought homes or condos in out a spare room in their residence, these must back of the house expenses and serving only residential neighborhoods and don’t want the contain a sleeping area that at a minimum Send Letters and Photos to one-quarter of their capacity. added people, traffic, and noise, that can come with overnight visitors. Padre Island will likely includes the shared use of a full bathroom. [email protected] In Port Aransas Mayor Charles Bujan, citing be area of the city most effected by the rules The second category (Type 2) are rental units the difficulty of enforcing restrictions in the and follow us on since its share of second-home owners and where the owner does not reside. Only about face of weekend crowds, lifted sanctions on multi-family developments are higher than the one-eighth of units on a block can be Type 2 Facebook: The Island Moon Monday, April 27. Beaches, during daylight city’s as a whole. units and similar rules apply to multifamily hours, and hotels are open for business under Newspaper the confines of Abbot’s order. As things now stand the final decisions on April 30, 2020 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides of the Week water that she stayed at home all weekend, she Editor’s note: We got says the humans were supposed to stay at home Tides for Bob Hall Pier April 30 - May 7 this letter this week. too but a lot of them didn’t. They stood out in the Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon Someone left it on our sun until they looked like lobsters and drank out of cans until they couldn’t walk right anymore. /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible porch written in crayon. She sent me a picture. Sometimes I don’t Th 30 Low 2:00 AM -0.1 6:50 AM Set 2:08 AM 38 Dear Humans, understand humans. Like the ones who live in 30 High 12:02 PM 1.9 8:02 PM Rise 12:58 PM My name is Bob and I’m a Pocket Gopher. I my house. They keep talking about going to some store where they get licked, or something F 1 Low 3:13 AM 0.0 6:49 AM Set 2:55 AM 49 don’t have any pockets but I am a gopher and I’m confused. I live under a backyard on Gunwale like that. “I’m going to the licked store, or to get 1 High 12:39 PM 1.9 8:03 PM Rise 2:01 PM Street and mostly I just carry sand around in my licked, or lickored or something,” they say, and they seem to be going there a lot more lately. Sa 2 Low 4:36 AM 0.2 6:48 AM S et 3:39 AM 60 mouth and undermine Island streets. But lately I’ve noticed that something is going on. Why would anybody go to a store to get licked 2 High 1:04 PM 1.7 8:03 PM Rise 3:06 PM when they could just get licked right here at The humans who let me live under their yard 2 Low 8:03 PM 1.2 home? It just doesn’t make any sense. have been home a lot more and the two cats 2 High 10:32 PM 1.3 who live on the floor above me are spending Last weekend after one of the humans got licked he fell in the swimming pool and the Su 3 Low 6:03 AM 0.4 6:47 AM Set 4:20 AM 71 less time sleeping and more time chasing birds. The humans bother me because they stare at stoopid dog started barking, like that was going 3 High 1:22 PM 1.5 8:04 PM Rise 4:11 PM me when I come out of my hole so lately I have to help that human get out of the pool. The other humans laughed and the human who fell 3 Low 7:39 PM 1.0 been spending more time underground, which is a problem because my internet has been slow. in the pool did a lot of shouting. I ran in my hole M 4 High 12:36 AM 1.4 6:47 AM Set 5:00 AM 81 I have the Special Gopher Package that allows and watched another episode of Seinfeld even 4 Low 7:29 AM 0.6 8:05 PM Rise 5:17 PM me to tap into the underground line going though I had already seen it about a hundred times. It’s the one where the mailman drives a 4 High 1:34 PM 1.4 into the humans’ house and I notice they have been watching a lot more television lately too. truck full of bottles to Michigan but the truck 4 Low 7:48 PM 0.7 Another reason I think something is going on. catches on fire. I like that one but I can’t collect bottles because they don’t fit down my gopher Tu 5 High 2:11 AM 1.6 6:46 AM Set 5:39 AM 89 Last week I talked to my cousin Bill who lives hole. 5 Low 8:54 AM 0.8 8:05 PM Rise 6:24 PM under the swing set at Aquarius Park and he said he’s noticed there are more kids hanging around If anyone can explain to me what is going 5 High 1:42 PM 1.3 there lately too, even in the daytime when he on up there on Planet Human please let me 5 Low 8:14 PM 0.3 usually has the park to himself. Last week a kid know. It seems like the humans want to keep poured something sticky and sweet down his gophers in the dark. But one of my humans W 6 High 3:33 AM 1.8 6:45 AM Set 6:19 AM 95 gopher hole and when he drank it he got a lot of bought something called a banjo. It makes a 6 Low 10:23 AM 1.0 8:06 PM Rise 7:32 PM energy and dug his tunnel so deep he hit water lot of racket and when one of the humans plays on it the other human starts yelling and makes 6 High 1:43 PM 1.2 and now he was an indoor swimming pool. He blames it on the Chinese gophers but I’m not him go sit way out on the deck. If this keeps 6 Low 8:48 PM 0.0 sure why. Maybe he dug all the way to China. up I’m thinking of buying a second hole out by the Ski Basin. I hear there are less humans Th 7 High 4:49 AM 2.0 6:44 AM Set 7:01 AM 99 My other cousin Sid lives at a big park with out there but more coyotes and no banjos. I 7 Low 9:29 PM -0.2 8:06 PM Rise 8:40 PM a big sandpit and last weekend he said he saw don’t like coyotes but they don’t chase me as people in it swatting a ball over a net. While long as there some cats around. I don’t know they were doing that he boosted a Cheeto out if there are cats at the Ski Basin. Bill told me of a bag and they chased him but he made it there is some new machinery coming to his park back to his hole just in time. Sid says humans at Aquarius so there might be room for me to are greedy because they had plenty of Cheetos move over there. I would have watch out for all left in the bag and didn’t need the one he nicked. those kids pouring stuff down my gopher hole Stoopid humans want all the Cheetos and don’t but an indoor pool would be nice. I guess every want gophers to put any in their pockets…if we place has its drawbacks and wherever you go, had pockets but we don’t. well, there you are. My cousin Mandy lives in a hole in a sand dune Thanks for listening, near the big water. Mandy says you can’t drink the big water because it tastes funny. She said Bob (last name withheld by request) last week there were so many humans by the big The Pocket Gopher Island Moon on a Spoon Cheesecake Parfait in a Parking Lot

By Chef Vita Jarrin leave the other half raw in order to add different textures and acidity. Once I had the cookies, I Greetings Readers, smashed them up, leaving some of them chunky, City Update time was of the essence and it was time to plate I’d love to start out this week’s article by with 2 minutes on the clock. I grabbed these By Greg Smith group and the other in the 70 to 79 year group. thanking all of you who watched, supported, beautiful, see through glasses and began with Thirty-nine have recovered, leaving sixty active messaged, shared and commented about my City Council Member District 4 the cookies, the cream cheese, the macerated cases recent appearance on Food Network. I’m super berries, chocolate and started layering it once On May 1 a new chapter will be opening in proud of my accomplishment, but more so, I am On the State front Texas averaged 748 new more. My final layer had the cream cheese and the ongoing saga of the Covid-19 virus. On always proud to represent my community, our daily cases for the week as of 10:00AM April beautifully sliced strawberries for garnish. It April 27, the Governor announced a phased Island and of course Texas! 29. Texas had the 43rd lowest state infection was amazing. So try this yourself and enjoy the reopening of Texas with the order taking place percentage on April 28th, dropping from 46th For those of who didn’t get to tune in, I’m sure recipe ;P) the first day of May. Along with this the City three weeks earlier. The Texas Panhandle is it’s on Demand and the it’s called Super Market of Corpus Christi and City of Port Aransas Ingredients: the hottest spot in Texas with Amarillo leading Stakeout, Season 2, episode 7 “layer’me up. emergency orders will expire on April 30. The the way. Some East Texas counties are rapidly This episode was shot in January in Phoenix, 1 8oz package of Cream Cheese room Mayor will not extend it. The Governor was increasing their case numbers led by Huntsville Arizona. It was a two-day shoot, 1 day we temperature (set out for an hour) explicit that certain portions of the State order and Nacogdoches. These counties infection filmed the competition and the second we did the supersede local orders in store and restaurant ½ C granulated sugar rate are 3,372, 2,740 & 2,162 case per million interviews. I never really knew how much fun openings and there will be no mandatory face respectively. Nueces is 273 by comparison. competing could be. Aside from that adrenaline ½ bag of chocolate chips melted in Bain masks. On May 1 restaurants, retail stores and rush, meeting Host Alex Guarnaschelli, & Marie or microwave (carefully don’t over movie theaters may open at 25% capacity. With the changes in the State Order and the judges, Bobby Flay and Brooke Williamson, heat) dropping of local orders we should start to City operations will be following the State’s (winner of Bravo’s Top Chef) was just as see the large influx of tourism as we begin 1 lb Strawberries ½ raw ½ added to sugar and recommendations and is in the process of amazing. It’s a once in a life time event, to be our summer season. Our packed beaches with berries developing and implementing these guidelines. able to have them taste and judge your food. mostly our local citizens last week are a strong The City will still continue drive-thru meals I’m still smiling ear to ear. ½ lb. Berries ½ raw ½ added to sugar and indication of folks just wanting to get out. We at the citizen’s centers and does not plan on strawberries should expect the same from our Texas market One of my favorite things about this show, is opening City pools or Senior Centers at this time. in the coming week. As mentioned Corpus it mirrors our challenges in our every day life. ½ C sugar for berries The City/County Health Council is continuing Christi has one of the lowest infections rates What can we cook with what we have? Well if testing all citizens that are symptomatic. There ¼ C water at 273 cases per million. Texas is at 909 and we can create amazing dishes in a parking lot, have been 2,288 total tests to date. The phone the US’s average is now 3,159. It is even more imagine how creative we can be by looking in ½ Pkg. Oreo Chocolate cookies crushed number for testing is 826-7200. important to follow the covid prevention rules of our pantry and fridge. Directions: As of April 28 there are 99 confirmed cases social distances, reducing contacts and hygiene in Nueces County, twelve of which are in the as the chances of exposure will increase as the In a mixer add the softened cream cheese and 78418 zip code. Seven are located in the 78373 Island and the City open up. sugar. Whip until smooth in texture. Set aside. zip, Port Aransas and Mustang Island. There Add ½ of the berries and ½ of strawberries to Below are charts of daily new cases for were no new cases in these zip codes this a pan and add the sugar and water. Cook over the United States and Texas. They show the week. 21 cases are community transmission, medium heat, stirring until the sugar, water and sharp increase in March and the effect of the 30 person to person, 6 under investigation and berries, turns syrupy, about 6 minutes. Set aside wholesale changes made in this Country that 42 travel related. Three cases are hospitalized and let cool. Melt chocolate when you are ready flattened the growth in early April. While new with one in ICU. One week ago there were to assemble. Crush cookies in a bowl or food cases are trending slightly down, we are far 90 confirmed cases. There were two deaths processor. Just don’t pulse them into dust, you from being out of the woods and should stay reported this week, one in the 30-39 year age want crunch in the parfait. Time to layer. When vigilant. layering a dessert, it’s always nice to use a see Land cont. from A1 through vessel so that you can see the beautiful “A Texas independent school district (may) layers. Start by layering with the cream cheese, the District since 1997 and, depending on the enter into a long-term ground lease with a then add the cookies, so they have a pillow of ruling by the Attorney General, could be leased private entity that intends to develop surplus cream to hold them in place, then the berries, out long-term to a private investor at a profit to property owned by the District for non- then chocolate and repeat. Garnish your parfait the district. educational purposes, where the expected with beautiful strawberries or a sprig of mint. FBISD bought the land at a tax auction in financial benefit to the District over the term of Enjoy! the lease is anticipated to far exceed the current 1997 for under $200,000, the Nueces Appraisal Tip of the week: District currently lists the value of the land at value of a sale of the property?” $1.6 million. District officials have said several The Fort Worth District has listed18 underused This dessert is definitely versatile. You can use times in recent years they have no plans for use school-owned properties it believes can generate different cookies, different berries, and layer it in a small glass or use a clear bowl and expand of the land. more revenue as rental for development than it One of the dishes I made for the final round was the ingredients, if you want to serve a crowd. When the land was going up for sale at a tax can make by selling the tracts at current market a cheesecake parfait, out of 5 ingredients. The auction a tentative deal was struck between the value. The pleadings say the Fort Worth district title of this round was called Layered Dessert. The options are endless. ;) The Important thing district and developer Paul Schexnailder to do a will follow Chapter 272, of the Texas Local With so few ingredients, the only thing I could is to have fun, try new things and Enjoy! land swap to provide a fifteen-acre site near the Government Code, for the potential sale and/ think of was a trifle or parfait. My ingredients Island water tower that would have been large or ground lease of any properties declared were, chocolate chips, cream cheese, cool whip, enough for a school. The deal also included no longer necessary for the operation of the strawberries and blueberries. With twelve seven acres of park land which was deeded to school district. While a sale of school property minutes on the clock, Alex the host, allowed us the City of Corpus Christi which still owns it. would “permanently divest the District of its to go back inside the store to buy one ingredient That deal fell apart leaving the 6.7 acre tract in exclusive right to manage and control school to add the layers. I chose a box of Oreos. This the possession of FBISD. In 2018 Flour Bluff property. Under any ground lease entered into, last ingredient was the crunch and added layer I ISD paid $100,000 in back dues to the Padre the property would revert back to the District's needed to compose a cheesecake parfait. Isles Property Owners Association after it was ownership at the end of the term in accordance with the provisions contained in the lease.” I must say, for those of you who know me and discovered they had not been billed for several or follow me on social media, I love making years. The 6.7 acre tract fronts the portion of the cheese cakes! It’s truly an art form to make Under state law school districts are forbidden Gypsy Canal which runs behind businesses them right. I’m still learning new nuances to hold land for speculative purposes but if an and residences on the north side of Whitecap every time I bake them and let me tell you… effort by the Fort Worth Independent School Boulevard, however, the value of the land will all of these components made the best no bake, District is successful FBISD could potentially likely increase dramatically when the plan to eggless cheesecake, in 30 minutes, mind you… sign a long-term development deal with a extend the canal northward to connect to the I’ve ever made. private developer and collect fees or rent on the proposed Park Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge is complete. Here’s what I did… I blended the cream property while retaining ownership. The case cheese, some sugar, and to loosen it up, I used a is currently under consideration by the Texas The Fort Worth ISD formally requested a large dollop of cool whip. That was one layer. I Attorney General. ruling from the Attorney General on April 23 melted the chocolate chips to make a chocolate Fully Guided • All Tackle Provided Specifically, the issue as stated in the Fort but there is no word on when a ruling from the sauce, that was another layer. I decided to (361)442-8145 Worth district’s pleadings is whether: Attorney General is expected. macerate half of the berries with sugar and A6 Island Moon April 30, 2020 Senior Moments Anecdotingly Tunnel Rats-Soldiers of The Vietnam War The Great Pie Melee By Dotson Lewis By Abigail Bair Special to the Island Moon As many of you may be aware, Mother’s Day background), so for those of you who are slow Dotson’s Note: I thought that many of you Moon is barreling down upon us like a locomotive in this respect: WHEN YOUR MOM SAYS Monkeys would like to have a change of pace, fueled by Red Bull and trucker pills. As she SHE DOESN’T WANT ANYTHING, SHE so here goes. The tunnel rats were American, is blessed with two terrible children, my Mom WANTS ONLY THE PERFECT THING. South Vietnamese, New Zealand and Australian (the Rev) never expects much in the way of Sorry to yell, but it’s true. soldiers who performed underground search holiday felicitations. and destroy missions during the Vietnam War. The stakes had just been raised. Once I made her a card that simply said, “Sorry These fearless combat engineers descended about your uterus.” “Okay, Mom,” I continued in trepidation, “I into the complex Viet Cong tunnels to gather have three ideas. I guess you can just pick info and disarm bombs, often at the cost of their She was not amused, but I thought it was which one you want.” own lives. Later, similar teams were used by the hilarious. “Let me hear them,” the Rev replied so smugly Soviet Army during the Soviet–Afghan War and Last year, however, in a moment of sheer by the Israel Defense Forces in campaigns in that she could have been smuggling smug in epiphany, I bought the Rev an electric kettle. I from Smugsylvania. the Middle East. Thanks to Jim Marrett, Katie knew my parents needed a new one since my Serena, the Vietnam War Museum and to the father (the G.P.) had recently left their last water “I just got this really awesome blow drier. It Vietnam War Museum for the photos. boiler on the gas stove so long it turned into a makes my hair look like a competent person did GI Looking Into Trap Door it….” The Underground Search and Destroy pile of what the Rev described as “melted slag Soldiers Aside from intentional dangers, there were the and toxic fumes.” The Rev cut me off with a loud “I DO NOT natural ones as well. Being underground meant “He’s going to burn the house down, Ab!” she WANT A BLOW DRIER! Do you even know troops were subject to insects, some poisonous your own mother?” like scorpions, and others annoying, like ants. complained bitterly, omitting to mention that Bats and other creatures used the tunnels as she had done the exact same thing to the kettle “But, it’s a really good blow drier…” I began, roosts, providing yet another distraction from prior. only to be met with the kind of low growl you the task at hand. The tunnel rats were forced to When she opened the new water cooker hear right before the tiger tears your hand off. be creative and often even managed to maneuver box, she was visibly thrilled. The thick glass “Next, what about a machine that makes mini around these attacks. machine featured blue LED lights (for that early pies? It’s super easy and it would probably save morning nightclub experience) and not one, but you hundred of dollars a year in Dad-related pie Profile of A Tunnel Rat TWO automatic shut-off features to prevent purchases.” Originally called “Tunnel Runners” and later melting. “I don’t really like making pies,” she began, “Ferrets” by the Australian Army, the term The G.P. was so impressed that he opined that it only to be interrupted herself by my father eventually morphed into the known “Tunnel was the best thing Above, A GI shovels dirt into a tunnel entrance yelling, “PIE!?!?!?” from five rooms away. Rat.” The rats were comprised of engineering since the automatic where he believes Viet Cong are hiding. soldiers some of whom were trained at transmission and Evidently, the old man’s pie-dy senses had For a soldier during the Vietnam War, one of the Australian Army’s School of Military was tied with the tingled even at the mere mention of delectable the most dangerous of obstacles was faced by Engineering. Most men were volunteers and polio vaccine. pastries. My father can detect pie talk anywhere a select few soldiers known as “tunnel rats.” tended to be of smaller stature, making it easier within a three-mile radius. At Thanksgiving, The bar was set These unsung heroes of the Vietnam War to maneuver through the cramped spaces. he walked home early, but with both pumpkin pretty high for this and pecan pies balanced in one hand as he were American, Australian, and New Zealand But many tunnel rats were devoid of any formal year. controlled Rowlfie with the other. If you ask soldiers specially trained as combat engineers, training and though they were sometimes him, he will happily deliver his entire rating who carefully crawled through the cramped successful in securing intelligence, an enemy I was at a loss system of grocery store pie quality from Sara Viet Cong underground to perform perilous hospital, or stores of weapons. However, tunnel this morning, Lee on down. covert search and destroy missions. The tunnel rats were responsible for a large portion of so I phoned the rats gently prodded for potentially armed mines weapons successfully seized from the Viet Rev looking for Dad barreled into the back bedroom to argue in in order to disarm them and prayed that they Cong. solutions. favor of the machine that produces his favorite survived with both their legs. snack. In much the same tone in which decades Troops often went into the tunnels armed with “Mom, what earlier I had begged for a Snoopy Sno-Cone only an army-issue pistol or revolver, and so the do you want for Network Of Enemy Tunnels machine he averred, “Kris, think how much soldiers became ingenious with creating their Mother’s Day,” I Viet Minh forces money it will save us on PIE!” own weapons. Usually, the weapons of their whined, hoping initially developed a own devising were sawed-off shotguns and to have to come Thus began the Great Pie Melee of 2020. complex system of up with any more underground tunnels creative cards My parents bickered for twenty minutes, while to combat the French based on the female I listed in stunned appreciation. colonial invasion of reproductive “You can have one for Father’s Day,” the Rev Vietnam known as system. finally shouted. “What was the third thing?” the Cu Chi tunnels. But what began as “I don’t need “I don’t remember,” I replied. anything, Ab,” she a fairly rudimentary “GET THE PIE THING THEN,” yelled my system of tunnels replied. The Revv has gotten Dad, down but unbeaten. quickly became a Now some of you several spectacularly Now I don’t’ know what to do. I guess I’m sophisticated web would stop right disgusting Mother's Day going to get the pie thing, but maybe also make beneath Vietnam here and just not Viet Cong Soldiers In cards over the years. the Rev card. Tunnel when it was later used get your Mother by the Viet Cong to anything for her What do you guys think of “Fallopian for combat enemy forces. day, but you would be fools. I know people you?” Checking Possible Venalation Shaft By the inception of the Vietnam War in the don’t know the Danger Zone when they see it She really should have just opted for the blow 1960s, the tunnels included several hospitals, (even if there is a whole highway pointing at it drier. storage facilities, training camps, and barracks. makeshift bayonets. The soldiers also armed with Kenny Loggins sing-yelling warning in the Effective ventilation shafts were later installed themselves with gas masks. which allowed Viet Cong soldiers to remain Often when faced with a Viet Cong soldier hidden underground for months at a time. below ground, tunnel rats had to resort to hand- The tunnels could be destroyed above ground, to-hand combat, as firing a weapon in such a but often because the tunnels were so complex small space could spell disaster for eardrums and snake-like, an above-ground demolition and the stability of the space around them. was not enough to dismantle the labyrinth But the tunnel rats’ time underground was to entirely. Someone would have to go down into one veteran named Sapper Jim Marrett, “the the tunnels to gather information and better least of [his] worries.” inform their attack. Thus, the tunnel rats came to be. In a personal essay for The New York Times, Marrett wrote that as dangerous descending into But the tunnels proved to be an even more the tunnels was, “Most of our casualties were mysterious, uncharted area where danger aboveground, when we engaged in the other lay around every corner. Besides enemy part of our job: finding and disarming mines and combatants, the tunnels were decked with booby traps.” booby traps as the Viet Cong knew full well that the American forces would try to use the Marrett reportedly spent weeks in the bush underground against them. locating and disarming mines, “During that period 36 of us were killed and around 200 were wounded, giving us a casualty rate of 33 percent, high even by Vietnam War standards. One in three of us was either killed or wounded during our tour.” Dotson’s Other Note: ''We`d enter the tunnel one at a time, separated by several feet, so a grenade wouldn`t get us all. You`d feel your Nester going back to sea. way along for booby traps. It got so you could Photo by Steve Coons. sense them. The same for VC. You could smell another human being in the tunnel. You knew he was waiting for you in the dark. Many times, I tried to talk VC into surrendering. They never would.''* Thanks for reading and commenting on the articles in The Island Moon. Contact me at [email protected] or call/text: 530-748- 8475. GIs Pulling Man Out *A friend of mine, who asked that I not use his name. Along the tunnels, U-bends had been placed Please note: The Veterans Round Table which allowed sections of the tunnels to be Meetings have been postponed indefinitely. flooded and trap a solider. Similarly, entry When the meetings are resumed all veterans, points were created where poisonous gas their families and anyone interested in veterans’ could be introduced to kill or render a soldier activities, are invited. The Veterans Radio Returning nesting turle to the ocean. Lee Harrison with nesting turtle. unconscious. 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Just when we think fun as some birds have been known to do. This is one of those years. I sat just outside the we’re out of the woods, we get another wave. breakers surfing yesterday as tiny menhaden Hope that doesn’t bode the same for the other In Roadkill Willie’s case, the birds are literally blew out of the water above small yellow tailed “thou-that-shall-not-be named” pestilence that sitting right outside of his door. He walked out jacks, the canals are full of them as well. In the is occurring these days, however, the crowds this morning and had a Chucks-will-widow ICW waves of shrimp flow every night under at the beach this past weekend may cause a sitting on his chair. Evidently the poor little the cover of darkness. These are the building “second spike” just from those folks alone. fella was working his porchlight for bugs during It was like Spring Break met Memorial Day the night and took a wide turn and collided with and rear-ended Labor Day on the Island this a window. Birds striking windows kill millions past weekend. I saw people lined up on the of birds a year. There are a few things you Causeway in numbers that I’m not sure I’ve can do to break up your sliding glass doors’ We put this rowdy group of fisherman on a few ever seen before. I guess a lot of people finally profile, with stickers being the easiest and boats last week and on a big box of fish! hit their breaking point and had to get out. I was most common way to get that accomplished. out on the water myself, so…. Thankfully in Roadkill’s case, the bird was just their line tight, or open casts to a good spot for stunned and took off after a while. a longer time. I find that keeping a natural flow is best most times as you are quickly coming My HEB trip last week was kind of surreal. up on fish before they feel the boat. Remember You loyal readers understand that I only go out that a line of popping corks or splashing lures about once every 10 days. Some folks walked in can alert mature fish to your presence as well. wearing both masks and gloves, some with only Drifting now in the Upper Lagoon is great with masks or gloves, and a few people that walked soft plastics, topwaters, and fake shrimp under in with no protection at all. I was relieved to Bubba and Jenifer come to visit friends here a popping cork. Live shrimp will get eaten by see that they are still spraying the cart handles on the Island often and hooked into this 29” perch so quickly it’s not even worth it. Pin down. The mood of people reminded me a little black drum this week down in the Land Cut perch are top plentiful in the grassy flats here, of when Harvey came through, and people were with Capt. Joey Farah. for live shrimp fishing you must go farther south kind of shell shocked for a while. But the folks towards the mouth of Baffin Bay to keep them working at HEB were all pleasant and seemed blocks of a fantastic fishery and fishing year. on the hook. Roll with the flow this week and happy. That was reassuring, plus the fact that I cover and learn some new water drifting the flats. Photo by Roadkill Willie of a Chucks-will- found everything on my list, and then some. I’m On the Drift! widow. not sure that my fridge has been this stocked. Like ever. My buddy Topdog in the Bluff has a I spent hours and days staring into the water as great garden going and has been keeping me in The best way to locate fish and learn fishing areas a young kid behind our home. Somehow I felt It’s really hard for me to stop talking about salad greens. Life is good. is to drift fish the flats. Rolling with the natural I could be close to my father Joe Farah master birds, for a couple of reasons. For one, I’m flow of the wind covers ground and keeps the offshore diver. He spent his work life deep working from home, and when I’m here, I Well folks, there should be a good fallout by boat noise to a minimum. While anchored, hull beneath the ocean, walking and welding. His spend a lot of time out on my porch. When I the time this hits your hot little hands. This may slap and interruption of current can be detected absence would last weeks sometimes longer, walk outside, birds are just everywhere. The be one of the last of the season, so if you’ve by gamefish easily, especially in 4’ of water or I just knew that he was looking out across the hummingbird dog fights occur here from sunup been interested in checking some birds out, this less. One will drift over depth changes, groups of ocean thinking of us as well. That connection to sundown, and with their favorite feeder will be the time to do it until fall. I’m not sure sand pockets, and other structure silently. Mark lead me to a life as a WATERMAN, a term used tucked up under my porch right above my how lifting the stay at home order is going to those areas with your GPS so that you can line for those who live by the ocean. Surfers, divers, sitting chair, it’s hard to ignore. I get brushed by go this next week, as people will go right back up on those fish and make another drift or return boatmen, sailors, and fishermen who have it in their aerobatic wars at least once a day. Second, to normal, and social distancing will likely be their souls are WATERMEN. My Pops came the sounds of all the birds getting their game out the window. I’m expecting to see a second home one time with his for arms shredded by a on here at the beginning of nesting season are spike but hope not and it all goes away. We giant ocean eel, chest scratched up from being raucous. I have a mockingbird that has taken need to get this show back on the road, but half way swallowed by a giant jewfish, and a liking to a Norfolk pine tree right outside my safely. Y’all be safe out there, and drop me a told stories about monster sharks bumping him window, and I get to “enjoy” his favorite “hits” line at [email protected] and I’ll see you around as he worked in the darkness of the sea, most of the day and into the night. By listening next week On the Rocks. just checking him out so he said. My life on the ocean as grand as it is seems trivial compared to the shoes that man wore. All the while it built Thoughts From Dr. Tom a curiosity for our Mother Ocean inside me. It’s your turn to open the gates and introduce your friends, family, and children to the love of Transition to The Outside the Ocean. Let’s take a day on the bay and go fishing. Follow all our hookups on Facebook at By Dr. Tom Dorrell fish that almost caught it in the air it was such The Parkers love the Island and put this great Joey Farah’s Backwater Fishing and get wet! a pinpoint cast. I think I heard him mutter….go If you are fed up with stringer of trout together on soft plastics this Doc’s Seafood and Steaks is open! long! We had a great am and had numerous fish the never ending corona week, Baffin Bay North Shoreline with Capt. There is the best fish cleaner in the area to the boat taking turns. In our boat we rotate virus garbage coming out Farah. there for us all to come by land or sea! Chris after a fish from poling to fishing and vice versa. of the boob tube, then get outside and enjoy this will be cleaning fish there at Doc’s now, Sometimes if you get too many good shots and beautiful place we live in. Give the stress and everything from bay species to offshore you don’t convert the angler will graciously bow to wade fish or anchor later. While drifting look worry of will I still have a job and what will catches. No bones no mess no hassle! The out as well. There was not much of that this day. around and memorize your distant land marks happen if I get infected a rest. This past weekend best day in the world is to go out fishing then We finished the day poling the mangroves up to ingrain a map in your mind. Many anglers was nice and sunny and many locals and Texans drop off your catch with Chris then take a North. It always amazes me of the beauty we use a drift sock. Some boats need them, like were here at the Coast and I for one was happy break at THE WATERLINE, downstairs at have here. The wind was blowing really hard by cat hulls, so they will drift strait with the wind. to see it. Normally I am grouchy when the boat Slowing the boat down can help anglers keep Docs and have them COOK YOUR CATCH! lunch so we hatched a new plan for Saturday. Have a great week! ramps are full and things are crazy. This time I was elated. I like to see investments like what The big boat needed Spring cleaning and she has been done at Marker 37 at the new Sunset needed to have her throat cleared so to speak. Kemp’s Ridley Nesting Season Off to a Island be rewarded. Reopening the economy We decided to take the girls and run South could not come at a better time. the next day with plans to take some rods and the water sports equipment and get a break. I Rousing Start! I was lucky and had a few days off at the end don’t worry much about the wind inshore with of last week and our family took full advantage. her. She is a 26 foot pathfinder with top drive The Kemp’s Ridley turtle nesting season is off Unless I am at work, I am never inside. I am I use for offshore fly fishing and sight fishing. to a robust and early start in 2020. A total of either at the ranch or on the water fishing or I call her Onatopp after the Bond girl. She 61 nests have been found, with more than 20 guiding fly fisherman or putting my family and eats up what the bay has to offer. We got a late nests found on Padre Island, including the Padre friends on fish. The young buck is in on line start on purpose as the feed was late and if we Island National Seashore, in a single day. June classes as a junior at the Bluff and his older is typically the biggest month for Kemp’s ridley brother is a financial analyst for Baker Hughes nesting. and has been here with us since they are all On April 27, 16 Kemp’s ridley nests were working from home the last 6 weeks. The Island located on the Texas Coast, including eight on beats the hell out of Houston for a place to hole North Padre Island (including eight at Padre up. It has been nice and the Admiral has been Island National Seashore) and eight on South in hog heaven having both of her boys home. I Padre Island. have to admit it has been pretty nice.

Turtle nesting photo by Steve Coons. did any water sports in the land cut I wanted the fisherman to be about done so we did not Island National Seashore aggravate them. The wind was strong and the 18 South Padre Island bay was being chewed up pretty bad. Most of the 1 Boca Chica Beach fishermen were headed back as we were headed South. Baffin was mocha colored already. We Loggerhead Turtle skipped the fishing and went to the cut to have Volunteers from the ARK tend to the first Thursday Clint and I hit the water since he lunch and do a little skiing and knee boarding. So far this year, 0 nests have been confirmed Kemp's Ridley turtle to nest on had a brief respite from the finance world. The Actually my wife wanted to bring her slalom on the Texas coast, including (north to south in Mustang Island this year. Photo by Steve water has been high and the winds even higher ski since she is the only one with real talent in state): Coons. this last week. Sometimes that can create a that area. She started it off and I was not sure if 0 San Jose Island little worry for the long rod fisherman. It is nice having accomplished casters and fly anglers Through 2 pm on April 28, 4 Kemp’s ridley 0 North Padre Island, including 0 at Padre like my family on the boat because they can nests were located on the Texas Coast, including Island National Seashore two on North Padre Island (including two at make it happen Padre Island National Seashore) and two on 0 South Padre Island when things are South Padre Island. challenging. It Green Turtle makes the old Total numbers of nests found this year, by So far this year, 0 nests have been confirmed man look good. species and area, have been updated below. on the Texas Coast. I picked him up Kemp’s Ridley Turtle at Marker 37 at noon after I had So far this year, 61 nests have been confirmed surveyed a barren on the Texas coast including (north to south in landscape on foot she could still rip as a pretty gal in her fifties…. state): that am on a local Ooops I mean late thirties. Well she plain ripped 0 Bolivar Peninsula sand flat. We went it as the youngsters were whooping it up. She the other direction finally fell in front of the last two fishermen in 0 Galveston Island and snuck into a the cut. We apologized profusely and they were 0 Brazoria County, N. of Surfside favorite area of mine with the wind pushing a very nice about it since the fishing was terrible steady 20 instead of the 15mph promised. The 0 Surfside Beach any way. Probably not what you see everyday water was high and off color but we were able in the cut anyhow. Most people won’t travel 40 0 Quintana Beach to locate some reds and drum to sight fish and miles to ski in a thirty plus mph wind. The boys 0 Bryan Beach bring about 7 to hand including a pig drum. were up next and had a ton of fun knee boarding We kept a couple of small drum for half shell and in fact even the old guy got back on the 0 Brazoria County, N. of Sargent Beach dinner. We felt pretty fortunate and it was great board after a long hiatus. The lady slalom star 0 Sargent Beach to get out together, it is rare now days. inspired me and a few tricks and big air resulted. We all agreed it was a great day and hell of a lot 1 Matagorda Peninsula The next am I took Coop and Patty, who was itching to get out of the house as well. We got an better than corona virus. A little take out from 0 Matagorda Island early start and the wind was down and the water Romeo at Island Time finished a perfect day! Get outside and have some fun and support all 2 San Jose Island was beautiful. We stayed close and immediately were into fish including tails with Patty catching your local businesses. Doc Tom 3 Mustang Island Momma turtle laying her eggs. a nice red out of a large tailing pod. Coop had 36 North Padre Island, including 34 at Padre Photo by Steve Coons. struck before that with a nice 80 foot cast to a A8 Island Moon April 30, 2020 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon Four Scandals of the Olympic Loud Smile Summer Games By Dotson Lewis At the age of ten, my father took me to my first to attend their camp. Neal Dotson’s Note: The U.S. team was threatened with expulsion. To his Harlem Globetrotters game played at Dorton joined the Globetrotters Olympics aren't just fun and death, Norman was ostracized at home for his Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina. I later found in 1963. Neal claims that he received his games. There's also debt and, decision to participate; he wasn't even included out it was his first Globetrotter game too. We nickname, “Curly” from Bobby Milton, one sadly, death. Before we get to four scandals for in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. And in case it loved them. Sometimes when you watch the of the Globetrotters’ coaches. Milton called which the Summer Games are infamous, here's a wasn't obvious, the IOC chief that flipped out Globetrotters perform, you have to look up into him Curly after “Curly Joe” Howard, one of short history of the cancelled modern Olympics. was a racist, he was around to marvel at Hitler's the Heavens and just say “Wow.” I believe in the Three Stooges who was baldheaded. Neal As you know, the 2020 Summer Olympics display of power at those Berlin Olympics in yesterdays. Watching the Globetrotters play would return to JCS and graduate in 1975. scheduled to be held in Tokyo, Japan have been 1936. made me as happy as when I got to sit in my postponed until 2021. Hopefully, they will take dad’s recliner when I was a boy. Now, when I For 22 years, from 1963 to 1985, Neal place. Thanks to Bill Morgan (former SWC Nazis on Parade At The 1936 Olympics watch the Globetrotters play, I feel the presence appeared in more than 6,000 basketball games SID) and Ed Krayewski for the facts contained Lest you need a of my father, who passed away in July of 1984. in 97 different countries. The Globetrotters in this report and to Bill Morgan for the photos. reminder of how I was but 32 years old. The Trotters were played indoors, outdoors and on every other accepted Nazism amazing. If you had a pacemaker, you might surface you can imagine. In Germany, they Cancelled Modern Olympics was in the West want to stay at home. It’s was simple for me. played on the bottom of a drained swimming The first modern Olympics to be cancelled due as it emerged as Our heroes unite us. When we celebrate our pool. In Italy, sheets of plywood covered the to war were the 1916 Berlin Games. Though Germany's political heroes, we are reminded of who we are. ice-skating rinks. In Spain, they played on Germany was banned from the subsequent leadership, the the beaches. You could find them playing on 1920 and 1924 Olympics after losing World 1936 Berlin grass, clay tennis courts, soccer fields, a court War I, they were awarded the 1936 Olympics, Olympics had made from table tops and the deck of an aircraft which Adolf Hitler used to showcase the rise the most nations carrier of the U.S. Navy. In France, they even of his Nazi Party to political power. The flame participating in the played in a bull ring. Nazis On Parade. from the 1936 Olympics never made it to Olympic Games To honor Fred “Curly” Neal, there is a painted Tokyo, which was awarded the 1940 Olympics. to that date. The mural that decorates the wall of the Hayes- Imperial Japan backed out of the Olympics, Nazis came to power after Berlin had been Taylor Memorial YMCA in Greensboro, because they were getting ready for war. The selected to host the 1936 Olympics, but Adolf North Carolina. Neal joined the CIAA Hall games were moved to Helsinki, but the outbreak Hitler wanted to use the games as an occasion of Fame in 1986. In 1993, Neal was inducted of World War II meant a second cancellation. to display Aryan supremacy. Jesse Owens into the Harlem Globetrotters “Legends” ring famously disproved Hitler's racist notions early The 1944 Olympics in London, scheduled just for his work as a World Ambassador for the and often in the games, with Hitler refusing months before Germany invaded Poland in 1939 Globetrotters, after his retirement. On January to congratulate any athlete if he couldn't only and started World War II, were also cancelled. 31, 2008, Curly Neal became a part of the North congratulate Aryans. There were calls in the The summer games were held in London when Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, along with Roy United States to boycott the Olympic games, they resumed in 1948 instead. Because of post- Williams. On February 15, 2008, Curly Neal’s but it was vehemently opposed by the U.S. war conditions, the 1948 Olympics were called #22 was retired by the Harlem Globetrotters Olympic Committee chief at the time, none the "Austerity Games." Athletes were asked to during an event held at Madison Square Garden. other than Brundidge, who insisted Jewish bring their own towels. In 1948, things were so Curly joined Wilt Chamberlain #13, Marques athletes would be treated fairly in the games, tough that there was no Olympic Village. Haynes #20, Tex Harrison #34, Hubert “Geese” that the Olympics belonged to athletes, not Ausbie #35, Meadowlark Lemon #36, and After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan politicians, and that the effort to boycott the Curley Neal Reese “Goose” Tatum #50. in 1979, the U.S. boycotted the Summer Olympics were part of a "Jewish-Communist Olympics when they were held in Moscow in Curly Neal died at his home located outside of conspiracy." Brundage, who watched the Games This man was incredibly good at basketball. 1980. The Soviets led a counter-boycott when Houston, Texas, on Thursday morning, March from Hitler's personal box, had no problem with He could dribble circles around anyone. It was the Games were held in 1984 in Los Angeles. 26, 2020. He was 77 years old and had been the Nazi salute and there are persistent charges like finding the rest of the iceberg. When it Peter Ueberroth saved those Olympics, with the suffering in recent years from a stroke. Neal that he orchestrated the removal of Jewish came to dribbling a basketball, he was a force of help of the Chinese, but unlike Mitt Romney, he had two daughters, Raquel and Laverne, six runners from the track team. The travesty that nature. With his bald head, bright eyes and an never ran for president. was the 1936 Berlin Olympics only makes what grandchildren, and was living with his fiancée incredible smile, he never seemed to age. It was Linda Ware. He’s gone, but his spirit remains. happened in Germany 36 years later that much like traveling with a rock star. Oh, and he could The Scandals more shameful. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. jump. He may be one of the few men gravity I can see that smile even now. Trial by Media For Hero In Atlanta The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre forgot about. Trying to guard this fellow was Bombing like trying to nail Jello to a wall. And man, Andy Purvis is a local author and radio was this guy fast; he could make Jessie Owens personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. look like he was walking. Like a greyhound, com for all the latest info on his books or to he could run all day. His ability to score points listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books had always been his calling card. He could are available online and can be found in the score from anywhere on the court, and they local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be called him “direct deposit” from the corner. He contacted at [email protected]. Also owned spaghetti arms and his shooting stroke listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s was as pure as an ocean sunset. His rotation on Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. the basketball was text book, and he was one of com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of those guys that if his ball hit the rim, it didn’t the Houston Astros. 1972 Munich Oylmpics. count. So, when you hear the song “Sweet Georgia The 1972 games, held in Munich, were Brown,” who do you think about? Do the consciously designed as a historical counter names “Geese” Ausbie, “Goose” Tatum, Richard Jewell to the Berlin games of 1936. These were to be Marques Haynes, Meadowlark Lemon, Wilt "the Happy Games," meant to replace the awful Chamberlain, “Twiggy” Sanders, “Bull” On July 27, 1996, a week into the Summer memories of Nazi salutes and Aryan race- Bullard or “Curly” Neal ring a bell? Sure Olympics, a security guard found a suspicious baiting. they do. When I hear the name Curly Neal, package at Centennial Olympic Park and I’m automatically 50 years younger. There alerted state law enforcement. This being before They were anything but happy. Palestinian is no doubt that the camera loved Curly Neal. the days of "see something, say something," the terrorists aided by German neo-Nazis kidnapped Whenever he smiled, the crowd roared. Curly media jumped on the security guard, Richard members of the Israeli Olympic team, holding owned a loud smile and it will always be Jewell, as the likely suspect—based on word them hostage before killing 11 athletes and remembered. The Globetrotters’ trademark that the FBI was treating him as a "person of coaches. Several of the terrorists were killed in a was never a red, white and blue basketball; it interest." The media frenzy led to lawsuits botched German rescue attempt, and three more has always been a smile, yours and theirs. by victims of the bombing (it killed one and were released just months later in exchange Frederick “Curly” Neal was born on May 19, injured 11) against Richard Jewell. Domestic for a hijacked airliner. In 1973, Der Spiegel 1942, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Some terrorist Eric Rudolph was eventually charged reported that German authorities received a tip said he grew up so poor he didn’t even own a with and sentenced for the crime, after bombing a month before the Munich massacre warning wristwatch. In North Carolina they tell time by two abortion clinics in the Atlanta area in 1997, of a terrorist incident. Security at the Olympic the cows. Out of mischief, Curly started shaving and Jewell sued both the Atlanta Journal- Village was laughably weak. his head when he was 12. His mother didn’t Constitution and NBC News, the network After the massacre, IOC head Avery Brundage like it and, when she asked what happened, he which happens to have held exclusive U.S. announced to a stadium full of athletes, said he fell asleep in the barber’s chair. The broadcast rights for the Olympics since 1988. dignitaries, and other spectators that, after a day game was played rough back then. Curly used Silent Protest Yields Expulsions of mourning, "the Games must go on." During to say, “There were no fouls in the backyard.” his remarks, Brundage likened the murder of Neal practiced constantly and played basketball The 1968 athletes to a successful move to bar apartheid at Greensboro-Dudley High School. After Olympics in Rhodesia from participating in the Olympics. graduation, Fred Curly Neal enrolled at Johnson Mexico City "The Games of the XXth Olympiad have been C. Smith University (JCS) located in Charlotte, yielded one of subject to two savage attacks," said Brundage North Carolina, and his team, the Golden the most iconic to a disbelieving crowd. "We lost the Rhodesian Bulls, won the Central Intercollegiate Athletic photographs battle against naked political blackmail." Association title (CIAA), his senior year. He of that entire As for anti-Semitism, it's still alive and well averaged 23.1 points per game and was selected turbulent decade, at the Olympics. Though the 2012 London to the All-CIAA team, as a guard. In 1963, when American Olympics marked the 40th anniversary of the Neal stood 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighed only athletes Tommie Munich massacre and the opening ceremonies 162 pounds. Undersized and unwanted out of Smith and John had time to celebrate the National Health Service college, Neal struggled to find a professional Carlos displayed and Welsh contributions to British culture, not team to play for. He had not graduated from a black power a moment of silence could be spared for the JCS. He finally heard from the Globetrotters. salute after Silent Protest most violent event in Olympics history. And, They sent him a plane ticket and paid for his finishing first faced with an Olympic rule against avoiding room, otherwise he would have never been able and third in the competitors based on nationality, a top Iranian men's 200 meter sprint. Though it's harder judo competitor withdrew from a competition to see in the pictures, all three athletes on the in which he might have faced an Israeli athlete. medal stand wore Olympic Project for Human Rights badges, the suggestion of the Australian Dotson’s Other Note: What are your thoughts athlete, Peter Norman, who opposed his regarding the foregoing? Do you agree with country's "White Australia" policy. This being my order of Bad to Worst? Comments/calls/ the 1960s, the simple silent protest against texts are welcome. Email: [email protected] racial discrimination was just too much for the Mobile: 530-748-8475 International Olympics Committee (IOC) and -30- Have fun and hang in there! its chief, the American, Avery Brundage. The IOC described the incident as a "violent breach" of Olympic principles. Smith and Carlos were sent home two days after the whole TEMPORARILY Island’s Edge CLOSED SALON Booth Rental Now Available ON THE ISLAND 361.244.5748 Call Roni or text for faster response 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront Send letters and photos to [email protected] April 30, 2020 Pictures From Around the Islands

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Baltimore Oriole and an Orchard Oriole having a turf battle over the oranges. During the breeding season, long feathery plumes grow from the Great Egret’s back, Photo by Steve Coons. called aigrettes which they hold up during courtship displays. Photo By Riekie Roncinske.

Couch’s Kingbird with a treat at Paradise Pond. Photo by Steve Coons.

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A motorcyclist was seriously injured in a traffic pile up on Sunday on Park Road 22. Send letters and photos to editor@ islandmoon.com April 30, 2020 Island Moon A 13 STATE By Order of the Governor… Full Transparency and Disclosure e) Museums and libraries that operate at up to 25 Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from percent of the total listed occupancy; provided, the order (Executive Order GA-18) to begin PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President however, that (a) local public museums and reopening Texas businesses by Governor Gregg local public libraries may so operate only if Abbott. As always, let me have Short Term Rentals- These can be a permitted by the local government, and (b) any your thoughts. You can problem when single-family homes are “Reopened services” shall consist of the components of museums or libraries that have reach me at marvin@ used for short term rentals. The City has following to the extent they are not already interactive functions or exhibits, including child pipoa.net been debating what to do about short term “essential services:” play areas, must remain closed. residential rentals via VBRO and other PIPOA- Things continue 1. Retail services that may be provided through t) For Texas counties that have filed with booking agencies. The PIPOA covenants do to be quiet at the PIPOA. pickup, delivery by mail, or delivery to the DSHS, and are in compliance with, the requisite not specifically address short term rentals. As the Government opens up the businesses in customer’s doorstep. attestation form promulgated by DSHS There was a Texas Supreme Court Case a year Texas, the PIPOA will adopt new procedures regarding five or fewer cases of COVID- 19, or two ago that requires HOA and POA’s to 2. Starting at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, May 1, for conducting business. The health and those in-store retail services, dine-in restaurant have very specific language in their governing 2020: welfare of the staff and PIPOA members will services, movie theaters, shopping malls, and documents dealing with short term rentals. continue to be the top priority. a) In-store retail services, for retail museums and libraries, as otherwise defined This is something Board will address in the establishments that operate at up to 25 percent and limited above, may operate at up to 50 The PIPOA office remains closed to the near future. public due to concerns about COVID-19 of the total listed occupancy of the retail percent (as opposed to 25 percent) of the total and the need for social distancing. You can Survey- The PIPOA will be sending to establishment. listed occupancy. the members a survey asking a variety of contact the PIPOA via phone at 361-949- b) Dine-in restaurant services, for restaurants g) Services provided by an individual working questions regarding the needs and wishes of 7025 or email to Jim Smock at jim@pipoa. that operate at up to 25 percent of the total listed alone in an office. net. the members. The survey should be going occupancy of the restaurant; provided, however, out in the next two weeks. Please give the h) Golf course operations. Good News- The temporary chain link fence that (a) this applies only to restaurants that have survey your attention and return it as soon as less than 51 percent of their gross receipts from i) Local government operations, including surrounding the irrigation pump in Billish possible. park was replaced with a permanent wood the sale of alcoholic beverages and are therefore county and municipal governmental operations fence. This was long overdue. COVID-19- Members, please take the not required to post the 51 percent sign required relating to permitting, recordation, and precautions recommended by the CDC and by Texas law as determined by the Texas document-filing services, as determined by the Board Meeting- The Board is considering other government entities, including our Alcoholic Beverage Commission, and (b) valet local government. holding a Board meeting on May 26, 2020. services are prohibited except for vehicles with local authorities. Continue social distancing, j) Such additional services as may be Holding the meeting depends on the status placards or plates for disabled parking. masks, and gloves and use them when enumerated by future executive orders or of the rules regarding social distancing and appropriate. Let us all be safe so that we can sheltering in place—more information on this c) Movie theaters that operate at up to 25 proclamations by the governor. enjoy our little slice of paradise on the island. percent of the total listed occupancy of any will be forthcoming. All cosmetology salons (including nail individual theater for any screening. salons, estheticians, and mini-salons), laser d) Shopping malls that operate at up to 25 hair removal, barber shops and massage percent of the total listed occupancy of the establishments shall continue to remain closed. Texas Oil and Gas Production Statistics shopping mall; provided, however, that within Executive Order GA-18 overrides all local and shopping malls, the foodcourt dining areas, play county orders. areas, and interactive displays and settings must for February 2020 Whether a salon or shop is a sole proprietorship remain closed. or not, they are to remain closed until Executive Crude oil and natural gas production as February 2020 statewide production Order GA-18 is amended or rescinded. reported to the Railroad Commission of Texas Average Daily Production (RRC) for February 2020 came from 170,960 oil wells and 86,698 gas wells. Crude Oil 98,958,487 BBLS (barrels) Seashore Charter Schools Fundraiser A 3,412,362 BBLS The RRC reports that from March 2019 to February 2020, total Texas reported production Natural Gas 711,472,050 mcf (thousand Success Despite Covid-19 was 1.5 billion barrels of crude oil and 8.4 cubic feet) 24,533,519 mcf trillion cubic feet of total gas. Crude oil production reported by the RRC is limited to oil By Emma Comery, Island Foundation Trips and so much more. The turn-out for the virtual event was astounding, with folks from produced from oil leases and does not include After Spring Break, Seashore Charter Schools North Padre Island, the wider Coastal Bend, condensate, which is reported separately by the chose to delay students’ return to mitigate the and even Massachusetts making bids like rapid RRC. spread of Covid-19. Since then, Governor Abbott fire. By the time the auction closed at midnight, has closed all public schools through the end of the community had raised nearly $18,000 for the 2019-2020 school year. But learning never the schools. Work Continues on San Jose Island stops. In that spirit, our teachers are conducting classes online by providing resources, activities, “I am so humbled by all the support for the and video “office hours” that allow our families schools,” Island Foundation Board President to create flexible schedules while they balance Jon Reynolds said. “Who would have through both working and learning from home. that in this environment we could raise that much money?” “We realize that this is a stressful time for all and have worked to establish realistic goals The Foundation is also immensely grateful to and expectations,” Seashore Charter Schools the many event sponsors who stayed on board Superintendent Jeanine Kidwell says. “We are to support the schools despite these trying times all resilient and creative and as we figure out and the event cancellation. This year’s sponsors distance learning, I think we will be amazed included Security Services Federal Credit at how tenacious we are and how much our Union (the Foundation’s first ever $10,000 students continue to grow their minds and Grand Gatsby Sponsor); Coastline Properties learn.” (Golden Premier Sponsor); Radiology The Island Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that Associates, Navy Army Community Credit owns and operates Seashore Charter Schools, Union, Padre Pizzeria, YellowFin Digital, and canceled its Roaring ‘20s Bash in April due Marker 37 (Bronze Sponsors). Without their to Covid-19. Historically, the fundraiser has unwavering support, the schools would have brought in $80-$100k annually for the schools, suffered greatly. and has funded vital improvements like the Between the Silent Auction, sponsorships, and construction of the new classroom buildings the annual Seashore Portrait Project organized by Renée C. Gage Photography (which raised a record-breaking $10,000 this year), Hay bales on San Jose the non-event’s total revenue hit over $45,000, a tremendous achievement given the social and economic climate. We would also like to thank Sarah Greaud Photography for raising over $5,000 for our schools Thank you to our 2020 Sponsors! with her Front Porch Project, which captured at Seashore Learning Center and Seashore “quarantine family portraits” for island families Middle Academy, technology updates, and in exchange for donations to the schools. It’s a much-needed classroom materials. This year’s testament to the spirit of our community that cancellation could have been a big blow to the everyone came out to support our students nonprofit’s fundraising efforts for our island so strongly during these times. The Island schools. But where there is a will, there’s a way. Foundation extends its sincerest thanks to every The Island Foundation Board of Directors and donor, sponsor, auction bidder, and volunteer the volunteer event coordinators found a way to who made this year’s fundraising efforts so move forward in the face of adversity. successful. Our students are incredibly lucky to On April 4th, the Island Foundation hosted have such a community supporting them. the Silent Auction portion of its Roaring ‘20s “Our main hope right now,” says event Bash online – the Foundation’s first ever Chair Heather Reynolds, “is that the coming Above: Workmen on San Jose Island virtual auction. Thanks to the generosity of months see the families and businesses of this Cleanup work continues on San Jose Island where barges left there by Hurricane local businesses and community members, the community safely through and that they will Harvey were recently removed. auction featured a fantastic spread of items from join us at next year’s event.” deluxe Date Night Baskets to Guided Fishing

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By Del Smith clear space around. Both him and this tale he Least Terns: Small Shorebirds I first heard this chantey, was telling, smelled a little fishy. But having quite a while back, in a little invested a beer into this, I forged on. But with a Big Attitude beach bar in Belize. It was decided that a little change of topic was it order. being sung and hummed, in By Taylor Bennett shallow bowls that the Least Terns create by So I then asked him about that little ditty he scraping their bellies in the sand or gravel. In a hoarse whisper, by a salty, As we are staying socially distant at home, was singing. I told him that it sounded like an order to woo or attract a lady, the male Least one eyed, beat-up, old man of the sea, who was the Least Terns are starting to migrate back to old sea chantey. He allowed that it did sound Tern must offer her a fish and if she accepts, sitting down at the end of the bar, sucking on a the Texas Coast to breed. The Least Tern is the like one, but, “ARRRGH! Mate, it’s actually they will mate. Least Terns can lay one to three Belikin in between, what sounded like, different smallest tern in North America. It’s also one of about me family history. It be all about me and eggs. Both the male and female will take turns verses of the chantey. He had that end of the bar the few waterbird species that Gulf Coast Bird me brothers.” incubating the eggs until they hatch which all to himself. It sort of looked like that none Observatory typically monitors during beach usually takes 19 to 25 days. of the other customers wanted anything to do Now having heard the lyrics and this story nesting bird season which begins in April and with him. I could not figure out if he was being of his family business, I kind of figured this goes through the end of August. They have been The chicks are semi-precocial. This means that shunned because of the ditty he was singing, the guy was a whole bunch of rocks short of a full observed nesting at Matagorda Beach, Bryan when they hatch, the chick’s eyes are wide open, wild look in the eye that wasn’t covered by the ballast. I gave this up as a bad idea, downed my Beach, and sometimes at Dow Plant A. It is a they are fully feathered, and are able to move patch or the seaweed that was hanging out of beer, jumped into the dinghy and headed back species of high concern and interior populations around within hours after hatching. Because his pockets. ---- Probably #D, ---- all the above. to the boat and started the process of forgetting are considered endangered due to its population about this whole episode. That is until this declining. Not having too much else to do except weekend down here in South Padre tourist dodge all of the come-ons by the round, brown heaven, watching all of boats going out to show Belizean gal behind the bar. She had found out off the dolphins. that I was on a much bigger boat than what her current boyfriend had. An island drop-out artist After seeing that pod of dolphins, off our from Phoenix, who was living on the funds from bow and having that chantey pop up in my the sale of his taxi cab company. He signed all head about then, put his song and tale into of his work, ‘Coconut Rat’ and was a good perspective. Somehow it all fits the idea that drinking buddy of mine. So I figured that the dolphins do have jobs and this family is running salty old wacko would help fend her off. the operation. At least the union end of it. Sort of a mafia of the deep. Adult Least Tern in breeding plumage Besides, I was curious. Read the lyrics and see what you think. observed nesting at Matagorda Beach last So I wandered over and introduced myself. year. Photo by Taylor Bennett After first checking to see that there wasn’t any OHH! ME FATHER WAS THE KEEPER dangerous type paraphernalia in sight. OF THE EDDY STONE LIGHT their main diet is fish, the chicks still heavily It turned out that he was a lonely, friendly old SLEPT WITH A MERMAID ONE FINE Least Tern chick observed at Matagorda NIGHT Beach last year. Photo by Susan Heath. rely on the parents for food. They also rely on coot and warmed up to my company. Especially the parents for shelter. The parents usually take after I replaced his near empty bottle of Belikin. FROM THIS UNION turns caring of the chicks until they are able to Like other terns, the Least Tern’s body is mostly I sort of steered the conversation around to a fly, which is usually within 20 days of hatching. voluntary explanation of what he was doing THERE CAME THREEEE gray above and white below. We typically see down here in the West Caribbean. A PORPOISE A PORGY them in their breeding plumage. They differ During breeding season, Least Terns are from other breeding terns by having bright highly protective of their nests and chicks. By He told me that he and two brothers had a AND THE OTHER WAS MEEEEE!! yellow-orange legs, skinny yellow bill with a nesting in large numbers, they are more capable little tourist labor and claming business going black tip, a black cap with a white forehead, of mobbing threats as a group. Mobbing can up in the states. One of his brothers ran the Anyway that’s my theory and I’m sticking to it. and a black eye stripe. Their main diet is small be in the form of squawking, pecking, or dive tourist labor union end of it, up north, while the fish and invertebrates. They like beaches, bays, bombing/pooping on whatever is threatening other was the go between, carrying the profits, OHH HO-HO THE WIND BLOWS FREE estuaries, lakes, and rivers. They typically breed them. Trust me, it’s like being in an Alfred (clams), down to him for deposit on a Belizean OHH FOR THE LIFE ON THE ROLLING in open sandy, muddy, or gravelly spaces. In Hitchcock movie. They can be highly disturbed bank. 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Crossword Solution April 30, 2020 Island Moon A16 all responsibly. Most of all respect this new Be safe. Be smart. And keep your heads down. Three Chords and the Truth freedom and know Gods creation is a Blessing. And tell the people that you love, that you love So, I can’t wait to wave at everyone this weekend them and appreciate them every day. Life is By Ronnie Narmour on the beach. I’ll hold my hugs a bit longer. short and getting shorter. Now go wash your [email protected] Thank you for respecting our Police, Mayor, hands. City Staff, and City Council. “ Texas re-opens… ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ The Governor has issued a new Executive Order that details Phase One of opening Texas businesses. In summary, as of May 1st, all retail restaurants, movie theaters and malls can open as long as they maintain no more than 25% occupancy. Sole proprietors can return to work now. Sports can resume with 4 or less participants. All licensed healthcare professionals can return to work now, including doctors, nurses and dentists. Bars, gyms and salons must remain closed at this time. The Governor’s order supersedes ALL local orders. Shannon Solimine. So what are we doing now? can. Port Aransas will NOT move out of phase 1 if our businesses, residents and guests do not take this seriously. Taking one step forward and There is a police presence on the beach in Port A. two steps back would be devastating. We MUST take it seriously. Whether you agree or disagree, please do your part. We all know the precautions to take..no need to list them. We have a handful of businesses still unable to operate. They are Live Music our friends, our neighbors and the ones who always donate to our local causes. Let’s come up with a supportive plan to help them through this first phase. A huge part of that would be, Tonight as stated above, getting to phase 2. Lastly, we will be busy. You will get annoyed. Not everyone Tuesday, May 19 will follow the guidelines. If you see a really Thursday, April 30 Paul & Victoria @ blatant disregard for the rules (a party?) call it ALL LiVE SHOWSGiggity’s Free Beer Band @ in. Otherwise, let our officers do their jobs. We Giggity’s The crew from the ARK document the first need to re-center. We’ve been off par a bit. And Wednesday, May 20 Kemp’s ridley nester of the season on lastly, lastly, if you are compromised and need Friday, May 1 Magnus @ Giggity’s Aloha Dave & the Mustang Island. assistance, please reach out. No one should POSTPONED feel alone, without or stuck. Be safe, be smart Tourists @ Giggity’s Thursday, May 21 Free Beer Band @ and enjoy this new freedom responsibly!” Well Jam Band @ Shorty’s Holy Moly…so what are we doing now? It’s Hayes Carll @ Third Giggity’s said and I whole heartedly agree… sometimes Coast Theater Alter Bridge, Black Stone increasingly difficult to keep up with this ever it takes a village. changing “stay inside” order. The coronavirus Cherry, Saint Asonia @ And from Bev… Saturday, May 2 Concrete Street order doesn’t include bars that don’t serve food Dreaming in Color @ TEMPORARILY such as Shorty’s, Treasure Island, Back Porch, Giggity’s Friday, May 22 Red’s, 361, Howie’s, Salty Dog, etc that will Selfie @ Shorty’s Chanklas @ Shorty’s remain closed until at least May 18th. I spoke Hayes Carll @ Third CLOSED Cruise Control @ Treasure to Edwin Meyers, owner of Giggity’s, Shorty’s Coast Theater Island and Kody’s, and he isn’t going to open Giggity’s Sunday, May 3 132 W. Cotter St. Port A Saturday, May 23 right now. The guidelines mandate that we must On the Waterfront still practice social distancing and businesses Iration, Hirie @ Concrete BELT SANDER RACES are to only operate at a 25% capacity… which Street @ Gaff Antone & All Stars @ Chanklas @ Giggity’s isn’t much to work with if you’re a restaurant Giggity’s Independent Thieves owner. The math just doesn’t add up. And try Rockport Wine Festival @ paying a band on top of that… man oh man, Monday, May 4 Texas Maritime Museum this is the gift that keeps on giving. We are Open Jam w/ Ray truly damned if we do and damned if we don’t. Summy @ Giggity’s Sunday, May 24 And I know that our patience is running thin Treasure Island Antone & All Stars @ right now and it’s understandable. We’ve been Tuesday, May 5 Giggity’s sequestered for a month now and everything we Paul & Victoria @ Cruise Control @ Back know is odd and different and smells funny. Just Giggity’s Porch to state the obvious, there’s a plague across the Wednesday, May 6 TEMPORARILY Memorial Day, May 25 land and these are scary and trying times, to say Jim Dugan @ Giggity’s Open Jam w/ Ray Summy the least. Right now, we’re all just waiting for @ Giggity’s the fat lady to sing. Thursday, May 7 CLOSED Free Beer Band @ Tuesday, May 26 Good advice from Shannon… Giggity’s 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Paul & Victoria @ treasureislandporta Giggity’s Friday, May 8 City Councilwoman and yoga instructor Mike O’Neill @ Giggity’s Wednesday, May 27 Beverly Bolner. Mikayla Griffin @ Sunset Hank Reeves @ Giggity’s Sounds Dave’s Duo @ Shorty’s Thursday, May 28 And here’s an important message from Styx @ CC Rodeo Free Beer Band @ Councilwoman Beverly Bolner. “As most of Giggity’s you heard, our Governor issued the following: Saturday, May 9 BELT SANDER RACES Friday, May 29 Restaurants, Malls, retail shops, and movie @ Gaff Jake Castillo @ Giggity’s theaters will open Friday at 25 % occupancy. Thomas Michael Riley @ Johnny Boy @ Shorty’s Places like museums will open as well at 25 Back Porch Steve Earle, Marty Stuart % except in the children’s hands on areas. Toman Brothers @ @ John T. Floore Country Those places will remain closed. At no time Giggity’s Temporarily Store is it mandatory a sole proprietor open their Ty Dieztz @ Shorty’s business if they are not ready to do so. At no Saturday, May 30 time if you are 55 or older should you feel Sunday, May 10 Mike Milligan @ Giggity’s Closed Mike O’Neill @ Shorty’s you must return to work if you are scared of Antone & All Stars @ Giggity’s contracting Covid-19. No I don’t know if you OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. Sunday, May 31 will still get paid. You need to put on your boots Monday, May 11 Antone & All Stars @ and go find out. Recreational sports return but Open Jam w/ Ray Summy Giggity’s no more than 4 players. So say hi to Tennis @ Giggity’s and Golf and water sports. Our Governor and Monday, June 1 the great state of Texas want to care for our Tuesday, May 12 Open Jam w/ Ray Summy vulnerable population. If that is you, stay home. Paul & Victoria @ @ Giggity’s Edwin Meyers serves up some of his Please.....by now you know who you are. Our Giggity’s Tuesday, June 2 mayor has opened up short term rental, our Dropkick Murphys, famous Jambalaya in front of Shorty’s last Rancid, Gerry Cinnamon, Paul & Victoria @ weekend. gorgeous beaches, RV’s and fishing. I pray that Jesse Ahern @ Concrete Giggity’s this privilege will not be abused. I watched a Street hot rod truck with turquoise neon wheels abuse Wednesday, June 3 I want to print a letter written in Facebook Charlie’s Pasture land this past Saturday. They Wednesday, May 13 from Port A resident and soon to be city Left trash all over the place which blew into Jered Clark @ Giggity’s Thursday, June 4 Councilwoman, Shannon Solimine, that seems our beautiful ocean… so very sad. We want Free Beer Band @ more than appropriate right now: “We’ve all everyone to use the precautions set forth. Use Thursday, May 14 Giggity’s heard the latest news- now we need to put a mask if you would, be patient, and keep your Free Beer Band @ Friday, June 5 together our own phase 1. Restaurants will not distance from others. Respect our state beach! Giggity’s survive at 25% capacity alone. It is imperative Care for the area of the beach you choose to Friday, May 15 Saturday, June 6 we continue supporting local. Buy gift cards, enjoy. Clean it up when you leave. Pick up OPEN FOR WALK UP SERVICE order curbside and delivery, and tip as best you The Groove @ Giggity’s your belongings and trash and dispose of it Red Carpet @ Shorty’s Sunday, June 7

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