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Inside the Moon Island Beautiful A2 Frostbite Betty A6 Moon on a Spoon A7 Traveling Moon A9 Fishing A13 Issue 768 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Cinderella von Hach Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 January 3, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around By the numbers The Island By Dale Rankin Housing We have come to the conclusion here at the Word Factory that having Market holidays on Tuesdays is weird. It As 2019 opens here are the throws everything off schedule. It numbers on local housing from makes Wednesday feeling like Friday the Corpus Christi Association of and there is football on Tuesday. Who Realtors. schedules these things anyway? $190.935 Median price of a The Winter Texans have begun house in Corpus Christi a 2.4% arriving in earnest, well technically increase from 2017 not in earnest mostly in recreational 43% of homes for sale between vehicles. A trip along local beaches $100,000 and $200,000 found them out in numbers from Whitecap Beach to PINS all week. 279 closed sales in November a 17% increase from November The driving along Padre Island 2017 National Seashore has been great if you watch the tide charts. The federal 118 average days a home stays shutdown still has some things on the market Photo by Susan Swanson closed but the beaches are open. The 4.7 months of housing inventory, beachcombing has been exceptionally down from 5.2 months in good past the twenty mile marker. County Leaders November 2017 These turtle shells washed up about New Island Road twenty miles down. It looked like Take Office they had been at sea for a while. Barbara Canales was sworn in as the new Nueces County Judge on BINGO Returns Tuesday. She is the first woman to hold the position in Nueces County. to the Island Canales joins fellow Democrats and commissioners Joe A. "JAG" January 10th at Gonzalez and John Marez on the court, with commissioners Brent Schlitterbahn Chesney and Carolyn Vaughn the two By Brent Rourk Republicans who were also sworn in on Tuesday after winning their Get ready Islanders! The Kiwanis November elections. of Padre Island BINGO at the Beach is returning for its 9th year beginning Thursday, January 10th at Schlitterbahn on North Padre Island. Plenty of parking, fun, prizes, and food will be available for those ready to try their luck. Extending for six weeks (Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31 and Feb. 7, 14) this very popular weeknight BINGO will continue to provide cash prizes along with many door prizes. BINGO begins at 7:00 p.m., however, players are urged to Photos by Sharon Watkins Brent Chesney and family. arrive early to secure a favorite seat and to purchase dinner at the Veranda Chesney was sworn into the or from a tasty BINGO menu in the Monday saw an invasion of the Precinct 4 seat on Tuesday after floating plastic south of Bob Hall Pier BINGO parlor on the second floor. where this collection washed up. his re-election. Adult beverages and soft drinks are also available for purchase. Crews from CBS Mowing owned by Islander Tamay Tipton cut the weeds along the city right of way running south from Whitecap this As in past years, the Kiwanis of Padre Island BINGO at the week to allow golf carts to get to the new Dollar General Store on Beach is designed for families, SPID. individuals, couples, groups, The right of way is owned by the City of Corpus Christi and the companies, churches, neighbors, utilities have been in place for over thirty years, as shown by the or any combination of people. The manhole, but the streets have never been paved. The new driveway entire 10 games per night lasts about Plastic on the beach on Monday. leading from SPID to the entrance to the Dollar General Store was 2 hours and 15 minutes. Cost of Photo by David Pierce Newly appointeed county judge required by the city and paid for by the store’s owners, however, it BINGO is $5.00 admission plus the Barbara Canales swears in dead ends at the unpaved city right of way. Golf cart drivers can now cost of BINGO cards. Daubers are Holiday Inn newly elected judges Tuesday. access the store through the grass pathway. Bingo cont. on A4 A little Island history Spanish Ship Found on Padre Island Leads to Texas Antiquities Law When four Spanish ships laden “The Viceroy, Don Luis de Valeaso, with silver left Mexico in 1554 the sent a gentleman called Angel de captains had no idea their voyage Villafana to get it, giving him orders would create a new set of state laws divers and what was needed. The in what 291 years later became the result was not negligible, for much state of Texas. treasure was recovered since the ships New pool Holiday Inn The ships set sail for a return trip were wrecked on the coast where the to Spain but during the trip a severe silver found bottom and from where storm sank three of the ships just off it was taken and brought to Mexico. Restoration work is going on at the It was a sight worth seeing to behold Holiday Inn on the seawall. The pool Padre Island: San Esteban, Santa Maria de Yciar, and the Espiritu the many suits that each one (of the is being reshaped and the kiddie pool shippers) presented in an effort to is changing locations. The hotel has Santo. Shortly after the wrecks the Mexican Viceroy ordered Captain collect what they claimed they had been closed since Hurricane Harvey sent. Many became rich with the in 2017. Angel de Villafana to voyage to Padre Island to salvage the wrecks fortunes of the unfortunate ones that When Bevo attacks… and he was able to remove much died in the wreck.” The animal highlight of the week of the treasure from the shallow The treasure left behind along came Tuesday night when Bevo the waters along the coast. the beach just north of where Longhorn mascot busted loose from Not long after Villafana’s return to the Mansfield cut was later dug his pen in the Superdome in New Veracruz a writer by the name of languished in the murky waters for Orleans during the game between Suarez de Peralta, wrote an account centuries as the beach receded over the University of Texas and the of the struggle over the recovered the years leaving the wreck site University of Georgie and charged treasure that was a harbinger of just offshore in shallow water until 1967. The story is picked up there the University of Georgia’s bulldog what would happen in Texas four Salvage operations of the San Esteban. mascot Uga. Longhorns don’t like hundred years later: by information in a pamphlet called “Treasure Tempest in Texas” by Jerry Around cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 January 3, 2019 Island Moon A 2 Padre, Beautiful Padre Photo by Laurie Lyng PINS on Thursday By Sharon Watkins. Photo by Laurie Lyng ISLAND CASITA! •CMU Construction •Immaculate JUST LISTED •Two rooftop patios 15610 Finistere $232,000 •Long/wide driveway! Fireworks by Jon Brandt January 3, 2019 Island Moon A 3 Moon Monkeys Mike Ellis, Founder Letters to the First Friday Did Ya The First Friday exhibit opening will occur on January 4, 2019 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.Come Hear? Editor see what students of the Port Aransas Art Center By Mary "Scoop" Craft have learned in their workshops and classes! The Adult Student Show will be on view through January 25. As always, entrance to the Art Center is free of charge. Join us for food, Business Briefs fun, fellowship, post-holiday shopping and live music! Our thanks go to January sponsor Island Gatherings Gastrolounge Condominium Consulting Management & Dessert Bar will be opening soon Services (CCMS, Inc.). once they receive their Certificate Distribution Port Aransas Art Center 104 N. Alister 361- of Occupancy. Island Time owner Pete Alsop 749-7334 Romeo Galindo purchased the Island Delivery blue building on Compass behind Coldwell Banker Island Joe’s and will initially use it Advertising for private events such as birthday Jan Park Rankin parties and showers with dinners Classifieds catered by Island Time. Later when Arlene Ritley it opens to the public as a restaurant Production Manager they will serve sushi, salads and Abigail Bair Life cold appetizers with a full liquor Contributing Writers bar. Romeo’s wife Debbie will be Joey Farah Andy Purvis baking the desserts and the menu Mary Craft will include standard and specialty Lessons items. Kelly Trevino Jay Gardner Todd Hunter By Abigail Bair Dotson Lewis Dr. Tom Dorrell Ronnie Narmour Brent Rourk Photographers Miles Merwin (Emeritus) Debbie Noble Jan Rankin Mary Craft Ronnie Narmour Scuttlebutt’s has fresh Gulf Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) oysters from Paul’s Seafood daily Riley P. Dog and all bottles of wine are half price until they are gone and they will then restock their inventory. The Michael J. Ellis Beach/ Seawall sign will be up soon on the eave of the restroom building at the parking lot. There had been a sign in the parking lot that had to be replaced twice due to vandals so the city decided not to replace it. We Publisher have been without a sign for more Dale Rankin About the Island Moon than two years. Ben Rogers came The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale up with the idea of this, hopefully, Rankin, Editor / Publisher.