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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 April 13, 2017 Weekly FREE Around The Island Food Truck Festival Frenzied Fun By Dale Rankin We had gone about our business under cloudy but largely rain-free skies this week until Tuesday evening when the bottom fell out, and the wind whipped up and blew our palm trees flat on the southwest side for a while. But as of mid-week things are back to normal and it looks like Chamber of Commerce Weather for this weekend. Wrong Way drivers We have had six reports of wrong way drivers on SPID in the past few weeks. Out of Towner’s making left turns on the Westside of SPID mistakenly turn into the inner lane on the southbound side of SPID causing some near wrecks. We had a similar situation about ten years ago and the one-way signs were put in place. But over the years the signs have disappeared and the high oleander bushes in the median obstruct vision just enough to cause confusion. So be careful as the busy summer season approaches and more visitors find our Island. Brush fire down south

Schlitterbahn Corpus Christi hosted the second annual Food Truck Festival last Saturday. See page A2 for more photos by Jan Rankin. Solar Powered Mayoral Candidates Restrooms Coming to Come to The Island Packery Channel Island PAC endorses Joe McComb in After fourteen years of planning, includes the area around Lake Padre May 6 election discussing, design, and re-design, and Packery Channel. barring any unforeseen problems, By Dale Rankin a fine,” said attorney and candidate A blown trailer tire caused a stir The portable restrooms end years of Mark Di Carlo. new portable, air conditioned redesign work after the early plans When the eight candidates for mayor on our little sandbar last week when restrooms will be coming to the beach it started a brush fire that kicked ran the cost of permanent restrooms, of Corpus Christi in the May 6 Special “We need to go to forced on both sides of Packery Channel by which had to be elevated and able Election came to The Island Monday condemnation,” said perennial up a pall of black smoke visible all this summer season. over The Island. We Islanders get to withstand a hurricane, to over $2 night the topics of conversation mayoral candidate Ray Madrigal. strayed from the normal political nervous when we see fire down south The Corpus Christi City Council million. The portable restrooms will “I would just point out that what you topics of taxes and city services. because the prevailing winds have is expected to approve $302,668 in be located at ground level and can be are suggesting is illegal,” said At- often brought them within striking funding for the project in the next two removed from the beach as a storm A crowd of about 150 Islanders Large City Councilman and mayoral distance of south Island homes. This weeks. Funding for the project was approaches. gathered at the Holiday Inn for candidate Joe McComb who won the one was stopped short of structures on the council agenda on Tuesday but The plans for the more cost-effective the endorsement process held by endorsement of the registered Island by firefighters. pulled before a vote but is expected facilities originated with the Island the Island United Political Action voters who chose the winner . “I am to be reintroduced and approval is Committee and listened as the a believer in the rights of property Blowing in the wind Strategic Action Committee in late expected. 2016 in order to reduce costs, the plan candidates ran through a wide range owners and we don’t need to be Funding will come from Tax was then approved by members of the of topics old and new from dog parks condemning someone’s property just Increment Reinvestment Zone #2 TRZ board and lacks only council to development, to water, to blighted because we don’t like what they are which captures property tax on new approval for implementation. and vacant downtown property. doing with it.” construction within the zone which Vacant downtown property was “We have to slow down new not popular. Half of the candidates development,” said challenger spoke up in favor of punitive city Larry White, “otherwise our taxes aimed at pushing the owners infrastructure will never catch up.” of vacant or blighted undeveloped Then reversed field. “We need more downtown property to build. money from development to pay for “We are subsidizing low taxes infrastructure.” downtown,” said challenger Jonathon The topics discussed ran the gamut. Garison. “ We need to force the “Why are the electric lines on The issue.” Island not buried like is called for in “If they have an empty lot or building downtown we need to hit them with Candidates cont. on A4 The large patch of sand surrounding A little Island history Lake Padre that has been producing sand storms in recent high winds will soon have a covering of native Jim Fox was a Bad Man Until a Ranger Showed Up grass according to plans from the Editor’s note: it wasn’t too long killed at Goliad; and the well-known that he had a long, hot dusty ride landowner. A layer of topsoil with ago that our area of South Texas was gambler Neil Black, whom he killed ahead of him, but he was equal to the native grass seeds imbedded will still home to outlaws and the Texas at Riddleville. Jim was a wanted man, occasion, so late in the afternoon he be spread over the property in the Rangers called to catch them. This is and the Rangers were out to get him. rode up to the old horse rack standing coming weeks to keep the sand from the story of two men, an outlaw and on the Public Square of Refugio, and, moving with the breeze. That will be A section of the came in to Goliad the Ranger sent to catch him. This between paydays, and their captain dismounting, he walked into a grocery good news to homes and businesses account comes to us from writer and store, where there were congregated a located downwind. learned that Jim Fox was then at area historian Hobart Huson in his Refugio. He detailed Ranger George goodly number of men. book Refugio. The weather has calmed down, and Allen to go to Refugio and bring “How de do, gentlemen,” he Easter and SandFest are quickly By Hobart Huson back Jim Fox dead or alive. George remarked as he entered the door, at approaching so get out there and have had dressed up in his Sunday cloths, In the 1870s there was a noted the same time glancing into the face some fun everybody. But watch out, intending to take in a picnic, at the gunman who frequented our part of each man present. Then stepping it is seagull mating season and they time he got his orders. His Captain of Texas. His name was Jim Fox to the counter he ordered a box of can get testy if you aren’t careful. told him not to change clothes, so he but was not related to any of the sardines and a box of crackers, which The Island is like a single’s bar for went as he was. The following is an old Refugio families of the same he proceeded to eat while listening our winged friends right now and we account of the capture of Jim Fox at name. he is said to have hailed from to the comments of those about him all know what kind of trouble that can Refugio, as told by an old Ranger. concerning himself. mean. one of the Southern States. Jim had An account of the capture of a number of notches on his gun. A preacher or a race horse man “Say, Jack, he is alright. He’s a Walk between the gulls friends, and Among his victims were Bob Davis preacher,” remarked one. desperado Jim Fox in The Inner say hello if you see us Around The of Mississippi, whom he killed at The little town of Refugio lies about Ocean newspaper, Chicago, “Preacher your foot,” replied Island. Beeville; a constable, whom he 40 miles south of Goliad, and George January 23, 1910. upon parting with the captain realized another. “What do you know about History cont. on A4 A2 Island Moon April 13, 2017 First Friday at the Port A. Center Food Trucks Invade Schlitterbahn

There was a packed house for the April First Friday show ‘Gals of the Gulf’ at the Art Center of Port Aransas. This month’s sponsors for the event were A Mano, Norma Gafford & Ron Smith. Photos by Jan Rankin 42 food trucks set up last Saturday in Schlitterbahn's parking lot. An estimated 10,000 people attended the event. Photos by Jan Rankin

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Breakfast will be all that our students have learned throughout the Distribution year about keeping our Earth clean, recycling, served at 9:15 and the Easter egg Pete Alsop taking care of wildlife, and so much more. hunt will be at 10 am. Island Delivery Please join us to share this experience with our Lone Star Home Improvement community. Coldwell Banker has 25 years’ experience installing Advertising Following the beach clean up, the students will decks, docks, boatlifts, fishing POA Background Checks? go on a free boat ride (provided by Fisherman's Jan Park Rankin Dear Dale, Wharf) and then a free pizza buffet. Any piers, fences, pregolas and siding. Classifieds On Saturday, I posed a question on Nextdoor to reporters are welcome to join us at the Civic All work is guaranteed and you Arlene Ritley the candidates currently running for election to Center for a complimentary lunch following our can get a free estimate. Call Production Manager our POA Board of Directors. event (about 12:30). If you have questions or 537-4045 or email lonestarhic@ concerns, please e-mail me or contact me on my Abigail Bair yahoo.com. Specifically, my question was directed to cell phone. I included a photo of the free shirts Contributing Writers George Potter, Marta Sprout (who is now that all participants will be wearing. We will Multi-Family Garage Sale at Joey Farah running as a WRITE IN CANDIDATE), and give reporters shirts also (first come first serve 13817Gunwale Friday, April Andy Purvis Carter Tate. I asked the candidates their opinion on sizes). th about requiring anyone running for a seat on 14 9 am – 3 pm. There will be Mary Craft the Padre Isles Board of Directors be subjected I will be e-mailing you closer to the date with furniture, clothes, water toys, MayBeth Christiansen to a background check. I further asked if an exact location (mile marker) for Port Aransas hunting gear, artwork and much Beach. We hope to see you all there! Jay Gardner this same requirement should be extended to more. No early birds please. the current Board including the current, and Todd Hunter Sincerely, any future POA staff. With assets in excess Garage will open at 9 am. Dotson Lewis of $10M, I believe this would or should be a Kate McElwee Ronnie Narmour prudent requirement. I also believe it to be a "Earth Day in Port A" --- Creator and Business Briefs Brent Rourk fair question. Not only that, I believe the voting Coordinator citizens of Padre Island are entitled to know the A Fall Food Truck Festival Photographers candidates position on this important issue. is planned for September at Miles Merwin Horrible Holiday Humor While I did not specifically ask the candidates Schlitterbahn. The one that they Q: How do you know the Easter Bunny is Debbie Noble to submit to a background check to prove hosted last week brought in 9 – really smart? Mary Craft that they have never had any criminal or drug 10,000 people and had 42 trucks. A: Because he's an egghead. Ronnie Narmour offenses, I believe it would be a highly ethical step on their part to do so. Q; Where does the Easter Bunny get his eggs? The Nueces County Appraisal Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) A; From Eggplants. District will offer an opportunity Riley P. Dog I received a phone call from Marta Sprout this morning stating that she was very supportive for all property owners to discuss of this idea and would welcome a background Q: What happened to the Easter Bunny when their property value matters check. he misbehaved at school? at mobile offices at the Flour A:He was eggspelled! So, I am asking our community, has anyone Bluff High School cafeteria on seen or heard from the other two candidates Q:Did you hear about the lady whose house Saturday, May 13th 8:30 am - (George Potter or Carter Tate) regarding my was infested with Easter eggs? 3:30 and at Brundett Middle question? I think it is very important that not A: She had to call an eggs-terminator! School 100 Station Street in Port only do I know where Mr. Potter and Mr. Tate A on Saturday, May 20th. stand on this issue, it is just as important that the Q: Why do we paint Easter eggs? citizens of Padre Island also know where they A: Because it's easier than trying to wallpaper An Easter Egg Hunt will be stand. Further, I believe we should hear from them! held at 1 pm at the Schlitterbahn Mr. Potter and Mr. Tate on this issue before we Publisher vote to trust them with our community. Mrs. golf course. The Easter Bunny Q;What day does an Easter egg hate the most? will be there for photos with the Dale Rankin Sprout has responded why have I not heard A: Fry-days. About the Island Moon from Mr. Potter or Mr. Tate. kids. Brunch will be served at the Q:What kind of bunny can't hop? The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale Thank you Veranda 10 am – 2 pm. Call 589- Rankin, Editor / Publisher. A: A chocolate one! 4220 for reservations. Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes Sue Stockton, a concerned Padre Island delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 Property Owner Portable Solar Powered copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, Q:Why did the Easter egg hide? as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 A: He was a little chicken! Restrooms are coming to both copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. POA Debate Q:What do you call a rabbit with fleas? sides of the Packery Channel News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, Island property owners are now much more A: Bugs Bunny! before the start of the summer payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. aware of the activities of the POA Board Q:Why was the little girl sad after the race? A: season. The Island Moon Newspaper of Directors and want a voice on how it Because an egg beater! th spends POA maintenance funds and enforces The 20 Annual Island Easter 14646 Compass, Suite 3 restrictions. Before the prior runoff election, Q:What do you get if you pour Egg Hunt sponsored by Kiwanis Corpus Christi, TX 78418 various questions were asked of then director boiling water down a rabbit hole? will be held at Billish Park candidates in the Island Moon, most of which A: A hot cross bunny th 361-949-7700 Saturday, April 15 11 am – 2 questions were ignored by the then candidates Q:How do bunnies stay healthy? pm with the hunt at noon. There [email protected] (other than Marvin Jones who responded to A: Eggercise the questions). Property owners deserve to will be a bouncy house, merry-go- Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper know the position of the current candidates on Q: Why won't Easter eggs go out at night? A: round, train rides, food vendors issues which are important to property owners. They don't want to get "beat up". and much more. It is time that a debate were held between all Q;Why couldn't the Easter egg family watch T.V.? st of the current director candidates in front of A: Because their cable was scrambled. The 21 Annual Sand Fest will an impartial moderator who would encourage be held April 21 – 23. candidates to fully respond to questions Q: What do you call a mischievous egg? asked by such moderator selected based upon A: A practical yolker TAC-TX is tactical laser tag Where to Find The questions submitted to such moderator. Q: What do you get when you coming to the Sunrise Mall near Jack Eidman cross a rabbits foot with poison ivy? the center court. It uses modern Island Moon technology for a whole new laser tag experience. Trinity By the Sea Port Episcopal Aransas Mystery Person of Sand Piper Condos North the Week! Sea Gull Condos Padre Gulf Breeze RV All Stripes Stores Pioneer RV Black Sheep/ La Palmilla Golf Barrel Club CVS Stripes (1A) Whataburger Kody’s Restaurant Amano Doc’s Restaurant WB Liquor Snoopy’s Pier 361 Bar Isle Mail N More Moby Dicks Island Italian Spanky’s Liquor Brooklyn Pie Co. IGA Grocery Store Ace Hardware Port A Glass Studio Holiday Inn San Juan’s Mexican Texas Star (Shell) Restaurant Jesse’s Liquor Wash Board Laundry Mat Scuttlebutt’s Drop Anchor Bar & Restaurant Grill Subway Can you recognize this long term Islander Port A Parks & Rec Island Tire from back in the day? Email your answers to [email protected] Public Library Padre Pizzeria Chamber of And all Moon Humor cont. Commerce/ Visitor’s retail advertisers A: A rash of good luck. Center WB Liquor Q: What do you call a bunny with a dictionary Woody’s Sports in his pants? Center Flour Bluff A: A smarty pants. Back Porch Q: What do you call Easter when you are Shorty’s Place H.E.B. hopping around? A: Hoppy Easter! Fisherman’s Wharf Whataburger on Waldron Q: How should you send a letter to the Easter Giggity’s Ethyl Everly Bunny? Tarpon Inn A: By hare mail! Senior Center Gratitude’s Q: What happened to the egg when he was Fire Station tickled too much? The Gaff Police Station A: He cracked up. Wild Horse Stripes on Flour Treasure Island Bluff & SPID Send letters and photos to The Island Moon received this letter at our offices this week. Do you agree? [email protected] April 13, 2017 Island Moon A 4

History cont. from A1 Candidates cont. from A1 Island Moon on a Spoon preachers?” the Island Master Plan?” asked Mark Di Carlo. “I’ll bet he is a racehorse man.” “The Island is leaning toward traffic and a Who Loves Taters in Texas? “What will you bet?” said the man who favored drunken bar scene,” said businessman James the preacher. Hernandez. Potatoes Dauphinoise with a Twist “Bet a dollar,” replied number two. Potholes were not popular. By Chef Vita Jarrin “Dollar goes and as many more as you like,” “We are sending out companies that do $5 was the answer. And so the conversation went million jobs to fix five-dollar potholes,” said have a mandolin or food processor that slices, Planning an Easter dinner can be exciting as on, some contending and offering to bet George one. “We’ve got small contractors who can fix this is where it would come in handy. Even well exhausting. Some of us stress over what was a cattlebuyer, others claiming he was a land them for $600.” slices calls for even cooking. to cook or bake and some of us stress over how speculator, while others contended he was just a Neither were dog parks. long it takes to prepare and the mess involved. Place slices in a large bowl of cold water to tin horn gambler and not worthwhile wrangling Whether you’re hosting or are a guest, I’m sure rinse and drain thoroughly on paper towels, about. “We don’t need a dog park. We can let the dogs run up and down the street,” said De Carlo, then you’re thinking about food for Easter. when ready to assemble. “To this George could not help but listen, but added. “When eight of the ten largest employers As a Chef, I’m no different. I typically stress Heat the heavy cream, milk, Boursin cheese, all the time he was listening for something else; in the city are public entities something is over (in a good way) what to make that isn’t salt, pepper, nutmeg, cayenne and the sprigs a voice, a sentence, a word, and he had but a wrong.” boring. So this year, having made them for of thyme until it comes to a simmer. Turn off short time to wait, for, although his back was Thanksgiving, I decided to push the traditional burner and remove from heat and let cool. Be towards the door, he heard the cat-like tread of An Island grocery store was popular, mashed potatoes off to the side and make this careful to not scorch the milk. Once cooled, a newcomer as he entered , and instinctively and guaranteed by one candidate, without amazing potato casserole that Julia Childs made beat the egg and add a little of the cream knew that just behind him stood the man he explanation. famous many years ago. However, as usual…I mixture in order to temper it and then add the had riddent so far to capture – Jim Fox, the “We need another road to The Island in case of like to add my twist. egg back into the milk and cream mixture. desperado. a hurricane,” said Madrigal. This helps the potatoes set. Therefore if you’re like me and want to make “Say, Jim,” said one, “what do you think about The city’s bidding process came under fire. something different, here is a recipe that will Start your first layer of potatoes in baking it? “The bidding process is not open and fair,” said make you stand out! Potatoes Dauphinoise. This dish in a spiral so that it resembles a flower. “About what,” was asked. Di Carlo, then took a shot at the Convention and is a casserole of potatoes layered like a lasagna These layers form a base for the warm cream. Sprinkle each layer of potato with just a little “But just then George, who had finished his Visitor Bureau and the city. “We need to look with a cheesy, cream sauce, topped with cheese, salt and pepper to season each layer as you lunch, turned deliberately about and leaning at how we fund the CVB, and the city does not then browned. YUMMMM! Does it have a go. Add a few pieces of the sliced butter on lazily against the counter, found himself honor open records requests. They sued to keep few extra calories? Well considering mashed top of potatoes. looking into the eyes of the notorious desperado records closed rather than show them to the potatoes have cream and butter also, it’s about so much feared by the people of Southwestern public.” the same. At Christmas…no one’s counting Ladle some of the milk mixture over the Texas. But as the evening wore on the two leaders calories any way right? So Cook Away! potatoes. Start another layer of potatoes and repeat as you would making a lasagna. Add “Say, stranger, where you from?” asked, in the race and the only candidates who have Serves 4-6 the shredded gruyere over the top and a few looking into George Allen’s cold gray eyes. served on the council, McComb and former Mayor Nelda Martinez, turned the talk to more Ingredients: leaves of thyme and cover with aluminum foil “Arkansaw,” replied George with a drawl mundane but pertinent issues of debt, taxes, and 2 tablespoon butter, room temperature for pan and bake for an hour. Remove foil and bake somewhat aggravating. infrastructure. until bubbly and golden brown on top another 1 Stick of butter sliced to add pieces on potato 10 minutes or so. If you’re comfortable with “How’s the frog crop this year,” was Fox’s McComb and Martinez clashed after Martinez, layers your broiler, place under broiler watching it question. speaking of the Mary Rhodes pipeline to a city brown for about 5 minutes, spin dish around water source in Lake Texana, of which she has 2 1/2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes “Not as good as one would wish,” replied for even coloring. Remove from oven and been a strong supporter, said, “Without that Salt & pepper for sprinkling on layers of George. “Too much rain this year for frogs,” let sit for about fifteen minutes before cutting pipeline our city would have been without water potatoes and shifting from one foot to another, he into the potatoes. in the drought two years ago.” pretended to be searching his clothing for his 2 1/2 cups heavy cream handkerchief; but right here, Jim Fox, who was “I can’t let a statement go by that I know is Tip of the Week: 1 1/2 cups whole milk taken off his guard for the moment by George’s false,” McComb said. “We would not have The twist to this recipe is adding the Boursin. replies to his questions and by the laughter of been without water without that pipeline. We 1 Small tub Boursin garlic & herb cheese I love using this cheese in multiple recipes those about him, experienced the surprise of his have other sources of water and would have (Avail at HEB) because it has garlic and herbs. I find it also life, for with a movement as rapid as a juggler’s been fine.” McComb recently questioned the 1 teaspoon coarse salt thickens sauces as it melts. This is a great hand, he straightened himself up, and before handling of the bonds for the project and said cheese to add to heavy cream and make a quick Fox could realize what was happening he had that a recent refinancing of the bonds on the 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper pasta Alfredo. The best shredded cheese for this drawn from beneath his long linen duster two project by the current council saved taxpayers Couple dashes cayenne dish is the traditional gruyere. However, you Colt’s .45 caliber revolvers and with one quick $28 million. can use Swiss, which is what gruyere is, except movement had thrown them full down in the 1/2 Tsp. freshly grated nutmeg it’s made and imported from France. It’s aged face of the desperado. Martinez stressed the funds dedicated to infrastructure during her four years as mayor 2-3 Sprigs of thyme longer, therefore, has a stronger taste. If you like to add your own twist, you can use shredded “I’ll kill as many of you as I can” which ended in 2006. 1 egg pepper jack, for spice or sharp cheddar. You can “Hands up or you are a dead man!” And this “We need dedicated revenue streams for 1 C shredded Gruyere cheese have a little more fun by adding chopped ham in time there was no drawl, but rather a stern, quick continuing work on our streets,” she said. “We between the layers, or chorizo or??? You decide command. Glancing along the barrels of George need another $1 billion to pay for infrastructure.” Directions: what you want to try. revolvers and into the stern, commanding eyes She did not specify a funding source. Preheat oven to 400 degrees with rack in The ideas are endless. Most importantly… of the man who held them, Fox threw up his But McComb criticized the higher debt and middle position. Spread butter across bottom hands. Enjoy yourself, get creative, try new things have spending at city hall during Martinez’ tenure as and sides of a 2-quart baking dish. fun!!! Happy Eats! George’s back being to the counter he had Fox mayor. Peel potatoes and slice 1/8 inch thick. If you and all his friends in front of him, and where he “We have $1.7 billion in debt left us by the could see the slightest movement of any hand previous council,” McComb said. “We also in the crowd. have $110 million more in approved bonds also Help Your Dog Weather the Spring Storms “Now gentlemen,” said he, “I am here to arrest left us by the previous council, but unless we Moon doggies had a rough time last night due you, or your property. There are several this man, I don’t want to hurt a hair on his head, tap into our $80 million reserve fund, we only to the thunderstorms. Lizzy dog was dubbed medications on the market that can really help but I mean business, so just keep quiet, don’t have $50 million left under our debt capacity. "shivery and drooly," while Stadler was "shakey your pup relax during the storms. move a hand if you value his life, for if a word is We are maxed out!” and crashy." Dealing with pups who think that spoken or a hand moved before I get out of this 7) Work with your dog to desensitise them The City of Corpus Christi has been without a the sky monsters are hungry for dog isn't easy, house, I’ll shoot him down without mercy, and when it's not actually storming. You can work permanent mayor since Dan McQueen resigned so we decided to compile a few tips to help us then I’ll kill just as many of you as I can. Now, with your dog to train them to calm down on from his post just 36 days into his term. Early all get through. We are, after all, a full service Mr. Fox,” continued he, addressing the prisoner, command. You can also use thunderstorm voting in the elections begins April 24. paper. “lower that left hand of yours, and unbuckle sound cds to gradually adjust your animal to that belt, and mind you no monkey business 1) Handle it as soon as it happens. Storm the noises. Most of all, you can walk or exercise either. Now step back please,” he continued, as phobia is considered by behavioralists as a your dog to a greater degree than you normally the belt with the load of cartridges and its two progressively worsening disease. That means would if showers are in the future. The more heavy Colts fell to the floor. Then replacing one Attention that if you don't take steps to fix the problem, you work with your dog, the greater the bond of his own pistols in its holster at his side and Boat Owners! your dog's suffering may get worse. It's easiest of trust between you will become -- and you'll holding the other fully cocked and pointing it to treat the problem during puppyhood. notice results in all areas of the dog's behavior, straight at the face of the now thoroughly cowed Do you own a boat with a cabin 2) Don't punish your dog for being afraid. including reactions to bad weather. desperado, he stepped forward and reaching All yelling at Fido will do is make an already 8) Lastly, be careful to keep your gates closed down pecked up the fallen belt, then backing and would you like to make some anxiety riddled animal terrified of yet another and watch youself when you open your doors. out of the door and keeping his prisoner well monster -- you! It's better to distract your dog Terrified animals are prone to running, and it between himself and the crowd, he marched money with it? We have slips and with treats and stimulus (throw the ball). By can be easy to lose them. him to the hitching rack, where Fox’s horse as staying calm, you encourage your pet to be calm well as his own stood. are looking for boats to use for as well. “Some time during the night, George arrived at 3) Dole out the treats when storms hit. Goliad with his prisoner, who the next morning charters. If you have a boat and Associating the bad weather with good things was turned over to the civil authorities and is a far more positive and calming mindset. placed for the first time of his life behind the are interested in an entrepreneurial Stadler has to take Benadryl wrapped in lunch bars of a jail. meat when storms are especially bad. Now she Fox eventually met his fate at the end of a opportunity stands in front of the refridgerator whenever she hangman’s rope. Such was life on the Texas hears thunder. Coast in the latter part of the nineteenth century. call 361 332-9978. 4) Let them hide. Provide a safe place for your dog to hid, like under your bed or in a crate. Hiding is a natural response for dogs that helps them feel safer. 5) Get your pet away from the noise -- then turn up the volume. Take your pet to an interior area of the house where the sounds of the storm are the least loud. Once you're there, turn up the radio, television, or use a white noise machine (not set on the thunderstorm setting 6) Talk to your veterinarian about medication. It may seem like it's not a great idea to sedate your dog, but that really depends on the amount of fear your animal suffers -- and also on the Moon Doggie, Lizzy, is terrified of amount of damage they can cause to themselves, thunderstorms.

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Wednesdays Prime Rib (with twice baked potato) 5 - Until They're Gone Mini Golf Great Food Seafood, Steaks, Salads, Burgers & Full Bar Open 11am - 2am • Kitchen Closes at 1am 2034 State Hwy 361 361-749-TACO (8226) April 13, 2017 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin They buried Chuck Berry in he will have driven all the way down here for a polished mahogany coffin $1000 so he’ll play,” Omar said. It wasn’t his this week with his red Gibson first rock and roll show. “And besides, by the guitar, just a few miles from time we have to pay the extra $1000 we will where he was born on the have a parking lot full of paying customers so west side of St. Louis. The guy who arguably we don’t have to raise the money ourselves.” It invented rock and roll has left the building but sounded something like a plan. will leave us with one more release which is We weren’t asked to provide a hotel room and due out this year. Old rockers never die they just we had heard that as soon as the last chord went play the rests. out through the amps Mr. Berry would be in his When I heard the news my first thought was Cadillac and gone. to pick up the phone and call my friend Omar You Can’t Catch Me in San Antonio who had booked the venerable rocker at a gig back in the late eighties that I As the date approached we became exceedingly helped him produce and promote. It reinforced nervous. We couldn’t get anyone from Mr. my long held opinion that being the manager Berry’s office to reply to our phone calls. We had of a rock and roller is not a career I would ever several thousand dollars’ worth of advertising wish to undertake. But as I reached for the phone running and if Chuck didn’t show we would I remembered that Omar had beaten Chuck never recover that. Suing over bad concert to that great jam session in the sky by several deals is a fool’s errand. If things go south the years. Old age and the rock and roll business promoter just eats it – it’s a tough business with don’t normally make for long engagements on great money if it works and no end to headaches the planet but Berry was 90 when he hit his last when it doesn’t. But the night of the show, just chord – an exception to the end. as the sun went down over the Westside barrios here came the man who invented rock and roll The first thing you learned about booking Mr. pulling into the parking lot in a red Cadillac. Berry for a show was that he had certain things There was no small talk. he wanted if he didn’t get them he would not go on. We sent out a standard event contract “You got my money,” he said. We handed it that was six pages long, but we got back a nine over and he counted it then handed the case page contract with three pages of handwritten to a person we had never seen before who rider clauses calling for everything from a handcuffed it to his wrist. barbeque dinner with side orders listed and the “Where’s the band,” he said, and he spent about temperature at which it must be served within fifteen minutes standing there in the parking lot one hour prior to the show, to a box of guitar showing them the quirks in a few of his songs picks (three sides but no corners), to finding him they needed to know; there was no set list, “Just Tides of the Week a band. He traveled alone to shows, driving all follow me,” he said and the warm up band made over the country in his Cadillac and expected a the introduction and Chuck hit the stage. Tides for Bob Hall Pier April 13 - April 20 local band, rehearsed and ready to hit the stage Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon when he rolled into the parking lot. There was What I quickly realized is that Chuck Berry /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible some method to his madness in the sense that had been doing this so long he had it down to the fewest moving parts possible – one; and it was Th 13 High 6:18 AM 1.7 7:06 AM Set 8:48 AM 97 every bar musician in American knew a dozen Chuck Berry songs and the ones they didn’t him. He showed up, got the money, the band 13 Low 10:55 PM 0.2 7:53 PM Rise 10:12 PM know used the same chords so they could fake was ready, he played, and he left. That was it. At it. The first thing we both noticed was that there one point the dancehall spots both went out but was no mention of paying the band from his Chuck played on. He played a fifty minute set as F 14 High 7:10 AM 1.7 7:05 AM Set 9:27 AM 93 manager. In the concert promotion business if I recall, no breaks lights or not, and no talking 14 Low 11:24 PM 0.2 7:53 PM Rise 11:03 PM the payment for anything is not mentioned in to the audience. He played the favorites first and the contract then the promoter pays. It wasn’t finished up with You Can’t Catch Me. hard to recruit some of our musician friends at I bought a brand-new air-mobile Sa 15 High 8:06 AM 1.7 7:04 AM Set 10:08 AM 88 the normal bar rate of $100 per man, after all It custom-made, 'twas a Flight De Ville 15 Low 11:59 PM 0.2 7:54 PM Rise 11:53 PM it was a change to say you played with Chuck With a pow'ful motor and some hideaway Berry. wings Low boy stage Push in on the button and you can hear her Su 16 High 9:07 AM 1.7 7:03 AM Set 10:52 AM 82 sing 16 7:54 PM The next problem was the stage. The contract specified a large stage and our plan was to put Now you can't catch me the band on a low-boy trailer in the parking lot The crowd didn’t notice that the band was a M 17 Low 12:41 AM 0.2 7:02 AM Rise 12:42 AM 74 of Fiesta Plaza on the west side of downtown. half beat slow on most songs, they were having We didn’t even have a cover for it, just right out the time of their lives. 17 High 10:12 AM 1.7 7:55 PM Set 11:39 AM in the open with the crowd pressed right against “Play for that money boys,” Berry shouted the footlights – well, where the footlights would halfway through. He had told them if he liked have been if we had any. Instead we had two Tu 18 Low 1:31 AM 0.2 7:01 AM Rise 1:30 AM 65 them he might pay them at the end of the show. baby spots we borrowed from a friend who had They were musicians too and they knew better. 18 High 11:12 AM 1.7 7:55 PM Set 12:29 PM a large country dancehall in Selma. We had been hired by the property owner to put on the show He ended the lyrics right at the fifty minute at a fixed price so our only hope of making any mark and not a second later and while the W 19 Low 2:31 AM 0.3 7:00 AM Rise 2:16 AM 56 money was to save on the production costs. In crowd shouted as one, “encore, encore!” Mr. 19 High 12:00 PM 1.7 7:56 PM Set 1:22 PM hindsight it was a stupid plan, but hey, we could Berry was taillights over the curb and gone into say we booked Chuck Berry. the night leaving nothing behind but a chanting crowd and a cloud of Westside dust. There was no way we were going to build a big Th 20 Low 3:41 AM 0.3 6:59 AM Rise 3:00 AM 46 stage but Omar had a practical solution. The last Omar sang the words of the song the band was 20 High 12:36 PM 1.7 7:57 PM Set 2:16 PM and most important part of the rider, according still playing on stage. to Chuck’s manager who we talked to on the So I let out my wings and then I blew my horn phone but never met, was that Chuck Berry, Bye bye New Jersey, I've become airborne veteran of roadhouse stages from New Jersey to Seattle, would not take the stage until he was Now you can't catch me handed a case with $7500 cash which we later Baby you can't catch me discovered he would strap to a companion with 'Cause if you get too close, you know I'm gone handcuffs while he played the show. He wanted like a cool breeze $2500 up front to hold the date and the $7500 The man who invented rock and roll was gone at the show. Omar bargained. We agreed to pay like the cool breeze that he was. $11,000 but only $1000 up front. And so it goes. “That way if he doesn’t like our low boy stage

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ON THE WATERFRONT 132 W. Cotter St. The PortA BACK PORCH Bar A6 Island Moon April 13, 2017 Senior Moments Anecdotingly 1986 Bombing of Libya Three Bairs' Easter By Abigail Bair By Dotson Lewis When I was growing up, our Special to the Island Moon holidays -- the epicurean elements are much family didn’t have very many more to his taste. I’m the same way, and I can Dotson’s Note: This Reagan declared that on 25 March, Libya had Easter traditions outside of the typical dying always eat. of eggs and feeding of sugar to small children. following article is sent orders to the embassy “to conduct a terrorist Most of the year we torment her mercilessly. This was back when my Mom was just “Mom” a report of an event which occurred only 21 attack against Americans, to cause maximum For instance, once she left a book entitled (or occasionally “The Warden”), rather than the years ago. I believe it was much like the Syrian and indiscriminate casualties”; then the embassy “Jesus!” lying on a shelf in the living room. much more terrifying “Reverend Mother.” My affair which President Trump initiated April alerted Tripoli on 4 April that the attack would For several weeks, every single time Dad or I most significant Easter memory is of getting 10, 2017. Scroll back to April 14, 1986 when be carried out the next day, that “Tripoli will be walked past that book we’d shout, “JESUS!” grounded for trying to poison my little brother United States warplanes*, on orders from happy when you see the headlines tomorrow”, The Rev would freak out – “What in Heaven’s with Peeps. My theory was that since they President Ronald Reagan, bombed the Libyan and that after the bombing the embassy reported name is wrong?” she’d exclaim, and then the tasted so disgusting, they must be deadly. I fed cities of Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation for that the action had been successful and could guilty party would mumble something about him two large boxes that I had purloined from the April 5th terrorist bombing of a discotheque not be traced to it. stubbed toes or “There’s the postman!” We did the pantry, but he didn’t die. He did barf. He in West Berlin in which two American soldiers this for WEEKS. I don’t know if the Rev ever Some believe these are, at best, interpretations also told on me. I was sent to my room, and were killed. Among the 37 persons killed in the figured it out, but she did eventually move the and paraphrases. The complete, unedited, as further punishment, Josh got the rest of the air raid was the adopted infant daughter of book. unexpurgated, literal texts of the relevant contents of my Easter basket – including a Muammar Qaddafi, Libya's head of state. Do communications were not made public. They any of you Moon Monkeys recall this historical stretchy, sticky frog toy that you could slime You might wonder how my parents have were intercepted by the National Security things with from significant distances. I had survived over 40 years of marriage with such event? William Blum, John Poindexter, Oliver Agency and decoded with the help of the North contributed to this report. (*Do we still plans for that. different ideologies. I think it’s because both German BND (Federal Intelligence Service) of them have damned good senses of humor, call them “warplanes”?) Since my brother moved his family to Hawaii which had broken the Libyan code years before. and because they always buy big houses. We a couple of years ago, Easter fun at my parents’ After the decoding was completed, reported Der both love Mom, so on Easter Sunday the G.P. house seriously declined. The holiday is a blast Spiegel, Germany’s leading newsmagazine, it and I generously declare a bullcrap ceasefire was still not clear what the wires actually said, and try to be nice to the Rev there being different versions. Moreover, the about her faith. It generally NSA and BND came to different conclusions lasts through dinner, but not about the meaning of the messages, “but these through the board games that disagreements were quickly pushed aside for come after. I beat my Mother political reasons.” German security officials, at Scrabble by one point after who insisted that Libya should not be the only practicing for an entire year focus of investigation and who cautioned against and have refused to play a “premature accusation,” also looked into rival with her ever since. We are groups of disco competitors and drug dealers. a cutthroat people. In January 1987, a senior official in Bonn told investigative reporter Seymour Hersh that the Mom called the other day “Our evidence is direct, it is precise, it is German government continued to be “very to ask me if I wanted to attend irrefutable,” announced the President of the critical and skeptical” of the American position Easter lunch (momspeak for United States. He was explaining that the linking Libya to the bombing; and at the end of come at noon, but we’ll be American bombing attack upon Libya of 14 the following year, Germany announced that the eating at 8 p.m.) at their place. April 1986 was in retaliation for the Libyan investigation was being ended. Think they'll stop making me cook things? I'm looking I said yes because while I am a terrible daughter, I am bombing nine days earlier of a West Berlin “Some White House officials had immediate forward to decapitating Peeps with my chicken scissors nightclub frequented by American servicemen an occasionally dutiful one. doubts that the case against Libya was clear- with kids around. They’re the only people in She got very chirpy and said, “Oh good! I’ll which had killed two soldiers and one civilian cut,” Hersh reported. “What is more, the and injured many others. the world willing to believe that Easter candy call you next week and we’ll start talking about discotheque was known as a hangout for black is delicious, rather than the hideous offspring of what you can make!” In actuality, the evidence of Libyan culpability soldiers, and the Libyans had never been known a drunken collaboration between Willie Wonka “You mean for, like, food?” I replied, in the bombing was never directly or precisely to target blacks or other minorities.”[ and Mr. Hyde. To a kid, a Cadbury Egg is just concerned. presented to the world, but little notice was As in many other instances that have been a huge chunk of chocolate. They don’t know taken of that. For over a decade the American seen, however, official Washington’s official yet what lies inside – that disgusting sugar “Of course for food.” public had been told that Libyan leader position, repeated often enough, became slime that so closely mirrors yolk and albumen “Like chips or something?” Muammar el-Qaddafi was behind one terrorist official truth. Three years after the incident, that it’s like swallowing a raw egg, except it’s act after another in every part of the world. A Time magazine could state matter-of-factly that one that fuzzes up your tongue with corn syrup “No, food made of food.” few days before the American attack, President “Libyan-backed terrorists bombed a disco in to the extent that the organ must be brutally Reagan had referred to him as the “mad dog “But MOOOOOOMMMMM, everyone hates West Berlin,” thereby provoking the American scrubbed with a toothbrush before you can my cooking.” of the Middle East.” This was just one more “retaliatory” bombing. taste salt again. Also, sometimes kids will try example. It all fit. to eat the plastic grass in the basket. This can “I don’t hate your cooking,” my most staunch The bombs dropped on Libya took the lives be pretty funny – especially if they’re not your supporter replied. “I need to take my shower.” of a reported 40 to 100 people, all civilians children. Then she hung up on me. but one, and wounded another hundred or so. My mother is a Presbyterian pastor now, I still don’t know what to make. I think it’s The French Embassy, located in a residential so Easter and Christmas are, to her, the going to be something like a salad that I district, was destroyed. The dead included metaphorical equivalent of being called up to sneakily pour out of a bag and into a bowl when Qaddafi’s young adopted daughter and a the majors. Long hours of preparation go into no one’s looking. Maybe I’ll go that extra mile teenage girl visiting from London; all of her sermons, and the sanctuary at her church is and bring over a jug of dressing. Like I said, Qaddafi’s other seven children as well as his as packed as it gets. Then, after preaching, she I’m sometimes dutiful. What I really want to do, wife were hospitalized, suffering from shock has to come home to us. The G.P. is an atheist however, is just show up with two big boxes of and various injuries. from way back, and so doesn’t really care one Peeps and see what happens. 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With the April 18 tax deadline approaching, threats and hostility to push you into doing were Libyans. After the air attack, White Moreover, the two missions involved some of Better Business Bureau serving the Heart of what they want. Be skeptical of what a caller House spokesman Larry Speakes announced the same national security people, notably John Texas is warning people about an IRS phone claims he or she can do if you refuse to meet that “It is our hope this action will preempt Poindexter and Oliver North. scam that circulates during filing season. their demand. and discourage Libyan attacks against innocent Dotson’s Other Note: If you do not remember BBB regularly receives reports from people civilians in the future.” Hang up. Consider joining the Do Not Call this incident which occurred 21 years ago, who allege they received calls from scammers Registry to cut down on telemarketing and neither did I until I decided to do a little research impersonating IRS agents. sales calls. This may not help with scammers, on actions by previous Presidents which caused IRS impersonators make threats of arrest, but you’ll get fewer calls overall. This may a furor among many citizens of United States of deportation and license revocation if they don't help you more quickly notice the ones that America. Some of my peer group (whomever they receive immediate payment. The scammers could be fraudulent. are), justify this retaliation since “Americans” instruct people to put money on a prepaid debit were injured/killed, but condemn the present Report it. If you’re unsure if the call is real, card, an iTunes gift card or send payment via contact the IRS directly at 1-800-829-1040 or Syrian retaliation, saying the gas attacks did wire transfer. not cause “American” casualties so we (the go to irs.gov. 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The bombing had they won’t ask for immediate payment in the Island Moon are greatly appreciated. Thank which happens when the caller masks their been an assassination attempt. Said a “well- form of a prepaid debit card or wire transfer. you for reading and commenting on Senior own number and causes the number of a well- informed Air Force intelligence officer” cited Moments. I can be reached at: dlewis1@stx. The IRS only contacts people by mail. by the New York Times, “There’s no question known service, like the IRS, to appear on rr.com and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 Cell: Caller ID. Also, the caller might give a badge Kelly Trevino is the regional director for they were looking for Qaddafi. It was briefed 530-748-8475. that way. They were going to kill him, which is number and know the last four digits of your the Corpus Christi/Victoria area of Better what you have to do with a mad dog.” Please Note: The next Veterans Round Table Social Security number. Business Bureau serving the Heart of Texas. Kelly is available for media interviews and Meeting will be Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 9-11 Protect your personal information. Don’t Subsequently, two of Qaddafi’s children filed speaking engagements. You can reach her by AM, 3209 S. Staples. All Veterans, their families provide any account number or other financial suit in the United States to stop President phone: (361) 945-7352 or email: ktrevino@ and anyone interested in Veterans affairs, are information over the phone. Reagan from launching more “assassination invited. Coffee & doughnuts are provided. Hope corpuschristi.bbb.org. attempts” on their family. The suit, which to see you there. Also our Veterans Radio Round Don’t be bullied. Never trust callers who use was rejected in court, alleged that Reagan and Table is on the air on KEYS AM 1440, 8 – 9 other top officials, in ordering the raids, had AM, Saturdays. The next will air April 15, 2017. violated an executive order that bars attempted Please listen and call in. The listener/text line assassinations of foreign government leaders. is: 361-560-5397…It’s your show. Another suit filed in Washington was in behalf of 65 people killed or injured by the bombing. Meanwhile, the US Navy was awarding 158 medals to the pilots who dropped 500-pound and 2,000-pound bombs in the dark of night upon sleeping people. The notion of targeting Qaddafi’s family originated with the CIA, which claimed that in Bedouin culture Qaddafi would be diminished as a leader if he could not protect his home: “If you really get at Qaddafi’s house — and by extension his family — you’ve destroyed an important connection for the people in terms of loyalty.” To make sure the Libyan people got the message, the Voice of America repeatedly told them, following the bombing, things like “Colonel Qaddafi is your tragic burden” and that as long you obey his orders you must “accept the consequences.” The president’s claim of irrefutable evidence was based on alleged interceptions of communications between the Libyan capital of Tripoli and the Libyan Embassy in East Berlin. April 13, 2017 Island Moon A 7 Animal Advice St. Andrew Annual Lenten Fish Fry Spay or Neuter Your Pets! By Doreen Kinkel being neutered. Increasingly, animals adopted My dog, Chloe, is a from shelters are not youngsters but adults (over rescue dog. My daughter the age of one) and frequently females have had and son-in-law have two at least one litter. Sure, that adult female will rescue dogs, one from be spayed when adopted but the math remains Ft. Hood, the other from problematic. Animal Control in Corpus Christi. They are wonderful, loving dogs and none of us would People problem have it any other way. But, we cannot adopt our way out of a pet overpopulation problem. Nationally, euthanasia rates have declined, There's no version of modern math that will shelter intakes are down, and adoptions are make the numbers work. There are simply not up but demand for space in shelters still enough people to adopt or foster or spaces in exceeds availability. Rebecca Huss proposed shelters to house all the "homeless" or stray in a law review article about cooperation dogs and cats in the US. We can relocate them between animal control officials and rescue to places with fewer rescue animals but that is a organizations that "A successful program for "back end" solution. And, unsustainable unless implementing non-lethal strategies to control and until fewer animals are born. Numbers, the pet population incorporates three prongs: many unverifiable, get bandied around about (a) increasing adoptions, (b) increasing the how many homeless, how many euthanized, number of animals sterilized, and (c) increasing etc.--the bottom line is there are more animals the number of animals retained in the home." available than homes for them, even if people Gemma Zanowski declared in a review of spay/ adopt multiple animals. Until we turn the faucet neuter legislation the "goal is to prevent animals off-- or way down--that will continue to be the from entering the shelter in the first place..." a case. As my former graduate student, Gabriella position supported by a multitude of studies. Storey, said in her Master's thesis, "It may be impossible for every dog and cat to be adopted; Experts on the topic agree the problem of however, it is not impossible to help put an end pet overpopulation/homelessness is a people to pet overpopulation by spaying and neutering problem--only people can solve it. Timely animals." spaying/neutering of pets not only reduces the Start early number of babies relinquished to shelters, it reduces relinquishment of adult pets. Intact When I mention the importance of spay/ adults are among those often surrendered to neuter to folks most proudly announce their shelters or abandoned, behavorial problems rescue pet was neutered when adopted. And of being intact among the primary reasons, that's great, making sure they don't contribute behavior unlikely to occur if spayed/neutered further to overpopulation is great. However, prior to puberty. With studies indicating most if the pet is past puberty when adopted, there's births are due to a lack of planning, accidental, a great chance they've already had a litter, or the onus for pet overpopulation is on owners created one, contributing 6-10 new animals to of unspayed/unneutered animals. One author the population. And it fails to see the point. stated "if about half of the people who do not Accidental, unintended breeding is a primary spay/neuter their animal could be convinced source of unwanted offspring many of whom to change this behavior, such a region could Area firefighters pitched in to help cook at wind up being up for adoption as young become 'no-kill' for the dog population." Since adults after producing a litter of their own the annual St. Andrew Fish Fry held the problem is a people problem it requires every Friday through Lent. adding another 6-10 lives to the population. people solutions. Messaging/marketing about The American Society for the Prevention of spay/neuter is demonstrably effective and it Photos by Jan Rankin Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), states "the only generates a "bandwagon" effect, bringing on humane method of population control that has board owners wanting to "do the right thing." Saturday, April 22nd demonstrated a correlation with long-term Spay/neuter programs are cost effective, saving efficacy in significantly reducing the number of communities money and resources. The 31st Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup animals entering animal shelters is the voluntary marginal return of money spent on spay/neuter Volunteers are needed for the nation's biggest [email protected] sterilization of owned pets" (ASPCA http:// all-volunteer coastal cleanup Saturday, April programs is considerable and syngergistic with North Padre Island/Padre Balli Park www.aspca.org/position-statement-mandatory- adoption programs--producing more bang for 22nd. The 2017 Texas General Land Office spayneuter-laws). A survey commissioned by the buck when messaged or marketed together. Adopt-A-Beach Coast-wide Spring Cleanup Check-in: Petsmart Charities about public perceptions of takes place at 29 of Texas' most popular tourist Padre Balli Park Office, 15820 Park Road 22 pet adoption and spay/neuter found that among Though animals adopted from rescue/animal beaches. Volunteers can sign up at one of the Contact: John Vaughn pet owners acquiring a dog/cat in the previous care facilities are spayed/neutered and no locations online at www.texasadoptabeach. 361-779-0477 12 months: longer contribute to pet overpopulation, it is org to take part in a fun-filled day at the beach [email protected] like closing the barn door after the animals approximately 1/3 were spayed/neutered that makes a difference. Jim Needham—Surfrider Foundation have left the building. Spaying/neutering [email protected] previous to acquiring must be a "front end" priority, not "after the Each volunteer will be given data cards, fully 1/3 were "intact" (not spayed/neutered) fact." Dr. Kate Hurley, DVM, Director, Shelter gloves, pencils and trash bags. All volunteers Baffin Bay when acquired and remained intact, capable Medicine Program at University of California- are advised to wear closed-toe shoes, bring Check-in: of breeding Davis maintains that the biggest impact on the sunscreen and plenty of drinking water. The Kaufer-Hubert Park, FM 628 equation, the numbers, is on the "intake side" Texas General Land Office Adopt-A-Beach 30-40% of owners had their recently acquired Contact: Susan Ivy of the equation--spay/neuter programs. That's Cleanups are held rain or shine! intact pet "fixed," spayed/neutered, after 361-595-8591 how the math problem will be solved. acquiring them Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., clean up [email protected] will be from 9 a.m. to noon. Everyone who North Beach Corpus Christi 75% of owners whose pet was not spayed/ signs up online and checks in at their cleanup neutered when acquired said they planned to location will be entered to win a RTIC 20 Check-in: have it done Soft Pack cooler or one of five Sony Portable Texas State Aquarium, 2710 North Shoreline (https://www.petsmartcharities.org/blog/pet- Wireless Speakers (Bluetooth + Waterproof). Blvd. adoption-spay-neuter-understanding-public- The random drawing will take place after the Contact: Rosanna Gossett perceptions-by-the-numbers) cleanup. Winners will be contacted directly. 361-881-1204 [email protected] That still leaves a whole lot of animals capable Texans who are not able to attend the cleanup of breeding and producing more. And, that's can help keep their beaches clean by making Packery Flats exactly what happens--40-50% of litters born a tax-deductible donation online at www. Check-in: to owned pets were accidental, offspring TexasAdoptABeach.org. There are several Parking lot off Hwy 361, on Mustang Island frequently given away to friends or family who different Adopt-A-Beach sponsorship levels near the Packery Channel may or may not "fix" the animal; the survey ranging from $25 to $25,000, allowing both Contact: Coastal Bays Foundation showed a higher percentage of pets acquired individuals and corporations to contribute to 361-882-3439 came from family or friends than from shelters this major cleanup effort. [email protected] where they would have been spayed/neutered upon adoption. Texas Health and Safety The cleanup sites are: Aransas Pass/Redfish Bay Code, Title 10, Chapter 828, requires dogs/cats Padre Island National Seashore Check-in: acquired through adoption be spayed/neutered. Check-in: Lighthouse Lakes Park, 4 miles east of But, there are no such regulations impacting Malaquite Visitor Center, 20420 Park Rd 22 Aransas Pass on Hwy 361 animals obtained from family or friends, 1 of Contact: William “Buzz” Botts Contact: Richard Gonzales the top 3 sources of puppies/kittens; future 361-949-8068 361-779-7351 spaying/neutering depends on how responsible 361-949-8069 [email protected] the new owner chooses to be. Studies report [email protected] 15% of pups and kittens will have litters before Cole Park/Corpus Christi Mustang Island State Park Check-in: Check-in: 1526 Ocean Drive Park Headquarters Parking Lot, 17047 State Contact: Celina Ybarbo-Pulcher Hwy 361 361-826-1655 Contact: Eric Ehrlich [email protected] 361-749-5246 Magnolia Beach/Port Lavaca Check-in: Send letters and photos to Crabbin' Bridge Contact: Rhonda Cummins [email protected] 361-552-9747 [email protected]

$6.00 off any oil change! A8 Island Moon April 13, 2017 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon The First Television Coverage of the Mysterious Mr. X Masters Golf Tournament was in 1956 By Andy Purvis By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon favorite time of the year. “It’s a big number, Special to the Island Moon He just didn’t look the part. He was “down- drives and superb iron 60+. I daresay there’s never been any television home,” country as a chicken coop and funny shots. show that is as important to the CBS network Dotson’s Note: I am beyond belief. A natural-born storyteller, he “He had a great release through the ball, and as the Masters,” Nantz said. “Some might say was a gifted long-iron player. His powerful and fully aware that many of that’s one of the most important things,” said 60 Minutes. Let’s include it in the discussion, accurate game, except when it came to water you Moon Monkeys were Arnold Palmer. In a 1993 interview with The 60 Masters and 60 Minutes. Those shows have hazards, would yield tour victories in eight glued to a TV set this past weekend. It occurred St. Petersburg Times, Barber insisted he had to me that you might enjoy a little review of the reflected more about the brand known as CBS consecutive PGA Tour seasons. than anything else. It’s so special to see.” tried to become more conventional with the way history of the television coverage of the Masters He swung incorrectly, spoke kind of funny and he swung his golf club. “It was a total disaster; Golf Tournament. Hopefully this will help with In 2016, even Masters and Augusta National did everything wrong except win. He looked I just couldn’t swing like Jack Nicklaus or Sam your withdrawal from golf on TV. As far as I am Chairman Billy Payne honored the network more like a bartender who threw darts for his Snead,” said Barber. concerned, CBS coverage of the Masters is the during his annual news conference. “We local pub than a professional golfer. He was Although he never won a Major on the PGA best television coverage of any single annual specifically congratulate and celebrate CBS for heavy, slow, wore dark prescription sunglasses, event, sports or otherwise. David Feherty, John their long-term commitment to the Masters, as Boyette and Justin Williams contributed to this this year marks their 60th consecutive Masters story. broadcast,” Payne said. CBS Celebrates 61st Year of CBS Used Improved Technology for the Broadcasting the Masters 2017 Masters Telecast Though many of the voices remain the same, some of the technology that CBS Sports used to televise the Masters Tournament improved this year. Another camera was added near the 15th green “got a better grip on the ball going into the water right there by the bunker,” CBS golf coordinating producer Lance Barrow said last week. High-speed cameras again were again in place, and wireless radio frequency cameras followed the leaders around from the practice range to the Above CBS audio technician Chris first tee, a Masters first. Williams (left) and fiber-optic technician “(It’s something) we tested here a few months Theron Reddecliff set up a camera on the ago,” Barrow said. “One or two of them around TV tower on the 16th green. mostly on the practice facility and walking around with the leaders as they go to the tee. It’s When CBS televised its first Masters in 1956, never been done here at the Masters, but we had the network used seven cameras and covered RF cameras.” action from the final four holes. The first broadcast only focused on holes 15 through 18; Wireless cameras on the ground helped viewers but by 2008, ESPN began airing the tournament get even more access around the 365-acre golf Miller Barber prelude. club. Sean McManus, the chairman of CBS Sports, said the sheer size of the course makes and was nowhere to be found after his round. When the CBS cameras rolled at Augusta this Tour, the closest he came was 1969 at the US covering every angle difficult. It was like playing golf with 007. He loved past weekend for the 61st consecutive year, Open in Houston, Texas. He teed off the fourth golf more than he hated hay fever, sneezing considerably more personnel and technology “It’s as big (as), if not bigger than, the Super day with a three-shot lead over the field only and watery eyes. He suffered all his life from was in place. CBS offered nine hours of live Bowl,” he said. “It’s a challenge, but it’s all in to record a 78 and finish three shots behind these ailments. He carried pills and sprays with coverage, and it could show action from all 18 the planning. We have people planning this 12 Orville Moody and in a tie for sixth place. He him while playing and once ran out of medicine holes. months a year.” also played well at The Masters and The Open during a tournament which cost him the win. Championship, finishing in the top ten in both The partnership between the Masters and In 1984, fellow golfer, Bob Rosberg, told this events that same year. CBS is unique, and the year’s first major is the story. “One year Barber was tied for the lead longest-running sports event broadcast on one at Orlando and started sneezing on the 72nd I remember as a kid traveling with friends network. tee,” said Rosberg. “He grabbed a pill, his last from Raleigh to Greensboro, North Carolina, to “It’s really unlike anything in sports,” said Sean one, and when he went to take it, he sneezed the Greater Greensboro Open (GGO) played at McManus, the chairman of CBS Sports. “We again and it popped up in the air and fell into a Sedgefield Country Club. We never had tickets have a great heritage and a great tradition with lake. Now he was really stuck. He proceeded and would simply park in front of someone’s a lot of events we cover. But there is something to top his tee shot, bogeyed the hole, and lost house and walk through their backyard onto the unique and different with the relationship we the tournament by one shot.” Fellow friend and course. We loved to follow Lee Trevino, Doug have with Augusta National and the event itself. golfer, Jim Feree, gave Barber his nickname, the Sanders, and Miller Barber. These guys made It’s hard to put into words.” “Mysterious Mr. X.” That nickname eventually golf fun. became just “X.” Even though the PGA Tour season now starts in Everyone has a favorite Miller Barber story. the fall, and events are held on the West Coast, Up from Louisiana Here are two of mine. ABC commentator Dave Marr told this story. “I won the Seattle Open Florida and Texas the first three months of the Miller Westford Barber Jr. was born in year, there is a certain anticipation with the in 1961. My check was $4,000, but Miller got Arnold Palmer Shreveport, Louisiana, on March 31, 1931. $10,000 for making a hole in one. We were Masters. It’s the biggest tournament of the year, Miller started playing golf at the age of 11, in CBS host Jim Nantz joined lead analyst and planning to leave for the Del Webb Tournament and for many it signals the start of spring and Texarkana, Texas. According to Miller, his three-time Masters champion Nick Faldo in the in Bakersfield on Sunday. Jim Feree asked good weather. CBS isn’t shy about showcasing first golf bag was a cardboard tube coated with booth at the 18th green. Many other familiar Miller to drive his car down so he could fly. the course’s beauty and its abundant and shellac. Raised solely by his mother, he was a commentators were posted around the course, This was fine with Miller, who was single at the colorful plant life. quiet child with excellent manners. His parents including Verne Lundquist, Gary McCord, time. We got to Bakersfield, but Miller never “There’s no event like it,” McManus said. “We separated when he was young. His father ran Peter Kostis and Ian Baker-Finch. showed up. He finally surfaced a week or so try to capture that for people who haven’t been a grocery store for a living. By the age of 13, later at another tournament. He never would tell lucky enough to go there. And I think sometimes Nantz had to focus on the NCAA men’s he began to earn his spending money for golf us where he was. Still won’t, to this day. All we people get the impression we’re overstating the basketball championship game in Arizona lessons by washing and preparing fruit and knew for sure is that he had Jim’s car, $10,000 beauty of the place, but we’re really not. I get before he could turn his attention to the Masters. vegetables for the troop trains that were in and a case of Canadian Club in the trunk that a lot of comments from people who have been He admitted that at least part of his mind was route from the South to the West coast, during Jimmy had brought down from Canada for his there who say, ‘Now I get it.’ ” already in Augusta. World War II. It was there in Texarkana that he dad. When Miller caught up with us, he was met one of his idols, Byron Nelson. Nelson’s With limited commercial interruption, “I think about it every single day of the year,” broke and there was only one bottle left.” wife, Karen, was from Texarkana and they had innovations and a veteran broadcast crew, it’s he said. “And if it’s not something that’s on my stopped to visit on their way to Atlanta, where Miller Barber passed away at the age of easy to see why the Masters consistently draws mind, someone is going to remind me about Byron was to play in the Masters. Nelson took 82. It was a Tuesday in Scottsdale, Arizona, the highest ratings of any golf tournament. the Masters everywhere I go. Every single day June 11, 2013. The cause has been listed as I hear about it. I consider that a great honor the time to teach some golf tips to Barber. These Under the direction of longtime CBS producer a reoccurrence of lymphoma cancer. He had that people actually associate me with this golf lessons would pay big dividends. Barber later Frank Chirkinian, the Masters telecast been resting in the Silver Stone Care Center tournament.” enrolled at the University of Arkansas where he flourished in the 1960s and was known for played on the golf team and graduated in 1954. for hospice patients. His son said that Jack breaking ground. The Masters was the first golf Dotson’s Other Note: Many thanks to two of my In 1959, after four years in the U.S. Air Force, Nicklaus had called his dad at about 4:30 tournament to be shown in color, and it was the friends who over the years have shared with me Miller Barber turned professional. that afternoon. “Dad did more listening than first to have an overseas broadcast. Chirkinian, many stories of their adventures while working talking but it definitely cheered him up.” Three Success was hard to find initially on the who died in 2011, ran a tight ship, but he also with CBS during Masters telecasts. Your hours later, Miller Barber would be gone, but PGA Tour so he took a job as the Lead Pro at knew a story when he saw it. Lance Barrow, comments, suggestions, questions and concerns not forgotten. At the end, there was nothing Apawanis Country Club in Rye, New York. the coordinating producer of football and golf regarding Sports Talk articles are greatly very mysterious about Miller Barber after all. After a chance to hone his game, he gave the for CBS, took over for Chirkinian upon his appreciated, please call the Benchwarmers A kind, gentle man who loved his family, his PGA Tour another try. His first victory came at retirement in 1996. at 361-560-5397 weekdays, Mondays thru neighbors, and this crazy game called golf. Fridays, 5-7 PM, or contact me. Phone: 361- The Cajun Classic Open in 1964. Barber had "It's like I always said," Barrow noted. "It Andy Purvis is a local author and radio 949-7681 Cell: 530-748-8475 Email: dlewis1@ bested Gay Brewer and Jack Nicklaus. At the was like following John Wooden or Vince personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. stx.rr.com 1964 Masters, he finished three strokes behind Lombardi." the leader, George Archer, despite hitting 11 com for all the latest info on his books or to Have fun -30- balls in the drink during the week. listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books are available online and can be found in the Simple stated, Barber’s swing was home- local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be made, ugly, and hard to watch. Barber’s right contacted at [email protected]. Also elbow would fly out away from his body on the listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Q backswing. He would then loop the club head & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc.com inside, which produced an ugly downswing. 1230 AM, 96.1 FM and 103.3 FM. The home of Regardless, he was able to get the club face the Houston Astros. Easter Basket square to the ball, resulting in long accurate Specials

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It’s no coincidence that Arnold Palmer’s rise and an increase in the popularity of golf were simultaneous. “He was standing there next to his caddie, hitching his trousers, wrinkling his nose, flipping a cigarette to the ground,” Chirkinian told The Augusta Chronicle in 2004. “He hitched his trousers again and grabbed a club from his caddie. And he hits it on the green. “I thought, ‘Holy mackerel, who is this guy?’ He absolutely fired up the screen. It was quite obvious this was the star. We followed him all the way.” For years Augusta National resisted showing all 18 holes, and for decades the front nine was rarely shown on television. Those holes gradually began to be televised, and 18-hole Visit one of our three FLIP /wbliquors coverage was offered for the final round in Corpus Christi locations. WBLiquors.com 14457 S. Padre Island Dr. 3237 S. Alameda 2002. (361) 949-0080 (361) 852-0499 6181 Saratoga Blvd. CBS host Jim Nantz, celebrated his 32nd (361) 985-0630 year of covering the Masters, said this is his Prices valid through April 30th. In the event of an error, store price prevails. Please drink responsibly. Anyone recognize this old frig that Pharmacy Bob recued from a now Send letters and photos to [email protected] defunct island bar? Photo by Ronnie Narmour April 13, 2017 Island Moon A 9 The Traveling Moon Gets Around

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There was and still is only was a double knock-down of barracuda (aka tackle, headed south against through the empty courtyard, and spirits were one skido can and a picnic bench, we set up our “rig apes”). After those were released, a wider a strong southeast wind. The high and happy to be getting out on the water tent at mid-day and started a fire. Inside that pattern resulted in another nice wahoo that had waves bounced the small aluminum boat but we again. Our mission was to take the boat from tent I’m sure it was 150 degrees but somehow a buddy swimming towards the boat with him. were on top of the world. With each salty spray Port Aransas over to Grand Isle, Louisiana. Of we washed off and took a nap. One of those While we definitely know better, we did not that flashed course we weren’t going to go straight there; we naps that you’re so hot that when you wake up have a pitch bait ready to pick up the buddy. A over the bow had plans to do just a touch of fishing on the it feels like you got RUFFED. Sunset sizzled reminder to the rest of you, and you all know of the boat way. we laughed on the horizon and we walked down past the better too; have that pitch bait rod ready at all and talked old blue boat into a flat of shallow water. A times. about the few long casts into the setting blaze of sky and The sargassum started to get thicker the crazy stories I heard before I felt a big trout explode upon farther offshore and east we traveled. It made between our the bait. The big trout jumped and struggled dragging baits an exercise in futility. The boys last visits. but eventually we slid her up on the bank and tried deep dropping around one of the rigs, Every spring trotted back to our fire for the night. Every time but it only resulted in endangered red snapper my friend I pass that place today in my fancy boat with and amberjack, which the Gulf Council has Marcos would the stereo blazing I can still feel my ass burning basically closed the seasons for year-round come down on those aluminum benches, see Marcos these days. We headed towards another bank from college grinning ear to ear, and hear the sounds of Are in the chain out there, and Bizzy saw a small and we would You Experienced echo in the blistering wind. sailfish free jump. Dolphins were present, spend our time which was kind of weird that far offshore. on some kind The winds of spring are here and so is the great After a few passes with no action, the sun went of adventure. fishing that makes these kind of memories. We down and we started slow boating towards our This year are continuing destination in Louisiana. One of those nice trout was to be no to catch 50- The moon was full and bright, and the night from top waters this week different; we 100 trout a day drifting with was beautiful! It was really nice to be out there along the South Shore of were on our way to the small lures within on the blue again where the horizon falls off Baffin. and remote 5 miles of the 360 degrees as far as the eye can see. Besides boat ramp in dock. Those the difficulties of docking a large boat in a small the back of Yarborrow Pass. We had some big afternoon trips marina and cleaning a massive boat, we finished water to cross and as we got out in the middle are a blast and up our stint and headed it back to Texas, happy of Baffin flocks of birds began to appear diving a cheap way and tired. for shrimp over hungry schools of trout. Our to get some Offshore Conditions: the sargassum started first drift found us hooked up a few times on good fishing, Bizzy with a nice wahoo at the East Breaks and continued all the way “schoolies”, our second the same. We brought catching, and Captain Christina Lane east into Louisiana waters. No large mats new techniques one of those small tape recorders with two loved fishing and loved her were seen, and there’s no real organization to tapes, the OUTFIELD AND Jimmy Hendrix! plugged into After filling the water tank and stowing our friends and family with all it. It’s just “pin wheeling” out there. There are As soon as those electric guitar chords hit the your life. I’ll limited gear, we threw the lines and headed no well-defined rips within the first 150 miles. salty air our rods bent double. Drift after drift even crank her heart. We lost her this out. The wave forecast wasn’t perfect for the last week way too soon. The first blue water is about 30 miles offshore pod after pod we jammed and hooked trout in up the jams weekend, but we were in a mean machine. here, with the “blue” blue water out at the shelf at least three foot waves out there in the deepest for you. Live She is in heaven catching We blasted through the jetties and pointed about 90 miles out. Hopefully we can get some bait fishingbig trout with her loved her mostly east, cruising around 25 knots. Of consistent winds and it will make it closer to down south ones past. You will be course things smoothed out as we got farther shore here sooner than later. over the rocks missed my friend. from shore, and we all grinned at each other as and grassy the phones were all switched to airplane mode. Hope y’all enjoyed the recap. Drop me a line shorelines with popping corks has been good for at [email protected] and I’ll see you On The ride out was a nice cruise. A lone 13’ the Rocks next week. a mix of fish, trout, reds, and drum. Some good Boston whaler did slow, lazy doughnuts at the times have been had walking the shallows along anchorage. We saw a bunch of the true edges of Baffin as of late. Great water small flying fish about 10 miles conditions and plenty of trout and reds on both out of port, which was pretty topwaters and soft plastics. Protected shorelines interesting. After a few short out of the wind have been best with better water hours, we were in the vicinity This nice redfish came from the big flats clarity. Both the north and south shores are just south of the JFK. of west flower garden banks, full of fish. Big trout show up in the shallows and we put out a modest three in knee deep water when boat traffic is down. rod spread. The second pass part of the bay. It was hot and sunny and the Larger numbers are out a little deeper. The on the rig resulted in a triple spray crusted salt all over our skin. The big live croaker flags have been showing up, they knockdown! Three wahoo came silver spoons would hit the surface and you are a bit small at first but can be very effective to the boat, and two were landed could feel the fish snaking them as they fell when the winds are light. Those small baits do (no names will be mentioned on below the frantic small fish. With a few quick not make the noise or vibration that trout can the missed third gaff, you know strokes a solid thump stopped my rod. The line hear well when it’s windy. Also keep in mind who you are, LOL). Another streaked off to the south against the wind and that when it is windy they get banged up out couple of passes, and we had a my drag screamed out EXCUSE ME WHILE I there on the shrimp boat and in the nets. They double knock down and picked KISS THE SKY!!! The head of a giant redfish usually are weak after being caught in rough up another couple of nice wahoo. boiled up in a distant wave and we cheered like conditions. I’ll keep fishing shrimp and lures Sunset offshore warriers. 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1 of 1 1 of 1 4/11/2017 2:54 PM 4/11/2017 2:54 PM April 13, 2017 Island Moon A 13 Sales Tax Holiday Mobile Property STATE on Emergency Appraisals for Island Preparation Supplies Residents Texas Recognizes Child Abuse The Nueces County Appraisal District Prevention Month April 22-24 (NCAD,) will offer an opportunity for all With the potential for severe weather property owners to discuss their property value By Todd Hunter, District 32 Programs_Available_In_Your_County/default. approaching this spring, Texas Comptroller matters without the need to travel by bringing April is Child Abuse asp. mobile offices to Flour Bluff and Port Aransas. Glenn Hegar reminds Texans they can purchase Prevention Month in the To keep the preventative child abuse programs certain items tax free during the state’s sales tax The mobile offices include everything United States. Our state also recognizes the up-to-date, the Texas DFPS’ Office of Child holiday for emergency preparation supplies, necessary for those who wish to discuss property importance of preventing child abuse. Child Safety (OCS) analyzes all serious injuries or April 22-24. values face to face with appraisers and key staff abuse includes: unlawful physical abuse/ deaths caused by child abuse in Texas. They “Unfortunately, we can’t predict when the next from the district and settle disputes between injury, neglect, sexual abuse, exploitation, assess the root causes of child injuries and fire, flood or tornado may strike,” Hegar said. property owners and the appraisal district. endangerment, and emotional maltreatment. fatalities then create, update and implement Bringing awareness and promoting preventative “But we can be prepared, and this tax holiday On Saturday, May 13th from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 prevention and intervention programs to actions can help prevent these acts, creating a helps Texans save money while stocking up for p.m. the mobile offices will be set up at the address and reduce these crimes. The OCS safer and more secure society for our youth. emergency situations before they happen.” Flour Bluff High School Cafeteria located at continuously studies the in-state and national trends regarding serious injuries and fatalities, There’s no limit on the number of qualifying 2505 Waldron Rd. in Flour Bluff. Nationally, there are over 3,000,000 suspected child abuse cases reported annually. Nearly 1 in as well. items you can purchase. These include: Then on Saturday, May 20th from 8:30AM to 4 of those cases are confirmed. In Texas, there 3:30PM, the mobile offices will be at Ancel R. Other child abuse prevention education batteries, fuel containers and flashlights were around 198,000 reports of child abuse and Brundrett Middle School Gym located at 100 and training resources can be found at priced at less than $75; nearly 65,000 confirmed cases of child abuse Station St. in Port Aransas, Texas. http://www.cactx.org/, http://www.d2l. hurricane shutters and emergency ladders each year. Abuse affects children’s physical, org/#.VmHHi3arSUm, http://taasa.org/ priced at less than $300; and Nueces County property owners with limited mental, and emotional health. Many victims resources/downloadorder-materials/, http:// mobility will now be able to handle their suffer from improper brain development which portable generators priced at less than preventchildabuse.org, and http://www. property value matters at one of these mobile can result in a decline in academic performance helpandhope.org/. $3,000. offices during the month of May. and/or behavioral issues throughout their lives. Purchases that do not qualify include: If you have questions regarding any of the Texas agencies, like the Department of information mentioned in this week’s article, batteries for automobiles, boats and other TDI seeks applicants Family and Protective Services (DFPS), have please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or motorized vehicles; established partnerships with our communities District Office. Please always feel free to and implemented programs to address camping stoves and camping supplies; contact my office if you have any questions for Texas Windstorm child abuse. Many of these are community- or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if chainsaws; based early intervention and prevention you would like to contact my office regarding programs that establish after-school activities, plywood; Insurance constituent services. As always, my offices are parenting classes, mentoring programs, and available at any time to assist with questions, extension ladders and stepladders; and more. Examples of these programs include concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- Association Board of the Community Youth Development, Texas tents 463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603). Prevention Network, and Texas Families: A list of emergency preparation supplies that Directors Together and Safe. A list of these and several - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 may be purchased tax free can be found on The Texas Department of Insurance is looking more programs, the contacts and availability Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). the Comptroller’s website. for people to serve on the board of directors for in our area can be found at https://www.dfps. He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. The Comptroller’s office estimates shoppers the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association state.tx.us/Prevention_and_Early_Intervention/ texas.gov or at 512-463-0672 will save $1.5 million in state and local sales (TWIA), which provides windstorm and taxes during the tax holiday, approved by hail insurance along the coast when it’s not lawmakers during the 2015 Texas Legislature. reasonably available through the private market. Applications are being sought to fill two public member positions and will be accepted through April 30. All members of the TWIA board must Attention have experience in insurance, general business, or actuarial principles as well as their individual Boat Owners! area of expertise. Do you own a boat with a cabin For more information, including an application, visit www.tdi.texas.gov/committee/gr/index. and would you like to make some html. money with it? We have slips and Follow us on Facebook: are looking for boats to use for The Island Moon Newspaper charters. If you have a boat and Send photos and letters to: are interested in an entrepreneurial [email protected] opportunity ISLANDMOON.COM call 361 332-9978. Coming soon! St. Andrews Fish Fry packs them in! April 13, 2017 Island Moon A 14 Texas Drilling Permits and Completions Statistics for March 2017 CLUB NEWS The Railroad Commission of Texas 2016. Total well completions for 2017 year The Island Moon provides this space for money for scholarships for local graduating (Commission) issued a total of 1,310 original to date are 1,925; down from 3,452 recorded Island organizations. If you are a member of a seniors as well as other worthy causes in our drilling permits in March 2017 compared to during the same period in 2016. club and want to get the word out about your community. We would love for you to join 511 in March 2016. The March total included According to Baker Hughes Inc., the Texas rig events and/or projects send them along and we us and see how PIE can be part of your life. 1,144 permits to drill new oil or gas wells, count as of April 7 was 418, representing about will get them in. For more info please contact Rebecca Robbins 11 to re-enter plugged well bores and 155 for 50 percent of all active rigs in the United States. 303-434-0947. re-completions of existing well bores. The Be sure to include a brief description of what breakdown of well types for those permits of March 10 was 392, representing about 51 your organization does and a contact person Island United Political Action Committee: issued March 2017 included 284 oil, 56 gas, percent of all active rigs in the United States. for those interested in joining. Maximize representation of Corpus Christi residents on Padre and Mustang Islands in area 893 oil or gas, 51 injection, one service and 25 For additional drilling permit and completion Send the info to [email protected] and government by promoting and supporting, by other permits. statistics, visit the Commission’s website we will include it. Or call us at 949-7700. the endorsement process, proactive and unified In March 2017, Commission staff processed at http://www.rrc.texas.gov/oil-gas/research- Padre Island Antique Classic Car voting in non-partisan races and other issues 586 oil, 77 gas, 49 injection and zero other and-statistics/well-information/monthly- Club (PIACCC) is open to all vehicles and referendums put to public vote. Meetings completions compared to 947 oil, 194 gas, 33 drilling-completion-and-plugging-summaries/. 25 years and older: Antique, Classic, are open to the public. IUPAC meets meeting injection and eight other completions in March Texas Drilling Permits and Completions Statistics for Roadsters, Hot Rods, etc; who would like the 2nd Thursday of the month from 6:00 PM TABLE 1 - MARCH 2017 TEXASMarch OIL AND 2017 GAS DRILLING PERMITS AND to meet to plan meetings, socials, rallies, - 7:00 PM at the Veranda at Schlitterbahn - tours, car shows on and around the Island. Brent Rourk, Phone 361-244-7603 e-mail: COMPLETIONS BY RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS DISTRICT* Please contact [email protected] for [email protected]. information on the upcoming meeting. Please DISTRICT PERMITS TO DRILL OIL GAS include your contact information and the type POA - Padre Isles Owners Association. OIL/GAS HOLES COMPLETIONS COMPLETIONS of car owned. The Association’s primary responsibility is to maintain the Common Areas, assess and collect (1) SAN 146 77 11 the annual fees and provide information and ANTONIO AREA Upcoming Activities: assistance to property owners. .. Membership (2) REFUGIO 140 78 5 Youth Development Foundation of in PIPOA is automatic for anyone acquiring AREA Port Aransas. YDF meets at noon each record legal title to any property within Padre (3) SOUTHEAST 45 13 6 Thursday at Stingray’s, 401 Beach Ave., Port Isles. Their office is located at 14015 Fortuna Bay Drive on The Island. (361) 949-7025, TEXAS Aransas. For more information please email [email protected]. [email protected]. (4) DEEP SOUTH 24 4 10 ARK – Animal Rehabilitation Keep. TEXAS Padre Island Ukulele Club – We meet every other Tuesday night! Call or text Danny Located in Port Aransas the ARK is affiliate (5) EAST 11 6 2 Salazar at (316) 877--‐7071 for the next with the University of Texas at Austin Marine CENTRAL TX meeting date. Beginners Workshop: 6 to 7 PM Science Center. They handle the rehabilitation (6) EAST TEXAS 48 7 6 and Open Jam: 7 to 8 PM. All Skills levels of most species of wildlife in the area with an welcome. Location: Island Joe’s Coffee and emphasis on marine animals. They care for (7B) WEST 48 15 1 about 1300 animals each year. If you find an CENTRAL TX Gallery, 13919 SPID, right here on the island. A $3 per person donation covers the workshop, animal in peril they can help Tony Amos is the (7C) SAN 120 32 0 materials and the open jam. Loaner ukuleles Director. 750 Channel View Dr. Port Aransas. ANGELO AREA available at no extra cost. RSVP online. 361 749-6793, 361 442-7638. afamos@mail. (8) MIDLAND 585 264 19 [email protected] utexas.edu. (8A) LUBBOCK 67 52 1 Padre Island Yacht Club (PIYC) – is Island’s PIPPs Chapter of Corpus Christi AREA welcoming new members. We have boat slips Red Hat Society. In 2004 a group of Island ladies got together under a Palapa and founded (9) NORTH 53 25 3 available now for members. Contact Ignacio De Lenda at [email protected] for slip rental the Padre Island Palapa Pals (PIPPs). Our only TEXAS information. Padre Island Yacht Club members rule is that there are no rules! We are all about (10) PANHANDLE 23 13 13 enjoy small and large boat Cruises, small fun and friendship. We meet once a month for TOTAL 1,310 533 77 boat Poker Runs, Cruises to area restaurants, lunch and various fun outings from cupcake Progressive Dinners, 4th of July Fireworks making to CPR. up close, extended boat cruises to Palacios, ISLAND ROVERS: Walks every Saturday Pharmacy Bob’s Cajun Crawfish Boil TX, South Padre Island, Ingleside, Rockport, 3 miles or less along the beach, depending on Fulton, and other areas. Please come, join us! peoples fitness and desires. When: Saturday, Contact James Thompson, Rear Commodore at 9am at the Padre Balli Park Office South in charge of Memberships at, jmtislandtime@ of Encantada, in the parking lot between gmail.com to attend. the office and the RV park. No competition, KIWANIS Club of Padre Island. Kiwanis just conversation and healthy fitness. For meets at Veranda Restaurantat Schlitterbahn at information see the Facebook group “Island Noon on the first and third Wednesday of the Rovers” month. Padre Island Book Wine & Spirits. This Padre Island Rotary Club. Padre Island Rotary is the Island book club. We meet the first Club. Of the things we think, say, or do…..Is it Wednesday of each month at Island Time Sushi the TRUTH?....Is It FAIR to all concerned?... Bar and Grill at 7:00 pm. Wonderful group of Will it Build GOODWILL and better ladies that like to read, love socializing with FRIENDSHIPS?....Will it be BENEFICIAL the girls and drinking wine! Come out and join to all Concerned? If you can meet this 4-way us we would love to have you! Contact Linda test the Padre Island Rotary is looking for you! Walsh, [email protected] or 361-445- We meet the second and fourth 7999, or just show up! Thursday of each month at the Veranda Island Emmaus reunion is open to anyone Restaurant Schlitterbahn at 5:30 pm. that has been on a Chryslis or Emmaus walk. Contact is Linda Walsh, Secretary, lawalshva@ Please join us on the 4th Tuesday of the month yahoo.com or 361-445-7999. at 6pm at Island in the Son united Methodist Island Strategic Action Committee. Is a church located on hwy 361. For more 14-member committee which meets at 5:30 information call Eileen Moeller @ 830-708- p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at 8367 or [email protected] the Comfort Suites on Windward Drive. The Parrot Heads of Port Aransas - is a local committee’s purpose is to advise the Corpus chapter of the Parrot Heads in Paradise Inc., Christi City Council on matters pertaining a not-for-profit corporation whose purpose Mudbugs... it’s what’s for dinner tonight to The Island. All meetings are open to the is to assist in community and environmental public and the public is invited to address the concerns and provide a variety of social committee during the public comment period. activities for people who are interested in Padre Island Business Association. The the music of Jimmy Buffett and the tropical association is a not-for-profit organization lifestyle he personifies. Founded in 2009, the whose primary purpose is to advertise and club motto is “Partying with a Purpose’’. To join promote Padre/Mustang Islands, Flour Bluff or ask questions go to portaransasparrotheads. and Corpus Christi while advancing the com or email or call Deno “Moon Dog” interests of the business community. It is Fabrie, President at 361 749 0256 or dfabrie@ managed by a 9-member board of directors. yahoo.com. A membership luncheon is held on the 2nd The Schliterbahn Women’s Golf Thursday of each month at The Veranda starting association meets every Saturday at 9 AM at noon. Mixers are held on the 3rd Tuesday of for a friendly round of golf. All skill levels are the month. The association annually has two welcome. Call Fran more information: 361- fundraising events – Taste of the Island in the 877-2551 fall and a Wine Tasting in the spring. The New Neighbors League of Corpus P.I.E. Padre Island Enrichment Club is Christi will host its monthly luncheon on a ladies only social club open to all owners/ April 13, 2017 at The Emerald Beach Hotel, residents of North Padre. We hope to enrich Kokomo Room, 1102 S. Shoreline Blvd., our members through social activities and social begins at 10:45, with the luncheon to community involvement and we have A LOT begin at 11:15. The New Neighbors League is of FUN in the process. We have monthly a women’s social organization open to women luncheons (2nd Friday) along with groups of of the coastal bend. Guests and prospective bunco, bridge, spades, craft club and book members are invited to attend. Contact us at clubs. We also have social events throughout [email protected] our website is the year including a monthly “Happy Hour” www.newneighborscc.com where the guys join in. We enjoy raising The usual Port A suspects hanging out. 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Boat Works Manager Suzanne McCann leads a moving meditation in Our March 15-17 Spring Break Family Boat Watch the sun set over the Corpus Christi Farley Boat Works built four boats and one boat the outdoor pavilion at the Nature Preserve at Build sold out. Families came into the Boat Ship Channel as music fills the air at the Patsy Charlie’s Pasture at the end of Port Street. baby cradle/coffee table in February. The cradle Works to build four simple pirogues in three Jones Amphitheater in Roberts Point Park. and a kayak were for our March 4 Fundraising days. Our February 18th Port Aransas Skiff Bring a chair or blanket and any refreshments A great way to start your day! Class will move Auction. scale model building class was popular. This you want. The Hot Dog Lady will sell at the to Girl Scout hut if weather is too bad. $3/ Patrick Doran is on his third month of his Port was a new class for us. We learned some lessons park for those not wanting to bring food to eat. person! Aransas skiff build, Ken Curlee started his from this first class and will make some changes May 12: Cody Wayne Band custom flats skiff, and Mike Tompkins started a when we do it again next Bayou Teche pirogue. Yoga on the Beach Get your yoga on at a Pickleball This paddle sport that combines year. free session on Saturday, May 13, starting at elements of badminton, tennis and table tennis Mike’s pirogue is of historical significance. Skiff Building Class May 2-13 8am, next to Horace Caldwell Pier at end of can be played at the Community Park Inline This is a replica of the Bayou Teche pirogue in Beach Street. Certified yoga instructor Nancy Skate Rink at 700 Clark Pkwy, off Ross Avenue. our collection. We took the lines (measurements) We are offering a two-week Port Aransas Myers will teach class. Bring a mat or towel The rink is marked off for the correct size, from it and drafted plans that allowed Mike to Quick Skiff building class May 2-13. Parts are suitable for use on beach. precut and prebuilt to allow for the abbreviated allowing three teams to play at a time. If you build period. The boat build is $3995 and This event is held the second Saturday of have equipment and know how to play, the is all inclusive except paint. There is still each month courtesy of Port Aransas Parks rink may be used any time it is not in use at space available. Registration is available at and Recreation. Be early as leader will take no charge. Know how to play but without portaransasmuseum.org. Space is available as class to an inside location if weather is bad. equipment, check out equipment at Community Pool (when open) by showing a Driver’s early as April for individually scheduled boat Sunset Yoga: Sunset Yoga will return for builds. Interested folks can come by the Boat License. For information, contact Pam at 361- April, with classes scheduled for Mondays, 749-4158 or [email protected]. Works to make plans.Our next Second Saturday April 10 and 24. Certified yoga instructor will be on April 8. Lianne Thomas returns to lead sessions that Active while Winter Texans were abundant, We had 400 visitors tour the Farley Boat Works will be held at the Patsy Jones Amphitheater some players still playing after masses went in February. This may be record number of in Roberts Point Park. Classes start at 7pm. back home. visitors for the Farley Boat Works in one month. Bring a mat and water, though some mats will be available. Interval Training Exercise classes are held at May 13-14 The easy Hatha yoga is open to men and Port Aransas High School, 100 S. Station St, women wanting to stretch mind and body. upstairs in second floor foyer. Spaces Still Cost is $2. High Intensity Interval Training offered at April 29th Community Pool 6:30am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Beginner Available for ArtFest The Port Aransas Community Pool offers CCA Annual There are still spaces available for the 12th options for fitness and fun with its Spring Moderate Level class meets at 5:15pm. Both Annual ArtFest which will be held May 13- Schedule. consists of Intensity Training in short spurts, for 14th. ArtFest features original fine art and all ages/levels. Work at your own pace. Cash Banquet in Port Located at 700 Clark Pkwy, it is open daily or check may be paid to COPA. Cost is $3 a fine crafts for sale in all mediums. The $150 each week except Mondays. registration fee includes one 10 x 10 booth class or $30 for 15 classes by certified instructor Aransas space (no electricity provided) and artists Open Swim: Tuesday through Sunday Karen Decker (361-800-1759)courtesy of Port keep all proceeds from sales. Following the 1-5pm. Lap Swim/Exercise: Tuesday through Aransas Parks and Recreation. The Redfish Bay Chapter of CCA will hold afternoon Booth set up on Friday May 12th Friday 8am-5 pm, Saturday & Sunday noon- its Annual Banquet on April 29, starting at 6:00 Open to men and women. Bring mat and water. the Art Center will provide food and drinks in 5pm. Water Aerobics: Tuesday-Friday at noon p.m. at the Port Aransas Civic Center. their Hospitality tent for all vendors after set- & Deep Water Aerobics: Tuesday-Friday Tickets include 2017 CCA membership and up. During ArtFest visitors can stroll and shop 11am. Total Body Aquacize: Tuesday-Friday Port A RPG Game Night Keeping kids a full course meal with beer, wine, soft drinks while listening to music and enjoying great food at 9:30am and Saturday at noon with AAAI occupied as they use their brains to figure and tea. STAR entries will be sold separately! at this fun event! ArtFest is sponsored by the Water Aerobics instructor Sally Jo Bartlett. scenarios is a great way to spend Friday and Ticket costs: $75 for an individual, $110 for Port Aransas Art Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit Birding on the Boardwalk Guided birding Saturday nights. married couples and $45 for youth under 17. corporation, and the Port Aransas Chamber tour for anyone, novice to expert held every For 16 and older, high school and college It is a family event, and attendance by spouses, of Commerce. Artist/Vendor must be present Wednesday, 9 am, with local guide Nan gamers may play Pathfinder, Star Wars RPG young adults, and older children is encouraged. at event. Applications may be found at www. Dietert at Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center and Mutants and Masterminds in a controlled portaransasartcenter.org. There will be a live auction, silent auction at end of Ross Avenue. environment at no charge. and various raffles for coastal art, fishing and Free courtesy of Port Aransas Parks and Held every Friday and Saturday 4:30pm, in hunting packages along with many other great Recreation. items. No OTB Concert the Girl Scout hut inside Parks and Recreation Spring Forest Qigong It is offered on building, 739 W. Ave. A, courtesy of Port If anyone is interested in purchasing tickets or Saturdays at 9am courtesy of Port Aransas Aransas Parks and Recreation. sponsoring a Corporate table for eight ($600) Series or in sponsoring items that will be auctioned If you can’t bring The Island to the music then or raffled at the banquet, please call Norman bring the music to The Island. Oates @ (361) 758-0266 or via email noates@ The Island Presbyterian Church, 14030 Fortuna cableone.net or John Blaha (CCA Texas Asst. Bay, is sponsoring the No OTB Concert Series Director) @ (1-800) 626-4222 . which will include three concerts at the church. The first is on April 20 when the King High Rule Changes for School under the direction of David Hiser will perform and evening of Broadway show tunes Shark Fishing and American standards. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission on Then on May 18 Flour Bluff High school March 23 approved changes to state rules for students, chosen by Fernando Fernandez will shark fishing. As part of the 2017-18 Statewide perform a variety of music and dance. Recreational and Commercial Fishing Then on June 15 artists Natalie Lansford Proclamation, the Commission approved Rumfoeld and Michael Kris Perez will perform changes to modify hammerhead shark and music from Beethoven and Chopin to sacred grouper regulations to match federal size and favorites. possession limits. This will reduce confusion for anglers fishing in state and federal waters Each of the concerts begin at 7 p.m. and tickets and enhance compliance, administration and are $50 per show, $100 for the entire series, and enforcement. $25 for children under 12. The changes include increasing the minimum size limit to 99 inches total length (TL) for scalloped, smooth and great hammerhead Free Trees for sharks; increasing the minimum size limit to 24 inches TL for gag grouper; and establishing a National Arbor Day 24-inch minimum TL size limit and a four fish National Arbor Day is Friday, April 28, this per day bag limit for black grouper. For Nassau year, and the Arbor Day Foundation is making grouper, a federally-listed threatened species, it easy for anyone to celebrate the annual tree- no harvest will be allowed. planting holiday. Join the Foundation in April All changes take effect Sept. 1, 2017. and receive 10 free shade trees. By joining the Foundation in April, new The annual Babes on Boats Tournament was held on Tuesday. Photo by Woodie Lawson members receive the following trees: red oak, Free Legal Clinic for sugar maple, weeping willow, baldcypress, thornless honeylocust, pin oak, river birch, Veterans tuliptree, silver maple, and red maple. The Nueces County Veterans Services The free trees are part of the Foundation’s Department and The Corpus Christi Bar Trees for America campaign. Association will hold a free legal advice clinic for area veterans on May 6 from 10 a.m. – 1 “These trees provide shade in the summer p.m. at the Del Mar Center for Economic and vibrant colors throughout the fall,” said Development, 3209 S. Staples. 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Send letters and photos to editor@ Send letters and photos to [email protected] islandmoon.com Facebook:The Island Moon Newspaper April 13, 2017 Island Moon A 16 Saturday, April 15th Will an Expanded Panama Canal Increase 20th Annual Island Easter Egg Hunt Texas Trade? On Saturday, April 15th the Kiwanis Club of 12 year olds. For each age group a few “prize Padre Island and Keller Williams Realty will eggs” will be hidden. These eggs contain a card More Shipping May Favor Texas Ports For more than a century, the 48-mile-long accept fully loaded Neo-Panamax ships. In a present the Island’s annual Easter Egg Hunt at that entitles the holder to a special prize. Bring Panama Canal has connected the Pacific and November 2016 report (PDF), the Texas Senate Billish Park. The event will take place from 11 the gold eggs and cards to the prizze tent to find Atlantic oceans, greatly increasing Texas’ Select Committee on Ports noted: “To take a.m. - 2 p.m. and will feature an Easter Bunny out what the special prize is! access to world markets. In 2015, more than a advantage of the Panama Canal expansion, ride, a merry-go-round, pictures with the Easter Children under the age of three, handicapped quarter of all ships passing through the canal Texas waterways must be dug deeper.” Bunny, train rides, an obstacle course, a bouncy children and children who are unable to originated from or called at the Port of Houston, house, a petting zoo and face painting. Cotton The Port of Houston Authority plans to spend participate in the actual hunt are invited to visit generating an annual trade impact of $137 candy, snowcones, hot dogs, potoato chips, iced $1.6 billion on improvements in the next five the large white tent for a free basket filled with billion. years. One portion of this project will deepen tea and bottled water will be served. The event Easter goodies! is free and open to the public. But while the need for the canal hasn’t the Houston Ship Channel from 40 to 45 feet, Billish Park is located on the Island at the changed, the ships have. Today’s enormous allowing access by some Neo-Panamax ships. The Hunt Begins at Noon corner of Gypsy and Fortuna Bay. For more cargo ships and “supertankers” dwarf the ones Given its depth and short distance to open information or directions, please call Kim that traversed the canal when it first opened in This year the Easter egg hunt will begin at noon. water, Port Freeport is considered best poised Erwin at (361) 688-9509. 1914. Children will line up with their age groups: 3&4 among Texas ports to accommodate bigger ships year olds, 5&6 year olds, 7-9 year olds, and 10- The completion of a decade-long, $5.3 billion traversing the enlarged Panama Canal. To allow Panama Canal expansion project in 2016, with these ships to use Port Freeport, the federal new locks, wider and deeper ship channels and Water Resources Reform and Development higher maximum operating water levels, has Act of 2014 authorized the port to deepen its increased the canal’s capabilities to handle larger harbor channel to 55 feet, a depth capable of ships — and could open new opportunities for accommodating Neo-Panamax ships. A $30 Texas ports. About $204 billion in international million dredging project begun in October 2014 trade passed through Texas seaports in 2015, also will widen a 4.5-mile portion of the main and any substantial increase in that trade could channel from 400 to 600 feet. add billions to the state economy. New Facilities Canal History The needs of Neo-Panamax shipping don’t While the idea of a Central American canal end with deeper, wider harbors and channels, linking the Pacific with the Atlantic had existed however. since the 16th century, it became reality only In anticipation of the canal expansion, much after a revolution in Panama and a 10-year recent investment in Texas’ seaports has focused construction project — both events facilitated by on infrastructure such as larger terminals and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Considered cranes and additional storage and logistics “a testament to American engineering” at the facilities. In 2016, an American Association of time, the canal quickly became a vital part of Port Authorities survey found that Texas ports the world economy. More than 815,000 vessels and their private-sector partners will invest $48 have carried goods and people through its locks billion on capital improvements during the next since 1914. five years. The canal and surrounding lands remained An Oklahoma firm, Magellan Midstream fully under U.S. administration until 1978, with Partners LP, has announced plans to develop a the ratification of a treaty calling for gradual $335 million marine terminal along the Houston transfer of control to Panama. On Dec. 31, 1999, Ship Channel in Pasadena that will include a the canal zone was ceded entirely to Panama. new marine dock capable of accommodating Understanding that many modern vessels Panamax-sized ships when it opens in 2019. were now too large to make use of the canal, The Port of Houston has acquired four new Panamanian authorities made plans for much- cranes, each nearly 30 stories tall and costing SandFest Hits the needed improvements. In 2007, Panama began $50 million, to load and unload such vessels the mammoth endeavor of enlarging the canal while docked in port, and ultimately plans to Police and building a larger lock system capable of add three more. Beach April 21 handling what are now called “Neo-Panamax” Two shipping lines will add weekly service The 21st Annual Texas SandFest begins Friday, ships, doubling the canal’s capacity. The between Asia and Houston through the April 21, 2017 and continues through Sunday, project, plagued with delays and cost overruns, expanded canal. April 23 in Port Aransas. Blotter took almost exactly as long as the canal’s The three-day festival is the largest master sand original construction. Port Freeport has hundreds of acres of open land available for additional development and sculpting competition in the United States and Island Police Calls The June 2016 completion of the expansion recently completed its Velasco Terminal Berth is an invitational event that attracts master sand project is expected to have direct impacts on 10800 block Gulf Beach Road 5 p.m. 7, which includes two ship-to-shore container sculptors from around the world. Each year, the economy of the U.S. as a whole — and April 8 Vehicle impound cranes with Post-Panamax capabilities. The port more than 100,000 people attend this family- particularly on Gulf Coast and East Coast ports. friendly event on the beach in Port Aransas. 11200 block Gulf Beach Road 4 p.m. intends to add two more berths at this terminal. A recent report by the Boston Consulting April 8 Child locked in a vehicle To fully exploit Freeport’s location and Sand sculpting contests and lessons are the Group estimates the greater efficiencies of 11800 block SPID (JFK Causeway) 8 p.m. capabilities, the public-private Highway highlight of the festival. Over 100 merchandise Neo-Panamax ships could lower shipping costs April 8 Hit and Run 36A Coalition is supporting a Highway 36A and food vendors are available, in addition to from East Asia to the East Coast by as much “transportation corridor,” with expanded live music and beer and wine garden tents. 14200 block SPID 2 p.m. April 8 Hit and as 30 percent, and this in turn could shift up rail and roadway infrastructure from Port Admission is $10.00 for adults, and children Run to 10 percent of Asian container traffic away Freeport north to Rosenberg and beyond. These under 12 are free. The event is held on the from congested West Coast ports to the Atlantic 14500 block SPID Midnight April 9 improvements would increase the efficiency beach, between mile markers 9 and 13. Festival seaboard. (West Coast ports currently receive Criminal mischief $750-$2500 and capacity of the transportation and logistical entrances are located at Sandcastle Drive and about two-thirds of all cargo from Asia.) Access Road 1A in Port 15000 block Leeward Noon April 9 support network needed to move cargo from Burglary of a motor vehicle Texas ports could benefit as well — if they’re Neo-Panamax ships onto trains and trucks, and The event is organized completely by ready. allow connections with distribution networks volunteers and sponsored by the Port Aransas 15200 block SPID 10 a.m. April 10 Theft throughout Texas, most notably in the Dallas/ & Mustang Island Chamber of Commerce and by bad check $20-$500 Big Ships – And Bigger Fort Worth Metroplex. Tourism Bureau. It is a nonprofit organization, Shipping economics, including the rise of supporting local organizations in Port Aransas 15100 block SPID 5 p.m. April 6 Failure containerized cargo, have driven a trend toward Uncharted Waters and the Coastal Bend. In 2016, Texas SandFest to control speed/No insurance/Duty to give ever-larger vessels for decades. A special The amount of additional economic activity gave over $130,000 to community organizations. information and render aid nomenclature describes these gargantuan ships, the Panama Canal expansion will bring to 13900 block Longboat 7 p.m. April 7 some of them literally a quarter-mile long. Texas is uncertain. There are no guarantees of Assault Prior to the Panama Canal expansion, the major impacts, particularly without significant 15300 block SPID 6 p.m. April 7 Violation largest vessels able to traverse the canal were upgrades to our ports and their accompanying of court order called “Panamax” ships; those too large to pass distribution infrastructure. In a September 2016 press account, Louisiana port and economic 15400 block SPID 7 p.m. April 7 Assault through were called Post-Panamax ships. development officials anticipated a 5 to 15 with injury The 2016 expansion allows many more ships percent increase in cargo shipments. 14700 block Whitecap Midnight April 11 to use the canal. Vessels too big to traverse the Yet some Texas ports are already experiencing Theft from vehicle old canal, but able to use the expanded version, now are called “Neo-Panamax” ships. Those benefits from the expansion, and these should 15800 block SPID 3 p.m. April 9 Theft too large to use the expanded canal are still continue. In May 2016, for example, the Port $100-$500 called Post-Panamax. of Houston Authority announced two shipping 14200 block Allamanda 9 p.m. April 5 lines would add weekly service between Asia Size-wise, here’s how they compare: Credit card abuse and Houston through the expanded canal. (Maximum Sizes) 16200 block Gulf Beach 8 a.m. April 10 Interestingly, the Panama Canal expansion Assault is likely to affect exports of certain petroleum products, but not of oil itself. While the U.S. finally ended its 40-year ban on crude oil exports in 2015, much of the world’s crude Panamax moves on ships still too large for the canal. THANK YOU to our Island Community, The canal will, however, accommodate many of the vessels that typically move petrochemicals Seashore Families, and Sponsors as well as liquefied natural gas (LNG). Texas produces about 28 percent of the nation’s natural gas, giving it a prime opportunity to take for supporting academic excellence at Neo Panamax advantage of increased trade in LNG. Seashore Charter Schools & Island Foundation. The expanded canal will cut travel times from the Gulf Coast to Asia by about 40 percent, from 34 to 20 days. Whoop It Up 2017 was a huge success!! Prior to the canal’s expansion, only 6 percent Post Panamax of all LNG tankers could traverse the canal. Since the expansion, 90 percent can use it. Special Thanks to our Event Sponsors! Also, according to the U.S. Energy Information The Panama Canal – A History in Administration, the expanded canal will cut Numbers travel times from the Gulf Coast to Asia by about 40 percent, from 34 to 20 days. Some America’s work on the Panama Canal followed reports indicate LNG exports to Asia will a failed attempt by the French government account for 20 percent of all cargo passing Every Dollar Counts. begun in 1880. Estimates of worker deaths through the canal by 2020. during this earlier project range from 22,000 to more than 30,000, primarily due to yellow fever In anticipation of this new traffic, two LNG Trust and malaria. terminals will be operational at the ports of Corpus Christi and Freeport by 2018, with four Padre Island and Port Aransas’ Oldest Island Based Pest Control Company. In 1904, the U.S. bought the rights to the other Texas locations awaiting final approval canal project from France for $40 million. New to break ground. It could be the start of a construction began on May 4, 1904. significant new export industry for our state. During the course of the project, more than 56,300 people worked on the canal, including about 11,000 Americans. Charter Boat Owners and Operators Wanted On Padre Island Since 1994. 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Snoopy’s (361) 949-8815 13313 S. Padre Island Drive Scoopy’s (361) 949-7810 Corpus Christi, TX 78418 April 13, 2017 Island Moon A 18 Three Chords and the Truth Friday, Gary Stewart’s old road band, the great Toman Brothers (San Antonio, TX) By Ronnie Narmour will play Giggity’s and Austin heartthrob, Bob [email protected] Schneider, will play Third Coast. Bob is one cocky SOB with the chops to go with it. On Mixed bag… Saturday, look for the great blues of Duke E. I have several disjointed thoughts rattling Brown at Giggity’s. And once again, on Easter around in my little pea brain right now. First of Sunday, get yourself out of bed and catch the all, Pirate Scotty, made it to Spokane… a day Sandy Bottom String Band at the Sunrise late, but he made it. I saw Scotty at the Gaff the Service at Roberts Point Park. day before he was to depart and he was a sad pirate. I sat with him for a spell and he wanted SandFest 2017… me to tell you, that he will miss his home and The 21st Annual Texas SandFest is the largest friends in Port A. We’ll miss you too, Pirate. master sand sculpting competition in the United We sure will. Another thing on my mind right States. The three-day festival begins in Port A now is the Clyde Leonard murder trial. Clyde on Friday, April 21, 2017 and continues through was stabbed to death in the Flat’s Lounge in Sunday, April 23. SandFest is an invitational February of 2016. Two men were arrested the And that sir, is what a real Cajun boil event and attracts same night and charged with murder. One of the looks like master sand men was acquitted and the other had his charges This is a day when all of the churches share their sculptors from reduced to manslaughter and was sentenced to a denominations and come together on Easter around the world. ten year probation with no jail time. The mood morning. They The phenomena known as Ruben V set the Each year, more around Clyde’s old stompin’ grounds (The Flats trade off Back Porch on fire last Friday than 100,000 and Shorty’s) was very dark this week… dark who will be trio configuration and that’s a place that Mr. V people attend and angry. There were a lot of heads shaking preaching each knows well. I could listen to that guy all day, this family- around my neck of the woods lately. It was year, and this every day. friendly event not the verdict and sentence that the locals year Brother in Port Aransas. expected. On a brighter note, the Island Moon’s Bill Campbell Sand sculpting great northern bureau chief, Frostbite Betty and the DO NOT MISS LIST contests and Baptists have lessons are the The biggest bleep on my weekend radar is it. And, this highlight of the the invasion of the guys from Oklahoma. Get will be the fifth festival. Over The Sandy Bottom String ready for some scalding, real deal bluegrass year that my 100 merchandise from Joe Mack (Tahlequah, OK), the Queen Band will perform the little hillbilly Mark McKinney will play and food vendors of Oklahoma Carter Sampson (Oklahoma Easter Sunrise Service at gospel band, are available, in City, OK) SandFest this year. Roberts Point Park on the the Sandy addition to live and Erik 16th. Bottom String music and beer the Viking Band, will be and wine garden tents. Admission is $10.00 for who, with providing the adults, and children under 12 are free. The event his men, music. We do is held on the beach, between mile markers 9 travel across old timey gospel faves like, I Saw the Light, I’ll and 13. This year the live music line-up will the sea to Fly Away, Turn Your Radio On, River of Jordan include Selfie, Charley Crockett, Port of find Valhalla and Amazing Grace (etc.) I encourage everyone No Return, John Cortez, Mark McKinney, to ask the to come. It sets a beautiful upbeat course for Eric Tessmer, Billy Snipes, Flatbroke, Abbi gods to end Easter Sunday. Walker and Somethin’ Silky. The Okie Invasion...Joe Mack, the Age of Betsy Bowen aka Frostbite Betty sat in Scattered shots… Carter Sampson and Erik Ragnarok with Mike Williams at Giggity’s at Sunday the Viking. Photo by Wendy Ok let’s see… mixed bag and scattered shots. (that’s all I ♫ ♪ ♫ And, that’s the truth ♪ ♫ ♪ brunch Are we seeing a pattern here? The Shorty’s Thomas Pomeroy could find on him). has been in town for a way too short visit with 71st Birthday Bash set the tone this weekend in They will play Shorty’s on Friday. Also on her surfer boy turn mountain man, Bert (Ron Port A. Grumpster Steve Coons did his usual Piercy), in tow. I caught up with Frostbite Betty bang-up job on the BBQ pit and the stage out (Betsy Bowen) last Sunday morning when she front was rocking from the git-go. Billy Snipes accompanied Mike Williams on bass at his and the Rasta Cowboys (Cody Strong and weekly Giggity’s brunch show. Betty and Bert Art Galvan) got the ball rolling early in the are two of the finest people and pure artists that afternoon then passed it off to rockabilly Live Music I’ve ever known. And, as I reluctantly bid them adieu, two of our dear friends who work in St. Croix each winter, Sammy Joe and Tom Tom, showed back up with a tow sack full of stories Tonight to share. I sure am glad to see these guys again. Thursday, April 13 Hyde After 9 @ South Texas Sammy will be working at the Back Porch and Free Beer Band @ Giggity’s Ice House Tom is over at the Phoenix. Stop by and say hi, if Somethin’ Silky @ Rockit’s Adam & Chris Carroll, Ty Saturday, April 22 Dietz @ House of Rock 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront Port A For Peace (5:00 PM) Casey Donahew, Parker @ Horace Caldwell Pier McCullum @ Brewster Street SandFest 2017 @ Port Aransas Friday, April 14 LAID BACK TEXAS APR. 14 Chanklas @ Shorty’s Okie Invasion w/ Joe Mack, OUT OF BOUNDS APR. 15 Matt Hole @ Giggity’s Carter Sampson, Erik the LARRY JOE TAYLOR APR. 21 Passing Strangers @ Viking @ Shorty’s BART CROW APR. 22 Treasure Island Bart Crow @ Back Porch Laid Back Texas @ Back CHRIS SAUCEDO APR. 28 Porch Bama Breeze @ 361 Bar Toman Brothers @ Giggity’s CRUISE CONTROL APR. 29 Hip Hop Hooray @ J.M. gets down... like all the way down... Richard Tondre, Edison (6-8) Brewster Street with Matt Hole at Shorty’s big b-day bash @ 361 Bar 1i @ House of Rock Tom Tom and Sammy Joe are back last weekend. Local H, Highest Control @ House of Rock Sunday, April 23 you get a chance. And on Sunday, my pal Renee Bob Schneider @ Third Coast Antone & the All Stars @ the Crab Dancer invited me over to Pharmacy monsters, Matt Hole and the Hot Rod Gang Theater Giggity’s Bob’s place for a real live Cajun boil with a and country crooner James Little brought it Clay Walker @ Brewster SandFest 2017 @ Port bunch of our friends. And oh my good Lord, was all home that night. It was a jumping show that Street Aransas it ever a feast. Mudbugs are just another great Miss Rose would have been proud of. I caught Oddfellas @ Rockit’s Chelsea Grin, Ice Nine Kills perk of springtime. And finally, I want to remind quite a few other show this weekend but one + 3 @ House of Rock that really stands out was the Ruben V show at Saturday, April 15 Okie Invasion Apr. 14 everyone about the Easter Sunrise Service held Monday, April 24 in the pavilion at Roberts Point Park each year. the Porch. Ruben hit town with his powerhouse Out of Bounds @ Back Porch Red Giant Apr. 15 Red Giant @ Shorty’s Ty Dietz Apr. 21 Open Jam w/ Selfie @ Scarecrow People @ Treasure Giggity’s Island Chanklas Apr. 22 GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR Duke E. Brown @ Giggity’s Michael Martin Apr. 28 Tuesday, April 25 Metal Shop @ Brewster Billy Snipes & Paul Taylor Band @ LIVE MUSIC EVERY NIGHT Street the Rasta Cowboys Apr. 29 Giggity’s Free Beer Band Apr. 13 Cruise Control @ Rockit’s Bubba Flex @ 361 Bar IN PORT A Toman Brothers Apr. 14 Tropicoso @ House of Rock OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port Aransas Open Jam w/ Rev. Matt Duke E. 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