Inside the Moon Farmers Market A2 Traveling Moon A9 Fishing A11 Yard of the Month A13 Live Music A18 Issue 782 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 April 11, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Photo by Debbie Noble Around Tanked! By the numbers The Island First Satellite Store From Television When Island By Dale Rankin Houses Were There is all kinds of stuff going on Built Around The Island this weekend. Show Coming to The Island From flappers, to fighter jets, to Editor’s note: These numbers wooden boats, to a beach cleanup come from the U.S. Census Bureau and a plant sale it’s a busy time on concerning houses on Mustang and our little sandbar as event planners Padre islands inside the Corpus take advantage of the April weather. Christi City Limits. These numbers We did have a blustery front blow are compiled from data gathered through over the weekend that between 2013 and 2017 and do loosened a few shingles and sent not reflect changes after December Island dogs running for cover but as 2017. things now stand things look good on By Dale Rankin 6802 Total housing units the weather front. For seven years the show “Tanked” 144 (2.1%) Built 2014 or later Up in the sky! aired on the Animal Planet on cable television documenting the work of 260 (3.8%) Built 2010-2013 If the weather holds this weekend it Wayde King and Brett Raymer who will be a great time to anchor up in operate Acrylic Tank Manufacturing, 1969 (28.9%) Built 2000-2009 the bay and watch the Wings Over the biggest aquarium-building 1825 (26.8%) Built 1990-1999 South Texas Air Show at Naval Air manufacturer in the U.S. as they built Station Corpus Christi. Every year aquariums up to 60,000 gallons for 1746 (25.7%) Built 1980-1989 The Island gets a ringside seat for the everyone from NBA stars to rap stars 580 (8.5%) Built 1970-1979 Navy’s Blue Angels. The show runs and Las Vegas casinos. But one thing The shop will build custom complete. Wayde King and Brett 114 (1.7%) Built 1960-1969 Saturday and Sunday but usually we they never did was open a second aquariums for homes and businesses Raymer, stars of the Tanked show are start to hear the big jet engines roar store outside of their original location and also stock them with exotic expected to come to The Island for 140 (2.1%) Built 1950-1959 a few days before as they take to in Las Vegas – until now. marine life. the grand opening. They have plans the skies for rehearsals. Admission 0 Built 1940-1949 The first ATM satellite store ever will “The animals in the tank usually cost to expand and include veterinarian is free unless you want to get into a 24 (0.4%) Built 1939 or earlier open its doors in May in the Loma more than the tank,” Chtay said. “We services for aquatic life. VIP section and as always the best Alta Plaza next door to Scuttlebutt’s custom build the filtration systems so viewing is from a boat on the water. The store already has their first Seafood Bar & Grill on The Island. they match the type of animals in the customers, they are building a custom If you have a recreational vehicle tank.” you can take it but if you want to “We went to Las Vegas and I just lobster tank which will be placed at stay overnight you have to make thought ‘why not open one of these Chtay will operate the shop with the entrance to Scuttlebutts, and they Volunteers needed a reservation. If you don’t have a on The Island?’ said owner Ian Chtay. Stephanie and Marsha Walker and are building a custom 70,000 tank at boat or an RV the decks at Doc’s, “So I talked them into it and here we construction of the store is almost Whataburger Field. It’s Time to Snoopy’s, and Marker 37 are great are.” Island projects viewing areas. Adopt-A-Beach Hearing on POA Agreement Reached on Canal to Cleanup is Saturday, Board Election Water Exchange Bridge set for April 17 April 13 Traffic likely to be banned from half of This Saturday, April 13, Island volunteers will fan out on area Judge recuses Michael J. Ellis Beach by summer season beaches to clean up beaches from San Jose Island to Padre Island National former POA By Dale Rankin agreement with the city has held up Seashore as part of the Texas General The mobi mats for handicap the bridge project for more than two Land Office Spring Cleanup. attorney from case An agreement to fund the canal and accessability are in place at both years. The GLO organizes the event at By Dale Rankin bulkheads leading to the west side Packery Jetties. of the proposed Park Road 22 Water “We are signed up and ready to go,” twenty-eight locations with several The first hearing in a lawsuit Exchange Bridge is in place and will Duffley said Tuesday. “We have been in the Coastal Bend. Registration aimed at forcing a recount of the begins at 8:30 a.m. with the event Overcast be presented to the Corpus Christi asked to make presentations to the March board election of the Padre City Council on Tuesday, April 16, city council for each of the next two running from 9 a.m. through noon. Word from the Naval Air Station is Isles Property Owners Association according to a spokesman for one of Tuesdays.” Volunteers can sign up at www. that the overcast skies that we haven’t resulted in the forced recusal of the texasadoptabeach.org or show up the two private companies who own The council meets each Tuesday been able to shake through the past organization’s former attorney from onsite. the land. The lack of that agreement and under city rules items must be few months required the relocation the plaintiff’s legal team. has held up the project for more than voted on in two meetings to take Adopt cont. on A4 of many of the training planes and Former POA attorney John Bell was two years. effect. The agreement was on the flights from here to points west where called as the first witness at a hearing Charles Duffley, who works for Axys council’s Executive Session agenda clearer skies were to be found. But if in County Court #4 on Thursday, April Capital and is a member of the Island in February but has not been included Whoop It Up! the Weather Wonks are right we may 4, to determine whether Bell could Strategic Action Committee told the again while the agreement was being have put that behind us. continue as the attorney for former group at its Tuesday meeting that discussed. Annual Island POA Board Chairman Brent Moore Plant sale Axys and Diamond Beach Holding, City staff told ISAC members who is challenging the outcome of who collectively own the seventy Foundation If you need some plants for your the election which placed two new Tuesday they are working on a bid acres that covers the approach of the package for the bridge project and yard you are in luck as the Island members on the seven-member POA canal to the bridge from the west have fundraiser Saturday, Gardeners Garden Club holds their Board of Directors. Judge Mark can have it ready to go to prospective told the city they will guarantee the bidders in sixty to ninety days. A low April 13 at annual plant sale on Saturday at Woerner heard more than two hours funds to finish digging the canal and Keller William Realty. It runs from bid of $11.5 million was approved by POA cont. on A4 installing bulkheads. The lack of that 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. but if you want to Bridge cont. on A4 Schlitterbahn find a plant you probably want to get If you see any flappers or there early as they often sell out at Runyonesque characters running this event. A little Island history around The Island this weekend it’s not a production of Guys and Dolls. Burglary update They are headed to the Whoop It Up Reports of burglaries Around The Mexican Standoff on the Rio Grande and the Roaring 20’s Gala at Schlitterbahn. Island have subsided as the sheriff’s Beginning of One Riot One Ranger The event is the annual fundraiser patrol boat hit the water. There was for Island Foundation schools is set a burglary from the street side this Editor's note: This is the latest for Saturday, April 13 at the new week but for the most part things have in a series of stories based on the Schlitterbahn Ballroom. It kicks off been quiet here on our little sandbar. book Taming the Nueces Strip by a 7 p.m. and runs to 11 p.m. and Texas Ranger George Durham Meet the candidates while in years past it has been a who road into the area between the denim and diamond western-themed The public gets a chance to meet the Nueces River and the Rio Grande event but this year it will be a nod to four finalists for Corpus Christi City to confront bandits who had been the Roaring 20’s. The evening will Manager during a meet and greet on raiding into downtown Corpus include live music and dancing, live Monday, April 15, from 5:30-7:30 Christi and the King Ranch in the and silent auctions, a gourmet dinner p.m.