Issue 786 the 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Dwight Jackson Island Free
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Inside the Moon Market Day Port A. A2 Derby Days A8 Traveling Moon A9 Texas Tropicals A16 Live Music A18 Issue 786 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Dwight Jackson Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 May 9, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around Island by the numbers The Island Health By Dale Rankin Insurance It was Splash Day on our little sandbar this week as the temperatures Coverage rose enough that non-Winter Texans 9038 Civilian population could get into Island swimming pools. We’re still six weeks away 8611 With Health Insurance from the official start of the 2019 coverage summer season but judging by the 7926 With Private Health beach crowds from Port Aransas to Insurance coverage PINS this weekend visitors to the 2152 With Public coverage islands aren’t waiting for the summer heat to head to The Coast. Island 427 No Health Insurance businesses reported brisk crowds of 1218 Population under 19 customers and beaches were crowded from Packery Channel south. 51 Under 19 with no Health A dredge has been at work in the channel at Island Moorings in Port Aransas. Insurance coverage Seawall beach Photo by Bubba Brandenberger Repair Work on Packery Jetties First Predictions South Texas Could Begin in January 2020 for Hurricane Growth Lagging By Dale Rankin permits with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been applied for and Season 2019 City staff told the Island Strategic would replace the current articulated Behind the Rest Action Committee on Tuesday that stone with riprap and would include Less active than City crews have been working to funds from the Federal Emergency a barrier at the base of the jetties to of the State widen the beach along the Michael Management Agency (FEMA) keep water from flowing underneath 2018, 12-14 storms J. Ellis Seawall by moving sand from are expected to reimburse the city the structure. The failure of those two If this region were By Dale Rankin the base out toward the water. City for about 90 percent of the cost of features was responsible for much of staff said Tuesday that current plans repairing damage to the Packery the damage during Hurricane Harvey. The first predictions for Hurricane a state, it would call for the non-traffic area of the Channel Jetties due to Hurricane Season 2019 came out this week as The staff said the expected final beach to be extended northward from Harvey, but only after the initial two of the major prognosticators have the youngest design drawings for the new jetties the current boundary at the south expense is paid by the city. releasing their predictions which to be in place by July followed by end of the seawall to a point near the agree it will be a slightly less active population in the According to a preliminary estimate bidding with construction to begin in Holiday Inn due narrowing of the season that 2018 but still more active by a consultant hired by the city the January, 2020. Funds for the repairs beach. That is expected to happen in cost for the repairs ranges from $7.5 than normal. nation the next month. would come from the Island Tax By Dale Rankin million to $14.5 million depending Increment Refinance Zone pending Colorado State University predicts Fourth of July Fireworks on the final design. According to the reimbursement by FEMA. 13 tropical storms five which Population growth in the twenty- briefing given to the ISAC the design eight county South Texas region is The Seventh Annual Island Blast will become hurricanes, while of the new jetties will be closer to the City staffer also said markers will be lagging behind the rest of Texas in Fireworks Display is on for Thursday, AccuWeather forecasters predict a original design which was altered placed at four locations near the boat population and economic growth, July 4. Event organizer Jerry Watkins near- to slightly above-normal season during construction in 2004 due to ramps on Zahn Road where shoaling according to an economic study says has raised $11,284 and needs with 12 to 14 storms with five to cost overruns. The city staff said two has caused water shallow enough to released by Texas Comptroller Glenn to get to $16,500 to make it happen. seven forecast to become hurricanes create a navigation hazard. Hager this week. The majority of that money came and two to four to become major from donations through the Padre May 16 hurricanes. The South Texas Region covers about Isles Property Owners Association, The season begins June 1 and both 37,800 square miles in southernmost donations are handled through SEA Banquet Thursday at organizations agree that a weak El Texas, stretching along the Mexican the Island Foundation and are tax Nino and cool Atlantic waters will border from Del Rio to Brownsville deductible. All money is used for American Bank Center limit this year’s season after an active and up the Gulf Coast past Rockport the event. Contributions can be sent hurricane season in the USA in 2018, to Aransas Pass and San Antonio Bay to 14493 SPID, Suite A PMB 303, building the boat ramps at the JFK which featured major storms Florence and includes Nueces, Kleberg, and Corpus Christi, TX, 78418. Causeway and the construction of the and Michael which combined to San Patricio counties. The area saw reef offshore from Packery Channel. population growth of 7.2 percent The launch site, as always is at the kill more than 100 Americans and They raise money for enhance the between 2010 and 2017 while the west end of Whitecap adjacent to the cost nearly $50 billion in damage, local environment with an emphasis state grew by 12.6 percent, according Padre Island Yacht Club. It is solely according to the National Oceanic on recreational fishing. to the study. The region lagged behind funded through private donations. and Atmospheric Administration. Sponsorship tables are available for the state as a whole in almost every An average season has 12 tropical economic category. Employment in What the hey?! $1750.00, Tables of 8 are $1000.00, storms, six of which are hurricanes, and individual tickets are $125.00. South Texas during that time grew We had a report this week of a naked The Saltwater fisheries Enhancement a tropical storm becomes a hurricane The event includes dinner, live and by 12.4 percent while the state grew man sitting in his car at the parking Association (SEA) will hold its 19th when its wind speed reaches 74 silent auction, and raffles. A 2019 by 17.4 percent; wages in South lot on Windward. Our witness did Annual Fundraising Banquet, on mph. Of the minimum five predicted TIBURON LX21 boat with a 150 HP Texas grew by 4 percent while Texas not ask why the man was naked Thursday, May 16, at American Bank hurricanes, in both predictions two Suzuki, Magic tilt tandem trailer will grew by 5.6 percent. In 2017, the but reported that at least he didn’t Center - Convention Center Exhibit are expected to spin into major be raffled for $10.00 each or six for South Texas Region accounted for exit the car. I don’t know what it Hall, it begins at 5:30 p.m. hurricanes – Category 3, 4 or 5 – $50.00. For more information contact nearly 7 percent of the state’s total is about nakedness and the beach with sustained wind speeds of 111 employment. but somehow when some guys get SEA is responsible for several the SEA Office at 361-886-1100. to the beach they drop their pants. projects in the Coastal Bend including Hurricane cont. on A4 Study cont. on A4 The Naked Men of Kleberg have disbursed as the beach crowds started A little local history showing up with the warmer weather, maybe they just migrate. Shootout on the Medina and Outlaw John Wesley Harden Internet sales tax Editor’s note: This is the latest talk around San Antonio was that Espantoso Lake where Fisher and his Four bandits went down in the first As part of its attempt to rein in in a series of stories based on the all of the stolen stock moving from men were moving a herd of horses few volleys and the three still on annual tax increases at the local level book Taming the Nueces Strip by Central and South Texas into Mexico stolen from East Texas through to the their feet were wounded. A Ranger the Texas Senate this week passed Texas Ranger George Durham was going through Fisher’s Ranch Devil’s River in the next few days. by the name of Boyd confronted a a bill that would make up cuts in who was recruited by Ranger outside Carrizo Springs. He told them that King Fisher had bandit well known to the Rangers property tax in schools across the Captain L.H. McNelly who raised a left a couple of days ago with a from previous encounters. His name state by adding a sales tax to internet company of Rangers to put an end A shootout with rustlers herd of about 150 stolen steers for was John Martin and he was a big transactions in Texas. Currently to the raids on ranches and towns Due to McNelly’s recent illness delivery in West Texas. Unknown Kansan who was in The Book listing applied only to transactions in which in the area between the Nueces Lieutenant Lee Hall had been named to the Rangers until later Fisher had Texas outlaws as One-Eyed John the retailer has a physical presence River and the Rio Grande that had the new commander of the Ranger stopped overnight at the Maverick who before coming to Texas had in the state, the additional tax is occurred throughout 1875.