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Around The By the numbers Island Port of By Dale Rankin Corpus Christi The pace of life on our little sandbar ebbs and flows like the tides. Sometimes the tourists come blasting Finishes 2020 OTB in droves and sometimes things slow down a bit. This week falls into with Record the second category. Numbers from the City of Corpus Christi show Tonnage 24,654 vehicles arriving OTB on 65 percent increase in crude Saturday, January 23 and 20,674 on oil shipments from 2019 Sunday January 24. 159.7 million tons, 31 percent Those numbers are a little higher than numbers we normally see increase over 2019 new annual this time of year but well below Second Oldest House on Padre Island is Coming Down tonnage record of 1.9 million the abnormally high traffic counts barrels per day of crude oil we have seen arriving since the Most Islanders speed right by this old house on SPID and Verdemar, in fact until exports in December 2020. beginning of the Covid lockdown in recently it was almost hidden by a truck from Goodwill Industries. But this old house 2020 which saw more than 80,000 has a story to tell. It is the second-oldest house on Padre Island and was built in the 15.9 million tons new vehicles in one day in May when 1950’s for the family of the working ranch which at that time encompassed all of Padre monthly record for December, the normal number of arrivals would Island. It had the first fireplace on The Island and at the time it was built was the only be in the 50,000 range. For the past permanent residence. 15 percent higher than decade 32,000 vehicles per day is the December 2019 average across the year and during But the house has been used for decades and fallen into disrepair and will be torn these slower winter months the norm down next week to make room for a new doctor’s office. For more details see Biz 42.2 million tons new fourth Briefs in this issue. The oldest house on The Island? A story for another day. The oldest fireplace on would be in the 15,000 vehicles per quarter surpassing the prior day range. Photo by Mary Craft Padre Island. record from Q1-2020. The takeaway here is that while we are seeing abnormally high numbers 96.4 million tons in increased of inbound traffic during the Time crude oil shipments in 2020 of Covid the mean, or average, the amount of traffic coming our way has Island Real Estate 26 percent increase in increased substantially over the past liquefied natural gas (LNG) three years and the increase in people coming OTB is being exacerbated shipments in 2020 at 8.7 by Texans and out of staters who million tons are finding us for the first time. That Market Is on Fire increase in first-timers is part of the 4.3 million tons (70 percent) impetus for the heated up real estate increase in agricultural exports market we write about this time. For Covid lockdown bringing new buyers increasing in 2020 those in the real estate business on The Island this is the Golden Era. $55 billion in private Beach Parking stickers Biggest problem is lack of inventory industrial investments over the The subject of Beach Parking By Dale Rankin past five years Stickers has filed up the inbox From Port Aransas to Padre Island to be a drive-in market. First timers $100 million Federal Around The Island this week. It when you ask real estate professionals to The Island find prices much more seems we have had a steady rash these days how the market is doing reasonable than those in the San appropriations in December of tickets being written in lieu of you get responses with words like, Antonio/Austin corridor and certainly of 2020 as part of the Water warnings especially for beachgoers “on fire, the best it’s ever been, I’ve the California market. Resources Development Act who are not in their vehicles when never seen it like this, where did all And the high demand for houses (WRDA) passage. When the enforcement crew arrives. Here these people from California come isn’t limited by price range. Misty is one example we got from reader from,” and “we need more houses to completed in late 2023 the Svoboda who specialized in high-end Scott Nichols. sell.” Across the board realtors and houses at Berkshire Hathaway has Corpus Christi Ship Channel brokers report that prices are at record Warning : The policy of issuing seen an increase in sales for seven- Improvement Project will be highs, inventory is at record lows, and citations for expired Beach parking figure homes since mid-2020. As of this week there are 42 single the deepest and widest ship permits has changed without homes listed for sale attract multiple “Since Covid people want their own family homes for sale on Padre informing the public. The new rule offers within hours often selling at or channel in the United States. space,” she said. “The buyers are Island, 21 Waterfront and 21 Interior now is if you’re parking permit has above asking prices. almost all from the San Antonio and lots, according to longtime Coldwell 4,000 acres available in expired at all no matter for how The common belief among realtors Austin area who came here because Banker realtor Cindy Molnar. long you will be issued a citation of for the heating up of the local market public-private partnership of the lockdown and saw the prices approximately $155. So now if you seems to be increased visitors due “In January, 2020 we had 126 development options for new decided to buy.” Svoboda said she has are a tourist and never been here to the difficulty in air travel during Homes for sale, 60 Waterfront and sold about six houses at $1 million development. before and you drive out onto the the Covid lockdown bringing more 66 Interior lot homes,” Molnar said. and up with two more listing this beach underwear get out of your car visitors to what has and continues week. and walk you will come back with a Real Estate cont. on A4 citation on your car no warning no offer of buying another permit . If you’re in your car you may be able to be allowed to go to stripes or buy A little Island history one from the enforcement personnel. If you’re out in the water surfing you will come back with the citation on Fort Lipantitlan your car! I call this heavy-handed tactics! Even the inspection sticker How a little patch of ground in San Patricio County shaped the destiny of Texas on your car gives you 30 days to replace it. My passport allows one To look at it today you wouldn’t bank of the Nueces River about three year after the expiration date! Is this miles upstream from the old town of how we want to treat our uninformed know that a five acre site an hour’s drive from The Island was scene San Patricio, which is on the east side tourist? Even the local people were of the river. At the site a number of not told this! for a pivotal battle in Texas history. The following information comes ancient trails beaten by game animals, We forwarded Scott’s letter to the to us from the late Keith Guthrie Indians, and explorers crossed. An Beach Maintenance Supervisor and through the Texas State Historical old presidio was also reportedly there heard back from city officials; there is Association Handbook of Texas. as early as 1734 but had completely no change in policy at city hall. Lisa vanished. Mexican general Manuel Oliver from Parks and Recreation The Lipantitlán State Historic de Mier y Terán, acting on the orders said that when city enforcement Site is a 5-acre park located at to restrict Anglo immigration into officials encounter a vehicle on the FM 624 and 70 just east of Orange Texas, commissioned the fort. Grove in far northwestern Nueces beach without a sticker they make an Author John Linn wrote, "The fort effort to located the driver and offer County. The fort was named for the Lipan Apaches who once was a simple embankment of earth, to sell one on the spot. It is only when lined within by fence-rails to hold The site of Fort Lipantitlan today. they can’t find the vehicle owner that inhabited the area and in 1835 the Battle of Lipantitlán between the dirt in place, and would have they write a ticket. Beach stickers are answered tolerably well, perhaps, and at least one barracks were built Texas Revolution when Mexican only $12 and can be bought at places Mexican and Texian forces was surrounding the embankments. James Federalist forces under sought fought there. for a second-rate hog pen." After its all over The Island. construction it was garrisoned with McGloin, in his account of the battle refuge on the Nueces River to of Lipantitlán (November 4, 1835 – regroup and to seek assistance from Under the Bridge How it all started from eighty to 120 men; however, many times the complement was more on that later) makes reference Americans. After the Mexican War Plans for Fort Lipantitlan Last week we included a story about much less. Each of the four parapets to burning several houses, including put an end to Mexican armies in (meaning "Lipan land") began the lack of progress for improvements was designed for one cannon, but it a barracks. Texas, Lipantitlán was abandoned about 1825 at the location which in the area under the JFK Bridge and is doubtful if the fort was ever fully and grew up in brush. was the camping grounds of the Fort Lipantitlán played an important armed. Evidently several buildings role in the years immediately after the Around cont. on A4 Lipan Apache Indians on the west History cont. on A4 January 28, 2021 Island Moon A 2 Visiting Port Aransas Island Moon photographer Debbie Noble visited Port Aransas this week. Here are some pictures she took along the way.
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Business Briefs Dr. Mario Martinez is building a Primary & Diagnostic Medical Center of Texas on a property he purchased on SPID between the Pelican Plaza and Berkshire Hathaway. He has one of the largest single doctor practices in Texas with three in town and one in Portland. The building currently on the property is the second oldest building on the Island and it will Distribution be razed by next week. The building has not been used for many years and is currently in shambles. The property is 100 feet across and 300 feet deep. Pete Alsop Island Delivery Doc’s Seafood & Steaks has happy hour Monday - Thursday 3 - 7 pm. There is live music Fridays - Tuesdays. The restaurant is one of the top three finalists in the Best of Coldwell Banker the Best Restaurants. Dr. Blankenship was a long time Islander and the highest decorated Advertising National Weather Service living doctor in the US Navy. He passed away in 2010 and his legacy lives on through the Jan Park Rankin restaurant that bears his name. Classifieds Seeks Volunteers The Gaff in Port A will hold a Benefit & Silent Auction for Kathleen Moore on Sunday, Arlene Ritley January 31st 2 - 5 pm. Music will be provided by Jim Dugan and Hank Reeves. Additional donations and monetary contributions can be made by contacting Melissa Auderburg at Production Manager South Texas partners, 413-2350. Abigail Bair The National Weather Service (NWS) in Contributing Writers The Slip will have music provided by Jacob Jaime on Saturday, January 30th at 9 pm. Corpus Christi is seeking volunteer cooperative Happy hour is 2 - 7 pm Monday - Friday with $2.25 Miller Lite bottles and $3 wells. The Joey Farah observers (COOP) to record and report Gypsy Mermaid Pop Up Shop will be at the Slip on Sunday, February 7th 2 - 5 pm. Andy Purvis temperature and precipitation data on a daily Mary Craft basis. These volunteers are essential for our Emily Gaines climate databases and data provided by COOP Jay Gardner volunteers are used by multiple agencies, including NWS River Forecast Centers, the Pastor Kris Bair USGS, and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Todd Hunter Dotson Lewis Volunteers are needed across South Texas, Dr. Tom Dorrell particularly in and near Goliad, Refugio, Port Lavaca, Sinton, Port Aransas, North Padre Ronnie Narmour Island, Portland, Fowlerton, Tilden, Three Brent Rourk Rivers, Whitsett, and Alice. Photographers If you or your organization is interested in Miles Merwin (Emeritus) providing this daily information to the NWS Debbie Noble go to https://www.weather.gov/crp/coop_ recruitment. Please let me know if you have any Jan Rankin questions. Mary Craft Melissa Huffman Ronnie Narmour Gypsy Mermaid pop-up shop will be at the Slip on February 7th Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) Warning Coordination Meteorologist National Weather Service - Snoopy’s is celebrating Valentine›s Day with a $4 «shot of love” with all shots included Corpus Christi, TX for the month of February. There is a 20% off coupon in this issue good for $20 or more [email protected] food orders. Forecast Operations: (361) 289-0959 Hardknocks Sports Grill will feature Aaron Jacob on Wednesdays 5:30 - 9:30 pm. From Our Facebook Page The Padre Island Art Gallery features art by students and proceeds from the sale of their work all goes to the Island Market IGA story: student. Ryan Radtke Island Market IGA has added a new gluten-free section. Riley P. Dog We are making a point of supporting our local The store now has Gran Sabor which is an excellent grocery store. The price difference on some selection of quality pre-marinated beef and chicken fajitas. Publisher items are higher some are lower. It is so nice The Island Moon newspapers has had 1200 papers fly off to be able to run to the store for a missing item the rack in the store each week. Dale Rankin when making dinner instead of having to just The Back Porch in Port A will feature Matt Hole on About the Island Moon switch plans because it is a five minute drive. The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale Friday, January 29th and Riptide on January 30th. Rankin, Editor / Publisher. Adam Hernandez Many ask if Corpus Christi really recycles and the answer Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes That cheese cake is amazing! Absolutely, is yes. The City Council approved a new residential delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 Graphite pencil art by copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, impressed with the selection of foods! Great recycling contract with Republic Services. as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 work! student artist Cater copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. Blanchette. News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, Ward Jones payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. Island Market is great! Beef was actually The Island Moon Newspaper cheaper than going OTB. Susan Huckaby-Totten 14646 Compass, Suite 3 Awesome job, so nice to have fresh produce Corpus Christi, TX 78418 and not have to go otb. Would love to see more 361-949-7700 IGA branded product, but very impressive on the variety. You should be proud, thank you for [email protected] not giving up and making this happen. Love the Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper staff too, so kind and helpful! Kara Pujol Love our new market and love that y'all are so responsive to the locals! Keep up the good Where to Find The work!!! Island Moon Around the Island: Brian Totten I never knew about the fierce tuning efforts Port North under the hoods of the belt sanders. Dose that include different belt grits and even just a pure Aransas Padre velcro belt? What fun! Gulf Stream RV All Stripes Stores Clayton Harl Pioneer RV Black Sheep/ A couple fo sod suggestions. Seeded bermuda Stripes on 1A Barrel (salt tolerant, deep rooting, tough, fast growing, My Coastal Home CVS overfertilization (dog pee) tolerant) is likely WB Liquor Store Dollar General your best option for many reasons, but getting professional help from Turners or Gills might Island Wine Room Doc’s Restaurant help. Watering out here needs to be more Kody’s Snoopy’s Pier frequent and less often since it soaks in so fast... and this is contrary to most recommendations Coffee Waves Isle Mail N More for infrequent deep waterings. Water goes deep Moby Dicks fast in our sand but it doesn't hold much...so you Island Italian have to add more often. OR you could truck in a IGA Brooklyn Pie Co. couple loads of topsoil...lol. Treasure Island New gluten free items are available at the Island IGA. Ace Hardware Diana Kite Madding San Juan’s Restaurant Texas Star (Shell) We enjoy our track at Pioneer Rv. We build Wash Tub and practice so we can compete at the Gaff. Spanky's Hopefully we will have new racers to race. Woody’s Sports Scuttlebutt’s Look forward to racing my new racer at the Center Restaurant Gaff. Thanks Back Porch Bar Subway Patti Head White Shorty’s Place Island Tire Dog Park suggestion....go out to dump and get Fisherman’s Wharf some mulch. Lots of mulch. It will breakdown Padre Pizzeria Gratitude over time and it will retain any moisture. Mulch is free from the city The Gaff And all Moon Trinity By the Sea retail advertisers Charles Culpepper Episcopal WB Liquor I suggest contacting the TAMU AG extension agent about what type of turf will prosper at the Island IGA dog par Flour Bluff Raymond Hall Yes, H.E.B. Earlene LeRiche Gentles Ethyl Everly Senior Center That is it in a nutshell, building more interest in Sandbelt racing. The Gaff is like the "MILE Stripes on Flour HIGH NATIONAL'S", but there needs to be Bluff & SPID a place to grow more interest, and to improve and test our sandbelts racers. We love the Gaff, and we thank them for the races which we enjoying attending. The more racers the bigger the crowds. January 28, 2021 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Real Estate cont. from A1 In the mid-1980s digs on private land create instability among the centralists, and “In the 32 years I've been here we have always dramatically. The real estate experts are still uncovered a number of artifacts in a rather encourage Mexican federalists." averaged 100-125 homes available.” predicting another strong housing market in large camp adjacent to the old fort where 2021 & 2022. They are forecasting increased Most of the federalists in San Patricio were The average price per square foot for homes families and army women lived. A population demand from buyers who delayed purchasing afraid of retaliation if they openly defied on Padre Island is now $155 and the lowest of 300 or more in the camp is considered likely. homes because of the pandemic; from existing Mexican General Santa Anna's centralist priced dry lot is $85,000. In 2019 there were The site of the old fort is a state park, but no policies so they were also reluctant to hold homeowners who need larger spaces to traces of the earthen embankments remain. 134 Waterfront homes sold at a median sales elections for delegates to the Consultation, price of $440,000, with an average price per accommodate parents working from home The archeological digs confirmed Indian which would decide whether Texians were and children attending school virtually; and presence before the Spanish and Mexican square foot of $222, and 171 Interior lot homes fighting for reinstatement of the Constitution sold at a Median Sales Price of $297,000 for an from condo owners who are seeking to escape eras, as well as occupancy by Texas forces in of 1824 or for independence from Mexico. multifamily buildings for single-family homes 1842. Aboriginal ceramics, Indian artifacts, average price per square foot at $145. By 2020 Soldiers at Lipantitlán had also imprisoned 200 Waterfront homes were sold at a median to mitigate exposure to the virus. personal items, all types of military buttons two of Dimmitt's men, John Williams and and ordnance (Spanish, Mexican, and Texan), sales price of $525,000 for an average price It depends on the lot's value and then what the John Toole, as they tried to deliver missives per square foot of $232.00 and 155 Interior lot amenities are with the home. Has the home money, and miscellaneous hardware were to the federalist leaders in San Patricio on among the hundreds of artifacts recovered. homes sold with a Median Sales Price $329,000 been updated? Needs updating? How much October 10 and 11. Dimmitt hoped to free the at per square foot of $155. updating? Pool? # garages? What type of Prelude to the Battle of Lipantitlán men after capturing Fort Lipantitlán. One thing realtors up and down The Island waterfront lot is it? How close to the fingertip? The battle for which Lipantitlán is most On October 20, James Power, one of the Irish agree on is that more homes under the $500,000 Today, there are 22 Waterfront homes FOR famous came early in the Texas Revolution empresarios who had helped to found San price point are the biggest need. SALE from $425,000 to $3,200,000 with a which offically began on October 2 at the Patricio, learned that the Lipantitlán soldiers We sent a series of questions to Ms. Molnar Median List Price per square foot of $330.51. Battle of Gonzales. Within days, Texian had been ordered to retake Presidio La and two other longtime real estate professionals, Today, there are 11 Waterfront homes SALE insurgents seized Presidio La Bahía, located at Bahia. Two hundred cavalry were expected to Sheri Sperling at Coastline Properties on Padre PENDING from $444,995 to $1,085,00 Median Goliad but twenty Mexican soldiers escaped reinforce the Lipantitlán garrison before the Island and Keith McMullin Broker of Port List Price/SqFt = $268.88. The Median List and briefly took refuge at Copano and Refugio; attack, with an additional 200–300 soldiers Aransas Realty and Mustang Island Realty. Price of all Padre Island homes in December those garrisons soon abandoned their posts expected later. Although Dimmitt forwarded Here are their responses. 2020 was $320,000 up 47.5% compared to and joined the larger force at Fort Lipantitlán. the intelligence to Austin, he was not given December 2019. The Mexican soldiers at Lipantitlán began authorization to attack and the delay proved Cindy Molnar- Coldwell Banker Padre Island Padre Island isn't like a regular 'Subdivision' in improving the defenses of their small fort. As costly to Williams and Toole, who were With increase in building supplies and cost of Corpus Christi and other cities. It's all about the only remaining garrison on the Texas coast, marched to the Mexican interior, beyond lots, cost of new construction continues to go how much water frontage? Which way does the Fort Lipantitlán was a vital link between the the reach of the Texians.[12] According to up. back of the home face? How large is the lot? Mexican interior and San Antonio de Béxar, Dimmitt's angry letter to Austin, Toole begged Etc..... the political center of Texas which housed Cos his captors to kill him outright rather than The biggest need in new construction is single and the only other force of Mexican troops in send him on the march, which he believed family homes under $500,000. The typical Keith McMullin – Port Aransas Texas. would still result in his death. Dimmitt buyer has not change much since last year. Our concluded, "this news, after the leniency biggest concern for the next five years here on “We are getting multiple offers the day houses Captain Philip Dimmitt assumed command shown to the prisoners taken here, could not the Island is for more development of lots. I also hit the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), condos of the Texians at Presidio La Bahía and in fail to create a lively, and a strong excitement. want to add that I believe the shortage in homes aren’t as crazy. We don’t have enough inventory a letter to General Stephen F. Austin dated The men under my command are clamorous for sale are not only due to the low interest rate, to keep up with demand and that is driving October 15, he proposed an attack on Fort for retaliation.” but also due to Covid. If people do not have to prices even higher.” Lipantitlán, whose capture would "secure the Next issue: Two battle of Fort Lipantitlán… sell their homes now, they would rather wait The market finished the year in record territory frontier, provide a vital station for defense, rather than have a lot of people going through with the vast majority of the sales activity their homes and possibly infecting them. occurring in the back half of the year due to the Also, people wanting to move out of the area impact COVID-19 had on the previous months. will want to wait until it's safer to travel. The Total residential sales for 2020 exceeded $290 cheapest dry lot is $85,000 the average asking million a 71% increase over 2019 sales of $169 price of new homes is $178.00 per square foot. million and more than double the $130 million Cheri Sperling Coastline Properties-Padre in 2018 (post Hurricane Harvey market). Price Island per square foot reached historic market highs of $319 for homes (267 sales) and $280 for condos IM: As 2021 begins the real estate market (309 sales). Strong sales of luxury homes and appears to be as robust as it has ever been. condos in the communities of Cinnamon Shore, How much single-family inventory is currently Palmilla Beach and Sunflower Beach (and available and how does that compare to their increased inclusion in MLS) contributed historical levels? significantly to these results. The outlook At the end of December 2020 Padre Island for 2021 will likely center on a very limited had a 2.3 months' worth of inventory of single inventory of single-family homes. Supply will family homes listed FOR SALE. Compared not match demand and prices will continue to the end of December 2019 which had 6.0 to rise as the aforementioned macro trends months worth of inventory of single family continue. homes listed FOR SALE. 2020 was a record- Questions- Keith Fort Lipantitlan site. breaking year for us in the real estate market. Despite the pandemic, housing prices in all IM: As 2021 begins the real estate market the major markets have continued to rise. The appears to be as robust as it has ever been. number of homes for sale has plummeted and How much single-family inventory is currently Around cont. from A1 continue to remain down into January 2021. available and how does that compare to historical levels? listed Urban Engineering as the firm for those Both the inventory of homes and mortgage rates stalled Improvements. That is incorrect, Urban are now at their historic lows - a sign of a seller's As of today, there are only 37 single-family Engineering did the work for the new waterline real estate market. homes on the market and 12 of those priced over that was installed several years ago which IM: What is the biggest need in new $1million. There are currently more pending supplies water to Padre Island and Port Aransas construction to meet market demands? sales than active listings. We are at historically as well but not for the planned improvements. low levels of inventory. It has become common This 2021 housing demand may see housing for a house to come on the market and receive The engineering for the improvements under affordability challenges as inventory remains multiple offers within 24 hours. In many cases, $1.5 million in money approved by voters low and construction costs are rising. Lots and the sales price is over the asking price as buyers is still unfinished as the final nature of the material availability and skilled labor shortage make a strong offer to secure the purchase. improvements is still undetermined. In the shortage for the builders, we believe will place meantime the area is still a mud hole. pressure on construction costs which will also IM: What is the biggest need in new construction to meet market demands? Say hello if you see us Around The Island. limit the housing supply. Lumber prices are up more than 100% since mid-April which now Single-family homes with 3-4 bedrooms priced builders have to add to the price of their new below $500,000. All pricing segments are in construction. Builders are still raising prices. need, but that one is the most in demand. Fully Guided • All Tackle Provided IM: Who is the typical buyer for Island real IM: Who is the typical buyer for Island real (361)442-8145 estate and has that changed in the past year? estate and has that changed in the past year? Typical buyers are moving out of the cities. Family in one of the major Texas metro markets. The pandemic has caused some homebuyers The typical buyer has not really changed, just to search for homes in a different area than the number of them. The high-end, luxury originally planned. Mortgage Rates hit a new communities of Cinnamon Shore, Palmilla record low in the first week of 2021 - very Beach and Sunflower Beach are booming They’re BACKKKKKKK enticing to people wanting to move and get and Texas families are clearly attracted to the Our Warm, crispy, delicious, hand crafted paninis out of the hectic rat race. Buyers are coming properties in those beachfront neighborhoods. in from numerous locations; Dallas/Ft Worth, are back on the menu. 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Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier January 28 -February 4 A look at the Police Blotter Compass/Commodores Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon over the past few months shows that the number Just up the street the City of Corpus Christi /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible of traffic stops on Padre Island has jumped has been counting cars at the Compass/ considerably. There are several reasons for Th 28 Low 8:18 AM -0.9 7:17 AM Set 7:23 AM 98 Commodores intersection during peak summer this. One is a move in early 2020 to increase 28 High 5:40 PM 1.5 6:07 PM Rise 6:11 PM and busy holiday weekends with an eye toward police presence on Padre Island which resulted remaking that pedestrian unfriendly intersection F 29 Low 8:59 AM -0.9 7:16 AM Set 8:09 AM 99 in CCPD changing policy. For several years as well. 29 High 6:00 PM 1.4 6:08 PM Rise 7:15 PM Padre Island has had six dedicated “beats”, which means two officers on each of the three City voters have approved $1.5 million to Sa 30 Low 9:41 AM -0.7 7:16 AM Set 8:50 AM 98 daily shifts in the Bravo District – which also redesign and restructure SPID from Jackfish 30 High 6:15 PM 1.2 6:08 PM Rise 8:18 PM includes Flour Bluff and inland to Airline – south to Commodores. This area along SPID were permanently assigned to Padre Island with has seen the most accidents in recent months Su 31 Low 10:25 AM -0.5 7:15 AM Set 9:29 AM 95 two additional officers during the busy evening as Island traffic has increased as drivers turn 31 High 6:26 PM 1.1 6:09 PM Rise 9:20 PM hours as needed but those officers could be west across SPID into the business and find pulled OTB as needed. However, at a meeting themselves in the crosshairs of oncoming traffic M 1 Low 12:14 AM 0.8 7:15 AM Set 10:05 AM 89 of the Island Strategic Action Committee barreling in from the sweeping turn from the 1 High 3:49 AM 0.9 6:10 PM Rise 10:22 PM in early 2020 police officials said those two SPID/Aquarius intersection. That is where 1 Low 11:12 AM -0.2 additional officers would be kept on The Island. we have seen the majority of fatal wrecks on Within a few weeks the number of traffic stops, Padre Island in the past year as traffic counts 1 High 6:34 PM 0.9 particularly during the evening hours went up. have increased. Don’t be surprised if we see a new traffic light between the Aquarius and Tu 2 Low 12:28 AM 0.5 7:14 AM Set 10:41 AM 81 Then in late 2020 a traffic study was done on Commodores intersections along SPID in the Whitecap – remember the speed indicator sign 2 High 5:38 AM 0.8 6:11 PM Rise 11:25 PM not too distant future. - that determined that most of the speeding and 2 Low 12:06 PM 0.1 traffic problems on the street were from the Setting limits 2 High 6:39 PM 0.8 Whitecap/Gypsy intersection to SPID and that In a twist of sweet irony reducing attempts to W 3 Low 1:03 AM 0.2 7:14 AM Set 11:17 AM 71 is where many of the tickets (22) were written this week. Anyone driving northbound on reduce the speed limit along that stretch of road 3 High 7:36 AM 0.8 6:12 PM Gypsy in recent weeks has probably noticed a from the current 55 miles per hour have fallen marked unit running radar there. victim to a twisted little piece of circular logic, 3 Low 1:18 PM 0.5 at least according to information provided to 3 High 6:37 PM 0.8 SH 361/Commodores/SPID ISAC members over the years who have tried to get the city to drop the speed limit. While the Th 4 Low 1:52 AM -0.1 7:13 AM Rise 12:28 AM 61 A second study is also underway by Texas road is a city street it is also a TxDot right of Department of Transportation as the early stage 4 High 9:58 AM 1.0 6:12 PM Set 11:56 AM way which means state rules apply. Those rules of a redesign of the intersection at SH 361/ set speed limits according to the current mean Commodores/SPID. Longtime Islanders will speed of traffic on the road in question. Because recall that until about eight years ago there were the speed limit is 55 and because so many two turn lanes for traffic coming down State drivers exceed it the mean speed is 55 mph; Highway 361 turning right on SPID until a in order to reduce the speed limit drivers first redesign of the intersection resulted in the white have to slow their roll so that the mean speed traffic control stakes at the corner near Stripes is dropped and then the speed limit will follow. cutting the two turn lanes down to one causing It’s the logical version of “when did you stop a traffic jam at peak hours on the weekends. beating your dog?” No reason for the change was ever given by TxDot. Currently, the only way to get to the The good news is that each of these Stripes store there from the Commodores side intersections are on the radar of planners for is to cut through one of two private parking lots improvements and in each instance planning is and each week those lots are the regular scene of ongoing. We will follow the design processes “hit and runs” as people coming and going clip as they progress and keep you apprised. In the cars parked behind the building. Somewhere in meantime everybody slow your roll…our Island the bowels of an office building in Austin lurks is getting busier by the week. a paper shuffler who has likely never had to negotiate that intersection who thought cutting the two turn lanes into one turn lane was a great idea. Traditional TV Business Model Collapsing A report by Fortune magazine this week found expects that pay TV subscriptions will shrink that the pandemic has taken a huge toll on the by 36% in the next 5 years, compared to 9.5% pay TV industry, and with the near-term future from 2015-2019. The pandemic will drive cable of live sports in question, things will only get and satellite TV providers to lose the most worse. subscribers ever, according to new data from eMarketer. City Update Early estimates suggest roughly 5 million people canceled their cable subscriptions last With many major sports contracts set to expire By Greg Smith, City Council Member District 4 year and last year's lockdowns slowed cord- in the next few years, analysts predict that the cutting by forcing people to stay inside, but ultimate collapse of the cable TV model will it will accelerate again as the country opens happen when a tech or streaming company is In last Tuesdays Council was traffic, with the canal cutting the peninsula back up. Streaming has taken off during the finally granted rights to stream a major sports meeting the major topics in half a bridge or two would be needed. The pandemic, which will push more consumers franchise. were the North Beach report and Covid status. suggested clearance height for a bridge is 20 to cut the cord in coming years. One forecast Other items of interest were the acquisition of feet. The Water Exchange Bridge is 14 feet the wetlands between the Flour Bluff Junior in clearance at a 14 million dollar cost as an High and Laguna Shores road and the new example. This brings up the elephant in the recycling contract. room, what will all this cost? Answer, not a part Seashore Happenings of this phase of the study. City Manager Zanoni Council was presented with a study on the then committed to have staff and the consultant proposed North Beach Canal to determine if it come back to Council with an estimate of total would improve the drainage and was the canal costs. Despite the fact that there is several feasible for recreational navigation. The short years before a permit can be applied for if the answer is yes but the devil is in the details. First City can acquire right of way and no idea of is when it can be done, the reply is the Federal total cost of the project one Council member permit cannot be applied for without control of advocated moving ahead with the next phase of the land. One third of the canal (land) is on the the engineering contract. This had no support TXDOT Harbor Bridge right of way. The study from the rest of Council. stated that TXDOT has indicated they would not sell the land until the Harbor Bridge project The Covid brief was primary spent on having is completed. This includes the demolition of a City location for the mega-vaccinations that the old bridge which can only happen when the have been conducted in Robstown. Staff is new bridge is completed which can only happen working on the American Bank Center and the when the construction begins on the main span adjoining Whataburger Field as a location. The which can only happen when the engineering amount of parking and traffic control needed review is finished which is scheduled for the limits sites for the mega-vaccinations. Also the latter half of 2021. After that undetermined Fire Department is gearing up for homebound milestone is achieved the next question is how vaccinations next week if the vaccine becomes long it would take to receive a permit after the available, and work is being done to provide application can be submitted. This is a shot in them at senior centers also. The County is the dark, done at Federal Government speed. expecting the 5,000 dose per week allocation Then was what needs to be done to improve the to continue but since it is a two dose treatment drainage. That reply was North Beach needs the need to use a substantial quantity of the to be raised two to three feet in elevation. That vaccine for the second booster shot will reduce would require all new drainage pipes and of the amount available for the unvaccinated course all new roads along with substantial population. On the good news side Johnson Seashore boys 3-4 grade. Part of the Port A basketball league. 3rd grade pictured replacements of other underground services and Johnson is reporting favorable results on right and 4th grade (left) Played each other at Gypsy Park on Saturday, January 23rd. such as water, sewer, relocation of power lines their single dose vaccine that could be coming Coaches include AJ Johnson, Joey Levandowski, and Erik Lesinski and a half a million or so yards of dirt. Then available mid February.
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Send letters and photos to editor@ islandmoon.com A6 Island Moon January 28, 2021 Senior Moments Anecdotingly
Women Spies of World War II Cherry Bomb
By Dotson Lewis By Abigail Bair Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: For a long time I have be skills including wireless operation, as Khan did, Two summers ago, my nephews – Avery (7) “Did you just buy that bag of cherries today, fascinated by the stories I have heard and read how to maintain a cover story and how to burgle and Jovanni (11) -- came to visit for a month. though?” I asked. and pick locks. about the Women Spies of World War II. This The problem with kids, especially little boys, is “Yes. This afternoon. Go talk to your father.” report only scratches the surface. Suggest you Many researchers have noted an enduring that they can be highly gross -- even for a family That seemed like sound advice. I found the do some research. I guarantee that it will be public fascination with the SOE and its women that takes disgustingness pretty much in stride. G.P. shooting billiards in the Great Room. well worth your time. Thanks to Suyin Haynes, spies since the war, and that in some cases, Once, the Rev had to drive home with two Vera Maria Rosenberg, Juliette Pattinson, myth and fact have been mixed together to Newfoundlands who had both been sprayed by “Dad, I think Avery ate like three pounds of Sarah Megan Thomas, Vera Atkins and Sarah create inaccurate representations of what skunks, (twice -- the boys were pretty slow on cherries, maybe more,” I ratted. Helm for the facts contained in this report and the uptake). She didn’t even bother to mention actually happened. Record-keeping at the SOE “Yeah, so? That’s what they’re there for.” to Wikipedia and IFC Films for the photos. was not always organized, and a lack of primary the incident for a few days. The summer of 1941 was a bleak time for sources and evidence from the time has made it “Mom, the dogs reek!” I screeched, home on “Isn’t three pounds kind of … excessive?” Britain and her European allies in the war. difficult for historians to gain a full picture of one of my many larder raids. “What happened?” “Fruit is good for him,” Dad huffed. There is the group’s activities. In a 1986 interview, Vera The Nazis were bombing key cities across the “They’re fine. They just got hit by a bunch of little sympathy for snitches in my family. Atkins said “that every scrap of intelligence was country in what came to be known as the Blitz, skunks. Your father washed them with tomato and much of Europe had fallen to the Germans, under lock and key, or destroyed.” I went back into the living room and told Avery juice! What’s the big deal?” he couldn’t have any more cherries. Instead, I leaving Britain vulnerable. This made the work Born Vera Maria Rosenberg in 1908 in For about six months, anytime the dogs got made the kids a veggie tray. Avery gleefully of the SOE (Special Operations Executive), and Romania, Atkins moved to London in 1933 and wet you could smell the lingering miasma of plowed through the cucumbers. the actions of three key women within it, that adopted her mother’s maiden name. She began displeased skunk, but it takes more than stinky much more important. as a secretary in the F Section in early 1941, I served the boys and the G.P. their pizza out dogs to faze the Rev. and then became one of the top officers within on the couch. They had found a cartoon that the service, responsible for the “housekeeping” Little boys, however, tend to be more terrible they all wanted to watch, and were happily related to each agent and acting as a guiding than even big dogs. Getting Avery to take his ensconced. Avery wasn’t touching his pizza. figure for them. Atkins was also widely believed nightly shower involved a “Dukes of Hazzard” “You need to eat your dinner,” I ordered. to be the inspiration for James Bond author style chase, threats, bribery, and finally bodily Ian Fleming’s character ‘Miss Moneypenny’, hurling the child into running water. Then you “Okay,” he replied, slowly nibbling a corner. secretary to the head of the Secret Intelligence had to stand in front of the door, blocking it “Really?!? You were so hungry! At least finish Services. so that he couldn’t escape, as he happily sang your milk.” optimistic songs about the noises of barnyard “I’ve always found personally that being animals. He chugged the last of his milk and scurried off a woman has great advantages if you know to get a book he wanted to show me… how to play the thing right and I believe that I think he used soap twice the entire time he And stopped dead…. all the girls, the women who went out, had the was here, and that was only because the Rev same feeling,” said Atkins in an oral testimony soaped him. Turned to face his grandfather (who was included in the 2008 book Forgotten Voices One evening, all of us adult people were watching the tv while simultaneously sneering of The Secret War: An Inside History of exhausted. Mom wasn’t feeling well and had at his own piece of pizza)…. Special Operations During the Second World retired for the evening, so Dad called in the And simply EXPLODED! War. When asked by biographer Sarah Helm B-Team (me). what each of the SOE’s women agents had in I had never seen anything like it, except common, Atkins replied, “Bravery, you might “Ab, I’m tired and Mom crapped out. I don’t possibly in the “Witches of Eastwick.” A flood find it in anyone, you just don’t know where to know what I’m going to feed these kids. Get of used cherries erupted from the child like a look.” over here.” geyser of goop. SOE agents were trained to send messages back “I’ll bring pizza,” I replied. I started laughing and shouting lines from “The to London in a unique code, but in 1943, there When I walked into my parents’ living room, Exorcist.” I am nothing if not helpful. were signs that the codes had been intercepted, the small children were flung over the furniture Avery ran to the bathroom, leaving a trail of and the Germans had started sending as though they were boy-shaped afghans. viscous, red slime behind him. I headed to the Noor Inayat Khan. transmissions under the guise of the agents they Lolling and bored, Jovanni barely turned his kitchen for paper towels. had captured. However, these signs were missed eyes away from the television long enough to Established in June 1940 in London, the SOE When I got back into the living was a volunteer force set up to wage a secret room, Jovanni was standing in his war behind enemy lines. Prime Minister chair, clucking like an upset hen. I Winston Churchill superbly ordered the walked over to assess the pile, got SOE’s agents to “set Europe ablaze” through down on my knees and started to espionage, sabotage and building a resistance wipe. network in occupied Europe. Dozens of women “What the hell are you doing, were recruited by the SOE and deployed as Ab?” queried the G.P. spies, including American agent Virginia Hall “I’m cleaning up the puke, Dad?” and Indian-British radio operator Noor Inayat Khan. Both women worked with Vera Atkins, “What the Hell? Did a kid barf?” the intelligence officer for F Section at the SOE, Avery had literally burst like he which was responsible for the recruitment and was giving birth to the fully grown deployment of agents into France. The film A Pallas Athena two feet in front of Call to Spy, produced, written by and starring the Dad’s face. I guess the G.P. Sarah Megan Thomas as Hall and directed by was focused on hating his slice of Lydia Dean Pilcher, takes motivation from the pizza. heroic stories of these two spies who made history, and the woman at the center of their “Stand aside,” ordered my father, secret operations. Virginia Hall impersonating Batman. “Don’t waste good paper towels on Intelligence agencies realized very early by the intelligence services at Baker Street, upchuck.” He went to the kitchen on the important part women could play in resulting in the capture and killing of 27 agents, and returned with the broom and wartime spying, in what had been traditionally including Noor Inayat Khan*. Although there plastic dustpan. considered the purview of men. The SOE has been speculation around potential oversight “But, Dad, your broom will smell itself focused on guerrilla warfare outside the by Atkins, historians have concluded, that the gross forever!” ordinary theaters of conflict. Women were failure to pick up on the danger can’t be solely thought to be more inconspicuous as spies, attributed to any one individual. “Out of my way!” Dad and capitalized on this perception during the commanded. “Let an expert Even beyond the liberation of France in war, carrying out tasks and missions that men handle this.” were unable to do. In the field, women could go 1944 and the eventual dissolution of the SOE unnoticed as couriers delivering vital messages, in January 1946, Atkins was steadfast in her I went to the bathroom to find search for the missing SOE personnel, which Avery sitting dejectedly on the with one SOE dispatch from Holland noting Stadler and Avery when they were that in 1944, women were rarely stopped and amounted to 118 people, all but one of whom side of the tub. I threw him in searched at checkpoints. had been killed. Atkins eventually traced all 117 both babies. the shower, as the Rev barreled and brought their killers to war crimes trials. angrily down the hallway. In some instances, women spies used their notice my presence. Avery got right up and femininity and played up to stereotypes of *Noor Inayat Khan was the first female wireless started bouncing on the couch. She popped her head in the bathroom. “Is fragility or helplessness in order to get out operator sent from the UK into occupied France Avery ok?” she asked. of dangerous situations. Historian Juliette to aid the resistance. She was captured and sent “Hi Ab!” he exclaimed. “Did you bring PIZZA?!?” “Yeah,” I relied. “He ate like three pounds of Pattinson wrote, “several wartime accounts to Dachau concentration camp where she was cherries and blew up.” indicate that male agents were less resourceful executed. “Yep! Pepperoni!” and inventive than their female colleagues.” “THREE POUNDS!?!?” Dotson’s Other Note: After the war, Virginia “YAY!” The SOE, housed joined the CIA and became one of the Agency’s “At least. I told Dad about it!” on Baker Street in first Operations Officers. For her courage I went into the kitchen and began pre-heating the oven. I noticed a fresh bag of cherries on the My mother looked at me scornfully, as though central London, and and bravery, Virginia was awarded the U.S. I should have known better. sometimes referred Military’s Distinguished Service Cross (the only counter beside a dustpan full of pits. Full, the to as “The Baker woman so honored in WWII; she was made a bag of fruit would have weighed around four “YOU SAID YOU WERE SICK!” I whined. “I Street Irregulars,” Member of the British Empire (MBE)); and was pounds, but the sack on the Rev’s counter was told an adult!” greatly depleted. Avery came running into the “Churchill’s awarded the French Croix de Guerre. Thanks “You ARE an adult, Ab,” she rejoined as she kitchen, grabbed a handful of cherries out of the Secret Army” and for reading and commenting on the articles in stomped away to comfort Jovanni, who was bag (depositing a very sticky mess of pits in the the “Ministry of The Island Moon. Contact me at dlewis1@stx. sobbing like he was next in line to contract the dustpan) and raced back into the living room. Ungentlemanly rr.com or call/text: 530-748-8475. ebola virus. Warfare,” had I decided that I should investigate. Please note: The Weekly Veterans Round “Shows what you know,” I muttered as I deployed 39 women Table Meetings have resumed at Del Mar “Avery,” I asked, “how many cherries have you cleaned up the slime trail. to Occupied France College CED (masks required) in Room 106 on eaten today?” by the time of the Tuesdays 9-11AM. All veterans, their families “Can I have some pizza now, Ab?” asked Vera Atkins D-Day invasions and anyone interested in veterans’ activities, “A BILLIONTY MILLION,” Avery replied, Avery, freshly washed and pajama clad. helpfully showing me his sticky, pit-filled fist. on June 6, 1944. are invited. The Veterans Radio Round Table is “You’re hungry? After that??” Because it was on the air on KEYS AM 1440 & 98.7 FM, 8 – 10 Further research seemed to be in order. “I’m ALWAYS hungry,” he replied, mournfully. crucial that they evade suspicion, F Section a.m., Saturdays. The next show will be January “Mom?” I yelled through the Rev’s closed recruited agents who could speak French and 30, 2021. Please listen and call in or text. The bedroom door. Then he ate three pieces of pizza. blend into French life. Each agent was given a listener/text line is: 361-882-5397…It’s your “WHAT? 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By Chef Vita Jarrin
Greetings Readers, Yesterday evening, we held a wine dinner Green Goddess Dressing Ingredients: in Port Aransas, at the Black Marlin. The theme of the menu was to elevate the more 1 C mayonnaise (Hellman’s) simplistic food from our earlier years and ¾ C sour cream reminisce with those meals that were rich in comfort and fairly easy to prepare. Each 1/3 C chopped flat leaf parsley course was paired with delicious wine from 1/3 C chopped tarragon (may use absinthe the new wine menu. in its place) As each course went out, the diners were ¼ C chives overjoyed with the memories that the food evoked. In order for you to understand what 3 Tbsp. lemon juice I’m talking about, I’ll share some of the well 2 Tbsp. rice vinegar thought out menu items. 2 – 3 anchovy filets optional (drizzle a little For appetizers the diners had a choice oil in blender for more flavor) from the following appetizers; hand rolled, 1-2 cloves of garlic lobster-stuffed tator tots, served with a lobster veloute, or deep fried and hollowed- 1 -2 pinches of cayenne out potato skins, stuffed with blackened filet Pinch of kosher salt & pepper to your liking mignon bites, drizzled with bleu cheese sauce or Sloppy Joe sliders. Pour everything into a high powered blender and blend. Adjust level of spice to your The next course was a show stopper, because liking. Pour over a wedge of iceberg lettuce guests had the choice to order either the or romaine or any other salad fixings you roasted heirloom tomato and basil soup, desire. It’s mighty delicious! topped with grilled cheese crostini or a delicious wedge salad. The salad was half of Tip of the week: a baby iceberg, topped with Green Goddess Salads are great, because they are so unique Dressing, crumbles of bacon, crumbled bleu to everyone and are so versatile. Get creative cheese, walnuts and thin slices of tart Granny and add a protein of choice such as shrimp, Smith apples. salmon, steak, chicken and make this your The reason I say it was a show stopper, is entire entrée. Add nuts, fresh cucumbers, because those of us who recall these retro cranberries, you decide. The dressing will menu options, know that Green Goddess compliment the salad no matter what! If Dressing was a vintage dressing, served at you’re just crazy for Green Goddess and not high end restaurants, as well as local diners. feeling like having a salad, go on and use it as Photo courtesy of Texas Surf Camps The burst of fresh flavors, made every salad a dip for raw veggies! memorable. Not just because it was bright The important thing is to Have Fun! Try green in color, but because it was creamy; it New Things! Happy Eats… Enjoy! was tart and had a very unique flavor profile when accompanied by crumbles of bacon and bleu cheese and fresh tomatoes. As for last evening, I think folks will be talking about Green Goddess Dressing for a long while. Does Your So I decided to share my recipe, since there may be readers who want to. There may also be readers who have never tasted it, yet are foodies and would love to see what the big deal is about this retro green dressing. Business Need If you’re curious what the main course was, we served Salisbury steak with roasted corn, sautéed spinach and truffle mashed potatoes. The other option was blackened grouper a la Oscar topped with buttery crab and toasted a Boost? bread crumbs, seasoned with lemon zest and parsley and enrobed in a fragrant Béarnaise sauce. For dessert we traveled to the South with a choice of a Lady Baltimore Cake, Advertising in The Island Moon a deconstructed banana split, made with rum flambéed bananas foster, and lastly a Newspaper can help you reach buttermilk pie with ginger snap crust. thousands of potential buyers. Green Goddess salad
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Roughing-The-Passer Calls By Andy Purvis
By Dotson Lewis “Bear” Bryant once said, “Most coaches study became one of the youngest high school head Dotson’s Note: I have had many conversations the quarterback, but their positioning sometimes the game film when they lose. I study them football coaches in the state of Texas, when he with NFL fans regarding the rash of Quarterback block out contact that should be a foul. Quite when we win, to see if I can figure out what was hired to coach football at Edinburg High injuries which have occurred this year, so I often, referees are lambasted by fans for missing we did right.” This coach watched more film School. Akers compiled a 19-9-1 record at thought many of you Moon Monkeys might be the “obvious” call with the benefit of carefully then Roger Ebert. He was a good-looking Edinburg in three years, before becoming the interested in this report. Thanks to Bill Morgan curated slow-motion replays from the optimal guy. If he could have winked at himself, he head football coach at Lubbock High School, in (former SWC SID), Ben Austro, Garth DeFelice, angles. But if the quarterback’s body or other would. College football is about being a part 1965. Akers finished his high school coaching Walt Anderson and former coach Perry Fewell players completely obscure the foul, no flag will of the community. It’s about being a part of career with a 26-12-1 record. something that’s larger than one’s self; the for the facts contained in this report and to Bill fly. In 1966, Akers joined Darrell Royal’s staff games have meaning; the fans become one with Morgan for the photos, as an assistant offensive backfield coordinator If the flow of the defensive attack is coming one another. He was as good a coach as has and secondary coach at the University of Texas. The NFL commissioner has instructed the toward the referee, he does not have a view of ever managed a game and could spot a phony Interestingly, it had been Mike Campbell, officiating department to take a closer look at any illegal contact to the front of the helmet of before he said his first words. roughing the passer fouls in order to provide the quarterback. At times, a quarterback’s head Royals’ defensive coordinator, who had more consistency and protection to the may jostle on impact, which could be a legal Fred Akers defined success as having a chance discovered Akers, while Fred was coaching at quarterback position. hit to the chest, but also might ride up right to win every game. He got the most out of his Lubbock High School. Fred would serve the underneath the chin. This has led to miscalls players that he could, and used Earl Campbell Longhorns for nine seasons before receiving Faking Out Referees both ways. like a bar of soap, until there was nothing left. his first head-coaching job at the college level Akers took the Longhorns to a bowl game in 1975, with the University of Wyoming Putting player safety ahead, the in nine of his ten years at Texas, only to lose Cowboys. umpire is going to be released seven of those contests. Two of those losses, In 1977, Darrell Royal retired and Fred Akers from holding and other calls to in the 1978 and the 1984 Cotton Bowls, played became the Head Football Coach of the Texas briefly catch a look if a defender on New Year’s Day, were to Notre Dame and Longhorns. Fred was 38. Akers turned away has a path to the quarterback in Georgia. Both of those losses kept him and his from the popular wishbone offense and installed cases where the referee might get Longhorns from being placed in the elite group the I-formation offense, along with a young but straight lined. The focus would of college football coaches and teams being strong defense and a future star running back be for forcible blows to the head ranked #1 in the nation. A reporter once asked by the name of Earl Campbell. Texas finished or neck area of the passer as Fred Akers what was the worst call he ever the 1977 season with a 57-28 win over Texas well face mask fouls. Sending a made; his answer, “Doing this interview.” second set of eyes into this seam A&M. Before that game, it has been said that from another angle will draw Akers whispered to Campbell, “If you give me the once very rare occurrence 120 yards, I guarantee you’ll win the Heisman Trophy.” Campbell rushed for 222 yards. Defender Reaching for QB. of an umpire throwing a flag for roughing the passer. Akers would lead the #1 nationally-ranked Longhorns to an undefeated regular season, 11- When the enforcement was tightened around As for now, the focus is from the neck up on 0, with eight sophomores starting on defense, roughing the passer in 2018, there was an the quarterback, and not to the hits at or below and a berth in the Cotton Bowl. Even though emphasis on “pancaking” tackles on the the knee. While there are still mistakes made on the Horns took a beating that day, losing to fifth- quarterback, or actions where the defender calls in that lower zone, the decision was made ranked Notre Dame, 38-10, Earl Campbell was allows his weight to deliberately drop on the to not overload the umpire with multiple points, selected the Longhorns’ first Heisman Trophy quarterback. although there is a recognition that there could winner. be an expansion over time to more quarterback The initial guidance to defensive linemen coverage. Also, umpires will still maintain their After finishing 5-6 in 1986, Fred Akers was and linebackers suggested that they should keys on scrambling quarterbacks, even if they fired from his position as head football coach shift their weight. As the new emphasis point enter the umpire’s zone. On these types of plays, of the Texas Longhorns. It was the Longhorn’s on paper was demonstrated in the on-field holding can occur, so it is incumbent upon the first losing season in 30 years. laboratory, officials found that players would referee to get into position in the opposite zone Darrell Royal’s and Fred Akers’ coaching adjust their approach by using their hands to to stay with the quarterback and not rely on the brace and arrest the crush of their weight on the styles were drastically different. I reached out quarterback. to my friend Dotson Lewis who worked with and knew Fred Akers well. “I will say this,” Now, the two new senior vice presidents of said Dotson. “During my tenure as Supervisor officiating, former referee Walt Anderson and of Southwest Conference Officials, he was the former coach Perry Fewell, have instructed second biggest pain in the neck. Number one referees to be on the lookout for defenders who was the President of my fan club (Lou Holtz).” throw their arms outward in the appearance of bracing their fall, but still quite literally dropping Fred Akers coached his last game of life on their full body weight on the quarterback. Monday, December 7, 2020. Fred coached the game of life until the final whistle. He was 82 An analysis of quarterback hits by the league Fred Akers office, elevated to Goodell and executive vice and died at his home located in Horseshoe Bay, Texas, from complications of dementia. Akers president of football operations Troy Vincent, On March 17, 1938, Fred Akers was born in showed cases where an injury resulted from a was survived by his wife Diane, daughters an out-of-the-way town known as Blytheville, Stacey and Lesli, six grandchildren and three tackle when the defender appeared to mitigate Arkansas, in a house untouched by progress. slamming his weight into the passer. great grandchildren. Danny, his son, preceded Fred spent his early days as a kid picking Fred in death. The technique is known in defensive huddles cotton. When he turned four, Fred received his as “burping,” which has a defender wrapping first football from his father, who had found No matter how much success Akers had around the frame of the quarterback to his the football in a torn down Air Force barracks. as a coach, he never forgot how poor he was back and driving him to the ground. In order He would eventually become a four-sport star growing up. He always remembered what it to pass off the contact as legal, the defender’s in high school and chose a football scholarship was like being on the outside looking in. arms come out to the side or to the front as at the University of Arkansas over a basketball ndy Purvis is a local author and radio “Superman arms,” mimicking the superhero in full-ride at the University of Kentucky. Fred personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. flight. In reality, they are not reducing the crush. wanted to shake the dust of that small town com for all the latest info on his books or to In some cases the helmet or facemask can rest off his feet. Akers starred at Arkansas as a listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books on the quarterback’s chest, which creates a halfback, punter and kicker, and graduated from are available online and can be found in the great deal of compression that is uncommon in Arkansas in 1960. His choice in life was to local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be tackles involving runners. become a coach. contacted at [email protected]. Also Umpire #129 Bill Schuster If the technique is carried out as planned, the Akers started his coaching career in high listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s quarterback will have one or both of his arms school as an assistant at Port Arthur High Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. forced to his side by the maneuver, which School in Texas. In 1963, at the age of 24, Fred com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of restricts his ability to brace his fall. Just prior umpire to assist. the Houston Astros. to contacting the ground, the defender releases These involve very technical and involved the quarterback who doesn’t have enough time mechanics in order to make a judgment call with to brace his fall. one look in real time. Bringing the umpire into While defenders can affect this maneuver the quarterback realm is definitely forging new in a head-on tackle fairly easily, the burping territory — something one official told us has technique can also be approached from the side been referred to as “releasing the Kraken” in the of the quarterback, constraining both arms and offensive backfield. releasing just prior to impact. Dotson’s Other Note: My first response to this Conversely, defenders that mimic a push-up problem is to suggest that the Referee flag any with the back arched up will be seen as properly contact and if he doesn’t flag the action, the IRO tackling the quarterback, or at the least not (Instant Replay Official) may stop play for a lowering their weight, absent other roughness review. Also regardless the IRO (or Hot Room), tactics. may rule on the action. My second response is the fact that the Umpire’s basic positioning is Referees are still having to make a judgment wrong, but it appears that those of us know this, call, and the rule and the interpretation haven’t but it may take years for the ‘powers that be’, to changed, but they are on the lookout for see the light. defenders dropping 300 pounds on an exposed quarterback standing in the pocket. Both of -30-Have fun and hang in there. these examples were caught by the referees and correctly flagged as roughness, even though it elicited light discord from the television analysts; but now referees are on alert for these Mount Padre. defensive tactics in order for fouls to be called more consistently. Umpire’s Mechanics One additional mechanics adjustment allows an additional sight line added to contact to the head and neck area of the quarterback. The referee has sole and primary responsibility on
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January 28, 2021 Island Moon A11 The Island Outdoors On the Rocks Backwater Adventures By Jay Gardner By Joey Farah Farah’s Fishing Adventures had on their lives. He is where I got a lot of It’s been a bumpy ride lately. Redfish interrupted my visions of big trout, my sense of civic duty, sitting on committees We have rounded the corner on Old Man You loyal readers might have noticed that I and every one of them stopped my heart as they and working to make things better simply Winter and Mother Nature has turned on the have been AWOL in these pages lately. I had to burned drag off of my reel and tried to pull the because it’s the right thing to do. On Friday, Fishing for us here on Padre Island! make a pilgrimage back to the old country for a rod out of my hand. Every now and then I would during his funeral, I looked up as a bald eagle funeral last week above the Mason Dixon line. Normally the influx of tides after the winter low come back to reality and yell back and forth flew over the ceremony, which caused a stir in Even though my Texas family was prepared for brings us a flush of bait and gamefish, around to my guests, then skip back into my special the crowd. Steve always liked bald eagles, and the weather, the temperature never got above the second week of February. This year we have little world. That is what wade fishing is about, we figured he was visiting us mortals, much freezing the whole time we were there. It had gotten our first push sooner than normal! Black finding your invisible state of mind, when you as Billy Sandifer’s coyote did at his memorial. also been a while since I’ve got to “enjoy” snow drum are pouring in and bending rods in our are at one with your surroundings and what Remember to tell everyone that you love them and frozen ponds and lakes. Brrrr! boat every day! The trout fishing in the boat and swims beneath the surface of the ocean. Some constantly. I typically don’t let you loyal readers into by wade fishing has been excellent as well. of the advantages of wade fishing this time of my personal life, but I will make an exception Redhead Pond year are that much of the baitfish and predatory this once. Steve and Connie Thomas were my creatures of the flats are moving slowly with parent’s best friends when they all got their first Some happy news for a minute: I can finally the cooler temperatures. Swimming lures jobs and their careers started back in the day. start spilling parts of this story now that it’s quickly like summertime fishing techniques are The four were inseparable, and as they started hit the airwaves. We got one step closer to not going to look right to a mature and aged having us kids, the four basically raised all of the Redhead Pond construction with the City speckled trout. The ability of using very lightly us heathens together as siblings. Steve and Council accepting the GOMESA funds for weighted jig heads along with buoyant larger Connie are defacto my second set of parents. the land acquisition. You loyal readers may soft plastics can allow anglers to float lures at They stayed behind in Ohio when we moved remember that I wrote a grant (in my spare a snail’s pace. time) using the mitigation construction required down here in 1982, but we’ve always kept in In shallow water the displacement of a large touch with trips here and there. We are all for Laguna Shores as a match to acquire the tracts adjacent to Redhead Pond. This will not boat with fisherman in it will definitely0 be felt pretty much a part of our lives, literally from by local gamefish. This alone will keep many of day one for me. only expand Redhead Pond for educational opportunities, but also for habitat protection. the larger fish at a distance, especially in calm In addition, the mitigation construction will and shallow conditions. When we are fishing restore the hydrology of Redhead Pond from from the boat we are normally drifting, when we hypersaline to freshwater (over time, dependent target a group of dish on a small drop off or in an on rainfall). The pond used to be freshwater area with a lot of bait or varied bottom, making and was a very popular wintering spot for a lot of ducks that visit us during the season, although not in recent years. Due to changes in hydrology (from both saltwater intrusion and stormwater diversion), the pond habitat had been degrading over time. This project should get it back on track, and I want to thank Skip Crosby with a big load on this City Staff and especially District 4 Rep Greg stringer! Baffin Bay. Smith for having faith in me during this long developing project, but also helping sell the story and carry the water down at City Hall. Finding your invisible state of mind Stay tuned for updates. Walking away from the boat seemed to detach Bad news me from everything linking me to the civilized But unfortunately, back to bad news. We world. I lost myself staring into the water also suddenly lost Islander Eric Blacka this drawing out every grassy knoll and sand pocket. past weekend at an early age. Eric was also a My casts were deliberate in placement and I Bald eagle over Steve’s funeral. volunteer for many causes. Once, I watched Eric aimed to the far sides of the glowing pockets. literally give his shirt off his back to someone I was slipping along in knee deep water, and Steve passed away unexpectedly a week ago, in the crowd at a Sharkathon when they had slow raises of the rod tip brought the soft plastic and it was devastating to the family. He was run out of that size event shirt. He didn’t even Shad to the surface. The tail thumped swirls on the patriarch of not only the family, but also hesitate when asked; he took off his Sharkathon the surface as it buzzed and dripped along. As I the community. Steve was a farmer and helped shirt, handed it off, and kept walking without lowered the bait just out of sight a purple flash his fellow farmers when their equipment went waiting to hear thanks. He was just that kind caught my eye and the trout disappeared just down. He was huge in the local firefighters’ of guy. He leaves two, full of life little girls in before I felt the line get tight as she turned into organizations, with volunteering training and this world, and there is a gofundme on his page my rod. equipment. After he retired, he was a substitute if you want to look. We’ll miss your goofiness We have been catching many black drum teacher for the entire county, and has many, and genuine altruism buddy. See you out there on soft plastics while trout fishing. The many kids out there that have sent him cards On the Rocks. small paddle tailed baits swim just like a and emails thanking him for the influence he small crab.
drifts over that area may spook the fish after a drift or two. Wade fishing allows us to stay on the spot of interest longer without spooking the fish out. Don’t think that just because you are in the water that you can’t spook them, a line of marching wade fisherman all casting lures breaking the surface is a great way to run a giant trout out of your area. February is one of the best times to get started on your wade fishing skills, just pick up that phone and let me know you want to learn how to catch fish while wade fishing. Start off the right way and avoid years of trial and error! Black drum run The black drum run has started and we are building big boxes of drum when the white flags are flying signaling live shrimp at the bait camps. It will be a week or two before the live shrimp come back full time to a bait camp near you, they are buried up in the deep mud for the coldest part of the year. When we have them the drum fishing is outstanding! The mouth of Baffin Bay and the Land Cut have been producing big boxes of mixed drum, redfish, and sheepshead, along with a hand full or two of speckled trout to boost. If you plan your trip now in two weeks it will be the prime time for meat hauling! Plan to start your year off with a few trios before those perfect spring days. Make this YOUR YEAR that you took those steps towards finally enjoying the Island for the reasons you Snowy egret courtesy of Texas Surf Camps moved here!, the thrill of the Great Outdoors! Now is the time to slide on those waders Just send me a message if you need any help and catch big trophy trout in knee deep getting motivated, and follow all of our Hook water! This fish was caught this week Up’s on Facebook at Joey Farahs Backwater NEW YORK STYLE along the southern boarders of Baffin Bay. Fishing! Get wet! &
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Please remember, you must have a it is then assigned a number based on the order • The Texas House of Representatives at compliment regarding my work to establish boat trailer sticker on your trailer to park on in which it was received. This number will www.house.state.tx.us . a good working relationship with the City of the boat ramps. allow the bill to be tracked through the rest of • The Texas Senate at www.senate.state. Corpus Christi. Dumping on empty lots- The PIPOA is the lawmaking process. At this point, the bill tx.us . In addition, the Board complimented experiencing a rash of dumping debris, is introduced and read aloud in each respective chamber before being assigned to a committee If you have questions or comments regarding Treasurer Ray Singleton for his work lumber, and other trash on vacant lots. This any of the legislative processes mentioned regarding revamping the financial statements. is inexcusable. Empty lots are not a dumpsite by either the Speaker in the House or the Lieutenant Governor in the Senate. in this article or any bills which have been Board member Drew Diggins received a for contractors and neighbors to get rid of filed, please do not hesitate to call my Capitol compliment regarding his work on canal their trash. Members, please keep an eye out The Texas House, based on rules it adopts or District Office. As always, my offices are water quality. for these dumpers; try to get a license plate at the beginning of every session, gives each available at any time to assist with questions, 2021 Board of Directors Election- The or pictures. We want to hold these people standing committee an assigned jurisdiction concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- following persons have registered to run for accountable. Unfortunately, the expense of over a specific subject matter. The Speaker uses 463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603). having the debris removed from an empty lot these specific subject matters to refer the bills to the three seats up for election. Drew Diggins, - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 Ken Hughes, Jim McFadden, Vicki Marsden falls to the owner of the lot. the appropriate committee. The Senate however McGinley, Ray Singleton, Dennis Sprout, and does not specify subject matter jurisdiction for Rep. Hunter currently represents Part of Frank Stover. Seven members are seeking senate committees. Instead, the Lieutenant Nueces County. He can be contacted at todd. three seats. Governor may refer legislation in the Senate to [email protected] or at 512-463-0672. any standing committee or subcommittee even though unofficial subject matter jurisdictions Daylight Savings North Beach are usually followed. Time - Should Voters Feasibility Report Texas Looks To Add Congressional Seats Decide? Presented to City After 2020 Census Council By Richard Lee Proposed bill may put Texas could gain three seats in Congress after with a member of the household answering adding more than 4 million people over the last data either through survey or through contact the issue on the ballot Once area is raised 10 years, according to testimony offered before with a census worker, down 2.5 percent At some time or another as we stumbled around the Senate Special Committee on Redistricting from 2010. The rest were counted via the in the early morning darkness we’ve all said canal would provide Monday. Delays in federal data collection and non-response follow-up procedure, where it…”I wish they would do away with Daylight reporting and the COVID-19 pandemic will neighbors, landlords or other knowledgeable Savings Time.” drainage complicate and delay the process of drawing individuals try and estimate the number, age, new congressional and state legislative districts. and ethnicity of the non-response households. This week “they” took a tentative step in that The third in a series of studies regarding development on North Beach was presented to Estimates offered by state demographer Dr. This method, said Potter, is significantly less direction as two San Antonio legislators filed a Lloyd Potter indicate a larger, more diverse state accurate than self-response surveys. Of the bill with the 87th Legislature currently meeting the Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday. The studies are part of an ongoing effort to make population than in 2010. state’s 254 counties, only 29 counties beat their in Austin that would allow voters to decide self-response rate from 2010. “I expect we’re improvements to the area and build a canal. Typically conducted across the state during between observing standard time or daylight going to see some inaccuracies, more so than the interim, regional hearings were postponed savings time year round. Steve Gilbreath, Vice President, and Scott what we saw in 2010,” said Potter. due to COVID-19 concerns and will be State Representative Lyle Larson a San Antonio Harris, Associate Regional Manager, with Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, Inc. (LAN), held in Austin with all witnesses appearing This lack of accuracy can have big implications Republican and State Senator José Menéndez a virtually. Committee Chair Joan Huffman for representation and government funding, San Antonio Democrat want to put the matter presented key findings from the North Beach Phase I Report on the item which was for assured Texans this would allow their voices said Potter, and the counties with the highest before voters, likely in November, and let the to be heard. “Though the pandemic prevented non-response follow up rate tend to be more stumblers decide. briefing purposes only with no City Council action. Based on City Council policy direction, us from travelling the state to hold in-person diverse than counties with very high response “The practice of changing our clocks is a report was commissioned to determine the regional hearings, we still intend to hear from rates. Seventy-seven percent of the bottom nonsensical and has significant drawbacks. scope and project limits of a navigable channel Texans in all parts of the state about your local reporting quintile has a higher percentage of We want to give Texans an opportunity to vote there and to determine if the navigable canal communities and what you believe we should an ethnic minority population than the state on ending this practice by choosing between would be functional for its intended use of being take into consideration during redistricting,” average, putting those regions at a greater risk standard time year-round or daylight saving navigable and of being a major drainage facility she said. Huffman said this is the first time a of undercount. If a region is undercounted, time year-round,” Larson said. for the North Beach peninsula land area. legislative committee has been conducted in that could mean less state funding and reduced this manner, and she thanked her colleagues for representation in government. The idea began in 1895 when New Zealand The study presented several major findings unanimous support of rules changes facilitating scientist George Vernon Hudson presented a While they wait on official census data, the with one of the major findings stating that after remote redistricting hearings. paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society, 85% of the peninsula is raised a minimum of six Committee on Redistricting will continue to proposing a two-hour shift forward in October and a half feet in certain areas, and on average COVID-19 greatly complicated the census hold hearings focusing on regions and metro and a 2-hour shift back in March. The idea up to two to three feet, the canal could improve effort this year, limiting contact efforts and areas, and Huffman encouraged anyone in the didn’t catch much traction at the time but then drainage for up to a 50-year rainfall event. introducing significant reporting delays. Raw state interested in participating to sign up to Germany and Austria were the first countries The canal would not improve drainage from a state population counts, which determine speak to the committee via videoconference. to use DST in 1916 but it is a little-known fact tidal surge of three and a half feet or greater. representation in Congress, will not be “My goal is to ensure these regional hearings that a few hundred Canadians beat the German According to a statement from the city after distributed by Washington before March. There are as safe, accessible and productive as Empire by eight years. On July 1, 1908, the the Tuesday meeting the report stated that the is no timeline for the delivery of more granular possible,” said Huffman. Citizens can sign up residents of Port Arthur, Ontario, today’s canal could make tidal flooding surge worse data used to draw lines for statehouse and to speak about any region at any meeting, even Thunder Bay, turned their clocks forward by by having a body of water in the middle of a congressional districts, but Potter said it likely if that region is outside the focus of that specific one hour to start the world’s first DST period. peninsula. A storm surge from a strong tropical will not be before the summer and may not meeting. Those wishing to participate in the arrive prior to the fall. process can register for future meetings online Then in 1942, at the height of World War II, storm or Category 1 hurricane would put 95% at https://redistricting.capitol.texas.gov/2020s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt reintroduced of the peninsula under water without having the Despite the pandemic, Potter said that the by clicking the desired hearing notice to find the measure, instituting year-round Daylight peninsula elevated with fill. Census Bureau reports counting 99 percent of registration instructions for a particular hearing. Saving Time in the US. Referred to as “War A second significant finding was that the households in Texas. A lower percentage than Time,” DST was in force continuously from storm sewer system on the eastern part of the normal – only 62 percent - were self-reported, February 9, 1942 to September 30, 1945. peninsula would have to be replaced and re- During this time, the US time zones were called directed toward the canal rather than the current “Eastern War Time,” “Mountain War Time,” north and south conveyance in place. Numerical “Central War Time,” and “Pacific War Time.” modeling was conducted to evaluate water City Council Approves New Residential After the surrender of Japan in mid-August quality conditions that may occur in the canal 1945, the time zones were relabeled “Peace under various design layouts. Recycling Contract With Republic Services Time.” Traffic pattern assessments done as part of the 2011 when the city launched its single stream But from 1945 to 1966, there were no uniform Phase I study reveal that the proposed canal We often get the question from Islanders, “Does rules for DST in the US causing confusion in all the city really recycle the stuff we put out in the recycling program. Single-stream recycling would cut off traffic from east to west across means there is no need to separate different time zones, especially for trains, buses, and the the project entire area. Side streets that typically recycle bin?” broadcasting industry. As a result, the Uniform recycling materials such as paper, plastic, carried traffic from US181 to key destinations The answer is yes and on Tuesday the council and aluminum into separate bins. Nearly 200 Time Act of 1966 was established while also would be cut-off, and traffic would have to be approved a new contract between the City of granting US states the ability to opt out of DST. tons of recyclables is collected each week and routed to bridged access point(s) depending on Corpus Christi and Republic Services. The transported to Republic Services where the loads During the 1973 oil embargo, the US Congress the final design of the canal. current contract between the City and Republic are filtered into a two-story sorting machine. ordered a year-round DST period lasting from The statement from the city said the Phase I Services expires at the end of this month. The January 1974 to April 1975. The rationale was length of the newly approved contract is for The recyclables are sorted, compressed into study answers the two questions for which bales, and transported to manufacturers who to study the effects of seasonal time change the consultant was contracted to determine: three years with options for three, three-year on energy consumption. Following staunch extensions. use the recycled items to produce construction 1) What is the project? and 2) Will it work? material, clothing, automotive parts and more. opposition from the public and the realization This study does not address several important Republic Services has operated a Recycling that the measure yielded only modest energy issues pertaining to this project. 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But any infrastructure improvements. are back on the menu. if Larson’s and Menendez bill passes and is City Manager Peter Zanoni said he would approved by voters it could be the last year for combine the findings of the three studies and Choose from: the time change in Texas. return to the council with a comprehensive “The practice of moving our clocks back and report within two months. • Fig Jam, Brie, Prosciutto forth twice a year is something that needs to end. • Sicilian Slammer Since repeatedly changing our clocks impacts • Caprese the safety and health of our constituents,” Menéndez said. “We believe that the people Send Letters and Photos to • Smoked Salmon & Cream Cheese of Texas need to vote and make the ultimate [email protected] decision to address this. 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Please try to be patient. –-- Second Helping! dolphins waiting for them when they got there. 11, 2021. The event will run from 4 p.m. to 7 Some of it is actually true. ------Hummmm? You don’t suppose these p.m. at shops throughout Port Aransas, Texas. The show at the Rialto Theatre in Aransas Pass Went down to the other end of the Island, here friendly mammals of the deep actually have takes us from serving the High School students Each of the 14 shops around Port Aransas will a while back. You know, the end that looks like “jobs” to entertain boat loads of tourists, ----- at the Luther League Banquet to a church offer sweet discounts and deals, along with an Miami Beach. We used the excuse that we were do you?? --- Hummmmn? sponsored Missionary Night and the rise and “in-shop” drawing for a giveaway. Some shops visiting friends that lived there. These people fall of a Viking’s Super Bowl Sunday. From the Now that interesting concept had to be set aside will offer complimentary beverages as their had recently abandoned the North end of the elderly matriarch of the kitchen to the young with arrival of Cap’n and Crew. Everyone burnt guests shop. Island for the South end. --- Traitorous souls! mom-to-be, these women find strength in each to a boiled shrimp color, soggy, hungry and tired “We love the Chocolate Crawl.” said Tiara other as they deal with the joys and upheavals Then there is the reasoning that the boat from carrying inter-tubes all over theme parks. Followell, owner of Roam and Roam Home. from below the “House of God”! needed, --- you know, --- “exercise”. The next day Cap’n joined my curmudgeon “It’s become such a well-known event, bringing Book Your Seats Today! Group Discounts of 10 So there we were, in the largest marina on way of thinking, while Entertainment Director/ in customers from Corpus to San Antonio. It or more! Call 361-758-0383 for info. 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I had pleaded • Bella Bella Boutique, 422 W Avenue G, emergency repairs to cover up my curmudgeon We all polished off the day and the weekend (361) 749-4290 Exercise at Naval desire to avoid the sun and the crowds of the with watching the sunset and the final frenzy at • BlueWater Cowboy Mercantile, 221 water park that the Captain, the Junior Crew and the boat ramp. Thank God it was bloodless. But Beach St., (361) 749-1906 Air Station Corpus the Entertainment Director/Mom had just left there were several scenarios that might wind up for. One half-hour and a few screwdriver turns in the divorce courts. • C & G Sisters Island Boutique, 314 E. later, the repairs were done, so I settled in to Avenue G, (361) 749-4738 Christi May Draw The next morning’s sunrise found us off shore observe all of the marina’s activity. heading back north to everyday reality. Just as • Fly It! Port A, 405 W. Avenue G, (361) Attention Besides the wonderment of the boat ramp, the skyline of South Padre was receding into the 749-4190 there was the commercial, tourist boats to watch early morning mists behind us, I had the wheel • Island Motor Bikes, 315 S. Alister St., Don’t be alarmed…it’s going in and out; in a constant stream. There watch and the bridge to myself. Then a quarter Ste 109, (361) 655-5501 were three or four fishing type boats; all but of a mile off our starboard bow, I spied a pod one was the cattle-car type. You know, load up a of dolphins swimming slowly north. They made • Island Wine, 1726 State Hwy 361, Ste. only a test… bunch of people, line them up on the rails, stick no effort to come over to the boat and frolic in A, (760) 819-1425 If you notice unusual activity around Naval a baited rod in their hands and watch them try to the wake, as they are often wont to do. It was • Island Woman Boutique, 1726 State Air Station Corpus Christi starting on Monday, catch fish. ------And each other. then that I remembered the dolphins-with-jobs February 1 don’t be alarmed. concept of Saturday and thought, “They must Hwy 361, Ste. J, (361) 339-2002 Then there was the pterodactyl fishing boat; have Mondays off. Probably in their union Navy installations within the continental United one of those boats where they tie you on to a • Lone Star Taste, 1023 State Hwy 361, contract.” Ste H, (361) 749-7100 States including Naval Air Station Corpus huge piece of cloth and fairly strong string, then Christi, will be conducting Exercise Citadel troll you around 150 feet in the air, for about A little while later this old sea chantey popped • Raggdoll Boutique, 124 E. Avenue G, Shield-Solid Curtain 2021 February 1-12 which twenty minutes trying to catch those elusive up in my head. I hummed it as I was watching (361) 749-0930 is a two-part anti-terrorism force protection pterodactyls. --- And you get to pay for being the water and the beach roll by when a light • Roam, 403 N. Alister St., (361) 215- exercise designed to enhance the readiness the bait!!!! of revelation went off in my head. ------of Navy security forces and ensure seamless Dolphins do have jobs. ---- They may even have 0006 Hey! Flying pelicans sort of look like flying cooperation with other services and agency unions so they can get days off! • Stephanie’s Stuff, 910 State Hwy 361, partners in the case of an actual emergency. A dinosaurs. ----- don’t you think? The old sea chantey proves it!!!! (361) 749-4422 Navy spokesperson said the exercise is not in But the majority of those boats of all different • The 3rd Coast Shack, 626 Cut Off Rd., response to any specific threat, but is a regularly sizes and shapes, (one of them even had wheels To be continued, please be patient ---- (361) 239-8778 scheduled annual exercise. • Tippy Toes, 345 N. Alister St., Ste D, Base officials say measures have been taken to (936) 443-6836 minimize disruptions to the local community and normal base operations, “but there may be times when the exercise causes increased traffic Additional Shop-Arounds in Port A have been around the base or delays in base access. Area scheduled by the Tourism Bureau/Chamber residents may also see or hear security activities and shop owners for the Spring Fling Shop- associated with the exercise.” Around in April, Shoptoberfest in October and Local law enforcement has been made aware the Holiday Shop Around in November of 2021. of the drill. 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Put your creative hat on and 4 am - 11 pm •Strength •Personal Training *Body Toning: Tues & Thurs 9-10am, try a new craft. Supplies and socialization (to members) Cardio Classes •Cybex Strength PACT auditorium, Workout with provided. Pre-registration required at chairs and weights (bring own) twice a https://porta.recdesk.com $30 Week Pass Equipment week. Pre-registration required athttps:// Let’s Try It!: Thursdays (Jan. Short Term porta.recdesk.com 14 - Feb. 11), 2-2:30pm, FB: @ Memberships Available NO ENROLLMENT OR ANNUAL FEES *Cribbage: Tues & Thurs 9am-11am, portaparksnrec, FREE. Virtual crafts, PACT lounge, two to four players plus cooking and activity classes. Watch online 14330 S. Padre Island Drive Ste. 108 | 361.949.3298 six cards, equals countless hours of fun! weekly. Presentations available for viewing Pre-registration required athttps://porta. on FB & YouTube. FULL CLASS SCHEDULE ON OUR WEBSITE AT ISLANDFITNESSCC.COM recdesk.com Game On!: Thursdays, 5-6pm, Roberts *Pickleball: Tues - Sat, 9am-noon, Point Park, FREE for all ages. Play corn Crossword Solution Community Park, FREE. It’s not tennis, hole, horseshoes, bocce ball, shuffleboard racquetball or badminton and there are no and more. Feel free to bring your favorite pickles. It’s a paddleball sport played on game. a concrete court, & folks love it! Hobby Day: Fridays (Jan. 8 - Feb. 26), ****LOCATION CHANGED until 11am, FB: @portaparksnrec, FREE. further notice--because of construction Watch virtually as hobbyists share how in the Yoga in the Preserve: Tuesdays, they create their wares, then get info on 11:30am-12:30pm, Leonabelle Turnbull how to buy products for great gift ideas. Birding Center & FB live, Practice Nature Walk: Saturdays, 8-10am, a variety of yoga styles with Selena Community Park Trail Head, FREE guided Esensee in the wild. birding in the Nature Preserve. Walk *Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Tuesdays, through the Gulf Coast Prairie habitat, 12-1pm, FB: @portaparksnrec, FREE. see birds, plants and other critters. Pre- Eat lunch while virtually watching a registration 5pm the Friday before required different speaker/presentation weekly. at https://porta.recdesk.com Viewable on FB & YouTube. They’re BACKKKKKKK Our Warm, crispy, delicious, hand crafted paninis are back on the menu. Choose from: • Fig Jam, Brie, Prosciutto • Sicilian Slammer • Caprese • Smoked Salmon & Cream Cheese Served with chips & a pickle 14254 S Padre Island Drive Ste 101 | 361-589-4130 Send letters and photos to [email protected] January 28, 2021 Island Moon A16 Friday. Those two Three Chords and the Truth are brothers from another mother. Watching them By Ronnie Narmour our sweet Kathleen has rock it on stage been treated recently for [email protected] together is the an aggressive brain cancer, show to catch. And We don’t suck… glioblastoma, frequently if you want a big associated with exposure to show, Americana If Austin and San Antonio black mold. She is in a rehab can do it, why not Port A? Somebody on S. stud, Josh Abbott Dreaming in Color will play the Pelican hospital in Corpus and is is playing two of Congress Avenue in Austin first defaced a wall getting a little stronger every Lounge on Saturday. with graffiti in 2015 that read, “I love you so them on Friday day. Her friends will gather Singer-songwriter her band, Dreaming in Color at the Pelican much” and now it’s become a thing since A benefit for at Brewster Street at the Gaff this Sunday for extraordinare Ty Dietz Lounge. That gal never runs out of steam. Lots taco lovers have added their two cents worth. Kathleen Moore Downtown. On a benefit and silent auction. will play the Surf club Saturday go to do. Be safe! Somebody came along and crossed out the will be held this Dakota will have some of on Thurs and the House see Debra and “you” and wrote in “taco” and it must have Sunday at the her artwork for sale plus ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ of Rock on Friday.. struck a nerve because it’s all over the internet Gaff 2-5. many artists, photographers and San Antonio has gotten into the act with a and retailers have donated taco rivalry that goes way back. I know for a items to bid on. I saw a fact that both these cities take their tacos very partial list of stuff on the silent auction and it’s seriously… so do posers and their selfies. Even huge. Plus, they will stuff a big pink flamingo Houston is getting into the act. People are piñata with personal notes and stuff to send Live Music posing with the sign and posting them online to Kathleen. The event starts at 2:00 and goes then bragging about their tacos. The mural in until 5:00 and will have music provided by Jim Dugan and Hank Reeves. If you would like to donate to the silent auction or a monetary Tonight contribution, contact Melissa Anderburg (361) Wednesday, January 27 Tuesday, February 2 413-2350. I mentioned there are two benefits Jerry Ward @ Doc’s Stevie Start @ Doc’s on the calendar, the other one is for our resident Billy Snipes @ Mike Perez @ Scuttlebutt’s honey badger, Renee Garland, on Valentine’s Scuttlebutt’s Day at Red’s. Renee had emergency surgery Ruben Limas @ Wednesday, February 3 recently and is out of work for a while. We darn Blackbeard’s Jerry Ward @ Doc’s near lost her. K.K. and Kat over at Red’s are Ty Dietz @ Vernon’s Billy Snipes @ Scuttlebutt’s putting together a silent auction and benefit for Open Jam @ Executive Surf Club Ruben Limas @ her and would be the ones to talk to about a Blackbeard’s donation. More on this benefit as we get closer. Thursday, January 28 MATT HOLE JAN 29 Ty Dietz @ Vernon’s And it comes in three’s I suppose. There was a Ruben Limas @ Island RIPTIDE JAN 30 Open Jam @ Executive big benefit for musician John Eric at the Pelican Italian Surf Club Lounge on Padre Island last Sunday. I pretty The Alley Catz @ JOHN HERNANDEZ FEB. 5 Thursday, February 4 Luis Munoz created the I Love Tacos sign much watched the whole thing online since Flanagan’s Southside one of the organizers and musicians playing Robin Blue @ SELFIE FEB. 6 Eric Graham @ Brewster which has become a thing in Austin and Street Downtown that day, Debra Scott-Brown of Dreaming in Scuttlebutt’s RIPTIDE FEB. 20 San Antonio. Falco & the Wolf @ Ruben Limas @ Island Color, kept the music live-streaming. They had Italian pretty much all the local bands and musicians Brewster Street Southside 132 W. Cotter St. Port A Sonny Salinas @ Rockit’s Robin Blue @ Scuttlebutt’s S.A. actually won the “Best Mural” award in on stage by day’s end. It was a big event. BTW, The Alley Catz @ the city’s coveted “Best Of” awards in 2018. Ty Dietz @ Executive congratulations to Debra! She will start doing Surf Club Flanagan’s Southside Well, now Port A has their own interesting sign a live music report every Friday on Clarissa Sonny Salinas @ Rockit’s that people are starting to migrate to. Enter Serna’s coastal bend lifestyle show on KZTV. I Friday, January 29 Sounds Good BBQ and their bigger than life keep telling you she’s the heir apparent. Mike Isabelle & Matt Friday, February 5 “We Don’t Suck” sign out front. Bob and Tracy Hole @ Back Porch Johnathan Hernandez @ Doiron, proprietors of the new BBQ joint on Ruben Limas @ Back Porch Cutoff Road tell me they are getting their share Blackbeard’s Rev. Horton Heat, Matt of photo opportunists daily. I’m wondering if Sierra Dawn @ Hole @ Rich’s Billiards Scuttlebutt’s Ruben Limas @ Austin and San Antonio think they too don’t Blackbeard’s suck and will pick up on the new slogan. Can Ty Dietz @ House of Rock Treasure Island Eric Graham @ we make that happen? How about cross out the Josh Abbott (2 shows) Scuttlebutt’s “We” and put in “Port A”. I know the grammar @ Brewster Street Hank Reeves @ (Port A don’t suck) is a little sketchy, but hey, Downtown LIVE MUSIC Roosevelt’s at the Tarpon what’s normal about Port A? Actually, the sky’s Justin & Niki @ Brewster Inn the limit on stuff we could substitute “we” for. Street Southside THUR, FRI, SAT Falco & the Wolf @ How about a paper cutout (don’t write on their Eric Graham @ Cassidy’s OPEN AT 7 Rockit’s sign for Pete’s sake) that say, “I don’t suck” or Starlite & the Moonbeams Saturday, February 6 “You don’t suck” or just stand in front of it… @ Bella Luna Beto Ramon @ Rigatoni’s 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Selfie @ Back Porch you get the picture. Heck, the place is next door Spazmatics @ Brewster to Juan’s Taqueria and we all know they don’t Hank Reeves @ treasureislandporta Roosevelt’s at the Tarpon Street Downtown suck. So I say, stop by Sounds Good for killer Inn Chanklas @ Executive Surf BBQ and get creative while you’re waiting for Falco & the Wolf @ Club your food. Let’s make it a thing because one Rockit’s Brian Winfrey @ Island thing’s for sure, Port A sure don’t suck. John Amundsen & Jose’ Italian Felix @ The Exchange Sierra Dawn @ Scuttlebutt’s Saturday, January 30 Billy Snipes @ Roosevelt’s Riptide @ Back Porch at the Tarpon Inn Dreaming in Color @ Meza Band @ Rockit’s Pelican Lounge The Chainlinks @ Pelican Brian Winfrey @ Island Lounge Italian Sierra Dawn @ Sunday, February 7 Billy Snipes @ Doc’s Irfan Kardas and Aaron Jacob hug it out Scuttlebutt’s Meza Band @ Brewster Tasha Brun @ Scuttlebutt’s at John Eric’s benefit last Sunday at the Street Southside Crosstown Expressway @ Pelican. Photo by Debra-Scott Brown. The East & The Crow @ PORT ARANSAS’ House of Rock Executive Surf Club Tumble Dry Low @ Tribute to Sublime/ OLDEST AND Bernie’s Bob Doiron with Sounds Good BBQ poses DO NOT MISS LIST Blink 182/ No Doubt Monday, February 8 with the next big sign fad. Coming this weekend… @ Brewster Street Downtown FRIENDLIEST Stevie Start @ Doc’s Beto Ramon @ Rigatoni’s Darren McGill @ OPEN Till 11pm • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. Scuttlebutt’s On the local front… Billy Snipes @ Roosevelt’s at the Tarpon We have two benefits on the schedule for two Inn Tuesday, February 9 lovely ladies who sure need our community’s Alley Catz @ Rockit’s Stevie Start @ Doc’s Mike Perez @ Scuttlebutt’s help. Local artist and school teacher originally Starlite & the Moonbeams @ Bella Luna from Ft. Worth, Kathleen Moore, is an old Wednesday, February 10 friend of the island. I met her many years ago Sunday, January 31 Jerry Ward @ Doc’s when I was living in my van on the beach Benefit for Kathleen Billy Snipes @ and she was painting murals on the front of Moore @ The Gaff Scuttlebutt’s Frankie’s Kitchen (now Coach’s Island Grill Tribute to Sublime/ Ruben Limas @ next door to Bernie’s ). I sat and watched her Blink 182/ No Doubt Blackbeard’s paint all afternoon and we became friends for @ Brewster Street Ty Dietz @ Vernon’s life. She would tell me stories of the island that Downtown Open Jam @ Executive Surf Club only long time locals would know. She worked Billy Snipes @ Doc’s Matt Hole and Riptide front man Michael Tasha Brun @ Clarissa Serna @ Brewster at Bulah’s Kitchen at the historic Tarpon Inn Street Southside for many years back in the 70’s and 80’s and Isabelle will play the Back Porch on Scuttlebutt’s Crosstown Expressway @ is a walking encyclopedia of Port A history. Friday. House of Rock Thursday, February 11 You have surly seen her art work on the front Tumble Dry Low @ Ruben Limas @ Island of countless storefronts around town such at On Thursday catch Ty Dietz at the Executive Bernie’s Italian the Gaff, the Flats Lounge and the Shark’s Reef Surf Club and the House of Rock on Friday. I Robin Blue @ Scuttlebutt’s Lodge. She is also a friend to any stray dog or sure miss seeing Ty on the old porch at Shorty’s. Monday, February 1 The Alley Catz @ cat in hundred mile radius and helps with the They paired nicely. So do Matt Hole and Stevie Start @ Doc’s Flanagan’s Southside Sonny Salinas @ Rockit’s fostering and adopting of recued pets. Well, Mike Isabella who pair at the Back Porch on Darren McGill @ Scuttlebutt’s
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