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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 September 5, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around Port Aransas City Council Moves to Legalization of The Island Halt Harbor Island Development Utility Vehicles By Dale Rankin on Island Streets As if right on a cue from the Music of the Spheres Hurricane Season Port Sues City Goes to City 2019 fired up just as the Labor Day Weekend came and went. As we sit Limits of city power and future of 30-year City Marina are at stake Council here today we are dodging our first Legalization of Utility and All- storm threat of the season in the form By Dale Rankin Terrain vehicles will be up to the of Tropical Storm Fernand which Nine days after the board of the Corpus Christi City Council after the by Island standards is just a windy Port of Corpus Christi approved Island Strategic Action Committee day at the beach. The tides ahead $1,430,695 to pay for engineering unanimously voted Wednesday to of the storm were up to the dunes design services for a Very Large recommend the move. on Tuesday afternoon and the outer Crude Carrier terminal at Harbor bands of the storm blew through Police officials told the ISAC that Island the Port Aransas City Council early Wednesday but if this is the the demand to allow the Off-Road voted to place a moratorium on worst we get our little sandbar will be Vehicles (ORV) in city codes around development there in what Port fine. Maybe it will clean up our flying the state surprised state officials sources say is likely to be the opening plastic bag population. after a new state law allowing them salvo in a burgeoning, protracted, and on streets became law on September The good news is that the weather expensive legal fight with potential 1 and the state has yet to establish waited until after the Labor Day long-term consequences for the Port rules for registering them. The new weekend to show up so local Aransas City Marina. law requires that the vehicles' owners businesses got the last big weekend Word came late Wednesday as the pay a one-time $10 registration of business in. Our holiday weekend Island Moon went to press that the The Port A. Marina after Hurricane Harvey fee that comes with a license plate saw the usual heavy traffic but and that any ORV on streets has Port has sued the City of Port Aransas questions based on a House Bill 40 City Marina in Port Aransas. with scant jam-ups and packed insurance. The state law also requires to block the City's power to regulate passed in the 84th session of the Texas beaches and many daytrippers who In the agenda item approved by the passengers to wear helmets unless the development of Harbor Island. Legislature in 2015 and on the terms disappeared OTB by sundown. Port Aransas council on August 29 the vehicle has a roll cage. The vehicles, of a thirty-year lease between the Port Traffic counts now show more than The portion of Harbor Island where city took the stated position that due as well as golf carts currently allowed of Corpus Christi and the City of Port one million cars per year traversing the crude port is planned is inside to damage from Hurricane Harvey on Padre Island streets, require that Aransas which took effect in April, our main Island artery. Port Aransas City Limits and at the the driver has a valid state license. heart of the fight are two thorny legal 2018 giving the city the rights to the City crews did an admirable job of Marina cont. on A4 A straw poll taken by the Padre Isles widening Padre beaches leading up Property Owners found that two- to the holiday weekend, especially thirds of Islanders who responded along the Michael J. Ellis Seawall were in favor of adding the OTVs and south of Whitecap. Reversing Island School Bus Cancellation to the current city ordinance which decades of the practice of pushing allows golf carts on Island streets sand from the water toward the dunes How Padre Island students are getting to school with a speed limit under 35 miles per has been a big improvement and hour. while the beaches from Port A to in Port Aransas after FBISD vote PINS were packed there was room The issue now moves to city hall for everybody. Editor’s note: Just prior to the the walls. When the bus where city staff must draft an beginning of the current school year paused at our bus stop ordinance and acquire approval of the Starbucks at Packery Pointe the Flour Bluff ISD School Board and we disembarked, I Nueces County Commission to allow voted 5-1 to prohibit buses from the remember hearing one the OTVs to drive on local beaches as Port Aransas district from entering man jokingly ask the required by the new state law. the boundaries of FBISD to pick up driver, “So, you’re the When the city’s current golf cart students from Padre Island who attend school bus driver now?” ordinance was put in place several school there. That decision affected It takes twelve minutes to years ago, a move also approved by 70 or more students dependent on the walk from the B Bus stop to the ISAC, state law forbade inclusion school bus transportation. This is the school. It’s a straight road, of the slightly larger, faster-moving, story of one of those students. and we chatter amongst and generally safer OTVs vehicles. By Avica Burrill ourselves as we walk, ISAC members at that time stated ignoring the sweat rising My friends and I wait at the bus their support for including the UTVs on the backs of our necks stop, adjusting our backpack straps in the golf cart ordinance but were told and the backpack straps and clutching our lunch boxes. It by the City Attorney that anything digging into our shoulders. is 6:57 a.m. and we are waiting for other than golf carts as defined under Along the walk, we see the bus that will take us to school. state law at the time was prohibited other students from Padre When the red bus arrives, we all line Island arriving. Some can up and deposit our quarters in a slot UTVs cont. on A4 drive themselves. Other machine, waiting for the driver’s students have tagged along approval before we take our seats. with a friend, sibling, or By the Numbers Every day, the driver of our “school parent. My friends and Packery Pointe development bus” changes. Today, it is a smiling I greet them as we enter plans man. We smile back and quickly the building, five minutes Nueces shuffle in to sit in the seats along the before classes begin. Padre Island students waiting to board the B The moribund Packery Pointe back of the bus. There are strangers On the days it rains, we Bus to Port A. Schools County retail development, also listed as the on the bus today, but some faces we make a quick stop by the to come all the way to the American Shops and Packery, on the east side recognize. They're regulars, people bathroom to wring out our shirts Bank parking lot on Padre Island $31,532,189,048 Total property of the Aquarius/SPID intersection is who ride this bus with us every day. and dry our faces with paper towels to pick us up, would now only go value 2019 showing some signs of life as reports As we ride the now-familiar route, before rushing to class. as far as La Concha, roughly 11 I remember our first day traveling $29,432,163,108 Total property from City Hall this week are that This school year began with a shock minutes farther down the road to Port this way. That day, the regulars had value 2018 Starbucks Coffee Company has begun to all out-of-district Port Aransas Aransas. That equates to a twice-a- kindly taught us how to stop the bus the permitting process with City of students. Our school bus, which used Bus cont. on A4 $2,100,025,9407 (7.14%) Corpus Christi Development Services by pulling on the cords that lined Increase 2018-2019 to put a shop there. The project first $30,209,998,175 total Taxable popped up on Island radar in 2015 Value 2019 and the original cost of reconfiguring A little Island history the intersection and installing a traffic $27,881,351,285 Total Taxable light estimated at $635,000, with the Value 2018 developer, San Antonio based Turner The Deadly Story of the 1933 Labor Day Hurricane $2,328,646,890 (8.35%) Busby Development, LLC, paying Increase from 2018-2019 $420,000. The final cost was $1.2 Editor’s note: The next two weeks million, according to reports to the mark the anniversary of two of the $18,974,819 General Fund Island Strategic Action Committee, biggest storms to hit the Coastal 2018-2019 and the light went active in 2017. Bend. The second was the massive $181,604,809 Total revenue strike from the 1919 storm – a story 2018-2019 Sites for four retail shops have been for our next issue. listed at $27.00 per square-foot per 47% raised from Property year since 2017 even as site work This time we take a look at the Taxes was completed but the Starbucks 1933 Cuba–Brownsville hurricane permitting is the first movement to which was one of two storms 43% Raised from charges for open a business there so far. A sign in the 1933 Atlantic hurricane services indicating a Hampton Inn is planned season to reach the intensity of a 60% of expenditures for Law has been up for more than a year. We Category 5 strength. On September Enforcement and Corrections will keep you up to date as the permit 2, it attained winds of 140 mph. makes its way through the process at Initially the hurricane posed a $2,011,977 Spent on Stadium the city. threat to the area around Corpus and Fairgrounds in Robstown Christi, Texas, and the local United $293,532 Spent on inland parks In the meantime watch out for States Weather Bureau forecaster Fernand and say hello if you see us advised people to stay away from *Source: Fiscal Year 2019 Around The Island. the Texas coastline during the busy Budget in Brief (issued by Nueces County) History cont. on A4 Aftermath of 1933 storm September 5, 2019 Island Moon A 2 Paddle for Parkinson’s Paddles Into the Sunset

The tenth and possibly last Paddle for Parkinson’s went off under fair skies at Billish Park Saturday morning and as things now stand the event’s founder and organizer Mona Singleterry says it will be the last time for the event. Photos by Debbie Noble

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Moon Monkey with attitude September 5, 2019 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 (2) is commercially reasonable; (3) does not effectively prohibit an oil and gas Labor Day Weekend. Officials declared martial That year the “Nicaragua” a Mexican operation conducted by a reasonably prudent law in the city and mandated evacuations. freighter beached on the Gulf at our front door. operator; and However, the hurricane turned more to the west From her we salvaged doors, windows and and struck near Brownsville early on September portholes which became additions to our shack. (4) is not otherwise preempted by state or 5 with winds estimated at 125 mph. It quickly The boilers of the Nicaragua still lie in the edge federal law. dissipated after causing heavy damage in the of the surf, and for years have been a landmark Port sources said this week that one possible Rio Grande Valley. High winds caused heavy to fishermen. action by the port could be the formation of an damage to the citrus crop. The hurricane left Emergency Management District under which $16.9 million in damage and 40 deaths in city firefighting services would not be needed. southern Texas. This is the system used by the port in much of Here are some news reports from the time down the beach on low tide that night to get Bus cont. from A1 its operations. some of our equipment. We decided to go, and followed by a first-hand account from the only day 22 minute round-trip for parents dropping City Marina Lease residents of Padre Island at the time Louis over Viola’s protests, we refueled the Ford, and and picking their kids up from the bus stop, time Rawalt and his family who had a dwelling built drove back over the causeway to Padre. which some parents don’t have. That school bus A second and legally unrelated issue was from material found on the beach about forty The island was a place of darkness and fury used to carry 50 kids to and from school. Now, also raised by the council action leading to miles down Padre Island. that night. It rained incessantly and the wind it carries a little over 10. The other students ride Wednesday’s filing by the port. After Hurricane with friends and family, with us on the B Bus, Harvey struck in 2017 and did severe damage News Reports: Hurricane of 1933 blew in gusts that threatened to blow the pickup over. We had only gone a mile or two down the or have had to leave Port Aransas ISD. Even to the Port Aransas City Marina the city applied The center of a hurricane passed near beach when we both had to admit that it was worse, Padre Island isn’t the only out-of-district for a $5 million federal grant to rebuild it. The Brownsville on September 4–5, 1933. The wind hopeless to try to go further until daylight. So bus stop - students living in Aransas Pass rely land is owned by the Port of Corpus Christi and velocity was measured at 106 miles an hour we drove the Ford up into the edge of the dunes on school bus transportation, too. When that a thirty-year lease agreement was subsequently before the anemometer blew away, and wind and sat there all night trying to sleep, our legs bus route was altered at the start of this year, signed granting the City of Port Aransas use of gusts were estimated at 125 miles an hour. Most cramping and the water reaching nearer with it forced Aransas Pass students to find alternate the 20.66 acres of land for the marina through of the citrus crop of the lower Rio Grande valley every heave of the Gulf. transportation methods to reach school. Their March 2048. The original lease signed in 1987 was ruined. Forty persons were killed and 500 new bus stop picks up and drops off students covered 50.73 acres of land which included were injured. When morning came, the rain let up a little. We at a parking lot right next to the ferry, a rough Roberts Point Park, also owned by the port, but shoved and shoveled our way through the dunes 10-minute drive from the city of Aransas Pass. the 20.66 acres which includes the City Marina Report from San Antonio Light Texas – and to the grasslands in the center of the island. was later moved to a separate agreement. September 6, 1933 It took all day to reach the shack driving over We were informed of the bus schedule change the rough terrain and through the pools of water in an email from PAISD that was sent home The original marina lease took effect in 1987 Refugees reaching San Antonio from the areas left by the night’s deluge. It still rained and the shortly before school began. The email informed running through March 31. 2018. In order to devastated by a tropical hurricane Wednesday wind blew. us that the Texas Education Code §34.007 “does receive the federal funding for the marina the and relief workers who penetrated the stricken not authorize a public-school transportation lease had to be extended. When the new lease Rio Grande Valley, gave information today of We left the truck behind the dunes and walked system outside of its boundaries without an was signed it included new language placed the scope of the disaster. Millions of dollars over to the house. The water was running under interlocal cooperation contract.” Last year, a there at the insistence of port officials with an worth of property and uncounted acres of it so deep it was over our knees as we waded waiver was granted to all the school districts eye toward new construction on Harbor Island. citrus crops were definitely known to have up to the steps. We estimated that the tide was that requested one for the 2018-2019 school The additional language reads in part: been destroyed. Brownsville, Harlingen and four or five feet above normal. I knew that year, allowing school buses to cross school V. San Benito suffered most severely. In the first- unless some miracle happened, the shack was district boundaries and pick up students. The named city nearly every building was reported not going to stand much longer. I went inside, plan was to address and possibly revise the law “City agrees that in the use of the Property it damaged. Harlingen and San Benito buildings and dumping a pillow out of its case, started at the 2019 86th legislative session. Well, that will not do or cause to be done anything that were leveled. All wires were down, although grabbing some valuables and putting them into session ended without any particular change in will adveersely affect the use, development, and repair men were fast restoring communication. it. I tossed in a box containing several old coins this specific law, and “interlocal cooperation expansion of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel.” Hundreds were homeless. Scores huddled in I had found around the wreckage of an old ship, contracts with neighboring districts have not VII. public buildings. a rust-encrusted lavaliere I had picked up at been approved.” Therefore, Port Aransas ISD the site of the Balli mission-ranch. Then there altered their bus schedule to obey the law and “City’s currently existing Base Map currently A staff reporter of the San Antonio Light, were stem-wind gold watches I had found in a reaching Harlingen, found three known dead, stay within their school district boundaries. shows more than half of Harbor Island as being wooden box on the beach and my collection of with in the City limits of the City. Harbor Island and 75 injured. He was told that seven had been When I read this email, one particular phrase arrowheads and spear points. is currently Zone as “HI” by Section 25-121 of killed at Rio Hondo and several at Brownsville. caught my eye. “Interlocal cooperation the Port Aransas City Code (the “Code”). City The Associated Press has reported 32 killed I was looking around at all the rest of our contracts with neighboring districts have not acknowledges the importance of Harbor Island and 1500 hurt in the three towns. Fort Ringgold furnishings and equipment, wondering how been approved.” In other words, Port Aransas to the operatation and development of the Port reported three persons dead and 35 injured at much to take, when a giant roller hit the shack ISD asked their neighboring independent of Corpus Christi; and recognizes that any Harlingen. Two relief trains from San Antonio, with terrifying force. I felt the floor sway and school districts if they could arrive at an changes in the zoning of Harbor Island further carrying food, clothing, drinking water and buckle under my feet. The water was running interlocal cooperation, and they told Port A restricting the uses to which poperty within the medical supplies, had reached Harlingen after up through the cracks when I went out the back no. That decision potentially affected 70 or Harbor Island District may be put will have a an all-night journey through the devastated door with the pillow case in one hand. The steps more students dependent on the school bus significant adverse impace on the Authority regions. Aboard were doctors, nurses and public had washed away. As I jumped off the porch transportation. health workers. into the water that was now over waist-deep, and on Authority’s development of the Port I caught sight of a can of gasoline that I was I’m thankful for the transportation the B Bus of Corpus Christi. Accordingly, the parties Texas Rangers and highway patrolmen were counting on to use for the return trip to town. I provides, its reduced student fare, and the hereto agree, that this Lease will immediately on duty in the stricken area. Martial law had caught the can as it floated by me and waded out kindness of strangers. But, my fellow students terminate in the event, the City, during the term not been declared, and Governor Ferguson, at of the melee. Shorty, having finished collecting and I really need our school buses back. We’re of this Lease, changes the zoning of Harbor Austin, declared it would not be necessary. An his belongings from the tent, was waiting for me hopeful that the adults working in the education Island to place Harbor Island into any other army aviator landing at Corpus Christi after an in the truck. field will realize our needs and agree to zoning district set forth in Article III of the aerial survey, said he had viewed the prostrate cooperate for the good of the students. Code, other than HI; or changes or modifies the valley towns and that loss was tremendous. I put the gasoline in, and looked back at the Harbor Island District Regulations set forth in house. It had toppled and was being beaten to After all, we’re just trying to pursue the Surviving the 1933 Hurricane education of our choice. said section 25-121 of the Code as they existed pieces by the waves. When I started to place on January 1, 2018, such that the Harbor Island By Louis Rawalt the pillow on the seat, I discovered that I had District Regulations become more restrictive grabbed the wrong one – had salvaged only It was early morning when I started out. A little as to the uses to which property within the HI a pillow and a can of gasoline which might Marina cont. from A1 District may now be put.” before sunset I reached our shack. Viola was not even be enough to get us back to town. visiting my people in Kingsville at the time, so Darkness was coming down fast. The storm the city lacks sufficient firefighting capabilities The item passed by includes the language: the place was still and empty feeling. I ate, drank grew in intensity. We would be lucky if we go to protect new construction on Harbor Island “the Council considers it necessary to pass this coffee, and rested for a few moments before out of it with our lives. and until those services are repaired declared a temporary moratorium on an emergency basis starting again. The tide was rising rapidly. It moratorium on further development there. to allow the City to study and, if determined to looked as though a storm might be brewing in Fortune was kind to us that night. By following be appropriate, institute additional zoning and the Gulf. If I didn’t get the car up out of reach our recently made tracks back up the center of It reads in part: To ensure that these life safety other development controls on Harbor Island.” of the water, I wouldn’t have a car. This thought the island, we laboriously made our way to the concerns are protected, a temporary moratorium kept my bare feet plodding through the sand all north end of Padre. There we found the waters on further heavy industrial development on night. It was dark as pitch. Sudden squalls blew of the Laguna Madre lapping over the plank Harbor Island is warranted until adequate fire in keeping me drenched most of the time. But troughs of the causeway. Could we make it? The protection services and emergency response are with the first gray light of morning, I could see choice had to be made quickly. We would try. available.” So I nosed the Model-A onto the planks, and we by the familiar outlines of the dunes I was only Port officials who declined to be named due inched our way over the water. Wind tore at us, a few miles from the pass. to the upcoming legal fight immediately cited and rain poured down in torrents. Bill White, another fisherman, was cooking HB 40 “relating to the exclusive jurisdiction of breakfast in his tarpaper shack when I knocked In was daylight by then. A liquid, gray daylight this state to regulate oil and gas operations in at his door. I was too tired to eat, but as I gulped in which everything blended and wavered like this state and the express preemption of local down scalding cups of coffee. I acquired a the scenes in an underwater film. At the ship regulation of those operations.” According to fishing partner. We called him “Shorty”, and if channel we found that the swing bridge had its specific language HB 40 was designed to he had any other name we never knew it. He was been torn partly loose. The ends of it were two prohibit cities across Texas from regulating a good man on the end of a net. It relieved Viola feet higher than the planks of the causeway. A the oil and gas industry within their borders (Rawalt’s wife) from some pretty hard work barge was anchored nearby with several men by amending “the Natural Resources Code to The Port of Corpus Christi currently has a too. She had found a bale of cotton washed up aboard. They came to our rescue. Climbing subject an oil and gas operation to the exclusive fifty-year lease with Lone Star Ports which took on the beach and subsequently launched into a from the barge to the causeway, they lifted the jurisdiction of the state. The bill expressly effect on May 15, 2019 to operate the planned quilting project. Shorty set up his tent a little Ford and set it on the bridge; then they set it preempts the authority of a municipality or crude oil terminal and includes “pipelines to beyond our shack, and until the hurricane that down at the other end. Thus, we finally reached other political subdivision to regulate an oil and receive and handle the crude from the pipelines year (1933), we had a pleasant and profitable the comparative safety of the mainland. gas operation but authorizes a municipality to and dock facilities to and from the terminal partnership. Later we found that during the next hour, the enact, amend, or enforce certain measures that including pipelines, valves, meters and VCU regulate aboveground activity.” That was the year the Gulf staged a real shin- causeway was reduced to a total wreck. The skids, sampling equipment, utility tanks, dig. We had several scares that September. planks were torn lose and flung through the The city action appears to be aimed at a pumps, vapor lines, storage, equipment, and Viola kept most of our valued and important air. Some of them were found weeks later in possible loophole in the bill and any legal fight other materials and supplies required to operate possessions packed in boxes against the time the mesquite forests of the million-acre King is likely to center around this section of HB 40. the Harbor Island Crude Terminal.” Ranch, twenty miles away. we might have to evacuate. The Friday before Sec. 81.0523. EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION Whether the City of Port Aransas has the the storm hit on Monday was one of the most That hurricane left devastation everywhere AND EXPRESS PREEMPTION. (a) In this authority to regulate those plans under the perfect of island days. The water was flat it moved. Much of Corpus Christi was a section: provisions of HB 40 and whether their attempts and blue. The skies clear and the southwest shambles. Padre Island was cleared everything to do so violate the terms of the thirty-year lease (1) "Commercially reasonable" means a wind, warm and gentle. Shorty was expecting for a hundred miles. The contours of the beach between the Port of Corpus Christi and the city condition that would allow a reasonably prudent weekend guests, and Viola, thinking they would were changed and there were thirty channels for the use of the City Marina are likely to be operator to fully, effectively, and economically perhaps visit us too, had unpacked the boxes cut all the way from the Gulf of Mexico to the the focus of any future legal action between the exploit, develop, produce, process, and transport and made the house cozy and neat. Laguna Madre. two. oil and gas, as determined based on the objective I was fishing early Saturday morning when I Within a week after the storm, we were back standard of a reasonably prudent operator and Due to the late filing the Island Moon was not noticed that the swells were coming over the on the island. We got there by loading our car on not on an individualized assessment of an actual able to obtain a copy of the port lawsuit by press beach in an erratic rhythm. Far out over the an improvised raft and poling it across Laguna operator's capacity to act. time on Wednesday. We will have more on the water, the sky had an ominous look; wildlife Madre. Driving the beach was hazardous. It was story next week. (2) "Oil and gas operation" means an activity had deserted the beach. A squall hit with sudden stripped with deep ruts and covered with logs associated with the exploration, development, Next week: How much property tax revenue intensity. I pulled in my line and went into the and debris. The passes were filling up with sand, production, processing, and transportation would Harbor Island development create for shack. Viola was still sleeping. I wakened her and were able to drive through them, although of oil and gas, including drilling, hydraulic the City of Port Aransas and the Port Aransas and told her to get ready to go to town, that I we went through water two feet deep at times. fracture stimulation, completion, maintenance, School District thought there was a storm on the way. Sleepily, At the site of our former shack there was reworking, recompletion, disposal, plugging she started pulling on her jeans and shirt, nothing. Nothing, that is, except an old ice- and abandonment, secondary and tertiary mumbling about repacking everything. I walked box half sunk in the sand. Shorty’s tent had recovery, and remediation activities. to the porch and looked out. The tide had risen caught around the ice-box, and on examination so fast that it was already hazardous to travel (b) An oil and gas operation is subject to the showed its only damage to be a small rent. In UTV's cont. from A1 the beach. exclusive jurisdiction of this state. Except as searching about the campsite, he found all the provided by Subsection (c), a municipality on public streets and the city had no jurisdiction “You won’t have time for that,” I told her. things he had left with the exception of a small or other political subdivision may not enact to go around state rules. “We’ll have to go now, or not at all.” stew kettle. Viola and I found, as I have said, or enforce an ordinance or other measure, or nothing. Out of all the supplies, the equipment, But a move by the 2019 Texas Legislature Shorty came in then. He had seen the signs. an amendment or revision of an ordinance or the bedding, the clothing, and what we regarded aimed at allowing the vehicles to be used on There was no need of telling him. Another other measure, that bans, limits, or otherwise as our treasures, there absolutely was not a sign state roads and city streets by farmers and other squall hit as we were getting into the pickup regulates an oil and gas operation within the of anything. And Shorty had found everything rural dwellers also included a provision to allow where we squeezed up together in the seat. The boundaries or extraterritorial jurisdiction of the he owned but a thirty-five cent kettle! them on state beaches which are considered city beach was almost impassable where the long municipality or political subdivision. streets by state law and where the vehicles are sweeps crowded us up into the soft sand and The ways of the sea are strange. They say that (c) The authority of a municipality or other currently used by city crews and members of the shell. But the Model-A came through, and in the whatever it takes away from you, it brings back. political subdivision to regulate an oil and gas turtle patrol. The new law includes vehicles such late afternoon, we reached the house of some I’m inclined to think that it does. The next few operation is expressly preempted, except that a as Polaris Rangers and John Deer Gators. Texas friends in Corpus Christi. months the tide carried in the lumber and piling municipality may enact, amend, or enforce an House Bill 1548, which took effect September 1 for us to build a bigger and stronger house. This I checked with the weather bureau and found ordinance or other measure that: also provides a path for OTV owners to license that there was, indeed, a storm in the Gulf. It time we build sixty-five miles from the north their vehicles through the state and drive them (1) regulates only aboveground activity was one of exceptional force and was headed end of Padre. on city streets under the current ordinance. related to an oil and gas operation that occurs straight toward the Texas coast. They expected (Editor’s note: The following paragraph was at or above the surface of the ground, including Once the city staff irons out details of an the storm to hit Monday. After getting Viola written into the original manuscript but then a regulation governing fire and emergency ordinance the issue will go the City Council for more or less safely settled, Shorty and I began redacted. We include it here.) response, traffic, lights, or noise, or imposing a final vote. to talk about returning to the island and going notice or reasonable setback requirements; September 5, 2019 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island Tides of the Week By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier September 5 - September 12 As I sit in our little office Drive when the backpressure blew all the walls Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon Wednesday with the down and left them standing on the living room /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible windblown rain pounding carpet in the driving wind and rain; in a matter Th 5 Low 2:36 PM 0.2 7:10 AM Rise 1:42 PM 35 away against the window it occurs to me that of seconds the house just vanished. This story was repeated all over town. Young people who 5 7:45 PM I have been watching out for swirling wind and rain pretty much my whole life. No matter rode out the storm came out with gray hair. F 6 High 12:09 AM 1.9 7:10 AM Set 12:39 AM 46 where you go one thing never changes; you hide The power of the storm shown everywhere, 6 Low 3:43 PM 0.1 7:44 PM Rise 2:40 PM from wind and run from water. one-by-four boards driven straight through brick walls, small wood splinters driven into It started when I was kid in Oklahoma when we Sa 7 High 1:36 AM 2.0 7:11 AM Set 1:27 AM 56 telephone poles, street signs facing the bay were lived in a company house across the street from sandblasted down to the bare metal, the bark 7 Low 4:52 PM 0.1 7:43 PM Rise 3:35 PM the Sinclair plant my father managed. We were peeled off trees. I vowed never to stay through miles from town so when the tornadoes fired up Su 8 High 2:34 AM 2.0 7:11 AM Set 2:17 AM 66 a hurricane and I have kept to it. The next year in the spring we hid in our cellar. One night we 8 Low 5:57 PM 0.1 7:42 PM Rise 4:27 PM Hurricane Fern came along and everybody in were driving home when we happened through Portland left. It turned out Fern was not much M 9 High 3:18 AM 2.0 7:12 AM Set 3:08 AM 75 the small town of Tecumseh and it was dead to worry about but nobody was taking any calm and pitch black. The only sound or light 9 Low 6:56 PM 0.2 7:41 PM Rise 5:14 PM chances, we had seen what Celia did. That’s came from a live electric cable that was spewing just how it was. Tu 10 High 3:51 AM 1.9 7:12 AM Set 4:02 AM 83 blue sparks on the wet street. Everywhere 10 Low 7:48 PM 0.3 7:40 PM Rise 5:56 PM around were downed buildings and as we sat in Tornado Alley the street in the car people started to come out W 11 High 4:13 AM 1.8 7:12 AM Set 4:55 AM 90 of their hiding places to see what their town had The last trip I made with my mother to 11 Low 9:59 AM 1.4 7:39 PM Rise 6:35 PM become in the matter of a few minutes. It was Oklahoma just a few years ago was in the heart just normal. of tornado season. As we drove north from 11 High 12:20 PM 1.5 Dallas we looked west out across the rolling 11 Low 8:33 PM 0.4 Then came the hurricanes… hills and saw a line of four tornadoes swirling in from the southwest. The road was mostly When we moved from Mississippi to Portland Th 12 High 4:25 AM 1.7 7:13 AM Set 5:48 AM 94 deserted and we should not have been on it but our relatives in Oklahoma told us we were crazy, 12 Low 10:07 AM 1.4 7:37 PM Rise 7:11 PM there we were. We were both so accustomed “What about the hurricanes?” they said. Well, at to dodging tornadoes I just hit the gas and we 12 High 1:32 PM 1.5 least can see them coming and get out of the outran them. By the time they reached Interstate way, the tornadoes come every single year in 12 Low 9:13 PM 0.5 35 around Denton we were well across the Red the plains and you don’t know where they are River. It’s just how it was. going from one minute to the next, we’ll take the hurricanes. We got to our house in Seminole, right in the heart of Tornado Alley, and sat there through When Hurricane Beulah came through in 1967 the night watching the continuous coverage of we went to San Marcos where it rained so hard the tornadoes on the Oklahoma City stations. you couldn’t see out the windows and the wind The state of tornado tracking now is such that blew down street signs. We returned to Portland the weather person would say, “If you are in to find everything pretty much the way we left the 1500 block of Main Street take cover, you it only wetter. Beulah was mostly rain and when are going to be hit in forty seconds!” That gets you live next to the bay the water just runs off. your attention. You sit in your house and wait We went along the back bay where the debris to see if it is about to be destroyed. That was field was twenty feet high in some places and something new. found letters addressed to homes on Padre Island. “I don’t know how you and dad dealt with this for all those years,” I said. We had lived in Laurel Mississippi and when Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi coast “Neither do I,” my mother said, and the next in 1969 we traveled there to help friends dig day we packed the car and headed south, she out. I thought that was as bad as it could get never returned there. until the next year when Hurricane Celia came My aunt and uncle survived a tornado in calling on Portland. My family was at Niagara Drumright by hiding in the bathtub as the wind Falls when the news came and we drove straight took down everything but the four bathroom through to 124 Fulton Place and found our walls. Another uncle had his car blown airborne house miraculously mostly in one piece. I will with him in it as it flew him two blocks through never forget going through the National Guard downtown Stigler and dropped him back in checkpoint on Broadway and then making the street with the engine running. He drove it Arts Alive Annual Beer Run the turn onto Fulton. There was nothing but home like nothing happened. My grandfather’s devastation all around as one after another I saw dog Tipper got swept up from the backyard my friends’ houses in piles of wood and brick and disappeared over the house only to come covered in pink insulation. When our house running back wagging his tail. It’s just how came into view my mother burst into tears. Half things were. the windows were blown out and most of the trees were gone but the house was there. It was Reports this week said that Hurricane Dorian so unusual that the Caller-Times ran a photo of put 185 mile per hour sustained winds over it and I learned how arbitrary hurricanes can be. the Bahamas for fourteen hours. I can’t even Once again that’s just how it was. imagine sitting through that. Here we sit in parched South Texas and I’m thinking that if The Wright family had just moved to Portland Tropical Storm Fernand runs up the coast and from out of state and rode out the storm. Within brings in fifty mile per-hour wind and drops minutes after the wind started the two boys two inches of rain we’ll take that. Fifty mile per crawled under the bed and a two-by-twelve hour wind is just bring-in-the-patio furniture roof truss came headlong through the brick wind around here. We get stronger wind from wall pinning them under the bed where they Blue Northerns and we could use the rain. stayed until their parents found them after the wind stopped. Another friend and his family It just how it is. were inside their wood frame house on Holly

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Very often, I overheard adults chain of fortifications constructed after World illness, accident, broken bicycles, bad weather, Then, arms laden with various articles of discussing the threats of war in Europe and War I and considered an impenetrable defensive worse weather, meth heads and interplanetary vehicular detritus, we made our way across the debating possible involvement by us, the USA. barrier. In fact, the Germans broke through the space bug invasions (the last two are separate porch towards the house. That’s when the dog Thanks to the editors of History.com, for the line with their tanks and planes and continued incidents, although I could see how a person saw the snake. many of the facts contained in the report. Also to the rear, rendering it useless. The British might confuse the two). It’s really just been The thick-as-my-wrist, brown creature thanks to the War Museum for the photos. Expeditionary Force (BEF) was evacuated by one gigantic clustercuss nightmare of mild slithered across my side patio, minding its sea from Dunkirk in late May, while in the south misfortune which added up to me finally own business, having probably decimated the Setting the Stage for International French forces mounted a doomed resistance. throwing down my rusty-not-closing-all-the- population of my beloved yard lizards. I think Conflict With France on the verge of collapse, Benito way-needle-nosed pliers, closing my curtains, it sensed us before we saw it, because it began Mussolini of Italy put his Pact of Steel with and just quitting for a while. a hurried exit as I opened the connecting door. Hitler into action, and Italy declared war against So that’s where I’ve been for the past couple The second Stadler saw it, her instinct kicked France and Britain on June 10. of weeks, hiding, coughing, intermittently in like it was fueled by twenty Red Bulls. On June 14, German forces entered Paris; a whining, and watching a whole hell of a lot She made a stunning leap towards the snake, new government formed by Marshal Philippe of bad television. While I don’t recommend evidently intending to pounce on the serpent Petain (France’s hero of World War I) requested intellectually “lighting out for the territories” with all four paws. She looked like Pepe le an armistice two nights later. France was as a coping strategy, I’m certainly beginning to Pew pursuing a violently disinterested cat. subsequently divided into two zones, one under feel better. Sometimes, just limiting access to Stadler probably thought the snake was some German military occupation and the other under further disaster is all it takes. Also, the G.P. (my kind of toy. “Look, Ab, WIGGLE ROPE!” she Petain’s government, installed at Vichy France. Dad) fixed my bike. pronounced, reacting in a mere millisecond. Hitler then turned his attention to Britain, which So, despite the fact that I still have a low grade had the defensive advantage of being separated fever, this morning I decided to treat Stadler from the Continent by the English Channel. (my almost definitely intellectually-challenged Black Lab) to her first bike ride in a very long time. Stadler has affected an attitude so morose WWI First Battle of the Marne lately that you can almost hear the sad Sarah MacLachlan music playing every time she walks into a room. The sad, dinner-plate-sized The instability created in Europe by the First puppy eyes can get to even a tough spaghetti- World War (1914-18) set the stage for another Western style bandido like me (picture Clint international conflict–World War II–which Eastwood with a bad haircut sporting a t-shirt broke out two decades later and would prove that says “My Other Car is Also a Cat”). even more devastating. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, So great was her enthusiasm that putting her Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi harness on her was like wrestling a tsunami Human instinct is much different. For me, time Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic made of cats. Stadler bounced, wiggled and slowed down. I could see the dog paused in mid- twisted, finally somersaulting three times leap, as all the stuff I was hauling into the house treaties with Italy and Japan to further his June 14, 1942 Gemans Enter Paris ambitions of world domination. Hitler’s and falling right off the edge of the bed. I from the car flew in every direction around us. invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove tried to explain to her that I was aware of her Then I time-traveled to the Texas Parks and Great Britain and France to declare war on To pave the way for an amphibious invasion excitement. She responded by running a Wildlife office, where I had spent many an hour Germany, and World War II had begun. Over (dubbed Operation Sea Lion), German planes complete lap around every piece of furniture in staring at a poster entitled “Poisonous Snakes the next six years, the conflict would take bombed Britain extensively throughout the the house. It took us about half an hour to get of South Texas.” As I reviewed the poster, two more lives and destroy more land and property summer of 1940, including night raids on her leashed up, by which time I was sweating words entered my temporally beleaguered around the globe than any previous war. Among London and other industrial centers that caused like a stevedore in a convection oven. brain: “OHHHHHHH CRAPPPP.” In the blink heavy civilian casualties and damage. The of an eye, I was back in the present, physically the estimated 45-60 million people killed were My Dad had told me about the mosquito 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration Royal Air Force (RAF) eventually defeated snatching eighty pounds of excited dog out of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) in the Battle problem, so I basted myself with OFF and the air like she was a Hail Mary Super Bowl camps as part of Hitler’s diabolical “Final shoved dryer sheets into my sports bra in Solution,” now known as the Holocaust. of Britain, and Hitler postponed his plans to pass, screaming, “NOOOOOOO” in a weird, invade. With Britain’s defensive resources preparation. This was woefully inadequate. slow motion voice. I rolled away from the viper, Leading up to World War II pushed to the limit, Prime Minister Winston Stadler and I didn’t even get out onto the the wriggling dog pinioned to my chest. Churchill began receiving crucial aid from road before the bugs swarmed over us like a Did you know? As early as 1923, in his Everyone (including the snake) was visibly the U.S. under the Lend-Lease Act, passed by Biblical plague of locusts. My pup had one on memoir and propaganda tract "Mein Kampf" embarrassed for a second. Stadler and I lay Congress in early 1941. her neck so big that I initially thought it was a (My Struggle), Adolf Hitler had predicted a hummingbird. I’m pretty sure these mosquitoes in a pile as his brown tail disappeared into the general European war that would result in "the Operation Barbarossa (1941-42) are eating the birds rather than the other way hedges. The dog gave me a conciliatory lick extermination of the Jewish race in Germany." around. as she squirmed free, and began nosing through By early 1941, Hungary, Romania and the piles of stuff I had transported from the car. After becoming Reich Chancellor in 1933, Bulgaria had joined the Axis, and German We got going pretty fast, riding in the hot soup She found a toy and came back over to where I Hitler swiftly consolidated power, anointing troops overran Yugoslavia and Greece that of humidity, coated in biting bugs. I thought lay prone, still catching my wind, and dropped himself Führer (supreme leader) in 1934. April. Hitler’s conquest of the Balkans was a maybe working up some wind would deter the it on my chest. Obsessed with the idea of the superiority of the precursor for his real objective: an invasion of creatures. It did not. We rode through swarms “pure” German race, which he called “Aryan,” the Soviet Union, whose vast territory would so thick they rose like great flocks of swallows It was a snake with a squeaker lodged in its tail. Hitler believed that war was the only way to give the German master race the “Lebensraum” into the air in front of us, causing audible A mosquito the size of a dachshund landed on gain the necessary “Lebensraum,” or living it needed. The other half of Hitler’s strategy was susurrations. My misery was pretty enormous. my nose, as I thought, “Well played, Universe. space, for that race to expand. In the mid-1930s, the extermination of the Jews from throughout The dog was overjoyed. Well played.” he began the rearmament of Germany, secretly German-occupied Europe. Plans for the “Final Often in life I pause to imagine my and in violation of the Versailles Treaty. After Solution” were introduced around the time of conversations with the universe. Generally, signing alliances with Italy and Japan against the Soviet offensive, and over the next three they go something like this: the Soviet Union, Hitler sent troops to occupy years more than 4 million Jews would perish PENN THOMAS, P.C. Austria in 1938 and the following year annexed in the death camps established just in occupied Me: “O Universe, my wretchedness is now CPA FIRM Czechoslovakia. Hitler’s open aggression went Poland itself. complete. There is nothing on this earth that can unchecked, as the United States and Soviet be worse than riding through lukewarm soup, On June 22, 1941, Hitler ordered the invasion Union were concentrated on internal politics at covered top to toe in gigantic, bloodsucking of the Soviet Union, code named Operation P  T, CPA the time, and neither France nor Britain (the two vermin, coughing and inhaling said vermin, Barbarossa. Though Soviet tanks and aircraft [email protected] other nations most devastated by the Great War, dripping with blood (from swatting them) and greatly outnumbered the Germans’, their air WWI) were eager for confrontation. sweat, while running a fever. How, O Universe technology was largely obsolete, and the impact can this get any worse? Outbreak of World War II-1939 of the surprise invasion helped Germans get within 200 miles of Moscow by mid-July. Universe: Hold my beer. Arguments between Hitler and his commanders We finally got home, and I spent a few moments U O I  O delayed the next German advance until October,  N. C,  S.P.I.D. scraping mosquitoes off Stadler’s face. I found   C C, TX when it was stalled by a Soviet counter offensive some discarded napkins in my car, and wiped and the onset of harsh winter weather. C C, TX     the sticky mess away. My hands and arms were T : ( )  - T : ( ) - *Matthew 24:6 King James Version (KJV): coated in gore. I looked like a bit player in a : ( ) -  : ( ) -  “And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. Dotson’s other note: I know that last Monday was Labor Day, but I didn’t hear anyone mention what happened on September 1st, only 80 years Hitler and Stalin ago. Did any of you Moon Monkeys slow down enough to remember that life changing event for the 2,300,000,000** people alive on planet FOUR STYLISTS In late August 1939, Hitler and Soviet leader earth that day? I can be reached at: dlewis1@ Joseph Stalin signed the German-Soviet stx.rr.com and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 AVAILABLE FOR Nonaggression Pact, which incited a frenzy or Cell: 530-748-8475. I really appreciate the ALL HAIR SERVICES of worry in London and Paris. Hitler had long phone calls, Emails, texts and conversations planned an invasion of Poland, a nation to about Senior Moments. CALL RONI OR TEXT FOR FASTER RESPONSE which Great Britain and France had guaranteed military support if it was attacked by Germany. **147,000,000 U.S. Population 15033 S. 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First Thursdays Concert Series A8 Island Moon September 5, 2019 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon Small Town 1972 Munich Olympic By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon Massacre He was “small town,” the kind of guy who out a coach and say he’s the best of all time. By Dotson Lewis ate in the car with his fingers and drank beer The game and knowledge has been passed from a paper cup. The population of the town down. But Shula had the ability to make his Dotson’s Note: The 1972 Olympic Summer called off when it was realized that actions of he was born in was about 500. It even had the players play viciously without feeling guilty. Games in Munich marked the first return of West German police were being broadcast live name “Little” in it. In the game of football, Shula and his coaching staff worked as hard the Olympics to a German city since the 1936 to nearly 1 billion people around the world and you cannot start a football game without an as the team did. “During the season, we never Games in Berlin. The XX Olympiad began on to the many televisions throughout the Olympic offensive center. But, he was everything you got away from football. I had two sons born August 26, 1972, as thousands of athletes from Village. At about 10:00 p.m. on September would not want your offensive center to be. while I was playing football,” said Langer. In more than 120 countries celebrated the opening 5, believing they had reached an agreement, Short, left-handed, and not very fast, but you fact, Jim’s father died while he was in training ceremonies of what the organizers had dubbed the terrorists led their bound and blindfolded couldn’t measure his effort, or his drive or his camp. Shula called him into the office and told Die Heiteren Spiele (“The Cheerful Games”). hostages from their quarters into buses that heart. His ticker weighed a ton. Yet, he was him. “Your father has passed away. After the The events that followed shocked the world. transported them to waiting helicopters. a man on a mission and would become the scrimmage, we’ll get you on a plane and we’ll This report is a grim reminder for you Moon Massacre at Fürstenfeldbruck anchor of the only untied and undefeated NFL fly you back home,” said Shula. Monkeys, who had forgotten and to those who team in pro football history (17-0). At 6-feet- The best players Jim ever played against have no knowledge of this massacre. Thanks 2 and weighing 250 pounds, he had a body were “Curley” Culp and Dick Butkus. When to The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica for like a cafeteria lady. He understood that the you played the Dolphins, double teaming was many of the facts contained in this report. Also key to success was effort and drive. From the definitely on the menu. Jim Langer once said, thanks to my friend Bill Morgan, former SWC center position, he dished out bruises like candy “Lining up in front of Curley Culp of the Kansas SID, for the photos. at Christmas time. Nobody found an open City Chiefs was like trying to block a 7-11.” Attack on the Olympic Village linebacker better than this guy. He looked like a Civil War General and his feet were quicker One of my favorite stories has Langer than Michael Jackson’s. wearing a towel tucked into the back of his pants. Quarterback Bob Griese so intent in There are no easy games in the NFL. If you ran looking downfield as he approached the line of the ball 35-45 times a game, Monday mornings scrimmage, he was afraid of lining up behind a were going to be tough. On any other day, he The helicopters carried them to guard; so the towel told him where Langer was could be as calm as a jar of grape jelly. But on Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, 15 miles (25 km) lined up. The downside, according to Langer, Sundays, he played football like a trapped water west of the Olympic Village, where police was when guys like Dick Butkus pulled the buffalo. Football is a very violent sport. You were lying in ambush. Although the German towel out of his pants after each play. army had better training and equipment for have to play angry, like someone just slapped If you remember the first part of this story, I such a mission, under West Germany’s postwar your grandmother. The offensive line in football told you that Jim Langer was left-handed. Only constitution, the armed forces were forbidden is a collection of minds and bodies working 9% of the world is left-handed. That was very from aiding the civilian police. The police together with the timing of a Swiss watch. He unusual for an offensive center, and he had to For more than a week, the Games unfolded snipers used in the operation had not received became a master of the offensive huddle and learn to use his right hand to snap the ball to without incident. The day of terror began formal training as sharpshooters, they were the very definition of the two-minute drill. the quarterback. Langer did not snap for punts, at 4:30 a.m. on September 5, 1972, when improperly placed and inadequate in number, Offensive centers resent every block they don’t extra points and field goals for the Dolphins, so eight Palestinian militants affiliated with and they lacked radios to communicate with make. The best thing in football is to really pop when he played in Kansas City during his first Black September—a militant offshoot of each other or with commanders. In addition, someone, hit him right under the chin and put Pro Bowl, he had to use his left hand to snap on the Palestinian group Fatah—scaled a fence they were armed with assault rifles rather than him on his back. That’s when you don’t mind extra points, punts and field goals. surrounding the Olympic Village in Munich. sniper rifles, and their weapons had neither watching game films afterward. He just felt at Disguised as athletes and using stolen keys, long-range scopes nor night-vision capability. home on the football field. “In 1972, we didn’t set out to go undefeated,” they forced their way into the quarters of the On the air base tarmac was a Boeing 727 filled said Langer. “Yet, once the game starts, Israeli Olympic team at 31 Connollystrasse. As with 17 police officers disguised as a Lufthansa you don’t think about that. You go out and they attempted to enter Apartment 1, they were flight crew. It was intended that these officers execute the game plan. But victory is the only confronted by Yossef Gutfreund, a wrestling would subdue the terrorists once they had acceptable form of revenge, and we were still referee, and Moshe Weinberg, a wrestling boarded the plane, but the police unanimously upset with being embarrassed by the Dallas coach. Weinberg was shot while fighting with chose to abandon their posts. Armored cars that Cowboys in Super Bowl VI.” Dallas had beaten the attackers, who forced him at gunpoint to were to have aided in the rescue of the Israelis the Dolphins, 24-3. lead them to the rooms of the remaining Israeli were dispatched too late and became stuck in Football is about sacrifice and heart. These coaches and athletes. traffic. With myriad failures in both planning were the types of games where legends were and execution, the result was a disaster on It has been proposed that Weinberg led the made. The Dolphins played fast. On this day, virtually every level. attackers past Apartment 2—which was also they played as one. Larry Csonka once said, being used by the Israeli team—because he The helicopters arrived about 10:30 pm, and “I’m going to score or somebody’s going to believed that the wrestlers and weightlifters in two terrorists went to inspect the jetliner. Finding have to kill me.” “That was the mentality we Apartment 3 would be better able to fight back. it empty and becoming aware of the deception, Jim Langer had in Super Bowl VII,” said Langer. “If you However, Black September had detailed plans they shouted to their comrades, at which point fight one of us, you fight us all.” Miami beat the of the Olympic Village and the dispositions of West German police fired upon them. A gun Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, 14-7, the Israeli athletes. Shaul Ladany, a race walker battle ensued, and several terrorists and one Miami Dolphins’ Hall-of-Fame center, Jim to go untied and undefeated. who survived the attack after escaping from police officer were killed. The helicopter flight Langer, reminded me of Jim Bowie, the leader of the rag-tag bunch of ruffians at the Alamo. Jim Langer played in 141 consecutive games Apartment 2, suggested that it was much more crews ran for cover, but the Israeli athletes were over eight years, including six Pro Bowls. An likely that his room was bypassed because he bound together and trapped. After the initial Nobody makes it to the top alone. Nearly every offensive lineman on the Dolphins’ starting ankle injury during a game against the Green was housed with members of the Israeli shooting fusillade, in which the terrorists also shot out Bay Packers ended his season in 1979. Langer team. The terrorists had struggled to subdue the the floodlights that had been illuminating the team had been cut by another team. Bob Kuechenberg had been cut by the Eagles, as was then traded to the Minnesota Vikings unarmed men in Apartment 1; it is unlikely that tarmac, the scene settled into a tense stalemate before the 1980 season. He played two seasons they had wished to engage in a close-quarters punctuated by sporadic gunfire. well as Wayne Moore by the 49er’s and Larry Little by the Chargers. They had been throw- with the Vikings and retired at the end of the gun battle with world-class marksmen in the Onlookers surrounded the airfield, and 1981 season. opening minutes of their operation. aways. Picking up Jim Langer off waivers from sportscaster Jim McKay, who was anchoring the Cleveland Browns was the best business Football is the ultimate team sport. Jim Langer In Apartment 3 the terrorists gathered more Olympic coverage for the U.S. network ABC, decision since Disney started drawing that played in three Super Bowls (VI, VII, and VIII), hostages and forced them back to Apartment provided television viewers with preliminary talking mouse. yet there are many great Hall-of-Fame players 1. Wrestler Gad Tsabari broke from the group updates. At midnight, a German official James “Jim” John Langer was born in Little who never got the chance. “Deacon” Jones, and dashed down a flight of stairs toward an announced that all the hostages had been freed Merlin Olsen, Dick Butkus and Barry Sanders underground parking garage, and Weinberg and all the terrorists had been killed, a report Falls, Minnesota, on May 16, 1948. Langer once claimed that the football fields he played on in were a few who missed out. Earl Campbell, took advantage of the confusion to again fight that proved to be tragically premature. Just after O.J. Simpson, Gayle Sayers, Eric Dickerson, the attackers. Weinberg had nearly gained midnight, a terrorist tossed a hand grenade into high school were partially cut from cornfields; and that if you ran out a pass pattern into the end Jason Taylor, Derrick Thomas and Lee Roy control of a terrorist’s gun when he was shot one of the helicopters, killing all but one of Selmon are some others. In 1987, Jim Langer and killed. Despite being on crutches due to the Israeli hostages aboard; David Berger, an zone, you would end up in the Platte River. At Royalton High School, Jim played basketball, was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame an injury during competition, Yossef Romano, American-born wrestler, succumbed to smoke in his first year of eligibility. Very few athletes a weightlifter, also made an attempt to disarm inhalation before rescue personnel could reach football and was a pretty good pitcher for the baseball team. Those were actually the only looked better wearing the Gold Jacket. He is one of the terrorists. Romano was killed and his him. A second terrorist sprayed the interior of one of only four Dolphins elected in their first mutilated body was left on the floor of Apartment the other helicopter with bullets at close range, three sports they had. Jim’s baseball coach had played quarterback at South Dakota State. year. The others are Dan Marino, Paul Warfield 1 as a warning. The terrorists demanded the murdering the five remaining Israelis. and Jason Taylor. liberation of more than 200 Palestinians held in They were an NCAA Division II school in the Too late to aid in the rescue effort, the armored North Central Conference. Jim went with his Jim played a total of 151 games in 12 years. Israeli prisons, the release of Andreas Baader cars finally reached the runway, but their and Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction coach for a visit and liked it. Jim signed with He recovered two fumbles. It has been written crews had no knowledge of the deployment South Dakota State and played some offensive that Jim Langer was one of the greatest centers from German prisons, and the provision of of police personnel in the field and no way an airplane to fly them to a safe destination guard and tackle and, eventually, at linebacker. in NFL history. Langer was voted the Miami to communicate with them. A gunman ran Langer was voted Honorable Mention All- Dolphins’ Most Valuable Player in 1975. The in the Middle East. While negotiations were toward a position where one of the helicopter ongoing, a planned rescue attempt had to be American in 1969. Jim graduated in 1970 with Jim Langer Award is given to the nation’s top pilots and a police sniper had taken cover. The a degree in economics. Bob Nussbaumer, a NCAA Division II lineman each year. Langer terrorist was shot and killed by the sniper, but scout from the Cleveland Browns, offered him has been inducted into the Dolphins’ Honor Creating Dreams the movement on the darkened runway drew a tryout. Jim signed as a free agent in 1970, for Roll and included in their Walk of Fame. He is fire from one of the armored cars, and both the $50 a game. The Browns were a great team, also a member of the NFL’s 1970s All-Decade pilot and sniper were seriously wounded by and nobody knew who Langer was. He was Team. for Island Homeowners friendly fire. By 12:30 am on September 6, the since 1987 still on the roster at the end of the pre-season. shooting had stopped, and the 20-hour reign of Blanton Collier of the Browns told him they Jim Langer died on Thursday, August 29, 2019, • New Homes terror was over. Eleven Israelis had been killed, thought he could play, and he would be placed of congestive heart failure. The Pro Football • Remodels along with one Munich policeman, and five on the taxi squad after he had passed through Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, flew their flag at • Additions Black September terrorists lay dead. Three of waivers. When a player is placed on waivers half-staff to honor his legacy. Jim was 71 years • Repairs the gunmen were captured. At 3:00 am McKay, he can be picked up by any team in the first 24 old and living at Coon Rapids, Minnesota, with his wife Linda. He is also survived by four • No job too big who had been broadcasting from the Olympic hours. The next morning, Langer was told that Village for 14 straight hours, summarized the children. Sometimes you have to travel though or too small he had been picked up by the Miami Dolphins. tragic outcome of the botched rescue with the the valley to stand on top of the mountain. Jim words “They’re all gone.” For the first time in Wayne Moore, a fine left-offensive tackle, Langer went from an undrafted free agent to a Call 774-7043 for estimate history, the Olympic Games were suspended, would be his roommate in Miami. The Dolphins Hall-of-Fame center. When we lose someone for 24 hours, in tribute to the murdered athletes. were rebuilding, and there were 22 rookies on who made the game better, it gives us pause. It www.billgoinhomes.com the team. Langer was placed on the taxi squad seems that he was taken away so early. for about three weeks and then moved to the final roster. He given #62 and placed at the Andy Purvis is a local author and radio center position. In 1970, he signed his first personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. contract for $14,000 and played mostly special com for all the latest info on his books or to teams. Monte Clark became his offensive- listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books line coach. Langer did not start at center until are available online and can be found in the 1972, the year the Dolphins went undefeated. local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be “I played every down of every game that year,” contacted at [email protected]. Also said Langer. The winner’s share of Super Bowl listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s VII was $15,000 per player. Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of “Coach Don Shula was the most intense man the Houston Astros. I had ever met,” said Langer. You can’t pick

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Windy We always get at least one big push of water birds that have stuck around all summer, which we’ll see how it goes. shorelines are usually into the back bays and start the transition into likely means they were nesting. I’ve had the full of bait sources fall fishing patterns. The rise of the tide scatters usual black chinned and ruby throat, but I also swept up in the rough baitfish and gamefish as well. High water floods have at least two buff-bellies that have been conditions. Drift fish all the back lakes, flats, and tributaries. Mother Part time Island hanging around. You must stay very diligent on with popping corks Ocean reaches back with her hands and fingers Residents Liz and maintaining your feeders to keep them around with live shrimp and/ of tide and grabs all of her babies and brings Stan with a massive in a steady supply. or gulp soft plastic them out towards the sea. This marks the start of Bull Red from the baits. Wade with some of the most amazing migrations of bait and edge of the ICW topwaters and soft fish we see each year. Now is the time of year Channel this week! plastics throwing to come out and experience schools of redfish Cut mullet. towards the shoreline. flowing like a river through the bay, rolling jack If you are drifting keep fish swarming into a frenzy attacking mullet, your engine down so that you touch bottom, get big trout blowing schools of finger mullet into started and raise everything up and idle out. the air, flounder gathering in schools along the Drifting in with your motor up out of the water is channel’s edge, and first light glowing across going to leave you up where you need to get out thousands of mullet being engulfed by every and push. The massive amounts of bait available predatory gamefish we have. Some of the best to hungry fish sometimes makes fishing hard. Ruby throat hummingbird photo by fishing of the year is about to break open, but Look for the best lunar feeding time to increase Jay Gardner sometimes the changes make local anglers your chances. Using scratch their heads and jump off the track. Keep varied bait can make a I talked last week about one of the Texas Parks it simple and your eyes open and stay on the bite! and Wildlife changes that took effect the other big difference in your Buffbelly hummingbird photo by day (kill-key law), but another one is the use catching as well. Bait Jay Gardner of non-offset hooks when shark fishing. I’m High tides stands only carry a really not catching the logic in this change, limited range of natural This week the bait. Cast netting finger I don’t have to tell you loyal readers that the other than it’s falling in line with Federal water rose two weather is changing though. The tropical storm fishing regulations. It still doesn’t make sense mullet, small pin perch, feet in two days. mud minnows can that is disintegrating down in Mexico while I though, making people use non-offset (straight The low pressure type this has caused some pretty stiff north circle)hooks. For those uninitiated, offset hook offer a wide variety of system out in the options when targeting winds over the past few days, along with high tend to roll more into the corner of the mouth Gulf pushed water tides at the beach and depressed temperatures. of a shark than a non-offset, which may be finicky gamefish. in and, like I said, Some of these species This has caused the hummingbirds around my swallowed easier. scattered fish. I My friend Trey with place to go completely ballistic, and there are are top picks in trout a nice afternoon The other part of that is the use of non- Big Box of fish for a immediately move and red fishs’ diets constant aerial dogfights. I have noticed that stainless steel hooks. Stainless hook last towards areas that trout he caught they are dropping the fluid levels at a much Big family! Fall fishing yet unavailable at along the shoreline much longer, and if there’s a breakoff or a cut- has started off with a funnel baitfish,bait stands. Most higher rate of speed. or shorelines that of Laguna Shores off, then stainless may stick around and cause BANG! of the stomach The storm, besides making my allergies go off, a shark trouble. The idea is that carbon steel they will push up contents I’ve found in Flour Bluff. Live may induce an early fall, and hence an early rusts quicker, and is more prone to fall out high against during have been of smaller croaker. migration, if it continues to lurk around for quicker. However if you’re coating your carbon higher tides. Think about how easy it would baitfish than what the next week or so like the weather wonks are steel hooks, they still last a long time, but still be to pick quarters up out of a two-foot pool I’m using. Small pin telling us. This will also kick off the schooling maintain compliance with TPWD and Florida compared to diving down retrieving them in ten perch about the size of a 50 cent piece are and migration of many of our bay fish, and Wildlife Commission (FWC) regulations. I’ll feet of water. This holds true for fish looking to excellent baits for drifting under a cork. Those it wouldn’t surprise me if reports of redfish bet the Commissioners didn’t see that one hunt baitfish. More water means more places to monster bull redfish will eat them like candy! at Packery jetty start pouring in. We were coming, ha! Oz has some pretty good hooks on hide, as well as more water above and below to just getting to the point where the dirty, cold his website. escape an attack. 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Texans don’t abide cheaters, particularly in and over the summer I read an interesting article nests laid on the Texas coast were laid in Padre their fishing tournaments. An individual was in the Island Moon about the funding cuts for Island and the Padre Island National Seashore. Wardens Catch Up to East Texas recently sentenced to jail time, restitution the Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery (Please see the table attached.) Poaching Ring of nearly $3,000, suspension of his fishing program at Padre Island National Seashore. license for a year and banishment from fishing I am a high school student who loves my Game wardens in Smith and Wood counties The article described how the reduction in grant in tournaments after he was caught cheating. home. Without our resident Kemp’s Ridley sea recently put a halt to a massive poaching money from the National Fish and Wildlife The court decision was the culmination of a turtles, my home wouldn’t be the same. Turtle network involving 12 individuals responsible Foundation was due to recommendations game warden investigation into bass fishing releases are the highlight of the summer, and for the illegal killing of at least 28 white-tailed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric tournament fraud on Decker Lake in Travis and draw in visitors from all over to our island. This deer and 50 feral hogs. The investigation began Administration, which disapproves of the Bastrop counties. The individual used a unique year alone, there were 25 releases with more in February with information about a deer that sleight of hand during a catch-and-release process of ‘relocation’ of sea turtle eggs. had been shot off a county road at night. Game than 16,000 people attending. Countless videos kayak fishing event that used photos taken by The relocation process used at the Padre of the events show the baby sea turtles, with wardens conducted several interviews and soon contestants out on the water of their catches learned this was not an isolated incident. In fact, Island National Seashore removes the sea their big eyes and small flippers, clambering placed on a measuring board, with the angler turtle eggs deposited on the beach and takes over the sand towards the sweeping sea. When it was just the tip of the iceberg. By the summer, having the most inches of bass in the aggregate investigators had documented evidence that them to facilities where the eggs are incubated the miniscule turtles reach the cool surf, they declared the winner. Upon inspection of the until the hatchlings are ready for release. The paddle furiously, relentlessly, determined to a dozen subjects collectively committed more violators vessel, a cut tail of a bass was found than 600 violations during the last two years, NOAA prefers that the eggs be left in the sand make it over the next wave and into the wide in the paddle well of the kayak. The violator where they were laid until they hatch. However, expanse of ocean. These babies’ fierce will to ranging in severity from Class C misdemeanors initially stated he found the cut tail in the reeds to State Jail felonies. All the deer and hogs had we have vehicles that cross over the National survive leaves onlookers with an unforgettable and was taking it to shore to turn it in. Later the Seashore all the time and pose a major threat memory. Our sea turtles are beautiful evidence been killed on private property at night; shot violator confirmed to have used the tail to place from public roadways with the aid of spotlights. to nests, and vehicle access to these beaches of the character of this island and are an integral over another bass, using his hand to cover the cannot be prohibited because of the deed piece of Padre Island history. The scientists at The dead animals were left to rot where they questionable area, to make the fish look longer fell. Cases are pending. restrictions put in place when the formerly Padre Island National Seashore work hard on multiple occasions. privately-owned land became public land. For to keep our turtles, including the critically Taking Trouble off the Road The Pool is Closed Padre Island National Seashore, the process of endangered Kemp’s Ridleys, thriving, but to relocation is beneficial to the sea turtles, not On Aug. 17, a couple of Van Zandt County do so, they need funding. I urge you to please An Abilene game warden received information only because it protects the nests and hatchlings game wardens encountered an ATV operating do what you can to help preserve this unique about a family in Hamlin possessing an from vehicles, and also because it lessens some on a public road near Lake Tawakoni. As treasure. alligator. The concerned citizen stated that he effects of rising global temperatures. wardens made contact with the four-wheeler saw photos posted on Snapchat. The warden Sea turtles are subject to temperature-dependent operator they observed a Land Rover coming drove to the suspect’s house, asked if he could sex determination, meaning a sea turtles’ Turtle Count to a stop close behind and the driver exit the see the alligators, and was led to the back yard gender is determined by the temperature of the vehicle. While one warden made contact with where he discovered five baby alligators in a nest. Normally, sea turtle nests are supposed to KEMP’S RIDLEY TURTLE the operator of the four-wheeler, the other made small swimming pool. The warden seized the fluctuate in temperature to produce a near equal contact with the driver of the Land Rover. As alligators and took them to the Abilene Zoo So far this year, 190 nests have been mix of male and female turtles. However, due the warden approached the Land Rover, he for holding until arrangements could be made. confirmed on the Texas coast including to increasing global temperatures, more sea noticed the driver make an effort to re-enter Case is pending further investigation. (north to south in state): the vehicle and ordered him to step away. The turtles are being born female. This can result in subject ignored the commands and tried to A Repeat Offender a skewed ratio of female and male turtles and 3 Bolivar Peninsula reach inside the door, at which time the warden can affect turtle populations. When the eggs While checking bank fishermen along the East 4 Galveston Island restrained him with handcuffs. Wardens soon are incubated, the nest temperature is under Fork of the Trinity River near Forney, a game found a loaded pistol in a magnetic holster control, meaning there is a more even mix of 0 Brazoria County, N. of Surfside warden approached a group of three individuals inside the driver’s door frame, where the man male and female turtles. By incubating the eggs, he observed fishing. An inspection of their 6 Surfside Beach was reaching. They also discovered an M4 rifle the scientists at Padre Island National Seashore catch revealed undersized catfish as small as 6 and various narcotics. The investigation went are both protecting the eggs from vehicles and 0 Quintana Beach inches in length and undersized white bass, as on to show that the ATV was stolen, the pistol assisting the recovery of endangered sea turtle 0 Bryan Beach well as game fish being used for bait. During was stolen, and the rifle was also flagged as populations despite the challenges of climate an explanation of the regulations, one of the 0 Brazoria County, N. of Sargent Beach stolen. The driver of the Land Rover was also change trends. men became increasingly belligerent toward the a convicted felon. Pending charges include a 0 Sargent Beach warden. When told that he was going to receive Funding for Padre Island National Seashore is pair of third degree felonies, and three state jail a citation he grew even more agitated and especially important because of the species of 3 Matagorda Peninsula felonies. refused to give his name. The game warden then turtles that come to our shores. We receive more 0 Matagorda Island Game Wardens Cracking Down on Boat attempted to place the subject under arrest for Kemp’s Ridley nests here than in any other 2 San Jose Island Thefts failure to ID, but the man pulled away and was location in the United States. Kemp’s Ridleys taken to the ground. The subject was charged are the rarest species of sea turtle and have been 8 Mustang Island The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s with fishing without a license, failure to ID, and listed internationally as critically endangered. Marine Theft Investigation Unit recently resisting arrest. At the jail, three warrants out of 118 North Padre Island, including 110 at conducted a saturation patrol of Galveston In another edition of the Island Moon, I was Padre Island National Seashore Dallas County were discovered, two of which distressed to learn it was people who initiated and Harris counties that resulted in the seizure were for resisting arrest. 40 South Padre Island of seven vessels and issuance of numerous the downfall of the Kemp’s Ridleys in the first citations. The patrol focused on licensed marine No Fame, No Shame place. In 1947, there were an estimated 40,000 6 Boca Chica Beach dealer inspections, dock checks, and boat ramp Kemp’s Ridleys storming a stretch of beach Just before midnight back in July, a Van in Rancho Nuevo, Tamaulipas, Mexico and LOGGERHEAD TURTLE patrols. The special unit of Texas game wardens Zandt County game warden approached three began ramping up efforts in January 2018 nesting, but nearly 90% of their nests were So far this year, 8 nests have been confirmed individuals as they were wrapping up their destroyed by people taking turtle eggs and some on the Texas coast, including (north to south and since then has seized 104 vessels with a night of fishing on the Sabine River. The combined value of over $555,000. The unit’s nesting females. By 1985, despite actions taken in state): warden asked if they had any luck and after a by the Mexican government, there were only investigations have resulted in 149 boat tax long pause and some blank stares one of the 1 San Jose Island evasion cases, recovering more than $128,000 702 nests found. Reading further, I discovered individuals spoke up and said they did well. The that Padre Island, my home, was part of the 4 North Padre Island, including 3 at Padre in revenue, and issuance of over 200 citations. warden had them open their ice chest, which While conducting the saturation patrol, the Kemp’s Ridleys’ historical nesting zone, and I Island National Seashore contained 27 striped and hybrid bass, 12 over was proud to learn how scientists here at Padre game wardens received overwhelming support their limit. All three individuals were cited for 3 South Padre Island from the general public for their efforts. With Island National Seashore worked to help re- over their daily bag limits. On a side note, all GREEN TURTLE these results, it is clear that the Marine Theft establish the Kemp’s Ridleys nesting grounds three individuals claimed to be huge fans of and to safeguard against the extinction of the Investigation Unit is an effective tool for the Texas game warden TV show “Lone Star So far this year, 11 nests have been assuring dealer compliance, preventing boat species. The process of relocation coupled with confirmed on the Texas coast, including: Law.” However, when asked if they wanted this rearing the hatchlings in safety until they’d theft, tax and title fraud, and recovery of stolen incident to be filmed, they declined. 11 Padre Island National Seashore vessels. grown large enough to avoid predators enabled the Kemp’s Ridley population to rise. Out of all New Laws for Feral Hog Hunting, License Validation Take Effect September 1

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POA News by Marvin Jones, President By Todd Hunter, District 32 this month. The Celebration will be held on September 19-22 in Rockport. This year the As always, let me have 2019. Please think about volunteering and The Coastal Bend is one of your thoughts. You can helping clean up beaches in our area. Look for event will feature 75 vendors, more than 12 the top tourism destinations speakers, and a variety of nature inspired field reach me at marvin@ the Adopt A Beach website and on Facebook in the State of Texas. This is in great part due pipoa.net for more details. trips. While the Celebration is designed for to our region’s many historical, cultural and bird watchers and those who follow migration Hurricane-Hurricane- Todd Hunter-Greg Smith- Friday, August coastal attractions. I would like to spend some patterns, it can be educational, inspiring, and Hurricane- This is the 30, 2019, I was fortunate to have an opportunity time discussing the different components of the fun for all. For more information about tickets hurricane season. Although there does not to chat with these two elected officials. Todd tourism industry in our region, starting with or the Celebration in general, visit https://www. appear to be a tropical storm looming on our Hunter, our State Representative, advised that nature‐based tourism. While Texas beaches are rockport-fulton.org/HB. horizon, being prepared is always a necessity. the Wind Storm insurance issue is not over. popular tourist destinations, nature tourism is We learned a lesson from Hurricane Harvey, TWIA will be back seeking a rate increase. one of the fastest- growing market segments Also, Beachtoberfest will be held between in addition to the damage to buildings and We must stay vigilant and be prepared to use in tourism activities in our area. Today, I would September 13- October 30. For eight weeks this houses, items left on decks and docks went our voices to fight off a rate increase. Stay like to share with you information about this festival will have different events each week, directly into the canals. Poorly constructed tuned for further developments. Greg Smith, important type of tourism as well as a number including runs, movie nights, a pumpkin patch, decks and docks collapsed into the canals. It our Island City Councilman, advised that the of unique nature-based attractions and activities an art walk, and much more. However, the event cost the PIPOA a great deal of money to have decision to allow or disallow UTV’s on the found in our area. will feature events like Fishing for the Fallen Veterans Benefit Tournament, which will be held these items fished out and removed from the Island will be made sooner than later. The The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department canals. Please secure or at least have a plan ISAC input is important to the Council. The from September 13-14. The Texas Super chef defines nature tourism as tourism based on the Throwdown Series will be held from September to secure items on the decks and docks. Now City is considering placing splash pads at natural attractions in the area and may include would be a great time to make repairs to decks parks in the City. My question to him was, 18-21. Also, the Port A Music Fest, with acts such activities as birdwatching, stargazing, that will perform at venues throughout the and docks, making them more secure. when do we get a splash pad on the island for camping, hiking, hunting, fishing and visiting our young people to enjoy? He responded town, will be held October 4-5. Beachtoberfest The City has on its website information parks or wildlife habitats. The Coastal Bend by noting he would check with the Parks will be a great opportunity to enjoy the music, and checklists regarding preparation for a is home to several parks and preserves that department and see what the schedule is. Mr. food, and the culture of the Coastal Bend. For hurricane. Please take a look at it, make a serve as a refuge for migratory birds and other Dobson Lewis, an ISAC representative, is on more information, visit https://portaransas.org/ plan, and be prepared. wildlife. These habitats contribute to one of the beachtoberfest/ the Parks advisory committee. I will check best examples of nature‐based activities driving UTV Survey- The PIPOA conducted a with him on this matter. visitors to our area: bird watching. With over If you have questions regarding any of the survey regarding the member’s opinion Boat Ramps- Please note, there is new 215 species of birds spotted in the area, the information mentioned in this week’s article, whether to allow or disallow UTV’s on the signage at the boat ramps. Audubon Society has routinely named Nueces please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or streets. There were 365 responses to the County as one of the premier destinations for District Office. Please always feel free to survey. The results of the survey are 62.64% Paddle for Parkinson’s- The annual event bird contact my office if you have any questions For and 37.36% Against. The survey was took place last Saturday. The PIPOA was or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if done to provide ISAC with an opportunity delighted to cooperate with them and provide watching in the country. The Texas Parks and you would like to contact my office regarding to obtain opinions from the members. The support and service. Wildlife Department’s Great Texas Coastal constituent services. As always, my offices are Birding Trail is an online resource providing ISAC shall provide the City Council with a Litter Critter- The next Litter Critter will available at any time to assist with questions, information about the best locations to spot recommendation regarding the UTV’s. The be Saturday, September 21, 2019, at Briscoe concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- birds and other wildlife. For more information survey was unscientific at best but hopefully King Pavilion parking lot from 9:00 AM until 463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603). about the different wildlife habitats, parks, and gives some guidance to the ISAC. 1:00 PM. If you wish to volunteer, please nature preserves in our area, visit https://tpwd. - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 Tourist- The number of tourists on the Island reach out to Joe Hall. texas.gov/huntwild/wildlife/wildlife-trails/ctc. Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). over the Labor Day weekend seemed to be PIPOA Board Meeting- The next regular If you enjoy nature and birds then be sure to He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. down. The beaches were not as crowded, and scheduled Board Meeting will be Tuesday, visit the 31st Annual HummerBird Celebration texas.gov or at 512-463-0672 I didn’t hear about a back-up over the bridge. September 24, 2019, at the Holiday Inn Beach Clean Up- The next event for the Express on the Island from 5:30 PM until beach clean up is Saturday, September 21, 7:00 PM.

Flour Bluff ISD Board Choses Committee for District of Innovation

Editor’s note: The Flour Bluff ISD Board of Administrator Directors has appointed a committee to develop Shea Hernandez – Primary Administrator a District of Innovation Plan to submit to the state. The plan can exempt the district from Amy Seeds – Early Childhood Learning chosen tenets of the Texas Education Code. Of Administrator the thirty-two members only one is known to us Beth Huckabee – High School Teacher as an Island resident. Maria McDonel – Junior High Teacher The list is as follows: Micki Beauregard – Intermediate Teacher Dr. David Freeman – Superintendent Misty Beckwith – Elementary Teacher Dr. Linda Schaum – Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum Donna Kesselring – Primary Teacher Dr. Linda Barganski – Director of Special Christina Martinez – Early Childhood Programs Center Teacher Edgar Van Geem Director of Special Cheryl Hooper – High School Parent Education Michelle Ewing – Jr. High Parent Jeanette Revels – Director of Human Leann Minners – Elementary Parent Resources Katie Hoover – Primary Parent Kim Sneed – Public Information Coordinator Tamara Blair – Early Childhood Parent Chris Steinbruck – Athletic Director Jennifer Welp – Board Member Tracy Erickson – High School Administrator Nicole Peters Board Member Kelly Boswell – Junior High Administrator Dr. Alida Needham – Community Member Dr. Sal Alvarado – Intermediate Lynn Kaylor – Community Member Administrator Jennifer Martin – Community Member Dr. Nikol Youngberg – Elementary Christi Zamora – Business Member

Coastal Issues Forum to Feature “Electric Vehicles, Charging Stations and the Nueces

Electric Cooperative Initiatives” Republicans from across the Coastal Bend gathered at the Solomon P. Ortiz International Center this week to hear Texas Senator John Cornyn and look ahead to the The Coastal Bend Bays Foundation is hosting Albert Garza is the Business Development 2020 elections. More than five hundred local party members attended and hear Cornyn John Weber, Corpus Christi’s City Captain Director for the Nueces Electric Cooperative. for National Drive Electric Week, and Albert predict that the statewide turnout for the November 2020 balloting will be about eleven Please join us at Del Mar Center for Economic million voters, up from eight million in 2018. Garza, of the Nueces Electric Cooperative, Development in room 106. will discuss the status of Electric Vehicles and “Republicans are in for the fight of our lives,” Cornyn said. “The representatives who Charging Stations in Corpus Christi as well The doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and the win in 2020 will be in charge of redistricting after the 2020 census.” as how the Nueces Electric Cooperative is presentation will begin at 6 p.m. Cornyn is up for re-election in his six-year Senate term. supporting these efforts at its monthly Coastal For more information, see our website, Issues Forum on Monday, September 9th, at the Facebook event or call Cristal Guerrero at 361- Del Mar Center for Economic Development, 882-3439. rm. 106, 3209 S. Staples, Corpus Christi. WHAT: “Electric Vehicles, Charging Stations John Weber has a personal interest in the use and the Nueces Electric Cooperative Initiatives” of renewables – throughout his life he has converted his personal home to a passive solar WHEN: Monday, September 9th from 5:30 house, his sailboat and vehicle to solar charging p.m. – 7:00 p.m. fully electric systems and much more. He has WHERE: Del Mar Center for Economic been promoting and driving electric vehicles Development, rm. 106, 3206 S. Staples St. since 2006.

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September 8 is Grandparents’ Day, when posing as a grandchild, they may ask that their By Chef Vita Jarrin disc. Bake for about 20 minutes and add we get to celebrate the love and appreciation parents not be called, saying they don’t want Whether you are trying to embrace the fall the chopped walnuts. Bake another 5-10 we have for Gramps and Nana. Chances are to get in trouble. This is an attempt to keep season upon us, or just looking for some fall min. While baking those last 5 minutes, heat your grandparents looked out for you, and people from figuring out it’s not actually their like foods for inspiration, this recipe will help the apricot preserves. Remove the galette Grandparents’ Day is chance to return the favor. grandchild making the call. you either way. Pears are certainly a great fall and let cool 5 minutes and brush the center fruit and often overlooked, in certain regions of with the preserves. This will add a touch of Better Business Bureau suggests taking a few Better Business Bureau serving the Heart of the U.S. Having lived in the Midwest, we used sweetness, tartness as well as shine. You can minutes to learn how we can protect them from Texas has the following tips for anyone targeted and or ate pears as much as we did apples. Here brush the whole tart if you’re going to eat it scammers looking to steal their money. In 2018, by an emergency or grandparent scam: 20.8% of the scams reported to BBB Scam in South Texas, it seems that we don’t see them right away, but if not, I wouldn’t recommend Tracker were filed by consumers 65 and older. • Don’t act immediately. Scammers can used as much. Maybe just my perception, but you brushing the dough, because it will While they were the age group least susceptible be convincing, so you may be tempted to I’m at HEB a lot and as a Chef, I do look at soften the crust and make it less crispy. to scams, they reported the highest median dollar act quickly to help a loved one in trouble. the shoppers as well as the produce to see what loss at $400. This means if your grandparent Reach out to family to confirm your people like to eat and buy. Tip of the week: friend or relative’s whereabouts, even does get scammed,, they’ll probably lose more One great thing about pears is that they versatile The sour cream adds two elements to the if the caller asks you not to. More than money than the average scam victim. and come in various varieties, just like apples. recipe. It puffs the dough up as well as add the likely, you’ll find the person you thought Some of the more common ones are… Bosc acid required to balance flavors. This dough What is the reason behind this? Likely, you were talking to is safe at home. You pears, the ones with the brown skin. These are recipe works for sweet as well as savory options, scammers know that older adults have greater can also ask the caller specific questions sweet and a little grainy, but very juicy, when therefore, you can play with ingredients, add financial resources, and therefore target them that only the real person would be able to ripe. There’s the Anjou pear. These pears craisnons, apples, zucchini, various cheeses etc. with costlier scams. BBB’s Scam Tracker Risk answer. Report showed that investment scams, travel have a very green skin, but turn yellow when The options are endless. ;) The Important thing and vacation scams, and tech support scams • Know the signs. Knowing the signs of ripe. These are sweet as well. Other varieties is to have fun, try new things and Enjoy! were the riskiest for consumers 65 and above an emergency scam can help you identify include, Red Anjou, Red Bartlett, Bartlett, and last year. However, another ploy that seniors it quickly. Oftentimes, the scammer one of my favorites, the Asian Pear. claims to be out of the country when they may encounter is the emergency scam, often An Asian pear tastes like a cross between an were arrested or experienced a medical called, “the grandparent scam.” apple and a pear. They are sweet, crispy, a little emergency. Asks for money through tart and delicious. They are typically displayed Scammers call consumers, often targeting gift cards, wire transfer, or some other in a white mesh sleeve, to protect them from older people, and pretend to be a friend, relative untraceable form is another red flag. or grandchild. They may start the conversation bruising in transport. Of course there are with, “Do you know who this is?” and use Share these signs and tips with the grandparents several more varieties for you to choose from whatever name is guessed. Then, they claim to in your life to help keep them safe, and Happy but which ever one you choose, know that you be in trouble or have an emergency and need Grandparents’ Day from BBB serving the Heart can eat them raw, skin on or off, poached, baked money via wire transfer or gift card. If they are of Texas! and even stewed into a pear compote or sauce. Great addition to cheese boards too. This week, we will be making a tart or also Thoughts From Dr. Tom known as a galette, which a free form disc of dough, hand shaped and filled with goat cheese, Concussion pears and topped with walnuts and a drizzle of honey. The dough can be used in a savory Remember When By Dr. Tom Dorrell IMPACT test. This is part of most athletic or sweet application, such as a tomato, basil programs now in order to better detect athletes galette or fig jam and brie cheese. It is that time of year again, at risk. IMPACT is a neurocognitive evaluation Padre Isles Golf kids are back in school and that is done objectively to detect deficits and Crust Ingredients: sports are back going full can be compared from baseline to post injury 2 C All Purpose Flour Course swing. Injuries in sports to recovery to better decide the diagnosis and and particularly head injuries are sure to occur. return to baseline for return to play. 1 tsp. kosher salt What follows are a few basic things everyone ¾ C Cold unsalted butter cubed should know about concussions. Concussion One the diagnosis is made the athlete needs occurs when an injury to the head occurs either cognitive and physical rest for a couple of 1 Tbsp. sour cream days depending on the severity and associated from a direct blow or a shaking type injury Pinch of sugar or two where the brain bounces around inside the symptoms. They are removed from sport until skull. These injuries can cause complex neuro- they are symptom free for a week typically 2 tbsp. or 3 of Ice water to bring dough hormonal changes in the brain that can affect and preferably their IMPACT test returns to together function and also physical bruising and edema baseline. They are then put thru a 5 to 6 step 1 Egg beaten for egg wash w/ 1 tbsp. water when severe. return to play protocol starting with symptom limited activity the first day. This is followed Raw Sugar for topping Symptoms of concussion vary from headache by light aerobic exercise such as stationary Honey Goat Cheese Filling Ingredients to amnesia. Photosensitivity to light, inability to bike or walking this will progress thru sport concentrate, balance and fine motor skill issues related exercise then noncontact training drills Kosher salt and pepper, to taste all can be part of the equation. Sometimes the to full contact practice and finally return to Couple of shakes of cinnamon patient just “feels off” as the main complaint. sport. If symptoms return during any step the In sports the coaches, trainers and officials progression is halted and started over. 1 tsp. minced thyme leave have to keep a keen eye on their athletes. Many 6 -8 oz. fresh goat cheese times there is a collision that is violent or an Many parents and athletes get frustrated by athlete gets up slow looks dazed or stumbles. this process because they don’t understand the 2 tbsp. honey ramifications of improperly handled concussion The athlete many times will try to stay in the 1 large pear, thinly sliced (2 pears if small) competition and this requires close attention treatment. If these are not handled correctly from the staff and officials to recognize and we can see poor outcomes for our athletes juice of 1 lemon remove the affected athlete. and even death with second impact syndrome. 1/4 cup chopped walnuts This is a condition in which the healing brain Sideline assessment evaluates physical suffers another blow and loses its ability to ½ C apricot preserves for brushing the baked stability, was their loss of consciousness? autoregulate and the result is acutely high galette Are they confused, gait or balance instability, intracranial swelling and pressure that herniates Directions: confusion, nystagmus, memory issues. Many the brainstem and kills the athlete on the field. teams have gone to the sideline impact mini- This occurs when an athlete stays in the game Preheat oven to 375 degrees assessment tool that is administered on an Ipad. after having a concussion or later when trying If there is any loss of consciousness they should In a bowl or food processor, add flour, to recover from a concussion and is put in the salt, sugar, then cut in the butter leaving be referred to the ER for a physician assessment game prematurely by parents or coaches. and cat scan. If they are stable but suspicious for lumps of butter in flour and then mix in the concussion they are removed from competition The best situation is when trainers are accurate sour cream. Wrap dough and let rest in and their helmet or gear taken away to prevent and do not over diagnose concussion and the the refrigerator, while you get your filling them from trying to slip back into the game. parents and athletes and coaches are compliant ingredients ready. For the pear filling, with post injury restrictions. IMPACT testing prepare the cheese by adding salt & pepper They are referred to the doctor the following has had a positive influence on this process. The and cinnamon. Adding the honey add day or the ER depending on severity of data on concussion has grown in recent years and sweetness as well playability to the cheese, symptoms. They will undergo medical we are just now getting a better understanding for spreading. Cut your pears in thin slices evaluation and if possible a post injury IMPACT of this condition. Be safe out there and if you ,with skin on and put them in a bowl. test to compare with a preseason baseline are concerned about a possible concussion or Squeeze the lemon over the pears to prevent you need that stat evaluation and cat scan we are browning. When ready to shape galette, always available and work closely with all the flour the counter and with a rolling pin, form local schools. Good luck this season! Doc Tom two discs into circles. Place both rounds on a parchment lined baking sheet. Spread with honey infused goat cheese on the Follow us on Facebook: round, leaving about half inch all the way around without cheese or pears. Add the The Island Moon pears in a fanned, circular position. Gently lift the undressed dough and with your A year before the opening of the eighteen- Newspaper fingers fold upwards and every half inch or hole golf course at Padre Isles County so, fold the dough to the left almost making Club a writer for the Corpus Christi Send photos and letters a fold like motion. Look at the picture and Caller Times reviewed the plans for the you’ll understand what the galette will look course and wrote this analysis of how to: editor@islandmoon. like. Brush the dough with the egg wash it would play calling it the “Western St. com and sprinkle the with raw sugar over the Andrew’s.”

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It is a great deal of fun and great by Tierra Lease Services, at the American comradery for the 25 or so wounded heroes that Legion in Rockport showcasing the tournament will be there. to follow. Friday is the big tournament with Our heroes are driving in from hours away 20 boats taking off at 6 am on to find the BIG on Wednesday, the 4th and stay two days at FISH! Weigh in for the trophies and winnings Lighthouse Inn in beautiful Rockport. We will will take place 12 -1 pm at American Legion, start the procession 12:30pm from Ingleside with lunch provided by Scott Electric in Corpus VFW headed to Charlie Marshall School in and awards to follow. Then the veterans head Aransas Pass for a visit with the school kiddos. back to their families with the wonderful After this worthwhile visit, about 1:30pm the memories packed. police and sheriff escort will take us through This event would not be made possible with downtown Aransas Pass headed to Rockport. out the wonderful Heroes Cup Committee and There will be a warm welcome at the Sacred generous donations from these communities. Heart Catholic School in Rockport at 2:00pm We are looking forward to seeing the Heroes with the kiddos, teachers and officials ready smiling faces and receiving the warm South to meet the Veterans. Procession continues Texas Welcome they deserve! Hope you all can through Fulton ending up at the Lighthouse make it out on the street. Inn for check in. 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Booth payments must be the shift to reusable shopping bags or other alternatives to single-use plastic bags. To maintain the standard of quality established received by November 1, 2019. by the Art Center, all vendors must submit an Our September Bag Heroes are Holly Thomas and Jacque Hamilton, two members of application for jury. • One exhibiting artist, craftsman or our chapter. While chatting about reusable bags at a recent meeting, they pulled out business entity will be allowed per booth. the bags that they both carry in their purses to show everyone. Since the bags are made • A variety of booth sizes will be available Applicants must also send one booth shot with integrated stuff pouches, they fit easily inside a pocket, purse or backpack and are starting at $60 for a 5’x8’ booth. and two photographs representative of their ready to use in seconds. merchandise to islandholidaymarket@gmail. • A table and chairs will be provided for all com. 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Claude Gillioz 5334 Everhart Road, Suite 202, Corpus Christi, TX, 78411 (361) 947-3418 www.cgviolins.com Crossword Solution September 5, 2019 Island Moon A 18 Three Chords and the Truth By Ronnie Narmour Back Porch on Saturday [email protected] as well as Los Chuys at Shorty’s and the Ain’t nobody here but us chickens… Passing Strangers at Welcome to the other side. It’s all ours now… Treasure Island. The the island that is. Stick it with a fork, the 2019 TMR show at the Porch tourist season is officially done and in our rear was a beautiful thang. views. Me and my mermaid gal finally got to They had a good crowd run the beach since the recent rains deemed and the band sounded the roads finally passable. My little truck gets great, as always. stuck easily in the dry, loose sand and we been Thomas will be back at missing our beach terribly. But on Saturday we Thomas Michael the BP one more time this year on September did a long run from the jetty to well past pole Riley played the Tomar and the FC’s will play Waves 100 and brother, it was totally packed the entire 28. I appreciated his Resort today, Thursday the 5th. Back Porch last shout out last Saturday way with folks enjoying this perfect weather. Friday. was reprimanded by Mary Craft last week). And it was a delightful crowd of visitors. when he sang his Port A inspired song Three The Back Porch has some good shows this When we got way down the beach adjacent weekend with country singer Clay Hollis on to some of the big developments, we noticed Chords and the Truth. I hope it’s a hit and he Clay Hollis will play the Back Porch on puts me on payroll! Los Chuys is the alter-egos Friday. Friday and the rowdy rocking Shaker Hymns they had put out rows of chairs and umbrellas on Saturday. So does Shorty’s with the always and basically had claimed a big chunk of the of Tommy Procter and Roy Hollingshead, who played with Joe King Carrasco for many DO NOT MISS LIST tasty R&B outfit Starlite and the Moonbeams beach as their own. I’m not exactly sure how on Friday and the up and coming Gabe Fidel that works but my mermaid gal said it would years and now play with the Chanklas. There Coming this weekend… were a lot of yi yi yi’s and hot guitar licks that and the Back Pew Revival on Saturday. And be legal if we set up our chairs right in front of I’ll have to fill you in next week on the big over at Giggity’s our resident reggae band, The their chairs if we wanted to because the beach you could easily pick out of a JKC set. Bassist Chris Jordan with his son Jordan Scalan on Mana’ show at American Bank Center on Chanklas will take the stage on Friday and is public. I wondered if we could just claim Wednesday, my deadlines got in the way the magnificent Ulrich Ellison will play on the shade right under one of their umbrellas or keys also backed the Chuys. Jordan has become Port A’s newest resident and we have big things here. But trust me, this is a big deal. Today, Saturday. Treasure Island has Art Barrera and if there’s a charge for it. Which brings up the Thursday the 5th, Tomar and the FC’s will Scarecrow People this weekend. That ought to burning question, “What is the going rate for planned for that kid. He’s a younger version of us in the making. This gig was kind of thrown play the Waves Resort (please note that I no keep you busy for a while. Be safe out there! shade these days?” There have been times in longer use an apostrophe on Waves because I my life when I would have paid good money for together but really sounded great on the Shorty’s ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ some decent shade. I digress, sorry not sorry. porch. We’ll definitely keep it one going. Also Where was I…it was pretty darn good in the in the course of the evening, we ran by Treasure bars and restaurants all weekend and the lodges Island to catch my old pals from SA, the did well, too. By Monday noon, the ferry lines Passing Strangers. I booked this band many, were wrapping around the city but the beach many times at the Lab in Alamo Heights back Live Music was still fairly busy. But, as of this writing on in the early 2000’s. They were one of the hottest Tuesday, the masses have receded. Our island tickets in town back then, along with The Max, Point Park is now void of tourists, for the most part, and and would typically sell out the1500+ capacity 5 Card Draw @ Brewster has been rightfully returned to the locals… venue on a week night. They play a repertoire Street or 80’s and 90’s radio hits that still holds up Tonight In This Moment, New at least until the Winter Texans get here after today. This is one band that knows how to get Year’s Day, Hellzapoppin, Christmas. The endless parade of golf carts Thursday, September 5 DED @ Concrete Street will thankfully curtail for a while. We will the girls wiggling. Their front man, John Boyd, is a household name in San Antonio. Tomar & the FC’s, Jody Booth @ Pelican get some visiting fishermen, day trippers and Splendiferous @ Waves Lounge second home families, but for the most part, Resort CLAY HOLLIS SEPT 6 Swimming With Bears @ the island belongs to only us. Ain’t nobody here Free Beer Band @ SHAKER HYMNS SEPT 7 House of Rock but us chickens. So we can now spend our idle Giggity’s Stevie Start @ Island Italian SCARECROW PEOPLE SEPT 13 time watching hurricanes on TV and becoming Mike Williams @ Gaff Michael Anthony Perez @ amateur weather wonks and fortune tellers. Another Level @ RICH LOCKHART SEPT 14 Island Wine Speaking of which, pray for the poor folks in Rockit’s Ruben Limas @ Island RIPTIDE SEPT 20 Saturday, September 14 the Bahamas. Dorian stalled out on them with Italian KEVIN DEAL SEPT 21 BELT SANDER RACES “unprecedented destruction” as a cat 5 storm for Robin Blue @ (4PM) @ The Gaff two days and basically kicked the bejeezus out Scuttlebutt’s 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront Groove @ Giggity’s of them. The term CNN used was “obliterated” Rich Lockhart @ Back and regretfully, that seems correct. Reports Friday, September 6 Porch are just starting to come in and the carnage on Chanklas @ Giggity’s Selfie @ Shorty’s Great Abaco Island is horrific. I know we all Starlite & Moonbeams @ Eastside Kings Festival @ feel their pain and our collective anxiety levels Gabe Fidel and the Back Pew Revival will Shorty’s East Austin, TX are climbing because we’ve been there and all play Shorty’s on Saturday. Clay Hollis @ Back Porch La Conquist Reunion, Art Barrera @ Treasure Massore @ Brewster know it could happen again. It’s hard to believe Island Street we are only to the “D’s”. Man, the end of Spazmatics @ Brewster Treasure Island Robin Palmer @ Island November sure seems like a long ways away. If Street Italian you’re smart, you’ll get your plan together now. Stevie Start @ Island Jay Springer @ Island I can attest, running around in circles when the Italian ART BARRERA Wine hammer comes down is not a place you want Marco Ramirez @ SEPT 06 to be. Scuttlebutt’s Sunday, September 15 Daniel Garza @ Island SCARECROW PEOPLE Eastside Kings Festival @ Scattered shots… Wine East Austin, TX Roxy Roca @ House of SEPT 07 Antone & All Stars @ Me and my Rock Giggity’s mermaid gal did 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 run the gamut all Saturday, September 7 treasureislandporta Monday, September 16 weekend but for Ulrich Ellison & Tribe @ Open Jam @ Giggity’s some reason I Giggity’s wasn’t real active Gabe Fidel & Back Pew Tuesday, September 17 with my camera. Revival @ Shorty’s Paul & Victoria @ Scarecrow People @ I did get pics of Ulrich Ellison and Tribe with Sabina Giggity’s John Boyd and Passing Ellison will play Giggity’s on Saturday. Treasure Island our pal Thomas Shaker Hymns @ Back Wednesday, September 18 Strangers played Michael Riley at Treasure Island on Porch Magnus @ Giggity’s @ his show at the Sing Along Piano Bar @ Giggity’s Saturday. Brewster Street Starlite $ Moonbeams Sept 6 Xavier Wulf @ House of Back Pew Revival Sept 7 Thursday, September 19 Rock Cruise Control, John Eric, Robin Palmer @ Island Johnny Boy Sept 13 Kelly Kenning @ Brewster Italian Selfie Sept 14 Street Mike Guerra @ Toman Brothers @ Waves Scuttlebutt’s Chanklas Sept 20 Resort Janelle Shetters @ Island Mike O’Neill Sept 21 Free Beer Band @ Wine Giggity’s OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. Mike Williams @ Gaff Sunday, September 8 Passing Strangers @ Los Chuys with Tommy Procter, Roy Antone & All Stars @ Rockit’s Shaker Hymns will play the Back Porch on Hollingshead, Jordan Scalan and Chris Giggity’s Ruben Limas @ Island Saturday. John Eric @ Scuttlebutt’s Jordan played Shorty’s on Saturday. Italian Monday, September 9 Friday, September 20 Open Jam @ Giggity’s Toman Brothers @ GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR Kiya Vance @ Giggity’s Scuttlebutt’s Riptide @ Back Porch LIVE MUSIC Chanklas @ Shorty’s LIVE MUSIC Tuesday, September 10 Diamond’s Edge@ Free Beer Band Every Thurs (7-10) Paul & Victoria @ Brewster Street EVERY Chanklas on Friday (9-1) Giggity’s Nonpoint @ House of Rock NIGHT Aaron Jacob @ Stevie Start @ Island Italian Ulrich Ellison on Saturday (9-1) Scuttlebutt’s Antone & All Stars Every Sunday (9-1) Saturday, September 21 Wed, September 11 Open Jam Every Monday (8:30-12:30) Todd Dorn & Sea Drifters Kitchen Open Jered Clark @ Giggity’s @ Giggity’s Paul & Victoria Every Tuesday (7-10) Darren McGill @ Kevin Deal @ Back Porch Until 1 a.m.! Jered Clark on Wednesday (8-12) Scuttlebutt’s Expert Computer Repairs Mike O’Neill @ Shorty’s Crystal Method@ Brewster 722 Tarpon, Port Aransas, TX Thursday, September 12 Street Justin Furstenfeld @ The Movement @ House Brewster Street of Rock Free Beer Band @ Robin Palmer @ Island Giggity’s Italian Mike Williams @ Gaff Davis Gonzalez @ Island Ruben Limas @ Island Wine Italian Darren McGill @ Sunday, September 22 Scuttlebutt’s Keep Her Wild Rally w/ Chanklas, Johnny Boy, Friday, September 13 James Derkits & Carol Mike O’Neill @ Elliott @ Roberts Point Giggity’s Park (4-7) Johnny Boy @ Shorty’s Antone & All Stars @ Scarecrow People @ Back Porch Pike & Sutton @ Roberts

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