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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 March 26, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Waves Resort Island Announces By Dale Rankin What a week it’s been here on our Closing Until little sandbar. As we sit here Wednesday afternoon Summer 2021 we just got word that we are to Stay at Home. We want to send a Big Island Waves Resort Corpus Christi this Thank You out to our city and county week announced the park will close officials who had the foresight to until the summer of 2021 due to the exclude our beaches from a closure COVID-19 virus. order the language reads: “All beaches The statement read in part: The health within the geographic boundaries of and safety of our guests, employees, Nueces County are open for regular and their families, remains our top hours of operation but with a 8p.m. priority. We are taking the potential curfew, although access to such threat posed by COVID-19 very beaches may be monitored and/or seriously, therefore we have made limited to assure that no vehicles the decision to temporarily close park within one hundred (100) feet of the resort and waterpark effective another vehicle. All city and county immediately until Summer 2021. We public parks within the geographic are closing as a proactive measure boundaries of Nueces County are Social Distance playing by Laurie Lyng to protect the health and welfare of open for regular hours of operation." our patrons and our associates who Some city parks have been closed by work at the resort and park. This the City. decision is aligned with the decisions Our beaches have become very being made by many leisure and popular as activity has slowed in the Water Exchange Bridge recreation facilities all over the past week due to the closure of many country…During the closure we will businesses. Beachgoers have been intensify the daily commitment to adhering to the Social Distancing cleanliness and hygiene, including rules and the beach provides a great Project at Crucial Stage additional steps to ensure the safety stress reliever in these trying times. of our guests and associates, when Again, thank you to our city and Decision could be make as early as this week they return. When the resort re- county officials for thinking this opens in 2021, we will continue through. following official health department By Dale Rankin waivers to the agreement in exchange Calls to Axys Capital and IBC for comment were not returned by recommendations and the enhanced for a written commitment from Axys sanitation measures that have been Negotiations between the owners of Capital to construct the new canal deadline on Wednesday afternoon. the land containing the canal leading implemented for the wellbeing of our and create a Municipal Management The discussion on the bridge and the guests, employees, and community. to the long-proposed Park Road 22 District to pay for maintenance. Water Exchange Bridge and the City tax incentives come just weeks after All appropriate guestroom, event, As of Wednesday city sources said the Federal Emergency Management membership and season pass deposits of Corpus Christi are at a crucial stage that written commitment was not and could be resolved within the next Agency (FEMA) informed city will be refunded. We will also use this forthcoming and is the holdup on the officials that the agency will likely hiatus as an opportunity to upgrade week, according to sources at city canal project. hall. If not water exchange culverts our facility and guest experience for Corpus Christi Police temporarily Bridge cont. on A4 under the roadway instead of a bridge 2021 and beyond. We look forward closed the beach along the Michael becomes a “likely reality.” to a healthy, confident, future and J. Ellis Seawall on Sunday to reduce welcoming our guests return next the number of beachgoers and have The City of Corpus Christi has Summer.” maintained a steady presence even notified the owners of Waves Resort, calling off a beach volleyball game. International Bank of Commerce, and Live From The Island! The announcement means the park Maybe if volleyballers keep to two- the owners of adjacent land, Axys will miss what would have been its person teams they can stay under the Capital Management of Austin, that sixty summer in operation and the five person limit and keep playing. they are in violation of the city backed firsthfull season under management Chapter 380 Economic Development of Benchmark Resorts & Hotels. The Agreement which includes $111 park is owned by International Bank million in tax rebates from Sales of Commerce through its subsidiary Tax and Hotel Occupancy Tax. Diamond Beach Holdings, LLC. Officers from Waves Resort notified Dale Rankin the city on Monday, as required by city ordinance, that the park will remain closed until summer 2021. FOR THE The basis for the city’s claim of non- COMPLETE ORDER compliance, according to the official notice, cited requirements that the TO STAY AT HOME park must include a golf course, and We saw the first arrival of sargassum ISSUED THIS WEEK use the name Schlitterbahn unless weed this week on the beach just The first ever local newscast to be anchored from Padre Island is expected otherwise approved by the city. SEE THE ISLAND south of Bob Hall Pier. It has been to happen this week as longtime KIII anchor and Island resident Joe several years since we’ve seen Sources said this week that Gazin has set up a studio in his home. Access to the KIII studios on SPID MOON FACEBOOK deposits this size. negotiations between the private has been strictly limited due to the coronavirus and reporters, producers, owners and the city center around photographers, and anchors have been working from home. PAGE Runoff elections and gun stores whether the city is willing to grant Texas Governor Greg Abbott this week announced the postponement of the primary runoff elections, including the one for Nueces County A little Island history Constable Precinct 4, until Tuesday, July 14. Word came on Wednesday that the Texas Attorney General Schlitterbahn Project has been asked to rule on whether a Editor’s note: With Waves Resort Henry family, owners and operators Shelter in Place order would force the announcing this week the park will of Schlitterbahn parks. The entire closure of the state’s gun shops. The close until summer 2021 we take development, which included, a question is whether city and county a look back at the history of the riverwalk feature with retail space, officials can order the closing of gun project. as well as some residential, the total shops under the Texas Disaster Act of By Dale Rankin cost of the entire development was 1975 which excludes firearm retailers estimated at $552 million. Under as “essential businesses.” Closing When groundbreaking for the the bylaws of UPP major decisions gun shops could start a shootin’ war! Schlitterbahn Riverpark & Resort required the votes of all three was held on February 15, 2013 the Sheriff is on the case ownership groups. According to plan called for a very different park court filings, the Henry family was We blew the cover for Nueces County than what now stands on the 574 obligated to cover any costs of park Sheriff Hooper last weekend at the acre site. construction in access of the original Flour Bluff HEB. It wasn’t until we The entire development was to be $27,300,000 figure. had given him a hearty “Hey Sheriff” called Schlitterbahn Beach Country The estimated cost of the park itself that we noticed he was wearing a and the park as well the surrounding was $27,300,000 and financing cap instead of his trademark Stetson. resort, hotels, and retail space was secured through IBC Bank He politely replied before making Under construction were to be jointly owned by a collateralized by land owned Island his way on through the store. We’re $117 million generated through partnership called Upper Padre Walk Development. An additional Schlitterbahn organization and not sure but we think we saw him sales tax and Hotel Occupancy Tax, Partners made up of three groups: $3 million for purchase of the Padre within weeks 150 workers were keeping an eye on the toilet paper as well as $5 million in cash from Island Walk Development made up Island Country Club and golf course. busy on the site. aisle in case a fight broke out. the city’s Type A Fund which was of Paul Schexnailder and partners; The developers had a tax abatement used for infrastructure. The work The original plans called for We have also added a new term to Wind Water and Waves made up agreement signed in May, 2012 was to be done by Henry Brothers a waterpark with only minimal the Island lexicon this week with of Willard Hammond and partners with the City of Corpus Christi that Construction, a subsidiary of the who contributed $9 million; and the would allow them to keep the first History cont. on A4 Around cont. on A3 March 19, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Parrot Heads of Corpus Christi Continue to Phlock! By Bob and Chris Lee first Happy Hour collected 59 Easter Baskets for the You Mean th e Padre Island Parrot Head Club of CC children of CASA. The newly sanctioned Their 'Phlock" is Padre Island Parrot Head community minded and Club of CC held their first loving the "Purposes" that World to Us "Meet and Greet" and we have phun "Partying" to Happy Hour, both held at help! 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Cheri Sperling REALTOR® March 19, 2020 Island Moon A 3 Moon Monkeys Letters to the Mike Ellis, Founder Did Ya Hear? Editor By Mary "Scoop" Craft Island Italian - selling eggs for$3/dozen and Business Briefs toilet paper for $1/roll 940-7737 The blue A-frame next door to Keller Williams was sold to a chiropractor from Costa Sur 945-8303 California. He and his family purchased Padre Poke - selling meat and produce a home on the Island. There will be delivery until 5 weekdays 949-3133 more details when the remodel is done. Glad to be able to report at least a bit of The following Island restaurants are good news. offering curbside or pick up: Distribution Surfside Sandwich 949-0505 Pete Alsop Joyride Rental on Whitecap will be closing their indoor showroom at the end Doc’s curbside or carry out window 949- Island Delivery of the buisness day on Friday, March 6744 Coldwell Banker 27th. For details or rentals of their Advertising kayaks, surfboards, paddleboards and Jan Park Rankin bicycles call 361-334-1328. Classifieds Briar Patch Lago in the Morning is now on 94.7 Just reading your March 19 edition. What I Radio that was called Jalapeño Country Arlene Ritley but is now called Talk & Country. The Production Manager remember about Br’er Rabbit is he wanted to be in the briar patch when there and danger and show is on 6 - 9 am weekdays and Dale Abigail Bair “he just lay low.” That’s the way I’m looking at Rankin is on the show Thursdays 7 - 9 Contributing Writers this virus. am. Joey Farah Doris Rogers The Waves Resort has closed and will Andy Purvis be reopening summer 2021. They are Mary Craft planning on doing upgrades during the Emily Gaines From Our Facebook Page hiatus. Jay Gardner Dale's Column: Worldwinds Windsurfing will close at Todd Hunter the end of the day on Sunday, 3/29. Dotson Lewis WB Liquors has changed their hours in Dr. Tom Dorrell I never knew you were a Church of Christ member! I also grew up in "The Church" order to do more extensive cleaning. The Ronnie Narmour weekday hours are 10 am - 8:30 pm and dutifully attending three times a week, lead Doc's brand new To-Go Station. Call ahead Brent Rourk some prayers and served communion, but was Saturdays 10 am - 7 pm. You can order ahead for pick up at 949-0080. for pick-up or curbside.. Photographers lucky enough to never have to lead singing. Miles Merwin (Emeritus) That would have been tragic for everyone! ISLAND RESTAURANT INFO: Snoopy’s 949-8815 I'm looking forward to your COVID-19, CoC Debbie Noble connection story. Scuttlebutt’s Restaurant is closed but they Marker 37 has Snoopy’s/Scoopy’s menu Jan Rankin are selling a long list of groceries including available plus drinks and can even deliver to Jeffrey Haessler meats, produce and dairy. They also have your boat Mary Craft many different casserole meals. Pick up hours Just so you know....she sang at the Baptist Texas Mesquite - casseroles available Ronnie Narmour are 9 am - 5 pm daily. Check out complete list Church too...and even the piano was not loud starting Friday 960-8376 Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) enough!! on their Facebook page. Rock & Roll Sushi - selling meat and Riley P. Dog The following Island Restaurants are Diana Wilson Brackenridge produce taking orders online or call: I guarantee that lady was my mother! Dragonfly Restaurant 949-2224 Episcopalian.... and someone complimented Brooklyn Pie 949-1100 Thai Sun 949-3128 her on her singing. That was the worst day of Padre Pizzeria 949-0787 my life lol Padre Island Burger Company did have Snoopy’s 949-8815 RG Boyd carry out but is now temporarily closed. The following Island restaurants are I am selling my rental unit #224 at El That fine lady was also Pentecostal, but no hat. delivering or pick up: Constante on my own for $189K before Corinna Soliz Longoria Mikel May’s 949-7437 I give it to a realtor with almost all the Angry Marlin 210-272-9973 assessments on the remodel of the buildings paid for. It is a 2 bedroom 2.5 bath unit at the About Beach access: Black Sheep Bistro - offering free bottle of seawall on the beach. If interested call me at Publisher wine with $100 order 210-418-4819 739-6361. I already have a realtor picked out Dale Rankin Padre Pizzeria - they are also selling pizza so please no calls from realtors. Not the best About the Island Moon We were at the beach earlier today and there kits to prepare yourself for $10 949-0787 time to sell but need to for personal reasons. The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale was ample space between people , when it Rankin, Editor / Publisher. started to get crowded we left, safety people!! Brooklyn Pie 949-1100 Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 Margo Cooper Gibbons copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, Around cont. from A1 as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 Don’t complain people ...... until people start copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. listening to what we’re being told to do it’s the advent of The Bluffer. After reports of News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, only going to get worse...... it’s like we have a grocery thefts at local stores, one by knifepoint, payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. city of unmanageable children. Stop thinking Islanders have been placing all their canned you know best.....explains a lot about why kids The Island Moon Newspaper goods in a double-wrapped plastic bag which today don’t follow the laws and rules..... can be used as a bludgeon to save your carton of 14646 Compass, Suite 3 Virginia Robertson Crawford eggs. Imagine the embarrassment of the would- be mugger who has to explain to his wife that he Corpus Christi, TX 78418 came home empty handed because an Islander 361-949-7700 Yes. They have to close. Obey. The news are. cracked his noggin with a bag full of bean dip! How many died today. And yesterday and the We suggest the gallon can of jalapenos, now [email protected] day before yesterday. And continuing dying. there’s a Bluffer you can put some muscle Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper We have never see something like this from this behind. kind. But we hear from war. God help the whole universe. I’m in California. Bits and pieces Beatriz Popma We had a call from a reader this week inquiring if it is a good idea to cough into your elbow then I get the need to break up bigger crowds, but greet your friends with an elbow pump. Huh. Where to Find The not being able to take a solitary walk/jog on the Good question. beach? How about making people wait in their Island Moon cars in line rather than allow them to crowd the Since our story on the history of the Padre Isles entrance at the grocery store?? Property Owners Association two weeks back we have had several requests for copies of the Alicia Josephine Logue audits done by the POA in 2018 and the audit Port North and records of the Island Beautification Trust. Island Animal Clinic: Aransas Padre They are too long for print so we will put them Gulf Stream RV up on our Facebook page in the next few days. All Stripes Stores Pioneer RV I know this vet personally from San Antonio Let’s be positive everybody. It is said that Black Sheep/ and there is no one better at sanitary conditions Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Stripes on 1A Barrel than Dr. McGeHee. He once came out and Antony and Cleopatra while quarantined during My Coastal Home diagnosed a dog in the car who I had thought the plague. Forsooth! CVS had distemper. He is an excellent vet. WB Liquor Store Dollar General Say hello if you see us Around The Island… Marilyn Knapp Litt from a Social Distance of course. Island Wine Room Whataburger Kody’s Doc’s Restaurant Thank you. And thank you for the way Coffee Waves Snoopy’s Pier your staff and Dr. Alex David handled my Moby Dicks appointments the other day. All very safe and Isle Mail N More I sat in the car. IGA Island Italian Kelly Jo Herrin Treasure Island Brooklyn Pie Co. Ms. Woody’s About Waves Resort closing: Automotive Ace Hardware Port A Glass Studio Holiday Inn Think about it ! We are unsure how long this San Juan’s Restaurant Texas Star (Shell) pandemic is going to be around. They would have to shut down for a while anyhow. It Wash Tub Jesse’s Liquor would be crazy to open for a couple months. Woody’s Sports Scuttlebutt’s Time to keep updating the park.I am sure they Center will refund passes or at least honor them next Restaurant summer. Back Porch Bar Subway Michelle Filippi-Featherstone Shorty’s Place Island Tire They're bank owned... (IBC) I believe... they're Fisherman’s Wharf Padre Pizzeria fine... just going to use this downtime to shake Giggity’s the schlitterbahn stigma and build the park they And all Moon wanted to begin with... good luck to all! Gratitude retail advertisers Kevin Reid The Gaff WB Liquor Trinity By the Sea Sounds like a good game plan. They will be Episcopal able to update everything and add several more Flour Bluff attractions. Hopefully the canal gets done and H.E.B. they bring the golf course back! Lee Porterfield Whataburger on Waldron Ethyl Everly Senior Center Send Letters and Photos to Fire Station [email protected] Police Station and follow us on Stripes on Flour Facebook: The Island Moon Bluff & SPID Newspaper Island beaches remained a popular destination this week. Beaches are still open even after the Stay at Home order, but with some restrictions. See the Island Moon Facebook page for the complete wording of the Stay at Home Order. March 19, 2020 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Bridge cont. from A1 overnight stay accommodations, twenty-five rate for a period of two years until the note not reimburse the city for repairs to the Packery “treehouse” rooms which could accommodate matured in February 2017. In the event of Channel Jetties following Hurricane Harvey large families onsite. The park was to be built default the rate went to 18 percent, the highest leaving a funding gap of around $9 million in in two phases with the first being the park and allowed by state law. The new arrangement cost that the city will have to bridge. The Island limited overnight stay which was to be open by called for a new delivered price of $58,026,983 Tax Increment Refinance Zone #2 was founded summer 2013, and a second phase which would for the project with a final delivery date of July in 2003 to pay for upkeep on the Packery Jetties include a seventeen-acre covered area which 1, 2015. According to a later court filings the and to fund new construction within the zone would remain open year-round. The opening cost of the park was then at $58 million – twice which includes the site of the Water Exchange date of 2013 was required in the original tax the original estimated price – with $48,500,000 Bridge. The Island Strategic Action Committee abatement agreement, but as the construction of that in the form of debt. in 2017 voted to commit up to $4 million from plans came together that date was pushed to the TRZ fund to cover a funding gap in the summer 2014. Downward spiral Water Exchange Bridge project and the project went to bids. The bid price was $13.9 million with the remainder of the cost – above the $4 million - covered through city bonds. City sources said this week that without funding from FEMA funds dedicated to the bridge project from funds in the TRZ could be redirected to pay for the Packery repairs leaving the bridge project in limbo. If that funding shift occurs, a move said to be increasing in popularity with city officials, it would effectively end the Water Exchange Bridge Project because the permit for the project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requires a water connection from Lake Padre to the existing Island canal system Miss Sally shut down Gratitude for two weeks. by the end of 2020. That deadline could be Photo by John Morris. extended if work on the canal or the bridge in underway by that time, however failure to begin work on both would mean the private owners would need to install underground culverts to allow for water passage by the end of 2020 to remain in compliance. The location of the culverts would likely be at the canal near the intersection of Whitecap Boulevard and SPID and not at the bridge site. The construction contract on the bridge was The building Then on December 18, 2015 the downward approved by the Corpus Christi City Council The building began as a two-story, 17,000 spiral which eventually led the project in early 2020 and the construction contractor, square-foot structure with one restaurant, a into bankruptcy began when Island Walk Haas-Anderson Construction, has said the firm private area for club members and a single-story Development on behalf of the UPP represented is ready to begin work, however, the agreement outdoor public area for concerts and gatherings. by Paul Schexnailder, served the Henry Group between the city and private owners says work But by January 2014 plans had changed. By then, with a demand letters demanding the park be on the canal must be “substantially complete” Jeff Henry, who was the General Contractor of delivered as designed with no additional cost to before work begins on the bridge. the project, increased the size of the building IWD. “UPP is now left on the verge of financial The Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday to 37,000 square-feet and counting, with four collapse” wording in the filing read. The deal included discussion of the bridge project and stories, three nightclubs, three restaurants, six was falling apart and the park was still not the Chapter 380 Economic Development bars (including a swim-up bar in the pool), a complete, and from that point on each of the Agreement in their agenda for discussion in two-story outdoor area, a 60-room hotel, and entities involved began looking to recover their Executive Session for the third time in five a concert venue designed with Gruene Hall in investments. The filings are replete with works weeks, however, no vote was taken in open New Braunfels in mind. All under the same $28 like “Fraudulent Transfers, Common Law and session. million budget with opening day set for June Statutory Fraud, Breach of Fiducially Duties, As time and patience for the bridge project are 2014, but as the project progressed the price Aiding and Abetting, and Conspiracy.” wearing thin at city hall sources said this week moved to $41 million and additional financing On November 29, 2016 Axys sent a notice of that if a solution to the logjam is not broken “by was secured through more borrowing against default on the loan to UPP and in December of the end of the month” funding for the bridge the value of the surrounding land. But as costs that year a Forbearance Agreement was signed, project, in light of the need for funding for One way to get through these trying times.. mounted Wind Water and Waves made up of extending the terms of the deal. At the time a Packery Repairs, will likely be in jeopardy. Willard Hammond and partners, sold their one- principal of $16 million was owed along with third share to the Henry family. According to $1,824,000 in accrued and unpaid interest with court documents no change orders had been grew at a rate of $8000 per day. An appraisal requested nor granted from the original plans, done at that time found the collateralized even as the building’s scope grew. land to be worth “between $11,890,000 and Problems arise $15,850,000. Later court filings claimed that by this time as the cost of the project continued to escalate “cash flow from the… operations is insufficient to replay these obligations on any reasonable, confirmable, basis.” By that time UPP was involved in a Binding Arbitration process called for in the original contract between the partners. New ownership On May 1, 2017 the Henry’s interest in UPP filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition aimed at pushing the project in foreclosure, According to court documents filed in a staving off efforts by lenders to recover their subsequent bankruptcy case by April, 2014 money. The matter was set before Bankruptcy the funding for the first phase of the project Judge Craig Gargotta in San Antonio and by Social distancing is no laughing gull matter. Photo by John Morris. was “nearly exhausted” and additional funding November 2017, the project was in Chapter 11 of $19 million was sought from IBC Bank Bankruptcy and foreclosure. by promising “to produce a 168% increase in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, Subsequently, Axys Capital was allowed to and amortization” due to the expansion of the foreclose on 270 acres of land, including the building. Court documents say that a request approach to the proposed Park Road 22 Water was made to IBC Bank to provide an additional Exchange Bridge, and a large tract located $15 million requiring that UPP provide an between Aquarius Street and the Laguna Madre. additional $4 million but that request was The land was auctioned off on the steps of the denied. Court filings show that the Henry family Nueces County Courthouse and bought out of then established a $7 million line of credit with foreclosure by Axys. Frost Bank and work on the park continued, By the end of 2018 both the land surrounding even as overruns had “substantially escalated the park and the park itself were sold at auction beyond the $19 million” represented to the bank on the steps of the Nueces County Courthouse and UPP. At that point the Henrys bought Wind, and have since been in the hands of International Water, and Wave (the Hammond interest) out of Bank of Commerce, through their wholly- the deal becoming two-thirds partners in UPP. owned subsidiary Diamond Beach Holdings, On February 25, 2015 Axys Capital and Axys Capital. Management of Austin executed a loan Since that time IBC has spent in excess of agreement to Upper Padre Partners for $16 $10 million for improvements and received million. According to bankruptcy filings filed a Certificate of Occupation from the City of later the note called for UPP to make monthly, Corpus Christi for all four floors of the newly interest-only payments at a 15 percent interest improved building as well as adding several The beach is empty in Port A right now. Photo by Bob Reed. new amenities. The park was preparing to enter is sixth season as the coronavirus forced its shutdown through the end of 2020.

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Send Letters and Photos to [email protected] and follow us on Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper View us online at: Car Hop Service at Liberty Hall in Port A. www.islandmoon.com Photo by John Morris. March 19, 2020 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides of the Week Part deux they don’t make cat up a tree calls.” Tides for Bob Hall Pier March 26 - April 2 “Why are you calling me?” my father said. Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon What I learned “Because you’re the Mayor,” the lady said. /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible My father went over and got the cat out of Th 26 High 5:33 AM 1.4 7:25 AM Rise 8:55 AM 1 in church about epidemics the tree and resigned the next week. He had 26 Low 12:03 PM 0.9 7:43 PM Set 9:52 PM So once we all learned to tune out the loud but enough on his plate running the Sinclair plant tone-deaf lady in row two aisle left in the pillbox at White Point and tree cats and arguments 26 High 4:21 PM 1.1 hat we could stay close enough on pitch to get over seating at church meetings was not on his 26 Low 10:54 PM 0.3 through Just as I Am as long as we stayed away agenda; which along with his Engineer’s degree from Verse 4 things went along with Biblical made him the perfect fit to head the Building F 27 High 6:32 AM 1.5 7:24 AM Rise 9:27 AM 5 smoothery. Committee. The congregations in both Portland 27 Low 1:13 PM 1.0 7:44 PM Set 10:45 PM In my mind I couldn’t help but wonder if there and later in Seminole where they moved to, by 27 High 4:07 PM 1.1 was any connection between Verse 4 and the chance, needed new buildings and he was the fourth plague. (volunteer) General Contractor for the Church 27 Low 11:21 PM 0.2 of Christ building that still stands on Wildcat Sa 28 High 7:38 AM 1.5 7:23 AM Rise 10:01 AM 10 Exodus 8:20-32. Else, if thou wilt not let my Drive in Portland. Aside from his background people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies the Elders knew he was never going to be a 28 Low 11:55 PM 0.1 7:45 PM Set 11:39 PM upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy candidate for their jobs – since my only-child Su 29 High 8:53 AM 1.6 7:22 AM Rise 10:40 AM 16 people, and into thy houses: and the houses of status made him ineligible – and whomever the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, 29 7:45 PM oversaw the design and construction of the new and also the ground whereon they are. building was likely to be in line for an (also M 30 Low 12:38 AM 0.0 7:21 AM Set 12:35 AM 24 We had our share of flies in our little land of unpaid) Eldership so his ineligibility made him 30 High 10:23 AM 1.7 7:46 PM Rise 11:23 AM Goshen over there on the northshore but they the perfect choice – first in Portland and then were mostly around fish cleaning stations. in Seminole, Oklahoma. It’s no accident that Tu 31 Low 1:30 AM 0.0 7:20 AM Set 1:31 AM 33 But our singing never brought in any converts the Church of Christ buildings in Portland and 31 High 11:59 AM 1.7 7:46 PM Rise 12:12 PM from the Spit and Whittle across the street and Seminole have essentially the same floor plan. W 1 Low 2:33 AM -0.1 7:18 AM Set 2:27 AM 43 over the years I learned most of the songs on An unwritten rule the jukebox over there and not to gamble on 1 High 1:08 PM 1.8 7:47 PM Rise 1:06 PM dominos. There is another quirk to church politics that Th 2 Low 3:48 AM -0.1 7:17 AM S et 3:22 AM 53 comes into play here. In some denominations I eventually got sucked back into song leading church members are assigned seats, frankly 2 High 1:55 PM 1.8 7:47 PM Rise 2:07 PM duties at the Portland Church of Christ and based on how much they contribute; you want decided, along with my friend Harold who is to sit in the second row, you got to pay second now a lawyer in Houston, to hide the chairs in row admission just like at a KISS concert. But the nursery one at a time – a story for another the lady in the pillbox hat was not paying the day – and bet the over and under on how many second row warbling rate because there was had to disappear before anyone said anything. no such thing in our church and any attempts Turns out, not surprisingly the number was the to establish a pay-to-sit program resulted in Biblical seven and I had eight on the over. The loud discussions involving competing Biblical praying for their return, we later discovered, passages and could degenerate into personal began when the third chair went missing but attacks. As they say, “the fights are so vicious martial law didn’t kick in until eight and Harold because the stakes are so small.” But having had to wash my car. said that if you went to the same church week Church politics after week you saw the same people sitting in the exact same pews every week. Even without Then in the mid-1970s when I matriculated to a formal, Biblical program if we showed up San Marcos to further my academic and party ten minutes late our seats were available. This career my parents moved from Portland to a came in particularly handy for the smokers in small town in outback Oklahoma where, as in the congregation who could finish their smokes Portland, the congregation needed a new church in the yard and not have to sit in the way-back building. To understand what happened next with the Backsliders – once again a story for you have to know a little about the politics of another day. the Church of Christ. This went on for years as I visited my parents While John Donne may be correct in his and we sat three rows back on the starboard assertion that no man is an Island each side – right behind the Elders - until one day congregation in the Church of Christ is pretty we walked in well ahead of the majority of the close. There is no home office in Tennessee congregation but sat in the aisle pew, row six on to hand down ecclesiastical edicts. The the portside. I didn’t think much about it until preachers, then at least, mostly came from the next week when we migrated to the aisle Anecdotingly Abilene Christian College but were hired solely seat row nine back on starboard. Either my dad under the discretion of the Elders of the local was shorting the collection plate or the world congregation. Each local church had three and had gone mad! Not a Square to Spare their word was final with no appeal – well, some By Abigail Bair as you will see. Under them were the Deacons So what’s the deal ma? who served in an advisory capacity to the Elders After church at the Chinese buffet – Seminole My toilet paper empire has Evidently: while awaiting Ecclesiastical promotion. had no Luby’s – I asked my mother why we had crumbled. • Bleach + Vinegar = Toxic Chlorine Gas My father was a perpetual Deacon and could adopted a non-Biblical-driven pew migration Normally, I keep enough t.p. on hand to build never be an Elder because the Biblical passage program. My mother who was never shy about • Ammonia + Bleach = Toxic Chloramine that governed such things called for a “man stating her opinion on things church related small forts for Stadler, but recent events have Vapors caused the supply to dwindle down to one with children” not “child” and me being the tried to change the subject. modest shelf in the bathroom consisting of a • Rubbing Alcohol + Bleach = Chloroform only one in the family my father was ineligible “Maybe next week we should get barbecue,” which was fine with him because my father had mere eight rolls and an old emergency blow • Hydrogen Peroxide + Vinegar = Parecetic she said. drier (you know, in case the other three shoot no desire to be an Elder. He had been appointed Acid I knew I had struck a nerve. craps ((pun intended))). Mayor of Portland after two candidates - one of • Acetaminophen + Alcohol = Irreversible whom was an Elder at the church – announced As was the case last week this story has a I’ve doled out a few rolls here and there: Liver Damage for the race and both knew my father would connection to the coronavirus but I am out of toilet paper generosity being one of the three never run so he was appointed. The second night space. qualifications for emergency apocalyptic Personally, I’ve tried all of those combinations of his mayorship the phone rang sometime after sainthood. The other two are not flipping at least once. I will say, they get subborn stains midnight. Next week: What I learned about epidemics anybody off in traffic and using your personal (like ex-boyfriends) out pretty effectively, but in church part three…lost in the pew stash of Clorox wet wipes to clean off public you also have to camp at your Mom’s for three Tree cats and church buildings wilderness for forty days and forty nights. doorknobs. days and get made fun of every Thanksgiving. “I need help getting my cat out of the tree,” a It’s not looking like a ton of haloes are going to I don’t ever like to challenge the universe by nice lady said. “And the fire department said be handed out this year in the Coastal Bend, but saying things like, “It can’t possibly get any (at least in the race for potential sainthood) one worse,” because it absolutely always can and out of three ain’t bad. will if you tempt fate. However, if things do get much worse, I’m envisioning a descent into Lago in the Morning Returns to Each time I toss another empty carboard tube Old West Justice where underpants banditos rob into the recycling bin, I feel like I should sing the supply semis, their faces hidden by bandanas, Battle Hymn of the Republic, offer a twenty-one plungers raised above there heads, screaming Local Radio gun salute, and say a few words about “heroic “DEATH BEFORE BIDET!” After retiring in December, local talk show from Beaumont, two stints in Houston, Denver, service,” “duty,” and “the irreplaceable.” Either/or. host Jim Lago is back on the radio. Corpus Christi and Oklahoma City, where he was the 1995 Major Market Personality of the It could be that I’m getting a little bit of cabin Beginning on Wednesday, March 25, Lago in fever. Somewhere, there is the equivalent of a TP Fort Year. Knox, and you can bet that someone is plotting the Morning with Blake and Tyler will air from I’m not quite to the Nero phase (fiddling right now to set themselves up as a toilet paper its new home, US 94.7 FM. Lago in the Morning brings on two co- hosts, Blake Farenthold and Tyler Thorsen. as I watch the last of my stockpile burn), but kingpin – pressing their double-breasted three The station aired a Texas Country format but Farenthold was a long-time co-host of Lago’s I’m close enough that this morning I asked a piece suit in anticipation of all the social glory will now combine that format with news talk. security guard at Wal-Mart if he had any toilet they will enjoy once they unleash news of their prior to becoming Congressman paper intel. largess upon all us poor 8-roll losers. for Texas District-27. Thorsen, an avid outdoorsmen, was a He laughed nervously before answering Guaranteed, toilet paper kingpins will also not reoccurring guest with a radio (probably due to the fact that 7:30 a.m. me have a square to spare lest they deplete their background. approached him like I was about to turn HIM empire or incur the wrath of the aforementioned into t.p. if I couldn’t find any). “They tell me,” underpants banditos. “Lago had been the voice of he confided, conspirationally, “that the truck reason in Corpus Christi for will get here between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., and decades,” said Ed Ocanas, if you’re here you get some. If you’re not, you General Manager of US 94.7. don’t.” “He’s a person friend and I am so glad I was able to talk him “Wait, customers just take a whole semi-truck into shelving his retirement. full of toilet paper?” He’s excited and unless you “It’s gone in like 10 minutes,” he whispered, have worked with him, you checking his six as though expecting an ambush Jim Lago. have no idea how he can inspire at any second. “My wife ordered some online people around him.” from Sam’s Club,” he continued proudly. “It “Local radio is crucial,“ said Lago, a 2016 The new show will air from 6am – 9am on took like two weeks to get here, but now we’ve inductee of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. “It’s 94.7 FM and will focus on local and national got it.” the only way people truly know what’s going on political matters. “Awesome,” I replied, genuinely happy for in their city, in their hometown.” Island Moon Publisher Dale Rankin will anybody who avoided the great Toilet Paper and Lago retired from radio in December 2019, appear on the show each Thursday from 7 a.m. Purell Drought of 2020. after 40 years in the industry. His career to 9 a.m. I bought two bottles of isopropyl alcohol covered top 40, country and talk and took him Logo of the great and terrible Underpants which I plan on mixing in a ratio of 2/3’s to 1/3 Banditos regular old lotion. Either I’ll be sanitized, or I’ll accidentally wind up making some kind of Alien-level concentrated acid and have to type It’s a wild, wild world, folks. with hooks for the rest of my life. Stay safe. Stay home if you can. Wash your Padre Island I’m not normally this paranoid about creating hands often. 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Texans considered these men prisoners of war, After attempts to exonerate himself he died of whereas General Santa Anna thought them consumption in 1860. By Dotson Lewis "perfidious foreigners." The Mexican dictator Special to the Island Moon had decreed that all Texans in arms against When Texas became a Mexican colony the Mexican government were to be treated as This month in 1825, the Mexican legislature, Dotson’s Note: During last Saturday’s Radio by the agreement. She started working again traitors, not soldiers. The men were led out of meeting in Saltillo, passed the State Colonization Round Table, I recalled my dad talking about in the kitchens of her unsuspecting employers, town and shot at point- blank range. Those not Law of March 24, 1825. The legislation was Typhoid Mary. He had survived typhoid threatening public health once more. killed by the first volley were hunted down and designed to bring about the peopling of Coahuila killed by gunfire, bayonet, or lance. The bodies and Texas. It encouraged farming, ranching, and when he was a teenager. Remembering this, As a cook of Sloane Maternity in Manhattan, were left unburied. The incident, which became commerce. For a nominal fee, the law granted and with Covid 19 being the leading topic of she contaminated, in three months, at least 25 known among Anglo-Texans as the Goliad settlers as much as a square league (4,428.4 conversation, I thought some of you Moon people, doctors, nurses and staff. Two of them Massacre, joined the Alamo as a rallying cry for acres) of pastureland and a labor (177.1 acres) Monkeys needed to be introduced to the lady. died. She had managed to be hired as “Mary Texas independence. of farmland. Immigrants were temporarily free Of course some of you who are slightly older Brown.” Since then she was stigmatized as of every kind of tax. Newcomers had to take remember when her demise made the headlines. “Typhoid Mary” and she was the butt of jokes, How a little siesta changed American an oath promising to abide by the federal and Thanks to Dotson G. Lewis Sr., F. Marineli, and cartoons, and eventually “Typhoid Mary” history state constitutions, to worship according to the Christopher Klein for the facts contained in this appeared in medical dictionaries, as a disease Christian (i.e., Catholic) religion, and to display report and to Bettman/Corbis for the photos. carrier. Mary was placed back on North Brother It was this month in 1836, the Convention of sound moral principles and good conduct. After Mary Mallon was born in Ireland in 1869 and Island where she remained until her death. On 1836 adjourned in haste as the Mexican army accepting these terms and settling in Texas, arrived in the United States in 1883 or 1884. Christmas morning, 1932, a man who came to approached Washington-on-the-Brazos. The immigrants earned the standing of naturalized She was employed in 1906 as a cook by Charles deliver something to her found Mary on the convention, which met on March 1, drafted Mexicans. Empresarios Stephen F. Austin and Henry Warren, a wealthy New York banker, floor of her bungalow, paralyzed. She had had a the Texas Declaration of Independence and Green DeWitt, among others, started their who rented a residence on Oyster Bay on the stroke of apoplexy and never walked again. the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, organized the ad interim government, and colonies under this law. north coast of Long Island for the summer. Thereafter, for six years, she was taken care From 27th August to 3rd September, 6 of the named Sam Houston commander-in-chief of the Sam Houston’s ill-fated romance of in the “Riverside Hospital.” She died in republic's military forces before the delegates 11 people present in the house were suffering November 1938. Her body was hurried away from typhoid fever. At this time, typhoid fever evacuated Washington-on-the-Brazos. Their This months in 1840, Anna W. Raguet, who and buried in a grave bought for the purpose hurried departure was part of the so-called was courted by Sam Houston, married Robert was fatal in 10% of cases and mainly affected at St. Raymond’s Cemetery in Bronx. A post deprived people from large cities. Runaway Scrape, in which Texans fled the A. Irion instead. The eldest child of Texas mortem revealed that she shed Salmonella typhi advancing troops of Antonio López de Santa pioneer Henry Raguet, Anna was born in A sanitary engineer, hired by the Warren bacteria from her gallstones raising the issue of Anna. Richmond was evacuated about April Pennsylvania in 1819 and lived in Cincinnati family, George Sober, published the results of what would have happened if she had accepted 1, and Houston's subsequent retreat toward until she was brought to Nacogdoches by her his investigation on June 15th 1907. Having the proposed operation. Some other researchers the Sabine left all of the settlements between father in the spring of 1833. There she became believed initially that freshwater clams could insisted that there was no autopsy and that this the Colorado and the Brazos unprotected. The acquainted with Sam Houston. He evidently be involved in these infections, he had hastily was another urban legend, whispered by the settlers in that area at once began making their contemplated marrying her, for in 1833 he conducted his questioning of the sick people Health Center of Oyster Bay, in order to calm way toward Louisiana or Galveston Island. The engaged the services of Jonas Harrison to and also of Mary who had presented a moderate ethical reactions. Mary Mallon, the first known section of East Texas around Nacogdoches and secure a divorce for him from his first wife, form of typhoid. Mary continued to host the case of a healthy carrier in the United States, San Augustine was abandoned a little prior Eliza Allen. As divorces were not granted under bacteria, contaminating everything around her, was proven responsible for the contamination to April 13. The flight was marked by lack of Mexican law, nothing came of the application, a real threat for the surrounding environment. of at least one hundred and twenty two people, preparation and by panic caused by fear both of but Houston's courtship continued. Soon after Although Sober initially feared that the soft including five dead. the Mexican Army and of the Indians. The flight he became president of the Republic of Texas clams were the culprits, this proved to be Much speculation remains regarding the continued until news came of the victory in the he issued a proclamation giving his authority to incorrect as not all of those stricken had eaten treatment that Mary received at the hands of battle of San Jacinto. Judge Shelby Corzine to try his application for them. Finally Sober had solved the mystery and divorce in the district court of San Augustine the Department of Health, City of New York. Given the mass exodus of Anglo-Americans became the first author to describe a “healthy County, although Congress was supposed to Instead of working with her, to make her realize that was the Runaway Scrape, one is left to carrier” of Salmonella typhi in the United have exclusive jurisdiction of such matters. she was a risk factor, the state quarantined imagine how and when Texas would have States. From March 1907, Sober started stalking Houston's attorney, W. G. Anderson, used the her twice, making her a laboratory pet. Mary become a state; and historically, Texas statehood Mary Mallon in Manhattan and he revealed same petition that had been drawn up by Jonas endured test after test and was only thinking of was huge. It proved the context for the 1846-48 that she was transmitting disease and death Harrison. The divorce was granted on April 8, how she could cook again. She had become a Mexican War, the winning of which constitutes by her activity. His attempts to obtain samples 1837, but did not satisfy the scruples of Anna victim of the health laws, of the press and above how the west was won; see below for what of Mary’s feces, urine and blood, earned him Raguet, who apparently abandoned any plans all of the cynical physicians, who had plenty of Mexico ceded--roughly a third of sovereign US nothing. Sober reconstituted the puzzle by she might have had for marrying Houston. time to test but never had time to talk with the territory. discovering that previously the cook had served patient. Robert Irion, secretary of state under Houston, in 8 families. Seven of them had experienced Obviously, an immense swath of American bore many messages between Anna and the cases of typhoid. Twenty-two people presented Many believe that Mary’s case is an example History was riding on that Mexican siesta so president. When Irion learned of the final rift signs of infection and some died. of how the Health Care system provokes rudely interrupted by the cries of Remember between the two, he persuaded her to marry social attitudes towards disease carriers, often Goliad, Remember the Alamo. him. (It is ashame history doesn't have Anna associated with prejudice. This case highlighted saying, "Why don't you speak for yourself, the problematic nature of the subject and the Drawing the black bean Robert." Texas was deprived of a delicious need for an enhanced medical and legal-social This month in 1843, seventeen Texans were linkage to Longfellow!) The date of their treatment model aimed at improving the status executed at Salado, Tamaulipas, Mexico. As the marriage differs in printed sources, one saying of disease carriers and limiting their impact on members of the defeated Mier expedition were March 29, another March 30, and a third April society. Probably the answer to the rhetorical being marched from Mier to Mexico City, they 9. The couple had five children. question “was Mary Mallon a symbol of the attempted a mass escape on February 11. Some threat to individual liberty or a necessary 176 were recaptured, and Mexican dictator School explosion sacrifice to public health?” is a single word, Santa Anna ordered that one in ten of the This month in 1937, a massive explosion “balance”. After all what Mary ever wanted was prisoners be shot. The victims were chosen by caused the steel-framed school building in New to be a good plain cook. a lottery in which each man drew a bean from London, in Rusk County, to collapse, killing a Dotson’s Other Noe: Mary had refused the one an earthen jar containing 176 beans, seventeen reported 298 people. It was the worst school operation which might have cured her. In later of which were black. This event has come disaster in United States history. Of the 500 years she lost much of her bitterness and lived a to be known as the Black Bean Episode. The students in the building, only about 130 escaped fairly contented if necessarily restricted life. She bodies were returned to Texas and are buried on serious injury. The explosion, which was heard evidently found consolation in her religion and Monument Hill at La Grange, Fayette County. four miles away, occurred when a manual- she was then at perfect peace in the bosom of The context of this incursion into Mexico arts teacher turned on a sanding machine and the church to which she gave the last years her was the perpetual state of unrest between the inadvertently ignited a mixture of gas and air. faith and loyalty. By the time she died New York Republic and Mexico. The Mexicans (Santa Three days after the explosion, inquiries were health officials had identified more than 400 Anna had been released and was reinstated) held to determine the cause of the disaster. other healthy carriers of Salmonella typhi, but repeatedly invaded Texas, even to the point of Investigators learned that in January 1937, to no one else was forcibly confined or victimized sacking San Antonio. Indeed, a lasting peace save gas expenses of $300 a month, the school as an “unwanted ill”. How do you feel about along the Rio Grande was not achieved until board and superintendent had authorized the way Covid 19 is being handled? I can be U.S. victory in the Mexican War ('46-48); and plumbers to tap a residue gas line of H. L. reached at: [email protected] and/or Land even then there were the border raids of the Hunt's Parade Gasoline Company. Apparently Line: 361-949-7681 or Cell, call or text: 530- early 1900s ... see http://www.tshaonline.org/ gas had escaped from a faulty connection and That year, about 3,000 New Yorkers had been 748-8475. I really appreciate the phone calls, daybyday/03-25-003.html accumulated beneath the building. No school infected by Salmonella typhi, and most likely Emails, texts and conversations about Senior officials were found liable. More than seventy Mary was the main reason for the outbreak. Moments. Chip off the old block lawsuits were filed for damages, but district judge Robert T. Brown dismissed the few cases This month in 1856, the court-martial of that came to trial for lack of evidence. The thirty Capt. Charles Edward Travis, one of the most surviving seniors at New London finished their sensational courtroom dramas in history, year in temporary buildings while a new school convened at Fort Mason. Charles, son of was built on nearly the same site. beloved Alamo hero William Barret Travis, was born in Alabama in 1829 and reared by his USS Texas through the years mother and stepfather in New Orleans after his father’s death. He moved to Brenham in 1848 This month in 1945, the battleship Texas and became an attorney and Texas legislator. supported the landings for the battle of Okinawa, Travis received a commission as captain in the final great amphibious assault of World War the Second United States Cavalry in 1855. At II. The keel of the Texas, the second battleship Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, a fellow officer to bear this name, was laid at Newport News, charged Travis with slander, and he was also Virginia, on April 17, 1911. After serving in charged with cheating at cards and unauthorized the Atlantic Fleet in the First World War, absence from camp during a subsequent she supported the World War II landings in journey to Texas. Col. Albert Sidney Johnston North Africa, Omaha Beach, southern France, relieved him of command and confined him to and Iwo Jima. Texas was flagship of the quarters. At the court-martial at Fort Mason, bombardment force that shelled Omaha beach Travis conducted much of his own defense and before the landings. After more than thirty-four pleaded not guilty to “conduct unbecoming an years of naval service she was retired and given officer and a gentleman.” Col. Johnston himself to the state of Texas to be used as a memorial. and other officers testified against Travis, She is permanently moored at the San Jacinto and Johnston’s wife Eliza commented in her Monument off the Houston Ship Channel. Mary Mellon in the hospital

Immunization against Salmonella typhi was not Please note: Tentatively, the next Veterans developed until 1911, and antibiotic treatment Round Table Meeting will be Tuesday, April was not available until 1948. Thus, a dangerous 14, 2020; 9-11 a.m., 3209 S. Staples. All source like Mary had to be restrained. Mary veterans, their families and anyone interested was then frequently accused of being the source in veterans’ activities, are invited. Coffee & of contact for hundreds of the ill. Sober, after donuts are provided. Hope to see you there. enlisting the support of Dr. Biggs of the N.Y. Also our Veterans Radio Round Table is on the Department of Health, persuaded Dr. Josephine air on KEYS AM 1440, 8 – 10 a.m., Saturdays. Baker, who along with the police, was sent to The next show will air March 28, 2020. Please bring Mary Mallon in for testing. Baker and listen and call in. The listener/text line is: 361- the police were met by an uncooperative Mary, 882-5397…It’s your two hours, please let us who eluded them for five hours. At the end she hear from you. was forced to give samples. Mary’s stool was positive for Salmonella typhi and thus she was transferred to North Brother Island to Riverside Hospital, where she was quarantined in a cottage. PENN THOMAS, P.C. In 1909, Mary unsuccessfully sued the health CPA FIRM department. During her two-year period of confinement, she had 120/163 stool samples test positive. No one ever attempted to explain P T, CPA to Mary the significance of being a “carrier”, [email protected] instead they had offered to remove her gallbladder, something she had denied. She was unsuccessfully treated with Hexamethylenamin, laxatives, Urotropin, and brewer’s yeast. In 1910, a new health commissioner vowed to U O I O free Mary and assist her with finding suitable N. C, S.P.I.D. employment as a domestic but not as a cook. C C, TX C C, TX Mary was released but never intended to abide Islander Jason Townes flies patients to MD Anderson hospital in Houston as T : ( ) - T : ( ) - part of the Angel Flights program : ( ) - : ( ) - A7 Island Moon March 19, 2020 Thoughts From Dr. Tom Tales From the Bluff Anxiety Dolphin and Tarpon in the Laguna Madre Editor’s note: Flour Bluff resident Bobby thirty to set out nets in the shallow flats south of By Dr. Tom Dorrell The COVID 19 scare has Americans and people Kimbrell was a commercial fisherman in Flour Pita Island. As we passed by Pita Island we saw all over the world scared to death because of the Anxiety is a condition Bluff for five decades beginning in the early a lot of big waves made by fish but kept going dramatic and overwhelming media hype. People people experience when 1940s. to the shallow water because sometimes there is are hoarding all sorts of things for no reason they begin to lose control a lot of boat traffic at night around Pita. We set other than anxiety and fear that our media has By Bobby Kimbrell of their environment and also have to deal with out the nets, holding onto the end of them to see perpetrated. This illness is very contagious and the unknown. It stimulates our fight or flight There have been dolphins in the Laguna Madre if any drum were hitting. A few were hitting but bad for some folks that get it. It is not however reaction. This in turn causes catecholamine since the start of the dredging of the Intracoastal not very many so we decided to pick the nets the apocalypse that some people are being led to releases, which are stress hormones like Canal in about 1948. back up and go see what was making those big believe. It is very challenging from the medical adrenalin, noradrenalin and cortisol. These wakes at Pita. After we got about fifty yards of perspective due to the new nature, the lack of I never saw a dolphin in the lagoon before prepare us to leap into action to fight or flee in the first net out something started hitting hard quick tests and the fact that the tests themselves 1948 but there might have been some come into the traditional predator prey relationship. right behind us so we started picking up the net have not been studied in detail to learn their true the lagoon on a hurricane high tide. The first to see what it was. It a bunch of big tarpons. So The problem with this scenario is that it is sensitivity and specificity. We have shortages dolphin that I ever saw in the lagoon was in the we picked up and went back home. unsettling physically and mentally. Many people of medical supplies that we have sometimes deeper water near the east side of t Pita Island. live on the edge of this all the time based on their caused ourselves with the hysteria that has been Some of the commercial fishermen who had a For years after we would see the tarpon wakes neurohormone mix genetically. When faced precipitated. Social media and speed is good and shotgun onboard their motor houseboat would as we passed Pita Island. Many years after that with uncontrollable stress or stimulus they may bad in these scenarios. Good to get important shoot at the dolphin if they saw one because and as of now, a lot of small six to eight inch be in this fight or flight state all the time. It can information out quickly but also spreading they assumed they were feeding on speckled tarpon are seen in all of the inland channels at give them the sense of impending doom. They misinformation and causing panic just as fast. trout which they were trying to catch on their Tropic Isles and the bat stands channels and will get emotional, fearful, and paranoid. It may trotlines or rod and reels. they can be caught with a cast net just as you see We now have a number of cases in Nueces cause rapid heart rate, elevated blood pressure, mullet working on top of the water. Therefore County that appear to be related to travel and not I doubt that pellets ever hit a dolphin but the chest tightness and the sensation of not being the tarpons must be spawning in those channels community spread. We will see more. Remember noise was enough to make them hightail it out able to breathe. The brainstem monitors CO2 at night. I have never heard of anybody catching for the vast majority it is a minor febrile illness, of that area. levels in the blood stream and tells us when to a tarpon on a rod and reel in the lagoon but it stay home cover your cough, wash your hands breathe. It is an involuntary reflex. When we And hightailing it they did, you could see them might have happened. and keep some distance just like you had the breathe to rapidly we lower our CO2 levels a mile away still going in the opposite direction. flu. If you begin to feel short of breath, weak The only tarpon that I ever caught on a trotline and this inhibits that involuntary reflex. Being I have seen dolphins feeding on schools of with high fevers and severe cough go be seen in my fifty years of commercial fishing was on awake we know that we need to breathe but mullet in water about four or five feet deep. at the ER or your doc. Call them first so they the Long Bar between East Kleberg Point and have no physiologic stimulus to do so. Three or four dolphins will start making circles can evaluate you outside of the facility. Health around a school of mullet and then take turns Cumperte Pass near the Intracoastal Canal. This gives us the sensation that we can not get care workers need to protect you and themselves going into the center of the circle and toss one I was at my shack and saw the tarpon hit my a deep breath and makes us feel short of breath as well as other at risk patients. We do not test of the mullet into the air with their tail and then lines about a mile away. I knew it was a tarpon even if our oxygen saturation is high at 100%. everyone because we do not have enough tests. If catch it with their mount in midair. because of how shiny it looked in the bright sun. We also will begin to see skin disturbances and you are suspicious for mild disease, you will be I unhooked and turned it loose to help populate numbness from hyperventilation, the face and sent home to self quarantine. You will be tested According to documentaries I’ve seen on the earth. The most tarpon I have ever seen was hands are common areas. The fingers can even to rule in for other causes such as flu, strep or television about dolphins they feed a lot on in the Gulf of Mexico as another fisherman and begin to cramp up. Eventually we pass out and other bacterial causes that can be treated. If you flounder and other bottom fish. They seem to myself put a boat in the surf and went out to the stop breathing for a short period until the CO2 are very ill or in health care you will be tested be one of the most intelligent creatures on earth. oil platforms to catch some grouper and ling. levels rise and the lights come back on. for COVID 19. Healthcare workers and the One morning after spending the night fishing in The water was clear with swells far apart. At Hyperventilation like this is an extreme example very ill and hospitalized are being prioritized in Baffin Bay, I decided to come back home to the the forty-foot depth we saw a massive school of anxiety. The vast majority of people never get order to keep the health system up and running Bluff by staying on the west side of the lagoon of tarpon headed south. The school was about that far. Most folks just feel like they are going to take care of the very ill. Employers should in the deep water because the water was dead one-quarter of a mile wide as we motored over to die from something soon. They have frequent not demand testing of every employee with cold calm with no wind at all. Ordinarily I would get them without disturbing them. We estimated doctor and ER visits looking for the cause that symptoms because it can not be done. Sending right up close to the King Ranch shoreline to there might be a million in the school. At the oil eludes them. If their doctor is intuitive they can the employee home for self care and observation stay out of the rough water. rig we caught a one-hundred pound grouper and spot this early on and save thousands of dollars is the best course unless they have high fever some ling on a hand line and shark hook. dry cough and shortness of breath. That morning I got within a half-mile of the of medical evaluation. Convincing the patient Pure Oil Channel and kept seeing something up When I was in the 4th Grade in school the can be difficult and some medical testing to Try to stay strong, eat healthy, drink less ahead coming out of the water and I couldn’t teacher had us write a one page story about disprove their concerns is usually necessary. alcohol, exercise and stay hydrated. Vitamin figure out what it was. As I got closer I could see vegetables with some of the words rhyming. I Once the patient understands the issue they will C and zinc might help. 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This suggests that, It has been said that Ice Hockey is the Bloody one of the National Hockey League’s greatest games have been played without the development of effective treatment, Mary of sports. You can get killed playing players. Wearing #16, he was not only faster since Wednesday, March 11th, the day that it will not be as simple as self-isolating for a hockey. Hockey is usually explained as a bunch than most, but he was also an amazing stick Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19. In little while and then everything, including the of guys with no vowels in their names skating handler who refused to be intimidated on the a column the next day, the Toronto Star's Bruce NBA, getting back to normal for the foreseeable around in a circle. This fellow played hockey ice. Richard was named to his first All-Star Arthur called the Utah Jazz center an accidental future. like a prize fighter who comes on expecting to team during the 1957-58 season. Henri scored take some punishment. Professional hockey hero and quoted a sports executive saying, The broader point here is that the factors that the game-winning goals in Game Six of the players make a habit of passing out skull "Honestly, Rudy Gobert saved America." That will determine if and when games can be played 1966 Stanley Cup Finals against the Detroit Red fractures for a living. Hockey is one of the is hyperbolic, but his positive test did force again are largely out of the league's control. For Wings, and in the 1971 Stanley Cup Finals in few games where you take your teeth out to Commissioner Adam Silver to suspend the 2019- example, the United States-Canada border was Game Seven against the Chicago Black Hawks. play, because guys like him had given you an 20 season, which undeniably contributed to the closed on Wednesday, and the Public Health elbow sandwich. Most hockey heroes can’t do As for his nickname, “The Pocket Rocket,” public starting to have a better understanding Agency of Canada has directed anyone arriving a double Lutz, a camel or a sit-spin. They’re this story told by Henri to the Montreal Gazette of the pandemic and the importance of washing in the country to self-isolate for 14 days. As guys who take you into a corner and knock you in 2009, goes like this: “I was playing for your hands and limiting person-to-person long these types of travel restrictions persist, off the puck. Seeing a guy throw his gloves the Junior Canadians, and we had a game in contact. Thanks to Bill Morgan (former SWC the Toronto Raptors will not be able to host on the ice was like watching the gates open at Toronto against St. Michael’s College, the same SID), James Herbert, Adrian Woinarowski, games. Ultimately, Silver said, the NBA will the Kentucky Derby. “And they’re off.” I’m weekend as Montreal was playing the Toronto Shams Chrania, Jeff Zilligitt and Romona play games "when public health officials give surprised the Stanley Cup is not full of blood. If Maple Leafs, so there was an ad in the paper Shelburne for the facts contained in this report us the OK." and to Bill Morgan for the photos. I wanted to see ice skating, I’d go to see Holiday saying, See ‘The Rocket’ on Saturday night and Which Players Have Contracted on Ice. If I wanted to see hockey, I’d watch the ‘The Pocket Rocket’ on Sunday afternoon, and Has The 2019-20 Season Been it just grew from there.” COVID-19? Montreal Canadians. Maybe they should light Canceled? the puck on fire, so we can see it. Henri played his entire 20-year career with Rudy Gobert, his teammate Donovan Mitchell, Montreal at the center position. In 1,256 No. Not yet. But even last Thursday March the Detroit Pistons' Christian Wood and four And then there was this guy. It was with 12, 2020, the day that, pre-Gobert, the NBA Montreal that you would hear about this fellow. games, he scored 358 goals to go, with 688 Brooklyn Nets have tested positive. Kevin assists. His 1,256 regular-season games played expected to start playing games in empty arenas Durant is one of the Nets. There are surely He looked completely out of place. Standing rather than pressing pause, Silver acknowledged 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing a mere 160 for Montreal is the franchise record. Henri was more, however, who just haven't been tested selected an All-Star 10 times and served as the the possibility that the league will not be able to yet. So on top of all of this, the lack of testing pounds, this kid was considered too small for press play in time to salvage the season. In his the sport and he looked so young. Because of team captain from 1971 to 1975. Richard retired is really creating a lot of anxiety and worry for after the 1974-75 season. He led the National interview with Nichols, Silver called himself doctors, nurses, for staff in the hospitals who his size, he was given the nickname “The Pocket "optimistic by nature" and said he wants to Rocket.” This fellow was just 19 when he Hockey League in assists in 1957-58, with 52, are worried that they also are not only unable and in 1962-63, with 50. Richard received the believe that at least some portion of the season to treat patients with the full care that they need, turned professional and so handsome; he looked will be played. like a wax figure. Guys like him reminded me Bill Masterson Memorial Trophy in 1974 for but they're also themselves at risk at a time perseverance and sportsmanship. Henri When Might Games Be Played Again? when they are running out of masks, gowns, Richard was inducted into the Hockey gloves and other equipment that they need to Hall of Fame in 1979 and his #16 was Team higher-ups are looking at mid-June as protect themselves. a best-case scenario, but fear that this is it. On retired by the Canadians on December Tuesday, March 17, 2020, Surgeon General Why Do So Many NBA Players Have 10, 1975. Vivek Murthy spoke to owners on a conference Access To Tests When So Many People Henri Richard was a part of 11 Stanley call, giving them "facts and sobering details" Don't? Cup winning teams, the most in NHL about the coronavirus, but allowing for the history. It is true that Yogi Berra played possibility that the season restart before July. On Here's the NBA's the answer, from spokesperson in 10 World Series championships a related note, Murthy said this in an interview Mike Bass: "Public health authorities and team with the New York Yankees, and John a couple of days before that call: There are doctors have been concerned that, given NBA Wooden won 10 NCAA Basketball three key areas where our health care system is players' direct contact with each other and close Championships, while coaching vulnerable in crises like this. No. 1, we can run interactions with the general public, in addition UCLA, but only one other athlete out of beds. No. 2, we can run out of equipment. to their frequent travel, they could accelerate the in professional sports has won 11 No. 3, we can run out of people - specifically, spread of the virus. Following two players testing championships in their respective health care workers, who we need to take care positive last week, others were tested and five league: Bill Russell, who played with of patients. And we're already seeing this play additional players tested positive. Hopefully, the Boston Celtics of the NBA. Richard out in other countries, particularly in Italy, by these players choosing to make their test Henri Richard won five Stanley Cups while skating where the hospital system has been utterly results public, they have drawn attention to the with his brother, Maurice. overwhelmed, and clinicians have to make the critical need for young people to follow CDC kind of decisions that you see in war, where recommendations in order to protect others, that you don’t have to be big to be a big deal. If Henri Richard continued to operate a tavern they have two patients who desperately need particularly those with underlying health you saw him on the street you’d promise him he had purchased while playing and he also care, but there's only a bed for one of them. conditions and the elderly.” That jibes with that you would help him find his parents. served as a team ambassador for Montreal after And they're having to make decisions that no about how 58 people with or connected to the retiring. His brother Maurice passed away in The man played with an “old school” style of clinician ever wants to make about which one Jazz organization were tested at Chesapeake 2000. Henri announced in 2015 that he had hustle, and he was fast. He didn’t just out-skate has a better chance of surviving, even if they Energy Arena last Wednesday. Oklahoma been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. other players, he out-skated entire teams. You know that both deserve treatment. We don't want State Department of Health spokesperson Henri Richard passed away on a Friday, March can’t teach effort, you can only talk about it. to be in that situation. But what we are seeing is Jamie Dukes said that it was a "public health 6, 2020, at the age of 84. He was living in This man had effort in spades. Being small, he a rapid rise in cases. And while we have some decision," and Rishi Desai, a doctor who used Laval, Quebec, Canada. He is survived by his understood that tough times don’t last but tough ability to expand our capacity in terms of ICU to work for the Centers for Disease Control and wife Lisa: his children Michele, Gilles, Denis, people do; and he must have had a touch of steel beds and ventilators here in the United States, Prevention, explained it by classifying athletes Marie-France and Nathalie; ten grandchildren; in him. Henri Richard was an assassin with a we will far outstrip that limited extra capacity if and team personnel as "super spreaders," since and four great-grandchildren. hockey stick in his hands. His heart was bigger we continue on the same trajectory of rise that they are around so many people and traveling. than his biceps, but the man could fill up a stat It’s true that Maurice and Henri Richard have we see now. Silver used that term in other interviews also. sheet. With great feet and perfect technique, both now left us. But as long as they drop the The goal of social distancing is to avoid That argument, however, was more compelling Richard could really move the puck up the ice. puck at center ice in Montreal, their spirits will overburdening the healthcare system, but "the last week than it is today, as athletes and team Henri Richard was cold hard cash from the remain. irony of successful social distancing is that fewer personnel are self-isolating like the rest of center ice position. Andy Purvis is a local author and radio will develop immunity," according to a triple- us. Shortly after the Nets' positive tests were Joseph Henri Richard was born in a leap year, personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. bylined story written by an epidemiologist, a announced on Tuesday, New York City mayor February 29, 1939, in Montreal, Canada. He com for all the latest info on his books or to biostatistician and an oncologist and medical Bill de Blasio tweeted that testing asymptomatic was one of eight children born to Alice and listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books ethicist which was Tuesday, March 17, 2020. players shouldn't be a priority. Onesime Richard, who worked as a machinist are available online and can be found in the "That means that social distancing 2.0, 3.0 and, Dotson’s Other Note: Well, here we are without for the Canadian Pacific Railroad. There was local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be who knows, maybe even 4.0 will very likely live sports going on. Are any of you going back nothing he’d rather do than play hockey with his contacted at [email protected]. Also have to occur." Those three experts -- Michael and watching old contests in which you already brother Maurice and the Montreal Canadians. listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Levy, Susan Ellenberg and Ezekiel J. Emanuel know the outcome? Comments/calls/texts are Henri was 15 years younger than Maurice, who Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. -- likened it to pumping a car's brakes on an welcome. Email: [email protected] Mobile: was known as “The Rocket.” Henri led the com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of icy road: You push on the brakes, then ease up, 530748-8475 -30- Have fun and hang in there! Quebec Junior Hockey League in scoring for the Houston Astros. then do it again, and after three or four times two straight years, before signing with Montreal in 1955, at the age of 19. Henri would become

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Unfortunately, birds do not eat the caterpillars, so they run unchallenged. Insecticides help, but spraying trees kills everything else on the tree too. Capt Joey Farah with a nice trout from I don’t have any answers for you loyal readers, and you all already know that this epidemic soft plastics this week drifting just off the is sending our entire way of life into a tizzy. ICW. The economic damage will be felt for years, and there are some things that will never get back to “normal.” All we can do is hope that things work out for the best, and that by social 30 lbs of big black drum gave even Big distancing and quarantine, we can slow the Randy a good fight. Windy Baffin Bay. Thankfully, at this time of writing, the powers- spread and not overwhelm the hospital system. that-be have reopened the beaches. It made us We will eventually all be exposed to this noise all nervous last weekend when the cops had to at some point; it just doesn’t need to occur at the shut it down due to crowding, but now that word same time. There’s a lot of anxiety to get out, has gotten out (and spring break finally ended) but we really need to fight the urge and do our people are playing by the rules. I have yet to part. Drop me a line at [email protected] make it out there myself but hope to soon. I and I’ll see you next week On the Rocks. hear the sargassum and tons of small by-the- wind sailors are starting to make an appearance on our beaches, and a check of the Loop Current in the Gulf does indeed show a change. The currents that were blocking the entrance have weakened considerably over the past month or so, and the barn door is open. The Island Strategic Action Committee is due to meet again in just under two weeks on April 7th, although I’m not sure that we will make the meeting. 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1 of 1 3/24/2020, 2:17 PM March 19, 2020 Island Moon A 13 STATE Full Transparency and Disclosure Coronavirus (COVID-19) PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President By Todd Hunter, District 32 • U.S. Election Assistance Commission: https://www.eac.gov/election-officials/ As always, let me have appointed to the Architectural Control In this week’s article I would like to discuss the coronavirus-covid-19-resources your thoughts. You can Committee (ACC). He brings years of City coronavirus (COVID-19). To be prepared, our • Office of the Texas Governor: https://gov. reach me at marvin@ management experience to the ACC. He is a office has been in constant contact with local, texas.gov/coronavirus pipoa.net welcome addition to the team. In addition, the state, and federal officials. The PIPOA officeBoard passed a resolution to renew the PIPOA I would like to remind the Coastal Bend we • Texas Department of State Health remains closed to the insurance program for the next year. must work together to combat the virus. I will Services: https://www.dshs.texas.gov/ coronavirus/ public due to concerns about COVID-19 There are no plans to hold a Board meeting continue to encourage everyone to take these and the need for social distancing. You can at this time. The PIPOA will follow the stated precautionary steps to prevent the spread of the • Texas Education Agency: https://tea. contact the PIPOA via phone at 361-949- guidelines of the various government entities virus. These actions include: texas.gov/texas-schools/safe-and- 7025 or email to Jim Smock at jim@pipoa. regarding social distancing. • Wash your hands often with soap and healthy-schools/coronavirus-covid-19- net. support-and-guidance The City of Corpus Christi has canceled the water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and The two Bylaw amendments passed as a Litter Critter that was scheduled for April. water are not available, use alcohol-based • Texas Workforce Commission Resources result of the Annual Meeting and Election. No future date for Litter Critter has been hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol. for Employers: https://twc.texas.gov/ The PIPOA Board will now have the authority announced. • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and news/covid-19-resources-employers to set the Annual Meeting on a date that will mouth with unwashed hands. minimize conflict with Spring Break. The The COVID-19 and the need for precautions • Texas Workforce Commission Resources second amendment provides that a subdivision have disrupted American lives. Our little • Avoid close contact with people who are for Job Seekers: https://twc.texas.gov/ which terminates its covenants will not be a slice of paradise on the Island is no exception. sick news/covid-19-resources-job-seekers Please take every precaution recommended member of the PIPOA. Therefore, the Sea • Stay home when you are sick. • Texas Attorney General: https://www. Pines subdivision is no longer a member of by health experts to prevent the spread of texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/ the PIPOA. COVID-19. Please be safe and healthy. God • Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue ag-paxton-warns-price-gouging-texans- Bless one and all. The PIPOA Board is continuing to conduct • Clean and disinfect frequently touched prepare-prevent-spread-coronavirus business. This week, Mr. Flo Pena was objects and surfaces using regular • Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission: household cleaning spray or wipe https://www.tabc.state.tx.us/coronavirus/ As more information becomes available, I will index.asp provide additional updates. The state agencies • The Texas Education Agency Meal Comptroller Offers Texas Parks are collaborating with each other and work Finder: https://schoolmealfinder.hoonuit. closely with local officials to respond to current com/ Further Modifying outbreaks. In the meantime, it is important to Sales Tax Assistance follow the precautionary steps listed above, and • Texas Department of Emergency These are challenging times for businesses listen to local health officials and comply with Management: https://tdem.texas.gov/ all over the nation. The Texas Comptroller’s Operations to their suggestions to help contain the spread of covid-19/ office knows that during periods of economic the virus. I will include some useful links to • The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: hardship, paying or remitting taxes and fees on Implement Latest follow current developments concerning the https://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/ time can feel like an extra burden when there’s coronavirus. releases/?req=20200319a so much uncertainty. We’re thankful to those businesses that were able to remit state and Health Guidance • Center for Disease Control: https://www. • Texas Department of Insurance: local sales taxes they collected from customers cdc.gov/coronavirus/ https://www.tdi.texas.gov/news/2020/ in February on the March 20, 2020, due date. Enforcement, Boat • To follow the Federal Government’s coronavirus-updates.html We understand that virtually all of our taxpayers Response: https://www.usa.gov/ • Texas Department of Family and are doing their best to remain in compliance Registration Offices coronavirus Protective Services: https://www.dfps. and be responsible in submitting the taxes • To follow the Coronavirus Task Force: state.tx.us/About_DFPS/Coronavirus/ they collected from their customers. With that Close to Public https://www.coronavirus.gov/ default.asp in mind, our agency is here to offer assistance • For live national briefings from the • To find community resources: https:// to those businesses that are struggling to pay Visitation www.211texas.org/ the full amount of sales taxes they collected in Coronavirus Task Force: https://www. February. Texas State Parks is limiting park programming whitehouse.gov/live/ • Texas Department of Motor Vehicles: and closing public access to park headquarters, https://www.txdmv.gov/covid-19 For businesses that find themselves in this visitor centers and park stores. • Small Business Association: https://www. situation, our agency is offering assistance in sba.gov/page/coronavirus-covid-19- • Texas Department of Agriculture: https:// the form of short-term payment agreements “Our main priority has always been the health small-business-guidance-loan-resources www.texasagriculture.gov/NewsEvents/ and wellbeing of our visitors and staff, and in and, in most instances, waivers of penalties and • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid: COVID19CoronavirusResponsePage. interest. order to maintain this standard to the best of aspx our abilities TPWD facilities will be modifying https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality- We ask that you contact our Enforcement operations as a precautionary step towards safety-oversight-general-information/ • The City of Corpus Christi: https://www. Hotline at 800-252-8880 to learn about your protecting public health,” said Carter Smith, coronavirus cctexas.com/coronavirus options for remaining in compliance and Executive Director of the Texas Parks and • U.S. Food and Drug Administration: • The City of Port Aransas: https:// avoiding interest and late fees on taxes due. Wildlife Department. “While we have worked https://www.fda.gov/emergency- cityofportaransas.org/coronavirus/ hard to provide access to state parks through preparedness-and-response/mcm-issues/ In addition, we have a variety of online tools • The Corpus Christi Economic for businesses seeking assistance. See our much of Spring Break, we have now reached a coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19 point where changes are imperative for safety Development Corporation: COVID-19 emergency response webpage • U.S. Department of Education: https:// reasons. I am grateful to our State Parks team https://www.ccredc.com/index. for access to online tools, tutorials and other www.ed.gov/coronavirus and volunteers for their valiant work during php?src=gendocs&ref=ccredc.com/ resources for tax services, and to establish 24/7 coronahelp&link=ccredc.com/coronahelp online account access with Webfile. this exceedingly difficult time and thank our • U.S. Department of Agriculture: https:// visitors for their patience and understanding as www.usda.gov/coronavirus If you have questions regarding any of the We’re standing by to help Texas businesses we continue to evaluate additional measures to information mentioned in this week’s article, during these difficult times. • U.S. Department of Labor: https://www. ensure the safety of everyone in the parks.” osha.gov/SLTC/covid-19/ please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or District Office. Please always feel free to As part of these operational changes, parks • U.S. Department of Homeland Security: will be suspending all cash transactions where contact my office if you have any questions Eric Brunnemann https://www.dhs.gov/publication/notices- or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if feasible. Visitors are encouraged to utilize the arrival-restrictions-coronavirus self-pay stations, the online reservation system you would like to contact my office regarding Selected as and credit card transactions at this time. Other • U.S. Department of State: https:// constituent services. My offices are available reduced services include the suspension of travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/ at any time to assist with questions, concerns equipment rentals and interpretive programs. traveladvisories/ea/covid-19-information. or comments (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; Superintendent html District Office, 361-949-4603). In addition to the operational changes at of Padre Island Texas State Parks, TPWD law enforcement • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 and boat registration offices, including the https://www.publichealth.va.gov/n- Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). National Seashore license and boat registration counter at TPWD’s coronavirus/index.asp He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. Austin headquarters, will be closing to public • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: texas.gov or at 512-463-0672. National Park Service visitation at 12 p.m., March 19. Texans needing https://www.epa.gov/pesticide- Regional Director Mike to purchase hunting and fishing licenses, boat registration/list-n-disinfectants-use- Reynolds announced and motor owner transfers, and boat registration against-sars-cov-2 this week that beginning renewals are encouraged to visit tpwd.texas.gov April 26, 2020, Eric or call the department at (512) 389-4800. Brunnemann will serve as superintendent of Padre These changes will remain in effect for the Island National Seashore foreseeable future. TPWD will continue to in Texas. Brunnemann, monitor the evolving health situation with local who has more than 31 and state officials and will adjust operations at department sites and facilities as necessary. The Brunnemann years of experience with the National Park Service, public is encouraged to follow the department’s will also supervise the social media accounts and monitor its website superintendent of Palo Alto National Battlefield for the most up to date information. in his new role. “Eric has been serving as the acting superintendent of Padre Island National Seashore and Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park since October 2019 and has shown exemplary leadership and dedication to SkillsUSA Texas both parks and their surrounding communities,” said Reynolds. “Throughout his career, Leadership Eric has overseen many successful resource management projects and educational outreach Conference programs that have provided great value to the National Park Service.” Cancelled “I have a long family history in Texas that The SkillsUSA Texas Board of Directors this Crazy Cajun serving to go only in Port A. Photo by John Morris. dates back to the 1860s and moving back to week announced their conference scheduled south Texas truly feels like coming home,” said for Corpus Christi from April 2-5 has been Brunnemann. “I’m looking forward to working cancelled due to concerns resulting from the Waves Gives Food and Supplies While with the staff, local communities, and many COVID-19 pandemic partners to forge lasting relationships that will help preserve our resources and enhance the The conference involves the travel of over Social Distancing visitor experience in these south Texas parks.” 8,000 participants and volunteers from across Texas to gather in close proximity in Corpus Brunnemann began his National Park Service Christi. career as a seasonal museum technician at Fort Davis National Historic Site. He then continued his career as a Southwestern archaeologist at Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico and with the Southeast Utah Group in Moab. Brunnemann also served as superintendent of Badlands National Park in South Dakota, Pinnacles National Monument in California, War in the Pacific National Historical Park in Guam, American Memorial Park in the Northern Mariana Islands, and most recently served as superintendent of Guadalupe Mountains National Park in West Texas since 2015. After 31 years of living away from south Texas, The Waves Resort conducted a food donation distribution for all of their recently laid Brunnemann is looking forward to moving his off employees from 11 til 3 PM on Wednesday afternoon. The staff drove through and son and daughter, who have traveled the world received pre-packaged frozen proteins, bread, pasta and paper goods. The Waves with him, back to the area where he grew up. was closed last Saturday due to the CODIV-19 corona virus state and federal safety regulations. The Waves Resort plans to reopen in the summer of 2021. March 19, 2020 Island Moon A 14 The Barnacle Line Nature Notes By Del Smith One effect that a Wharf Committee seems Racoons of the Shore: the Hello to all you out there, whom still read to have, more than any other, is that of pieces of paper, not screens. I am, as the above intimidation. As in the case, that this author title might suggest, Del Smith. Many years ago, witnessed, of a co-captain, who was, for the first Semipalmated Plover when this publication of events and purported time, helming their boat into the slip, --- solo. By Taylor Bennett The pressure on her to successfully navigate wisdom first became a gleam in the eye and raccoon, well at least to me it does. The Piping the vessel was, of course, increased several-fold We at Gulf Coast Bird Observatory are mind of Mike Ellis. Plover has very pale plumage and lacks the mask by the committee, (grog shop / dock side type), conducting non-breeding shorebird surveys around its eyes. Luckily for us, the breeding and He and I had several gab sessions on how that awaited her endeavors. This committee’s along the Texas Coast till the end of March. wintering plumage of the Semipalmated Plover the paper was to be structured and its content. determination of her efforts was held to be that The beaches we monitor are Matagorda Beach, stays dark while the Piping Plover stays pale. One of his main concerns was that of what he of an 8.2 average of all the placards waving in Bryan Beach, Quintana Beach, and Follet’s The Semipalmated Plover also has a very large could put into each issue and where was it to the hands of those members in place. She is Island. We are mainly focusing on threatened, dark neck band while the Piping Plover has a come from. That is when I made the mistake currently doing rather well mentally - all things endangered, or species of high concern which narrower black neck band only during breeding of informing him of a few small articles that considered. include Piping Plover, Snowy Plover, and Red I wrote for PIYC’s “Dock Lines”, under the Knot. season. I know, for a fact, that the observation of two heading, “The Green Flash and The Art of Semipalmated Plovers and Piping Plovers have or more people overseeing any of my boating While surveying, we encounter other Sailboat Maintenance.” So a few ‘pretty pleases’ similar feeding styles. They both use the stop and tasks seems to bring about an immediate mental shorebirds along the beach including the later I moved that same banner to the “North go method and rely heavily on sight to go after numbness, a cold sweat and the sensation of Semipalmated Plover. These particular plovers Padre Island Moon” with no incrimination as I their prey. They also use their bill to probe in the crawling skin, just above the collar. Given are neither threatened nor endangered which no longer was a member of the PIYC. sand. They both mainly feed on insects, marine this evidence, I believe we can safely state classifies them as common and species of worms, crabs, mollusks, and other marine So then began several years of columns, in that the predominant effectiveness of a Wharf low concern. They are the most common and invertebrates. They both can be seen hunting those early years of what is now known as the Committee is that of intimidation. However we numerous plover you can encounter on the their prey by foot trembling, in which they move “Island Moon” one of those columns is as you must not infer that this is the prime purpose beach and can be seen from September to late their feet rapidly in the sand, creating vibrations see below is the result of many ‘pretty’s’ and of such gatherings. It is, in my summation, April along the Gulf Coast. to cause prey to surface. The both ‘please’s’, once again, put forward to me by a only the perceived results of their accidental like to be on their own when they couple of persuading editors of this tome - and placement and not their intent…although I, feed, however, the Semipalmated a very weak moment. sometimes, do wonder. Plovers prefers to roost and fly in So here we are, now and a few times in the However, intimidation was not the direction large flocks. future I will resurrect and reedit and, hopefully, of discussion of this particular committee, Another difference between improve some of those same columns from the that I observed at the beginning of this article. Semipalmated Plovers and Piping past. The title I use now is different, as frankly, Although if certain media individuals and Plovers is their breeding habitat. sometimes shorter is better. Texas tradition or federal organizations were there to overhear, Piping Plovers prefer nesting not. --- Anyway hope you enjoy. they might feel intimidated, for the prime along the coast on beaches or in topic was that of weather and the forecasting The Wharf Committee the Greater Plains near lakes and of same. This committee was a quorum made rivers within the United States. The Wharf Committee was in full-blown up from members of several other local wharf Semipalmated Plovers prefer session, here a while back. Solving all of the committees, with the exception of one old gent the cold and migrate towards world’s problems and maybe creating a few down on the end. His demeanor was that of the the sub-Arctic and Arctic for new ones while they were at it. Opportunities picture of a beat-up old cowboy, a cigarette breeding. They don’t necessarily are, after all, opportunities. hanging from the corner of his mouth and a lay nests on the actual tundra, longneck clutched before him. With the caption Semipalmated Plover observed feeding along the shores but prefer to nest on gravel bars One must strike while the iron is hot!! that read, “Spent most of my money on beer and of Follet’s Island near Surfside, TX. along rivers and ponds. Their For those of you who are unfamiliar to what wimmen, the rest I just wasted.” Photo by Taylor Bennett. dark plumage helps them blend exactly a Wharf Committee is, and why it The reason weather forecasting was such an in to this particular environment exists, allow me to attempt a partial definition important topic, for this session was due to which protects them against predators. Both of this phenomenon. Wharf Committees are The Semipalmated Plover differs slightly from the hard-and-cold, front that came in about Semipalmated and Piping Plovers will defend those groups of people that congregate around other plover species. The word “semipalm” twelve hours earlier than predicted. Thereby their nest and chicks using the broken-wing boats. Most predominantly, around those places is actually referring to its partial webbed feet destroying everyone’s boating plans for that display in which they fake an injury in order to that those boats are secured to, such as piers, and not its plumage. It has orange legs and a day. So, -- if you can’t go boating, you just go to stout orange bill with a black tip similar to a distract the predator away. pilings, docks and such. Whence we have the watering hole and talk about it…of course. “Wharf”, where, of course, you may find these Piping Plover which makes it slightly difficult Both plover species can be seen at all our committee want-a bees. During the discussion, every facet of weather to distinguish especially when both of them are monitoring sites especially Follet’s Island and forecasting was touched upon by all those in winter plumage. Matagorda Beach. On behalf of Gulf Coast Magnetism of new medium present. 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