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By the numbers Three Arches! Memorial Day Weekend Editor’s note: The following numbers were presented to the By Dale Rankin Corpus Christi City Council by The summer heat crept in from the the CEO of the Corpus Christi Wild Horse Desert this week and Visitors Bureau Bret Oetting in its gave us a hint of what is coming meeting on Tuesday, June 8. The when summer officially kicks in two numbers regarding hotel price and weeks from now. Temperatures are occupancy do not include up and so are the numbers of people Short-Term rentals. coming OTB. Using the Port Aransas ferry has pretty much been removed 150,000 visitors to Corpus from the list of options for Islanders Christi area during Memorial heading OTB these days as the wait Day Weekend times in both directions even on 18,500 Average number of weekdays stretch to an hour or more. vehicles per hour arriving over What used to be considered holiday the JFK Causeway traffic is now Wednesday traffic. 40,000 pounds of beach trash Water Exchange Bridge picked up The last two arches in the northbound 1656 Beach Permits sold side of the Water Exchange Bridge 16,400 Visitors to Texas State went up this week giving us a glimpse Three arches on the North bbound lane side of the Water Exchange Bridge are now in place of what the final structure will look Aquarium (most ever in a single like. While we continue to hear from weekend) the Drive By Bridge Designers this Length of stay week that the 14 feet of clearance for boats is not high enough as you can 1.97 days Average stay see from the photos on this page that 2.58 Average length of stay is two and a half feet higher than the (nights) highest bridge leading to the Water Exchange Bridge from the canals. As 52.6% of visitors are daytrippers we have said before if your boat can’t 39.8% of visitors stay 1-3 nights make it under a 14 foot bridge we can only envy you. 6.2% of visitors stay 4-7 nights 1.4% 8-plus nights Lifeguard shortage Hotels $194 Average rental rate/stay increase from 2019 The bridge on Whitecap Boulevard over the The Gypsy Bridge over the east end of the Main $138 Increase in average Island Cruiser canal has 11 feet of clearance above the Canal has 10.5 feet clearance above the waterline. hotel room nightly cost over waterline. 2019 The second and third arches on the of the canal were placed on Monday the northbound lane is on schedule to 59.2% Hotel occupancy rate Emergency crews aid a man Island Water Exchange Bridge were and Tuesday. be finished by the end of 2021 and the Thursday new roadway will be used as a detour who died of medical problems put in place this week. The center Project foreman Mike Franklin said 75% Hotel occupancy rate while the bridge on the southbound on the beach this week even as arch which spans the waterway has the next step in the process will be to Friday lane is under construction. The entire the nearby lifeguard station was been up for several weeks and the place the walls on the embankments project is scheduled for completing 92.9% Hotel occupancy rate unmanned. two adjacent arches to cover the leading to the bridge which will begin by the end of 2022. Saturday pedestrian and cart paths on each side in the next few weeks. The stricter on City officials said this week they are raising the pay for beach lifeguards in an effort to cover a shortage of 16 ISAC update Island Blast! lifeguards to meet the desired staffing level of 44. If you know someone Packery Channel Repair Funding Off Road Vehicles over 18 looking for a summer job at Fourth $15 per hour call the city. Lifeguard Shortage And then there’s this… By Dale Rankin of July A decision on how to fund $15 Young told ISAC members in a two “We got caught in a loophole,” million in repairs to the Packery and a half hour meeting Tuesday Young said. “The city had to go to the Fireworks Channel jetty system may be headed that funding was held up as officials Corps first and that application was to the Corpus Christi City Council at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, moving forward until they found a according to Assistant City Manager who designed, built and funded the rule that said that they could not fund Are On! Neiman Young. jetties in 2005, decided on whether the repairs.” the organization would pay for After a year hiatus due to the COVID In 2017 wind driven water Young said that since the Corps lockdown the eighth annual Island the repairs. Young said that Corps issued the letter matter now is fully in rushing toward the Gulf of Mexico officials last month issued a letter Blast Fireworks Show will take to the destroyed much of the jetty structure, the hands of the Federal Emergency sky on Sunday, July 4. stating that the fund which originally Management Agency. particularly on the south side of the paid for the jetties cannot legally pay Event organizer Fred Edler said channel causing it to collapse setting for the repairs and issued a letter to Wednesday that the show will start off a scramble to find funding for that effect. ISACcont. on A4 shortly after sunset in the property There is no news item here but a repairs. at the west end of Whitecap. The reader sent us this photo of the drug show is paid for with donations from incinerator at Padre Island National Islanders and each year thousands of Seashore and we thought it was A little Island history Islanders and non-Islanders gather on interesting. This is where square fish go to be cooked. Just a reminder that while we go about our daily lives The Island Seagate Around The Island we do in fact By Dale Rankin live smack dab in the middle of a smuggling lane. For most of its life it has been a rusty and concrete canvas for Dog Park update taggers, it has been a hangout for Construction of the Riley P. Dog late night partiers, often a hazard Park at the west end of Whitecap has for boaters, and the subject of stalled as plans for the driveway and much curiosity and speculation. IslandBlast! parking area make their way through But the Seagate between Packery the city regulators. The recent rains Channel and Lake Padre is about to Fire in the sky on sprung up a forest of weeds and a relic of the Island’s past, at least the Fourth of July flowers but the good news is that once in its current configuration. the flowers are removed the rains also Thirty years ago when brought in groundcover that will Westinghouse Financial owned decks and streets to watch the show allow the park to be usable while the more than 1000 acres on Padre which lasts about twenty minutes. permitting process goes on. It won’t Island they decided to try to slow be long… We will have public viewing down any surge tide from an locations, both from the street side We’ve made it through the first incoming hurricane by building a and from the water, in the next few couple of weeks of Hurricane Season concrete structure at the entrance weeks as plans are set but what we 2021 unscathed so keep your fingers to Lake Padre that would hold four The four iron gates still stand vigil on the west side of the channel can say for certain is that come the crossed everybody, and say hello if History cont. on A4 entrance awaiting the deployment that never came. 4th of July there will be fire in the you see us Around The Island. Island sky. June 10, 2021 Island Moon A 2 Parrotheads "Party With a Purpose"

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Becky Lewis Siller : Beach was definitely the My sister bet me I couldn't make a car out of Moon Monkeys Letters to the busiest I have ever seen last weekend. If you spaghetti. U should of saw her face as I drove Mike Ellis, Founder don’t get there by 8:00, expect to walk down. pasta. Kirk Colby : Most other HOAs with boat ramps My fear of moving stairs escalates. Editor lock them up with a gate or a chain, members What's worse than raining cats and dogs? get the code. Hailing Taxi. Doing so would solve the parking problem I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. and increase revenue since only paid in full Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations members would get the code every month. that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have Justin Davis : Can’t lock up the ramps. They’re to travel to the top two corners of the map so it open to the public. The parking lots are for dues won't fall down. paying members only. I forgot my coffee this morning so I'm gonna Kirk Colby : Justin Davis yes you can lock drive on the rumble strips along the side of the Distribution up private property. Most HOAs in Texas lock road all the way to work just to be safe. Pete Alsop up their boat ramps. It’s private property, we A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go Island Delivery (PIPOA) own it, we pay to pave the parking lot, to hell in such a way that you will look forward Coldwell Banker we pay the property taxes, and if some out of to the trip. towner crashes a boat or drives into the water Advertising Memorial we are going to get sued by Thomas J Henry. Don't worry guys, my wife just turned the car Jan Park Rankin radio down so we shouldn't be lost much longer. Please join us Friday June 11th to celebrate RJ Editor’s note: As published last week the Classifieds Grant’s life. He passed away on May 27th at ramps and canals are owned by the PIPOA Why don't aliens visit our planet? Terrible Arlene Ritley the age of 85. We are having a gathering at the but are open to the public under a decades old ratings. One star. Production Manager Beach Lodge restaurant in Port Aransas Friday agreement with the federal government. The Clinging on to past and living is like driving Abigail Bair June 11th at 5pm . If RJ cracked a joke and ever parking lots at the ramps, also owned by the forward while watching the rear view mirror... PIPOA are for the use of property owners only. Contributing Writers made you smile please join us and share your story. We look forward to a night of stories and I tried to sue the airline for misplacing my Joey Farah Mike Carlisle : Will material brought in for luggage. I lost my case. fun! renourishment introduce anything not native to Andy Purvis Lottie Grant the beach? Sorry I'm late traffic is exactly how it's been Mary Craft every day for the past 5 years and I was not Emily Gaines Editor’s note: That would depend on where expecting that. the sand comes from. Right now the source of Jay Gardner Bicycles sand is undetermined. What goes through towns, up hills, and down Pastor Kris Bair Summertime means more bicycles on our hills but never moves? The road! Todd Hunter streets. I see dangerous cyclists on a daily basis Marie Pittman : Not only did we have more I applied for a job today and they ask for three Dotson Lewis all over the island. Every bike rider can use cars on the beach this weekend, we had more trash littered along the beaches as well. Why references. I wrote, "a dictionary, a Thesaurus, Dr. Tom Dorrell these reminders to stay alive and remain in one piece. doesn’t the city place temporary dumpsters at and a map." Ronnie Narmour the Pavilion during peak weekends to allow for I WRITE ALL MY JOKES IN CAPITALS. Brent Rourk The cyclist is responsible for obeying every more disposal? The high tides have led to the traffic law (that includes stop signs and traffic THIS ONE WAS WRITTEN IN PARIS. Photographers removal of almost all of the trash cans south of lights). the pier, and there are just simply not enough I got excited when my son joined the cross- Miles Merwin (Emeritus) ALWAYS ride on the far right of your lane cans on the beach to encourage visitors to clean country team. But then I learned they don't cross Debbie Noble (with the traffic) and NEVER opposite up after themselves. the country and are back home in a few hours. Evelyn Pless-Schuberth oncoming traffic (even if you are in a marked Editor’s note: That would have to be the Why is Peter Pan always flying? He neverlands. bike lane). Jan Rankin county unless an interlocal agreement was Young riders pick a destination and go... Old Mary Craft Ride single file, not side by side. signed. The city currently manages some of the riders pick a direction and go. county-owned beaches under an agreement, Ronnie Narmour Yield to pedestrians and never assume your but it does not include trash cans. I like when flies won't leave my car on long bicycle has a preferential right-of-way. road trips. Have fun moving to Kansas, you tiny Jennifer Wilkinson Monahan : Growing up in Make sure your bike and helmet are idiot. NJ, the Army Corp of Eng. and NJ DEP always mechanically sound and maintained well. had some dredging operations in one of the I didn't realize how bad of a driver I was until Allow your children to ride on the streets beach towns every year along the coast. I don’t my sat nav said, "In 400 feet, do a slight right, only after you have thoroughly trained them understand why it is so hard to have a program stop, and let me out." on traffic safety. Kids do dumb stuff because here. They dredged straight from the Atlantic... Heard about the pilot who decided to cook they have not yet developed the perception no channels to pull from. whilst flying? It was a recipe for disaster. and judgment of adults. Edtitor’s note: That is being discussed but so My cat constantly looks at me like I asked her Under the law, a bicycle is a vehicle on Texas far no permits have been filed. to give me a ride to the airport. Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) streets and roads. When riding a bike, we Did Ya' Hear? I've finally told my suitcases there will be no Riley P. Dog are responsible to follow the rules of the road just like the operators of every vehicle around holiday this year. Now I'm dealing with the Marilyn Knapp Litt : TENDERLOINS!!! This emotional baggage. us. More information can be found at the Bike Hoosier thinks you buried the lead! Publisher Texas website (www.biketexas.org). Let's be We are all time travelers moving at the speed of careful out there. Kevin Sean : Agreed about the signs, A guy exactly 60 minutes per hour. Dale Rankin drowned yesterday right in front of the Seawall About the Island Moon Tom Cullinan | Island at 214. Two blondes were driving to Disneyland. The The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale sign said, "Disneyland Left". So they started Rankin, Editor / Publisher. Editor’s note: Yes, and as you can see in this crying and went home. Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes From Our Facebook photo the lifeguard station was unmanned at delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 the time. A new bill filed by Representative Todd After the helicopter crash, the blond pilot was copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, asked what happened. She replied, "It was as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 Page Hunter and awaiting the governor’s signature copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. Stuff I Heard would allow the overhead signs on the JFK getting chilly in there, so I turned the fan off." News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, Causeway to flash rip current warnings, which The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm SallyAnn Odenbach : My farmer husband and I is currently not allowed under state policy. weather. It moved to Finland. Now Santa Claus payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. used to bring our motor home down from SoDak How much that might help remains to be seen. is missing. The Island Moon Newspaper in the winter and stay at Pioneer RV resort outside Port Aransas.. never saw any celebs but Andecdotingly by Abigail Bair I've always had an irrational fear of speed 14646 Compass, Suite 3 love the Jimmy Buffett story.. I would love to Lisa Ledford : One trip we somehow managed bumps. But I'm slowly getting over it. Corpus Christi, TX 78418 stay at the lighthouse!! to get lost in Corpus and ended up by the dump The bartender says "we don't serve time 3 times! I took a pic the second time! Husband 361-949-7700 Keep up the great writing ... I enjoy reading! travelers in here". A time traveler walks into a was not laughing and the kids didn’t help things bar. Cassie Overley : A lot of big stars were in but now we can laugh hysterically about it! I [email protected] How does a snowman get around? He rides an Lukenbach last weekend for the Jerry Jeff have the pic on my fridge! Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper tribute so who knows!!! icicle! Karen Hestand Askey: Had a few of those What kind of tan did pilgrims get to the beach? Roy Sharp : Gary P. Nunn at the Back Porch ! “lost” trips!! Puritan. CW McCarty : We don’t need the Island going Where to Find The all Hollywood. LOL! I went geese hunting the other day but once Horrible Humor: they started flying I knew the game was up. Island Moon Joseph Farah : Larry the Cable Guy had a condo in Port A several years ago. When will pigs fly? When we launch them to Travel Edition mars for the astronauts to have bacon! Joey's Fishing Report Light travels faster than sound. This is why Port North some people appear bright until you hear them Yo mama so stupid she tried to climb mountain Cassie Overley : Joey. Your writing skills may dew. Aransas Padre exceed your guiding skills! Enjoy your posts speak. Pioneer RV often! Now I need to go FISHING! With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it's only I'm on the highway to hell, but ran over the All Stripes Stores pothole to hell and need the roadside assistance Stripes on 1A a matter of time before we get a country song Black Sheep/ Around the Island where a guy's truck leaves him too. to hell. Kody’s Barrel Nathan Floyd : For how much sand is moved What did E.T.'s mother say to him when he got Why did the librarian get kicked off the plane? Coffee Waves everyday, they could’ve replenished that stretch home? "Where on Earth have you been?!" Because it was overbooked. CVS of beach. But they don’t want to. Slowly taking Moby Dicks Dollar General away our beach driving rights, one section IGA Doc’s Restaurant at a time. Leave the seaweed there. It helps PREVENT erosion. If you can’t stand the smell, Treasure Island Snoopy’s Pier you haven’t lived here long enough, and don’t San Juan’s Restaurant Isle Mail N More understand the dynamics of our ecosystem. Wash Tub Bunch of people littering? HUGE police force Island Italian like Spring Break. How many littering tickets Woody’s Sports were written? I bet none. Center Brooklyn Pie Co. Ace Hardware Marc Villarreal : The dunes are growing not Back Porch Bar beach eroding....the 4x4 sign at pins has gotten Shorty’s Place Texas Star (Shell) swallowed....20 years ago it was in center of beach now it's half way buried by dunes...or was Gratitude Spanky's a while back Scuttlebutt’s The Gaff Restaurant Brent Wideman : They have been pushing sand Red's Riviera into the dunes for almost 10 years between Sounds Good BBQ Subway Whitecap and Bob Hall. Trying to close the Island Tire gap so they can restrict driving. Last year’s Spanky's Liquor hurricanes took 30 feet of their dunes out. I Beach Lodge Padre Pizzeria wonder how much of our tax dollars that cost us? LEAVE OUR BEACHES ALONE!? Ellis Memorial And all Moon Library retail advertisers Morgan Faulkner : They need to stop messing with the sand. Every time they move it around Bernie's Beach House WB Liquor it unsettles it which causes it to be moved by Island IGA currents and waves. Let it setup and leave it alone! They only had 10 chances to do this last year with all the storms we had. The beach was Flour Bluff left in perfect condition after each storm we had. H.E.B. Then hey scraped it, made it loose and guess what, it didn’t stay where they put it. Doesn’t Ethyl Everly take an engineer or anyone fancy to figure this Senior Center out. Richard Jacobs : Agree 100%. Just like after Harvey when the beach was so wide, and smooth, and actually sloped down to the water so we didn’t have stagnant pools of water. Ward Jones : Dale, I spit out my whiskey when I read you are receiving complaints that “the narrowness of the beach is due to the canal under the new Water Exchange Bridge.” Those Send Letters and Photos to complainers sure are showing their ignorance, [email protected] the canal isn’t even finished yet! and follow us on Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper June 10, 2021 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 ISAC cont. from A1 in Kingsville meaning that enforcement has iron gates to be dropped into vertical slots on subsequent generations of designers until “The city now has essentially two routes,” been lax, according to information presented each side of the channel. The gates would be the consensus became that not only was Young said. “We can continue the appeal for Tuesday. stored immediately adjacent to the concrete the structure considered useless it could be FEMA funds which may take a while or we can structure and as a hurricane approached a potentially dangerous to anyone trying to lift find another funding source through the city.” While there are no speed limit signs on the contractor would use a crane to raise them then iron sails swinging from a cable in the winds Young said that the city this month will began beach in Kleberg County ISAC officials said drop them into the slot to avert the power of of an approaching hurricane. In 1994 when advertising for a contractor to draw up design Tuesday that state law sets a default speed limit moving water. The gates were not solid metal, Asset Development bought out Westinghouse plans for the new jetties. A previous request of 15 miles per hour on beaches where speed they contained slots for the water to flow they consulted the Conrad Blucher Institute to for contractors to submit bids for the design limits are not posted. through since the goal was not to keep the water decide whether to restore it to usable condition and repair of the jetties did not received any Some owners of cart rental businesses told out, which no gate solid or slotted could do, but or remove it and were informed that it would response. The original plans for the jetties ISAC members Tuesday that they would be rather to slow the rushing water as it entered be of little help in a storm and it was left to rust called for sheet pilings to be placed on the water willing to pay an annual registration fee for or exited Lake Padre. Keep in mind this was and decay. side of the jetties to prevent rushing water from each rental cart to help fund enforcement of cart fifteen years before Packery Channel was cut The advice from the Blucher Institute was that undermining the structure, however, due to cost operations. Currently carts cannot cross SPID open to the Gulf of Mexico and the water body the best defense for Island bulkheads in the considerations during construction the piling anywhere north of the Whitecap intersection immediately in front of the gate was known as face of rising storm water was to submerge the were not installed and the water flow during and can only cross at marked crossings. the Ski Basin. Hurricane Harvey caused much of the south bulkheads as fast as possible to protect them Frazier said that due to the increase in reported The lines and tackle for the deployment of the from flying, windborne debris. jetty to collapse to the point of being untrainable and in need of complete replacement. Young did problems CCPD will step up enforcement and gates was stored in the cart house at the old Padre According to current plans the current Seagate bring the results back to ISAC at a future date Isles Country Club which is where it stayed until not give a timeline for a decision to go to the structure will be torn down by year’s end and council for consideration. for possible action. Any final decision would it was removed during the construction of the the current opening, which is less than fifty have to be made by the Corpus Christi City Schlitterbahn waterpark. It was never deployed feet wide, will be expanded to close to 100 Razors and ORV rentals Council. and the Seagate was never closed from the day feet which will not only allow for easier boat Corpus Christi Police will step up enforcement it was built until today when any attempt to lift passage but the wider opening will slow the Beach Maintenance Facility the gates into place would likely result in them of city rules for the operations of off road speed of incoming current (the Venturi effect) vehicles travel faster than traditional golf cars ISAC members voted Tuesday to request turning to powder after thirty years in the harsh and the structure that has stood guard at the Island climate. and are being rented by the day at several that city staff cease plans to build a beach entrance to Lake Padre will be no more. locations on The Island. maintenance facility on city –owned land In that time the engineering behind the design adjacent to the #15 Fire Station on Commodores. According to information provided to ISAC of the Seagate was called into question by The question of where to place the facility has Tuesday drivers of the vehicles, which can reach been a subject of discussion for almost six speeds up to 50 miles per hour have been driving years and city staff told ISAC members in their dangerously on local beaches and in some case March meeting that plans to place the building along SPID where they are prohibited. at the location were 80 percent complete. After “We will start some enforcement,” said CCPD objections were raised by ISAC members at Captain Timothy Frazier. But he stopped short that time city planners removed a washing of calling for governors to prevent the vehicles station for the six beach vehicles owned by from driving faster than those of traditional golf the city from plans and make it a storage only carts. facility to reduce noise. Current plans do not “That would be government overreach,” Frazier include facilities to repair vehicles making it said. “I don’t know whether a governor would solely a storage facility. City crews need access cause a big impact. We do make some stops to both sides of Packery Channel and ISAC but I don’t know if putting governors on them members raised concerns about vehicle traffic would help. It’s something we’re going to have on Aquarius Drive and Whitecap to travel to and to look into. It comes down to the responsibility from the beach to the Commodores location. of the driver.” City planners, including ISAC members, Golf carts, and some off road vehicles, are considered six sites for the facility in 2016 and allowed on Island streets where the speed limit decided on a location at the parking lot adjacent is 35 miles per hour or less. City ordinance to the boat ramps on Zahn Road. That plan does not require golf carts to be licensed like was scrapped when requirements to elevate the automobiles, however, some off road vehicles facility increased cost beyond the $1.5 million are required to have license plates. in funds from a 2012 bond issue. However, those plans included office space which led to The problem has become acute in recent weeks the elevation requirements leaving open the particularly on the beach in Kleberg County possibility that it could be built at that location south of the Corpus Christi City Limits where if the office was not included. There is also a there have been several reports of drivers of off question of whether using dedicated parks space road vehicles traveling at speeds near fifty miles at the Commodores location would violate the Over the years vandals burned away the piling that connect the gate to the wooden an hour and narrowly missing pedestrians. annexation agreement between Padre Island concrete seawall along the beach. Corpus Christi Police have no jurisdiction south and the City of Corpus Christi. Young told of the city limits line where the responsibility ISAC members he would research the matter shifts to the Precinct 4 Constables Office. return with his results at the July meeting. Nueces County owns about six miles of beach Lifeguard shortage that fronts 3680 acres in Kleberg County. One problem with enforcement has been that City officials told ISAC members they are tickets written there by officers from Nueces raising the pay of beach lifeguards from the County and the City of Corpus Christi must current $10.50 per hour to $15 in order to be adjudicated in the Kleberg County seat address the current shortage of 16 lifeguards. Port A. Art Gallery: June Featured Art

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The concrete portion of the Seagate recently got a new coat of paint to cover the graffiti. June 10, 2021 Island Moon A 5

Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island Tides for Bob Hall Pier June 3 - June 10 By Dale Rankin It’s a sad thing to watch of the longest of its kind in the country and a Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon really. Hope, opportunity, promise and promises, featured attraction, required a small army of /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible not to mention money and labor, being hauled lifeguards to meet safety standards and was Th 10 High 6:31 AM 1.8 6:33 AM Rise 6:36 AM 0 away one truckload at a time. open on only a handful of days over the years. 10 Low 9:28 PM -0.5 8:24 PM Set 8:54 PM The Island Moon office is directly across the street from the former Schlitterbahn now Waves F 11 High 7:11 AM 1.8 6:33 AM Rise 7:23 AM 0 resort site and several times a day as I sit at my 11 Low 10:01 PM -0.5 8:24 PM Set 9:47 PM desk I hear a truck rumble by hauling off bits and pieces of what used to be a waterpark. A Sa 12 High 7:50 AM 1.8 6:33 AM Rise 8:14 AM 1 waterpark with a troubled and ultimately sad 12 Low 10:36 PM -0.5 8:25 PM Set 10:38 PM path, but a waterpark that began with a roar Su 13 High 8:28 AM 1.8 6:33 AM Rise 9:09 AM 5 and went out with a whimper. Not so very long ago buyers were lining up to purchase newly- 13 Low 11:14 PM -0.5 8:25 PM Set 11:24 PM built condos and townhomes they hoped would M 14 High 9:02 AM 1.8 6:33 AM Rise 10:07 AM 10 catch the overflow from the new park, Islanders were lining up for jobs, parents were looking 14 Low 11:55 PM -0.4 8:25 PM forward to a place to take – and sometimes drop What would become the swim-up bar. Tu 15 High 9:30 AM 1.7 6:33 AM Set 12:06 AM 17 off – kids, and grandparents were hopeful that a waterpark would be a lure to bring grandkids 15 8:26 PM Rise 11:05 AM OTB more often. Another of the major attractions was the W 16 Low 12:40 AM -0.2 6:33 AM Set 12:45 AM 25 It was a mixed bag at best. Some Islanders didn’t Boogie Bahn, the big box next to the building 16 High 9:52 AM 1.6 8:26 PM Rise 12:05 PM like losing nine holes and eventually eighteen which would flow enough water to allow adults Bob Hall Pier, Corpus Christi, TX 8775870 Tidal Data Print View https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/noaatidepredictions.html?id=8775870... to surf standing up but seven pumps were Th 17 Low 1:31 AM 0.0 6:33 AM Set 1:21 AM 35 holes of golf, some were worried that the traffic would jam up Island roads for months at a time, required to move the necessary amount of water but that many were never installed so two of 17 High 10:10 AM 1.4 8:26 HelpPM Print Rise 1:04 PM while others jumped on the Schlitterwagon in hopes of making some Schlitterbucks. the park’s major attractions were not built to perform as advertised. NOAA/NOS/CO-OPS In the beginning… Tide Predictions at 8775870, Bob Hall Pier, Corpus Christi TX When construction began the plan was for a From 2021/06/10 12:00 AM LST/LDT to 2021/06/17 11:59 PM LST/LDT 2.0 2.0 large waterpark that was to be the crown jewel 1.77 1.77 1.75 1.75 1.71 1.64 of Schlitterbahn parks where lessons learned in 1.53 1.5 1.39 1.5 previous parks – good and bad – would be put into the design. But as time went on it became 1.0 1.0 clear that the building was too big to survive by solely serving the park and not big enough to 0.5 0.5 support itself as a stand-alone hotel. Heightfeet in (MLLW) 0.06 0.0 0.0 -0.13 On the positive side -0.25 -0.33 -0.35 -0.35 -0.32

NOAA/NOS/Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services The new owners made a number of good-faith 12:00 AM 12:00 AM 12:00 AM 12:00 AM 12:00 AM 12:00 AM 12:00 AM 12:00 AM 12:00 6/10 6/11 6/12 6/13 6/14 6/15 6/16 6/17 6/18 attempts to fix the problems over the course of Note: The interval is High/Low, the solid blue line depicts a curve fit between the high and low values and approximates the segments between. more than two years and the building that will Disclaimer: These data are based upon the latest information available as of the date of your request, and may differ from the published tide tables. Under construction soon be rubble is much better than the one that

High/Low Tide Prediction Data Listing was built originally. But at the end of the day Station Name: Bob Hall Pier, Corpus Christi, TX Source: NOAA/NOS/CO-OPS the best way forward for the park’s owners Action: Daily Prediction Type: Harmonic Product: Tide Predictions Datum: MLLW is to develop or market the land without the Start Date & Time: 2021/6/10 12:00 AM Height Units: Feet End Date & Time: 2021/6/17 11:59Turtle PM Count Time Zone: LST/LDT presence of the building or the waterpark and it is their decision. None of the naysayers over the By Dale DateRankin Day Time Hgt Time Hgt Time Hgt Time Hgt 2021/06/10 Thu 06:42 AM 1.75 H 9:29 PM -0.33 L years lost money on the deal – it was all private During May 2021,2021/06/11 Fri 138 uncategorized 07:23 AM 1.77 H sea turtles strandings 10:04 PM -0.35 L were recorded in Texas. The money. The tax breaks were tied to performance 138 stranded2021/06/12 turtles Sat recorded 08:05 AM in May included 1.77 H 10:44 36 PM green -0.35turtles, L 69 loggerheads, 28 Kemp's and would have come from new income that ridleys, 2021/06/131 leatherback, Sun and 08:54 4 AMsea turtles 1.75 Hof unidentified 11:30 PM species. The -0.32 L 10-year-average for sea simply never materialized. The only public turtle strandings2021/06/14 in Texas during May (2011-2020) Mon 09:44 AM 1.71 H is 107. Of the 138 uncategorized strandings money was $5 million in infrastructure from found in May of 2021,2021/06/15 Tue most 12:21 were AM found -0.25 L in south Texas, 10:15 AM including 1.64 H 84 (60.9%) in zone 20 and city funds designated for new development and 36 (26.1%)2021/06/16 in zone Wed 21. Additionally, 01:09 AM -0.13 4 greenL 10:25turtles, AM 3 loggerheads 1.53 H and 6 Kemp's ridley sea 2021/06/17 Thu 01:56 AM 0.06 L 10:26 AM 1.39 H it will be used to service whatever comes next. turtles were incidentally captured in Texas during May. The Water Exchange Bridge is now a reality ALL STRANDINGS 2021 and the private owners of the land on both sides have funded and completed canals that made it Monthly numbers of all stranded sea turtles recorded in Texas during 2021. Includes turtles possible. The new plans for the park site and for that stranded for any reason excluding incidental captures. Lake Padre are in the works and while I have This table does not include any of the more than 13,000 cold stunned turtles reported due to not seen them I think it is safe to say that what the February 2021 cold stunning event. is to come is going to be much better than what is being torn down. Total Monthly Texas Sea Turtle Strandings At the end of the day The Island has five Kemp's Olive Strandings Loggerhead Green ridley Leatherback Hawksbill ridley Unidentified Total hundred acres of soon to be vacant land that Jan 189 1 190 runs from a sound connected to the Gulf of 1 of 1 Feb 4 58 6/8/2021, 1:3262 PM Mexico to the Laguna Madre with a navigable The area at Commodores and Compass channel running through the middle of it right Mar 6 106 6 1 119 became a parking lot. Apr 25 59 22 1 107 in the midst of a real estate market that is hotter May 69 36 28 1 4 138 we have ever seen it on The Island. If the park The developers were sitting pretty in 2014 was going to be torn down and development Jun Total Monthly Texas Sea Turtle Strandings Jul surfing along on the euphoric wave created started anew from the ground up you could not Kemp's Olive have picked a better time. StrandingsAug Loggerhead Green ridley Leatherback Hawksbill ridley Unidentified Total by $117 million in tax credits from city hall. SepJan 189 1 190 Those allowed the park owners to keep the The success of new development concepts on FebOct 4 58 62 Hotel Occupancy Tax generated by the park The Island have shown us there are markets out MarNov 6 106 6 1 119 until the amount reached $111 million but there we never saw. When Cinnamon Shore AprDec 25 59 22 1 107 as far as I know none of that money was ever North began in 2006 we locals couldn’t see GrandMay Total 10469 44836 2857 12 1 44 138616 claimed. When the park was done to break even how it could possibly work, now their problem Jun it required a minimum of 1300 visitors per day is they need more land. during the 100-day summer season but only Jul Incidental Captures From where I sit I see the glass half full, we Aug Monthly Texas Sea Turtle Incidental Captures reached that number on rare occasions. The Monthly numbers of incidentally captured sea turtles recorded in Texas during 2021. Includes length of the Lazy River, which was to be one will know what fills up the rest by the end of IncidentalSep Kemp's Olive turtlesCaptures caught Loggerhead during recreational Green ridleyor commercial Leatherback fishing, Hawksbill dredging ridley operations, Unidentified or power Total plant 2021. Oct waterJan intakes. 7 7 Nov Feb ThisDec table does not include any of the more than 13,000 cold stunned turtles reported due to Mar 1 1 theGrand February Total 2021104 cold stunning448 event.57 2 1 4 616 Apr 7 4 11 May 3 4 6 13 Jun Monthly Texas Sea Turtle Incidental Captures IncidentalJul Kemp's Olive CapturesAug Loggerhead Green ridley Leatherback Hawksbill ridley Unidentified Total SepJan 7 7 FebOct MarNov 1 1 AprDec 7 4 11 GrandMay Total 3 194 106 1332 Waterway leading to Tidal Wave Pool. Work on housing for Archimedes Screw. Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Grand Total 3 19 10 32

Week-by-Week Strandings Weekly numbers of stranded sea turtles documented within Texas during 2021 and the previous five-year and ten-year averages. This includes all stranded turtles recorded for any reason excluding incidental captures. This graph does not include any of the more than 13,000 cold stunned turtles reported during the February cold stunning event.

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Autocorrect is of the Content counts. By Dotson Lewis Devil. And not the He left and never came back. Special to the Island Moon devilled eggs sort, either. It’s a big temptation to some just to let AutoC Dotson’s Note: Thanks to a number of my bombers while still in allegiance with Germany I’ve had issues with this little monster since do the work. I’m pretty sure those programmers WWII Veteran friends who landed at Anzio and and, to a lesser extent from its former allies after way back in the Wayback (deliberate reference who manage the AutoCs of word processing fought their way up the “boot” to Rome, and its surrender. While under occupation, Rome to Professor Peabody’s invention—autocorrect and text messaging could tell you precisely how to Elly Farelly and Carlo D’Este for the facts had been declared an open city. This signaled offers “swayback” and “layback” to replace it). often AutoC’s corrections are usefully correct— to the invading armies that it would not offer contained in this report and to the US Army and And speaking of Wayback, a quick Googling and the figure will be a relatively big percentage resistance, thus ensuring that the minimum Stephen Kirrage, for the photos. of the Wayback Machine I know and love (a of the time. force would be used to take control of the city. Celebrations in the Streets of Rome la Rocky and Bullwinkle) will not bring it up. Which is why when I saw silly spelling errors Conditions in Rome were not as bad as in some Instead, you will find that there is a REAL on student papers (“seperate” instead of the On the June 5th 1944, the people of Rome parts of Europe. The city’s water supply was Wayback that archives the internet—a useful flooded into the streets to welcome the arrival correct “separate”), I had no mercy. They unaffected, and there was working electricity, tool that “allows the user to go ‘back in time’ weren’t bothering to even look at AutoC. of the Allied troops. The men had marched although there had been some blackouts. and see how websites looked in the past.” from the south, following their success at the However these were reported to have been BUT AutoC-gone-renegade can happen, too. One source notes that this Wayback “machine” Battle of Monte Cassino. Now, the crowds caused not by damage, but by the engineers’ were celebrating the liberation of Rome from has been successfully used in lawsuits. Artificial Intelligence (at least the kind that reluctance to restore power, fearing that it would most of us have access to) can’t read very well. German occupation. help the enemy (Allied) troops. I am left with a picture of Thomas J. Henry in front of the Supreme Court justices, when Oh, it can read and does a fairly good job. But Food supplies were now extremely low, Professor Peabody and Sherman arrive out of language shifts and changes all the time, and because most of the citizens remained in Rome nowhere escorting Marco Polo, who will be an figures of speech, jargon and dialect present as during the occupation. In addition to this, the expert witness on gunpowder. many problems for AI as they do for us. population had increased due to a large number of refugees who were now living in the city. Fantasy aside, I’m betting some of those Meaning matters, after all. Gorilla warfare is lawsuits in which the real Wayback program not the same as guerilla warfare. Daring, Unconventional and Brilliant played a role were caused by Autocorrect. Usually. In March 1944, the American commander of In fact, I would argue that Allstate should replace One of the best articles about this that I came the 5th Army, Lieutenant General Mark Clark, Mayhem with Autocorrect, which overlooks began his advance on Rome. He chose not to across is “Fasinatng. . . Fascinating History such dandies as this sign: “Trespassers will be of Autocorrect,” written in 2014 by David take the most obvious approach, which would Prostituted.” have been to surround the German soldiers who Sparshott, for Wired magazine. Just Google it had already started retreating from the south. Sigh. to read it for free. It’s worth your time. Instead, he chose to strike out from the I’ve had this love/hate affair with Autocorrect AutoC frustration is ubiquitous. Anyone who Anzio beachhead. This tactic was not just since Microsoft (and I looked this up) first texts or uses word processing struggles with it unconventional – it actually went against the invented the real deal. daily. orders of General Sir Harold Alexander, the In our English Department computer lab at Ft. But it’s hear [sic—AI/AutoC has trouble with British officer in overall charge of the operation. Hays State University (it was a college back homonyms, too!] to stay. Not only has it saved However, the approach proved to be effective then—we’re talking the late ‘80s), we had what some major mistakes from being published, but and, in the end, the Allied armies met with little was then a state-of-the-art grammar checker. it has provided the incentive for creative minds resistance from the German occupiers, who to come up with new uses for it. U.S. troops in Italy were scattered around the city and had already The program was adequate. You typed in your For example, some Asian teens created begun their withdrawal. two-page essay, and it hemmed and hawed and then spit out a 13-page version, complete with an entire dialect using the first suggestion The reigning Pope appeared on the balcony One of the most valued aspects of Clark’s word counts, a grade-level language difficulty from autocomplete (where suggestions for of the Vatican to address the jubilant crowds direct approach was that it not only proved to be score (are you using all simple sentences? completing your sentence are offered) instead in St Peter’s Square. He gave thanks for this successful, but it also resulted in the city being Are you using complex sentences? Are you of their chosen word. Nobody who wasn’t in on victory, particularly as the ancient city had liberated with very little damage. balancing your sentences?), possible grammar it could decode them. suffered remarkably little damage in the course errors flagged, and suggestions for reworking of the battle. The Pope praised the “goodwill Look for a Bible translation in this dialect the essay. on both sides”, since the city had survived sometime soon. its occupation and liberation largely intact. But it didn’t know the difference between Until then, you can hear and read the scriptures “attitude” and “altitude,” among other issues. Monte Cassino and Beyond in standard English at Island Presbyterian Sigh once more. Church—worship livestreaming and Zooming The story begins with the battle of Monte at 10 am each Sunday (see our Facebook page), Cassino, not far from the Mediterranean coast. When the President of the University made a and Beach Worship on Sundays all summer, at This engagement opened the way for Allied special trip to meet with English Department 8 am, at the end of Whitecap (bring your own forces to gradually push further north into faculty to present his new vision for our chair, coffee, and your dog!). German-occupied Italy. Earlier that year the department--a big room with an assembly line Allied troops, bolstered by the arrival of fresh of faculty, each responsible for grading one type We welcome anyone and everyone— reinforcements of Indian and New Zealand of error in essays submitted using our grammar autocorrected or not! soldiers, had made significant gains. As a result, checker program--we gently, but firmly, pointed the German troops were gradually retreating out to him that a good essay is more than nuts further and further to the north. General Mark Clark and bolts. The Allies’ triumph in the South opened the way for the next important stage in the battle for Although Clark’s campaign would later be Italy, to free Rome from German occupation. described by the eminent American military The city’s liberation would be the climax of historian Carlo D’Este as “as stupid as it was a long and protracted series of battles, which insubordinate”, at the time it was considered would eventually see the whole of Italy freed. to be a great triumph. The American Military The Strategic and Symbolic Significance authorities, in a broadcast from London shortly after the event, described the campaign as of Rome “daring, unconventional and brilliant.” While under the dictatorship of Benito In spite of this victory, the battle for Italy was Mussolini, Italy had sided with and supported not over. After their defeat at Monte Cassino Hitler’s aims. However, Mussolini was deposed and Rome, the German forces retreated to the in July 1943 and the new Italian Government, so-called “Gothic Line.” This was a string of led by Marshal Pietro Badoglio secretly heavily fortified stations to the north of Florence entered into surrender negotiations with the with bunkers and machine gun nests. It ran from Allies. Italy formally surrendered to the Allies the coast about 30 miles north of Pisa along the on October 13th 1943. It subsequently declared mountains between Florence and Bologna as far war on Germany and became a member of the as the Adriatic, just south of Rimini. Allied forces. Dotson’s Other Note: In checking through back The city of Rome was of great strategic issues of The Island Moon, It appears that I importance, primarily because of its airfields had not discussed the significance of the fall of and extensive road and rail networks. Both Rome in the European Theater of Operations, Eisenhower and Churchill saw the liberation of so the foregoing is an attempt to remedy that. Rome as being hugely significant in regaining The fall of Rome was an important landmark this stronghold in Europe; it would be the first Brenda from Uvalde comes to the Island as often as she can to ride her recumbent bike battle in the Italian Campaign, which lasted on the seawall. Photo by Mary Craft. enemy capital to be captured. from 1943 until the German forces in Italy finally surrendered in May 1945, at the end of the war. Thanks for reading and commenting on the articles in The Island Moon. Contact me at Port Aransas Art [email protected] or call/text: 530-748-8475. Port A. Happenings Please note: The Weekly Veterans Round Table Guided Nature Walk: Saturdays, Center Events Meetings have resumed at Del Mar College 8-10am, Community Park Trail Head, June 6-12 CED in Room 106 on Tuesdays 9-11AM. 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High By Chef Vita Jarrin consequences of my actions heels would murder me. aren't always a significant enough deterrent to pice up your grilling talents, I've been applying for second jobs lately, by adding a little Asian flare to 1 tbsp. sesame oil stop me from doing stupid stuff. Sure, I fall mostly because I really want to be able to afford down a lot, but that seems to happen no matter your grilling mastery. Just a few Asian sauces 1 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes, optional to hire someone to deal with my yard – which and spices can add a delicious finish to any what. I just keep on going despite my life recently sprouted a weed I unaffectionately call 2 tbsp. cornstarch largely being a loosely strung cat's cradle of protein. Soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger, and Satan's Downstairs Deadlocks. Because of my garlic are just a few of the staples to have on 2 tbsp. chopped fresh parsley leaves cautionary tales and “It seemed like a good idea employment search, I've had to redevelop my at the time.” hand this summer to elevate your Asian grilling 2tbsp. minced cilantro wardrobe to look moderately professional at techniques. I got to thinking about this the other day when I interviews. I'm pretty sure I'm 0 for 2, despite 1 tbsp. sesame seeds was stomping around my house happily singing wearing a blazer to the second. Amber tried These ingredients are readily available at most to the dog wearing ancient jammie bottoms to help by loaning me some navy pants and a grocery stores and can be used again and again, Directions: on fish, poultry, beef, pork and lots & lots of stir with holes in scandalous places and a tube white button down, but I got so bored looking Season ribs with salt & pepper, granulated fried veggie options. Once you marinate you top featuring a skull. Suddenly, I paused and at myself wearing them that I immediately garlic and dredge in flour. In a skillet, add can grill, bake, or braise just about anything and thought, “Man, if there were any real poetic stripped and threw them over the back of a oil and sear meat. Put seared meat on a paper transport your guests with just a sprinkle, a pour justice in the world, I'd spontaneously sprout a chair. towel lined dish. Nickleback tramp stamp just for wearing this.” and a dash. “It's not fair,” I wrote Amber. “All men have In a large bowl, whisk together soy sauce, beef This week, I wanted you to explore with beef Then I freaked myself out so hard that I had to to do is throw on some dumb, tan dockers and broth, brown sugar, garlic, ginger, sesame oil riblets and beef short ribs. They are often over position myself between two mirrors to check a polo shirt or a button down and tie if they and red pepper flakes, if using. that no miracle tattoos had appeared out of want to be REALLY fancy, and no one judges looked and lose their spot to pork ribs. But it’s nowhere. them – at least not comparatively. If I wear a no secret… we love grilling beef in Texas… so If you wish to grill riblets, I suggest you place skirt it's either too long and I look like Laura here is a yummy option for you to try. them in a ziplock bag and let marinate for I was cool – this time. a minimum of 4 hours and then grill. If you Ingalls Wilder or it's too short and I'm Slutty Ingredients I should have been punished for bad taste McSlutterson. Same with shirts. If I dress too want fall off the bone, you can continue to cook on many occasions prior to the Nickelback boring, I'm a missionary. If I dress too flashy, ½ c all purpose flour for dusting short ribs them in a 325-degree oven, covered for 2 hours. incident. I went through a period where I only I'm a show-off. I wish I could just wear brown If using a slow cooker, place short ribs into a 4 lbs. bone-in beef short ribs or thinly sliced 6-qt cooker. Stir in soy sauce mixture until well wore shoes that looked like they'd been stolen in dockers and a shirt and tie, but if I try that I'm a cross cut beef ribs the night from Frankenstein's monster (which, feminazi. So, here I am, and I have to invest in combined. come one, at least give the guy a name – Hobart 9 million different dumb outfits that I literally kosher salt & pepper to taste If using a pressure cooker, carefully release the Frankenstein or something – it is, after all, will never wear to audition for jobs – and then I granulated garlic to taste pressure, according to instructions. ALIVE). Maybe I should have been punished have to do makeup, too. ARRRGH!” by an angry Hobart taking them back? 1/2 c low sodium soy sauce Serve immediately, garnished with parsley and “Yeah, but we're the same size,” replied Am, sesame seeds, if desired. That certainly would have made my “so spend that money, honey.” 1/2 c low sodium beef broth grandmother happy. Tip of the week: She is nothing if not supportive. 1/4 c dark brown sugar, packed Once, in college, two older ladies behind me The options are endless. ;) The Important thing I haven't told Amber that she's probably not 3 cloves garlic, minced on a flight of stairs yelled, “Your mother lets is to have fun, try new things and Enjoy! going to want to wear a Misfits t-shirt and a pair you walk our of the house looking like that 1 tbsp. freshly grated ginger of black slacks with holes in the knees to her in the morning?” I don't remember exactly next job audition. what I wore that day, but it was probably some combination involving combat boots, a torn up It certainly did not work for me. punk rock shirt, and tights the color of garden Still, it's better than the time I was really sick variety goose poop. and accidentally huffed way too much Afrin I was only a little surprised to be heckled by right before an interview. I went in looking like a woman wearing pink and green striped capri Pennywise the clown from It (minus only the pants (she looked like watermelon flavored red balloon). chewing gum). I've been on the lam from the fashion police “MY MOTHER IS DEAD.” I responded, for years, but they have yet to bust me. despite the fact being that the Rev was in her I'm really glad that terrible fashion choices office four doors down, blessedly unaware. don't land you in a gulag in the hastily created “I'm so sorry,” said her friend (who was wearing city state of Fasionistan (somewhere near a pink and floral plastic windbreaker). Siberia). Mostly, around here, you just wind up Ye without fashion sin cast the first stone. with really strange tan lines. I was called the Dumpster Diva by my family Luckily, at the Island Moon I remain unjudged. for a long time, and it's not like I ever got over Jan has hidden me away in an an office so far it. Today, my aesthetic could be described as removed from the public area that I basically “medium homeless.” I have the same attitude have to take a dog sled to get there. No one has towards clothing that I have towards the books I to look at me, though, so I get to wear what take to the beach – don't ever buy anything that I want – provided the holes overlap enough to costs so much you can't ruin it. sufficiently cover my swimsuit areas. I may be a terrible dresser, but it's largely Wait a minute – am I in Fashionistan right because on your standard day I'm usually now? covered in dirt, poop, sweat, lawn, pet fur and Is this legal? We contacted the City Beach Management office to find out, If so, I definitely deserve it. but got no response. Photo by Mary Craft. Remember When Ten Years Ago This Week

Delbert McClinton with guitarist Gary Nicholson played Henry Rivas, Al Gomez, Jimmy Spacek, Sauce Gonzales, the Rockport Music Festival on June 9tth. Kevin Hess, Joe Jama and Spot Barnett played the Back Photo by Carol Elliott Porch on June 4th. Photo by Carol Elliott The Groove played the Sandbar

The Litter Critter made an appearance at the PIPOA office. Girls were hula hoopin'. Photo by Jan Rankin.

Bob Hall extension was completed A8 Island Moon June 10, 2021 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon Ping Pong Is a Sport for You First Down By Andy Purvis By Dotson Lewis Winston Churchill once is that Dotson in return recommended Red Dotson’s Note: This way. Some benefits include: said,” One mark of a great to the NFL, who eventually hired him as an report is for some of my • Having to constantly keep your eyes on man is the power of making lasting impressions official. Red claimed that the words “You’re ‘younger’ friends who are not getting any where the ball. Ping-pong requires good hand- upon the people he meets.” He could be loud, Fired” changed his life for the better. “Being enough exercise. Thanks to “Doc” Cannady eye coordination. outspoken, flamboyant and a joker, yet on game fired was definitely a life-altering event for me and Bill Morgan (former SWC SID) and Work- day he remained professional. He was the kind in a good way,” said Red. Red always felt that Life Balance for the facts contained in this • Manual dexterity is vital to playing the of ref that would grab your eyes while you he would not have made it to the NFL if he had report and to Bill Morgan for the photos. game, and for many, the ability to make watched the game, and he never lost his sense not been fired. the hands do what they want them to do, P of humor. He was one of the few who worked ing pong (or table tennis as it is sometimes and quickly, improves with practice. Dotson and Red attended many banquets called) isn’t just a game you see in the offices on weekends, and the man’s rule book was together. Once they were sitting together of tech startups or in bars. It’s actually a highly • Few games draw a stronger one-on-one thicker than a Webster’s Dictionary. Referees while in Japan. They were doing a seminar competitive sport in many parts of the world and competitive spirit than ping-pong. Tennis are all connected by commitment, sacrifice and for Japanese officials and Red asked one of can be a really fun way to get in some exercise. and racquetball players can relate to the the rules of the game. When excited, his face the Japanese referees, “How do you say ‘first The nature of the game makes it especially great powerful motivation to win. The evidence would get so red he could scare the cheese off down’ in Japanese?” Mr. Oshike promptly for seniors. is found in the tremendous pride players of a frozen pizza, and he always looked like stood up, threw his hand out in front of him with take in their victories and titles. he had smelled something bad. He officiated his fingers pointed, and said in a raised voice, during a time that if they didn’t see any blood, • When an activity is brisk enough to make “FIRST DOWWWWN.” “It brought the house you weren’t hurt. This guy was Wild Bill down,” said Dotson. you sweat, it’s a good thing. The intensity Hickok with a whistle and his confidence was of a good ping-pong game is an excellent longer than the line at Starbucks. Red joined the NFL in 1972 as a line judge and cardiovascular workout. was promoted in 1976 to a referee. He served as He spent his Sundays in a striped shirt and • Stiff muscles and tight ligaments are put the referee in Super Bowls XX and XXX. Red a white hat. You always felt like he worked also served as a alternate in two more Super to work, and strengthening them will help for you the fan and not the NFL. There is an reduce the risk for falls. Bowls. He officiated in 18 postseason games, old saying that goes like this: “You never get one Pro Bowl and over 500 pro football games Easy To Play a second chance to make a first impression.” during his NFL career. Red retired from the NFL Red Cashion is most widely known nationally Maybe ping-pong’s best benefit is that it is just at the end of the 1996 season. Red had worn the for two words, “FIRST DOWN.” It became #43 as an NFL official. He had officiated for plain fun. After a few lessons on how to control his signature call during NFL games. In the the ball, the rest is up to the player. Practice 25 years (1972-1996), 21 of them as a referee. game of football, each team is given four plays When he retired, he became one of seven NFL Improves Hand-Eye Coordination really does make perfect, well almost, and the to move the ball ten yards. If successful, the game quickly becomes addictive. officials who were offered a job to train other Many seniors experience some changes in their team is awarded a first down and their drive NFL referees. Red remained on the NFL hand-eye coordination as they get older. This is continues. Red claimed it was his infectious payroll as a trainer of new, incoming officials a natural part of the aging process, but there are enthusiasm for the game that encouraged him until 2014. Red also served as the President of definitely ways to keep those movements sharp. to show more emotion with his “first down” the Professional Referees’ Association and was In table tennis, players need to focus on where call. It is also important to point out that just on their Executive Board for 10 years. the ball is at all times and move with it. Regular one year after he was promoted to referee in practice keeps the mind sharp and keeps hand- 1976, the NFL decided to give referees wireless I never got to meet Red Cashion in person, but eye coordination in good shape. Many players microphones to explain penalty calls to the I did get to see him work up close and personal. find that over time, they see improvements in in-stadium and television audiences. So, in I attended Super Bowl XXX in Tempe, Arizona. these types of movements. that respect he became a pioneer. Red’s “first The game was played at Sun Devil Stadium on down” call stood out like a sore thumb, and I January 28, 1996. I took my cousin Bill Osborne Stimulates Your Brain in Different Ways do think he enjoyed the attention, good or bad. to the game with me. The Dallas Cowboys beat the Pittsburgh Steelers that day 27-17. Many of your favorite activities only work Mason L. “Red” Cashion was born on your brain in one or two specific ways at a time. November 10, 1931, at his parent’s home on the Red was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall With ping pong, several parts of your brain College Station campus in Texas. His father of Fame in 1999. He was also named an NFL are activated all at once. For example, when Electronic ping-pong and other games on was the Secretary of the YMCA, and the college Referees’ Association Honoree in 2011. In you anticipate the next shot, you’re actively Nintendo Wii, for example, call on many of the faculty was housed on campus. There is a story 2015, Red received the Art McNally Award thinking about strategy, which activates the same healthy mind and body exercises and work of Red renting his little red wagon to incoming given at the Pro Bowl to the NFL official who prefrontal cortex. When you’re moving around, like the real thing. There are dozens of other students to pull their luggage to their dorm. Of exhibits exemplary professionalism, leadership, the physical exercise lights up another part of games and health management programs for the course Red rode on top of the luggage. A dollar and commitment to sportsmanship, on and off your brain, the hippocampus, which is the part Wii and other platforms that are both healthy bill looked as big as a bedspread to him. His the field. For all you Madden NFL gamers out of the brain that retains long-term memories. A and fun. home was full of love, good food and the Bible; there, it was Red’s voice that was used on the quick game of ping pong is a great way to wake Be sure to check with your healthcare provider Red lived a Christian life. This man went to video game. up your brain. to discuss any health issues before participating church every time the doors were opened. Red also won many more local awards Keeps You Social in any vigorous activity. If nothing else, just His father helped start the A&M Presbyterian connected to the Brazos County community. watching an intense ping-pong game provides Church where Red later served as an elder. Writer Rusty Burson worked with Red Ping pong isn’t a game that you can really play the benefit of the excitement without the Later in life, he served as a Deacon at the First Cashion on his 2013 autobiography entitled on your own, you need an opponent! When you physical exertion. Baptist Church of Bryan. At the time of his First Dooowwnnn…Life to Go! “Red was an find a group to play with, it provides a fun way death, he and his wife Marie were members of excellent storyteller,” said Rusty. “He was a for seniors to socialize and get some exercise Dotson’s Other Note: Ping Pong is a great the A&M Methodist Church. pleasure to work with.” while you’re at it. It also tends to bring out the game with some interesting history, and as competitive spirit in people, which can make stated above, ping-pong is also among the A fine athlete, Red attended A&M Consolidated One of the NFL’s most memorable officials, things even more entertaining! healthier activities for senior citizens. If you High School where he ran track and played Red Cashion, died on Sunday, February 10, want to give ping-pong a try, paddles are football, basketball and baseball. He graduated 2019. He was 87. He is survived by his beloved Ping Pong Helps Keeps You Fit affordable. Hopefully the Corpus Christi high school in 1949 and received a baseball wife, Marie, four children, six grandchildren scholarship to Texas A&M University. He Ping pong is a great way to keep your brain Community (Senior) Centers will reopen soon, and four great-grandchildren. Red’s first wife graduated from A&M in 1953 and was then happy, but it’s also great for physical fitness. It’s with full hours. When they do, it is expected of 47 years, Lou, predeceased Red in 1999. commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U. not too hard to work up a sweat during a game! that ping pong will be available for play at least S. Army. After four years of military service, Red’s lifelong relationship with Texas A&M Here is a look at some of the physical benefits three afternoons a week. Stay tuned for the Red began his officiating career when he served him well. Red served as a member of the of ping pong. latest information. returned to college to finish his undergraduate 12th Man Foundation Champions’ Council and -30- Have fun and hang in there work. He started out at the junior high school a member of the Corps of Cadets’ Development level. He later refereed high school football Council. In 2003, as a result of Red’s lifelong games for many years, before joining the relationship with Texas A&M, the university Southwest Conference. named their football officials’ locker room after him. You can find the Red Cashion Officials’ After graduation, Red joined forces with his Dressing Room at the North End of Kyle Field. father-in-law, Hershel Burgess, and a friend, Dick Haddox, and created an insurance business Andy Purvis is a local author and radio known as Burgess, Cashion and Haddox. The personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. Resendez company eventually became AMCO Insurance com for all the latest info on his books or to and continues to this day. Red served as the listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books CONSTRUCTION, LLC Chairman Emeritus for many years. are available online and can be found in the Keeps Reflexes Sharp Specializing in: local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be When my dear friend, Dotson Lewis, took over Ping pong is a fast-paced game and players contacted at [email protected]. Also the Southwest Conference Officiating crew need to be able to react quickly. Regular • Decks • Siding listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s there were 63 in number. Dotson decided they practice ensures players are able to improve • Additions • Windows Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. only needed 30, so he fired 33 of the officials. manual dexterity and keep those reflexes sharp. com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of and all your carpentry needs! Red Cashion was one of them. The good news Fast reflexes are important beyond the ping the Houston Astros. pong table, a quick reaction time makes all the Licensed and insured difference in trying to recover from a stumble and could prevent a fall. Call Jose Resendez Make Your Catch Count, Download Improves Balance 361-219-4746 iSnapper for this Red Snapper Season When you play ping pong, the ball usually Ready to get out on the water for the 2021 the Sportfish Center recently found that the U.S. moves fairly quickly. This means players often federal red snapper season? Make your catch Gulf of Mexico is home to about 110 million have to rapidly change direction in order to count this summer by downloading and using red snapper, three times more than previously successfully make their next move. This type of the iSnapper app, created by the Center for estimated. movement is great for working on your balance, Sportfish Science and Conservation at the Harte which is incredibly important as you age. Those The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Council unanimously voted to give state who play regularly often see improvements in Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. balance, which can prevent future falls. fisheries management agencies like TPWD the The red snapper season will open in federal responsibility to manage harvest of red snapper Works up a sweat waters on June 1, and anglers can take an in the Gulf of Mexico beginning in 2020. The Sportfish Center has partnered with TPWD Ping pong is a great form of sneaky exercise. active role in helping to secure the long-term since 2015, when iSnapper was redesigned to What makes it so sneaky? When you’re playing sustainability of this prized Gulf of Mexico include private recreational anglers, to help a game with friends, you likely don’t think of fishery by downloading the iSnapper app and generate catch and effort estimates to aid in the it as exercise, but it really does burn calories! reporting their catch to help capture valuable management of the red snapper fishery. In fact, a 150-pound person can burn more that fisheries data and ensure the most accurate 250 calories in an hour of playing ping pong. harvest numbers possible, said HRI researcher So now you know why you should use Not bad! It’s also a fantastic way to be active. Tara Topping, project lead for iSnapper. iSnapper, but how does it work? iSnapper was login The Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife designed to be simple, fast, and easy to use on the go. 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Resendez Construction, LLC specializes in decks, siding, additions, windows and all your carpentry needs. Call licensed and insured Jose Resendez at 219-4746. Business Briefs Sandra Bullock was on the Island and seen at the Island Market IGA and La Palma Restaurant. I suspect we will see more celebrities here especially from Austin. Gary P. Nunn will be the entertainer at the Back Porch in Port A on Saturday, June 26th. The 4th of July Island Blast Fireworks Display will go on this year around 9 pm. There are enough donations since the funds that were not used for last year's event will be used this year. Guajillo’s Restaurant is now doing take out. A new bill was filed by Representative Todd Hunter and Gary P. Nunn at the Back is awaiting the governor's signature to allow overhead sign Porch. on JFK Causeway to flash rip current warnings. Hopefully, it will cause discussion before arriving on the beach. Little Free Libraries is an organization that promotes book exchange and usually neighborhood participants put the book shelf by their mailbox. Sara Krebsbach has one at her home at 16118 Broomsedge and another one on the Island is at Seashore Learning Center K - 4th inside the Butterfly Garden next to the gym. It would be great for the Island to get more participants. Mesquite Street Comedy Club features Pauly Shore July 16, 17 and 18 tickets are $25. I’m thinking a comedian performing on the Island would be a great draw. Something Little Free Library at the Butterfly Garden on different that has never been done here SLC Campus. before. The 73rd Annual Shrimporee in Doug Pappas took the Island Moon to the Monastery Aransas Pass will begin at 6 pm on of the Holy Trinity in Meteora Greece. Friday, June 11th and end Sunday, June 13th at 6 pm. There will bands playing on two stages during all hours with Kevin Fowler on Friday at 10 pm. Island Gold There will be a carnival and lots of food vendors. We Buy & Sell Blended Beauty Studio in the Clock Gold - Silver - Platnium • Routine Check-ups Tower Suite 202 is a business that has Bullion • Cosmetic Dentistry been here two years and I just now • Root Canal Therapy learned about. They do facials, male Sara Krebsbach at her Little Free Library. Jewelry - Repairs and female up to all body waxing, Diamonds & More • Extractions lash extensions, microderm abrasions, chemical peel and more. The salon is open Tuesday - • Implant Treatment Saturday and Mondays by special arrangement. Call or text Esthetician Michelle Haulfer at www.islandgoldbuyer.com • Crown & Bridge 361-947-1090. 361-589-4320 • Dentures Free whitening for • Teeth Whitening Dr. Tracy Snow Mills at Christus Family Medicine on Compass 15217 SPID #214 qualifed patients was a NASA astronaut trainer before deciding to go to medical Corpus Christi, TX 78418 school. She believes in preventive medicine and treating the whole person. She is an avid surfer andthat’s is where you will find her when 361-867-1800 she is not treating patients. Walk-ins, same and next day appointments are available. Call 902-6170. Send letters and photos to [email protected] Flour Bluff ISD is hosting a Job Fair and will be conducting on-site interview for teachers, counselors, bus drivers, cafeteria, maintenance Tracy Snow Mills and more on Thursday June 10th 9 am - 2 pm at the primary/ elementary school cafeteria. The Port Aransas Community Pool has a splash area for the kiddos at the shallow end. Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for children. Slip Taco Palenque, an authentic Mexican food chain, is opening on Saratoga & Staples. I OPEN 2 P.M. TO 2 A.M. guess authentic is the new rage. EVERY DAY! Riley P. Dog Park is waiting on final approval of the driveway and parking. HAPPyHOUR Hopefully it will be open in about two MONDAY - FRIDAY weeks. 2 P.M. - 7 P.M. The Gaff in Port A. is hosting the Belt Port Aransas Community Pool $2.25 MILLER LITE BOTTLES * $3 WELLS Sander Races Saturday, June 12th 3 pm. This event is family friendly and come hungry so you can enjoy their thin crust pizza. Jim Jerry Ward Dugan will be providing the entertainment afterward. WEDNESDAY | 9PM - 12AM Stevie Start THURSDAY | 6PM - 9PM Art Barrera FRIDAY | 9-12 Dan Herrington SATURDAY | 9-12 KARAOKE SUNDAY | 4:30 PM - 12:30AM 15037 S PADRE ISLAND DR

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June 10, 2021 Island Moon A11 The Island Outdoors On the Rocks Backwater Adventures By Jay Gardner By Joey Farah Red Snapper meeting the other night; the main one being Farah’s Fishing Adventures that we are short on lifeguards for the Gulf and I was talking with Jeff C. a bay beaches. New Assistant City Manager Dr. Red Sky in the Morning be able to see the redfish and make a cast. bit ago regarding the recreational red snapper Neiman Young mentioned that they were in Sometimes their color over sand is silver or season, and I mentioned that I thought it was Sailors take warning rumbled in the sky along the process of trying to raise the pay rate for white, they could be orange, red, or maroon. 30 days, which he corrected me on. Come to the horizon as we peeled away from the dock. lifeguards from $10.50 an hour to somewhere The tips of their tails sometimes have a crescent find out, they haven’t put a final count down There seemed to be an electricity shimmering in the $15 an hour range. You loyal readers of real blue. Flagging them as your target fish. on the numbers. To be honest with you loyal over the water that morning as every mullet was will remember that that issue is one we have Along in your hunting you will see drum, readers, I used to keep very close watch on the on the surface. Our skiff slid to a stop over the lamented on the Island for years now, that it’s mullet, and just about everything else at some snapper season, federal regulations, and fishery shallow sand, it hardly got momentum in the really hard getting seasonal employees due to point. Drum can be caught using a small piece management, but I have not lately. I’m not sure morning breeze when the drag started screening! relatively low City seasonal wages. We lost our of dead peeled shrimp, on a hook or light jig it’s because I haven’t been offshore very often We had stopped right in a school of redfish up boat patrol due to lack of employees. I have head. Casting past fish them bringing the in several years, or I’ve lost interest in what I against the shoreline. A second cast sent another to hand it to Dr. Young for pushing that up the bait or lure into their path is what you should see is a broken system. Despite the results from rod tip down towards the reflections of red stairs and get it off high center. As far as the practice. Practice this by casting at every fish the Great Red Snapper Count showing that morning light across the mirrored surface. My lifeguard dance floors that were built by the you can see, mullet or whatever. Eventually there is likely 3 times the amount of snapper eyes couldn’t find the difference in boiling fish, City, we didn’t get much of an explanation other one will master the cast and presentation, as in the water than the Feds were using in their redfish and mullet scattered in all directions. My than they were going to repair them and start well as being able to distinguish the formed models, we still have reduced seasons in federal third angler made a cast out the side so not to using them this weekend. People are supposed tail of a mullet, the black streamline body waters out this way. The emperor not only has get tangled but her attention was on her partners to stay off of them, although I do understand of a trout, the side fins and blunt head of a no clothes, but is wondering around down in with their rods held high in the air when I heard that they represent an attractive nuisance. Kleberg beach. Not sure where I was going her scream, “I got one too!!” with that allegory, but makes sense to me. UTV Rentals I slid the anchor The charter boats get an extra day over last There was a pretty good discussion regarding in and we landed year (gee, thanks Feds) but at least they get the UTV rentals again this meeting, as we the fish in only 12 63 days this summer until August 2nd. That’s learned that there have been incidents of people inches of water better than the dismal 24 days they got a few being pulled over by code enforcement, city one by one. We years back. It’s really hard to make a living police, and county constables for speeding and dipped our bare on 63 days a year here on the Texas gulf coast, other infractions. Some of the rental areas have feet into the sandy especially when our weather will only allow been visited by the city police, have been told bottom and started fishing on approximately a quarter of those by the rental agencies (the rules are required to to walk away from days due to weather. Hope y’all can get out and be posted), and yet people are still speeding, the boat. Within get some fish this season at least once. driving down PR 22, and into the dunes south twenty steps we started hooking ISAC of access road 6. Someone is going to get hurt or worse. Even with proper instruction, people redfish one by one. Boat noise There were a couple of take-a-way messages are going to do crazy stuff, and we knew we Releasing our larger from the Island Strategic Action Committee were going to have to revisit this issue sooner is the number one Oversized Redfish item that works or later. I’m supposed to follow up with the secures that we have City to see what can be done to amend the against you when Ultra Shallow Water Redfish is as fun as it current ordinances. Will let y’all know. I’m not trophy fish to catch, not hunting redfish. gets! Watching giant redfish come to hand going to cover the beach maintenance (I mean, kill. Slipping out of brings you I touch with the Laguna Madre'! storage) facility location discussion that lasted the boat this time well over an hour, as I’m sure Dale has that one of year can bring your odds of holding covered. a magnificent redfish to a boil! black drum, the wicked stripes on the sides of a sheep head, and the mystical way those ISAC In-Person Starting off shallow is my number one rule redfish just appear in front of you and leave Supposedly we will be moving back into in- when learning how to catch redfish during you breathless and stunned in your footsteps. person meetings with ISAC next month on the summer months. During the night reds Watching the way gamefish react to our fishing July 13th. Our friend Deidre mentioned that it push bait up against the shorelines, trapping efforts are some of the most valuable lessons would be nice to have “dual capability” of in- them in the shallows and striking at them in learned in our fishing careers. Learning how person plus the option of at least watching the small hunting packs. Keeping shin deep will the lunar feeding times can change fish from ISAC meetings on the computer, and we will let you actually see fish above and below the running at first sight of a lure to charging ask the City if they can do that. In any event, surface. Long casts with a 1/2-3/4 ounce gold across ten feet of water to strike one. When we don’t have a meeting place anyway, so in- Weedless spoon is classic. You can burn the you see that redfish turn his side towards that person may get pushed to August. 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Plans for Cape Summer (Ski Basin) We had a question this week regarding plans for the area around the Ski Basin, which is formally called Cape Summer. The land belongs to Axys 1 of 1 6/8/2021, 1:30 PM Capital and while these plans may be revised these are the most recent we have been provided. The second map is also part of the Cape Summer track but is located west of Aquarius Drive and connects to the Laguna Madre.

Photos by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth June 10, 2021 Island Moon A 13 Full Transparency and Disclosure National Post-Traumatic Stress PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President Disorder Awareness Month By Todd Hunter, District 32 Each year, the month of June is designated stress. One resource they provide is Camp As always, let me have Bulkheads- The major repair on the as National Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Hope: Interim Housing for Veterans. Camp your thoughts. You can Encantada bulkhead project is nearly (PTSD) Awareness Month. This awareness Hope opened in 2012 and is in Houston, TX. reach me at marvin@ complete. The project included replacing the month began as a way to educate communities In addition to temporary housing, Camp Hope pipoa.net or call me at bulkhead cap, tie-backs, and panels. Please about PTSD and provide support and resources offers a 90+ day PTSD recovery program in 469-231-3485. You can take a look at your bulkhead. If you feel it to those individuals living with this condition. which residents: attend group lessons and also call the PIPOA office needs repair, please contact the bulkhead PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that can occur support sessions with other combat veterans; with any questions you have at 361-949-7025. email [email protected]. following the experience or witnessing of a conduct individual mentoring sessions with Another quiet week at the PIPOA. The Storm Drains- The City storm drains located life-threatening event such as military combat, certified combat trauma mentors; participate biggest issue is the unmowed lots. Thank in the street collect water and drain the water natural disasters, terrorist incidents or serious in off-site small group interaction activities goodness there is a large number of yellow into the canals. There is no other place for accidents. People who suffer from PTSD often (fishing, hiking, local activities and events); and flowers on the lots. The PIPOA has sent the water to go. We have two properties relive the experience through nightmares and get involved with local churches, businesses out over 100 letters to lot owners requesting with storm drainpipe damage. That is, the flashbacks, have difficulty sleeping, and feel and volunteer organizations to assist in their they mow the lots as soon as possible. The water flowing from the street to the canal via detached or estranged. These symptoms can be personal healing and educating the community PIPOA staff has made many phone calls to a broken pipe allows water to flow into the severe and can last long enough to significantly on the invisible wounds of war. To learn more lot owners requesting they mow. City Code property owner's back yard. Both properties impair the person’s daily life. An estimated 7 or about this great program, you can visit https:// Enforcement has sent out numerous notices have been damaged, including sinkholes and 8 percent of Americans will experience PTSD ptsdusa.org/camp-hope/ or call 877-717-PTSD of code violations. The Architectural Control broken sidewalks. The PIPOA bulkheads are at some point in their lives, with women (about (7873). Committee (ACC) requires builders to mow subject to a build-up of hydrostatic pressure 10%) twice as likely as men (About 4%) to It is important to raise awareness for everyone their lots prior to plans for new builds being from the broken pipe problem. The PIPOA develop PTSD. with PTSD to know the treatment options. We approved. This should help get a number of has been in contact, meetings, and discussions It is important to recognize that PTSD can can make a difference in the lives of everyone the unmowed lots cleaned up. with a variety of city departments in an effort affect people from all walks of life and all age who has experienced trauma. There is a Veterans Boat Ramps- This past weekend, two trucks to help the property owner and protect our groups. However, our military personnel are Crisis Line, which can be reached at 1-800-273- and trailers were towed. bulkheads. Without sounding adversarial or disproportionately affected due to their exposure 8255, then, press 1. For more resources visit completely negative, the city is not getting to potentially traumatic events during combat. https://www.tvc.texas.gov/mental-health/. Litter Critter- Last Saturday, Litter Critter the job done regarding repairs. It has been Consequently, the US Veteran’s Administration If you have questions regarding any of the was back. For those new to the Island, Litter months without repairs. I will be reaching (VA) created the National Center for PTSD to information mentioned in this week's article, Critter is an event held by the city. The city out to our elected officials in an effort to have advance the clinical care and social welfare please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or provides large dumpsters for Islanders to bring them push the appropriate city departments of America’s Veterans and others who have District Office. Please always feel free to trash and other items for disposal. Thank you to get the repairs made. Please, if you have experienced trauma, or who suffer from PTSD, contact my office if you have any questions to the city and, in particular, Mayor Paulette a storm drain in front of your property with through research, education, and training in the or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if Guajardo and Councilman Greg Smith. I will a pipe that runs through your property to the science, diagnosis, and treatment of PTSD and you would like to contact my office regarding keep you posted on the date of the next Litter canal, examine the ground carefully. Look stress-related disorders. For more information constituent services. As always, my offices are Critter. for beginning sinkholes and other signs that on the VA’s PTSD Center, you can visit https:// available at any time to assist with questions, water is flowing through your yard. If you Property Upkeep- Question: Does the www.ptsd.va.gov/index.asp. concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- find a suspected problem, call the PIPOA PIPOA need a covenant amendment that 463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603). allows the PIPOA to fine members that do office at 361-949-7025 and talk to Gary, the Another great organization that works to not keep their property up to reasonable Executive Director. provide support to our Veterans is the PTSD - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 Foundation of America. This non-profit standards? Many members complain about Rep. Hunter represents Nueces (Part) County. Mosquito Spraying- I saw a spraying organization is dedicated to mentoring combat their neighbor's properties. This includes He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. truck go down my street last week. It was veterans and their families with posttraumatic overgrown rock yards, run-down houses, and the middle of the afternoon. If the weather texas.gov or at 512-463-0672. weeds on vacant lots. Please let me have your remains dry, much of the recent mosquito thoughts. hatch will die off. Thank you to the city for spraying our Island. Senate Closes Session With Major Grid Reform By Richard Lee IRS: Tax Return Filing Deadline for Texas The Senate approved legislation in its final and natural gas facilities are prepared to operate week that would require weatherization in extreme weather conditions. It provides for Taxpayers Is June 15 of critical energy facilities and completely inspection of these efforts, as well as fines of up overhaul the management and oversight to $1 million for companies that don't comply. The deadline for Texas taxpayers to file their Businesses that need additional time to file structure of the organization that oversees the In order to improve co-ordination between all 2020 federal income tax return is June 15, 2021. income tax returns must file Form 7004, state electric grid. In a session that looked to sectors of the state energy market, it creates a Application for Automatic Extension of Time to Earlier this year the IRS announced that be dominated by other concerns, the February commission composed of state regulators and File Certain Business Income Tax, Information, victims of the February winter storms in winter storm put the Electric Reliability Council market participants dedicated to ensuring that and Other Returns. An extension gives taxpayers Texas have until June 15, 2021, to file various of Texas (ERCOT) at the top of the agenda. "We the lights stay on during extreme weather. It until Oct. 15 to file but does not grant an individual and business 2020 tax returns and thought it was going to be COVID, it was going also creates a new emergency alert system to extension of time to pay taxes due. make tax payments without penalties and to be a budget that didn't have enough money in warn the public when severe weather looms that interest, regardless of the amount owed. The IRS automatically identifies taxpayers it, and all these things," said Brenham Senator could cause widespread and extended power located in the covered disaster area and applies “Individual taxpayers who need additional Lois Kolkhorst. "Unbeknownst to us, in the disruption and creates a new fee to pay for filing and payment relief. But affected taxpayers time to file beyond the June 15, 2021 deadline middle of February we found ourselves in one dispatchable electric generation capacity that who reside or have a business located outside can request an extension until Oct. 15,” said IRS of the greatest crises, I believe, that our state has can be accessed in an emergency. the covered disaster area should call the IRS spokesman Michael Devine. “The IRS can’t ever seen. A grid that almost had a meltdown The Senate also passed a measure, HB 4492, disaster hotline at 866-562-5227 to request this process extension requests filed electronically that could've kept us in the dark for weeks and intended to help electric companies straining tax relief. after May 17, 2021 so they need to print and months." under massive wholesale costs from the sky- mail Form 4868, Application for Automatic The two major bills, Senate Bills 2 and 3, high price of a megawatt of electricity during Extension of Time To File U.S. Individual would revamp the organizational oversight over the crisis. It allows retail electric providers and Income Tax Return.” the state's electric grid. One of them would other companies in the market to access low- drastically change the ERCOT board from interest loans to cover these costs. The intended Flour Bluff ISD one that is populated with industry insiders effect is to allow companies to spread out rate Classes at Island in with conflicts of interest to one that is wholly increases to customers over many years, rather Hosting a Job Fair independent of the state electric market, said than hiking bills all at once. Though this was Son SB 2 author and North Richland Hills Senator necessary to provide ERCOT participants with Island in the Son United Methodist Church Hiring supervisors Kelly Hancock. "This is radical from what the liquidity they need to get the state through will be starting Classes/Demonstrations of all Texas is used to, but you know what it's not the hot Texas summer, it isn't what the Senate types twice a month throughout the summer. will conduct on-site radical from - every other grid in the United wanted, said Lt. Governor Dan Patrick. A They will be held on Tuesday nights at the States," he said. "Every other grid in the United Senate proposal to create a framework for a $3 church starting at 6:30 pm and generally lasting States has an independent board and Texas billion fund to help consumers pay for electric one hour. These are open to the public. You do interviews will now have that model." Under Senate rates that go up as electric companies pay off not need to be a member to attend. The Classes Who: Individuals interested in open legislation, the board would be made up of interest on $2.1 billion in loans didn't make coming up are: positions in Flour Bluff Independent School eight unaffiliated members with executive level it through the House as time ran out in the District. experience in finance, business, engineering session. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick spoke from June 15th - Cooking Class (10 meals you and electric markets, approved by a commission the rostrum prior to adjournment, asking the What: Flour Bluff Independent School can make with Rotisserie Chicken) Recipes appointed by state leadership. No member can governor to add ratepayer relief to the call of District is holding a job fair to fill positions will be included. hold a financial interest in any company that the special session due to be called in the fall. at District campuses and departments. operates in the ERCOT market. It adds another "The next time we're going to spend billions June 29th - Pour Art Demonstration During the event, administrators from layer of government oversight by requiring that of dollars concerning the storm, it's going to (Including Art to purchase and drawing for a campuses and departments will be on-hand any major proposals offered by that board be be to help the people of Texas and ratepayers, Pour Art Painting by artist Mona Baen) to meet perspective candidates as well as approved by the state's top utility regulator, the or I won't call that bill up," said Patrick. "We conduct on-site interviews. The District July 6th - Chalk Paint Demo (How to easily Public Utility Commission. can help ERCOT, we can help businesses, but will be looking to fill teacher, counselor, update a piece of furniture) we have to help the people of Texas and their instruction and auxiliary paraprofessional SB 3, by Georgetown Senator Charles electric bills." July 20th - Essential Oils Class (Learn all positions as well as bus driver, cafeteria, Schwertner, deals with many of the issues that kinds of uses and health benefits of Essential maintenance and custodial staff openings. arose during the Valentine's Day winter storm, by The Senate stands adjourned sine di. Oils) Individuals are asked to complete an requiring that all critical electric, transmission application online before attending the job fair and to bring copies of resume, transcripts, references and certifications, if applicable. They’re BACKKKKKKK Where: Flour Bluff Primary/Elementary Our Warm, crispy, delicious, hand crafted paninis Cafeteria are back on the menu. 537 Hustlin’ Hornet Choose from: When: Thursday, June 10 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. • Fig Jam, Brie, Prosciutto The church is located at 10650 Hwy 361 (on For more information, please contact Kim • Sicilian Slammer the road to Port A). 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The final rule of helping turtles across the road the selection of Jesse Buttler as the new Flour used to drive my mom Bluff High School Varsity Baseball Coach. is to always move the turtle in the direction it “I am extremely grateful and excited for the and sisters crazy asking was going. If you turn it around, it will simply opportunity to be Flour Bluff’s next head them to stop when I saw a turtle in the road. turn right back around and attempt to go across baseball coach,” said Coach Jesse Buttler. Back then, I wanted to bring them home to live the road again after you are gone. Turtles are “There is a rich foundation of community and in our backyard. These days, I still stop but on a mission and they won’t take a hint from culture that has been established by Coach now I just give them a lift across the road so you about going back in the direction they Weikum during his tenure here at Flour Bluff, they don’t get run over. I hate seeing smashed came from. Also, although you may be tempted and I am thankful to have had the opportunities turtles on the road. It’s such a senseless way for to relocate a turtle for its safety, this is not a to play for Coach Weikum and coach alongside them to die and it’s so easily avoided. I’ve also good idea. Turtles have home ranges and if you him. I intend to uphold the high expectations learned a lot since then. I now know that turtle move them somewhere else, they will attempt to that have been a part of this program over the collection on roads seriously contributes to return to the area they call home. years. I look forward to leading our program population declines in many species and I feel and representing our community with Class, it is more important than ever to help them out. Pride, and Heart.” Turtles are mostly seen crossing roads Coach Buttler holds a Bachelor of Arts degree between March and November. The females in History and a Master of Science degree are searching for the perfect spot to lay their in Secondary Education from Texas A&M eggs and the males are looking for mates and University-Corpus Christi. He was named the new territories. Along the coast, I primarily see Flour Bluff ISD Secondary Teacher of the Year Red-eared Sliders and Box Turtles but there are in 2018. many others. Turtles are particularly vulnerable Coach Buttler replaces long-time head baseball to both collection and road kill because they coach, Ron Weikum, who retired at the end are typically slow moving and non-aggressive. of the school year after serving 39 years in Watch out for those snapping turtles though. education teaching and coaching baseball. They definitely know how to be aggressive if they feel threatened. Turtles are particularly vulnerable to both collection and road kill because they are Did you know there is a proper and improper way to help a turtle across the road? I’ve always typically slow moving and non-aggressive. Coach Jesse Buttler. heard you can safely pick up a snapping turtle Photo by Susan Heath. PENN THOMAS, P.C. by its tail but this is untrue. You should never Coach Buttler currently serves as the Assistant CPA FIRM pick up a turtle this way because you can injure Varsity Coach for the Hornet Baseball program. it. Small turtles can be picked up by putting one Turtles are slow to sexually mature, lay hand on each side of the shell behind the front relatively few eggs, and mortality of eggs and “It's a great day for Hornet Baseball and Flour P  T, CPA legs. Try to keep the turtle low to the ground hatchlings is usually pretty high. Add that to an Bluff Athletics,” said Coach Chris Steinbruck, [email protected] when moving it because if it pushes free from increasingly fragmented habitat and you can Flour Bluff ISD Athletic Director. “Coach your hands you don’t want it to fall very far. And see why turtle populations are in trouble. So Buttler’s passion for our Hornets, Hornet beware their defense mechanism of letting loose next time you see a turtle in the road, stop and Baseball, and our entire school community is a stream of urine! Larger turtles and especially give them a helping hand to the other side of contagious and unwavering. We are so excited snapping turtles should not be picked up. You the road! for him and the future of Hornet Baseball!” U O I  O can help them across the road by pushing them Coach Buttler has been a teacher and coach in  N. C,  S.P.I.D. with a blunt object. If you do pick up a turtle be Flour Bluff ISD for the past 17 years. He began   C C, TX sure to wash your hands afterwards or use hand coaching in 2008 and has been the Assistant C C, TX     sanitizer. Varsity Baseball Coach since 2011. 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Shorty’s soon and that brought back a flood of Also a lady who I feel is a game changer and memories from a time long ago and far away. is turning heads in Ausin, Jackie Venson will Well, not that far away. I was the talent buyer play the House of Rock on Saturday. for a chain of Texas blues and BBQ joints in the early 90’s called Billy Blues BBQ based out On the horizon… Jackie Venson will play the House of Rock of San Antonio. We had venues in San Antonio, And on the near horizon the best is yet to Houston, Dallas and Denver. I had a sweet job. on Saturday. come. James Buffalo plays the Porch and I booked the bands at all four markets and did Buckcherry plays Brewster Downtown. June will play the regular last Saturday of the month the promotions. All four venues ran live music Rex Allen McNeil played Treasure Island 18, Butch Morgan plays Shorty’s and Thomas at Shorty’s. The Hardcore Troubadour Steve seven nights a week and with opening bands on last Saturday. Michael Riley plays the Back Porch on the Earle will play Gruene Hall on July 1, Bart the weekends, I was booking 152 acts a month, 19th. Mike Blakely plays the Porch on the 25th Crow plays the Back Porch July 2 and Zane every month. And when I wasn’t doing that, Kurtz, Mario Flores, Johnny Boy, Ty Dietz and Will Owen Gage plays Red’s Riviera and Williams is there July 9. That ought to hold you. they had me going around the country to cities and Rex Allen McNeil doing the honors around Gary P. Nunn is at BP on the 26th. Plus the such as Phoenix, San Francisco or Seattle, etc town. The weathermen were wrong about the ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ smoother than a mango margarita Todd Dorn to research the possibility of opening new stores rain. It was a beautiful weekend. there. They would fly me in to various cities, give me the company credit card, rent me a car, put me up in a fine hotel and tell me to hit all the bars and restaurants and find out if our concept would work there, then come back and write a report. In short, I was knee deep in bands and I Live Music was nationwide. The founder of the corporation was Bill Gallagher, a shady stock broker from S.A. and the only reason I landed the job was because I used to work for Austin blues pioneer, Tonight J & the Sound @ Clifford Antone who was Bill’s hero. When Pelican Lounge Gallagher hired me, all he said was, “Put me Thursday, June 10 La Mafia @ Shrimporee on the map like Antone’s” and then gave me a EJ Mathews @ Back Aransas Pass bunch of company money. I was booking acts Porch EJ MATHEWS JUNE 10 Thomas Michael from all over the world such as C.J. Chenier, Back Pew Revival @ Riley Music Fest @ Treasure Island TWO TONS OF STEEL JUNE 11 Luckenbach Junior Wells, Jimmy Rogers, Boozoo Chavis, Shrimporee @ Aransas Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, Buddy Guy, Reno Perez @ Shorty’s Jerry Ward @ Doc’s SQUEEZE BOX BANDITS JUNE 12 Pass Luther Allison, Buckwheat Zydeco, Johnny Sonny Salinas @ Rockit’s Jackie Venson @ House Clyde Copeland, Gatemouth Brown, Marcia Voodoo Logic, Dreams @ RIP TIDE JUNE 16 of Rock Ball plus all the Antone’s acts. So how does Bay Jammin’ at Cole Park SCARECROW PEOPLE JUNE 17 Todd Dorn & the Sea Butch Morgan fit in to all this? I was known in Ruben Limas @ Island Drifters @ Shrimp Fest in Sea Drift San Antonio for my jams. I started them at the Italian 132 W. Cotter St. Port A firstBilly Blues on Grayson Street with Rodney Ty Dietz @ Cassidy’s Pub Ruben Limas @ Mo Warner hosting. Rodney was in poor health Mesa Band @ Brewster Meaux’s Southside Michael Burtts @ and eventually Jimmy Spacek and Randy Brewster Southside Garibay took over those hosting duties. These Giovannie the Hired Guns @ Brewster Seattle Rising @ jams grew to a ten piece core band with a four Dallas Burrows played the Back Porch on Downtown Brewster Downtown piece horn section and lots of famous people Justin & Niki @ Jimmy Willden @ showed up like Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm, Thursday. Scuttlebutt’s Scuttlebutt’s Lee Roy Parnell, Johnny Rodriquez, Johnny Treasure Island Matt Hole @ Cinnamon Shore Bush, and on and on. The jam eventually moved DO NOT MISS LIST Friday, June 11 over to the Laboratory Brewing Company when Randy Cordero @ Sunset BACK PEW REVIVAL JUNE 10 OTB @ Rack Pub I went to work as GM over there. Well, one Coming this weekend… Sounds Rockport Jonmikael MREZ @ PRIVATE PARTY TIL 11:30 JUNE 11 Kevin Kurtz @ The day very early on, Butch showed up and never Ranch Dancehall CC left. He fit right in and immediately became Treasure Island JONMIKAEL MREZ @11:30 JUNE 11 Two Tons of Steel @ Justin & Niki @ The part of the ensemble and the family. He was an Back Porch CLAY HOLLIS JUNE 12 Exchange excellent guitarist and vocalist and could play Starlite & the Moonbeams C PLUS JUNE 25-26 Jam Band @ Rock anything they threw at him. He’s also a fine @ Shorty’s Bottom 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 songwriter and a great storyteller. I feel like Chainlinks @ Pelican Tumble Dry Low @ I’ve always known Claude Butch Morgan Lounge treasureislandporta Legends Fulton from Devine, Texas. Do yourself a favor and Brianh Kasik & Tumble make that show at Shorty’s on the 19th. That’s a Dry Low @ Marker 37 Sunday, June 13 Thomas Michael Riley Shrimporee @ Aransas head’s up right there folks. I’m telling you this Pass cat has pedigree. Music Fest @ Luckenbach Hank Reeves @ Tarpon Kevin Kurtz, Ty Dietz Scattered shots… Inn @ Shorty’s EJ Mathews will play the Back Porch on Kevin Fowler @ Jerry Ward @ Pelican Thursday. Shrimporee Aransas Pass Lounge Ruben Limas @ Songwriters in the I see nothing but good stuff happening this Blackbeards Round @ Executive weekend. On Thursday soulful EJ Mathews Left Hand Devil, VHT- Surf Club brings his “Biscuits and Blues” to the Back Van Halen Tribute @ VHT- Van Halen Tribute @ House of Rock Porch and powerhouse blues blaster Reno Perez House of Rock Josh Turner, Robert Ray, Sierra Dawn @ Doc’s is at Shorty’s. On Friday it’s the Ramone’s Mike Ryan @ Concrete Ty Dietz @ Black meet Dwight Yoakum with our old fave Kevin Street RENO PEREZ JUNE 10 Diamond Giles and Two Tons of Steel. Plus on Friday, Ruben Limas @ Tumble Dry Low @ Rudolf Llanes and his great Starlite and the Blackbeard’s on the Beach STARLITE JUNE 11 Bernie’s Moonbeams play Shorty’s and the funky, funky Alley Catz @ Brewster CC Songwriters In the Jonmikael MREZ will get the dance party Southside TY DIETZ JUNE 12 Round feat: Garrett Wieland @ Executive going at Treasure Island. On Saturday the world Jimmy Willden @ KEVIN KURTZ, TY DIETZ JUNE 13 famous BELT SANDER RACES will be going Scuttlebutt’s Surf Club Sing Along Piano Show MIKE O'NEILL JUNE 17 @ Brewster Downtown Monday, June 14 Selfie with Ray Summy, Cody Strong and Jim Dugan @ Fisherman’s Back Pew Revival @ Pep’s- Portland Chris Jordan played the Back Porch on Wharf OPEN 10am - 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. Friday. Kevin Kurtz @ Landing Stevie Start @ Doc’s Flour Bluff Dreaming in Color @ Tuesday, June 15 Sugan Shack Rockport Ruben Limas @ Falco & the Wolf @ Blackbeard’s on the Rockit’s Beach Justin & Niki @ Cassidy’s Open Mic @ Rialto Pub Theater, Aransas Pass Jam Band @ Angry Marlin Wednesday, June16 Ty Dietz @ Bron’s Rip Tide @ Back Porch Last Call @ Lisabella’s Saturday, June 12 Ty Dietz @ Vernon’s BELT SANDER RACES Ruben Limas @ Kevin Giles and Two Tons of Steel will (6:00) @ Gaff Blackbeard’s on the play the Back Porch this Friday. Jim Dugan @ Gaff Beach Squeeze Box Bandits @ Riptide @ Back Porch Back Porch Open Jam @ Executive Clay Hollis @ Treasure Surf Club Yosh and Yimmy played Shorty's last Island Shawn Hart @ Pelican Thursday. Ty Dietz @ Shorty’s Lounge Tyler Davis @ Fisherman’s Wharf It was another stellar weekend of music on our little sandbar. Thursday turned out to be a standout even though it never really stopped raining. A shadow from the past, Dallas Burrows, reappeared at the Back Porch. He was a mainstay at the Tarpon Ice House and with the New Braunsfel- Fredericksburg-Wimberly musician/artist crowd but disappeared on us. Mike’s Barbershop He sounded pretty good and pretty together. Also on Thursday Yosh & Yimmy played inside Shorty’s and it was lovely. Those guys are a treat. On Friday Selfie stood in for Season Ammons who’s trip to Port A was cancelled. It was fun seeing Chris Jordan back on stage and Jim Dugan will play the Gaff after the on the mic. Otherwise it was the Groove, Kevin BELT SANDER RACES this Saturday..

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