Inside the Moon Artists & Farmers Market A2 My Coastal Home Mixer A2 Island in Pictures A4 Live Music A18 Issue 701 The Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 September 21, 2017 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Photo Erin Albert Hill Around The Island Harbor Cleanup Continues in Port A. Island By Dale Rankin The Fall Equinox is coming – Leftovers everyone run for your very lives! When Evelyn Pless-Schuberth’s Summer 2017 says adios this Friday, grandson was about to visit she at 3:02 p.m. to be exact, and fall thought about buying beach toys for slides right in behind. Technically him to play with. But then on her speaking the equinox marks the morning walks on the Michael J. moment the Sun crosses the Celestial Ellis Seawall she kept noticing that a Equator – that imaginary line in the ready supply of toys were left behind sky above the Earth’s equator – from each week by visitors who didn’t take north to south. But it marks a bit of a them home. different milestone for we Islanders, more like the time the last of the tourists cross the JFK Causeway from south to north leaving behind a state of Celestial Bliss. As the night and daylight hours even out The Island takes a deep breath and slides right into the sweet spot of our season. It has been a strange summer hereabouts and leaves the two ends of our little sandbar in very different places. What a difference a mere fifteen miles made when Hurricane Harvey came calling. Homes on canals on the Padre end came through a six-foot surge tide with little damage to show, while many homes on canals in Island Moorings in Port Aransas had water across their floors. In some parts of Port Aransas the “Mostly on Sunday and Monday,” wind-blown tide reached over ten feet she says. as evidenced by waterlines on walls So she began collecting them and leaving behind destruction not seen even after she got enough for her since Hurricane Celia in 1970. grandson she kept right on and before Our friends in Port Aransas turned she knew it she had a small mountain out to pack Giggity’s on Tuesday as of sandy but gently used toys collected State Representative Todd Hunter in her condo. When Evelyn caught a brought officials from various relief plane for Berlin this week she left her agencies to help with the recovery collection behind and wants to donate process. We have entered the time them to kids headed for the beach. If now when the tragedy in Houston and you are interested call us here at the the full recovery in Corpus Christi Photos by Steve Coons Moon office and a bucket, a shovel, have moved the plight of Port Aransas and sandcastle-making mold can be from the ready consciousness of yours. the public mind. There is a palpable Displaced Port Aransians Open Pet Store on Padre feeling in the air that Port Aransas, and the people still struggling to dig After months of work Monica Adopt a Beach out, have moved to the back pages Williams and Ian Chtay got their pet and are left to their own devices supply store open on Cut-Off Road in This Saturday now. This is the time when those of Port Aransas and things were looking us who got lucky need to help out. good. But then four days after they Three sites on The Port A businesses are still struggling opened a guy named Harvey blew to reopen. Last Thursday the Port into town and just as quickly as they Island Aransas City Council revised their had opened they were shut down, The annual Adopt-A-Beach cleanup ordinance in order to make it easier their building damaged and in need sponsored by the Texas General Land to clean up piles of debris on private of months of repair. Office will be held this week at three property around town and by Friday “We were looking for a place on locations around the Coastal Bend. the crews were hard at it. Progress is Padre and we saw this spot and knew No cleanup is scheduled at Port being made but there is still debris it would work for us,” Monica said of Aransas or San Jose Island due to piled along most city streets and the store in the center at 14457 SPID large debris left by Hurricane Harvey. Garbage Mountain on the south side tucked in between the Donut Palace GLO officials said cleanups in those of town grows larger by the day. and Lyco’s Nails. areas were cancelled due to federal rules which prohibit volunteers The town may never be quite the The partners say they may one day from working alongside contractors same and city leaders face some open a second store in Port Aransas working at the sites. monumental choices as residents but their Padre Island location is make the stay-or-leave decision. here to stay, with a full line of small Volunteers can sign up to help Small clauses buried in insurance animal products from toys to food. clean the beaches at www. policies will determine the fate TexasAdoptABeach.org or show up of many long-time Port Aransas Welcome to this end of The Island you guys! residents as they can make the Adopt cont. on A4 difference between having enough money to rebuild or being forced to sell what’s left and move on. In A little Island history many cases insurance policies that pay enough to rebuild what was there before are not enough to pay the cost The Island in Pictures of rebuilding at new codes which This year marks the twenty-first require nine feet of clearance above year of the publication of the sea level. If residents are forced by circumstance to move off The Island Island Moon Newspaper and the they will likely sell to non-residents tenth year for the current crop of who will pay the full load of property Moon Monkeys who took over tax, since they won’t homestead their for Moon founder Mike Ellis in Island property, but who will not put 2007. Mike never used a digital their kids in local schools cutting camera so when he needed a shot back on state funding, and who will or two for the next issue he shot not pay much in the way of the Sales a twenty-six exposure roll and Tax which makes up a large portion of stored the leftovers in plastic the city budget. The town could move containers which we still have, towards becoming less of the vibrant community it has always been and thousands of random photos a weekend town. Port Aransas faces that froze The Island in time. So big decisions in the coming months this week we decided to take a that will decide the future of the town stroll through the Moon photo and its four-thousand souls. archives. Tax raising season Here are a few. One thing that never seems to change Mr. Dick was the golf pro at Padre Island County Club where Willie Nelson was a frequent guest. Mr. though is the Tax Raising Season at the Nueces County Courthouse and Dick still holds the record for longest time without going OTB – 437 days. He refused to go OTB to see a History cont. on A4 doctor, but finally broke the streak by going to visit a friend in the hospital. 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Rubinstein [email protected] Dear Editor: New Advertisers In yet another round of Karl Rubinstein’s Morgan Investigation - Private misinterpretation of State law, he contends investigator Gordon Blaine Morgan that somehow the Padre Isles POA has offers renter background checks, management vested in the membership under surveillance, will simple divorce for Distribution Section 22.202 of the Business Organizations $500 plus filing, fee bail bonds, family Code (BOC), when Article Six of the Articles law and more. The office is located at Pete Alsop of Incorporation expressly vests management Gabi Canales Law Office 14330 SPID. Island Delivery in the board of directors. Nothing in the Call 949-3135 or 733-4097. Coldwell Banker POA Matters Articles of Incorporation or the Bylaws vests Advertising Back to the invalid 2013 Bylaws. I have management in the membership as he contends. 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