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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 May 14, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Tuesday May 19 Island Canal Work Begins! Free COVID By Dale Rankin Testing at Port It’s a strange spring on area beaches First portion of Water Exchange Bridge Project these days. The Law of Unintended Aransas City Consequences has covered our By Dale Rankin beaches alternately with salt water Survey crews this week began work and tourists. Hall at the site on the canal connecting For lack of a better term we will the existing Island canal system to You must register call it The Time of the Hurricane the Park Road 22 Water Exchange Without a Storm. As we navigate Bridge. beforehand Around the Island and see closed or Stakes marking the course of the People with symptoms of the partially closed businesses it seems canal are in place in anticipation of COVID-19 virus can get a free drive- like an evacuation before a storm excavation crews who will be onsite through test on Tuesday, May 19, but the storm never comes. We got starting Friday. While the excavation from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Port Aransas the high water on the beaches, we work is underway separate crews will City Hall. got the surfers, we got shortages of begin work on the bulkheads for the this and that, what we don’t have is County Commissioner Brent canal. a storm. The open-ended evacuation Chesney’s office is organizing the just keeps on keeping on and while The canal project is funded by the event along with County Judge pushing people to their beaches may private landowners and is the first Barbara Canales, Texas National not have been the motivation for the step in the process of building the Guard, the City of Port Aransas, the stay-at-home order that is the effect long-anticipated $13.9 million Water Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce, it is having. Exchange Bridge. Work on the canal Sheriff J.C Hooper, Precinct 4 and bulkheads is expected to take Constable Bobby Sherwood and First In hindsight it seems to make about three months. Title Company. perfect sense that as people got tired of sitting around the house and they It is important to note that you must couldn’t get on an airplane they register beforehand to be tested. were heading our way; after all we Zoning We repeat: You must resister are a driving destination. But the Islander Finds beforehand to be tested. sheer volume of the people on the beach from Port Aransas to PINS in Approved for To register go to TXCOVIDTEST. the middle of the week continues to Message in a Bottle ORG or call 512 883-2400. astound the locals. Corpus Christi New Residential City Manager Peter Zanoni told the From the Caymans to Kleberg in five years city council on Tuesday that a check Development Legal Definition with local businesses last week Longtime Islander David Hoffmann found that business on a single day was walking along the beach in Twenty-four new of “Sickness” in the middle of the week was almost Kleberg County when he saw equal to a three-day Fourth of July something glass on the beach. homes at Porto Could Impact Weekend in a normal year. Certainly “When I see glass on the beach I the crowd size is comparable. What is always pick it up,” he said. Villageo on State most different about this early season November is the beach traffic during the week. If But this time it wasn’t a bottle left Highway 361 people can’t work why not go to the behind by a careless tourist, it was a By Dale Rankin Election in beach? It’s what we locals do year- clear glass bottle with a note inside. round. Hoffmann took it home with the Texas intention of giving it to his daughter The high tides this week changed who teaches third grade so she could The first thing that jumps to mind Absentee vote the beach traffic patterns as the beach open for her kids but then the COVID is how many three year olds can south of Bob Hall Pier is a tourist trap. virus got in the way so this week he write? The second is that there is no process is the Drive your KIA down there and good broke off the wax seal and found the contact information. Note to self: If luck getting out as the wet sand butts note inside. you launch a message in a bottle put a subject of a lawsuit right up against the foot deep blow return address… sand. The beach south of Whitecap “Hello, The legal definition of the word But David made the good try, even over the weekend was narrow enough “sickness” could have a major impact My name is Avery Posner. calling the Grand Cayman that there was only room for one on the November General Election I am 3 years old. I put this Association, but there was no way row of cars parallel to the dune line, across Texas. bottle into the ocean on for them or anyone else to track a a driving lane, and a line of beach The Corpus Christi City Council On one side of the legal case now Grand Cayman on June 7, message in a bottle launched five chairs along the waterline. That put on Tuesday cleared the way for the winding its way through the state’s 2015. years ago. But that’s okay, David has the driving lane between the parked development of twenty-four single- appellate courts are the plaintiffs in a story to tell about how he found a cars and the beach-sitters and made Please let me know when family homes at the Porto Villageo the case, The Texas League of Women message in a bottle that made its way for treacherous driving. and where you found my development just inside the Corpus Voters and the state Democratic to Kleberg County all the way from bottle and note. Christi City Limits on State Highway Party who filed the lawsuit claiming As a result the beach traffic pushed the Cayman Islands, and that’s a 361. that the threat of contracting and north from Packery Channel all the Thank you.” pretty good Island story. way to Port A. If things continue as Dale Rankin they are on through the summer it's Villageo cont. on A4 Absentee voting cont. on A4 going to be a big year for tourism on our little sandbar. If the old Chinese proverb is right – it is truly an ill wind A little Island history that doesn’t blow somebody some good – maybe all this trouble will guild the lily on the post-Harvey era. Author with Island Connection We noticed that the parking lot at Joyride Rentals on Whitecap had nary a golf cart in the parking lot over Chronicles Infamous Texas Feud the weekend. Instead of carts it was “I molded a bullet for your daddy, principal characters in a deadly trail The Big Thicket filled with cars left behind by visitors and I’ll mold one for you too!” of vengeance known as the Guedry- Big Thicket's astonishing tale who traded them in for golf carts. Bruce Pitzer was shocked to hear Booth feud. A.J. even cited the famous unfolds against the sweeping this line, 45 years ago while still in Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie, who backdrop of Texas history. It brings Bob Hall high school. He and his family sat wrote a brief passage of the feud in the Booth-Guedry feud to life against enthralled listening to his grand- his collection of stories, “Flavor of larger events in Texas history like uncle A.J. Guedry‘s account of Texas.” Pitzer soon discovered his the War of Independence, as well the infamous feud between the third-great grandfather, Ursin Guedry, as glimpses of the Republic and the Guedry and Booth families of East was murdered by John Booth. Civil War. Texas back in the mid-1800s. A.J. That night, Pitzer swore he would Guedry was a published historian A.J. Guedry's copious notes began someday honor his grand-uncle by The overcrowding on Bob Hall Pier and genealogist who had traveled by describing the Guedry and Booth writing the tale of his ancestors' that was a problem last week has been from East Texas down to San families as friends. The Guedrys had early history in Texas. "Forty-five resolved. A check this week found Patricio County to relate the tale. settled along the Sabine River after years later, this pandemic forced fisherpersons well-spaced. There is He had spent years researching Texas became a Republic, next door me to revisit the manuscript I began also a new sign warning beachgoers The Guedry Family histories to the Booths. After Mr. Booth died, years ago. I knew this was the time to be careful under the pier. That and public records, tracing their Ursin Guedry agreed to be appointed to finally finish telling my grand- was the site last summer where lineage back to Arcadia, Canada in guarantor of the Booth Estate to their frustrations, an argument uncle's tale of the times and lives of severe rips currents caused problems. the 1600s. help save the widow Betsy Booth ensued and Ursin shot and killed my ancestors and the part they played from ruin. However, Booth had three two of them, leaving the youngest Pitzer’s parent’s Joann and in Texas history,” Pitzer said. grown sons who were none too happy brother, John Booth, to vow, “I’ll Blackie Pitzer are longtime The result is "Big Thicket, a Texas with the arrangement. The Booth kill you when you least expect it!” residents of Padre Island. saga of romance, love, greed, boys were enraged further when Five days for revenge Pitzer could not believe the revenge, and murder that sweeps they heard that Guedry was having amazing history of his mother’s across the Lone Star state. It can be a secret affair with their widowed Ursin was acquitted of the murders family, The Guedrys of East ordered on Amazon. mother. Bad blood was born. but haunted for years by John Texas. The Guedrys were the Booth's violent threat. He'd carry When three of the Booth brothers Around cont. on A4 finally confronted Ursin Guedry with History cont. on A4 May 14, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Photos From Around the Islands

Jetty coon mom bringing home the bacon. St. Joe Island 5-10-2020 By Mary Goldsmith. Pathway to the beach By J. Morris 683 Photography.

No social distancing at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center, Port Aransas, TX. Photo by Jan Howell Jones. Sunset at Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center. Photo by Steve Coons.

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Jan Park Rankin The Marker 37 Fishing Pier is back open and closes at 5 pm each day. The bar and outdoor patio are open until sundown. Classifieds Memorial Day Arlene Ritley My Fellow Texans, Lelo’s Island Bar is open with limited seating indoors and a large patio for outdoor dining 5- 10 pm. They are known for Production Manager Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday of May, honoring the men and women who died their great burgers and mixed island-style drinks. Abigail Bair Contributing Writers while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. It is a day for Americans to offer tribute and honor to Joey Farah the heroes who laid down their lives to preserve Kody's Andy Purvis our freedoms. Mary Craft Originally known as Decoration Day, it There will be free COVID Emily Gaines originated in the years following the Civil War. testing at the Port Aransas Jay Gardner It was not until after World War I, that the day City Hall on Tuesday. May Todd Hunter was expanded to honor those service men and 19th 9 am - 5 pm for those Dotson Lewis women who have died in all American wars. In people with symptoms. You must register beforehand at Dr. Tom Dorrell 1971, Memorial Day was officially declared a national by an act of Congress. TXCOVIDTEST.ORG or call Ronnie Narmour 512-883-2400. Brent Rourk While visiting American graves at Suresnes JB’s German Bakery inside Photographers American Cemetery in France on May 30, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson stated, "The dining has reopened with Miles Merwin (Emeritus) Americans who went to Europe to die are a hours remaining Wednesday - Debbie Noble unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a Saturday 11 am - 2 pm. They will still be offering curbside Jan Rankin foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which service just call 949-5474. Mary Craft they knew was the cause of humanity and Riley P. Dog Park is moving Ronnie Narmour mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of forward again after being at Lelo's Island Bar Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit." a standstill due to the virus. Riley P. Dog Our commemorative events this year may Fencing bids for about two acres of park can be made by contacting Jan Rankin at the Moon differ from the past due to the need for health office 949-7700. precautions. Though flags may still be placed The Aruba Bay development is located at the site of a house constructed on Aruba more at graves, traditional gatherings such as than three years ago but never completed, until now. The project will have 52 units ranging in parades and reunions may not take place in the price from $199,000 for a one-bedroom to $359,900 for a three-bedroom on the water. Plans same way. Still, we can keep the tradition of include a style pool, and 30 boat slips. Memorial Day with virtual and online events showing our appreciation of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. On this Memorial Day, I ask you to unite with family and friends in a national moment of remembrance at 3:00 p.m. (CDT) to reflect Publisher on the sacrifices made in defense of our values and to remember our service members lost in Dale Rankin service to our nation. About the Island Moon The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale Today, let us appreciate our freedom, reflect on Rankin, Editor / Publisher. our history and remember those who gallantly Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes fought and died for each one of us. Their delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 courage and sacrifice will always be honored copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 across this great state, this great nation and most copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. importantly, in our hearts. News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, Sincerely, payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. Eliseo “Al” Cantu, Jr. The Island Moon Newspaper Chairman, Texas Veterans Commission 14646 Compass, Suite 3 Aruba Bay Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Moon Matter the design evolved it was decided that those 361-949-7700 Just thought the inquiring minds that are up to date on current events there at the Moon embankments would only need to be about four [email protected] would like to know that as of 5/12/2020 the feet. While this may seem like a small change it hearty group of detainees at the Marion Ohio is estimated that the reduction in area will save Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper correctional facility has managed to keep the about $500,000 on each of the four corners death rate in the county to the staggeringly low meaning a total potential savings of $2 million number of .582% . (Well below 1%) Sort of a on the project. That number is still a work in Light up e Sky  e 4 of July! safety” hotspot” still. progress but based on the best estimate at this time a total saving of $2-$3 million on the Dr. Linda Gottlieb Island Blast Where to Find The project is not out of the question. Display tax-deductible donations are But to be clear, whatever the final cost of still being accepted. Park Road 22 Water the bridge turns out to be it will be paid for Island Moon If you’d like to help, please mail checks to Island Blast solely with public (tax) money, and if the cost 14493 Suite A PMB 342 | Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Exchange Bridge remains at the $13.9 million number the project You can also donate online through the island blast facebook page. Port North In your 5/7 20 Moon, the Total Contract Cost is fully funded. Private money will pay for the of the bridge eluded me as well as the City's canals and bulkheads on either side of the Aransas Padre (taxpayer's) share of that cost. bridge site. Officials with Axys Capital and Gulf Stream RV All Stripes Stores The paper stated, ".... Funding for the bridge International Bank of Commerce announced Pioneer RV project has been in place since late 2019 and last week that crews will begin work on the Black Sheep/ canal and bulkhead on the west side of the Stripes on 1A the Corpus Christi City Council approved the Send letters and photos to Barrel construction contract with Haas-Anderson bridge location on Friday, May 15. According My Coastal Home Construction Ltd., the low bidder on the bridge to the agreement between those private entities CVS and the City of Corpus Christi binds the city to [email protected] WB Liquor Store Dollar General at $13,943,536 in January. The funding comes from Street Bonds in 2004 and 2008, the Island begin construction on the bridge when work on Facebook: The Island Island Wine Room Whataburger Tax Increment Refinance Zone #2 which the west side canal is “substantially complete.” committed to $4 million." Under the current timeline it is estimated by Moon Newspaper Kody’s Doc’s Restaurant the private contractors that milestone will be So, the total cost of the Bridge is $13,943,536..... Coffee Waves Snoopy’s Pier reached by August, 2020 which would mean right ? construction on the bridge would begin autumn Now available online at Moby Dicks Isle Mail N More What is the taxpayer's part of the cost of the of 2020. That timeline is in keeping with the islandmoon.com IGA bridge, Bonds PLUS the TIRZ #2 (which is long-term timeline projected when the bridge Island Italian contract was bid. Treasure Island money that belongs to the taxpayers)? Brooklyn Pie Co. Ms. Woody’s Maybe a small future article in the Moon could Automotive Ace Hardware clarify this question. Port A Glass Studio Texas Star (Shell) Joe Minervini San Juan’s Restaurant Jesse’s Liquor Editor’s note: There is no funding for the bridge that is not public (tax) money. The bond Wash Tub Scuttlebutt’s money is money that was leftover from previous Woody’s Sports Restaurant road bond projects and by law can be used to Center Subway fund similar projects. That money accounts for all but $4 million of the total cost of the bridge. Back Porch Bar Island Tire The $4 million from the TIRZ #2 is property Shorty’s Place Padre Pizzeria tax on new construction inside the zone since Fisherman’s Wharf And all Moon its inception in 2003. That money must be Giggity’s spent inside the boundaries of TIRZ #2 which retail advertisers includes the area around Packery Channel, the Gratitude WB Liquor Michael J. Ellis Seawall, and the SPID corridor The Gaff (including the bridge site). It does not include Trinity By the Sea Flour Bluff any residential areas. Episcopal Currently the cost of the bridge is projected H.E.B. and bid at $13,943,536 but the contractor is Whataburger on working with subcontractors and designers to Waldron lower that number. When the first plans for the bridge were done the three arches which make Ethyl Everly up a key component of the bridge were priced Senior Center through a sole source because at the time they Fire Station were the only company identified that was able to do the work. There are now three possible Police Station suppliers and it is believed about $1 million can be cut from the cost of those structures which Stripes on Flour are made of pre-stressed concrete. Bluff & SPID Additionally, when the first design of the bridge was done embankments of twelve feet were anticipated on each of the four corners of the roadway abutting the bridge itself. As May 14, 2020 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Voting cont. from A1 Villageo cont. from A1 his shotgun with him everywhere he went. Ten spreading the COVID-19 virus at in-person According to information provided to the The council material states that some of the years after Ursin Guedry murdered his brothers, voting sites constitutes a threat to voters health council Tuesday the developer of the project, new units will be constructed on zero lot lines John Booth was ready for his revenge. He and and voters across the state should be allowed to listed in city filings as J3PV investments, is and may be situated closer than twelve feet his wife Sarah now lived down in San Patricio cast Absentee Ballots. affiliate with the Cinnamon Shore developments apart. County in South Texas. Sarah needled and The opposition to that claim is being led by just north of the city limits in Port Aransas and prodded Booth to take his revenge. She helped City staff did a survey of the ten current Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who this the new homes will be similar to the ones there. him plan Ursin Guedry's murder by planting residents living at Porto Villageo and nine were week filed a brief with the Fourteenth Judicial a horse in every town between San Patricio against the re-zoning on the grounds, among District Court of Appeals in Houston claiming and Hardin County in East Texas. Booth rode other items, that it violated deed restrictions that the disabilities clause in the Texas Election his self-created pony express nonstop for 600 and that short-term property could damage the Code which spells out the requirements for miles, shot Ursin Guedry dead, and was back property value of the existing homes. The sole submitting a mail-in ballot include only home in less than five days. A feat unheard of backer of the change, according to the city staff, “protections intended to aid only those with true in 1861. was the Homeowner Association. City Council disabilities.” members during discussion emphasized that the Currently, the Texas Election Code allows city does not enforce deed restrictions on private voting by mail if one is sick or disabled, which is property. The city council made two changes to defined as “a sickness or physical condition that the proposed ordinance requiring that any new prevents the voter from appearing at the polling development be at least ten feet from current place on election day without a likelihood of structures, and that the new development be at needing personal assistance or of injuring the least eleven feet above sea level. voter's health." The Corpus Christi Planning Commission The CDC COVID-19 website lists the recommended approval of the change to PUD groups at higher risk for severe illness as: which would have required a three-quarters “asthma, severe lung, kidney, heart disease vote on the council to overturn. The vote in or conditions, diabetes, severe obesity, in favor of the change was 8-1 with Councilman nursing homes or long-term care facilities, and Gil Hernandez being the sole nay vote. The Civil War erupted and John Booth remained immunocompromised.” According to information provided to the a free man by enlisting in the Confederate Judge Tim Sulak of the 353rd Civil District council by the developer the concept for the Army. He returned home to San Patricio with a Court in Travis County issued an injunction on new development, which is on land already limp and in poor health. Meanwhile, the Guedry April 17th, allowing all Texas voters to use the platted, is for a small high density single- family had always known who shot Ursin. John "disabled" clause to apply for a mail-in ballot The Tuesday vote by the council changed the family housing group with all units to be single- Booth was arrested and brought to Kountze, in light of the community spread of COVID-19. zoning at the Porto Villageo property from RM- family residences, with a minimum lot size of Texas where he was tried for Ursin Guedry's Paxton has refused to issue orders to expand the AT Multifamily to RS-4 5/PUD (Planned Unit 1,400 square feet. The developer also requested murder. But Booth and his wife had planned the definition of “sickness” which would allow any Development) which allows for single-family the allowance of short term rentals including murder well. They had proof that Booth was in voter to cast an Absentee Ballot which led to his residences, mostly on 4.06 acres of what is decks, porches, fencing, landscaping, utilities, San Patricio County at the time of Ursin's death. filing with the Houston court this week. now vacant property inside the boundaries of swimming pools, and gazebos. No timeline The jury believed no one could ride a horse 600 the current subdivision. There are currently for beginning construction was provided by Paxton issued a statement this week saying: miles in such a short time and acquitted him. ten single-family homes in the southern half of the developers. No schedule was presented for “Public officials shall not advise voters who John Booth got away with murder! the subdivision but the northern portion of the when construction on the new properties might lack a qualifying sickness or physical condition property is platted but vacant. begin. to vote by mail in response to COVID-19... Mail ballots based on disability are specifically reserved for those who are legitimately ill and cannot vote in-person without assistance or jeopardizing their health. “ “Ken Paxton’s letter — which is not binding — gets the law wrong and serves no other purpose than to attempt to intimidate voters and county officials," said Thomas Buser-Clancy with the ACLU of Texas, which is also involved in the case. No matter the outcome of the lawsuit an application for Absentee Voting may be printed from the Nueces County Clerk’s website, signed and mailed in. You can also email VoteByMail@ nuecesco.com or call 361 888-0865. Applications must be received by the County Clerk’ office eleven days before the election, and cast ballots must be received by Election Day. Texas voters are eligible to apply to vote by mail if they are 65 years of age or older, sick or disabled, out of the county during the Early Years later, Gistan Guedry, the youngest son of Voting period and Election Day, or are in jail Ursin, returned from war suffering from PTSD. but otherwise eligible to vote. Voters may only To the Guedry’s shock and horror, he married vote in the same party run-off that they voted in John Booth’s infamous ex-wife, Sarah. A during the March primary. Voters who did not femme fatale if there ever was one. Neighbors vote in the party Primary Election can chose to say they heard Sarah screaming at Gistan, “I vote in either party’s runoff. molded the bullet for your daddy, and I'll mold one for you too!" Soon after, Gistan would ride It is unlikely the case over Absentee Ballots 300 miles west to Runge, Texas, to kill John will be resolved by the July 14 Texas Primary Booth and avenge the death of his father, Ursin. Run-off election which includes the hotly contested District 4 Constable’s race on the The scene ends in tragedy for both families. The outlined areas are the areas of planned development The Guedrys had finally seen justice, but the Republican ballot and the U.S. Senate race on senseless and violent feud would scar both the Democrat ballot. Governor Greg Abbott families for generations. has extended the Early Voting period from one week, which is typical for lower-turnout Runoff Local author Elections, to two weeks. Early Voting will now run from June 29-July 10. A native Texan, Bruce Pitzer Dale Rankin graduated from Gregory-Portland High School and studied fine art at Sam Houston State University, then theater/playwriting at the University of Texas in Austin. Bruce Pitzer After a decade in City, where he was involved with theater, acting, and writing, Pitzer moved to Los Angeles where he now writes for the film and television industry. An avid painter, Mr. Pitzer enjoys creating fine art Plans for new development. between writing projects. Bond Refunding to Save City Estimated Around cont. from A1 $30.7 Million in Interest Next weekend is the official kickoff to the 100- The Corpus Christi City Council this week savings over the remaining original life of the day Tourist Season. Memorial Day is upon us approved the issuance of refunding bonds bond. Refunding does not extend the original everybody and if the experience of recent weeks with the potential to save the City of Corpus term of the bond, but rather takes advantage of is any indication the crowd will start rolling Christi more than $30.7 million in interest over lower interest rates offered in the current market in from OTB well before the holiday weekend THE PERFECT OVERLOAD OF PEANUT the remaining life of both the City’s General over the remaining life of the bonds. arrives and by the weekend we could see the BUTTER AND CHOCOLATE! Improvement Bonds and Utility Revenue The City of Corpus Christi plans on largest crowds our beaches have even seen… Bonds. The Council will finalize the vote on refunding up to $334,100,000 of various bond and that’s not a complaint. Our businesses could these financial transactions next Tuesday, May series dependent on the financial markets - use a break. 19, with the Bond Refunding will go to the $240,000,000 of Utility Revenue Bonds and Get your groceries early everybody, and say market in June 2020. $94,100,000 of General Improvement Bonds. hello if you see us Around The Island. “Any day you can save money is a good day. If all identified series are refunded, assuming Instead of paying higher interest rates, we favorable market conditions, the projected can focus on fixing more streets,” said Mayor annual savings for the City Utility System ON THE ISLAND Joe McComb. “Building a strong financially could be up to an estimated $23,000,000 and $7,700,000 for the General Obligation Debt 14401 S PADRE ISLAND DR managed City has been a top priority for my first year,” said Peter Zanoni, City Manager. Service Fund over the life of the bonds. The “This refunding will continue to put us on that average life of the identified bond series is 13.7 path. Today’s action lays the groundwork to do years with an estimated net present savings of infrastructure improvement projects in multiple 8.3% for the Utility Revenue Bonds and 8.9 PENN THOMAS, P.C. areas,” added Zanoni. years and with an estimated net present savings CPA FIRM of 8.67% for the General Improvement Bonds. 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Send letters and photos to editor@ Call Captain Joey Farah islandmoon.com 361-442-8145 May 14, 2020 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides of the Week “We got to do something about that flag This is the story of the Charlie,” I said, and I went out to my suitcase Tides for Bob Hall Pier May 14 - May 21 petrified penis bone of a where I had six nice sized Texas flags that had Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon giant mollusk that lived in been flown over the capitol in Austin which I Wuhan City China 440 million years ago and /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible was supposed to give to the Mayor and city how it ended up in a box on my desk with the council but the council was going to come up Th 14 Low 2:50 AM 0.2 6:40 AM Rise 2:17 AM 57 help of Japanese fiddle player named Goodtime one flag short. I walked back into Goodtime Charlie Nagatani from Kumamoto, Japan and a 14 High 12:00 PM 1.7 8:10 PM Set 1:21 PM Charlie’s and when I rolled that giant Texas flag Sister City program in San Antonio. out I could swear I saw a tear in Charlie's eye F 15 Low 4:02 AM 0.4 6:40 AM Rise 2:54 AM 48 Since the giant mollusk lived well before the and we became fast friends. Charlie put it up 15 High 12:16 PM 1.5 8:11 PM Set 2:15 PM COVID-19 outbreak I’m pretty sure the petrified that night right by the front door and I wouldn’t 15 Low 7:22 PM 0.9 penis bone is not a carrier of the disease, but doubt that it’s still there. After a few Lone Stars then again a petrified penis bone is a rather odd I even got up and sang Charlie’s favorite song 15 High 10:00 PM 1.0 thing to have on your desk and maybe it’s all a Honky Tonk Nighttime Man – “I can stand Sa 16 Low 5:18 AM 0.6 6:39 AM Rise 3:27 AM 38 Chinese plot; after all the Chinese are known for no light” – which I don’t count as karaoke taking the long view of things and maybe their because it was in front of a live band. It was the 16 High 12:24 PM 1.4 8:12 PM Set 3:07 PM plot began 440 million years ago and was aimed beginning and end of my Country Music career. 16 Low 7:22 PM 0.8 at the publisher of a weekly newspaper on Padre Three weeks became three months Su 17 High 12:09 AM 1.1 6:38 AM Rise 3:59 AM 29 Island in 2020. I doubt it. I loved Japan. I bought a rail pass and went 17 Low 6:34 AM 0.8 8:12 PM Set 3:59 PM everywhere I could, riding the bullet train to 17 High 12:28 PM 1.3 Tokyo and back during the week several times and attending sumo matches in Nagasaki. 17 Low 7:35 PM 0.6 I was supposed to be there three weeks but I M 18 High 1:48 AM 1.2 6:38 AM Rise 4:29 AM 21 figured out how to file daily stories from there. 18 Low 7:48 AM 0.9 8:13 PM Set 4:50 PM I just took the raw tape that RKK crews shot during the week and each Friday I took five 18 High 12:33 PM 1.3 sports coats and shot five standups and on 18 Low 7:52 PM 0.4 Monday shipped the tapes back to file a full week’s worth of stories to run on KENS in San Tu 19 High 3:02 AM 1.4 6:38 AM Rise 4:59 AM 14 Antonio. The producers loved it because the 19 Low 9:03 AM 1.1 8:13 PM Set 5:42 PM stories came in early reducing their deadline Pucker Factor, the News Director liked having a 19 High 12:36 PM 1.2 Japanese Bureau, the audience liked the novelty 19 Low 8:10 PM 0.3 of seeing a familiar face halfway around the W 20 High 4:02 AM 1.6 6:37 AM Rise 5:30 AM 8 world, and most importantly the CEO of Harte- Hanks loved it because it was part of the Sister 20 Low 8:30 PM 0.1 8:14 PM Set 6:34 PM City Program. It was the best hustle I ever fell Th 21 High 4:53 AM 1.7 6:37 AM Rise 6:03 AM 3 backwards into. Three months in Japan working one day a week and I got paid! 21 Low 8:53 PM -0.1 8:14 PM Set 7:28 PM I played golf every week at a course that wound around the active volcano Mount Aso. I was staying with the family of a guy who worked at RKK who was the reigning champion at the Goodtime Charlie course and the first time we played neither of us could find a fairway as we both played Army It all started in 1989 Golf the first nine holes. I’m thinking, ‘man The year was 1989 in Kumamoto Prefecture if he’s the best player in town maybe I should on the island of Kyushu in southern Japan. consider the Japanese Golf Tour.’ Come to find I was there as part of the San Antonio Sister out the Japanese are such considerate people City Program. San Antonio and Kumamoto that it is considered bad form to beat your were sister cities and the CEO of Harte- guest at golf, the poor man must have winced Hanks Communications was the head of the every time he had to follow one of my drives Sister City Program so someone from KENS into the pine trees with me. Once we got that Television got to go spend three weeks working straightened out all I saw the rest of the day was at RKK television station in Kumamoto and that the back of Mr. Tamaka’s head while I looked someone was me. I was the second person from for my ball by myself in the pine trees. But I KENS to go and the first person would only eat will make this claim; I might be the only golfer at McDonald’s and Pizza Hut so when I got off on Padre Island to ever hit a ball into a smoking the plane the group from RKK wanted to take volcano – but then again maybe not. me to Pizza Hut. The David Koresh of Japan “I didn’t come all this way to eat at Pizza Hut,” I told them. “I want to go where you guys go As I walked around Remember When and since we’re on an expense account let’s go the downtown to the best place you guys go.” Shimotori, an open- air shopping area When things were just getting started… We went to a steakhouse and after too much with a roof sort of Sake they wanted to go to a karaoke bar but like downtown Las that’s where I dug my heels in. Vegas, I kept seeing “Karaoke is a cry for help,” I said. “Besides, people in purplish we got those in the States. I didn’t come all this robes. When I asked way to sing Karaoke any more than I did to eat who they were I was at Pizza Hut.” Shoko Asahara told they were part of cult that lived “We’ll take you to a Texas Bar,” they said. up the mountain and warned against going up “That’s more like it,” I said, and we ended there. I gave one of the purple robes a business up at Goodtime Charlie’s Little Texas Bar in card – English on one side and Japanese on the downtown Kumamoto. Charlie Nagatani is other - and a few days later I got a call at the now known as the Johnny Cash of Japan but station inviting me to come up and meet Shoko he could just as well be the Hank Williams and Asahara who might accurately be described as the Earnest Tubb of Japan too because when the David Koresh of Japan. Like Mr. Koresh it comes to County singers and fiddle players (whose Waco standoff was still two years away) and Country guitar pickers in Japan he’s pretty Mr. Asahara saw Texas as a fertile ground for much it. He was about to hold his first Annual recruits and wanted to take advantage of a Texas Country Gold Concert which is still held each reporter to get his message out. fall in Kumamoto and draws 30,000 fans. It turns out the Japanese love Texas and cowboys.

Mount Aso.

My interpreter from RKK, Juan, was the son of a Japanese father and Mexican mother and had been raised in Mexico City. His Spanish was excellent but his Japanese was a work in progress. His English was at least as bad as my Spanish so I started out in broken Tex- Mex Spanglish which he translated to broken Japanese then back into Castilian Spanish of which I got about every third word. I considered it part of the cross-cultural experience and it worked out fine. But he didn’t want to go up the Texas flag outside Charlie's place. mountain to visit the David Koresh of Japan so I bribed him with a bottle of Johnny Walker Red When I walked into Goodtime Charlie’s Little I had picked up at the Duty Free Shop in San Texas Bar and was introduced to Charlie the first Francisco and we were on our way. thing I noticed was that he had three flags hung Next time: Into the mountain lair of a up on his stage. One was a Confederate Battle religious cult leader, a 440 year old petrified Flag, the Stars and Bars, and I didn’t want to get mollusk penis bone from Wuhan City China, into that. The second was a giant Montana State and Goodtime Charlie Nagatani crosses the Flag – it tuned out that Montana was Kumamoto water and takes Nashville by storm. Prefecture’s sister state and even had a trade office in town – and the third was a little bitty old Texas flag about the size of half a pizza box.

Padre Island BIRDING TOURS • 25 Years Experience • Custom Shallow-Water Bird Boat • $200 for up to 3 people Book Your Trip Today! Call Captain Joey Farah This was the newsletter put out by the private developers on The Island when things were still getting started way back in 1976. 361-442-8145 We thank longtime Islander Carl Suding for sending it along. If you have any old items … artifacts?...pertaining to the Island hang on to them. One of these days we will have an Island museum. Send letters and photos to [email protected] A6 Island Moon May 14, 2020 Senior Moments Anecdotingly Korean War- We Thought it Dances with Karens

Was Over Before It Was Over By Abigail Bair

Identifying the Wild Karen That’s when I kind of lost it. “Your humanity By Dotson Lewis skills are horrible,” I hissed. Special to the Island Moon “Being a Karen” has little or nothing to do with one’s given name. She turned and stomped one foot like a rhino Korean War- We Thought it Was Over you couldn't, after all, march down the Ginza in who has successfully put out a fire and is If you don’t know what a “Karen” is, Asa Before It Was Over filthy uniforms and filthy helmets. The men of looking for something else to stomp. the Cav were planning to strut a bit when they Romano provided this summary in a February Dotson’s Note: In October of 1950, many 2020 article for Vox: “On one level, we’ve seen I held my ground. She completed her passed MacArthur's headquarters in the Dai Ichi transaction and left the store. American troops in Korea thought that the war Building. They deserved to strut a bit. all of this before: After all, resentment toward was over. Fortunately I did not, in my letter to the upper middle class — what we might call Then I apologized profusely to the clerk on her the love of my life who was waiting for me in The mood in general among the American “bourgeoisophobia” — has been around since behalf. Japan, I wrote that I did not think it was over. troops in Pyongyang just then was a combination the middle class itself, often coming most “She’s always like that,” he replied. “We just It was not for me until I qualified for RCP of optimism and sheer exhaustion, emotional strongly from members of that very middle try not to engage her.” (Rotation of Combat Personnel) out of ‘Frozen as well as physical. Betting pools were set up class. What has changed are Karen’s specific Chosen’ in June of 1951. I was the first of us on when they would ship out. For some of the offensive traits: Like all bourgeoisie stereotypes The Perils of Karening four who were left in our outfit who had landed newest men, the replacements, who had only before her, she’s snobbish, prudish, and together 11 months before. When I rotated heard tales about how hard the fighting had hypocritical. But now, she’s against science on I’ve been aware of the privilege of being a ‘Bobby’ Coen, ‘Tak’ Takasaki, and ‘Stape’ been from the Pusan Perimeter to Pyongyang, principle, which is definitely a new twist to the “white lady of a certain age” ever since I moved Stapelton were still in combat in Korea. I never there was relief that the worst of it was passed. traditional bourgeois model. And the chief way to Texas and suddenly became a “ma’am.” Generally, I don’t benefit from it too much heard from any of them again. I hope they were On one of their last days in Pyongyang there she manifests her class consciousness is not lucky and rotated soon after I did. My thanks by, say, being a patron of the arts, but by being because I dress like a homeless person whose was another positive sign. Bob Hope held a clothes accidentally got run through a paper to Bill Richardson and David Halberstam, for show there for the troops. Now, that was really aggressively rude to the help.” many of the facts contained in this report, and shredder. In my opinion, it’s too hot here to something: the famous comedian, who had done You can find free-range Karens posting wear anything heavier than a few items strung thanks to the United States Army Signal Corps show after show for the troops in World War II, annoying “live, laugh, love” memes on social for the photos. carelessly over one’s more prurient parts. I’d telling his jokes in the North Korean capital. media, claiming that vaccines cause everything wear a loin cloth if I thought I could get away That night many of the men in the Cav gathered from ADD to Zika, or yelling at the manager of with it. to hear Hope, and then, the next morning, with a Burger King. their extra ammo restored, they set out for a This New Year’s, however, I thought to myself, place just north of them called Unsan, to protect If you spot an unrestrained Karen, your best “Maybe if I stop dressing like I’ve been stranded a ROK unit under fire. Surely, all they would bet is to hide behind a fixture until the Karen in on a desert island for ten years, I’d be able to do have to do was clean up a small mess, the question storms off to battle the next minimum things like career advancement or something.” kind they believed South Korean soldiers were wage employee who fails to predict exactly the So, I resolved to buy myself some new clothes always getting into. correct number of ketchup packets to include and really get with that whole conformist with her order. picture. When they headed off, they were not particularly well prepared. Yes, they had gotten Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to Basically, I intended to disguise myself as a some of their ammo back, but there had been reason with the Karen. Karens are immune to Karen and reap the rewards of bourgeoise – but the question of uniforms. Should they take the reason, logic, and common sense. Instead, it is swore to use my privilege for good rather than ones they would wear on parade in Tokyo, or recommended by the CDC that you play “Let evil. winter clothes? Somehow, the choice was made it Go” from Walt Disney’s “Frozen” as loudly MacArthur Lands In Pyongyang- as you can. Then, wait until the Karen holds Karen Terror is a real force to be reckoned for the dressier ones, even though a Korean with. October 1950 winter—this was to be one of the coldest in a her finger up in the face of whomever she is hundred years—was fast approaching. And currently “telling a thing or two about a thing or I failed immediately, because I think dressing On October 20, 1950, the men of the First there was their mood: a sense on the part of three” and begins to sing along. nicely means wearing gigantic black clothing Cavalry Division* entered Pyongyang, the officers as well as troops, even as they headed Make sure you have the song on repeat. that causes me to look like a particularly hairy North Korean capital. Later, there was some for areas perilously close to the Yalu River, the Uncle Fester. Still, it was an upgrade because This will pacify most Karens, enabling the controversy over who got there first, elements of border between Korea and Chinese Manchuria, nothing had an actual hole in it. poor souls trapped in the Karen Blast Radius to the Fifth Regiment of the Cav or men from the that they were out of harm's way. Many of tiptoe away. Then, because I have ADD and my “focus is South Korean First Division. The truth was the them knew a little about the big meeting just brokus,” I gave up on that project, put back men of the Cav had been slowed because all the two weeks earlier on Wake Island, between If you spot a Karen, be sure to make a note on my old duds, and started messing with the bridges in their sector going over the Taedong Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur, and the in your Karening Journal, which you should be toxic sludge pit in my backyard that used to be River had been blown, and so the South Korean word filtering down was that MacArthur had carrying with you at all times. Coronavirus has a beautiful and decorative koi pond. troops, or ROKs (for Republic of Korea), beat promised to give Washington back an entire spurred the equivalent of a Karen Fallout and them into the ruined city. That did not diminish American division** then being used in Korea there has never been a better time to catalog all I stink at being even a fake Karen. their pleasure. To them, the capture of the city and ticket it for Europe. the various types. Karen Jam meant the war was almost over. Just to make sure everyone knew that of all American units in However, the First Cav continued in combat. Rise of the Karen Last Saturday, I tried HEB curbside pick up for Although General MacArthur did not believe country, the Cav got there first, some troopers, I don’t know why it’s suddenly okay to be more the first time. There are not enough nice things armed with paint and brushes, painted the Cav the Chinese would join the war with the North to say about it, and about HEB’s actions during Koreans, they quickly did; first putting the rude than ever to people who are simply trying logo all over town. to do a necessary job (cashiers, bank tellers, this crisis in general. The curbside lot wasn’t American troops through one of the coldest full, and it was quite pleasant to wait for my Soldiers of “L” Troop of the Third Battalion hairstylists), but I’ve witnessed more volatile winters on record, totally unprepared. Instead groceries to be delivered directly into the trunk also felt a wave of relief sweep over them in Karens throwing tantrums in the past couple of of the war being over, the armistice was not of my car. Pyongyang. The war was virtually over, and the signed until nearly 3 years later, on July 27, weeks than I have in years – and that’s without Cav might be getting out of Korea. The soldiers 1953. going anywhere. HEB itself was fuller than I had ever seen it, knew this, not just because of all the rumors, Yesterday, when attempting to buy a life- which resulted in a traffic snarl in the parking but because Company headquarters had called saving bottle of Pinto Grigio at my local CVS, lot. Cars were jammed every which way, and asking all men who had experience loading I watched a Karen berate a store clerk for not no one could move. Then, just as the situation ships to notify their superiors. That was as sure performing his job the way she thought it seemed as bad as it could be, a truck pulling a a sign as any that they were going to ship out. should be done. trailer with two jet skis on it entered the lot and Another sign that their days of hard fighting somehow got tangled right in the middle of the were over was that they had been told to turn in “You’re supposed to scan my card FIRST,” the mess. most of their ammo. All the rumors seeping out Wild Karen complained bitterly, inserting her debit card into the reader. Horns blared. Windows were rolled down. of the different headquarters must be true. People shouted. “Most of the time that’s true, ma’am,” replied the clerk (who is always working and is super It was like some kind of dog pile where the nice), “but in this case we run it through the last kid is the biggest and runs all the way from machine.” across the room to gain enough momentum to squash you good, all the while screaming, “WHAT DO I DO NEXT, THEN?!!?” “WHEEE!!!’ screamed the Karen. I suspect, however, that the driver of the truck “Just follow the instructions on the screen, was not a Karen, but rather her male counterpart, please,” continued the clerk. the Kyle. “Your customer service skills are terrible,” the Please be kind to other people, especially to Karen hurled back acidly, looking around for those hero/hostages who work for minimum the manager. “You clearly don’t know how to wage and have been keeping all of us alive. If do your job.” I watched as she followed the you’d like to learn more about this crisis, be sure 1st Cav. directions on the screen and got her discount. to watch this video before YouTube takes it down Winter 1950-Near Pyongyang North Korea “You don’t deserve to work here,” she spat. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s0akG-V_ *my outfit Y30&feature=youtu.be. In the three months in Korea the L troop had Dotson’s Other Note: Rumor had it that the some dead, some wounded, and some missing American division mentioned above was the 1st City Update in action. Two soldiers of the few who had been Cavalry Division. The four of us immediately By Greg Smith there from the start congratulated one another, put in for a transfer to the 8044th Army Unit. On the good news front Mayor McCombs "Jesus, we did it, buddy, we made it all the way We knew this outfit was in Japan and would City Council Member, announced that the City is in line for up to through," not quite believing their good luck. stay there for the long haul. I did finally did join District 4 fifteen million dollars in Federal Covid grant the 8044th , in Japan, but not until February funds. Staff then presented a refinancing plan That mini-celebration took place on one of the At Tuesday’s Council last days of October. The very next day they 1952. Thanks for reading and commenting on to take advantage of current low interest rates. the articles in The Island Moon. Contact me at meeting we were briefed The City will refinance existing debt that would were reissued their ammo and ordered north to on the unfolding Covid save some South Korean outfit that was getting [email protected] or call/text: 530-748-8475. result in a savings of approximately thirty outbreak at the STX Beef million dollars in in interest costs over the next kicked around. Please note: The Weekly Veterans Round plant on the west side of fourteen years. Still, the word was out: there was going to Table Meetings are now on Zoom on Tuesdays town. As opposed to the be a victory parade in Tokyo, and the Cav, 9-11a.m., if you would like to join us, please prior cases from different sources and in small Nationally the amount of daily new Covid because it had fought so well for so long in call, text or Email me. When the meetings are numbers we are now having an outbreak from cases continues to fall. The East Coast States the Korean campaign, and because it was a resumed at Del Mar College, all veterans, their one of the larger employers in Corpus Christi. are in decline along with most of the “meat favorite of Douglas MacArthur's, the overall families and anyone interested in veterans’ In a halfway house with approximately thirty- plant” outbreak states in the Midwest have commander, was going to lead it. They were activities, are invited. The Veterans Radio five residents, sixteen residents and three staff peaked and are starting to drop. Minnesota and supposed to have their yellow cavalry scarves Round Table is on the air on KEYS AM 1440, 8 tested positive. Nine of the positive cases work are the exceptions and are still back for the parade, and the word coming – 10 a.m., Saturdays. The next show will be May at the plant. Eight other plant workers have also experiencing an increasing case load. Texas was down was that they better be prepared to look 16, 2020. Please listen and call in or text. The tested positive. The State of Texas has become having small increases but has flattening for the parade-ground sharp, not battlefield grizzled: listener/text line is: 361-882-5397…It’s your involved and is testing all employees. Testing last five days. Nueces County was the second two hours, please let us hear from you. started Saturday and still in process Tuesday lowest infected county in the nation of the 270 of sampling the seven to eight hundred person counties with a population greater than 250,000 staff. In the 4:30 Tuesday Covid brief it was on May 6. Now with the ongoing outbreak the announced another twenty-seven positive cases, County moved up five positions and I expect a most being from the meat plant. rapid increase as more test results are received due to our first real outbreak. Trust Also part of the Council discussion was budget impacts on the Utility, tax, Airport and Below is a graph of daily new cases in Texas, Padre Island and Port Aransas’ Oldest Island Based Pest Control Company. EDC operations along with an update on the California and the United States I included General Fund. All funds are expected to have California because between the two states they revenue shortfalls. Staff outlined expense represent 20% of the total US population. reductions to offset the loss in revenue. Hiring freezes, eliminating none essential expenses, differing some capital On Padre Island Since 1994. expenses and reclassifying The Pest Control Professionals others were the expense reductions. This should Locally Owned by Island Resident OVER 30 YEAR EXPERIENCE allow the City to maintain Bill Schroeder a balanced budget and not have to dip into reserves. 15481 SPID Just past We also discussed the large amount of beach use; crews Whitecap on Right are reporting summer time levels of trash pickups as an 949-0208 indicator of the heavy use. Residential and Commercial Services Termite * Ants * Rodent * Critter * Roaches * Spiders * Fleas A7 Island Moon May 14, 2020 Dr. Donna Shaver Up for Island Moon on a Spoon Service to America Medal Needs Island votes Flautas on the Fly By Maureen P Hurlow Patrols for nesting Kemp’s ridley sea turtles May 3-9, 2020 is Public Service Recognition began along the beaches. Nine long years of By Chef Vita Jarrin Week. It is a time set aside to honor the men sweating from April through July looking for grown up Head Start turtles, but no luck. and women who serve our nation as federal, Greetings Readers, state, county and local government employees. Everyone was anxiously waiting. Perhaps they love nachos, consider this nachos, wrapped As part of this recognition, our own Dr. Donna wouldn’t come back. But Donna had fortitude: During these “stay at home” times, it in a tubular tortilla with all the fixings inside Shaver from Padre Island National Seashore is she was persistent. Although she was beginning seems preparing 3 meals a day can get time instead of on top of the tortillas. This recipe one of 27 nationwide finalists for the prestigious to feel like Linus from the Peanuts comic consuming and exhausting. Thinking of a calls for chicken, however, feel free to switch Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal strip who sat in the pumpkin patch awaiting balanced menu 3 times a day can be tasking. it up. for 2020. the arrival of The Great Pumpkin…that never However, sometimes, creative ideas are came. She was told by her professors “Give actually closer than you think…like right in Ingredients: When they said “Give it up, Donna,” it up, Donna” and move on to a more secure your fridge or freezer. It just takes a little 1 Package of tortillas, corn or flour. she did not. pursuit. But she didn’t give up: she endured, and thinking outside the box to pull ingredients so did the turtles. together and to make a new meal. 2 Cups of shredded, seasoned and cooked chicken Finally in 1996, a nesting Head Start Kemp’s Here is what I mean… If you are like me… Donna Shaver arrived on the beaches of South ridley sea turtle was discovered crawling up I try to buy foods, that I can turn into various 1 small can of mild green chilies Texas from her undergraduate studies in Wildlife the beach. It dug a hole and laid one hundred dishes. Maybe one day it will result in a Biology at Cornell University. She came to ½ cup of green tomatillo salsa mild or spicy round, slippery eggs. She was testimony to the vegetarian pasta dish, another day, my fish the Gulf Coast with the Student Conservation up to you success of the Head Start endeavor and was will be accompanied by rice, and another day Association (SCA) in 1980, having never seen ¾ Sour cream the beginning of the next phase of Dr. Donna I can stuff a pepper with it or roll a tortilla up a living sea turtle. She arrived in the “right Shaver’s professional life. with it. 1 Cup of shredded cheese of choice place at the right time” not just to help the (mozzarella, Mexican blend, cheddar) much endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle but Donna eventually became Chief of Division One guilty pleasure of mine is fresh, warm to discover her mission in life. of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery and tortillas from our neighborhood grocer. I buy ½ tsp. ground cumin Supervisory Wildlife Biologist. She wrote the family size tortillas, but I never finish the Kemp’s ridley sea turtles needed help to 1 tsp. granulated garlic grants. She assembled a cadre of NPS biologists, whole package. So they sit in the fridge until survive as a species. A Head Start program for seasonal Biological Technicians and dedicated I can repurpose them or it’s time to toss them bunch of fresh cilantro minced turtles had just begun. The plan was to establish volunteers. out. Since I typically over cook food as well, a secondary nesting site here at Padre Island juice of 2 limes having extra tortillas, to make another meal National Seashore. Mexico and the US worked Dr. Donna Shaver has seen thousands of with them is actually a good thing. if you like spice you can add minced together to fly in turtle eggs to hatch in our sand. hatchlings crawl into the blue waters of the Gulf jalapeño (less spicy if vein of seeds is of Mexico. The Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are Since, when we shop or cook we probably It was an important project involving many removed) still the most endangered of all sea turtles, but have left over chicken, or ground beef, or biologists, environmentalists, and dedicated they have been pulled back from the brink of cheese. salt & pepper to taste people from both countries. Young Donna extinction. Pulled back by Dr. Donna Shaver’s Peanut or vegetable or canola Oil for frying realized the critical importance of this project 40 year career of dedication. Donna didn’t give So it behooves us to repurpose these and was willing to help at all levels. up on the Kemp’s ridley, and as a community, ingredients and use them up before we have toothpicks to toss them. One great idea, if you buy meats After thousands of Kemp’s ridley eggs became we shouldn’t either! in bulk, I suggest you divi it up and vacuum Directions: Kemp’s ridley hatchlings, they were released A part of this recognition for Public Service sealing them or using Ziploc freezer bags, so into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico to eat and Heat the oil on medium heat and while Recognition Week is a People’s Choice Award. you can count on it being fresh, frozen instead grow. Then, came the time of waiting for the it’s heating, place all ingredients in a To show your support to the Kemp’s ridley of storing it in your refrigerator to be used. return of an adult turtle that was hatched here. bowl, mix everything together until fully program and our own Dr. Donna Shaver, please This allows us to plan various dishes through coated in sour cream and cheese. Prepare Donna continued her education during the go online https://servicetoamericamedals.org/ with these proteins through out the week, with flautas by placing a sheet of aluminum or waiting time. She got a masters. She got a honorees/?fwp_year=2020 and vote. Let’s out having to run to grocers every day. parchment paper on a sheet pan. Place open doctorate. She dreamed of the day when that make Dr. Shaver the people’s choice for South It’s equally as important to have various tortillas on a flat surface and add a couple first grown up Head Start turtle would return to Texas. You can vote every day through early spices in our cupboard too, so that you can of tablespoons of filling to the tortillas and Padre Island to lay her eggs. July. We can do this!!! change up the taste of your cuisine, by adding roll from end to end forming a tube. Secure the appropriate spices. One night you can them with a toothpick. Continue to roll the make Indian cuisine, another night you can rest. When you are ready to fry, turn up the Turtle Count through Morocco, and why not end the heat on oil and start frying. Place flautas on week, in Venice with Pasta night! All this is a paper towel lined dish or bowl when done Kemp’s Ridley Turtle done with fresh spices and herbs, right at your frying. To serve, you can use a favorite 74 North Padre Island, including 71 at finger tips. Especially this time of year, you salsa, or make one, you can add salt, lemon So far this year, 128 nests have been Padre Island National Seashore can grow herbs, right in your very own back juice & pepper to make a sour crema confirmed on the Texas coast including 33 South Padre Island yard, or deck. dipping sauce. ;) (north to south in state): 2 Boca Chica Beach For this week’s recipe I want to share with 0 Bolivar Peninsula Tip of the week: you a fun and easy recipe called Flautas. It’s If you’ve ever had someone’s flautas and 0 Galveston Island Loggerhead Turtle a Mexican dish, the word means flute. 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By Ralph Coker Q. My retail store customer training including training on how to diffuse complaints have increased, anger and express empathy. Third, have clear what can I do to reduce them? policies for employees handling complaints stating their authority and options to resolve A. How the complaint is handled is the key complaints. If necessary, the manager or to customer satisfaction. Typically, only 37 owner should handle the complaint. Fourth, percent are satisfied with a monetary solution recognize the customer is always right even if to the complaint. However, 74 percent are it turns out they were wrong and caused the satisfied after receiving both a monetary complaint. Humans make mistakes but will solution and an explanation or apology. not be happy if they are told so. Because of today's fast pace of life customers want a resolution and they want it fast. Fifth, keep a log of each customer's complaint by name, type complaint and Typically, it cost 5 times as much to get a resolution. That will indicate repeat customer new customer as it does to retain an existing complaints and trends in the type of complaint customer. There is a high risk of losing an which should trigger corrective action. Sixth, existing customer if their complaint is not if the complaint is online or on social media, resolved to their satisfaction. With today's take it offline immediately and resolve it by internet and social media, it is more urgent telephone or if necessary, face to face. When than ever to resolve complaints quickly. resolved, post the resolution online so that About 35 percent of customers post their customers know it was resolved satisfactorily. complaint on social media and the internet Seventh, recognize that saying we are thus multiplying the potential damage many human and made a mistake is not enough. Workmen on San Jose Island discover a nesting Kemp's ridley turtle. Photo by Allison Brito. times. Social media and internet empower The customer wants it fixed. Eighth, if the customers to fight back when they feel customer makes an unreasonable demand Since 1991 www.atlantis-poolservice.com wronged. in excess of the store's policy, do not say no There are best practices for handling outright. Offer an alternative. However, do complaints. First, make it easy for customers not get into an argument with the customer. to register their complaints promptly and Simply say this is our store's policy in this Atlantis easily. Some store managers and owners put situation and this is all we can offer. their business phone number on each sales Ralph Coker volunteers with SCORE which Pool and Spa receipt. Second, train sales staff to properly provides free help, advice and mentoring to Quality you can swim in! handle complaints. For staff that regularly small businesses and nonprofits handle complaints that could require 2 weeks (361) 563-7665 or (361) 949-8899 RESIDENTIAL & COMMERICAL Weekly Pool & Spa Maintenance * Repairs & Renovations Island Resident Send letters and photos to editor@ Shouldn’t you be saying, “It’s time to relax. My pool is ready.” Call Atlantis For All Your Pool Needs islandmoon.com A8 Island Moon May 14, 2020 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon Ty Cobb Ruled the Glove Unlimited

Baseball World Using a glove as flat as a pancake, he played defensive skills. This guy shortstop with ease like he was playing in his had the range of a fire hose. By Dotson Lewis backyard. The favorite color of his uniform At the age of 21, he made his Major League was brown, covered in dirt and sweat just like debut on September 2, 1983, for the Blue Dotson’s Note: Since Major League Baseball he liked it. Man, he was a quiet guy; his lips Jays and became Toronto’s fulltime starter at should have already been a month deep in the haven’t moved in seven years, except to smile. shortstop, in 1985. season, but isn’t, I thought you Moon Monkeys You needed three things to play shortstop in who are baseball nuts might be interested in the Dominican: a glove, a baseball and what’s On March 8, 1994, Tony signed as a free agent a notorious story about one of the very best in your heart. He grew up in the Dominican with the Cincinnati Reds. He was given #21 players of all time (he’s number three on my Republic, where it was so flat that once you and continued to be passed around like a bag list). Thanks to Bill Morgan (former SWC started running, there was nothing around to of chips. Next stop was in New York with the SID), Carl Alexander, Joe Nolan, Jim Reisler stop you. As a young boy of Haitian descent, Yankees. He signed there as a free agent on & Gilbert King for the facts contained in this he played on fields where the bases were bags December 15, 1994. Fernandez was given #6 to report and to Bill Morgan for the photos. filled with sand and tied down. wear. In 1996, Tony experienced a major injury. Tony broke his right elbow for the second time Beating in the Stands-Followed by One in his career, while lunging for a ball. He would on the Field miss the entire season. Fernandez inability to Ty Cobb ruled the baseball world in the era play every day forced the Yankees to bring up a before Babe Ruth. Fiery, profane and bearing 21-year old shortstop from the Minor Leagues a long list of grudges, Cobb often dominated for the first time. His name was Derek Jeter. games while turning almost everyone else into Jeter would go on to win the American League an adversary. He baited pitchers, argued with Rookie of the Year Award and played a huge umpires and slid into bases with sharpened part in winning the first of his five World Series spikes; on and off the field, he was involved in titles. Fernandez received a World Series ring numerous, often violent, incidents. Even his from the Yankees and was then sent packing to teammates disliked him. Tony Fernandez the Cleveland Indians. In May 1912, during Cobb’s first visit of the Because of players like Tony Fernandez, 40% season to New York’s Hilltop Park with the Eddie Collins. Games were played in the sunshine, and there of Major League baseball players now speak was very little grass on the infield. There were Spanish. Detroit Tigers, he incited one of baseball’s the incident and suspended Cobb indefinitely. no fences, and everyone had a nickname. The most notorious and bizarre episodes. He was Cobb’s teammates rallied to his defense two Tony Fernandez announced in 2017 that he had old saying was “Watch your lips,” a line used to suspended and reinstated, his teammates days later in Philadelphia, sending Johnson a been diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease. warn infielders about a bumpy infield. He also went on the sport’s first strike, and a team of message that they would strike in protest. “If the He needed a kidney transplant and had waited wore a scar on his right cheek from a pitched sandlotters and amateurs headed by a seminary players cannot have protection, we must protect for years. Tony Fernandez died on Sunday, ball. The first thing anyone noticed about him student became a part of baseball lore. Cobb ourselves,” the Tigers wrote. That put Detroit February 16, 2020, following complications was his hands, and others whispered that he was blamed many but not himself. Primarily, he Manager Hughie Jennings in a quandary. The from a stroke, and pneumonia. With his family as skinny as a snake. blamed the fans and the American League Tigers would incur a $5,000 fine if they forfeited present, they chose to take him off the life- president, Ban Johnson. their May 18 game against the Athletics, so the As for his hitting, his idea of a good pitch was support systems that afternoon. He was 57. team owner, Frank Navin, ordered Jennings to a triple. It was impossible to watch him at bat Tony had been placed in a medically-induced field a team. Jennings quickly patched together without experiencing excitement. This guy was coma at a hospital located in Weston, . a roster of semi-pros and amateurs. harder to walk than a Great Dane. He stood Death is not final, it’s the beginning. I so still at the plate, pigeons thought he was a Allan Travers, a 20-year old seminarian and hope they’ve got a team in Heaven that needs statue, and the man could hit an aspirin with a assistant manager of the St. Joseph’s College platooning, or a shortstop that needs teaching. fishing pole. baseball team, recruited most of the eight I hope the sun is out, the grass is trimmed and position players from his neighborhood for $25 Octavio Antonio “Tony” Fernandez Castro they have somebody who can help him turn the apiece. Travers found a boxer, Billy Maharg, was born on June 30, 1962, in San Pedro de double play. who later played one game for the 1916 Phillies Macoris of the Dominican Republic. He was Andy Purvis is a local author and radio and was implicated as a bag man in the 1919 one of 11 children. San Pedro de Macoris is personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. Black Sox scandal. He found Ed Irvin, who had the home of dozens of Major League players Ty Cobb-Sliding Into 3rd Spikes Down com for all the latest info on his books or to played in the low minors, and a sandlotter, Bill like Sammy Sosa, Alfonso Soriano, Robinson listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books Leinhauser. Travers was set to play right field, Cano, Fernando Tatis, Tony Eusebio, George are available online and can be found in the Cobb and the Tigers arrived in New York in but when told that the pitcher would be paid $50, Bell and Rico Carty. Tony graduated from San local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be a sour mood, with a 10-13 record and ready he decided to pitch. Pedro de Macoris High School, in 1978. He contacted at [email protected]. Also to beat on the lowly Highlanders (who were was first spotted by Epy Guerrero, the Toronto A desperate Jennings pressed two of his coaches listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s renamed the Yankees the next year). Detroit Blue Jays’ Latin American scout. Tony into service. Deacon McGuire, who had spent Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. won two of the first three games, with Cobb, the signed as an undrafted free agent on April 24, 25 years in the major leagues, played catcher at com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of center fielder, going 5 for 12 despite a steady 1979. Fernandez was a rare breed, a right- 48. Joe Sugden, a former major leaguer for a the Houston Astros. razzing from fans. As soon as Cobb hit the field handed, switch-hitting shortstop with incredible for the series finale May 15, he became a target, dozen years, played first base at 41. Jennings, especially for one vocal male spectator sitting 43, pinch-hit. The baseball historian Al Stump close to the Tigers’ dugout on the third-base called it “the most farcical lineup the majors side. ever had known.” In his memoirs, Cobb described the man as “a Connie Mack’s A’s had won the previous two character who had ridden me hard in past New World Series and included the future Hall of York appearances.” The heckling was nasty and Famers Eddie Collins, Frank Baker and Herb crude, and they traded barbs that were audible Pennock. They led by 6-0 after three innings and to many in the park in Washington Heights. The by 14-0 after five. abuse grew so intense that Cobb did not return In an interview decades later, Travers said to the bench after the second inning, staying in Jennings had told him not to throw fastballs the ballpark’s carriage park area beyond center because “he was afraid I might get killed.” So field. Travers stuck with a roundhouse curve, which As he entered dugout before batting in the the A’s sent careening about the ballpark. fourth, Cobb hurled an insult at the man. The Sometimes, they bunted. “Trouble was, no one man, named Claude Lucker, who had lost all could catch,” Travers said. After 1 hour 45 but two of his fingers while operating a printing minutes and nine errors, the Tigers had lost, 24- press, continued taunting Cobb. The Tigers’ 2. The game counted in the standings. Travers Sam Crawford asked Cobb what he intended to gave up 26 hits and 7 walks. At third base, do, then Cobb suddenly vaulted into the stands Maharg was hit in the mouth by a ground ball toward Lucker, seated about 12 rows up in the and lost several teeth. “This isn’t baseball,” he grandstand. Knocking Lucker down, Cobb said. “This is war.” began kicking and stamping him. In center field, a fly ball dropped on Leinhauser’s head, but he stayed in the game. “I played all nine innings and did nothing but chase balls all over the place,” said Leinhauser, who later became a Philadelphia police detective. For the A’s, Collins had five hits in six at- bats. Jack Coombs, Boardwalk Brown and Pennock combined to strike out 15 Tigers. For the replacement Tigers, only Irvin seemed to have success, with two triples in three at-bats. McGuire and Sugden each added a hit. An embarrassed Navin wanted to cancel the games until the strike could be settled. But Cobb urged his teammates to end their walkout. After they returned to the field, Johnson fined each player $100, except for Cobb, who was assessed a $50 penalty and suspended for 10 days. By May 26, 11 days after he had charged into the Hilltop Park stands, Cobb was back in center field. Sunday morning wakeup call. Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth Dotson’s Other Note: Ty Cobb established himself as one of the baseball’s biggest stars. He was recognized as one of the greatest to Ty Cobb-During a Tranquil Moment ever play the game. When the National Baseball Hall of Fame inducted its inaugural class in 1936, he received more votes than any other player, including Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, “Cobb,” someone cried, “that man has no Christy Matthewson and Honus Wagner. By hands!” “I don’t care if he has no feet!” he all accounts, he was fiery, belligerent, mean- yelled, continuing the attack with his cleats. tempered and capable of violence. Comments/ Some fans tried to intervene, but several calls/texts are welcome. Email: dlewis1@stx. teammates who had followed Cobb into the rr.com Mobile: 530-748-8475 grandstand held them off with bats. An umpire and a police officer finally pulled Cobb away. -30- Have fun and hang in there! He was ejected from the game, which the Tigers TEMPORARILY eventually won, 8-4. Johnson, in the midst of touring American League parks, witnessed

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This year, discussion and decision by the City Council on making sound decisions and observations. they’re only trying to get me for a 9.99% raise. regarding rentals on the Island. That will be a The main strategy has been hunting redfish on I’m wondering why they didn’t go for the full hot topic and I’m going to try to avoid getting in the windy days against wind swept shorelines, 11% like they’ve been trying to fleece me for the middle of that one. and catching trout in the protected leeward areas in the past? I’m terrible at math, but 11% each The first tropical disturbance in the Atlantic, with good water quality. Trout are predators that year for a decade would have been, like, over murder hornets, and still no update on the $11 depend on sight, red use smell and vibration to a hundred percent, right? I will see you loyal million dollars from FEMA for the repairs feed most of the time. All areas may have good readers down at the appraisal district later on in to Packery Channel. I know that everyone populations of each, but knowing their feeding May when the hearings start. I mean, I’m all is busy, but this elephant in the room is just habits makes it easier to do more catching than for paying my fair share for emergency services getting bigger as time goes on. I continually fishing. and to my alma mater in the form of school ask for updates, and only get static in return. taxes but come on. Someone’s incompetence is going to be a huge The Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) financial blunder when it all finally hits the fan. announced recently that the local Corpus The TIRZ #2 isn’t a cash cow that can magically Christi Chapter Banquet that was postponed save that big of mess, and someone needs to get until June will be postponed until August. on the ball. We’re thinking that even August may be a little But there is some good news to be had! The too soon, it wouldn’t surprise me if we postpone contractors, Longhorn, is on site out there at until October. We will have the banquet at the Island Walk/Canal or whatever it’s going to some point, just have patience please. As far be called when it’s all done. My source tells as the STAR (State of Texas Anglers Rodeo), me that sand could be moving at the end of they have extended the early bird entry until the week, of course weather dependent. It’s the start of the tournament here in a couple uplifting to see progress in the face of what’s of weeks. If you were a member last year, going on in the world. The Island is going to then you should have received an email with We are finding our best redfish on the come out of this noise stronger and moving windy eat of days! Drifting with soft instructions. Anyone can sign up at https:// toward the future. www.startournament.org/ for the tournament. plastics under a popping cork or live If you catch a tagged redfish and aren’t signed Speaking of the future, some of us were shrimp. This beast came from the Flour up, you will cry and curse when you realize you surprised that Council didn’t talk about the Bluff shoreline. just lost a new truck, boat, motor, and trailer upcoming Bond 2020 program package that package. City Manager Zanoni and staff have been working on. The Bond program needs to go pin perch take your bait as fast as you can throw I was emailing with Keren down at the City forward if we expect to get our crumbling Planning Department regarding updates on it out use the plastic shrimp and you will find infrastructure repaired and up to snuff. As yourself catching more, no baiting just fishing! the Mustang Island/Padre Island Master Plan. Zanoni has mentioned in the past, interest rates Loyal reader Marilyn let us know that the link This beautiful Spec came to hand fishing are very low right now, and the Bond program shallow in protected waters on a windy Our community is getting back together now for the community survey has been pulled and it seems our tourist season has started can do a lot of good. If you’re talking to Council day. down, and you are correct. The consultants (or if a Council person is actually reading this, before normal since school is out and online. are currently pulling all the comments together ha! not likely) please mention your support for Crowds are forming on the water and at the boat and synthesizing a draft of the new plan, and the City Managers plan. Trout have spawned eggs for the last three ramps and docks so be mindful to take a few they are expected to roll it out in August. months and are following bait movements. moments and maybe let some of the negative Keren let me know that the process has several Sorry for the novella this week folks, but things Much of the shrimp population have started roll off the brim of your hat. feedback loops for community input, and there are cranking up, but unfortunately, so are the to move out of the bays and towards the big will be a mechanism to do so during the draft new cases as of this writing. I hope I’m wrong deeper areas close to the gulf passes. Groups of My father Joe Farah has been going bonkers review. There will also be additional focus about the second spike, but time will tell. Drop trout are following this and will feed nightly on lately without seeing his Island Folks at Farah’s groups meeting (as in the case of the Island me a line at [email protected] and I’ll see them and stage out in the deepest natural areas Bar and hopes that all of you are well. We hope transportation plan, something I’ve been you next week On the Rocks. in Emmorts Hole and the ICW during the day. to be able to swing open the doors and enjoy harping on) as well as another round of public Their active daytime feedings are opposite of all the colorful characters that walk our Island the night time lunar peaks when the shrimp are soon. I was remembering a time years ago out and about under the cover of darkness. Trout when he worked offshore as a deep sea diver. schools that are settled in the grass flats feeding He would be gone for weeks at a time. There on perch during the day will be active precisely was only one of us strong enough to pull start on those daytime peaks as well. I select either that old Mercury 30hp, so Robby Webb was the the DOA shrimp body’s on a 1/4 ounce jig head starter and I was the driver! I’m not sure how we to find lots of trout in 3-5ft of water drifting figured he didn’t know we had been using the with the boat. The shallow and clear grass flats boat when he was gone but he let it be known. of 2-4’ are full of trout ready to attack a small Our days where long and we never had shoes DOA CAL SHAD with a 1/8-1/4 ounce jig head on our feet. We would drive the boat over from dropped and swam into the sand pockets. When the Bluff and park it and walk to Bob Hall to the wind is up stay against protected water and surf. I remember a few times pitching a tent up look for lime green water with jelly fish, these under the ramp and staying a few days fishing are the areas with good tidal flow. on the pier, surfing, and tapping on car windows when we would catch people making out on the Redfish have been spooky to boats when the beach! I’ve been typing this up sitting here on winds are light, but come alive when the breeze the beach wondering if 35 years from now those tops over 20mph. Shrimp and crabs are swept up teenagers out there in front of me might look out of the mud and grass and are victims of the back to today and relish in the memories they wind. Redfish have been going crazy on them in are making right now as well. Get those kids out the dirty water against windy shorelines. Live and enjoy our Back Yard. shrimp and NEAR CLEAR DOA SHRIMP under a popping cork has been excellent for Follow all our hookups on Facebook and tune us. When you are down to our south in Baffin in every Sat and Sunday morning to 107.3 and Bay shrimp will bring a box of reds, trout, and 104.5 for my fishing report at 7:20 & 8:20am! drum. In the shallow and grassy Lagoon where Lets get wet!

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As always, let me have Members can obtain the required vehicle and your thoughts. You can trailer stickers from the PIPOA office. The reach me at marvin@ vehicle sticker is $5.00, and the trailer sticker pipoa.net is $10.00. The PIPOA accepts credit cards PIPOA- Things continue for payment. A simple means to obtain the to be quiet at the PIPOA. sticker is to call the PIPOA office at 361-949- As the Government opens up the businesses in 7025, provide your address and credit card Texas, the PIPOA will adopt new procedures number. Your stickers will be waiting for you for conducting business. The health and when you come by the office to pick them up. welfare of the staff and PIPOA members will In 2019, nearly 1000 members purchased continue to be the top priority. boat trailer stickers. In 2020, nearly 760 Good News- The efforts to collect past due members have purchased boat trailer stickers. CAM fees continues to be successful. While Board Meeting- The Board is still the majority of the unpaid fees are below considering holding a Board meeting on $10,000, the total amount due to the PIPOA May 26, 2020. Holding the meeting depends is over $400,000. Please pay your CAM fees. on the status of the meeting facility at the Boat Ramps- The Boat ramps and ramp Holiday Express or other venues. The parking areas were designed and built over meeting may be held by electronic means 40 years ago. They were not designed for such as Zoom and simultaneous broadcast via the increase in the Island population. They live stream to members. were not designed for the huge increase in Housekeeping- The PIPOA has received tourism to the Island. Several years ago, numerous complaints about people not picking the PIPOA implemented a system whereby up after their pet’s waste. Please pick up your boat trailer stickers are required to be placed dog poop. Dog poop is a health hazard. The on boat trailers as an identification that drought, this Spring, has retarded the growth the trailer belonged to a PIPOA member. of weeds in vacant lots and people’s yards. Parking at the ramps, as per the long-standing The recent rain has invigorated the weeds on PIPOA practice, is for PIPOA members the Island. Please mow or pull the weeds on only. Therefore, boat trailers must have your property. the member identification sticker to park at the ramps. Boat trailers and their attached COVID-19- Members, please take the vehicles are subject to being towed from the precautions recommended by the CDC and ramp parking areas. Because the parking other government entities, including our areas at the ramps run out of room on busy local authorities. Continue social distancing, weekends, the PIPOA will be towing vehicles masks, and gloves and use them when and attached boat trailers without the required appropriate. Let us all be safe so that we can stickers to make room for authorized vehicles enjoy our little slice of paradise on the Island. with trailers. The cost of a vehicle and trailer being towed is nearly $1,000 made payable to the towing company. The cost of a sticker is $10.00.

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New Oil New Gas District Permits to drill new Completions Completions wells (1) SAN ANTONIO 31 121 11 AREA (2) REFUGIO AREA 40 109 33 (3) SOUTHEAST 8 92 16 TEXAS (4) DEEP SOUTH 2 2 8 TEXAS (5) EAST CENTRAL TX 5 12 0 (6) EAST TEXAS 10 9 24 (7B) WEST CENTRAL 9 5 1 TX (7C) SAN ANGELO 38 38 1 AREA (8) MIDLAND 263 403 105 (8A) LUBBOCK AREA 3 57 0 (9) NORTH TEXAS 6 19 7 (10) PANHANDLE 1 5 9 TOTAL 416 872 215

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Leaving Observatory have been working from their in the fringes of my mind, suffering through a pandemic, it did give me the those of us, that truly want a safe and orderly homes for the most part of six weeks now. not yet quite seated firmly enough to be called chance to bird the neighborhood. existence, to ponder how may we correct our Some of our field projects are exempt, so a few awareness. So it did not register at once, this society’s ways of understanding and nurturing of our biologists are able to go out and roam In just a few weeks and a handful of walks, conversation that was being broadcast on so as to eliminate such happenings. Have we in the wilds, well away from people. I, for the 16 species of birds were added to the list seen VHF, channel 16, which is monitored twenty- the strength to do so? Can we see the failures most part, have been working at home and here. All were migratory bird species moving four hours a day, here at the Boat House. So I our history that has brought us to this date and enjoying neighborhood walks. through on their way up north to breeding suppose it was the, “Vessel calling MAYDAY, change? I do not have the answer as to what territories. The “best” bird (most exiting for me vessel calling MAYDAY, this is United States must happen so that we might be able to make to find here) was a female Black-throated Blue Coast Guard, Corpus Christi, Texas Group, such changes. But it seems to me that we must. Warbler. It is a somewhat rare species to find in channel 16, over.”, that finally soaked in deep There are enough natural terrors and dangers migration on the Texas coast. I only got to see enough to bring me to full awareness. out there so as to not have the need to create her briefly, but enough to identify her. “MAYDAY, BRITTANY BAY; MAYDAY, more. I know that, should I be the one out there, The upper Texas coast is known for its famous BRITTANY BAY.”, was the broadcast that ran with water up to my chest, asking for help, my migratory stop over sites. Birders flock here the cold shiver down my spine. cries would be believed, with no doubts as to each spring to see tired migrants landing to rest, their authenticity. “This is real. This is not a dream. People are drink, feed, and hide out for a short while before in very serious trouble, out there. “, I thought. Hoax? Maybe. But still thirteen lives may continuing north. Luckily a few of these sites be in great danger. So what could you do but have been conserved just for that purpose. “We are taking on water real bad here. Don’t what they did; those in our defense against have any power, the engines got water ------”, However, so many sites have been developed, the proclivities of the sea. That is to mount as cleared, or altered over the years that birds came the concerned transmission of this captain thorough as possible of a search. Bringing in in trouble. The Black-throated Blue Warbler is are finding far fewer sites to land on along additional help from as far away as Mobile, Ala. the immediate coast. The few small remnants Still searching, long after doubts were raised. one of the many bird species migrating In the dark early hours of a new day I came through Texas on the way to their breeding of woods in my neighborhood have become face to face with that specter that haunts all of How these people maintain their territories. smaller just in the three years I’ve lived here. us who spend time at sea. It is a deep seated These sites are absolutely critical for migration! professionalism and dedication in the face of Photo by Mike Williams understanding. A feeling. A knowing. Most possible malicious deception, is to be marveled Without them, exhausted birds will simply drop of the time pushed back and held down, not at. We all must doff our hats in appreciation to dead from the sky as they search for suitable allowed to surface. Not allowed to affect our the U.S. Coast Guard. I, for one, am thankful for Many of my friends who are birders or in the cover. Sounds dramatic… but it is a simple sad daily lives. It will not, must not, interfere with the work that they do. conservation field have noticed something while truth. our pleasures and labors taken on Mother Ocean. working from home: Wow, there sure are a lot I’m glad to see what habitat remains in my This awareness, this understanding that the sea Are there people, cold desperate people, more birds in our yards and neighborhoods than neighborhood, but truly worried about what the always wins. ---- Always. Anytime, anywhere, floating in four, tied-together life rafts out there? we ever saw while working away from home! future holds for migratory birds. We have much no matter what we do, should disaster strike. No Or is it some elaborate prank? We may never That’s not to say that all of a sudden more birds work ahead. To try to end this article on a good matter how careful. No matter how cautious. know. The ocean is very large and even in the showed up! It means we finally have a chance note… this spring’s good weather has been There is always something that may go wrong. best of conditions it is extremely difficult to spot to explore and watch our own little areas. Something far beyond our ken. And the sea is those that need help. And, should it be a hoax, good for the migrating birds. Good weather not a forgiving mistress. As these people were finding the operator of that radio is even more I moved to my place a bit over three years ago and north winds allowed them smooth flying finding out. Out there in that dark ocean. daunting. It is my hope that those questions now. We have amassed a nice list of birds seen without struggling against winds, rain and other are answered and this thing put to bed, so that from the “patch” here. Around 138 species up storm related weather. I’m wishing them all the Or so I thought, laying there, listening to something may be learned from all of this. until April of this year. However, I had never best of luck and hoping to see them next year... that chilling broadcast on that early Sunday been able to look around here during spring when I’m not stuck in the house! morning. It sounded real enough. At the time. For after all, it may be you or I that find But now there are doubts. 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From the department of redundancy department… The riff continues. You can see by these photos of our beach this weekend that the hordes of tourists are still coming in masses. And very few, if any, are making any efforts to socially distance or even wear face masks. I’ve seen more than a few altercations between locals and tourists lately. Our darling sentry Neesy Tomkins actually received hate mail from San Antonio for posting a pic on Facebook of the big crowds last weekend. This is the same story it’s been for the last month. And as guidelines loosen, the parties grow. And believe me, they are partying…loudly and bigly. The COVID Shannon Port A. last weekend. Photo by Neesy Tompkins. doesn’t discriminate based your political beliefs, the color of your skin or age. We must us up more if our country could be the example? stay strong for one another and do what’s right Wouldn’t it be great if residents of Port A could for humanity. We will win this fight together. welcome our open economy knowing people were helping us by using those practices they use at home? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to feel Live Music comfortable in your own town even during a pandemic and with large crowds…because people gave a crap? Wouldn’t it be great if after hiding all weekend (my work puts me Tonight in direct contact with half the island) I wasn’t uncomfortable about something as simple as Wednesday, June 3 getting gas on Monday? Man, that would be Thursday, May 14 Jim Dugan @ Giggity’s Free Beer Band @ great. When we travel, we’ll return the favor around your friends and family as well! I guess Giggity’s Thursday, June 4 Free Beer Band @ I just don’t understand. Is it wrong for me to Friday, MayALL 15 LiVE SHOWSGiggity’s be worried about people I’ve known for years The Groove @ Giggity’s and years and care about this town’s residents? Red Carpet @ Shorty’s Friday, June 5 Is it just too much to ask? It has nothing to do Johnny Boy @ Giggity’s Baltmore Oriole in our yard with hurricanes, or hatred of tourists, or the Saturday, May 16 POSTPONEDSelfie @ Shorty’s constitution, or freedoms. It’s caring. It’s being Todd Dorn & the Sea Drifters @ Giggity’s Saturday, June 6\ Soon… supportive of each other when we need it the most. It’s keeping our kids and parents safe. I Claude Butch Morgan Dreaming in Color@ So as of now, me and my mermaid gal spend just don’t get it. SS & the Bandaholics @ TEMPORARILY Giggity’s most of our time watching the garden grow and Shorty’s TBA @ Shorty’s the hummers dart around. We’ve also taken a Talking trash… Sunday, May 17 CLOSED Sunday, June 7 couple of long walks on San Jose looking for Antone & All Stars @ Antone & All Stars @ nesting sea turtles. We take bike rides and wave Giggity’s Giggity’s at folks. Sometimes we drive down the beach 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront on the golf cart or go visit Boots the gator at Monday, May 18 Monday, June 8 the birding center. It’s a good life, at least until Open Jam w/ Ray Summy Open Jam w/ Ray Summy the “Rona” gets here. And thank goodness for @ Giggity’s @ Giggity’s Jon Crowder for keeping our cart running. That’s a full time job. And, a big, big THANK Tuesday, May 19 Tuesday, June 9 YOU to SHANNON SOLIMINE for caring Paul & Victoria @ Paul & Victoria @ Giggity’s Giggity’s for our community so much. You are a blessing. And btw, you can now rent beach carts at the Wednesday, May 20 Wednesday, June 10 Swing Bar and they have a great coffee bar, too. Magnus @ Giggity’s Treasure Island Jered Clark @ Giggity’s Giggity’s is now open for take-out and Kody’s is also now open, so is Moby Dicks. And Hair Thursday, May 21 Thursday, June 11 by Heidi is also now open and Mike the Barber Free Beer Band @ Jon Pardi @ Concrete is there. Sure will be glad when the bars open Giggity’s TEMPORARILY Street back up and the music kicks off again. Soon, Alter Bridge, Black Stone Free Beer Band @ our world will be back open and we’ll be sitting Cherry, Saint Asonia @ Giggity’s Talking trash Concrete Street CLOSED on the porch at Shorty’s listening to Selfie or Friday, June 12 the Chanklas with a whole new appreciation. Friday, May 22 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 OTB Band @ Sunset Soon… I would like to share some info regarding recent Chanklas @ Shorty’s treasureislandporta Sounds issues with trash. Keep Port Aransas Beautiful Cruise Control @ Bruce Robison & Kelly sponsored the building and installation of Treasure Island Willis @ Third Coast bag poles last January. It has been a learning Theater Saturday, May 23 Groove @ Giggity’s process. I personally designed and built each BELT SANDER RACES Chanklas @ Shorty’s one, and found numerous different issues as the @ Gaff seasons rolled on. We have done our very best Chanklas @ Giggity’s Saturday, June 13 to maintain the poles as well as keep the yellow Independent Thieves BELT SANDER RACES bags available. It is a 100% volunteer based Rockport Wine Festival @ @ Gaff effort. Our plan is to replace the remaining Texas Maritime Museum Toman Brothers @ poles with a permanent, stronger solution mid- Giggity’s June. Our yellow bags have dwindled down Sunday, May 24 Ty Dietz @ Shorty’s and we are waiting on the new shipment, also Antone & All Stars @ Giggity’s Temporarily Sunday, June 14 mid-June. In the meantime, groups have formed Cruise Control @ Back Antone & All Stars @ to alleviate some of our issues. We will have Porch Giggity’s Garden update volunteers at access points for the remaining weekends in May. They will offer trash bags Memorial Day, May 25 Closed Monday, June 15 and other goodies to encourage beachgoers Open Jam w/ Ray Summy Open Jam w/ Ray Summy Advice from Shannon … to take out more than they brought in. We’ve @ Giggity’s OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. @ Giggity’s done it before and usually the impact is evident. So, about this COVID…if you came to Port Please thank them when you see them...it’s not Tuesday, May 26 Tuesday, June 16 A and expressed your freedoms to run face always easy to give up a weekend of play. The Paul & Victoria @ Paul & Victoria @ Giggity’s Giggity’s naked throughout the town, good for you. The garbage receptacles on the beach get full on any issue is, and always has been, contact points. busy day. Service is on a schedule, and much Many of us, including those working while Wednesday, May 27 Wednesday, June 17 like our own trash at home, can fill up before Hank Reeves @ Giggity’s Magnus @ Giggity’s you run around face naked, have spent weeks the truck empties. Be patient, they will pick it trying to lessen the spread. It seems completely up. I’m reaching out to the county park to see Thursday, May 28 Thursday, June 18 bizarre that being on vacation means normal what they have planned to help (trashcans?) as Free Beer Band @ Free Beer Band @ pre-COVID behavior, but many will don face well. I have also reached out to the Governor Giggity’s Giggity’s clothing once they return to their own backyards. and Texas General Land Office to see about a They’ll cautiously stand on those floor lines, few billboards reminding folks about keeping Friday, May 29 Friday, June 19 Jake Castillo @ Giggity’s Chanklas @ Giggity’s because that’s their hometown. People they Texas beaches clean and the hefty fine that not know will say good morning and they’ll feel Johnny Boy @ Shorty’s Red Giant @ Shorty’s doing so imposes. Enjoy the beach. Enjoy Port Steve Earle, Marty Stuart confident because they’re doing their part. In Aransas...it has so much to offer! Thank you for the meantime, we can’t “stay home”. Wouldn’t @ John T. Floore Country Saturday, June 20 caring, volunteering and being the solution. Our Store Todd Dorn & the Sea it be more of a team effort (go America!) to be beaches are beautiful and we should treat them Drifters @ Giggity’s cautious in any surrounding and not just where like we treat our churches. SS Saturday, May 30 OPEN FOR WALK UP SERVICE Selfie @ Shorty’s you call home? Wouldn’t working together open Mike Milligan @ ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ Giggity’s Sunday, June 21 Mike O’Neill @ Shorty’s Antone & All Stars @ Giggity’s Sunday, May 31 GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR Antone & All Stars @ Monday, June 22 Giggity’s Open Jam w/ Ray Summy @ Giggity’s Monday, June 1 Open Open Jam w/ Ray Summy Tuesday, June 23 @ Giggity’s Paul & Victoria @ Giggity’s Tuesday, June 2 NOW OPEN! for take-out 11 to 8 Paul & Victoria @ Giggity’s Wednesday, June 24 Hank Reeves @ Giggity’s Thursday thru Sunday

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