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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 September 3, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Judge Allows Island Construction By Dale Rankin What a week it has been Around to Continue on The Island. The 115 heat index we sweltered through early was relieved Palmira Houses by the winds that brought in the sound and odor of an offshore gas well that Case expected to go came roaring in Tuesday morning. When we woke up on our little to trial but no sandbar Tuesday we all ran outside to see what kind of jet was taking off date set only to find our way to the beach and By Dale Rankin see mist blasting out of a platform After a contencious eight-hour two miles offshore. According hearing a judge on Friday dissolved to records at the Texas Railroad a Temporary Restraining order which Commission the well makes 75 had stopped construction on five barrels of condensate per day along houses on Palmira Avenue clearing with 400 barrels of water. Specialists the way work to resume. in fighting petroleum fires were called and preparation made to fly Island resident them to the chopper pad located on The offshore gas well that provided a soundtrack for The Island on Tuesday had its say and stopped and pro-se attorney the rig. But after all day Tuesday the roaring by Wednesday morning. Photo by Jon Brandt. Karon Connolly well petered out and as of this writing who lives directly on Wednesday only five percent as behind one of much discharge is flowing out. The the houses in Texas Commission on Environmental question filed a Quality and the Texas General Land lawsuit claiming Office are still monitoring the site to Bob Hall Pier to be that houses with Judge Stephen see if there was any water pollution concrete stem Williams. but for the most part the incident is foundations that over. It came in with a bang and went rise six feet above out with a whimper. Torn Down grade violate rules in the Coquina Bay Subdivision where the houses The Labor Day weekend will be are located and that the Architectural the first in a while in which all area Cracks in support columns Compliance Committee, an arm of beaches are open and curfews lifted. Between the COVID scare and two Palmira cont. on A4 hurricanes passing through some $13.4 million to rebuild or all of our beaches have been in various stages of shutdown for weeks By Dale Rankin but everything is back up and running City of Port for the holiday. Forty year-old Bob Hall Pier will have to be torn down and rebuilt after Aransas and Hotel occupancy on The Island has damaged from Hurricane Hanna tore been hovering around the 50 percent off the T-shaped structure at the end Port of Corpus level in recent weeks but the 35,000 of the pier and damaged the support vehicles that have been finding their pilings to the point that they cannot Christi Settle way over the JFK Causeway on be repaired, according to information recent weekends will likely top the presented to the Island Strategic 70,000 range this weekend. Action Committee on Tuesday. over Harbor Water Exchange Bridge Nueces County’s ISAC Ex-Officio Island Word came to the Island Strategic ISAC member Bryan Gulley told Action Committee this week that the group that county officials Year-long legal fight work on the Park Road 22 Water informed him Tuesday afternoon that Hurricane Hanna tore the t-head off of Bob Hall Pier Exchange Bridge will be by October inspections of the pier’s structure essentially leaves 5 at the latest. Crews were scheduled after Hurricane Hanna found cracks The structure is owned by Nueces Not the first time… to begin work the week after Labor in the concrete support structures County and leased to Mikel May’s both parties where with exposed rebar. The pier is part of the 374-acre Padre Day until an unresolved design owners who pay a portion of receipts Balli Park and according to the Texas problem caused a delay that means “The structure is forty years old,” to the county for rent. The business State Historical Association was they started the project has to go back to the Gulley said. has been closed since Hurricane originally built in 1950 and named By Dale Rankin Corpus Christi City Council. The Hanna. Gulley told the group that the newest after Precinct 1 Nueces County The City of Port Aransas and the issue has to do with the testing of Gulley said the initial cost estimate Commissioner Robert Reid Hall. It subsoil (sand) which means columns portion of the pier structure which Port of Corpus Christi this week houses Mikel May’s Beachside Bar for the repairs is $13.4 million with was initially built of wood and was ended a year-long legal spat over of gravel will have to be added under the possibility of funding coming 300 feet long and cost $17,300. the approaches to the bridge for & Grill will not be torn down, but the development on Harbor which is roof there will have to be replaced. from the Federal Emergency But just two years after its located across the Corpus Christi stability. We’ve waited sixteen years Management Agency. There was no for the project to start so a few more Gulley said he was not sure if the completion, its popularity with Ship Channel from Port Aransas but business could stay open while the mention of a timetable for demolition Nueces County residents resulted in is inside its city limits. weeks won’t kill us. The good news or construction on the project. is that canal and bulkheads on both repairs are done. another 300-foot section being added The fight centered around the sides of the bridge site are done and Pier cont. on A4 port’s plans to build a desalinization ready to go. City officials told ISAC plant and Very Large Crude Carrier members Tuesday that work will start (VLCC) port on Harbor Island and on the northbound lane of the bridge A little Island history whether the city could prohibit or first. restrict either. Short-term rentals Island United Political Action Committee Port cont. on A4 Work on a short-term rental elections, if Islanders voted together By Dale Rankin Christi. Bonds for the Park Road ordinance is moving forward with their relatively small numbers, 6823, Water Exchange Bridge had been meetings by an ISAC subcommittee In the past twelve years the Island could swing elections across the city approved by voters in 2004 but there By the numbers which includes members from United Political Action Committee and Islanders, then four-percent of was no move to get the project done, the Padre Isles Property Owners has become the means of uniting the population and 10 percent of the same was true for bonds to build Voting over the Association. The PIPOA is currently Padre Island voters behind the property tax base, began to pay the Aquarius Extension project but working on a map of which areas of candidates chosen by registered attention. there was no follow through to get the Island should be allowed to have voters to back in the five city years the project done. short-term rentals and which should elections that islanders are eligible Voting Rights not. Once Islanders decide what rules to vote in. Apathy and cynicism ruled the day To understand local city politics you How The Island they want in place the ordinance will as Islanders constantly heard their have to go back to the Voting Rights go to the city council which likely Those include Mayor, City Council city leaders say, “The Island takes Act of 1965, which was signed into stacks up in will adopt what Islanders say they District 4, and three At-Large seats care of itself.” What that meant in law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, want. The complaints continue to which are selected by a plurality practical terms was that because aimed at protecting voting rights Presidential come in about noisy visitors partying vote. Islanders split their votes between guaranteed in the 15th Amendment in residential neighborhoods on Elections It all started in 2008 when there various city candidates, once elected to the U.S. Constitution. One of the weekends. It is unlikely that any were 6823 registered voters in the officeholders at city hall could ignore main tenets of the reforms was to 1992 General Election ordinance will make it to the council two voting precincts on North Padre The Island without political peril. We do away with At-Large city council until late 2020 at the earliest but now 144,844 registered Nueces Island. That number was slightly cancelled each other out. seats which required office seekers is the time to make yourself heard on County voters down from 6846 Island voters in to raise the money necessary to run the issue. Let the PIPOA office know 2006 out of 197,596 registered in a citywide campaign. The effect was 100,791 votes cast in November what you think or tune in to the next Nueces County. City elections then were held in the to keep the power in the hands of General Election ISAC meeting. spring and were separate from county, While Islanders still voted in the moneyed interests who could, 2384 registered Island voters state, and federal elections, meaning Time to register higher percentages than any other through their contributions, control low turnout, and it began to dawn on 1933 registered Port Aransas precincts around the county that had city government at the council level. If you are not registered to vote you Islanders, and often pointed out in voters not led to any help with projects on Cities across the country did away still have some time to do so before the Island Moon, that with only about The Island from the City of Corpus 25,000 votes typically cast in city Around cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 Numbers cont. on A4 September 3, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Carol Albrecht’s Holy Coyotes!

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Editor By Dr. Mary Craft - Optometrist Business Briefs The Pelican Lounge will be open again starting 4 pm Thursday September 3rd. At a later date they will be opening daily at 11 am. There will be live music on the patio Labor Day weekend. Bob Hall Pier will need to be totally rebuilt. The 40 year old pier was totally destroyed by Hurricane Hanna. Mikel May’s Beachside Grill was not affected structurally but it did suffer damages. No word on when it will reopen. Distribution Padre Island Art Gallery & Island Pete Alsop Squeeze Juice Bus will be having a joint Island Delivery grand opening and ribbon cutting on Friday, Coldwell Banker September 4th 5 - 6:30 pm at the gallery. Advertising Bernie’s Beach House in Port A has Jan Park Rankin reopened with a larger food menu. Hours Classifieds From Our Facebook Page are 11 am - 11 pm and closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Arlene Ritley On gas rig explosion: The Gaff in Port A is now open for drinks Production Manager Paul C Haynes - Natural Gas deep in the ground is Extremely High Pressure, this is the and dining. Abigail Bair Contributing Writers roar you are hearing, what you think is smoke The Port A Beer Hut “swing bar” is now is actually caused by the large pressure drop open. Joey Farah from ground pressure to atmospheric pressure, Andy Purvis this is called auto-refrigeration, like your fridge Mary Craft or a/c produces cold air, what appears to be Emily Gaines smoke is actually our wonderful high humidity, Jay Gardner or moisture in the air condensing on the cold Todd Hunter gas vapors, kind of like when you exhale in Dotson Lewis the winter and you see your breath. Natural Dr. Tom Dorrell Gas does not have odor, this is added after it's processed to give it a rotten egg smell so you Ronnie Narmour know if you have a leak. Brent Rourk James Booth - Looks like a blown exchanger Photographers head gasket. Miles Merwin (Emeritus) Jacki Jackson - Looks like Waterworld scene Debbie Noble Jan Rankin Dale's Column: Mary Craft Nathan Floyd - COVID or not, the beach and being outside is the best place to be around Ronnie Narmour here. What reasons do they really have to keep Padre Island Art Gallery Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) us off the beaches? Trying to strip our rights Riley P. Dog and allow privatization of public beaches is Church’s Chicken has opened in the Bluff on Frontage Road. Hours are 10:30 am - 11 pm. what’s happening behind our backs and right before our eyes. Money hungry bureaucrats Roger Creager will be entertaining at Brewster Street Icehouse Labor Day weekend that sit in office who most likely never even on Saturday and Sunday. stick their toes in the sand. Closing the beaches Sunset Island Labor Day Mask-erade Weekend will feature live music on The Marker at night(curfew) has never been been a thing 37 Grand Deck Friday and Saturday with The Grooves Band. There will be a Panama Jack before. It’s a direct attack under the guise of DJ Beer Tent, an Island Merchants Market, kayak and Jet Ski rentals and a sand volleyball covid restrictions. It isn’t truly about safety; tourney. Snoopy’s will deliver food anywhere on site. it’s about power and authority. Zahn Rd. isn’t open because they build the grade wrong where Third Coast Beach Company “the shark store” is having a buy one get one 1/2 off on name the road meets the sand. They screwed up the brand flip flops, sandals, surf brand swimwear, hats and clothing this Labor Day weekend. project and wasted how much of our tax dollars. The Angry Marlin now has karaoke on the outdoor patio on Tuesday, Wednesday and I could go on and on, but the people in charge of Thursday. Publisher our beaches and making access decisions have Padre Island National Seashore will reopen both Malaquite and Bird Island Basin Dale Rankin completely failed us. campgrounds Friday, September 4th. Overnight fees at Malaquite campground are $14/night About the Island Moon Paul C Haynes - Well said Dale, an Island The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale and at Bird Island Basin are $8/night. Rankin, Editor / Publisher. Experienced Group is badly needed. There are projects that would've been a lot better if Protech Mechanical, Inc can provide services for all your HVAC needs with chillers, boilers, Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes cooling towers and more. Call account executive Heidi Cluck at 444-8615. delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 the ones making the decisions would ask the copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, people with many years of experience on the as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 Island their opinion on what works and just as copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. important, was doesn't. News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, smell the stink from the Review on a Hatteras payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. Aound the Island: beach in the middle of a gale. In contrast the ARCH PEER response was very compelling. In 2018 we created the Padre Island ARCH The Island Moon Newspaper Stacey Chavira - People have houses that are falling apart, weeds all over the yard, so many My wife and I retired to live within the movement to gather community support to 14646 Compass, Suite 3 boats it looks like a storage lot but you all will Cape Hatteras National Seashore for 26 protect property rights. Our first project was to years where we have become familiar with amend the Bylaws and return amending rights Corpus Christi, TX 78418 get mad about a short term rental? And don't get me started on the houses that have chickens the interplay between public recreation and to the Owners. That project was a success. 361-949-7700 and other illegal livestock! Until you make my wildlife protection within the park system. We thought our work was done but for the neighbors get rid of their chickens and clean up Over this period we have monitored the Natural [email protected] next couple of years we monitored the PIPOA, their yard if I want to make my house an Airbnb Nesting process to recover the ESA threatened requested documents, and watched where Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper you won't stop me. Bring on the tax! Loggerhead turtles that nest along the Carolina the money was spent. What we saw were two coast. We have also visited Padre Island for things: Tasha Cer - If those short term rentals are month long spring breaks over a 25 year period booked via Airbnb or VRBO, the HOT is to enjoy the excellent surf fishing found there. 1.They ARE NOT spending the CAM fee already being collected and paid to CC. We have become familiar with Donna Shavers money we give them on maintaining bulkheads, efforts to recover the endangered Kemps Ridley maintaining the boat ramps, and dredging the Where to Find The Padre Turtle NPS Review turtle species in Texas. We have been able to canals. Turtle program: compare the Padre and Hatteras programs on a 2.They ARE spending the money we give them Island Moon first hand basis. on maintaining City property that we already Attached is copy of my snail mail letter pay high property taxes for. to Director of NPS believed to currently be The “in-situ” nest management described on Port North Margaret Everson. Directorship has been in pp. 15 and 16 of the NPS Review is the process This lack of focus on our bulkheads concerned state of flux lately. This is my response to used in Cape Hatteras NS . The keystone of us. And a few months ago, we relaunched the USFWS and NPS attempt to destroy Dr. Donna Natural Nesting (in-situ) is to use the least ARCH to ask Padre Islanders to consider two Aransas Padre possible human interference in turtle nesting. Gulf Stream RV Shaver and her program to recover the Kemps amendments to the covenants. All Stripes Stores This program has not been successful in Cape Ridley sea turtle in Padre Island NS. This 1) Allow a property owner to hold the PIPOA Pioneer RV successful program which relocates every turtle Hatteras. A Ten Year Study (2009-2018) of Black Sheep/ NC sea turtle nesting showed that CHNS responsible for any damage to their property if Stripes on 1A Barrel egg to incubator or corral in conjunction with the bulkheads are not adequately maintained. Texas road law provides public ORV access to averaged 67% NS (Nest success) from a 29%R My Coastal Home (Relocation rate) but Hatteras lost 44% of the Currently the PIPOA has a full waiver of CVS over 60 miles of the PINS beach 24 hours a day liability. WB Liquor Store Dollar General year round. The recent NPS Review includes turtle eggs deposited on its beaches. In contrast four other beaches in North Carolina with the 2) Equalize the rates among all owners back to Island Wine Room Whataburger the seasonal beach closure to “protect” turtle nests. This would be a great tragedy since PINS greatest human intervention (44% to 72%R) the rates that were in effect in 2006. Currently, Kody’s Doc’s Restaurant has the best fish catching beach that I have ever delivered 49% to 95% nest success with an owners who purchased after 2006 pay higher had the pleasure of driving and camping on. All average of 27% egg loss. Interestingly there rates. Coffee Waves Snoopy’s Pier was a direct relationship between intervention access groups should be alarmed and defend What will be the effect of the passage of these and success. The higher relocation rates yielded Moby Dicks Donna Shaver and her program. amendments? Isle Mail N More greater %NS and lower egg loses. This refutes IGA Island Italian PO BOX 1224 the Keystone of Natural Nesting. Contrast this 1) We believe that if the PIPOA fails to Treasure Island BUXTON, NC with the Padre Kemps Ridley program which maintain the bulkheads, boat ramps, or canals Brooklyn Pie Co. loses only 10% of their eggs and they know then you as an Owner should have the right to Ms. Woody’s AUGUST 24, 2020 exactly how many hatchlings survive into the seek damages. Automotive Ace Hardware TO: DIRECTOR NPS MARGARET water. No one knows how many hatchlings 2) We believe that the PIPOA will operate more Port A Glass Studio Texas Star (Shell) EVERSON are devoured by ghost crabs along the remote appropriately if we reduce the CAM fees to San Juan’s Restaurant Jesse’s Liquor beaches under the Natural Nesting programs. 2006 levels, but they would not have the funds NATIONAL PARK SERVICE As global warming continues Loggerhead Wash Tub Scuttlebutt’s TEN YEAR (2009-2018) STUDY OF N C SEA TURTLE NESTING to hire Marketing companies to try to convince 1849 C STREET NW nesting will increase in Cape Hatteras along you to not exercise your property rights. Restaurant with greater loss to the resource. Woody’s Sports WASHINGTON, DC Center After our announcement, we now see that they Subway The authors of plan to spend hundreds of thousands of our the NPS Review Back Porch Bar Island Tire NESTS EGGS LAID EGGS LOST CAM fees on a marketing program to convince seek to destroy you to not use your rights to amend your Shorty’s Place BEACH %R %NS 10 YEAR TOTAL 10 YEAR TOTAL % LOST Padre Pizzeria a successful covenants. Fisherman’s Wharf resource program And all Moon and replace It is important to note that the PIPOA has Giggity’s retail advertisers HOLDEN 72 95 47065 11590 25 it with one of no authority to amend any neighborhood’s covenants. That right is reserved for only the Gratitude WB Liquor OCEAN ISLE 70 95 27270 6640 24 questionable value. This is insane! owners in your subdivision. The PIPOA Board The Gaff TOPSAIL 57 91 108224 31724 29 The Padre NPS can come out and oppose the ARCH, which Trinity By the Sea Flour Bluff CASWELL 44 89 54214 15700 29 Superintendent they have done, but we do not accept their Episcopal Eric Brunnemann position that they can use your CAM fees to H.E.B. TOTAL 236773 TOTAL 65654 should not be spin a message against you. Whataburger on allowed to wear his This is an open, transparent, and democratic Waldron CALO 22 66 200607 83782 42 NPS uniform one process. All voices and votes will count. You Ethyl Everly day longer. Patrick can vote for or against each of the proposals. CHNS 29 67 215007 95261 44 Malone, Jennifer Senior Center We ask you to visit www.PadreIslandARCH. Carpenter and Fire Station Michael Reynolds com to see what this is all about. Nothing is For over 40 years I had the pleasure of working should be investigated to ascertain their role in hidden in this process. Everything we are doing in the glass industry as a research chemist. Police Station the Review publication and be dismissed from is published for all to read. During my last ten years I was frequently the NPS or at least censured. They are either too Stripes on Flour involved Note : in %R environmental is the relocation rate problems. I have read We also ask you to let your neighbors know Bluff & SPID evil or stupid to remain in their positions. about this important initiative so all Islanders a lot of governmental %NS is the Nest Success prose most of which has been very professional. This NPS Review is a Robert B. Davis -- Buxton NC can have a voice in this process. terrible hatchet job on a successful program and Jim & Kelly McFadden an insidious personal attack on the individual person who developed that program. I could Letters to Ed cont. on A4 September 3, 2020 Island Moon A 4

History cont. from A1 the vote. At-Large candidates Mark Scott, Palmira cont. from A1 Brent Chesney, and Martinez won the three the Padre Isles Property Owners Association, No waivers were granted for the houses in with At-Large seats and replaced them with At-Large seats, while David Loeb who had violated their own rules by approving plans question but Cagle said the Property Tax the more diverse Single-Member systems. been endorsed by the Island finished fourth to build the houses. Those rules call for new Code allows the ACC to grant waivers to deed However, Corpus Christi (a story for another only .18 of a point behind Scott. In District 4 construction to be “in harmony” with existing restrictions and covenants the POA Board of day) did not do this, instead keeping three newcomer Chris Adler who was also endorsed houses none of which feature the stem Directors cannot. At-Large seats and making it possible for big by the IUPAC also won handily. While there foundations. contributors to control five seats on the nine- are no precinct voting totals from that election Construction on the houses began in March, Pilings are not allowed in the POA so builders 2020 but Connolly did not file her lawsuit until member council. are available in city archives a story on the used concrete stem-wall foundations to elevate election in the next Island Moon reports that August, after construction on the houses was So in 2008 when Islanders started to look the houses to the height required by city code. out of 26,115 votes cast in the mayoral race well underway. On the stand, under questioning at the political landscape they realized that The bottom of the stem foundations are at six fully 3141 of them came from Padre Island. by her co-council Connolly told Judge Stephen while the At-Large seats were designed to feet above grade which means they are same Out of five candidates endorsed by the IUPAC Williams that she spoke to members of the ACC keep power in the hands of the good old boy height fences are allowed to be under POA four had won and the one who lost did so by and the POA to try to find a solution before network, they would also work in favor of The rules. less than one percentage point – 123 votes. filing her suit. Island. Three At-Large seats combined with the Mayor, and Council District 4, all races in IUPAC leads to ISAC Yarborough said planning for the five houses which Islanders could vote, made up five votes began on May 20, 2018 and the application, on the nine member council. The winners took notice and within a week including the plans for the houses, was turned to Islanders to find out what exactly it submitted in February, 2020. Yarborough said IUPAC is born was that we wanted. We had their attention the developers have spent $3 million so far on but needed a way to speak with one voice, City elections were in odd numbered years construction of the houses. He said that under not just in election season, but afterwards. then and as the 2009 season rolled around an agreement with the Texas General Land There was a debate among the IUPAC board a group of Islanders started meeting and Office the developers must have the houses 90 about what to do next. The decision was made eventually formed what became the Island percent complete by November, 2020 or GLO that the IUPAC would only ramp up during United Political Action Committee and the can call a bond of $3.7 million. elections and another avenue would have to first candidate forums and votes were set up be found for pushing island causes. GLO agreement at the Holiday Inn. The room was packed as almost three-hundred Islanders for the first It took about a year but a provision was Connolly also objected to an agreement time gathered to select the candidates they found in the Island Master Development Plan, “The people in the houses are looking right between the builders and the Texas General would rally behind and it began to dawn on passed in 2004, which called for the formation into my backyard,” Connolly said. Land Office which requires the five houses all of us there that this could work; if we could of an Island Strategic Action Committee. In under construction to be rental properties for make the PAC function as designed we could late 2010 the first ISAC was seated with Gabi Connolly was successful in getting a Temporary ten years. get a seat at the table at city hall. Hilpold as chair. Restraining order to stop work on the houses two weeks ago in non-contested hearing “They can’t simply add covenants on top of Then Mayor and Island resident Henry That began a new era of Island thought as we before Nueces County Judge Inna Klein. After those for the subdivision,” she said. Garrett, the favorite to win re-election, showed realized that what Benjamin Franklin said all one hearing in the case Klein recused herself That agreement between the developers up and told the Islanders gathered that he those years ago was true; “If we don’t hang after she said was threatened with “political and the Texas General Land Office as part needed to make his statement first because he together we shall surely hang separately.” retribution” depending on her ruling in the of the Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts to had to leave to attend a meeting of the League As Island voting power began to rise certain case. Williams was called in after several other partially finance them through a grant from of United Latin American Citizens going OTB interests moved to dilute the Island vote Nueces County Judges refused to hear the case the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban on downtown, At-Large candidate Nelda by moving the city elections to November due to conflicts of interest. Development administered by the GLO. A Martinez did the same and both made their when the number of votes cast went from check of public records shows that a total of statements and left. That did not sit well with But after hearing testimony from six witnesses 26,000 to 100,000 and 60,000 during the – two in a previous hearing before Klein, twenty-one homes are being built as part of the the Islanders in attendance and not only did November cycles. program with all but the five in question located they not vote to endorse Martinez, they voted and four on Friday – visiting Judge Stephen Williams ruled in favor of the ACC approval in Flour Bluff. Under the agreement 51 percent to endorse newcomer Joe Adame over Garrett. As of 2018 there were 7547 registered of the homes would be available families voters on North Padre Island out of 199,057 and dissolved the TRO which had halted Adame said after the meeting that up until construction on the houses two weeks earlier. within a certain income ranges. None of the countywide. There are now 7882 registered residents of the 21 homes would receive “HUD that time he was not even sure he would stay in Island voters out of 203,982 across the city. The cleared the way for the developers to the race, but with the Island endorsement, the continue work on the homes, at least until a trial vouchers” but instead would only be eligible If historical numbers hold just over 100,000 for reduced rent which they would be required first in the race, he saw a way to victory. votes will be cast in Nueces County in the is held to reach a permanent solution to the suit. Connolly is asking that the houses be torn down to pay. Under those rules it would be unlikely The IUPAC board got busy, they organized 2020 General Election, and somewhere any of the five homes on Padre Island would door to door campaigns to place door hangers between 6500 and 7000 of them will come and Williams said he hopes to be able to try the case by the end of September if jury trials be reserved for low-income families since the on all Island homes, they organized phone from Padre Island meaning that even as the monthly rent would likely be higher than the banks, they put up signs, the Island Moon city elections were moved to November and are resumed in the face of the COVID virus. Currently no jury trials are being held in Nueces homes in Flour Bluff but that is not stated in the got behind the get out the vote campaign and diluted the Island vote growth of the Island’s related documents. office seekers began to take notice. population has outstripped growth across the County nor in the Victoria area where Williams county keeping the Island’s coordinated vote is based. There is no prohibition against HUD funded When the dust settled after the April 6, 2009 a major factor in deciding city elections. housing in Island deed covenants, according to election Adame won in an upset with 66% of Connolly’s case was built primarily on two points: The Architectural Compliance officials at the PIPOA, and further there is no Committee (ACC) of the Padre Isles Property requirement in the PIPOA rules or subdivision Port cont. from A1 Owners Association erred when it approved covenants that use of government financing plans for the five homes in question because be disclosed. Yarbrough testified that while from the start due to the passage of House Bill they violated the 35-foot height restriction in the there are no income requirements in the GLO Under an interlocal agreement agreed to by the 40 in the 84th session of the Texas Legislature subdivision, and the concrete stem foundations agreement a renter would need to show income governing bodies of both parties and released in 2015 “relating to the exclusive jurisdiction of violate the subdivision by-laws which call for annucal between $52,000 and $60,000 to pay this week the city withdrew its opposition to the this state to regulate oil and gas operations in new construction to be “in harmony” with the rent on the houses. Port's plans and promised not to aid and abet this state and the express preemption of local existing structures. Connelly claimed during the hearing that the any person or group that objected to such plans. regulation of those operations.” According to the agreement with the GLO requires the five its specific language HB 40 was designed to James Yarborough, CEO of Oaks Texas City, Neither the VLCC nor the desalinization plant houses in question to remain rental property for prohibit cities across Texas from regulating LLC. whose company was named as a defendant have been permitted and both appear to be on at least ten years. life support as no funding has been identified the oil and gas industry within their borders in the suit presented a stamped engineer’s report for the VLCC and the City of Corpus Christi, by amending “the Natural Resources Code to stating that the five houses in question are all “I will be 81 years old by then,” Connelly as the regional water supplier, last week moved subject an oil and gas operation to the exclusive under the 35-foot height limit listed in the deed testified during questions on the stand by her forward on plans for a desalinization plant at jurisdiction of the state. The bill expressly covenants for the Coquina Bay subdivision. co-council. “If I sell my house before then it another location. preempts the authority of a municipality or Attorney Greg Cagle, who represents the will lose value because of the house they are other political subdivision to regulate an oil and PIPOA and ACC in the case, told the judge that building across my property line.” While the agreement provides a total of $1 gas operation but authorizes a municipality to million for training and equipping the Port the ACC is the “sole arbiter” of what fits within The judge did not address the issue of the GLO enact, amend, or enforce certain measures that the definition of “harmony” under a case styled agreement in issuing his ruling. Aransas volunteer fire department over five regulate aboveground activity.” years the city got very little in the settlement as UED v. Davis in 1973. That case found that which it did not already have before the legal The port countered by suing the City of Port an Architectural Control Committee has sole Around cont. from A1 fight began. Aransas to take back possession of the Port discretion to decide on questions of aesthetics. Aransas City Marina and Roberts Point Park Then, Cagle said, the Texas Legislature later the November election but not a lot. We include The agreement gives the city the right to which is owned by the port and operated under a codified that in Section 202.004 of the Texas some election information in this issue and inspect any development on Harbor Island, a 30-year lease to the City of Port Aransas which Property Tax Code which says that the ACC’s will continue to do so as the day draws nigh. right which it had prior to the settlement, and includes a provision that prohibits city officials decision is final and “presumed reasonable The Island United Political Action Committee the port in return promised to locate the intake from publicly opposing development on Harbor unless it is found to be arbitrary, capricious, or is gearing up for the endorsement votes which of any desalinization plant there offshore in the Island. discriminatory.” can be done by email this time. We will include Gulf of Mexico, a promise the port made prior schedules as they become available. to the settlement. The agreement also gives The port spent $13 million a decade ago to “It is not enough for someone challenging their the city the right to regulate noise and light cleanup Harbor Island to the point that it is decision to say ‘I disagree with the decision.” Hunker down everybody it’s going to be an pollution from any development there, rights classified as a Brown Field area by the U.S. That does not make it a violation of the (deed) OTB invasion this weekend. We’ll see you already granted under state law. Army Corps of Engineers meaning it can be covenants,” he said. at HEB on Thursday. Say hello if you see us used for industrial development. Port officials Around The Island. The legal fight began on August 29, 2019 have said publicly that further cleanup, to get to when the Port Aransas city council passed an a Green Field development classification which emergency measure stating that an emergency would allow for non-industrial uses, is cost Numbers cont. from A1 existed with regard to Harbor Island that prohibitive. required the city to “study rezoning Harbor Island” and to issue "no development permits The plan to build the VLCC port to 1996 General Election 2012 General Election - November or approvals for development of Harbor Island accommodate two large crude carriers was put 182,647 registered Nueces County voters 198,829 Registered voters in Nueces County property” on the stated grounds that its fire on the back burner last year when the developer department could not provide fire protection of an offshore loading facility leased a right of 93,588 votes cast 104,060 Votes cast countywide services to the area. way from the port meaning that the port could 3928 registered Island voters 6,913 Registered Padre Island voters collect a tariff on product moved through the The city’s stand to control or limit industrial system and making the on-shore facility less 2382 (64) Islanders voted 4,492 (65 percent) Padre Island votes cast development at Harbor Island was a longshot financially viable. 2630 registered voter in Port Aransas 1,999 Votes cast in Port Aransas 1497 Votes cast in Port Aransas 2016 General Election – November Pier cont. from A1 2000 General Election 199,057 Registered voters in Nueces County to the pier at an additional cost of $26,651. closed by the county because of wave damage 202,441 Registered voters in Nueces County 107,140 (54 percent) voted countywide Then in September 1960 a runaway forty-two- which had separated the top of the pier from 98,185 Total votes cast 7,594 Registered Padre Island voters foot shrimp boat named Big Tinker ran into the the pilings, thus making the end section unsafe 4,973 (66 percent) Padre Island votes cast pier and nearly sliced it in half. An insurance for public usage. After repairs, the pier was 5,649 Registered Padre Island voters settlement of $12,000 with the county allowed 840 feet long and attendance figures gathered 3,293 (62 percent) Padre Island votes cast 2,200 Votes cast in Port Aransas the damaged middle section of the pier structure in the summer of 1980 over a fifty-six-day 3,154 Registered voters in Port Aransas to quickly be repaired. However, in September period. Those statistics showed that 186,000 2016 General Election – November 1961 Hurricane Carla utterly destroyed the pier. people used the pier that summer. Once again 1,957 (62 percent) Votes cast in Port Aransas 199,057 Registered voters in Nueces County Within a year it was rebuilt and extended to a a hurricane was to change the face of Bob Hall 107,140 (54 percent) voted countywide new length of 1,200 feet but only a few years in a major way. 2004 General Election - November 7,594 Registered Padre Island voters later another hurricane was soon wrecked the Hurricane Allen in August 1980 totally 201,477 Registered voters Nueces County pier again. destroyed the 840-foot wooden 105,374 Total votes cast 4,973 (66 percent) Padre Island votes cast pier just as Carla had done twenty 6,092 Registered Padre Island voters 2,200 Votes cast in Port Aransas years earlier. Damage to the pier was estimated at $627,000. 3,378 Padre Island votes cast Currently Planning soon began for the 3,422 Registered voters in Port Aransas 203,982 registered voters in Nueces County construction of a new 1,200-foot 2008 General Election - November 7882 registered Island voters concrete pier made up of concrete pilings and a total of 1,250 pre- 198,829 Registered voters countywide fabricated concrete deck slabs 104,060 (52 percent) votes cast countywide that could be removed and stored on shore in the event of a deadly 2,546 Padre Island votes cast future storm. The new pier would 6,823 Registered Padre Island voters be 6 feet higher, able to withstand 26-foot waves, would be 15 feet 4,552 (67 percent) Padre Island voter turnout wide, include a T-head 146 feet long and 19 feet 2,005 Votes cast in Port Aransas In September 1967 Hurricane Beulah destroyed wide at the end of the structure, and cost nearly half of the pier. The first 600-foot section of $1.7 million. This is the pier that currently 2008 General Election - November the structure was rebuilt, but the last 600-foot stands. section was not. Instead a 127-foot section was 198,829 Registered voters countywide added to the end of the pier thus shrinking the On May 25, 1983, the “new” concrete version 104,060 (52 percent) votes cast countywide once 1,200-foot wooden structure to just 727 of Bob Hall Pier officially re-opened. The feet. only incident marring the otherwise smooth 2,546 Padre Island votes cast dedication ceremonies was someone catching a 6,823 Registered Padre Island voters Fully Guided • All Tackle Provided Then in August 1970 Hurricane Celia damaged thirty-pound redfish. the pier but only mildly but in the spring of 4,552 (67 percent) Padre Island voter turnout 1979 the last section (150 feet) of the pier was (361)442-8145 2,005 Votes cast in Port Aransas September 3, 2020 Island Moon A 5

Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier September 3 - September 10 One of the realities of Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon What I learned… running a small weekly newspaper is that there /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible is no challenge when it comes to running a Over the course of the afternoon, here is what I Th 3 High 5:23 AM 1.5 7:09 AM Set 8:19 AM 99 staff because there isn’t one. It’s a small group learned about property tax laws. 3 Low 11:04 AM 1.1 7:47 PM Rise 9:01 PM of Islanders who like what we do and as far as There are two kinds of POA by-laws; subjective supervision there isn’t any – we all know what 3 High 3:56 PM 1.5 and objective. An objective rule is one that can our roles are and that’s what we do. If I try to be measured, in the case of the five houses in 3 Low 11:02 PM 0.6 call in sick it rings back to my phone. That question they cannot be more than 35 feet high. reality hit home in spades last Thursday. F 4 High 5:26 AM 1.4 7:10 AM Set 9:11 AM 97 A subjective rule has to be enforced by Each Thursday morning I do Jim Lago’s radio 4 Low 11:19 AM 1.0 7:46 PM Rise 9:31 PM someone or some group and that is what the show, along with Blake and Tyler and City POA Architectural Control Committee is set 4 High 4:59 PM 1.5 Councilman Greg Smith. We make radio history up to do. “To make discretionary decisions on 4 Low 11:39 PM 0.8 each week one way or another. So at nine a.m. a subjective issue in advance,” in Cagle’s words. when the radio show was over I headed to the Sa 5 High 5:30 AM 1.4 7:10 AM Set 10:02 AM 93 printing press and loaded up a ton and a half of Such as the case in question, the ACC had to 5 Low 11:36 AM 0.8 7:45 PM Rise 10:01 PM newsprint and then over to the Nueces County decide if the houses with stem foundations met Courthouse for a hearing in the lawsuit over the definition of “harmony of external design” 5 High 6:06 PM 1.5 construction of five Island houses which include with the houses already in the neighborhood, Su 6 Low 12:19 AM 1.0 7:10 AM Set 10:54 AM 88 stem foundations. See the story in this issue for and they had to do it before the houses were built. 6 High 5:32 AM 1.3 7:43 PM Rise 10:32 PM more details. I left the newspapers in the truck in the parking lot and headed into the building While decisions made by the ACC can be 6 Low 12:00 PM 0.7 as the heat was already making its presence felt. appealed to the POA Board of Directors under 6 High 7:19 PM 1.5 Going into the courthouse in the Age of the by-laws there is no description of how that M 7 Low 1:17 AM 1.2 7:11 AM Set 11:46 AM 82 COVID is like walking into a Mad Max movie. process is supposed to work and no timeline The security people at the front door seemed indicating how long after the ACC issued a 7 High 5:24 AM 1.4 7:42 PM Rise 11:05 PM surprised to see me – or anyone for that matter. permit an appeal to the board must be filed. 7 Low 12:31 PM 0.6 That creates the obvious problem that if a “Where are you going?” neighbor waits years before filing a complaint 7 High 8:44 PM 1.6 “I’m here for the POA suit,” I said. questioning the way the ACC issued permit the Tu 8 Low 1:11 PM 0.5 7:11 AM Set 12:39 PM 74 current lack of a statute of limitations means the “That’s where everyone is going,” the lady board can still review the permitting process. In 8 High 10:35 PM 1.7 7:41 PM Rise 11:41 PM said. “It’s the only thing going on here today.” one case the Board of Directors made changes W 9 Low 2:01 PM 0.4 7:12 AM Set 1:34 PM 65 When I got the courtroom there were more to plans for a house after they were approved by 9 7:40 PM lawyers present than spectators and when the the ACC and Cagle, as their attorney, sent them witnesses were sworn in under “the rule” they a letter stating that the board cannot do that, that Th 10 High 12:46 AM 1.8 7:12 AM Rise 12:22 AM 56 had to leave the courtroom when testimony is an option extended only to the ACC. began and then I was the sole spectator in a 10 Low 3:00 PM 0.3 7:39 PM Set 2:30 PM But that means that as things now stand any time room with six lawyers, one judge, one plaintiff, after a house is built the ACC permit required one defendant, two court reporters, a bailiff prior to its construction can be challenged and, and a courtroom full of spectators disguised as according to the request in the suit currently empty chairs. pending, a judge, at least potentially, the house The attorney for the Padre Isles Property can be torn down. That isn’t a very comfortable Owners Association Greg Cagle was making his feeling… opening statement. In the field of property law it The definition of “harmony” with regards can be accurately said that Cagle wrote the book. to new construction being in harmony with It’s called Texas Homeowners Association Law existing structures is not defined in the bylaws and it weights a little under ten pounds and is of the POA or the subdivision, instead it is left longer than the King James Version of the Bible. entirely to the ACC. It’s a little thin on plot but tells you absolutely everything you need to know about property law “The ACC, under the Property Tax Code, can in Texas. change, waive, or deny any rules except those dealing with the integrity of the bulkheads. As I sat through Cagle’s opening statement and long as their actions meet that legal threshold,” the first two and half hours of testimony before he said. I had to drive to The Island and start throwing newspapers in the Texas heat. By time I got back Cagle also told the court that there is nothing to the courtroom around three o’clock I smelled in the POA documents that requires prior notice much more like a guy who throws newspaper to neighbors when the ACC is considering an than the guy who writes for them. I stuck around application nor after a decision is made and a to the end, which was after six p.m. and we – permit issued. attorneys, witnesses, lawyers for both sides, and one gamey writer – got temporarily locked into the courthouse until we were rescued by a bailiff. 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Dotson’s Note: Part III ended: “Aside from supply enough men to the military to meet the And the worst part—it could’ve helped physical reasons such as heart, lung, skeletal force requirements commanders in Washington No, seriously, don’t you feel it? What a someone who needed it more than me. Boy, issues, clearly evident mental deficiency or and the field deemed necessary. world! is THAT a load to live with. The credit I could’ve gotten out from under sooner. The disease, and venereal disease, mainly syphilis, And we ain’t talkin’ Louis Armstrong’s “It’s The VCT was used along with a battery of charity I could’ve supported with more than an men were also rejected because of educational a Wonderful World” right now. It’s scary out tests to help determine which men would fill odd buck or two. The children I could’ve fed. deficiency. In a time period of June through the 10 % quota of “Intelligent illiterates.” Those there! July 1943 approximately 8% of all white troops receiving the highest score on the VCT or the I could’ve done these things! ME! rejected and 34.5% of all African-American A pastor friend sent an e-mail stating that he battery of tests were accepted. The battery of had seen an ad for a book about the “End Times,” Being isolated, having to pay delivery charges troops rejected were for educational deficiency.” tests used were F. L. Well's Concrete Directions Again thanks to USMC Gunnery Sergeant putting the signs in order chronologically. His on items I REALLY need to survive, watching Test, The Block Counting Test (DST-10) and the comment about the review was “Can someone the prices go up on essentials and feeling it in Joseph H. Clark (my uncle), WWII Navy Veteran Directions Test (DST-2a) and the recruits scores Milton Sherwood and my Tuskegee Airmen just tell me where September 1, 2020, sits-- my pocketbook, has opened my mind to see all were tallied and those with the highest scores like “early,” “middle,” or “don’t make plans that I didn’t need, that I didn’t really WANT, friends for the facts contained in this report and made the cut for that days quota. The Concrete to the National Archives and to the National Air for lunch”? and that I could’ve done with that money I Directions Test required the user to demonstrate wasted. & Space Museum for the photos. the proper use of common tools. For the Block Well, I wish someone would tell me where Counting Test, the recruit had to determine things sit, too. I’m in shell shock. How about We live in a world of peer pressure and from a picture the number of blocks in a pile. you? advertising pressure that pushes us to buy, buy, buy; that encourages us to be throw-away The Direction Test required the recruit to make Things have changed—radically--and I think consumers, to just buy MORE. non-language responses to written directions. I have, too. You know, I used to enjoy a good, The men inducted upon scoring high enough therapeutic shopping expedition, and now it The pandemic has forced us to look at these on the battery were sent to special training units gives me the creeps. And not just because I issues. that offered them instruction tailored to their don’t want to be exposed to COVID, either. And yeah, some folks are just ready to jump needs in an effort to improve their condition so Every time I look at a store, I remember how right back in and spend, spend, spend. Some that it met basic army standards. The Special much stuff I’ve bought just because it was on folks are ready to get back to worshiping the Training Units (STU) offered remedial help sale and I might need it sometime in the future. Almighty Buck. to those men who suffered from educational deficiencies. And that makes me remember how much of Not me. It’s not too late to change my course, that stuff is just sitting around my house, filling which is what has to happen if I myself am truly Men suffering from educational deficiencies closets and wasting space and collecting dust. changed. Jesus wisely warned us repeatedly placed a great strain on the army and the nation about the temptations of wealth. Today we’re And I’m kind of appalled as I chalk up the as a whole. In the time period from June 1943 starting to live with the consequences of taking total money I’ve spent over my six decades on until October 1944 the Army offered remedial such wealth for granted. help through special training units to 180,000 what amounts to nothing. “What a world, what a world, what a world” Uncle Sam Wants You. recruits in an effort to raise their literacy rate The clothes I bought and wore once and then it may be. But we can all do better if we use so that they could function in the army. Of this decided I didn’t like them or they didn’t fit the this pandemic time wisely and think about our One of the biggest indicators of educational number, nearly 150,000 or 85 % achieved the way I thought they did, so I never wore them choices. deficiency was illiteracy, although this might minimum army standard for literacy and allowed again. But they were a good buy, right? What not entirely the case. Some were initially to continue their was I thinking? And seriously, I would make plans for military service. lunch. labeled as illiterate due to the fact that they The food I bought, intending to make a special And, of that 150,000 could not read and understand English, but were recipe in the near future, and then forgot I had, nearly 87,000 fluent in another language and had not been as other things came up, so it rotted in the were African- in the country long enough to gain sufficient fridge. ability in English. The induction centers bore Americans. A 1948 the responsibility of correctly classifying these census report on men as non- English speakers and not as “slow illiteracy in America learners.” The Army used the ability to read attributes the Army's Gage Dental Grand Opening as a basis for judging recruits learning ability. efforts to teach men The high rate of illiteracy encountered by the to read and write armed forces in World War II created a problem with lowering the of national concern for many reasons. One, it illiteracy rate in reduced the available number of men; two, the nation. After June 1943, 9 % of all whites it placed a higher burden on other population and 49 % of all African-American received at groups such as older men and fathers; three, the reception centers went to STU's because of illiteracy. But in the STUs, the African-American troops did as well or better than white recruits. Only 12.9 % of African-Americans failed to obtain reading proficiency, while 15.8 % of all whites in the program failed to obtain proficiency; and both groups did it in similar time frames, while being taught in segregated units. The reason for high numbers of illiteracy was the lack of access to educational opportunities. it lowered the overall ability of the army to TO BE CONTINUED perform, four, it increased the burden on states Dotson’s Other Note: As I said last week: “I and locales that emphasized education; five, it trust you Moon Monkeys are enjoying these lowered the “social efficiency” of the nation as war reports. Hopefully we are better prepared a whole. for the next one than we have been in the past.” The military's standard of literacy was set at Thanks for reading and commenting on the the “ability to read at a fourth-grade standard.” articles in The Island Moon. Contact me at To illustrate how huge an issue illiteracy was to [email protected] or call/text: 530-748-8475. the procurement of manpower for the military, Please note: The Weekly Veterans Round immediately prior to Pearl Harbor over 347,000 Table Meetings are now on Zoom on Tuesdays men who registered for Selective Service 9-11a.m., if you would like to join us, please merely made marks on their registration cards call, text or Email me. When the meetings are due to their inability to sign their names. Of that resumed at Del Mar College, all veterans, their number 125,000 were white and over 220,000 families and anyone interested in veterans’ were African-American. activities, are invited. The Veterans Radio The problem of illiteracy was such a big Round Table is on the air on KEYS AM 1440, issue the Army struggled with finding a policy 8 – 10 a.m., Saturdays. The next show will be that would allow it to meet its manpower September 5,, 2020. Please listen and call requirements while still maintaining a high in or text. The listener/text line is: 361-882- level of efficiency needed to fight and win the 5397…It’s your two hours, please let us hear war. During the course of the war, the Army's from you. policy toward acceptance of illiterates changed three times. The first policy was to reject all Gage Dental's Grand Opening Celebration was last Friday. Photos by Debbie Noble. men who could not read up to standard. This period ran from October 1940, the start of the draft, until August 1, 1942. Following August Ask Ralph 1942 until June 1943, 10 % of “Intelligent illiterates” would be accepted into the army. From June 1943 until September 1945, the Financing Alternatives point when the draft ended all men who could By Ralph Coker pass the screening exams could join the army. need the equipment for a short-term project. Q. I have always used bank The 10 % standard meant that the army would Leases are complex with a lot of conditions. loans to finance my business's only accept 10 % of the men from any induction Comparison shop and carefully evaluate the finance needs. What is center on any given day. To help implement the lease terms. alternative financing and how could I get it 10 % standard, the Visual Classification Test and use it? With inventory financing the finance (VCT) was introduced to help determine which company owns the inventory until sold. A. Traditional bank loans are called asset- of the illiterates possessed sufficient ability to Inventory financing is complex and difficult based lending. The bank provides the loan learn to read and thereby perform their military to find for most small businesses. If you secured by the borrower's assets which could duties. This policy helped boost the number of have a good relationship with your bank be land, buildings, inventory, or machinery. men being inducted, because nearly 13 % of and your inventory is readily re-sellable on With alternative financing the finance men who were drafted failed the Army's literacy the market at full value, the bank might be company buys the asset and for a fee allows test. As the war progressed and offensive willing to accept inventory as collateral for a the client to use it. activity began to take place in both theaters conventional bank loan. of the war, higher than expected numbers Fully Guided • All Tackle Provided The cost of bank loans is usually a lot Factoring is a more common form of of casualties were being sustained. This put less than the cost of alternative financing. (361)442-8145 alternative financing. The finance company is pressure on the War Manpower Commission to Alternative financing is an option if the the factor and it buys the business's accounts business cannot get a bank loan or in special receivable at a discount and collects from situations where the potential profit from the the business's customer when the term is up financing is high and will easily offset the in, say, 30 days. The business's customer is Trust alternative financing cost. notified that their invoice has been factored. Padre Island and Port Aransas’ Oldest Island Based Pest Control Company. The common types of alternative financing The factor's discount fee is usually based are equipment leasing, inventory financing, on the invoice term. For example, a 10-day factoring and purchase order financing. invoice might be discounted 1 percent of the Equipment leasing is quite common for small invoice face value and 6 percent for a 60-day businesses. It is like an individual leasing a invoice. car rather than buying it. With purchase order financing the finance On Padre Island Since 1994. The leasing company owns the equipment company buys the business's customer and leases it to the business which pays a purchase order at a discount and when the The Pest Control Professionals monthly fee for a fixed term, say 5 years. The product or service is delivered the finance Locally Owned by Island Resident OVER 30 YEAR EXPERIENCE business typically must have good credit and company collects from the customer. Bill Schroeder have been in business for several years. Some Purchase order financing is so complex with finance companies will buy the business's so many conditions that it is usually not a existing equipment and lease it back to the good option for small businesses. 15481 SPID Just past business. 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COVID has been a real trial Technically, I’d been trying to talk Amber into for some of us. For instance, I tried hanging getting a racket since I bought mine two years out on the couch, eating delicious snacks, ago, so she does have some natural immunity watching the WORST movies ever made, and to my whining. That day, however, I guess day drinking for five months. circumstance finally compelled her to go to Wal-Mart and buy one. Basically, I did my favorite thing for a really long time. COVID-19, no one wants your love children (or handles). Unfortunately, my most beloved activity had a bunch of unintended consequences. I stepped The next morning, we met at the tennis court. on the scale the other day – an act that I had I played tennis in high school and in college, been avoiding because surfing my couch is the and used to a watch professional tennis on best. I knew the situation was dire, however, television, but I don’t exactly remember the because even my most stretchy pants started rules – not that being completely ignorant of protesting when I put them on. HOW to do something has ever stopped me from trying it. I read the digital output and promptly decided the scale must be mean ol’ liar since I have We volleyed for about 20 minutes before we never once changed the batteries during my realized that whatever game we were playing tenure of ownership. was not tennis. I checked again on the antique analog scale. It wasn’t just that we were bad and didn’t know the rules – the absolute incompetence far exceeded that scenario. Amber, however, is a ray of light. There was no way she was going to let me get discouraged. “Screw it,” she said. “Let’s just play Derp Ball.” Since then we’ve played several times, and I’ve been able to successfully identify some key components of the game: Commit and a Miss: fully committing to hitting the ball to the extent that your body completes a full 360-degree spin before you realize that you have entirely missed the ball by a factor the size of the State of Kansas. This is followed by trying to act like you got close Crap! I gained almost 30 pounds. while your opponent falls over laughing at you. Either I’m pregnant with COVID-19’s Resting hit: Deliberately hitting the ball immaculate conception baby, or I just messed to the far side of the tennis pavilion on your up really badly. opponent’s side so that they have to go get it I called Amber in tears. We had decided to and you can stand there (sweating and panting) quit drinking a month ago because the stupid for a minute and drink water. was getting out of hand in both of our lives. Kevlar Racket: using the racket to protect parts We expected to drop some weight due to the of your body from getting hit by the ball rather absence of alcohol calories, but neither of us than lining up properly for a return shot. This weighed ourselves. became part of the game when I accidentally “AMMMMBEEERRR! I GAINED THIRTY hit Amber right in the crotch and she screamed, STUPID POUNDS,” I wailed. “DON’T HIT ME IN MY ANGRY BUTTON!” “SHUT UP! ME, TOO!” she replied. The Derp Classic: standing there watching the ball fly over your head with your mouth At least I had someone to keep me company open and then belatedly raising your racket and while I was stranded up Sewage Creek sans yelling “GOT IT” when you by no stretch of the paddles. imagination “have it.” After much cajoling, I talked my friend into I don’t know how much weight loss Derp Ball buying a tennis racket. “We’ll lose a ton of will cause, but it’s a hilarious game. We’re weight in like a DAY. Plus, it will be so much definitely going to keep playing. fun! And…automatic social distancing! There’s a court right by my house,” I sold it, putting all We kind of have to. my marketing experience into play. I made t-shirts.

Thoughts From Dr. Tom Julia Gilliam of the Nueces County 4H worked with Scott Cross of Nueces County Coastal Parks to organize a huge beach clean- Anxiety in the Age of Covid up on Saturday August 22nd. They wanted to challenge the community to By Dr. Tom Dorrell combat anxiety as it releases natural endorphins come out and be a part of the solution, not the I think everyone can that help alleviate the effects of stress hormones. problem. agree that the level of When exercising, try to get both aerobic and The county wanted to clean the beach without anxiety in folks is at an weight training in. The combination will do heavy equipment rakes (so they didn’t lose all time high. It is like one ex-marine said, “I even more good than either one alone and is more sand) and the trash was so small, heavy don’t call it anxiety I call it trying to stay alive”. better for you. Meditation and yoga work great equipment might do more damage than good. The way that mainstream media has portrayed for some people then there are also medical They also wanted to clean up as much as the pandemic and the constant drumbeat has treatments available. possible before vehicles had a chance to drive everyone scared to death. Politicians both local Medical treatments for anxiety include over it and make it more difficult. and national have consistently tried to one up counseling to learn to recognize the signs and each other in control tactics to “protect us” Their goal was to attract 100 volunteers symptoms of anxiety. They can also teach to clean 2 ½ miles of shoreline. Trucks and because we obviously are too dumb to make meditation and behavioral controls. Lastly decisions for ourselves. This constant onslaught trailers helped transport the almost 300 people there are medications to help when it is severe who showed up with masks, bags, gloves, and further fueled by the political season has or nothing is working. These medications are everyone on edge. sunscreen all along the beach to spread out the of several varieties. The most effective ones cleaning efforts. It doesn’t help that shutting down a booming are medicines that you take everyday to affect economy has created huge financial stress on levels of neurotransmitters in your brain that are Photos by Debbie Noble everyone and they have been locked down for not present in the correct amounts. Some folks the last several months with nothing to do but are predispositioned to this genetically and we get perfused even more with internet and media refer to then as endogenous varieties and they Origin of the Bowie Knife bias. Our young people and college students battle this condition life long in some form. Mark Pusateri gave the pattern to blacksmith John Sowell at the last several years have been brainwashed Other patients get it primarily when under undo Gonzales and asked him to make the knife. to believe that they are all owed something and stress which they have no control over such as Copano Bay Press A lot of folks claim that the Bowie knife was then with all the free time on their hands we …. Covid. Legends and misconceptions seem to go hand- land where we are now. If you remember anything make it this… Covid in-hand. Take the Bowie knife. Anxiety is a condition where folks feel a sense does not kill everyone that gets it, in fact it has The term came into common use on the frontier of impending doom that they have no control been difficult to determine exactly what that after the 1827 Sandbar fight in which Jim over. It causes high blood pressure, elevated rate is because it is surely under diagnosed in Bowie disemboweled an attacker with a large heart rate and agitation along with insomnia and healthy folks but the rate is between 1 and 3% knife. Bowie had already been shot in the hip, is essentially the physiological fight or flight most likely. It is not a death sentence and we are pistol-whipped to his knees and stabbed with a state going on all the time. It is not a good thing better at dealing with it everyday. On the other cane sword. In fact, Norris Wright was trying to to have. It makes people physically ill even hand, it can be severe especially for those at risk free his sword from Bowie's sternum where it when it is coming from the brain and nervous which by now everyone knows are those older was stuck, when Bowie gutted him. Some folks system. patients and especially those with uncontrolled might say Jim Bowie was tough. diabetes, lung disease, heart disease, kidney It is treatable and that treatment is disease and many others. Protect those that are But back to the knife multifactorial. The first thing you have to do at risk and avoid exposing them. Stay home is unplug which is hard to do. It has become It wasn't the familiar clip pointed blade we when you are ill. Wash your hands frequently like a drug addiction for people but instead it know today. It was a large butcher knife made and all the other prevention techniques that you is a stimulus addiction. The TV and internet is by Rezin Bowie, Jim's elder brother. (Rezin A knife in the Historic Arkansas Museum are told about on a daily basis. Don’t freak out something we need a break from, this includes described the knife in an 1838 article as being attributed to James Black and overreact, use common sense and we can social media. Unplug and get outside, get some nine and a half inches long, an inch and a half all get back to work and some level of normalcy. exercise, play a sport, go fishing or go for a wide, and without any curve.) For the next few actually made by James Black, a blacksmith in Have a great week. Doc Tom beach walk. Exercise is one of the best ways to years any large knife carried by a frontiersman Washington, Arkansas. That not true. Here's was referred to as a Bowie knife. how James Black figures into the Bowie knife Fast forward to 1831: While involved in an heritage. Indian fight West of San Antonio, Jim's hand Like I said, Jim Bowie was disappointed slipped down the guardless handle of his old in the shortcomings of a large butcher-style butcher knife and was cut badly. This caused fighting knife given him by his brother, so he him to ponder his knife's shortcomings, and to whittled a new pattern out of wood and took it whittle a pattern for a new one out of wood. to blacksmith Sowell. That was late in 1831. Early in 1832, while Sowell was still working on the new knife, Jim Bowie made a trip to Arkansas. While in the wilderness, he lost the (361) 251-3469 butcher knife brother Rezin had given him. There was no way Jim was going to travel knifeless, so when he got to ARRY LLEN Washington, Arkansas, he had James L A Black fashion a replacement to fit the ONCRETE ONSTRUCTION sheath of the lost blade. An early Bowie knife C C So Black made a knife for Bowie A clipped point would make for easier to carry on his trip back to Texas, but it was stabbing, while maintaining the heft and width no clip-pointed, hand-guarded Bowie knife. Send letters and photos to editor@ of a butcher knife along the rest of the length, That new design, now universally known as giving it the chopping power of a small ax. the Bowie knife, was waiting for him back in islandmoon.com Most importantly, it would have a guard. Bowie Gonzales at John Sowell's smithy. A8 Island Moon September 3, 2020 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon History of Basketball for You’re Nuts Women-Part II By Andy Purvis play other teams. Rube’s roommate, Ossee Schreckengost, always complained that Rube By Dotson Lewis Upon being fined $100 for ate crackers in bed so his contract included a his part in a “hotel episode” clause that prohibited him from doing that. He Dotson’s Note: In 1900 many were saying • Players were allowed 1 dribble after there in Detroit, “Rube” Waddell said to a reporter, wore red under his clothing in case a fire bell “Women’s Basketball is Out of Control!” As were too many complaints that the tempo “You’re a liar. There ain’t no Hotel Episode in would ring. Rube once poured ice water on his the popularity of women's basketball grew, so of the game was too slow and boring. Detroit.” He enjoyed wrestling alligators in the did concerns and complaints that the game left arm before he pitched. He said if he didn’t • Defenders weren't allowed to block shots off-season, drank too much on occasion, and was had become too rough. In response, Physical he would burn up the catcher’s glove. He often or steal the ball. Defensive restrictions fascinated by fire trucks and fires. He grew up Education teachers nationwide wrestled with did cartwheels, walked on his hands, or turned like these were put into the game to level across the street from a Fire Station and would the question. Thanks to Bill Morgan (former somersaults all the way back to the dugout, after the playing field and compensate for wander over there almost everyday. Sometimes SWC SID), Seda Berenson, Joanne Lannin he had won a game. differences in player sizes and skill levels. as a child, he would get caught sleeping at the and Lucille Eaton Hill, for many of the facts station. At times, he drank so much reporters On July 1, 1902, Rube became only the second contained in this report. Also thanks to Bill • Seasons were limited to only 2 to 4 sometimes referred to him as “souse paw” pitcher in Major League Baseball history to Morgan for the photos. games with other schools. The rest of the instead of “south paw” and he was known to strikeout three batters with only nine pitches. games had to be intramural games among leave the mound, while pitching, during a game, The first had been John Clarkson with the classes. Again, this was to discourage when he heard a fire siren. In the past, he once Boston Beaneaters, on June 4, 1889. It has now competitiveness, which was certainly seen saved a woman from drowning, accidentally been done by 74 different pitchers, with Sandy as "unladylike." shot a friend through his hand and was bitten by Koufax being the only pitcher to accomplish Believe it or not, Senda Berenson believed that a lion. He almost shot Manager, Connie Mack, that feat three times. From 1903-1907, Rube she and the rules committee saved women's in the head, when a pistol fell out of his pocket won 21, 25, 27, 15 and 19 games respectively, basketball. She believed this, because she and and fired off a shot in the team hotel. In 1903, while pitching for the A’s. In 1904, Rube struck many others believed that society wasn't ready he climbed into the stands to beat up a heckler out 349 batters in a single season, an American and was suspended for five games. He also League record which stood for 60 years, until baffled his teammates, as he would sometimes Sandy Koufax struck out 382 in 1965. In 1905, leave a game early to go fishing. He was late to Rube won the Triple Crown of pitching with a a game, on several occasions, because he was 27-10 win-loss record, with 287 strikeouts and playing marbles in the streets with the local kids. a 1.48 ERA. Some said he could not remember how many By 1911, Rube was drinking his way back to women he had married and served time in jail Girls Basketball Was Too Rough the minors. Eventually he was driven out of the for missing alimony payments. Teammates and big leagues and then the game. It was 1912 and Seda Berenson and a group of Physical opponents never knew what he would do next, he was living in Kentucky with friends, when a Education teachers formed a committee to but the fans loved him. Rube was showered nearby dam burst and caused flooding. Waddell address these concerns as well as the problems with screams of “You’re Nuts.” Maybe he was. helped many people who would have drowned. that arose by having so many different versions It was generally known that left-handed pitchers While his actions were heroic, he developed of the game. In 1901, the committee published were the weirdest players on the field. He never pneumonia, which led to tuberculosis; and he the first set of basketball rules for women. Not really took his profession seriously. It was said never fully recovered. He was sent to live with surprisingly, they closely resembled Berenson's that the site of a puppy would distract him while his sister in San Antonio, Texas. Rube Waddell original design: pitching, so opponents would hold up their pets died on April Fools Day in 1914, at age 37, of in the stands. • The court was divided into 3 equal tuberculosis. There is speculation that he may divisions George Edward have suffered from autism or (ADD) attention “Rube” Waddell deficit disorder. Waddell posted a career win- • Stealing the ball was not allowed was a farmer’s loss record of 193-143, with a 2.13 ERA. Rube • Holding the ball more than 3 seconds son. He was born had 2,316 strikeouts recorded. He was elected constituted a foul Friday, October 13, to the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1876, in Bradford, 1946 by the veterans committee. • Each player was only allowed 3 bounces Pennsylvania. of the ball Connie Mack once said, “Waddell had more Friday the thirteenth stuff than any pitcher I ever saw.” There’s a • Each team would play with 5-10 players should have been a funny story that has Rube Waddell winning depending on the court size yet for the game as we know it today. To be clue. Catcher Jack accepted by the public and receive support the opener of a doubleheader, when Manager Nelson gave him the Connie Mack asked him how he felt about also The rules reflect the emphasis on fostering a from the physical education community, it was nickname, “Rube,” pitching the second game of the afternoon. spirit of sharing and equal opportunity. Many important that female basketball players and which was usually Rube Waddell Rube responded, “I don’t know, but I’ll see by teams adopted these new rules, but many coaches adhered to acceptable social behaviors. reserved for hicks. ignored them. Unfortunately, the attempts to going down to the bullpen and warming up.” Six-On-Six Basketball (aka Basquette) Rube grew up throwing rocks and killing crows standardize the game and tame it didn't satisfy trying to eat seeds as they were being planted. Andy Purvis is a local author and radio the critics' fears that the sport was too physically This largely archaic variant of basketball was He played professional baseball for 13 years personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. demanding on the female body. usually played by women and girls. It is played with the Louisville Colonels, Pittsburgh Pirates, com for all the latest info on his books or to with the same rules as regular Chicago Orphans, Philadelphia A’s and St. Louis listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books basketball, with the following Browns. He owned a fine fastball, a fall-off- are available online and can be found in the exceptions: the-table curveball, and threw a screwball that local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be 1. Teams have six players each few batters had ever seen. He led the American contacted at [email protected]. Also instead of five; three "forwards" League in strikeouts for six consecutive years, listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s and three "guards". and he may have been the strangest player to Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. ever play Major League baseball. Back then com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of 2. Only forwards are allowed to players slept two to a bed when traveling to the Houston Astros. shoot the ball. Forwards must stay in their teams' frontcourt (the side of the court they shoot from) and guards must stay in their team's backcourt. For example, Team A's forwards 1902 Womens Basketball Team. would be on the left side of the court with Team B's guards on Doctors at the time believed that running defense. Team B's forwards are on the right strained women's smaller hearts. They also side of the court with Team A's guards. Thus, cautioned against playing during the first three forwards play only offense and guards play days of the menstrual cycle. Lucille Eaton Hill only defense. of Wellesley College in Massachusetts was an 3. In some forms, unlimited dribbling is outspoken critic of the game. She felt that the not allowed. Once in possession of the ball, sport was harmful to the beauty and health of players may dribble the ball up to two times; young female basketball players. She also at that point, the player must shoot (if a believed the excitement of the game had an forward) or pass to a teammate. Both forwards "evil influence on the emotional and nervous and guards may handle the ball. feminine nature." 4. There is no three-point line; all field goals In fact, coaches were not allowed to shout at are worth two points. (The three-point line their players. Even if they wanted to encourage would not be added to the collegiate rules their team or give them instructions, they had to until the 1980s, by which time six-on-six was keep quiet so they wouldn't upset or incite their mostly phased out.) players. Overall, Lucille Hill was concerned that basketball would "unsex" the girls who Today, nearly all women's basketball leagues played it. And she voiced her concerns publicly (pro, college, and high school) play by the in 1903 at a meeting of the New England same basic five-on-five rules as men, with Association of Colleges and Prep Schools. only minor differences such as size of the ball and the distance of the three-point line. In the Major Early Rule Changes United States, the last major sanctioning bodies to abandon the six-on-six variant were the high In response, the committee revamped the rules school state athletic organizations of Iowa and in 1903. Oklahoma. The sport is still occasionally seen 1903 at the recreational level, such as during physical education classes; in these cases, both boys and • An out-of-bounds rule was instituted girls play the game. giving the ball to the opponent who Mason Hrncir caught fifteen trout outside Anchor 9 in Humble Channel. knocked it out. Before there were any TO BE CONTINUED out of bounds rules, players went crazy Dotson’s Other Note: On this note last week I chasing down loose balls, pushing and wrote: “In the next issue I plan to discuss my shouting down stairs and hallways. Some involvement in modernizing Girls/Women’s schools even erected chicken wire fences Basketball Rules and the trials and tribulations around their courts to eliminate these in doing so.” Sorry about that; I had to get the chases. foregoing in before discussing the rules today. • The number of players on the court To say the least, today’s game and Basquette (depending on the court size) went from look nothing like each other. Comments/calls/ 5-10 to 6-9. It was felt that 5 players put texts are welcome. 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We got through the Large mature redfish have been schooling up but I think a few of us tried one last fall or usual business and then went into a yet another and making their way towards the Gulf Passes. something. I remember that there was a storm workshop with the Area Development Plan. This week they have been along the ICW Canal in the Gulf, and that really limited us to only I’m sure hoping that this turns out to be a good and all the shallow areas along it. Some of these the close section of the jetties. The water was synopsis of what Islanders are thinking, and hope big giants have been caught along the JFK dirty, and we were blind in the water. But, we that it has tangible, sensible recommendations Causeway at night and off of area piers too. We managed to get a few castnets out of the water, for planning for our future. Hopefully they’re have been catching a few on live croaker while which are magnets for other fishing line. Those listening and taking our recommendations to we are fishing for trout, but to really pinpoint things are really bad on the rocks. Stay tuned, heart, and that our vision translates into the efforts towards giant redfish you will need and when Terry gets something together, we’ll document. We need a plan like yesterday. to grab some fresh mullet, skipjack, or Shad. let you know. Due to conditions, it may not be They’re supposed to start work on the PR 22 on a weekend, and it may be last minute notice. bridge here in about another month. Keep your eyes on the Island Moon social media page. We got an update on Zahn Road, and technically it has been ready for business for Speaking of cleaning up, pay attention if over a week. Terry told me that he saw them you’re a cabin owner. Islander Charlie Mader working on removing the berm, so hopefully it let me know that there will be some clean up will be open for the weekend. Also hoping that barges down south in a couple of weeks, Sept the wind doesn’t change directions and blow 10th or 12th (weather dependent, of course). the light condensate from the rig blow out on As in the past, one will be around Twin Palms, the beach, although that light stuff is probably and another one down in the Landcut by Haps already gone today. Channel. Volunteers are needed to help haul We have been bringing monster redfish stuff to the barges. There is a lot of debris Loyal reader Mark Sanders sent me an email like this one to the dock at Marker 37 down south lining the shorelines, and a lot of and a couple of pics of a sailboat that was Marina all week. RED RUN IS ON. hands are needed. There will be food provided sinking off the beach down on the Seashore. Trout fishing has continued to be out of sight! by Steven Schmidt and Trey Williams down at Look for his pics and story below. Thanks for We are catching good limits of 2-5pound fish Twin Palms for the volunteers that day. So, get writing in Mark. every day, the best trout fishing is on its way! that on your calendar now and stay tuned here Well folks, it’s been busy lately, and I think I’ve As soon as the first cold fronts enter our area for more details as time gets closer. spent more waking hours on virtual meetings and all the hunters abandon their fishing boats Fishing With Dad than anything else lately. This is our last big to the boat barns, the big trout of Baffin Bay weekend before everyone gets back to school will start to spend more and more time up in My dad surprised me the other day and showed and hopefully we don’t get a huge spike in the those shallows preparing for their fall spawn up from Houston to stay with me for the week. virus. I typically forget that this is the busiest and aggressively feeding on big baitfish, He’s getting a few things done for friends and time of the year, and it doesn’t slow down till building their reserves for the winter months. family, and we were supposed to fish in the somewhere in November after the elections. Lisa Cowan with one her big Birthday Wade fishing with topwaters in October and evenings, but the wind has been brutal. Doesn’t Here we go! Drop me a line at tarponchaser@ trout she caught tickling a live croaker in November is my favorite time of year! matter; I’m doing 12-hour days anyway. We did mail.com and I’ll see you next week On the 35mph winds this week! get out the other day before the full moon, but Rocks. This Labor Day Weekend Marker 37 Marina the bite was off. Dad got the big fish of the day is having a great party! It’s been so long since our Island has been able to come together in celebration, especially with LIVE MUSIC! About a boat They are having a Mask Party! Come out get some great Food and enjoy all the docks and Hello Jay as a sailboat. We did report it to the CG which decks with the best views on the Island! They Just wanted to drop a quick line stating how was aware of this. Just curious if you had seen have a great bar, tables and covered seating much we enjoy your “On the Rocks” article this and have any info where it came from? Take areas for your family and friends. Their frozen featured weekly in the Moon. A quick Question? care and keep up the good work. Margaritas are absolutely awesome!! There will Yesterday we went down island PINS for the be all kinds of vendors there this weekend, and first time since the storms. As you are aware the Regards plenty of room to dance, sing and let the kids run tide was up and the surf very strong due to the Mark Sanders around. Shuffleboard, giant Jenga, corn hole, winds. After arriving at Mansfield we turned and a bunch of other group games for your party around and ventured back at approximately to have fun with. The work Mitchell has done 9:00 am. As we came to the 55 Mile marker, to the facility as well as Snoopy’s is incredible. as normal we glanced out to see if we could You can order food from anywhere at marker spot the old boilers which were completely 37 even the fuel dock! One thing about Marker covered by the surf. However, approximately 37 Marina is that there are so many places to 200 – 300 yards out from what I would assume sit and enjoy your company it’s completely safe was the third bar we could see something being distancing fun. Ms Judy Arnold is the manager thrashed around by the rough surf. Using our and has that place running like a fine oiled camera’s telescopic lens we could identify it machine, you can’t miss her! She is the pretty blond with the big smile and wonderful laugh always ready to make your experience there a memory. Come listen to some great music and Mature trout have big thick fangs for check out their Facebook page for details! capturing and holding baitfish. Buying these from a bait camp will not match fresh bait caught in a cast net. I fish shallow water with large chunks of cut bait thrown into shallow sand pockets. Equally effective is anchoring up along the ICW Canal and fishing the drop off. These migrating monsters will stay close to the main source of bait and tidal flow. Drifting the flats can be a great way to find them as well, long casts with big 3/4 ounce gold Weedless spoons will just about pull your arm off when you tie into a 40” plus redfish on light tackle. Popping corks above love shrimp or soft plastics will work great on windy days but when the winds lay slack it’s hard to cover water and get close to sensitive redfish. These schools of reds will start to show up around the PACKERY Channel area in the next few weeks and will be easily accessed my car or truck. 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Full Transparency and Disclosure National Suicide Prevention Month PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President By Todd Hunter, District 32 In the 86th legislative session, I authored HCR As always, let me have through the results of defunding the PIPOA. September is National Suicide Prevention 137 which designated September as Suicide your thoughts. You can In the event of a 25 to 50 percent decrease Month. This month is recognized by many Prevention Month in the State of Texas. The reach me at marvin@ in revenue, the PIPOA could not maintain mental health advocates, organizations, Coastal Bend took the lead in realizing that pipoa.net the PIPOA at its current level. For example, survivors, and community members to unite suicide exacts a heavy toll on our state, leaving too many people to cope with the sudden loss Board Members- The the PIPOA maintains Billish Park. It is the and promote suicide prevention and awareness. of someone they hold dear. A greater awareness Board Members of the PIPOA are volunteers. only park with real grass on the Island. The According to the National Alliance on Mental of suicide warning signs and intervention They receive no compensation of any kind for park may have to be returned to the City for Illness, suicide is the second leading cause of strategies can play an important role in reducing their time and dedication to the community. maintenance. Take a look at Aquarius, Jack death among people aged 10-34. September is Fish, and Douden Parks to see how the City designated the month to share resources and the number of these senseless tragedies. Covenant Amendments- Two covenant maintains parks on the Island. According educate individuals, friends, and families to To learn more about Suicide Prevention amendments are being proposed to a few to the PIPOA Attorney, in his opinion, shed light on this critical public health issue. Month and the significance of this awareness subdivisions within the PIPOA. One, to the PIPOA is within the boundaries of the month, please visit the National Suicide reduce the CAM fees from the current level Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the covenants and other governing documents Prevention Lifeline’s website at https:// of $.02 per square foot for dry lots and $.10 U.S., and the overall suicide rate has increased to maintain certain portions of City property suicidepreventionlifeline.org/. The Lifeline can per square foot for canal lot. Canal lot owners by 31% since 2001. Furthermore, more than for the benefit of the members. Please think also be contacted at 1-800-273-8255, which pay 5 times more than dry lot owners. The twice as many people die from suicide as from through what weed fields in the Whitecap provides 24/7, free and confidential support purpose of this difference puts a much greater homicide. From 1999 to 2016, rates of suicide median would do to your property values. for people in distress, or prevention and crisis burden on the canal owners so that their rose in nearly every state, and Texas experienced Folks, it costs money to maintain boat ramps, resources. Additional information about risk money can be used for bulkhead maintenance. an 18.9 percent increase during that period. Due bulkheads, and canals. factors and prevention information is also The proposed amendment would return the to these alarming statistics it is important to available on the National Alliance on Mental CAM fees level back to the 2007 CAM fee Bulkheads- The PIPOA has a new Bulkhead understand the issues concerning suicide and Illness’ website here: https://www.nami.org/. rates. Most subdivisions, but not all in 2007, email hotline. If you believe your bulkhead mental health, to take part in suicide prevention, paid $.01 for dry lots and $.02 for canal has a problem, email to bulkheads@pipoa. and to change the conversation around suicide. If you would like to review more about the lots. The second proposal would change the net. Please include your name, address, Although it is hard to predict a suicide legislature, please visit the Texas Legislature PIPOA liability status. The PIPOA Board of phone, and a brief description of the problem. attempt, knowing warning signs can help. online at www.capitol.state.tx.us/ . If you have Directors voted at the July meeting to oppose If you are not an email enthusiast, please The concern expressed by friends, parents, questions regarding any of the information these amendments. call the PIPOA office at 361-949-7025. The and family members can make a difference to mentioned in this week’s article, please do not PIPOA now has dedicated a person to the hesitate to call my Capitol or District Office. In 2007, the Members agreed to raise the someone who is struggling with suicide. New inspection, scheduling maintenance, and As always, my offices are available at any time CAM fees to today’s level. The increase in behavior such as increased alcohol use and reporting information into a new database. to assist with questions, concerns or comments CAM fees was only raised on new property drug use, aggressive behavior, withdrawal from This is something I have been seeking going (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; District Office; owners. That is, property owners at the time friends and family, dramatic mood swings, back to 2017. Thank you to this Board for the and impulsive or reckless behavior can be a 361-949-4603). of the increase were grandfathered, in that, foresight to make this happen. they continued to pay the old rate while few warning signs. However, by starting the - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 Board appointment- The Board has two conversation, providing support, and helping newcomers paid the new rate. The CAM fee Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). rate, paid by most PIPOA members, has not vacant seats. These seats are for approximately those who need it, we can save lives and prevent a 6-month term. Members interested in being suicides. He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. increased in approximately 13 years. The state.tx.us or at 512-463-0672. 2007 Board of Directors had the foresight considered to fill these seats should contact to anticipate the rising costs of maintaining Jim Smock at 361-949-7025 or via email at the PIPOA and putting money into a reserve [email protected] with a letter of interest and or investment account for the purpose of dealing resume’. The registration period will be open The Alamo is Back in Business With Timed with a disaster such as a hurricane. from August 27 through September 9 at 5:00 PM. A Special Board meeting to appoint new The Board’s position is defunding the PIPOA Board members will be held on Thursday, Ticketing System would be detrimental to all the members of the September 10, at 5:30 PM. PIPOA. The Board asks the members to think Remember the Alamo? Welcome back! After visitors will need to reserve their free ticket reopening the Alamo grounds on August 20th, to enter the Church ahead of their visit on the Alamo is happy to announce that visitors theAlamo.org. Visitors can check-in with their will be able to tour the inside of the Church tickets up to 10 minutes before their scheduled Serve Corpus Christi Padre Isles Property starting Thursday, September 3. Like many time with a Visitor Services Representative in other historic sites and museums, the Alamo front of the Church. A maximum of 50 people Owners Association, will be implementing a new timed ticketing will be allowed inside at once, and visitors will – Make a Difference system to help visitors practice social distancing have 30 minutes to explore the inside of the The City of Corpus Christi has numerous and manage the number of people in the Church Church. Afterward, visitors are free to explore boards, commissions and committees which Inc. Special Board of at once. the rest of the grounds as long as they like. strive to reflect the diverse interests and abilities of our citizens. “With this new ticketing system, visitors can Tickets will not be required to walk the general Directors Meeting once again experience the awe-inspiring feeling Alamo grounds, and are only required for the The City Secretary’s Office is currently seeking Thursday, September 10, 2020 of being inside the Alamo Church,” Alamo Church since it is a smaller, enclosed space. applications for the following boards CEO Doug McDonald said. “We hope that 5:30 pm Additional timed tickets will be available at • Building Standards Board visitors remember that because of the nature of the Alamo Welcome Center for walk-ups, who Hyatt Place this pandemic, our new procedures like timed will be offered a ticket at the next available time • Construction Trade Advisory & Appeals ticketing are fluid and may evolve as required to unless no additional bookings are available Board 6773 South Padre Island Dr. protect our staff and the public.” that day. When booking their free timed ticket • Corpus Christi B Corporation (next to Saltgrass Steakhouse) As always, touring the Church remains 100% online, guests will have the option of adding an • Corpus Christi Business and Job Corpus Christi, Tx 78412 free. To help stop the spread of COVID-19, audio tour at an additional cost. Development Streaming to PIPOA Facebook page • Corpus Christi Convention & Visitors Due to the executive order concerning covid-19, Bureau seating will be very limited; only 10 people may • Corpus Christi Downtown Management be present at a given time. District Notice of meeting and agenda • Ethics Commission 1. Call to order If you know of anyone interested in serving on 2. Pledge of allegiance a City board, commission or committee, please direct them to the City of Corpus Christi’s 3. Receive conflict of interest statement(s) website at http://serve.cctexas.com. For 4. New business: appointment of two (2) assistance, please call Norma Duran at (361) board members 826-3893 or via e-mail at NormaD2@cctexas. com. 5. Executive session a. Legal matters Open Application b. Personnel matters 6. Adjourn Period for Vendors at City Beaches and One Seat on Flour Parks Bluff ISD Board is Anyone interested in operating a food truck or other mobile business on Corpus Christi Contested beaches has until Friday, September 4, to file an Five candidates are running for seats on the application with the city. Flour Bluff Independent School District Board The Corpus Christi Parks & Recreation of Trustees. Four positions are up for election on Department is now accepting applications Tuesday, November 3: Place 1, Place 3, Place 6 Visitors can use their phone or a printed ticket to check-in up to 10 minutes before their for vendors at its City beaches until 5 p.m. on and Place 7. designated time slot to enter the Church. Friday, September 4, 2020. The City will issue The following individuals submitted five-month Vending Permits from October 2020 applications to run for a Place on the Flour Bluff to February 2021 to vendors who qualify. There ISD Board: are two Cole Park and nine Gulf Beach vendor locations. In addition, vendors can also request Candidate for Place 1 Jerry L. Hooper, Jr. other park locations throughout the city. (Incumbent) Running uncontested Applications will be reviewed, and if necessary, Candidate for Place 3 Jeff Rank a drawing will be held to determine vendor (Incumbent) Running uncontested locations if multiple vendors select the same Candidates for Place 6 Jennifer Welp location. Vendors will be notified after the (Incumbent) Kathy Gromoll selection has been made to issue the permits Candidate for Place 7 Michael Morgan for the locations prior to the beginning of the (Incumbent) Running uncontested permit period. The selected vendors are required to undergo and pass background checks prior to issuing permits. The application form and requirements are available on the City of Corpus Send Letters and Photos to Christi website. [email protected] and follow us on Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper

Fully Guided • All Tackle Provided (361)442-8145 September 3, 2020 Island Moon A 14 Nature Notes Labor Day Tips September is for By Emily Gaines | PR Coordinator for BBB serving the Heart of Texas Students are looking for a sense of normalcy as compare online classes and parent- Ruby-throated Hummingbirds! they navigate the school year during COVID-19. taught programs to see which ones fit Students in Driver’s Ed are no exception. While your schedule and budget. If you decide By Susan Heath These little birds make the impressive journey some Texas driving schools are holding classes to proceed with in-person classes, call flying all on their own. in person, many are encouraging students to the driving school to see what safety By the start of September, Ruby-throated pursue online or parent-taught courses to limit precautions are in place. Hummingbird migration is well underway and Fortunately for us, the Texas Coast is right in exposure among students. we’ve been seeing them regularly at the Gulf the middle of their migration flight path. Some • Look for quality. When looking for a Coast Bird Observatory. It’s time to get those will follow the coast around, but others will Learning to drive is a big moment in your driving school, consider checking to see feeders out! These little jeweled warriors will take the shorter route straight across the Gulf teenager’s life, as well as a big responsibility. if the instructors are properly credentialed let you know if you are tardy in meeting the of Mexico. To meet the energy demands of Choose the right driver’s education program for with the American Driver & Traffic Safety demands of their sweet tooth. this flight, they can double their body weight your student with these tips from your Better Education Association (ADTSEA). with fat in a matter of days by bulking up on Ruby-throated Hummingbirds begin Business Bureau: You can check the Texas Department of nectar from flowers and feeders and from eating southward migration in August and continue Licensing and Regulation at tdlr.texas.gov insects. • Know state requirements. The state through October with mid-September as the of Texas requires drivers under 18 to for instructors in your area, as well as your local AAA club for recommendations. Be peak of their journey. Weighing in at only 3 Though there are 15 species that breed in the complete a driver’s education course grams, they are a terror in the air and definitely western U.S., The Ruby-throated Hummingbird before obtaining a license. Students sure to check BBB.org as well to view business profiles of local driving schools. not candidates for good behavior which is why is the only breeding hummingbird in the eastern are required to complete six hours of we say they don’t work and play well with U.S. While we are inundated with southbound classroom instruction using the concurrent • Check policies. Ask if you must sign a others. Sharing is just not their thing. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds in the fall, method, or 32 hours using the block contract, and if payments need to be made during the winter, this area is home to several Ruby-throated Hummingbirds breed as far method. 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Although we often have a few lingering Ruby-throats in winter, most of them will leave by mid-November, but The Barnacle Line the western hummingbirds will be here through March until they head back west. TLPD --- It’s coming! ---- By Del Smith Get ready! ----- Plan for it! ---- If you are interested in enjoying the Prepare now! ---- Be here soon! Forkers - Those who reside in shore side hummingbird migration, check out our virtual ---- Got to do it! seaports who steal dockyard stores. hummingbird festival on Saturday September Jill - ¼ of pint; measure of rum. 19th or 26th, from 8 until noon on Gulf Coast Anyway, that was about how the conversation Bird Observatory’s live Facebook feed. You went that I had with the Triple E, the other day. Kedger - A mean fellow. can watch hummingbird banding, listen in on As I recollect, it seems as though he wanted me Liver faced - Mean and cowardly. informative talks about hummingbirds and to do something about it for this issue. I also native plants, and even symbolically adopt a recollect that in one of my moments of rare Lot man - Old term for pirate. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds migrate as Ruby-throated Hummingbird of your own. If inattention, (yah, --- right), I agreed to do so, Snarly-yow - A discontented, litigious much as 1,000 miles twice a year between the bird you adopted is identified somewhere not fully understanding just what sort of mess grumbler. their wintering and breeding grounds. else by its band, we’ll send you a post card I just signed up for. Maybe it had something to Photo by Mike Williams. letting you know when and where it was seen. do with you readers wanting a break from my Fun terms for drinking. on and on and on recollections of my youth and If you want to spruce up your yard for the Bub - A liquor or drink. birds, check out our native and flowering plant old Sam Buzzard, was one of my thoughts. Was There was once a myth that the Ruby-throated this what Esteemed Editor Ellis had in mind? Flip - Sea drink; beer, sprits and sugar. offerings in our online store. You can buy Hummingbirds hitched rides on the backs of online and pick them up at Gulf Coast Bird So now that I have agreed to do this thing, all Half seas over - About drunk. other birds in order to make the journey across Observatory with contactless pickup. I have to do now is figure what I am going to the Gulf. While that’s a fun idea, it is not reality. Hob-a-nob - To drink cosily; or toasting. about it. ------What ever it is. Kidleywink - Low beer shop. TLPD ----- ? What in the heck is that? Definitely not an acronym in our language, so Six water grog - Punishment drink; 6 to 1, it has to be initials, --- right? So how about, ---- verses 4 to 1. Seashore Happenings aaah; Totally Late Postal Department? --- No, Bleeding the monkey - The monkey is the probably not. True, but couldn’t be. So let’s go transfer bucket to carry grog from the galley with; Tasty Luscious Peach Donuts? ---- Nope, to the mess; so you are stealing from the way too fattening. Lets try; Totally Late Puberty bucket during transit. Discoveries? ----- Hummm. Interesting. But I don’t think we should go there. Not in this Now some all around terms. publication, anyway. --- Hold it! Got another Balla rag - To abuse or bully. one. But, drat, it sort of falls in the same category as the last one. --- Topless Ladies Post- Bear a bob - Lend a hand. menopausal Dances. --- Now wouldn’t that be Caury - Worm eaten. fun to write about! --- Especially the research. Colt - A short piece of rope with a large But somehow, I don’t think that was what knot on it’s end; kept in pocket. Editor Ellis had in mind. ----- Hummmm? --- Wait a minute! I’m having a flash back. --- Yes it Garr - Sea plants, growing on ships was about something that I wrote last year. Just bottom. about this time. ---- Hummm? 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Slops - Ready-made clothes, provided by Bail’d, I’ll be if we don’t haul our wind and frap the ship. this ‘ere day to your twig.” Sny - Gentle upwards bend in timber; hang Well ole Triple E was right “it” is coming, when curves down. Sept. 19th, the day when all of you wanna-be buccaneers can unleash your antique nautical Tom Pepper - Liar, kicked out of hell for vocabulary and astound friends and neighbors. lying. ---- And, possibly, be forgiven for sounding Top Swayer - Leader of any undertaking. foolish. So dig out that old copy of Treasure So there you have it, a ready made vocabulary Island and bone up on salty talk of the sea. ---- for the up coming TLPD, on Sept. 19th. ------And maybe, even avoid jail time. TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!!!! For those of you that are saying, “Huh?”, “ARRRRGH! MATES WE BE ALL A about that paragraph above, I’ll give you a short COCKBILL NOW!!” dictionary to translate it. Busker - Busking; piratical cruising. Doylt - Lazy or stupid. 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By Ronnie Narmour [email protected] Time to help our neighbors… What’s today? This has been the most exhausting six months of my life. This political and social unrest is exhausting. Dodging this COVID is exhausting. And, watching a half dozen new storms fester in Gulf at any given moment is exhausting. I have to get a head of steam going just to watch the news lately. My mermaid gal called it right. She says everyone The Jam Band with Mike Luna played is experiencing PTSD, to some degree, from Giggity’s on Saturday. all this havoc. We are one collective frayed or out on the front patio.” I look forward to nerve right now. When the days that I can race power tools there once the pics came in from again. And Tim Everitt tells me that the Port A Hurricane Laura’s Beer Hut aka: Swing Bar is back hitting on all massive destruction cylinders over at their compound. They’ve built in Louisiana at the a cool outdoor kitchen, their bar is back open same time as the three and they have both their retail drive through and golf cart rentals all going strong. I love year anniversary of Hurricane Laura put a serious hurt on Lake Charles. Hurricane Harvey, my that place. And head started spinning Bernie’s is now around like I was open with a much about to erupt green bigger food menu Jason Anderson and pea soup. We need and tables and Jenn Shafer jumped to help these people. chairs on the dance Live Music in immediately to What would we have floor. It was good help the folks in done without the to see Mille behind Lake Charles. help of our neighbors the bar. Hey, its when Harvey literally baby steps back to Tonight tore our world apart? normalcy and I’ll My pals Jason Anderson and Jenn Shafer take it. My heart Thursday, September 3 Wednesday, September 16 hooked up with the Cajun Navy and a trailer bleeds for our Free Beer Band @ Magnus @ Giggity’s full of food and water and emergency supplies local bars that are Giggity’s to take to Lake Charles. We all know how There’s a sight for still closed: Back Josh Abbott @ Brewster Thursday, September 17 much volunteers saved our rears after Harvey sore eyes. Mille is Porch, Treasure Street Downtown Free Beer Band @ Ghostbusters @ Concrete Giggity’s and Jason and Jenn wasted no time gathering back behind the bar at Island, Red’s, Shorty’s, Salty Street Drive-In Kolby Cooper @ Brewster supplies and leading the charge from Port A. As Bernies. Street Downtown we know all too well, it will take them years to Dog and 361. Bars all over the country Friday, September 4 get back to normal (whatever that is.) Jason sent Dreaming In Color @ TEMPORARILY Friday, September 18 a live Facebook feed when he first got into Lake are closing and the trickle down gets worse by Giggity’s John Cortez @ Giggity’s Charles and as he drove through town it became the day. Bar owners and managers, bartenders, Avengers: End Game @ CLOSED AS COVID Randall King @ Brewster painfully obvious that these folks are in a world cooks, waitresses, musicians, the poor sap who Concrete Street Drive-In Street of hurt right now. There wasn’t one structure writes about it and on and on, are all desperate Giovannie & the Hired PRECAUTION that wasn’t damaged or destroyed. Harvey for work and money right now. When do we get Guns, Dylan Wheeler Saturday, September 19 produced a lot of rain where Laura produced to exhale? @ Brewster Street Starlite & the Moonbeams Downtown 132 W. Cotter St. Port A @ Giggity’s more wind and Louisiana is full of big trees… DO NOT MISS LIST On the Waterfront TBA @ Brewster Street trees that blew down on top of everything Saturday, September 5 Downtown everywhere. Every one of us should find a way Back Pew Revival @ to help them out. Donate money, supplies, food, Giggity’s Sunday, September 20 yourself or something to help these folks. It’s Roger Creager @ Antone & All Stars @ bad, real bad… or as Jason put it, “It looks like Brewster Street Giggity’s somebody dropped about eight atomic bombs Downtown right here.” Dig deep folks. The Lion King @ Monday, September 21 Concrete Street Drive-In Open Jam @ Giggity’s Message in a bottle… Sunday, September 6 Tuesday, September 22 Toman Brothers @ Paul & Victoria @ Giggity’s Giggity’s Roger Creager @ Brewster Street Wednesday, September Downtown 23 Dark Knight, Alien @ Treasure Island Hank Reeves @ Giggity’s The Toman Brothers will play Giggity’s on Concrete Street Drive-In Thursday, September 24 Sunday. Labor Day, September 7 Free Beer Band @ Open Jam @ Giggity’s TEMPORARILY CLOSED Giggity’s Coming this weekend… AS COVID PRECAUTION Tuesday, September 8 Friday, September 25 I only caught the Jam Band at Giggity’s last Paul & Victoria @ Johnny Boy @ Giggity’s week. These guys are bar band royalty from Giggity’s Corpus and put on a great show. Their front man 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Saturday, September 26 My mermaid gal found a message in the Mike Luna mixed it up well and though they Wednesday, September 9 treasureislandporta The Groove @ Giggity’s bottle on San Jose. weren’t supposed to, the girls were wiggling… Jim Dugan @ Giggity’s in their chairs (dancing is still forbidden). Sunday, September 27 Thursday, September 10 Antone & All Stars @ Coming this Labor Day weekend, I have no Peak of hurricane season Giggity’s Did anyone see my mermaid gal on TV this idea what to expect. If it’s a normal Labor Free Beer Band @ week? She and her boss Jace are scientists at Day, we could be in trouble. But, there is some Giggity’s Monday, September 28 MSI and do beach patrols on San Jose Island good music around, here and there. Giggity’s Bart Crow @ Brewster Open Jam @ Giggity’s every month counting birds and looking for has Dreaming in Color, Back Pew Revival Street nurdles and whatever else they may find on the and the great Toman Brothers and Brewster Tuesday, September 29 beach. Last week they found a message in the Street Downtown has Josh Abbott, Giovannie Friday, September 11 Paul & Victoria @ bottle, which really isn’t that rare. Jace has a and the Hired Guns, Dylan Wheeler and Mike O’Neill @ Giggity’s Giggity’s Roger Creager. That’s all strong stuff. And Bart Crow @ Brewster shelf full of them. But this one came from a Street Wednesday, September 30 fourth grader in Louisiana whose teacher had the Concrete Street Drive-In will have some Ty Dietz @ Giggity’s made a class project of sending out messages cool movies all weekend: Ghostbusters, The Saturday, September 12 in a bottle in the name of science. The bottle Avengers, The Lion King, Dark Knight and Todd Dorn & the Sea Thursday, October 1 had been afloat for three years when Jace and Alien. You can load up the back of the pickup Drifters @ Giggity’s Free Beer Band @ Tracy found it. It had a map of the currents in and party at the drive in… like the old days. Kevin Fowler (2 shows) Giggity’s the Gulf and a letter with his phone number on In Lubbock we used to go to the Golden @ Brewster Street Jon Pardi @ Concrete it. One of the local TV news stations picked up Horseshoe. Downtown Street on it and got in touch with the kid and set up a On the Horizon Sunday, September 13 TEMPORARILY Friday, October 2 zoom meeting. It was the feel good segment of Antone & All Stars @ @ the night and they ran it with every newscast for On the near horizon watch for shows by Bart Giggity’s CLOSED AS COVID two days. Pretty cool, huh? Crow, Mike O’Neill, Todd Dorn, Kevin Saturday, October 3 Fowler, Kolby Cooper, John Cortez, Starlite Monday, September 14 Jon Mikael MREZ @ On the local front… and the Moonbeams, Johnny Boy, The Open Jam @ Giggity’s PRECAUTION Giggity’s A couple of the local bars that sell food have Groove and Jon Mikael MREZ. That ought come back online recently. The Gaff is now to hold you for a while. Be safe out there and Tuesday, September 15 OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. Sunday, October 4 back functioning as our local pirate hangout and for Pete’s sake, PUT ON A MASK and go wash Paul & Victoria @ Antone & All Stars @ Giggity’s Giggity’s pizza joint. Kip Shannon tells me that we can your hands. No whining. now, “Come inside and order your favorite pizza ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ Monday, October 5 and drinks and sit outside in our huge backyard Open Jam @ Giggity’s

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