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Issue 771 the 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free Inside the Moon Fire in Port A. A4 Frostbite Betty A5 Traveling Moon A9 Bollards A9 Seashore Happenings A11 Issue 771 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 January 24, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Photo by Steve Coons Around Desalination The Island Succession! Plant on By Dale Rankin Sea Pines subdivision petitions to be removed from PIPOA It’s been a mostly uneventful week Harbor here on our little sandbar, we’ve had some beautiful nights when the wind By Dale Rankin but can be severed at any time by a and sinkholes and those are city majority vote of the property owners lays down and you can see the red When Islanders Demarinis Abens functions. If we didn’t do this we there. Island Dead lights on the papalotes all the way and Robin Marcoux walked out of couldn’t concentrate our money on By Dale Rankin over on the King Ranch shoreline. the monthly meeting of the Padre “We are still getting some signatures the things we need to focus on.” What passes for winter around here Isles Property Owners Association back in the mail,” Marcoux said. “But Harbor Island, across the Corpus Marcoux said there currently are no Christi Ship Channel from Port blew in with a little cool bite mid- Board of Directors meeting at we have enough to remove ourselves plans to form a board of directors week but with water temperatures in Island Presbyterian Church Tuesday so we went ahead and brought it to Aransas, is no longer being or POA in Sea Pines and that as the considered as a location for a water the mid-50s things gravitate back to night they left behind a changed the PIPOA.” property owners there exit the PIPOA mu soon enough. organization. desalinization plant, according to According to the Sea Pines bylaws they will not ask for a rebate of any of a consultant for the City of Corpus A beautiful moon rose up out of They presented the board with a and PIPOA rules the PIPOA now has the $9,779,577 in the POA account, Christi. the Gulf Sunday night and then petition containing the signitures until February 1 to file the necessary according to a Balance Sheet released at about sixty degrees above the of 120 property owners in the Sea paperwork with the Nueces County at the Tuesday meeting. They do plan A representative from Freese and horizon it turned blood red and then Pines Unit 1 subdivision to remove Clerk and Sea Pines will no longer to form a Neighborhood Watch and Nichols, Inc. an engineering firm it disappeared for a while. As we it from the PIPOA organization. Sea be part of the POA. Marcoux said seek a vacant lot to be used for a park. hired to study the construction of two water desalination plants on the sat in the comfort our Island homes Pines Unit 1, located at the south east the petition drive began in June, Each of the 35 subdivisions more than one Islander had to wonder corner of Sea Pines and SPID, has 2018 when paperwork was filed with north side of Corpus Christi Bay told in the PIPOA has its own set of the council on Tuesday that two sites what the Karankawa Indians must a total of 218 property owners and Nueces County verfiying the names deed covenants, restrictions, and have thought as they sat on the beach according to their bylaws they can of property owners to make sure landowners’ agreements which give Plant cont. on A4 half a century ago and watched the remove themselves from the POA any petition signers were the legal each of the various developments moon turn red and then disappear. with a simple majority of members. owners. the final and sovern say over how The details of their customs have According to the Sea Pines bylaws The Sea Pines subdivision is uniqely their property owners’ associaton is Port Aransas not come down to us through the their membership in PIPOA positioned with in the 35 subdivisions organized and whether they wish to centuries but we know that they automatically renews every ten years, that make up the PIPOA because be part of the PIPOA. The options in Selects considered Cabeza de Vaca a shaman there are no waterfront lots, all of most subdivisions include the ability of sorts so they must have had some the 218 lots are dry lots so bulkhead to opt out of the POA with a fifty Cinnamon sense of a higher power they could repair and maintanance, one of the percent-plus one vote of the property appeal to, like when the moon turned By the Numbers main functions of the PIPOA, are not owners in any given subdivision. The red and then disappeared. Shore to build an issue. Sea Pines move is the first on record The Full Blood Wolf Moon brought of any Island subdivision taking that “We think the POA should Conference a total eclipse and it took us back Padre Isles path. concentrate on the bulkheads and to 1504 when that old trickster waterways,” Marcoux said, “and we Over the years the subdivisons have Center and Christopher Columbus used the Property don’t have any of those. Our biggest remained in the Padre Isles Property Ephemeris of the German astronomer problems are street maintanace Hotel Regiomontanus to predict a lunar Owners Sea Pines cont. on A4 eclipse and scare the daylights Work scheduled to out of the natives of Jamaica into Association provisioning his ship or he would Editor’s note: The PIPOA on blot out the moon permanently. It was begin in 2020 Tuesday released a financial report POA Board Ballots in the Mail By Dale Rankin sleight of hand on a celestial scale. for the end of 2018. These numbers Ballots for the March 9 election issue. Each edition now through Year of the Pig are taken from the report. After more than four hours of of two members of the Padre Isles the election will deal with specific deliberation the Port Aransas City The Lunar New Year will ring in $9,779,577 Total Assets Board of Directors will be out by issues. If readers have a concern Council last week voted to use the on Saturday and 2019 is the Year of $395,232 Total Accounts the end of the week and are due they would like to have addressed developer of the Cinnamon Shore the Pig. The Asian Cultures Museum Receivable back by March 2. The results of the send it to the e-mail address and project to build a conference center here will ring in the pig year with a election will be announced at the we will pose a question to the and hotel in that city. Lion Dance and string of firecrackers $194,708 Doubtful Receivables annual meeting on March 9 with candidates. The two competing developers, to scare away the evil spirits. The $199,451 Adjusted Accounts five candidates on the ballot with The system used in last year’s Cinnamon Shore and Palmilla Beach festivities begin at 3 p.m. at 1809 N. Receivable the two top vote getters taking the election will be used again with Resort & Golf Club owned by San Chaparral Street, about the same time seats. $7,383,339 Self-Insured HPO the accounting department at Texas Antonio businessman Red McCombs, as the Belt Sander Races at the Gaff The candidates in ballot order are: A&M Corpus Christi is handling the were the two finalists responding to a in Port A, that’s a tough choice…belt $86,085 Contractor Refundable Kelly McFadden, Judith Cutright, ballots. The ballots will be mailed Request For Proposals in the project sanders or firecrackers and pigs… Deposits Robert Algeo, Daniel R. Brown III, to a safety deposit box maintained issued in August 2017, offering Beach tree $358 Dividend and Interest and Brian T. McCabe. by the university employees, they rebates of the state’s portion of both will not be accepted by nor handled Income Starting next issue we are offering the Sales and Hotel Occupancy Tax by the POA office. $37,234 Bulkhead Repair 2018 a space of 200 words per candidate generated by the project for a period Some thoughtful citizen decided to to state their goals, issues, and There is a meet and greet for POA of ten years estimated to be $530,000 dispose of their Christmas tree on the $19,001 Common Area reasons for running. Candidates candidates on Saturday, January, per year. The developer of the project beach just south of Bob Hall Pier on Maintenance can mail responses to editor@ 26 at Island Presbyterian Church, would also keep the city’s 7 cents of Tuesday. Apparently dragging it into $4,951 Legal Fees islandmoon.com and they will be 14030 Fortuna Bay Drive, from 10 the 13-cent HOT generated by the the dunes was way too much trouble included without edit in the next a.m. to Noon. project. Revenue projections are that for this post-yuletide celebrant. $5,035 Property Taxes Thanks a lot fellow, that’s just what Cinnamon cont. on A4 we needed, now please pick it up. A little Island history Island of Reprieve Schools of redfish a mile long Editor’s note: This is the third Island. I bought a surf net and used in a series of stories taken a Model-A to replace the rust-eaten verbatim from the memoirs of Model-T.
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