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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. We converted the Ford into a pickup. Viola helped me with the Islander Louis Rawalt who net until I found a fishing partner. Schlitterbahn Sign moved to The Island with his One morning when we were hauling The phone lit up this week when wife Viola in 1925 after being in the net, something kept leaping the Schlitterbahn sign came down on given only six months to live against it with the force of a huge the front of the building at the park. shark or a porpoise. We couldn’t But the news is that it is to allow for by doctors due to injuries from bring it in, so I staked one end of the painting the building and some other a mustard gas attack in World net into the sand, and hooked onto the repairs. There is a lot of work going War I. In the last story he had other end with the car. on at the building during the slow part already outlived the doctor’s of the season. estimate by over six months. He Slowly, I pulled in the net until the creature lay in the edge of the surf. and his wife Viola originally Incredible! It was an eighteen-foot built a cabin near what is now sawfish. When some fishermen came Packery Channel. by later that day and found me beside By Louis Rawalt the sawfish with a cane pole – no net in sight – they assumed I had caught We moved our camp to the edge it on the pole. I didn’t enlighten them, of Big Shell the next year, (1926) and this tall fish story was told about thirty-five miles down the beach. Corpus Christi for years. The sawfish, This time we had a shack to live I regret to say, became food for the in. A place loaned to us by Major Swan, one of the old timers on The Hand written manuscript cover Around cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 January 24, 2019 Island Moon A 2 Padre Isles Property Owners Association - Map Overview http://padreislespoa.net/map.cfm Padre Island Subdivisions Click here to view a more detailed map of the sections. Click here to view a more detailed map of the sections.

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Around cont. from A1 a profitable load of salvage for us and a grease bath for the beach. For along time after that the Fire Damages Port A. Eatery Island Strategic Action Committee sand was saturated with lard. The island coyotes The Island Strategic Action Committee has grew fat from feasting on it. Even the san crabs three empty seats coming up in March. One acquired a new look of sleekness. of the seats is earmarked for a member of the It was about the same time when the British Padre Isles Property Owners Association, and smuggler, “I’m Alone,” was shelled and sunk two are At-Large. The fourteen member board by a Coast Guard cutter in Sigsbee’s Deep near serves in an advisory capacity to the Corpus the southern tip of Padre. The ship was spotted Christi City Council and is our voice OTB. off New Orleans where she expected to land her Anyone interested in applying can go to the contraband cargo of whiskey. The cutter chased city’s website and apply, the final decision will her along the coast, finally closing on her. The be made by the council in its first meeting in captain refused to surrender. He jettisoned the March. cargo before the Coast Guard cutter blasted the Dog Park update ship full of holes. Work to make the Riley P. Dog Park a reality I received word by the island grapevine to be are ongoing. An insurance policy is being on the lookout for the liquor, so I started down written and donations, both financial and in- the beach in the pickup, searching the incoming kind labor, are coming in and site work is waves and the tide line for bottles of the amber expected soon. The site is in the open field south elixir. I didn’t see anything that looked like of the Whitecap Wastewater Treatment Plant at whiskey, but noticed a full gunnysack embedded the west end of Whitecap. It is under lease from in the sand. I could check on it later, so I moved the city for the dog park and will be supported on, but when I saw several more similar sacks, by donations from users. Plans call for two I stopped to investigate. The sack I opened separate fenced areas, one for small dogs and contained a dozen sealed tin cans. I pried the one for large dogs, surrounded by a walking lid from one of the cans. Inside, was a bottle track for pedestrians. of “Old Hospitality” Bourbon whiskey. During the day, I salvaged one hundred and ten sacks. It’s been a good winter so far with none of the I stashed this horde behind the dunes, filled a lingering artic blasts we sometimes get. We’ll duffle bag with seventy-two bottles and headed see you at the belt sander races and say hello if for Port Isabel. you see us Around The Island. The ferry boat took me across the channel. The captain’s suspicions were aroused by the History cont. from A1 weight of the duffle bag. I had to explain what I had found and make a gift of a few bottles. It is packs of coyotes that roamed the wild stretches enough to say that I disposed of the remainder of Big Shell. in Port Isabel. We seldom saw other human beings there, but When I returned to the island, a comforting coyotes growled close to our shack at night, and feeling of cash in my pockets and the prospect in the early mornings and evenings we saw them of more, I met the captain of the ferry boat and on the beach searching for fish which were the one of his crew. They were driving a pickup with mainstay of their diet. I learned by experience the bed loaded with the bulging gunnysacks. just how clever and crafty they were. I have seen I followed their tracks, ahs they had, from all A fire early Wednesday morning caused extensive damage to La Barataria restaurant in them fishing in the surf for mullet and catching appearances, followed mine, to my cache in the Port Aransas. The restaurant is located on the two hundred block of East Cotter next to them! Many times I saw these lean, hungry, dunes. Of all my loot there wasn’t even a bottle the historic Tarpon Inn. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Fortunately no animals watching me from over the rim of the left! one was injured in the fire. Photos by Ronnie Narmour dunes. Once I left the beach, they would sneak For weeks the beach was combed by thirsty down and pick up my discards. Sitting on the men all the way from Port Isabel to Port Cinnamon cont. from A1 porch that I had added to our shack, one early Aransas. At Port Aransas, one boatman got morning after I had set out my trotlines, I saw more of the “drink” than he counted oh. He the combined tax rebates would generate about come in at $17.5 million more than the proposed two big coyotes sling down to the water’s edge spotted a sack and headed his craft toward it. and begin dragging one of the lines in to shore. $900,000 annually which would be rebated to HOT and Sales taxes are projected to provide. As he reached over the side for the bobbing, the developer. Their proposal included a 200-room hotel and I was too amazed and curious to move. They burlap bag, he tumbled into the water. He was pulled the line all the way in; then bit the fish off Jeff Hentz, head of the Port Aransas Chamber a 21,500 square-foot conference center costing five miles from shore, and his boat was circling $56 million which the project tax rebates could the hooks, and trotted with them back to their away. He kept afloat by using the liquor as a of Commerce and Tourist Bureau Board of habitat in the dunes. Many persons doubted the Directors told the council the new facility will cover. However, the proposal would also have life-buoy. The boat swung in a circle, finally included $20 million in infrastructure for the truth of this, but I saw the same thing happen coming back to him. He grasped the side and target groups between 400 and 800 attendees. time and again. site which would have been paid by Palmilla struggled aboard. Evidently, the thoughts that The presentations presented by the two with the help of $5 million in state grants to One night Viola nudged me awake. “There’s raced through his brain as he floundered in competing groups at the Thursday council be provided by Nueces County, a $5 million something in the kitchen,” she whispered. the water, with drowning almost a certainty, meeting showed two distinct and contrasting guarantee by the city against operating losses, sobered him greatly; for when the got back to Listening, I heard the faint rattle of the tin plans for the project. and a Tax Increment Refinance Zone that would town, he sold his boat and other possessions and plates we had left on the table. I got up and have included the entire Palmilla development. move inland. Cinnamon Shore edged toward the kitchen. The moonlight It was the need for a TRZ that seemed to cause streamed through the open door, and outlined Next issue: Living through the Jeff Lampkin, developer of Cinnamon Shore, the council members the most problems. proposed a 200-room hotel located on site the gaunt, gray form of a coyote. He was on the hurricanes. The TRZ would have rebated property tax table licking up the remains of our supper. He of the Cinnamon Shore South development on new development at the entire Palmilla sensed my presence and leaped for the door, but located just inside the southern boundary of footprint, including that the around outside the slipped on a greasy plat and somersaulted into Sea Pines cont. from A1 Port Aransas on State Highway 361 which confines of the proposed hotel and conference the center of the room. I gave a swift kick to includes 3300 linear feet of beach frontage. Owners Association largely to catch ecomonies center. While the details of the TRZ would the astonished animal and sent it rolling down Construction of residential and commercial of scale in the maintanance, construction, have been developed after the selection of the back steps. Tail down, it trotted up a nearby amenities is already underway at the site, and and repair of the thirty-two miles of Island the Palmilla group, the presenters told the dune and sat on a nearby dune and sat on its Lamkin said his group sold “$30 million worth bulkheads. An amendment, Section VIII of the council that they plan two other hotels on the haunches barking with venom. As I looked of property at the site” the first weekend it went Protective Covenants for Sea Pines Unit 1 filed site and $11 million in improvements to the closer, I saw the forms of four of five puppies, on sale in mid-2017 and between Cinnamon on May 12, 1969 states: golf course which was damaged in Hurricane joining in the harsh chorus. They continued to Shore north and south has sold a total of $300 Harvey. Based on questions and feedback from bark until I got my shotgun; then they vanished “At any time the owners of the legal title million of Island property. Lamkin said plans council members it appeared that the addition into the night. to 51% of the the lots in such subdivision were already in place for a hotel on the site but of property tax rebates was the sticking point on (as shown in the records of Nueces County, without the conference center it would not be During a big run of redfish one night, I caught the Palmilla proposal. Texas) may amend the restrictions, covenants, built for several years. ninety, averaging in weight from five to fifteen The Palmilla/McCombs group which has conditions, and matters set forth herein by filing “Cinnamon Shore has the highest rental rate pounds. I kept them on stringers alive in the similar developments around the state said the an instrument containg such amendment in the on the Gulf Coast,” Lamkin told the council. “If surf until I was too tired to fish any more; the, additional development around the hotel and Office of the Councy Clerk of Nueces County, we are selected for this project we will move nearing midnight, I started to ice them down in conference center would be necessary for the Texas…” that up.” the pickup. There was no ice. I hastily loaded success of the project. the fish and hauled them back of the dunes He said that due to an ongoing working “There is a reason why conference centers and where I put them in a pond. We could net them Plant cont. from A1 relationship with the city moving to the hotels have not been built in Texas,” said Harry the next morning easily, and hurry them into the next step in the project, a Memorandum of have been selected for permitting and Harbor Adams of the McCombs group. “They don’t market. This catch would bring seventy-five or Understanding between the developer and city, Island is not on the list. work.” eighty dollars which we needed for supplies. “can be done in a couple of hours.” “We started with nineteen sites and now that Adams told the council that without the TRZ Satisfied with the night’s work, I tumbled into He said his plans call for a 24,000 square-foot bed and slept until dawn. With the first light has been narrowed to two and Harbor Island the project will not get financing. is not one of the remaining sites, it is not a conference center with an adjacent Embassy of morning, I hurried to the pond. I stared in The presentations at the Thursday meeting preferred site,” he said. Suites “Three Star Plus” hotel. Both would be amazement at what I saw: Scattered around the located on a seven-acre man-made lake, already were the first time the public was allowed to bank of the pond were the headless carcasses Instead the firm, in conjunction with the Port in place, and would also include a spa run by see the two proposals which were sealed by of the ninety redfish. The coyotes had outwitted of Corpus Christi and the City of Corpus Christi WTS International. the City of Port Aransas in the month prior to me. Their tracks formed a networked around which is the Coastal Bend’s regional water the meeting when they were in the hands of the Lamkin emphasized that his proposal would be the pond and trailed into the sand hills in every supplier, is moving to permit a site in the inner council. The Island Moon Newspaper made two built with only the tax incentives suggested by direction. They ate a hearty supper; but what harbor of the ship channel and at La Quinta Freedom of Information requests to unseal the the city in the RFP. He estimated the hotel and were we going to eat? Channel near Ingleside. proposals prior to the meeting but they were conference center will cost about $50 million. I drove into town that day for a new supply of According to the presentation to the council the denied by the city. They have been forwarded ice which was all I could buy. The next night plant at the inner harbor will provide up to 36 “We are not asking the city for anything other to the Texas Attorney General for review but no the redfish were still running – so we got our million gallons per day and the La Quinta Plant than what they offered,” he said. ruling has yet been issued. groceries and gasoline after all. would provide as much as 48 million gallons Palmilla Coyotes weren’t the only problem we had per day. The largest water users in the area, primarily around the port, have been paying into The Palmilla group presented a much more to cope with on the beach. In any season, but robust and far-reaching project that would have especially during the vernal and autumnal a fund to pay for the plan. The funds to study equinoxes, the Gulf might change from peach desalination for the area have been provided by to violence. We lived in the Devil’s Elbow, the the Texas Water Development Board. bend of the long arm of padre. It was strewn According to Tuesday’s presentation no firm The Best Pizzeria with the accumulated wreckages of the years, timetable has been set for construction of either from shrimp boats and freighters to Spanish of the plants and the efforts are currently focused in the Coastal Bend galleons dating back to the time of Cortez. on the permitting process with the U.S. Corps of Salvage from these boats helped to improve our Engineers and other state and local entities with daily living conditions, and some old coins and oversight or jurisdiction at the two sites. Now Serving jewelry I found at the site of one of the wrecks made interesting additions to our treasure trove of beachcombings. Some of the castoffs of the waves were unusual Pizza and astonishing. One afternoon Viola and I stopped to examine a five-gallon can that had washed up on the beach. I pried the lid off with By The my fishing knife. The can was filled with clean, white lard. We put it into the pickup, and before $ the day was over, we had salvaged more than a Only 3.99 hundred cans. There was a lot more damaged Slice! For any 1-topping Slice cans that we left lying on the beach. The Coast Guard told us later that a Mexican freighter had Only 25 been torn to pieces by a sudden tumult in the for Each Additional Gulf. She was carrying a cargo of lard; it made Topping Monday Thru Friday Send Letters and Photos to 11am - 3pm [email protected] Dine-in and Pick-up Only and follow us on Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper. 949-0787 The Island Moon is 14493 S.P.I.D Suite E available online at padrepizzeria.com islandmoon.com Gluten Free • Wine Wednesday - Half Price Bottles All Day • Monday football special $1.99 domestic draft beer all day January 24, 2019 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides of the Week Previous attempts to acquire outside insurance of In 2014 the Board of Tides for Bob Hall Pier January 24 - January 31 Directors of the Padre the canal system landed with Lloyds of London Isles Property Owners and was said to be prohibitively expensive, well Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon Association approved a plan for a $2.3 million over $2 million per year, so another approach /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible community center at Billish Park but then found was sought. It turned out to be a bad approach. Th 24 Low 12:30 AM 0.9 7:19 AM Set 10:08 AM 90 out they lacked the authority to spend more than A bill was passed through the Texas Legislature $300,000 in discretional annual income. I wrote founding a Municipal Management District 24 High 3:15 AM 1.0 6:03 PM Rise 10:11 PM at the time that felt to me like the organizational to transfer ownership of the bulkheads into so 24 Low 11:19 AM -0.5 equivalent of the Stamp Act; it drew attention to that in the case of catastrophic failure, a direct hit by a major storm, as a publicly-held asset 24 High 7:01 PM 1.1 the organization and its budget that had largely flown under the radar until that point and it led to repair costs could be met with long-term, low- F 25 Low 12:53 AM 0.6 7:18 AM Set 10:48 AM 82 widespread changes in the way the organization interest FEMA bonds. Meetings were held and 25 High 5:00 AM 0.9 6:04 PM Rise 11:13 PM is run and more transparency in the accounts. It it was decided that the Michael J. Ellis Seawall also led to much of the rancor that followed but structure, including the wooden portions at both 25 Low 12:17 PM -0.2 the organization grew up. ends of the concrete seawall (also privately-held assets), would be included in the MMD for the 25 High 7:13 PM 0.9 If that was the Stamp Act, then what happened same reason. Sa 26 Low 1:33 AM 0.4 7:18 AM Set 11:26 AM 72 at the monthly PIPOA board meeting Tuesday may have been more of The Shot Heard Round The problem was that the MMD rules did not 26 High 6:50 AM 0.8 6:05 PM the World – or in this case The Island. include taxing authority and PIPOA rules, it 26 Low 1:25 PM 0.2 was decided at the time, forbade the PIPOA The Sea Pines Unit 1 neighborhood, the from transferring assets to a public entity 26 High 7:22 PM 0.8 southernmost of the subdivisions in the PIPOA, that lacked taxing authority. The MMD idea presented a petition with enough signatures to Su 27 Low 2:22 AM 0.1 7:18 AM Rise 12:14 AM 61 was dead on arrival and that’s where things remove themselves from the PIPOA umbrella remain today. We have just under $10 million 27 High 9:01 AM 0.8 6:06 PM Set 12:04 PM entirely and barring a legal surprise they are to replace bulkheads and clear canals of debris now effectively out. Where this path may lead 27 Low 2:58 PM 0.6 after a storm when conservative estimates in us I have no idea, but judging by the questions 27 High 7:26 PM 0.8 2013 placed the cost at somewhere north of coming in on Wednesday it has other Islanders $40 million in case of a big storm. As part of M 28 Low 3:15 AM -0.2 7:17 AM Rise 1:12 AM 51 reading the Deed Covenants and bylaws of each that discussion at the time the question was of their respective subdivisions. Most, in fact I 28 High 11:49 AM 1.0 6:07 PM Set 12:43 PM raised as to whether the PIPOA actually owned believe all, of the founding documents of the the bulkheads or whether ownership, and the 28 Low 5:12 PM 0.7 various subdivisions carry some sort of Brexit liabilities that go with it, attach to individual language, or maybe Pexit is more appropriate. 28 High 7:19 PM 0.8 property owners, and further whether that may But before the Pexit Bandwagon gets rolling vary by subdivision. To my knowledge that Tu 29 Low 4:10 AM -0.4 7:17 AM Rise 2:10 AM 40 there are some serious issues to consider. question has never been definitively answered. 29 High 1:36 PM 1.2 6:07 PM Set 1:23 PM A little history W 30 Low 5:02 AM -0.5 7:16 AM Rise 3:06 AM 30 So now what? A review of the documents written when The Sea Pines Pexit is unique in that the 30 High 2:37 PM 1.3 6:08 PM Set 2:06 PM development began in earnest on Padre Island subdivision contains no waterfront lots. By in the 1960s shows that the original idea was Th 31 Low 5:53 AM -0.6 7:16 AM Rise 4:01 AM 22 withdrawing from the POA mostly what they for Padre Island to become its own city – a story are giving up is architectural control beyond 31 High 3:24 PM 1.4 6:09 PM Set 2:51 PM for another day and a pipedream at this point. the city zoning laws. Their bylaws call for But when financial difficulties arose it made the formation of a three-person Architectural more sense to allow annexation into Corpus Control Committee but do not say how its Christi and to hand the maintenance costs members are to be chosen and without one the and responsibilities over to the city; make it only restriction that would apply is the line in someone else’s problem. But the city didn’t take the Sea Pines bylaws which calls for the creation the bulkheads and someone, something, had to of “a uniform plan for the improvement and sale take that responsibility and, among other things, of…a high-quality, marina type subdivision.” it fell to the PIPOA. Because the PIPOA was The rules will vary according each subdivision originally formed when the property was under but none that I can find are much more specific one private ownership group it was formed as or restrictive than those. That means as long as a Texas Non-Profit Corporation charged with any new construction meets city zoning and the responsibility of, according to the Articles building codes it is allowed unless it is deemed of Incorporation: “owning, constructing, not “high quality or a marina type” – but who operating, acquiring, developing, maintaining, would decide even that is at this point unknown. repairing, replacing and protecting, as on a non-profit basis in furtherance of the aforesaid The Sea Pines move raises all kinds of purpose of common areas, including but not questions. Such as, what would happen if limited to: greenways, recreation areas, canals, they or any other subdivision tried to lay bulkheads, seawalls, seagates, lighting, parks, claim to a pro-rata share of the $10 million in roads, streets, curbs, gutters, drainage facilities, assets in the PIPOA? And beyond that, who water access areas, boat ramps and any other takes responsibility for the bulkheads in any facilities or property which shall be owned by subdivision that decides to leave, especially it.” if they don’t form their own POA? Who owns them at that point? If the PIPOA in fact owns The city maintained zoning restrictions, and the bulkheads now does that ownership transfer in 2004 added the Island Overlay Zone which to them when they leave? And if so, and if no does not apply to any residential property, and POA is formed by the individual development took on the responsibility of streets, police and when they leave then who owns the bulkheads? fire, water and sewer systems, and the general infrastructure that keeps things running. What Or if it turns out that each individual property the city did not take on was essentially two owner owns their own bulkhead, as some things: One, while the zoning laws address land readers of the bylaws and covenants believe, use they do not address architectural control how would they be insured? Would they be and design; and two, the city didn’t take the included in a homeowner’s policy? And what bulkheads, arguable the most crucial piece of happens if you do own your bulkhead and it infrastructure and certainly the most expensive fails causing damage to your neighbor’s house? asset on Padre Island. But responsibility for the And what happens if your neighbor doesn’t bulkheads stuck with the PIPOA. repair a damaged bulkhead, who do you call – if there is anyone to call? The various subdivisions could not amend their covenants or bylaws for thirty-five years and the This is all serious business but if there is good last of the thirty-year periods expired in 2007 news it is that it comes in the midst of an election and are automatically renewed every ten years. cycle for the PIPOA board. These are questions But after the 35 year freeze the subdivisions, that should be addressed by candidates in the according to their respective bylaws, can change race, and by sitting board members as well. their rules, including withdrawing from the Maybe the Shot Heard Round The Island will PIPOA, with a simple majority vote which is spark action for answers to basic underlying what Sea Pines has done. questions have been hanging fire for years without resolution. Bulkheads Let’s all open the Good Book to Isaiah 1:18 – In 2012, just prior to the community center idea, Come now, and let us reason together. it was decided that self-insuring of the 32 miles of bulkheads by the PIPOA was not a good idea. Frostbite Betty "Firewood is Everything" “As the days begin to lengthen, the cold begins The high winds had sand flying around Lake Padre on Tuesday. Photo by Dale Rankin to strengthen,” said Tom Fagan, wiry little old timer from down at the end of the road. This morning’s Thoughts From Dr. Tom thermometer reading of 26 degrees below zero proves up on that wisdom. This is Frostbite Falls living The Circle of Life up to its name. Days like this focus what’s most important It is funny how life at any age but do become more common as right down to getting the fire in the wood stove works. When you are our ages advance. going within moments of jumping out from young your parents and These diseases are bad about taking our beneath the heavy feather-filled quilt. I guess family are your whole world. They essentially that’s how the little birds stay warm too, they high functioning parents and making them the armload. Then tomorrow repeat. And then do everything for you and help get you headed are as persistent as we silly humans are about dependent on us as we were when we were evening settles in, and we have accomplished in the right direction. They support you living here in the winter. For some of them this children. It is a challenging time and as adults the satisfaction of staying warm by golly, and financially, emotionally and educationally. IS going south for the season. we are often not prepared for it. Your parents can sip our tea by the fire. Then you gradually get more independent I guarantee are not good with it initially Firewood is everything right now. At night Bert May your days be merry and bright! and you progress through school and then on because of the role reversal but eventually brings in a heaping wagonload of split maple to college or job training and start your life they will have to comply because they simply logs, and we carry it up from the basement by Love from Betty and Bert independently. have no choice. It can be a tough challenging After kids leave home they chase the time for all involved. I have watched families American Dream and some find it and some fight this battle for years as a physician and we don’t. Many times the folks are there to assist have experienced it as a family as well. Tough when we drop the ball and get us back on times indeed! track. Typically as we get married and have The only advice I can give to families is our own kids we become more independent what I have told them for years. You have to and lose track of the day to day activities of be truthful with patients. There is no benefit our parents and family many times. to hiding their condition and there is also One day we wake up and realize our kids are something to be said for quality over quantity. about grown, out of the house, out of college Ultimately they have to choose but heroic and starting their lives. We are giving advice efforts that do not provide quality of life are and helping them succeed just like our family not always the right path. It is just difficult to did for us. If we have been lucky our own folks know that in the heat of battle. have done well enough to still be with us but So it is with the circle of life that we all go are slowly aging. If they make it into their 80s through. I hope all of us have a great circle and we have been blessed. The challenge comes a good ending. Have a good week . as in all things, a good ending. Diseases like cancer, stroke and dementia can take their toll Doc Tom A6 Island Moon January 24, 2019 Senior Moments Anecdotingly The Best of Radio in the 1920s, 1930s & 1940s By Dotson Lewis One Good Thing Special to the Island Moon By Abigail Bair The core value at the very bottom is love. Dotson’s note: I still listen to the radio most of in the evening in Miss West's innuendo-filled Ab's note: This column is in honor of, and was When you try to justify that bad thing, the little the time while driving. Also my radio at home exchange with Charlie McCarthy: possibly the inspired by the life and work of American poet weasel gnaws and nibbles at your love – the love is almost always turned on, but I never hear old bluest ten minutes the Red Network ever aired. that says, “I don’t want another person to have radio shows. So I decided on a little research. Mary Oliver. The 1940s to clean up my mess.” The love that thinks, “I Thanks to Elizabeth McLeod, Jesse Baker and It is often difficult to assess the results of want to leave this place that nurtured me better Wikipedia for many of the facts contained in Pearl Harbor small deeds, of simple goodness, in a world of than I found it.” The love that says, ever so this report. Also, thanks to Alfred Eisenstadt jerky jerks jerking around all the time. With gently, “We are -- all of us and everything -- in and Bill Morgan’s collection for the photos. On a light Sunday afternoon many were the Kardashians projected on giant screens this together.” listening to the radio’s light music, sustaining The 1920s pontificating on whatever disgusting, material drama, public and affairs programs, when, at “obsession” they’ve most recently adopted, it’s And believe me, you need your love – all you The 1923 World Series 2:22 pm, a one-line bulletin flashes over the a miracle can formulate any idea of goodness have and all you can get -- because it is from Associated Press wire, shattering the tranquility. whatsoever. Our leadership (elected and love that all security, happiness, beauty and joy Broadcasting of major Within minutes, the news of the Japanese attack otherwise) equates blithe cruelty and blind are derived. league baseball's main on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is being relayed by acquisitiveness with the highest in entertainment Last week, I was in the grocery store doing event was early on all four networks -- and all the debate between value, which is then sold to us part and parcel as my habitual 6 a.m. weekly food shop. When a major attraction -- Isolationists and Interventionists is suddenly “a-ok, real good.” I finished (still no soup, thank you) I was but it's the 1923 Fall and terribly rendered moot. Radio covers surprised to see only one register open. A long Classic between the And it is entertaining. The disgusting the story in depth -- and perhaps the most line of customers waited to be checked out. New York Yankees and is fascinating, and (let’s face it), with the chilling moment is the voice of an unnamed The poor clerk seemed a little overwhelmed, the New York Giants Kardashians setting a moral low bar, we can staff announcer at NBC's Honolulu affiliate, so when my turn came, I decided to speed that makes the big usually walk around feeling pretty decent – at proclaiming "This is no joke! This is war!" things up by bagging my own groceries. The impression, and for least by comparison. There is a big problem, The following day, record audiences tune in as five customers in front of me hadn’t done so, reasons unanticipated. here, however. The vast majority of human President Roosevelt's message to a joint session preferring instead to play on their phones while Originally, plans call for the action to be beings are followers. We don’t like making of Congress sets the tone for the next four years. they waited. I didn’t think my act of bagging described over WEAF by veteran sportswriter decisions for ourselves, and the longer our days was any big deal, really. I’d always rather do Grantland Rice -- and he's to be assisted by The End of the World War II and the harder we work, the more difficult it is to something than stand around. My brain didn’t a recently-recruited member of the station's make sound and rational choices. Psychologists even clock the job because it aligned with my announcing staff: a former concert singer call this state of mind “decision fatigue,” and it’s values and felt “right.” I paid and started to by the name of Graham McNamee. For the at this point that people are most influenced by leave the store. first three games, McNamee provides what outside images – even if those images contradict would eventually come to be called "color innate values. Basically, you just become too Then I noticed something interesting and commentary" - and his descriptions are so vivid, tired to resist negative ideas, especially if those slowed my roll to watch. ideas are rooted in a basic human emotion like so enthusiastic that listeners deluge the station The gentleman behind me was bagging his fear. with phone calls and telegrams demanding to own groceries…and then the next person see more. And so it is that beginning with game The major difficulty, though, is that once we bagged theirs, and the next, and the next, and four, McNamee takes over the full play-by-play make a choice to do a bad thing – for whatever then next (and then a store employee showed up job -- and is launched on a career as the most reason – we then have to justify it. Here’s a for and started bagging and I lost interest). important personality of radio's formative years. instance: say you see a person throw a piece of My point is that momentum is a thing. It is One can fault his accuracy, one can criticize his trash out of a car window. You know it’s bad to much easier for humans to make decisions and style -- but none can deny his impact. throw trash out of car windows, but you have act based on what people around them are doing. a nasty taco wrapper stinking everything up The 1924 Democratic National No one wants to stand out in a crowd as “bad” and it’s a long way to a trash can. You think Convention or “gauche.” Even people who tip the morality to yourself, “well he just did it and nothing scale heavily to the side of “Total Creep” will "Allllll-a-baaaaaaaama casssts twennnnnnty- happened,” so you throw the wrapper out the behave better if other people around them are four votes for Oscarrrrr W. Un-der-woooood!" window. Then you feel bad about it because being good. In fact, even evil people have to That's the call, as delivered a total of one you acted in a way that didn’t align with your really screw up their courage to do bad things in hundred and three times by Alabama Governor values. front of people who would disapprove of them. William Brandon during the Democratic That’s when something interesting happens in National Convention, as broadcast June 24th Good acts cause ripples of goodness in the your brain – either you feel so bad about it that thru July 9th, 1924. The eventual nomination V-E Day on May 8th was just the beginning world and bad actions cause ripples of bad. At you go back and try to find the taco wrapper in a goes to John Davis, who will of course be of the end -- and the enthusiasm that greets the the end of the day, it is the small things that add ditch after dodging a bunch of cars to get there, trounced by Coolidge in the general election end of the war in Europe is tempered by the up to monumental change. and swear on your immortal soul never to ever that fall. Underwood was actually a pretty realization there's still a war to be won in the litter again because it’s not worth it to feel this Which way do you want the current to flow? significant figure in politics at the time -- he had Pacific. But the use of atomic weapons against bad about a stupid taco wrapper – OR you let a been Senate Minority Leader, and went on to Japan changes the whole complexion of the I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have all little evil weasel start gnawing away at the core become Governor of Alabama. But all anyone conflict -- and beginning with the dropping of the my love -- even if it requires me to live, for a value underneath. “What value is that,” you remembers about him is that he got those 24 Nagasaki bomb on August 9th, radio listeners time, with a few stinky taco wrappers. might be asking yourself, “don’t litter?” Nope. votes at the convention. Eighteen stations anxiously wait for word on Japan's imminent make up the AT&T network for this broadcast, surrender. August 10th goes by - the 11th -- the extending as far west as Kansas City -- and the 12th -- the 13th -- all with a steady stream of RCA stations also join in. The broadcasters bulletins, but no official statements. Unofficial Ask Ralph are Graham McNamee and Phillips Carlin reports come in early on the morning of the for AT&T, and Major J. Andrew White and 14th -- and at 4:18 that afternoon, NBC's Max Norman Brokenshire for RCA, who together Jordan reports from Berne, Switzerland with How to Make Better Decisions help to introduce millions of fascinated listeners the first word confirming that the intermediaries By Ralph Coker to the intricacies of the political process -- and have received a message from the Japanese also spawns a national catch phrase that echoes Government. "I myself," announces Jordan in Q. How can I learn to feelings rather than entirely with logic. We across playgrounds and city streets for much of his distinctive clipped voice, "am going to a make better business can't avoid deadlines but decision makers the summer. party of the American consulate here to celebrate decisions? can learn to reduce stress and intentionally V-J Day!" Shortly after 7 pm, official word is let their minds wander with techniques like The 1930s A. In recent years studies of how the brain released by the White House -- and the long- meditation that activate the creative part of works to make tough decisions are rebutting One Man's Family Goes National delayed celebration finally erupts. Radio paints the brain. an unforgettable sound picture of celebrations long held beliefs about business decision Already a hit on the West Coast, Carlton in Times Square, outside the White House, and making. The conscious brain can only work Uncertainty about your job or your Morse's sensitively-written and deeply-textured in towns and cities all over the United States as on one calculation at time. The unconscious business's future can lead to bad decisions. study of an upper-middle-class San Francisco the nightmare of the Second World War finally brain can work on billions of calculations at The uncertainty activates the brain centers family gained a national reputation over the full draws to a close. the same time. associated with anxiety and create a doom and NBC network, and ran for nearly three decades. gloom attitude. Studies show that 75 percent Most companies expect decision makers to There was never another a show quite like it: too Dotson’s other note: Due to the limited space of business people in uncertain situations make good decisions 40 hours each week. serious to be a soap opera, too thoughtful to be I couldn’t mention anywhere near all of my wrongly assume bad things will happen. When surveyed those decision makers say a melodrama -- and sometimes, even too adult favorites. If any of the foregoing are of interest They make wrong decisions to prevent they are at the peak of their game only 3 to 5 for the kiddies. Morse's mystery shows may to you, I suggest you go online and look them or mitigate bad things that never happen. hours each week. Only 10 percent said they have a stronger modern-day following: but for up…that is now where you can listen to many of Recognizing our tendency to exaggerate the did their best thinking at work but 39 percent me, "One Man's Family" stands as his greatest the shows. I would appreciate it, if some of you problem helps us have a better perspective. said they did their best thinking at home. accomplishment. Moon Monkeys enjoying the golden years could Usually decisions are not final. They can send me a list of your radio favorites. Thank Researchers use brain scanning equipment to be changed as the situation changes. 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Skip the Plastic recognizes Sierra and Sterling Quick The Skip the Plastic project of the of the Surfrider Foundation - Texas Coastal Bend Chapter recognizes community members and businesses that set a positive example by making the shift to reusable shopping bags or other alternatives to single-use plastic bags. Our January Bag Heroes are Sierra Quick and her son, Sterling. We met them as they were heading into Sprouts to stock up on groceries. When asked why she likes reusable shopping bags, Sierra gave several reasons: “I made the switch reusable bags because I got tired of accumulating so many plastic bags and not knowing where they ended up when I put them in the recycling bin at the store. It’s a step towards protecting our wildlife and benefiting our environment. I also get to set a good example for my son and teach him healthy habits in the process. Then there’s the fact that they’re sturdy enough to carry all my groceries inside in one trip, which is just an added bonus. I keep them in my trunk and take them with me everywhere I go.”

Send letters and photos to [email protected] A8 Island Moon January 24, 2019 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon Best NFL Quarterbacks of Four Guys Named Joe By Andy Purvis All Time Special to the Island Moon By Dotson Lewis who showed off dynamic agility, pinpoint Cont from last week... In 1979, after 26 years with accuracy, and a cannon of a throwing arm Gordon Purvis was my father. Born on a farm the Harlem Globetrotters, he formed his own Dotson’s note: I have listed below, by age--the during his career. Elway threw for 51,475 yards basketball team called the Meadowlark Lemon oldest first, ten NFL quarterbacks. This listing in 1924, he grew up in a time of need. The and 300 touchdowns, adding 3,407 rushing hardships of the Depression and World War II Bucketeers (1980-83). He played and starred is by vote by a number of experts. These experts yards for good measure. for the Shooting Stars from (1984-87) and will, at this time, remain anonymous. Even created tough people who were not afraid of anything, especially hard work. I have often then formed the Meadowlark Lemon Harlem though you may not agree with these being the Steve Young All-Stars 1988-present). In 1986, he became top ten, they are the ones you have to work with. said that my father was everything you would Steve Young took over from Joe Montana and an ordained minister and a Motivational and Please rank them 1- 10 best to least best, and not want to be. went on to make the Pro Bowl in all seven years Keynote Speaker. send it to me. Those of you who match the most he was a starter, taking home two MVP awards He was short, red-headed, freckles, left-handed, in the same order as the anonymous experts It has been estimated that Meadowlark traveled and winning three Super Bowls. Young’s wore glasses, dirt poor and was expelled from will receive a special “NFL Best Quarterback” over 5 million miles and played in well over performance in Super Bowl XXIX was one of school in the eighth grade and never went back. award. All entries must be received in my 100 different countries. The Trotters played for the best ever: He completed 24 of 36 passes So, he was also uneducated. But you could not Email: [email protected] no later than 12 PM Kings, Queens, Presidents, and Popes, as well for 325 yards and six touchdowns before being outwork him, and he possessed wisdom beyond February 1, 2019 to be eligible for the award. as, of course, the masses. He participated in named MVP of the game. his years. The important things to him were Thanks to Matthew Jussim for many of the facts honesty, effort, and the value of a dollar. He and about 16,000 games during his 26 years with and some of the opinions in this report and Dan Marino my mother moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, the Trotters. Lemon only missed two games in thanks to my old friend Bill Morgan-SWC, for where my brother and I were born. They sold all those years. Meadowlark was also the most the photos. their car to rent an apartment and then later well-paid player on the Globetrotters’ team. borrowed some money, and Dad opened a small Meadowlark Lemon’s awards were many. Johnny Unitas convenience store, kind of like a 7-11. He would Meadowlark was inducted into the N.C. Sports name his store Gordon’s Market. It required Hall of Fame in 1975. In 1997, he was given him to work from 6 AM every morning until 10 the Sports Legend Award on Ebony Magazine’s PM at night, seven days a week. Therefore, my 50th anniversary. In the year 2000, Lemon brother and I rarely spent any time with him, received the Lifetime Achievement Award when we were younger. In saying all that, there from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of were two times a year that he made it a point Fame, and also the International Clown Hall of to spend uninterrupted time with us. When the Fame Lifetime-of-Laughter Award. In 2001, he Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus received the Victor Award from the American came to town, he would take us to watch the Academy of Sports. He was enshrined into the animals being unloaded from the train; and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in when the Harlem Globetrotters played at Dorton 2002, as part of the Globetrotters, and became Arena in Raleigh N.C., we were there to see the only the second Globetrotter, after Marques likes of players such as Meadowlark Lemon, Haynes, to become a member of the Naismith Even though Marino never won the Super Goose Tatum, and Nate “Sweetwater” Clifton. Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2003. In Bowl, and had a mediocre 8-10 career record It was at a Globetrotters’ game that I vividly 2006, Lemon received a star on the Celebrate- in the postseason, as a quarterback he put up remember hearing my father laugh out loud for Wilmington Walk of Fame. some very impressive numbers that were simply Unitas was way ahead of his time when he was the first time. He loved the Trotters and they unheard of in the 1980s. The Pittsburgh native His favorite players were Wilt Chamberlain under center for the Baltimore Colts. In fact, made him laugh, as well as millions of other threw for 61,361 yards and 420 touchdowns in and Connie Hawkins. Meadowlark always he might be the one quarterback from the pre- fans around the globe. That was the real magic his NFL career, including a then-incredible stat wanted to be a cowboy, so riding horses became modern NFL era who could thrive in the game of the Harlem Globetrotters. In high school, I line in just his second year in the league, when one of his hobbies. Meadowlark also loved to today. Unitas put up numbers that no one else became friends with a future Globetrotter by the he threw for 5,084 yards and 48 touchdowns. sing and did not drink alcohol, smoke or take did while he was playing, including throwing name of “Twiggy” Sanders, and then met and Marino led the league in passing yards five drugs of any kind. 34 touchdowns in 1959, which is more than enjoyed the company of another Globetrotter, times, was named MVP in 1984, and was a Pro some QBs put up now. Unitas won the MVP Meadowlark Lemon. In fact, I have a signed Over the years, Lemon could be seen on many Bowl player nine times in his career. award four times in his career and led his team cancelled check from Meadowlark that was television shows such as “Ed Sullivan,” “Johnny to three championships, including back-to-back Brett Favre written on his company name, “Four Guys Carson,” “The Tonight Show,” and “The Late NFL titles in 1958-59. Unitas wasn’t all about Named Joe.” I asked Lemon about the company Show” with David Letterman. Additionally, he the numbers, either—he basically helped create This gunslinging quarterback was one of the name, and the story goes like this: Meadowlark starred in hundreds of commercials. toughest to ever play the position, lasting in the the modern style of playing quarterback. He was from Wilmington, N.C., and was signed This past Sunday, like my father, I lost along NFL until his 40s with the Minnesota Vikings introduced the two-minute offense, and became after returning from the Army, by Harlem with millions of other basketball fans, one after putting up a Hall of Fame career with the the first player to have a 30-touchdown season Globetrotter owner, Abe Saperstein. Abe took of our heroes. Meadowlark Lemon died of Green Bay Packers. The three-time MVP and and surpass 40,000 passing yards in his career. Meadowlark to Chicago to introduce him to natural causes on December 27, 2015. He was 11-time Pro Bowler was beloved by teammates the press. No one had ever heard of Lemon living in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his current and obsessed over by the media. Thanks in part Roger Staubach and when he was introduced, the first reporter wife, Cynthia. Meadowlark Lemon was to starting an NFL-record 321 straight games, asked, “Who the heck is Meadowlark Lemon?” 83. Meadowlark had ten children with three Favre became the only QB in history to top Abe responded, “I can take Meadowlark Lemon different wives. Wilt Chamberlain once said, 70,000 passing yards and 500 touchdowns. and four guys named Joe and beat any team in “The most fun I ever had playing basketball was Favre won Super Bowl Super Bowl XXXI with the country.” Meadowlark then told me, “That when I was with the Globetrotters.” I bet that the Packers and finished his career with 186 was the best thing anyone had ever said about Meadowlark would say the same. victories, tied with Peyton Manning for the me, so I decided that if I ever owned my own most all-time. business, I would name it ‘Four Guys Named The “Clown Prince” is no more. Peyton Manning Joe.’” Andy Purvis is a local author and radio In 2008, I became friends with current personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. 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The two connected for 112 asked Bull which Globetrotter he wished he Staubach, after missing four seasons of could have played with. “Marques Haynes, com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of his career to the Navy, led Dallas to nine touchdowns in a decade of work together and the Houston Astros. won Super Bowl XLI. Goose Tatum, ‘Geese’ Ausbie, Curly Neal, straight winning seasons and two Super Bowl Meadowlark Lemon,” then Bull stopped championships. He became the first player to Manning continued to break records after himself, smiled and said, “All of them.” win the Heisman Trophy and a Super Bowl coming back from an almost career-ending MVP. The Hall of Famer made it to the Pro neck injury to play for the Broncos, setting Bowl six times and was named to the NFL the single-season passing touchdown record 1970s All-Decade Team. with 51 and winning his fifth MVP award. 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Well, it’s been anything but some additional projects, including beach By Joey Farah dull around here lately. I pavilions (shade structures), repair the boat Farah’s Fishing Adventures addressed the formal TIRZ ramp at Packery Channel (only small boats #2 board yesterday, and we can launch there now), provide an ADA ramp This weekend is the in the water boat show all had a good “chat” about why the six-pack at the Packery Channel boat ramp, and lights in Flour Bluff. The last few years we have items haven’t all been completed yet. I would long the entire jetty. That last one would be been blessed with a unique boat show that has expect that there will be some movement on a pretty interesting, I’m thinking. We’ll see if the fishing products, services, tackle, and the best lot of these projects in the near future. Staff formal TIRZ #2 board amends the project list boats from our area. Best of all they are in the did say that they had purchased the lights for and those make it on there. water waiting for a test drive! Come down to Bluff Landing this weekend and check it all out! the end of the jetty and some replacement signs It’s almost that time of year folks. The 41st Food trucks, live music and a lot more. This all for Packery Channel, and they say that they annual CCA-Corpus Christi banquet is right benefits the Hook Spit Jr Anglers, a nonprofit are trying to get out there sooner than later and around the corner on February 21st. Islanders organization that introduces and keeps kids get those things up. We also learned that the Courtney and Cliff Johnstone are the dynamic fishing. There will be some raffles to help out showers have already been designed and built, duo that are heading up the efforts this year to our local Coast Guard families that have been and that we are waiting on permits from the pull it all together. Cliff just emailed us saying under pressure with the government shut down. TGLO to get the water lines run down Access that we’re about out of tables, but if you want I will be hanging close to the Waypoint Marine Road 3A and Zahn Road. to try and get one, you can call Courtney on the Boats and Roy’s Bait and Tackle! Come visit, hotline at 361-882-5199. We’re going to sell One thing that I don’t think has been impressed I will have rods and reels in hand to go show out, so you’d better move fast. Consider this on some folks yet is regarding the Packery some lure fishing techniques in the boat basin your first and last warning. Channel project list (of which the six pack and talk fishing. items are in there). Someone was talking about Right on the heels of the banquet is the removing a project from the list once it has upcoming Big Shell Clean up. Augs put been completed. That is incorrect thinking. together a haunting rendition of the poster this Projects stay on the project list because they’re year. It shows a coyote standing on a dune, and going to need maintenance and upkeep. Like the coyote’s shadow is in the familiar shape of forever. The project list is permanent, and will Billy Sandifer. You didn’t even have to know Nice morning drifting with soft plastics! be expanded over time. Billy to get the chills looking at it. The Clean- up is on February 23rd, make plans to come out Two man limit of reds along with trout and join us cleaning the beach. We will be trying drum and flounder. Boat Hole. to do the blue bag recycling again this year, and there have been talks with Jace Tunnell about The second or third day after a cold blast has potentially doing some nurdle sampling as well. been the best. I’m still drifting five feet of water Good stuff Maynard, and soon enough it will be and catching a lot of keeper trout and redfish time to suit up, show up, and get it done. along with many, many throw backs. One fish that comes out thick this time of year is the SEA This is the last weekend of duck season, which ROBIN. On a recent trip with my friend Bobby will make some folks happy, although there we caught some big ones. They are actually a hasn’t been as much shooting as normal seasons. sea bass, prized food fish in parts of the world The reason is that the ducks aren’t down here in and very white meat similar to flounder believe the numbers that they usually are. I was texting it or not. They have some gnarly spines on their with our friend Jay Ellington, who moved back head, most things good to eat have some sort to Louisiana recently, and he said their numbers of protection. The sheephead run has started! are up over that ways, so I’m guessing they Walk the jetties and watch how the experienced went more east this year. That kind of surprises folks out there are doing it. These toothy fish me, as we had one of the wettest falls on record. Oh well. Cold weather has finally settled in, and Alrighty folks, drop me a line at tarponchaser@ pushed big redfish into the ICW. Pure Oil mail.com if you know which way Daffy went, Channel. To that end, one of the motions that the ISAC and I’ll see you next week On the Rocks. made was to amend the project list to include Fishing in the bay, for many, is hit and miss. With colder temps fish are not feeding as often as the warmer months. They eat heavy then Source of Mystery Plastic Pellets on Area sit and snack at most for a few days. Timing your days on the water should revolve around weather and lunar feeding tables. 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Her group says it has collected 2,154 Houston and Corpus Christi. samples of plastic pellets and powders from You can catch me open a few days a week along 20 miles from Cox Creek and Lavaca and get some great one on one advice and fish According to TECQ a 2016 investigation traced Bay. A hearing in the case will occur this spring, knowledge for half the price as normal by just the pellets to the Taiwanese company with U.S. picking up the phone and giving me a call. headquarters in New Jersey which runs a 2,500- Company officials said they have installed acre petrochemical complex in Point Comfort. multiple screening and control systems to Sheephead are running thick along the Do not let spring pass you by, get up out the The agency does not have an estimate for how control pollution. As a result of the investigation, jetties in Port Aransas and Packery. This jacket on and GO GET WET! many pellets were released – but it did require the state also required the company to install spiny fish has some of the lightest and Capt Joey Farah 361-442-8145 Formosa to collect and properly dispose of pellet recovery system to minimize future spills. sweetest fillets in our waters. about 112,000 pounds of debris and plastic “We’re not contesting it – certainly we’ve pellets from Lavaca Bay and about 327,000 taken a lot of steps for the past three years pounds from Cox Creek. to address this, including new technology to The plastic pellets, called resins, are about prevent it from happening,” said Steve Rice, Purple, Pink and Blue -- the size of the lentils. They can be ingested Formosa spokesman in an interview. Rice said by fish and turtles, posing a threat to wildlife the plant has 16 full-time contract employees and the fishing. The fine came the same whose main job is to clean up debris and pellets and They’re All New week that Formosa and dozens of other outside the plant. One is purple, one is pink, and one is blue, found are translucent, eellike fish that lack petrochemical companies with Gulf Coast and it took 40 scientists from 17 countries to scales and feed on invertebrates in the trench. The plant ships pellets out to customers in find them, more than 4 miles below the ocean’s Their body tissue is almost entirely gelatinous, operations committed to a $1 billion effort to rail cars, and sometimes when customers send end plastic waste. The issue of plastic waste surface. They are three new species of snailfish well adapted for the extreme conditions at such those cars back residual resin can spill out if the discovered in one of the deepest places on earth, depths. is of growing concern for the energy industry hatches on the cars aren’t properly sealed, Rice – which has invested billions into building the bottom of the Atacama Trench off the coast But since they depend on the high pressure noted. The company has engaged customers in of Peru and Chile. petrochemical plants in Texas and elsewhere to a “zero pellet loss initiative” to educate them on and low temperature to stay in one piece, it take advantage of relatively cheap supplies of how to prevent this and to “teach them how to A team led by researchers at Newcastle is extremely difficult for scientists to bring ethane produced along with natural gas and oil be as responsible as they can be ... just as we’re University in England has been exploring the these fragile fish to the surface without them in shale formations. Many of these plants make trying to be as a responsible as we can be,” Rice deepest parts of the ocean with specialized nearly melting away. Nevertheless, researchers the chemicals and plastic pellets that feed into said. landers fitted with HD cameras and traps. The managed to bring a live purple Atacama snailfish making thousands of plastic consumer goods. landers free-fall to the ocean floor, in this case safely aboard, giving scientists the opportunity Editor’s note: This story has been updated to Activist shareholders last week filed 24,600 feet below the surface, take photographic to observe and learn from this new species. reflect the U.S. dollar value of Formosa Plastics’ and video images, and collect samples. The resolutions with Exxon Mobil, Phillips 66 of 2017 net income. Houston, Chevron and DowDupont demanding devices collect data for the petrochemical divisions of the companies up to 24 hours before disclose to shareholders when plastic pellet the researchers send spills occur and what they were doing to prevent an acoustic signal that spills. releases weights in 361 the lander, allowing it San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper, a local to float to the surface chapter of the New York-based environmental Mobile Marine so the researchers can group Waterkeeper Alliance , argued the state collect their scientific fines were too low for a plant whose parent booty. company’s 2017 net income was $49 billion in Automotive | Diesel Taiwanese dollars, or $1.59 billion U.S. Dollars. This research group has Small Engine Repair already deployed such “It’s a pittance. It’s less than a pittance,” said devices more than 250 Diane Wilson, executive director of San Antonio times and discovered Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper said of the state Call Aaron at: new snailfish species fines. The penalties for wastewater pollution at the bottom of the need to be much higher for multinational Mariana Trench. The Atacama snailfish live in the deepest parts of the ocean. Credit: (956) 351-9951 Atacama snailfish they Newcastle University January 24, 2019 Island Moon A 14 Full Transparency and Disclosure STATE POA News by Marvin Jones, President News from the January 22 New Year Brings New Law By Todd Hunter, District 32 Board Meeting With the start of the new Board of Nursing (BON) and to the year, it is important to know regulation of the practice of nursing. As always, let me have Billish Park- There have been a few about the laws that went into Major Provisions in HB 2950 include: your thoughts. You can correction items on the punch list to complete effect. Certain laws that were passed during Establishes requirements for clinical reach me at [email protected] the project. There are a couple of remaining the 85th Legislative Session came into effect competency programs, such as Excelsior Sea Pines- A petition was presented to the items to be resolved including the volleyball earlier this month. These new laws range from College, to continue to operate in Texas; Board by a delegation from the Sea Pines poles and nets. bills relating to motor vehicle titles to the Continues the exception to initial licensure Unit 1 Subdivision. The petition seeks Texas Board of Nursing. Each of the bills that standards for graduates of certain out-of- Cobo de Bara Boat Ramp- The engineering Sea Pines to withdraw from the Padre Isles took effect this month went through a 140 day state nursing programs, namely Excelsior study has been completed. The construction Property Owners Association, Inc. A copy legislative session. During that 140 day period, College; Creates a process, similar to project for the repairs will be put out to bid. of the petition has been sent to the PIPOA’s these bills went before House and Senate steps for an in-state program, for program Board Attorney for a legal opinion. Audit- It is now time to start the Annual Committees before going before the Texas improvement if a program’s national Audit for the year 2018. Please recall the House and Senate as a whole and then going to exam passage rate falls below BON’s Channel Markers- All the new channel Bylaws require the PIPOA to have an audit the Governor’s office. standard for consecutive years; Requires markers have been installed. The markers every year. BON to develop a path to initial licensure are as per Coast Guard regulations. The The laws mentioned below represent some of for graduates of out-of-state programs that contractor is in the process of removing the Meet the Candidates- The first meet the those pieces of legislation that passed and went are not substantially equivalent to Texas old posts. candidate’s event will occur on Saturday, into effect this month: January 26, 2019, at the Island Presbyterian standards; Limits the use of subjective Budget- The Board approved the 2019 • Senate Bill (SB) 2076 is relating to the Church 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM. standards for licensure decisions budget. It will be published on the PIPOA titling of motor vehicles in this state. The by requiring BON to demonstrate a website and Facebook page. A paper copy Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) connection between a nurse’s conduct and can be obtained at the PIPOA office. will still issue original titles. But if a title the practice of nursing. is lost or destroyed, vehicle owners may obtain a Certified Copy of Title (CCO). It is important to learn and know about the Newly issued CCOs will supersede any new laws that were passed by the 85th Texas Texas Unemployment Rate Remains at previously issued title or CCO. Legislature. If you would like to view any of the other legislation that was passed during last • SB 1329 is relating to the operation and session, these websites are great resources: Historic Low for Third Straight Month administration of and practice in courts in the judicial branch of state government. • The Texas Legislature at https://capitol. Corpus Christi has fifth highest unemployment As the state’s population grows in some texas.gov/ areas while declining in others, the • The Texas House of Representatives at in the state judicial needs of the various regions https://house.texas.gov/ change. These shifting demographics can • The Texas Senate at https://senate.texas. 4,500 jobs over the month. It grew at 6.4 percent significantly impact the caseload of the Corpus Christi showed the fifth highest gov/ unemployment rate in the state for December over the year, second fastest among major existing courts. Historically, the Texas 2018 at 4.5 percent. industries in Texas. Its annual growth has stayed Legislature has compensated for changes If you have questions regarding any of the positive since September 2011. in population by establishing new courts information mentioned in this article, please do But across the state the Texas economy added or changing existing judicial boundaries. not hesitate to call my Capitol or District Office. another month of positive employment growth, “With businesses hiring at a record clip, there’s never been a better time to plan a great Texas Several factors are analyzed in the As always, my offices are available at any time with 38,000 seasonally adjusted nonfarm evaluation process, including increased to assist with questions, concerns or comments positions added for the month of December. career,” said TWC Commissioner Representing Labor Julian Alvarez. “A great way to start caseloads, case backlogs, substantial (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; District Office, Texas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment population growth, and county support. In 361-949-4603). rate was 3.7 percent, and has remained at the a career in growing, well-paying fields in industries like construction or mining and order to ensure that the creation of new same historic 43-year low since October 2018. courts and the modification of judicial Annual employment growth for Texas was logging is through Registered Apprenticeships, - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 where employees can earn while they learn. jurisdictions is conducted in an orderly 3.2 percent in December, and marked 104 Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). Visit www.apprenticeships.gov or your local manner, SB 1329 consolidates these consecutive months of annual growth. Over He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. Texas Workforce Solutions office to learn more changes into a single omnibus bill. the year, Texas has added 391,800 jobs as Total texas.gov or at 512-463-0672. Nonfarm employment reached a new high of about these great opportunities.” • House Bill (HB) 2950 relates to the 12,744,100. The Midland Metropolitan Statistical continuation and functions of the Texas “Texas is the place to be for job growth and Area (MSA) recorded December’s lowest economic development as Texas employers in unemployment rate among Texas MSAs with 2nd Annual our state continue to create job opportunities a non-seasonally adjusted rate of 2.1percent, Work Beginning for the highly skilled Texas workforce. Since followed by the Amarillo MSA and Odessa Winter Texan last December, Texas employers added 391,800 MSA which tied for the second lowest with a on Island jobs, and for the third consecutive month, rate of 2.6 percent. The Austin-Round Rock unemployment in Texas is at record lows,” MSA recorded the third lowest rate of 2.7 Appreciation Day said TWC Chair Ruth R. Hughs. “With mining percent. Electrical Grid Rockport is holding their 2nd annual Winter and logging jobs, which includes oil and gas “The December labor statistics show annual AEP Texas will be performing construction on Texan Appreciation Day on Thursday, January employment, up 18 percent from the prior year, growth of 388,800 jobs in Texas’ private-sector Padre Island in order to improve the electrical 31 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rockport Fulton our employers and our workers are providing industries, and 35,400 jobs added over the system beginning January 2019. Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center, 319 the energy that fuels the U.S. economy.” month. This speaks to the ongoing strength of The impacted areas are: Tesoro Drive, Reales Broadway in Rockport. Although it is called Winter Texan Day, the event is open to any and Private sector annual employment growth was our economy and the incredible opportunities Drive, Bullion Court, Peseta Court, Moro all visitors to our area. 3.7 percent in December and has held above 3.0 it creates for job seekers and employers,” said Lane, Royal Fifth Court, Coba De Bara Circle, percent since April 2018. Ten out of 11 major TWC Commissioner Representing the Public Camino De Plata Court, Port Royal Court, A fun filled day is planned with live music, industries expanded over the month as well as Robert D. Thomas. “Through Texas Workforce King Philip Court, and Queen Johanna Court, karaoke, food, cornhole tournament, information over the year. Commission workforce training programs such Weather permitting, the project should last booths and presentations from local attractions as the Skills Development Fund and the Jobs through July 2019. and businesses, raffles. It will be a day for Mining and Logging registered a series-high and Education for Texans (JET), workers have The intent and scope of the project will be to Rockport to show appreciation for all that the annual growth rate of 18.0 percent. Annually, the opportunity to realize the full potential that upgrade the underground electric system which Winter Texans do to support their community. this industry also led all other major industries our state has to offer.” in Texas since May 2017. Construction added will improve service reliability for this area. A There are approximately 5,000 to 8,000 Winter service interruption is expected from 9 a.m. to 3 visitors in and out of the area during this Winter p.m. in Commodores Cove on Jan 24th, and in Texan season the Aquarius and Ambrosia area from 9 a.m to 3 p.m. on February 6 A survey of the Rockport-Fulton Chamber Padre Island Real Estate Ticker of Commerce members, shows the three top deciding factors Winter Texans choose to come December 16 - December 31 to the Rockport-Fulton area are: friends, warm Send letters and photos climate and there are so many things to do here. By Cindy Molnar For more information on the Winter Texan event, our hotels, RV parks, or Winter Texan Coldwell Banker Island Realtors Waterfront Homes Sold to editor@islandmoon. activities, stop in the Rockport-Fulton Chamber 13838 Brigantine Drive Waterfront Condomiums/Townhomes of Commerce and Visitor Center located at 319 com Broadway across from the Rockport Harbor or 13734 Primavera Drive Sold 1-800-242-0071 or visit www.rockport-fulton. 13953 Cuttysark Street 14428 Compass Street #101 org. 15362 Tortuga Court 15421 Seamount Cay #108 15333 Tortuga Court 14300 Aloha Street #105 13802 Topsail Street 56 Waterfront Condominiums/ Review of the First Week of the Texas Townhomes/Duplexes Listed From 58 Waterfront Homes Listed From $69,500.00-$1,250,000.00 $285,000.00-$4,500,000.00 Senate Session Waterfront Lots Interior Lot Homes Sold Governor Greg Abbott and Lt. Governor Dan current “Robin Hood” system of recapture, 13849 Halyard Drive Patrick both reemphasized their determination where property wealthy districts remit some 13954 Jacktar Street 15366 Tortuga Court to solve the state’s public school finance property tax money to the state to be redirected 13933 Suntan Avenue system, including property tax reform, as each to poorer districts, contingent on enabling 13502 Peseta Court 14146 Vincent Drive man officially began his second term of office. legislation. 50 Waterfront Lots Listed From Abbott and Patrick took the opportunity of their 15202 Barataria Drive Other budget highlights from the Senate $129,900.00-$2,000,000.00 oath of office ceremony on a cold and cloudy include more money for mental health care 14146 Coquina Bay Avenue day in Austin to lay out their priorities for the access and women’s health care programs. It Interior Lots Sold 86th Legislative Session before the assembled 14838 Whitecap Blvd. would dedicate all sporting goods sales tax Lot 3 & 4 Viento Del Mar crowds on the north lawn of the Capitol revenues to Texas Parks and Wildlife and the 63 Interior Lot Homes Listed From building. “I want to make this very clear,” said 14729 Quarterdeck Drive state Historical Commission, putting more $219,,900.00-$715,995.00 Abbott. “We’re going to do this session what money towards the state’s parks and historical 50 Interior Lots Listed From no one thinks we are capable of achieving. Interior Lot Condominiums/ sites than ever before. The Senate plan would $30,000.00-$115,000.000 We are going to finally fix school finance in maintain current benefits and premiums for Townhomes/Duplexes Sold Texas.” Both were reiterating a promise they TRS-Care, the program that provides health Commercial Lots made alongside newly elected House Speaker 15010 Leeward Drive #801 coverage to Texas’ retired teachers. 12 Commercial Lots Listed From Dennis Bonnen at a press conference last week, 14721 Whitecap Blvd. #143 $125,000.00-$1,850,000.00 to work together to find a solution to one of the Also filed on Tuesday was the supplemental budget bill, which totals $4.2 billion to balance 14405 Cabana Street Unit B most complex and controversial issues in state government. difference between what lawmakers budgeted 93 Interior Condominiums/Townhomes/ for 2018 and 2019 last session and actual Duplexes Listed From $89,000.00- Cooperation was the theme of Patrick’s expenses and revenue. The proposal would $449,800 address, both across party lines and between the draw more than half of that, $2.5 billion, from two chambers. He was introduced by Flower the state’s Rainy Day Fund, and would cover Mound Senator Jane Nelson and Houston Harvey-related disaster recovery and shortfalls Senator John Whitmire, each the longest in the state’s Medicaid program and employee serving Republican and Democrat, respectively, and teacher retirement fund. in the Senate. Patrick said he asked these two members to introduce him to demonstrate his In total, the Senate proposes $112 billion commitment to find a solution for education in non-dedicated general revenue to pay for funding that crosses the aisle. “In Texas we’re state services over the next two years. That’s Come see us! different,” he said. “We work together for the $3 billion less than the House proposal, also people of Texas because that’s what you expect unveiled on Tuesday. Each chamber will us to do. The elections are over...for right now, start budget hearings soon and pass their own N. PADRE ISLAND OFFICE and for the next 140 days, you expect us to do version of the budget, usually by mid-April. 14646 Compass St., Ste. 5 the work of the people.” Then five members of each chamber will meet in conference committee to hammer 361.949.3075 The Senate has already set aside billions out the differences between the two versions, for education and property tax reform in the and present a final, compromise budget to www.firsttitlecompany.com proposed budget filed by Nelson, who also both chambers for a final vote before the 86th chairs the Senate Finance Committee.. The Session closes at the end of May. Senate’s version of the budget includes $3.7 When buying or selling your home or commercial property, billion to pay for a $5000 across-the-board The Senate will reconvene Tuesday, January pay raise for all public school teachers. 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From with a mild detergent, painting, or even rubbing they are not actively updating their information. a mortgage insured by the Federal Housing hot summer days relaxing by the pool to crisp down with a protectant, like linseed oil. Since Better Business Bureau (BBB) is not a Administration may be put on standby. Because winter mornings sipping coffee on the patio, government entity, bbb.org is in full operation! the lender depends on the IRS to provide and we are given ample opportunity to get outside Wrought Iron BBB is a non-profit organization that helps confirm the borrower’s federal tax return, the and soak up the laid-back atmosphere that Although this material results in a hefty sturdy people find and recommend businesses, brands process will have to wait until IRS employees comes with living where we do. That time spent piece of furniture, it has to be noted that in an and charities they can trust. are back at work. enjoying our outdoor spaces often involves area like ours where corrosion is a concern, it Finding a trustworthy tax preparer is one thing Besides the IRS, other government entities lounging on a piece of outdoor furniture, but can easily succumb to rust if not taken care of you’re probably looking for right now, as tax affected by the shutdown may affect you as a with so many options available to consumers, properly. When purchasing, consumers will filing season begins January 29. Unfortunately, consumer. The Small Business Administration how do you determine which piece is right for want to ensure that the pieces are powder coated the IRS is one of the government entities (SBA) is closed during the shutdown, meaning you and your home? and that areas that show signs of wear receive an application of rust protectant. affected by the shutdown. 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Are you someone who likes to entertain consumers who want the sturdiness of wrought If you’re looking for a trustworthy tax preparer, and wants your guests to be able to relax and iron but without the weight. BBB recommends: Consumers may also run into problems converse comfortably? Then you can narrow getting up-to-date information from USA.gov, • Get Referrals: Ask friends and family things down to possibly a comfy sectional or Aluminum the National Do Not Call Registry and Federal for recommendations, then check BBB a group of chairs casually positioned around a Trade Commission (FTC), with that website This option is very low maintenance, as it Business Profiles at bbb.org and read the fire pit or coffee table. Perhaps you just want to specifically stating; “The FTC is closed due to doesn’t fade or rust. It’s also very lightweight, complaint details and customer reviews to find a cozy place to sneak in a cat-nap? Then a the lapse in government funding.” Consumers, but caution should be taken when placing in determine whether you want to work with reclining lounge chair or even hammock might however, can find up-to-date business and scam- areas prone to high winds, as you may then that tax preparer. be just what you need. related advice on bbb.org. Just scroll down on find yourself chasing it down from time to time. • Look for Credentials: Enrolled Agents, the website to the “Latest News” and “Latest You will also want to take into consideration Also, when purchasing aluminum furniture be Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) and Scam Information.” For more information on the size of your outdoor space. A piece that sure to find pieces that are powder coated and tax attorneys have unlimited rights to this story, visit your BBB’s independent blog, works well on a un-covered deck may not be come with rust-resistant hardware to guarantee represent their clients to the IRS on all watchyourbuck.com. suitable for a condo balcony, and a dining set its longevity. matters. that seats a large group of people might take Resins, Plastics & Polymers Kelly Trevino is the regional director for up so much space on your patio area that it • Make sure they’re properly registered: the Corpus Christi/Victoria area of Better becomes cramped and uncomfortable. So These materials are the epitome of low A tax preparer must obtain a PTIN from Business Bureau serving the Heart of Texas. measuring your area and finding appropriately maintenance. Typically only requiring an the IRS. Never let someone work on Kelly is available for media interviews and sized pieces that will function for you is very occasional wash down, furniture made of these your taxes unless they have this number. speaking engagements. You can reach her by important. types of materials can come in a variety of styles Don’t be afraid to ask about this or other phone: (361) 945-7352 or email: ktrevino@ and colors, and they can stand up to all kinds of qualifications; a capable professional corpuschristi.bbb.org. Materials weather conditions. Common products made of does not mind questions. Beyond just considering how you want to these materials that you will see in our area are spend your time in your furniture, you’ll what those made of Polywood® and the PVC patio Charitable Bingo in Texas to educate yourself on the different types of furniture options, like those sold by the locally- materials that outdoor furniture is constructed owned company, Pipe Creations. A Year Round Economic Gift, New Study Finds of. Some of the common options are: Wicker & Rattan Wood Outdoor furniture pieces that are made of wicker and rattan are typically very lightweight It’s just a fun game. We all played it as a kid. • $110.9 million labor income Common wood types used in outdoor furniture comfortable pieces that can provide a traditional Still today, in communities all around the state, include teak, eucalyptus, cedar, and pine. • 2961 direct and indirect employment aesthetic to a space. Care has to be taken when Texans of all ages play bingo. They play for Each comes with their own pros and cons, but pieces are exposed to the outdoors though, as fun. They play to spend time with friends and Other Key Stats (source: Bingo Division, Texas mostly what you’ll find is that woods like teak these materials are prone to rot and splintering. family. They even play for a chance to win some Lottery Commission, 2017 Annual Report) and eucalyptus are more durable and lower Covering them when not in use and giving them extra cash. maintenance than softwoods like cedar and pine. • $590.5 million prizes to players The latter requires more attention because it has a regular cleaning will protect against damage What few know is bingo in Texas only exists • $33.9 million net proceeds to charities a tendency to warp, deteriorate quicker, and and keep them in excellent condition though. to fund charitable causes. Fewer still know the attract insects, especially if left untreated, but it • $30.4 million total revenue to state/local Get Outside impact the game has on the Texas economy. A also tends to be a cheaper selection. In regards governments new economic analysis by TXP, Inc. tells that to maintenance though, all wood furniture will Whatever style or material of outdoor furniture story. “Our focus is on making something old new need varying degrees of attention at some point, you choose to purchase, the point is to use it. Texas Charity Advocates (TCA) sponsored again,” said Trace Smith, chairman, TCA. “Why and those pieces left in sunny unprotected areas So take a few minutes (or a few hours if you’re the study. TCA is statewide association for the – because bingo helps people in communities all will need it more frequently. Maintenance so lucky) and get outside and enjoy all that our Texas charitable bingo industry. The full study across Texas. This study helps us tell that story, island home has to offer. is attached or can be downloaded here: The which is especially important as the legislature Economic Impact of Charitable Bingo in Texas. convenes. It will help us make the case for changes that make the game more fun for more “Holiday giving may have just ended,” notes people. And, the more people who play, the Jon Hockenyos, president, TXP, Inc. “But, more people are helped.” this study shows that charitable bingo is a year round economic gift to Texans with significant impact on the state economy.” Key Findings (source: TXP, Inc.) • $462.8 million in total economic impact • $258.1 million in value added economic impact

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Snoopy’s (361) 949-8815 13313 S. Padre Island Drive Scoopy’s (361) 949-7810 Corpus Christi, TX 78418 January 24, 2019 Island Moon A 18 front porch jams out there with Keith, Michael Three Chords and the Truth Hearne and Chuck Pyle. On Wednesday Jered By Ronnie Narmour at Antone’s. It made Mama so proud. I traded “Wolfjaw” Clark will play Giggity’s. Jered is an old island boy who’s been playing mostly the [email protected] the life of an unseen profession for life in seedy blues bars and stayed with it for 30 years. Today Flats for years. And coming this weekend, the Clifford Antone to be Antone’s is in its fifth location in Austin and is Bad Buoys will play Giggs. They have the cool FM station of classic rock tunes. I understand honored… on Fifth Street, only a couple of blocks from the original location. Of course, they have live Steve Goldstein will be leaving the band for a A man I worked with off and on and in various music every night…ALWAYS lots of live music much needed breather in March. On Saturday, capacities for several decades, the late Clifford and are still major players in the progressive the great Toman Brothers (San Antonio, TX) Antone, is being inducted into the Museum of Austin music scene. Clifford’s legacy lives on. will take the stage at Giggity’s. The Tomans the Gulf Coast Music Hall of Fame and will be I’m going to try and make this event in Austin. used to be Gary Stewarts road band for many honored at his club in Austin, Antones, Austin I haven’t been up there in quite a while. It’s years and are cooler than the other side of the Home of the Blues. Zydeco master and son time for a dose of the bigs. I feel like I’ve been pillow. Rusty and Randy Toman have been of Clifton Chenier the King of Zydeco, C.J. chasing my tail around here lately. You’re on making live music and I have done many shows Chenier will also be inducted and honored your own this weekend. with them. I used to run around Texas with Gary that evening. Clifford’s sister Susan Antone and the brothers back in the 80’s. Gary Stewart had contacted me to share the news. Clifford’s family was a proud Lebanese family originally in the deli business in Port Arthur. His mom used to sneak me the best stuffed grape leaves at the early shows. Clifford opened up his club in Austin in 1976 across the street from the Driskill Hotel on the corner of Sixth and Jered Clark will play Giggs on Wednesday. Brazos. I was part of the opening bartending crew with a couple of fellows, Eric Anderson DO NOT MISS LIST Singer-songwriter Keith Sykes (Memphis, TN) will grace the stage at Third Coast Theater in Port A on Saturday. Sykes was a member of Jimmy Buffet’s Coral Reefer Band and is Todd Dorn and the Sea Drifters played probably best known for penning the hit Volcano Giggity’s last Saturday night. Song. He’s been on the scene since 1969 and has 15 studio albums to his credit. His songs have been recorded by the likes of Jerry Jeff Walker, Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash, Guy Clark, John Prine, The Judds and George

Clifford Antone with Pinetop Perkins. and Jack Thurmond. Jack’s dead now. Clifford Keith Sykes will play Third Coast on opened the club with Clifton Chenier. He wasn’t Saturday. fooling around. Back then Clifford was doing shows with Pinetop Perkins, Albert King, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, BB King, did all those whiskey songs in the 70’s… I’m Bobby Blue Bland, James Cotton, Hubert Ty Dietz played my birthday last Friday Drinking Double She’s Sleeping Single, Taking Sumlin, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Lou Ann night. Me a Whiskey Trip, I Got this Drinking Thing Barton, Angela Strehli and on and on. The To Keep From Thinking Things, etc. Gary was Fabulous Thunderbirds played every Sunday a bonafied wild man. I got stories. Be safe out and The Cobras played every Blue Monday Scattered shots… The Bad Buoys will play Giggs on Friday there. and had a guitarist that did pretty well, Stevie A little birdie whose initials are Lee Harper Thorogood. I know that Keith loves Port A and ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ Ray Vaughan. Those were the good old days told me that our beloved Back Porch will open takes yearly songwriting sabbaticals every year. when there wasn’t much on Sixth Street. I spent early this year… as in no later than February He used to stay at the lighthouse when Rick th over ten years as a bartender on that street at 15 . That’s about a month earlier than previous Riechenbach was the keeper. I remember some Antone’s, Hut’s, The Raw Deal and Wylies. years. Usually they open a right before Spring I also opened up the Antone’s on Guadalupe Break to iron out the kinks before being thrown as the bar manager and owned and operated a into the summer tourists season. I’m delighted booking agency for the Antone’s Record Label and hope they soon beef up the local music for five years so I was around an enormous scene. I’m also ready for Treasure Island to amount of music back then. I had such Antone’s start their live music. We’re all waiting on recording artists on my roster as Doug Sahm, the tourists. Thank God for Giggity’s who is Live Music Tracy Nelson, Miss Lavelle White, Sue keeping the flame alive. And the Winter Texans. Foley, Marc Benno, Texas Johnny Brown, Ty was on fire and Chris Jordan had the sound Maines @ Third Coast Guy Forsyth, Pete Mayes and on and on. sounding perfect. On Saturday country crooner Theater Todd Dorn had his big band in tow with cousin Tonight Another Level @ Rockit’s Gaylon on keys and the versatile Jay Allen on Ward Davis @ Brewster lead guitar. This is really an act to catch if you Thursday, January 24 Street Free Beer Band @ haven’t yet. They’re our favorite boot scootin’ Sunday, February 3 band around here. Giggity’s Jimmy Wilden @ Rockit’s Antone & the All Stars @ Ruben Limas @ Island Giggity’s Italian WELCOME Monday, February 4 Friday, January 25 Open Jam w/ Ray Summy Bad Buoys @ Giggity’s @ Giggity’s Cuveralls @ Rockit’s WINTER Stevie Start @ Island Tuesday, February 5 Italian Paul & Victoria @ TEXANS Giggity’s Ronnie with Miss Lavelle & Sugar Bear Saturday, January 26 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront in Paris 1995 Toman Brothers @ Wednesday, February 6 Giggity’s Billy Snipes @ Giggity’s Keith Sykes @ Third PA Rockers @ Bernie’s Those were fast times and I did my best to pay Coast Music South Texas Grassroots @ attention. I met Bob Dylan and Robert Plant in Bart Crow, Aaron Island Italian there. I met a lot of people in there. I remember Copeland @ Brewster Treasure Island watching Joni Mitchell sing Stormy Monday Street Thursday, February 7 with the T-Birds in falsetto (it didn’t work very Passing Strangers @ Free Beer Band @ Rockit’s OPEN AT 5 P.M. Giggity’s well.) We were making history there every day. Ruben Limas @ Island Clifford Antone made a life-long impression on The Toman Brothers will play Giggity’s on Italian me and is partly responsible for the direction I Sunday, January 27 Saturday night. Antone & the All Stars @ EVERY DAY! took in life. I quit college when I went to work Giggity’s Friday, February 8 Chanklas @ Giggity’s Monday, January 28 315 N. 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