Cost of Packery Repairs Placed at $11 Million
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Inside the Moon Island Thunder A2 PIBA Mixer A4 Traveling Moon A9 Islanders of the Week A11 Fishing A13+ Issue 761 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Karen Wall Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 November 15, 2018 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE It’s time to La Posada! Around Cost of Packery Repairs Let Us Know The Island About Your By Dale Rankin Placed at $11 Million It was a rare sight Monday morning Parade Viewing as the beach from Whitecap to Bob Could be as high as $13 million Hall was entirely deserted. Party By Dale Rankin sand from under the structure as it La Posada is swiftly approaching reentered the channel. While the Padre Island. The dates and schedule The cost of repairing the damage jetties on both sides of the channel are listed below. to the Packery Channel jetty system sustained damage, the South Packery is estimated to be $11,518,000, Jetty was the hardest hit where most If you are planning a party and would according to estimates presented of the damage occurred in the area like a U.S. Marine to visit your party to the Island Strategic Action behind the dune line. Some of the and pick up your toys let us know. By Committee Tuesday. large rocks on the beach side of the letting us know of your party and the night it is being held, La Posada can Several options ranging in price dune line were moved but, according schedule a U.S. Marine, in dress blue were outlined by the firm HDR to the study, repairs there will be uniform, to pick up your party’s toys Engineering, Inc. which was much less expensive than those further inland where the structure was by either Boat or Car. It was too cold for Good Island Dogs contracted by the City of Corpus undermined by the water. and even the seagulls sought shelter Christi to access the damage and Email to or call: Gail Morris, wherever it is that seagulls go to seek repairs. The repairs will consist of repair [email protected], 361-877-5150. shelter. If ever there was a week when The study found that rushing to the revetments and concrete Information needed: Island weather couldn’t make up its outbound waster pushed by walkways, post and cable mind this was it. Cold, windy, and Hurricane Harvey undermined the replacement, storm drain outfalls, - Host Name blustery for a couple of days, then jetty structure on the south side of and the removal of debris left in - Address of Party and description beautiful sunshine by mid-week. the channel near the basin outside the the channel. One of the decisions Damage to South Packery Jetty. of your house from the water side if We had a report from Islander Steve State Highway 361 Packery Bridge facing ISAC members is whether to on the water Morgan that as he and his wife sat at where the channel was scoured to a rebuild the structures as the existed The study offered three options - Phone number the Phoenix on Friday that there were depth of more than twenty feet. It also before the storm or to build back to ranging in price from $7.2 million, twenty people in the place and nary found that the most severe damage the original design which contained to $13.6 million. In the final analyses - Expected Attendance a pair of flip flops to be seen. That’s features removed during construction was done in areas where the rushing - Start and end time of party how you know it’s cold around here water overtopped the jetty washing due to cost considerations. Packery cont. on A4 folks. - Friday night or Saturday night Turtle watch Events benefiting La Posada: By Tuesday the water in the bay Island in the Son Reopens Port A. - Saturday Nov. 24- Island Golf had turned over and was the color of Cart and Jeep Poker Run. Start at mocha coffee. The water temperature the Joyride Cart Rental. Admission: in the Laguna Madre was hovering Chef Takes 1 new, unwrapped toy for “Toys for just decimal points above fifty Tots”. degrees early in the week which is flirting with the fifty-degree mark Second La Posada Events which is the line of demarcation Tuesday, Dec. 4 - Our giant Kick Off for cold stunned turtles. Dr. Donna Place in Party with Live and Silent Auction Shaver put out the word this week at Schlitterbahn starts at 6:00 pm. to be on the lookout for cold stunned La Posada cont. on A4 turtles on the Laguna side but as of World press time none had been reported. The water temperature at Bob Hall Food By the numbers Pier has held steady in the mid-70s, which may be too cold for dogs but Corpus Christi not for surfers. Contest Whiskey Acres Lakes Police Calls by We’ve had several complaints this week about the weeds around the Year lakes in Whiskey Acres, the area Year Calls Dispatched between Das Marinas and the old golf course. Officially the area is 2007 152378 105709 known as Island Fairway Estates, a 2008 226585 166174 bit of a misnomer these days since 2009 217670 162478 there is no longer any fairways, but 2010 209275 152924 in the Island vernacular it has always been known as Whiskey Acres due Island resident Gail 2011 204431 171253 to the street names – Crown Royal, Huesmann took second 2012 210561 161839 Canadian Mist, and Highland Mist. place Chef in The World 2013 217603 157121 But there has been no Southern Food Championships held in Comfort in the subdivision of late 2014 221103 153571 as residents complain of high weeds Orange Beach Alabama last 2015 226919 178893 week. Gail is the Executive and grass which have gone uncut 2016 230850 181052 through months of rainy weather. Island in the Son Methodist Church celebrated its grand re-opening Chef at The Black Marlin 2017 286482 183982 The lakes and surrounding area were with a special service Sunday. The church was badly damaged by Grill in Port Aransas Texas. part of the old irrigation system for Hurricane Harvey but is now completely repaired. The building is The Black Marlin also won 2018 245992 154833 the golf course which used brown located in the open just north of Packery Channel on State Highway first place at this year’s Taste water from the Whitecap Wastewater 361 and took the full brunt of Harvey’s offshore winds. During the of the Island. • Source: City of Corpus Treatment Plant. During construction interim the congregation met at the Padre Island Yacht Club. Congratulations Gail! Christi of the waterpark the lines feeding the lakes were cut and when the land went through bankruptcy the area fell A little Island history through the cracks. It still belongs to Upper Padre Partners while the Ten Percent of the U.S. Cotton Crop Processed in Corpus Christi surrounding land is owned by the Inside a non-descript building on color, and five other catagories new owners of the park. The question a quiet street on the north side of which combine to reach the ultimate going forward is who is going to pay Corpus Christi seventy people work number; its value. Texas accounts for to cut the grass there and so far the feverishly behind lines of machines about half of the United States’ cotton answer in no one. that stretch, cut, sort, and dry ten production and last year produced a Stay tuned. percent of the cotton crop grown in crop valued at $2.2 billion the United States each year. Brother’s Keeper Long history The USDA Agricultural Our friend Rick Rickenbauch in Marketing Service collects cotton The interwoven history of cotton Port A has hit a rough patch and we from one million acres of cotton- and Texas began with the Spanish wish him the best. Rick got off a one- growing land in Texas roughly missionaries which, according to liner for the ages a while back when covering the state east of Interstate reports from the early missions, he was the lighthouse keeper at the 35 and west to Uvalde. Every day produced several thousand pounds Lydia Ann Lighthouse owned by from August to December the local of cotton annually as far back as HEB grocery chain owner Charles workers sample cotton cut from 1745. Colonists in the Austin colony Butt. Rick ran into Charles’ brother 36,000 bales processed at fifty eight were attracted by the promise of Howard and when asked his name cotton gins in the region. cotton production in the blackland said, “I am your brother’s keeper,” along the Brazos and Colorado river which in fact he was. We need you Dryers under conveyer belts bring bottoms starting in 1821, a part of the back on The Island Rick. the moisture content in each of the state which now produces the cotton samples to seven percent in order sampled at the local lab. Cotton Turkeys can fly to produce a uniformity that allows production grew quickly and in 1825 for testing of the cotton’s strength, The assembly line at the Agricultural Marketing Service Around cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 November 15, 2018 Island Moon A 2 La Posada Island Thunder Motorcycle Run Ride participant Robert Phillips (left) stands with Marines who collected toy donations for Toys For Tots at last weekend's La Posada Island Thunder Motorcycle Ride sponsored by Corpus Chrisit Cycle Plaza and the Pelican Lounge.