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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 May 28, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Dr. Donna Island Memorial Day 2020 By Dale Rankin Shaver is a The Weekly Island Power Outage waited for the weekend this week and Final Finalist it didn’t take a driver running into a utility pole, or gravity getting the better of a power line. It was just the for “Sammie” wind and rain that hit us two nights in a row and brought some much needed Award rain our way. On the police beat this week Noise Ordinance Complaints Needs Islanders are down, car wrecks and Assaults are up with Suspicious Person calls Bob Hall Pier Michael J. Ellis Beach support to win holding steady. By Maureen Hurlow It was a weekend to stay away from the beach and the JFK Causeway Each year the and head for the Ski Basin. The rain Sammie awards turned the parking area under the JFK (“Sammies”) into a big lake and the fisherpersons are awarded to just parked their trailers in it anyway. honor members of the federal For the past several weeks the government parking area around the JFK Bridge workforce, has been jammed even during highlighting weekdays with boat trailers and the work of Dr. Donna trucks as people launch there. The employees Shaver city currently has $1.5 million in Island beaches from Port Aransas to Padre National Seashore were jammed over the Memorial Day Weekend with making bond money but no design yet for traffic on the JFK Causeway backed up all the Way to Oso Bay on Saturday. significant contributions to the reworking that area. Here is a look from the air courtesy of Islander Jason Cox. governance of the . The ISAC cancelled awards are considered "the Oscars" of American government service. They The June meeting of the Island are named after Samuel J. Heyman Strategic Action Committee Time to reason with Hurricane Season and the winners are awarded Service scheduled for Tuesday, June 2 has to America Medals. been cancelled making it the third Dr. Shaver who for four decades month in a row due to the COVID-19 has worked in the program at Padre virus. The May meeting of the Padre Busy Season Predicted for 2020 Island National Seashore to increase Isles Property Owners Association the population of the Kemp’s ridley scheduled for this week was also The National Oceanic and factors is driving the strong likelihood said Neil Jacobs, Ph.D., acting sea turtle population is a finalist in the cancelled, the June meeting, as of Atmospheric Admiration this week for above-normal activity in the NOAA administrator. “Our skilled “Sammies” award People’s Choice now at least, is still on the books. predicted an above-normal 2020 Atlantic this year. El Nino Southern forecasters, coupled with upgrades to season with a 60% Oscillation (ENSO) conditions are our computer models and observing category. She is one of 12 out of 27 Blender Bob chance of an above-normal season, expected to either remain neutral or technologies, will provide accurate honorees in the running for People’s a 30% chance of a near-normal to trend toward La Nina, meaning and timely forecasts to protect life Choice to move to the next level. Once upon a time not that long ago season and only a 10% chance of a there will not be an El Nino present and property.” the number of Island residents was "Just to be named is such a below-normal season. The Atlantic to suppress hurricane activity. small enough that everyone pretty During the 2020 hurricane season, tremendous honor," Shaver said. hurricane season runs from June 1 Also, warmer-than-average sea much knew everyone else. The NOAA and the U.S. Navy will "What it reinforces to me is that they through November 30. surface temperatures in the tropical Island Rule was that if you heard deploy a fleet of autonomous (the other nominees) are such great Atlantic Ocean and , about a party you were invited, just NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center diving hurricane gliders to observe people who care so much more about coupled with reduced vertical wind don’t show up empty handed and as is forecasting a likely range of 13 to conditions in the tropical Atlantic the work and want to excel." shear, weaker tropical Atlantic Mike Ellis used to say, “An Island 19 named storms (winds of 39 mph Ocean and Caribbean Sea in areas trade winds, and an enhanced west Islanders who voted for Donna in party is like a seven-layer bean dip. or higher), of which 6 to 10 could where hurricanes have historically African monsoon all increase the the first round now are needed to It starts with separate layers but become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph traveled and intensified. likelihood for an above-normal vote again with the reduced pool of by the end of the night it’s just one or higher), including 3 to 6 major Atlantic hurricane season. Similar finalists. We can make this happen to big conglomeration.” But we had hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with Colorado State University conditions have been producing more honor Dr. Shaver and her 41 years of so many people with the same first winds of 111 mph or higher). NOAA active seasons since the current high- Colorado State University which dedication to the Kemp’s ridley turtles. names that we needed a modifier provides these ranges with a 70% activity era began in 1995. also issues it prediction for Hurricane Go to servicetoamericamedals.org/ and Mike was the one who handed confidence. An average hurricane Season each year is predicting a peoples-choice-award/ or just google out the nicknames. We had English season produces 12 named storms, of “NOAA’s analysis of current and season that is more active than usual, Sammies Awards to get to the voting Mike, Moon Mike, Mailman Mike, which 6 become hurricanes, including seasonal atmospheric conditions according to the Colorado State page. The voting time frame is May Flounder Mike, Shipwreck Sherry, three major hurricanes reveals a recipe for an active University Tropical Meteorology 26, 2020 until June 10, 2020. Atlantic hurricane season this year,” Tractor Steve, Cabana Dave, and The combination of several climate Project. Dave Behave. But most of all we Hurricanes cont. on A4 had a plethora of Bobs. Sausage Bob, Brisket Bob, Cadillac Bob, Billy Bob (he owned a goat), Boat A little Island history Bob, Cheating Bob (a poker player), Anchor Bob (lived at Anchor Resort), Port A Bob and Beach Bum Bob (also known as Crazy Bob). Some A History of June Storms on The Island of those Bobs are still around and some have come and gone and we By Dale Rankin Alberto in 1982. There was only one the Gulf of over history. near Victoria and passed over lost one this week when “Blender The 2020 Hurricane Season is June hurricane in the 1970s, Agnes, Palacious, Wharton, and Houston Bob” Seaman passed away. Blender now upon us so we take a look June Storms in the Gulf of which hit the Panhandle in had winds of 49 mph with gust of Bob got his name by handing out his a back a storms that have hit our famous margaritas from his boat at 1972. Mexico 60 mph. Port O’Connor had winds island in the month of June. of 110 mph. Pressure was 929 mbs. the Ski Basin which he equipped with In the 1960s there were three June 1871 June 1-5 Rainfall 15.57”. a transformer to get from A/C to D/C. Gulf storms in June hurricanes, Hurricane Alma reached Pressure 29.51” 1909 June 29 The second storm Longtime Islander Annie Hoefel The longest gap between storms major hurricane status in 1966; then 1871 June 8-9 Upper of 1909 hit Texas as a Category 2 wrote this week to say she would like on the Texas coast is 15 years from in 1968, two hurricanes formed in Coast Pressure 29.53” hurricane near Brownsville, to create something in Blender Bob’s June, Abby and Brenda, the only 1886 to 1902. But what about June 1886 June 13 Upper Texas 1913 June 27 75 mph. Hit the memory and since his son Chris time that has happened in the past 50 storms in the , and Coast Center remained offshore. Upper Coast from the East- Seaman organized the "real" first ski years. particularly along the Texas Coast? Tide was 9’ at the mouth of the southeast. basin bash back before the current Texas’ storms have traditionally According to Dr Neil Frank, who Sabine River one started out Annie is suggesting hit in the late part of the season 1957 June 27 tracked hurricanes for KHOU swept across the Gulf Coast near that "The annual Ski Basin Bash" with the most frequent months on Television in Houston until his 1888 June 26 SW of Galveston. be renamed "The Annual Blender the Texas Coast being August and Rainfall 13.9” the Texas-Louisiana line. Nine lives retirement in 2008, there have only were lost and 450 persons injured. Bob Ski Basin Bash." As Annie puts September. been four hurricanes since 1950 strike 1902 - The second storm of 1902 it, “Blender Bob is an Island legend Property damage, particularly But what about in June? Since the Texas coast. They were where formed over Tabasco, Mexico on and his stories are priceless and will extensive in Jefferson and Orange 1960, only eight Atlantic basin Audrey, Alice, Bonnie, and Alex June 21. After moving offshore, it live on forever. Not sure if they have counties, amounted to $8 million. hurricanes have formed in June the most recent. Hurricane Audrey steadily strengthened to an 80 mph Margaritas in Heaven or not, but if The effect was more serious across or earlier. That’s an average of was the most noteworthy since it hurricane before making landfall they do, I'm sure Blender Bob is up Sabine Lake in Cameron Parish, one every 6.25 years; but Tropical was a category 4 with winds of 145 near Corpus Christi. Louisiana, where hundreds of there making them and organizing mph making landfall near the Texas- Storms in June are not as rare. 1903 Late June – July 1 Struck people died. some kind of "heavenly bash." Louisiana border. Hurricane Audrey Port O’ Connor and passed 30 Sounds like a pretty good idea. The last June hurricane was remains the earliest June hurricane to 1921 June 22 The first hurricane Allison in 1995. It reached miles from Corpus Christi to 30 Hurricane Season 2020 is upon us reach category four status. of the 1921 season made landfall Category 1 strength in the Gulf of miles off the Rio Grande Delta. but the Back Porch is open so eat in Texas. Mexico and hit Northwest Florida Over the last 150 years, one June drink and be merry everybody for 1909 June 25-30 Struck the lower as a tropical storm. There were hurricane has formed every 10 years 1922 June 13-16 Rio Grande tomorrow we may evacuate. Say Texas coast. two June hurricanes in the 1980s with one tropical storm forming Valley where floods were highest hello is you see us Around The Island. – Bonnie, which struck Texas as every five years 1921June 15 Impacted the entire of at the time. a Category 1 system in 1986, and Texas Coast after making landfall Here’s a look at June Hurricanes in History cont. on A4 May 28, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Photos From Around the Islands School's Out For Summer!

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Distribution Pete Alsop Island Delivery Coldwell Banker Advertising Jan Park Rankin Classifieds Art Center of Port A. Arlene Ritley April and May have been sad months for our world of Art. As you know, the Port Aransas Production Manager Art Center closed on March 24, 2020 due to Abigail Bair the Covid-19 scare. We reopened our doors as Contributing Writers soon as Governor Greg Abbott pronounced that Joey Farah it was okay to do so, and that was May 1, 2020. Andy Purvis YAY! Mary Craft Before we were forced to close, the Art Center Emily Gaines was accomplishing great things. Our classes Jay Gardner were full, our workshops and Wine, Whine and Todd Hunter Design classes were overflowing and people were buying our beautiful artist’s works. All of Dotson Lewis that came to an abrupt halt in March when we Dr. Tom Dorrell had to close our doors. We had to cancel Artfest Ronnie Narmour and we could have no classes, workshops or art Brent Rourk sales. We suffered great financial loss. In the Packery Flats. Photographers meantime, we mourn the loss of one of the Art Center’s most gifted and amazing artists and art A fourth nail salon will be added on the Island at the IGA Balli Center. A name for the salon Miles Merwin (Emeritus) teachers, Nancy Buskey. Debbie Noble has not yet been decided. We don't know when we will be able to safely Singer/Songwriter Roger Creager hung out at The Back Porch last Saturday. Jan Rankin resume our First Friday Opening Receptions but Mary Craft we continue to hang new exhibitions and invite The Coastal Bender Fishing Tournament sponsored by Roger Creager will be held August Ronnie Narmour you to view them at your leisure. We hope you 14th and 15th. Concerts will be performed at the American Bank Center. will support our artists by purchasing a piece! Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) The Flour Bluff High School Graduation will be held at the Hornet Stadium on June 5th at We thank our generous Corporate Sponsors for 7 pm. The ceremony will also be live streamed on the Flour bluff ISD Facebook page. Riley P. Dog continuing their annual donations in support of these exhibitions. The PIPOA towed 11 vehicles or boat trailers from the boat ramps this past holiday weekend. The public is free to use the boat ramps but not the parking lot. There is no nice way to say it, but the Art Center needs money and possibly you can help. In Port A there is live music every weekend at The Back Porch, Shorty’s and Treasure Island. We need donations, grants and cold hard cash There is live music nightly at Giggity’s. to keep the Art Center operating. That is a fact. The Harbor Playhouse is doing live curbside performances every Friday starting at 6 pm and It will be hard to make up for the revenue lost Saturdays at 4 pm with different themes each weekend. It is a drive up and you will be served due to Covid-19 but any amount that you can concessions or cocktails at your vehicle. They are located at 1802 Chaparral. contribute will help. Doc’s Seafood & Steaks is again serving Sunday Brunch from the menu 9 am - noon. Please take the time to renew your annual membership today or make a donation online to Marker 37 Marina now has a snow cone station open on the pier. The pier also has plenty of provide Covid-19 relief in the amount of your bags of ice for sale. Publisher choice. Your donations are tax exempt and will The fishing pier cost is $5/person $3/rod. The marina is open until 7 pm but on Friday and Dale Rankin help keep the arts alive in Port Aransas through Saturday it is open until 8:30 pm. About the Island Moon these difficult times. The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale Rankin, Editor / Publisher. Karen Winship Ridout Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes President, on behalf of the Art Center Board delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 of Directors copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. From Our Facebook Page News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. Traffic backed up to Oso post: The Island Moon Newspaper Franz Wesztergom We need an Islanders only lane. But hey, all y'all spend ya Benjamins on 14646 Compass, Suite 3 the Isles of Corpus Christi. Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Tracey Parks Awesome! That means much needed money pouring into the local economy! 361-949-7700 And that’s very welcome indeed! [email protected] Joe Martinez I don’t know guys. Y’all chose Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper to live in a vacation destination. You bought a property, not the whole island. The money those weekenders bring is sorely needed. If you want to blame someone, blame the tight fisted decision makers in charge of designing and building the roads. It is beyond ridiculous that Where to Find The there still isn’t a second road/bridge/causeway to the island. Same thing at Port A. It’s past time Island Moon for a second ferry landing. Don’t get mad at me, that’s just how it looks from the outside. Snow cone station at Marker 37 Pier and Marina. Margo Cooper Gibbons We definitely Port North need the income boost of all those tourists as The Junior Summer Tennis Program is starting June 1st for frustrating as it can be , we live in paradise and ages 8 and up. The cost is $175/week and is Monday - Thursday Aransas Padre others want to enjoy it 9:30 am - 3 pm. There is also a $50 daily drop in rate. Go to www. RV hebtenniscenter.com or call 882-6013 for more info. All Stripes Stores Bill Hughen We need to complete the Pioneer RV Black Sheep/ Southside Expressway and connect it to a new “Blender Bob” Seaman passed away. He and his son Chris Stripes on 1A Barrel bridge to the island. organized the first ski basin bash. Bob’s nickname came from the Margaritas he passed out from his boat at the basin. You can read My Coastal Home Brynt Daniels Lived on this island for forty CVS more about this Island Legend in his obituary next issue. WB Liquor Store years and it’s never been more out of control!! Dollar General The Island “Best kept secret” status is no longer. I have never seen Emma Wilson My favorite place but not on Island Wine Room so many out of state license plates during non-winter months. I saw Whataburger holiday weekends. California, New Mexico, New York, Colorado, Arizona, Tennessee, Kody’s Doc’s Restaurant On Canal Work begun: Connecticut, North Dakota, Kansas, , Oklahoma, Michigan, Coffee Waves "Blender Bob" Seaman , Nevada, and the always present Florida. Snoopy’s Pier Tim Lovell As an island resident from 04 to Moby Dicks Isle Mail N More 2016. I almost spit my beer out reading this. IGA So many rumors and broken promises. Glad it Island Italian might finally get done but...... I'LL BELIEVE Treasure Island Brooklyn Pie Co. IT WHEN I SEE IT. Ms. Woody’s Ace Hardware Frank Angelo Santa Maria About time if it Automotive really happens through to a completion. Port A Glass Studio Texas Star (Shell) San Juan’s Restaurant Jesse’s Liquor Wash Tub Scuttlebutt’s Woody’s Sports Restaurant Center Subway Back Porch Bar Island Tire Light up e Sky  e 4 of July! Shorty’s Place Padre Pizzeria Fisherman’s Wharf Island Blast And all Moon Fireworks Display Giggity’s retail advertisers tax-deductible donations are still being accepted. Gratitude WB Liquor If you’d like to help, please mail checks to Island Blast 14493 Suite A PMB 342 | Corpus Christi, TX 78418 The Gaff You can also donate online through the island blast Trinity By the Sea Flour Bluff facebook page. Episcopal H.E.B. Whataburger on Waldron Ethyl Everly Send letters and photos to Senior Center [email protected] Fire Station Facebook: The Island Police Station Stripes on Flour Moon Newspaper Last week's history piece by Bobby Kimbrell generated this vintage picture of the Red Dot taken when it was located next to the JFK Causeway. Bluff & SPID Now available online at islandmoon.com Send letters and photos to editor@ islandmoon.com May 28, 2020 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Hurricanes cont. from A1 from Brownsville to Matagorda on June 19, 1929 June 21-29 Landfall at Port O’Connor on which was discontinued 24 hours later. Their latest forecast is in line with the NOAA Colorado State scientists predict the 2020 June 21. forecast in calling for 16 named storms, eight Atlantic basin hurricane season will have 2001 June 5 made hurricanes and four major hurricanes. A major above-normal activity. Current warm neutral 1929 June 29 Another storm, a Catagory 1, landfall near Freeport and stalled over eastern hurricane is one that is Category 3 or higher ENSO conditions appear likely to transition hit near the only town to suffer much Freeport, Texas for several days, dropping extreme (115-plus-mph winds) on the Saffir-Simpson to cool neutral ENSO or potentially even damage from it. amounts of rain which lead to catastrophic Hurricane Wind Scale. weak La Niña conditions by this summer/fall. 1931 June 24-28. Lower Texas Coast. Rain flooding. Rainfall peaked at 36.99 inches at the Sea surface temperatures averaged across the This forecast is above the 30-year average 8.03” Port of Houston. The Texas Medical Center tropical Atlantic are somewhat above normal. suffered $2 billion in damage. The $5.5 billion (1981 to 2010) of 12 named storms, six 1933 June 27-July 6 Lower Texas Coast in damages, nearly all of it related to freshwater hurricanes and three major hurricanes. The Center passed midway between Brownsville flooding in the Greater Houston area, and 23 and Tampico causing several deaths. Tides deaths makes Allison the only non-hurricane reached 5’at Port Aransas. strength storm to have its name retired. The 1934 June 20 A Category 1 hurricane, the storm dropped 40 inches of rain along its path 1934 Hurricane, carved and left 30,000 people homeless, 70,000 houses an erratic path across Central America and flooded, and 2,744 homes destroyed. Along the Gulf of Mexico, causing catastrophic its entire path, Allison caused $5.5 billion flooding in Central America that killed 1,000- ($7.1 billion 2013 dollars) in damage and 41 3,000 people, brought heavy rain to the Texas deaths. Coast. 2003 June 30 Tropical Storm Bill was the 1936 June 27 Registered as a small but intense second storm of the season and hit the Bolivar tropical disturbance the storm struck the South Peninsula near Galveston. The storm caused Texas coast without warning moving inland a moderate rainfall and a tornado outbreak across short distance north of Corpus Christi around the southern United States resulting in four noon and doing considerable damage over a deaths and $30 million in damage (2003 USD, small area. Highest winds and the heaviest $37.4 million 2013 dollars). Produced 34 rains were felt between Corpus Christi and Port tornados. Aransas these two points. No deaths nor serious 2005 June 1. The 2005 Atlantic hurricane injuries were reported but a Humble Oil refinery season was the most active Atlantic hurricane in Ingleside suffered severe damage. Three giant season in recorded history. Before it was cooling towers were demolished putting the over the season caused 3,913 deaths and record refinery out of commission for approximately damage of about $159.2 billion. Of the storms two weeks. Boats were beached at Port Aransas, that made landfall, five of the season’s seven but the causeway leading from there to Aransas major hurricanes—Dennis, Emily, Katrina, Pass was ready for travel within five hours. Rita, and Wilma—were responsible for most Formed in the Gulf off Corpus Christi and, of the destruction. accompanied by torrential rains, the storm This season was the first time that the Atlantic stirred up winds with a velocity between 60 and hurricane season was more active than the 70 miles an hour as it moved inland. The typhoon season but this phenomenon was reached as far north as the coastline somewhere repeated in the 2010 season. between Rockport and Seadrift. Rainfall at Corpus Christi amounted to 2.26 inches and The season officially began on June 1, 2005, other cities and towns in the affected area were and lasted until November 30, although it drenched by similar downpours. Skies cleared effectively persisted into January 2006 due to at Corpus Christi and the wind dropped to 20 continued storm activity producing a record miles an hour during the afternoon. Storm winds twenty-eight tropical and subtropical storms were reported as far north as Houston. The tide with seven which became major hurricanes; a at Corpus Christi rose three and a half feet and record five Category 4 and four Category 5. there was slight inundation near the Nueces Bay The season began on June 8 when Tropical Causeway at the height of the storm. One or two Storm Arlene which reached its peak intensity summer camps on the lowest ground washed on June 11 over the Gulf of Mexico making out but residents had moved to safer ground landfall just west of Pensacola. and there were no deaths. Telephone lines were blown down and communications disrupted Tropical Storm Bret 28-30 June. Made landfall during the hurricane’s landward movement. near Tuxpan, Mexico, causing floods and one death in the state of Veracruz. But from 2005- 1946 June 14-16 Port Arthur The first storm of 2009 no storms hit the Texas Coast in the month 1946 moved ashore near the Texas/Louisiana of June. Seashore Happenings border, causing no damage. 2008 June 1Tropical Storm Arthur. Arthur was 1954 JUN 24 -28 Hurricane Alice hit South a short-lived tropical that made landfall HEB Buddy League Student Texas. Record floods in the Rio Grande Valley in northeastern Belize as a tropical storm. The caused 38 deaths. Alice dropped 26 inches of storm produced devastating floods and killed Advocate Award Winners rain in South Texas. five people in Belize, causing an estimated $78 1957 June 25-28 Hurricane Audry hit the million worth of damage in that country. Upper Texas Coast near the Texas-Louisiana 2010 June 25-July 2 . On June border on June 27th killing over 500 people - 30 Alex made landfall at Soto la Marina, 390 deaths in Louisiana as the result of a storm Tamaulipas in Mexico as a large Category 2 surge in excess of 12 feet, which inundated the hurricane, bringing heavy rains, wind, tornadoes flat coast of Louisiana as far as 25 miles inland and record level rainfall to South Texas. in some places. Damages were estimated in excess of $700 million. Surge tide at Galveston Hurricane warnings issued on June 28 the reached 6 feet flooding Galveston. 450 people area from Baffin Bay to the mouth of the Rio were injured in Texas. Barametric pressure Grande. A tropical storm warning was posted reached 945 mb. from Baffin Bay northward toPort O’Connor. Governor of Texas Rick Perry declared a 1958 June 14 Tropical Storm Alma hit the state of disaster in 19 counties and ordered lower Texas Coast dropping 20 inches of rain. the deployment of Texas Military Forces One death in the surf at Galveston and another personnel (including 80 citizen-soldiers of the in Medina, Texas. Barametric pressure reach Texas State Guard Medical Brigade) to the Rio 997.3 mb. Grande Valley. President Barack Obama also 1960 June 22-26 Corpus Christi. Tropical declared a state of emergency, freeing federal Storm Candy dropped 10 inches of rain around funds for 25 counties in Texas.On June 29, the city and spawned 10 tornadoes in Texas and authorities began evacuations of residents of nine other states. coastal areas in Tamaulipas. One June 30 the Brownsville, 1986 June 26 makes issued a flood watch for South Texas as the landfall near High Island in Southeast Texas storm was expected to produce heavy rainfall Audrey as a Category 1 hurricane, killing four people in for up to 18 hours. Texas and producing heavy rainfall that caused street flooding. Rainfall peaks at 13 inches 2011 June 8, Tropical Storm Arlene formed with many areas picking up at least 10 inches. in the western Caribbean, crossing before Bonnie also spawned four tornadoes in Texas. making landfall on the Florida Panhandle on Four deaths and $42 million in damage in 1886 June 11. Arlene caused only moderate damage, dollars. although one swimmer was caught in a riptide and drowned in Beach, FloridaJune 1989 Late June. Tropical Storm Allison, 30, 2011 – Tropical Storm Arlene makes the first named storm of the1989 Atlantic landfall south of Texas near Cabo Rojo.[135] hurricane season, formed on June 24 in the The outer bands of Arlene cause 1–4 inches of northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Made landfall rain in South Texas. near Freeport, causing three deaths. Produced torrential rainfall across the state, with amounts The National Weather Service warned for of more than 10 inches over much of the upper the potential of flooding rains in the drought- Texas coast, peaking at 20.28 inches in Orange. stricken region of South Texas. Officials in measured 7 feet in Trinity Cameron County ordered the preparation of Bay; caused beach erosion on Padre Island. sandbags, as well as the inspection of water Milleigh Sara $400 million in damage in Texas alone. pumps and vehicles to deal with floodwaters. In Hidalgo County, the storm spawned a weak The storm caused heavy rainfall, amounting to tornado that damaged roofs, toppled vehicles, 30 inches in some places. In total, 11 fatalities and injured one person prior to moving into resulted from the storm, as well as $560 million Mexico. ($1.04 billion 2013 dollars in damage. Allison was the first to make landfall 2012 June Four storms formed before July 1. in the U.S. state of Texas since Hurricane Tropical Storm Alberto May 19-22 off the East Jerry in 1989. U.S. Coast 1993 June 20. Tropical Storm Arlene was the Tropical Storm Beryl 26 - 30 May Beryl was first tropical cyclone to make landfall in the a pre-season tropical storm that made landfall Texas since Hurricane Jerry in 1989. Arlene in northeastern Florida and affected portions was the first named storm of the season and of the southeastern United States. It was the developed from a in the Gulf of strongest pre-season tropical cyclone of record Mexico. The depression slowly strengthened to make landfall in the United States. was upgraded to a tropical storm on June 19 but failed to intensify further due to its proximity Hurricane Chris 18-22 June Chris became to land. Arlene made landfall on Padre Island a hurricane at 39.4oN latitude, making it the with winds of 40 mph and dissipated into a farthest-north hurricane to develop during the remnant area of low pressure and was gone by month of June. The only other hurricanes to June 21. develop north of 35oN latitude so early in the season were unnamed hurricanes in June 1959 Rainfall ranging from 9-11 inches was reported (at 38.4oN 65.3oW) and June 1893 (at 38.3oN and a funnel cloud was reported near Corpus 72.9oW). It did not impact the Texas Coast. Christi but never touched the ground. Heavy beach erosion occurred on The Island as a Tropical Storm Debby 23-27 June Debby was result of the storm which caused $55 million in a large tropical storm that formed in the south- damage killed one person. central Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in the Florida Big Bend region. It caused considerable Arlene was a relatively fast moving system freshwater flooding, primarily in central and and few advance warnings were put into effect. northern Florida. No impact on the Texas Coast. Catherine The only warning from the National Hurricane Center was a tropical storm warning in effect The HEB Buddy League is a program with schools that aims to promote diversity and inclusion by inspiring kindness and respect over negative behavior such as teasing, excluding from play, and bullying. 4 SLC students who were nominated by their teachers or counselor were surprised with gift bags, Send letters and photos to editor@ yard signs, and a drive by car parade celebrating their selection as HEB Buddy League Student Advocate Award winners. islandmoon.com Photos and cutline by Debbie Noble May 28, 2020 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island Tides of the Week By Dale Rankin One thing you notice as Tides for Bob Hall Pier May 28 - June 4 you drive along SPID by the Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon work site on the new Beach Walk Canal west of the roadway these days is /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible that the heavy equipment out there never stands Th 28 Low 12:41 AM -0.3 6:34 AM S et 12:54 AM 25 still. I’m no expert but I’m thinking that as the Cost Accountant does the numbers a bulldozer 28 High 10:24 AM 1.8 8:18 PM Rise 11:53 AM standing still is costing you money while a F 29 Low 1:40 AM -0.1 6:34 AM Set 1:38 AM 35 bulldozer moving is making you money. 29 High 10:56 AM 1.7 8:19 PM Rise 12:56 PM For almost two weeks now two bulldozers, Sa 30 Low 2:48 AM 0.1 6:34 AM Set 2:19 AM 45 two front end loaders, and two very large dump trucks have been moving sand in the area just the golf course was in use there was no water 30 High 11:19 AM 1.6 8:19 PM Rise 1:59 PM south of the Waves Resort site on a project that source for the greens and fairways. The rest of 30 Low 6:51 PM 0.9 has been in the works on our Island since 2004. the system is still there and in fact, at one point So far it has involved a bond issue, two bidding ran under the southbound lane of SPID and 30 High 9:18 PM 1.0 processes, two bankruptcies, and sixteen years watered the plants in the median. Su 31 Low 4:13 AM 0.4 6:34 AM Set 2:57 AM 57 of cynicism from Islanders who over the years From the Lake to the Laguna 31 High 11:35 AM 1.4 8:20 PM Rise 3:03 PM have watched project after project come here to die. But that all changed last week when the Progress on the Lake Padre side has been held 31 Low 6:30 PM 0.7 crews showed up and started digging. up for over a year by the lack of certainty on the 31 High 11:44 PM 1.1 bridge, which was held up by the uncertainty on the canal. The Lake Padre developer needed to M 1 Low 5:57 AM 0.7 6:33 AM Set 3:35 AM 68 know if he was going to have a bridge or 250 1 High 11:46 AM 1.2 8:20 PM Rise 4:07 PM 1 Low 6:44 PM 0.4 Tu 2 High 1:36 AM 1.4 6:33 AM S et 4:13 AM 78 2 Low 7:48 AM 0.9 8:21 PM Rise 5:12 PM 2 High 11:50 AM 1.2 2 Low 7:12 PM 0.0 W 3 High 3:07 AM 1.6 6:33 AM Set 4:53 AM 87 3 Low 7:49 PM -0.3 8:21 PM Rise 6:19 PM Th 4 High 4:23 AM 1.9 6:33 AM Set 5:36 AM 94 4 Low 8:30 PM -0.5 8:22 PM Rise 7:26 PM feet of road-front property and now he has his answer. The first domino has fallen. We will have more on the plans for Lake Padre as things move forward. If you zoom out and think of the area from Lake Padre to the Laguna Madre as one big puzzle it really falls into several pieces. The first was the waterpark which is now in turnaround but will come back in some form, the second It’s difficult to get a sense of what’s going on is the Beach Walk Canal (a name that could by just driving by because the work is below change) the Water Exchange Bridge, and Lake grade; you can’t see it. But when you get up Padre. Going back about ten years the mantra in the air you get an idea of the scope of the from the Corpus Christi City Council has been project that is going on just below grade as the that they would not build a ‘bridge to nowhere;’ excavation work is moving quickly. The crews a reasonable position to say the least. The are using pumps to keep the groundwater level a solution to the problem was to guarantee that few feet below sea level so they can dig most of the canals on both sides of the bridge would the canal dry before cutting the land bridges out get built. The one on the Lake Padre side has and mixing the salt water and fresh water, which been in place for years and the one on the west likely won’t happen until the Water Exchange side is now being dug. Everything is in place to Bridge is in place. move forward on the bridge and, barring a force Many of the man-made lakes that were part of majeure, sometime before the end of 2020 work the irrigation system for the old Padre Island on the bridge will begin. By the end of 2021, if County Club are going to be, or already have not before, we should be able to take our boats – with a clearance of fourteen feet or less above the water – from our Ready for Red Snapper Season? neighborhoods into Lake Padre and around the Great Island Loop Make Sure Your Catch Counts under the SH 361 bridge, past Doc’s and Snoopy’s and Marker Want to make log their catches and fishing trips. The data is 37 and back into the canals your catch count sent securely to researchers to generate catch and home. That will be a game this Red Snapper statistics and better manage the Red Snapper changer in all kinds of ways. season? Texas fishery. For the last ten years I have had will open up its “iSnapper will be used as a comparative way questions about whether the Water Red Snapper to estimate the total Red Snapper harvest. Exchange Bridge was ever going fishery on June Through new state-based regional management to happen and my answer always 1 for an estimated 63 days for recreational authorization, the TPWD is now managing the was, “Yes, but I can’t say when.” anglers (until August 3) and 62 days for charter state’s quota, and will be monitoring the harvest Well, that answer now is, “Now! boats (until August 2), and researchers at the to ensure we don’t exceed our quota,” Topping Things are already happening.” Center for Sportfish Science and Conservation said. “This season we hope to keep collecting In a way it has gotten lost in at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi are information to ensure we have the best data the noise of the spread of the encouraging you to download the iSnapper available in order to allow fishermen as many View of worksite looking south. COVId-19 virus but, hopefully at app (http://isnapper.org/) before heading out on days on the water as we can.” least, that will come and go while your first fishing trip. been, filled in. They were water storage areas the canal and the bridge will still be with us. Red Snapper are one of the most highly for the irrigation system which was put in when “Our iSnapper app and partnership with targeted and controversial fish species in the As a longtime Islander I can be as cynical as the original work on the golf course was done Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) northern Gulf. Considered overfished since the the next person, but when the sand started flying which used filtered water from the Whitecap continue to benefit recreational anglers by 1980s, anglers have seen a dramatic reduction in last week the time for cynicism ended and the Wastewater Treatment Plant to irrigate the golf providing great catch data that helps to give both the fishing season and bag limits in recent time for planning and looking ahead began. course. That became a big problem when the access to recreational anglers through extended decades until management practices changed Schlitterbahn park was built because during The Island is literally shifting under our feet seasons, and promotes a robust Red Snapper last year. population that are eager to bite,” said Center construction a canal cut through towards and a new era on our Island has begun. for Sportfish Science and Conservation Director iSnapper was designed to be simple, fast, and Aquarius cut the feeder line that brought the Dr. Greg Stunz. easy to use on the go. After downloading and water from the plant and for the last two years registering with iSnapper, anglers simply open Tara Topping, a research specialist II at the a new trip and answer a few questions each Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico time they head out on the water. It is especially Studies at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi important to provide accurate vessel registration and Project Leader for iSnapper, said that numbers during the registration process so data downloading the app is an easy way for anglers can be properly validated and recorded. Then, to get involved in an important citizen science anglers can put their phones away for the rest of effort supporting better management and access the day. On the way back to the dock, users can to this fishery. reopen iSnapper, record the number of fish they The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management harvested, released, and give a general fishing Council unanimously voted last year to give location. Moments later, the data is sent securely state fisheries management agencies like to researchers to generate catch statistics and TPWD the responsibility to manage harvest of better manage the Red Snapper fishery. Red Snapper in the Gulf of Mexico beginning Fishermen can also save favorite fishing photos, in 2020. Used in partnership with state wildlife get local weather reports, and view previously officials, the app provides users with a way to submitted trips to save favorite fishing spots. “With the season opening on June 1, we hope to keep our great momentum going,” Stunz said. “Please continue to enter your catch data on iSnapper. Your participation is key to healthy fish stocks.”

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Crews this week began digging near the bridge site. A6 Island Moon May 28, 2020 Senior Moments Anecdotingly The Doolittle Raid Fat Dog Blues By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon By Abigail Bair Stadler’s bowl. I was back in the bedroom Dotson’s Note: The first and Jurika had gotten some medals from the The dogs are really piling up in my little, cleaning and didn’t notice until I walked into bombs were released over Tokyo on Saturday, Japanese when he was in the embassy in Japan yellow (the G.P. just repainted it and it’s now my kitchen to find him lying flat out on the April 18, 1942, at exactly 1220 hrs. At the and he gave them to Col. Doolittle, who tied the exact color of a yield sign) house. Dad is floor lovingly licking the empty container like same time bombs were released over targets in them to the tail of the bombs. It was payback out of town, and the Rev doesn’t like to leave ol’ a lollypop. Yokohama, Kobe, Nagoya, and Osaka. Thanks time.” Rowlfie home alone, so the enormous, shovel- to those named below and John D. Lukacs, for headed, former street cur (retired) is staying at I deeply understand Rowlf’s position on The Klaxon Called to General Quarters the facts contained in this report and to the US my place. He’s nice to have around most of the dieting -- in this, he is my spirit animal. sounded at 7:44 a.m. on April 18: a Japanese Air Force and the National Archives for the time. He’s got great manners and is a terrific (if ship had sighted our strike force. Though the As soon as Rowlf left the now very damp bowl, photos. a bit stinky) snuggler. Stadler has made many force was still roughly 170 nautical miles from attempts to get him to play with her, mostly by Stadler ran worriedly over to it, picked it up, ran The Avengers the intended launch point, at 0800 hrs, Halsey placing her toys on top of his head, but Rowlf to me, and dropped it on my big toe. erred on the side of caution: “Launch planes. prefers sleep and ear rubs to any untoward “Fill my bowl NOW, FOOD PERSON! You To Col. Doolittle and Gallant Crew: Good Luck rambunctiousness. have ONE JOB.” and God Bless You.” As the Hornet pitched in the wild seas, the B-25s roared airborne and There is one big problem with Rowlf, and I So, not knowing what else to do, I refilled her headed toward Japan in staggered formations at think it’s one many of us can sympathize with: dish. “No way Rowlf will eat enough to gain all wave-top level. They arrived over their targets Rowlf is on a diet. the weight back in five days,” I reasoned, and just after noon, some greeted by antiaircraft fire The poor guy got fat due to Dad sneaking him went off to do something else. and enemy planes. bacon grease and because he figured out how to A few minutes later, an even damper bowl was Lieutenant Cole: “Everybody thought taking stick his head in his food bag and eat as much delivered to me while I was cleaning the toilet. as he wanted. off would be the most difficult thing. It turned “No! You can’t have any more! I don’t care if out to be one of the easiest. We had plenty of Mom caught him late one night after letting Rowlfie ate it all!” I hollered at a very cheeky B25 taking off wind and the weather helped; the fact that the him out for his third perambulation because he looking Stadler. I picked up the dish and moved ship was moving up and down and around made got his whole gator-mouthed noggin stuck in it to the kitchen counter. no difference. When the alert sounded, my first Doolittle Raiders Recall the Mission That the Candidae bag and needed help getting out. thought was, get to the airplane first. That’s the My parents had to put a large box on top of the “Click-a-click-a-click” echoed through the Shocked Japan name of the game as a copilot: get there before bag so that ol’ Hungry couldn’t get into it. He house as Stadler paced between the bathroom and the kitchen, jumping up and down and The Doolittle Raid occurred just days after the the pilot. Otherwise, you get in a one-way simply pulled off the chip clip that they tried crying when she reached me, asking me to fall of Bataan, the uttermost catastrophe in a conversation! But during the flight Doolittle at first. “Follow her to the big problem!” This behavior series of demoralizing defeats spanning Pearl was very naturally determined and we had no Mom and Dad realized that the problem was continued for hours, until finally it was time for Harbor to the Dutch East Indies. It delivered chitchat. Everything was business. When we serious after Rowlf’s last vet appointment when bed. a desperately needed booster shot of morale made landfall, my first impression was that Japan is very nice looking, lots of greenery, he weighed in at a whopping 91lbs. Now Rowlf to the American people, as well as an aerial is a big boy, and far from obese. He gets two I realized that there was no way I was going antidote to the virulent “victory disease” that well organized. A nice beach. It was like flying to be able to sleep with Captain Clicky Claws over Florida. I had no bad thoughts. I think it’s walks, rain or shine every day, and is in pretty had swept Japan. The bombs did not cause much glowing good health (although I suspect stomping all over the house and whining. Rowlf much damage, but effectively exploded the a waste of time to think about bad things when was already passed out on the rug, sawing logs you can think about good things.” that some of the phosphorescence may be myth of Imperial Japan’s unassailability and flatulence-related radioactivity). However, a so loudly I’m surprised we didn’t get a noise pushed its commanders into making strategic five-pound gain was significant enough that our complaint. I decided it would be safe to give mistakes that changed the course of the Pacific vet recommended a diet. poor, starving Stadler a little food. War. “I have a fat dog, too,” said Dr. Lowell. “Some I filled up her bowl and placed it on the floor. Sixteen U.S. Army B-25 medium bombers, of them just like to eat. We add a can of green She looked at me reproachfully (after all this manned by 80 volunteers, powered off the beans to our dog’s food to make it seem like should have been done HOURS ago) and took plunging deck of the USS Hornet on that wind- there’s more in the bowl. The only problem two bites, leaving the rest. whipped April morning. Five of these crewmen with that is that now she’s very territorial about Then a striking inspiration hit me: maybe if I lived to see the raid’s 70th anniversary in 2012; green beans. Humans don’t get to eat green filled up a second dog bowl, both dogs would four of them attended the commemoration event beans in our house anymore.” be able to eat the correct amount when they held at the National Museum of the U.S. Air wanted. This was the ticket! It had to work. Force in Dayton, . There, once the roar of Now, on doctor’s radial engines receded after a flyover of restored orders Rowlf gets a I went back to bed secure in the knowledge that B-25s, these last living links to one of the war’s Saylor and Griffin cup and a half of food both of my pups would spend a happy and full most impossible missions shared the following in the morning and night. Sergeant Edward J. Saylor: Engineer, Crew evening and no more reflections on the raid, their legendary leader, One hour later I was awakened by a loud No. 15, TNT people food (although and their amazing experiences. clattering next to my head. “NO, STADLER!” I I’m positive that Dad “I took a tug of whiskey right after takeoff. It yelled not even pulling off my sleep mask, “GO Volunteers for an “extremely hazardous still sneaks him some mission,” culled from the 17th Bomb Group, on was the first and last time I ever drank on duty. EAT OUT OF THE OTHER BOWL!” I didn’t expect to survive the mission. But this off his plate). antisubmarine patrol off the West Coast, arrived Seconds later, another loud crash caused me to was the first combat we had ever been in— Rowlf is not at Florida’s Eglin Field in March 1942 for three sit bolt upright as Stadler dumped the second hadn’t seen any war movies yet, so we didn’t happy about this weeks of intense training and an introduction to empty dish at my bedside. their commander, Lt. Col. James L. Doolittle. quite know what to be scared of! [Saylor’s crew development. He hit the Kawasaki Aircraft Factory in Nagoya.] thinks green beans I leapt up, looking for the culprit. Rowlf lay fast The Japanese could have shot us down, but we are stupid, so he picks asleep at the foot of the bed, snoring so loudly surprised them. They thought they couldn’t be like he sounded like the trombone section of the Rowlf them out of his bowl hit.” and drops them on local high school marching band had recently experienced a massive outbreak of asthma. Second Lieutenant Thomas C. Griffin: the floor where he Navigator, Crew No. 9, Whirling Dervish smooshes them disdainfully under his saucer- “Honk, hork, honk,” said Rowlf, deep in dog sized paws. dreams of bacon fat. “Don’t let the guy tell you he was never afraid, when shells are going by you. [Griffin’s crew Stadler is pretty much the opposite of Rowlf. However, as I stormed past him with the two encountered perhaps the fiercest antiaircraft She never wolfs down her food, instead empty bowls, Rowlf lumbered to his feet and fire of the raid during its attack on the Tokyo preferring to lightly graze throughout the day. followed me to the kitchen – probably to see if I Gas and Electric Company.] Somehow I went Even when she was a puppy, she had to be hand- was dumb enough to do a refill. fed to keep the other dogs from stealing all her through the whole war and was never wounded I did not. I sat both dishes on the counter, Cole and Thatcher by a bullet or piece of flak. But on the raid, bites. She also has a weird quick caused by too much exposure to Hot-Fat-the-Cat in her walked back into my bedroom, locked both was I scared? Well, let’s put it this way: I was dogs in the hallway, and stuffed earplugs into Second Lieutenant Richard E. Cole concerned!” youth: she hates it when she can see the bottom of her bowl. It is always my sworn duty and my head. Copilot to Doolittle, Crew No. 1, B-25 No. 40- Sergeant Thatcher: “We took off at about 9 most important job to keep that bowl full or 2344 The next morning, both pups were sleeping in a.m. and reached Japan about noon. Once we WOE BETIDE ME. If her dish ever becomes a pile outside my bedroom door. Stadler woke ”Colonel Doolittle was one of the nicest, best got over the beach, six airplanes came toward totally empty, she will deliver it to wherever I immediately and ran to the kitchen where her militarily-formed, educated a person that you’d us. We were flying so low, I don’t think they am, letting it crash to the floor with the mighty bowl had mysteriously flown off the counter and ever want to meet. A straight shooter, he led saw us. Before we reached Tokyo, we could thunder of righteous dog indignation. on to the floor (no dog would do that, obviously see antiaircraft fire ahead of us. We were flying by example—particularly the development of I tend to keep that bowl full. we have a poltergeist). teamwork. He stressed the importance of being right over the ground the whole time, but we a team member. Even though he was the team had to climb to 1,500 feet to drop our bombs. The first thing ol’ Rowlf did after the Rev I put in one and a half cups of food. chief, he was a team member. So, to this day, the Our target was the Nippon Steel Factory. We dropped him off was eat ALL the food in It’s going to be a long week. 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Jokes were and I’m sure the wonderful locals that spend being made on social media their time cleaning up our beaches after the long By Chef Vita Jarrin weekends will agree to its likeness. that traffic on the JFK bridge was backed up to Summer sides are so important when putting removed) Oklahoma. While the comments did give me “A Walnut Tree, which grew by the roadside, out a spread that you’ve spent hours preparing 2 C lima beans (frozen then sautéed & a chuckle, I can understand the frustrations of bore every year a plentiful crop of nuts. for. We marinate, season, grill, braise, roast, cooled) some locals. Everyone who passed by pelted it’s branches and try to get the texture, and tenderness just with sticks and stones, in order to bring down right. But if the sides don’t accompany the star 1 C green peas (frozen then sautéed & the fruit, and the tree suffered severely. ‘It is of the show, the sparks fall short. cooled) hard,’ it cried, ‘that the very persons who enjoy Making your side salads a little more 1 Can kidney beans rinsed & drained my fruit should this reward me with insults and interesting can entail a little creativity and 1 Can quartered artichoke hearts blows’.” mixing and matching. Use all the fresh Many locals reserve the weekdays in the produce available this time of year, such as 1 C Olives of choice (pitted) summer to enjoy our beaches, and on the busy sweet corn, cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, 1 radicchio bulb sliced thin holiday weekends, head out to our ski basin. We etc. But feel free to add sautéed lima beans, did exactly that, and it was the absolute perfect peas, cooked grains such as faro, as well as 1 fennel bulb sliced thin day. We certainly are blessed to have such a adding fresh squeezed citrus, such as lemons, 1 jar small roasted red pepper diced We are so lucky to live here and enjoy all the wonderful place to live and enjoy! limes and even grapefruit. things that our Island has to offer. We get perfect 1-pint cherry tomatoes of choice cut in half weather, breezes, and have the best beaches and Many thanks to the locals who volunteer their When adding 3 small Persian cucumbers diced or circles fishing that the Texas Gulf has to offer. We get time to clean up our beaches after these long fresh herbs, you to enjoy all this every day, and people from all weekends. It is your efforts that keep these can spruce up 1 bunch of green onions cut into circles beaches from having restrictions placed upon your summer sides over are willing to sit in traffic to hours just to 4 celery ribs diced make it over our bridge to paradise so they can them. We thank and salute you!! with the common enjoy our Island. cilantro and parsley 4 carrots cleaned and diced or basil…but try 1 red onion diced using dill or celery leaves for a nice, Herbs of choice basil, dill, parsley, cilantro, Ask Ralph herbaceous bite. oregano Should I Be More Demanding Dressings are 1/4 C Olive Oil as equally important. Some of us like the 1/2 C white balsamic vinegar translucent dressing, made of a simple, By Ralph Coker good quality, olive oil. We can use various ¼ tsp. granulated garlic vinegars, as well as citrus. Some of us enjoy a Q. Should I be more Unfortunately, in school we learn to expect an Kosher salt and Black pepper to taste bit of creamier dressing, made of mayonnaise demanding with my A for 90 percent performance. In business or yogurt. I sometimes combine the two Teaspoon of sugar employees, suppliers, and professional 90 percent performance will get you fired variations to give the heavier dressing a advisors? or if you own your own business 90 percent Directions: performance can result in bankruptcy. lighter lift. There is a plethora of store bought A. It depends on what you mean by dressings at the grocers, but making them Prepare all of your ingredients. Rinse demanding. I never found that yelling, anger, High standards and attention to details are from scratch isn’t as difficult as it may seem. canned veggies, cut fresh produce, etc. and berating people worked in business or in essential to attain 100 percent performance. Blending flavors through a food processor or When ready to serve, add ingredients life. It is OK to be angry at a situation but Fortunately, before I became a business blender, works just as great and it’s easy and in a bowl and dress with the dressing never at a person. People will understand and manager, I learned that as a company they are easily stored. ingredients. Adjust seasoning to your taste. relate to your anger at a situation. A business commander in the army reserve from my This salad can be served on a platter with a For todays recipe, I encourage you to use leader or any leader must always have self battalion commander. He demanded 100 bed of chopped greens for guests to enjoy fresh sweet corn. It’s abundant this time of control and self discipline. Yelling, anger, percent performance each time from me and should you really want to add the greens of year and very sweet. Fresh frozen peas and and berating are examples of a person out of my company. No detail seemed to escape a salad. You can add a variety of veggies lima beans are quick to use and delicious. control. That behavior never gets a positive his attention. I thought he was unfair and and produce and make it your own. The Adding a variety of canned beans is totally response from the other person because it unrealistic. Later as a petroleum refinery plant idea is to mix fresh, fresh frozen, or canned acceptable as long as they are rinsed well. I belittles that person. Instead, the other person manager that experience helped me meet the to make it interesting. personally love canned artichokes in salads as will respond with anger and resentment. 100 percent expectations from my corporate well as a variety of olives. From the produce Tip of the week: They may not feel they can afford to show management and from governmental isle, I love using mini or seedless cucumbers, their anger and resentment, but they have agencies for safety, environmental and legal If you love roasted veggies, you can surely cherry tomatoes, radicchio, diced celery, many ways to retaliate anonymously and the compliance. roast some and them to any salad. Mixing raw carrots add color along with a bit of sweetness. other party will never know who did it. A and grilled or roasted veggies, add a depth of On the other hand, you should not have Last but not least, I love onion in my salads. I well-known example is the airline passenger flavor to your side. If adding onions worries unfair expectations of your employees, prefer red onion, for it’s sweetness and vibrant who berates the ticket agent about a missed you, because of the sharp onion flavor, you can suppliers, and professional advisors. That has color. However, any onion works great. So connection and the ticket agent routes the rinse your onion in a bowl of cold water and a devastating affect on loyalty, morale, and give your salad a pop of color and flavor and passenger's bag to Timbuktu. Your goal is add a teaspoon of salt and one of sugar and productivity. They probably will not confront enjoy your summer side. to have a positive response from the other you. 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Boats By The Flour Bluff ISD Numbers 2020 Graduation The Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) this week released numbers on Friday, June 5 the boating industry across the United States. The organizations has 700,294 members across at Hornet Stadium the country. Flour Bluff ISD will hold its in-person, 76% Boaters who day cruise, the No. 1 outdoor graduation for the Flour Bluff High boating activity, School Class of 2020 on Friday, June 5, 7 p.m., at Hornet Stadium in Flour Bluff. 59% Boaters use their boats primarily for fishing For the first time in 45 years, the 44% who use boats for cruising graduation ceremony 26% use their boats for watersports will be held on the district’s home turf, 20% of boaters have sailboats on Friday, June 5, at 9 Average number of characters used in a Hornet Stadium. The vinyl boat name ordered by customers graduation ceremony $790 The nationwide average cost of on- will follow all the the-water towing service for those without social distancing membership in a towing service recommendations set by local, state and 12,000 The average breaking strength in national authorities pounds of a response vessel’s towline Flour Bluff High while celebrating School is honoring its our student’s 9,357 Roadside-assistance companies across graduating Seniors with the United States and Canada that have the achievements portraits on the streets with a traditional specialized equipment to handle boat trailer surrounding the school. breakdowns and provide 24/7 service. graduation ceremony. Due to 44% Requests for roadside Trailer Assist the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, each service attributed to flat tires/no spare, the graduate will be allowed two (2) guests to number-one reason. 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Denise's sunflower. Photo by Ronnie Narmour. Photo by Mary Craft Send letters and photos to editor@ Photo by Debbie Noble islandmoon.com A8 Island Moon May 28, 2020 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon UIL Guidelines for Summer True Trail Blazer Strength and Conditioning By Andy Purvis Workouts My dad used to say, “If it matters to someone, joined the cast of “The NFL By Dotson Lewis it matters.” It has been said that great things Today” in 1975. There she co-hosted live pregame shows before National Dotson’s Note: Lately I have been receiving “We are cautiously optimistic about beginning often lie on the other side of difficult. People too many texts, Emails and phone calls from you stood by every Sunday, open-mouthed and Football League games were telecast on TV. Moon Monkeys and others about when Texas star-struck, like they had just met the Beatles. At first, with a limited television background, school sports are going to restart. The report It’s true that she lived most of her life in the she was criticized for not having the traditional follows and I will keep you posted. Thanks to spotlight, and she treated every one with open qualifications for a sportscaster. She received my friend Charles Breithaupt for the facts arms and a warm smile. The air in the studio lots of hate mail because people were angry that contained in this report. The graphics are mine. was thick with anticipation. Whether you liked she was a woman in a man’s arena. She simply her or not, this woman was going to be a part stopped reading the hate mail and only read The UIL detailed guidelines included social of your football life. Her goal was to steamroll the good letters, which gave her confidence. distancing measures and more. First, the you with her football knowledge and her smile. Phyllis married Hollywood producer Robert workouts are voluntary and are not required for The first time she had stepped onto the CBS Evans, in 1977. They divorced a year later. each school to do. If a school does elect to do set, she thought to herself, this is where I’m In 1978, Phyllis George was replaced on the workouts, a few notable restrictions are in supposed to be. When a television host gets it “The NFL Today” by another beauty queen, place. Dr. Charles Breithaupt right for themselves, it’s right for everybody. Jayne Kennedy. Phyllis George married a One staff member per 20 students will be This lady became a hero of her generation. She second time in 1979, to John Y. Brown Jr., the the quota during strength and conditioning ran her way to the top of the heap where the Governor of and owner of Kentucky summer strength and conditioning programs Fried Chicken. At various times, Brown also sessions. During sports specific activities there and marching band practices that safely allow view was great, but the shelter was gone. This is a maximum of 15 students per working group gal understood that until you are honest and fair owned the Celtics, Kentucky Colonels students to get back to working with their and Buffalo Braves. They had two children, outdoors and a max of 10 per group indoors. coaches and directors in preparation for the with yourself, you can’t be honest and fair with While exercises are not going on, "students and others. You have to prove you are worthy every Lincoln and Pamela. They divorced in 1998. 2020-2021 school year,” said UIL Executive Phyllis returned to the “The NFL Today” in staff must maintain at least six feet of distance." Director Dr. Charles Breithaupt. “While we are day. We all grew up listening to our parents, coaches, aunts and uncles, siblings and sports 1980 and remained a part of the telecast until For the sport specific activities instruction, eager to resume UIL activities, we must do so 1984. George also covered horse racing for athletes can participate in that 90 minutes per carefully, deliberately and with an understanding television hosts like Brent Musburger, Irv Cross, Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder and Phyllis George, CBS Sports, during the off-season. These day but only 60 minutes per day in a single sport that major adjustments are needed to ensure events included the Preakness and the Belmont Monday through Friday. Sports balls used for safety.” a woman in a man’s field. We remember their voices and their words. Stakes. In 1985, Phyllis George became these have to be "regularly disinfected" during The official language for resuming workouts a morning talk-show host and co- the workout and not shared with another group. leaves the option open to the individual school anchor for the “CBS Morning News.” Indoor workouts will be allowed while districts, saying that they "may, but are not She was given a three-year contract maintaining a 25% capacity with workout required to" begin their programs on that second and interviewed folks like then First stations set 10 feet apart on all sides and all Monday in June. Lady, Nancy Reagan. Phyllis failed to equipment thoroughly disinfected after each increase the ratings and was replaced The UIL outlined in its official documents that by Maria Shriver, a few months later. use. The locker rooms and showers will remain schools should "take their local context into closed and athletes will have to show up dressed account when deciding whether to offer summer Phyllis George founded two and ready. Strength and conditioning session strength and conditioning on campus." companies and wrote or co-authored cannot be more than two consecutive hours per five books. Three were about crafts, day Monday through Friday. They also instruct schools to follow all local one on dieting and the final book she and state requirements. No competitive drills involving one or more published in 2002, was entitled Never students on offensive against one or more In addition to official legal requirements, the Say Never. students on defensive may be conducted during UIL has implemented their own requirements Phyllis George’s claim to fame was sports specific activities. for all workouts. The UIL website suggests Phyllis George serving as the co-host of “The NFL schools should "consider having an individual Examples (including but not limited to): Today” on CBS Sports TV from 1975- wholly or partially dedicated to ensuring health Phyllis George knew that the things we treasure 1984. She paved the way for many thousands • Basketball players may participate in protocols are being successfully implemented." the most are the ones we worked the hardest for. of women to enter the sports media. She always drills, but cannot conduct drills / activities In addition to the state and local requirements The lady was always thankful for the moments sent an email to other female sportscasters against a defender. related to COVID-19, schools must also meet when she was treated as an equal. Besides, saying she liked a column or a TV appearance. • In Football, offensive / defensive drills the following UIL guidelines: someone had to be first. That’s correct; Phyllis Some of the interviews I remember her doing George became one of the first female reporters, were with NFL stars like quarterbacks, Joe are allowed, but no 7 on 7, or offense vs • Workout attendance must be optional sportscasters and co-host of “The NFL Today,” Namath and Roger Staubach, and also wide defense drills are allowed, etc. for students. Also, the UIL encourages a pre-game show that aired on CBS Sports. As receiver, Lynn Swann. schools to consider offering at home and One of the biggest questions is, what happens a role model for women, George was a true trail remote workout options for students, Phyllis George died on Thursday, May 14, if one of the students or staff tests positive for blazer in the world of sports. including virtual, sent by email or another 2020. She was 70. George suffered from online delivery options Phyllis Ann George was born to Diantha complications of Polyeythemia, a rare blood Cogdell and James George on June 25, 1949, disorder. She is survived by both her children, • Schools should keep attendance records, in Denton, Texas. George enrolled at North Lincoln and Pamela, from her second marriage but not require or allow students to make Texas State and attended for three years, before to John Y. Brown. up missed workouts transferring to Texas Christian University The Phyllis George story reminds us all that • Locker rooms and showers should remain (TCU). Phyllis had been crowned “Miss sometimes constant criticism is part of the price closed. Students should come dressed in Texas” in 1970 and TCU awarded college of success. The great boxer, Jack Dempsey, their workout gear, and go home to shower scholarships to Miss Texas winners, so she once said, “A Champion is someone who gets and change after transferred. Phyllis, a diehard Dallas Cowboy up when he can’t.” • At least one staff member for every fan, was first crowned Miss Denton, before Andy Purvis is a local author and radio 20 students should be present during she competed for Miss Texas in 1969. She personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. workouts to ensure proper measures are finished in fourth place. In 1970, she first won com for all the latest info on his books or to implemented Miss Dallas and was then crowned Miss Texas COVID-19? The UIL stated: "If a positive case is later that same year. On September 12, 1970, listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books identified among a participant in these summer • Schools must provide hand sanitizer Phyllis George was chosen Miss America, for are available online and can be found in the activities, either staff or student, the group to or hand-washing stations, and students 1971. It was the 50th year of the pageant. in local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be which that staff or student was assigned and in and staff should be instructed to use it August of 1971, Phyllis traveled to Vietnam contacted at [email protected]. Also contact with must be removed from the sessions frequently for 22 days to entertain the troops, with Miss listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s while all members of the group self-isolate. If • All surfaces must be thoroughly Iowa 1970 Cheryl Browne; Miss Nevada 1970, Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. the confirmed individual regularly had close disinfected during and after workouts Vicky Jo Todd; Miss 1970, Hela com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of contact outside a single group, then all of the Yungst; Miss Arizona 1970, Karen Shields: and the Houston Astros. students and staff with whom the confirmed • Students and staff should not share Miss 1970, Donna Connelly. Phyllis individual had close contact shall be removed clothing, towels, food or water George also appeared on several TV talk shows from workouts for two weeks." • Clothing and towels should not be including three interviews on The Tonight Show laundered at schools starring Johnny Carson. She also hosted the There will also be some “Period of No Activity” comedy show, Candid Camera. dates, including July 3, 7, 8, 20 and 21. • Schools should consider pre-screening students and members of their households Phyllis George was approached by CBS UIL Rules for Athletic, Marching Band for COVID symptoms prior to the Sports in 1974 to become a sportscaster. She Summer Programs beginning of workouts and at the start The requirements and guidelines for athletic of each week. The UIL recommends completing these by phone prior to the PENN THOMAS, P.C. first day, in person or in writing CPA FIRM • Each day, students and staff must self- screen for symptoms in themselves and family members P  T, CPA [email protected] • The UIL recommends that schools take the temperature of students at the start of each workout HS Band • Schools should have entry and exit plans and marching band programs during the in place that reduce the number of people U O I  O summer in Texas as the COVID-19 pandemic congregating in parking or workout areas.  N. C,  S.P.I.D. continues. As schools remained closed in Texas Methods could include staggering start   C C, TX since March, many were left wondering about and end times, assigning different entry C C, TX     what was in store for the summer as teams and and exits to specific students, and only T : ( )  - T : ( ) - : ( ) -  : ( ) -  marching bands get ready for the new school allow one person to enter at a time and year. stay six feet apart The UIL has put out a set of rules that programs • Schools should consider dividing students will need to abide by for their summer programs in different groups or cohorts to minimize as concerns over COVID-19 remain in place. the number of people who have to isolate One of the rules requires attendance at these if a case is confirmed programs to be optional and that students will not have to make up missed days or practices. Dotson’s Other Note: As Executive Director of Students will also not have access to locker the Southwest Officials Association, I worked rooms or showers during these programs. with the UIL (University Interscholastic Students will have to arrive in their proper League), for almost twenty years. The UIL is SCARECROW PEOPLE MAY 28 gear and then return home to change. It is also the governing body for public high school sports recommended that schools pre-screen students in Texas, if you are interested, there are also for COVID-19 symptoms prior to the start of more sport-specific and circumstance specific RIPTIDE MAY 29 practices. guidelines, on the UIL website: uiltexas.org Comments/calls/texts .are welcome. Email: Marching Band Programs [email protected] Mobile: 530-748-8475 RUBEN V MAY 30 SEASON AMMONS JUNE 4 Island’s CODY BRYAN JUNE 5 Edge CODY SPARKS JUNE 6 SALON Now Accepting Appointments Booth Rental Now Available 132 W. 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I’m not when the virus was getting some fairly serious gamefish have been pushed into our back bays. good cast and watching it notice the lure and going to get too far in the weeds based on the airwaves, and I went to HEB for supplies. I Now as summer patterns settle in the fishing is attack is thrilling. When a redfish is in only a rumors I’ve heard, but the premise is that you didn’t know how long it was going to last, and comin’ to a summer boil! Looking for a few foot of water it can’t dive deep so the power in need to be careful what you wish for. Many I stocked up pretty good. I saw another fellow key clues will keep you in fish and not spinning that body and tail explodes across the shallows people fishing for sharks these days are fishing Moon Monkey (who shall remain nameless) your wheels. stripping line out and making the drag sing! Hop for glory and self-aggrandizement. It’s a shame coming out of the store with a cart full of box aboard my boat this July and experience shallow that large sharks have to die for some people’s Water quality has been key as there are some wine and some celery. We had a good laugh water sight casting one on one! glory. And now I’m off the soapbox again. brown and dirty masses of water that are flowing about that, and then the next day the news back and forth in the bay system. During low With the days getting hotter and our winds erupted that an employee of that same store has STAR Tournament tides this brown water moves towards the passes dropping into summer patterns, lunar feeding tested positive. I wonder how that employee is of PACKERY and Port A. Make a run and pass peaks at the best times of day have been focused doing today? Speaking of catching big fish, y’all don’t forget to enter the STAR tournament. The redfish are the brown until you find the green water then out there swimming in the water, and rumor is start looking for varied structure and bait. When that a winning fish has already been caught. the tides are rolling in and green water is close Tyler and I went the other day and fished some to the ports, gamefish are close to home and spots that fit the bill, and we caught three redfish, following bait balls rolling in from the gulf. but there was no tag in any of them. Shucks. I got wound up and cut out the otoliths out of Tylers redfish the other day and compared them to some trout otoliths that I recently recovered. Otoliths are calcium carbonate structures alongside the brainstem of many fishes, and they are surrounded by fluid and sensory nerves. The otoliths help fish “hear” vibrations in the water, and they also help the fish perceive acceleration, whether backwards, forwards, or vertically. Otoliths can be sawed in half with specialized equipment, and then “read” under a microscope and based on the rings, a fishes age can be determined. Big Family trips and heavy boxes of fish Due to their hardened nature, otoliths can last this time of year as the live bait season is thousands of years buried in the sediments if at its peak. they are covered. Many of the Indian middens along the shorelines of our coast include otoliths from primarily black drum, with True Baffin Bay Minster trout here, Conor Like many, I’ve been through a few home some redfish mixed in. Drum are notorious for Caught this beast in knee deep water up in improvements projects, a lot of time sitting cruising along in shallow water over sand when the mouth of Baffin Bay. on my porch watching the dang squirrels and the tides push high. It is easy for me to imagine planning and cooking overly elaborate meals. a Karankawa walking beside me with a bow and around temperature. Late night peaks when the All the while there have been a lot of things that arrow stalking drum in the shallow water on the water is the coolest are prime, 12 hours opposite I haven’t even addressed, with one being the back side of the Island. Otoliths are great for of these are another major feedings. Many times fact that I’m freshly out of Q-tips. I’m going curio cabinets, shell shelves, and my mom even this is when the afternoon winds pick up and to have to go unto the breach once more my makes jewelry out of them. fish can use the shadows from the waves to friends. sneak around. Wind also oxygenates the water Alright folks let’s all try to keep our wits and prevents sunlight from bolting through about us as things open back up. The beaches Shark the surface. First and last light are always a are flat out slammed, and traffic will likely be magical time on the water in vision and fishing. Well, it happened again. A large shark was a nightmare during the weekends. Make sure Try a topwater at grey light along the backside recently caught on the beach, and the shark to clean up after yourselves and inform others of Mustang Island and you will find one in of didn’t survive the fight. You loyal readers know when you see them being dirty monkeys. your shorts when a big redfish blows it out of that I write about this every once in a while, and Federal red snapper season starts next Monday the water. As the sun rises move over to a gold it always stirs up a hornet’s nest. That doesn’t June 1st (great, on a Monday) Drop me a line Weed less spoon and just chunk it out and softly mean that I’m going to stop writing about it. at [email protected] and I’ll see you next retrieve it. The fluttering vibrations are what The team hooked and landed a large shark, a week On the Rocks. drive those summer redfish crazy! Summer is breaking wide open this week so be careful. My son Joey Farah and his graduating Texas Game Wardens Have a Busy class of 2020 are out and about. God bless them Mina Haris caught the biggest fish of the and unfortunately they have had a senior year day the first cast when she had her family that will go down in the books as one set in Memorial Day Weekend out fishing this week. We took this fish history! Game Wardens across the s state conducted from the big rocks on the south side of Department Assistant Commander for Marine Give me a call with any questions or to book safety checks on more than 9,000 vessels Enforcement. Baffin Bay, your summer fishing trip right now! Follow between Friday and Monday over the Memorial Inclement weather, including strong storms, all our hookups on Facebook at Joey Farah’s Day Weekend. Redfish have been hiding up in very shallow 60 mile per hour wind gusts and a slow-moving Backwater Adventures, and tune in to my radio -- less than in deep water. This is setting us up In addition to issuing 1,196 citations and tornado on the ground about 10 miles from report every sat and Sunday on 104.5&103.7 fm for some extraordinary shallow water fishing. 1,212 warnings for various boating safety law Lake Alan Henry set game wardens into action at 7:20&8:20am Get wet! violations, wardens arrested 38 individuals for to assist in escorting boaters off the lake when Boating While Intoxicated and filed another storms were spotted. Wardens also rescued five charges for Driving While Intoxicated. two teenage swimmers at Lake Mackenzie and Additionally, another 31 people were arrested helped with multiple boat rescues across the Port Aransas Alligator Report for various other crimes. state due to severe weather. 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PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President By Todd Hunter, District 32 • Manual can opener, knife, tools, booster cables, fire extinguisher, duct tape, tarp, In this week’s article I would like As always, let me have survey will be announced in June after the rope, flashlight with extra batteries survey has been analyzed. to discuss the importance of being prepared your thoughts. You can for the upcoming hurricane season. When • Extra keys reach me at marvin@ Holiday weekend- On Saturday, the traffic hurricanes make landfall, they can affect the pipoa.net coming over the bridge was horrendous. • Blankets, pillows, sleeping bags for each lives of thousands of Texans along the coast person, extra clothing, toys for children PIPOA- The PIPOA The problem seemed to be the stoplight at and across the state. As hurricane season office has reopened. Aquarius and Park Road 22. According to the approaches, being aware of hazards and having • Supplies for babies, the elderly and family There will be social distancing and masks Corpus Christi City Manager, the City failed a plan for evacuation can be lifesaving. members with special health care needs to anticipate this stoplight to cause a backup available. Let us all exercise good ole • Toilet paper, cleanup supplies, personal over the bridge into Flour Bluff. The traffic The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season begins fashioned common sense to protect ourselves. hygiene products pressure was somewhat relieved when the on June 1 and concludes on November 30. Boat Ramps- The PIPOA towed 11 vehicles Police took control of the intersection and The United States Department of Homeland • Leash, food, cleaning supplies and or boat trailers from the boat ramp parking turned the light to green full time for those on Security, the American Red Cross, and veterinary records for pets lots over the Holiday weekend. Once again, Park Road 22. There are plans to construct a the National Oceanic and Atmospheric currently, the boat ramps are open to the Administration, Texas Department of Public Discussing how and where you plan to evacuate new bridge over the Laguna Madre on the far is essential, as well. To find the best evacuation public. However, the boat ramp parking south end of the Island. This project is years Safety, and many more agencies work diligently lots are for members only. You must have to create awareness and provide resources to route please visit: https://www.txdot.gov/inside- away, but as the Island grows, a second way txdot/division/traffic/safety/weather/hurricane. a PIPOA vehicle sticker and a 2020 boat on and off the Island would be helpful. keep Americans safe throughout hurricane sticker to park in the lots. Your cooperation season. html. Once you have established your travel is appreciated. Water Exchange- Have you noticed the plan, create a list of places between your town digging machines on the west side of Park During hurricane season, tropical and your destination to stop if the highways are Board Meeting- The next Board meeting Road 22 near Waves? The new canals are are more likely to form. Tropical cyclones clogged. Having a document of potential hotel is tentatively set for Tuesday, June 23, 2020. being dug to connect Lake Padre with the are a rotating organized system of clouds and reservations is helpful, too. The meeting is contingent upon the status of thunderstorms that originate over tropical or PIPOA canal system. This is part of the The physical damage from hurricanes can be the COVID-19 opening rules by authorities. new water exchange bridge. Experts are subtropical waters, have a closed low-level circulation, and rotate counterclockwise. Not all devastating. There are ways to mitigate damage Survey- The PIPOA recently sent out a predicting, as the new bridge is constructed, tropical cyclones produce hurricanes. NOAA from the strong winds and rain, though. Simple survey to members. The purpose of the traffic congestion will increase significantly. defines a tropical cyclone with maximum fixes include trimming or removing damaged survey is to obtain the needs and wants of Give me patience, and I want it right now!! sustained winds of 38mph or less as tropical trees and limbs from your yard, as well as, members. So far, the return of the survey The COVID-19 is still out there. Please depressions. A tropical storm is a tropical have the proper materials in advance to board has been disappointing. That is, less than take all the appropriate measures to protect cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 39- windows to protect them. Also, you can bring 10% of the surveys mailed out have been yourself and others from the spread of the 73mph. Hurricanes are a tropical cyclone with loose outdoor items inside, and secure all doors returned. It seems there is a lack of interest virus. The health and safety of all members wind speeds of 74 mph or higher and a major on your property, including the garage door, by the members to express their views via the is priority one. hurricane has a speed which is usually the most vulnerable. questions on the survey. The results of the of 111 mph or more. To keep up with potential storms throughout The Coastal Bend is considered an “evacuation hurricane season, visit: https://www.nhc.noaa. zone” during hurricane season. If a hurricane gov/. The National Hurricane Center provides Get Counted is approaching, the best/safest thing to do is several resources to keep you up-to-date. For evacuate. It is advised to prepare an evacuation more information on how and what to prepare By Debbie Noble mobile home, rental or owned), and names, checklist and kit ahead of time. For more for hurricane season, please visit the American Red Cross at https://www.redcross.org/get- We may be in the middle of pandemic and ages, races, relationships, and birthdates of information on building a disaster supplies kit, help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/types-of- economic crises, but we are also in the middle people in the home. It can be answered quite visit: https://www.ready.gov/kit . The Texas emergencies/hurricane.html. You can also visit of the 2020 Census. Have you been counted quickly. Division of Emergency Management and the the Texas Department of State Health Services’ yet? National Weather Service recommends all How Can I Help? coastal residents to have these items in their website at https://texasready.gov/. For more Why do we do the Census? You should receive letters and postcards from evacuation kits: information you can visit the U.S. Department the Census bureau with a 12-digit Census ID of Homeland Security’s website at https:// The US constitution mandates that we conduct • First-aid kit, prescription medications, (address code) to use to respond on-line. If you www.ready.gov/hurricanes. a census of population and housing every eyeglasses, copies of prescriptions, other did not receive an ID in the mail or can’t find it, 10 years and disseminate the results to the special medical items, hearing aids and If you have questions regarding any of the you can simply press the “If you do not have a President, the States and the American People. batteries information mentioned in this week’s article, Census ID, click here” button underneath the ID please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or Login and then proceed. • Important documents and records, photo District Office. Please always feel free to IDs, proof of residence, information to The first Census was completed in 1790 and If you have already completed the Census, contact my office if you have any questions process insurance claims the 2020 Census will be the 24th in our history. but continue to receive mail, you may ignore or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if you would like to contact my office regarding The census is a snapshot of where all it. There is a lag between systems and most • Credit cards and cash (if power is out, constituent services. My offices are available individuals live in the country (including the bulk mailings are prepared far in advance. The banks and ATMs may not be available) at any time to assist with questions, concerns five U.S. territories) on a certain day (now April Census may have several spellings or iterations • Battery-operated radio, NOAA Weather or comments (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; 1st). This includes literally anyone living here, of your address code, which also causes Radio and extra batteries District Office, 361-949-4603). regardless of legal status or citizenship. multiple mailings. Again, ignore them. • Phone numbers of family, friends and State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 The original Census was performed by Lots of temporary census workers will be other important phone numbers foot and on horseback by 650 U.S Marshals dispatched to follow up on households who do Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). • Road maps and assistants, who recorded hash marks on not respond - so please save us all the time and He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. parchment paper. 2020 is the first year that the money by responding now, by phone, mail, or • 3-day supply of non-perishable food, one texas.gov or at 512-463-0672. Census will be available to complete on-line, as on-line. gallon of bottled water per person per day, well as by mail or on the phone. You can also help by encouraging your coolers for food and ice storage, paper plates, utensils Due to current in-person interaction limitations, families, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and Census methods and dates have been adjusted fellow church, club, and organization members and will now continue until October 31, instead to participate. Motor Vehicles Department Reopens of wrapping up in August. What about Safety and Privacy? What is the Census used for? The Census Bureau is bound BY LAW to Corpus Christi Office for Partial Service The data is used in aggregate (the totals and keep your individual information private. They statistics, not any information by individuals) cannot release any identifiable information Temporary waiver of vehicle title and Customers are encouraged to wait outside to: about you to anyone, including any level of any registration requirements remains in effect or in their vehicle until their designated law enforcement agency. Nothing you put on appointment time. 1) Decide the number of seats each state the Census can be used against you in any way The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles gets in the U.S. House of Representatives. by anyone. reopened it Corpus Christi office on Monday, • Only one person is allowed in the office May 26. per appointment unless a caregiver is 2) Draw Federal and State legislative The official Census website can answer almost needed. districts, school districts, and voting any question you can think of, besides allowing The temporary waiver of vehicle title and precincts. you to respond to the census. registration requirements remains in effect. • Social distancing and hygiene practices TxDMV will provide a notification when normal will be observed. 3) Distribute Federal dollars to states The Census Bureau does sometimes ask people services have resumed, allowing the public 60 • Service counters will have Plexiglas ( average of approximately $1,500 per to participate in various surveys throughout the days from then to conduct any overdue title and safety barriers. person) for things like hospitals, fire years in addition to the official decennial Census. registration transactions. departments, schools, roads, and much Any requests for information not coming from • Daily cleaning and disinfecting will take more. (or directing you to a site other than) the official In-person services include place. 2020Census.gov site could be a scam. Also, the 4) Help government officials at every level • Replacement titles. • Water fountains will not be available. make planning decisions. Census will never ask for your social security number, bank account information, money, • Bonded title notices of determination. To schedule a same-day or next-day 5) Help businesses and non-profits make or political party affiliation. Beware of any • Title histories. appointment, visit www.TxDMV.gov/ decisions (such as where to locate and organization or individual purporting to be appointment. You can also visit www.Texas.gov market size) which can be crucial to from the Census who is asking for any of these • Temporary permits. to learn more about what services are offered economic development. things. • Assigned/reassigned numbers. online. What Questions are on the Census? Census information helps us locally, no • Registration refund authorizations. TxDMV reminds Texans that most in-person matter who we are or what our beliefs. vehicle title and registration services are The census contains basic questions about the • Investigation and resolution of Texas title Getting everyone counted is important for our handled by your county tax office – not TxDMV location and kind of home (apartment, house, errors. community! regional service centers. And driver licenses and • International Registration Plan (IRP) ID cards are issued by the Texas Department transactions, NAFTA permits, or of Public Safety (DPS). Texans should contact Your Chance to Make a Difference! transactions from motor vehicle dealers their local tax office and DPS for information and title service companies/runners will about their services. 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But that is not the principle agenda item adorable sight! across the way. They were over there in ankle of this Committee today. That is being shelved teeth in North America, is resistant to snake deep water, striving with all of their might, for later discussion. And a favorite topic it is, venom, and might live in your home? If you Despite this cuteness, opossums have a poor trying to get that very few feet into the deeper too. didn’t guess the Virginia opossum, you were reputation. Many view them as backyard water of the Intracoastal Canal. wrong! These pint-sized critters have quite the pests that knock over garbage cans and dig Running aground is not a big deal here, in these reputation as backyard pests, but in reality they up gardens, or as dangerous animals that lurk Not understanding how this could be shallow Texas waters. It is a good thing all the help us out in all sorts of ways! From helping in your backyard. However, both of these are happening. Why, just this last week they had water covers up is only sand and mud. Just think curb harmful diseases, to offering potential misconceptions. went over this very same spot. –- No problem. of the tremendous graveyard of boats this would insights into developing anti-venom for treating Opossums are generalists, meaning they eat “You don’t suppose that the last storm sucked be if there were --- ROCKS ---- out there. ------snake bites, opossums make great neighbors a wide variety of things, including all sorts of all the water out of the Laguna Madre?”, muses --- HOOO!!! THAT’S SCARY! and we’re lucky to have them. insects (including garden pests!), snails, and the guy with his back to the transom, putting So, you would think, with all of these even venomous snakes! Opossums’ small size the entire strength of his legs and back into committee members being boaters, that they makes it unlikely for them to knock over trash the effort, glancing over at the nearby piling would feel just a little bit merciful towards these cans in search of food (trash can problems showing barnacles above the water line. two wet, straining people across the ditch. are likely raccoons), although opossums will “Oh! Man! My lucky jeans will never be the NO WAY, JOSE. certainly eat trash if it is easily accessible. same!”, thinks the guy at the bow, pushing and While opossums do hold the record for most pulling back and forth in an effort to break Mercy is never; and I mean never, on the teeth of any North American mammal, and the tenacious hold of this mysterious sandbar. curriculum of a Wharf Committee. You see each frequently show them off when cornered, they “There is some really YUUCKY stuff down and every one of these members remembers the are very timid animals, and will not bite unless there.” time that all those fingers was pointing at him, or her. Mercy? --- ‘Tis to laugh. --- HA HA HA they feel strongly threatened. The one good thing these guys had going for HA HA! In fact, in response to extreme threats, they will them, being completely unaware of it, was the “play opossum”, or pretend to be dead for up fact that they were out of earshot of the Wharf IT’S PAY-BACK TIME! A young opossum at San Bernard to hours at a time, rather than fight a potential Committee that had immediately formed on this National Wildlife Refuge. Well, finally these two poor souls escaped attacker. This being said, while it is incredibly side of the canal. the entrapping, skinny water. The transom guy The Virginia opossum is North America’s unlikely, it is possible to be bitten by an steering for home, using the shortest possible Now Wharf Committees, if you are not aware of only marsupial; every other mammal on the opossum if they are cornered; therefore, if you route away from the audience on the other side. this phenomenon, form and start feeding, (much continent is a placental mammal, meaning encounter an opossum, make sure they have an The bow guy was dipping and wringing the crud like a pack of sharks in a feeding frenzy), on young develop completely inside the mother. escape route to avoid any contact. other people’s boating misery. Never, ever will encrusted jeans over the side. ------Fortunate Marsupials on the other hand, are born only Admittedly, appreciating the cuteness of an you see, or hear, of one forming in a no-stress that he wore underwear that day. (Wharf partially developed, and crawl into an external opossum is an acquired skill, but looks aren’t situation. But let the least little miscue happen, Committees have remarkably good eyesight. pouch on the mother’s belly, where it nurses and everything! A single opossum can eat up to just as long as it is embarrassing or indicative Kind of a collective focal point, you see. Much finishes development. 5,000 ticks per year, helping to curb the spread of your ignorance, and PHOOOMMM!; there better than any one of the individuals, making of tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease and stands a Wharf Committee. Grinning, fingers up the group.) Approximately 70% of marsupial species are found in Australia, including the possums, Rocky Mountain spotted fever. pointing, heads shaking; standing, just over Surprisingly enough, there was a short round which are related to, but are not the same as, there where you cannot possibly cover up this of applause from those frenzied viewers on Additionally, because opossums eat venomous the Virginia opossum. Species like kangaroos, glaring error. Cussing and discussing; dissecting this side. You would think it would have been a snakes, they are quite resistant to snake venoms. wombats, and Tasmanian devils are also and resecting; slicing, dicing and pureeing you large, heart-felt sigh; saddened by the loss of the Scientists are studying this resistance in order marsupials found in Australia. The other 30% of down to your very soul. minnow-school-of-misery that fed this Wharf to create more effective anti-venoms for curing marsupial species are found in South America. snake bites. Opossums also eat carrion, helping Now, let’s understand that these fishermen Committee, previously. When Virginia opossums are born, they are to remove harmful bacteria from the local really did not do anything really drastic or Then it got real UGLY; ------They the size of a dime! These tiny babies remain in environment. damning. I mean, after all there is a lot; and I do turned on each other. mean, LOT, of shallow water around here. the mother’s pouch for two-and-a-half months If you’re lucky enough to have an opossum as From a wounded observer, high, a-top Fort before emerging, and stay with the mother a neighbor, be sure to appreciate all their hard Take, for instance, the majority of those birds, Baker; until they are around five months of age. When work, and be kind to them! that you see, standing out there in that stuff, don’t have long legs. And they can wade a long Del Smith way before getting a feather wet. Endangered Aplomado Falcon Chicks Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Banded at Mustang Island State Park Researchers this week banded two females Mustang Island State Park visitors could catch Approves Hunting Regulation Changes and one male 26-day-old northern aplomado a glimpse of the adult falcon pair along State falcon chicks at Mustang Island State Park. This Highway 361 but it won’t be easy. Northern for 2020-21 banding is part of ongoing restoration efforts aplomado falcons are some of the world’s by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the fastest and more agile fliers. Hunting regulations for the 2020-2021 • Shift snipe hunting season dates two nonprofit The Peregrine Fund and the U.S. Fish season were approved by the Texas Parks and weeks later than in previous years “They wait for smaller birds or large insects and Wildlife Service. like big grasshoppers to fly by, then they swoop Wildlife Commission at its public meeting Additionally, the TPW Commission has held online May 21. Hunters will see some Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, The down and catch them in mid-air,” said Eric adopted rules establishing Chronic Wasting Peregrine Fund, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ehrlich, Mustang Island State Park interpreter. hunting regulation changes this fall, including Disease (CWD) management zones to further the implementation of automated processing of Service began the Mustang Island project Ehrlich says that the birds are relatively shy detection and response efforts among white- in 2012, when 15 n. aplomado chicks were pronghorn and antlerless mule deer applications tailed deer. The rules implement a Containment and flush easily and permits, a decrease in the daily bag limit for released there. Controlled burning and other Zone (CZ) and a Surveillance Zone (SZ) in Val work to restore native coastal prairie have been The northern aplomado falcon (Falco scaup and a decrease in the daily bag limit for Verde County, a new SZ in Kimble County in light goose during regular season. essential to pave the way for reintroduction. femoralis) was placed on the federal endangered response to the discovery of CWD, and slightly The most recent chicks were hatched to a pair of species list in 1986, primarily due to habitat loss The following modifications and clarifications expands the current CZ in Medina, Bandera, falcons that nest on Mustang Island in one of 65 and fragmentation. In the Texas portion of this to the 2020-21 Statewide Hunting Proclamation and Uvalde counties after additional cases of artificial nests along the Texas coast maintained subspecies’ range, the falcons require a nearly have been approved by the TPW Commission: the disease were detected. by The Peregrine Fund. treeless expanse of yucca-studded coastal prairies and saltmarsh. A nesting pair requires • Implement rules to administer an Finally, the TPW Commission adopted The Mustang Island project is part of broader roughly 2,000 acres of that type of habitat and automated process for the application and amendments that clarify existing fees and restoration work in Texas, in which 997 birds such an expanse is hard to come by. Much of this issuance of pronghorn and antlerless mule permitting procedures surrounding the hunting, were released into the wild at 27 Texas sites, coastal prairie and saltmarsh have been lost due deer permits farming, sale, import and export of alligators. including many private ranches, from 1993 to to invading brush, the absence of the naturally 2013. Since then, over 500 n. aplomado falcons • Establishment of seasons and bag limits Hunters hitting the field in the upcoming occurring fires that would have eradicated such have been banded in Coastal Texas. for the take of migratory game birds for season should make note of these changes and brush, extensive ditching that causes marshes 2020-21 follow all regulations set for species, tagging, The n. aplomado chicks at Mustang Island to quickly drain and residential and industrial bag limits, counties, season dates and means • Decrease the daily bag limit for scaup State Park will fledge (grow flight feathers) development. and methods. Hunters can check the online in about 10 days. After they fledge, they will from three to one in all zones “Northern aplomado falcons are important version of the Outdoor Annual for complete stay close to the area where they hatched for a because they’re a characteristic part of • Decrease the daily bag limit for light and updated regulations. Information currently few months and then begin searching for their Texas natural heritage. As such, their habitat goose daily bag limit from twenty to ten in the online version of the Outdoor Annual own territory in the fall. The chicks may stay requirements give us insights into what coastal during the regular season in both zones reflects last season’s information. The 2020-21 on Mustang Island if habitat is available or they prairies and marshes need to look like, how season information will not be online until mid- could disperse some 100 miles in search of a • Shift goose seasons (and light goose expansive they should be and how they need August per usual practice. new home. conservation season) in the Western Zone to be distributed if they are to support all the one week later than in previous years “A few years ago, an aplomado that fledged on species and processes that characterize Texas’ the Boswell-Jenkins tract, now part of Laguna coastal prairies and marshes,” Anderson said. Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, was “Coastal Texas is a great place to live, work and TPW Commission Approves Changes to sighted around Bob Hall Pier on North Padre play. Protecting and maintaining enough coastal Island in Corpus Christi,” Tim Anderson said, prairie and marsh to support viable northern Saltwater Fishing Regulations for 2020-21 a Southwest Region Coastal Program Manager aplomado falcon and associated species with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. populations will go a long way towards keeping “Another aplomado that fledged on Matagorda it that way.” The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission • Changing the course requirements to Island was sighted on the Nature Conservancy’s discussed several changes to state saltwater include a paddle craft leading course Texas City Prairie Preserve on .” fishing regulations, including updates to the from the American Canoe Association or recreational and commercial flounder fishery another TPWD approved course. regulations and paddle craft all-water guide license. Coastal Fisheries Winter Whooping Crane Population Stable, The following changes to the 2020-21 Statewide • Flounder – Increase minimum size limit Expanding Range on Texas Coast Recreational Fishing Proclamation, details of from 14 inches to 15 inches and close which will be incorporated into this year’s Texas the season for the month of November Biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Fish and Wildlife Service survey the birds by air Parks and Wildlife Department Outdoor Annual through December 14 (recreational and Service recently completed analysis of aerial and analyze population trends. and the Texas Commercial Fishing regulations commercial); whooping crane surveys conducted last winter, For winter 2019-20, preliminary data analysis summary, have been adopted by the Texas Parks finding Texas’ wintering population of one of • Clarify commercial harvest reporting indicated 506 whooping cranes, including and Wildlife Commission and go into effect on the rarest birds in North America to have topped requirements; and 39 juveniles, in the primary survey area Sept. 1, 2020: the 500 mark for the third year in a row. The • Paddle Craft All-Water Guide License – survey also recorded dozens of the endangered (approximately 153,950 acres) centered on • Increasing the minimum size limit for Implement generic description of training birds outside of the primary survey area, Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. This is flounder to 15”. required for license. indicating an expansion of their winter range on comparable with the prior winter’s estimate of 504 whooping cranes, indicating the population • Clarifying language for commercial During their discussion, the Commission the Texas coast. remained stable and did not experience harvest reporting requirements. decided to postpone the proposed fall closure “While we did not detect detectible population growth this year. An of the flounder fishery to 2021. 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By Ronnie Narmour [email protected] Pandemic spandemic.. Is the pandemic over? Did I miss something? By my observations this weekend, social distancing is history, that’s for sure. The beaches in Port A and Padre Island were the busiest I’ve ever seen them in the eleven years I’ve been here. It looked like Spring Break or SandFest the entire length of the beach. Cars were stacked up three and four deep for miles, the ferry was a two hour wait at times and the traffic was back up to Diamond’s Edge will play Treasure Island Jake Castillo from San Antonio will play Oso bay going over the bridge. I really wonder on Saturday. GIggity’s on Friday.. how many thousands of people descended on Clay Hollis, Mario Flores, Roger Creager, us for Memorial Day. It was overwhelming and and Gabe Garcia showed up and played at a little scary considering that we have reached the Back Porch last Saturday. 100,000 COVID-19 related deaths… or more. People wearing masks are increasing rare. The (when it became Friday and was legal). It was masses have thrown caution to the wind and obvious that people were ready to party…and Live Music have made wearing a mask a political issue. I suffice it to say, they did. Selfie then played a drew the short straw and had to work the door full show Friday night. They put a bunch of at Shorty’s last Thursday when it turned Friday picnic tables out front of Shorty’s and there at midnight and Selfie played. Nobody but was plenty of room to spread out. John Cortez played there on Saturday. Giggity’s opened Tonight nobody (except the employees) wore a mask or gave a flip about the close contact. It was icky. their bar for live shows on Friday with Starlite People kept touching me. It was the same deal and the Moonbeams featuring the Llanes Thursday, May 28 all weekend as I went around to hear bands. I’m boys, Rudy and Rudolf. Blues master Mike Free Beer Band @ Sunday, June 14 a bit perplexed… actually I’m worried as hell. O’Neill played on Saturday. I’m really digging Giggity’s Antone & All Stars @ SCARECROWPEOPLE MAY 28 Giggity’s And what’s up with all the pop-up tent bones? In all this blues at Shorty’s and Giggity’s. I’m right Scarecrow People @ Back at home. The Back Porch had an Americana Porch RIPTIDE MAY 29 the aftermath of the weekend attack, me and my Monday, June 15 mermaid gal ran the beach on Monday, from the deluge last weekend. They had Mario Flores RUBEN V MAY 30 and the Soda Creek Band on Friday and Clay Friday, May 29 Open Jam w/ Ray Summy jetty to where the bollards stop, and counted 81 @ Giggity’s Hollis on Saturday. They had a nice surprise on Riptide @ Back Porch SEASON AMMONS JUNE 4 pop-up tent carcasses. I’m sure there were many VIRAL @ Treasure Island more if we had kept going. This is where pop Saturday when Mario decided to stay over and CODY BRYAN JUNE 5 Tuesday, June 16 a few friends dropped by to sit in, none other Jake Castillo @ Giggity’s up tents come to die, I suppose. Did I not get Johnny Boy @ Shorty’s CODY SPARKS JUNE 6 Paul & Victoria @ the memo? Are they now deemed disposable? I than Roger Creager, Sarah Hobbs and Gabe Steve Earle, Marty Stuart Giggity’s Garcia. The place was electric. Sure feels good 132 W. Cotter St. Port A also wonder how many of us locals will contract @ John T. Floore Country On the Waterfront to have the Porch back in the saddle. The BP is Store Wednesday, June 17 the virus from that barrage of tourists. The Magnus @ Giggity’s stores, restaurants and bars here are living Petri a big outdoor patio and it felt plenty safe over dishes right now. No matter how hard they try there. They have a ton of room to spread out. Saturday, May 30 Over at Treasure Island, Tommy Saad had a The Groove @ Giggity’s Thursday, June 18 to follow the rules, people are not cooperating. Free Beer Band @ couple of his heavy hitters on stage. The Back Ruben V @ Back Porch I asked a friend of mine why he didn’t wear a Diamonds Edge @ Giggity’s mask. His brilliant reply was, “I’m not running Pew Revival played their most excellent brand KT Tunstall @ Brewster of current country and the rowdy Jonmikael Treasure Island from this virus anymore. When it’s my time to Mike O’Neill @ Shorty’s Downtown go, it’s my time to go.” That appears to be the MREZ band tore it up on Saturday. Those cats Mammoth Lifts & Riffs @ general mantra. In the mean time, I’ve about are a jumping, funky dance band that you can’t House of Rock Friday, June 19 sit still to. That band is a must see and the singer Chanklas @ Giggity’s washed the skin off my hands. These are freaky Red Giant @ Shorty’s times indeed. has golden pipes not to mention he’s a great Sunday, May 31 Treasure Island entertainer and front man. I love their energy. Antone & All Stars @ Rush Tribute @ Brewster Giggity’s Downtown DO NOT MISS LIST VIRAL MAY 29 Saturday, June 20 Coming this weekend… Monday, June 1 DIAMOND’S EDGE Open Jam w/ Ray Summy MAY 30 Todd Dorn & the Sea @ Giggity’s REX ALLEN JUNE 5 Drifters @ Giggity’s Selfie @ Shorty’s Tuesday, June 2 BILL AYERS BAND JUNE 6 Testify @ House of Rock Paul & Victoria @ Giggity’s 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Sunday, June 21 treasureislandporta Antone & All Stars @ Wednesday, June 3 Giggity’s Jim Dugan @ Giggity’s Monday, June 22 Where pop up tents go to die. Photo by Open Jam w/ Ray Summy Steve Coons. Thursday, June 4 Free Beer Band @ @ Giggity’s Giggity’s On the local front… Season Ammons @ Back Tuesday, June 23 Porch Paul & Victoria @ Mike Williams’ send off is this Thursday Giggity’s the 28th at the Gaff at 5:00. Jim Dugan, Hank Friday, June 5 Reeves and Tommy Procter will provide the Rex Allen @ Treasure music No one has claimed the body yet but Island Wednesday, June 24 Hank Reeves @ Giggity’s Edwin Meyers has enlisted the services of Johnny Boy @ Giggity’s Johnny Boy May 29 Cody Bryan @ Back our lawyer/musician friend, Arnold Govella, Mike O’Neill May 30 Thursday, June 25 to claim his body and give him a proper burial Porch TBA @ Shorty’s TBA June 05 Free Beer Band @ in the city cemetery. The whole thing will Jam Band June 06 Giggity’s cost over $5,000 and we’ll probably get a Go Saturday, June 6\ Fund Me thing going or something to collect Cody Sparks @ Back John Cortez June 12 Friday, June 26 donations. They are finding obstacles with this Porch Ty Dietz June 13 Mike O’Neill @ Giggity’s process right now but I’ll keep you posted. Dreaming in Color@ Johnny Boy @ Shorty’s Giggity’s OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. Scattered shots… Ruben V will play the Back Porch on Bill Ayers Band @ Saturday, June 27 Saturday. Treasure Island BELT SANDER RACES TBA @ Shorty’s @ Gaff Back Pew Revival @ I’m not sure who’s booked in Corpus or on Sunday, June 7 Giggity’s Padre right now. I’m working on it. Information Antone & All Stars @ Thomas Michael Riley @ Giggity’s Back Porch is spotty at best right now. But Port A has Starlite & the Moonbeams another full weekend. On Thursday the Free Monday, June 8 @ Shorty’s Beer Band will be back at Giggity’s 7-10pm Open Jam w/ Ray Summy and are happy about it I’m sure. Ron Baker @ Giggity’s Sunday, June 28 will be subbing for Steve Goldstein. Also, Antone & All Stars @ Scarecrow People are at the Back Porch on Tuesday, June 9 Giggity’s Thursday. On Friday Elvis meets the Stray Paul & Victoria @ Cats band Riptide will play the Back Porch, Giggity’s Monday, June 29 VIRAL is at Treasure Island, Jake Castillo is Open Jam w/ Ray Summy @ Giggity’s at Giggitys, and Johnny Boy will be at Shorty’s. Wednesday, June 10 Rudy Llanes with Starlite and the Jered Clark @ Giggity’s On Saturday Treasure Island has Diamond’s Tuesday, June 30 Moonbeams played Giggirty’s last Friday Giggity’s Back Led Zeppelin 2 @ Edge, has Mike O’Neill and the Brewster Downtown Paul & Victoria @ night. Porch has the phenomena known at Ruben V. Giggity’s Plus on Sunday the Back Porch has Coach Jim We haven’t been here in a couple of months Thursday, June 11 Dugan. Be safe out there. Wear a mask. Wash Jon Pardi @ Concrete and this sure feels good. Try being the music your hands. And don’t breathe on me. Street Wednesday, July 1 scribe when all the bars are shut down. But, I Free Beer Band @ Jim Dugan @ Giggity’s made up for it this weekend. I actually caught ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ Giggity’s ten shows by the time Monday rolled around. Thursday, July 2 Our dunebilly pals, Selfie, got the ball rolling Friday, June 12 Free Beer Band @ at stroke of midnight at Shorty’s on Thursday OTB Band @ Sunset Giggity’s Sounds Bruce Robison & Kelly Friday, July 3 Willis @ Third Coast Whiskey Myers, Read Theater Southall, Kody West @ GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR Groove @ Giggity’s Concrete Street Chanklas @ Shorty’s Dreaming in Color @ LIVE MUSIC LIVE MUSIC Giggity’s Free Beer Band every Thurs (7-10) Saturday, June 13 TBA @ Shorty’s EVERY Jake Castillo on Friday (9-1) BELT SANDER RACES Saturday, July 4 NIGHT The Groove on Saturday (9-1) @ Gaff Toman Brothers @ Mike’s Barbershop Mike Milligan @ Giggity’s Antone & All Stars Every Sunday(8-12) Giggity’s Selfie @ Shorty’s Open Jam Every Monday (8 -12) Ty Dietz @ Shorty’s Kitchen Open Sunday, July 5 Paul & Victoria Every Tuesday (7-10) Antone & All Stars @ Until 1 a.m.! 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