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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 May 21, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Flour Bluff ISD Island Island Walk Canal Work Announces By Dale Rankin Graduation What a week it has been Around The Island. There is all kinds of things Moving Ahead Quickly Ceremony Plan going. Canal and Water Exchange Friday, June 5 at Bridge Hornet Stadium Islanders who have been Around Flour Bluff ISD is moving forward The Island for a while understandably with an in-person, outdoor graduation take a jaundiced view when new for the Flour Bluff High School Class projects are announced and the Park of 2020. For the first time in 45 years, Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge is the graduation ceremony will be held no exception; “I’ll believe it when I on the district’s home turf, at 7 p.m. see it” could be the Island motto or, on Friday, June 5, at Hornet Stadium. as Norm Baker has often suggested This modified graduation plan the Marlin “Welcome to the Island” follows the guidance of the Texas sign at the base of the JFK Bridge Education Agency. could have the words “Coming Soon” because we see those words Crews at work on the new canal. For more pictures, see page A4 often when in fact nothing shows up. as can be seen from the photos in this But even the skeptics should be By Dale Rankin the excavation work is underway. issue. Under an agreement with the City assured this week that the Water Work on the Island Walk Canal took of Corpus Christi work on the bridge Exchange Bridge project, first off in earnest this week with a full The work is being paid for by the will begin when work on the canal approved in a bond package by voters crew on site west of SPID near Nemo private landowners, Axys Capital is “substantially complete.” Axys in 2004, is happening right before Court. and International Bank of Commerce our eyes. The two private landowners who have owned the land with officials say the excavation work The work is the first phase of the responsible for digging the canal that divided interests for less than two will be done by late summer, barring Park Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge is precursor to the bridge stepped up years. They purchased the 70 acres weather delays. project and will connect the existing to the plate and by mid-week dirt – where the canal is located in two Funding for the $13.7 million Water Island canal system to the bridge or sand – was flying. Progress on the separate foreclosure auctions after the Exchange Bridge is in place and the through an eight-foot deep canal canal has been the stopping point for bankruptcy filing of the Schlitterbahn construction contract awarded to that will allow boat passage from the bridge for the past two years as Waterpark in 2017. Haas-Anderson Construction who the canals through to Lake Padre and the land where it is located changed will begin work on the bridge when the Gulf of Mexico. Crews began Crews are scheduled to begin work hands, but that changed dramatically directed by the Corpus Christi City work Monday and by press time on on the bulkheads for the canal while as crews went to work Monday. We Council. Wednesday the work was well along, often are asked exactly where the bridge will be located so we launched the air fleet this week and the photos in this issue will answer that question Memorial Day PINS Turtle Releases Closed to Flour Bluff High School is honoring definitively. its graduating Seniors with portraits The Water Exchange Bridge is Boat Parade the Public Through Summer 2020 on the streets surrounding the school. coming and this week marks the nexus A group of Islanders are organizing The release of Kemp’s ridley turtles social distancing and crowd between planning and execution. We a Patriotic Boat Parade on Monday, at Padre Island National Seashore avoidance guidelines. When owe a thanks to the current Corpus May 25. will be closed to the public through conditions and guidance allow, The graduation ceremony will Christi City Council, many hours of follow all the social distancing It will depart at 11:00 a.m. from the the summer of 2020, park officials the park will resume these popular work by the Island Strategic Action announced Wednesday. turtle release events, as well recommendations set by local, Committee, and the private owners of proximity of the Padre Island Yacht state and national authorities Club's docks. The events, held several times each as, traditional ranger guided the land for making this happen. activities. This summer the park while celebrating our student’s All boaters are encouraged to join summer, are the victim of their own achievements with a traditional Message in a Bottle success in the time of the COVID-19 will film hatchling releases and in and sport their Patriotic Flags. The post them on the turtle Facebook graduation ceremony. Due to the Last week we Parade will head towards the JFK virus as they routinely draw more COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, than 1000 spectators. page, https://www.facebook.com/ reported that Bridge, and throughout our canals. nps.pais.seaturtles. each graduate will be allowed two (2) Islander Dave guests to attend in-person graduation Note: The Yacht Club is currently Park officials announced Wednesday. Hoffmann Park officials will notify the public at Hornet Stadium. The limit on the not open, and is not affiliated with The statement read in part: found a when full operations are resumed number of guests will allow for the this parade. message in a Due to the overwhelming and provide updates on their website, ceremony to proceed while following bottle that was popularity of these public events, https://nps.gov/pais and Facebook the social distancing protocols. launched five it is not possible to host them page, http://www.facebook.com/nps. Map on page A4 this summer while adhering to pais. Due to the limited number of in- years ago in person guests allowed in Hornet the Cayman Stadium, Flour Bluff ISD will live Islands, but Avery and her Dad stream the commencement ceremony his attempts A little Island history via the District’s Facebook social to find three- media platform (facebook.com/ year old Avery Posner who wrote FlourBluffISD). The District will the message had been unsuccessful. As Father’s Day Nears… be finalizing all requirements for Well, after our story Moon reader Jim students and guests who attend Worth went to work and tracked the Time spent fishing doesn’t make you any older. the in-person graduation and will now eight year-old Avery down in communicate that information Baltimore. Avery’s father has been Editor’s note; Bobbie Kimbrell directly to our senior students and going to the Caymans for many years was a commercial fisherman in families. and when Avery came along he took Flour Bluff from the early 1940s her there and launched their message until his retirement. This week he Due to the fluid nature of the current in a bottle. Call this one a Moon story is remembering his Dad as Father’s situation, our modified graduation with a happy ending for Dave, Jim, Day nears… plan may be impacted by future and mostly Avery. We can all use a national, state and local requirements. By Bobbie Kimbrell little cheer in these trying times. Any changes will be communicated Remembering Dad on Father’s as quickly as possible to senior Porto Villageo Day brings back cherished students and parents. Last week we reported on the new memories of the times we shared development at Porto Villageo on when my Dad ran the Red Dot Bait Saturday, May 23 State Highway 361 just inside the Stand that was located between Corpus Christi City Limits – which Doc’s Seafood and Steaks and the the Big Daily picked up the next day. Intracoastal Bridge. Dad started Free COVID-19 We want to clarify that while the new his work years as a surveyor and development planned there is similar cement bridge builder and helped home. Throughout Dad’s work years I turned sixteen and had already Testing in Flour to the current Cinnamon Shore North build the underground cement fuel he spent most of the time off rod finished high school Dad started project the two are not connected. tanks and the cement breakwaters and reel fishing anywhere there was making trips down to the lower Bluff during the construction of the a river, lake, pond or seawater. Dad end of the Laguna Madre on a Island boat ramps Naval Air Station in the early and I lived in a little camp off Laguna motor fishing boat with a Spanish You must register As the limit on public gatherings 1940s. Shores Road and we nearly starved to American War veteran, Windy has made people from OTB a little After the NAS was finished, Dad death at first but after a while Dad got Bowman, and they sometimes before you go stir crazy of late Island boat ramps helped build invasion and crash the hang of commercial fishing and loaded the boat with fish in one People with symptoms of the have been more active than ever boats that were used in the invasion made a good go of it. night using gill nets. There was COVID-19 virus can get a free test only one Game Warden in Nueces and that has created some parking of France in Rockport. After that At that time we were wishing that on Saturday, May 23 at the Ronnie County, named Campbell, who issues. The ramps are available for job was over before World War Britain would send some of the CARE Polston Building, 10110 Compton was seldom seen. Some people public use but the parking lots are II ended the only jobs available Packages that were being sent to Road in Flour Bluff. reserved for Island property owners were building Naval bases off the accused Wind of [paying off the England back to us. Dad and I lived in The testing runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. who have the proper stickers for both East Coast of the United States but Game Warden because Windy had Flour Bluff and my mother and four but you must register to be tested. To boat and trailer. Non property owners with six kids to feed Dad decided never been caught using illegal gill sisters stayed in Aransas Pass and my register go to TXCOVIDTEST.ORG who launch must find parking spots to try commercial fishing because nets. Dad said there was nothing to older brother had already joined the or call 512 883-2400. Registration he didn’t want to be away from their claims. Navy and was in Pearl Harbor. After opens on Friday, May 22. Around cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 May 21, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Island Time: Photos From Around The Islands

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Abigail Bair Saturday. Contributing Writers This is Bill with Corpest Services responding Starbucks will be opening on the Island early July with a large outdoor patio. Joey Farah to people's questions about gnats. Over my 43 Andy Purvis years in the pest control industry, this is the first year that I have come across many people Mary Craft inquiring about the influx of gnats. The first thing Emily Gaines I do when talking with clients, is try to identify Jay Gardner the source. The source will be 1 of 3 areas in the Todd Hunter home. The first question is do you have any live Dotson Lewis plants in the house, ivy in particular. As fungus Dr. Tom Dorrell gnats survive and thrive in over watered soil Ronnie Narmour of potted plants. If this is the source, place the potted plant outside for the soil to dry. A second Brent Rourk source may be from the side of the sink with the Photographers garbage disposal. It is very important to clean Miles Merwin (Emeritus) the garbage disposal on a monthly basis. I do Debbie Noble not mean by just pouring bleach down the sink by itself. You need to also fill your sink half way Jan Rankin with very hot water from your tap by putting Mary Craft the stopper in the drain and pour half a cup to a Ronnie Narmour cup of bleach in the water depending on the size Starbucks on the Island of your sink. Turn on your disposal and remove Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) the stopper. This will create a vortex to clean Riley P. Dog the underside of the garbage disposal drain. You The Slip Bar will be opening at 2 pm on Friday, May 22nd. may have to repeat the process once or twice. A Farah’s is waiting until Monday, May 25th to make a decision on when or if they will open. dousing of vinegar in the final rinse may help. Do not forget to repeat this process if you have All Pier 1 stores across the nation are now closed including the one at Moore Plaza. 2 sides to the kitchen sink. BY ALL MEANS, Dredging has begun on the Water Exchange Bridge canal on the west side of SPID. DO NOT POUR PESTICIDES DOWN THE DRAIN, AS THIS IS ILLEGAL AND WILL The Holiday Inn on the seawall has added lounge chairs around the pool so hopefully that CONTAMINATE OUR WATER SOURCE! means their opening is not that far off. Keeping recycled cans, especially soft drink cans, in the garage will help. Also remember to clean inside trash cans frequently. The big question is why are people experiencing an abundance of fruit flies this year? What is Publisher different this year? My opinion is society is Dale Rankin not shopping as frequently as they usually do, About the Island Moon instead they are buying more products in bulk The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale to minimize trips in public and keeping social Rankin, Editor / Publisher. distance as a results of Covid 19. Fruits and Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes vegetables such as oranges, bananas, potatoes, delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, onions, etc., are being kept in the home longer as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 than usual there-by creating this abnormal copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. influx of gnats. Plus grocery stores are not News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, having a faster rotation of produce like they payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. normally do. In my opinion, when we resume back to our normal life style, it will greatly The Island Moon Newspaper reduce these concerns about the gnats. Should 14646 Compass, Suite 3 you have any additional questions or concerns, feel free to email me personally at corpestpi@ Corpus Christi, TX 78418 yahoo.com and I will respond promptly. I'm 361-949-7700 sorry for the lengthy information but I felt like it needs to be addressed. [email protected] Holiday Inn. Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper VBRO The Angry Marlin has 1/4 lb King Crab legs for $6.95 during happy hour 4 - 7 pm at the bar I would like to correct some misinformation I and on the patio Tuesday - Saturday. The Rockoholics will be providing the music on Friday heard during your radio broadcast this morning. and Trisum on Saturday. 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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 Bluff & SPID Now available online at islandmoon.com May 21, 2020 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 of the other spots but most are still works in progress. We will have more on this in the next Canal Work Moving Quickly With the digging of the Intracoastal Canal and issue. the JFK Causeway, Dad quit fishing and he, And speaking of that… Sherm Hawley (ex-Flour Bluff Superintendent), and Sam Hull put in a bait stand on the Each week we go through the police reports Intracoastal Canal next to the Intracoastal from the Corpus Christi Police Department and Bridge, the Red Dot Bait Stand. At that time over the years the type of calls and the number of there were so many shrimp running at night in calls have remained fairly constant. We get the the canal, they would just stick a push net down sneak thieves who steal cameras from unlocked in the water by the pier and the current would cars and lawnmowers from open garages and push shrimp into the net. Just pick it up every the partyers who do dumb stuff on our beaches. once in a while and dump the shrimp in the live But for the last month the number of calls have box. increased as visitors fleeing isolation have been turning up in larger numbers and more After Dad became President of the Flour Bluff- importantly the type of calls and their location Padre Island Business Association he made has changed. a lot of trips to the expos in San Antonio and Houston promoting the development of Padre We are now seeing more Suspicious Person, Island. On his time off he spent a lot of time rod Disturbance, Indecent Exposure, and Noise and reel fishing in the Intracoastal and shallow Ordinance Violations and instead of being flats around the causeway. After a cold norther centered mostly along the beaches are now had died down he would fish across from John showing up constantly in our neighborhoods. Bean’s Pier, now Snoopy’s, on the bank of the One address alone on Suntan has been the scene canal using live shrimp or mirror lures and of several calls and two shootings in recent got a lot of big speckled trout, three to eight weeks. What we see now are multiple noise pounders, sometimes catching a number-three problems and disturbances often at the same washtub full in less than an hour, then giving addresses in our neighborhoods as absentee them to his customers. Sherm did a lot of push- owners lease out their vacant houses for short- netting in the flats during the summer months term rentals. Short-termers are here to party and when shrimp were scarce in the canal. Sam don’t much worry about what the neighbors Hull gave up the bait stand and moved to Port think and that is showing up in the police reports. Mansfield and back to commercial fishing. At The Indecent Exposure calls often come late in that time the live shrimp sold for 1-cent apiece. the afternoon after beachgoers start looking I worked from time to time at the bait stand, for restrooms and don’t find them fast enough, These shots taken Wednesday morning shows the route of the new canal. selling shrimp, repairing and repainting the business owners along the busiest corridors are wooden rent skiffs and cleaning the aluminum reporting the same problem as visitors turn their skiffs and heard many a tall tale from people, parking lots into restrooms. including my Dad, sitting on the “liars bench.” Our city currently does not track short-term Dad couldn’t tell a story unless he had a cup of rentals so the only way to know where they are coffee in his hand. When the first spinning reels to be found is by looking at the police reports appeared on the market, Dad bought one and and the evidence is there. A homeowner who demonstrated how to use it on the end of the bait lives in the house does not have three noise pier. It didn’t have a bail, you used your finger complaints three weekends in a row; that is for the bail. Dad had spinning reels for sale weekenders. The lack of a city ordinance for but sold very few after demonstrating it. Some short-term rentals has created a problem that is customers thanked him for the demonstration landing in the lap of CCPD and it is showing up but told him the reels sold for less at Walmart! in the police reports. The city staff is working Wren Warnecke, “Half Acre” worked at the on a draft ordinance but if Island property bait stand quite a bit and was an ace with a rod owners want to have input in what it is going to and reel and also a sling shot. He often went say the PIPOA and the Island Strategic Action dove hunting with sling shot and got his limit as Committee are our conduit to be heard. In the they were flying. The rent at the bait stands was meantime roll up your windows and hold your free to start with because they are on federal nose. land, but the federal gave the city the right to charge rent and they did, making all kinds of Turtle Releases disagreeable rules and regulations. At one time As we report in this issue Padre Island National These photos show the spot where the new canal will connect to the Park Road 22 Water they put the bait stands up for the highest bidder Seashore will not allow the public to attend Exchange Bridge. The canal on the Lake Padre side is already in place. but that proposal failed to take place because the turtle releases this summer due to the COVID-19 owners rebelled against it. virus. This is very sad news for the thousands of My Dad, Acie “Ace” Kimbrell came down with people who attend them each year, more than diabetes at age 72 and quit rod and reel fishing 16,000 each summer according to Dr. Donna altogether. He ran the bait stand for a few more Shaver. Donna reports that the turtle program years then sold it to Freddy Edgeman. The will still hold about twenty-five releases but building was demolished and the name went they will be lonely affairs even as they are to the bait stand on the Humble Channel. The streamed live on social media. Donna has been diabetes and heart trouble finally did Dad in and working to revive Kemp’s ridley turtles at PINS he died at the age of 79 and went to live with the for forty years and the public releases draw in Fish Gods in the Sky. Dad said the time spent people from all over the world. Hopefully by fishing didn’t make you any older. next year this will be behind us. We leave you with this… Around cont. from A1 other than in the lots. The Padre Isles Property Owners Association has been trying to address the problem without towing vehicles by leaving flyers on parked vehicles not bearing stickers but this busy Memorial Day Weekend offenders are apt to return to an empty spot as towing may be needed if the lots fill to overflowing. A word By Wednesday excavation work was well underway. to the wise. Island lodging still not open We saw this sign this week and thought we As we wade into the 100-day Summer Season should run it…don’t know why… for 2020 most of the overnight stay rooms in The summer season is here everybody, the high-rises along the Gulf of Mexico south Memorial Day is upon us and Hurricane Season of the Corpus Christi City Limits are still not is a week away and our little sandbar is going open due to Hurricane Harvey damage. Some to get busy in a hurry. Stay safe and say hello if are partially open while others are still working. you see us Around The Island. The Holiday Inn is getting close to being ready, Port Royal has some rooms open, as do a couple

Boat by the Numbers Memorial Day Boat Parade Route

This shot shows where the new canal will connect to the existing canal. The land bridge currently separates the brackish ground water from the saltwater in the Island Canals and is the spot where the new and current canals will connect. The bridge at the top of the frame is Whitecap Boulevard.

Turtle Nesting Count

KEMP'S RIDLEY TURTLE LOGGERHEAD TURTLE So far this year, 187 nests have been So far this year, 0 nests have been confirmed on the Texas coast including confirmed on the Texas coast, including (north to south in state): (north to south in state): 0 Bolivar Peninsula 0 San Jose Island 0 Galveston Island 0 North Padre Island, including 0 at 1 Brazoria County, N. of Surfside Padre Island National Seashore 1 Surfside Beach 0 South Padre Island 0 Quintana Beach GREEN TURTLE 1 Bryan Beach So far this year, 0 nests have been confirmed on the Texas coast, including: 0 Brazoria County, N. of Sargent Beach 0 Padre Island National Seashore 0 Sargent Beach 1 Matagorda Peninsula 0 Matagorda Island 11 San Jose Island 7 Mustang Island 112 North Padre Island, including 109 at Padre Island National Seashore 51 South Padre Island 2 Boca Chica Beach

Nester going back to sea. Photo by Steve Coons.

The Memorial Day Boat Parade will follow the route shown here, starting near the Padre Island Yacht Club and traveling through the canals. The Yacht club is not sponsoring the parade. Send letters and photos to [email protected] May 21, 2020 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides of the Week over to Bar America to talk over old times. Last week we began the Tides for Bob Hall Pier May 21 - May 28 story of the petrified penis “I can’t believe they gave you that,” Charlie said. Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon bone of a giant mollusk that lived in Wuhan City China 440 million years “Gave me what?” things happened so fast I /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible ago and how it ended up in a box on my desk hadn’t really even looked inside the box. When Th 21 High 4:53 AM 1.7 6:37 AM Rise 6:03 AM 3 with the help of a Japanese fiddle player named I opened it I found a long, pyramid-shaped Goodtime Charlie Nagatani from Kumamoto, 21 Low 8:53 PM -0.1 8:14 PM Set 7:28 PM stone that looked like it might be the end of a Japan and a Sister City program in San Antonio. F 22 High 5:40 AM 1.8 6:36 AM R ise 6:39 AM 0 Last time we left off as we were headed into 22 Low 9:19 PM -0.2 8:15 PM Set 8:24 PM a compound on a mountain outside Kumamoto Sa 23 High 6:27 AM 1.9 6:36 AM Rise 7:19 AM 0 Japan in 1989 where blind cult leader Shoko Asahara lived with several hundred followers. 23 Low 9:49 PM -0.3 8:15 PM Set 9:21 PM This was in the years before we ever heard of Su 24 High 7:14 AM 1.9 6:36 AM Rise 8:05 AM 1 David Koresh and when we thought of cult leaders Jim Jones and the mass suicide of his 24 Low 10:24 PM -0.4 8:16 PM Set 10:18 PM clan in Guyana came to mind. That one didn’t M 25 High 8:03 AM 2.0 6:35 AM Rise 8:56 AM 4 end so well for the reporter who went in there, 25 Low 11:04 PM -0.4 8:17 PM Set 11:14 PM in this case I was invited…but still…it was with some trepidation that I set out that mid- Tu 26 High 8:54 AM 2.0 6:35 AM Rise 9:52 AM 9 afternoon since Asahara had requested I be there 26 Low 11:50 PM -0.4 8:17 PM for sunset. W 27 High 9:42 AM 1.9 6:35 AM Set 12:06 AM 16 27 8:18 PM Rise 10:51 AM Th 28 Low 12:41 AM -0.3 6:34 AM Set 12:54 AM 25 28 High 10:24 AM 1.8 8:18 PM Rise 11:53 AM

Raid on the compound. Charlie on stage at the Grand Old Opry.

Juan, my interpreter, and I were met at the gate dragon’s tail. of the compound by a group of followers clad in purple robes and led into a large room with “It’s the petrified bone of the penis of a mollusk a wooden floor where Shoko Asahara sat. He from China,” Charlie said. “It’s worth about didn’t acknowledge my arrival and as I began three grand!” a series of questions I had prepared I soon “Three grand! Why did they give it to me?” enough learned the lesson of interviewing cult leaders that was later reinforced at the Branch “I told them you were from San Antonio,” Davidian standoff in Waco; specifically when Charlie said. “And they thought you were from interviewing a cult leader the reporter and his the City. They were supposed to give that to the questions are irrelevant. Cult leaders like to hear Mayor and it was supposed to go in a museum themselves talk and they have a message to get somewhere here in town. They got mixed up across to your viewers and you are simply in the and gave it to you instead.” way. Asaharsan rambled on for over an hour For a few weeks I mulled over whether to tell and I stopped asking questions and taking notes the Mayor what had happened but I had seen and my translator just quit translating. We rolled the boxes of stuff given to the City stored in the City Update tape and left. I went back down the mountain to basement at City Hall and figured that’s where Good Time Charlie’s Little Texas Bar. the petrified penis bone would go if I turned it By Greg Smith recovering some of their losses. The City small in and instead it ended up in the basement of my business program through the Lyft fund is “Are you crazy,” they said. “Don’t you know City Council Member, parents’ house in Oklahoma where I found it six fully subscribed and about half of the loans are that when the National Guard raided that place District 4 years ago when my father died. funded. We will vote on adding an additional they took in a thousand men?” In Tuesday’s May 19th $500,000 to the fund in June. “Well, it was just the two of us,” I said. “And On to Nashville meeting we had a bit of here we are.” respite from the Covid Switching to the virus the City/County Health Charlie left town and headed to Nashville Pandemic even though it District discussed changes in testing. Prior to I filed my story on Shoko Asahara and it where he made a record with friends Emmylou was part of the discussion. last week all testing was reactive, a person must went over with a thud in The States. The CBS Harris, Bill Monroe, Porter Wagoner and the In normal City business have symptoms or be exposed to be tested. Last regional feed picked Osborne Brothers which features a song called we approved a transfer of $3,550,000 out of week testing entered a new stage, becoming it up but no one really “My Name is Good Time Charlie” which tells reserves to the street program. On the Island this proactive by starting to test all residents and cared. By contrast the story of Charlie’s life. While he was in will add asphalt overlays on Commodore from staff of Nursing Homes without symptoms. the reporters at the Nashville Charlie appeared on Entertainment Aquarius to SPID and Encantada from Gypsy Five out of sixteen Homes were tested as of last Japanese station where Tonight, Crook & Chase, CBS’ Talk of to SPID. In the Bluff Don Patricio will also Tuesday. There were eight positive cases, six I was working, RKK, the Town, Nashville Now, the Ernest Tubb be overlayed. The Garbage landfill and Elliott residents and two staff. None had symptoms. used my video like Midnite Jamboree and made his third or fourth transfer station will be opened on Memorial The balance of the facilities will be tested in the the Comanches used appearance on the Grand Ole Opry. He went on Day so if anyone wants to spend the holiday next ten days. The STX Beef plant outbreak is the buffalo, spinning to Washington and met then President George cleaning out the garage you can throw in a trip now up to 68 cases or about 9% of the plant’s a week-long series H.W. Bush and later on with President Bill to Crosstown and South of Saratoga to be rid of workforce. Two halfway houses are infected Charlie meets the out of the interview. Clinton who invited him to the White House unwanted stuff and also enjoy the fragrant aroma totaling 32 cases. They are both located in the Prez.. Then in 1995 the cult for a State Dinner. Charlie carved out a niche of the Transfer Station to complete the holiday. inner city area. The County has had a sharp attacked riders in the for himself and his band Cannonball and played Two pools will open Memorial Day, Collier spike in cases, adding 74 in the last week with a Tokyo subway with sarin gas and dozens of American Military bases all over Asia. Not bad and the Natatorium. Staff is scrambling to hire total of 248 as of May 19. The 78418 zip code the cult members were arrested in a raid at the for a country picker from Kumamoto. Charlie is lifeguards so the rest of City pools can open. has sixteen and zip 78373 seven cases of the compound where I interviewed Asahara with in his 80s now and has moved his annual show Lifeguard training is typically done in April and 248. Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force supporting indoors. But as far as I know his Little Texas May which is causing the delay in bringing on Nationally the amount of daily new Covid the police. They found Asahara in a small room Bar is still alive and kicking on the fifth floor of new guards. We set the calendar for next years has flattened. This is a change in the falling just off the larger room where I had interviewed that building in Kumamoto and that Texas flag budget with four workshops in August and five trend that has been observed over the last him. I had the only pictures from inside the I gave him is still there. He just keeps on going. community input meetings. The last item on the compound and all of a sudden my raw tape of three weeks. Texas’s new cases are increasing End of the rope agenda was expanding City Council District primarily due to the Amarillo area outbreak, the leader in his mountain lair, where reporters Four to include Corpus Christi Bay and newly increases in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and cameras were not allowed during the raid, annexed areas in San Pat County. There are no and expanded testing. Nueces has some of the was valuable stuff. I sold it to two networks – voters in the added territory but this is made up largest percentage increase of larger counties one in the U.S. (CBS) and one in Japan (NHK) with plenty of new fish. District Four now is because of the positives in the Meat plant, where it ran for years as file tape as Asahara’s in three counties, one and a half bays, twenty detention facilities and nursing homes. The case wound through the courts. My connection miles of gulf beaches and part of our unique County’s total infection percentage still ranks to NHK came back around when they called me Laguna Madre. low even with the new infections due to the years later to cover Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. On the economic front the EDC briefed us small number of cases we had two weeks ago. on current local unemployment, it is now 12 Nueces has the 34th lowest infection rate of the “I can’t believe they gave you that” percent. With the reopening of the State this forty Texas counties with greater than 100,000 number could be coming down. Oil prices are in population.

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Dark and stormy nights aren’t a great beginning I curled into my comfy little sanctuary with a By Dotson Lewis delightful as to be almost beyond description," to any story set in my house. As many of you sigh of great relief, which was soon violently Special to the Island Moon Wilbur said. "Nobody who has not experienced know, Stadler-the-Dog Bair has a major fear of expelled by Stadler executing a gigantic leap it for himself can realize it. It is a realization over the coffee table and directly onto my solar Dotson’s Note: On the cold, windy morning of sky booms. She thinks that anytime we have of a dream so many persons have had of a rash of thunder bummers the sky Gods are plexus. December 17, 1903, on the sandy dunes of Kitty floating in the air. More than anything else hungry for Labrador. “Cussword, cussword, cussword Stadler,” I Hawk, North Carolina, it took 12 seconds to the sensation is one of perfect peace, mingled rasped, rolling so both the dog and me were change the world forever. Thanks to Katharine with the excitement that strains every nerve In the past, Stadler has taken evasive action dumped onto the floor, pinioned between the Wright, Hadley Meares, William Tate, John to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a by physically lying across my chest, shaking, table and the couch. After much clawing, Daniels, David McCollough and Fred Howard combination.” panting and drooling on my face. That was bad for the facts contained in this report and to The enough. I don’t know if you’ve ever spent a pushing, whining, honking, yelling and an National Air and Space Museum for the photos. Eventually, local and international governments night squashed by an 80-pound dog while being uncomfortable number of further pejoratives, began to acknowledge the Wrights and their waterboarded with drool, but it’s unpleasant. we finally escaped. They Tested Their Gliders in Kitty Hawk flying machine was patented. Soon the French She also fear-sheds thousands of kilostadlers I backed into the middle of the room, hands on and British governments began to show interest North Carolina (the SI measurement for dog hair) worth of fluff my hips, and eyeballed the situation. in purchasing the Wrights’ Flyers, while during this process. When the time came to test their new machine, American bureaucracy showed little interest. “Clearly, a structure must be built – one that they decided to travel to remote Kitty Hawk, a The brothers, and Katharine, traveled to Many a morning, I’ve fought my way out of my can withstand battering dogs, a barricade, if small beach community with large sand dunes Europe. Here they became celebrities, heralded bedroom both soggy and covered in stuck-on you will,” is the gist of what I was thinking, on the fabled Outer Banks of North Carolina. as understated, oddball “American” heroes. black fur, looking like an angry but (thankfully) but really my mental voice sounded more like, Here, they befriended William Tate, the former petite bigfoot. “Rasselfratting dog, not get me dog [chain of After a demonstration of the Flyer by Wilbur in postmaster of Kitty Hawk, and made friends expletives].” with many locals who were bemused and 1908, a writer for the French newspaper wrote: By the way, drooled on dog fur must be confused by these stoic, self-reliant brothers. “I've seen them! Yes! I have today seen Wilbur removed with the hose because otherwise it will I went into the bedroom and (in several trips) John Daniels said “We couldn’t help thinking Wright and his great white bird, the beautiful clog the shower drain. Hosing oneself off bright carried out construction materials consisting of: they were just a pair of poor nuts, they’d stand mechanical bird...there is no doubt! Wilbur and and early when the yard is already a mud pit every pillow in the house, an old memory foam on the beach for hours at a time just looking at Orville Wright have well and truly flown.” from the previous night’s rain is no fun, despite bed topper, some pool noodles, two lawn chairs, what the actively-biting-the-water dog thinks. and 21 Encyclopedia Britannicas that still list the gulls flying, soaring, dipping.” That year, the American government finally Iraq as “Persia.” came around, signing a contract with the We’ve tried all the stuff to curtail this behavior: brothers for the U.S. Army’s first military plane. prescription drugs, expensive thunder shirts, Then I began to build my great edifice. Now, test flights in Kitty Hawk and elsewhere swaddling, herbs, Benadryl, melatonin, witchcraft and prayer. Nothing works. I will admit that I was lacking the perfect were drawing scores of reporters. In 1909, they geometries of the builders of the great were finally given their due at a homecoming in I had decided that I was just going to have to pyramids. I’ll confess that this was no Machu Dayton, when they were presented with medals accept that my dog is a weirdo chicken and live Picchu. If I’m being honest, the whole structure by President William Howard Taft himself. The with it. Recently, however, Stadler turned on was haphazard. Bear in mind, I was only trying brothers, never much for festivities, often snuck the turbo. to defeat a terror-stricken dog, not trying to off to their workshop during the multi-pronged communicate with ancient aliens. Also, said Glider test celebration. She’s always tried to be as close to me as possible during storms, but now the dog is dog was really hampering progress by getting In later years, the brothers – particularly literally trying to dig a hole in my abdomen and directly in the way of every move I made. Despite Kitty Hawkers’ initial skepticism, Wilbur, the face of the newly formed Wright the brothers made many friends on the island crawl in. After about an hour of piling and refinement Company, became wrapped up in patent wars (when the whole thing collapsed), I had built a and became frequent visitors, camping out and and big deals. "They got the patent on their testing their gliders for months at a time. The Great Wall between the couch and the rest of flying machine, and then they didn't work to the house. Wrights set up camp and later built their own further flight,” said historian Larry Tise. “They workshop there, where they were visited by worked to protect the patent. They became Then I had to take a quarter of it all down to get family members, curious aviation enthusiasts obsessed with making money and protecting onto the couch, but it was now 4 a.m. so we’re and aeronautics pioneers. the patent.” not going to say anything about that. By 1903, the brothers were confident that they Orville dedicated his life to protecting the I crawled into my nest and barricaded myself could build a Flyer that included an engine and brothers' legacy. In 1912, Wilbur died at the age back in, snuggling down in a fluffy nest of solicited mechanic Charlie Taylor, who ran of 45 of typhoid fever, which he contracted after pillows and blankets to finally get some sleep. the bike shop for them in Dayton, to build the eating bad oysters at a hotel in Boston. Orville, light-weight engine. Throughout the year, they Stadler paced around the perimeter whining, a always shyer and less worldly, sold the Wright literal wolf at the gates. I was still mad at her, built their new improved flying machine. In Company soon after, making about $1.5 million the fall, they decamped for Kitty Hawk once so I ignored her angry yips and began to drift off in the process. He spent the rest of his life into a well-earned slumber. again, ready to make the first powered flight in tinkering in his workshop, hanging out with his the history of the world. When the plane and family and protecting the Wright family legacy. The storm was blowing itself out. conditions were finally ready, the brothers took to the sand dunes, with five locals nervously When Orville died in 1948, he had seen his and Suddenly, my wall began to creak ominously. Friday Night Lights By Steve Coons. holding their breath. his brother’s invention transform transportation, “Oh shi……..!” I yelped as a pile of culture and war forever. And to think, it was all Encyclopedia Britannicas and the worst lawn At exactly 10:35, Orville slipped the rope I call this “tauntauning” after what Han did to the work of two seemingly simple brothers with chairs money can buy landed atop me. restraining the Flyer and it headed forward, but the Tauntaun in “Empire Strikes Back” to save not very fast, because of the fierce headwind, Luke from the cold on Hoth (yes, I am 100% I struggled for a moment to push the weighty and Wilbur, his left hand on the wing, had no that big of a nerd). detritus off myself and onto the coffee table. trouble keeping up. At the end of the track the Then, I felt the tiniest boop of a wet nose on Here is the exact definition: Tauntaun (verb, Flyer lifted into the air and Daniels, who had my forearm. never operated a camera until now, snapped the regular) to attempt to dig a hole in the abdomen Stadler had tunneled under the barricade and shutter to take what would be one of the most of another creature with the express purpose of squirreled in between the couch and the coffee historic photographs of the century. The course crawling in said hole to escape the elements. table. The piles of crap on the table made it of the flight, in Orville’s words, was “extremely Example: My dog nearly tauntauned me the impossible for her to move it any further away erratic.” The Flyer rose, dipped down, rose other night due to thunderstorm terror. from the couch, so the dog was effectively again, bounced and dipped again like a bucking Obviously, tauntauning is not a survivable trapped. bronco when one wing struck the sand. The situation. I did my best to comfort the poor distance flown had been 120 feet, less than half dog, but she wouldn’t stop with two-inch-claws She seemed happy with herself, though, so I the length of a football field. The total time to the gut. I tried to put a pillow between her decided to let her have her den. airborne was approximately 12 seconds. “Were talons and my tender belly, but she ripped it in Wright Brothers and their sister I fell asleep, despite the regular nose boops you scared?” Orville would be asked. “Scared?” about thirteen seconds. Stadler doled out as a courtesy. he said with a smile. “There wasn’t time.” a soaring dream, unflinching dedication, and Then the yelling started. Stadler annihilated Despite making history, the Wrights received In the morning, I climbed over the rubble and faith in each other. a twenty-five-dollar pillow trying to eviscerate very little praise. freed the dog (who seemed to have entirely "Wilbur and Orville were among the blessed me, and (frankly) it really ticked me off. I went forgotten her attempt to tauntaun me). We Amazingly, this historic feat barely registered few who combined mechanical ability with to the bathroom to regroup. walked outside and breathed the storm-fresh in the local and national news. Only a few intelligence in about equal amounts," Wright The dog (who has been pretending to be afraid morning air. days before the brothers’ successful flight, Brothers biographer Fred Howard wrote, "One of the bathroom since the Great Bath Battle of “Walls fail in the face of significant motivation,” the $70,000 flying machine built by Samuel man with this dual gift is exceptional. Two 2013) followed me in and sat on my feet while I I mused aloud to my big black dog, now sitting P. Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian such men whose lives and fortunes are closely used the facilities. calmly as a Saint at my feet. Institution, had crashed in the Potomac River. linked can raise this combination of qualities to While Langley’s failure was a sensational, a point where their combined talents are akin “There’s no going back to bed,” I thought to Stadler smiled up at me beatifically with an much-covered story, the press-shy brothers’ to genius." myself. “I might as well try the couch. She expression that said, “I know.” success was scoffed at, if acknowledged at all. can’t get me there; there’s not enough room, Dotson’s Other Note: On first thought I was plus she knows she’s not allowed on the sofa.” She then went inside and promptly fell asleep going to write about Doolittle raid on Tokyo on the floor. I tried to disturb her slumber out in 1942, but after looking over my notes on the I don’t know why I completely ignored the fact of pure revenge by dismantling my fallen wall. event, it would take a report of around 3200 that the dog has been sneaking up on the couch since the day I got it. It was 2:30 a.m. -- maybe The dog snored right through all the noise I words, which is about three times my limit for deliberately made. this report. I will take it under consideration for cut me some slack. another time. Perhaps a three part series. As far I adjourned to the living room and proceeded Next time, I’m locking myself in the bathroom as I can ascertain, none of you Moon Monkeys to build myself a comfy little couch nest while and sleeping in the tub. witnessed Wilbur and Orville’s first flight live. Stadler panted, shook, drooled and watched me. Wilbur looks on as Orville pilots Thanks for reading and commenting on the articles in The Island Moon. Contact me at Back in Dayton, the Wrights continued [email protected] or call/text: 530-748-8475. experimenting with their powered Flyer at Huffman Prairie, which was 84 secluded acres Please note: The Weekly Veterans Round outside of their hometown. With little fanfare, Table Meetings are now on Zoom on Tuesdays the brothers became expert flyers, while the 9-11a.m., if you would like to join us, please media still doubted and ignored their every call, text or Email me. When the meetings are move. Wilbur said, “If they will not take our resumed at Del Mar College, all veterans, their word and the word of many witnesses, we do families and anyone interested in veterans’ not think they will be convinced until they see a activities, are invited. The Veterans Radio flight with their own eyes.” Round Table is on the air on KEYS AM 1440, 8 – 10 a.m., Saturdays. The next show will be May Instead, the brothers concentrated on the joys 23, 2020. Please listen and call in or text. The of manned flight. “When you know, after the listener/text line is: 361-882-5397…It’s your first few minutes, that the whole mechanism two hours, please let us hear from you. is working perfectly, the sensation is so keenly

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The winds were lighter than predicted, and the day was bright and sunny; perfect for sight-casting to some fish. We pulled through the gate to the Seashore at the crack of 10:30 am, and there was no one home at the entrance station. Evidently everyone knows about it, because as soon as we got on the sand, the beach was bustling with folks enjoying the day. We started easing south but didn’t get very far before we ran into our friend Cynthia at the 3MM, who was methodically poking a staff into the sand looking for a turtle nest. There had been a “false crawl” up the beach, but they always check to see if there was a nest laid by a Kemps Ridley and no one was there to witness Rachel and Nash with a blacktip tagged. it. the wade gut. I think it’s Gracilaria, but I might need to get out my notes from college to spur my memory. That stuff is so thick that in areas you can’t keep a long rod out for more than about 10 minutes. Anyhoo, Rachel reeled in a 4 foot and then a 6 foot shark, they got a tag in Drivers didn't wait for the new roadway at Newport Pass to be finished. both, and back in the water. Good times! They cut a detour over the weekend. The massive numbers of people on the water boating around aimlessly is driving some of us locals crazy. I was out the other day and had a lost boater do an entire circle around me, and then set down and to do a drift right behind me after ruining both of our drifts. These people must be locked in the heights of the worst fever from the virus to be making choices like this on the water. Another issue I see out there is that people are wandering around all over the place and encroaching bird nesting islands and areas. This is the middle of nesting season, and people need to give the birds a wide berth. Some of our precious shorebirds that we all love some much Kemps Ridley about to nest. are imperiled due to loss of nesting habitat and disturbance. Please be conscientious when you’re out and about, and if you see some fools We said hello for just a minute, and she let us disturbing the birds, call the Game Warden at know that there were two more on the beach not 800-792-GAME. too far down south. We continued on our way, and sure enough at the 5MM, another patroller Well loyal readers, summer might actually be had some traffic cones on the beach and steered here in earnest this time. Y’all please watch us around. We immediately noticed a Kemps your speed going down the beach (which you Ridley up on top of the coppice dunes moving should be doing anyway) and keep your eyes around. Cool! She had just come on and was peeled for turtles. Turtles are all over the searching for a good spot to lay a nest. Since the beaches, and it’s not limited to PINS, as they tides have been high, the turtles move farther up are nesting all the way up the beach to Port A. The Gulp of Mexico. Photo by Freda Greene of Titled Wave Photography. the beach and will go into the dunes to lay their Drop me a line at [email protected] and eggs. We got a couple of pics from a distance I’ll see you next week On the Rocks. (no flash), talked to patroller Kristi, and then got out of their way headed down south. Ask Ralph Dr. Donna and Cynthia and crew are having Employee Empowerment quite a season down on the beach. Besides those two on the beach the other day, I heard By Ralph Coker from Tyler (from Nick) that they had 28 turtle nests on the beach on Tuesday. Wow! That’s Q. Does employee A good example of where empowerment a bunch of turtles on the beach at one time! empowerment and freedom and freedom would work well would be Definitely an all-hands-on-deck day. Back make a more successful business? a software design business. The work is when I was turtle patrolling in the stone age, we done in individual or team projects. Each A. 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Due to a unique Billie Jean King once said, “If you can see it, rule of the league, Pratt was you can be it.” Billie Jean was talking about sent to the Kenosha Comets in the early days of By Dotson Lewis sports. There’s a whole world full of amazing the 1944 season. Two of the Comets’ pitchers people out there and Mary Pratt was one of Dotson’s Note: Here is a sports story that I knowledge. Art had more understanding about had been injured. This rule allowed players to them. At the age of nine, her days were spent thought all of you Monkeys, particularly the football than anyone I ever met.” Cashion added, be traded at the discretion of league officials to playing baseball and basketball against the NFL fans would be interested in. This report “I never worked for anyone I respected as much maintain a high level of competition. Using a neighborhood boys. When asked, she always strongly believes that Art McNally- World as Art.” slingshot or windmill wind-up to get hitters out, answered, “I’m going to be a baseball player War II Combat Marine, should be in the Pro Mary had her best season, throwing 303 innings, “Art is an amazing teacher,” said Dean Blandino, when I grow up.” She owned extraordinary Football Hall of Fame. Thanks to Ron Gibbs, winning 21 games, striking out 26, throwing her who would accede to McNally’s position in talent and outgoing personality, but she was Walt Coleman, Jim Tunney, Ed Hochuli, Red only no-hitter, and helping the Comets win the 2013. “I always came away from a conversation most at home at the ballpark. You see, sports Cashion, Jerry Markbreit, Paul Tagliabue, AAGPBL League Championship. with him having learned something new about deliver light into the dark places of our lives, Dean Blandino, Ben Austro, and Mark Schultz the rules and history of the NFL. He would not for many of the facts contained in this report and change is the only constant. The game of Mary Pratt retired from professional baseball only explain a rule, but explain the theory and baseball is not perfect, but it’s not just a game. after the 1947 season. She returned to Quincy and to Bill Morgan (former SWC SID) for the history behind it.” photos. It is flawed, but it does come closer to perfection to teach physical education until 1986. She In the first 45 years of the league, officiating than most things in America. Baseball reminds also coached the school’s softball, basketball, There are plaques that adorn the walls of was an afterthought. In the 1920s and ’30s, us that we were kids once. You don’t remember soccer and tennis teams. Her teams won 10 Cooperstown honoring 10 umpires. The NFL officials didn’t always work the same your stats, but just the relationships you created. softball championships. Pratt also filled her Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame obsession for sports by officiating for over 50 position and sometimes officiated more than She always smiled like a kid with a pocket and the Hockey Hall of Fame both have 16 years in many different sports in the private one game a weekend. Through the 1950s, rules full of jellybeans. Yes, she had skill, but she officials enshrined. The number of busts in school sector. Pratt served on the AAGPBL interpretations and complaints from coaches had more heart. As a left-handed pitcher, you Canton representing football officials is a bust. Board of Directors from 1999 -2000. This were filtered through the commissioner who don’t have your best stuff every day. So, she Zero. league was immortalized in the 1992 film, consulted with Shorty Ray, the technical advisor. learned to do the small things, like aim small, A League of Their Own. This movie starred The position of supervisor of officials was miss small. She once pitched a no-hitter. It was Geena Davis and Tom Hanks. Pratt was not created in 1956, beginning with former umpire like she had a rabbit’s foot in her pocket. You featured specifically in the film. Mike Wilson, and then held by Joe Kuharich and know, everybody seemed to have a nickname Mark Duncan, who were out-of-work coaches in the world of baseball. Who could forget the Mary Pratt batted left-handed and pitched when they were hired. Entering the Super Bowl “Babe,” the Commerce Comet, the Splendid left-handed for the Rockford Peaches and era, pro football critically needed someone with Splinter, Joltin’ Joe, the “Say Hey” Kid, the Kenosha Comets of the AAGPBL for five integrity to lead the officiating department, Hammerin’ Hank or the Ryan Express? Her seasons (1943-1947). Her win-loss record someone who not only embodied integrity, but teammates called her “Prattie.” For baseball stands at 28-51 with one no-hitter thrown in also could instill it in his officials. fans, this is her story and ours. Mary Pratt was 1944. She recorded 55 strikeouts and her ERA “He put everything he had into producing the the Queen of cool. stands at 3.48. integrity of the game by setting the standard,” Mary Pratt was born on November 30, 1918, Pratt has been inducted into the New England Markbreit told us. “He was a great official in in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her family later Women’s Hall of Fame, the New England his own right and taught the officiating staff his Art McAnally moved to Quincy, Massachusetts, where her Sports Museum, the Boston University Hall of very high standards.” The word integrity is not father had been born. Mary attended North Fame and the Boston Garden Hall of Fame. one that semantically has an intensifier — one “I have always wondered why there are no Quincy High School and after graduation in Mary Pratt threw her last pitch in this life on either has it or not — but if there is an exception, 1936, enrolled at Boston University Sargent game officials in the Hall of Fame,” says the McNally certainly would be. Wednesday, May 6, 2020. She was 101 years recently retired, 28-year referee Ed Hochuli. College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. old and living at the John Scott nursing home “After all, they are the ‘face of the league’ on “Art McNally belongs in the Hall of Fame,” She participated in every sport where she was in Braintree, Massachusetts. It is believed that game days, and they are the ‘face of integrity’ says Hochuli, “because he quite frankly, set allowed. Those sports included basketball, “Prattie” was the last surviving member of the for the game. Nevertheless, there are 45 non- the standard of integrity — the most important softball, volleyball, lacrosse, field hockey, Rockford Peaches. players in the Hall.” characteristic of any official — for all NFL tennis, archery and sailing. Mary earned her officials. Art was integrity personified, and degree in physical education in 1940. In 1941, At her 100th birthday celebration, Mary Pratt When one factors in the complexity of the spread that characteristic to every official who she started her first teaching job in Quincy. left us with these thoughts: “The good things game, the amount of preparation each week put on the NFL stripes for the next 22 years as In June, after the 1943 school year was over, I used to think about sports…memories, you dedicated to a single game, and that all officials supervisor of officials, and on to this day, as an Mary had heard about a woman’s baseball live on with them, because baseball is baseball, must be in excellent physical condition, it is assistant supervisor, consultant, and mentor. league being formed in the Midwest. She was whether it’s today, or tomorrow or 50 years baffling as to why such a level of excellence is Every NFL official for the last 50 years has contacted by the owners in Chicago and flew ago.” not recognized. The closest the Hall has come viewed Art McNally as the definition of integrity out to Chicago to meet Ken Sells, the fellow to inducting anyone in officiating is college Andy Purvis is a local author and radio and the father of modern officiating in the NFL.” who had been appointed the President of the personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. referee Hugh “Shorty” Ray, the league’s All-American Girls Professional Baseball inimitable technical adviser of rules. However, com for all the latest info on his books or to League (AAGPBL), by Mr. Phillip Wrigley, listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books Ray did not officiate nor supervise the officials the chewing gum mogal. At the age of 25, she at the pro level. are available online and can be found in the joined the league as a member of the Rockford local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be The league celebrated its centennial season Peaches. Her pay was $60 a week. Some of contacted at [email protected]. Also in 2019, and the time is now for an official the teams she competed against were named the listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s to be inducted into the Hall. There are many South Bend Blue Sox, the Fort Wayne Daisies, Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. qualified candidates that deserve the honor of the Muskegon Lassies and the Grand Rapid com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of being enshrined, but there is no doubt as to who Chicks. She played in 24 games during her first the Houston Astros. should be the first one. season, winning five games and losing 11 as a “I believe every NFL game official for the last 50 years would be unanimous in saying Art McNally epitomizes integrity, quality, and professionalism in officiating more than anyone who has ever worked in the game,” Hochuli said. Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue agrees, saying, “In my four decades of NFL activity, Art was unmatched as a leader in Walt Coleman shaping the gold standard for team sports officiating and in ensuring the absolute integrity Tagliabue, as McNally’s eventual superior as of NFL officiating and of the game itself for commissioner, also saw key attributes in heading more than two decades.” the officiating department. “Art’s integrity, “Art McNally in thoroughness, candor and other qualities made my opinion did him a respected and exceptional leader — with more for the NFL whomever he was dealing. He had an uncanny than anyone,” ability to have every game official, and everyone says referee Jerry in his department, understand the need for Markbreit, an both individual accountability and teamwork official for 23in performing their functions. The referees had seasons, including to be leaders and first among equals, but also a record 4 Super equals with all crew members in collaborating, Bowls at the referee so that the entire crew’s performance was always Hocouli position. “He led a expected to be greater than the sum of the parts.” wonderful group of “I would play poker over the phone with Art the best officials in the land and taught them McNally. That’s how much I trust him,” said Jim how to be even better.” Tunney, who was a highly accomplished referee Art McNally officiated football, basketball in the NFL from 1960 to 1990, a mentor in his and baseball in the Philadelphia area. He first own right, and also has earned his place on Hall put on the pro stripes in 1959, months after of Fame ballots. “He is just an outstanding, the sudden-death championship that would outstanding human being. I can’t think of propel the sport’s popularity above that of the anyone, other than my father, who would come National Pastime in just a few years. He worked close to being an Art McNally.” as a field judge and then as a referee. McNally Dotson’s Other Note: Art McNally and I have was an educator off the field, and his teaching been friends and coworkers for more than 50 experience helped him when he was called upon years. As far as I am concerned he was one to bring officiating of this burgeoning sport into Photo byTrey Villarreal of the very best on-the-field officials to wear the modern age. the striped shirt. Do you think he should be in “Art became supervisor in 1968, while the the National Football League Hall of Fame? merger of the AFL into the NFL was being Comments/calls/texts are welcome. Email: readied for full implementation with the 1970 [email protected] Mobile: 530-748-8475 season,” Tagliabue said. “I began working on -30- Have fun and hang in there! 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1 of 1 5/19/2020, 12:38 PM May 21, 2020 Island Moon A 13 2020 City Memorial Day Full Transparency and Disclosure Holiday Schedule PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President Most City of Corpus Christi offices including Golf Courses: City Hall, Public Libraries and Municipal Court • Lozano Golf Center - Open regular hours As always, let me have will have security personnel at selected ramps will be closed Memorial Day, Monday, May 25. your thoughts. You can to ensure members have the opportunity to • Oso Golf Course - Open regular hours reach me at marvin@ park their vehicles and trailers. Vehicles and Solid Waste Operations pipoa.net Public Pools: trailers without stickers will be towed. Your • Garbage and recycling WILL COLLECT PIPOA- The PIPOA cooperation is greatly appreciated. on Memorial Day. • Open for “Memorial Weekend,” Saturday, office will be reopening May 23th thru Monday, May 25th to Board Meeting- The Board meeting for • Heavy Brush WILL NOT be collected on on May 26, 2020. There will be social celebrate Memorial Day and kick-off May 26, 2020, has been canceled. The need Memorial Day. distancing and masks available. Let us all for social distancing and caution regarding summer! exercise good ole fashioned common sense to the COVID-19 is still a primary concern. The • The J.C. Elliott Citizens Collection Center • To comply with new COVID-19 health protect ourselves. health and safety of all the members is the WILL BE OPEN regular hours 8:00 a.m. protocols, a new reservation system for to 5:00 p.m. on Memorial Day. Boat Ramps- The upcoming Holiday number one priority. The next possible Board lap swim only has been implemented to weekend will present crowds at the boat meeting is June 23, 2020. • Cefe Valenzuela Landfill WILL BE manage the number and safety of patrons. ramps and ramp parking lots. Once again, Brush Pickup schedule- According to the OPEN regular hours 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 • Collier Pool and the Corpus Christi the ramps are open to the public for launching City website, brush setout and pickup will p.m. on Memorial Day. Natatorium are accepting reservations for and retrieving boats. The boat ramp parking occur from May 20-24, 2020. Please consult Animal Care Services lap swim by calling 361-232-1989 or by lots are for PIPOA members only. Vehicle the City website for more details on the type sending an email to aquatics@cctexas. and boat trailer stickers are required to park of brush you can set out. https://www.cctexas. • Open Saturday, May 23, for adoptions by com. Reservations may be made 24 hours in the boat ramp parking lots. The purpose com/solid-waste/heavy-brush-guidelines appointment from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in advance. of the stickers is to identify PIPOA members. • Closed Sunday, May 24 Members, if you do not have stickers Memorial Day- Memorial Day is a special • Beginning Saturday, May 23, open swim contact the PIPOA office at 361-949-7025 day to honor the men and women of our • Open Monday, May 25, for adoptions by will be based on 25% of pool capacity, on to purchase the needed stickers. The PIPOA military. Please enjoy your holiday time. appointment from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. a first come first serve basis. • To make an adoption appointment please Hours of operation call 361-826-4606. Oso Bay Wetlands Preserve Corpus Christi Museum of Science & Public Libraries & Learning Center • Closed Monday, May 25 • Walking trails and playgrounds open daily, dawn to dusk. History Will Re-Open June 1st With Three City Parks and Recreation Facilities • Holiday and weekend schedule for New Exhibits, Membership Specials, and Tennis Centers: Learning Center: Closed Memorial Day • HEB Tennis Center - Open Other Facilities Additional Safety Measures • Al Kruse Tennis Center – Open regular • Senior Centers: Closed hours The Corpus Christi Museum of Science & War and Peace on the Rio Grande 1861- • Recreation Centers: Closed History is proud to announce that we will 1867 • Latchkey: Closed be reopening to the public on June 1, 2020! CCMSH will be open Monday through War and Peace on the Rio Grande is a travelling This Week From • Gymnasiums: Closed Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and on exhibit in coordination with the NAACP Sundays from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. showcasing Civil War history of the South Texas region. The exhibit features colorful Port Aransas Parks The museum has reinstated all memberships characters, dramatic events, beautiful life-sized Gulf Shrimp Season that were set to expire during the time of their mannequins, and authentic Civil War artifacts & Recreation closure to the public and have extended all that will absorb visitors into the history that Now Closed Museum memberships for 3 months. CCMSH took place on the 200-mile corridor between Current Restrictions in place is also offering a 2-for-1 offer on all Family Brownsville and Laredo, TX. War and Peace on • The Community Pool is open with Membership levels; purchase or renew a one- the Rio Grande will be exhibited at the CCMSH restrictions. Lane reservations are May reopen in July year Family Membership between now and from June 1st through October 2020. required via porta.recdesk.com. Locker The Gulf of Mexico commercial shrimp season July 1st, and receive an additional year of rooms and showers remain closed. See for both Texas and federal waters closed 30 membership absolutely free! North Beach Past and Future website for details. minutes after sunset on Friday, May 15, until a CCMSH is taking every precaution for a clean still-to-be determined date in July. A temporary exhibit in our McGregor gallery • Park playgrounds will remain CLOSED and safe reopening which include new protocols in cooperation with the Blackard Group that pending state guidance. The closing date is usually based on samples adhering to Governor Abbott’s reopening expands on the current “Greetings From North collected by the Coastal Fisheries Division of the procedures for Museums and Libraries. Staff Beach” exhibit. Visitors will be transported • Park Hosts clean and sanitize high touch Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) are required to wear masks and gloves, and back to the 1930s and 40s when North Beach surfaces regularly. using trawl, bag seine and other information hand sanitizing stations are set in 6 different Corpus Christi was the one of the fastest • Public “highly encouraged” to wear face gathered. However, this year due to the current locations throughout the Museum. Additionally growing cultural playgrounds in our beloved coverings in public. COVID-19 event, the closure will be based infrared non-contact thermometers will be city. Patrons will see the decline of the North primarily on the use of periods of maximum Please follow all City regulations and CDC used to take temperature readings upon visitor Beach area after the construction and opening ebb tide, or outgoing tidal movements as an best practices for visiting Parks. For the arrival and all patrons with fever or other flu of the Harbor Bridge. indication that the usual May 15 closure date most up-to-date information on Covid-19 like symptoms will be requested to come back is adequate. when they are feeling better. Patrons will also Prehistoric Predators and Prey restrictions in Port Aransas please visit https:// be required to maintain safe, social distances of Explore the ancient world of Texas dinosaurs cityofportaransas.org/coronavirus “The closure is designed to allow escapement of shrimp out to the Gulf where they can grow 6 ft or more; an easy feat in our 100,000 sq ft and marine megafauna in CCMSH’s new, 2000 Camp Marlin facility. Cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting sq ft exhibit “Prehistoric Predators and Prey”. to a larger, more valuable size before they are procedures have also been increased with Visitors will be immersed in the chaotic dance Staff is working to develop adaptations to our vulnerable to harvest,” said TPWD’s Coastal additional janitorial staff to sanitize and of survival as the ocean-dwelling Mosasaur summer youth programming. Guidance from Fisheries Division Director Robin Riechers. disinfect surfaces every hour in heavy traffic hunts giant nautilus-like Ammonite crustaceans, the state is expected to be released next week. “The goal is to provide shrimp of a size that are areas. Tyrannosaurus Rex feeds on enormous plant- The department surveyed parents to try and more valuable for the shrimping industry while identify how best to serve the community and ensuring sustainable stocks in the future.” The Corpus Christi Museum of Science and eating Sauropods, and Pteranodon dive into the looks forward to announcing plans soon. History is also pleased to announce three waters of the Western Interior Seaway looking The Texas closure applies to gulf waters from extraordinary new exhibits that will come to for ancient bony fish. Exhibit displays will also the coast out to nine nautical miles. The National life, June 1st, just in time for our reopening and showcase tiny to gigantic flora and fauna fossil Marine Fisheries Service has announced we welcome the community to stop in to tour specimens from illustrating how Texan plant federal waters out to 200 nautical miles also each of the following: and sea life has adapted over time, but in some will be closed to shrimping to conform to the cases, hasn’t changed at all and are still around Texas closure. This management strategy has today! been used to increase value to the fishery since 1976 and allows shrimp, an annual resource, to Light up e Sky  e 4 of July! leave bays and estuaries, disperse and spawn, TAMU-CC Researchers Add Perspective Island Blast generating shrimp resources for the next year. Fireworks Display While the statutory opening date for the Gulf to Recent COVID-19 Outbreak tax-deductible donations are season is July 15, TPWD’s Coastal Fisheries still being accepted. Division will be sampling shrimp populations If you’d like to help, please mail checks to Island Blast to determine the optimum opening date. The in Coastal Bend 14493 Suite A PMB 342 | Corpus Christi, TX 78418 You can also donate online through the island blast date of the re-opening of Gulf waters will be facebook page. based on data collected in June, but the closure By Darrell J. Pehr infects 1.4 other people per week with current may not be longer than 60 days. preventative measures in place. At that pace, With COVID-19 cases surging past 200 this the Coastal Bend should have adequate hospital week across the Coastal Bend, researchers at capacity as infections continue to rise over the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi are next month. Any higher rate, though, could looking at how the specific outbreaks have surpass the capacity of hospitals here. been handled and what everyone can do to help contain the spread of the virus. “This is something we need to keep a close eye on,” Bird said of the rate of transmission. “We The localized outbreaks at a meat-packing need to continue wearing masks and we need plant and halfway house that drove the weekly to identify loopholes in our social distancing increase were addressed quickly, and rapid policy and close those loopholes.” testing of employees and others helped officials work to contain the outbreak. One concern is the significant increase in encounters between Coastal Bend residents “It’s really important to commend these two as measured by cell phone data. Significant institutions,” said Dr. Chris Bird, Associate spikes in that data over the past weekend may Professor of Biology at Texas A&M-Corpus result in a spike in infections in 7-14 days Christi. “Rapid testing of employees and those when people who became infected because of directly affected will help a lot in containing increased contact start to show symptoms and these outbreaks.” seek medical attention. The cell phone data, Bird said leaders of businesses or other which cannot be traced back to individual users, organizations who believe an outbreak may illustrates the daily number of human-human be happening should quickly involve local contacts outside of the home. agencies so flare-ups of the virus can be quickly As during past presentations, the researchers contained. showed three scenarios that predicted the Bird and others on the research team, part of a outcomes if various levels of preventative joint task force, gave an update on the COVID-19 measures were taken, with a strong second situation at a regular weekly presentation today wave of COVID-19 infection anticipated if to Corpus Christi City and Nueces County all precautions are ended, and lesser levels of leaders. infection predicted depending on more stringent The presentation noted the acceleration of cases protective measures. this week has resulted in Nueces County now The researchers reminded the community Marker 37 and Snoopy’s Pier had heavy boat traffic over the weekend as Islanders took gaining in the total number of cases per capita of several steps that can be taken to limit advantage of the beautiful Island weather. 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Enough of it to give By Sue Heath This basically describes this you some very sore shoulders from waving that do fly during the day sometimes, though, so you During the late spring last couple of weeks, having four and a half pound machine around all day might get lucky and see one in the light. and summer you may have been held hostage in a long. noticed a bird flying around at dawn and Nighthawks do not make a nest but rather lay boatyard, by a job that I said, So now comes that other wonderful day dusk catching insects in the air. If it had long their eggs directly on the ground in a variety of I would do. Having said that, brings up some when you get to put that first coat of finish tapered wings with a white stripe across them habitats including woods, beaches and gravel entertaining thoughts on the basic stability of stuff on. ----- Read the instructions. Always near the end, you’ve got yourself a nighthawk rooftops. They typically lay two eggs which my reasoning abilities. How does that old saw read the instructions. Maybe a laugh or two in sighting. We have two kinds of nighthawks in are incubated for about 18 days by the female. go? --- Oh! Yah, “open mouth and insert foot”. there, somewhere. ----- Sure enough there was Texas, the Common Nighthawk and the Lesser Similar to the way Killdeer will fake a broken ------The job? ---- Paint the top and bottom of a lot of grins and giggles. For according to the Nighthawk. wing to lead predators away from the nest, a sailboat. label on the can, to get satisfactory results you nighthawks will do the same. This is called a Common Nighthawks range throughout Texas For all of you landlubbers, out there, this need; -- #A, very little wind --- and #B, very “broken wing” display. Both parents feed the and in fact throughout most of the U.S. and the equates to painting all of the stuff that, (under low humidity. ------Obliviously these guys have chicks, which will fledge in 25 to 30 days. southern half of Canada. Lesser Nighthawks normal conditions), is immediately under water never been to South Texas. Hey! I can use my are found in the southern and western parts of and that which is just above said sea level. amputated hand to count all the times that has our state and also in the southern parts of New Should sea level go above the fore-a-mentioned happen in the same day. At the same time of day. Mexico, Arizona and California. Telling these ‘top-sides’, you are; #A, at the deck, #B, in big Well, needless to say, it didn’t work, the first two species apart can be a chore and takes trouble. time, anyway. The fix for that? ---- More sore practice. But, anyway, here I have been for a couple of shoulders from the machine that now weighs The white stripe on the wing of a Common weeks, trying to put paint on that part of the boat about five and a half pounds. Nighthawk is farther up on the wing than it is that separates the deck from the part of the boat The second and third coat, ---- hey this is all on Lesser Nighthawks. Plus, the wing tips of that was designed to keep it a-float. That part right!! The stuff really does work! Except that a Common Nighthawk are more pointed than of the boat, called the “bottom”, is the under there are a couple of missed and thin spots. those of the Lesser. But those things are pretty water part. All of the stuff that you can see of Need that last coat. No problem got this down subjective, and unless you have one of each side the “hull”, (if the craft is functioning properly), pat now. by side, it can be a tough call. is called the “top-sides”. Now to top it all off all the stuff above the “hull”, is called the “deck Yah! --- Right!! Common Nighthawks are often detected and deck-house”. ------Aren’t nautical The owner and I look at each other and when their buzzy call that sounds like “peent” Common Nighthawk terms fun? – Confusing? Well maybe. simultaneously say, “Lets shoot it.” is heard. This call is called “booming” and is part of their breeding ritual. A quick check of Both species of Nighthawk are migratory and Anyway some days are better than others. Folks, don’t get panicked now. Although I had the sky will probably reveal this aerial hunter use a migration strategy known as circum-Gulf. Nothing new there. Putting paint on the “top- considered it at times, we were not talking about looping around in circles as if floating on the That means they fly around the Gulf of Mexico sides” involves preparation, to make it all look putting a 45 slug between its eyes, just to end air. They are very graceful in flight and give rather than across it (that’s trans-Gulf). Common good. Preparation, in this case, is spelled, its misery. What we are discussing is spraying the effect of a butterfly or moth in flight. Lesser Nighthawks spend the winter in South America -- s – a – n – d – i – n – g. Sanding, sanding, on the last coat, rather than the ‘quick and Nighthawks, on the other hand, are mostly while Lesser Nighthawks spend the winter from sanding and yet even more sanding, All of this dirty’ roll and tip method, that I had been using. silent when flying. This can be a great way to Mexico south to Costa Rica and Panama. These while standing on some very wobbly planks Which is, as it turned out, not too quick and very tell the two Nighthawk species apart. ranges are poorly known, though, because of the and holding a three and half pound machine dirty. As evidenced by that last Very Ugly Coat. difficulty in telling the species apart. at waist-to-head height for the easy part and These birds are called nighthawks because above your head for the hard part. All the while The fix for that VUC? Why it’s time to drag out they are active mostly at night. During the day, Nighthawks started arriving along the Texas vibrating your teeth out Then you get to wipe that six and a half pound sander for another six they sleep perched on a branch, a fencepost, or coast in April and they will be present through and wash it all down, so you get to see the to eight hour session. Just waving and sanding. even the ground. They are quite camouflaged the summer. So next time you’re out at dawn or numerous areas that you missed. You guessed it, Sore, as in, both the shoulders and a point of and can be difficult to see when perched. They dusk, take a look up and see if you can spot one. ---- more sanding. contention, as I am determined to make this boat Then comes that glorious moment when look beautiful again. you get to stop sanding and put some stuff on Now if it would just stop raining. So that I can Boaters, Anglers Encouraged to Stay Clear that is supposed to separate the old, cheap and get back to that seven and a half pound sander. easy finish from the new, expensive and hard- Just can’t wait to get back to that sander. Yes of Coastal Waterbird Rookeries to-do stuff, setting over there in the box. Sort siree, Bob. ----- If you believe that, you might be of a chemical-economics-thing going on here. interested in this lead, I have, on some beautiful With peak boating season around the corner, These birds, and their habitats, are valuable The new stuff doesn’t want to be caught dead Sahara waterfront property. Texans recreating on the coast are likely to spot to Texas. Black skimmers, the species featured on the ‘wrong side of the tracks’ with that old iconic coastal birds like brown pelicans, roseate Like I said it has been ugly but interesting. as the logo for the TPWD Great Texas Coastal cheap stuff. So on it goes and then ------, have spoonbills, black skimmers and reddish egrets Birding Trail signage, have experienced a severe nesting in dense colonies, called rookeries, decline, approximately 70%, since record- which can consist of thousands of birds and a keeping began with Texas waterbird surveys multitude of other species on barrier islands in 1973. Similarly, the reddish egret, a state and smaller islands in Texas bays. Texas Parks threatened species, attracts birders from all over and Wildlife Department is encouraging Texas the world. More reddish egrets nest in Texas boaters and anglers to watch out for these than almost anywhere else in the world. nesting birds while on the coast, so they aren’t disturbed during this sensitive time. “The black skimmer might be the next bobwhite, a bird which was once widespread “With too many disturbances, an entire in Texas but has disappeared from nearly 83% colony of thousands of birds may abandon an of its U.S. range,” says Cliff Shackelford, a island and give up on breeding for the year. Nongame and Rare Species Biologist with Over time, this can potentially lead to drastic Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. “Many population declines,” says Trey Barron, a people now miss hearing the bobwhite’s sweet Diversity Biologist with Texas Parks and whistle, and soon saltwater anglers and boaters Wildlife Department. “When approached too may miss the graceful waterbird that skims the closely by boaters or people wading nearby, surface in search of a meal. birds are frightened off their nests, leaving eggs and chicks exposed to rapidly overheat The Texas Colonial Waterbird Society, a in the summer sun and allowing opportunistic large partnership of federal and state agencies, predators like gulls and grackles to quickly universities, and non-profit organizations, swoop in and feed on them.” recommends that people fish, swim and play from 50 yards away from rookery islands to Colonial nesting waterbirds, whose nests, minimize unintentional and potentially illegal eggs and chicks are protected under the disturbance. While the nesting islands are often federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act and by attractive spots for kayakers and other boaters, Texas Parks and Wildlife Code, typically it’s important for humans, and their pets, to keep nest from late February through August. The a safe and respectable distance. islands in which the birds nest are often tiny, including spoil islands, and may only appear “The habitats that waterbirds use are the same as large sandbars. This puts them at a greater habitats in which we, including myself, enjoy risk of encountering people as recreational fishing, hunting and photographing wildlife,” use by coastal anglers, boaters, birdwatchers, Barron said. “We just have to remember to give and wildlife photographers, among others, is them their space, especially during the nesting highest. Of the 25 or so species considered to be season, and pick up after ourselves. 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By Ronnie Narmour [email protected] Bars & Restaurants open… Governor Abbott announced on Monday that Texas will commence Phase 2 of the state’s reopening plan. This means that restaurants can open with a 50% capacity and bars at 25% with social distancing. Let the music begin… Mike Williams celebrated his 82nd finally! It has been more than 50 days since birthday at Giggity’s with his jazz band.. Texas bars and nightclubs have been closed young musicians. He often told his longtime Selfie will play Shorty’s twice on Friday. due to restrictions designed to slow the spread friend, Sara Hendricks, that he wished he had The John Cortez Trio will play Shorty’s on of COVID-19 infections. “They’ve lost about gone into music instead of law. He was a gentle Saturday. 75,000 employees overnight,” Texas Restaurant giant and just a big ole loveable teddy bear and Association President Emily Williams Knight the hole he leaves in our community will never said. “We think it is about $600 million so far be filled. We are surrounded by death right now, in revenue and just to put it into terms of the but this one really hurts. Goodbye Big Red, life state, it’s about $42 million in revenue in mixed will never be the same without you. We sure are beverage tax that is no longer going to the state.” Live Music going to miss you. There will be a memorial at the Gaff next Thursday, the 28th at 5:00 pm. (Mike used to play the Gaff on Thursdays). I’m sure we’ll get some music going. Let’s give him the send off that he deserves. Tonight DO NOT MISS LIST Friday, May 22 Selfie @ Shorty’s Bruce Robison & Kelly Port A beach last weekend. Coming this weekend… Mario Flores & Soda Willis @ Third Coast Creek Band @ Back Theater Man, it’s been a while since we’ve been here Groove @ Giggity’s Here in Port A, Friday marks the spot. Shorty’s Porch MARIO FLORES & SODA and it feels good. Everyone just got the word Starlite & the Moonbeams Chanklas @ Shorty’s has already made plans to open at the stroke of that we can open the bars with limited capacity @ Giggity’s CREEK BAND ON FRIDAY midnight on Thursday with Selfie being that and are scrambling to get some music going. TBA @ Treasure Island Saturday, June 13 BELT SANDER RACES owner, Edwin Meyers, plans to be first again. Shorty’s has Selfie on Friday (twice) once CLAY HOLLIS ON SATURDAY He was the first business (Shorty’s) to open in at midnight and then on Friday night proper Saturday, May 23 @ Gaff Port A after Hurricane Harvey. Come the stroke from 9-1. On Saturday they have the great BELT SANDER RACES Toman Brothers @ of midnight on Thursday, you know where me John Cortez blues trio on the porch. Giggity’s @ Gaff TBA ON SUNDAY Giggity’s Ty Dietz @ Shorty’s and my mermaid will be… SHORTY’S PLACE. has a bluesy weekend with Starlite and the Clay Hollis @ Back Porch 132 W. Cotter St. Port A YAY!!! (…may have to get a nap in first). Moonbeams on Friday and Mike O’Neill on Mike O’Neill @ Giggity’s On the Waterfront John Cortez @ Shorty’s Sunday, June 14 Saturday. The Back Porch has Mario Flores TBA @ Treasure Island Antone & All Stars @ Mike Williams dead at 82… and the Soda Creek Band on Friday and Clay Giggity’s That raven landed Hollis on Saturday. GM Lee Harper told me Sunday, May 24 on my back fence they would also have a show on Sunday but Antone & All Stars @ Monday, June 15 again. Island icon wasn’t sure who it’ll be yet. Over at Treasure Giggity’s Open Jam w/ Ray Summy Mike Williams was TBA @ Back Porch @ Giggity’s found dead in his Memorial Day, May 25 Tuesday, June 16 room at the Sharks Paul & Victoria @ Reef Motel on May Open Jam w/ Ray Summy @ Giggity’s Giggity’s 14. He had apparently Treasure Island been dead for at least a Tuesday, May 26 Wednesday, June 17 day from an apparent Paul & Victoria @ Magnus @ Giggity’s heart attack. Mike Giggity’s LIVE was 82, born January Thursday, June 18 4, 1938. He was from Wednesday, May 27 Free Beer Band @ Hank Reeves @ Giggity’s MUSIC THIS Giggity’s Covington, Indiana KT Tunstall @ Brewster and was a lawyer Downtown by trade. He studied Thursday, May 28 WEEKEND! Mike Williams Free Beer Band @ Political Science at Giggity’s 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Friday, June 19 Hanover College and treasureislandporta Chanklas @ Giggity’s was a law professor at Indiana University. Mike Friday, May 29 Red Giant @ Shorty’s went to college on a basketball scholarship TBA @ Giggity’s Rush Tribute @ Brewster in Florida (Burt Reynolds was a friend) but Johnny Boy @ Shorty’s Downtown didn’t like the heat in Florida and returned to Steve Earle, Marty Stuart Saturday, June 20 Indiana to Hanover College and graduated @ John T. Floore Country Store Todd Dorn & the Sea from Indiana University Law School in 1963. Mario Flores and the Soda Creek Band Drifters @ Giggity’s He started practicing law in Texas in 1974. will play the Back Porch on Friday. Saturday, May 30 Selfie @ Shorty’s Mike is survived by his two children. Mike had TBA @ Giggity’s Testify @ House of Rock many, many close island friends who consider Mike O’Neill @ Shorty’s him family, including me. I firmly believe that Mammoth Lifts & Riffs @ Sunday, June 21 though the coronavirus may not have got him, House of Rock Antone & All Stars @ the pandemic did. Mike was a social creature Selfie Mar. 22 Giggity’s and was not wired to stay at home. He was Sunday, May 31 Monday, June 22 our resident torch singer and played brunch Antone & All Stars @ Giggity’s John Cortez Mar. 23 Open Jam w/ Ray Summy every Sunday at Giggity’s. I always said that @ Giggity’s when Mike goes, it will be the end of an era. Monday, June 1 Johnny Boy Mar. 29 He was a dying breed and I bet he knew over Open Jam w/ Ray Summy Tuesday, June 23 500 songs. I first met Mike ten or eleven years @ Giggity’s Mike O’Neill Mar. 30 Paul & Victoria @ ago on Valentine’s Day at the Beach Lodge Giggity’s where he was playing love songs on a stool Tuesday, June 2 OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. in the corner. Mike also played trombone and Paul & Victoria @ one of his musical passions was playing jazz. Giggity’s Wednesday, June 24 Hank Reeves @ Giggity’s He loved to play with the late jazz great, Rocky Arnold and would routinely put the jazz band Wednesday, June 3 Jim Dugan @ Giggity’s Thursday, June 25 together on his annual birthday celebration in Free Beer Band @ January. After Rocky died, Mike continued Thursday, June 4 Giggity’s his jazz birthday parties all the way to number Free Beer Band @ 82… this past January at Giggity’s. He loved Giggity’s Friday, June 26 to play music with local musicians such as Mike O’Neill @ Giggity’s Denny Larkin, Bill Avebach, Rich Lehman Friday, June 5 Johnny Boy @ Shorty’s and Paul Taylor and could hold his own with Johnny Boy @ Giggity’s Selfie @ Shorty’s Saturday, June 27 anybody. I used to love to listen to Mike sing BELT SANDER RACES carols at Christmas. He had amazing recall. Clay Hollis will play the Back Porch on @ Gaff When the word that Mike died was reported Saturday, June 6\ Saturday. Dreaming in Color@ Back Pew Revival @ through the coconut telegraph, his many friends Giggity’s Giggity’s (including me and my mermaid) went into TBA @ Shorty’s Thomas Michael Riley @ shock. Apparently, he was seen a few days Island, owner Tommy Saad tells me he will Back Porch before he died and reportedly had extremely also have live bands yet to be determined. I will Sunday, June 7 Starlite & the Moonbeams swollen, purple ankles and wasn’t looking well. work on getting the LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT Antone & All Stars @ @ Shorty’s I know he was diabetic. Regardless, it all caught box back up to speed this week. In the mean Giggity’s Sunday, June 28 up with him and he will be sorely missed. In time, everyone be smart out there. This monster Monday, June 8 OPEN FOR WALK UP SERVICE Antone & All Stars @ the short ten years I was friends with Mike, still lurks and we aren’t out of the woods. Be Giggity’s I never once heard him speak ill of a single cool fools. We don’t want to go through another Open Jam w/ Ray Summy @ Giggity’s soul and he was the most gracious, humble, mandatory shut down. I can’t afford it. Monday, June 29 polite man I’ve ever known. He was educated Open Jam w/ Ray Summy ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ Tuesday, June 9 and articulate and never judgmental. He loved Paul & Victoria @ @ Giggity’s all his friends and was always encouraging to Giggity’s Tuesday, June 30 Wednesday, June 10 Paul & Victoria @ Jered Clark @ Giggity’s Giggity’s GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR Led Zeppelin 2 @ Brewster Downtown LIVE MUSIC LIVE MUSIC Wednesday, July 1 Free Beer Band every Thurs (7-10) Thursday, June 11 Jim Dugan @ Giggity’s EVERY Starlite & Moonbeams on Friday (9-1) Jon Pardi @ Concrete Thursday, July 2 NIGHT Mike O’Neill on Saturday (9-1) Street Free Beer Band @ NOW OPEN! 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