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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 January 7, 2021 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The State Record Island The Shelves Are Stocked! Ribbonfish By Dale Rankin Opening of Island grocery store imminent Caught in 2021 came in with a bang hereabouts as a view looking OTB on New Laguna Year’s Eve looked like the Battle of Baghdad as celebrants blew off 5.2 Pounds steam by sending fireworks aloft in volumes that would have brought a tear to Prometheus’ eye. We like our fireworks here in the Coastal Bend but the good news this year was that we didn’t have the usual grassfire that follows. So in that sense 2021 came in with a whimper and not with a bang. The Big Bang News this week for those of us here at the Word Factory came in the form of an epiphany while standing in the produce aisle of the soon to open IGA Island Market. The skies opened and the reality set in that we are about to have a grocery store on our little sandbar. We say again…we are about to have a grocery store! Most of the shelves The shelves are stocked, employee training is underway, and the opening of the IGA Market grocery store have been stocked and the butcher on Padre Island is imminent. Angler Jeffrey Mills caught this shop will be stocked in the next few “We just have a couple of things left to do before we can stock the butcher shop and open the doors,” store whopper of a Ribbonfish in the Upper days. The main reason for going owner Lori Rasheed said Tuesday. Laguna Madre this week which in the OTB is about to go away and in that The store was busy with stockers and cashiers in training mid-week as the store ramps up for opening process of being certified as a state regard 2021 will usher in the Age of in the next few days. An exact date can’t be set, Rasheed said, because the store is waiting on a final record by Texas Parks and Wildlife. Island Self Sufficiency. In addition The fish is 44 inches long and Mills the Hard Knocks Sports Bar next approval from city electrical inspectors. By the time the next issue of the Island Moon hits the streets you weighed it in at 5.2 pounds. Mills, door to the IGA opened this week. should be able to pick up a copy at the Island grocery store! More photos on Page A4. who like a true angler declined to say 2021 is looking up. exactly where he caught the fish, was fishing with cut finger mullet for bait. The fish beats the current TPW record New Biplane Makes Appearance for a Ribbonfish (technically listed as a Cutlassfish, Atlantic), which is 50 inches, 4.7 pounds caught in Corpus in Island Skies! Christi Bay on a Bass Assassin lure The Grande Dame II is a slice of aviation history on March 31, 2009.

Islanders with their eyes skyward have been asking about the identity of a blue and yellow biplane that has been buzzing around Port Aransas and Padre Island of late. Free debris on Kleberg Beach The plane is a Stearman Model 75 is a biplane formerly used as a military If anyone is looking for marine- trainer aircraft and which is now grade pilings look no further than available for rides at Skydive South Kleberg Beach. Nueces County Texas at Mustang Island Airport in Coastal Parks Director told the Port Aransas. county commissioners Tuesday that he has been concerned about Stearmans were once a staple of the driving hazard due to the large Island skies when at least 10,626 of amount of heavy lumber that washed them were built in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s and used Hardknocks Sports Bar and Grill up there during high tides in the late next to Island IGA is now open months of 2020. But the good news as a primary trainer for the United is that Islanders have been picking States Army Air Forces, the United for business. up the flotsam and jetsam and using States Navy (as the NS and N2S), and it for home improvement projects. with the Royal Canadian Air Force as Given the price of lumber these days the Kaydet throughout World War II. Flour Bluff ISD hauling it off the beach in Kleberg County is a small price to pay for Plane cont. on A4 Jason Townes poses with the Grande Dame II. Names New marine-grade pilings. Haul it off everybody! Superintendent Winter Texans A little Island history $191,000 salary package The Fate of the Silver Fleet Flour Bluff Independent School District Board of Trustees this week and the March of the 300 officially named The year was 1553 and the Velma Soliz-Garcia as the District’s next Photo by Brent Rourk place was Cuba. The Plata Flota (Silver Fleet) set sail from Superintendent of the New World for Spain with Schools. We’ve been hearing from our Winter its load of precious metals. Soliz-Garcia’s contract is a three- Texans friends many of whom are Noblemen and merchants alike year contract beginning January finding our little sandbar for the first were aboard headed for home; 6, 2021. The contract includes a time. So for our next few issues we their fortunes made in the form $191,000 salary package. of chests bulging with casks of are asking Winter Texans to write us “I am humbled, honored, and silver coins and bars of bullion. with their questions about what to blessed to have this opportunity to The Royal Fifth belonging to the do and where to go during the fight return to FBISD and serve as the King of Spain was also aboard. against Covid. Brent Roark kicks proud Superintendent of Schools,” things off this week with a story The twenty ships of the flotilla said Velma Soliz-Garcia. “I get to about a number of stops Around The that had gathered from across the serve alongside a dedicated Board Island and Around The City. So if our New World in Cuba set out on of Trustees and phenomenal team of visitors will send us their questions their triumphant journey home. an unexpected hurricane swept them The maps of the time called The educators that are laser focused on the we will try to get them answered They headed northeasterly teaching and learning opportunities each week. before its winds and seas, searing Island by different names; Isla de toward the Florida Keys making rigging and pushing them westward. Bayan, Isla Blanco, Isla de Corpus of EVERY child! I am dedicated The weather is holding, the fish are haste due to the hurricane season. Three ships in the vanguard made Christi, Isla de Santiago, Isla de las and committed to serve TOGETHER biting, and it’s a New Year everybody. They had lingered in Cuba only their way back to Cuba but the Malangutas and alternately showed and UNITED on a mission with our Get out there and enjoy all of it and in long enough to take on food remainder were tossed in the storm it as one long unbroken Island and educational community to forge the meantime say hello if you see us and fresh water and now were until only three survived long enough sometimes as two or three Islands ahead through 2021 and beyond Around The Island. barely out of port in Cuba when to wash ashore on Padre Island. to deliver a top-notch educational History cont. on A4 Flour Bluff cont. on A4 January 7, 2021 Island Moon A 2 Featured Island Artist Island the Beautiful Riekie Roncinske: Photographer Island photographer Reikie Roncinske has a gift for capturing unique photos of birds in their natural habitats. She contributes regularly to the Island Moon

Living proof that beauty comes in all sizes and shapes ... When you just gotta burp .American White The Little Blue Heron is a stand-and-wait Pelicans must provide roughly 150 pounds predator, rather than a frenetic, dashing- of food to nourish a chick from its birth to about predator. They watch the water for the time it’s ready to forage on its own fish and other small morsels, changing Leonabelle Bird Ctr, Port Aransas, TX locations by walking slowly or by flying to a completely different site. They nest in trees, usually among other nesting herons and wading birds. N Padre Island, TX

Little fish, little bird .... Belted Kingfishers spend much of their time perched alone along the edges of streams, lakes, and estuaries, searching for small fish. They also fly quickly up and down rivers and shorelines giving loud rattling calls. They hunt either by plunging directly from a perch, or by hovering over the water, bill downward, before diving after a fish they’ve spotted N Padre Island Hide and Seek Great Egrets are wading birds, closely related to herons with generally long legs, necks, and bills, as well as short tails. Necks that can bend vertically but not Fireworks lit up the sky to celebrate the New Year. Photos by Steve Coons. laterally characterize them. The sixth neck vertebra is especially long, causing the familiar “S” shape to their necks. Port A New Year (Snowy egret hiding) Suter Wildlife Refuge, Corpus Christi,TX

By John Michael Flynn Yet we go forth with what we have gained, Stepping strongly through pouring rain, And in this sunset of crimson sky, Open the weary eyes of mine, And give thanks for all truly Divine, Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth. New year hope, Port A, you and I.

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Doc’s gift cards are now on sale. They make great gifts for family or staff ! January 7, 2021 Island Moon A 3 My husband and I have now been permanent Moon Monkeys Letters to the residents on The Island since February 2019. New Canal Mike Ellis, Founder We have owned the property since 2010. Our Dale, you keep saying the new canal to the concern is that currently the level of water in Water Exchange bridge is complete, but it does the canal behind us is lower than we have ever not connect to the current canals! Currently Editor seen it since our ownership. Understanding that the canal goes under Whitecap and then turns our area is in a drought, it still seems that maybe easterly to the German Bakery. There is a section there is more to the lower water level? Are you of dry land between where the canal turns east aware of any other reason than drought for the and where the new canal starts. When are they low level? going to complete or connect the canals? We look forward to getting the Island Moon Marshall Lochausen every Thursday!! Thank you,

Distribution Henry and Connie Engel Pete Alsop Editor’s note: Thanks for the kind words Henry and Connie. Understand that the Moon staff is Island Delivery not technically speaking scientifically over- Coldwell Banker informed and we welcome input from readers Advertising Bob Hall on the subject of tidal flux. Having said that it Jan Park Rankin is our understanding that the drought is but a Great that the county commissioners found a small contributor to the low levels of water in Classifieds way to refinance bonds to miraculously produce our canals. Winter tides drain the skinny water Arlene Ritley almost the exact amount of funds needed to from canals and the wind-blown tides when cold Production Manager demolish and rebuild the pier - $25,300,000.00. fronts bring north wind exacerbate the normal Are we supposed to applaud this or ask tidal movements. Abigail Bair Editor's Note: Contributing Writers ourselves why the heck these funds were not When Padre Island was a cattle ranch the already discovered and applied to an existing Marshall, Joey Farah cattle were pushed across the Laguna Madre county need or "GASP" to be used to lower our during the winter season when windblown There is currently no reason to dig out the dry Andy Purvis tax rate. Feel free to let us know. land between the old and new canal, although Mary Craft tides dropped water levels, in the years before Assuming that the federal government no the Intracoastal Waterway, to the point that I was over there yesterday and the strip of land Emily Gaines longer has its hands in this pier with our money the cattle could walk across on a land bridge is eroding and looks like it could collapse on Jay Gardner now being used to both demolish and rebuild, that ran from the point near the west end of its own. There is no reason to connect the new Pastor Kris Bair perhaps the county should solicit public input Whitecap to Flour Bluff. canal to the bridge site since there is currently Todd Hunter towards beneficial changes for a built from nothing on the canal for people to access- it’s The tidal flux in Padre canals is influenced just bare land that is privately owned on both Dotson Lewis scratch pier. While Mikel Mays is certainly primarily by the water that arrives through a good asset and should be rebuilt, there was sides. To connect the canals on the two sides Dr. Tom Dorrell Packery Channel and we may see some change now would also cause permitting problems. Ronnie Narmour plenty of recent discussion about an area for when the new waterway is cut through under the anyone to go on the pier to read, relax, or The canal was permitted as an Upland Lake Brent Rourk Water Exchange Bridge now under construction just sit in the sun. If the county is no longer which will include the widening of the water by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since it is Photographers bound by its agreement with the government, gate between Packery Channel and Lake Padre. not connected to saltwater and the water in it Miles Merwin (Emeritus) then community input would seem to benefit is naturally occurring groundwater. To connect everyone. So fear not, the water will return…at least it the new, freshwater canal to saltwater certain Debbie Noble always has before. Howard Ludlow conditions in the Corps Permit have to be met Jan Rankin and one of those is that both ends of the new Mary Craft Moon Kudos canal will be opened at the same time meaning Ronnie Narmour Dotson the canal can’t be opened on one end and not I have not enjoyed any newspaper in my life the other so it will remain as is until the bridge Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) Mr Lewis, (77 yrs) as much as I enjoy the Island Moon. is finished and the new canal under it is ready While staying at our Port Aransas house, this Thank you! to be cut through. past month, I had the pleasure to read your James C. Miller, Ph. D. article, “Army vs Navy”. The article was There are some complicating factors. For published in the 17 December edition of the Pharaoh Valley, formerly at La Mirage instance: The Corps Permit originally required that the connection between Lake Padre Island Moon. As a Adjunct Prof., TAMUCC (saltwater) and the existing canal system graduate of the United States Military be opened and flowing by the end of 2020, Academy, I was already aware (and could recall however, that date was extended due to delays J) much of what was included in you article. on the bridge project from the city’s side. Though, had not previously seen a succinct, Mustang Island Further, the permit requires that the water excellent summary of same, passage between Packery Channel and Lake Riley P. Dog Development which included some information I did not Padre be widened from the current width, about know prior to your article (or had forgotten). I have been a resident on Mustang Island since twenty feet, to about 70 feet. That will require Publisher Thank you! 1979. It is still my homestead. Very soon, the the removal of the concrete structure that is Corpus Christi City Council will be deciding currently there. So all of that must be done Dale Rankin I would believe that many of my classmates whether to change the zoning on Mustang before the bulkhead behind the German Bakery About the Island Moon would also find your article quite interesting Island to allow RV parks. Because I have been will be removed connecting the new canal to The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale and informative. Can this article be shared via part of this community so long, I believe I can the existing canal. To remove it now would, Rankin, Editor / Publisher. link or other means with others (e.g. link to our offer the Corpus Christi City Council some according to my understanding, cause problems Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes class distribution list)? delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 valuable perspective on this decision. with the conditions in the permit and obviously copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, Again, thank you for the article and a most change the water flow patterns through Lake as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 Mustang Island needs more housing and resorts copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. enjoyable read. to accommodate visitors and promote tourism. Padre and beyond. News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, Kevin Clowes That kind of development will without question Keep in mind that there are several moving generate far more tax revenue. Increased tax payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. USMA 1978 parts involved that include at least four different revenue from Mustang Island property benefits entities. The Island Moon Newspaper all residents of Corpus Christi because it helps Turtle Trouble keep property taxes down in other areas of The canal is in fact finished as the bulkheads 14646 Compass, Suite 3 Corpus Christi. That kind of development has along both sides are in place. It runs through Happy New Year Dale, Corpus Christi, TX 78418 always been the vision for Mustang Island as private property and its construction was paid Thank you for the article about the sea turtle reflected by the current zoning that has been for with private funds. The bulkhead between 361-949-7700 project at Padre Island National Seashore. That in place for many years. Mustang Island is a the new canal and the existing canal behind the German Bakery is owned by the Padre Isles [email protected] project has been an important part of our island beautiful and unique location, and the highest and Donna Shaver has worked hard to make it and best use of this asset for all of Corpus Christi Property Owners Association which also owns Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper a source of community pride for 40 years. Her is housing and resorts. Our City Council has the canal on that side. work has repeatedly brought positive world done an excellent job in the past of remaining The Water Exchange Bridge is on a Texas wide attention to Corpus Christi and the island. committed to that vision for Mustang Island. Department of Transportation right of way but The story your article tells need to be know by We are already seeing some of the benefits of the bridge is permitted and paid for with public Where to Find The all. their commitment to this vision in the form (city) money. But the bridge site on the Lake One point of clarification that I would like to of increased tourism and increasing property Padre side adjacent to the TxDot right of way Island Moon make is that Donna is not old enough to retire values on Mustang Island. belongs to private owners, who are not the same nor does she care to. Her goal for retirement have Now is not the time to change our vision for group of owners of the land on the canal side. always been to do so when the Kemps ridley sea Mustang Island. If you compare the additional Both sides were under common ownership until Port North turtle was removed from the endangered species tax revenue and money that will be injected the bankruptcy proceedings in 2018 which split list. The park superintendent, Eric Brunnemann, into our local economy and stay in our local the ownership into three separate groups – one Aransas Padre is currently doing everything he can to force economy from building homes and resorts with group on the Lake Padre side and two distinctly Gulf Stream RV her to quit, terminate her, or at the very least what would be generated from an RV park, separate groups on the canal side (International All Stripes Stores Bank of Commerce and the Axys Capital group) Pioneer RV demote her into a much lesser position with no there is no comparison. These are my rough Black Sheep/ public contact. He is using the program report estimates. While some may disagree with my who collectively but not jointly own the land Stripes on 1A Barrel as his justification for his actions and has the estimates, I think the conclusion is clear that along the new canal. support of the NPS management in doing so. housing and resort development on Mustang My Coastal Home CVS The unifying force in the different groups is the He has made Donna's last year a living hell and Island is much better for Corpus Christi. single U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Permit WB Liquor Store Dollar General mine as well. It is sad that he is able to do this In addition to thinking about the economics that covers the entire area around the water without repercussion. Just as he intends to use Island Wine Room Doc’s Restaurant of this decision, we should also consider the connection from Packery Channel through the programs funding for other purposes, her safety of the residents of Mustang Island. If to the Laguna Madre. The first step was the Kody’s Snoopy’s Pier salary will also be used as he sees fit. the only evacuation route off Mustang Island is digging and completion of the bulkheads along Coffee Waves Isle Mail N More Thank you again for the informative article. clogged with RV traffic the next time we face a the new canal; that has been done. The next step in the process set down in the permit is the Moby Dicks Island Italian Donna's husband, major hurricane, I believe the consequences are potentially devastating. construction of the bridge and the subsequent IGA Stephen Kurtz opening of waterway under it and congruently Brooklyn Pie Co. My views are shared by a large number of Treasure Island the widening of the water passage between Ace Hardware Dale, voters and taxpayers. I have spoken to many Packery San Juan’s Restaurant Thanks for bringing to the attention of the other people who would be impacted by the Texas Star (Shell) City Council’s decision, and 180 of them have Channel and Lake Padre. Until that is done the Wash Tub public that the park is basically tearing apart the plug of land between the new and the existing Spanky's successful Kemp's Ridley program and pushing signed a petition opposing this requested zoning Woody’s Sports canal behind the baker will remain. Scuttlebutt’s Donna Shaver out, who has grown the program change so far. All of us recognize that RV parks Center Restaurant from small beginnings to the world renowned are good for a tourist community if you build I hope that helps. them in the right location. It doesn’t make any Back Porch Bar success it has achieved. The new superintendent Dale Subway has been sent to our park to close the program, more sense to allow an RV park on Mustang Shorty’s Place Island than it would to allow an RV park on Island Tire so they may share the finances at the expense of Fisherman’s Wharf the still-endangered Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles Ocean Drive. Mustang Island property has Padre Pizzeria always been planned and zoned as a location Gratitude and the beach goer's access rights. This will directly affect the city and small business as the for housing and resorts, and sticking to that plan The Gaff And all Moon will benefit all voters and taxpayers in Corpus retail advertisers program brings people from all over the country Trinity By the Sea to witness the release of the baby turtles. Christi. Episcopal WB Liquor The new superintendent has no interest in Carl Badalich. preserving our rights as users. He is a danger to

Flour Bluff the fisherman and the turtles. We need someone in charge that cares about the park. The sooner 200 RV Slots 200 Home Sites H.E.B. he is gone, the better. Additional Property Taxes $ 90,000 $ 2,000,000 Ethyl Everly Nick Meyer Additional Hotel / Motel Taxes 0 $ 1,800,000 Economic Infusion – Construction Materials and Labor $ 200,000 $ 16,000,000 Senior Center Breakaway Tackle Inc Economic Infusion – Engineering and Related Services $ 250,000 $ 2,000,000 Stripes on Flour Economic Infusion – Real Estate Commissions 0 $ 1,800,000 Bluff & SPID Water Level ESTIMATED ANNUAL BENEFIT TO LOCAL ECONOMY $ 540,000 $ 23,600,000 Good morning, Jobs Created 500 10,000 First of all my husband and I would like to compliment you on keeping us up-to-date on Table from Carl Baldich the current news on "our little sandbar" as well as, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, and the surrounding area. We appreciate your factual reporting and your humor! For sure, your wide variety of Life and Work Experience is refreshing. Send letters and photos to editor@ islandmoon.com January 7, 2021 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Bi-plane cont. from A1 broken by “rivers”. But desolate as their maps began buying time for their flight by shedding After the conflict was over, thousands of surplus showed it to be The Island was believed to articles of clothing for the Kronks to amuse aircraft were sold on the civilian market. In the uninhabited. A dire piece of misinformation. themselves with. immediate postwar years they became popular The shipwrecked sailors lingered at the Soon the Spaniards were completely naked as crop dusters, sports planes, and for aerobatic wreck site for days gathering what supplies and the Padres among them sent the women and wing walking use in air shows but over the they could. But their hesitation proved to be ahead lest they see the men in their nature years their numbers have dwindled the deciding factor in their fate. state. The naked sunburned party trudged But for anyone wanting to experience the ever Southward in the mistaken belief they On the sixth day after the wrecks washed up sensations of open-cockpit flying it is now were only a few days march from the city there appeared a band of tall, naked, armed, possible in Port Aransas. of Panuco when in fact they were more than inhabitants. The Spaniards made signs that forty days from safety. they were friendly and soon the Indians began to mingle with them and left to return with The children were the first to fall by the food. The Spaniards built fires and began to wayside as lack of water and food took their eat the venison and fish brought by the natives. toll and the Indians killed the stragglers as But before they could finish the Indians fell they fell, often the mothers who stayed behind upon them with shouts and volleys of arrows. rather than leave their children alone. The Spaniards retaliated with crossbows and As they crossed an unknown “river” on a drove the Indians into the dunes. makeshift raft they lost their crossbows and now were defenseless. Only two survivors were ultimately left to tell the tale. One was Fray Marcos de Mena who was wounded by six arrows, one in the eye, who was buried under a bush behind the dunes with only his face showing. He was left to die but regained consciousness and set again on his journey south traveling at night and following the blood trail of his doomed comrades. The other survivor was Francisco Vasquez was found by salvage ships in 1554. On his return to Spain Mena told his tragic story to fellow priest Augusta Davilla Padilla who published it in Spain before 1560. The Spaniards knew that to stay was to Today only one known copy of his work still perish and so began the Flight of the 300 remains and it is in the Library of Congress in survivors. The Karankawas followed their Washington, D.C. path as the Spaniards moved southward The wreck of one of the ships was found with the Indians following along behind about one mile behind the dunes centuries IGA cont. from A1 the dunes, occasionally attacking only to later and a Spanish broach from the period be driven back by the Spanish crossbows. was found 37 miles down The Island. All that When a red discarded jacket caused great remained from the promise of the Silver Fleet amusement among the Indians the Spaniards and the March of the 300.

Flour Bluff cont. from A1 Soliz-Garcia earned a Master of Science experience to the world’s greatest scholars that and Bachelor of Science in Education/ excel at all they accomplish with class, pride, Administration from Texas A&M University- and heart.” Corpus Christi and is currently pursuing Mrs. Soliz-Garcia has served as the a Doctorate in Education through Walden Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and University. Instruction at Gregory- Portland Independent The superintendent search process began School District since 2017. Prior to serving in January and was led by Flour Bluff ISD Gregory-Portland ISD, she was the Assistant Acting Superintendent, Joe Kelley. Thirty- Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction nine applicants from across the nation applied for Alice ISD for four years. She held several for the District’s top position. On December positions in Flour Bluff Independent School 13th, the Board of Trustees voted to name District from 1997-2004 as a Director of Mrs. Soliz-Garcia as the lone finalist for the Federal Programs/Curriculum & Instruction, superintendent’s position. State law requires Principal and Assistant Principal. She lends her the Board to wait 21 days before a contract is Cashiers in training. expertise from a 32-year career in education signed and the superintendent is officially hired. serving in various roles as a Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, District Director, School Principal, Assistant Principal, Teacher, and Classroom Aide.

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Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier January 7- January 14 It seemed like a good my incompetence as a delivery service. The Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon idea at the time. The kids are going to stay teething problem was solved however, as the /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible with us a few days over New Year’s. Those supervisor pointed out with some urgency and Th 7 Low 3:47 AM 0.0 7:21 AM Rise 1:31 AM 45 of us of a certain age leave the New Year’s forcefulness, only some of the problems at hand Eve celebrations to the more chronologically had been addressed and the screaming from the 7 High 11:22 AM 1.0 5:50 PM Set 1:16 PM challenged even before the Year of Covid. As patient continued. I returned to CVS where I 7 Low 4:58 PM 0.8 the great American philosopher Yogi Berra put found the needed medicines right where in my 7 High 8:12 PM 0.9 it, “Nobody goes there it’s too crowded.” haste I had left them on the counter. F 8 Low 4:26 AM -0.4 7:21 AM Rise 2:35 AM 34 The ages of “the kids” wasn’t specified but Yes, it was true it had taken me an hour to the working assumption was that it was the retrieve three items from the store but in my 8 High 1:27 PM 1.3 5:51 PM Set 1:57 PM kids in their “thirties,” years not months - but defense I was on uncharted ground here. Sa 9 Low 5:13 AM -0.7 7:21 AM Rise 3:41 AM 24 as it turned out those with thirty years under Teething and diaper relief were not on my their belts dropped the kids under thirty months regular shopping list. But I have to say the 9 High 2:43 PM 1.5 5:52 PM Set 2:42 PM and headed for partier climes in Port Aransas over-the-counter remedies, once retrieved Su 10 Low 6:04 AM -0.9 7:21 AM Rise 4:49 AM 14 and we settled in for a few days of surrogate and delivered, all worked as advertised. Soon 10 High 3:43 PM 1.7 5:53 PM Set 3:33 PM parenthood. Also included in the deal was a enough the patient was sound asleep with the three-legged pit bull and a little yapper. We sent aggrieved digestive tract under control and M 11 Low 6:57 AM -1.1 7:21 AM Rise 5:56 AM 7 our own prodigal dog into blissful exile OTB things returned to some version of normal. 11 High 4:37 PM 1.8 5:53 PM Set 4:29 PM and we were a nuclear family with two kids, two dogs, and two adults who had little in the way of Something rotten in Denmark… Tu 12 Low 7:49 AM -1.1 7:21 AM Rise 6:58 AM 2 a clear vision of what lay in store. Then I started noticing a funny smell around 12 High 5:27 PM 1.7 5:54 PM Set 5:31 PM the couch as I watched football and it wasn’t First signs of trouble… W 13 Low 8:40 AM -1.0 7:21 AM Rise 7:55 AM 0 just Notre Dame stinking up the place – they Things went great for a little while there but eventually covered the 19-point spread. No, 13 High 6:12 PM 1.6 5:55 PM Set 6:34 PM then the younger of the guests began a protest the source was eventually identified as the Th 14 Low 9:30 AM -0.9 7:21 AM Rise 8:44 AM 0 that consisted of screaming at the top of her three-legged pit bull who is a sweetheart but lungs for reasons unknown. There is a certain whose digestive tract was subject to random 14 High 6:48 PM 1.5 5:56 PM Set 7:37 PM helplessness that sets in when you are listening expulsions of a silent but semi-deadly nature. to a youngster in your charge try to explain I solved this problem by arming myself with a where problems lie and the only verbal tool cigarette lighter which worked to periodically in their box is an earsplitting canter wale that relieve the olfactory issues at hand. Life often could be an alert for anything from a misplaced takes funny turns. toy to an alien invasion. A closer examination Then along about the time things settled down determined that the problem in this case the adults began to notice a tickle in the back of originated from three sources. Two were at each their throats and a throbbing in the heads that end of the digestive tract; teeth growing in other might have followed New Year’s Eve’s past but stuff going out. not this time out. It turned out that part of the “Either you stay here with the kid or you reason for the screaming patient was not related make the run to CVS,” the supervisor said. A to the digestive tract at all – it was a head cold. quick assessment of the known facts had me The gift that keeps on giving. rummaging through the closet for my coat So now as 2021 begins the canines and their while a supply list was drawn up as my mission seven legs are doggone, the kids as well, but the statement - Kid Tylenol, teething swabs, and Butt coughing and sneezing live on. The Beatitudes Paste for a diaper rash that looked like it might leapt to mind. In particular Matthew 5:5. be radioactive in nature – and I was off. My familiarity with children’s medicinal supplies Blessed are the meek: being somewhat limited I was chronologically for they shall inherit the earth. challenged and received a gaggle of phone calls from the desperate supervisor back at the house Blessed are those of a certain age encouraging my swift return. I could gather a For they shall inherit the head cold. sense of desperation in the voice at the other end of the line punctuated by the still screaming patient in the background. I can’t say we Raised Arizona but there have I resisted the urge to make my normal beach been a couple of early 2021 expectorations that run and on my return I was quite pleased with resembled Florida and at least one nearly the myself until I opened the bag, and while finding size and scale of the Golden State. Assuming the six-pack I had added to the list, I found that by next New Year’s Eve it will be safe to Did Ya Hear? no Tylenol nor aforementioned Butt Paste. I circulate I’m making a resolution. I’m going to was soon informed of the consequences of party like it’s 2022. By Mary Craft The headache goes away a lot faster. Business Briefs Hardknocks Sports Grill is now open with great service and food. Probably the most popular entree for the «eat healthy» crowd will be the Bag Hero of the Month grilled salmon over spinach with grilled asparagus. Sounds crazy but the wines on tap go down smoothly. They include Joel Gott Cabernet, Lanardi Pinot Grigio, Stella Rosa sweet red, Prosecco champagne and Woodchuck Sangria. There are several draft beer stations including a Karbach one and Craft beer one. There is outdoor seating on the extended patio. The meeting room seats at least 48 and it is planned to be extended.

Hard Knocks game area The Island Market IGA hopefully is open as you read this. The shelves are filled including the produce aisle. The 10th Annual Texas Winter Market will be held at the Aransas Pass Civic Center on Saturday, January 9th 9 am - 5 pm and Sunday 10 am - 4 pm.

Skip the Plastic has been recognizing Bag Heroes in the Coastal Bend since October, 2012. In that time, we have seen more shoppers bring reusable bags to the store, and we would like to think that our message, combined with the growing awareness about the problems that plastic trash is causing in the world’s oceans, has played a role in that trend.

For the new year, we have decided to change things up and begin to recognize people throughout our community who take a little time out of their day to pick Booths at the Texas Winter Market which will be held this weekend at the Aransas up trash in their local park, neighborhood, or on their favorite stretch of beach. Pass Civic Center. As with the Bag Heroes, our goals are to show that individual people can make a difference and to hopefully inspire others to do the same in their part of the Coastal Bend. Port Aransas Restaurant Week will be held January 22 - 31 with Lunch Prices at $15 and dinner $35. The culinary tour will include Black Marlin, Castaways, Trout Street, La Playa, Tortuga’s, Roosevelt’s, MacDaddy’s, Port A Pizzeria, Crazy Cajun, Dylan’s Coal Oven Pizza, Our first Cleanup Hero is none other than Cliff Schlabach, the Chair of our Fins Grill, Kody’s, Seafood & Spaghetti Works, Stingrays and Kody’s. Surfrider Foundation chapter. When he’s not at the beach in his spare time, he can often be found fishing on the Laguna Madre. He is an advocate for clean bays and Barre on the Beach classes for all levels are held near the Michael J. Ellis parking lot on beaches, and knows that a small amount of effort to help make his neighborhood a Fridays at 7 am and Sundays at 10 am. The basic equipment is a ballet barre and many of the moves are based on classic ballet positions. Go to Waterdog.cc for more info. better place will also benefit the surrounding waters. For you Bingo junkies Bingoland has opened near Crosstown and SPID and will eventually have four buildings covering all day and all night sessions. Two of the buildings have been completed. I have been seeing more Winter Texan license plates around and so far there are two I have Send letters and photos to editor@ never seen since I moved here in 1993 and that is Utah and Saskatchewan. Brush set out on the Island is January 6th - 10th and can include Christmas tree disposal. islandmoon.com A6 Island Moon January 7, 2021 Senior Moments Hearts with Ears? Report of Grumman’s 1960s Lunar Excursion Module Development and Use By Pastor Kris Bair We were driving home from somewhere when But what’s interesting is how others know I By Dotson Lewis I realized we ought to stop at the grocery store have them at all. How do they know before Special to the Island Moon to pick up a few must haves. The GP (Great they open their mouths that they will be safe Provider, for you who might be uninitiated— telling me, a person they’ve never met, their Dotson’s Note: President John F. Kennedy's weightlessness, Lovell said, “This is the crew that would be my husband) decided to veg in deepest hurts? How do they know they can vision was put into motion, stretching America of Apollo 13 wishing everybody there a nice the car, and I trotted in to pick them up. trust me not to turn away? How do they sense toward the goal of landing man on the moon evening, and we're just about ready to close that I’m not going to blab? during the 1960s. A group of daring, talented out our inspection of Aquarius [the LEM] and Back by the freezer section I ran into a woman men was specially chosen for the success of get back for a pleasant evening in Odyssey I recognized (but didn’t really know) from Don’t ask me. work—one of the librarians on campus—so I this heroic, pioneering effort. They were not [the command module]. Good night.” Nine There are some who name this as a gift. If astronauts but a team of young Grumman minutes later, oxygen tank number 2 blew up, brightly said, “Hello! How are you, Judy?” as I attempted to fly by. it is, it’s a mighty strange one because it’s all engineers about to embark upon an historic causing oxygen tank number 1 to also fail. about receiving and not about giving, at least journey filled with technical design challenges Approximately 200,000 miles from Earth, the Judy latched on to me like a trout hitting bait on on my part. And maybe that’s the secret. All in an extremely hostile environment. Their Apollo 13 command module's normal supply of the hook and began telling me all her troubles— I have to do is carefully listen, which is to say goal: to protect the lives of the many crews of electricity, light, and water was lost. every single one--for 15 solid minutes. I stood “listen with caring.” And that’s something any astronauts that would be ferried to the moon The message came in the form of a sharp bang there nodding, so overwhelmed I had no idea of us could do, if we cared enough to do it. and back. Thanks to Ross Bracco, Steve and vibration. Swigert saw a warning light that how to respond, and worrying about the GP Taranovich and to Wernher von Braun for the (who does not tolerate waiting very long for As I write this, the news is full of people not accompanied the bang and said, “Houston, caring enough to really listen to one another. facts contained in this report and to ‘Cradle of we've had a problem here.” Lovell came on anyone, any time—it was a 15 mile walk to Aviation Museum’ for the photos. get home). People we should be respecting are yelling and told the ground that it was a main B bus at one another, as if just raising their voices Roserio (Ross) Bracco undervolt. The time was 2108 hours on April She went on and on, describing her disastrous would make others listen. 13. trip on the Trans-Canadian railroad across the breadth of Canada—day by endless day (this Give me a break. Jesus nailed it when he said Next, the warning lights indicated the loss of (repeatedly), “Let anyone with ears to hear two of Apollo 13's three fuel cells, which were trip takes a least 10 days if you’re doing the full tour). listen!” You may have ears, but they’re not the spacecraft's prime source of electricity. much use if you refuse to listen! With warning lights blinking, one oxygen tank People passed us by and stared. Then they appeared to be completely empty, and there passed us on their way back to the check-out The first Rule of the Benedictines is to “listen were indications that the oxygen in the second line and stared some more. with the ear of the heart.” They don’t mean tank was rapidly being depleted. The third just to listen for the voice of God, or the voice lunar landing attempt mission was aborted after Judy’s life unraveled before me, unhappiness of the Pope or someone in authority. They rupture of the service module oxygen tank. after unhappiness. She’d finish with one woe, mean listen to one another—with caring. and I’d say, “Oh, my!” and she’d reply, “Oh, Power was a concern. There were 2181 ampere but that’s not all!” and off she’d go again. That means not just listening, but holding hours in the LEM batteries. Ground controllers what you hear close to your heart. Ross Bracco carefully worked out a procedure that enabled She finally wound down and stood gasping and waiting for a response. All I could do was That means keeping confidences, if it’s LEM power to be used to charge the command something being told to you confidentially. module batteries. say, “Oh, how awful! I am SO sorry! I don’t Roserio (Ross) Bracco was selected as one know how you got through that!” And I gave That means standing your ground as you of the initial group of 25 engineers who With the power-producing service module her a hug. listen—keeping your eyes on the speaker and would begin development of the LEM (Lunar damaged due to an explosion, an innovative giving that person time to say what is on his idea involving a roll of duct tape and a technical It was a disastrous trip and I did feel terrible Excursion Module) in November 1962 at for her. How could I have interrupted or cut or her heart. Grumman's Bethpage, NY, facility. The contract manual saved the crew from carbon-dioxide short such much needed venting on her part? It That means respecting that person speaking, was completed in 1966 with would’ve been cruel, but lots of people would even if you don’t like what she or he is saying. 21 LEMs built-14 for flight have done just that. She knew what she was and seven designated as LTA doing when she picked me. That means loving your neighbor as you love (LEM test article) -1 through yourself. -7. The GP did not divorce me (he also knew what he was doing when he picked me), but I Shouting doesn’t solve anything. In fact, it Bracco is a graduate of heard about it. He doesn’t believe me when I makes things worse. And it’s really hard on Cooper Union in New York tell him this happens all the time—people take us empaths. and was one of the first one look at me and they unload. Right now, I’m thanking God for carry-out students there to receive a And the freezer areas of the grocery store at the grocery store. I’m pretty sure I do NOT master's degree in mechanical want to come anywhere near the freezers there. engineering. When he was seem to attract anxious people like flies! recently visited at the Cradle I was in the local HEB near my house when You’re invited to come listen to worship with of Aviation Museum in a man by the freezers asked for some advice the ears of your hearts every Sunday at 10 a.m., Garden City, Long Island, about purchasing a turkey—and the next thing at Island Presbyterian’s livestream on their NY, where he volunteers, he I knew, I was hearing the whole story of his Facebook page, where you can also Zoom with shared some very interesting nasty divorce and life (or lack thereof) after it. other worshippers, if you so choose. This week memories of his design It was so sad and pathetic, it was making him we’re celebrating Baptism of the Lord Sunday, journey in pursuit of a dream crazy. He knew it, but he couldn’t stop it. I so bring a cup of water and some bread and to have the first man safely carry that around with me to this day! juice (or wine, if you’re so disposed). We will set foot on the moon. The be reaffirming our baptisms and sharing the museum also has an exhibit It’s a curious thing to be an off-and-on Lord’s Supper, and it will be so good for all that chronicles the entire empath. My feelers aren’t always out there— our hearts! history of flight, including those sensors seem to extend by their own will, some amazing restorations not mine. I just have to live with them. and models of aircraft. It's definitely worth a visit! Bracco was part of the Lunar Module Grumman ascent-stage team Padre Island Real Estate Ticker in the propulsion area. The ascent stage of the Apollo LEM is the control poisoning. The crew was instructed to rip out December 1 – December 15 plasticized pages of an onboard manual and center and manned portion of the space vehicle. 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By Brent Rourk I hope you guys had a good By the time midnight on the 31st rolled around, The most asked question on The Island these holiday season. Mine was pretty great. My I’d been awake for over 24 hours and was days…is it safe to go out? During the past five family managed a successful zoom call on wondering how much worse it could get. weeks I have visited an array of sites in and Christmas with many of our relatives which Oh. My. GOD! Did NASCC do a fly-over? around Corpus Christi that are definitely worthy worked out much better than anticipated, Because it sounded like jet aircraft was buzzing of consideration. Are they 100% fail safe despite the fact that we spent the majority of the my house. The explosions were incredible! against Covid? No. But they all clearly present time trying to get the microphone to register. We Did the entire City of Corpus Christi somehow environments that are safer than not, especially did, however, come to a family consensus that simultaneously figure out how to make where people properly mask, social distance, no matter what outlandish feat someone says dynamite? and sanitize hands. their cat is capable of other cat owners would The dogs raced into the bathroom and jumped Cold weather typically cocoons families, even remain nonplussed. My example was: My cat into the tub, quaking with fear. in the Coastal Bend, however, it does not have is a successful archeologist with a little hat and to be that way. With temperatures regularly whip who recently stopped a bunch of Nazis I can’t say I blame them. I felt like Charles hitting mid 60s to 70s, outings can be pleasant from stealing the Ark of the Covenant but was Carault hiding under a table in Baghdad, and I and safe. With sparse crowds that are taking and all those who served were proud of their back by 6 p.m. to loudly remind me to put food knew what was going on. time spent on this storied warship. We enjoyed in her bowl. precautions, these sites deserve consideration I couldn’t leave the poor creatures alone to our time learning about its service as we for a winter time visit, especially during week “Yup, cats just do stuff like that,” the whole suffer, so I brought a bunch of dog beds and maneuvered tight spaces while eventually being days. family concurred. blankets into the bathroom and hunkered down rewarded with a view from the deck. Again, the with them. Botanical Gardens week day crowd was sparse and in compliance The Rev bought me (at my request) a gorgeous set of tri-clad pots and pans. I was thrilled until The South Texas with Covid safety protocols. The tours are By 3 a.m., I was coated in hair and drool incredibly informative and personal as you I got them home and remembered that the only passing the time researching how to soundproof Botanical Gardens thing I ever cook is hard boiled eggs. and Nature Center is imagine yourself as a seaman during wartime a room online. Pro tip: you can’t just staple a a prime example of in any number of occupations. We thoroughly Still, my egg game looks a lot more professional set of twin-sized, flannel Incredible Hulk sheet a site that warrants enjoyed our tour, and although I have performed now. over the window. We were going to have to weddings on the USS Lexington in the past, suffer. a visit; with camera, Another major highlight was my gift to my there were new facts, crannies, and information water, and a picnic younger brother which was a dinosaur suit And boy did we. No one got any sleep that that made the trip worthwhile. At $12 to $17 a lunch if you are complete with tail. The family forced him to night. The next morning the pups were so ticket you can purchase a personalized, hands- inclined. Sprawling wear it for the entire duration of the zoom call. exhausted they managed to pass out on the rug, over expansive grounds, the botanical gardens on history lesson. Go to www.usslexington. but I was in full-on insomnia mode. I hung out Revenge is beautiful. offers visitors of every age and interest a plethora com. on the couch, trying in vain to pass out. Finally, of paths, floral beauty, and a pleasing variety of Art Center Island Moon staff Christmas was pretty neat, at about 3 p.m. my eyelids started to droop, and wildlife, both caged and uncaged. Few people too. Dotson Lewis gave me a Rambo knife I almost fell into blissful slumber… visited during my last two visits and those who For art lovers the Corpus Christi Art Center with which to play Mumbley Peg – successfully And that’s when the First Annual New Year’s did took safety precautions. The orchids in the is a must visit that presents the work of many horrifying the Rev who shrieked, “YOU WILL Day Go-Kart Invitational started in front of my pavilion were in full bloom reaching out with AMPUTATE YOUR BIG TOE!” Plus, then house. their exquisite shapes and stunning colors. Dale showed up with a set of mini walkie talkies Almost 180 acres invite leisurely hiking and for us to keep in our offices. This was supposed I didn’t get any real rest until 4 a.m. on January exploration. For only a $9 entry fee, this is to replace our traditional system of inter-office 2nd. currently a bargain. See www.stxbot.org. communication (screaming), but since we can’t I had pretty much forgiven everybody their Texas State Aquarium manage to get the walkies turned on at the same seemingly endless celebration – after all 2020 time, we haven’t made a ton of headway. was a very tough year – by January 5th. Then I Another eye- got a note from my neighbor. catching site is New Year’s was an entirely different story. the Texas State Lizzy-the-Moon-Doggie came to stay with me Someone decided to end the holiday in the Aquarium. since Jan and Dale had their two tiny grandkids most Corpus of all ways: they dumped a Although the plus their two grand-dogs over the holiday. Christmas tree with the waterer still attached in entrance fee is This was my fourth or fifth fireworks holiday my easement. steep, visitors with Lizzy (who is terrified of sky booms) so I They may as well have left a note, “Happy are treated to a thought I knew what to expect. 2021. Thanks for not calling the cops on the talented local artists. variety of tanks go-karts and fireworks. Here’s what’s left of We enjoyed touring Boy was I wrong! and cages that present under water life at eye our Christmas tree. How about hauling it to the a pottery exhibit that Starting at 11 p.m. on December 30th all level. But there is so much more, including the dump?” iconic dolphin exhibit/show, petting stations, reflected some of the the way through January 2nd, there was not otters, birds, gardens, and turtles, not to mention most creative local one single hour of time in my life that wasn’t If I go to jail, it’s because I set it on fire and a relaxing view of Port Corus Christi and the minds. This free interrupted by some kind of fireworks explosion, pitched it back over the fence. I think we have bay. We saw few people during our three-hour admission gem is emergency siren, or (for some reason) go-kart our new slogan for 2021, though. located on the bayfront tour and all of them wore masks and followed race. “2021: Don’t forget your bail money.” distancing suggestions. Even the dolphin exhibit and dovetails nicely was sparsely attended. Again, a week day visit with a visit to the Corpus is even less populated. Our visit was relaxing Christi Marina and one Island Moon on a Spoon and gentle-paced instead of hectic and crowded. of the many alluring Check www.texasstateaquarium.org. bayfront restaurants. Open Tuesday through Melted & Herbed Brie Cheese Wheel Saturday, the Art Center promotes local By Chef Vita Jarrin and regional artists and offers a variety of Greetings Readers, art classes. The gift shop is worth a visit Happy New Year! 2021!! I want to start Typically, in January, we are inundated with to purchase a unique by sharing my condolences to anyone who a slew of healthy recipes in order to feel less piece of art or jewelry. lost any family members or friends due to guilty about the excessive food we devoured My favorite exhibit last Covid… It’s been a tough year for all. It’s over the holidays. But I want to share with month tastefully featured the amazing ceramic changed so many aspects of our lives. I also you a recipe that seems very indulgent and creations by Liz Dumas McMullan whose want to congratulate anyone who expanded is, but it healthy fat and instead of slathering mind, hands, and eyes work in concert to create their family over quarantine. Additionally, this on large pieces of bread, you get the same colorful, inspiring, and detailed worlds, rivaling for those that received blessings, during this satisfaction, if you slather it over pita, or that of any renowned national artist. Weekday difficult year--love and faith conquers all. crackers. Additionally, its easy and delicious for just one or your family! The Big Tree visits reveal few visitors, all who wear masks As we embrace a new year entering into and distance. This is an unheralded gem in January, I can definitely understand all Melted & Herbed Brie Savory Baked For those willing to take a leisurely drive Corpus irrefutably bound to dazzle your eyes coupled with a lunch stop, I recommend ‘The those who are excited that 2020 is gone as Brie Ingredients: and open your pocketbook for reasonably we look forward to turning that new leaf Big Tree’ north of Rockport, nestled on 321 priced top notch art. For more information 1 Brie Cheese wheel, (leave rind on but cut acres at Goose Island State Park. Reported to be and begin our journey into 2021. However, about current exhibits go to www.artcentercc. I do want to point out that although it was ¼ inch off top exposing cheese) 1000 years old, this gigantic Southern live oak org. tree (Quercus virginiana) extends its massive a year of incredible challenge and loss for Herbs: Sage, Rosemary, Garlic limbs in all directions, appearing more like a Other spots so many--a year full of extremely high and low challenges, lock downs, weight gain and Nuts of choice (optional) land octopus. It is surrounded by smaller but There are many other local places to visit no less majestic live oaks. We encountered only weight loss--it was also a year food took on Olive oil during our winter months that draw sparse an entirely different meaning for so many. crowds who all follow Covid safety protocols. Himalayan Salt & Fresh Ground Black In some cases, the distancing is immense It was also a year where time stopped for so Pepper to your taste many of us rushing through this thing called permitting optional mask free breathing. The Pita bread or Flat bread of choice Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center in Port life, and we actually got to enjoy more time Aransas has become a wildlife wonderland, with our kids, loved ones, friends. For some Sweet Baked Brie Ingredients: complete with large flocks of shore and water of us, it may have not even been in person, but through Face Time and Zoom. My 1 Brie Cheese wheel, (leave rind on but cut birds, including majestic White Pelicans, deep ¼ inch off top exposing cheese) pink Roseate Spoonbills, and much more 92-year-old Sicilian aunt, who lives alone throughout extensive freshwater wetlands. After in Sicily, was gifted a cell phone and with a Olive oil WhatsApp downloaded on it and shown how passing the beautiful pollinator garden you will Maple syrup or jam of choice (fig, to communicate with people face to face. It find a new 700-foot-long boardwalk (rated raspberry, strawberry, blueberry) the #1 boardwalk in Texas by the Texas Parks brings her so much joy and happiness. She Nuts of choice (optional) and Wildlife Magazine) that takes you into the calls various family members daily now and marshland where you might see fish, turtles, is no longer feeling isolated. Pinch of salt crabs, the two huge resident alligators named Being a chef, another huge shift I’ve seen is a few interested visitors, all wearing masks, Pita or Flat bread of choice Boots and Bags. Herons and songbirds feed the food scene. I am obviously immersed Benches, welcome shade, and a walking path and nest in the cattail jungles and neighboring in food social media in various forms. From Directions: around what is now thought to be the second wooded wetland habitat. Admission is free and magazine articles, to new published cook largest oak tree in Texas and one of the largest Preheat oven to 375 wildlife is abundant and active at the Birding books, magazines, websites, blogs, etc. I was in the United States made our visit comfortable. Center. Take binoculars, your camera, and water so excited to see strangers, as well as family Line a cookie sheet with parchment or This delightful tree that every child would want for a treat folks of all ages can enjoy. We always and friends, dive into cooking and learn some aluminum foil in their backyard sports staggering numbers: manage to get some stunning photos here. See more challenging forms of cookery, such as 35-foot circumference, a crown spread of 90 Place Brie Cheese, on cookie sheet with top www.cityofportaransasorg. baking bread, creating sour dough starters, feet, and a height of 44 feet. This tree packed of cheese exposed cooking creative foods from the pantry in park will keep your digital camera or phone Other places of note to consider visiting during order to avoid shopping at the grocery store. Drizzle oil and ingredients of choice, and busy. Goose Island Park permits activities such the Covid pandemic are the Corpus Christi bake at 375 for 20 minutes, reduce heat to as camping, boating, fishing, and birding which Marina, the Art Museum of Corpus Christi, 350 until cheese is melted and ready for helps compensate for the fact that there are the Chapel on the Dunes in Port Aransas, The spreading. Enjoy! no designated swimming areas. The shoreline National Seashore on North Padre Island, and within the park consists chiefly of oyster beds, of course the beaches on North Padre Island Tip of the week: (Whitecap Beach is a favorite and is usually mudflats, and marshes. I recommend going If you love puff pastry, lay out a sheet of puff smooth and safe for car traffic.) For those through Port Aransas, the ferry, north at Aransas pastry, that you can purchase from freezer willing to take a longer trip, I recently found the Pass on N. Commercial Street (35) along the section, in grocery store, gently roll it out Riverwalk in San Antonio to be sparsely visited coast through Rockport to the park. Many small a bit with floured rolling pin. Spread your but still inviting and beautiful. A few restaurants restaurants along the way might vie for your favorite, Savory or sweet trimmings on top of and shops are still open and the wandering paths tastebuds. For more information see Goose brie cheese, and wrap it with the remainder of are lined with colorful plant life and places to Island State Park at www.tpwd.texas.gov. the dough and brush it top and bottom, with rest. We encountered very few people during egg wash. Bake it at 375 for 30 minutes or Lady Lex our weekday visit and found the few strollers so, until the pastry is golden brown and crispy there to wear masks and honor distancing. Old Lady Lexington cannot be left off of this on the outside. And by inserting a skewer it’s list. The USS Lexington (or the Blue Ghost Do not permit winter doldrums to force you melty on the inside. Cut open and spread as she was known in Tokyo for allegedly indoors, but rather consider relatively safe over your favorite fruit, bread, cracker etc. being sunk and returned to duty four times), weekday journeys to a dozen uncrowded and For some it was about learning how to To add additional flavor punch, you can add commissioned in 1943 and served valiantly in Covid protocol following outdoor and indoor become a vegan. For others, it was about pesto, sundried tomatoes, bacon jam and/or the Pacific Theatre during World War II. The sites. Be safe, follow protocols, and consider getting outdoors and enjoying the fruits of pine nuts. stories about the USS Lexington are legendary safer venues to visit this winter. the ocean, by fishing. What ever challenges last year brought, it also brought us growth The Important thing is to have fun, try new and renewed sense of independence as well. things and Enjoy! A new found appreciation of food and travel Send letters and photos to [email protected] and mostly an appreciation of family! A8 Island Moon January 7, 2021 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon Baseball’s Designated Before Jackie Robinson

Hitter Rule By Andy Purvis By Dotson Lewis There were only four, the first four African- Choo” Roberts. You can also find Willis in the Dotson’s Note: The big debate over the past Question Americans to play professional football. And Cleveland Browns’ Ring of Honor and a part of 45 years has been the designated hitter and it’s guess what? They all started in 1946, one year the NFL’s 1940’s All-Decade Team. Coach Paul It's arguably the most controversial question placement in baseball. It’s also one of the prime before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier Brown called Willis “One of the outstanding in the history of sports. Should baseball have a differences between the National League and with the Brooklyn Dodgers in Major League linemen in the history of professional football.” designated hitter, or should it allow for the more the American League, the latter having the rule Baseball. So, sit back, enjoy and discover the After graduating from Columbus East High traditional form of baseball in which the pitcher implemented in 1973. Thanks to Bill Morgan, brief history of these four players that integrated School, Bill attended Ohio State from 1941- hits for himself. Jeremy Kaufman and Charles O. Finely for professional football. 1945, and then signed with the Cleveland Browns in 1946. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Bill the facts contained in this report and to Bill This question is so incredibly difficult to Kenny Washington Morgan for the photos*. answer that the MLB itself has to have two also joined the Buckeyes’ track and field team separate leagues, one in which the DH is used Kenny Washington, halfback, was from Los at Ohio State and was a part of the Buckeyes’ On January 11, 1973, the owners of America’s and another in which its not, simply because it is Angeles, California, and attended Abraham first National Championship Football team, 24 major league baseball teams vote to allow almost impossible to settle on a decision. Lincoln High School. In 1939, after high in 1942. Bill retired in 1954 at the age of 32, teams in the American League (AL) to use a school, Kenny rushed for 1,914 yards in his and became Cleveland’s first chairman of the “designated pinch-hitter” that could bat for the American League UCLA career, a school record that stood for Ohio Youth Commission. His goal was to help pitcher, while still allowing the pitcher to stay Pros 34 years. He led the nation in total offense and troubled youth in the Cleveland area. His #99 in the game. became the first consensus All-American in the was retired by the Buckeyes, and he entered the 1) The DH allows for one extra solid batter to history of the UCLA Bruins’ football program. College Football Hall of Fame in 1971. He has enter the lineup, as opposed to a player who Washington felt the wrath of discrimination also been a member of the Pro Football Hall of usually isn’t in the Majors for their hitting. when he was left out of the East-West Shrine Fame since 1977. Bill Willis #30, died in 2007. Game that same year. After graduation from 2) The DH gives veteran players who can no Marion Motley longer play the field a great opportunity to UCLA, Chicago Bears Head Coach, George extend their careers. Halas, tried to sign Washington but was blocked Marion Motley signed ten days after Bill Willis by racial discrimination from the other NFL with the Cleveland Browns. Born in Leesburg, 3) In the rare case that an offensively talented owners. So from 1941-1945, Kenny joined a Georgia, Marion grew up in Canton, Ohio. He pitcher lands on an American League team, that semi-pro football team known as the Hollywood attended and played football and basketball pitcher could possibly play DH on days in which Bears, of the Pacific Coast League. When the at Canton McKinley High School. After he is not pitching, or even play a position on Cleveland Rams moved to Los Angeles in 1946, graduation, Motley enrolled at South Carolina those days as well. an agreement was drawn up between owners, State College in 1939, but later transferred to 4) There is no risk of a pitcher being injured that teams could be integrated. Washington the University of Nevada before his sophomore while batting or running the bases, thereby signed with the Rams on March 21, 1946. Kenny year. In 1943, he suffered a knee injury and better protecting the teams’ investments in their only played in the NFL for three years, but his returned to Canton after dropping out of pitching staff. performance was exceptional. Washington school. Motley joined the U.S. Navy in 1944 was inducted into the College Football Hall of and managed to play fullback and linebacker 5) The more productive offense in the American Fame in 1956, and his jersey #13 was the first for a military team known as the Great Lakes League adds more excitement to the offensively to be retired by UCLA. He would become a Blue Jackets, coached by none other than Paul part of the game; there are no easy outs for the distinguished police officer for the LA Police Brown. By 1946, Motley was back in Canton pitchers, and the hitters can sustain longer and Department. In 1971, Washington died at the working in a steel mill. In one of the oddest stronger rallies. young age of 52. recruiting stories ever told, Motley wrote Paul Charles Finley Cons Brown and asked for a tryout. Brown declined, Woody Strode and Ray Bartlett but later signed Bill Willis. After Willis made The idea of adding a 10th man to the baseball 1) Every other fielder has to bat, while should it “Woody” Strode is a name you will know if the team, Brown reconsidered and asked Marion lineup to bat for the pitcher had been suggested be any different for the pitcher? you enjoyed John Wayne westerns, as he starred Motley to come try out. Brown later admitted as early as 1906 by the revered player and 2) The use of a DH parts from the more in many of the big-screen movies produced by that Willis had needed an African-American manager Connie Mack. In 1928, John Heydler, traditional conceptions of baseball. John Ford. Strode was not only a football star, roommate. Motley signed for $4,500 a year and then-president of the National League (NL), but a decathlete in track and field. He was averaged 8.2 yards per carry in his first season. 3) American League fans can almost never revived the issue, but the rule was rejected at born in Los Angeles, California, and attended Marion led the league in rushing in 1948, as the experience the excitement of seeing a pitcher that point by the AL management. By the early high school at Jefferson, located in East L.A. Cleveland Browns posted a perfect 15-0 record. beat the odds by hitting a home run. 1970s, Charlie Finley, the colorful owner of the He later enrolled at UCLA in 1939, where he When the league folded after the 1949 season, Oakland A’s, had become the designated hitter 4) The art of bunting is scarcely used in the joined Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington Motley was the AAFC’s all-time rushing leader rule’s most outspoken advocate, arguing that American League. in the Bruins’ backfield. Ray Bartlett was the with 3,024 yards. There was another pleasant a pinch-hitter to replace the pitcher–a player surprise. Paul Brown estimated that more than 5) The lack of pinch-hitting takes away from fourth member of the UCLA backfield and he, that usually batted poorly, exceptions like the 10,000 black fans attended Cleveland’s first some of the strategy of the game. too, was an African-American. This was at a legendary Babe Ruth notwithstanding–would time where there were only a dozen or so black game. As mentioned above, Cleveland won the add the extra offensive punch that baseball players participating on college football teams 1950 NFL Championship and, by 1951, Motley needed to draw more fans. across the land. Strode would sign with the began to feel the physical effects of the game and suffered a knee injury. Marion Motley would At a joint meeting of the two major leagues in Los Angeles Rams on May 7, 1946. No other retire before the 1954 season started. His career Chicago on January 11, 1973, presided over by black players had played in the NFL from 1933 rushing average of 5.7 yards per carry is still the baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, the owners to 1945. In 1948, Strode joined the Calgary all-time rushing record for fullbacks. Motley voted to allow the AL (which lagged behind Stampeders as an offensive end and helped asked many NFL teams for a coaching job but the NL in both scoring and attendance) to put them win the Grey Cup Championship that was turned down. He later worked for the U.S. the designated hitter rule into practice. The same year. Strode retired in 1949, because Postal Service, Miller Construction, and the NL resisted the change, and for the first time of injuries. Woody Strode also dabbled in Ohio Department of Youth Services. Motley in history, the two leagues would play using professional wrestling, before the NFL and died in 1999 of prostate cancer. He was the different rules. Though it initially began as a afterwards. Standing 6’ 4” tall and weighing National League second African-American player to be elected three-year experiment, it would be permanently well over 200 pounds, he was billed as the 1962 to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Motley was adopted by the AL and later by most amateur Pacific Coast Negro Heavyweight Wrestling Pros also named to the NFL’s 75th Anniversary All- and minor league teams. Champion. Strode also became a terrific 1) The National League takes a more traditional actor and is best remembered for his roles in Time Team in 1994. approach to baseball; if every other player on the Spartacus, Sergeant Rutledge and The Man It would be hard to imagine the game of pro field has to bat, why not the pitcher? Who Shot Liberty Valance. Strode had parts football without the likes of players like Walter 2) The National League maintains the values of in 67 movies during his career. Woody died in Payton, Jerry Rice and David “Deacon” Jones. 1994 of lung cancer. He was 80. bunting and small ball, arts that are sometimes Andy Purvis is a local author and radio forgotten in the more power-oriented American Bill Willis personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. League game. Bill Willis bent over and put his hand in the com for all the latest info on his books or to 3) On the rare occasions in which a pitcher dirt for eight seasons for the Cleveland Browns. listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books contributes offensively, especially via a home He was an excellent defensive lineman who are available online and can be found in the run, it provides an extreme amount of excitement was selected All-Pro all eight years, while local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be for the fans who witness the feat. winning four AAFC Championships (All contacted at [email protected]. Also listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s 4) A few pitchers, such as Micah Owings, have American Football Conference) and the 1950 Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. had incredible offensive abilities. The National NFL Championship. The Browns beat the New com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of League gives them a chance to utilize those York Giants 8-3, as Willis made a game-saving the Houston Astros. skills. tackle in the fourth quarter on Gene “Choo- 5) The role of the pinch hitter in the National League game adds a great amount of strategy to the game. Cons Catch of the Week Ron Bloomberg 1) The majority of major-league pitchers do not want to bat, and some managers even go as far On April 6, 1973—Opening Day—Ron as ordering their pitchers not to take a swing, at Blomberg of the New York Yankees became the risk of the pitcher getting work. If no one the league’s first ever designated hitter. In wants them to bat, why not give their at-bats to his first plate appearance, he was walked on someone who actually wants them? a full count by the Boston Red Sox pitcher 2) Baseball is often criticized as being a slow Luis Tiant. From the beginning, baseball sport, as it is. By forcing lineups to include purists decried the designated hitter in bitter, an almost automatic out, the National League moralistic terms, arguing that it took away from is only slowing down the game in terms of baseball’s integrity. The rift between pro- and excitement and explosiveness. anti-designated hitter fans has continued into the present day. At first, the designated hitter 3) The risk of injury to the pitcher simply may rule did not apply to any games in the World not be worth it, especially considering the fact Series, in which the AL and NL winners met that they are being paid to pitch, not to bat or for the world championship. From 1976-1985, run the bases. it applied only to Series held in even-numbered 4) All too often, pitchers end up being a near years, and in 1986 the current rule took effect, automatic out in the game. At most, there are according to which the designated hitter rule is rare pitchers who contribute offensively. With used or not used according to the practice of the the exception of a rare few talents, the pitchers home team. role in a National League offense is typically no To DH Or Not To DH That Is The more than this. 5) The pitcher’s common inability to hit ends countless rallies, thereby taking away some excitement from the game in those situations. After carefully analyzing the aforementioned pros and cons, I, like most of baseball’s fandom, remain someone torn in this matter. I believe that the American League game is a better product overall, but I can’t help but feel a certain fondness towards baseball in its most traditional form. *The Charley O. Finley photo is mine. 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January 7, 2021 Island Moon A11 The Island Outdoors On the Rocks Backwater Adventures By Jay Gardner By Joey Farah Whew! We made it to 2021! Steven. Dan has been on the Island with his Farah’s Fishing Adventures I know a lot of people were family for many years and is over-seeing the holding their breaths coming down to the wire current planning for the Mustang Island/Padre The time between Christmas and the end of over the southern part of the country because just in case the missing corner of the Mayan Island Area Development Plan (ADP) that January is historically the period where we get of the mild winter up in the northern reaches calendar suddenly manifested itself and the ISAC is also working on. Talk about the planets our coldest temperatures of the year. This year, of the US and Canada. In all, we need to see a world actually did end. I know I was nervous as aligning for us on the Island! Dan is one smart so far, we have avoided any really cold weather. bountiful year along the temperate Gulf Coast well, but then I remembered that the credit card cookie regarding planning and the future, and This is an important factor in the fishing and when we have those cold winters that set our companies probably can’t let that happen. Plus, that is exactly what we need, and I mean right ways of nature that control the entire year here clock back to Zero for the New Year. who would the robocallers bother at inopportune now. In addition, Dan has been ex-officio from in the inland bays of the Coastal Bend. The warm winter as we are experiencing this times about their extended car warranty? Gotta Development Services on ISAC for a couple of The years we have drastically cold temperatures, year are nice for outdoor activities and claims keep the machines rolling to the point where years now and knows our program. We should our bottom of the food chain organisms burry the hearts of sun loving Island Folks. Many they start calling each other. Hmmm, that’s not all be very excited for this “new” team of City up in the mud and concentrates their locations. of the same fishing locations and techniques a bad idea, someone should get on that. Staff to work with, and I’m not sure if it was This in turn groups bait and predatory species we use during warmer times of years still Michael Rodriguez or Peter Zanoni himself Shuffling in the Halls together as well. The gathering of all of the work well. Drifting right now in the boat is who put those wheels in motion, but the future food chain together makes it easier to feed producing a lot of action on both soft plastics For those of you paying attention, we did not of the Island thanks you. We will try to do our without expending energy. The gamefish gather and live shrimp, when it is available. This have the Island Strategic Action Committee homework at ISAC and not let you down. in groups of relative size, as they regulate their time of year the last of the winter population (ISAC) yesterday evening. Some of you may or Mobility Plan body temperatures the same. This is when we of shrimp in the bays disappear into the deep may not be aware, but there was some shuffling find the best big trout hunting, finding groups of mud. My choices of colors for trout fishing around at City Hall at the end of December with Speaking of the ADP, one of the things that we many trout over 28” together. The sea grass in right now have changed to brighter cold water staff changes. The City’s Secretary’s office was really need to focus on, and yes, I may sound the shallows dies during a very cold year. Like classic colors. Chartreuse, white, pearl, and unable to get the agenda signed and posted in like a broken record, but we need to be looking pink are all colors that resemble time for the Sunshine Act, so we had to postpone at a Mobility Plan. That means we need to a cold color faded baitfish. I’m the meeting until (likely) next Tuesday. So, we plan and build alternative paths for golf carts, still choosing a heavier 3/8th are starting off the year a week behind, and we pedestrians, and bikes on the Island to get to ounce short shanked jig head have lots to do, but wait! There’s good news! existing and planned businesses and areas. The from DOA Lures for all of The good news is really good news though, grocery store is on the very cusp of opening, my fishing. The shorter shank and it makes me a happy camper. The Assistant and suddenly people will be bombing from gives my baits more mid body City Manager (ACM) that replaces the previous directions that we didn’t think of to get there. movement and puts that hook ACM assigned to ISAC is now Steven Viera. Palmira has already and will see a huge uptick right where they grab the bait, Steven has been one of ACM’s for the past in traffic. We are going to see an uptick of golf in the head. Redfish are staying couple of years, who has also been with the cart traffic coming from the seawall area. In shallow! The flats are full of tiny City for years in HR and has moved his way up addition, people will be going to the area around grass shrimp and crabs. Without through the ranks because of his work ethic and Starbucks as that fills out. We may want to look the extreme cold weather they attention to detail. Some of you may remember at areas north and south, such as the JFK bridge have been able to scoot around that back before this virtual world we live in area, the Jackfish intersection, Lake Padre, and at night feeding at will. During now that Steven actually attended a couple of across from the horse stables. We need to plan the daytime you will find them ISAC meetings, namely introducing Islander for these things before they get out of control along the edges of the ICW Richard Martinez who as you all know is doing and kids are driving golf carts down the left lane against spoil islands, in the great things with our streets and public works. of PR 22 in the middle of the night. shallow flats of Redfish Bay in Steven is over Development Services, Planning I hope all of you loyal readers are looking to Port A, the East Flats, and Dead and Env. Services, Water, and several other this next year as much as I am. There are a Man’s Hole. These fish can departments, and we are more than happy to be few impediments that have been removed and be caught when we have some working with him. several strong chess pieces now in place for us wind. If it is dead calm they to go forward. Drop me a line at tarponchaser@ have “lock jaw,” moving away We also learned that our main liaison is none from anglers and even perfectly other than Islander Dan McGinn, who is head mail.com and I’ll see you next week here On the Rocks. thrown baits. Making drifts of Planning and Environmental Services under over those shallow flats with a good wind, throw a 3/4ounce gold spoon or a top water to really cover some water. My soft plastic choice for redfish right now is a 4”or 5.5” DOA jerk bait with a strait tail. Pearl and White have been on fire for tagging reds, this offering reflects a pail sand eel out of the mud and running for cover, they can’t resist it. Wade fishing this time of year makes it easier to land mature My boat has been filling up on speckled trout. These older fish will be pushing up shallow to black drum on the bad weather catch mid-day sun. days and stroking limits and more of trout when it’s pretty. Don’t get set in your ways, a farmer turning the soil it fertilizes the bottom go with the flow in these weeks ahead of us. and allows for new growth in the spring. Duck Weather patterns are back and forth. Those hunters have been focusing more and more on prettiest of days are not the best for catching the areas close to your homes because there fish, only for boating! are a lack of migrating waterfowl this year all Get wet!

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Full Transparency and Disclosure The 87th Texas Legislative Session PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President Begins January 12th By Todd Hunter, District 32 As always, let me have Vandalism- On New Year’s Day, the PIPOA The 87th Texas Legislative date to file bills this session will be Friday, your thoughts. You can was the victim of a vandal. There is a backflow Session begins Tuesday, January 12th . The March 12, 2021. Then, the last day of the 87th reach me at marvin@ preventer just outside the PIPOA office Texas House of Representatives swearing-in regular session will be Monday, May 31, 2021. pipoa.net or call at 469- building front door. The preventer sits above ceremony will be held on the House floor at If you would like to follow the Texas House and 231-3485. You can also ground on PVC pipes. Someone completely noon on January 12th. To view the ceremony, learn more information on news, committees or call the PIPOA office with broke the pipes. The water gushed out of the please visit: https://house.texas.gov/video- other aspects of the legislative body, you can any questions you have at 361-949-7025. pipe for at least 3 hours. A local homeowner audio/. In preparation for the 87th Legislative access its website at http://www.house.texas. Executive Director- The PIPOA Board of called me at about 3:30 PM and advised me Session, the State Preservation Board will begin gov. The site features live streaming from the Directors has hired an Executive Director. of the problem. I immediately responded. to allow the public to access the Capitol on House floor, committee hearings as well as He is Gary Klepperich. Mr. Klepperich is The City water department was notified January 4th. To create a safe environment for all access to a number of other resources. You a former Marine. Furthermore, he has 20 because the turn off value at the meter could visitors on the grounds, the State Preservation can also follow the Texas Senate at https:// plus years of experience in the property not be located. The City crew (3 persons) Board will establish health precautions and senate.texas.gov/ The Texas Governor’s official management business. Welcome, Mr. could not find the meter for over two hours. limited hours to allow for building cleaning. website can be found at https://gov.texas.gov/ Klepperich. The City does not have a map or diagrams The House and Senate will manage access to showing where water meters are located. their offices and assemblies once convened As a reminder, the 87th Texas Legislative 2021 Board of Directors Election- The Subsequently, the water was shut off, and the and rules are adopted. The capitol will be open session is beginning. As always, I want to hear following persons have registered to run for next day, the necessary repairs were made. Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm, and will be closed your ideas and suggestions. Your ideas and the three seats up for election. Drew Diggins, information are important forms of feedback The Island has a real problem with theft, Saturday and Sunday for cleaning. Some health Ken Hughes, Jim McFadden, Vicki Marsden precaution that will be taken are: and I hope that you will not hesitate to contact McGinley, Ray Singleton, Dennis Sprout, and vandalism, and other assorted mayhem. my office. Frank Stover. Seven members are seeking Board Meeting- The next PIPOA Board The public may only enter at the north door of the Capitol. If you have questions regarding any of the three seats. meeting will be on January 26, 2021, at 5:30 information mentioned in this week’s article, Board Candidate Newsletter- The PM at the Hyatt Place located on S.P.I.D. • COVID-19 testing is highly recommended please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or newsletter containing candidate resumes beside Saltgrass. Due to COVID, seating and is accessible at the north plaza. District Office. Please always feel free to will be limited based on COVID rules. The should be mailed the week of January 11, • A mask is required at all times when contact my office if you have any questions meeting will be live-streamed on the PIPOA’s 2021. visitors are inside the building. or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if Facebook page. you would like to contact my office regarding It is critical that the PIPOA have your correct • There will be public visitor capacity limits constituent services. As always, my offices are mailing address and email address. PLEASE ISAC Meeting- The Island Strategic Action and social distancing will be required in available at any time to assist with questions, contact the PIPOA by email at padreisles@ Committee meeting is to be held on January all public areas. concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- pipoa.net or call the office at 361-949-7025 to 11, 2021. At the time I write this column, 463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603). verify or update your information. no agenda has been published. This meeting • No public tours, groups, or sponsored is important as it may include discussion or event space will be available. State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 Boat Trailer Stickers- The 2021 Boat action on short-term rentals. The city council This week, I would also like to mention that Trailer Stickers are available at the PIPOA meeting is scheduled for January 12, 2021. Rep. Hunter currently represents Part of office. Please remember, you must have a some bills have been pre-filed for this session, Nueces County. He can be contacted at todd. The currently published agenda does not which began in November of 2020. The final boat trailer sticker on your trailer to park on include short-term rentals as a topic. We must [email protected] or at 512-463-0672. the boat ramps. remain vigilant to protect our property rights. Bulk Trash pickup- Set out for the City’s ACC Meeting- The Architectural Control Bulk Trash (Brush only) pickup starts January Committee will meet on January 11, 2021, at Christmas Tree Goodbye, German 6th through the 10th. Please take advantage 5:30 PM at the PIPOA office. of this opportunity to help keep the Island Disposal Bakery looking good. Recycle Right this You will be missed Your Chance to Make a Difference Holiday Season The City of Corpus Christi’s Solid Waste Department asks residents to set out their ‘real’ Apply for city boards and commissions Christmas trees for collection ONLY during your area’s authorized brush, or brush and bulky The City of Corpus Christi has numerous • Library Board set-out times. boards, commissions and committees which • Port of Corpus Christi Authority of To find your service area and collection strive to reflect the diverse interests and abilities Nueces County, TX schedule please visit www.cctexas.com/solid- of our citizens. waste/heavy-brush-bulky-items. You can also • Sister City Committee The City Secretary’s Office is currently seeking take your trees to the J.C. Elliott Collection applications for the following boards: If you know of anyone interested in serving on Center located on Highway 286 and Ayers a City board, commission or committee, please Street, Monday thru Saturday from 8:00 • Civil Service Board direct them to the City of Corpus Christi’s a.m. to 5:00 p.m. There is no additional cost • Civil Service Commission website at http://serve.cctexas.com. For for residents choosing any of these options. assistance, please call Norma Duran at (361) • Committee for Persons with Disabilities 826-3105 or via e-mail at NormaD2@cctexas. • Construction Trade Advisory & Appeals com. Board By policy all individuals considered for • Corpus Christi Commission on Children appointment by the City Council to a board, & Youth commission or committee must have an • Corpus Christi Regional Economic application on file in the Office of the City Development Corporation Secretary not later than the 14TH calendar day before the date appointments are considered by • Landmark Commission City Council.

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Before long This year was one heck of a roller coaster, a Aransas ISD in offering have been a few cold flights or cold winters, birds will bulk up and wild ride of unexpected twists and turns that we a place for students to spells lately that have eat even more food than usual. The fat reserves look forward to exiting soon. As we all reflect participate in e-learning forced me to bundle up provide an additional layer between their core on the last year, it’s losses, bumps and bruises, while school was not when I go outside. This got me thinking: how and the cold weather, plus more energy to create heartaches and troubles, let us celebrate that it is allowed to be on campus. do animals, especially birds, keep warm in cold body heat. behind us. Please take this moment to recognize weather? McDonald Field Restored But what about those parts of the body that the accomplishments, innovations and recovery don’t have much fat or feathers, particularly our Parks & Recreation Department were able Valued at nearly $1 the legs? Birds lose vital body heat as warm to make as a team, a community and as a City. million, a project blood circulates through their exposed legs, Surf Rescue Grows to rehabilitate Jerry cooling as it goes. They can combat this McDonald Field problem by tucking their legs in close to their The beach lifeguard was completed. body to keep them warm, and with what’s called program expanded, Marlin Academy countercurrent heat exchange. supervisor & trainee students played a Warm blood enters the legs through arteries. positions now offered game of kickball to Cooler blood exits the legs through veins. With to increase recruitment break in the field for the first time after the field countercurrent heat exchange, the birds have & retention of staff. was heavily damaged by Hurricane Harvey in adapted to have arteries that touch the veins Trainees are able start at 2017. 16 years, & supervisors receive higher starting in the legs. This transfers heat from the blood pay. The team was also featured in a T.V. Community Pool Renovations coming into the legs to the blood exiting. It commercial for beach safety. keeps more warmth in the body core and less The Community Pool deck heat enters the legs and feet to be leeched out Digital Programs & RECDesk and pool were resurfaced. by the cold. Lifeguards repainted locker Registration rooms, restrooms and Another cold weather adaptation can be found Many of the traditional floors. A Canyon Towhee fluffs up its feathers to in a bird’s metabolism. Birds generally have a trap warm air close to its body. Photo by high metabolism and run a body temperature in-person programs were Splashpad reinvented and shared Mike Williams. slightly higher than ours, about 105 degrees digitally via our Facebook The “Port Aransas Fahrenheit. This internal temperature helps page, YouTube channel, Lilypad” was built Birds have several adaptations that help them them keep warm in the winter, especially with Instagram & Twitter. New adjacent to the survive the winter in relative comfort. One of those downy feathers and fat reserves keeping software was introduced Community Pool. the most obvious ones is their downy feathers. the heat in. to schedule, register and Fun for all ages this Humans use down feathers to make warm coats Finally, there are several behaviors that birds take payments. pond-themed splash and other clothing, so it makes sense that down can practice to stay warm. If they have a flock, park features spraying serves the same warming purpose for birds. New Nature Trail & Burn they can roost together, standing or sitting close cattails, a water Down feathers are fluffy, small, and can be to each other to keep the heat it. Those birds in A new trail was mushroom and wickets you can run under. found down below the bird’s other feathers, the center of the group will be nice and toasty close to the skin. opened extending New Holiday Displays when they’re surrounded by down and 105 the walk from the The fluffy down traps warm air next to the skin, degree bodies! Another beneficial behavior Leonabelle Turnbull Residents had lots of compliments onthe new insulating it against the cold outside. Birds can is sunning. When the sun comes out, birds sit Birding Center. It will coastal themed lighted pole displays on Alister. multiply this effect by fluffing up their feathers out and soak up the rays, saving their energy to eventually connect An outdoor Enchanted Holiday Forest and to create more pockets for warm air. If you see make more heat when the clouds roll in. to the southern (Hwy Santa in the Park were fun ways to adapt our a particularly round bird this winter, it hasn’t So the next time you go outside and shiver, 361) entrance of the Holiday Traditions this year. eaten a baseball, it’s just fluffing up to keep don’t worry about our downy feathered friends. Nature Preserve at warm. With all of these awesome adaptations, they’re Charlie’s Pasture. far better equipped for the winter than we are! The Nature Preserve also conducted a 40 acre prescribed burn for beneficial habitat mangement. Bird City The Barnacle Line Port Aransas was By Del Smith recognized for its efforts I understand that dwelling in Memories of hot summer days, hoping that to protect birds and their the past could possibly be a sign Preach, or Hoot, or Len would come riding up habitats. The town has of some sort of mental malady. on their bike so that I would have a swimming been designated one of four If one were to do it constantly, that is. I guess it buddy for the clear, cool swimming hole of inaugural certified Bird could become habit forming enough to attract Cherry Creek where it meandered through the City Texas cities through the attention of the people with that funning northeast corner of the farm. a program involving the looking jacket with all of those straps and Memories of those same swimming / fishing Texas Parks and Wildlife stuff. The preferred attitude, is of course, one / hunting buddies and myself riding through Department and Audubon of a constant awareness of the present and the the early morning hours in old Sam Buzzard’s Texas, according to the concerns of what will happen in the future. The topless Model A pick-up heading towards a city’s parks and recreation past is just that; ---- the past. But every once in week long camp on the banks of the White in department. a while some “now” event happens that brings the Arkansas Ozark’s. His reward for our labors back those past events that shaped the way you Camp-in-a-Box & In Person on his five acre watermelon patch. Memories of are today. The experiences of the formative never getting to raid a watermelon patch, for we Camp Marlin, an 8-week summer children’s years of youth. in-person program by Parks & Rec, was limited could have all that we wanted and more. Such an event has just occurred to me. A call in size due to Covid-19 in 2020. Held at the Memories of cold winter beds and waking from sister number one wanting to know if it Port Aransas Community Theatre, it had no up to the sounds of Dad stoking the fire. Of would be all right with me to sell the old farm, contamination. P & R also partnered with the Santa in Port A. waiting a long as possible before the mad dash or what is left of it, back in Kansas. Where she ACE program in a boxed camp consisting of to the stove to put on your school clothes, by Photo by Ronnie Narmour and her husband have spent the last fifteen years kits that could be used by children at home. the glowing heat. Memories of feeling lucky helping mom through her final years of mortal that your mom had the job of starting the fire coil. The decision, in their life now, is to go for the little one room school that you went to. back to their beloved Oregon. Lucky that you got to ride to school on those Then the memories came. The memories of a cold mornings and that the walk back would be boy on a small, dirt scrabble Kansas farm. The in the warm afternoon sun. events and experiences that made me who I am Memories of tall ships, two feet long, carefully and how I am today. fabricated for sailing off to adventures across Memories of a chunk of cow salt in your tackle the farm pond. –--- Molding the desire to live bag so that you could pull a green apple from life as I know it now. the limb, over your head, as you worked off the Memories; many good, strong and fond. Maybe frustrations of the big bass that would not bite some bad ones also. But those seem to disappear on any thing you offered. You knew, because from the senses while the good ones of times you could see it as plain as day, in the crystal and people hover there in the background of my clear waters of this old strip mine turned into an mind. Of a youth of long ago. orchard, vineyard and fishing heaven. A short, five mile bicycle ride from home. But no, Sis, even though the old place holds many memories and was the place that molded Memories of the every day chores of a working me into who I am today, there is no desire to farm. Of stubborn cows that did not want to go go back to recapture that youth that was. I can to the milk barn. Of countless buckets of water understand your desire to return to your happy and coal that had to be carried. Of kindling years in western Oregon and move on with needing chopped. Of the hated hoeing of the life. So, yes, let’s sell, so that, maybe some ever present weeds in garden. Of the constant other child will have the opportunity to start need to mow the acre of a spring time, grass collecting the memories of a lifetime. yard. It’s finally been found! Photo by DT Briner.

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By Ronnie Narmour [email protected] A rough start… I’m sorry to say, 2021 started off challengingly for several of my good friends who are having serious health issues and could use some positive vibes right about now. Our resident honey badger, Renee Garland, manager at Red’s Riviera, is in the The Spazmatics will play Brewster Street The new bollard buddies look great. Renee Garand hospital. She suffers from diverticulitis and had to on Friday. have emergency surgery this week. She had a very close brush with death but is doing much better now. There will be a benefit Live Music and silent auction for her at Red’s on Valentine’s Day. And my dear friend and an old friend of Port Tonight Brewster Street Downtown A, Kathleen Moore, is Justin & Niki @ Brewster in delicate surgery as we Wednesday, Jan. 6 Mike Isabelle with Riptide played the Street Southside speak for a golf ball size Riptide @ Back Porch Ruben Limas @ Kathleen Moore tumor on her frontal lobe. Back Porch last Saturday. Jerry Ward @ Doc’s Blackbeard’s Kathleen is a high school Billy Snipes @ Sierra Dawn @ art teacher in Ingleside Scuttlebutt’s Scuttlebutt’s Ruben Limas @ and our resident mural Blackbeard’s BUDDY CORTINES JAN. 8 artists. You’ve probably Saturday, January 16 Ty Dietz @ Vernon’s TBA @ Back Porch seen her work on the front Open Jam @ Executive RIPTIDE JAN. 9 Queen Legacy @ Brewster of the Gaff, Frankie’s Surf Club BANDUS DOWNS JAN 15 Street Downtown Kitchen, the Shark’s Reef Meza Band @ Brewster and the Flats Lounge, Thursday, January 7 RICH LOCKHART JAN 22 Street Southside etc. Kathleen is also a Billy Snipes @ Doc’s JIM DUGAN JAN 23 Brian Winfrey @ Island champion of forgotten Ruben Limas @ Island Italian Italian stray dogs and cats. I’m 132 W. Cotter St. Port A Eric Magnus @ Olivia Whitehurst @ Scuttlebutt’s Paul Fain. worried to death about Scuttlebutt’s her right now. And, I Jim Dugan @ Brewster Sunday, January 17 just found out that island Street South Billy Snipes @ Doc’s troubadour, Hank Reeves, is also being Ty Dietz @ Cassidy’s John Eric @ Scuttlebutt’s checked out in the hospital. They are trying to Flatbroke @ Brewster find out what caused him to pass out this week. Street Downtown Monday, January 18 Plus my old, dear friend Paul Fain, of Tarpon Stevie Start @ Doc’s Ice House fame, has been battling throat cancer Coach Dugan had some help on stage last Friday, January 8 Ric Graham @ for several months but has responded well to his weekend at the Gaff. Buddy Cortines @ Back Scuttlebutt’s Porch treatment. We lost many musicians in 2020… Spazmatics @ Brewster that raven has been busy. I have a list of over we were in bed by 11:00. My Mermaid Gal’s Tuesday, January 19 Street Downtown Treasure Island Stevie Start @ Doc’s 90 musicians who died last year and the ones last words of the evening were, “It’s midnight somewhere, Happy New Year and goodnight.” Ruben Limas @ Mike Perez @ I’m either familiar with or knew personally, in Blackbeard’s Scuttlebutt’s chronological order include Mike Williams, On New Year’s Day, we did go by the Gaff Sierra Dawn @ LOUNGE & Tommy Hancock, David Olney, Kenny who usually has their annual Black Eye Pea Off Scuttlebutt’s st Wednesday, January 20 Rogers, Joe Diffie, Ellis Marslis, John Prine, on the 1 but not this year. But they did have Alley Catz @ @ Brewster DANCE CLUB Jerry Ward @ Doc’s Bill Withers, Sweet Pea Atkinson, Jorge Coach Jim Dugan playing inside the club and Street Southside NOW OPEN THUR-SUN Billy Snipes @ Santana, Bonnie Pointer, Charlie Daniels, I can think of no better way to usher in the new 7:00 PM Scuttlebutt’s year than with Coach Dugan. There weren’t but Saturday, January 9 Ruben Limas @ Peter Green, Wayne Fontana, Trini Lopez, Riptide @ Back Porch Justin Townes Earle, Toots Hibbert, Roy a small handful of us in there but it was fun. 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Blackbeard’s Brian Winfrey @ Island Ty Dietz @ Vernon’s Head, Mac Davis, Helen Reddy, Eddie Van Some little girl actually got on stage with Jim treasureislandporta and sang, “We will, we will rock you.” It was Italian Open Jam @ Executive Halen, Johnny Nash, Johnny Bush, Spencer Eric Magnus @ Surf Club Davis, Jerry Jeff Walker, Paul English, Billy very cute. On Saturday we made it over to the Scuttlebutt’s Back Porch for a bit and caught Mike Isabelle Joe Shaver, Hal Ketchum, Charley Pride, Ty Dietz @ House of Thursday, January 21 K.T. Oslin, James Hand and Riley Osborne. and his band, Riptide. This band plays a lot of Rock Ruben Limas @ Island I pray that we don’t become complacent and swinging oldies and rockabilly and pulls it off Seattle Rising @ Brewster Italian insensitive to all this death that surrounds us with style. Street Downtown Olivia @ Scuttlebutt’s CJ Simmons @ Brewster Falco & the Wolf @ right now. They throw astronomical numbers of DO NOT MISS LIST Street Southside daily death tolls at us and it keeps us all numb. Brewster Street Downtown Coming this weekend… Jim Dugan @ Brewster These COVID vaccinations can’t come quick Sunday, January 10 Street Southside enough. I’m not saying I’m going to, but if I were Billy Snipes @ Doc’s to go anywhere it would be to Brewster John Eric @ Scuttlebutt’s Friday, January 22 On the local front… Street Downtown on Friday to see the zany Rich Lockhart @ Back Historically the first week of the year is Spazmatics. The Spazmatics are a chain Monday, January 11 Porch the slowest of the year for retail businesses, band. There are a bunch of them around the Stevie Start @ Doc’s Ruben Limas @ country and have interchangeable parts with Eric Graham @ Blackbeard’s especially bars and restaurants. Throw in a Scuttlebutt’s pesky pandemic limiting our exposure to other multiple cast members. There are Spazmatics PORT ARANSAS’ Randall King @ Brewster Street Downtown people and measures to keep us confined and lineups based in Dallas, Austin, Cleveland, Los Tuesday, January 12 , , , , OLDEST AND Flatbroke @ Brewster you got a week with lackluster written all over Angeles Las Vegas San Francisco Nashville Stevie Start @ Doc’s Street Southside it. In Port A, this is painfully obvious right now. Tampa, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Chicago, North Mike Perez @ Sierra Dawn @ What I’m trying to say is, there ain’t squat going Carolina, South Carolina, San Antonio and Scuttlebutt’s FRIENDLIEST Scuttlebutt’s on around here. Except for us locals, a few New York City. They are basically an 80’s OPEN Till 11pm • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. Winter Texans and day trippers, the beaches are New Wave tribute band with heavy theatrical Wednesday, January 13 Saturday, January 23 virtually empty right now and I love it. Winter overtones. This is “Nerd Rock” at its finest. Jerry Ward @ Doc’s Jim Dugan @ Back Porch They cover a mix of 80’s radio hits like Devo, Billy Snipes @ Brian Winfrey @ Island is my favorite time of the year here on our little Scuttlebutt’s island. The pushy tourists are now back home The Romantics, Tears for Fears, Billy Idol, Italian Ruben Limas @ Eric Magnus @ in Austin and San Antonio, at least until the sun Violent Femmes, The Buggles, George Blackbeard’s Michael, Talking Heads, Duran Duran, Scuttlebutt’s comes back out in full force. I especially love Ty Dietz @ Vernon’s Ozz: Tribute to Ozzy to watch the winter surfers. Those are some Bryan Adams, The Cars, Pet Shop Boys… Open Jam @ Executive Osbourne @ Brewster dedicated souls! BTW, I wish someone would you get the picture. The band members’ onstage Surf Club Street Downtown explain to me why they continue to move so costume includes bowties, plaid pants, taped Alley Catz @ Brewster much sand around on the beach and beach road. glasses, pocket protectors and short shorts. The Thursday, January 14 Street Southside Their ongoing procedure appears to be, make a costumes are a homage to the filmRevenge of Ruben Limas @ Island the Nerds. I saw them at Brewster a couple of Italian Sunday, January 24 pile of sand and keep moving it over and over Olivia @ Scuttlebutt’s again. But on the positive side, the new freshly times and must admit, I had a blast. The crowd Billy Snipes @ Doc’s Falco & the Wolf @ John Eric @ Scuttlebutt’s knitted bollard buddies look fabulous! dresses for the show in their best nerd and Brewster Street Southside believe me, the vibe is fast and loose if not just Scattered shots… Monday, January 25 plain goofy. That’s all I got. Be safe out there. Friday, January 15 Stevie Start @ Doc’s Last weekend was actually the New Year’s We ain’t out of the woods yet! Bandus Downs @ Back Eric Graham @ Porch holiday. The weather was just horrible (terrible’s ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ Scuttlebutt’s what it is) on New Year’s Eve last Thursday and Diamond’s Edge @ Tuesday, January 26 Stevie Start @ Doc’s Mike Perez @ Scuttlebutt’s

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