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Souper Bowl A2 Mayhem at Camden Castle A9 Backwater Adventures A11 Mark McKinney A18 Issue 724 The Island Free

The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 March 1, 2018 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Painting by Lee Ricks Around Island Gets Ready for News from The Island the Padre By Dale Rankin Island Property The Island is holding its collective Spring Break 2018 breath as we wind down toward Owners Spring Break 2018 with 250,000 The early arrivers for Spring Break new souls expected to pack our 2018 will begin showing up next Association little sandbar with fun, revelry, and week and preparations are being Balloting underway ultimately lobster tans. made to handle the anticipated crowd Ballots are currently out for the The new traffic plan to route all beach of 250,000 revelers over two weeks election of three members of the traffic between Packery Channel and from March 10-March 24. PIPOA Board of Directors. The Mustang Island State Park through On the beach north of Packery ballots come with a return mailing the intersection at Zahn Road and Channel crews are at work forming address and will be counted by State Highway 361 is going to push traffic lanes from Zahn Road north officials at Corpus Christi A&M with a lot of traffic flow through that two- along the beach to the south end of the results announced at the annual lane road. There is little choice in Mustang Island State Park. City PIPOA meeting at 10 a.m., Saturday the matter due to damage to Beach officials told the Island Strategic March 10, at the gymnasium at Access Roads by Hurricane Harvey. Action Committee in early February Seashore Learning Center on that the traffic flow this year will be Encantada. Three seats are up for Remembering Moon Mike different than in past years due to grabs between six candidates with the A ceremony to remember Island damage to access road by Hurricane highest vote getters taking the seats. Moon founder Mike Ellis will be held Harvey. In past years traffic has Town Hall meetings on Michael J. Ellis Beach at 4 p.m. entered the beach from State on Sunday, March 4. Mike’s friends Highway 361 at Beach Access Road PIPOA will hold a series of three and the public are invited to attend 3A just south of Mustang Island State town hall meetings in July, October, the event where Mike’s ashes will Park and moved southbound down Work is underway to ad pedestrian lanes to Beach Access Road 3A at and December. Times and locations will be announced as the dates get be spread. We are also raising funds the beach to exit back to Highway the north end of the seawall. to replace the sign in the parking 361 at Zahn Road. However, this nearer. lot which was destroyed by weather year, according to the city officials, snarl that produced a solid line of Billish Park and vandals. We hope to see a good the traffic will instead enter and vehicles from the ferry landings in crowd there to remember our friend, exit the beach at Zahn Road. Traffic Port Aransas to the base of the JFK his birthday would have been the entering the beach will move north Causeway. following day. along the beach in the lanes currently being formed, then reversed direction Port Aransas liquor ban ISAC meeting Tuesday, March 6 back southbound to Zahn Road. In January the Port Aransas City The March meeting of the Island Temporary traffic lights will be put in Council passed a resolution banning Strategic Action Committee, an place at the intersection. alcoholic beverages on the beaches advisory group to the Corpus Christi Three years ago when the beach there between 6 p.m. and midnight City Council, will be held at Holiday filled up CCPD had to close the from Saturday, March 10- Sunday Crews are creating traffic lanes Inn Express on Windward Drive at beach entrance roads which sent the March 18. This is the third year for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 6. The such a ban in an attempt to control on the beach north of Packery majority of the traffic up Highway Channel. Work is progressing on $450,000 in public is invited and encouraged to which resulted in a massive traffic rowdy crowds. attend. improvements to Billish Park. Crews have excavated the area that will One of the topics on hand will be Island on the Move! become the sand volleyball pit, and the use of $2 million in antedated the project manager told the PIPOA funds for The Island in an upcoming board on Tuesday that due to some bond election. One of the uses New Projects Moving Forward cost savings in other areas the entire being discussed for the money is park will now be sodded with new improvements to the median along grass, previous plans called for only SPID. Across The Island the multipurpose playing field to have There will also be an update on plans By Dale Rankin Rasheed is working to bring in the fill Tortuga Dunes sod. A grand opening for the project sand necessary to raise the elevation is expected in June. to repair the Packery Channel Jetties As we move quickly toward the at the site. after Hurricane Harvey. beginning of the busy one hundred Old boats Hard freeze and timely rain day summer tourist season on The The plan includes an road onto the Island an array of various projects are property from the back side to allow PIPOA Executive Director Becky The hard freeze we had this winter, ongoing, some nearing completion for access without having to use Perrin told the board Tuesday that the first in several years, and some and some still in the planning stages. SPID – which mean it will be golf the organization has responded to timely rain not long after had quick cart accessible. The plan also calls complaints of dilapidated boats It has been a busy year so far for new effect on the Island’s sticker burr for a restaurant on the SPID frontage, moored behind Island houses. She projects here are some of those that population. Kids have actually been but at last reports no tenant had been said that while the boats may be in are ongoing. able to play baseball in Aquarius found. disrepair, they can only be removed Park. We know, it sounds crazy but Island grocery store if they sink. Dollar General Tortuga Dunes work to begin in we have eyewitnesses. If we can just Light pollution find a way to keep them out we might Lori and Mohsin Rasheed are March moving forward with plan to open Across the be able to actually use our parks, Developer Jeff Lamkin and partners Perrin also said there have been a shopping center just south of street site work what a concept! bought the long-stalled Tortuga several complaints of security lights Whitecap on SPID, next to Seashore is underway on Dunes project last year and Lamkin shining into neighboring houses and One of these days… Middle School which will include a new Dollar says crews will on site by the end that PIPOA rules do offer relief once an IGA grocery store. They have General Store. Over the years we’ve all heard it of March. Plans call for seven acres complaints are made to the office. purchased the franchise and have Crews have not said many times over, “One of these of the current infrastructure at the tenants for six of the eight spaces been working on Bombing site days this island is going to explode.” site to be removed to make way for that will be available, one of which the site in recent The speakers are not referring the permanent wetlands. That land was A town hall meeting is planned after is the 6000 square-foot grocery. The weeks and there alleged bomb site on the south end donated to the Bays and Estuaries Spring Break to address the recent project has been delayed by wetlands is currently no announced date for of The Island that has been in the opening. POA cont. on A4 news of late, they are talking about issues, which are now resolved, and Projects cont. on A4 development, and for the first time in memory things are in fact starting A little Island history to happen. A check of projects in this issue shows that there is interest in starting new businesses here, but they 1948 was the Year Padre Island Began to Change By Dale Rankin are often stalled by inertia and red to Bauer-Smith Dredging Company Things moved quickly and by set aside for maintenance, any tape at the city. Nonetheless, we do Editor’s note: The following of Port Lavaca. Robert McIntyre February 1, 1949 the Nueces County money over the one-twelfth figure have a lot of new construction. information was compiled through on behalf of the State Board of Commission approved plans for would be used to pay back the contemporary accounts, historical Education exercised an option to the project and at 10:00 a.m. on bonds. The Allison family of San Ironically it is not the public side that purchase $300,000 of the bonds and February 25 bids were opened. is holding up the largest development records, and conversations with Antonio, which issued the bonds, people directly involved in the funding for the project was in place. M.E. Allison, a member of the firm would recoup their investment by currently in the works but private which issued the bonds revealed the projects. Construction plans were already in developing the land north of the ownership. Funding for the Park complete operational plan for the place, drawn up by Myers & Noyas county line obtained from the Jones Road 22/SPID Water Exchange The year was 1948 and Padre new causeway. A commission was engineers, and the county issued family. It was this part of the deal Bridge from the city is in place, Island needed a causeway across soon in place to appoint a board of revenue bonds of $1.7 million with that explains why the land north of what is lacking is a commitment of the Laguna Madre. The Jones directors to oversee the project. $5 million in funds to guarantee the family, who owned what is now that money to be repaid from the the county line developed into what building of bulkheads on the newly Padre Island made a deal to transfer $1 fee charged to cross on the new Causeway tolls set is now the residential area, and the dug canal leading from the bridge site causeway when it was finished. Jones family as part of the same deal ownership of the land north of The tolls to cross were set: $1 to the existing Island canal system on donated the land for Park Road 22 the Kleberg County Line and in By that time Nueces County had a for each passenger car, $2 for the west side of the road. One of the (now SPID). exchange the new owners would full crew on site along the Laguna each truck, $1 for each bus, and owners, Axys Capital, has indicated to purchase the bonds needed to fund Madre putting construction stakes ten cents for each passenger not It could accurately be said that the city they will fund their half of the the new causeway. down to mark the arrival of the dredge driving, ten cents for pedestrians, 1949 was the year that cleared the $5 million, so the only thing holding needed to begin work and soon test and ten cents for each bicycle rider. way for development on Padre up the bridge is a commitment of $2.5 By early 1949 a deposit of pilings were being driven along Revenue from the crossing charge Island. The forecast called for work million from the International Bank $1,338,750 to purchase the bonds was made at the State National the route of the new causeway by was transferred to a sinking fund on the new causeway to begin in Bank and a work order was issued Middleton & Goldston Construction with one-twelfth of the revenue Around cont. on A4 of Corpus Christi. History cont. on A4 March 1, 2018 Island Moon A 2 First Friday at Port Aransas Art Center 2018 Souper Bowl a Success First Friday at the Port Aransas Art Center will be held March 2 with an All Member Show and reception. The fun runs from 5:30-7:30 and first, second, and third place prizes will be awarded by a Judge and the public will vote all month for “People’s Choice.” The public is invited.

Souper Bowl winner.

Soup winner.

Rita Reed 2018. Beth Alexander 2018

Les McDonald 2018.

Lee Ricks 2018. Nancy Buskey 2018.

The Art Center of Corpus Christi hosted the annual Souper Bowl to benefit its Family Art Program and the Food Bank of the Coastal Bend. Two delicious soups came from the Island: Angry Marlin served up a green chili stew and a clam chowder and Aunt Sissy's Kitchen won the People's Choice (for the second year in a row!) with her Chicken Florentine and Tortellini soup. Attendees sampled 200 gallons of soup from 23 restaurants and caterers after selecting a beautiful bowl to take home from a dazzling display of almost 750 of different styles, colors, and sizes. Photos by Debbie Noble and Bruce Bair

•Charming home! •LARGE closets! •Room for a pool •Concrete boat trailer parking 13929 Skysail $235,000 •New roof! March 1, 2018 Island Moon A 3 mess." We all want to be treated fairly. Of course, we want our POA to operate within the Moon Monkeys law and to protect our rights, our money, and Did Ya Mike Ellis, Founder Letters to the our property, which is their stated purpose. If you agree, then I encourage you to vote for the Hear? Candidates for Change: Marta Sprout, Nick By Mary "Scoop" Craft Editor Colosi, and Vicki Marsden. [email protected] Here's to preserving our No Tie Zone, Marta Sprout New Advertisers Access Total Care is coming POA this month to the current SunSurf Dear Editor— Medical Clinic location. They will Since moving to the island last July, the be open 7 days a week 9 am – 9 pm. Distribution upcoming PIPOA election was and still is a The facility will be available for major topic of conversation and concern. Pete Alsop quick walk in care. There will be on Island Delivery All that talk boiled it down to one issue,that for site x-ray and lab services. It is under Coldwell Banker me overrides all others in determining which candidates to vote. That is: do I want the right new management and ownership. Advertising to amend the bylaws or do I want to cede that Multi-Family Yard Sale at 14349 Jan Park Rankin right to the Board of Directors. Scallop Street March 3rd and 4th 7 am Classifieds The answer for me was simple. I want the – 2 pm. Arlene Ritley Space for PIPOA right to vote on all bylaw changes. Hope all Production Manager who read this also want that right and will join Abigail Bair Candidates me in voting for Vicki Marsden, Marta Sprout Business Briefs and Nick Colosi. Those 3 along with current Contributing Writers Editor’s note: We are offering Island Moon Founder and Island member Marvin Jones will be the majority Joey Farah space here for each of the seven necessary to give us the right to vote on bylaw Icon Mike Ellis will have his ashes Andy Purvis candidates in the race for seat on chances. strewn at the Michael Ellis Beach in the Board of Directors on March Mary Craft Ted Mandel front of the seawall parking lot on Kelly Trevino 10. Ballots in the race will be sent Sunday, March 4th at 4 pm. All of his Jay Gardner out in the next week. Key Largo Court many friends are invited to share in Todd Hunter Each property owner gets one vote this celebration of his return home. Dotson Lewis Horrible Holiday Humor: for each piece of property owned. Dr. Tom Dorrell Billish Park improvements have Ronnie Narmour Seven candidates are running for Spring Break Edition begun and they will include a three seats, with the three top vote Brent Rourk sand volleyball court, playground getters taking office. upgrades, the entire park completely Photographers Spring break - that's when kids work on their tans and teachers work on their sanity. sodded and a utility field to Miles Merwin (Emeritus) We are offering each of the accommodate various sports. A Debbie Noble candidates space here between now Spring break - that's when kids go wild someplace other than school. grand opening is expected in June. Jan Rankin and the election. Each candidate Spring break is when the only thing kids study Mary Craft can submit two statements on Litter Critter will no longer be subjects of their choice up to 700 is each other. Ronnie Narmour coming to the Island. Those wishing words between now and Election The college kids call it spring "break." Their Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) to bring the popular project back to Day. We will run the submissions parents, however, call it spring "broke." The Island should call the city at 826- Riley P. Dog in the order they are received. Spring break is when teenagers give their CITY (2489). swimsuits a dry run. To submit e-mail to editor@ The Fulton Oysterfest starts islandmoon.com the statements Spring break - that's when students take time Thursday, March 1st and runs until off from football games, basketball games, will be run in their entirety and dances, parties, and hanging out in bars, and go Sunday, March 4th. There will be without edit. to Florida and relax. carnival rides, live music, unique Thousands of college kids head south to vendor booths and oyster contests. vacation on a shoestring. Or at least that's what The Southside Farmers Market is Lights they wear on the beach. open every Saturday year round 9 I have sent many request to the Mayor, Governor Spring break is that annual ritual when college am until noon. It is located at the and Todd Hunter about the lights that are out on kids flock to the beach, get drunk, and try to The Market on Everhart 5800 Ever- Publisher the roadway SPID, The causeway to the island swim upstream. hart near Holly. Dale Rankin and the Bridge to the island that have been Spring break is when the nation's college kids out and lights are damaged and photometric's About the Island Moon demonstrate to the world how much they've shore Learning Center schools will The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale are way off according to TEX DOT Standards learned. Rankin, Editor / Publisher. and your legal obligations to maintain at those have registration March 1st - March Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes standards and roadway lighting compliance. Spring break is when the nation's breweries go 31st. delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 all out to teach another generation how to throw copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, For over the year now nothing has been done. The Spring Island Art & Farmers as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 up responsibly. copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. Maybe use the same garbage collection zone Market will be held at Briscoe King News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, map and work through it to make sure these Pavilion on Thursday, March 1st 4 - locations above and the rest of the city gets their Top 10 Amish Spring payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. 8 pm. The art walk joins the Farmers lights taken care of or maybe we need to replace Break Activities The Island Moon Newspaper contracts and people serving TexDOT projects. Market four times a year. 14646 Compass, Suite 3 Do expect the media to be involved locally and Island Joe’s Coffee Shop & nationally if you cannot serve the safety of the 10. Drink molasses 'til you heave Gallery is shooting for an opening by Corpus Christi, TX 78418 public which you are not now. 9. Wet bonnet contest Memorial Day. The new construction 361-949-7700 I am second generation lighting and can assure 8. Stuff as many guys as you can into a buggy next to Michelle’s Salon on Park [email protected] you by just photometric reports you endanger Road 22 will include an outdoor our lives here in Corpus and on Padre Island. 7. Buttermilk keggar Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper patio, pull down movie screen and Gary Balluck 6. Blow past the Dairy Queen on a really rad Clydesdale rental units on the second floor. 14737 Quarterdeck Drv 5. Get a tattoo: "Born to raise barns" A POA Board Candidates’ Rally will be held at the Angry Marlin 4. Cruise streets of Belleville shouting insults nd Preserving Our No Tie at people with zippers Restaurant on March 2 6 – 8 pm. Where to Find The There will be a free drink coupon at Zone 3. Sleep 'til 6 AM the door. Island Moon When I came here nine years ago, I met a 2. Drive over to Allensville and kick some community of welcoming people who all came Mennonite booty The IGA Family Center and AFPA here to enjoy the island and live in peace. And Trinity By the Sea will be giving free bags/cans of dog/ yet here we are today watching the rhetoric fly 1. Churn butter naked Port Episcopal cat food at the IGA parking lot in back and forth. How do you know which one rd Aransas is right? One place to start is to compare what Spring Jokes for Kids Port Aransas on Saturday, March 3 Sand Piper Condos 1 – 4 pm. North people say with what they actually do. Words How excited was the gardener about spring? Sea Gull Condos Padre are great, but actions tell the tale. So excited he wet his plants. Veranda Restaurant at Gulf Breeze RV What have I done? When the board (Marvin Does February like March? No, but April May Schlitterbahn is currently closed on All Stripes Stores Jones excluded) didn't see our crime problem as Pioneer RV Tuesdays until late April. It may be Black Sheep/ a priority, I began working in partnership with When do monkeys fall from the sky? During APE-ril showers open during spring break week on La Palmilla Golf Barrel the Chief of Police and the Crime Prevention Club Unit to bat down crime on the island and it's What season is it best to go on a trampoline? Tuesday. CVS working. When the board (Marvin Jones Spring time Costa Sur Restaurant is currently Stripes (1A) excluded) wanted to force us to trim our palms, I Whataburger Kody’s Restaurant did exhaustive research and delivered to you, not What do you call a rabbit with flees? Bugs BYOB. Doc’s Restaurant my opinion, but that of our nation's top experts Bunny Amano so that you could make an informed decision: Snoopy’s Pier What goes up when the rain goes down? WB Liquor your trees, your property, your decision. And Umbrellas Why was the bee mad? You’d be mad too if I've walked the streets of the island, shook your 361 Bar Isle Mail N More someone stole your honey and nectar. hands, and welcomed your ideas and input What month of the year is the shortest? May Moby Dicks Island Italian because together we are the solution. (only 3 letters) Do you know all about April 1st?… Yes, I’m fooly aware of it! Spanky’s Liquor Brooklyn Pie Co. What has your board done? Over the objections Name a bow that can’t be tied. A rainbow Why is everyone so tired on April 1?… Because IGA Grocery Store Ace Hardware of Marvin Jones, they rejected procedures that What’s Irish and comes out in Spring? Paddy would have ensured a fair election process. O’Furniture they’ve just finished a long, 31 day March! Port A Glass Studio Holiday Inn They allowed a flawed compliance program What can be seen in the middle of the months to be inflicted upon this community. They Where will you be in five years? I don’t know. San Juan’s Mexican Texas Star (Shell) I don’t have 2020 vision. ‘April’ and ‘March’, that cannot be seen in the Restaurant tolerated false statements on POA's IRS tax beginning or end of either month?… the letter Jesse’s Liquor returns. Leslie Hess justified her insistence Why did Cinderella get kicked off the baseball “r.” Wash Board that property owners should not have a right to team? She always ran away from the ball. Laundry Mat Scuttlebutt’s amend their own bylaws by saying, "At my job, Drop Anchor Bar & Restaurant my employees don't get a vote." Grill Subway Nancy Tressa's claim that our audits did not Port A Parks & Rec Island Tire discover any discrepancies is entirely false. Not only do we have over a million dollars at Public Library Padre Pizzeria risk, we have multiple violations and conflicts Chamber of And all Moon of interest. The new candidate, Kay Walker, admits she has only been to one board meeting Commerce/ Visitor’s retail advertisers Center and is uniformed about our issues, but thinks that is her strong point. Woody’s Sports WB Liquor Center We have piles of documentation showing fictitious statements, mismanagement, and Back Porch Flour Bluff questionable actions or inactions by the POA Shorty’s Place H.E.B. that have caused great harm and heartache to Fisherman’s Wharf Whataburger on many of our members. Naturally, many of us Waldron approached the board privately and respectfully Giggity’s to express our concerns and were ignored or Ethyl Everly Tarpon Inn treated horribly. That gave us no choice but to Senior Center go public. The board's reaction (Marvin Jones Gratitude’s Fire Station excluded) was to do a dodge and redirect by The Gaff blaming us for pointing out problems rather Police Station than getting busy resolving those problems. Send Letters and Photos to Wild Horse Stripes on Flour My friend, Chief Simpson used to say, "When Treasure Island [email protected] Bluff & SPID you mess up, fess up, and then clean up your and follow us on Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper March 1, 2018 Island Moon A 4 Around cont. from A1 headline County Engineer Brings Home to The Island should call the city at 826-CITY Lake Padre Another Basket of Turtle Eggs.” The copy read: (2489). Developer Paul “A sea turtle about three feet long and two feet of Commerce which owns the property at the Schexnailder said this across is in the channel near the mainland end Primavera bulkhead southern end of the canal. With the construction week that platting of the Padre Island causeway. Please do not bid on the project already in place the only Crews are expected to be finished this week documents for the shoot or otherwise harm the turtle.” thing keeping work crews from getting busy with work to repair 87 feet of bulkhead on land around Lake on the project is the commitment from IBC “Jesse R. Laurence, county engineer, has a Primavera. Cost of the project increased by Padre have been which so far has not come. We now have $500 special interest in her. Among other things, $131,000 due to unexpected problems with the filed with the City of million in new construction hamstrung over the turtle, Laurence is certain, prevented two final total for repairs being $448,296. Corpus Christi. Plans call for a 300-room hotel, $2.5 million. Longtime Islander Norm Baker engineers, by name Lemons and Elliot, on Dale Rankin residential space, and a marina. says the Welcome to Padre Island sign should a trip down Padre Island to gather data for a say “Coming Soon” because so many projects preliminary report on the proposed highway Marker 37 here have stalled. One of these days this Island from Port Aransas to Port Isabel, the county The new owner of is going to explode…. Projects cont. from A1 engineer told them of an incident that occurred Marker 37 along the In the meantime say hello if you see us Around in 1948, along about July.” program early this year. Eight feet of topsoil Laguna Madre, an will be removed to return that portion of the The Island. “The county engineer and a party at that time, Austin developer, project on the north end of the site back to its saw a sea turtle crawl out of the Gulf, lay about said last week he is original condition. History cont. from A1 100 eggs in a hold on the beach and crawl back working with the March and be complete in eighteen months, into the Gulf. Laurence obtained a number of Lamkin said his plans call for small Coastal Bend Bays by mid-1950. The project was the biggest story the eggs, placed them in a bucket of sand at his condominiums to be sold at moderate prices, and Estuaries Program in town when construction began and included residence, two of them hatching with on living with several high-end residences along the and Texas A&M Corpus Christi to build a the planting of 1000 pines trees on Padre Island on a short time and the other living several days. beachfront. Plans also call for two restaurants nature walk and natural aquarium in the land to stabilize the soil. The county bought a 25- “ and retail space along Zahn Road. Lamkin, behind the site. His lease on the land with the who also is the developer of the Cinnamon Texas General Land Office includes all the open foot Farley-built boat with a seven-foot beam “The two Houston engineers, when Laurence Shore project in Port Aransas, said the new land behind the site where he plans to build a and 115 horsepower for $1900 to use for the completed the story had but little to say; development will be called Lively Beach. Final boat storage facility and small marina. He said construction. but Laurence had definite ideas from their plans are expected to be announced in the next the current boat slips will be removed to make expressions about what they were thinking. County parks are born few weeks. room for a large deck. The three men made a trip down the island The Jones family donated land for three county and started back. About 22 miles south of the New hotel Packery Flats parks. Two of those parks – Nueces County Gulf Beach Park and about one mile isndie the Park and Padre Balli Park – are still in operation A new planned hotel located adjacent to the The construction currently underway on the shell banks, they saw a turtle crawl of the Gulf east side of the which the third, an area officially named Cape and start up the beach. The men stopped and Angry Marlin Restaurant is still in the works, Summer but known to most Islanders as the Ski the property is also owned by the Rasheeds. JFK Causeway observed. The turtle, as did the one of the 1948 along Packery Basin, was later turned back to private hands experience, smoothed off a place in the sand, Plans call for a micro-hotel at the site but no due to lack of action by Nueces County. construction schedule has been released. Channel will be dug a hole and laid about 100 eggs, and packed a new live music On March 3, 1949 construction began on what down the sand on top. Laurence, Lemons Island Italian venue currently is now Padre Balli Park and in April a proposal and Elliot leader her into a jeep… the county One of the most under the name went to the Texas Senate to establish a seven- engineer dug up 27 of the eggs and marked the common questions of Packery Flats. member board appointed by Nueces County location of the nest.” on the The Island Permitting is Commissioners to oversee the new parks and The turtle was eventually placed in the channel these days is when complete and construction is moving quickly in the Nueces County Coastal Parks Board was near the causeway. This was the turtle later the venerable eatery anticipation of opening by the summer season. born. The plans called for the parks to include found near the causeway work site. Island Italian will “picnic grounds, bathing beaches, parking There are also boats slips at the site and Island Italian will be reopen. Owner Tony areas, and such other facilities as are offered by These events marked the beginning of what plans call for cruise boats to offer fishing and back! Tagliaferro is waiting a well developed park use.” Cost of the project became the island we all call home today. The recreational boat tours. (Editor’s note: Full for the finishing was $300,000. modern era was begun and events were moving disclosure, Island Moon Publisher Dale Rankin quickly. touches to be put on the building after the roof is one of two partners in the project.) The new causeway was destroyed by Hurricane Harvey. While the Next time: The causeway is completed and re-opening date is still uncertain, it is certain Packery Pointe A description of the new causeway was issued island development begins. that the restaurant will re-open and Islanders Site work by the Nueces Chapter of the Texas Society will be happy to see it. of Professional Engineers which described continues at the the new structure as consisting of “a roadway POA cont. from A1 Holiday Inn Packery Pointe elevation of 5 feet above mean sea level. There project on the After many attempts will be approximately 1600 feet of trestlework letters sent out by the Army Corps of Engineers east side of the we have still been in the causeway, the balance being hydraulic informing them of a former practice bombing intersection unable to speak to the fill. Two swing barges of steel will form a part site surrounding the intersection of Encantada of Aquarius owners of the Holiday of the causeway. These are to carry traffic across and SPID. A pamphlet sent to homeowners said and SPID. on the Michael J. Ellis Humble Channel, forming a 70-foot opening, the site was used as an active practice bombing Developers Seawall. The building and across the Intracoastal Canal, form a 100- range during the years surrounding World War have said it will is fenced off and there foot opening. The roadway on the fill is to be 24 II, however, a check of the website listed in the include a Starbucks coffee shop and other retail have been no work crews visible at the site for feet in width with 10 foot of seashell shoulders pamphlet showed no listing of the site. Perrin space. Original plans called for a 105-room several months. on each side…The toll plaza will be built on said Tuesday that corps officials said if a house hotel at the site but the new developer of the the mainland approach about 2000 feet east of has been built at a site in the area and no bombs Island Joe’s project has not yet said if the hotel is still in Waldron Field Road. Tolls will be collected in were discovered then the homeowner should be the plans. The developer paid about $500,000 one direction only, going to the island. By April fine. Work continues on toward the installation of the new stoplight at crews were pouring pilings and by May 15 the modular buildings the site to facilitate traffic flow once the project water traffic was closed to Boat-Hole Channel Litter Critter at the corner of SPID is open. and Compass Drive and the Laguna Madre for thirty days. The Litter Critter that used to visited The that will be the new Island once each month and set up at the end of location of Island Joes Turtle rescue on Padre Island is hatched Whitecap is no more. Perrin said Tuesday that Coffee and Gallery. As work began a notice went out under the those wishing to bring the popular project back March 1, 2018 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island Tides of the Week By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier: March 1 -March 8 My how the years do roll from the compound on the hood of their car Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon when ambulances that had never been called /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible by. As I sit here in my little Island office yo these failed to show. Th 1 High 12:24 AM 1.2 6:53 AM Set 6:42 AM 97 many years later, it is to the day the twenty fifth Bunched up in a muddy flat 1 Low 8:31 AM -0.5 6:29 PM Rise 6:25 PM anniversary of the raid on the Branch Davidian We ended up bunched up in a muddy flat at the 1 High 4:15 PM 1.3 compound outside Waco by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. Here’s how I crossroads of two section line about 300 yards 1 Low 9:30 PM 0.9 remember it. from the compound. We had done our early live F 2 High 1:46 AM 1.2 6:52 AM Set 7:25 AM 99 shots outside the meeting room in Waco and we Just Another Sunday knew we should have been at the compound but 2 Low 9:26 AM -0.2 6:30 PM Rise 7:27 PM I was working Sundays to attend weekday we had no idea where it was, and surprisingly 2 High 4:30 PM 1.1 classes at UT Austin and it was my last semester neither did anyone we could find in Waco; except Dangerous Dan. 2 Low 9:51 PM 0.7 of master’s program. I arrived at the CBS station in San Antonio at nine and as I walked down the By nine o'clock we were cutting tape when Sa 3 High 3:01 AM 1.2 6:51 AM Set 8:06 AM 99 hallway by the edit bays I saw an editor rolling the ATF figured out where we were and made 3 Low 10:19 AM 0.0 6:31 PM Rise 8:28 PM tape of a guy on a roof in an ATF jacket dodging us move because we were “within gunshot bullets that were coming up at him through the 3 High 4:40 PM 1.0 range”. We pointed out there were reports of a shingles. .50 caliber weapon being fired at a helicopter 3 Low 10:21 PM 0.5 "CBS Movie of the Week huh?" I asked. circling the compound that morning and if Su 4 High 4:14 AM 1.2 6:50 AM Set 8:45 AM 95 that was true then pretty much everybody was "No." he said. "Shootout between the ATF and in gunshot range. “Those things shoot to the 4 Low 11:12 AM 0.3 6:31 PM Rise 9:27 PM some religious cult in Waco this morning. Four horizon,” we said. The ATF was in no mood to 4 High 4:50 PM 0.9 agents shot, maybe dead, and the cult people are bargain with the press who had tipped off their holed up in the house." raid and in their minds gotten people hurt. 4 Low 10:56 PM 0.3 "That's real!?" We did our ten o'clock shots and we were being M 5 High 5:29 AM 1.2 6:49 AM Set 9:23 AM 90 "Yea. Waco. They say they got machine guns." told the Branch Davidians could be coming out 5 Low 12:10 PM 0.6 6:32 PM Rise 10:24 PM any time. A few did after midnight and it was I called the managers and within half an hour I 5 High 4:58 PM 0.9 looking like we might be able to leave after the was headed up I-35 with a satellite truck in tow noon shows the next day. But dawn the next 5 Low 11:37 PM 0.2 headed for I had no idea what. But this had the morning found us once again at a crossroads makings of a big one. Usually on a siege you Tu 6 High 6:50 AM 1.2 6:48 AM Set 10:01 AM 83 with no food except the baloney sandwiches the have to rely on a live camera because you got no Red Cross truck was giving out (and we were 6 Low 1:23 PM 0.8 6:32 PM Rise 11:19 PM video, but there’s plenty of B-roll for this one grateful for). This time we were at a three way 6 High 5:03 PM 0.9 and I already had a copy of it with me. junction almost a mile from the compound and W 7 Low 12:22 AM 0.1 6:47 AM Set 10:40 AM 75 A roomful of hungover journalists ended up in down in enough of a hollow that all we could a crowed auditorium full of Baylor Comparative see was the top half of the building. A Waco 7 High 8:26 AM 1.2 6:33 PM Religion Professors who after all these years of station sent a live truck with a camera on the Th 8 Low 1:14 AM 0.0 6:46 AM Rise 12:13 AM 66 playing second fiddle to showy preachers were mast which we ran up so we could see the front going to have their day in the spotlight. They did door but the wind was picking up and the forty- 8 High 10:32 AM 1.3 6:33 PM Set 11:21 AM their best to explain the difference between the foot mast was swaying in the breeze and the Church of Latter Day Saints, the Davidians, and camera was not of much use. Within a few days the Branch Davidians to an audience of viewers CBS will lease the horse pasture on the corner that was only interested in seeing the shootout and throw up scaffolding high enough in the air video from the raid over and over. It was to get a full-time live camera up there and the Sunday; we were supposed to be out covering shot from that camera is how fifty -one days a tree climbing dog or a giant picnic and off later the world watched as the place went up in work by six thirty to watch the Spurs game at smoke killing a lot of people who didn’t have Joey’s Pub on St. Mary’s Street. This looked to die. like it could be an all-weeker and it would mean staying at the Branch Davidians location out in Showtime! the sticks because if the ATF didn’t want us to .We had been checked by the ATF; we were too see the Davidians coming out they would bring far away from the compound to have any two- them out in the middle of the night. And it was way to communication, the ATF wasn't talking, getting cold. and after everyone interviewed Dangerous Dan there was no one else to get sound or information from. Finally, the sheriff showed up and knew some of the local crews. "I know Koresh," he said. "And he ain't coming out any time soon. " Truer words were never spoken. We sat around doing live shots and cut-ins and newsbreaks and teases non-stop, so even if there had been someone around to tell us what was going on we wouldn’t have had time to find them. Everybody Thoughts From Dr. Tom wanted us to tell them things that we didn't know ourselves. Then it calmed down and we became bored until every once in a while in the middle of the night a lonely car would drive up the gate and either enter or leave the compound. The Witch Craft of Boat But most of the windows were smoked so it was lousy video that raised more questions than it answered. The story was building up steam but Propping we had nothing. And then I caught a break. David Koresh I am going to write about propping your flats Cavitation is where you get air bubbles on My college roommate called, "You remember skiff this week since I am in the middle of this. the back side of the blade due to low pressure Russell from Bay City? You met him a couple I have not had to deal with this for many and the blades get very hot and sometimes Dangerous Dan of times." pitted from these boiling bubbles bursting on years because I have been running nothing Armed with just enough understanding of the "Yea." but New Water Boats since 2003. Many of the blade. Nicks or prop damage is common theology to be dangerous a half dozen crews you will know Tim Clancy who builds them cause. The prop performs poorly and over revs and roaring satellite trucks headed down muddy "Well, he owns a gentleman's club in Waco and Tim never leaves anything to chance. He and damage to the prop can occur. Ventilation roads for the compound, which is actually called the Showtime! and he says this Koresh is a master in propping and perfecting his is when the prop brings air into the blades outside the suburb of Bellmead. The only way guy is one of his best customers. I called Russell excellent line of skiffs so I have not had to do from high mounts and tunnel applications you we knew where we were going was because we and in half an hour I was in the Showtime! and this since I propped one of the first Maverick can hear the rpms rise rapidly and cavitation were following photographer Dangerous Dan not only did Mr. Koresh have his own parking HPX tunnels. It was good boat after I put jack can occur if bad enough. Following seas can Mulloney who had drawn gunfire there earlier spot with his name on it where he parked his plate and Bobs low water pick up on it which accentuate this in tunnel hulls. in the day while crouching behind a stone wall 1968, 500 horse power Camaro with “DAVIDES 427 GO GOD" stamped on the 427 cubic-inch I think I was the second owner in South Texas A good prop guy can cup the blades and with his camera rolling. He had accidentally engine but the girls said he was a good tipper to do so. My buddy, Perry Detore still owns modify the pitch to help alleviate many of alerted the Davidians of the raid when he asked and a nice guy. One of the girls had his cell that boat I think. these things if you give him the right info. a man driving a postal truck how to get to the number. Now I was getting somewhere. This Spring I got convinced to try a Chittum This can improve hole shot and increase compound. He was in a marked news truck and Laguna Madre even though I still have my speed by increasing the effective pitch in the "mailman" turned out to be a Davidian. Dan The only story better than one about God, guns, New Water Boats. Hal makes a great poling some circumstances. Usually increasing cup followed the agents to the site and was shooting sex, and drugs was one about God, guns, sex, skiff, one of the quietest lightest best poling and pitch will lower your rpms so you have for the local CBS station when the ATF people drugs, jiggle dancers, 450 horsepower muscle skiffs I have been in but we are trying to figure to be careful not to lower them below the piled out of the back of a cattle truck. He shot cars, and a self-appointed messiah who was a out the shallow water running and getting up manufacturer recommended WOT or the that video we've all seen a million times and good tipper and a nice guy. when the shooting started he and his reporter part. He has developed a tunnel water pick engine can suffer premature wear. I wired the cell phone up to record sound and I were pinned behind the three-foot wall and up that seems pretty incredible but shallow dialed the number. There are some really good prop guys in when Dan stuck camera over the top to shoot water is not something the Florida boys really Texas, Bauman props, Jack Foreman, and understand so it is up to us Texans to figure video a shot took the kleig light off. Then Dan Next time: Waiting out the messiah one pizza Nettles are prop guys that I have had great and his reporter had to carry a wounded agent at a time. it out. experience with here in Texas. There are some Getting the right shallow water prop on local guys that might be good but I have not a tunnel hull boat is part experience part used them yet. The first thing they want to Ask Ralph physicist part engineer and part witchcraft know is the WOT range for your motor from or sorcery. There are a few terms you have the factory. My f70 is 5300 to 6300 rpms. to know. First is the diameter of the prop tip The first thing you need to do is get a prop Affects of Harvey on to tip. This is determined by the size of the that theoretically will work as recommended motor and what will fit, usually running the by your boat manufacturer or an off the shelf largest wheel that the motor can fit and turn like the Power tech SWW3 and then you Business efficiently is the ticket. In the case of my F70 need numbers from your boat trial. Does the LA Yamaha that is a 13.5. The next term and boat reach its WOT range and what is the number to know is the pitch. The pitch is the WOT. Sometimes these prop guys will have By Ralph Coker experience with your set up and know pretty distance the prop will theoretically push the likely they won’t return and permanent loss of close to what you need right off. You need to Q. What affect will hurricane Harvey have on boat forward with one revolution in a perfect population would damage the local economy assess hole shot and how fast you get to plane the local economy? situation that never exists. That is usually the long term. New Orleans lost about a third of its and acceleration. Shallow water hole shot can A. The Dallas Federal Reserve Branch Bank second number on your prop. These numbers population after it’s hurricane and the economy be different from deep water take off. Cupping reported the economy in the area struck declined may be printed anywhere on your prop or on never fully re-covered. Keeping the population usually helps shallow water hole shot at in the third quarter when Harvey struck, but the hub. 13.5 x 15 would be the numbers in in the area requires finding jobs or sources of elevated engine heights. regained its strength in the fourth quarter. this case. The pitch is 15 meaning the boat income to support them and finding housing for will move forward 15 inches in one revolution. So there you have all that my little brain has During prior natural disasters, such as them. Slip is the difference between the pitch and learned about props for shallow water tunnel hurricanes, the local economy thrived afterward. Large numbers of cars and trucks were flooded the actual distance moved forward. 10 to 20% boats. That does not include the witch craft That’s caused by all the insurance claim money by Harvey and will be total losses. That will is pretty good. There are calculators on line that a great prop guys uses to really get it and federal aid money that flows into the area create a market for used vehicles and new like the mercury racing slip calculator that can right. I hope you are as tired of winter as I am. from outside sources to repair the damage. vehicles. All building materials and supplies help calculate that. Cupping is the amount of I am ready to use some of my toys to chase Outside money that is spent and re-spent over should be in great demand. Roofing materials concave curl in the trailing edge of the blade some finny friends. The flu is decreasing some and over again is a powerful stimulant to a local and workers will be in great demand. All types and is crucial for tunnel performance and can but we are still seeing it and it is still very bad economy. Workers flow into the area to make of rental lodging will be in great demand. effectively increase the pitch. Other terms like very early. Don’t hesitate to come by and see the repairs and they spend their wages locally rake do not really seem to be as important and us, we are available for you 24/7 have a good for lodging, food, transportation and all the When the local economy thrives as a result of their understanding is above my pay grade. week. Doc Tom other basic necessities. That’s new spending large quantities of new outside money being and consumption in the area that wouldn’t spent in the area, all businesses tend to thrive happen normally. Occupancy rates at local not just those directly supplying labor and rental properties are very high. materials for the damage repairs. The local economy should do well until the rebuilding is The relief effort by local government needs complete. to focus on helping businesses that shut down because of damage to get back in normal business Ralph Coker is a retired petroleum refinery Send letters and photos to editor@ as soon as possible to provide employment for plant manager. He is a volunteer with SCORE its workers. Keeping the population in the which provides free mentoring to small islandmoon.com area is a priority. If people move away, it’s businesses and nonprofits. A6 Island Moon March 1, 2018 Senior Moments Anecdotingly Remembering the Lindbergh Kidnapping Squirrel-Ma-Geddon By Abigail Bair By Dotson Lewis regarding the apocalypse: Special to the Island Moon As I child, I never predicted “Good morning, Mr. McFluffington! Did you that one day my personal happiness and safety see that Bill Pouffypants got raptured?” Dotson’s Note: When I was a kid, in the days of eighth ransom note was received by Condon on might be compromised by the relative horniness “Why no, Mr. Snowybuttcottontail!?! the Great Depression, sometime in ’34 or ’35, March 21st insisting on complete compliance of the common ground squirrel. Being honest, the most overheard discussions were not on the and stating that the kidnapping had been though, if my childhood fortune telling was at “See that sort of furry stain over there? That’s Depression, but continued conversations on the planned for a year. all accurate I would now own a raccoon named Bill’s Earth clothes!” “Lindbergh kidnapping.” This was due to the On March 29th, Ms. Gow (the Lindbergh Stanley and ride a flying unicorn to work. investigation, arrest and trial. Thanks to the “Lucky Bill!” nurse), found the baby’s thumb guard, worn at History website for many of the facts contained The squirrels are really back at it though. the time of the kidnapping, near the entrance to “We all just have to keep running across the in this article; and to the Congressional Library Spring must have sprung in their tiny little rodent the estate. The following day the ninth ransom road and hoping, I guess. Have a good day at for the photos (indicated by *). brains. They’re running to and fro like maniacs, the Nutwerks.” note was received by Condon, threatening to with no regard for traffic, screaming up trees so Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the 20-month- increase the demand to $100,000 and refusing fast they’re little more than a blur. As you might For some reason, contrary to all observation old son of the famous aviator and Anne Morrow a code for use in newspaper columns. The tenth expect, my intellectually challenged Black Lab and physical evidence, both squirrels in this Lindbergh, was kidnapped around 9:00 p.m., ransom note, received by Dr. Condon, on April Stadler is having some trouble concentrating on conversation were wearing fedoras. March 1st 1932. The baby was abducted from 1st , instructed him to have the money ready the dog jog. the nursery on the second floor of the Lindbergh the following night, to which Condon replied The other day, the whole dog-fascination-with- home near Hopewell, New Jersey. His absence by an ad in the Press. The eleventh ransom note For you new readers, I exercise my dog by squirrels problem hit a new level. We were was discovered and reported to his parents, who was delivered to Condon on April 2nd, by an putting a leash on her harness and allowing her riding past the house that I call the “Cattery.” were then at home, at approximately 10 p.m. by unidentified taxi driver who said he received it to run alongside my bike. This is safer than it This home is always problematic because about the child’s nurse, Betty Gow. A search of the from an unknown man. Dr. Condon found the sounds because after about the first mile (I call 15 cats live there. These cats love to lounge premises was immediately made and a ransom twelfth ransom note under a stone in front of this part “Cannonball Run”), Stadler settles into disdainfully in their yard and watch the road note demanding $50,000 was found on the a greenhouse at a beautiful trot beside Gertrude (my bike) and we with unblinking feline scorn. From what I’ve nursery window sill. After the Hopewell police 3225 East Tremont have a lovely time exploring our world. When seen, they rarely move. Stadler gets very excited were notified, the report was telephoned to the Avenue, Bronx, the squirrels are ripe with animus, however, our every time we go by this house because for a New Jersey State Police, who assumed charge New York, as delicate balance is upset like an apple cart on a few years of her life her very best friend in the of the investigation. instructed in the high wire in a tornado. Basically, I just hang on world was my parents’ cat, Hot Fat, who died eleventh note. like a monkey on the back of a charging rhino, a few years ago. Since then, Stadler has been During the search at the kidnapping scene, screaming, “NO SQUIRRELS” at the top of my actively angling for a replacement kitty, but the traces of mud were found on the floor of the Shortly thereafter, lungs. Rev (my Mom) has “developed an allergy,” and nursery. Footprints, impossible to measure, on the same I don’t want one. Stadler is out of luck, but try were found under the nursery window. Two evening, following Stadler loves squirrels with the kind of deep convincing her of that. sections of the ladder had been used in reaching the instructions and meaningful love she otherwise reserves for the window, one of the two sections was split contained in the rides in the car and a treat called an “Oinkie” I’ve gotten her pretty well resigned to the idea or broken where it joined the other, indicating twelfth note, Pictured above 20 – (yes, they’re made of pig). I have caught her on that she can’t go visit the kitties at the Cattery, that the ladder had broken during the ascent or Condon again met month-old-Charles several occasions trying to sneak whole bowls but the other day, she witnessed an event that descent. There were no blood stains in or about whom he believed Augustus Lindbergh, of dog food out to the fat, glossy grey squirrels caused her to absolutely lose her mind. Stadler the nursery, nor were there any fingerprints. to be “John” to Jr* who inhabit our backyard. Stadler sometimes saw a white cat chase a squirrel up a tree. reduce the demand disappears and is quiet for long periods of time. I don’t know how to put into human terms Household and estate employees were I call this the “Dog Project.” I’ve tried about questioned and investigated. Colonel to $50,000. This the level of excitement this caused in my dog. amount was handed to the stranger in exchange a thousand times to sneak up on her to figure She leapt straight up in the air, turning an Lindbergh asked friends to communicate with out what she’s doing, but she always catches the kidnappers, and they made widespread for a receipt and the thirteenth note, containing entire 360 before landing, completely tangled instructions to the effect that the kidnapped me – trotting around the corner of the garage in her leash, still jumping up and down. I got appeals for the kidnappers to start negotiations. to say hello with a suspiciously guilty look on Various underworld characters were dealt with child could be found on a boat named “Nellie” Gertrude stopped, managing for a change not to near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The her face. I’m pretty sure that “Dog Project” is land on my head, and tried to untangle my dog in attempts to contact the kidnappers, and really just Stadler being social with squirrels. numerous clues were advanced and exhausted. stranger then walked north into the park woods. who had by now functionally hog-tied herself. The following day an unsuccessful search for Stadler was shaking in joy as she waited for A second ransom note was received by the baby was made near Martha’s Vineyard. me to set her free. “DID YOU SEE THAT AB! Colonel Lindbergh on March 6, 1932, The search was later repeated. Dr. Condon was KITTY CHASE SQUIRREL! KITTY CHASE (postmarked Brooklyn, New York, March 4th), positive that he would recognize “John” if he SQUIRREL!” She kept trying to tell me all where the ransom demand was increased to ever saw him again. about it, much like a little kid telling you all $70,000. A police conference was then called On May 12th, the body of the kidnapped baby about a movie you just watched with them. I’ve by the governor at Trenton, New Jersey, which never seen her that excited about anything. This was attended by prosecuting officials, police was accidentally found, partly buried, and badly decomposed, about four and a half miles was obviously a canine meta-moment. Remind authorities, and government representatives. me to never show her a Whack-a-Mole game. Various theories and policies of procedure southeast of the Lindbergh home, 45 feet from were discussed. Private investigators also were the highway, near Mount Rose, New Jersey, in She hasn’t forgotten it either. Each day as employed by Colonel Lindbergh’s attorney, Mercer County. The discovery was made by we ride past the Cattery, she looks at that Colonel Henry Breckenridge. William Allen, an assistant on a truck driven tree, just waiting for the Great Kitty Miracle by Orville Wilson. The head was crushed, there to happen again. It hasn’t yet, but at the rate The third ransom note was received by Colonel was a hole in the skull and some of the body horny squirrels are getting “raptured’ in our Lindbergh’s attorney on March 8, informing that members were missing. The body was positively neighborhood, it just might. Either way, it’s an intermediary appointed by the Lindbergh’s identified and cremated at Trenton, New Jersey, good to see the spring. would not be accepted and requesting a note in on May 13th, 1932. The Coroner’s examination a newspaper. Also, Dr. John F. Condon, Bronx, showed that the child had been dead for about New York City, a retired school principal, two months and that death was caused by a blow published in the “Bronx Home News” an offer on the head. Mr. Pouffypants to act as go-between and to pay an additional $1,000 ransom. The following day the fourth Dotson Other Note: To me, a very interesting ransom note was received by Dr. Condon, fall-out of this tragedy was the very quick Because of this, I’m also pretty sure the dog which indicated he would be acceptable as a response of the Congress of The United States doesn’t want to eat a squirrel if she catches go-between. This was approved by Colonel of America. The Federal Kidnapping Act: one, but she cannot resist the urge to chase Lindbergh. On March 10th, 1932, Dr. Condon Introduced in the Senate on June 3, 1932; Passed something that’s running away. Pure instinct received $70,000 in cash as ransom, and the Senate on June 8, 1932; Passed the House combined with 74 pounds of raw power is not immediately started negotiations for payment on June 17, 1932; Signed into law by President the safest combination. The squirrels have no through newspaper columns, using the code Herbert Hoover on June 22, 1932. How about respect for poor Stadler, optimistic eater and name “Jafsie.” getting the job done in a hurry! Do you think Omega female. Yesterday, one ran out into the that prompt action of the federal government road and angrily shook his fists at us. Leave it At approximately 8:30 p.m., on March 12th such as this could possible take place today? to us to be the one woman/dog exercise team to after receiving an anonymous telephone call, Thank you for reading and commenting on incur the wrath of the elusive protest squirrel. Dr. Condon received the fifth ransom note, Senior Moments. I can be reached at: dlewis1@ delivered by Joseph Perrone, a taxicab driver, stx.rr.com and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 or Increased running around has also caused who received it from an unidentified stranger. Cell: 530-748-8475. an upswing in the amount of increasingly flat squirrel corpses on the road. Stadler says she The message stated that another note would be Fully Guided • All Tackle Provided found beneath a stone at a vacant stand, 100 Please Note: The next Veterans Round Table would very much like to sniff/roll in all of these, feet from an outlying subway station. This note, Meeting will be Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 9-11 but is too polite to fight me on it. They do the sixth, was found by Condon, as indicated. AM, 3209 S. Staples. All Veterans, their families speak to my imagination, however, and I wind (361)442-8145 Following instructions therein, the doctor met and anyone interested in Veterans affairs, are up imagining dramatic squirrel conversations an unidentified man, who called himself “John,” invited. Coffee & doughnuts are provided. Hope at Woodlawn Cemetery, near 233rd Street and to see you there. Also our Veterans Radio Round The Jerome Avenue. They discussed payment of the Table is on the air on KEYS AM 1440, 8 – 9 ransom money. The stranger agreed to furnish AM, Saturdays. The next show will air March a token of the child’s identity. Condon was 3, 2018. Please listen and call in. The listener/ text line is: 361-560-5397…It’s your hour, let’s BACK PORCH accompanied by a bodyguard, except while talking to “John.” During the next few days, hear from you. Dr. Condon repeated his advertisements, urging Hang in there/Have fun! DAVIN JAMES MAR 2 further contact and stating his willingness to pay the ransom. SCARECROW PEOPLE MAR 3 A baby’s sleeping suit, as proof of identity, and a seventh ransom note were received by Dr. CODY ANGEL MAR 9 Condon on March 16th. . The suit was delivered to Colonel Lindbergh and later identified. GARRET SIMON The MAR 10 Condon continued his advertisements. The JERED CLARK MAR 15 BACKCAPT. LEGENDARY PORCH MAR 16 CODY BRYAN Bar MAR 17

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Have you ever wondered how to get your 1 tsp. baking soda potatoes crispy, crunchy and full of flavor by 1 tbsp kosher salt (extra to taste) roasting them? Or avoid having bitter potatoes because the herbs in the oil end up burning 1 tsp. cracked back pepper before the potatoes are even ready. 2 tsp. minced fresh rosemary Food has science attached to it, and even I 2 tsp. minced fresh sage have struggled with the perfect crunchy potato. Applying this little tip to making oven roasted 2 tsp. minced fresh thyme potatoes will make you forget about the fryer 2 cloves garlic minced and will make you want oven roasted over French Fries moving forward. Chili flakes (optional) Most of us, myself included, typically toss Light olive oil enough to coat potatoes and cleaned and cut potato wedges into a bowl of roast them olive oil, fresh herbs, garlic, salt pepper and 3 tbsp. Butter put them on baking sheet right into a preheated Directions: oven. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place a pot of However the results aren’t quite what we’re salted water onto stove, add baking soda shooting for. Potatoes are full of moisture and bring to a boil. Prepare a bowl with oil, and when salt is added it draws out additional herbs and garlic and set aside. Wash, peel and moisture which in turn steams the potatoes, cut potatoes into wedges or large quarters. more so than roasting them. Rinse and drain. When water boils, add potatoes. Par cook to fork tender but not fully cooked. Drain and toss into the bowl of oil mixture. Let stand while preparing a cookie sheet with another drizzle of oil and place potatoes onto sheet. Bake potatoes and turn them every 15 minutes or so making sure to coat each side. This ensures each side will toast up into a crispy layer. When done, remove from oven, plate up and serve. If you wish to sprinkle with a bit more salt...fresh minced parsley and squeeze with some lemon for flavor... feel free! Chili flakes are for heat and optional! 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Facebook: 12 Medium russet potatoes peeled or not The Island Moon Newspaper (optional) A8 Island Moon March 1, 2018 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon Changes Are Coming To Baseball In 2018- Before They Not All Are Happy About It Became Stars By Dotson Lewis By Andy Purvis started in 1976. They not changing it so much that even the current Special to the Island Moon were called the Seagulls, a Class-A team of the Dotson’s Note: Last year, Major League baseball fans don't recognize it.” So you like Hooks baseball; who doesn’t? Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred discussed Maybe you retired here or like some of us, moved Gulf States League. Their player-manager "We have been willing to talk about how to was Leo Mazzone, the famed future pitching possible rules changes during a news conference improve the game … but it's also a delicate here for your job. Maybe you just like the sound following a meeting with team owners in Palm of the ball coming off the bat, the ocean in the coach of the Atlanta Braves. I have a photo of balance when you enjoy offense but the length a young Leo and Mickey Mantle taken here in Beach, FL. He also reportedly wants to install of the game can increase (with more runs), background and the smell of the salty air. Either a pitch clock to speed up the pace of games. The way, did you know that Minor League baseball Corpus. His team recorded a 50-27 record and while also acknowledging a 10-8 game can take they won both halves of the Western Division. following stems from discussions concerning 2 hours, 40 minutes and a 2-1 game can take has been a part of Corpus Christi since the early possible changes for 2018 Major League 1900’s? The Corpus Christi Pelicans, a Class-D They led their league in offense and attendance. four hours. The guys have a lot of ideas and are The following year, 1977, the Seagulls played Baseball. Thanks to Paul Sullivan, Andrew willing to have that dialogue here.” team of the Southwest Texas League, existed Miller and Tony Clark for many of the facts in 1910 and 1911, but did not have affiliation in the Lone Star League and again they were contained in this report. Baseball may consider itself the national with any Major League club. Their manager a powerhouse, winning the division. The pastime, but one of its biggest events in 2017, was Harry Hunt. Two of the Pelican stars were Seagulls left at the end of the season. the All-Star game, was far from Must-See TV. Joe Pate from Alice, Texas, an outfielder for The Corpus Christi Barracudas operated in The Home Run Derby is almost as popular as the Philadelphia A’s, and Denney Wilie, also an Corpus from 1994 to 1995. Several one-time the All-Star Game itself. outfielder, for the Cardinals and Indians. Major League players joined the team in an Perhaps, but reporters from various media The Corpus Christi Seahawks, a Class-D team, effort to work their way back to a big league outlets who had spent much of their careers played in the Texas Valley League from 1926- club. They were Tony Mack, Randy O’Neal, covering such big events were in agreement that 1928. They were not affiliated with any Major Gary Eave, and Mike Felder. They were known Miami seemed ill-prepared to host the All-Star League club at the time and were managed by as a Class-Independent operating in the Texas- Game, from security mixups to long concession “Chick” Brandon in 1926, whose team finished Louisiana League. Their manager was Mark lines and right down to the confused operators fourth and Jim Payton in 1927 and 1928. Wasinger. The announcer for the Barracudas of the main video board, who showed Daniel Payton’s 1927 club finished as league champs. was a fellow by the name of Dave Schultz. He Murphy's photo and stats in the first inning South Texas was the destination for many clubs asked me several times to sit in with him and do instead of those of Buster Posey, who was in the early days, as the New York Yankees and the color commentary. The Barracudas played batting at the time. the Brooklyn Dodgers regularly played spring their home games at Cabaniss Field and one Rob Manfred night we got into a 19-inning game against Jose Organizations have years to plan the logistics training games in San Antonio and Austin. The Future Of Baseball Is Up In The Air Both Dick Esrey and Lee Stebbins became stars Cruz and his San Antonio Tejanos. I tried to and make sure things run smoothly, but the leave several times, but Dave persuaded me to Thanks To Major League Baseball's Intent To Marlins treated it like it was just another of the hometown Seahawks, but neither was Make Rule Changes To Speed Up Games good enough to make it to the “Show.” stay. We were both pretty much out of things sparsely attended regular-season game. to say. The Barracudas finally won around Commissioner Rob Manfred has been harping Of course, the All-Star Game is only as good as In 1938, Rod Whitney was managing the new 12:45 or so. We figured the team coming in, on pace-of-game issues since he took over for its stars, and there weren't enough of the biggest team in Corpus known as the “Spudders.” This the Harlingen White Wings, were already in Bud Selig, yet the average game time of 3 hours, stars in the game itself, with Clayton Kershaw Class-D team from the Texas Valley League town and in their hotel before our game ended. 5 minutes for the 2017 season set a new record. unavailable, Mike Trout injured and Kris Bryant would post a 92-44 win-loss record to win first The next night, the Barracudas surprised us by place, but lose to the Harlingen Hubs in the Manfred reportedly hopes to install a pitch failing to get voted in. hitting three grand slams, two by Gary Hagy playoffs. Pitcher “Ox” Miller from George clock to prevent pitchers from dawdling, as and one by the league’s leading home-run hitter, That left Judge and Harper to carry the load, West, Texas, and George Hausmann, from has been used in the minors for the last three Ron Reams, to beat the White Wings 15-4. and neither is in the stratosphere of a Tom Boerne, were the stars of this club. Miller would seasons. Though many pitchers may object, the Brady, LeBron James or Kevin Durant when it become a pitcher for the Senators, Browns, and Our Corpus Christi Hooks are the Class-Double collective bargaining agreement with players comes to national appeal. Cubs, while Hausmann was a second baseman A affiliate of the Houston Astros. Nolan Ryan gives Manfred the right to implement it for the and Don Sanders formed the ownership group "We talk about marketing the game and players for the N.Y. Giants. The Spudders lasted just year unilaterally. of Ryan-Sanders Baseball, with Nolan’s oldest becoming the face of the game; our game is one year. It would be another twelve years son Reid as the CEO. Nolan Ryan and his group "If I can tell you one thing that has been true a team sport," Manfred said. "That creates before pro baseball returned to Corpus. about my career in baseball, it's I'm a deal guy at purchased the Jackson Generals, located in inherent limitations in terms of how big a star By 1952, the new Class-B Gulf Coast League heart," Manfred said. "I would much rather have Mississippi in 1998, and moved them to Round any individual player is going to become. It team in town called themselves the Corpus an agreement than proceed unilaterally. That is Rock, Texas, just outside of Austin. They were actually creates reluctance among players Christi Aces. This team would be managed particularly true when it comes to changes that moved again to Corpus after the 2004 season through the 1954 season by Jack Trench and affect play on the field because only the players ended. They began play at Whataburger Field in eventually “Showboat” Fisher. Three players are in between those lines, not any of us. So I'm 2005. In 2006, under Manager Dave Clark, the from this club made the Major League rosters. hopeful we (can) have an agreement." Hooks won the Texas League Championship, Tommy Warren was a pitcher and hurled for the defeating the Wichita Wranglers. This marked The games might lose a couple of minutes Dodgers. Heinz Becker was a fine first baseman the first time a Corpus Christi franchise had with a pitch clock, but Indians reliever Andrew for the Indians, and catcher Joe Kracher from won a league championship since the 1958 Miller said it's not the answer. San Angelo spent his time with the Phillies. Corpus Christi Giants. "I'm very against it," Miller said. "I wish we The Aces were replaced by the Clippers in In October of 2013, the Ryan-Sanders Baseball were listened to a little more sometimes. I'm 1955. That year, Skipper Billy Capps would group sold their rights to Houston Astro’s new glad everyone has the best interests of the game lead his team to an 87-60 win-loss record, well owner, Jim Crane. Crane then hired Reid in mind. … The best product is the one the fans enough for a third-place finish in the Class-B Ryan to be the President of the Astros, while want to watch, and if pace of play is an issue Big State League, affiliated with the Milwaukee the Hooks elevated former all-star pitcher and to them, then we need to address it and get on sometimes to market themselves.” Braves. Connie Ryan managed the 1955 club Hooks executive, Ken Schrom, to be their Club top of it. The downtime in games is the biggest as the Clippers became the League champs. President. Schrom has spent 13 seasons with "The great thing about the 2017 Home Run issue to me.” Sibby Sisti and Jack Wilkinson were player- the Hooks since their inception. Derby, it's the one thing we do on a national scale managers with the club though 1957. Other "The pitch clock? In the right moment of the where it's about you as an individual player. Do the names, Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, season, the right moment of the game, having stars who made it to the Majors were Leo (Judge) certainly stepped up, but he wasn't Posada, an uncle of Jorge Posada, former New Dallas Keuchel and George Springer ring a bell? a pitcher and catcher communicate or work the only one. There were some unbelievable I thought so. These are just some of the players through a big moment actually builds the York Yankee catcher, who played for the Kansas performances." City A’s, and Sibby Sisti himself who played for that have joined the list of former Hooks who excitement. In a blowout game in May between now play at the Major League level. Now you Clark believes the Judges and Cody Bellingers the Milwaukee Braves and starred in the movie teams that are fourth and fifth place in the can refer to them as World Series Champions. of the game will help change the narrative, yet “The Natural.” Most of the players for the Aces division and doesn't mean anything, it drives The Hooks have sent nearly 100 players thus he acknowledged baseball has "some catching and Clippers had their careers interrupted by the fans crazy.” far to the Major League level, including Hunter up to do" in terms of marketing its stars. WWII. "I think we need to put the ball in play more Pence. Pence became the first former Hooks often. I'm very intrigued about why we have "But I think we have an opportunity with the The Corpus Christi Giants moved from player to win a World Series title with the 2012 talked about making the strike zone smaller. If guys we have to really move our game forward Oklahoma City in time for the 1958 season. San Francisco Giants. Ben Zobrist has joined you make it larger it will actually (lead to fewer in that regard," he said. "Although I've heard They also changed affiliations from the Boston him with the K.C. Royals in 2015. some of the polling out there and where our Red Sox to the San Francisco Giants. They strikeouts) because you would put the ball in Omar Lopez will lead the 2018 Hooks this guys sit, I think there's a real opportunity to were a Class-Double A team in the Texas play more often. These hitters are so good and season. This year will be the 14th anniversary know the strike zone (so well) now, and can go change the dialogue.” League attached to the San Francisco club. This team played at the Giants’ Field also of Corpus Christi Hooks Baseball. With a new watch replays instantly after their at-bat, get "Many saw it (at the Home Run Derby). There stadium lease in place that will insure Minor PITCHF/x information and legitimately gripe once referred to as Clippers Field. On Friday, is talent and personality there that's waiting to April 18, 1958, the Giants entertained the San League baseball in Corpus Christi until 2034, about a pitch a quarter or half-inch off the black have its story told. One way or another, I think the Hooks opened their season Thursday, April of the plate.” Antonio Missions and won their first game. we'll get there." They would finish third with a 77-75 record 12th at home against NW Arkansas. There are "It shows how talented they are but also how Dotson’s Other Note: In a way it’s too bad, and face the Houston Buffs in the playoffs. lots of great players in the Hooks Minor League we've gotten to the point we have. I think but in my opinion, here and now, baseball is not Pitchers Eddie Fisher, who would later pitch for system, and no doubt we will witness several strikeouts are exciting, home runs are exciting, the national past-time, and I am not sure the the Los Angeles Angels and the Chicago White this coming season. So grab your mitt and but the long walk and whatnot is not something national past-time is any sport…it appears to Sox, and soon to become a Hall-of-Famer come check them out, before they become stars. fans go for." me that the national past time is “LAAPWYMP” Gaylord Perry, who seemed to have pitched See you at the park! Players’ union executive director Tony Clark (looking at and playing with your mobile for everyone, closed out the Buffs and moved Andy Purvis is a local author and radio said he understands MLB's complaints, but he's phone). What do you think? Your comments, on to play the Austin Senators, led by player- personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. trying to balance the wishes of his players with suggestions, questions and concerns regarding manager “Peanuts” Lowrey. The Giants beat com for all the latest info on his books or to baseball's insistence the long game times are Sports Talk articles are greatly appreciated, the Senators four games to three and won the listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books turning fans off. please call LL: 361-949-7681 Cell: 530-748- Texas League and would now face the winner are available online and can be found in the 8475 or Email: [email protected] of the Southern Association in the Dixie Series. local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be "I've said all along there are challenges related Birmingham had defeated Mobile for the right -30- contacted at [email protected]. Also to pace of game and simple implementation of a to play the Giants. A total of fifteen players for listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Q rule or rules," Clark said. "It's a delicate balance the Giants played in the Major Leagues. In & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc.com you try to strike in improving the game while 1959, the Giants won 66 and lost 79 games. 1230 AM, 96.1 FM and 103.3 FM. The home of Corpus Christi’s fifth Minor League team the Houston Astros. Flour Bluff Hornet Girls Basketball Team Falls in Regional Final The Region IV-5A champion Flour Bluff girls Marcum and Meagan Bazan. But by the early basketball team lost to Kerrville Tivy 58-40 in fourth quarter the Antlers led 45-30 and had the the regional final at the Northside Sports Gym game in hand and were on their way to their first in San Antonio. state tournament trip since 2006. 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Of course, PR 22 is International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS). The still a lot of work to do to ensure the survival of 2,100 people, making it the largest CCA a TxDoT roadway, under their jurisdiction. Lifetime Achievement Award will officially be endangered sea turtles, but Dr. Shaver has built presented at the ISTS’s 38th International Sea a strong foundation for efforts to continue into banquet of the organization! We also had The TxDoT Roadway Design Manual has a Turtle Symposium in Kobe, Japan on Friday the future. awesome blackboard and live auctions, and table in it on page 2-7, Section 3 – Sight Distance. February 23rd. In Dr. Shaver’s absence her raised over $400,000 “for the fish”; not bad for Table 2-1: Stopping Sight Distance shows that Dr. Shaver began her work with sea turtles as former professor, Dr. David Owens, from Texas a single night! for a 55mph roadway, reaction distance is 202 a Student Conservation Association volunteer A&M will accept the award on her behalf. Big Shell Cleanup feet, braking distance is 290 feet, and the design at Padre Island National Seashore in 1980. She for both should be 495 feet. This should be the “Currently, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle nests soon discovered a passion for sea turtles and Then Saturday, we minimum distance that anyone should be able have sky-rocketed from an all-time low of 702 their conservation that would shape the rest of suited up, showed up, to see when using ANY of the crossings, left nests in 1985 to almost 27,000 nests in 2017. I her career. She was a member of the team that and got it done at the turns, and/or stoplights along PR 22. As many believe, without a doubt, that Dr. Shaver’s hard conducted the Kemp’s Ridley Head-starting Big Shell clean up on of you know, half of the intersections on the work and dedication has contributed greatly to and Imprinting Project from 1978-1988. She the Seashore. The Island fail that criteria. The particular crossover this recovery, ” said Dawn Gardiner, USFWS joined the National Park Service as a Park fog slowed everyone at Verdemar from the Whataburger side to the Assistant Field Supervisor. Technician at Padre Island National Seashore down from showing Scuttlebutts side looking at northbound traffic Dr. Shaver has led sea turtle conservation during the summers of 1981-1984 and became up in the morning, is at maximum 380 feet, or about three quarters a permanent employee in 1985. By 1986, she but we finally got and recovery efforts at Padre Island National of what it needs to be. That means that even Seashore for over 30 years. She has dedicated was leading the park’s sea turtle conservation Oleanders and everyone in and if people are alert, with their foot on the brake efforts. ambulances lined out and down pedal already, they won’t have enough time to the beach. We had react and stop. There has already been accidents record attendance at this event as well, having at this intersection. approximately 1,175 people come help clean up the beach! We were able to get almost 22 miles There are proposals related to the mobility of beach, and 85 tons of trash! With the high study that various committees and other entities tides we weren’t able to get as far south as we are looking at to improve safety. I propose the would have liked, but there was plenty to clean easiest and quickest solution to immediately up anyway. Thanks for everyone showing up to improve safety that exists; get rid of the participate. I was up north leading about a half- oleanders within 500 feet of any intersection or section of people, but we ground it out and got crossover. There’s no permitting or engineering our stretch done. studies, and no authorizations to get approved beyond TxDoT. Go take them out. The distance Deadly Plants that I mentioned is for a straight shot, but if That was the good news, and now for the could- you’re familiar with that particular crossover, it have-been-tragic: the oleanders along PR 22 on actually curves back and should be longer. I’m the Island need to go. I had finished a meeting not going to talk about additional sight distance at City Hall with the TIRZ #2 subcommittee on curves, and I’m not going to even scratch last Monday, and was headed out to Scuttles for the surface on the lack of ecological value of a late lunch. Right there at the median turn for oleanders: you get the idea loyal readers. The Verdemar and Jackfish, the oleanders partially oleanders on PR 22 block the sight distance block the view from oncoming traffic. I was and fail the criteria regarding roadway design very patient, but almost bought the farm when and should be removed. End of Story. They I thought I could pull out and someone came shouldn’t be there. This also includes the moving through at 55mph in the slow lane. oleanders at the three cross overs between Thankfully I was headed across to the shoulder Commodores and Whitecap; same deal. They on the right side, but got a scare and an earful of could actually be re-planted somewhere close, horn on my way through the lane. maybe along the shoulders. The issue is the line of sight distance, We’re getting closer to spring, I think, maybe? The bluebonnets have popped along some of specifically the stopping sight distance. Dr. Donna Shaver Obviously, the definition of sight distance the sections of Hwy 37 (planted by TxDoT, is literally the length of roadway ahead that incidentally, good job on THAT vegetation) on is visible to the driver. The available sight the way out of town, so it must mean it, right? distance on a road way should be engineered I’m still waiting on the pecan trees in the back If You Want Better Fishing, Tell sufficiently long enough to enable a vehicle alley of my work to pop, they’re always the last traveling at or near the design speed to stop ones to go. Drop me a line at tarponchaser@ Your Senator Today before reaching a stationary object in its path. mail.com and I’ll see you all On the Rocks. Boat Owners Association of The United States Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, (BoatUS) urges recreational boaters and anglers New Hampshire, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Game Warden Field Notes residing in states with U.S. Senate Commerce Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin Committee members to speak up now in favor and West Virginia. involving multiple deer and hogs having been Caught in a Hog Trap of passing the Modern Fish Act. The bill, which shot from the road at night. Boaters and anglers can take action today to At the end of December, a game warden will be voted on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, contact their Senator by going to goo.gl/2HXryk received information from an Abilene City Howdy, Neighbor aims at improving federal marine fisheries Marshall Lake Patrol Officer of hog traps management for recreational anglers. If the For more information on the benefits of the being located on City of Abilene property near While enjoying a day off at his deer lease, a bill passes the committee, it will go to the full act, go to https://keepamericafishing.org/wp- Lake Fort Phantom, which is an area closed Cherokee County game warden was checking Senate floor for a vote. content/uploads/2018/01/HR-200-Onesheet. to the public and off limits to hunting. Game some of his game cameras when he heard a shot pdf. “The bill corrects a long-running mistake cameras were set up and monitored to gather nearby. Thinking his neighbor had taken the of regulating recreational fishing in the same Fifty-nine percent of the more than half- evidence on possible suspects using the traps. shot and might need help retrieving a deer, the way as we do commercial fishing,” said million members of BoatUS fish aboard their After reviewing the photos from the camera, the warden called to check. His neighbor informed BoatUS Manager of Government Affairs David boat. warden determined that a suspect was coming him that he was out of town, but would check Kennedy. “They are simply not the same, and in around noon each day to check the traps. with his neighbor to the east. It was quickly the Modern Fish Act recognizes that. It’s smart On Jan. 4, the warden and the marshal sat in learned that the neighbor to the east had shot legislation.” a nearby location to try to catch the suspect. a small 8-point buck. Curious as to how small, After a short while, both officers witnessed the warden contacted the other neighbor and Since 1976, saltwater recreational fishing a red pickup enter the property, and quickly asked for a cell phone image. He recognized in federal waters has been regulated by the confronted two subjects inspecting one of the the young buck as the same one he had seen Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) which is hog traps. When questioned who gave them on his game camera previously, and he knew credited with achieving success in managing permission to trap on the property they replied it did not meet the county’s 13-inch minimum commercial fishing. However, MSA never they had never seen anyone on the property antler requirement. That afternoon, the warden adequately accounted for recreational fishing. contacted the subject at his home, confirmed the and just assumed it would be okay to trap hogs The goal of the Modern Fish Act - S.1520 - is there. Both subjects were filed on for hunting deer did not meet the antler requirement, and also learned that he had purchased his hunting to finally address the needs of the nation’s 11 without landowner consent, and three hog traps million saltwater recreational anglers, improve were seized as evidence. The cases are pending. license after he killed the deer. The individual also had not completed mandatory hunter access to federal waters and promote marine Caught in the Act education certification. The cases are pending. resource conservation. It will ensure exempted fishing permits help fisheries management and January 4, a Red River County game warden No Herding Allowed conservation, rather than the status quo that can was patrolling for night hunters down a country hinder both, and support new data collection road when he witnessed a subject shine a light On Jan. 14, Sabine County game wardens were patrolling Toledo Bend Reservoir for duck methods. The legislation also modifies annual out of a truck window, and then fire a high- catch limit requirements to allow for more powered rifle. The warden initiated contact and hunting violations when they heard a group of duck hunters shooting nearby. As they motored adaptive approaches, and it’s also designed to learned through dispatch that both male subjects give federal resource managers access to more in the vehicle were convicted felons. The pair close by to check for compliance, the wardens observed another hunter in a mud boat traveling data and perform long-overdue examinations of admitted to shooting a deer. The warden was fishery allocations. able to locate a large 8 point buck that appeared towards a group of coots and canvasbacks. The to have been shot with a rifle. The subjects hunter rallied the ducks and proceeded to shoot States with U.S. Senate Commerce were transported to the Red River County Jail the birds as they attempted to fly. While the boat Committee members include Alaska, Colorado, and booked for hunting deer at night, hunting was rallying the ducks, the other hunters began Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, deer with an artificial light, hunting deer from firing as well. Multiple citations were issued for Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, a public roadway, discharging a firearm from hunting from a boat and rallying ducks. a public road, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. 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We can truly benefit from these types of TO SATURDAY JULY 14, 2018 Life Center. centralize blood donation efforts in the South worthwhile organizations by doing our part to Texas area, as well as for Port Aransas, Aransas raise awareness and try and participate in these I am pleased to announce that the 3rd annual IB Magee is a little more complicated. We had Pass and Corpus Christi communities. Since important blood drives. Sandcastle Run will take place on Saturday planned a groundbreaking on the enhancements its formation, it has involved over 35,000 July 14, 2018 on our beautiful Nueces County You can find more information about ways out there last year. Unfortunately Hurricane volunteers per year, which is crucial since beaches. The event will start at Bob Hall Pier to help by donating blood as well as gain Harvey had other plans. I believe we are back over 150 people per day are needed to donate right in front of Mikel Mays restaurant. I additional information about the Coastal on track for not only the enhancements but the blood to meet the needs in South Texas. The very excited to tell you that we already have Bend Blood Center and what it does as an repair work as well. The Horace Caldwell Pier Blood Center often places its mobile centers at sponsorship commitments from me, Mikel organization by visiting their website at: http:// is a different animal. different areas such as high schools, churches, Mays, Padre Island Business Association www.coastalbendbloodcenter.org/ We have received insurance proceeds that will and hospitals. Individuals who want to donate and D&SS Construction. I want to also say a allow us to move forward on the multi-purpose blood can visit the Blood Center on 209 North As a reminder, the 86th Texas Legislative special thanks to Constable Bobby Sherwood building and bathroom repairs. We will also Padre Island Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas session will begin in January 2016. As always, for always helping with this event. We will be be working on the Caldwell concessionaire during normal business hours. While many of I want to hear your ideas and suggestions as reaching out to others soon and hope you will building out there with insurance proceeds. the donation activities occur in Corpus Christi we get closer the start of next session. These sign up. We were very fortunate to sell out all This work is all slated to begin soon. The pier and Port Aransas, the Coastal Bend Blood ideas and information are important forms of of our sponsorships last year and hope to do itself will require more time. We have to go Center actually serves ten counties in South feedback and I hope that you will not hesitate to so again. Something that is very important is through the FEMA procurement process on that Texas, which includes over half a million contact my office. that all expenses of the race are underwritten. which takes more time. We are moving forward. residents. Bloodmobiles operate seven days a So every single dollar you donate through In addition, between now and the end of the I personally along with the Coastal Parks week to ensure that hospital and patient needs sponsorship or even as a runner goes directly year, many legislative committees are meeting director met with FEMA to do a site inspection are met in this large geographical area. to helping the children with Diabetes go to and holding hearings on issues that may be of the pier and a bid for engineering services to summer camp. WOW! Please call my office at While opportunities for blood donation are raised during the 2019 Texas legislative session. evaluate if there was any structural damage to -361-888-0268 to sign up now. This promises to available and welcome throughout the year, If you are interested in following Texas House the pier has gone out. be another fun signature event on North Padre there is currently a critical need for type O- Committees, then please go to the website at Island. As for the new enhancements we had to do blood. Only 7 percent of people in the United www.house.state.tx.us. some adjustments to the plans and have done States have type O- blood, which is known as the IB MAGEE AND PADRE BALLI If you have questions regarding any of the that. The Commissioners Court has approved universal donor. O- blood can be given to people information mentioned in this week’s article, UPDATE the project going out to bid. So I hope to do of all blood types and is critical in emergencies please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or I hope we are in the final phases of the Padre a groundbreaking soon. Once the plans are before the patient’s blood type is known and District Office. Please always feel free to Balli project. We have been waiting for the City finalized, it goes out for bids. We then award or with newborns that need blood. The general contact my office if you have any questions of Corpus Christi to approve our final plan for reject the bid and then go forward assuming we qualifications for blood donation include: be 17 or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if providing fire service. We had an agreement approve the bid. Keep your fingers crossed but years of age or older, weigh at least 110 pounds, you would like to contact my office regarding back in July but there has been some snag there. I am pleased with the progress at this moment. have a pulse range between 50-100, have not constituent services. As always, my offices are I am confident the city will approve that soon. Once done IB Magee will be an even better donated whole blood in the last 8 weeks, have available at any time to assist with questions, We have had the money and the vendor ready facility allowing for more folks to stay there normal blood pressure, pulse and temperature, concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- to go on that for some time. There will be some and enjoy the wonderful beaches and ambiance do not have a cold or sore throat, are not 463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603). of Port Aransas. Thank you for the opportunity pregnant, and are not taking antibiotics for an hurricane damage repair done on the Briscoe - State Representative Todd Hunter, District King Pavillion and that will be moving forward to serve. Please call my office at 361-888-0268 active infection. If you have a specific question if I can be of help. regarding your eligibility, please contact the 32 Coastal Bend Blood Center at 800.299.4943 or Rep. Hunter represents Nueces (Part) County. Veterans Resource [email protected]. He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. Charter Boat Owners and Operators Wanted I want to continue to find ways of bringing texas.gov or at 512-463-0672. Fair March 3 for new location on Packery Channel awareness to the many great organizations in Nueces County Veterans Services, Del Mar College Veterans Services and Veterans Administration are hosting a Veterans Resource Packery Democratic Primary Ballot Fair, March 3, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 pm at Del Flats (Editor’s note: In last week’s edition we ran a have the right to quality public education from Mar College East Campus Harvin Center, 101 TM copy of the ballot for the Republican Primary pre-k to 12th grade, and affordable college and Baldwin Blvd. Floating Cabin Repairs for the two Padre Island voting precincts. This career training without the burden of crushing Large Boat Slip (22’ x 40’) available week we run the same for the Democratic student loan debt? Yes/No This event is aimed at providing Veterans and good for either repairs or rebuilding Primary.) their dependents the opportunity to inquire Located under the JFK bridge on Packery Channel Proposition No. 2 Student Loan Debt: Should about the different benefits that are available to Call for lease terms Democratic Party Ballot everyone in Texas have the right to refinance Packery Flats Marina student loan debt with the Federal them from health care, claims filing information, “I am a Democrat and understand that I am education, land board, burial, purchasing home 361-774-8886 ineligible to vote or participate in another Reserve at a 0% interest rate, as relief for the information and counseling services. political party’s primary election or convention crushing burden of debt and an investment in during this voting year.” the next generation of Americans? Yes/No IRS: Many EITC, ACTC Refunds United States Senator-Edward Kimbrough; Proposition No. 3-Right to Healthcare: Should Beto O’Rourke; Sema Hernandez everyone in Texas have a right to healthcare, guaranteed by a universal, quality Medicare- Arriving Soon United States Representative, District 27- for-all system? Yes/No Raul (Roy) Barrera; Ronnie McDonald; Eric As the Internal Revenue Service begins days, it?s possible for refunds to take longer. Holguin; Venessa EdwardsFoster Proposition No. 4-Right to Economic Security: releasing refunds for taxpayers who claimed the Taxpayers should keep in mind that ?Where?s Should everyone in Texas have the right to Earned Income Tax Credit and the Additional My Refund?? is updated once daily, usually Governor-Lupe Valdez; Adrian Ocegueda; economic security, where all workers have Child Tax Credit, the agency reminds them that overnight, so checking more often will not Cedric Davis, Sr.; Tom Wakely; Grady earned paid family and sick leave and a living many of these refunds should arrive in bank produce different results. Yarbrough; Joe Mumbach; wage that respects their hard work? Yes/No accounts or on debit cards this week. That is if Here are a few important things to know about Andrew White James; Jolly Clark; Jeffrey Proposition No. 5-National Jobs Program: they chose direct deposit and there are no other tax refunds: Payne Should the Democratic Party promote a national issues with the tax return. The IRS issues nine out of 10 refunds in less Lieutenant Governor-Michael Cooper; Mike jobs program, with high wage and labor Several factors, including weekends, than 21 days. Collier standards, to replace crumbling infrastructure Presidents Day and the time banks often need and rebuild hurricane damaged areas, paid for Attorney General- Justin Nelson to process direct deposits can impact the time IRS customer service representatives cannot with local, state, and federal bonds financed it takes taxpayers to receive their refunds. By provide refund information until 21 days Comptroller of Public Accounts- Tim through the Federal Reserve at low interest with law, the IRS could not issue refunds before mid- have passed since the return was filed. Mahoney; Joi Chevalier long term maturities? February for tax returns that claim the Earned ?Where?s My Refund?? provides the most up-to-date information. Commissioner of the General Land Office- Proposition No. 6-Right to Clean Air, Safe Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Miguel Suazo; Tex Morgan Water, and a Healthy Environment: Should Credit. Taxpayers need their Social Security Commissioner of Agriculture-Kim Olson everyone in Texas have the right to clean air, The most common question taxpayers have number, tax filing status (single, married, safe water, and a healthy environment? Yes/No head of household) and exact amount of the Railroad Commissioner- Roman McAllen; about the status of their refund can easily be Proposition No. 7-Right to Dignity & Respect: answered by using the “Where?s My Refund?” tax refund claimed on the return to use the Chris Spellmon ?Where?s My Refund?? tool. Or they can Should everyone in Texas have the right to a life tool on IRS.gov or the IRS2Go mobile app. Justice, Supreme Court, Place 2-Steven call 800-829-1954. of dignity and respect, free from discrimination ?Where?s My Refund?? was updated Feb. 17 for Kirkland and harassment anywhere, including the vast majority of early filers who claimed the Requesting a transcript will not reveal a tax Justice, Supreme Court, Place 4-R.K. Sandill businesses and public facilities, no matter how Earned Income Tax Credit and the Additional refund status, despite the social media myth they identify, the color of their skin, who they Child Tax Credit. to the contrary. Justice, Supreme Court, Place 6-Kathy love, socioeconomic status, or from where they Cheng Many factors can affect the timing of a refund Some tax returns take longer to process come? Yes/No after the IRS receives a tax return. Even though than others for many reasons. The IRS Presiding Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals- Proposition No. 8-Right to Housing: Should the IRS issues most refunds in less than 21 will contact taxpayers by mail if more Maria T. (Terri) Jackson everyone in Texas have the right to affordable information is needed. Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place and accessible housing and modern utilities 7-Ramona Franklin including high speed internet, free from any form of discrimination? Yes/No Member, State Board of Education, District 2-Michelle Arévalo Dávila; Ruben Cortez, Proposition No. 9-Right to Vote: Should every Jr. eligible Texan have the right to vote, made easier by automatic voter registration, the Chief Justice, 13th Court of Appeals option to vote by mail, a state election holiday, District-Dori Contreras; Ray Thomas and no corporate campaign influence, foreign Justice, 13th Court of Appeals District, Place interference, or illegal gerrymandering? Yes/No 2- Nora Longoria Proposition No. 10-Right to a Fair Criminal Justice, 13th Court of Appeals District, Place Justice System: Should everyone in Texas have 4-Rudy Delgado the right to a fair criminal justice system that treats people equally and puts an end to mass Justice, 13th Court of Appeals District, Place incarceration of young people of color for 5-Gina Benavides minor offenses? Yes/No District Judge, 94th Judicial District-Bobby Proposition No. 11-Immigrant Rights: Galvan Should there be a just and fair comprehensive District Judge, 105th Judicial District-Craig immigration reform solution that includes D. Henderson an earned path to citizenship for law-abiding immigrants and their children, keeps families District Judge, 117th Judicial District- Trust together, protects DREAMers, and provides Sandra Watts workforce solutions for businesses? Yes/No Padre Island and Port Aransas’ Oldest Island Based Pest Control Company. District Judge, 148th Judicial District-Carlos Proposition No. 12-Right to Fair Taxation: Valdez; Deborah Rios Should everyone in Texas have the right to a Send letters and photos to [email protected] County Judge-Barbara Canales fair tax system, where all interests (business, Judge, County Court-at-Law No. 1-Robert corporations, and individuals) pay their share, J. Vargas so that state government meets its obligations? Yes/No On Padre Island Since 1994. Judge, County Court-at-Law No. 2-Lisa The Pest Control Professionals Gonzales Locally Owned by Island Resident OVER 30 YEAR EXPERIENCE Judge, County Court-at-Law No. 3-Deeanne Fish Fry Friday Bill Schroeder Svoboda Galvan From February 16 through March 23 the St. District Clerk-Ray Madrigal; Gerald G. Andrew Knights of Columbus will hold a Garza Lenten fish fry each Friday evening from 5-7 15481 SPID Just past p.m. at St. Andrew by the Sea Family Life Whitecap on Right County Clerk-Diana Barrera Center, 14238 Encantada Avenue. County Chairman-Coretta Graham; Landers The cost is $8 per plate and includes fried fish, 949-0208 B. Balamonte fries, green beans, Coleslaw and ice tea and Residential and Commercial Services Proposition No. 1-Right to a 21st Century coffee. Termite * Ants * Rodent * Critter * Roaches * Spiders * Fleas Public Education: Should everyone in Texas For more information call 361 949-7193. 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But I want to bring this down to one received more than 2,500 complaints against number, the number 22. That is the number of travel agencies nationwide. Most complaints Pay with a credit card. Paying with a credit And spend the day doing the same job exact job every day. Quitting time at 5? No, quitting veterans who kill themselves every day. Nearly alleged consumers felt misled by travel offers card – rather than by cash or check – gives once an hour a man or woman, who was once that failed to deliver on promises. In some cases, you additional protection if something were time is whenever the boss says it is, sometimes not even until well after the sun goes down. So highly trained to serve and protect each and consumers paid money for travel arrangements to go wrong with the travel reservation. every one of us, feels a level of hopelessness that were never made. I’m not making this sound like paradise I know, Verify reservations. Get the contact but there are some good things about living this that they believed only ending their life could If you are looking for an alternative to staying information of the airline, car rental agency way. You do have a place to live and 3 meals a fix. in a hotel, renting someone’s home, condo or and hotel. Call to confirm all arrangements day. And, when you are new to this, you really The saddest part of all of this is that each apartment may be appealing. Vacation rental with them. Don’t only rely on the word of don’t have to think about things much. You just and every one can and should be prevented. websites make it easy to connect directly with your agent. do what the bosses say and dream about life the The Veteran’s Administration has recognized property owners who advertise their rentals Be alert for travel scams. Unsolicited day after this ends. this tragedy and has several initiatives designed online. However, BBB warns consumers to mail, email and websites offering deeply For a lot of us, military life was tough. to bring this number down. They start with a watch out for fake rental listings that may not discounted travel packages could leave you reporting and tracking system for every veteran be for rent or don’t exist at all. When you join the military you give up control out of a vacation and money if you’re not of your rights and choices for the good of the in their health care system. Every VA employee BBB offers the following tips to ensure you’re careful. Watch out for scams saying that you people. However, in return your basic needs is trained to recognize the signs of suicidal finalizing your vacation plans with a trustworthy have “won a trip.” If you have really won a are taken care of. And this is important to thinking and ask the right questions to determine business: free vacation, a legitimate company won’t understand, because many of us forget, or never if that vet needs help. Each VA Medical Center ask you to pay any upfront or processing has a Suicide Prevention Coordinator or team Use a travel company you trust. Ask learn, the skills needed to survive in this “what fees. have you done for me lately” world that we are whose goal is to get help within 24 hours of a family and friends to recommend a company veteran being identified of being at risk. And they have used and go to bbb.org to find For information on Spring Break scams, or any living in. Suddenly, your job isn’t guaranteed anymore, you don’t have 3 meals waiting for most importantly, there is a 24 hour hotline a BBB Accredited Business and view the other types of scam, head to BBB.org. specifically for veterans in crisis. It’s called the company’s BBB Business Review. you. You don’t have someone making certain Kelly Trevino is the regional director for you do the things you need to do to survive. You VETERANS CRISIS LINE and the number is Get all vacation details in writing. Get the Corpus Christi/Victoria area of Better are on your own. 1-800-273-8255. This line is confidential and all the details of your vacation in writing, Business Bureau serving the Heart of Texas. can be used by the veteran or their families. including travel itineraries and booking Kelly is available for media interviews and And for a few of us, we are cast back into Veterans and their families can also go to the confirmations. Get a copy of the company’s speaking engagements. You can reach her by the fast paced world broken. Maybe part of our website at veteranscrisiline.net or even text for cancellation and refund policies. phone: (361) 945-7352 or email: ktrevino@ body was hurt in some faraway place that we help by texting to the number 838255. corpuschristi.bbb.org. would never have gone to if given the choice. Or maybe, we have seen things that are difficult But the fight against tragedy requires a Letters from Frostbite Falls to see. We see, or even contribute to, man’s concerted effort by everyone, including you. inhumanities to other men. This combination Talk to veterans you know. Ask how they of being forced to survive in this modern world are doing, especially if they start to isolate Frostbite Betty on a Getaway and being forced to do it with part of you left themselves or appear depressed. But the most behind is often more than one can manage. It is important thing you can do is let them know they even more difficult if resources established to are not alone and understand that the resources are there and ready to help them. Don’t forget By Frostbite Betty help you survive this transition are mismanaged or inadequate. At this point, hopelessness and that number, 22. Because it’s 22 more than what So, what do I crave the in exchange, Host Ralph Edwards, (remember frustration take hold and one thinks of escaping we as a society should accept. most when the cold gray him?) would put the town on the map. And he it all. Minnesota winter starts did! It was sliding into obscurity until he came closing in? Non-stop sunshine! So here I am in the Rockport-Fulton Needs Your quirky desert town of Truth or Consequences, in the high desert of New Mexico. Twelve inches of rain in a good year, and none of it is falling Help & Support this week, just a row of bright little sun icons on From a festival featuring our Oyster industry the weather map. Market Days March 17-18 to strolls, walks, and runs, there are plenty Come join the fun at Market Days at the This is an arty town, one of the themes is of events to keep you moving around the Festival Grounds at Rockport Harbor. There is outer space, as the mysterious Area 51 is not area! Whether it is shopping downtown or at live music, 10 food trucks and over 100 vendors that far away. One of my favorite artists, Sky Market Days or appreciating a moving sunrise with lots of merchandise. It’s going to be St. is her name, wears big silly glasses and wildly service over Aransas Bay, there is something Patrick’s Day kind of fun! For more information, colorful outfits, and she covers all sorts of for everyone. Although Hurricane Harvey contact http://rockportfultonmarketdays.com. objects with shiny baubles from the many thrift devastated our community just six months ago stores. Percolators, tennis shoes, cowboy boots, on August 25, 2017, the spirit of our community Downtown St. Patrick’s Day Crawl and her mailbox, rocks in her garden, toasters. Such has grown stronger, offering more events for the Art Center Market March 17 fanciful work that makes for plenty of smiles. visitor to enjoy. March is a happening month for the Rockport-Fulton area and your support Downtown Rockport is going green – like a T or C leprechaun that is! Participating shops will be Driftwod Trigger in Truth or is needed to help boost the economy. T or C as it’s called, is right on the Rio Grande, staying open later and green is the theme. Lucky and just off the edge lies an aquifer of natural Consequence, NM. Fulton Oysterfest March 1-4 customers are in for some St. Patrick’s Day surprises! Also, visit the Art Center Market. It hot mineral water. There are plenty of public to visit and ride his horse in the annual Fiesta It’s the 39th Annual Fulton Oysterfest. Each hot springs spa places, and other back yard year the Fulton Volunteer Fire Department and is an extension of the Rockport Center for the Parade with his entertainment big shot pals, like Arts, with high quality hand crafted artistic soaking tanks, like at my friends’ house where I Marilyn Monroe and Rock Hudson. And more. the Town of Fulton sponsor Oysterfest, a salute will be heading shortly. Before the springs were to the tasty bivalve found in our local waters. items for sale and display such as Fine Arts, There are tapes of the old tv shows in the little Photography, Jewelry, pottery, books, and fixed up 100 years ago, it was a mud springs museum downtown. Oysterfest features carnival rides, games, food, flat, where Geronimo’s Warm Springs Apaches and oyster eating, shucking and decorating accessories. Contact elena@rockportartcenter. and other tribal people came to a sacred treaty So there’s no beautiful sandy beach here like contests, live music, unique vendor booths and com for more information. ground. Port A, or frozen sparkly icy beach like in most of all - FUN! Head to Fulton Harbor. Hours Stroll thru Rockport March 24 Frostbite Falls, but I did see a great blue Heron are: Thursday - 5 - 11 pm, (Fireworks after 8 The town was originally named Hot gliding to a spot along the river yesterday on Join in and support the Rockport-Fulton Springs, until the 1950’s quiz show, Truth or p.m.) Friday - 5 - 11 pm, Saturday - 10am - my walk. Maybe he has pals in Port A like Midnight and Sunday - 10am - 6pm. For more community by participating in the 2nd Annual Consequences, had a contest to pick a town that Bert and I do. Missing y’all, peace and be well. Stroll thru Rockport. There is a revised was willing to change its name for fifty years information, contact: http://fultonoysterfest. 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At to ask president and first Sally thought CEO of the Port Aransas Miss Sally is forced the thieves were Chamber of Commerce to mark her flamingos stealing them for the and Tourism Bureau, Jeff from the flamingo tattoo stockings on Hentz, if he thought we thieves. their legs but they The Back Porch got their doors back open were ready for business kept disappearing Davin James will play the Back Porch on yet. You always think the anyway when the tattoo stockings ran out. for the 2018 season with alll the usual Friday. chamber guy is going to Now Miss Sally has written the name of her suspects helping out. JR Wood, Keith Port A Chamber paint the rosiest picture store, Gratitude, on their underbelly, so keep McMullen, Scott Lagedrost, Lee Harper, head, Jeff Hentz, possible, but Hentz just a watchful eye out and report directly to me if and Michelle Garrett says our numbers laid out the numbers. “By you find one. I’ll tarnish their flamingo stealing bless the Gaff. And last Friday was opening are down but March 15”, Hentz said, hides. It just ain’t right to steal a woman’s pink day for our beloved Back Porch. I happened we’re nearly “23 percent of the city’s flamingos, especially from our sweet Miss in just as they opened. Later Billy Snipes got ready. lodging inventory — Sally. Maybe we need a hidden camera. We the musical ball rolling for the season. It’s nice or 780 hotel rooms and could set up a sting. to have them back. They’ll have Davin James vacation homes — should Scattered shots… and Scarecrow People this weekend. Also be available. That should increase to 70 percent last weekend I caught the first set of the great by June 1, and nearly 90 percent by Aug. 1.” It was pretty Toman Brothers from San Antonio. Hentz also said, “Before Harvey, Port Aransas much jumping had 3,500 residents. Right now, about 2,000 around Port A DO NOT MISS LIST people are living here and half the businesses last weekend A band I used to are still closed. That said, the question still with the follow but haven’t remains, are we going to have a Spring Break Whooping seen in a while, crowd this year?” Or will we experience the Crane Festival Folk Family “ghost town effect” that Hentz refers to on a and some nice Revival, are Weather Channel interview. What we need is weather. Both playing Brewster some students at A&M, Tech or UT to tell us the Gaff and Street in Corpus what the word around campus is about Port Shorty’s had this Friday. This is A, and where the party is this year for Spring big crowds. Folk Family Revival will a refreshing family Break. There’s the real skinny. Somebody call Mark McKinney will play Third Coast on The Pirates play Brewster Street on band that have their grandkids and ask ‘em. I guess we’ll find Friday. and Poets from chops on brothers out in about two short weeks. One thing’s for Pirates and Poets promoter, Friday. the hill country can share. Our McKinney is playing Third Coast. Plus, local sure, the party was most definitely in Port A last Jon Burns and the were in town. pals, The Independent Thieves will also share dunebillies Selfie will sweep the cobwebs off year and many years before, so we know this Dententions from Austin This is a group the bill. The band consists of three brothers and Shorty’s porch. That one will be on the late side. is a preferred Spring Break destination with invaded Shorty’s this of folks, mainly a lifelong friend. I’m telling you, these guys are Be safe out there. a solid base of dedicated partiers, as Chief weekend. special. On Saturday, you got country. James Burroughs has pointed out. And another thing Little will play Giggity’s and the talented Mark ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ I can just about guarantee, there will be ample cops here to quell anything and everything that even smells of trouble (including not wearing your seat belt and coming to a complete stop… hint, hint). The “no alcohol on the beach after 6 PM” rule passed again so the line in the Live Music sand is drawn and I have no fear that we will Bobby Carter @ be safe and protected, no matter how many Blackbeards on the Beach drunk Spring Breakers pass out on the beach . or wander our streets like zombies because Tonight Friday, March 9 Chanklas @ Giggity’s there are no rooms to rent. One issue I haven’t Thursday, March 1 Cody Angel @ Back Porch seen addressed too much is the fact that many Free Beer Band @ The Toman Brothers played Giggity’s last BELT SANDER RACES businesses in the hospitality industry are have Giggity’s @ Gaff difficulties finding able bodies to staff their Saturday. Jimmy Willden @ Stoney Larue @ Brewster bars, restaurants, lodges and retail counters Executive Surf Club Street Roger Creager @ Brewster DAVIN JAMES MAR 2 right now. I asked Ed Ziegler, Jr. when he APEX @ Rockit’s Street would start opening Moby Dick’s for breakfast SCARECROW PEOPLE MAR 3 SAGANS @ Pelican APEX @ Rockit’s and he said he just doesn’t have the staff. This is CODY ANGEL MAR 9 Lounge Rudy Llanes @ House of where the “affordable housing” debate begins. GARRET SIMON MAR 10 Ruben Limas @ Rock The living options aren’t exactly plentiful right JERED CLARK MAR 15 Blackbeards on the Beach now for our service industry workers. Many Friday, March 2 CAPT. LEGENDARY MAR 16 Saturday, March 10 drive in from Corpus and Flour Bluff every day. Red Giant @ Giggity’s CODY BRYAN MAR 17 Garrett Simon @ Back But that’s another story. I personally think it’s Davin James @ Back 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront Porch going to happen. I think Spring Break 2018 is Porch Ty Dietz @ Giggity’s Spazmatics @ Brewster gonna be one more wild ride in a series of a Sing Along Piano Bar @ And the winter crowds continue to grow at Street million. If the bumper crop of Winter Texans Brewster Street the Gaff for beltsander races every oither Reno Perez @ It’ll Do this year is any indication, the world still seems Iya Terra, Resinated, Saturday. Saloon to have faith in us. So buckle up and load for Flatbroke, Saltwater Slide Folk Family Revival, @ House of Rock bear. Most schools let out on March 12... ready Independent Thieves @ Myndfields @ Rockit’s or not. Parrot Heads, from Austin, House of Rock Junior Gordon @ South San Antonio and points Mammoths @ Executive Texas Ice House Flamingo thieves at large… Surf Club beyond, that follow a stable of Reverend’s Daughter @ Clarissa Serna @ Rockit’s You know how I feel about talented singer-songwriters, Pelican Lounge Songs for Celia @ Pelican thieves. I pretty much laid mostly in the vein of trop- Bobby Carter @ Lounge it out last week when I rock. And they produce Blackbeards on the Beach reported about JM’s bull showcases with a nice variety Saturday, March 3 Turbo Trout Selfie this Sunday, March 11 fiddle getting snaked out of artists. They had Shorty’s Scarecrow People @ Back Antone & All Stars @ of his car in the middle of jumping last Saturday afternoon with Brian Porch Saturday Giggity’s the night. I may have gone Shayne and Dan Sullivan and the Detentions. James Little @ Giggity’s Miss Sally’s pink Zack Tyler @ Pelican off on a little rant about It’s a nice group of people. And they had it Cody Jinks @ Brewster flamingos in her Lounge thieves. I got censored going on BIG at the Gaff on Saturday for the bi- Street Night! pink Farley boat. Mark McKinney @ Third by Rankin on that one monthly WORLD FAMOUS BELT SANDER Monday, March 12 Coast Music (it wasn’t a dirt bag that I RACES. My money was on Turbo Trout. He OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port Aransas Open Jam @ Giggity’s called that thief, btw.) Well, now the thieving had just won his last heat as I was leaving. God Fist Full of Metal @ It’ll Do Saloon has gotten personal. Some low-down, son of Tuesday March 13 Naked & Fearless Tool Paul Taylor @ Giggity’s Tribute @ House of Rock Open Mic @ House of Shayna Sands @ Rock GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR Executive Surf Club Another Level @ Rockit’s Wednesday, March 14 Shane Watson @ South PA Rockers @ Bernie’s LIVE MUSIC Texas Ice House LIVE MUSIC Independent Thieves @ Free Beer Band March 1 Out of Bounds @ Pelican Giggity’s EVERY Lounge Red Giant March 2 Billy Snipes @ Back Porch Naked & Fearless, NIGHT Open Mic @ Executive James Little March 3 Knifeparty, Wild Ones @ Surf Club Antone & the All Stars March 4 House of Rock HAIR BY Saul Padron @ Rockit’s All You Can Eat Open Jam March 5 Damon Scott @ House of Sunday, March 4 Rock FRIED Paul Taylor March 6 Antone & All Stars @ John Eric @ Pelican FLOUNDER Billy Snipes March 7 Giggity’s HEIDI Lounge Everyday 11-7 722 Tarpon, Port Aransas, TX Bubba West @ Pelican at Trinity By the Sea Lounge Thursday, March 15 Bobby Carter @ Trojan & Ave E. Free Beer Band @ Blackbeards on the Beach (512) 914-8846 Giggity’s Jered Clark @ Back Porch Monday, March 5 PORT A. PROUD Dead Boys @ House of Open Jam @ Giggity’s Rock Steven Hansen @ Parker McCullom, John Blackbeards on the Beach Bauman @ Brewster Street Flatbroke @ Rockit’s Tuesday March 6 Dead Boys, Bomb Hoarder, Paul Taylor @ Giggity’s Dirty Mike @ House of Open Mic @ House of Rock Rock .

Friday, March 16 Wednesday, March 7. The Groove @ Giggity’s PA Rockers @ Bernie’s True Country @ Treasure Billy Snipes @ Giggity’s Island Damon Scott @ House Treasure Island Captain Legendary @ of Rock TRUE COUNTRY MARCH 16 Back Porch Open Mic @ Executive DAVES DUO MARCH 17 Hannah Wicklund & Surf Club Steppin Stones @ House Port Aransas John Eric @ Pelican of Rock Lounge APEX @ Rockit’s Construction \ FULL BAR OPEN AT Splendiferous @ Pelican Thursday, March 8 Est. 1999 Lounge Free Beer Band @ 3 EVERYDAY Hannah, Wicklund, High Giggity’s 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Residential/Commercial Divers @ House of Rock Sweet Daddy @ Executive treasureislandporta Surf Club (361) 453-0147 David Martinez @ Expert Computer Repairs Rockit’s The Gaff Now Open! Pizza Beer Darts Belt sander Races