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San Jose Island Zone Friday, February 7Th at Mikel Mays by Dale Rankin If You’Ve Ever Driven Down SPID Starting at 6:30 P.M Inside the Moon Preparing for the Parade A2 Remember When A6 Help Homeless Pets A7 Seashore Happenings A8 Live Music A18 Issue 825 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 February 06, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around Early Voting The Island Starts February By Dale Rankin 18 Well, we had some of what passes New polling location for winter this week as it got just a little too cool to barbeque in the on Padre Island back yard. But when it gets a little cooler than we like Around The Early Voting begins on Tuesday, Island we can tell ourselves it won’t February 18 for both the Democrat last long as Mother Nature soon and Republican primary elections. enough pushes things back to the mu Voters on Padre Island take note of the temperature of the water that that the Early Voting location has surrounds us which has been sticking changed and is now at Padre Island in the mid-sixties. Baptist Church 14253 S. Padre Island Drive. It is the site for both Democrat The Winter Texans know this and and Republican primary voters. when they hear year-round Islanders Registered voters are not required complaining about the cold they look to vote at their own precinct polling a little puzzled as they walk the beach place and can vote at any location in in short pants and windbreakers. Nueces County. Spring Break will be here before we know it. For a list of convenient voting places From Eggs to Freedom! and complete sample ballots see page Careful what you ask for This family of owls was brought into the Texas Sealife Center in October by Fisher A15 in this issue. And speaking of Spring Break – see Phillips who found their eggs in a deer blind near Three Rivers. Now they are in the how that works – it kind of feels like flight pen in order to get their wings ready the annual Thursday afternoon Spring for their release this Saturday. By the numbers Break Speed Trap on Whitecap these days only all the time. Each March 2019 Crime when CCPD sends large numbers of officers to The Island in anticipation Police Department Reorganizing to Stats on Padre of the crowd they arrive a day early – on Thursday – and with nothing Island much to do they run speed traps on Beef Up Island Coverage Editor’s note: The following Whitecap. It happens every year and crime statistics for Padre Island longtime Islanders know to take the By Dale Rankin issued orders to keep the two officers The Island, if he gets in trouble his in 2019 were released this week on Island duty the redrawing of the backup has to come from over the Aquarius route to stay off Whitecap Corpus Police Chief Mike Markel by the Corpus Christi Police district lines will make is easier to bridge and that can put his safety at during the Spring Break onslaught. told a packed house at a town hall Department. enforce and to patrol. Padre Island, risk.” Markel said. But the recent push for more of a meeting at Holiday Inn Express and Mustang Island north the Corpus 0 Homicides police presence on Padre Island has on Tuesday that by summer he is He said The Island also currently has Christi City Limits, are in the Bravo activated the Law of Unintended redrawing the lines of the patrol a third officer on patrol during peak 4 Robberies District which also includes Flour Consequences. City leaders have district which includes Padre Island hours from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. who is Bluff and a portion of the city west 10 Aggravated Assaults responded to the call and Police Chief to keep at least two patrol officers paid for by Hotel Occupancy Funds. of Oso Bay. He said that the new Mike Markel has ordered that at least present at all times. That officer will remain. He also said 6 Assaults by an acquaintance two officers remain on The Island at district lines will put the boundary of that placing a police substation on “The Island has two full police 4 Assaults by strangers all times now. That’s good and bad. As the Bravo District at the east side of Padre Island is out of the question. we go through the crime reports each beats,” Markel said, “and we are Oso Bay contracting the area that the 36 Burglaries week the number of burglaries are going to make sure that those two officers assigned to it must cover to “Some of you may not want to hear down and the trouble that historically officers are never called away from only The Island and Flour Bluff. He this but a police substation on Padre 222 Larcenies (Theft of comes from the transient population The Island unless they are replaced. said part of the reason is for the safety Island is out of the question,” he personal property) along the Michael J. Ellis Seawall \ That is a direct order from me.” of officers who patrol Padre Island. said. “But you should know that a 22 Thefts from vehicle has dropped off dramatically. But the Markel said that while he has already “When there is only one officer on 2 Arsons officers like to earn their keep and Police cont. on A4 with less to do they are now making a 14 Sexual Assaults lot more traffic stops; sixty-seven this week up from the normal number of 12 by an acquaintance around thirty. To quote Pink Floyd – Island Under Construction 2 by strangers if you don’t eat your meat you can’t Construction fences and work crews are ubiquitous on Padre Island these days with new buildings going have any pudding – or something like up and old buildings finding new lives. Continued on page A4 129 Vehicle-related crimes that. 92 Burglary of a motor vehicle We do want to thank the two council 65 Thefts from unlocked cars members who have responded to requests from Island residents 10 Thefts of vehicle parts or concerning police protection on accessories Padre Island. Council members 15 Unauthorized use of a motor Paulette Guajardo and Greg Smith vehicle came to The Island twice this week 10 Vehicle break-ins with the to talk to residents, once on Thursday use of keys morning at Waves Resort where 9 Vehicle thefts with no damage about thirty Islanders attended, and The new development along Zahn again in a town hall gathering during The new Starbucks at the Aquarius/ The new pavilion near the boat Road which will be the first new 16 Vehicles locks jimmied the meeting of the Island Strategic SPID intersection is expected to be ramps on Zahn Road is almost ready overnight stay rooms built on the Action Committee on Tuesday. For a open by the summer season. for use. beach since the 1980s are nearing full report see the story in this issue, completion. but we want to thank both of them for Seashore taking the time to help us. Charter Schools Mardi Gras Fat Friday A little Island history Last week we accidently moved the Seek School Barefoot Mardi Gras Fat Friday party. The correct time and place is this San Jose Island Zone Friday, February 7th at Mikel Mays By Dale Rankin If you’ve ever driven down SPID starting at 6:30 p.m. We include more towards the Sea Pines neighborhood Barefoot Mardi Gras information this San Jose Island has been in the or PINS around 3:00 p.m. on a school week as we walk up to the Barefoot news this week as six barges left day, you’ve probably noticed the Beach Parade on Saturday, February there by Hurricane Harvey are in endless line of cars inching along 22. the process of being removed. The the shoulder of the road at the corner process of transporting them on The Question of Encantada, right where our island rollers off the island on the Gulf elementary school and preschool The most asked question Around of Mexico side is expected to be – Seashore Learning Center and The Island this week is when is the complete by the end of February Seashore Early Childhood Academy work going to begin on the canal according to a spokesman for the – sit. connecting to the Park Road Water company doing the work. For years, Seashore has been Exchange Bridge on the west side So with that going on we take a Barge being removed from San Jose Island this week. working with parents to solve the of SPID. Crews were expected to look at a bit of the past of San Jose Photo by Cathy Fulton. problem of picking up and dropping be on site by the end of January which actually played a crucial San Jose Island is privately owned Some scholars believe it is the off our preschoolers and K-4th but so far that has not happened. role in World War II. The island by the Texas-based Bass family. It island which Cabeza de Vaca graders in the safest way possible A spokesperson for one of the took a direct hit from Hurricane is 21 miles long and five miles wide described in his writings and with cars and trucks roaring past landowners told the Island Strategic Harvey and Ground Zero, where at its north end where it is separated considered by some of them as his at 55mph. The schools have tried Action Committee on Tuesday that as the eye of Harvey made landfall from Matagorda Island by Cedar landing place on the Texas Coast out multiple pick-up and drop-off work was about to start a glitch was is just north of the site where the Bayou.
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