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Inside the Moon Poker Run A2 A Cool Visit A7 Fishing A11 Laguna A13 Live Music A18 Issue 790 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 June 6, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Photo by Gary McAlea Around Fugitive Wichita Jailbird Seen Monday, June 10 The Island City Council By Dale Rankin in Lavaca Bay! Members The summer season is upon us, the sargassum weed has started to wash Flamingo 492 escaped from a zoo in 2005 has passed into legend Coming to up on local beaches, the turtles are tired, and we are playing chicken By Dale Rankin African flamingo who busted loose The birds’ arrival at the zoo was there on June 27, 2005, but if he novel enough to warrant a story in The with our first tropical depression of Fourteen years ago he/she and Padre Island didn’t he should have. It would have Wichita Eagle. Like many inmates in Padre Island will host two special the Hurricane Season. another captive took it on the lam and been poetic justice because before lockup the bird was young, at least by meetings on the same day when the he/she has become famous across the But live music is busting out all the zookeeper could trim human standards, at about 25 years Island Strategic Action Committee country. over, in spite of all the rain of late the flying feathers from old, and short by human standards at and the Island Reinvestment Zone the mosquitos have yet to show Somehow the words of Stephen the wings of the bird and (TRZ #2) meet separately at the themselves in numbers, and Tourist King’s 1994 novella 'Rita Hayworth his/her companion who were Holiday Inn Express & Suites on Season 2019 looks to be the best we and Shawshank Redemption,' seem both captured as adults and brought Windward Drive on Monday, June have had in years. All in all things are appropriate, although we paraphrase to their cage a mighty wind blew up 10. looking good on our little sandbar as liberally. and both of them took the opportunity The regular monthly meeting of the we wind on down toward the heart of to take to the sky. They got away so the summer. "I believe in two things: ISAC, an advisory committee for the quickly they didn’t even have time Corpus Christi City Council, which discipline and the Bible. Here to find out if either was a he Tired turtles you'll receive both. Put your usually meets the first Tuesday of or a she, or even give them each month, was postponed due to The number of turtles visible on a trust in the Lord; your wings names, only a number on a the Memorial Day Holiday. walk out the Packery Jetties these belong to me. Welcome to yellow armband that one bird still days is the highest in memory. The Sedgwick." wears like a prison tattoo – Flamingo The ISAC agenda includes items locals have been helping them when regarding repairs to the Packery There is no way to know if the No. 492. they wash up and they just keep on Channel Jetties and updates on plans zookeeper at the Sedgwick County coming. The folks who know about "Lord! It's a miracle! Up and for maintaining Island beaches. Zoo in Wichita, Kansas ever uttered such things tell us there is a “washing vanished like a bird in the those words to the now famous wind!" The TRZ #2 board which is chaired machine effect” going on caused Jailbird cont. on A4 by District 4 City Councilman Greg by heavy runoff from recent rains Smith, includes all members of the and the high tides which have been city council and representatives of the inundating our beaches. The result is Second Bridge to The Island Approved various taxing entities which provide that the turtles are tired because they tax incentives on improvements inside are swimming all the time. Usually Not time to start your OTB engine just yet the zone to pay for improvements, when you get too close to a turtle it including the Packery Channel will swim off, but now they just kind Jetties. The zone was established in of look at you and say, “I’m a tired By Dale Rankin documents presented to the council was presented to the Island Strategic Action Committee in early 2018 the 2004 and dictates that property tax on turtle, please leave me alone.” It may The Corpus Christi City Council the regional parkway would run 9.9 bridge would reach Padre Island in improvements in the zone since that be a tough time to be a turtle but for has approved an amendment to the miles and include an extension of the area south of Sea Pines on a 3,680 time are earmarked for project inside those of us who just like to watch city’s Urban Transportation Plan Rodd Field Road near where the new acre tract of land in Kleberg County the zone, including the proposed Park them swim around it’s a good time that includes a second bridge from Southside Del Mar College is to be purchased by Nueces County in 2015 Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge. The for turtle watching. Corpus Christi to North Padre Island built. with a grant from the Ed Rachal TRZ board has never held a meeting at a cost of $400 million. But don’t The measure approved by the council Wetlands center at Balli Park Foundation. on Padre Island. The board manages start revving your OTB engines just would consist of two separate bridges, the TRZ fund which now has about The Nueces County Commissioners yet. one northbound and one southbound, The area where the bridge would $13 million. Court had an item on their agenda this but construction of the project would cross is known as Natural Beach, According to the measure approved The Island Reinvestment Zone Board week for development of a wetlands not begin until sometime around which runs between Bob Hall Pier by the council in mid-May the Meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m., with area at Balli Park near Bob Hall Pier. 2050; earlier estimated anticipated and Padre Island National Seashore. regional parkway as it is called the ISAC meeting following at 5:30. The genesis of the idea comes from the bridge would be needed by 2035. The area was well-known to many would connect Park Road 22 to the The public is invited to attend both an unusual source – a bar ditch. According to the North Padre Island Islanders due to the presence of a Crosstown Expressway and would be and it is a chance for Islanders to find Development Plan which was done as The term “bar ditch” comes from funded through the Texas Department out what is in The Island’s future. the act of “borrowing” dirt from the of Transportation. According to part of the large areawide plan which Bridge cont. on A4 roadside to build up the roadway and as many things often do ended up in a bar. It may not be something you would think of as wetlands but if it stays there long enough it falls into that category and if you remove it or fill it in you have to create wetlands somewhere else to replace it and that is what led to the idea of a wetlands area at Balli Park. When planning for development around Lake Padre first began more than twenty years ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wanted water circulation from Lake Padre to the Island canals on the west side of SPID. The idea was to place culverts under SPID to get the water moving. But when a bond item was passed in 2004 to turn the culverts into the Sargassum weed showed up on local beaches this week for the first time in several years Park Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge it meant that the bar ditches on each side of the road had to be removed and since they were considered A little Island history wetlands they had to be replaced with new wetlands elsewhere. Hired by Captain King The process is common on The Island and involves committing an By Dale Rankin “That’s right. McNelly got fired. division of the ranch and married off-site property to permanently Captain King’s niece in 1882. They Durham left Banquette and headed And you don’t want to work for that remain an undeveloped wetland. In had nine kids. They eventually moved for the King Ranch. On the way man Hall?" this case the site chosen to make a to the Sauz division where Durham he stopped and put on the new suit “I think he’s fired too,” Durham said. permanent wetland to replace the bar was general foreman and King built of clothes he had bought in San “The new governor has cut the whole ditches is Balli Park. The idea has them a house where he lived until his Antonio and a clean shirt. As he outfit off.” been around for several years and death. Carolyn died in 1915. During rode onto the King Ranch one of has taken many forms but the latest, “Did you ever work stock?” the ensuing years there survives only the wranglers took him for a cattle according to the agenda, is to create one written account of his daily life buyer and took charge of his horse Durham shook his head and tapped a trail that would traverse the said there.