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Inside the Moon Managing Deer A5 Moon on a Spoon A7 Traveling Moon A9 Boots and Bling Ball A16 Spelling Champ A16 Issue 720 The Photo by Claudia J Harbison Fitts Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 February 1, 2018 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Laissez Le Bon Temps Around Roulet! The Island Barefoot Mardi By Dale Rankin Gras Set for The sniffling, coughing, and sneezing continues unabated hereabouts as we February 10 Islanders navigate our way through the cold and flu epidemic that is Kickoff Party Friday sweeping through the population. It’s been the soundtrack of our Island February 2 for the past few weeks, punctuated The Barefoot by the occasional shotgun blast as Mardi Gras duck hunters work the water along Fat Friday the Laguna Madre. Reports from kickoff the Hill Country are that the trees party is set there are covered with red pollen just for Friday, waiting for a ride on the north wind February 2 at to find its way into Island nostrils. Briscoe King Pavilion at Padre Balli The Weather Wonks are calling for Park. It begins at 6 p.m. with live a chilly February…but they’ve been music. wrong before. Then on Saturday, February 10 the Sad news Barefoot Mardi Gras Beach Parade Tragedy struck at Del Mar College and King & Queen’s Ball will he this week when it was announced that held. the Clown School classes would be Photographer Steve Coons caught this shot of Big Foot on the move this week. The events feature a colorful and cancelled due to lack of instructors. more photos on page A2. unique beach parade followed by a Where are the clowns? Send in the clowns…oh, don’t bother they’re not Mardi Gras cont. on A4 here. It was very sad. Selling the city Schlitterbahn Deadline Passes Adopt-A-Beach It was reported to the Corpus Christi Winter Cleanup City Council on Tuesday that the Hotel Occupancy Tax is up $765,000 With No Action February 10 from the same period last year but The Texas General Land Office attendance at local attractions is down Park and hotel could be auctioned on Tuesday will hold its Winter Adopt-A- - $1 million at the State Aquarium By Dale Rankin foreclosure where it has remained of the park and is the first-position Beach Winter Cleanup on Saturday, alone. The increase in hotel business without change since that time. The lender in case of foreclosure on the The January 31 deadline for finding a February 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. is due to workers in town for repairs Judge gave the parties until January park and of 92-room hotel. Gargotta’s buyer for the Schliterbahn Waterpark Volunteers are asked to wear closed- after Hurricane Harvey. However, 31 to find a buyer or IBC Bank can sell ruling effectively made the bank the and hotel passed this week with no toe shoes and bring plenty of drinking Convention and Visitors Bureau CEO the property at auction on the steps of owners of the property, unless/until action taken by the lean holder, IBC water. Adopt-A-Beach will provide Paulette Kluge said that increase is the Nueces County Courthouse on a buyer can be found. The January Bank, and no indication of their plans all necessary materials. not seeping over in the restaurants Tuesday, February 6. The property deadline included only the park and for a potential auction of the property Since 1986, more than 517,000 and tourist attractions who are is listed for auction, but IBC which hotel, the court appointed trustee, on Tuesday, February 6 when it has Texas Adopt-A-Beach volunteers having a slow season across the city. loaned $28 million for the project, has Dawn Ragan, has until May to file been listed for sale. have picked up more than 9,500 tons To address the problem the council the option of continueing to hold the a plan for the entire development of trash from Texas beaches, some released $336,000 in funds from In December San Antonio property in foreclosure but not selling including the nine-hole golf course of it originating from as far away as the Hotel Occupancy Tax early to Bankruptcy Judge Craig Gargotta it and so far the bank spokesmen have and surrounding land, and according South America. To register go to the fund a Rediscover the Coastal Bend signed an order placing the property, declined to give indications of their to those involved in the deal has hired GLO website. campaigned aimed primarily at which has been in Chapter 11 plans for Tuesday. an outside search firm to market the the feeder markets of San Antonio, Bankruptcy since October, in Beaches cont. on A4 Austin, Houston, and the Rio Grande IBC Bank was the orginal financer Schlitterbahn cont. on A4 Valley which are the source of the drive-in tourist trade. Kluge told the Island by the Numbers council the common belief in those markets is that Corpus Christi was Hurricane Harvey hard hit by the storm and the campaign IThe following data was compiled in Port Aransas and the Texas Coastal 60.58 Inches of rain that fell in 40,000 Evacuees sent for shelter or is aimed at letting them know the city by the National Hurricane Center Bend. Nederland refuge between Texas and Louisiana is still open for business. The money and released this week. The 78-page 68 Direct deaths from Harvey in 2 New colors added to the NWS 15,000 homes destroyed in Aransas will be rolled into an ongoing $1.7 report details the tropical system million campaign which so far has Texas alone rainfall chart because of the epic County, Nueces County, Refugio from its origin in Western Africa, rainfall County and the eastern part of San seen a 45 percent increase from the 36 Direct deaths in Harris County its rather ponderous journey across Patricio County. Rio Grande Valley region. The new 336,000 Customers who lost power the Atlantic and into the Caribbean, 125 million dollars in damage by campaign will include an ad in this during the hurricane 25,000 homes damaged in the across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula the storm month’s Texas Monthly. same areas. and into the Gulf of Mexico as a 30,000 Water rescues during and 300,000 Structures flooded in the Really Big Show weak tropical depression. Then after the storm 220,000 customers lost power. it’s quickly elevating status into a region 57 Tornadoes reported during 6 days interruption to the primary Last Thursday was a big night at Category 1 storm and even quicker 500,000 Cars flooded in the region the Third Coast Recording Studio rise into a Cat 4 before slamming Harvey, most in the Houston region water supply to Port Aransas. in Port Aransas as legendary Texas songwriter Terry Allen and a group of friends came rolling into town to raise money for the Port Aransas A little Island history Museum and Farley Boat Works. The shindig was the work of Islander Rick Pratt and the place was packed. It was Revolution in Mexico, Raid on a Texas Train, Heads in a a great time and even David Koresh’s lawyer was there. Gunny Sack, and Finally Peace in The Valley Editor’s note: This is the latest in United States. It has been accurately Bridge update a series of stories about the warfare said over the years that there are three The outlook for the proposed Park which broke out along the Texas/ ways of doing things; the right way, Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge Mexico border in the area south of the wrong way, and the Mexican way. got a little brighter this week with Corpus Christi one hundred years The Mexican way to fight a unconfirmed reports that a local ago. revolution was not to divide into two investor is considering buying the By Dale Rankin camps and fight it out, but rather to land on the south end of the new divide into five camps and fight The relationship between the canal, increasing the likelihood of a Balkanized war of attrition. By United States and Mexico with funding for bulkheads there. Funding the fall of 1915 the revolution had regards to The Border as always for those new bulkheads is a condition narrowed to two groups; one headed been a symbiotic one. Whether set down by the city to release funds by agrarian land reformer Emiliano it be a maquiladora plant where for the $11.5 million bridge. No Zapata in southern Mexico and cheap Mexican labor assembles matter what happens this week with Pancho Villa in the north, the other by parts made in China with a finished the Schlitterbahn park, the bridge is Venustiano Carranza who’s policies, product shipped to America, or the keystone of future development unbeknownst to American President whether it be a deadly border fight on The Island and the project has Woodrow Wilson, had been the cause among drug cartels literally fighting been hanging fire since the bids were of the cross-border killing spree along for access to an underground opened last April with no progress to the Rio Grande River. Pancho Villa (left center) and Emiliano Zapata in the National show on actual construction. We will American market. Palace in Mexico City. Carranza’s flirtation with the keep you up to date as things develop. The problems along the 1915 U.S./ Germans who were looking for a continued along the border Carranza In October Carranza requested and Mexico border were much like the foothold on the American continent had forged an alliance with General was granted permission to move ones we face now, except the cause had encouraged him to foment the Álvaro Obregon in Northern Mexico troops over the American Railroads of the fight going on in Mexico then Border War.