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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 November 8, 2018 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around Island on the Move By the numbers Five Island projects are moving forward this week. Two are complete and How The The Island open and three are under construction. By Dale Rankin Island Voted (D) Democrat (R) Republican (I) In the Indian state of Maharashtra Independent (W) Winner this week hunters shot a tiger believed to have eaten thirteen people. In one The names are listed in ballot attack the tiger walked through a order. herd of cattle to devour the shepherd apparently preferring a human lunch Padre Island over bovine. The hunters attracted 7873 Registered Island Voters the big cat using a cologne called 4657 Total Island Vote Obsession, which anyone old enough to remember the Disco Era is familiar 59.14 Percent turnout Island Joe’s Coffee and Gallery is now open at with. Turns out Obsession contains Corpus Christi Mayor civetone, a compound originally Construction on the new Dollar General store is the corner of SPID and Compass. Aside from 1373 Michael Hall (Runoff) derived from the scent glands of moving quickly on SPID south of Whitecap. the shop it also has office space upstairs. a civet and in areas where it was 81 Ray Madrigal De Pancho Villa sprayed the cat took huge sniffs and rolled around in it for several 136 Dan McQueen minutes. The tiger was shot with a 1810 Joe McComb (Runoff) tranquillizer dart but that only made her mad and she was not a victim of 600 Aislynn Campbell coulrophobia and charged the jeep City Council At-Large containing the hunters who scattered 356 John Garcia like so many clowns from a clown car until one got the fatal shot. 589 Brandy Batey Work continues at Lively Beach on Zahn Road. 792 Rudy Garza, Jr. (W) Closer to home things have been The overnight stay rooms, the first new such Site work continues on the IGA grocery store on much quieter on our little sandbar 736 Kaylynn Paxson as the election season is now behind development on the beach since 1983, are being SPID. Aside from the grocery store the center us and the Chamber of Commerce built is separate pods of concrete construction will include retail space and a restaurant. It 473 David Boatright and plans are for them to be open by summer will be accessible by golf cart from the back Weather has arrived. 2136 Michael Hunter (W) 2019. side of the property. Coyote 1524 Paulette Guajardo (W) We have had several reports from City Council District 4 all over The Island from Port A Palmilla Beach Resort & Golf Community Redesign to PINS about roving coyotes in 2721 Greg Smith (W) neighborhoods and beach camps. Nine holes of links play, three holes of pitch and putt, 552 Richard Diaz Islander Brud Jones took a video, Straight Party posted on our Facebook page, eighteen hole putting course 2370 Straight Party Republican showing one big healthy fellow By Dale Rankin PlayGround at Palmilla Beach,” a access to music, food and beverage trolling a fence line on the south end golf entertainment venue with an – planned and programmed by 585 Straight Party Democrat Hurricane Harvey flooded salt water of the Padre Island looking to make events lawn, and a food and beverage Palmilla’s Troon golf staff. over the Palmilla Beach Golf Club U.S. Senate a jump into a backyard in search of component. on the south side of Port Aransas Food and Beverage Venue. This food. Several people have also seen 3342 Ted Cruz (R) (W) killing grass and closing the course. At the edge of the Palmilla Beach hospitality feature, located on the them casually strolling down streets Club officials this week announced Golf Club, between the community lakeshore and at the center of The 1288 Beto O’Rourke (D) in the area around Billish Park and a redesign of the development with and highway, an area of land will be PlayGround at Palmilla Beach. in Port Aransas. Keep an eye on your U.S. House District 27 opening by the fall of 2019. redeveloped into “The PlayGround pets. Games. The PlayGround at Palmilla Beach.” This golf 3323 Michael Cloud (R) (W) “Last August, Hurricane Harvey at Palmilla Beach’s design entertainment venue will include 21 Two-legged coyotes took a heavy toll on the golf course, incorporates a playground for 651 Eric Holguin (D) holes of golf, an events lawn, and a effectively destroying the greens and children, themed attractions and a 183 James Duerr (I) The police reports this week also food and beverage component. Based irrigation systems,” said McCombs multitude of family-oriented games. show several coyotes of the two- on consumer research, the Palmilla Nueces County Judge Properties Harry Adams. “As with legged variety stealing whatever team expects this new amenity to be other community assets damaged About Palmilla Beach Resort 3235 Mike Pusley (R) they can find from unlocked cars. a huge draw for tourists and guests, by the storm, we chose not to settle and Golf Community We reported last week that several adding tremendous value for owners 1324 Barbara Canales (D) (W) for merely rebuilding what existed cars had been rifled without anything and renters. Palmilla Beach Resort and Golf being taken. They are out there folks, before the storm, but to improve the Community is the first beach resort Nueces County Clerk lock up. community and our guest experience The PlayGround at Palmilla Beach in the area by San Antonio-based 3492 Kara Sands (R) (W) by building something better, more will include: developer McCombs Properties. It Mr. McMullin goes to 1058 Diana Barrera (D) appropriate for the tourism based includes condos, townhomes, cottages Washington Putting Course. This 18-hole market, and more exciting!” course of authentic, all-grass and custom homes. McCombs Del Mar College Board Former Port Aransas Mayor Keith The biggest change will be a putting play – with grass greens, Properties, “both self-develops and 1400 Guy Watts McMullin, a self-described political downsizing of the former 18-hole bunkers, dunes, music, and access invests with development partners in junkie decided he couldn’t miss the course to a nine-hole links course to food and beverge. all classes of real estate throughout 1131 Sandra Longoria opportunity to be at the center of the Texas and Colorado. Assets consist Messbarger with the addition of three holes of Short Course. Three short holes action in Tuesday’s election so he of timber and ranch lands, office and "short- course," essentially a pitch designed for relaxed, easy play – 583 Hector “Coach” Salinas (W) hopped a plane and flew to the heart retail developments as well as multi- and putt course played with only a perhaps as a warm-up for the nine of the beast – the well-worn watering family, industrial, second home and Port Aransas wedge and putter; and an 18-hole holes of links-style play – and will hole for reporters - the Dubliner resort residential communities.” "putting course" which will feature only be played with a wedge or a Straight Party Restaurant located on F Street in our real grass putting played only with a putter. Construction of both the new nine- Republican 925 nation’s capital right down the street putter. hole course, and The PlayGround Democratic 310 from Union Station. The Dubliner Events Lawn. A flexible zone Owner McCombs Properties, at Palmilla Beach began in early Libertarian 2 is the gathering place for journalists for entertainment programming said the new design will keep the July, with expected openings in Independent 16 Palmilla cont. on A4 types who can’t afford to live in D.C. will serve as a venue for concerts, original driving range and add “The early spring 2019 and fall 2019, *Source: Nueces County proper so they wait for their train at games or competitions – all with respectively. Elections Department Union Station by bellying up at the Dubliner. Your distinguished editor here thought of accompanying him A little Island history but has been requested never to return La Posada to the Dubliner after an altercation Whooping Cranes Begin to Arrive: How They Became so Few there involving an elderly gentleman Each fall the Aransas-Wood Lighted Boat who was the ring announcer for the Buffalo population of Whooping first Joe Frazier/Muhammad Ali fight Cranes, the last and only “natural” – a story for another day. flock of the endangered birds left Parade 2018 in the world leaves its summer grounds in the the marshy taiga of Island Thunder Saturday! northern Alberta’s Wood Buffalo The Island Thunder Motorcycle National Park and begins a 2500- Ride to benefit La Posada Toys for mile journey to its winter grounds Tots roars over the JFK on Saturday, at Aransas National Wildlife November 10. Refuge near Rockport. The ride starts at Corpus Christi The trip takes about fifty days and Cycle Plaza, 2937 SPID with the birds typically travel in small kickstands up at 12:30 and will arrive groups. Along the way, Whooping on Padre Island shortly thereafter and Cranes seek out wetlands and National Wildlife Refuge on October Reduced by nature and by humans 22 and it looks to be a good year for the remaining colony of the tallest after a short tour Around The Island agricultural fields to roost and will land at the Pelican Lounge, Keith was interviewed Saturday feed in, and they often pass large them in their summer home as recent bird in North America is also one of by a reporter from the Globe Street heavy rains brought much needed the rarest with a current population 14330 SPID, with live music, food urban centers like Dallas/Fort trucks, and vendors. publication, a big voice in the real Worth, Waco, and Austin. Though freshwater to the area and should of around 505 individuals. The birds estate investment community around they rarely stay in one place for result in improved numbers of blue are slowly returning from the brink The price of entry is a new, the country, who was in town from more than a day during migration. crabs and Carolina wolfberries, of extinction thanks to coordinated unwrapped toy. San Francisco over the weekend. He preferred Whooper foods in coastal conservation efforts. Out of 87 nests The first pair of whoopers this See the full La Posada schedule on season was spotted at the Aransas marshes. Around cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 page A4. November 8, 2018 Island Moon A 2 Halloween on Hawksnest

Photos by Laurie Lyng Islanders of the Week

Our Islanders of the week this time are Island residents and Chefs Vita Jarrin and Gail Huesmann. Gail is the Executive Chef of The Black Marlin Bar & Grill and currently participating in the World Food Championships in Alabama. Vita is our Island Moon on a Spoon columnist and owner of two A La Mode Gelateria locations. One is in the Scuttlebutt’s plaza and the second new location is inside of the Flour Bluff H.E.B. November 8, 2018 Island Moon A 3

pages the Overlay Zone either needs to be You did not complain then. Moon Monkeys updated, enforced, or done away with. That duty The PIPOA Articles of Incorporation are based Mike Ellis, Founder Letters to the would most likely fall to the Island Strategic upon I.R.S. Non-profit regulations. In fact, Action Committee, as an advisory body to the much of the Articles are copied from the I.R.S. City Council, as the city staff will likely not do rules. No earnings of the PIPOA shall benefit a Editor that without council direction and the council Director or Private individual. Therefore, CAM likely will not do that without input from ISAC. fees can only be used for the benefit of the The situation is further complicated by the PIPOA such as maintenance of common areas. fact, often complained about by developers, By law, the PIPOA is not a charity organization. that there is no single place to go for approval It is a 501 (c) 4. This regulation is a carve-out of of new construction. There is the Planning I.R.S. code for Property Owner’s Associations. Commission, Developmental Services, and Ignorance of the Law does not excuse rules/restrictions/requirements from the Padre fabricated allegations. Isles Property Owners Association, then as Distribution mentioned, the Island Overlay Zone. The Marvin Jones-Trying to be a retired Attorney Pete Alsop maze of requirements and the time it takes and written by a PIPOA Member Island Delivery to wade through them have been the subject of complaints for decades with little done to P.O.'ed Over POA Coldwell Banker address the issue and places a burden, and cost, Advertising on new development on Padre Island that does Over the last several weeks the Island Moon Editor's Note: In an effort to give all our Newspaper has published a series of rather long Jan Park Rankin readers a fair say in these pages we have not not exist in the remainder of the city, and when you add to that the lax enforcement of existing and nasty letters from a small group of people Classifieds been enforcing our length guidelines on Letters who used to run the Island POA (nearly into the to the Editor. The exchange of ideas is what we rules you create the malaise to which you refer. Arlene Ritley ground, I’d say). But it looks like they’re just do around here and some things just take longer The heart of the question you raise is that PO’ed that the new POA leaders are following Production Manager to say than others. Having said that we are due to lax, or non-existent, enforcement of the the rules and the law. Abigail Bair asking from here on that writers keep the length rules already in place over the years it begs the Contributing Writers of their letters to around 600 words or less. That question of whether they can be enforced on the Robert Algeo Joey Farah is about the length of one column all the way new development that is now coming to Padre down the page. We will make some exceptions Andy Purvis Island. If so, who will enforce them, and further, Response on request but 600 words is the target. Mary Craft is that fair to the new developers who would In the November 1st edition, Ms. Kay Walker Kelly Trevino Writers must provide contact information and be required to comply with rules that were not accused the PIPOA Board of amending our enforced on previous developers under the same Jay Gardner first and last name along with an address, any Bylaws when they voted at the Oct Board or all of those can be withheld at the request system? Todd Hunter Meeting to require all sitting and future Board of the writer but we need to make sure we are Dotson Lewis It seems these are questions whose time has Members to submit to a criminal background hearing from a real person. The only person you come but are not currently being addressed check. An action she decried as illegal Dr. Tom Dorrell can libel or slander is the Editor here, whatever in any public and organized way. Many of because of the passage of the recent ARCH Ronnie Narmour you call him he’s been called worse. And if you the items you listed are located outside the bylaw amendment prohibiting the Board from Brent Rourk decide to roll up the Moon and hit somebody boundaries of the POA, therefore it would seem amending the Bylaws. over the head with it be aware that you may be Photographers that any streamlining of the system with an eye As one of the leaders of the ARCH, I feel I am on the receiving end next time out. toward updating or enforcement would have Miles Merwin (Emeritus) qualified to say that this was just not the case. All letters to the Editor must be received by to come through the city’s decision-making The Board did not vote to amend our Bylaws. Debbie Noble the end of day on Tuesday for Thursday’s process and the genesis of that process would Jan Rankin publication. Letters received after Tuesday will necessarily begin with the Island Strategic Section 2.06A of our bylaws says, “The Mary Craft be published the following week. Action Committee which has heretofore made Board shall have power to make rules for their the decision to not get involved. Their meetings own governance”. What the vote did was to Ronnie Narmour Let us here from you and remember, brevity is are the first Tuesday of each month at the implement a rule to legally verify that all Board Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) the soul of wit. Holiday Inn Express, at 5:30 p.m., and there Members have not been convicted of a felony Riley P. Dog is the opportunity for the public to speak, note or crime of moral turpitude. And Texas State Island Rezoning that this month the ISAC meeting in Wednesday, Code 209 as well as our bylaws, make ineligible November 14. That would be a good place to any person convicted of these crimes to sit on an Can you please tell me where I can find the HOA Board. Island property rezoning notices posted? Are start. they in the Island Moon? I’ve seen two recent As for a rezoning column in the Island Moon I Why is this verification needed? instances since August where the city has would be happy to publish if you wish to take it If an ineligible person is sitting on our Board, approved rezoning of residential properties into on. It is an issue that needs attention. it puts our community at financial risk. We pay light industrial/SP (15621 SPID) or into multi- for insurance to cover our Board Members. family apartment/tourist (15057 Aruba). PIPOA-Know the Law And, if in the event of a claim and a Board Member is determined to be ineligible, then our Is this what the view along SPID/PR-22 1.Last week, Kay Walker dramatically declared claim could be denied. Which would mean that will look like in 5-10 years? Apartments for Vicki Marsden and the New Board attempted any claim would come from our bank accounts. rent daily/weekly, trailer shops, abandoned to change the PIPOA Bylaws. Nothing is Publisher buildings and light industrial shops? We further from the truth. Ms. Walker’s “lack of Now, I know that this is a very unlikely Dale Rankin already have four gas stations, a submarine, knowledge” regarding this matter is troubling. situation, but it is something that I expect to About the Island Moon three light houses, a giant shark and mermaid, Could it be her reaction is based on the need for be addressed. And the simple and inexpensive The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale abandoned grocery with RV, man-made sand political propaganda? After all, it is the election solution is the requirement of background Rankin, Editor / Publisher. dunes with lake, giant dollar store, a rubbish season. checks. I applaud our current Board for this Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes strewn water park, recycling trailer, abandoned foresight. delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 car wash, all along or within viewing distance Here are the facts: The Texas Property Code, copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, of our main street. None of which we asked for. Chapter 209.0051 Board Membership states, Kelly McFadden as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. Is this what we want? Was there a vote of any A Board Member that has a conviction for a kind? Do you care? Does Port A or Rockport felony or crime involving moral turpitude is News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, Port Security have this image? immediately ineligible to serve on the Board payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. when a document (read: criminal record such One question that I believe will be of significant It seems that the island residents have no say The Island Moon Newspaper as an adjudication document signed by a Judge) concern to the public using the waterways in what the island will look like and how it’s is presented to the Board. The document must around the new proposed super tanker terminal 14646 Compass, Suite 3 developed, because money talks at City Hall. be presented within 20 years of the conviction. is, how will the security requirements placed Here is how it works on the Island. If you own on that terminal affect the boating public Corpus Christi, TX 78418 This law makes a Board Member ineligible, property on the Island, and you’re an investor or and our Bylaws conform to this law. Karl around the new terminal? Much has changed 361-949-7700 commercial entity, then you go directly to the Rubenstein and the ARCH were careful to track since I was sailing on tankers as an engineer. City and get whatever you want done. You can State Law. I stopped sailing just before 9/11 but I know [email protected] get a building permit for anything without the those attacks have forced a huge increase in the Ms. Walker failed to recognize or at least Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper POA’s ACC approval, or a change the zoning security consciousness of our ports. Unless to match your desired business (from residential mention in her letter the State Law described I am mistaken the inner harbor of the Port of to light industrial), all completely bypassing the above. Her statement “think about it- a traffic Corpus Christi is now off limits to private POA and its membership. And it does happen. ticket is a violation of Texas State Law” is civilian boating interests. I believe from your Our Island could be developing down the wrong ludicrous. No one gets removed from the Board article that the proposed docks are basically path, and you won’t recognize it until it’s too for a traffic ticket. Follow the law, Chapter along the side of the ship channel on Harbor Where to Find The late. 209.0051 Texas Residential Property Owners island. How can that area be secured without Protection Act. I suggest we have a rezoning column in the restricting the publics use of the ship channel? Island Moon Island Moon,that will give us a chance to voice 2. Last week on social media and possibly Am I imagining problems that won’t happen? our opinions, and possibly stop a rezoning this week in the Moon, Richard Pittman I hope so, but I can’t imagine government not or ugly new business. I also pray that the published an article consisting of blatantly false viewing a super tanker port (and the only super Port North POA will put some teeth in the ACC, so that information. He claims the New Board abused tanker port in the US at that) as a terror target their charter to, “preserve the values and the the Texas Open Meetings Act before the last that needs protecting, and our rights to access Aransas Padre aesthetic character of the community” can be Board Meeting. our bays and waterways taking a back seat to Gulf Stream RV accomplished. Failure to take control of the what bureaucrats think is the best way to do All Stripes Stores Here are the facts: The Texas Government that. However much that project may mean to Pioneer RV developments on the Island will mean living in Code, section 551 concerning the Open Black Sheep/ a community you didn’t ask for. It may already the port and the entire Corpus Christi area, will Stripes on 1A Meetings Act, does not apply to the PIPOA. the law of unintended consequences bring a big Barrel be too late. Mr. Pittman, you cannot violate a law you are My Coastal Home down side as well? Environmentalists will wail CVS Alan O’Martin not subject too. Perhaps a little homework on about the obvious potential ecological disaster your part and there would have been no need for WB Liquor Store Whataburger Editor’s note: We publish a list of building but what will the less dramatic effects be for our your article. The PIPOA is subject to the Texas area? Even just turning a ship like that around Island Wine Room permits as they are issued by the city. Like Property Code, section 209.0051, entitled Open Doc’s Restaurant rezoning cases they go through the city’s will be an event that will cause traffic and safety Kody’s Board Meetings. Section 209.0051 states, issues in the channel. As this Super tanker Snoopy’s Pier Developmental Services Department and then for a meeting to occur a quorum is required Coffee Waves project moves along and you are researching to the Planning Commission for approval. The (a minimum of four Board Members) AND Isle Mail N More agendas for those meetings is available 72 articles about it, I hope you will keep these Moby Dicks Property owner’s business must be discussed questions in mind and endeavor to answer them Island Italian hours prior to their Wednesday meetings on the AND FORMAL action taken. Formal action IGA city’s website. Some, but not all, rezoning cases for us. Brooklyn Pie Co. means, a vote, an agreement, or other measure Treasure Island go before the Corpus Christi City Council. The requiring formal PIPOA action. Thanks very much for your efforts to keep us Ace Hardware latest was the rezoning of the land behind Padre informed. Ms. Woody’s Landscapes into light industrial two weeks ago. A quorum of Board Members can meet Automotive Holiday Inn regarding PIPOA business, and it is not Russell Lipe In addition to the zoning ordinances which considered a meeting if no formal action is taken. Port A Glass Studio Texas Star (Shell) apply to the entire city, The Island also has the Editor's Note: The question has been submitted For example, under the Moore Presidency, the to the port, but there was no answer by press San Juan’s Restaurant Island Overlay Zone which can also be found Board interviewed former Executive Director, Jesse’s Liquor on the city’s website. It was passed in 2004 in time. Wash Tub Becky Perrin. There was a quorum present, but Scuttlebutt’s an unsuccessful attempt to stop the building of no formal action was taken. Another example, Woody’s Sports Restaurant the shark sign to which you refer. It covers the again under the Moore Presidency, the Board Roadkill Redemption Island’s commercial areas and lists the type of Center debated the 2018 Budget. A quorum was I just finished reading Possum Problems by Subway architecture, colors, landscaping, and signage Back Porch Bar present, but no formal action was taken. Why Abigail Bair in the November 1st issue of the allowed for new development. However, largely Island Tire didn’t you complain about secret illegal Board Island Moon. It really takes a wonderful writer Shorty’s Place due to the high turnover in city staff over Meetings then? to take road kill and turn it into a poetic tale. Padre Pizzeria the years it has gone unnoticed or ignored Fisherman’s Wharf Thank you for that. Look forward to your next depending on who you ask. Some developers The agenda for a Board Meeting can be And all Moon yarn. Giggity’s have found a way around it by asking the city altered during a Board Meeting by a vote of the retail advertisers Board. Robert’s Rules of Order has a specific Gratitude council to approve Planned Use Development G.S. Midla WB Liquor zones which include exceptions or exemptions rule for this purpose. Again, during the Moore The Gaff from it. As we have often editorialized in these Presidency, the agenda was changed during the Trinity By the Sea meeting to accommodate a variety of situations. Episcopal Flour Bluff H.E.B. Whataburger on Send letters and photos to Waldron Ethyl Everly Senior Center [email protected] Fire Station Police Station Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper Stripes on Flour Bluff & SPID Now available online at islandmoon.com November 8, 2018 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 and are posted on the La Posada website at La Posada www.laposadacc.com. Each year there is an this summer only about 24 chicks fledged, a low increased number of elaborately lighted boats Did Ya number compared to recent years, likely due to Announces Sea entering the parades. Also, the boats attract the unseasonably cold, wet weather. At more more & bigger house parties with more toys Hear? than five feet tall with brilliant white plumage, Casa Will Lead for the Marine Corps Toys for Tots campaign. By Mary "Scoop" Craft black primary feathers, a red cap, and yellow I am fortunate to have Steve Chaney assist me eyes, the highly endangered Whooping Crane the Lighted Boat as coordinator of the collector boats that carry (Grus americana) is one of the most spectacular a Marine in Dress Blues going to each party birds native to North America. Parades house to collect toys. Jim & Marie Tipton, New Advertisers What happened to them… owners of “Sea Casa”, are a great help with the technical aspects of the Parade & this year will Farrah’s Fashion Boutique in Port A is having their grand opening on Saturday, So how did the birds go from fairly numerous lead the parade. The La Posada Foundation th to so few? The short answer is habitat loss volunteers spend countless hours of work for November 10 12 – 5 pm. The boutique offers and over-hunting. While several factors have over 6 months to give the Island a wonderful a selection of chic and trendy style resort contributed to the current status of Whooping weekend of parties & parades, all in support of beachwear, as well as, casual wear. They are Cranes, the primary reasons are habitat loss the children who benefit thru the Marine Corps located in the Tower Center at 1726 Hwy 361. and past rampant, unregulated hunting for their Reserve Toys for Tots. Much work but great fun meat and feathers. Whooping Cranes live in for a very special cause.” Business Briefs wetlands and the success of Whooping Crane The La Palmilla Golf Course and driving populations depend on the health of wetland range in Port A is scheduled to open Monday, ecosystems. Over time, wetlands across North La Posada April 1st. The driving range will be the same, America have been drained for agriculture and LaPosada Parade Commander Nick but instead of 18 holes there will be a 9 hole damaged through development, oil and gas Foundation Events links course and a 3 hole “short course” exploration, and the construction of intercoastal Colosi congratulates Captain Jim Tipton which is a wedge and putter course. waterways. on Sea Casa being chosen to lead the for 2018 Lighted Boat Parades. REDS outdoor bar next to the Black Whooping Cranes have also been hunted, both Marlin Restaurant in Port A is having their for their meat and plumage. The long, beautiful Next event is grand opening on Thursday, November 15th feathers were fashionable adornments to hats This year Sea Casa owned by Jim and Marie 4 – 9 pm. There will be live music and drink and clothing. Humans have also robbed crane Tipton will lead the La Posada lighted boat motorcycle rally, specials. nests because collectors pay high prices for rare parades December 7 & 8. The Tiptons were eggs. chosen because of their experience, having Saturday November 10 Black Sheep Bistro will be serving a white sailed for ten years all over the world, and their tablecloth meal on Thanksgiving Day 1 – 5 In 1937, fewer than 20 birds remained, all in a Saturday November 10 - Indian Thunder long time navigation of our canal systems It is pm. The main courses will be traditional population that wintered in Texas. The Aransas Motorcycle Ride/Pelican Lounge Band Party an honor to have Sea Casa leading the parades. baked turkey, honey ham and prime rib au National Wildlife Refuge was established in for the benefit of the La Posada Foundation The Tipton's dedication to La Posada and their jus. The sides will be garlic mash potatoes, that year to protect the Whooping Crane and which supports the Marine Corps Reserve “behind the scenes” help is invaluable to the stuffing, cranberry and green beans. The its habitat. By 1941, biologists at zoos tried Toys for Tots program. Cycles will leave the success of the parade. dessert menu has pumpkin pie with whipped to breed Whooping Cranes in captivity. The Corpus Christi Cycle Plaza (2937 S.P.I.D.) at cream, pecan pie and bread pudding. It is population fell to only 15 individuals in the “To know why I participate in La Posada 12:30 and travel to Padre Island, going to the reservation only and the price for adults is 1940s. In 1942 there were still fewer than 20 you would have to look into the eyes of little turn around on Park Road 22 by the entrance $29 and $15 for children under 12. birds in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock. An children when Sea Casa comes up to their dock to Bob Hall Pier. They will go back on Park additional six cranes were alive in Louisiana, with her Christmas dress on and spins around. Road 22 to the Pelican Lounge (14330 The Flats Lounge in Port A is permanently bringing the total global population to only 22 Their smiling eyes are as big as saucers and S.P.I.D.) and should arrive there around 1:00 closed. The state seized the property recently individuals. The non-migratory Louisiana flock they're jumping up-n-down making funny to 1:30. There will be a live band and food for unpaid taxes and auctioned off the died out a few years later; hence all Whooping noises of glee, hardly aware of their hands trucks at the Pelican Lounge. No advance contents. registration is required for this event but the Cranes now alive derive from a core flock of clapping, “Captain Tipton said.” Yet...they seem Scuttlebutt’s is offering free slider baskets only 16 birds. Whooping Cranes were likely to realize it is just for them and how special they donation of a new, unopened toy is requested for admission. and fish baskets to all veterans on Monday, uncommon even before hunting and habitat are.Safety comes first, this is why we do not November 12th. loss reduced them to dangerously low numbers. throw candy to protect the eyes of unsuspecting Saturday November 24 - Golf Cart/Jeep The vanishingly small population of 16 in 1942 children; and I never have a drop to drink on the Poker Run for the benefit of the La Posada The Island Thunder Motorcycle Ride represents an extreme genetic and demographic La Posada parade route. We Capt'ns can find Foundation which supports the Marine Corps to benefit La Posada Toys for Tots will be bottleneck that few species survive. plenty of party time after the boats are secured. Reserve Toys for Tots program. The event happening on Saturday, November 10th. It But I'm not the hero here, that honor belongs will start at noon at Corpus Christi Cycle In 1966, biologists at the Patuxent Wildlife will start at 2 PM at the Black Sheep Bistro to the collector boats and crews. Through high Plaza on SPID and end at the Pelican Lounge. Research Center began a captive breeding and will end at the Angry Marlin. No advance winds, rain, sleet and lightning the collector There will be live music, vendors and food program from 12 eggs collected from the wild registration is required for this event but the mariners navigate their crafts right up to the trucks. Be sure to bring a new unwrapped toy. in an effort to increase flock numbers and donation of a new, unopened toy is requested docks with a United States Marine in full Class th Whooping Cranes were classified as endangered for participation. The 7 Annual Christmas by the Bay “A” uniforms to collect the toys. I have traveled in 1967 and biologists at the Patuxent center Tuesday December 4 - La Posada held at the Aransas Pass is this weekend. The the world but have only seen this done on Padre. began what is now the largest Whooping Foundation Kick Off Party with Live and hours are Friday 10 am – 5 pm and Saturday For the KIDS, it's a lot to take in…In America, Crane captive breeding program from 12 eggs Silent Auctions at Schlitterbahn starting at 6 11 am – 4 pm. They promise many unique at Christmas up close and personal.” collected from the wild in 1967. The Patuxent PM. Please bring a new, unopened toy to the and one of a kind items for your Christmas flock now has over 60 adult Whooping Cranes, Our Parade Commander, Nick Colosi, stated event. list. Admission is $5 and kids 12 and under including 29 pairs, who lay an average of 40 “This is the 6th year I have been with La Posada are free. Friday December 7 - Lighted Boat Parade eggs each breeding season. And while shooting and the 4th year as the Lighted Boat Parade in the Padre Isles North Canals. Viewing The Island Farmers Market will be held the endangered cranes is now against the law, Commander. Planning for the parade begins in th available at Marker 37, Docs and Snoopys. Thursday, November 8 4 – 8 pm at the the bodies of Whooping Cranes are occasionally June with an application to the Coast Guard for Parade starts at 7:00 PM. Please bring a new, Briscoe Pavilion. Jefe’s Mobile Café will be discovered after being shot. a Marine Parade Permit. In October I submit unopened toy to the event as the restaurants serving that day. requests to the Coast Guard, Coast Guard Along with the collected eggs, Canus, a will be collecting the toys for the La Posada Auxiliary, Sheriff's Office, Parks & Wildlife, Island in the Son is having their grand re- young Whooping Crane, named as a symbol Foundation. th Homeland Security and Corpus Christi Police opening on Sunday, November 11 at 10 am. of cooperation between Canada and the & Fire Departments to provide safety & Saturday December 8 - Lighted Boat Parade United States, was a long-time participant in Port Aransas Mayor, Charles Bujan, security. In November the Parade & Collector in the Padre Isles South Canals. Parade starts both the Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) is asking business owners and citizens to Boat registration forms go to the Island Moon at 6:00 PM. and the USGS efforts to preserve and restore participate in a voluntary plastic bag ban. wild Whooping Crane populations in North The La Posada Boat Parade will be held America. Canus was rescued from the wild 2018 LA POSADA BOAT PARADE REGISTRATION December 7th & 8th. The Friday parade with a fractured wing in 1964 when there route this year will be going past Marker Sponsored by the La Posada Foundation were just 42 Whooping Cranes left in world. 37, Snoopy’s and Doc’s where they will be After a period of time in Colorado, Canus was All of the following information is required. Please print legibly. collecting toys. The parade starts at 7 pm on shipped to Maryland in 1966 to become the first Friday and 6 pm on Saturday. Whooping Crane in the endangered species NAME______Sesame Street Live will be at the recovery program at Patuxent. He sired a large ADDRESS______portion of the Whooping Cranes in captivity American Bank Center on Wednesday, PHONE WITH AREA CODE______December 12th at 2 pm and 6 pm. and is the progenitor of many that have been E-MAIL ADDRESS______released in the wild. The first Whooping Crane POWER______SAIL______BOAT NAME______to fledge in the US in 60 years, is a descendent BOAT DESCRIPTION______of Canus. STATE REGISTRATION______LEN GTH______Around cont. from A1 NAME OF INSURANCE COMPANY______“These iconic, endangered species deserve said a reporter from Bloomberg News was also our respect as they migrate through the central Additional requirements: recently in town for a story yet to be published. flyway, and we ask the public to avoid disturbing In both cases the reporters are talking to local them if spotted,” states Wade Harrell, U.S. Fish There will be a MANDATORY Captains Meeting Thursday 6 December 2018 at the Padre Island Yacht Club 13403 Whitecap Blvd at 7pm. Parade positions, call signs, parade route, radio frequencies & safety business and political leaders about the real & Wildlife Service Whooping Crane Recovery estate recovery following Hurricane Harvey. Coordinator. “Along with whooping cranes will be discussed. migrating from Canada, Texas has had a few All vessels must meet state & federal safety requirements. Ban the Bag visiting whooping cranes from a reintroduced All vessels must have a working VHF radio. Captains are responsible for the safe & prudent operation of their vessels. The Port Aransas City Council has passed population in southwest Louisiana. These Only engine powered vessels are allowed to participate. a resolution asking retailers and citizens to cranes are all marked with leg bands and have Participants are asked to complete the entire parade route for which they enter. voluntarily stop using plastic bags. In 2016 the been most commonly spotted in southeastern council passed mandatory ban on the flying Texas, near Beaumont.” Boat categories: Power - 29ft & under – 30ft & over eyesores but a lawsuit in Laredo challenging the With Sandhill Crane and waterfowl hunting Sail – all lengths constitutionality of the ban went to the Texas seasons opening and whooper migration in full Judging categories: Creativity, Enthusiasm, Music, Decoration Effort Supreme Court, the highest civilian court in the swing, TPWD urges hunters to be extra vigilant. Trophies: There will be trophies for 1st & 2nd place in each boat category & a Fleet Award (Best in Show) state, which banned the ban in September. A Whooping cranes are sometimes found in mixed covering all categories. similar attempt to Ban the Bag on Padre Island flocks with Sandhill Cranes, which are gray was halted in 2016 pending the outcome of the and slightly smaller. With their all-white body Indicate Parade route/date in which you will participate. lawsuit. _____Friday 7 December 2018 Galleon Bay/Commodore Cove plumage and black wingtips, whooping cranes Two justices on the court wrote a minority Marshalling area at the entrance to Commodore Canal by 6:30pm. Parade starts at 7pm. may also resemble snow geese, which are much opinion which read in part: "The speed at smaller and have faster wing beats. There are _____Saturday 8 December 2018 North & South of Whitecap Blvd. Marshalling area by the Caravel Drive boat ramp (north of Whitecap) by 5:30pm. Parade begins 6:00pm. which plastic refuse is proliferating is taxing several other non-game species that are similar our waste-management capacities…and have in appearance such as wood storks, American Instructions: Return this completed Registration form & Release of Liability electronically to: become a scourge on the environment and an white pelicans, great egrets and others, but a economic drain. And due to their buoyancy close look will reveal fairly obvious differences. [email protected] or nick colosi 13561 Camino de Plata Court, CC,TX 78418. Questions: call nick 618-889-9160 and propensity for wind-blown incursion… The public can help track whooping cranes by are a particularly pernicious form of this non- reporting sightings to TPWD’s Whooper Watch, biodegradable menace.” a citizen-science based reporting system to This form can be used to register your boat, just cut it out and turn it in. track whooping crane migration and wintering That legalize for saying they blow out of trash locations throughout Texas. More information cans and attach themselves to palm trees where about Whooper Watch, including instructions they have a half-life of about a year. The Corpus for reporting sightings, can be found online Christi Solid Waste Department has a ready and by downloading the iNaturalist mobile app. collection of several million of the things they These observations help biologists identify new don’t want to put in the landfill. Maybe they migration and wintering locations and their should come in flavors and the seagulls could associated habitats. eat them. The Aransas-Wood Buffalo population spends Naked Man of Kleberg each winter in and around the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge near Rockport. However, with population expansion in recent years they have begun spending time in more untraditional areas, venturing some distance from the refuge to find food and other resources. They have also become a major nature-tourism attraction for If you drive down the beach Kleberg way watch the Coastal Bend. out for this guy. He has been hanging out (pun Dale Rankin intended) there for several days showing off his squishy parts to anyone who drives by whether they want to see them or not. Several people have called to complain and say they have asked Send Letters and Photos to him to cover up but he has refused. Maybe the Constables can persuade him otherwise, but [email protected] until then if you are driving down the Kleberg and follow us on Facebook: beach be sure to take along you Buck Knife to The Island Moon poke out your one good eye. Get ready for La Posada everybody it will be Newspaper here before you know it. In the meantime say The Me TV van was destroyed after if spontaneously combusted on Ocean Drive hello if you see us Around The Island. recently. No one was hurt but Ben Cartwright was really mad. November 8, 2018 Island Moon A 5 Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier November 8 - November 15 There has been a nasty ear Mayor infection making its way Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon Speaking of city races, when the Early Voting Around The Island of late, the rumor of course /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible results were opened Tuesday night it looked is that it is caused by the number of robocalls like Mayor Joe McComb would squeak by Th 8 Low 8:42 AM 0.2 6:45 AM Rise 7:35 AM 0 coming in from political candidates. But the without a runoff, but as the night rolled on election season is now behind us and brought 8 High 5:09 PM 2.2 5:41 PM Set 6:48 PM things tightened up and when the dust settled about a few surprises and a few changes. Here F 9 Low 9:16 AM 0.2 6:46 AM Rise 8:32 AM 1 he missed dodging a runoff with second- are some of them. 9 High 6:06 PM 2.2 5:40 PM Set 7:32 PM place finisher Michael Hall by .27 of a point. Turnout McComb beat Hall by 21,853 votes out of Sa 10 Low 9:50 AM 0.1 6:46 AM Rise 9:28 AM 4 72,618 votes cast. Third place was newcomer In an election when about 60,000 voters usually 10 High 7:01 PM 2.2 5:39 PM Set 8:18 PM Aislynn Campbell who got 18.17 percent with turn out there were 94,627 votes cast this time; 13,197 votes. Flash in the Pan Dan McQueen Su 11 Low 10:26 AM 0.2 6:47 AM Rise 10:21 AM 10 46 percent of the total of 205,064 registered rode drag on the herd with 2,795 votes (3.85 voters in the county. That is not quite the 11 High 7:54 PM 2.1 5:39 PM Set 9:07 PM percent) in his attempt to extend his mayoral 100,000 that turn out for Presidential elections experience past the current 34 day record, and M 12 Low 11:04 AM 0.2 6:48 AM Rise 11:10 AM 16 but a sure sign that people are paying attention. Ray Madrigal De Pancho Villa rode out of town 12 High 8:45 PM 2.1 5:38 PM Set 9:58 PM There were about 20,000 lever pullers who on the second slowest horse in the herd with voted in the partisan races but didn’t bother to Tu 13 Low 11:45 AM 0.3 6:48 AM Rise 11:56 AM 24 6,253 votes (8.61 percent). Maybe next time he vote in city elections where 72,168 votes were should change his name to Emiliano Zapata and 13 High 9:28 PM 2.0 5:38 PM Set 10:49 PM cast. Some of that number were voters who run on an Agrarian Reform platform since the live outside the city limits but also a sign that W 14 Low 12:33 PM 0.5 6:49 AM Rise 12:38 PM 33 Cross Border Bandit Raiding Platform found moving the city elections to November means little traction at the voter watering hole. 14 High 10:03 PM 1.9 5:38 PM Set 11:42 PM that a lot of the people who go to the polls in Th 15 Low 1:29 PM 0.6 6:50 AM R ise 1:16 PM 42 November don’t care about the city races. U.S. Representative 15 High 10:28 PM 1.8 5:37 PM There is a move afoot to change the City Charter The U.S. Representative District 27 seat now to make terms on the City Council four years officially no longer resides in Nueces County instead of two. All I can ask is whether we really as newcomer and Victoria resident Michael want four years of Mayor Dan McQueen… Cloud took the seat with 60 percent of the vote. If there is a change I suggest we move the city It was surprising to note that in Nueces County races back to the spring so that people who vote Democrat challenger and also newcomer Eric in them are interested in city governance. Holguin finished only 271 votes behind him out of 93,269 votes. Election night updates Democrat numbers First off a tip of the hat to Nueces County Clerk Kara Sands, who was re-elected Tuesday, for the The Nueces County numbers for Holguin were user friendly and up to date election returns on- part of a Democrat resurgence we have seen in line. They were available both on the computer the past two cycles. It also showed up in some and on cell phones and were very well done. It other races, most notably the race for Nueces was a long way from the old system and much County Judge where Democrat Barbara Canales better. Kara inherited a plethora of problems beat former County Commissioner Mike Pusley that she has addressed admirably and deserved by 4407 votes, and in the County Clerk’s another term. race where Sands beat former County Clerk Diana Barrera by only 2525votes, and in the Early Voting County Commissioner Precinct 1 race where in a traditionally Republican area incumbent Just a few decades since Absentee Voting Carolyn Vaughn beat challenger Robert meant signing a statement swearing that you Hernandez by only 2525 votes. would be out of town on Election Day, Early Voting is now firmly ingrained in the DNA of local voters as 67,630 of the total 94,627 total votes cast were cast early. On Padre Island 3457 Early Votes were cast out of just over 7600 of registered voters on the Island.

Photo by Stephanie Tomovska Church in the Sand

Aquarius was temporarily closed on Wednesday for water line repairs.

Ask Ralph Should I Ask For a Raise By Ralph Coker Q. Is this a good time Because workers are scarce, several large to ask my manager for companies have increased their minimum a raise? wage to attract and retain good workers. A. Yes, based on recent reports, Walmart has increased its minimum wage unemployment is down to 3.7 percent, the rate several times in recent years and recently lowest in 40 years. More important, the raised it to $15.00 per hour. Walmart operates average hourly earnings of US workers and hires many workers in all US cities. No increased by 2.9 percent from a year earlier. doubt their new $15 per hour rate will tend About 10,000 baby boomers are reaching to force other businesses in those areas to retirement age each day. On an annual basis raise their minimum rates to compete. When that’s 3.65 million. Many of those will you ask your manager for a raise, you may probably retire and have to be replaced. In want to use Walmart as an example of what August, the US economy added 201,000 jobs. competition is paying. It takes about 100,000 new jobs to replace Because good workers are scarce, companies those retiring or those reaching working age. have relaxed their qualifications for new That leaves about 100,000 net new jobs each hires. During the recent recession and high month to be filled. The share of working age unemployment, companies demanded that population with jobs or seeking jobs declined candidates have all of the exact qualifications to 62.7 percent from 62.9 percent which for the job, including specific certifications. indicates the number of workers available to Now companies are more willing to hire Jeff Whitehead from Dallas came to Port Aransas before Hurricane Harvey, by hire is declining. The economy is growing candidates with good related hard skills and bicycle, and is slowly helping rebuild the town with volunteer work. Last week, he at the best rate since the 2008 recession. All soft skills and retrain them. For example, started building a church yard out of sand, called The Cornerstone. After a few days of of the above factors favor workers asking bank tellers who are very exact with numbers sun— he almost has a Village. He says he is spreading the word of God with his sand for and getting raises. Best of all, inflation learn basic bookkeeping quickly. sculptures— but however you want to look at it— he has created beauty and sculptures is only about 2.0 percent per year. That Bio: Ralph Coker volunteers with SCORE means if you get a 3.0 percent raise your real which provides free mentoring for small out of just sand and water. purchasing power increases 1.0 percent. Just another interesting, creative thing to see on Port Aransas beaches! businesses and nonprofits Bev Firmani A6 Island Moon November 8, 2018 Senior Moments Anecdotingly Veterans Day & Etc.

By Dotson Lewis The Blackest Lab Special to the Island Moon By Abigail Bair I noted several weeks ago that Stadler had Dotson’s Note: Veterans stopped sleeping in the bedroom with me. One Day is a time to honor the I’ve been watching a lot of scary movies lately night, I got up, turned on the lights, called her, sacrifice of those who are in, or have served – maybe because of Halloween, but probably and up popped her head over the back of the in, the military. Hopefully the following report because I like them. I also know that I have couch. “She’s just found a better bed,” I thought, will help clarify the existing confusion of two literally scared myself sleepless binging Law knowing that I’m a tosser, turner, kicker, flipper, of our most important national holidays of and Order Special Victims Unit (BA-DUM). I occasional sleepwalker and sometime faller- remembrance. As you read this, you are taking was having a grand old time watching all sorts outer of the bed. She’ll still crawl up with me a quick history lesson about two of our nation's of creepy nuns, murderous aliens and zombies, when it’s really cold, but otherwise she nests in most beloved holidays. Thanks to Patricia S. etc. (which will be the name of my horror- my sofa. York and Jill Vejnoska for their contributions themed coffee shop, should I ever get one) until to this report, and to LifeJourneys for some of I started listening to the My Favorite Murder I was a little hurt, but overall okay with the the photos. podcast somewhat *ahem* excessively. new sleeping arrangements – until I listened to the episode of My Favorite Murder about the The Original Name was Armistice Day If you folks haven’t heard of it, My Favorite quest of Michelle MacNamara’s (a true crime The “armistice” or agreement signed between Murder is essentially (to put it in old-timey writer really worth reading if you can stand it) the Allies and Germany that ended World War terms) a radio show on which creators Georgia to identify the Golden State Killer. I called for the cessation of all hostilities to Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff discuss true crime, cats, marriage (or lack thereof), food, If you don’t know the story of the Golden State take effect at 11 a.m. on the eleventh day of the Killer, it’s particularly bad. Not to get gory, eleventh month of the year in 1918. One year and often moustaches. It’s very funny, but also terrifying because the crimes they discuss are but he started out as a rapist who preyed on later, on Nov. 11, 1919, the first Armistice Day couples, later escalating to murder. If you need was celebrated in the U.S. mostly pretty brutal. Case in point, yesterday I listened to one about a Japanese cannibal. more details, you can look him up. If you don’t, please feel better knowing that he’s in jail now When I was younger, I worked for several (although his crimes started in 1976 and he just years in a used bookstore that had a small More Information got arrested last year) thanks to identification library of true crime books. I hated that section, through familial DNA. Here’s the problem, Despite much confusion over the spelling, and resented any new acquisitions that had to though: the Golden State Killer is thought it’s Veterans Day, plural, and without any be shelved there. It had nothing to do with the to have stalked his victims over a period of apostrophes. That’s according to the U.S. quality of the writing. I didn’t sneer at them months (possibly years). He went in and out Department of Veterans Affairs, which explains like I did the Harlequin romances and various of their houses, unloading firearms, hiding tools on its web site: “Veterans Day does not include and sundry Avon publications.* I hated the true where only he could find them, and MAKING an apostrophe but does include an "s" at the crime books because every single one of them FRIENDS WITH DOGS. end of ‘veterans’ because it is not a day that had a middle section filled with pictures of very That’s right. He made friends with their dogs. ‘belongs’ to veterans, it is a day for honoring real, very deceased human beings – each of all veterans.” which I couldn’t resist looking through before The Black Labrador is a particularly friendly I put the books away. breed of dog. The Difference That’s how I got to know Ted Bundy, John Stadler is a Black Labrador and a consummate If you’ve ever wondered what the difference Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, and David love dork. It Became Official In 1938 is between Memorial Day and Veterans Berkowitz, along with hundreds of less The very night after I listened to the Day, apparently you’re not alone. No less an notorious killers – many of whom weren’t In 1938, a Congressional act established aforementioned story, I woke up troubled. I authority than the U.S. Department of Veterans discovered until after their deaths. I developed a Armistice Day an annual legal holiday. In 1945, called Stadler, but she didn’t come. I got up and Affairs says people frequently confuse the two real loathing for Ann Rule, even though it really World War II veteran Raymond Weeks first went to look for her. She wasn’t on the couch. holidays. wasn’t her fault. I read Helter Skelter when I proposed the idea of expanding the holiday to I called again. No dog. I shut off the alarm, was eleven (thanks to my favorite librarian), and one honoring veterans of all U.S. wars. In 1954, Make no mistake about it: both are incredibly unlocked all my locks, threw open the back it scared the pants off of me far worse than the the holiday legally became known as Veterans important holidays, with their common focus door and called her again. She came trotting Stephen King I was also sneaking. Day (In 1982, President Ronald Reagan on Americans who’ve served in the military. out of the backyard with a huge grin on her presented Alabama resident Weeks with the The key distinction: Memorial Day “is a day for Sometimes, working alone in that bookstore at face. I brought her inside and bolted her dog Presidential Citizenship Medal in recognition remembering and honoring military personnel night (having looked at the innards of twenty or door shut. of his efforts in creating Veterans Day.) who died in the service of their country, thirty true crime books earlier in the day), eerie Stadler’s evening privileges have been particularly those who died in battle or as a feelings would creep over me and I would move In 1968, the same Congressional act that officially revoked. Now, she wakes me up three result of wounds sustained in battle,” the VA to the part of the store furthest away from the established Memorial Day moved Veterans times a night to let her out instead. Either she’s says. “bad” section – a move which would put me Day to the fourth Monday in October every being a good dog and checking the perimeter, or closer to the floor-to-ceiling front windows and year. That law took effect in 1971; just four While Veterans Day also honors the dead, she’s dating a serial killer. years later, in 1975, President Gerald Ford -- it is “the day set aside to thank and honor all dark parking lot. I spent a lot of those nights citing the original date’s “historic and patriotic those who served honorably in the military - in “dusting” but I probably looked like I was Either way, if I get murdered, you can definitely significance” -- signed a bill re-designating wartime or peacetime.” trying to avoid landmines. Serpentine! blame the dog. November 11th as Veterans Day every year. Memorial Day To this day, I don’t read true crime books. *Don’t worry. I came around. Today, I have a Why Armistice Day Became Veterans Turns out, listening to murder podcasts can have great love of terrible romance novels. I mean, When it is: The last Monday in May. This a similar effect. talk about horrors! Day year, it fell on May 28th. In 2019, Memorial It is a day filled with emotion: patriotic Day will be on May 27th. speeches from community leaders and Its original name: Decoration Day. Initially, Moon Over Barcelona politicians, war-time remembrances told in it honored only those soldiers who’d died By Mike Foster city as well as the location of the 1992 Summer shaky voices by grandfathers, and carefree during the Civil War. In 1868, a veteran of the Olympic Games. children running up and down the parade route Barcelona is a bustling, exciting, culturally Union Army, General John A. Logan, decided rich, and charming city of approximately 1.6 Not to be missed is the Sagrada Familia. This waving American flags. November 11th is more to formalize a growing tradition of towns Send letters and photos to [email protected] than just the holiday before the Thanksgiving million inhabitants. The city is located on the church is architect Antoni Gaudi’s most famous decorating veterans’ graves with flowers, by northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula facing and awe-inspiring work yet to be finished nearly break. There are many interesting facts on how organizing a nationwide day of remembrance Veterans Day became a federal holiday. the Mediterranean Sea. a century after his death. I suggest buying on May 30 (Logan also served in Congress from tickets ahead of time to avoid long lines. One On September 5, 2018 at 10:30 am, this story The Road to Becoming a Federal Illinois and in 1884, unsuccessfully ran for vice of my favorite social activities was a Tapas Bar teller boarded a United Airlines plane at CC president on the Republican ticket). During tour. The group was small which allowed close Holiday International Airport bound for Barcelona, World War I, the holiday’s focus expanded to interaction and making new friends. The tour Catalonia, Spain to begin a month-long journey honoring those lost during all U.S. wars. included visiting six of Barcelona’s popular in the Mediterranean. After two plane changes Tapas Bars. Each was different, but all were When it became official: In 1968, Congress and 16.5 hours soaring through the sky, I touched hands on from drinking wine from a “porron” officially established Memorial Day (as it down on September 6 at 9:00 am in Barcelona. to making your on Tomato Bread. I will had gradually come to be known) as a federal Once my personal driver deposited me at the definitely be making Tomato Bread OTB. The holiday that always takes place on the last Gaudi Hotel and check-in requirements were Fountain of Canaletes has been a favorite for Monday in May. satisfied, clothes unpacked; I immediately set more than a century. Legend says that a drink Its unofficial designation: Memorial Day is out for the city’s famous La Rambla Boulevard. from the fountain ensures that you’ll come back still a solemn day of remembrance everywhere La Rambla is Barcelona’s main mile long to Barcelona one day. I’ll return. Watching an from Arlington National Cemetery to metro boulevard restricted to pedestrians beginning authentic female Flamenco dancer was exciting. Atlanta, where a number of ceremonies and at the Placa de Cataluna, dotted with fountains, The 197 ft. Statue of Columbus located at the events take place. Many people view the arrival statues and pigeons, and ending at the famous end of La Rambla near the harbor was erected of the three-day weekend each year as the start statue of Columbus. Along the stroll you will was constructed in 1888 in honor of Columbus’ of summer (In fact, this year, the summer encounter many sidewalk cafes, the famous The first observation of Armistice Day, in first voyage to the Americas. 1920, included parades and public gatherings, solstice arrived at 6:07 a.m. EDT on June 21st). Fountain of Canaletes, the Chinese dragon, La Boqueria Market, street mimes plus many I have just touched on a few of the sights and as well as a pause in business activities at Finally: In 2000, Congress established the other interesting sights, sounds and smells. If experiences I enjoyed during my four day visit 11 a.m. The following year the historic date National Moment of Remembrance. It asks planning a visit, a note of caution, La Rambla before boarding Holland America’s Cruise ship was further marked with the somber burial at all Americans to pause at 3 p.m. local time on is a smorgasbord for pickpockets. The sidewalk OOSTERDAM for a 12 day sail around the Arlington National Cemetery of an unidentified Memorial Day each year to remember the dead. American soldier killed in the war. A few cafes offer a gastronomic challenge. The Pallela “MED” to Venice for a few days prior to flying years later, on June 4, 1926, Congress passed Dotson’s Other Note: Happy Veterans Day. was one of my favorites. to Athens for five days. Just a reminder, by an act of Congress, Veterans a resolution that the “recurring anniversary of Venturing into other near by neighborhoods One day while strolling along the La Rambla Day is November 11th every year; but because November 11, 1918, should be commemorated such as Barri Gotic, the historic core of the one of the mimes wanted to read The Island this year (2018) Veterans Day falls on a Sunday, with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises old city ideal for strolling ,shopping, dining Moon. I just happened to have one. it will be officially observed as a federal designed to perpetuate peace between nations” and people watching, El Born is the rough holiday this year on Monday, Nov. 12th. Please For those readers who have been fortunate and that the President should issue an annual gentifying district of shops, bistros and be aware that this year many observances and enough to have visited Barcelona, I hope my proclamation calling for the observance of nightlife, Nightlife doesn’t crank up until 10 pm related activities are scheduled November 9th, little story brought back pleasant memories and Armistice Day. Finally, by an act approved on or later and last into the wee hours, Eixample 10th and yes even Sunday the 11th, and the those of you who haven’t, maybe you will be May 13, 1938, November 11 became a legal is Barcelona’s most desirable with chic Tapas 12th. I suggest that all of you Moon Monkeys inspired to visit. federal holiday, “dedicated to the cause of bars and Montjuic is a large hill overlooking the world peace and to be hereafter celebrated and attend and participate in as many of these known as Armistice Day. events as you can handle. Thank you for reading and commenting on Senior Moments. I can be How It Became Known as Veterans Day reached at: [email protected] and/or Land Unfortunately, “the war to end all wars” did Line: 361-949-7681 or Cell: 530-748-8475. not, and the United States was soon embroiled Please Note: The next Veterans Round Table in World War II and then the Korean War. In Meeting will be Tuesday, November 12, 2011; 1954, after lobbying efforts by veterans’ service 9-11 AM, 3209 S. Staples. All veterans, their organizations, the 83rd U.S. Congress amended families and anyone interested in veterans’ the 1938 act that had made Armistice Day a affairs, are invited. Coffee & doughnuts are holiday, striking the word “Armistice” in favor provided. Hope to see you there. Also our of “Veterans.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower Veterans Radio Round Table is on the air on signed the legislation on June 1, 1954. From KEYS AM 1440, 8 – 10 AM, Saturdays. The next then on, November 11 became a day to honor show will air November 10, 2018. Please listen American veterans of all wars and those who and call in. The listener/text line is: 361-882- served during peace as well. 5397…It’s your two hours, let us hear from you. Hang in there/Have fun!

Mike Foster with the Island Moon in Barcelona November 8, 2018 Island Moon A 7 Island Moon on a Spoon THANKSGIVING DAY AT: It’s A Date!!!Texas Style Bacon Wrapped Dates By Chef Vita Jarrin Directions: Preheat oven to 400 Line a baking sheet with parchment paper Rub jalapeno with oil and bake / roast the jalapeños until the skin is loosened, about 15 minutes, and place in a bowl and cover Enjoy thanksgiving day without the work. with plastic wrap. This allows the steam to Have Thanksgiving Day with a loosen the skin a bit more for easier peeling. Set aside. In another bowl add your cream white tablecloth service on November 22nd. cheese, sour cream, seasonings. The sour cream puffs up the cream cheese while In this week’s article, I’d like to challenge my baking, so that it tastes lighter and fluffier. readers whom have never had a cheese stuffed, Peel and de seed the jalapeño, dice and add to bacon wrapped date to try one. In culinary cheese. 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In fact, its request came with a $5,000 were written by Ben Austro and Mark Schultz sources could not find a reason for was that 49er’s arrived with a 15-3 record and hosted fee. and appeared on the Football Zebras website Cruz was assigned to a different crew for 3 of the 13-5 Dallas Cowboys at old Candlestick Clark was later chosen as the Director of in October of this year. Thanks to Imageto for the 6 regular season games he has worked this Park. The 49ers played with so much intensity Football Operations for the 49ers and the some of the graphics. year. He was assigned to Brad Allen’s crew in that every game felt like postseason football. Week 6 when a crucial missed false start call The media labeled him “Fabulous” Freddie second Cleveland Browns’ franchise. Clark Firing Effective Immediately should have nullified a Chargers touchdown (or, Solomon, from Sumter, South Carolina, but spent four years in Cleveland (1999-2002) more accurately, the play would have been shut his teammates called him “Casper,” because if trying to reestablish the franchise to glory. down long before that). you blinked, he would disappear. Man, he was Unfortunately, he is mostly remembered for quick. Even his cleats smelled fast. Solomon selecting Tim Couch with the first overall pick Even though the missed call was very got the 49ers on the board early with an 8-yard in 1999, which is considered the worst draft significant, no call on its own would prompt touchdown reception from Joe Montana in the pick in NFL history. Clark resigned on May 14, a firing. Basic human resources training first quarter, and Ray Wersching added the 2002, after the new head coach, Butch Davis, would tell you that there is a document trail extra point. The score was now 7-0, 49ers. joined the team. of transgressions that will make the case. It Tom Landry’s Cowboys responded with a 44- is, apparently, the last straw for senior vice Dwight Clark played nine seasons with the yard field goal by kicker, Rafael Septien. A president of officiating Al Riveron. Cruz was 49ers. He caught 506 passes, for 6,750 yards few minutes later, Cowboy quarterback, Danny off Week 7, so the Week 6 Chargers-Browns and 48 touchdowns, while playing in 134 games. White, found Tony Hill in the end zone from 26 game was his last. Clark also rushed the football for 50 yards. He yards out and the score now stood at 10-7, with played in two Pro Bowls (1981 and 1982) and As surprising as a midseason firing is, any firing the Cowboys ahead. was named a first-team All-Pro in 1982. He was for that matter is a rare occurrence. Although San Francisco would go back in front 14-10, also part of the 1984 team that beat the Miami there are cases of officials seemingly coerced Official Pictured Above--Hugo Cruz during the second quarter, as Montana hit wide- Dolphins in Super Bowl XIX. Clark retired into retirement, mostly to manage turnover, receiver Dwight Clark in the chest, for 20-yards after the 1987 season; therefore, he missed the there have been very few outright terminations. In a stunning move, the NFL has fired down and a touchdown. Cowboys’ star running back, team’s 1988 and 1989 Super Bowl titles. In the last 10 years, one official was dismissed judge Hugo Cruz*, number 94, effective Tony Dorsett, would end the second quarter by for an undisclosed off-field issue, and another In 1988, Dwight Clark was inducted into the immediately, which has been confirmed by 7 running the ball into the end zone from 5-yards was dismissed due to performance following Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame. The 49ers sources who have firsthand knowledge of the out, to send the Cowboys into the locker room a crucial error in the season finale. That’s it. also retired his #87 the same year. Clark was situation. at halftime, leading 17-14. inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame This is the first time in the Super Bowl era The second half would begin with back up in 2001. In 2018, he was inducted into the that the NFL has fired an official in the middle halfback Johnny Davis of the 49ers scoring South Carolina Football Hall of Fame. of the regular season. Previously, the NFL from 2 yards out. It would be Davis’ only carry My job moved me to Sumter, South Carolina, has suspended officials for major mistakes of the game. This hard-fought third quarter in 1976, where I later met and married my and, if warranted, dropped the official in the became bogged down with penalties and ended wife Jan and started raising a family. In 1978, offseason. Others had their fate sealed early in with San Francisco on top, 21-17. Shawn Weatherly, also from Sumter enrolled at the season, but completed the rest of the year, The fourth and final quarter opened with Clemson University where she met (Big man as had happened to a rookie official who fell another field goal by Septien from 22 yards out, on Campus), Dwight Clark. In 1980, Weatherly asleep during a preseason clinic. (He never saw as the Cowboys closed to within one point of the won the Miss USA Contest and the Miss a second season.) 49ers, 21-20. A surprise catch by Dallas back Universe pageant. Dwight Clark dated Shawn The NFL Referees Association Vowed To up receiver, Doug Cosbie from Danny White for Weatherly from 1980 to 1982, and it became the talk of the town. But the relationship did not Fight the Termination 21 yards and a touchdown pushed the Cowboys into the lead, 27-21. It would be Cosbie’s last. only catch of the game. With time winding Clark revealed on March 19, 2017, that he down and “Joe Cool” at the head, the 49ers had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral crossed midfield like Washington crossed the sclerosis (ALS), more widely known as Lou Delaware, methodical and confident. Freddie Carl Cheffers-NFL Referee Gehrig’s disease. It had been documented that Solomon had been traded to the San Francisco Clark had experienced three concussions during 49er’s in 1978, and he became the primary his playing days. Were those concussions the receiver for Joe Montana, in Bill Walsh’s high- cause? Clark thought so. Dwight Clark left Notably, the NFL attempted to terminate 8 scoring offense. I don’t think most football officials due to performance issues in 2003; us on Monday, June 4, 2018. He was 61 years fans knew that Freddie Solomon was the old and living in Whitefish, Montana, with his the NFLRA was able to successfully get most intended target for Montana, as time ran down of them rehired or assigned to the replay booth. wife Kelly. In 2011, Dwight Clark had married in NFC Championship Game. Montana later Kelly Radzikowski and they moved to Santa But one source said, as surprising as the move acknowledged that Bill Walsh had him practice Cruz, California. He is survived by daughter is, when an official does not perform well that play during training camp, but the ball was Casey, and two sons, Riley and Mac, from his “there are consequences, which can include never thrown to Clark. It almost always went previous marriage to Ashley Stone in 1983. Al Riveron—Senior Vice President of termination of employment.” to Solomon. Officiating, NFL Clark’s medical costs were staggering, as he Cruz’s ascension to the NFL happened almost The game clock read 58 seconds left to play. left no stone unturned in his effort to survive. as quickly as his downfall. Before joining the On third down and three from the Dallas 6-yard He received money from the NFL concussion “The NFL has a troubling history of knee-jerk NFL in 2015, Cruz was recruited by former NFL line, Freddie slipped, coming out of his cut. settlement, as well as substantial financial help reactions with an eye on public relations, and referee Gerry Austin, who is the head of football Montana scrambled to his right with Cowboy from 49ers’ former owner, Eddie DeBartolo, Jr., clearly it has not learned from past mistakes,” officiating for Conference USA. Cruz worked defensive end, Ed “Too Tall” Jones, bearing who had sent him to Japan where he received said Scott Green, executive director of the for 6 seasons, where he was assigned to 2 bowl down on him and threw the ball toward the experimental drugs. DeBartolo also honored NFLRA in an e-mail. “The NFLRA will protect games, a conference championship game, and 2 right corner of the end zone and into the waiting Clark at a Cowboys’ game played at Levi the collectively bargained rights of all officials East-West Shrine games. The NFL brought him hands of a leaping Dwight Clark, for the game- Stadium and later convinced Clark to move his and will challenge this reckless decision through in as a preseason development official in the tying touchdown. It would be labeled “The family from Santa Cruz, California, to a ranch the Grievance process.” first 2 seasons the program existed, leading to Catch” in football lore. “If Freddie doesn’t slip, he owned in Whitefish, Montana. his hire the following season. He is the second Freddie is the guy who makes ‘The Catch,’” Firing/Suspensions as Punishments official to have left the NFL after entering the said Clark. Most have forgotten that Freddie In a simple twist of fate, it had been Dwight league through the development program; a had gained 14-yards on a reverse and caught a Clark’s hands that signaled his demise. “I Most officials I know believe that the threat classmate retired during the last offseason due 12-yard pass to keep the drive alive. With the couldn’t tear open a package of sugar, all of of punishment does not improve officiating. to an injury. ball at the 13-yard line, Freddie got open in a sudden,” said Clark. “Then I kept getting This does not mean that officials should the end zone, but Montana threw wide for an weaker.” avoid consequences for poor performance or Vacancy In Referee Cheffers Crew incomplete pass. Then a running play took the egregious errors, particularly for misapplication Interestingly, Joe Montana never threw 30 ball to the 6-yard line. Ray Wersching’s extra of the rules or administrative errors. Things Referee Carl Cheffers will now have a vacancy touchdowns in a season, but there was one that point after Clark’s catch moved San Francisco that happen at game speed and require a split- on his crew which can be handled in one or no one will ever forget. It has been written that back on top, 28-27. Play-by-play announcer, second judgment, as much as it may affect the more of these ways: (1) Line judge Mike for most of us, good things happen over time, Vin Scully, screamed into his microphone, “It’s game or a team’s momentum, must be counted Spanier is a swing official this season, which but for some of us, “great” things happen all at a madhouse at Candlestick, with 51 seconds in the regular grading system and not subject to means he is placed on a different crew wherever once. Thanks, Dwight Clark, we were indeed left.” The Cowboys managed to move into 49er extraordinary measures. needed and occasionally substitutes as a down fortunate to have a front row seat to your judge. Spanier could finish out the season on territory in the final seconds, but quarterback greatest adventure. If officials operated under such a system — let Cheffers’ crew. (2) With multiple teams on Danny White fumbled while trying to get off a Is your phone ringing? Answer it. This could alone any employee in any other line of work bye weeks now, more officials are drawing bye pass, and San Francisco recovered. Final score: be your day. — it does not translate into better performance. weeks. A down judge or line judge could work San Francisco 28, Cowboys 27. Dwight Clark If anything, it detracts from one’s focus when it during their regularly scheduled off week. (3) led all receivers in this game with 8 catches, for Andy Purvis is a local author and radio is crucial. The grading system that is in place is An official can work a Thursday night game and 120 yards and two touchdowns. They will talk personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. a sufficient method for performance evaluation. a Sunday or Monday game in the same week. about this contest for as long as the game of com for all the latest info on his books or to Suspensions have been rarely employed, and football is played. The 49ers proceeded to beat listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books Some so called insiders at the start of the season when they occur, they are not announced the Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21, in Super Bowl are available online and can be found in the where quoted as saying “Riveron needed a good publicly. The most recent one originated from XVI, for the first of their four championships local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be season for job security.” It appears that, unless above the officiating department. that they would win in the 1980’s. Under the contacted at [email protected]. Also the decision came from his superiors, Riveron is leadership of the new head coach, Bill Walsh, listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Q In this case, it appears that the underlying sending a clear message to the officiating staff and quarterback Joe Montana, the 49ers had & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc.com tenet has been followed, although it comes with by taking such an unprecedented step and not come from a 2-14 record in both the 1978 and 1230 AM, 96.1 FM and 103.3 FM. The home of the unprecedented trigger-pull in the middle waiting until the end of the season. of the season. Even though this is apparently 1979 seasons, to take down America’s Team. the Houston Astros. for performance over “a sustained period,” as * Hugo Cruz has also worked as a minor league The rest is history. a source confirmed to Football Zebras, it is baseball umpire. certainly on the minds of all officials that one Dotson’s Other Note: I thought some of you call, one incredibly visible call, could result in Moon Monkeys would be interested in some NFL Send letters and photos to [email protected] termination, especially for those whose own Zebras (as they call themselves) information grades are near (or below) Cruz’s. Maybe there (gossip). It has been my experience over a won’t be immediate consequences, but there number of years (more than 70 as an active could be a housecleaning in the offseason. official) that sports officials are the leading One of the Football Zebras sources confirmed gossipers and rumor mongers of all time. They that Cruz was not “maintaining a very high are head and shoulders above the legendary level of performance over a sustained period,” “over the back fence old ladies.” So be aware while another said in March that Cruz’s future that I do not guarantee that any of the so-called with the league was already in jeopardy. This facts in the foregoing report are factual. Talk is partially borne out by his lack of postseason about fake news! assignments for the two seasons he would have -30-Are We Having Fun Yet?

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132 W. Cotter St. The PortA BACK PORCH Bar A 13 Island Moon November 8, 2018 The Great Outdoors On the Rocks By Jay Gardner Backwater Adventures Life is moving pretty fast these higher than supply. So that shrimp is generally By Joey Farah days folks, I always contend smaller than typical, preferred bait, and the that September is the busiest freezing process may make it hard to peel. Farah’s Fishing Adventures month of the year, but this year While it works in a pinch, it seems that IQF it started in July and seems to be accelerating shrimp may not be preferred as a steady supply right on into the holidays. I’m sitting here over locally caught, non-flash frozen shrimp. trying to type this up and not drip my lunch Also, we learned that using shrimp from HEB is on my keyboard. It’s 2pm, and I *think* it’s not approved, and would constitute a violation Wednesday, but I’m not sure. and you could be ticketed. Speaking of fishing, I ran into our buddy Brand Zunker the other day at the voting place as he was walking in, and I was walking out. Although he hadn’t been fishing lately himself, he had a great story about this past weekend as one of his neighbors (Aaron?) had caught, landed, and released a nice tarpon on the KRS at an undisclosed location. Seems he was wading some potholes and looking for trout and got what I would consider the surprise of a lifetime when the tarpon hit his lure and came out of the water. I’m glad to see yet another great catch and release in these parts, and you loyal readers know that there have been more and more of these fish caught, and I believe that Packery Channel is Carmen and Jim with a great stringer of specks and sand trout plus one this week. the cause. Don’t get me started on Packery Channel though. Corpus Bay. The Game Wardens were spotted the other day dragging their floating cabin from Baffin back to the JFK area to get some repairs. I received the proposal from Chuck Ford and was able to get it in front of the CCA-Texas TPWD Committee Aaron’s tarpon photo credit Chris Burns. for approval. I remember maybe 10 some-odd years ago when we approved the funds to repair the floater, which Thanks for all the feedback on the bait shrimp at the time was ten years old. Being a 20 year situation. Robert Adami from the Marine old floater, it was about time for some repairs Development Center out in Flour Bluff was and upgrades! The Game Wardens use it for contacting me, as well as a few bait shops (who respite on long trips up and down the coast, and would prefer to remain anonymous) regarding it is also sometimes used by other agencies who the current state of affairs. Currently, some are patrolling our waters and keeping us safe shops are doing ok on supply as the weather has out there. been fairly warm lately and the shrimp haven’t all buried down in the mud for the season yet, Many of us got notification on our social media but there are a couple of cold fronts coming at accounts the other day that it was IronManStan’s us this weekend and early next week. This will, birthday. That was a stark reminder not to of course, get the fish moving and is typically take any of your family or friends for granted; when there is a lot of effort at fish running tomorrow is not guaranteed, and don’t let those through the passes. So, right when the demand opportunities slide by you. We all get busy in for shrimp is high, bait might be hard to get. the daily grind, and it’s hard to make time to spend a few quality minutes with those that Some of the local supply is met with IQF are the most important to us. Drop me a line (individually quick frozen) shrimp from a at [email protected] and I’ll see you at variety of local and other gulf states shrimpers. ISAC and On the Rocks next week folks. This nice redfish came from the Kennedy Shoreline on live shrimp and popping corks. The IQF shrimp that is used for bait is typically not the largest shrimp, as demand is much Game Warden Field Notes Rolling Down the River issued for over the limit of mourning dove to each hunter. On Sept. 24 at about 10:30 p.m., a Fayette County game warden received a call from the We Charge a Rehoming Fee sheriff’s office concerning a woman who had not returned from a kayak trip on the Colorado River. She was able to reach her husband using her cell phone and told him she had passed up her exit point, and her phone battery was almost dead. The warden, accompanied by a local fireman, launched an airboat on the river and was able to locate the woman a little after 1 a.m. approximately 10 miles past the boat ramp. She was safely transported back and reunited with her husband. Fully Guided • All Tackle Provided Flounder are on the move!! November Free Fishing in Parks Doesn’t Mean is the best month to snipe them off. Soft Illegal Fishing plastic and small mud minnows and finger (361)442-8145 Pedernales Falls State Park police officers mullet along all the deeper drop offs during the change of tide. contacted five male subjects near the river On July 22, Harris County game wardens found recently that matched the description of a posting on the “Offer Up” app advertising a potential violators reported to have been fishing “toy” alligator for sale with a winky face ;). The illegally inside the state park. The subjects seller was contacted by game wardens posing as Send letters and photos to [email protected] were identified and interviewed by park police an out of town rancher wanting a gator for his officers. The officers found non-game and game private pond and asked if his ranch hand could fish in a trash bag in the trunk of the subjects’ come pick it up. The wardens set a time and car. Nets and other fishing equipment were also place to meet. The suspect was surprised to find Texas Deer Hunting Season Open discovered. The subjects admitted to catching out the rancher and ranch hand were wardens. the fish illegally with cast nets. The officers Charges were filed. filed multiple cases along with civil restitution. Flooding Aftermath Delivers Greener Pastures Look Before You Leap Double Dipping Deer Season 2018 opened November 3 and information about CWD testing requirements Tarrant County game wardens patrolling runs through January 20, in South Texas. and carcass movement restrictions for the 2018- Lake Grapevine on July 21 noticed an unusual 19 season. Also as a reminder, Texas hunters Texas Parks and Wildlife says Texas hunters clustering of people close to the water’s edge harvesting deer, elk, moose, or other susceptible will see greener pastures and possibly fewer below a 25 foot cliff. Seems a middle-aged species in other CWD-positive states must also deer coming to the feeders in early November man had jumped from the cliff into what he comply with carcass movement restrictions but, despite dry conditions earlier this summer thought was 10-12 feet of water that turned when bringing those harvested animals back hunters could be pleasantly surprised with the out to only be 2 feet deep. The leap resulted into Texas. Additionally, the Texas Animal antler quality of bucks they do find. in a compound fracture of his lower leg. The Health Commission has statewide mandatory wardens contacted local EMS, enlisted the help An abundance of new plant growth flooding testing requirements that apply to elk, red deer, of some of the bystanders to stabilize the leg, the Texas landscape with green in the aftermath sika, moose, and reindeer. Samples taken in the and loaded the injured man onto their patrol of the recent storms should provide a boost for Panhandle CWD zones are also being examined vessel. The wardens then transported the man white-tailed deer, according to the Texas Parks for bovine tuberculosis (TB). Although this to a location where EMS could make a safe and On Sept. 26, a La Salle County game warden and Wildlife Department. disease has not been discovered in Texas deer, speedy transfer. The wardens stayed with two reports of bovine TB elsewhere have heightened discovered a group of dove hunters hunting juvenile boys who were with the injured man “There’s a huge flush of green, like a giant a large field with lots of doves. Instead of food plot, so that’s good for the deer,” said Alan public concerns. While it is highly unlikely to until a parent could be located. Alcohol played encounter a deer with TB, hunters, landowners, checking the group that morning, the warden a factor in the incident. Cain, TPWD deer program leader. “Hunters decided to wait and check the group that may need to adjust their hunting strategies to processors and taxidermists should be evening at their hunting camp. That evening Not Your Sign find deer that may not be readily seeking out encouraged to report any suspicious appearing animals. at camp, the warden was hearing many of the On June 24, a Pecos County game warden corn because of the green conditions, but the hunters say they did not hunt in the morning. was checking public access points to the Pecos benefit for bucks coming out of the rut and The recent green up provides a stark contrast Knowing the camp was empty that morning, River. The warden parked his patrol vehicle for bred does should set the stage for a good from earlier in the year when a lack of consistent the warden began searching for extra birds. near a bridge crossing the river and walked spring.” and uniform distribution of rainfall during Six hunters had double limits, but argued they underneath it to check out the area. While under While floods ravaged much of the Hill Country the spring and early summer left the Texas had hunted the previous day at other ranches the bridge the warden heard the sound of metal recently, Cain said deer and other wildlife likely landscape dotted with a patchwork of habitat and were within their possession limits. The being cut with a power tool. As he made his way will not be impacted long term. “The flooding conditions. TPWD wildlife biologists observed warden asked each individual for hunt details back up to the bridge the warden observed two displaced deer temporarily, but they’ll move the majority of the state had reasonable forb from the previous day and promised the hunters men; one served as a lookout while the other back as the waters subside,” he noted. “Hunters production and good brush green-up back in that he would look into all the details. Some used a right angle grinder to try to cut down might notice deer have shifted around into areas the spring, which provided a good foundation of the information included a hunt at a ranch a road sign marking the Crockett County line. they haven’t seen them in before, but as things of native forage to get deer off to a good start in Uvalde County. The warden reached out to After being caught in the act, the subject doing settle down they’ll move back into their usual in terms of antler growth and fawn production. his game warden colleagues in Uvalde County the cutting admitted he was trying to take the areas.” “I think based on what we’ve seen coming familiar with the area, and they reported back sign because “my last name is Crockett and I that hunting activity was very low, casting He also urges hunters to check feeders and in during archery season, hunters should be thought it would be cool to have the sign.” The pleasantly surprised with antler quality,” Cain doubt on the hunters’ claims. Upon contact with individual was charged with criminal mischief, dispose of any wet or spoiled corn, which can the hunters again, and after sharing the details lead to aflatoxins. predicted. “Overall, I’m fairly optimistic about a Class B misdemeanor, subsequently pled the 2018 deer season.” of the investigation, all the hunters confessed guilty and received six months’ probation. Hunters are also reminded to review the to killing a limit of doves in both the morning TPWD chronic wasting disease regulations for and the evening on the same day. Citations were November 8, 2018 Island Moon A 14 Full Transparency and Disclosure STATE POA News by Marvin Jones, President November Brings Attention to COPD News You Can Use By Todd Hunter, District 32 According to the National Heart, Lung, Litter Critter- The next Litter Critter is seat is a Board appointed position, not a November is National and Blood Institute (NHLBI), an estimated scheduled for Saturday, November 17, 2018, member elected position as mentioned above. Chronic Obstructive 11 million Americans suffer from COPD, at the Briscoe King Pavilion parking lot from I know it is a bit confusing. This is why we are Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and several additional millions likely have 9:00 AM until dumpsters are full. Come waiting for the 16th to open up registration. Awareness Month. Awareness months are COPD and don’t even know it. Last year, the early! We need more volunteers to help with New Bookkeeper- The Executive Director, helpful because they bring public attention NHLBI implemented the first-ever COPD the unloading. Young, strong persons are Jim Smock, has hired a new bookkeeper. to issues facing many of our friends and National Action Plan, a blueprint for a multi- especially welcome! This person will be a full-time employee. families. COPD is an umbrella term used to faceted, collaborative fight against the disease. Board Meeting- The next regularly The bookkeeper is being trained now on the describe progressive lung diseases including Developed at the request of the United States scheduled Board Meeting is December 11 PIPOA computer systems. emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and refractory Congress with input from the broad COPD (non-reversible) asthma. This disease is community, it provides a comprehensive at the Island Presbyterian Church starting at Audit- The audit continues to progress. Our characterized by increasing breathlessness. framework for action by those affected by the 5:30. The Board agreed to combine November Bylaws require a yearly audit. The current COPD is a progressive and (currently) disease and those who care about reducing and December’s meeting due to the holidays. audit is for the year 2017. The Tax return for incurable disease, but with the right diagnosis its burden. You can view the action plan here: Elections- Do you want to be a PIPOA Board 2017 should be ready to file by the deadline of and treatment, there are many things you can http://www.aarc.org/advocacy/federal-policies- Member? There are two Board seats up for November 15, 2018. do to manage your COPD and breathe better. affecting-rts/copd-national-action-plan/ election. To be a candidate, you must be a Follow the Law- It is mandatory that your People can live for many years with COPD and If you have questions regarding any of the property owner in the PIPOA. The deadline PIPOA follow Federal, State, and Local Law. enjoy life. information mentioned in this week’s article, to register is November 15, 2018. You must Furthermore, the Articles of Incorporation, Symptoms of COPD can be different for each please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or submit a written notice to the PIPOA and Bylaws, and Covenants must be followed person, but common symptoms are: District Office. Please always feel free to provide a short bio or resume to the PIPOA as well. When the law is not followed, then contact my office if you have any questions office. You can email it to [email protected] or misdeeds become possible. Your PIPOA is • Increased shortness of breath or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if drop it off at the PIPOA office. working hard to follow the law and the PIPOA • Frequent coughing (with and without you would like to contact my office regarding Vacant Board Seat- On the 16th of November, corporate rules. mucus) constituent services. As always, my offices are the procedure to apply for the vacant Board As always, let me have your thoughts. You available at any time to assist with questions, seat will be announced. The vacant Board • Increased breathlessness can reach me at [email protected] concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- • Wheezing 463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603). • Tightness in the chest - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 Further explanation of these characteristics can Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). be found at: https://www.copdfoundation.org/ He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. 2018-2019 PIPOA Veterans Town Hall What-is-COPD/Understanding-COPD/What- texas.gov or at 512-463-0672 Compliance meeting for Health is-COPD.aspx Committee Meeting Care New Sheriff in Town Agenda Thursday, November November 14th, 15 at Del Mar Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System 2018 (VCB) is scheduled to host a VA Town Hall on Thursday, November 15, 2018. Schlitterbahn’s The town hall will take place from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Del Mar College Center for Economic Development (Room 106) located at Admirals Room 3209 South Staples Street, Corpus Christi, TX 78411 6:00 pm The event will feature a presentation of the • Comments from public. (3 minutes state of the Health Care System and update on each) operations of VA clinics in Corpus Christi. • Committee discussion of an updated This event is aimed at soliciting constructive – PIPOA Property Non-Compliance feedback from Veterans on how we can improve Notification Process Proposal. (Possible our operations. Media is invited, however, due committee action) to Veterans privacy concerns, media members • Committee discussion of an updated - are asked not to record or photograph inside the Fine Schedule, including a proposal for meeting room without prior consent. a lien filing policy, for non-compliant Additionally, please note this is a public event properties. (Possible committee action) hosted by a U.S. federal government agency. • Discussion concerning using Article 46 Video and photographs may be taken by VA staff from the present PIPOA Board Policy for use in broadcast or publications and posting Manual as an outline to use in the on social media. Individuals in attendance are Former Island Cop and Island Moon columnist J.C. (Chris) Hooper was sworn in as committee’s final report to the board. exclusively responsible for informing staff Nueces County Sheriff this week to fill the term of outgoing Sheriff Jim Kaelin who (Possible committee action) capturing photos or video if they do not want to resigned for personal reasons with two years left on his term. be photographed or recorded. • If time allows, discussion concerning A packed house was on hand at the Nueces County Courthouse and Chris’s family a list of possible infractions to be For more information contact, Reynaldo Leal, watched as Kaelin pinned the badge on the new sheriff and gave him the obligatory listed for compliance violations. (no public affairs office at 956-291-9340, or via cowboy hat required under the Texas Constitution (not really but might as well be). committee action expected) e-mail at [email protected]. Congratulations Chris! Compliance Committee Chairperson Alan Rickertsen Port Aransas Art Presbyterian Church Center Celebrates Raffle #GivingTuesday and Thanksgiving Encourages Support Dinner for Twelve for Programs for Instead of cooking your Thanksgiving dinner, Youth, Adults and why not buy a raffle ticket to win a wonderful dinner for 12? Island Presbyterian Church is selling raffle tickets $5 per ticket or 5 for $20. Daily Operations This #GivingTuesday - November 27, 2018 Tickets are available from members of the - the Port Aransas Art Center will encourage church or by calling 949-8770. The dinner contributions to support its programs for youth, includes turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and adults and its daily operations. Gifts of all sizes gravy, green vegetable, sweet potato casserole, are welcome and appreciated from now through fruit salad, cranberry sauce, rolls and two pies #GivingTuesday on November 27. of your choice from apple, pecan or pumpkin. Drawing will be held November 18 after the Port Aransas Art Center webpage devoted to 10 a.m. church service. Meal will be delivered #GivingTuesday: https://portaransasartcenter. to your home Wednesday (the day before org/givingtuesday/ Thanksgiving) after three with full instructions • #GivingTuesday’s national website (the on reheating. Sorry, menu cannot be adjusted Art Center is an official participant and for gluten free, vegetarian or vegan. noted as such in its database): https:// www.givingtuesday.org/ Each year Islander Evelyn Pless-Schuberth conducts and Only-on-The-Island toy drive by collection beach toys left behind by visitors and donates them to kids who need them. • Qgiv online donation form for direct This week she gave the toys to West Side Helping Hand in Corpus Christi. giving: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/ recurrg/ P.I.E. Needs Homes for the ISLAND • Port Aransas Art Center YouTube video Send letters and photos for #GivingTuesday: https://youtu.be/ 2018 Holiday Home Tour CHIROPRACTIC qoVPDPdKPns to editor@islandmoon. Daxton T. Krugman, D.C. • GuideStar gold seal profile of the Port Live/Silent Auction Cocktail Party – 14602 Compass Street, Ste B. Aransas Art Center: https://www2. com Friday, Nov. 30th 6 PM till 10 PM guidestar.org/profile/74-2782537 Holiday Home Tour – Sunday, Dec. 2nd (361) 949-2199 12:30 PM -5:30 PM www.krugmanchiropractic.com #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, $5 Raffle Tickets for a $500 Visa Card on COMPLIMENTARY communities and organizations to encourage Sale Now! philanthropy and to celebrate generosity Padre Island Enrichment Club LLC (PIE) CONSULTATIONS worldwide. Following Thanksgiving and is looking for homes to participate in the the widely recognized shopping events tour this year. You do not have to be a Black Friday and Cyber Monday, this year’s member to place your home in the tour. #GivingTuesday takes place on November 27th Your home does not have to be a certain and will kick off the giving season by inspiring size or have every room decorated. The people to collaborate and give back. Tour will start at Schlitterbahn @12:30 “The Port Aransas Art Center is excited about pm where you can purchase tickets and participating in #GivingTuesday for the first receive your map to the homes the day of time this year. In fact, 2018 is the first year we the tour. Tickets will be available at the have an online giving platform in place that POA office starting Oct.11, 2018. can easily accept donations from all kinds of sources and from people located anywhere in This year we are holding a Live/Silent Texas, the U.S. and beyond. Our focus is to Auction in the Pour House upstairs at generate financial support for our programs Schlitterbahn. No entrance fee. There for youth, adults and for the Art Center’s daily will be a cash bar, live music, appetizers, operational needs. And, we hope to establish live and silent auction. We are looking #GivingTuesday as an annual “year-end” giving for donated auction items and/or cash tradition! Your questions, suggestions and donations to cover expenses. For charitable donations are welcome.” information please call Katherine Pierce @ 361-774-2992. November 8, 2018 Island Moon A 15 Leaving Your Job? What Should You Do The Coastal Cotillion Fall Luncheon 2018 The Flour Bluff / Padre Island Coastal The debutantes for the 2018 - 2019 season With Your 401(k)? Cotillion hosted 40 guests at its Fall Luncheon are: Ella Atherton, Alexandra Bettiga, Abbigail You’ve got a powerful retirement savings into an IRA. First, your money will still have on November 3, 2018 at the Emerald Beach Brummett, Destiny Buenavente, Ashelin vehicle in your 401(k) plan, which offers the potential to grow on a tax-deferred basis. Hotel. The luncheon included a buffet of Daniels, Henley Elam, Kristine Epley, Tabitha various investment options and the chance to Second, you can put your funds in virtually any various salads and was held in the Kokomo Foster, Dierra Goslin, Adrienne Gray, Lauren accumulate tax-deferred earnings. investment you choose — stocks, bonds, mutual Room, which looks out on Corpus Christi Bay. Gray, Madison Hale, Rebecca Hudson, Dorothy funds, government securities, certificates of Heartwell, Cecelia Irving, Kylee McCarrell, But if you leave your job before you retire, Corpus Christi Judge Inna Klein from the deposit and others — so you can build a mix of Dakota Miller, Helen Mlady, Kaitlin Neri, April what should you do with your 401(k)? 214th District Court was the guest speaker. investments appropriate for your goals and risk She has spent years motivating and inspiring Prosek, Elyse Suckley, Adrienne VanBrunt, and You have several choices — and it’s important tolerance. Third, if you own multiple 401(k) other young women to follow their dreams Chloe -Sue Wong. that you understand them, because your accounts, you might benefit from consolidating and work toward their goals. She encouraged The Coastal Cotillion is an organization to decision can greatly affect the resources them into a single IRA, making it easier to the debutantes to take advantage of the many educate and enlighten the young women in the you’ll ultimately have available during your allocate and monitor your retirement assets. options life offers and develop confidence to Flour Bluff, Padre Island and London community retirement years. Plus, with a consolidated account, you may find pursue their most difficult goals. She also shared about the social and educational opportunties Here are the main options for dealing with it easier to track your withdrawals, when it’s her own life experiences and challenged herself available to them as they complete their senior your 401(k) from a previous employer: time to start taking them. to successfully operate outside her personal year in high school. Activities through the You could leave the money in the company’s If you do decide to move your 401(k) to an comfort zone to fulfill her professional career. Coastal Cotillion support social development plan. Not all companies offer this option, but IRA, make sure to request a direct rollover. The She has made her own choices and always took through guest speakers, workshops, and social many do. If you like the investment choices money will be sent directly to the institution that advantage of the best possible education and functions where they develop personal skills as available in your plan, leaving the money alone holds the IRA and no taxes will be withheld. trully believes in the work she does to make this they approach adulthood. The Coastal Cotillion world a better place for all people. is open to any senior high school girl living in may not be a bad idea — you know where You could cash out your plan. If you cash out the Flour Bluff, Padre Island or London schools. your money is going, and you can still benefit your plan, your company likely will pay you After the meal, the debutantes completed the from potential tax-deferred growth. On the 80% of your account value, withholding the final fittings of their ball gowns and practiced The next Coaastal Cotillion Event will be the other hand, since you won’t be employed by rest for federal taxes. And if you’re younger curtsying which is part of each debutante’s Christmas Ornament Exchange in December. the company, you might find it harder to keep than 59-1/2, you also may face a 10% penalty individual presentation. The young ladies were The Presentation Ball will be held January 26, up with changes to your 401(k), such as when tax. Furthermore, you’ll have lost a key source asked to share their progress with the personal 2019 at the Emerald Beach Hotel. investment options are added or dropped. Also, table decorations and other aaspects of the of your retirement income. Of course, if you The 2018 - 2019 Coastal Cotillion Board you no longer will receive your employer’s presentation that will occur the evening of the absolutely need the money, it’s there for you. Members are: Mrs. Flo East, senior advisor, matching contribution, if one had been offered. ball. The distribution of their invitations will be Before making any moves with your 401(k), Mrs. Elaine Boughton, Mrs. Susan Lawson, and at the December meeting. You could move the money into your new consult with your tax and financial professionals. Mrs. Trudy Luce. employer’s plan. If your new employer has a You worked hard to build your 401(k) — so 401(k) and allows transfers, you could roll the you’ll want to do all you can to keep it working money from your old plan into the new one. hard for you. This might be an attractive option if you like This article was written by Edward Jones the investment options offered in your new for use by your local Edward Jones Financial employer’s plan. And it will give you a head Advisor. Your Island Edward Jones Financial start in building resources in the new plan. Advisor is Keith Clark. Keith can be reached at You could roll the money into an IRA. You may (361) 949-9500. find several advantages to rolling your 401(k) Padre Island Christmas Parade Sunday, December 9 Nueces County Emergency Services District The Nueces County Emergency Services Left on Whitecap, Left on Aquarius St., District Number 2 will hold its annual Christmas Right on Commodore Dr to Schlitterbahn Parade on Padre Island on Sunday, December 9. (break) The route is as follows: Left on Commodore Dr., Right on Aquarius It will begin at 5:45 p.m. at Nueces County St., Right at Cabana St., Park and wind through Island streets. Left on Commodore Dr., Left on Compass, Right turn from Nueces County Park cross Right on Headsail Ave., Left on Frontage, PR @@ onto Encantada, Left on Jack Fish, Right on Aquarius, Left Left on Palmira, Right on San Filipe, Right on Sea Horse, Right on Aloha St., on Cabo Blanco, Right on Suntan Ave, Left on Aquarius, Right on Punta Bonaire, Right on Sea Pines, Right on Ambrosia, Left on Marina, Right on Palo Seco, End. 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The best defense against sandburs in your lawn though, is the lawn itself. According to the Roberto F. Diaz, M.D. late Dr. James McAfee, who was an admired professor and turfgrass specialist, “a dense A native Texan itself, Coastal Sandbur stand of healthy grass provides the best weed University of Illinois at Chicago trained in Internal Medicine. (Cenchrus spinifex) is a fairly unassuming plant control.” Mowing, fertilizing and watering most of the year. Growing either in an upright correctly, can result in a lawn that is so healthy Dr. Diaz earned a Board Certification in Internal Medicine in manner or a low-spreading mat, it’s a member and robust that it virtually chokes the sandbur 1996, with recertification in 2006 and 2016. Also, Board of the Poaceae, or grass family, and its leaves and other weeds out. Growing a lawn like that are linear and slender, as is typical with most takes time though, and during the process, you Certified in Sleep Medicine. Our clinic works with trained grasses. Come the fall and summer months may find yourself having to put on the ol’ work Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in a though, and this plant makes its presence known gloves and removing the grass by hand. using a very painful and poky approach. Whatever means you choose to use in taking collaborative effort to provide you with timely medical care From around June to November, Coastal on insidious Coastal Sandbur, a healthy amount Sandbur plants develop seed-heads that are of patience will be necessary - and a good pair covered in the most contrary of seed burs. of cowboy boots never hurt anyone either. ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS With anywhere from 8-40 sharp, stiff spines To Learn More and containing up to three seeds, the burs are designed by nature to propagate by sticking 14725 Compass Street to whatever they come into contact with, which unfortunately includes people and pets. Corpus Christi, Texas 78418 Needless to say, they are a nuisance to both man and animal alike. So why is the island inundated with this malicious grass? Well, like many islanders, this plant loves having its toes in the sand. The burs 361 239 4712 themselves are even well suited to our sandy soils and climate, as they can patiently sit lying in wait for moisture and the ideal growing conditions to arrive. Unfortunately, once they Open: Monday – Friday (8 AM to 5PM) sprout and begin growing, our area’s mild climate allows the grass to survive throughout To learn more about controlling coastal sandbur the year, and according to Texas A&M in your yard, be sure to read Dr. McAfee’s Extension Weed Specialist, Dr. Paul Baumann AgriLife Extension document online at https:// , this can make the grass, “more difficult to aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/ eradicate, since they [the grass plants] have turf/grassbur.html already developed a substantial root system the Send Letters and Photos to previous year.” Also, if you’re interested in herbicidal applications, be sure to visit your local nursery [email protected] Bur Banishment and speak to the professionals there about the and follow us on Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper So what can be done to control this noxious proper control method for your specific lawn. grass on your property? Well, to start, a good November 8, 2018 Island Moon A 17 Moon Classifieds #760

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Snoopy’s (361) 949-8815 13313 S. Padre Island Drive Scoopy’s (361) 949-7810 Corpus Christi, TX 78418 November 8, 2018 Island Moon A 18 many but they mostly blew away and I wore my Three Chords and the Truth dad’s old cowboy hat until it looks like a truck ran over it. I need a new hat. I think a new hat By Ronnie Narmour lady who said it stunk. They wouldn’t let me might kick-start my lack of holiday enthusiasm. take any pictures either. There was no electricity [email protected] Sparkle and holiday cheer forthcoming…stand and the place was pitch dark and dank as hell. by. Adios Flats Lounge… It smelled like a rancid ashtray in there. We I don’t know how picked over all the remaining stuff (signs on the Shattered shots… it came to be that it wall, tables, chairs, TV’s, everything) that was left and moved it out. I couldn’t wash my hands Not much was me that ended going on lately. up being one of the enough times. A thick brown blanket of old cigarette smoke coated every inch of everything Giggity’s is still last one’s to pick cranking out over the bones in there. I looked up at the ceiling and thought of the times I watched Scotty Tozier shimmy live music every of the recently night and twice state seized Flats across the rafters like a monkey. I actually have fond memories. It was better than TV. They still on Sunday. I saw Lounge, but it was. Mike O’Neill I’ve kept a healthy had an article on the wall that I wrote about the Flat’s for CC Magazine years ago, where I last weekend. distance from the Ty Dietz and JM Muniz Ty Dietz was Flats since Clyde said, “Ray T and the City Crew are real deal bad boys that make J.W. George look like Lindsay played the Back Porch playing at The Leonard was Back Porch on murdered in there Lohan.” You could always depend on the Flats on Friday Ulrich Ellison and Tribe featuring Sabine Chris Jordan stands in for being dark and freezing cold in the middle Friday and Billy Ellison on bass will play Giggity’s on a few years ago. Snipes was there front of the now defunct I spend a lot of of summer. Kathleen Moore painted the front Saturday. of the place: “Not the oldest, but the coldest.” I on Saturday with Flats Lounge with a time at Shorty’s percussionist B.J. DO NOT MISS LIST flame thrower next door, but have always referred to the Flat’s as our local vampire bar. No light comes in, Shuler on cajon. given the Flat’s The Island was a wide berth for no smoke escapes. I expected to see Salma dead and the bars some time now. That was not always been were dead. It was the case. I started going in there around ’08 Hayek come slithering out with a big snake good to see my when Howie Andersen was a bartender there old pal Charlie and Ray T and the City Crew played every around her neck at any moment when Ray T Rouzer and his Friday. I was always amazed at the big orbs big Hammond I got in my pics back then. I knew there was was playing. The Flat’s Billy Snipes and B.J. Lounge was home to organ playing spirits in there. The history of that place goes Shuler played the Back with O’Neill. You back to the Rod and Gun Club built in the 50’s Take a wild guess at many island locals Porch on Saturday. who now seem a bit throw the Antone by W.D. Gates who was married to Miss Rose what my Halloween Perez and Art Smithey, the daughter of Shorty Fowler of displaced. They’re costume was this finding their way to Galvan tried and true rhythm section and you the storied Shorty’s Place next door. W.D. was year got a first rate blues band. Mike O’Neill is a killed in that building when the muzzle of a rifle Shorty’s, Bernie’s and the 361 Bar now. monster blues guitarist, plain and simple. He appeared in the door and shot him. No arrests plays all the notes. were ever made but it was rumored to be a mob Texas Red’s will likely get some when they hit for gambling debts. The place stood vacant open. There’s a real need for neighborhood bars The 2017 World Turkey Bowling Champ is for a long time. Susan Powell (Lagedrost at on this island. You can’t keep the dart or pool Big Tim. the time) leased it at one point in the late 80’s leagues going without them. because she needed the parking spaces for her I need a new hat… Ulrich Ellison and Tribe (Austin, TX) is cars when she owned Tortuga Flats close by. playing Giggity’s on Saturday. This is the Susan said the place was always creepy (except Since Halloween fell on a Wednesday this first time we’ve seen our friend Ulrich and when Chris Jordan had it.) Chris opened it up year, the celebrations I reported last week were his wonderful wife/bassist, Sabine. They tour originally as the Flats Lounge in 1998. He put actually premature for the “Halloween proper” endlessly here and in Europe and make records st a lot of work into that bar and actually named party at Giggity’s on the 31 . All the bars had and have many great sticks in the fire and it, the Flats Lounge, and pretty much built the their costume parties on the Saturday before, haven’t been around. They have been embraced place and made it cool. He operated it for five and it was pretty slow. The Back Porch didn’t by Austin and have won their music awards years then handed it off to Kit Gutherz in 2004 really have their costume contest and Treasure and in a word, DO NOT MISS this show. and Linda Coward took ownership around Island was hurting for ghosts and goblins, too. They don’t come around that often anymore. 2007 (I think). The place has been around for I am a serious fan of Halloween. I looked back Mike O’Neill with Charlie Rouzer on And remember to keep the Back Porch end of a long time and was known as a rough place, at all the Halloween pics I’ve taken in the past Hammond organ and Antone Perez on season blowout, Turkey Bowl, in your sites for especially when it was the Rod and Gun, which ten years and some of the many, many costumes skins played the blues at Giggity’s on November 25. Look out Big Tim, that trophy is locals referred to as the “Cut and Run Club”. were nothing short of remarkable. This year… Friday. mine this year. Be safe out there. not so much. I’m partially responsible I The Flats Lounge wasn’t for beginners. It was ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ hard core. A bar bar. But not anymore. The state suppose. I didn’t get a costume together or get seized the property recently for unpaid taxes Julie Caraker to paint me up. I just didn’t have and auctioned off the contents. I was asked to my sparkle going this year. And since my hair help get the stuff out of there with a couple of and beard have gotten a bit shaggy lately, I went friends and reluctantly agreed. It was pretty as a Q-tip. Pretty lame, huh? I’ll make it up funky in there from years of sin and debauchery next year. I promise. I’ll start working on it now and well… being the Flat’s Lounge. I’ve always and will put extra effort into New Years Eve and Live Music felt a cold negative energy in that building. I Mardi Gras. People keep asking me why I’m actually walked through the place with burning not wearing hats anymore. Well, Harvey got Wednesday, November 14 sage before we started clearing it out and was most of them. One I gave to Irish Mike in an unexpected fit of generosity and he won’t give Tonight Billy Snipes @ Giggity’s asked to put it out by the State Comptroller it back. It takes time to find the right hat. I had Rich Lockhart @ Harrison’s Landing Thursday, November 8 John Eric @ Pelican Free Beer Band @ Lounge Giggity’s Ruben Limas @ Falco & the Wolf @ MAGNUS NOV. 9 Blackbeards on the Beach Rockit’s JERED CLARK NOV. 10 Wade Bowen @ Brewster Thursday, November 15 Street RICH LOCKHART NOV. 16 Free Beer Band @ Swimming With Bears @ MICHAEL MARTIN NOV. 17 Giggity’s House of Rock Flatbroke @ Rockit’s Chris Saenz @ Harrison’s TURKEY BOWL NOV. 25 Chris Saenz @ Harrison’s Landing Landing Bobby Carter @ 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront Bobby Carter @ Blackbeard’s on the Beach Blackbeard’s on the Beach Samantha Atkins @ Katz Samantha Atkins @ Katz 21 21 Friday, November 9 Friday, November 16 Magnus @ Back Porch Rich Lockhart @ Back Bad Buoys @ Giggity’s Porch Swimming With Bears @ Chanklas @ Giggity’s House of Rock Port A’s Alley Catz @ Rockit’s Audiobox @ Rockit’s Flatbroke @ It’ll Do Saloon Killer Queen @ Brewster Oldest and Kinda Smooth @ Pelican Street Lounge Red Tide @ It’ll Do Bobby Carter @ Saloon Friendliest Blackbeard’s Too Jonmikael MREX @ Ruben Limas @ Pelican Lounge OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port Aransas Blackbeard’s on the Beach Bobby Carter @

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