Inside the Moon Hawksnest Halloween A3 Tragedy for the MeTv Van A4 Church in the Sand A5 RETREET A9 Island Italian's Grand Reopening A11 Issue 760 The Photo by Tim Burdick Island Free 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.