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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 June 13, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around Waves Resort What’s in the Sargassum? Grand Opening The Island Floating seaweed provides protection for young turtles By Dale Rankin Thursday, June 20 We’re two weeks into Hurricane Free concert: Season 2019 and so far we’ve had a quick heat wave followed by a Music from the “cold front” that dropped temps into the low 90s, and a few hard Moon 6 p.m. rains that are always gonna fall. The The recently completed and renamed narrow beaches of late haven’t kept Waves Resort Corpus Christi will the crowds away and last weekend hold a Grand Opening Celebration at the people were out in spite of the 10 a.m. on Thursday, June 20 at the hot weather. The City Parks and park and the public is invited. Recreation managers report they sold Scheduled to speak are State 1900 beach permits on Memorial Day Representative Todd Hunter, Mayor Weekend and even on non-holiday weekends normally sell about 1500. Waves cont. on A4 The lifeguards have been busy with the riptides in full bloom and report By the numbers they made thirteen recues in May and thirty-three so far in June. There have been some concerns about swimmers Top Employers getting too close to the Packery Jetties which can be dangerous and in the Coastal also of kiteboarders and swimmers Photo by KatherynJager and Gary McAlea. competing for space in the surf near Bend As a light crop of Sargassum weed in the fl oating seaweed mats for as reach the size we see swimming in the shoreline. The city is also hiring Corpus Christi ISD 5944 has begun washing up on local long as the fi rst fi ve years of their the channel. lifeguards. beaches this week we take a look lives to feed and hide from predators. City crews are now leaving the living Naval Air Station at the sea life it brings along on its Fourth of July Fireworks Scientists say that if a newly hatched seaweed in place until it dies before Corpus Christi 4500 journey. As you can see from this turtle can fi nd cover in the fi rst removing it from the beach. So while H.E.B Stores 3840 The seventh annual Island Blast photo the Sargassum is home to a seventy-two hours of their lives their it may be inconvenient and provide Fireworks Show is on. Organizer wide variety of marine life like the Christus Spohn chance of survival is good. It provides an olfactory challenge leaving it in Jerry Watkins says with the money small fi sh and seahorses visible in the Hospital 3400 food and protection until the turtles place is good for the beach and the sent so far and the pledges for more photo. are large enough to venture out into the show will go on. He is still raising sea life that depends on it. Corpus Christi But the Sargassum is also crucial to the open water. The turtles often seen Army Depot 3400 money to put aside for next year and Dale Rankin the survival of sea turtles who live swimming in Packery Channel likely to make the fi nale of this year’s show hid under a mat of seaweed until they City of Corpus Christi 3202 a humdinger. If you recall last year Driscoll Children’s the show had to start early because Update on Island Projects Hospital 2136 of incoming weather causing the Seawall Beach fi reworks team to have to rejigger Packery Channel Dredging Corpus Christi their shooting plan and the fi nale Likely to Medical Center 1885 wasn’t the fi nale that was planned. Jetty Repairs Remain Closed Kiewit Offshore We want to thank the Padre Island Services 1750 Business Association, Island Italian, Water Exchange Bridge to Traffi c for at Bay Ltd. 1700 and the Padre Island Yacht Club for By Dale Rankin eight council members and Mayor Del Mar College 1500 their generous donations this week, Joe McComb as well as recently For the fi rst time in its history Least Two Years and especially the out of state donor hired City Manager Peter Zanoni Nueces County 1440 the governing body that controls By Dale Rankin with a big Island heart who for the and heard from citizens and city staff $15,924,759 in Island tax money held second year in a row mailed in a on a variety of issues. Here are the City staff told the Island Strategic a meeting on Padre Island this week. $5000 check that put the event over highlights. Action Committee on Tuesday that the $16,500 mark needed to make The Board of Directors of the Tax the two-thirds of Michael J. Ellis City Losing the show a reality. The launch site, as Reinvestment Zone #2 (TRZ) met Park Road 22 Water Exchange Beach along the seawall currently always is at the west end of Whitecap Tuesday night at the Holiday Inn Bridge closed to traffi c is likely to remain Almost $1 adjacent to the Padre Island Yacht Express. The board consists of all of that way for at least two years. Club. It is solely funded through According to current plans $4 million the Corpus Christi City Council along of the $15.9 million is earmarked to Gulf Beach and Natural Resources Million per Year private donations. Barring weather, with representatives from Nueces Superintendent Darren Gurley told the show lights up ten minutes after cover the cost of the bridge, currently County, the Nueces County Hospital estimated at about $12 million. the group that the temporary sand Occupancy tax on sundown – usually around 9:20 p.m. District, Del Mar College, and the barrier now in place just north of the – and lasts for about twenty minutes. county Farm to Market Road fund. City staff told the group that progress seawall parking lot will be replaced private residences To donate send checks made out to Each of the taxing entities dedicate on the Park Road 22 Water Exchange by wooden bollards due to the Island Blast 14493 SPID, Suite A their tax revenue on improvements Bridge which according to an narrowing of the beach. Rules from goes unpaid PMB 303, Corpus Christi, TX, 78418. agreement signed by the city and the inside the zone since 2003 to fund the Texas General Land Offi ce call By Dale Rankin It’s time to start thinking about a improvements in the zone which owners of the adjacent property more for the closure if the beach to traffi c Fourth of July party. Moon Mike used covers the area from the Gulf of than two months ago should have once the width of the beaches fall The City of Corpus Christi is losing to say that Island parties are like a Mexico, across Lake Padre, and the already gone out to bids, is being held below 150, the width required for $957,000 per year due to a lack of seven-layer bean dip; when they start businesses along SPID. It does not up by a question of whether ditches two traffi c lanes (50 feet), a twenty- collection of the Hotel Occupancy Tax out they are rather stratifi ed but by the include Island residential areas. along the roadside of the site between fi ve foot easement at the base of the from local residents who lease their time they are done everything is all Commodores and Whitecap have to seawall, and 75 feet from the water’s property short-term directly through mixed up together. The board which is chaired by be mitigated as wetlands. However, internet sites, according to Paulette District 4 City Councilman Greg edge where it is not legal to drive. POA Smith and was attended by seven of Updates cont. on A4 Seawall cont. on A4 Taxes cont. on A4 The recount for the March 2019 election at the Padre Isles Property Owners Association is now underway and we should have the result by next A little Island history week. If you read this before 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, there is also a A Writer and an Old Texas Ranger Turn Out a Tale of Town Hall style meeting for the Sea Pines members at 6:00 p.m. at the How South Texas Got Rid of its Bandits Holiday Inn Express on Windward. The meeting is to discuss issues Editor’s note: This the last in last issue he and another Ranger lived regarding Sea Pines leaving the POA. the series of stories based on the and worked in an isolated part of the book Taming the Nueces Strip by ranch and kept their stories between Mingo the Flamingo Texas Ranger George Durham who themselves until the other man died Our story last time about Flamingo was a Ranger under Captain L.H. leaving Durham as the last of the 492 who escaped from the Wichita McNelly when they rode off into breed the area between the Nueces and County Zoo and was seen in Lavaca Beginnings of a story Bay drew a huge audience on Rio Grande Rivers in 1875 to rid theislandmoonnewspaper Facebook the area of gunfi ghters and cattle Clyde Wantland was a reporter page. Guide John Humbert, who took rustlers. for the San Antonio Express-News the photo we ran last time (and forgot By Dale Rankin and when he heard of Durham he to run the photo credit) called to say determined that he would fi nd him The rich stories in the Taming of the bird has now been named Mingo and tell his story. In the early 1930s the Nueces Strip told by George and in fact has taken up permanent Wantland travelled to Raymondville Durham came to us through the residence in this area, migrating with and walked into the post offi ce. perseverance of a single writer who the seasons but never leaving the sought out Durham at his home on “I came down to meet George Coastal Bend. For more on Mingo the King Ranch. As the Rangers of Durham,” he told the postmaster. one called him George or even Mr. “Yes,” the postmaster said. “Mr. see the story in this issue. Durham, it was always Mr. George George Durham is a McNelly. I the 1875 era passed away Durham “That needn’t take much trouble,” Durham. reckon he’s about the only one Stay cool everybody and say hello if was the last of the original troop left the postmaster replied. “Today’s left. That all happened quite a spell you see us Around The Island. and was working as a foreman on Wednesday and Mr. George Durham “That’s the George Durham that back.” the King Ranch. As we wrote in the comes to town for his mail.” No worked for Ranger Captain McNelly, right? History cont. on A4 June 13, 2019 Island Moon A 2 BioBlitz 2019 in Port Aransas

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The PIPOA provides an office where property Moon Monkeys owners can go to address items of concern, Did Ya Mike Ellis, Founder Letters to the inquire about points of interest, and offer suggestions. Hear? The PIPOA Boards' relationship with the By Mary "Scoop" Craft Editor CCPD has leveraged better police protection on the island as they work in partnership with our officers to deter crime. Through this program the PIPOA has sponsored events such as free New Advertiser VIN etching to reduce auto theft. A Garage Sale at Portofino Because the PIPOA represents the entire Island, it has more leverage with the city than Condos will be held on Saturday, the voices of a few individuals. The PIPOA June 15th 9 am – 1 pm. There will Distribution also brings your concerns to other helpful organizations like ISAC. be furniture, wall art, 15 boxes Pete Alsop of new ceramic tile, area rug Island Delivery The PIPOA represents all property owners and is dedicated to respecting the will of its and much more. The condos are Coldwell Banker members with full transparency and no special located at 15002 Windward Drive. Advertising interests. Jan Park Rankin Second Island Bridge The PIPOA insures and ensures island Far Beyond Tint, Inc. can tint Classifieds The new bridge proposed in the Corpus Christi amenities now and the development of more in your windows to provide energy Arlene Ritley Urban Transportation Plan may never be built the future such as a dog park and tie-up docks savings, heat reduction, privacy at the boat ramps. Production Manager due to lack of money. Sure, the state COULD pay for it, but a traffic study would likely be enhancement and UV protection. Abigail Bair The PIPOA offers all property owners shared needed first. Call 854-8468. Contributing Writers ownership and a say in their own governance. It seems that I remember a traffic study saying Joey Farah The PIPOA ensures that members’ rights are Andrew’s A.C. can help you keep that 60% (or more) of the traffic coming over Andy Purvis not violated and that property owners have the JFK causeway was traffic coming from (and control of guidelines, bylaws, and covenants. your cool with 24/7 service. They Mary Craft going to) Port Aransas. Will that traffic take offer free installation estimate Kelly Trevino a different bridge (further south) to encounter The PIPOA helps bring together neighbors Jay Gardner similar traffic lights and related congestion through activities and events, such as Litter and maintenance programs. They Todd Hunter before they head north on hiway 361? I doubt Critter, Community Gardens, Easter Egg Hunts, are Island family owned and overhaul of Billish Park etc. Dotson Lewis it. The statement that it would help with operated. Call 214-980-5395 or Dr. Tom Dorrell evacuation during a hurricane is a valid point, The PIPOA looks ahead to understand laws but a lot of that evacuation traffic would be visit andrewsac.com. Ronnie Narmour that impact members and preserve the integrity coming from.....Port Aransas. So maybe it of the island through investigating better Brent Rourk is not North Padre Island that needs another materials for our bulkheads to help mitigate Business Briefs Photographers bridge, but...Port Aransas/ Mustang Island. flood and hurricane damage thereby keeping Dr. Vasconcellos (Dr. V.) is a Miles Merwin (Emeritus) I am not a road engineer, but t would seem our island intact. Debbie Noble to me that a "flyover" ramp from the SPID/ The PIPOA works to serve our entire family medicine doctor on the Jan Rankin Aquarius Street intersection area, to Hiway 361 community. In short, the PIPOA provides many Island that makes house calls. He just past Packery Channel would route that Port benefits that we as individuals cannot do alone. accepts most major insurances Mary Craft A traffic out of the congestion area and onto Ronnie Narmour the highways. Yes, that would be expensive, John Weis including Medicare. He is available Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) also, but cheaper than another bridge across the for yearly exams, well baby visits, Laguna Madre, and 10 miles of new elevated Riley P. Dog Football dermatological issues and any other roadway. Hey guys!!! I just wanted to send this letter in medical issue you would normally Since Packery Channel is a man-made to tell you all THANK YOU!!!! Thank you for go to a primary care physician office alteration of the environment, altering that your support and donations to help my son get area may be less impact than the bridge across to Las Vegas for football. to address. Call 800-5917 and talk to the upper/middle Laguna Madre, and the Dr. V or his wife Tina to set up a time termination at Park Road 22. to come to your home. Bob Simpson Black Sheep Bistro now has a kids Tropic Isles menu with baa baa pasta, grilled cheese & fries, cheeseburger & fries, We’ll have flying cars by then and won’t need chicken fingers & fries and kid fish. Publisher it. All kid menu items are $6. Dale Rankin Travis Edlin About the Island Moon Scuttlebutts has new menu items The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale that include stone crabs, crawfish, Rankin, Editor / Publisher. Why the PIPOA is Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes housemade smoked redfish dip delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 Important to Island (delish with their seasoned crackers) copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 Homeowners and shrimp crack appetizer which is copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. shrimp wrapped in rice paper then News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, Let’s look at what the PIPOA does for this community: deep fried and served with their payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. There is no doubt that both dry and water lot sweet & spicy sauce. The Island Moon Newspaper owners enjoy enhanced property values as a Wind & Wave Watersports will 14646 Compass, Suite 3 canal community, which cannot happen without the financial support of all island property have a Kayak and SUP Demo Day Corpus Christi, TX 78418 owners. at the Packery Channel Bridge on 361-949-7700 Our ACC helps keep property values up Saturday, June 15th 10 am – 4 pm. [email protected] by enforcing the building standards set by its Sounds like a great Father’s Day gift members and mediating disputes by explaining Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper and enforcing our bylaws and covenants. to me. The PIPOA Compliance Team helps keep The Waves Resort will hold a property values up by working with owners, Grand Opening Celebration builders, the City, and CCPD to correct on Thursday, June 20th at 10 am. potential problems. This is critical for rental Where to Find The properties, out of town owners, and to ensure Scheduled to speak are State that derelict properties are brought into Representative Todd Hunter, Mayor Island Moon compliance. Our board members have a positive Joe McComb and City Councilman working relationship with the City Compliance Department, CCPD, and are available to help Greg Smith. The event will include Port North answer questions, resolve concerns, and set up tours of the Escape Room, E-Sports community meetings. gaming room, revised menu and live Aransas Padre The PIPOA maintains common areas such music with Matt Hole & the Hot Rod Gulf Stream RV All Stripes Stores as the medians on Whitecap and Commodore, Gang at 6 p. Pioneer RV MaryAnn’s way, and canal ends. Well-kept Black Sheep/ common areas create an inviting and welcoming Stripes on 1A Surfside Sandwich Shoppe Barrel atmosphere for all and protect property values. suggests for you low carb dieters My Coastal Home CVS This also encourages business development which provides convenient services for to go topless and “Hold the bun” WB Liquor Store Whataburger islanders. when ordering one of their popular Island Wine Room Doc’s Restaurant For boat owners, jet skiers, paddleboarders, sandwiches which include blackened Kody’s kayakers, and fishermen: The PIPOA preserves Snoopy’s Pier chicken, pineapple teriyaki chicken, Coffee Waves our canals through dredging, debris removal, turkey club and Italian chicken and Isle Mail N More channel marker maintenance, and bulkhead Moby Dicks repairs. Members greatly value our seven boat mushroom. Island Italian IGA ramps and convenient parking lots. The upkeep Marker 37 Concerts this weekend Brooklyn Pie Co. of these ramps and parking areas enable our Treasure Island members to use these facilities safely. will be Something Silky on Friday 6 Ace Hardware Ms. Woody’s Without the PIPOA and the playground moms, – 9 pm and Dave’s Music on Saturday Automotive Holiday Inn Billish Park’s remarkable transformation would 7 – 10 pm. Port A Glass Studio Texas Star (Shell) not have happened. Preserving this terrific recreational amenity is only possible because He had an amazing time, the Team played very The Dine Island restaurants San Juan’s Restaurant Jesse’s Liquor of the on-going maintenance provided by the well. Although the outcome was not what we served over 1,000 meals and raised PIPOA. Other parks maintained by the PIPOA wished, the experience will never be forgotten! Wash Tub Scuttlebutt’s $1,800 for the Coastal Bend Food include The Community Gardens where We included a couple of photos from our trip. Woody’s Sports Restaurant members enjoy this lovely area where they can Bank. Coastline Properties matched Center Oh and one photo can go in the Traveling Moon Subway grow vegetables, fruit, flowers, and herbs. section!! with another $1,800 and Becker Back Porch Bar Vineyards donated $1500. This Island Tire The PIPOA provides a great deal of data to Again, thank you so much for the help to get Shorty’s Place our community, from vital information about him there! money will provide 15,000 meals. Padre Pizzeria compliance standards, guides to city services, Fisherman’s Wharf Traci Ledford Dave’s Duo, who were popular And all Moon contractor reference lists, palm tree selection Giggity’s and care tips, living with coyotes, maps, retail advertisers weekend entertainers at the Holiday Gratitude newsletters, and announcements for events like Inn Sand Bar, will play at Shorty’s in WB Liquor Litter Critter, bulk trash pickup days, LaPosada The Gaff Boat Parade, 4th of July celebrations, etc. Port A on Thursdays 8 pm – midnight Trinity By the Sea all summer. Episcopal Flour Bluff H.E.B. IGA update – still waiting on Whataburger on permits so it will be at least two more Waldron weeks before work can begin. The Ethyl Everly Send Letters and Photos to bar & grill going in where the old Senior Center Country Store was is also waiting on permits to begin. Fire Station [email protected] Police Station and follow us on Facebook: The Stripes on Flour Bluff & SPID Island Moon Newspaper June 13, 2019 Island Moon A 4 San Antonio and put his kids in school in Waves cont. from A1 to use the parking lot to access the beach. History cont. from A1 Harlingen. He began leaving a copy of his However, that plan was never enacted. A 2004 “When he comes in will you point him out to notes from the previous interview with Durham Joe McComb, and City Councilman Greg agreement between the city and property me? Wantland asked as the post office was busy for his review. That was the key to convincing Smith. The event will include tours of the owners along the seawall called for traffic to be that day. Durham he was trying to get the story straight recently completed Escape Room, E-Sports removed in exchange for the construction of a and soon he had access to Durham’s trunk full gaming room, revises menu for the restaurant seawall parking lot to meet state requirements. “That won’t be necessary son,” the postmaster of notes and photos as Durham warmed to the and live music. This summer marks the first The parking lot opened in 2008 but the traffic said. “When the biggest man in the biggest hat task with enthusiasm. Wantland began talking year of operation for the park under new was not removed. The GLO told city planners shows up and folks nudge each other and point to other law enforcement officers in the Valley management which has added the features. in 2014 that due to changes in beach conditions to him – that’s Mr. George Durham.” and found out that a legend had grown around Then at 6 p.m. the Music from the Moon since the 2008 vote closing the beach to traffic In Wantland’s words: “That proved to be Durham, largely because he had never told his concert series will feature a free concert by the on a permanent basis would require another precise sequence. I first saw George Durham as story himself. Wantland had struck gold. The local rockabilly favorites Matt Hole and the Hot citywide vote. he squirmed his huge frame behind the steering writer of history lives vicariously through his Rod Gang. wheel of a Model A carry-all. He emerged a subjects and the opportunity to interview them, leg and a shoulder at a time. When he was all especially about such a rich period as the Texas The park is located at 14353 Commodores out in the clear he tapped the pockets of his frontier, was a once in a lifetime chance. For Drive. For questions call 361 589-4220 or visit Turtle Count brush jacket, shook his pants back into normal the next year Wantland pinned Durham down their webstie at WavesResort.com. On June 7, 1 loggerhead nest was located in walking position; removed his huge hat and on details and names and a full image of the We’ll see you there. Texas, on South Padre Island. reshaped its high crown; surveyed the Model time emerged. For Durham there were only A with casual tolerance; and started across the two kinds of people – outlaws and law-abiding. KEMP'S RIDLEY TURTLE dusty street.” Wantland said, “His respect for the organization Taxes cont. from A1 and orders of his superiors were part of the So far this year, 162 nests have been “The postmaster was right. No one need tell legend. His only hatred was for the ‘bad man’.” confirmed on the Texas coast including (north anybody that here approached something solid Kluge, CEO of Visit Corpus Christi (formerly to south in state): in a human shape. First, he had the external “Those fellers with their gun butts all notched,” known as the Corpus Christi Convention and appearance of a working man. Nothing phony, he said, “are the easiest arrests an officer can Visitors Bureau). 2 Bolivar Peninsula nothing dressy, nothing gaudy. Just a working make. They’ve killed many; yes. Killed soda Kluge told the Island Strategic Action 2 Galveston Island man. Could be foreman of a cow camp. He jerks and limber drunks. It’s always a pleasure Committee at its June meeting on Tuesday that 0 Brazoria County, N. of Surfside walked directly toward his target, the post office, to take one out of circulation.” while it is against city rules for property owners looking neither left nor right. Moving with the Durham like McNelly was a fatalist. When a to lease their homes or condominiums in 3 Surfside Beach majesty of the Katy Flyer backing into a station. man’s time was up it was up whether it be at the residential areas for less than thirty days a large 0 Quintana Beach The crowd fell away and cleared a path.” muzzle of a gun or under a roof between clean number of them are ignoring the city prohibition 0 Bryan Beach Wantland approached. “You’re Mr. Durham sheets. As a stockman Durham was a practical while not paying the nine percent city Hotel right? man with a keen eye for the value of a herd and Occupancy Tax. Kluge said that based on the 0 Brazoria County, N. of Sargent Beach the grazing potential of each of the two hundred amount of HOT being collected by the state for “That’s right,” Durham said as he kept walking. 0 Sargent Beach sections (128,000 acres) of the El Sauz portion their six-percent portion of the fifteen percent “I’m a writer…” of the King Ranch which he managed. total, the city’s take of nine percent would have 2 Matagorda Peninsula netted the city $957,000 last year. According 0 Matagorda Island Durham stopped and looked, “What sort of a “I never carry over any of today’s worries,” he to figures from Visit Corpus Christi the state writer? said. “That way I get a good night’s sleep and collected $637,999 during that time. 1 San Jose Island make a new start at daybreak the next morning. “I work for a magazine. To get a story on A check of overnight stay websites this 7 Mustang Island Captain McNelly and a picture they…” “ He made quick and inflexible decisions as problems and challenges arose and moved on. week found almost four hundred homes and 104 North Padre Island, including 99 at Padre “You all aiming to do a story on Captain?” As Wantland finished his writing task he gave condominiums being offered for short term stay Island National Seashore Durham a copy of the final manuscript. across the city, about forty on Padre Island. “Yes, sir.” 37 South Padre Island “Our lack of a city ordinance means that the “Well, get it straight before you print it.” “The way you’ve put it down that story is fairly good and the facts are straight. Captain wasn’t people who are leasing out their homes for 4 Boca Chica Beach “You worked for Captain McNelly didn’t you,” a hero, and don’t you let those fellers change overnight visitors are paying the state tax but LOGGERHEAD TURTLE Wantland asked. things to make one out of him. He only did his not the city tax,” Kluge said. So far this year, 5 nests have been confirmed Durham turned and faced him, the question duty as a peace officer – and he wouldn’t want Short-term stay is offered under some zoning on the Texas coast, including (north to south now seemed like an insult. you to make it look any different.” on Padre Island including the area along the in state): “That’s right,” Durham said slowly and Now, 144 years down the trail from then, riding Michael J. Ellis Seawall and along SPID but 1 Surfside Beach reflectively. “I’m a McNelly. My father was a into gunfights with twenty five men against a there are no residential areas where it is allowed. McNelly in the (Civil) war. I’ve been a McNelly country full of outlaws and cutthroats seems The city council is expected to take up the 1 San Jose Island like something more than just doing his duty. all my life. I expect to die a McNelly. And when issue in its June 25 meeting with the idea of 2 North Padre Island, including 1 at Padre I get Over Yonder, I want to go back to work for On May 17, 1940 George Durham died in the drafting an ordinance that would allow for Island National Seashore the Captain if he’s still running an outfit.” house that Captain Richard King had built for short-term stay in the city. The council will 1 South Padre Island This was the moment that Larry McMurtry him and Caroline. He was eighty-four and the have to determine what the terms would be and depicted in his novel Lonesome Dove more than last living link with the lawless time and place what parts of the city would be included in the GREEN TURTLE one hundred years later, but unlike the fictional that was the Nueces Strip in the 1870s, a time ordinance. The city council formed a task force So far this year, 1 nest has been confirmed on account the actual meeting took place not in a that would have been lost to history without to address the issue in 2018 but according to the Texas coast, including (north to south in barroom in San Antonio but in the middle of a the work of an intrepid writer and an old Texas Kluge waited until after the 2019 Legislative state): dusty street in Raymondville. Wantland knew Ranger with a trunk full of memories. session in Austin ended to act in case the state rules were changed, which did not occur. he had broken the ice that had kept writers from Wantland’s book was published by the 1 Padre Island National Seashore Durham’s story for fifty years when Durham University of Texas Press in 1962 and is usually The current city ordinance calls for a penalty invited him for coffee at the café down the street. available on Amazon. When the legend becomes for non-payment of the taxes owed plus a fine of Durham was crowding eighty and was ready to fact print the legend. 15 percent, however, a check of recent budgets tell his story. Wantland was the right person at shows no line item for any penalties collected. New Boat! the right time and had done his homework. The King Ranch hands tore down Durham’s house Austin records of the time proved that Durham and no one else ever lived in it. In some ways was the sole surviving member of McNelly’s the Nueces Strip has returned to its violent Bollards cont. from A1 Rangers and since McNelly himself had been a past. Now outlaws of a different sort ply their reluctant and stingy writer the lot fell to Durham trade there not to rustle cattle but to smuggle District 4 City Councilman Greg Smith told to tell the story. contraband. Peace officers and bad men still the board of the Island Tax Reinvestment Zone shoot it out, only now with automatic weapons. #2 which met prior to the ISAC that he spoke If the key’s here I’m here It seems no matter what, the Nueces Strip will with the consultant hired to monitor Packery In Wantland’s words: “There was nothing always need men like George Durham to protect Channel on Tuesday who informed him that the dramatic about that nickel cup of coffee. the soda jerks and limber drunks from the men channel has shoaling and in need of dredging. with notches on their guns. Nothing historically significant. The course of “We’ve got navigation issues in the channel,” no empire was changed that day. But to me it And that’s the end of the story. Smith said. “We are ready for a dredge.” lingers as a cherished memory. It launched an acquaintance that, for my part, matured into a However, due to seasonal limitations and lack friendship. It began an association with a man Updates cont. from A1 of permitting the dredging is not likely to be Ron and Michelle Jeffers and others whose image time has only enlivened.” a check of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers complete for about two years. The shallow areas attended. permit for the site shows that area has already are located near the boat ramps along the Zahn After about an hour in the cafe Durham got up. Road side of the channel. “If you want you can follow me out to the ranch been mitigated. and I’ll show you that picture of Captain,” he Under an agreement between the city and Three separate dredging projects, including said. At the end of ten miles of dirt road they the owners of the land on the west side of the the original dredge in 2004, provided the sand arrived at a gate. Durham removed the key bridge site signed in April the city had sixty for the widening of the seawall beach, however, from his pocket and unlocked the gate which days to issue a bid package on the project and the consultant told ISAC members in May that was “crude but substantial.” When the gate was within thirty days of the issuance the property there is currently not enough beach quality sand locked behind them Durham hung the key in a owners (Axys Capital and International Bank of in the channel to widen the beach beyond the nearby mesquite tree and said, “This is where I Commerce) had thirty days to show proof of a 150-foot limit. keep the key. When I’m here the key’ll be there. contract to dig the canal and build the bulkheads Gurley said he is working to alter the U.S. When I’m not here, the key won’t be here.” leading to the bridge. The city has not yet issued Army Corps of Engineers Permit which Wantland got his meaning. the bid package and city officials said Tuesday currently prohibits city crews from using sand Another half mile down the road they came to they expect to do so “this month or next month.” accumulated in dunes along the south side of the channel to widen the beach. That sand came the wood frame house where Durham lived and Packery Channel repairs Durham went inside and came out with battered from previous dredging of Packery Channel shoe box that he placed on a round table whose Cost estimates to repair damage to the Packery and was moved northward to the channel by the legs were bound up with bailing wire. Channel jetties due to Hurricane Harvey range prevailing winds. from $7.5 million to $13.5 million depending Gurley said that as per state rules until the “My wife died in fifteen,” he said. “Captain on the design according to estimates by a beach is widened the portion currently closed to King built us this house when we were married consultant hired by the city. The TRZ was set up traffic will remain so, and that is expected to be in eighty-two. The ranch has talked of fixing to provide for the construction and maintenance at least two years. it up but I talked them out of it. I promised of the channel and the jetty system. The Sandy and Danny Grave’s Christian their Caroline that nobody else would ever live question since the storm has been whether A citywide vote in 2008 approved closing the new boat at the Encantada boat ramp with here but us, and I hope they tear the old house the Federal Emergency Management Agency seawall beach to traffic allowing beachgoers The Island Moon beside them! down when I go on to be with Caroline and (FEMA) would reimburse the fund for the the Captain. When you write about Captain work. City staff told the TRZ board on Tuesday McNelly I might help you out with some of the that after a meeting with FEMA officials this things I jotted down through the years as they week they are “90 to 95 percent certain” that came to mind.” FEMA will contribute about $12 million to the For the next several months the routine was project and that the re-design of the jetties will the same. Each Wednesday Wantland would be 90 percent complete in July. wait for Durham outside the post office, then “The new design will be way better than the coffee, then the trip to the ranch where what we had before the storm,” Jeff Edmonds, Durham eventually produced a steamer trunk Director of Engineering Services for the city packed with yellow pieces of paper scrawled said. “We can’t go back to the way it was.” with the musings of the world on the frontier of South Texas that now existed only in Durham’s Instead, Edmonds said, the new design, while memory. Wantland was a skilled interviewer who not complete, will include riprap all the way to asked just enough questions to keep Durham the bottom of the channel to keep water from talking and took detailed notes as Durham told washing under and undermining the structure his story in random order, skipping back and which caused the damage during Harvey. Light up e Sky  e 4 of July! forth across years and decades. The first subject “Whatever we do we will make sure that it will Wantland pressed him on was the gunfight at survive a Harvey-type even,” he said. Palo Alto where sixteen bandits had been killed Edmonds said he expects the project to go out Island Blast and their bodies stacked like cordwood in the square in Brownsville. Wantland asked Durham to bids in August with completion expected in to make a sketch of the battleground. mid-2020. Fireworks Display Against Captain’s orders Needs Your tax-deductible “No. No siree,” Durham said. “I won’t. Some donations to fund this year’s show. fellers from the Texas University wanted the same thing but it’s against Captain’s orders. Send Letters and Photos to If you’d like to help, please mail checks to Island Blast One of his rules was to never go back over the 14493 Suite A PMB 303 | Corpus Christi, TX 78418 ground of a scrap. But I can give you a list of [email protected] Rangers in that scrap. Captain led sixteen of us and follow us on Facebook: You can also donate online through the island blast in. I’ve heard of a least a hundred who say they facebook page. were in it. But there were sixteen – I’ll give you The Island Moon their names if want.” Newspaper Wantland realized he was on the trail of a great story. He moved his family down from June 13, 2019 Island Moon A 5 Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier June 13 - June 20 My friend Duane is a “Well, the rule says you can only have three Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible longtime Islander and is a pounds of dry ice on the plane,” the man says. guy who will never refuse a favor. So Duane drags his ice chest out of the line Th 13 High 2:06 AM 1.3 6:33 AM Set 3:56 AM 77 along with his luggage and unwraps the duct He hails from a square state where they got 13 Low 7:56 AM 1.0 8:25 PM Rise 5:01 PM tape for the third time but you can’t just grab plenty of tornados and cattle and such but dry ice with your bare hands – at least not for 13 High 11:16 AM 1.1 nothing in the way of redfish, speckled trout, very long. So Duane opens his suitcase and or shrimp. So when Duane was headed up for a 13 Low 7:11 PM -0.1 takes out two tee shirts so he can handle the dry visit and his friends said they sure would like to ice and get down to the three-pound limit and F 14 High 3:32 AM 1.5 6:33 AM Set 4:35 AM 85 have some seafood Duane said, “Sure, how hard head out to the square state. He grabs out what could that be” and he cleaned out his freezer 14 Low 7:48 PM -0.4 8:25 PM Rise 6:02 PM he estimates to be about a pound of dry ice but and bought an ice chest big enough to hold sixty realizes he can’t just leave it on the ground so Sa 15 High 4:38 AM 1.7 6:33 AM Set 5:16 AM 92 pounds of seafood. Wet ice was going to be way he dumps it into a trash can right outside the 15 Low 8:27 PM -0.5 8:26 PM Rise 7:02 PM too heavy so now he needed some dry ice. terminal doors. Su 16 High 5:33 AM 1.8 6:33 AM Set 6:01 AM 97 For the dry-ice-challenged the stuff is really “What happened then,” I ask. “Did it catch 16 Low 9:06 PM -0.6 8:26 PM Rise 8:01 PM frozen carbon dioxide and is commonly added to water to make soda water. Fishermen often fire?” M 17 High 6:22 AM 1.8 6:33 AM Set 6:49 AM 99 use it for long offshore trips but most of us just “No, it didn’t catch fire,” Duane said, “But she 17 Low 9:44 PM -0.6 8:26 PM Rise 8:57 PM use it occasionally to make smoke come out of was smoking pretty good when I looked back.” the swimming pool on Halloween. It gets down So with the trash can smoke akimbo Duane Tu 18 High 7:06 AM 1.8 6:33 AM Set 7:40 AM 99 there to -109.3°F and has a sort of ethereal returned to the line and the man said. quality to it. It reeks of chemistry. 18 Low 10:21 PM -0.5 8:27 PM Rise 9:50 PM “How much dry ice you got now?” So Duane puts sixty pounds of fish and shrimp W 19 High 7:45 AM 1.7 6:34 AM Set 8:32 AM 97 “Exactly three pounds and it’s going on the in ten pound bags into the ice chest and throws 19 Low 10:57 PM -0.4 8:27 PM Rise 10:37 PM plane if it hair lips the Pope,” Duane says. in three pounds of dry ice, wraps the ice chest “Cause I ain’t unwrapping this box again until I Th 20 High 8:19 AM 1.6 6:34 AM Set 9:26 AM 94 in duct tape and drives up the highway to San get where I’m going.” And with that he boarded Antonio to catch his flight. But along the way 20 Low 11:32 PM -0.3 8:27 PM Rise 11:20 PM the plane. he decides that three pounds might not do the trick- if the Little Hammer doesn’t work get the When he arrived at his friends’ house with his Big Hammer. duct-taped-dry-ice-cooled box and sixty pounds of seafood it was in pretty good shape. It had So he buys another three pounds of dry ice warmed up a bit without six pounds of dry ice and un-ducts his ice chest throws it in but then and was okay. But as it turned out none of his finds out that his reservation at the Motel 6 is friends wanted their Texas seafood in ten pound on the second floor and he can’t leave his now blocks, they wanted two or three pounds at a six-six pound ice chest in the back of his truck time so everybody could have a little. So after overnight so he wrestles it up a flight of stairs lugging his sixty-six pound ice chest up and to his room. down a flight of motel stairs, unwrapping it “I was dragging it on the ground,” Duane says. three times and using his shirts to set the trash The next morning he unwraps it again to make can at the airport on fire he had to take out the sure everything is how it should be and finds seafood and bust it into two-pound chunks for out quickly enough that his seafood is frozen as distribution. solid as a square state stock pond in December. Duane says there are several lessons to be Fearing freezer burn he removes a couple of learned from his experience. One, don’t pounds of the dry ice he just put in using a towel volunteer to load a sixty pound ice chest on to grab it and deposits it discretely in a motel an airplane and if you do don’t use more than flower bed then wraps up his sixty-four-or- three pounds of dry ice. Two, don’t lug a sixty so pound ice chest and heads for San Antonio pound ice chest onto an airplane – pretty much International. under any conditions. And three, no good deed He drags his duct-taped-seafood-filled-dry-ice- goes unpunished. Now Duane says it’s his powered ice chest into the airport and up to the friends’ turn to bring him down some square- counter at American Airlines. state steaks and somewhere in the security camera files at San Antonio International “What is the box?” there’s a video a guy unwrapping the duct “Sixty pounds of seafood and about four tape off an ice chest and throwing a chunk of pounds of dry ice.” dry ice in a trash can and making it smoke. Send letters and photos to [email protected] And so it goes.

Ask Ralph Island Owner Spring Cleaning Tips By Joseph Quarando Water Filters: General Management Promotion Now that you have inspected the different areas Changing the whole house system filter, By Ralph Coker of your home, it’s time to repair what you found usually only takes unscrewing the old filter and to be defective. The previous general manager should replacing it. Make sure you write down the date Q. I have been it is changed. promoted to general have set up management control reports for Heating and Air Conditioning systems: manager of my each department that monitor and measure Most of us will use a qualified service to check To change the in-line filter for your refrigerator business. How is the departments’ activities. Ideally, those out our systems, because of their complexity. etc, will require either two sets of pliers or a general manager’s job different from a reports should state the goal and the actual However, make sure they do the following: two crescent wrenches. Make sure you have department manager’s job? performance compared to the goal. If the turned off the water first. Unfasten each end of department is below goal, discuss that with On electrical systems, make sure the heating the filter and replace. Again, mark the date of A. Department managers are technical the department manager, identify problems element is removed and cleaned. replacement. specialist in their area. General managers are and solutions and take corrective action to get On gas systems, make sure the burners are The filter at the end of each faucet can be easily generalists who coordinate the activities of back on track. all departments to accomplish the business’s brushed and cleaned. removed with a pair of pliers. Be careful with missions and goals. The failure rate in If there are no goals or goals are inadequate, Make sure your service cleans the cooling fins/ the removal as there is an O-ring that can be making that transition is high. The typical establish realistic goals. Give department coil of your Air conditioning system. Each type lost. To clean, simply turn upside down and run departments for a manufacturing business managers autonomy to decide how to attain of system, electrical or gas has two. water thru it. If still clogged, let set in a solution are production, marketing, distribution, their goals. Don’t interfere unless progress of Calcium remover. When clean, reinstall. The A coil is located inside the unit. There is purchasing, human resources and finance and is unsatisfactory, then identify problems an access panel in the ducting for inspection and Shut-Off Valves: accounting. Depending on the nature of the and solutions and take corrective action. cleaning. Cleaning of the A coil should be left business, there could be more departments Your job as general manager is to monitor CAUTION to the service company, but can be cleaned with like environmental, health and safety and progress and intervene only when progress a good calcium deposit remover. When removing the valve and or valve stem, quality control. is unsatisfactory or when there are disputes make sure the water supply to the house or between departments. Under the coil is a drip pan that also needs As general manager, you don’t need to condo is turned off. cleaning and inspection. It collects all of the be expert in all those functions. That’s the Don’t try to micromanage your old moisture removed from your home when the Checking the operation of the shut-off valve is department manager’s job. You do need to department by going around or over ruling the AC is working. The water in the pan is removed easy. Just turn it off and check to see if you know generally what each department does. new department manager. That’s unfair to the by way of a drain line. Make sure the line is still have flowing water. If so, the valve stem Read the department policy and procedures new manager and bad for business. There’s clear or water will build up and run over into the needs to be removed, cleaned and reinstalled manual. Discuss and question the activities of a strong temptation to do that because you furnace electrical area. or replace O-rings as needed and reinstall. The each department with the manager. Identify know that department’s functions so well. valve stem can be removed and reinstalled with the projects underway in each department. Don’t be hesitant to make decisions affecting The outside unit contains the compressor, either two pairs of pliers or crescent wrenches. Those projects should have written project all the departments because you’re not expert cooling fan and cooling coil. The coil needs You will also need a roll of Teflon tape for the action plans that spell out the who, what, why, in those. Get feedback from each department to be cleaned of dirt and debris often collects threads to reinstall. Depending on age of the how and when and have a project schedule. and proceed with the best option. during the season. This is something you can valve, you may not be able to find a replacement Read the project action plans and review do yourself. valve stem or repair parts. This will require Bio: Ralph Coker volunteers with SCORE progress reports to see if the project is on time WARNING replaIcement of the entire valve. and on budget. If it’s not, discuss the project which provides free mentoring to small with the department manager and identify businesses and nonprofits Make sure the system is turned off. If replacement is required, there are two types of valves you may need to address in the problems and solutions and take corrective Remove the protective grill. action to get the project on schedule and on removal. Soldered or Compression installation. budget. Using a hose and spray nozzle, spray the coils CAUTION from the inside out to remove the dirt and debris. Make sure you know the diameter of both the You can also help out your system, by planting input standpipe and output line to toilet or sink. shrubs within a foot of the unit or erecting a shade structure. To remove a soldered valve assembly, you will require a propane torch and a set of pliers or Water heater: channel locks to remove the valve assembly as All you need to clean your water heater is a it is heated. Gloves would be handy. hose and a pair of pliers. To install a new soldered valve assembly, you Shut off the heater either gas or electric. will require the propane torch, solder, solder paste with flux, and sandpaper. First, sand Shut off the cold water inlet to the heater with the standpipe to remove excess solder from pliers if needed. You can tell which is which the standpipe. Also, sand the inside of the new by the color of shut-off. Red is for hot water, assembly. Apply solder paste with flux to both blue is for cold water. If not, look at the top of pipe and assembly and install the new assembly. the water heater. The cold water inlet is marked Now, using the torch, heat up the pipe and either as INLET or COLD. assembly while applying the solder. Attach hose to Drain Valve at the bottom of the To remove a valve assembly that uses a tank. Run the other end to a nearby drain or compression fitting, you will require two wash machine. pairs of pliers or crescent wrenches. Hold Open up drain valve with pliers if needed. the valve body steady and unscrew the retaining compression nut. Leave this nut and Monitor flow. If none or weak flow, it indicates compression ring on the standpipe. You can that the tank is full of sediment and needs to be uses them to install the new assembly. addressed by a plumber. Install the new valve assembly minus the Two other things to look at, especially if you retaining nut and compression ring. You will plan on selling your house or condo. They will require two crescent wrenches. Pliers will not be written up upon their inspection. provide enough leverage to properly compress You need to have a drain pan under the water the compression fitting. heater with a drain line. Turn on main water valve and check for leaks. The water heater needs to be 18 inches above the ground. If you have a specific question on a problem, project or comment, please direct them to me via editor.islandmoon.com. A6 Island Moon June 13, 2019 Senior Moments Anecdotingly The Army Birthday and Armed Forces Day A Family Felled By Dotson Lewis By Abigail Bair Special to the Island Moon The next morning, I got another SOS in the I suppose I should have form of a text message: “Your Dad has been Dotson’s note: You are invited to Sherrill parade of preparedness by the unifi ed forces of known this was coming puking all night.” Veterans Memorial Park at 10 AM Saturday, our land, sea, and air defense." when poor Jan was puking at the offi ce last June 15th for the Armed Forces Day and I immediately ran back to their house bearing Armed Forces Day Themes week. “You should go home,” I shouted as she red Gatorade and Zofran. If Mom’s illness Women’s Veterans Day Ceremonies. Please returned from the bathroom. bring all of your relatives and friends*. Thanks Each year, Armed Forces Day has a new theme. could be musically described as the Mozarts to Military.com and Bisk, for many of the facts The very fi rst theme was "Teamed for Defense." “Why?” she returned. “I’d just feel like crap Requiem, Dad’s would be that Chubawumba contained in this report. Also thanks to the US there, too.” song where the guy drinks way too much, gets Over the years, other themes have included knocked down, and then gets up again. Army Museum for use of the graphics. Appreciation of a Nation; Arsenal of Freedom “Yeah, but the toilet is a lot nicer.” I found my father, lying on his bed, wearing History of The United States Army and Democracy; Dedication and Devotion; “Too much to get done,” she replied. Deter if Possible, Fight if Necessary; Freedom; only a suspiciously immaculate pair of tighty The United States Army Freedom Through Unity; Guardians of Peace; And that’s sure the truth. Moon Monkeys must whities. I forced him to take an anti-emetic and Birthday is tomorrow. Lasting Peace; Liberty; Patriotism and Power be available to keep the gears grinding at the offered him the Gatorade. He wouldn’t take the This is a day for the For Peace old word factory, and we are but a proud few. drink, instead sipping sweet tea. “This level of Army, its soldiers, I also thought that she might be the tiniest bit concern about me,” he opined cheerily, “might veterans and their Since then, some of the other themes of Armed hungover. make me rethink my opinions on humanity.” families to celebrate Forces Day have included: Boy, do I owe her an apology. “If it makes you feel any better, no one without the day on which the • Appreciation of a Nation the last name Bair gives a damn how you feel.” fi rst United States About two days later, I came down with the I said, rather acidly. Army was formed – • Freedom Through Unity same thing. Fever, chills, vomiting. I suffered the Continental Army. • Liberty in silence, for the most part, although I did text That made him pretty happy. Then we spent This day falls on June the Rev. I always do that. I know I won’t care a pleasant few minutes arguing about what 14th and is celebrated on an annual basis. It’s • Dedication and Devotion after I’m dead, but for some reason, I’d really the cause of his illness could be, and whether a celebration that’s been observed since the • Power for Peace rather they found my mortal remains before puking was making him more or less sick. He 1970s to acknowledge the vital contributions of Stadler got hungry enough to chew on them. I also told me the complete systemic history of its members and to develop enhance the esprit Celebrating Armed Forces Day also had a leftover stash of red Gatorade (the the baked beans he’d eaten the night before de corps. The fi rst Armed Forces Day was celebrated fi nest they make if you’re planning on puking), (including the ballistics, which I have decided so I was okay. I mostly slept. to spare you. The United States Army can trace its roots by parades, open houses, receptions, and air back to 1775. This is when the Congress shows. In Washington, D.C., 10,000 troops of Since I had fi gured there was a possibility that I left him happily screaming talk-to-text of the United States established the First all branches of the military, cadets and veterans I too was hungover, I was a little surprised when obscenities about the current political state of Continental Army on June 14, 1775. This army marched past the President and his party. the next day Mom fell victim to the same plague. affairs into the welcoming bosom of Facebook, was created because there was a severe need In Berlin, 1,000 U.S. troops paraded for the I got a text from the G.P. that said, “Mom is and went to check on Mom. German citizens at Tempelhof Airfi eld. In New sick. She said you were sick yesterday. Are you for professionally trained soldiers to combat She was much better, though still not 100% her York City, an estimated 33,000 participants okay?” I was okay. Mom was not. She not the British. Before its creation, most of the usual self. “I may,” she sang with a royal wave initiated Armed Forces Day "under an air cover only had the pukes but also a righteous case of fi ghting was done by colonial militias – which of her hand, “enjoy some tortilla soup later.” were made up of mostly farmers who soldiered of 250 military planes of all types." the dire rear. That means: “Be on call to go get me on a part-time basis. The original order from Each year, Americans come out to celebrate I felt much better the following morning and some tortilla soup that I may or may not eat Congress allowed for 10 companies of rifl emen Armed Forces Day by the thousands. Many went to my parents’ house to dutifully check on depending on my general mood, how I feel, the to be created. Two days later, an Adjutant events take place in cities across the country to my poor, ailing mother. General’s Corps; Corps of Engineers; Finance honor those who serve; activities often include weather, what the dog thinks, and the restaurant Corps and Quartermaster Corps were created. parades, military service displays open to the As I opened the front door, and stepped into of origin.” the darkened house, I swear I heard Mozart’s However, a fi rst full regiment of Regular Army public, educational exhibits to teach children “Okay.” I replied, trying to fi gure out where I Requiem. I slipped past the sleeping dragon Infantry wouldn’t be formed until June of 1784. about the armed forces, “Support the Troops” could get a good tortilla soup that would cause (my father snoring in his recliner), and tiptoed This initial Regular Army Infantry was called motorcycle rides and more. The bugle call zero fussing. the 3rd Infantry Regiment. “Taps” is often played at these events as a way back to the bedroom. Stadler had no such compunctions. The dog raced the side of the “I MAY,” Dad yelled from his quadrant of While some form of celebration has been done to show respect for those who died for their country. sleeping Rev and gave her a big, drippy lick. the infi rmary, “have been poisoned by an over the years for the U.S Army’s Birthday, for My mother moaned (weakly), “Oh….hello, overindulgence in cherry tomatoes!” the most part the recognition of the professionals 10 Armed Forces Day Facts Stadler” and reached a skeletal white hand We were supposed to say: “Wow, you sure of this armed force was confi ned to its offi cers. towards me. However, after the Vietnam War, the status of The following 10 facts offer insights on this did grow A LOT of cherry tomatoes this year.” professional was extended to include all non- annual celebration: “Are you dying?” I asked, concerned but What we said was : “YOU WERE NOT!” (in adopting the mien of a brusque, British World identical humorless, screeching tones). commissioned offi cers, warrant offi cers and 1. On July 26, 1947, President Harry S. War II nurse. Army civilians as well. This was done through Truman signed the National Security Act, He did, in fact grow a riotous amount of cherry Army General Orders, No. 19, issued on which united all four branches of the military “I don’t think so,” Mom replied. “Dad hasn’t tomatoes. October 31, 1978. This offi cially recognized under one department of the government. started yet, though. It’s going to be really nasty A few hours later, I got a text from Mom saying U.S Army Birthday and extended professional if we get this at the exact same time.” status to everyone in the United States Army. 2. In 1947, the National Military that Dad was “sprawled in his recliner eating Establishment was created as a result of the “Should I go fi nd a bucket?” I rejoined, toast with peanut butter and jelly.” • Twenty-four U.S Presidents served in the National Security Act. helpfully. United States Army “He plans to walk the dog later,” she texted. 3. The Department of Defense replaced the “YOUR FATHER HAS BUCKETS,” my “I guess SOME of us were sicker than others.” • George Washington chose the colors of National Military Establishment in 1949. suddenly less-than-feeble Mother roared. I Maybe it really was the tomatoes. the modern U.S Army uniform managed to get her to eat half a piece of toast 4. Armed Forces Day is not a federal holiday. • The U.S Army is older than the United and slunk home. States 5. On the inaugural Armed Forces Day, B-36 bombers fl ew over every U.S. state capital. • Over the past 10 years, Green Berets have been deployed in over 135 countries 6. This year marks the 67th anniversary of worldwide the Armed Forces Day Parade in Bremerton, Washington—the longest-running Armed • The U.S Army is the second largest Forces Day parade sponsored by a city. employer in the U.S 7. On March 18, 1961, President John F. • In 2018, the U.S Army estimated it used 1 Kennedy issued Proclamation 3399, making billion gallons of gasoline Armed Forces Day an offi cial national The U.S Army’s Birthday is celebrated in holiday. numerous ways. Usually there are balls and 8. The American fl ag is traditionally parties in the Washington, DC area for members fl own on Armed Forces Day. People also of the Army – including NCOs, offi cers and frequently wear patriotic colored clothing to Army civilians. There is also a wreath laid on commemorate the occasion. the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Virginia. There also may be cake cutting and 9. Sea, air, and land military exercises are other offi cial ceremonies done on this day as held on Armed Forces Day to recognize well. service members and display their state-of- the-art equipment. Armed Forces Day 10. An all-in-one Armed Forces Day is Among the many military holidays celebrated celebrated by nearly 40 other countries, each year is Armed Forces Day. Celebrated the including Armenia, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, third Saturday in May, Armed Forces Day falls Mexico, South Korea, Spain and the United during Military Appreciation Month and joins Kingdom. Memorial Day, Military Spouse Appreciation *Don’t leave the kids at home…bring them… Day, and Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day) as This twenty eight pound fi fty-four inch Dorado was caught by Drew Hicks and is the there is shade at Sherrill Veterans Memorial another May military-themed holiday. Park. current leader in the STAR tournament. The fi sh was caught along a grass line about The History of Armed Forces Day sixty miles on the Sea Donkey. Joey Farah gave Drew the DOA paddle tail lure it was Dotson’s other note: The foregoing is for the caught on. On Aug. 31, 1949, Defense Secretary Louis majority of you Moon Monkeys just a refresher; Johnson announced the creation of an Armed if the facts were new to you, that’s what you are Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy here for, an education. Also I really appreciate and Air Force Days. The single-day celebration the phone calls, Emails, texts and conversations stemmed from the unifi cation of the armed about Senior Moments. 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My brother Cliff and I had been the He suffered a stroke in 2012 while giving a gym, ride my bike, work out, stretch, reach, do Edwina Brocklesby, and Ida Keelin for the facts guests of Miller Brewing Company. We rst speech in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2014, a heart push-ups. I was 67 when I started running. I had contained in this report. Also, thanks to my toured the Roger Penske Racing facility, where attack followed with multiple seizures. Bart lost my two sons to drug-related violence – in friend Bill Morgan, former SWC SID, for the they built their Indy cars and NASCAR’s. Rusty underwent stem cell treatment in 2015 and got 1978 and then in 1981. It was so quick. They photos. Wallace’s major sponsor was Miller Brewing. some better in 2016. He returned to Green Bay were stabbed up or shot up or whatever they did Then we attended the NBA Jam which included only a couple of times, in November of 2015 Edwina Brocklesby-Triathlete to them. Too quick. No warning. It just broke the Three-Point Shoot Out contest, the Slam when Bret Favre’s #4 was retired and in October me. I was very depressed.” Dunk contest and the Legends Game. On of 2017 for the Packers’ 50th Anniversary of the “My daughter Cheryl came by one day and Sunday, the West beat the East and Charles 1967 Championship season. Barkley was chosen MVP of the NBA All-Star saw I was down in the dumps. That isn’t usually Bart Starr threw his last pass in life on May 26, who I am. She wanted to take me out for a mini Game. On Monday, I  ew from Charlotte to Atlanta to change planes for my trip home to 2019. He was 85 and died from a stroke he had run and since I was already so down I said: ‘All suffered earlier. He was living in Birmingham, right, go ahead.’ And it did good for me. It kept Corpus Christi, Texas. The fellow standing there was Bart Starr. I approached him with Alabama, with Cherry, his wife of more than me moving. I could feel myself getting stronger sixty- ve years. He is also survived by a son, and feeling more free. It helped me immensely. caution out of respect. I was excited. When I stuck out my hand to shake his, I noticed my Bart Starr Jr., and three granddaughters. Their And I’m still running now.” youngest son, Bret, who is mentioned above, “Now that I’m 104, I’m not running so fast, died of cocaine overdose in 1988 at the age of but if I start a race, I nish it. I grew up in 24. Edwina Brocklesby-76 Harlem, USA, in San Juan Hill – they call it Generous until the end, in 1965, Bart and Hell’s Kitchen now. I was one of eight children. Edwina Brocklesby, is the UK’s oldest ultra- Cherry started the Rawhide Boys’ Ranch in Everybody was poor. There was already a New London, Wisconsin. This facility still distance triathlete. She says, “I didn’t do any Depression there even before they called it a exercise at all until I was 50. I remember trying helps at-risk and troubled youth in the state of Depression. But there are happy memories. Wisconsin. out for the long-jump team at university for Children don’t have to pay rent. My dad took us a laugh and I couldn’t move for two weeks to Central Park on his day off from the factory. Starr will always be remembered for his part in afterwards. So that was the end of my athletics We had a good time, looking at all the shes the “Ice Bowl” played at Lambeau Field against career. And then I had three children and I was swimming and doing all the things children do: the Dallas Cowboys on the nal day of 1967. busy with my job. I was a social worker and ran run, play, jump, roll and all that type of stuff. This game would crown the NFL Champion. two adoption agencies.” In the summertime when it was hot, the police Bart Starr With Green Bay trailing 17-14 in the frigid “One day, I went to see an old friend from department would put a sprinkler on top of the cold, Starr comes to the sidelines to speak with Lombardi. It was third and goal at the Dallas Nottingham University who was running a re hydrants for the children to play in.” hand was shaking. After introducing myself, two-foot line. Starr suggests he keep the ball marathon. I thought that would be fun to do, I told him how sorry I was to hear about his “We hung swings from the re escapes at the and run it himself. Lombardi answers, “Then at least a half marathon, son Bret who had recently passed away from do it, and let’s get the hell out of here.” With anyway. I came back and a cocaine addiction. Although I imagine it 16 seconds left in the game, Starr scores behind told my husband and was hurtful to talk about, I could not have said guard Jerry Kramer’s and center Ken Bowman’s he laughed and said I anything better. Sometimes God puts words block, and the Packers won 21-17. It was the wouldn’t even be able to in our mouth for others. Starr perked up like a stuff legends are made from. run as far as Northampton, Roman candle. He thanked me for my thoughts which was about three and told me that he and his wife Cherry were It’s funny, Starr had always wanted to be the miles from where we lived nding it dif cult to deal with his loss. We best but never quite felt he was one of the best. at the time. It’s good to spent about ten minutes talking about family, There is one thing for sure, he was a better man have a challenge like that! the real estate business, restaurant business, than he was a quarterback, but still received Sure enough, it did inspire and traveling. Then his plane began boarding. unconditional love from fans and friends alike. me to run my rst half We said our good-byes. It wasn’t until after The game of football was better for having Bart marathon.” he had left that I realized that neither of us Starr under center. He would be happy with “Then my husband died had mentioned the Green Bay Packers or NFL that. when I was 52. By then football. We had exchanged business cards and Andy Purvis is a local author and radio I had a small group of wished each other a great  ight. About three personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. running friends and they weeks later I received a color lithograph rolled com for all the latest info on his books or to were brilliantly supportive. Ida Keeling-104 up inside a container. It said it was from Bart listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books I trained as a counsellor Starr. When I opened the container I pulled are available online and can be found in the myself, but I found out a beautiful 36X24 inch picture of Starr in local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be running better than counselling for dealing back of buildings. And on Saturdays the bigger uniform. It was autographed with his name in contacted at [email protected]. Also with grief. For one, you always feel better after boys from around the corner would turn up with black ink. Interestingly, something told me to listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s you’ve been for a run as the endorphins kick in. a pail and a couple of wooden spoons to drum turn the photo over and on the back, Starr had Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. But I think what is more important is the social on it and we’d do the Charleston, the drag, and written, “Dear Andy, Thanks for asking.” Bart com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of element. You’re with people who support you everything else. We played hooky from school Starr was thanking me for asking about his son. the Houston Astros. and value you. You can talk if you want to, or to go and watch the Lindy Hop dancers at the you can be silent if you want to.” Apollo. We had some good times coming from bad times. But Harlem changed when drugs Mingo the Flamingo Likes “The running club was only small, but it did came in. Everybody wanted to make this quick have one place in the London Marathon – and money. And it dragged in my sons.” the Coastal Bend that’s when it became more serious for me. I ran my rst marathon in 1996, when I was 53. “I felt like I was being held in a grip, or like Mingo, the wayward escapee  amingo from I moved to London and became a member of I was in a bag or something. But the more I Kansas, may be a more permanent resident the Serpentine Running Club and, with them, ran, the faster and stronger I became. As I was to the Coastal Bend area than rst reported, I completed my rst London Triathlon when running like crazy, I released the hold that death according to birder, wildlife photographer, and I was 58. I don’t have an anterior cruciate had on me. From then on, I belonged to track local guide John Humbert. ligament in either knee – my daughter told me and eld. I said, shoot, sprinting is faster. I’m Local sherman and wildlife enthusiasts sight that I’d need surgery if I kept pounding the not going to do all this long-distance, I’m going the bird on a fairly regular basis throughout the streets like I used to – and that’s how I got into to sprint. I wanted to go as fast as I could.” year, but don’t often publicize the sighting or cycling and swimming as they’re a little easier “Now I’m 104, I’m not so fast. But I go location in order to protect the bird from undue on the joints.” whatever distance I can and if I start a race, I pressure from the curious. “When I started swimming, at 56, I couldn’t nish it. I’m always the winner for my age do crawl at all and swam breaststroke with my group as I don’t have no competition. I’m head above water like most women of my age. usually chasing myself. But I go with what Wildlife refuge, with occasional trips as far But swimming is a wonderful feeling. It might I’ve got left. I go to the gym, I ride my bike, I south as Port Aransas.”, Humbert reports. “He have something to do with our spending the work out, I stretch, I reach, I do push-ups, I do (or she) seems to prefer feeding on grass shrimp rst nine months of our gestation suspended in upper weights, I get on the  oor and turn my and sand  eas on sandy bottoms, and follows water.” feet up over my head, and when I don’t get out, these food sources to different  ats around the I stay right here and work out in my room. I’m area”. “There’s so much evidence that if you keep as healthy as a 25-year-old, my doctor says. I physically active, you don’t experience some “I’ve heard of sightings for a number of years have no intention of slowing down. Age ain’t from friends and fellow birders and shing of the dif culties associated with ageing. There got nothing to do with it. When you really want are lower rates of type 2 diabetes among the guides”, he says, “but never have seen it to do something for yourself, go and do it. And myself. He’s become sort of a myth or legend. active, but falling over is the biggest thing. If if you fail, try, try, try again.” you can keep your bone and muscle strength up, However, earlier this year, while guiding some you’re less likely to fall – and you might also be Dotson’s Other Note: This report is about two folks to photograph the Whooping Cranes – I able to prevent yourself from hitting the ground older women athletes. Do any of you Moon saw a big white bird in the area that didn’t quite if you do fall. Falls are one of the things that Monkeys have other suggestions? In the next look right for a whooper.When it took to  ight costs the NHS the most money.” issue of the Moon, I am planning to report on and I saw the crimson and black on the wings, I a couple of older male athletes…do you have knew right away what it was. It was a thrilling “I’m getting slower as I get older, of course any ideas? opportunity for me and my clients!” I am. I do manage to run 5k, but I walk a bit more. I feel lucky that I can still jog along the -30-Have fun…Hang in there… Sighting the bird is still rare, but rarer still Thames.” was a sighting by wildlife photographers with camera gear and long lenses at the ready. The bird stayed in the same area for about 2 months, and with gentle approaches not to pressure or disturb the bird, Humbert was able to gently The Island's ISLAND guide several photographers to capture high quality images of the out of place visitor. CHIROPRACTIC John Humbert runs Fin & Shutter Adventures Daxton T. Krugman, D.C. 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By Jay Gardner By Joey Farah I was sitting in the aeropuerto They all knew the bind she was in and several Farah’s Fishing Adventures the other day, just messing offered to help, but she was a proud woman and around on social media, and someone posted would have none of it. She continued to work mid day. We have been catching limits of trout a pic of a map trying to learn how to get into the hole, and of course, it wasn’t long before the on lures using small paddle tails for fish feeding Kates Hole. Despite the new normal high location was discovered. on pin perch over 3-4ft of mixed sand and grass. water levels, it’s still a pretty good trick to get The top water action has also been excellent A bunch of fishermen were sitting around the at first light in areas without floating grass. a boat into that area. In addition, Kate’s Hole fish house trying to figure out how to they could has oysters on two sides of it, making it even If you are hunting redfish get shallow! As our help Kate when she would accept no help. Then water level has started to come down from a little more treacherous. I didn’t discourage one of them came up with the perfect solution. them from trying to get into Kates Hole, but it Kate was doing pretty good at helping herself reminded me of why I’ve never even tried to get as long as she was fishing that hole without into Kates. It’s not like my skiff won’t do it; it’s competition, so what if everyone just left it a matter of honor. alone. That was the answer, it was “Kates Hole” Billy Sandifer wrote the story of Kates Hole, and the decision was made that it would not be and how he learned it from one of his old fished by the other commercial fishermen. And mentors, “Mr. Doub.” Here are excerpts from so it was and she fished the hole and she raised I watched my friend Jimmy work his boat Billy’s article that was printed in the Padre those kids.” for live croaker the other day, alone. Island Moon back in 1999. Don’t forget each one of those baits is Billy ended the story worked for. with a nod to his old Mike Perez brought his son Tristan back mentor, Mr. Doub, that Summer fishing patterns have settled in, along home to the Laguna Madre from Florida he dearly missed him, as with the heat! Trout fishing in the mornings this week for some slam packed trout he had passed away. As with live bait is the hottest and most common fishing! Live croaker along the King so it is with us today, as game going right now in the Coastal Bend. Live Ranch Shoreline. yesterday would have croaker free lined to the sand pockets in 2-4ft been Billy’s birthday. of water, and along big grass lines and channels And we dearly miss you have given up lots of trout limits this week. our big spring tides, sight casting has become Billy. Fishermen looking for redfish in the morning much easier. Head to any flats less than knee deep. Don’t cast until you see fish. Determine Fast forward to today; will not get many on live croaker. There are tons of shrimp moving in the bays right now and that the direction the fish is headed and softly pitch our buddy Ironman Stan a DOA SHRIMP, or soft plastic ahead of them. would take people that is what redfish are keying on. After a full night of shrimp feeding mornings have been finding Even if you can’t determine if it’s a redfish or didn’t have boats, or mullet make a cast. If you are blind casting a visitors from out of town trout and reds in areas of big shrimp numbers non aggressive and full. Look for isolated sand big gold spoon will definitely find its way into fishing on his boat and the edge of a redfish’s mouth! That has been go to his “honey hole.” It pockets at first light for the best action, then mid day move to deeper water where the shrimp bite our number one redfish catching technique the was an honor to fish with last few weeks is blind casting with spoons. It’s Stan. I was fortunate was strong at night then those fish will feed again Me and IronmanStan easy and fun. That’s what fishing is all about!! enough to get invited to fish with Stan twice, “Kate was married to a fisherman and they Tune in every and both times we cleaned up. Stan was a great weekend morning had a house full of kids. Times were tough but guy, and helped many people out whether it was he’d found a hole and was catching quite a few to my fishing report taking them fishing, helping them with projects, on MY COUNTRY drum out of it without anyone finding out where fishing advice, or whatever. He took in a high it was. She was helping him work the nets so 107.3 6,7,8&9am! school kid from his street that was having a hard We will be having he wouldn’t have to take in another fisherman time with his family, and raised him as if one and give away the location. One day he fell an ALOHA SPIRIT of his own. A real, live, shirt-off-his back guy CELEBRATION over dead from heart attack or something, and a great friend. As you loyal readers know, leaving Kate with all them kids and a beat up OF LIFE FOR MY we lost Stan last year very suddenly, and it was FRIEND MIKE KING old wooden boat and not much else. Except for just too soon. the nets that is, which were still in the water. A ON SUNDAY AT THE northern blew in that night and her husband lay Stan’s “honey hole” is right there in the middle NORTH PACKERY dead, but Kate knew she had to do something to of the “backyard”, and I drive my skiff by it CHANNEL JETTY. feed them kids. She also couldn’t risk anyone all the time on my way to some of my favorite Any friends that want discovering the location they’d been working. places. I know it’s loaded with trout and redfish to join us sending most of the year, and sometimes I can actually Mike back to the earth So, although consumed with grief, she crossed see reds tailing in there when I drive by. But and sea, come enjoy the Laguna alone in the darkness, in the gale I will never stop and fish it, and I’m not even great company surf force icy winds, and ran the net and loaded tempted; because it’s Ironman Stan’s Hole. Just This nice redfish was caught on a gold spoon in the flats just stories, barbecue, the boat with 700 pounds of drum. The next like Kates Hole. I’m pretty sure I would have south of the JFK. and a sunset fire. morning, all the fishermen were awestruck when gotten along with Mr. Doub too. Get wet! she showed up at the fish house to sell her catch. Send letters and photos to [email protected]

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Although the April filing deadline has passed, tax bill, a delinquent tax return or a delinquent scam artists remain hard at work, and the IRS employment tax payment, or the IRS needs to Mid-May to June 2019 today urged taxpayers to be on the lookout for tour a business as part of a civil investigation (such as an audit or collection case) or during a spring surge of evolving phishing emails and Donna J. Shaver, Ph.D. back to the Turtle Lab to focus on our nesting telephone scams. criminal investigation. patrols and now respond to stranding reports as Texas Coordinator of the Sea Turtle Stranding If a taxpayer receives an unsolicited email that we always do from that area. The IRS is seeing signs of two new variations and Salvage Network of tax-related scams. One involves Social appears to be from either the IRS or a program From 21-31 May 2019, 134 small juvenile Security numbers related to tax issues and closely linked to the IRS that is fraudulent, Padre Island National Seashore, Chief of the green turtles were found washed ashore south another threatens people with a tax bill from report it by sending it to [email protected]. Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery of, or wedged in, south Texas jetty rocks due a fictional government agency. Here are some The Report Phishing and Online Scams page Padre Island National Seashore (PAIS) to strong currents, and rough and high waters details: provides complete details. Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery caused by days of high winds and nuisance The SSN hustle. The latest twist includes Telltale signs of a scam personnel have been working on this issue coastal flooding. scammers claiming to be able to suspend or since receiving the first report about these • Most were alive when found, but many The IRS and its authorized private collection small turtles on May 21. A pulse of juvenile cancel the victim’s Social Security number. In agencies will never: had been battered against the jetty rocks or this variation, the Social Security cancellation green turtles had just recruited into nearshore were weak from trying to swim during these threat scam is similar to and often associated • Call to demand immediate payment using a waters and arrived during a very poor time for conditions. with the IRS impersonation scam. It is yet specific payment method such as a prepaid debit settlement because this happened when had a • The 134 included: another attempt by con artists to frighten people card, gift card or wire transfer. The IRS does not few days of coastal flooding and about 10 days into returning ‘robocall’ voicemails. Scammers use these methods for tax payments. Generally, of prolonged high winds. Because these turtles • 113 PAIS located (111 alive and 2 dead) may mention overdue taxes in addition to the IRS will first mail a bill to any taxpayer who are so small, they could not swim against the washed ashore south of the south jetty at threatening to cancel the person’s SSN. owes taxes. All tax payments should only be strong currents and very rough water conditions Packery Channel (northern end of North made payable to the U.S. Treasury and checks that this combination of weather and water Padre Island) or wedged between the jetty Fake tax agency. This scheme involves the should never be made payable to third parties. conditions produced. rocks there. mailing of a letter threatening an IRS lien or levy. The lien or levy is based on bogus • Threaten to immediately bring in local police For the first years of life, green turtles live in the • 21 ARK located alive washed ashore south delinquent taxes owed to a non-existent agency, or other law-enforcement groups to have the oceanic environment, but at a few years of age, of the south jetty at the Aransas Pass Ship “Bureau of Tax Enforcement.” There is no such taxpayer arrested for not paying. they transition to living in nearshore and inshore Channel (northern end of Mustang Island) or areas. Our south Texas jetty systems provide agency. The lien notification scam also likely • Demand that taxes be paid without giving the wedged between the jetty rocks there. references the IRS to confuse potential victims important developmental habitat for juvenile taxpayer the opportunity to question or appeal green turtles who feed on the algae on the jetty After strandings diminished at the south into thinking the letter is from a legitimate the amount owed. Packery jetty, then we started receiving reports organization. rocks and use the channels to reach inshore • Ask for credit or debit card numbers over the areas that are also developmental habitat, where of dozens and dozens of small juvenile green Both display classic signs of being scams. phone. they feed primarily on sea grasses. They use the turtles in the surf between south Packery The IRS and its Security Summit partners – the channels to transit between the Gulf of Mexico jetty and Bob Hall Pier. These turtles were so For anyone who doesn’t owe taxes and has no state tax agencies and the tax industry – remind and the Laguna Madre and other bays. small and weak from the ordeal of the days of everyone to stay alert to scams that use the IRS reason to think they do: high winds and the very rough waters by the The first reports on May 21 were that fifty or reference taxes, especially in late spring and • Do not give out any information. Hang up channel, that when they were in the surf it was or more small juvenile green turtles had been early summer as tax bills and refunds arrive. immediately. difficult for them to navigate. We got reports of deposited on the beach south of Packery people picking up the turtles and again taking Phone scams • Contact the Treasury Inspector General for Channel by the very rough surf and coastal selfies. Even worse, we received reports of Tax Administration to report the call. Use their flooding, into a large tide-pool and were seen The IRS does not leave pre-recorded, urgent or people picking the turtles up out of the water IRS Impersonation Scam Reporting web page. crawling back to the surf. Additionally, the threatening messages. In many variations of the and then putting them on the beach but then strong surf wedged some of them in between phone scam, victims are told if they do not call • Report the caller ID and/or callback number not letting them get back to the water. These the jetty rocks so firmly that they could not back, a warrant will be issued for their arrest. to the IRS by sending it to [email protected] actions are considered “harassment”, which get out. People were picking the turtles up and Other verbal threats include law-enforcement (Subject: IRS Phone Scam). is illegal under the Endangered Species Act. taking selfie photos with them or putting them agency intervention, deportation or revocation When we received reports of people picking • Report it to the Federal Trade Commission. back into the water where they thought would of licenses. up the turtles we notified law enforcement Use the FTC Complaint Assistant on FTC.gov. be best. However, these turtles were weak officers from the county and from Texas Criminals can fake or “spoof” caller ID Add “IRS Telephone Scam” in the notes. and needed to be rescued, documented, and Parks and Wildlife Department. Of course, we numbers to appear to be anywhere in the brought to a rehabilitation facility for medical immediately responded to any reports of live country, including from an IRS office. This For anyone who owes tax or thinks they assessment, treatment if necessary, and time do: turtles on the beach so that we could get them prevents taxpayers from being able to verify the to get stronger before release into the Upper to rehabilitation. true call number. Fraudsters also have spoofed • View tax account information online at IRS. Laguna Madre, where most likely aimed to go. local sheriff’s offices, state departments of Most turtles from this recruitment pulse and gov to see the actual amount owed. Taxpayers The green turtle is federally and state listed as motor vehicles, federal agencies and others to area went to the Texas State Aquarium for can then also review their payment options. a threatened species in Texas. The Sea Turtle convince taxpayers the call is legitimate. rehabilitation. The turtles that were more active • Call the number on the billing notice, or Stranding and Salvage Network (STSSN) were put into their very large tank there that can Email phishing scams documents sea turtles found washed ashore, • Call the IRS at 800-829-1040. IRS workers hold many turtles. Several of the turtles were alive or dead, in the U.S. If they are found alive taken to the Amos Rehabilitation Keep and the The IRS does not initiate contact with can help. they are generally in a weakened condition. taxpayers by email to request personal or most injured went to the Texas Sealife Center to The IRS does not use text messages or social Live turtles are taken to rehabilitation facilities financial information. The IRS initiates most receive treatment from Dr. Tim Tristan. Most of media to discuss personal tax issues, such to receive care and dead turtles are salvaged for contacts through regular mail delivered by the the turtles regained strength rapidly and more as those involving bills or refunds. For more necropsy and study. I am the Texas Coordinator United States Postal Service. However, there than 80 from the Texas State Aquarium have information, visit the Tax Scams and Consumer of the STSSN. Padre Island National Seashore are special circumstances when the IRS will already been released. Alerts page on IRS.gov. Additional information is responsible for responding to reports of sea call or come to a home or business. These visits about tax scams is also available on IRS social turtles on North Padre and the upper Laguna Scott Cross (Nueces County), Mary Kay include times when a taxpayer has an overdue media sites, including YouTube videos. Madre. We responded to these first reports of Skoruppa (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), and turtles there but ended up finding so many that many other people spent a lot of time helping I decided to station a few of our Biological deal with this situation and we are very grateful Technicians and volunteers at the Packery for their assistance. Hopefully this was a one Channel until the strandings slowed. They were time occurrence – a perfect storm of these little there for about a week and helped educate the turtles coming to our area during a period of public, to deter them from picking the turtles up, unfavorable conditions. However, it is possible and rescue turtles that we could find stranded that with the rebounding juvenile green turtle or wedged into the jetty rocks so deeply that population we will see this again in future they could not get out. When the currents were years. Juvenile green turtles have found Packery running strong out of Packery Channel, we Channel and they like it - we built it and they observed turtles swept out of the channel and came! Our group of NGO, county, city state, and back into the Gulf of Mexico, and some must federal officials have developed a path forward have crashed against the jetty rocks by the for the future, which involves a combination of strong waves. However, when numbers found public education, law enforcement, training, stranded there dwindled we had to pull staff and stranding response. Important Sea Turtle Conservation Message for Our Guests “I urge citizens to not pick up the green turtles given time to recover. Turtles from this event that are washing ashore near the jetties. These will be released when they regain strength and small turtles have been battered by recent when and where conditions are more favorable high tides and strong waves due to the windy for their survival”....said Donna Shaver, Texas conditions here the last several days. Many of Coordinator of the Sea Turtle Stranding and them have crashed against the jetty rocks or Salvage Network and lead for the sea turtle become wedged so firmly between jetty rocks programs at Padre Island National Seashore. that they cannot escape. If you see one of these “Most of the turtles rescued are being turtles near the jetties, please look for a nearby transported to the Texas State Aquarium and official to report it to. If you do not see one, we are very grateful for their help during this please immediately call Padre Island National stranding event. 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The average CAM The new program will also have significant to the governing documents is charged with along the Texas coast. abiding by its duty to maintain common fee for Sea Pines residents is approximately environmental benefits by reducing harvest areas, enforce the covenants, thus assisting in $63 per year or $5.25 per month. This is the Hunter is holding a public forum to provide pressure on wild oyster reefs. maintaining the property values in the PIPOA. lowest rate of any PIPOA subdivision. information on what the new bill means for oyster industry at Texas A&M University, 6300 In particular, dry lot owners sometimes ask Recount- The PIPOA has retained the Ocean Drive, on Wednesday, July 10, from 8:00 “This legislation will be critically important about the value they receive for their CAM services of Ms. Pam Hill to do the last Board fees. a.m. to 3:00 p.m. to coastal communities that are still recovering election recount. Ms. Hill is the Elections from Hurricane Harvey’s devastation,” Rep. Dry lot owners receive the benefit of the Administrator for San Patricio County. She is HB 1300 requires the Texas Parks and Wildlife Hunter said. “Now there will be even more common areas being maintained. This an employee of the County and is responsible Commission to adopt rules establishing a reasons to visit cities such as Corpus Christi. improves the appearance of the island and for conducting the elections in that County. program governing the process of growing Plus, the oysters harvested along the Texas coast aids in increasing property values. The She has a great deal of experience in tabulating cultivated oysters. Texas has been the only will provide a quality product to restaurants PIPOA is a water-based community. That election ballots, etc. coastal state in the country that does not engage across Texas and around the country. 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Lois Kolkhorst lot mowing, building construction sites, and coast to all of the people who visit our region. fees, please do so or contact the PIPOA office and Reps. John Cyrier and Geanie Morrison. unauthorized construction of structures. In Our seafood industry has already been building at 361-949-7025 to discuss a payment plan. addition, the PIPOA acts as a member’s voice momentum, and this bill is going to accelerate Brad Lomax, owner of WaterStreet Restaurants Furthermore, there are hundreds of thousands with the City. The PIPOA encourages the that momentum and open up considerable new in Corpus Christi, and Dr. Joe Fox, Chair for of dollars due to the PIPOA from the years City to give the island the services we are all economic and cultural opportunities.” Marine Resource Development at the Harte entitled. Lastly, dry lot owner’s CAM fees before 2019. Again, please pay or contact the Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies are generally two cents a foot compared to ten PIPOA to set up a payment plan. For those Currently, Texas restaurants must import farm- at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, were cents a foot for wet lot owners. that refuse to cooperate and pay their past due grown half-shell oysters from other states. HB also present for the bill signing. accounts, particularly those that have not paid 1300 will provide a new local source for oysters Boat Ramp- Last weekend the PIPOA staff for years, be advised legal action is coming. that are increasingly in demand. “This legislation is the first step in putting patrolled the Boat Ramps and issued twenty- Texas on a level playing field with other Gulf It is unfortunate that legal action may be “I am proud to sign HB 1300 into law and nine orange warning stickers to boat trailers necessary, but it is absolutely unfair to the states,” Dr. Fox said. without the appropriate PIPOA sticker. The am grateful to Representative Todd Hunter paying members of the PIPOA that certain for championing the economic interests of the “I view oyster aquaculture as an economic boat ramps will be checked by the staff during individuals refuse to pay their share. the entire summer. Texas coast,” Governor Abbott said. “Not only development opportunity for the state, Board Meeting- The next PIPOA Board will the oyster mariculture program diversify especially after Hurricane Harvey in the hard- Sea Pines- The PIPOA has scheduled a meeting will be on Tuesday, June 25, 2019, at our already prosperous economy, it will drive hit coastal counties from Galveston down Town Hall style meeting for the Sea Pines 5:30 PM. Location to be announced. more business to the Texas coast as the region to Rockport,” Lomax said. “I have visited members. The meeting will be held on June continues to rebuild from Hurricane Harvey.” Alabama, Florida and both Carolinas to see 13, 2019, starting at 6:00 PM at the Holiday Litter Critter- The next Litter Critter is their oyster farms in action. Oyster farming Inn Express on the Island. This meeting is to scheduled for Saturday, July 20, 2019. House Speaker Dennis Bonnen added, “HB is environmentally beneficial; it creates jobs 1300 is a long time coming, and I am proud of and produces a delicious, sustainable product. the work Representative Todd Hunter and the Thanks to this bill, we will now be able to raise Texas House have done to ensure its passage. Texas oysters in Texas for Texas restaurants.” Notes From Nueces By Brent Chesney Nueces County Commissioner Precint 4 Sandcastle Run their recent trip to Washington DC. She firmly Sponsorships SOLD OUT! undesrtands the importance of Mikel May’s and the continued growth on North Padre Island I am pleased to report that the community has and Port Aransas. I will keep the community responded wonderfully to the call for Sandcastle appraised of developments on this topic. Run sponsorships. Sponsorships for the 2019 event are SOLD OUT! New Flour Bluff Superintendent a Familiar Face We are still seeking businesses to supply items for swag bags and volunteers to help on race Flour Bluff ISD made a great choice in their day. selection of Dr. David Freeman to be their next superintendent. Dr. Freeman is currently If you are interested in supporting the event the superintendent of the outstanding London in one of these ways, please contact Alyssa ISD. I have worked closely with Dr. Freeman Weinhold at (361) 888-0268 or alyssa. over the years and he will be a great addition [email protected]. to Flour Bluff. Certainly his loss will be felt at I.B. Magee Update London, but our community is fortunate that Dr. Freeman is staying right here in the Coastal Progress has been made at I.B. Magee Park Bend. Congratulations to the Flour Bluff School in Port Aransas. 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With an $1,800 match for all members of your family, including Cushing, and a 30-inch line called the Red tonnage, the Port is engaged in a 10-year, over from longtime sponsor Coastline Properties and those who can’t plan for themselves. Don’t Oak Pipeline system which will carry multiple $1 billion capital expansion program with the a $1,500 donation from new sponsor Becker put yourself in a bad situation by forgetting to grades of crude oil through Cushing and the expectation that U.S. energy exports will triple Vineyards, we were able to give the food bank prepare for your pets’ needs. Permian Basin to Corpus Christi, marking the or quadruple as demand for U.S. production over $5,000! They can provide 15,000 meals Make sure you’re ready for natural disasters by first non-Texas crude production connecting to continues to increase with these Dine Island dollars. 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Your pet will also appreciate Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for familiar items to reduce stress, like treats, Phillips 66. “The (Red Oak) Pipeline provides a Padre Island will help toys, bedding and a calming shirt. Use the competitive outlet for shippers to access the key checklist at https://go.usa.gov/xmFDP to market centers along the Texas Gulf Coast from help build your emergency kit. raise funds Cushing and the Permian.” Once a year the local chapter of the TXCBC 2. Identify shelters. Many emergency Pending the permitting process, service on Surfrider Foundation takes kids who otherwise shelters will not accept pets. Consider both pipelines could begin as early as the first might not get the chance to ride the waves and whether family or friends can take in your quarter of 2021. give them the chance. pets in an emergency instead. Also look for hotels that allow pets and find kennels or This year the 20 Annual Make Promises other boarding facilities near your likely Retire Flags on Happen Surf Camp will be held for kids with shelter. disabilities will be a two day surf camp on the Flag Day beach at Avenue G in Port Aransas where they 3. Use the buddy system. In case you’re will be partnering with the Make Promises In celebration of Flag Day, Friday, June 14, not home when disaster strikes, arrange for a Happen group based out of Oklahoma. The surf Fleet Reserve Association Branch 94 will trusted neighbor to care for your pets. camp is additionally open to anyone locally conduct a Flag Retirement Ceremony. 4. Know how to find them. In case you with disabilities that would like to enjoy the lose track of a pet, write down the phone At the ceremony, FRA Branch members, and joys of surfing. Associates will “retire” old flags with all the numbers for the local humane society and The events will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, honor, dignity and reverence to our nation’s animal welfare organizations, your county June 23, and 6 p.m. on Monday, June 24. animal response team and the National flag. The TXCBC Surfrider Foundation is looking Animal Rescue and Sheltering Coalition. The public is invited to this special ceremony for volunteers to help with this event. If you, or You may also want to consider a permanent and encouraged to bring old, worn, and anyone you know is interested in volunteering identification method such as microchipping. otherwise unserviceable flags in need of for this amazing event on either event day retirement. Flags will be accepted up to the day If you must leave your pets behind in an (Sunday or Monday) please message the of the ceremony. emergency, never leave them chained outside. TXCBC Surfrider Foundation Facebook page To learn more about preparing for natural Flags will be accepted at FRA Branch 94, 1651 for more information and scheduling. Flour Bluff Drive, Corpus Christi. Phone 361- disasters with pets, visit www.ready.gov/caring- The June Padre Island Golf Cart Run on 937-5384. The ceremony will take place at animals or www.listo.gov/es/cuidado-de-los- Thursday, June 20, will be a fundraiser for the FRA Branch 94 on Flag Day, June 14 at 5:00 animales for Spanish. Surfrider Foundation and the camp. PM. June 13, 2019 Island Moon A 15 Eyesore of the Week! Father’s Day 2019 City and County Take Steps to By Kelly Trevino Regional Director, Corpus Christi and Victoria Better Business Bureau Fix the Problem

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Speaking of water, Well, it’s officially hotter than blue blazes who in addition to their outstanding character one of the reasons this plant does so well in the Arguably, few people ever plan, design, outside, which can leave a lot of our plants have designed and built many Eagle Scout heat is that it needs very little of the wet stuff, fund, and complete a project of this size in looking defeated and desperately thirsty. Not all projects to better the Island and Corpus Christi. which comes in handy during our area’s periods their lifetime like the Scouts do. Eagle Scout plants succumb to the high heat and humidity, Ashton Haney was the latest young man added of drought. Best planted in the fall or spring, candidates invest their however. In fact, there is one that absolutely to the list of Eagle Scouts in an emotional Texas lantana will, of course, need to be watered own time working thrives during the warmest months of the year. ceremony in May after he completed a retaining regularly when first transferred into the ground, while leading a group wall, walkway, and butterfly garden for one of Being a Texas native, Texas Lantana (Lantana but after that, they require very little attention of people. They learn the buildings at Seashore Middle Academy. urticoides) is a champ when it comes to our from your water hose or sprinklers. to tackle a large task South Texas heat but can also be found growing Ashton, now a 15 year old ‘sophomore to be’ and complete it, As mentioned before, this plant can grow naturally in many other areas of the state and at Port Aransas High School, created his project regardless of difficulty. quite big and so many growers will prune it beyond into Arizona, New Mexico and parts after 8 years of dedicated activity in the Scouts. While the completion back in winter to try to keep it a little better of Mexico. As a member of the Verbenaceae As with all Eagle Scout projects, the young of a project marks the under control. Winter is also a good time of family, it produces generous amounts of bright Scout must find the need for the project, design completion of their year to divide larger mature plants. This can reddish-orange and yellow blooms and dark it, determine what materials are necessary, raise Eagle Scout status, be accomplished by digging up the entire root purple fruit, which makes it not only a colorful the needed funds to purchase the materials, and the lessons learned ball and then separating it into smaller sections addition to your landscape but a beacon to birds finally to provide the leadership to manage the from accomplishing before replanting; or growers can avoid having SMA before the and butterflies, as well. project, including the volunteers who provide challenging projects to dig up the entire plant by utilizing a shovel (a the sweat equity. Eacgle Scout project. help Eagle Scouts Planting and Maintenance sharp-shooter shovel works best) to cut out only throughout their a portion of it from the ground. lifetime. The skills and lessons learned are When it comes to pests, the easily bridged to virtually any project they most common issue in our area might face later in life. is lace bugs. These tiny insects feed on the fluids in the plant and can leave your lantana with foliage that almost appears burnt. This infestation can be remedied though by pruning back the affected foliage and then treating the plant with horticultural oil, such as Summit® Year-Round® Spray Oil. This brand is one of a few options that can be used to manage these pests while not The project included a retention wall harming pollinators. a walkway two butterfly gardens drip Other Things to Consider irrigation and a rainwater retention *There are over 150 cultivars system. of lantana, but only 4 are native to Texas, including this one. “My parents were also a big help because they *This plant can easily spread kept me focused on the goal. They helped me to other parts of your yard Ashton Haney sits in front of his large remember that it is a project and that I must through seed dispersion. So Eagle Scout project at Seashore Middle manage it. They also helped me stay in Scouts don’t be surprised if it pops Academy. during the years when sometimes I wanted up in locations you had not to drop out. I am glad I stayed in,” confided anticipated. “I started the project about 10 months ago Ashton. and the idea was to stop the erosion that was *While birds love them, the “Now I want to continue to stay in the Boy occurring on the north side of the building that berries/seeds are poisonous Scouts and help other scouts grow, mature, and has the SMA vehicles. Then we added the idea to humans and most other attain their Eagle Scout. I also want to tell them of a butterfly garden. First SMA cleared the mammals. So keep children and that even though Scouts can be hard at times, to project and then I created a list of materials. Texas Lantana pets away from them. stick through it. There is always a goal that you From there I made a price list,” stated Ashton as want to reach at the end,” Ashton concluded. *When dealing with lace bugs, he reviewed the process. in addition to taking off the damaged foliage Ashton currently has a driving permit and Also known as Calico Bush, Texas lantana is a “Then we looked at a few different designs and from the plant, growers will want to remove any intends to secure his driving license on February deciduous shrub that likes to spread out. Since selected the best one. After raising the funds, leaf litter from the surrounding area that may be 25th, 2020. “My dream truck is a Chevrolet Z71 it can reach anywhere from three to six feet in we started leveling and building up the soil. We harboring the pests and their eggs. 2500. I was looking on the internet and saw a height and width, choosing an adequate site to took 6 truckloads of fill dirt and sand. Then we 2004 that I would like to buy.” plant it in is important. Plus, like all lantana *Do NOT use insecticidal soaps on lantana. built the frame and added more dirt,” continued varieties, this plant loves the sun and needs full These products can heavily damage lantana Ashton. Working at Cycle Plaza on the Island in rentals, sun conditions to grow its best. So be sure to plants. service, and sales, Ashton has saved enough But there was more, including the design of consider these two growing requirements when money to purchase a used truck at some point the garden itself and irrigation to consider and choosing a planting site. in the future. Enjoying using his hands, Ashton create. After 10 months and well over 260 hours relishes the idea of repairing things, something of work led by Ashton and donated by fellow most people would be afraid to try. To Ashton scouts and family, the side of the building is it simply another challenge, sometimes was magically transformed into a spectacular requiring the help and support of others. garden disguising a very strong and functional retaining wall. The project also taught Ashton valuable lessons besides simply creating a retaining wall and garden, such as coordinating planning and schedules with nurseries, stores, Scouts, SMA, his family, equipment providers, and more. Ashton also ran the tractor to move dirt from the piles in front of the building to the retaining areas. He learned more about that line between doing the work himself and successfully leading others Ashton Hany stands in back of his father as a team to accomplish a task, perhaps one of Bryand and mother Tara. the quintessential components of leadership. Even more incredible is the fact that he was 14 His mother, Tara Haney, a long time teacher at when he began his Eagle Scout project. 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Ray has up on Padre for months and it was good to see Landon Bullard and Mostly Sober will been a constant on him here in Port A. Friday hosted a nice blend John Cortez played Shorty’s on Saturday. play the Back Porch on Thurs the 13th. the local music scene of music. The acoustic duo, Yosh and Yimmy troubadour and efficiency expert Mike Blakely for decades and is played the porch at Shorty’s. Those guys seem to y los Yahoos (Llano, TX) will grace the stage an accomplished be catching tread with their rich sound. Also on at the Back Porch. He’s always good for an guitarist and band Friday, the great Houston Marchman played entertaining evening. On Saturday the 15th you leader. He also has the Back Porch. He’s a real deal country singer got options. The swinging Two Tons of Steel a sound production with an infectious Texas pride. Much of his (San Antonio, TX) will return to the Back company and is onstage banter is consumed in anti-Nashville Porch. I always think of them as the Ramones high in demand. Ray banter. He had the great Gabe Rhodes on lead meet Dwight Yoakum. Two Tons will also currently plays with guitar. On Saturday Cody Sparks was ripping be at Schlitterbahn on July 4th with Ty Dietz. Selfie and Antone it at the Back Porch, man I dig bands with fiddle Also on Saturday Scarecrow People will be at Ray Summy received and the All Stars. his star on the South players. Splendiferous had some high energy Treasure Island, Cowboy and the Regulators The Walk of Fame dancing music going at Treasure Island and Texas Walk of Fame in will be at Shorty’s and everybody’s favorite was established in blues man John Cortez played Shorty’s. Cortez rockabilly monsters, Matt Hole and the Hot Corpus this week. 2004 with Freddy is the perfect blues band to play Shorty’s. We Rod Gang, will play Giggity’s. Matt will also Fender’s star. Six haven’t seen him in a while. I think he’s been play Schlitterbahn on June 20th for another Someone Like You, from Kerrville, will new artists are inducted on the first Saturday in hanging in San Antonio these days. installment of the Moon Music Series. The show play Texas Red’s on Friday. June each year. Other stars include Guy Clark, is from 6-9. Selena, Roger Creager, Bubble Puppy, Independent Thieves, Robert Earl Keen, Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers, George Strait, On the horizon… Jason Boland, Bart Crow and a two-nighter Kris Kristofferson, Tony Joe White, Flaco We have some hot shows on the near horizon. at the Back Porch with SHINYRIBS on August Jimenez, Randy Garibay and more. Attaboy Watch for Mitchell Furguson, Dave Russell 9-10. Also on July 1, don’t miss our yearly Jack Ray Ray. You deserve this. Damn right! and Port City Blues, Gary P. Nunn, Todd Gant Birthday Jam at Shorty’s. That’s always a hoot. That ought to keep you busy for a while. Swing Bar blessed… Dorn and the Sea Drifters, Jesse Stratton, RAY WYLIE HUBBARD, Mike O’Neill, Be safe out there. The new swing bar aka the Port A Beer Hut Thomas Michael Riley, Toman Brothers, ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ had a special event last Thursday when Father James Derkits performed and blessed the grounds with proprietor Big Tim. In case you haven’t been there yet, this place is cool. It has big swinging chairs in an inviting Caribbean Live Music palapa bar atmosphere. It’s really catching on here with the locals who have dubbed it the Free Beer Band @ “Swing Bar” for obvious reasons. They have Splendiferous played Treasure Island on Giggity’s acoustic shows from time to time at dusk. It’s Saturday. Tonight Dave’s Duo @ Shorty’s really a comfortable setting at the location Mitchell Furguson @ Back where Neptune’s and Marcel’s used to be. Thursday, June 13 Porch Free Beer Band @ Robin Blue @ Scuttlebutt’s Scattered shots… Giggity’s Justin & Niki @ Rockit’s Dave’s Duo @ Shorty’s Independent Thieves @ Landon Bullard & Executive Surf Club Mostly Sober @ Back Porch Friday, June 21 Robin Blue @ Brandon Michael @ Scuttlebutt’s LANDON BULLARD JUNE 13 Treasure Island Falco & the Wolf @ MIKE BLAKELY JUNE 14 The Chanklas @ Giggity’s Rockit’s TWO TONS OF STEEL JUNE 15 Dave Russell & Port City J & the Sound @ Blues @ Shorty’s Executive Surf Club JERED CLARK JUNE 16 Marco Ramirez @ MITCHELL FURGUSON JUNE 20 Scuttlebutt’s Friday, June 14 GARY P. NUNN JUNE 22 Seattle Rising @ Brewster Someone Like You @ Street Texas Red’s Rivera Oddfellas @ Rockit’s Mike Blakely @ Back 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront The Groove @ Executive Cody Sparks played the Back Porch on Porch Surf Club Saturday Stevie Start played Giggity’s last The Groove @ Giggity’s Alonzo Cruz @ Red’s at Hyde After Nine @ Palmilla Beach Wednesday. Treasure Island Adam Berry @ Saturday, June 22 Scuttlebutt’s Gary P. Nunn @ Back DO NOT MISS LIST Chanklas @ Shorty’s Treasure Island Porch Coming this weekend… Flashpoint @ Rockit’s HYDE AFTER NINE JUNE 14 Cruise Control @ Treasure Michael Burtts @ Island Hold on to your hats, we got another big week Executive Surf Club SCARECROW PEOPLE JUNE 15 Todd Dorn & the Sea of music starring us in the eye. On Thursday the Lela Caldwell @ Red’s BRANDON MICHAEL JUNE 21 Drifters @ Giggity’s 13th Dave’s Duo will play the porch at Shorty’s at Palmilla Beach CRUISE CONTROL JUNE 22 Mike O’Neill @ Shorty’s Mike Guerra @ from 8-12. I’ve heard good things about these Saturday, June 15 guys from my pals on Padre but have never Scuttlebutt’s Two Tons of Steel @ Timeline @ Brewster Street caught their act. They will be playing every Back Porch 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Audiobox @ Rockit’s Thursday over there this summer. Also on Scarecrow People @ treasureislandporta Voodoo Logic @ Executive Thursday Landon Bullard and Mostly Sober Treasure Island Surf Club (San Marcos, TX) will bring his Americana Matt Hole & the Hot George Green @ Red’s at show to the Back Porch. On Friday the 14th Rod Gang @ Giggity’s Palmilla Beach Someone Like You (Kerrville, TX) will play Billy Snipes @ Texas Red’s Riviera. The singer, Josh Murley Scuttlebutt’s Sunday, June 23 Yosh and Yimmy played Shorty’s on Hip Hop Hooray @ Antone & the All Stars @ Friday. has a set of golden pipes. You gotta hear this Brewster Street guy. Elsewhere on Friday, Hyde After Nine Giggity’s Cowboy & the Magnus @ Back Porch is at Treasure Island, the Chanklas will bring Regulators @ Shorty’s Dave’s Duo June 13 John Eric @ Scuttlebutt’s Between all the BioBlitz activities at MSI us a reggae show to Shorty’s and real deal Splendiferous @ during the day and steady stream of bands Chanklas June 14 cowboy-rancher-author-playwright-songwriter- Rockit’s Cowboy & Regulators June 15 Monday, June 24 Shayna Sands @ Open Jam w/ Ray Summy Executive Surf Club Dave’s Duo June 20 @ Giggity’s Jerry Ward @ Red’s at David Russel June 21 Billy Snipes @ Scuttlebutt’s GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR Palmilla Beach Mike O’Neil June 22 Tuesday, June 25 LIVE MUSIC Sunday, June 16 Paul & Victoria @ LIVE MUSIC Antone & the All Stars OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port Aransas Giggity’s Free Beer Band Every Thurs (7-10) @ Giggity’s Aaron Jacob @ EVERY The Groove on Friday (9-1) Jered Clark @ Back Scuttlebutt’s Porch NIGHT Matt Hole on Saturday (9-1) John Eric @ Wednesday, June 26 Antone & All Stars Every Sunday (9-1) Scuttlebutt’s Magnus @ Giggity’s Open Jam Every Monday (8:30-12:30) Michael Burtts @ Kitchen Open Monday, June 17 Scuttlebutt’s Paul & Victoria Every Tuesday (7-10) Open Jam w/ Ray Until 1 a.m.! Jim Dugan on Wednesday (8-12) Summy @ Giggity’s Thursday, June 27 Billy Snipes @ Free Beer Band @ 722 Tarpon, Port Aransas, TX Scuttlebutt’s Giggity’s Dave’s Duo @ Shorty’s Tuesday, June 18 Jesse Stratton @ Back Paul & Victoria @ Porch Giggity’s Robin Blue @ Scuttlebutt’s Aaron Jacob @ Justin & Niki @ Rockit’s Scuttlebutt’s Mistics @ Executive Surf Club Wednesday, June 19 Jim Dugan @ Giggity’s Expert Computer Repairs Friday, June 28 Michael Burtts @ Ray Wylie Hubbard @ Scuttlebutt’s Back Porch Mike O’Neill @ Giggity’s Thursday, June 20 Adam Berry @ Matt Hole & the Scuttlebutt’s Hot Rod Gang @ Red Giant @ Shorty’s Schlitterbahn

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