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Christmas in July A2 Poker Run A2 Traveling Moon A9 Fishing A13 Sunk A18 Issue 746 The Photo by Dale Rankin Island Free

The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 August 2, 2018 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Flour Bluff ISD Island Island On the Move! Votes to Phase By Dale Rankin Out University Marker 37 gets a Remake Preparatory We’ve had some great nighttime sky watching of late as Mars and the Program Moon take turns chasing each other across the eastern sky. Mars is now Current students will closer to The Island (and the rest of the Earth) than it has been in the last be allowed to finish fifteen years. The beaches and roads on Padre but will be the last Island were the most crowded in By Dale Rankin memory last weekend, especially In a packed meeting room at their from the Packery Channel south to regular July meeting the Flour Bluff PINS. It is likely to remain that way ISD Board of Directors modified the next few weeks as visitors from a decision made a month earlier to OTB get in one last trip to The Coast immediately terminate its University before the school year kicks in. Preparatory High School (UP) The post-Harvey weekend traffic program which allows students at patterns have changed noticeably as the Junior and Senior levels to attend more vehicles are now continuing classes on local college campuses and south at the State Highway 361/SPID earn up to sixty college credits before intersection than has historically been graduation from high school. the case. The lack of overnight stay The June decision to abruptly end rooms due to Harvey damage on both A new deck has been built out back for special events. the problem would have forced 297 ends of The Island has resulted in a students currently in the program By Dale Rankin A look around the grounds this “We want to provide a first class larger percent of day trippers who to alter their plans in the upcoming week shows he is not waiting around. place for fishermen and boaters to leave at sundown and they just want When Austin native Mitchell scholastic year, according to A portion of the old boat slips have come and get supplies and services, to get to the nearest beach. Some Kalogridis decided to do one last information presented at the July been replaced by a deck with shade and for the public in general to retailers, especially in Port Aransas project before hanging up his meeting. Instead, after the July structures and three brand new fuel come and enjoy the beautiful view are reporting their daytime business developer hat he found just the kind vote, the program will be phased pumps which will offer gas, diesel, of the Laguna Madre,” Kalogridis is off the charts but their nighttime of place he was looking for. Late out through the 2022 school year, and ethanol-free gas. Pier damaged said. business is down some as visitors last year he purchased Marker 37 allowing students currently in the by Hurricane Harvey is repaired and disappear OTB in the evening. This is along the Laguna Madre and set out Still to come is a mobile kitchen program, including those entering now has new benches and a cleaning almost certainly temporary and will to turn it into a first class spot for for an on-site eatery for boaters, as freshmen this fall, to finish the station, and will soon be shaded by revert to the norm when the hotels fishermen, boaters, and live music and construction to make a spot program before it is terminated. and condos are back up and running aficionados. twenty-foot long red, white, and blue for it is already underway. Also, a The decision before the board was next year. canvas canopies. From inside the one-hundred foot-wide boardwalk “I’ve sold everything else,” he whether to stick with the decision original building to the deck out back on the south side of the property Harvey update said this week, “this one is a labor you see signs of construction, either made in June, when only five of love. I’m doing this one to which will have retail space on the Word out of Port Aransas this week underway or recently completed. have some fun and do something The full name of the new facility is FBISD cont. on A4 is that Sales Tax in May was down special.” Marker 37 cont. on A4 7% compared to May 2017 and Hotel Market 37 Marina at Sunset Island. ISAC Meeting Tuesday, Occupancy Tax is down 13%. That is not bad considering that so many of Dollar General August 7 the overnight stay accommodations Billish Park Work Moving are not yet back in service. Coming Soon Flood Insurance, The good news is that Port Royal, which is not actually in Port Aransas Quickly Windward but just south of the Corpus Christi line, has more rooms back up and Playground installation underway Crosswalk on running and is open for business, making it the first of its kind to Public access scheduled for September Agenda get back in service after Harvey. The Island Strategic Action Congratulations you guys and we Six years after the project began Committee will meet Tuesday, look forward to the other six highrises volunteers swarmed over the new August 7, at the Holiday Inn Express on the Corpus end getting back up playground at Billish Park this Work is well underway along on Windward. and going soon. week installing equipment for kids SPID south of Whitecap turning On the agenda are items concerning a 2-12 years old. The volunteers a paper street into a paved street new crosswalk planned for Windward Thinking of Patsy… from KLS Construction and JT to make way for a Dollar General near the seawall parking lot, repairs Construction braved the summer For newcomers to The Island, and store at the location. to the Packery Channel Jetties due heat on Wednesday working on even for oldcomers too for that to Hurricane Harvey, and new flood the project, and cement around The city required the developer to matter, here’s something to put maps from FEMA which will impact the playground is expected to be build Las Tunas Street which was on your bucket list. Go online and flood insurance rates for the whole of in place by next week. A ribbon part of the original Island design listen to Patsy Jones sing her classic, Nueces County. “That’s My Island.” It was a Mike cutting on the playground area is plan, but the street was never built. Ellis’ favorite and still reminds us set for August 18. Jennifer Seymore (left) and It was required before work could The Island Strategic Action Madelyn Garner spearheaded continue on the Dollar General Committee is an advisory committee of the old Island crowd that used to Meanwhile around the remainder store and is nearing completion. to the Corpus Christi City Council for gather at Island Italian to hear her of the park watering and pre- the four-year effort to raise According to the developer the matters pertaining to Padre Island. sing it while Mike did his pantomime. emulsion has begun and at mid- $78,000 for the new playground new store is expected to be open in The meeting is at 5:30 p.m. and the We still have Patsy’s hat in the Moon week crews were placing sod that equipment at Billish Park. office to remind us of those days. early 2019. public is invited to attend and address Billish cont. on A4 the committee. Low Packery We ran into boating friends at the newly improved and still improving A little Island history Marker 37 last weekend who reported dragging bottom as they ran up Packery Channel from the Intracoastal side toward the bridge. The Civil War Comes to The Island Their boat drew four feet of water, but the boat we were in (not ours, Battle at the end of Whitecap newspaper scribblers can’t afford By Greg Smith The first thing was to chart the current where Whitecap Boulevard ends boats) drew about three and a half and Editor’s note: Last week we ran depths of the pass. The plan was for at the beach, it then went through the depth finder showed us with less the first story on the Civil War In December of 1862 Corpus Christi had been cut off from shipping the Confederate schooner Queen of what is now lake Padre behind the than six inches of clearance in three battle that happened at the end of the Bay manned by forty seven year seawall condo’s, going along where places. The low spots start about what is now Whitecap Drive from by the Union blockade for almost a year. The town’s business and old Jack Sands of Indianola, two SH 361 currently is for a couple of halfway between the southward turn the standpoint of the commanders sailors and to be augmented by seven miles and then angled to Corpus in the canal near Packery Channel on each side. This week we run a commerce had ground to a halt and the citizens were running out of all men plus Captain Ireland of Hobby’s Christi Bay. Park and the bridge and were about narrative of the battle and will Texas regiment. Captain Ireland was one hundred yards apart. That portion continue in the next few issues and the basic necessities of living. The The pass was about 1,000 feet Federal ship Arthur guarded the pass a resourceful and fearless officer wide and the depth of the channel of the canal has not been dredged then we will follow with the story of who had captured the reviled Yankee since the channel opened thirteen the Dunn family which established at Port Aransas and the Union steam ranged from 10 to 15 feet deep for gunboats Sachem and Corypheus commander Lt. Kitterege in Flour the most part. The problem with years ago – time does fly – and likely the Dunn Ranch on Padre Island in Bluff three months earlier. the north wind this winter will blow the years after the war written by controlled the bays. The Confederate the pass was it usually ran only it out, it not sooner. But if you head Dunn descendent Greg Smith. But commanders looking for a way to Today’s folks think of Corpus four feet deep at the bar in the Gulf out that way at low tide watch your first, while history may record it as bring in supplies and ship out cotton Christi Pass as the ditch that was cut and three feet deep seven miles up depth finder. the Battle of Corpus Christi Pass, to decided to investigate the possibility back in 1933, a couple of miles north channel where the pass emptied we Islanders it will always be the of using the unguarded Corpus Christi on the way to Port Aransas. In 1862 into Corpus Christi Bay. Battle at the End of Whitecap. Pass to run the Union blockade. the Corpus Christi Pass’s mouth was Around cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 August 2, 2018 Island Moon A 2 Christmas in July Padre Island Golf Cart Poker Run

Dania Whitco won for best decorated This custom design golf cart was made Vegas theme in her Island Girl 2 golf cart. to look like the owner's King Ranch Ford Her boat is Island Girl 3 and her vehicle Truck he called "Big White" and it even Island Girl 1. has the saddle leather seats. Photo by Mary Craft.

The ladies who made it all happen

Chris at the Boathouse stop on the Golf Cart Poker Run with his sunglass prize. Photo by Mary Craft

La Posada festivities got underway this week with the Christmas in July party at the Angry Marlin and Coolwater Bar as yuletide revelers braved very non-Santa weather to begin raising toys and money for the Marine’s Toys for Tots program. The program has already raised more than $2500 and several boxes of toys for the event which collects toys for kids in a three county area. The parade routes are being redrawn this year for both the Friday and Saturday night parades and more than twenty boats have already committed to take part. Event organizer Fred Edler told members of the Padre Island Yacht Club this month that for the first time this year’s parade will be televised live. Fred says this year’s event is going to be the best ever and we believe him…and believe us…it’ll be here This new Island family rented a golf cart from one of the event's sponsors, Joyride before you know it. Rentals just to enjoy the event. Say hello if you see them around the island.

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Moon Monkeys been stopped in it -it is ridiculous to stop adults, Did Ya Mike Ellis, Founder Letters to the that are right next to beach and driving a UTv RESPONSIBLY AND ALLOW PRE-TEENS Hear? TO RUN ALL OVER THE ISLAND IN GOLF By Mary "Scoop" Craft Editor CARTS UNSUPERVISED-SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE-OUR VEHICLE HAS REFLECTOR-TURN SIGNALS, MIRRORS, ETC. BUT NOT LICENSEABLE UTVs and You New Advertisers UTVs (utility terrain vehicles) are often driven Barbara Canales is running in our Island community, in the same places for County Judge and says “I understand the Island’s opportunities Distribution as golf carts. Some beefed up golf carts look very similar to UTVs, but UTVs are stronger and challenges. I will be your Pete Alsop and safer, with a protective steel roll cage Advocate-in-Chief!” To learn more Island Delivery surrounding the occupants, seat, shoulder belts visit votebarbaracanales.com. Coldwell Banker and protective headrests and lights as standard equipment. UTVs are what you’ve seen on Realtor Nicole Zazzara is the Advertising our beaches, as used by the Turtle Patrol, CC newest member of the Coldwell Jan Park Rankin "C"lines Landing Lifeguards, Beach Safety, service vehicles for Banker Island Realtors team. She can Classifieds Dale, City and Nueces County Parks like at Bob Hall assist with all your real estate needs Pier, and by CCPD for law enforcement. Arlene Ritley I am very disappointed in your printing a large and can be reached at 832-766-1707 Production Manager photo on page one of the damage done to one of State law allows for certain communities to or nicole.zazzara@coldwellbanker. our large condos in Port Aransas with no story establish Ordinances for the use of golf carts in com. Abigail Bair Contributing Writers about it any where in the paper. How about a certain areas. Our City has such an Ordinance, follow up with some of the unhappy details? “Section 53-109, Operation of a Golf Cart.” Joey Farah Business Briefs Andy Purvis By the way, Cline's Landing is spelled with a Although for several years, it seems there has been an informal agreement to allow UTVs to Mary Craft 'C' not a K. be operated in our area along with golf carts, The Dollar General Store is Kelly Trevino Betty Crawford. there have been a few UTV operators pulled expected to to open early 2019. Jay Gardner over and warned that UTVs are not allowed. Todd Hunter Strudel Mania in town has closed FBISD Perhaps that’s due to new Officers, unfamiliar after almost five years. Patrons can Dotson Lewis July 26th the Flour Bluff ISD Board of Trustees with our area. In those rare cases, reports are Dr. Tom Dorrell that law enforcement delivered verbal warnings still enjoy their German fare at the held their monthly meeting. It was well attended JB’s German Bakery on the Island. Ronnie Narmour by students and parents due to one of the action about the State Law still in place, which is contrary to our local informal norms. Brent Rourk items; whether to truncate (end immediately) Island Joe’s Coffee Shop is Photographers the Univeristy Prepratory Program at FBHS or Most of our local law enforcement seem to hoping to open their new location to phase it out.. understand the far greater safety of UTVs, around Labor Day and will be ADA Miles Merwin (Emeritus) During the board discussion portion of the versus golf carts. After all, neither our CCPD accessible. Debbie Noble Officers, nor Lifeguards, nor City or County meeting it became apparent that two members Larry Joe Taylor will be at The Jan Rankin of the board, VP Thornton and President Ellis, beach service vehicle operators would be caught DEAD in a Golf Cart. That’s why they are Back Porch in Port A on Saturday, Mary Craft had no intention of listening to statistics that not used anymore by all such local safety and August 4th. Ronnie Narmour supported the continuation of the program OR the people who elected them. service agencies, who previously used unsafe The 3rd Annual Ski Basin Bash Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) golf carts on our local beaches and parks. We were treated to a personal story from will start at 10 am on Saturday, August Riley P. Dog th Thornton on how she had been an at-risk That change was lead on Padre Island by the 4 and at noon on Sunday with more student and obtained a college degree without National Park Service, after NPS lost a Park than ten bands scheduled to play. The help of any program (forty years ago). Also, Ranger in the Padre Island National Seashore, bands include The Sagans and The that her years teaching made her superior to the due to an unprotected rollover death at beach Dogwood People and the bands will public in making such decisions, then she stated marker 21.3 miles south of the Ranger Station. begin performing at 10 am Saturday. she held "the key to education". She was Dr. Marina Giggleman, a PhD Marine Biologist, who died unnecessarily at far too And play throughout the day. Ellis gave us a list of his children's young an age. She was a professional associate The Pre-Bash Movie Night achievements. They are doctors and lawyers of mine, who I respected very much. All who Jaws on the Outdoor Big Screen and didn't need the UP program. They slayed knew her then (that tragedy happened 11 years will be at the ski basin on Friday, their AP courses, so others should be able ago) still miss her, to this day. The painting of rd too. Wonderful for Ellis' children, the current the Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle on our Island August 3 9:30 pm – 12:30 am. statistics prove that LESS THAN 40% of local water tower was put there as a memorial to our Port A Low Life is having their Publisher HS kids who take the AP tests pass, less than tragic loss of her. official ribbon cutting Friday, August Dale Rankin 29.5% at the state level. 3rd at 3 pm although they have been Given the life-saving safety improvements of a open several weeks . Their mission is About the Island Moon Ellis and Thornton need to remember they are roll cage protected UTV, versus an unprotected The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale to encourage people to reduce their Rankin, Editor / Publisher. elected officials. Their duty is to listen to the golf cart, does anybody really want to see strict people whom they represent. Their personal stress, live the low life and look the Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes enforcement against driving UTVs on our delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 opinions are not at issue. Island roads, while at the same time allowing part. They sell products with their copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, golf carts? If a neighbor dies here, due to a strict logo and are located at 314 Cutoff as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. enforcement ban on UTVs, requiring them Rd. Kimberly Grassedonio to switch to a golf cart, what sense does that News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, The Seashore Middle School Island make? And why in the world would anyone payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. want to do that? Academy will have new security The Island Moon Newspaper precautions in place when the school UTV Stops I’m at a total loss to understand any logic in year starts. They will prohibit visitors 14646 Compass, Suite 3 restricting people to less safe vehicles on our from entering the building without Editor's note: This week we asked on our roads. Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Facebook page if people driving UTV's on going through the front office and Island roads were being stopped for illegal Robert Algeo allow students to move around the 361-949-7700 usage. Here are the responses: campus without leaving secured [email protected] Steven Foley I have seen two of my friends in Golf Cart Rules areas. separate incidences last week get pulled over Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper Editor’s note: We have had several questions The Island Strategic Action and warned that the UTV needed to be licensed of late about what the rules are for golf carts Committee will meet Tuesday, and registered with signals and mirrors. on Padre Island. The city ordinance reads as August 7th 5:30 pm at the Holiday Rene Foley Or you must wear goggles and a follows: Inn Express. helmet Sec. 53-109. - Operation of golf cart. One of the items to be discussed is Where to Find The TaraChris Gallaspy Happened to us with As authorized under V.T.C.A., Transportation a crosswalk on Windward Drive near same explanation. Code § 551.404(a), a person who holds a valid the seawall parking lot. Island Moon Ann Vanderpool We sold our house on the driver's license may operate a golf cart on a island in December last year. But we had a public highway with a posted speed limit of not Flour Bluff High School graduate JD Gator while we lived there and drove it all more than thirty-five (35) miles per hour if: Tyler Bills joins the athletic Trinity By the Sea the time without any issues. We had mirrors & program as the new Athletics Sports Port Episcopal (1) The person is employed by a political signal lights though. When we bought the gator subdivision of the State of Texas, and is Information Technologist. Bills will Aransas my husband made numerous calls to people performing a duty for the political subdivision be providing updates on all Flour Sand Piper Condos North asking if it needed to be licensed and where that requires the operation of a golf cart owned Bluff Athletics via social media Sea Gull Condos we would go to do so. He was told that it didn't by the political subdivision; platforms, online and through various Padre need to be licensed. Things might have changed printed publications. Gulf Breeze RV since. (2) The person is crossing a public highway at All Stripes Stores a marked or designated crossing that connects Pioneer RV The Island in the Son United Black Sheep/ Ted Piotrowski A golf cart not modified can portions of the golf course separated by the not exceed the max speed of 25mph to be legal. Methodist Church is seeking La Palmilla Golf Barrel public highway; vendors for their Fabulous Fall Arts & Club All ATV and UTV come stock able to exceed CVS 25mph. That is a very rough guide line on what (3) The person is employed by a restaurant, Crafts Sale on Saturday, September Stripes (1A) I heard from multiple sources. hotel, or tourist related business, and is 22nd 9 am – 3 pm. To register call Whataburger transporting guests in a golf cart owned by the Kody’s Restaurant Sue Stockton at 817-944-7766 or Jason Lee Curl Hathaway UTV...Golfcart... restaurant, hotel, or tourist related business, to email Amano Doc’s Restaurant basically the same thing. sue.stockton4076@gmail. and from the parking lots to the business; com. Deadline is September 8th.The WB Liquor Snoopy’s Pier I know that they're illegal to drive 0n PR22. (4) The person is employed by a restaurant, church is located on Hwy 361 two They are suppose to remain to the far right when 361 Bar Isle Mail N More hotel, or tourist related business, and is miles north of the Packery. on the other roads, and you still have to be 16 or transporting supplies between two (2) facilities Moby Dicks Island Italian older when operating them on the streets. Too under common ownership in a golf cart owned An Art Show & Fundraiser will be many kids driving them around. I'm all for the Spanky’s Liquor Brooklyn Pie Co. by the restaurant, hotel, or tourist related held at the Port Aransas Community cops stopping them, or anyone else, if they are business; Center on Saturday, August 4th 11 am IGA Grocery Store Ace Hardware being unsafe. (5) If the golf cart is operated on a highway – 7 pm. There will be works from Port A Glass Studio Holiday Inn Elaine Tiller I have seen golf carts and ATV"s. within the city limits on Mustang Island east of some of Texas’ finest artists including San Juan’s Mexican It was my understanding when I moved here S.H. 361 and north of Packery Channel; Larry Felder and Kent Ullberg. Texas Star (Shell) was only golf carts are allowed. Restaurant (6) If the golf cart is operated on portions of The PIBA Island Ambassador Jesse’s Liquor Wash Board My pet peeve are the people with small Mustang and Padre Island within the city limits Committee has partnered with the Laundry Mat Scuttlebutt’s children not strapped in, this is a safety factor. that are south of Packery Channel; or Corpus Christi CVB to offer to Restaurant How could you endanger your small children? its members a Certified Tourism Drop Anchor Bar & Yes I see kids under 14 driving around the (7) If the golf cart is operated on a highway Grill Subway island all the time. within the city limits on North Beach east of Ambassador (CTA) designation - U.S. 181 and north of the Harbor Bridge. a national program. The program Port A Parks & Rec Island Tire The day will come when tragedy strikes and is designed for business owners everyone will be surprised. (Ord. No. 028318, § 1, 9-22-2009; Ord. No. Public Library Padre Pizzeria 028367, § 1, 10-20-2009; Ord. No. 028916, § and employees to help enhance Terry Kenning Gee, I guess that because we the visitor experience. The class is Chamber of And all Moon 1, 1-11-2011; Ord. No. 030608, § 1, 9-15-2015) Commerce/ Visitor’s have so little crime or traffic problems, they currently scheduled for 9am-1pm retail advertisers Center need something to keep busy. on Wednesday, August 8th at The Woody’s Sports WB Liquor Ruben Bomar I have a buddy who is a fatality Barrel/Black Sheep Bistro. Center investigator, he did one last night where a Charter Boat Owners and Operators Wanted The call letters were incorrect for woman was riding down the road in the dead of for new location on Packery Channel Back Porch Flour Bluff night. No lights reflectors or anything. the Lago in the Morning Radio H.E.B. Shorty’s Place Some car rear ended her. Show in last week’s Briefs. The Whataburger on Fisherman’s Wharf Done, do not pass go don’t collect 200 bucks. correct letters are KKTX 1360. Waldron Packery Giggity’s Randy N Coty Scott I just bought a Yamaha Ethyl Everly FlatsTM Tarpon Inn UTV just like Turtle Patrol uses, only a 4-5 Senior Center seater and was stopped right by my house which Floating Cabin Repairs Send Letters and Photos Gratitude’s Large Boat Slip (22’ x 40’) available Fire Station is 6/10 miles from beach at Bob Hall Pier and good for either repairs or rebuilding to The Gaff told not to drive on street to beach-It is far safer Located under the JFK bridge on Packery Channel [email protected] Police Station than a golf cart-more comfortable and easier to Wild Horse Call for lease terms and follow us on Stripes on Flour drive for my wife because of power steering-We Packery Flats Marina Treasure Island also have a 4 seater, licensed Bennche, which we Bluff & SPID Facebook: The Island are selling just because of comfort-we have not 361-774-8886 Moon Newspaper August 2, 2018 Island Moon A 4 Around cont. from A1 Confederates spotted the Arthur in the Gulf. Billish Park cont. from A1 FBISD cont. from A1 Trapped by the contrary wind they anxiously will provide a sticker-free area. The new park Here’s one for ya… watched the Arthur. Much to their relief the will included a sand volleyball pit, a multi- board members were in attendance, to end Arthur left for Port Aransas without sending an the program immediately, or to extend its life The strangest story of the week comes to us purpose playing field, walking paths, and shade attacking party. By eleven o’clock an East wind until the students entering their freshmen year from an Island condo complex that will go structures. came up finally enabling the Queen to strike graduated. The board vote was 5-2 in favor of unnamed for reasons soon to be obvious. Police home for Corpus. As the Queen was about half The work is funded through $500,000 in city reversing the June vote and allowing the current were called to settle a dispute among overnight way up the pass they spotted the sails of the bonds approved in 2012, with an additional students to complete the program. guests which originated at the complex’s pool Yankee cutters. Not knowing if the Sachem of $200,000 from the Padre Isles Property Owners after a child informed her mother she “need to “You don’t recruit students into the program other Union vessels were close by they made Association, donations for the playground pee” and wanted to get out of the pool. equipment. BMW of Corpus Christi also then discontinue the program,” board member the decision to turn around and run back to Jim Needham, who voted in favor of the “What do you need to get out for,” her mother donated playground equipment and will be on Padre Island where they would be protected extension, told the audience. “We made said. “You’re already in the pool.” from the larger Union vessels by shallow waters site offering test drives during the August 18 ribbon cutting. promises and we need to honor those promises.” The other swimmers were not amused and and could also escape on foot across the Laguna Board members Steve Ellis and Shirley words were exchanged and things ended up to Flour Bluff. About the same time the Queen Contractors on the project told the POA board Thornton voted to end the program immediately. shirts off in the parking lot until a calmer head was sighted by the crew of the two Union this month that the public should be allowed to called the PD who told the guests to simmer cutters about two miles distant. The Union start using the entire park by mid-September. “It costs us $1300 per student each year,” Ellis down. It reminds us of a similar incident several sailors seeing the chase was on grabbed their said. “But it costs us $2000 for students in the years ago when a kid stood on the edge of a oars. With the cutters under both sail and oars UP program. We are facing a $1 million budget hotel pool and began using it as his outhouse. they were closing the gap between them and the deficit this year and we are paying college When the lifeguard confronted him he said, Queen. As the Queen reached Padre the Cutters tuition for students whose parents can afford to “What’s the difference between peeing in the were less than a mile behind, the Confederates send them to college.” beached the Queen and ran for cover in the Sand water and peeing while you’re in the water? As In an earlier statement Ellis said: “The board they say in real estate, location matters. Hills that were on the edge of the pass. Seeing the running Rebels and prize in sight the Union made this (June) decision principally for the When a tax increase is not a tax increase boys redoubled their efforts and were on top of reason that the State of Texas has substantially the Queen in ten short minutes. changed the requirements for early college high As regular readers of these pages know tax school programs (such as UPHS), in a manner increases are about as popular as cases of the Next week: The Union Commander buys that made it impossible for FBISD to comply.” shingles around here, but, having said that, the first round…in a most unusual way. one was passed by the Corpus Christi City The state requirements required that the Council this week that gets a pass. A two-cent demographic makeup of the incoming UP tax increase for streets will hit the books in the Marker 37 cont. from A1 classes reflect that of the district as a whole. new fiscal year but the difference is this one was The FBISD website shows that 32.8% of the approved by voters in November 2016 much the students in the high school come from low- way a bond issue usually works, only without income households, and 44% of students the debt service. City reports last week showed district wide. nineteen streets around the city currently closed The UP program accepts one hundred students or partially closed for construction. each year and was begun in 2007 with a grant The council faced a $20 million shortfall in the from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to current budget year and managed, with weekly encourage students who are the first in their backlash from speakers at council meetings, to family to attend college, at-risk students, and cover the shortfall and balance the budget by students from low-income households. The UP eliminating already vacant jobs and some belt students attend classes taught by high school tightening. The budget year is not yet over but teachers or college professors in a separate it appears there might even be some money left Improvements are being made to the building on the Flour Bluff H.S. campus for over. We try to give credit where credit is due existing building. the first two years, then as Juniors and Seniors and this appears to be the time to do it. So thank can accrue up to sixty hours of college credit you to the council, and keep up the good work. by attending classes at Texas A&M Corpus Christi allowing them to enter Texas colleges Islandmoon.com and universities as Sophomores or Juniors at Our website islandmoon.com is now getting eighteen years old. more than 20,000 hits per week from readers Alternative programs that remain available at downloading a copy of the latest edition. We FBISD, Advanced Placement and Dual Credit, don’t charge for the printed edition and we will still be options for incoming freshmen in don’t charge for the online edition. For those the 2019 year. However, information presented who prefer to read on the computer you can to the board said that only about 40% of the see the entire paper each week and it takes only students who take AP classes pass the AP test seconds to download. to receive college credit and all the credits Thanks for reading everybody, and don’t forget New fuel pumps are aleady in place. may not transfer to the college level. The AP to thank our lucky stars we get to live on our first floor, including a students, rather than attend classes on college little sandbar, stay cool, and say hello if you see fish market, farmers campuses, are taught on the Flour Bluff High us Around The Island. market, and dry- School campus by teachers who have been stack boat storage trained to teach AP courses. A second program History cont. from A1 in the short-term, called Dual Credit also allows students to and overnight stay accrue college credits while attending classes On December 5, 1862 the Confederates on the second floor on FBISD campuses. These classes, offered embarked on the Queen for two days of when that is done. through Del Mar College, are online classes sounding. Riding a north wind they spent Site work is already taken at Flour Bluff with a facilitator present. underway there. a day and half measuring the depths of the Volunteers work to install new playground Needham, a professor at Texas A&M Corpus seven mile-long pass. Even though they had Completion on Christi, said when the UP program began he completed their work on the 6th the north wind that segment of the equipment at Billish Park. Sod sits at the ready. heard complaints from professors there that left them stuck in the pass, forcing the group to property is expected the Flour Bluff High School students were not stay another night. to take about one ready for the rigors of a university curriculum. year. Kologridis said Battle Plan The new fishing he also plans to have Filing Underway for “However, when we checked the data we found pier will have red, Unknown to the men in Gray the Union live music and other that the Flour Bluff High School students had a gunboat Sachem captured a rebel schooner white and blue shade special events. Three Seats on Flour higher average Grade Point Average and a lower loaded with salt. One of the schooners crew, covers. dropout rate than the incoming Freshman class Kalogridis said, like as a whole.” a unionist sympathizer told the bluecoats about all the businesses Bluff ISD Board the reb’s activities. Plans were quickly made to along the Laguna Madre and Packery Channel The filing period for three open seats on the Colleen McIntyre, Superintendent of Seashore capture the Queen and twenty sailors detailed near the base of the JFK Causeway the land Flour Bluff Independent School Board of Charter School on Padre Island, where this year for the task. In command would be the battle belongs to the Texas General Land Office and Directors opened on July 21 and so far one 18 of 46 graduating eight-graders entered the tested twenty-seven year old Ensign Alfred is under long-term lease to the business owners. candidate has filed, according to a district UP program at FBISD, said she believes the Reynolds from New York. A local civilian spokesman. state rules could be met with a more aggressive The original development at the site was done Peter Baxter, a Scottish immigrant came along Candidates file by Place, with Places 2, 4, and 5 recruiting effort geared toward eighth graders. to help guide the party through to the Island. more than twenty years ago by Snoopy’s Pier on the November 6 ballot. The Places are voted “There are enough candidates to meet the In those days if the Navy captured an enemy owners Ernie Buttler. The site and the land on At-Large, meaning voters can cast a vote in state requirements,” McIntyre said. “But the ship it was declared a prize and the capturing behind it, about eighty acres in all, has been each of the Places, with the top vote getter in district sends a pamphlet to the eight graders crew all earned a portion of its value. The plan the spot for various development plans which each Place taking the seat. explaining the UP program and inviting them was for the sailing bark Arthur to block the Gulf never came to fruition. Most of the adjacent to an informational meeting. Students who are entrance of the pass. The Arthur with a hundred land is considered wetlands by state and federal The votes for the total of seven seats on the at-risk, low income, and those with parents who sailors and mounting six cannon’s would make regulators. None of that land is part of the board are staggered. The terms are for four did not attend college are not likely to respond to quick work of the Queen if it tried to escape into Marker 37 plans. years. A request for the name of the candidate a brochure. If there was more personal contact the Gulf. who has filed was not answered by press time. “We are building on the upland land that we with the target students and their parents from The Author drew fourteen feet of water though have,” said. “We are not touching wetlands at The Place 2 seat is currently held by Dr. Jim the district, the state quotas could be met and and could not get any closer than a half a mile to all.” Needham who has indicated he will not seek it would benefit the very kids that the program the pass without running the risk of grounding. While construction is underway Marker 37 is re-election, the Place 4 seat is held by Shirley was designed to help.” For the actual capture the Federals needed Thornton, the Place 5 seat is held by Brian open for business and the new fuel pumps are She said ten students from this year’s eight- shallow draft boats to navigate the three-foot Grunberg. expected to be in service in the next few weeks, grade class at Seashore Middle Academy depth at the Bay entrance. They decided to use in the meantime fuel is available. Applications to file can be turned in to the have applied to attend Port Aransas schools as two cutters, one made of iron and one of wood FBISD Administrative Office, 2505 Waldron Freshmen this fall. for the job. One cutter would be manned by Rd., during regular summer business hours: ten men and the other cutter eleven men. The Monday through Friday: 7:30 am – 4:30 “I think our kids decide to enroll in UP or attend crews were armed with rifles, shotguns, pistols pm. The last day to accept applications is: Port Aransas because they like the smaller and cutlasses. This would make quick work of Monday, August 20, 2018 at 5:00 pm, at the campus and class size the districts provide. a three or four man crew of a schooner like the Administration Office. The office will remain The loss of UP program will likely increase the Queen of the Bay. With the stir of excitement open: Monday, August 20, 2018 until 5:00 pm number of our students applying to Port A.” of from the capture of the Reb’s Ship and the to accept applications for filing. prospect of sharing in extra cash for its prize value the twenty sailors with little sleep and Early voting begins: Monday, October 22, Enrollment for Port great anticipation boarded the Cutters at 6:00 2018 and ends Friday, November 2, 2018 a.m. on a cold December morning for the Aransas ISD twenty-eight mile trip through Corpus Christi Bayou and across the Bay to Corpus Christi Property developer Mitchell Kalogridis Online registration August 8 Pass. (second from left) with his crew Tre Barry (far left), Steve Brown, and Willie Open Flour Bluff Students wishing to enroll in Port Aransas ISD The Battle at the end of Whitecap can do so on August 8, 8 a.m. – noon, and 1 Weeks, along with three successful Island p.m. to 4 p.m. As the sun rose that morning at the pass the fishermen at Market 37 last Friday. ISD Online registration for the 2018-2019 school Bring a birth certificate, social security card, year is now open for new and returning students. student’s immunization records, ID of person All students must be registered through the registering students, a transcript of the student’s District’s online student enrollment system. previous work. Students returning to FBISD for the 2018-2019 The district accepts out of district students school year have begun receiving letters and and offers college level classes through a Duel emails via the home address and email address Credit Program. on file which includes a unique registration code for each student. The unique code is required Charter Boat Owners and Operators Wanted when registering the student online. for new location on Packery Channel On August 7 & 8, the District will hold Registration Assistance Days. Families who need help registering their student, do not have access to a computer or need to bring in Packery supporting documents are encouraged to visit Flats the Flour Bluff High School Cafeteria on one of TM the days. Registration Assistance Days schedule Floating Cabin Repairs is below: Large Boat Slip (22’ x 40’) available good for either repairs or rebuilding Tuesday, August 7 Located under the JFK bridge on Packery Channel Call for lease terms 7 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Packery Flats Marina Wednesday, August 8 361-774-8886 9:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. The battle was fought near the Sand Hills in the far left-hand corner of this graphic. Nancy Hyder will be featured this August at the Port A. Art Center August 2, 2018 Island Moon A 5 Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier August 2 - August 9 Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon old furniture which he sold at a store in town, /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible In 2008 I was at a Padre Island Business Association lunch at the old another collected appliances, yet another yard Th 2 Low 12:09 AM 0.3 6:53 AM Set 11:51 AM 78 Padre Isles Country Club where then Mayor equipment which he repaired and sold, another 2 High 7:37 AM 1.2 8:17 PM Henry Garrett was the speaker and the election came looking for boat gear. All together there were half a dozen recyclers who claimed and 2 Low 2:21 PM 0.6 season was just getting going. We Islanders were in the process of forming the Island United repurposed the stuff than Islanders got tired of 2 High 7:41 PM 0.9 Political Action Committee and starting to make looking at in their garage and a cottage industry ourselves heard OTB. arose. As Mike Ellis used to say it was, “stuff F 3 Low 12:46 AM 0.6 6:53 AM Rise 12:03 AM 70 just barely too good to throw away.” 3 High 7:48 AM 1.1 8:17 PM Set 12:47 PM “What have you done for The Island since you became mayor?” came the question from The outright trash was dropped into a dumpster 3 Low 2:49 PM 0.4 the floor. Garrett had been mayor since 2005 brought along for the event, while the “stuff just barely too good to throw away” was put to 3 High 9:32 PM 1.0 and a new waterline to The Island that he had the side to be repurposed. Until finally, I don’t Sa 4 Low 1:32 AM 0.8 6:54 AM Rise 12:40 AM 60 promised fell through after the cost went from the $14 million available to the $49 million then remember exactly when, the congestion just 4 High 7:54 AM 1.1 8:16 PM Set 1:44 PM required – money that was not available. Mayor got too much for the location and the event was moved to the Wastewater Treatment Plant at the 4 Low 3:28 PM 0.2 Garrett was in defensive posture already and the question seemed to catch him off guard. far end of Whitecap and vehicles would line up 4 High 11:40 PM 1.2 for several hundred yards down Whitecap to “Well, the Litter Critter has picked up 80 disgorge their items at an impressive assembly Su 5 Low 3:35 AM 1.0 6:54 AM Rise 1:20 AM 49 tons of garbage on The Island since I became line inside the plant. It was quite the efficient 5 High 7:35 AM 1.1 8:15 PM Set 2:44 PM mayor,” he sort of stammered, and a collective operation. eye roll went up from the crowd. Our streets 5 Low 4:17 PM 0.0 were full of pot holes, our water supply – soon The Critter exits The Island M 6 High 1:42 AM 1.4 6:55 AM Rise 2:04 AM 38 to get a brand new water tower in lieu of a water Fast forward to about four years ago when 6 Low 5:11 PM -0.3 8:14 PM Set 3:47 PM line – came trickling out of the faucet smelling there was a move to place a solid waste disposal like pool water and often a kind of funny color site in Flour Bluff to address the litter problem Tu 7 High 2:49 AM 1.6 6:56 AM Rise 2:54 AM 28 not found in nature, we were in the midst of there. When opposition arose the compromise 7 Low 6:08 PM -0.5 8:14 PM Set 4:51 PM the most intense crime wave in remembrance at City Council was to scuttle the idea of a with a guy kicking down more than two dozen W 8 High 3:39 AM 1.8 6:56 AM Rise 3:50 AM 18 permanent site and instead to schedule the Island doors and leaving nothing behind but a Litter Critter there on a more frequent basis and 8 Low 7:06 PM -0.6 8:13 PM Set 5:54 PM size seventeen shoe print and a trail of sand, our in the process the Island stop went the way of Th 9 High 4:25 AM 1.8 6:57 AM Rise 4:52 AM 10 taxes kept going up, and Mayor Garrett was fond the dinosaur. We were on our own and remain of saying - especially in front of Island crowds – so today. As a result we started finding old 9 Low 8:04 PM -0.7 8:12 PM Set 6:55 PM “The Island takes care of itself;” in other words mattresses, yard leavings, three-legged chairs, you’re on your own - except of course for the 80 and such things dumped in Island lots, along tons of refuse picked up over the course of years Park Road 22, and generally strewn about The by the Litter Critter. Island. A year later the IUPAC endorsed Joe Adame There have been various attempts since then who upset Garrett for mayor. I can’t say the dam to bring The Critter back, the latest coming burst and we Islanders all of a sudden got manna from a POA committee working with our City from heaven from out city government, but hey, Councilman Greg Smith and after several we had the Litter Critter going for us! months of trying things are lined up with one Critter collection point obstacle left to overcome; where to put it. In those days The Critter collection point was According to the POA committee at this at the office of the Padre Isles Property Owners month’s POA meeting the best candidate right Association office and a long and steady line of now is back at the water treatment plant with cars would queue up once month on Saturday the problem of who will open the gate and morning and the flotsam and jetsam of Island life supervise from the Water Department side. The would come piling out, an amazing amalgam of Critter is operated by Solid Waste and the plant material that never ceased to surprise; a snapshot is operated by the Water Department but that of Island life. I would collect old windboard sails should get worked out in short order. If not there which I used to create backyard shade but that is one private spot that can be used. was only a small part of what came in. People So fear not fellow Islanders, it looks like after would arrive with SUVs full of wine bottles years of absence The Critter will once again which an artisan from OTB would collect and visit The Island. The Critter returns! Now it just melt into ash trays, another free-lancer collected needs a nest.

Thoughts From Dr. Tom Insurance Industry Puts Profits Over Patients

The largest health insurance company, Anthem could deny service for as not being emergent. Blue Cross Blue Shield in Texas will attempt The problem is that sore throat can be a to put in place a policy to retroactively decide peritonsillar abscess , epiglottitis, or ludwigs if a patients’ emergency visit is a legitimate angina among other dangerous conditions. claim. They will also decide retroactively Cough can easily be benign or the presenting whether to pay for it based on the insurance symptom for pneumonia, asthma or lung companies determination alone and this will cancer. Ankle sprain often is a fibula or be based on final diagnosis codes. This is a big metatarsal fracture with the same initial deal because currently the state of Texas has mechanism and complaints. I could go on and a law on the books that protects patients from on with this line of reasoning but I think you predatory insurance companies. It is called get the drift. They cannot Monday morning the prudent layperson standard. It defines a quarterback a patient’s rights to go to the ER covered "emergency medical condition" as "a when they are ill by second guessing based on medical condition manifesting itself by acute a final diagnosis code after the work has all symptoms of sufficient severity (including been done. severe pain) such that a prudent layperson, who Insurance companies nationally—and right possesses an average knowledge of health and here in Texas—would have you believe that medicine, could reasonably expect the absence ERs are frequently abused by patients seeking of immediate medical attention to result in— convenience and treatment for seemingly (i) placing the health of the individual (or, minor medical issues. A recent CDC study with respect to a pregnant woman, the health found that only 4.3% of ER visits are later of the woman or her unborn child) in serious determined to be for non-urgent symptoms. jeopardy, (ii) serious impairment of bodily Patients shouldn't have to worry about what functions, or (iii) serious dysfunction of any their bill might be in the middle of a healthcare bodily organ or part." crisis — they have enough to worry about The big issue in the prudent layperson already. standard is that it is based on symptoms that This is exactly why the Prudent Layperson the average layperson with no medical training Standard exists. None of us should be may perceive as a medical emergency. The discouraged from pursuing care because we key is SYMPTOMS not final diagnostic code fear our insurance company won't cover the Litter critter in action which is the BCBS method. There was a well- cost. publicized example in Kentucky where this policy is in effect where a young lady that Neither you, nor your loved ones, should be Ask Ralph rarely uses the healthcare system was seen forced into such unsettling circumstances. for severe right lower quadrant pain after her Starting August 6th, the largest insurer in mother ,a nurse, recommended she go to ER to the State of Texas is preparing to potentially rule out appendicitis. The patient followed her violate the medical rights of Texans. They are The Import of Empathy mom’s recommendation. The emergency room not only prepared to break state and federal did the normal work up with labs ,cat scan and law, but also their ethical obligation to not then ultrasound. They were able to determine expose their policyholders, i.e. patients, to By Ralph Coker it was ruptured ovarian cyst( painful but non financial ruin. They think because they are lethal condition) and she was medicated and the biggest insurer in the country they are Q. Do I need to show empathy with my his required service to qualify for retirement. sent home. Later Anthem refused payment above the law. No doubt they have a strong employees? My plant had a vacancy at a level lower than based on final diagnosis and the family had to wealthy lobby for both sides of the aisle his previous level. I offered him the job on appeal multiple times and finally after the bad A. Webster defines empathy as “imaginative both in Texas and nationally. They will say it projection of one’s own consciousness into conditions he accept the demotion willingly publicity from the public scrutiny they paid the is about saving money for you the patient. I without complaint. He agreed but his ego claim. Realize the ER had to float the amount another being.” Business leaders need to have would have you do a little research on line and empathy with employees but also be objective. couldn’t accept the demotion and he was a and the family had to deal with financial stress follow the money trail. You will find that their problem to his manager. Unfortunately, I let all so Anthem could try to maximize profit. You need to develop the right balance between profits are soaring with the insurance industry the two. When workers sense their manager is my empathy for the individual create a serious I have been practicing Emergency and Family CEOs making millions annually for their own empathetic to their needs, they tend to be loyal problem for the manager which was unfair to Medicine for twenty five years, during that time pockets. Remember the insurance industry to that manager. For businesses to succeed him and caused dissention for the business. I have evaluated close to 200,000 patients. The makes money by collecting yours and then and thrive, the manager and business need That was a bad decision. We retired the presenting symptoms are hugely important refusing to pay claims as much as possible. It loyalty from workers. However, a manager individual as soon as he qualified. and can be deceiving to doctors and patients is no different for health, auto and property. can’t expect loyalty without giving loyalty in In my career, I found workers perform alike. Chest pain that presents could be a heart Just remember Harvey and trying to get paid. return by trying to look after the wellbeing of best in an orderly well-run business with attack, aortic aneurysm, blood clot in the This will be important and I urge you to take a workers. mutual loyalty and trust between managers lungs, pneumothorax, pneumonia, heart valve few minutes to contact your representatives in and workers. A worker who fears for their issue, pleurisy, strained muscle or indigestion. Don’t let your empathy for one worker Texas and your US senators and representatives create problems for other workers and for job security doesn’t perform well. In 21 Abdominal pain could be even more numerous along with Texas Department of Insurance. It years managing two plants for two different diagnostic conditions many of which are very the business. Sometimes, the welfare of the also will help to let your employer know so individual has to be sacrificed for the welfare companies, we never laid off an employee. dangerous. Included in the murky water are that they can consider another insurer or if you We fired a few for cause, but when that conditions that are not life threatening but the of the whole organization. I learned that as are paying the bill, make up your own mind. If a young military officer long before I was was necessary we did it with dignity and presentation is difficult even for doctors much BCBS gets away with this then other insurers compassion. less your insurance company expecting you to a business manager. Sometimes military will follow their lead. The only thing the officers have to put individuals at greater risk To answer your question. Yes, there is a figure it out as a layperson. Especially when insurance industry understands is dollars and you or a family member is ill. to protect the unit. Officers are trained to do proper place for empathy in managing a cents, maybe if they lose yours they will wake that. Business managers need to learn that also. business, but balance it with objectivity. The insurance company likes to hang its up. Doc Tom For example, in my plant I had a manager who Ralph Coker volunteers with SCORE which hat on a diagnosis like sore throat, cough got promoted to a higher position which later , fever, or ankle sprain as a condition they provides free mentoring for small businesses was eliminated. He needed a job to finish and nonprofits A6 Island Moon August 2, 2018 Senior Moments Anecdotingly The Transistor Radio Launches Return of the Zombie Larvae from the Portable Electronic Age (Probably) Space By Dotson Lewis By Abigail Bair worth of 20 Mule Team Borax on the floor. Special to the Island Moon Have you ever gone to bed This slowed the creatures down somewhat. Dotson’s Note: In 1954, the commercial prototype model with a clear case, currently in at night thinking, “Tomorrow is the first day I kept cleaning, microscopically examining introduction of a new device revolutionized storage. of the rest of my life! I’m going to finally get my home for any phalanxes that had decided to consumer electronics forever. The new device organized, develop better coping strategies, floss Within a few “light out for the territories.” I found an entire was a transistor*, which, when inserted in a twice a day, and even start wearing matching years of the TR-1 wagon train worth of worms in my hallway radio changed the radio to a transistor radio. socks! Onward and upward!”? That’s where I launch, dozens (heading toward my bedroom), and crushed Joseph Stromberg, Harold Wallace, Texas was at bedtime Thursday night. I read myself of companies them (along with their pioneering spirit) in Instruments Bulletins and the Smithsonian the equivalent of a TED Talk on positivity and licensed Bell a paper towel. They were probably going to Magazine contributed to this report. meaningful existence, getting myself pumped Labs’ transistor “Wrath of Khan” me in my sleep. patent and began for the Friday ahead. For 50 Years the Radio Was a Piece of The creatures finally stopped emerging, and manufacturing The morning started even earlier than usual. Furniture it was time to clean up the chemical slough in a wide array of Stadler (my dog) and I did our morning exercise the kitchen. Unfortunately, it turns out that sea transistor radios. routine. When we got home, it was still early salt, 20 Mule Team Borax and ammonia (when Roughly a decade enough for me to start painting my dilapidated dry) turn into concrete. I had to dump gallons later, they added side fence. FM capabilities, of water onto the kitchen floor just to get most and ever-cheaper If you’re thinking about starting a painting of it loose, and then scrub the rest with a wire import models project, I would suggest that you not make the brush. Some bits required chipping. same mistake I did, and start in late July. After flooded the It took two more hours of scrubbing-while- about an hour and a half of working (added to markets. crying. Stadler (very inobtrusively) surrounded the previous hour of dog jogging), I was soaked me with a horseshoe of her toys, placing them Although portable through with sweat and covered in paint. I far enough away that they wouldn’t incur my music technology Regency TR-1 ran out of paint, cleaned up, and decided to go accidental wrath, but close enough that I could has, in many ways, inside, take a freezing shower, and dump about easily reach one should I need the comfort. advanced dramatically in the years since the a gallon of electrolyte-enhanced water down my For the first 50 years after its invention, the TR-1, the ancestor of today’s iPods and iPhones gullet. I felt quite loved until I realized that I would isn’t all that different. At roughly five by four have to pick up a laundry basket full of dog toys radio was essentially a piece of furniture. I cleaned my brush with the hose (I technically before I could finish the floor. Families sat huddled around a wooden also hosed myself), dumped my shoes on the appliance, which used a large amount of energy mat, and walked through my back door only to “At least my floor will be REALLY clean” I and was too fragile to be carried around because discover… thought as I wheeled out the vacuum cleaner of the breakable vacuum tubes inside. to remove any stray dog hairs/brain eating THAT MY KITCHEN FLOOR WAS zombie bugs. I powered up the vacuum, ready The introduction of the first mass production LITERALLY COVERED IN MILLIONTY – to be done with the job, desperately needing a item to use the tiny transistor to replace the BILLION STRANGE AND DISGUSTING shower… fragile vacuum tube led the way for the long- WHITE LARVAE! predicted transistorization and miniaturization …AND IT EXPLODED into a cloud of This had happened once before. In fact, the of many other mass production consumer dust that utterly covered the white tiles of my first column I ever wrote for The Island Moon devices. Texas Instrumentors can justly be kitchen floor. It looked like Oklahoma in the was about the other time this happened, and the proud of being the first to produce a high-gain early 1930’s. I half expected to see an ancient epic battle that ensued as I bravely fought off transistor at a cost permitting its application to Ford pickup full of Joads migrating through the the thousands of alien invaders. I knew what the high-volume commercial market. eddying grime. Sony TR-%% I had to do, but I was really unhappy about it. On October 18, 1954, the nature of consumer At the end of the day, I called the Rev to tell I started sweeping the encroaching hoards into electronics changed forever: listeners could her the rest of my tale of woe. “You know,” a dustpan and dumping them into freezer bags carry around a small device and enjoy their I whined, “the worst part is that last night I inches, with a sleek plastic case, headphone filled with about an inch of pure ammonia. As music on the go. Before the Walkman, the iPod totally vowed that I was going to stop using jack and simple controls, the original transistor I swept and dumped, I screamed at my phone: or the iPhone, it all started with the introduction food and booze to cope with stress, and now this radio was simply the first toy you could slip in “OK GOOGLE!! OK GOOGLE! CALL JEFF of the first commercial transistor radio, which happened and I can’t even have a glass of wine your pocket and use to listen to music. THE BUG GUY! SPEAKER! SPEAKER! is currently on display at the American History to calm down!” Museum. SPEAKER!” A Startup Japanese Company Becomes My Mother started laughing outright, “Well, After a few seconds, technology stopped The research that led to the transistor replacing a Giant duh, Ab! You brought this on yourself! You pretending I didn’t exist and I got Jeff on the the vacuum tube was based on work done during know better than to tempt the universe. Just go While the Regency sold out everywhere, it line. “Man, you’re the second person today,” he World War II, says Harold Wallace, a curator to bed.” at the museum. “There was a tremendous didn't stay on the market. Texas Instruments said. “I’ve seen these things twice in my career, push during the war to reduce the size and caused the sensation it wanted and then moved and I’ve never been able to figure out what the I took her advice. It was 5 p.m. power consumption of vacuum tubes,” he says, on to other things. heck they are. Hang in there. I’ll be over as particularly because the receivers used in radio- But over in Japan, a tiny company had other soon as I can.” controlled bombs depended on vacuum tube ideas. A tape recorder manufacturer called Then, still sweeping and crying, having made technology. “Not long after the war ended, the only a very small dent in the incursion, I called transistor was developed at Bell Labs, in 1947.” the Rev. The transistor came to replace the vacuum “MOM! THE HELL BUGS ARE BACK!” tube in a wide range of devices. It was “What???” she asked, not realizing the smaller, consumed less energy and was much enormity of the situation since she had more durable. Although it was initially just conveniently been out of town and unreachable used for military applications, engineers and during the last attack. businessmen quickly recognized the potential of the transistor to revolutionize radio receiver “THE STUPID ZOMBIE BUGS FROM technology. (PROBABLY) OUTER SPACE.” The original transistors had used a substance “Oh,” she replied. She is, if nothing else, an called germanium as the conducting material, avid reader. “Don’t kill them all. I want to see and though it worked well in lab settings, it them.” proved too fragile for everyday use. Executives At this point, I was still hauling them out by the at Texas Instruments, one of the companies squirming dustpan full. They weren’t all going licensed the patent from Bell Labs, were highly to die in the time it took her to get to my house motivated to get a practical transistor radio to unless someone dropped a nuke. market before the competition. They pushed engineers to develop an alternate material that A transistor The doorbell rang a few minutes later. I could function reliably in a small, portable answered it looking like a wet, paint splattered, radio. Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo had also decided to make harridan holding a dustpan full of writhing small radios. In fact, they were going to devote worms. Mom didn’t notice, or at least she “In the spring of 1954, they said, ‘Let’s get a wisely refrained from comment. program together and try to make a product— their whole company to commercial products not for a couple of years out, but let’s see if like that. “There’s one! There’s another one!” she Charter Boat Owners and Operators Wanted we can get it on the shelves for this Christmas Tsushin Kogyo was close to manufacturing excitedly exclaimed as she examined my for new location on Packery Channel season,’” Wallace says. “The engineers got its first radios when it heard that an American kitchen floor. There were still several hundred. a crash program together and developed the company had beaten them to the punch. But they She didn’t know what the bugs were, either. necessary transistors and circuits, and they kept up the hard work, eventually producing a “Save a few in a jar for your father,” she actually managed to get it on the shelves for the radio they named the TR-55. When Regency advised. “He knows about this kind of thing.” Packery Christmas season of 1954.” quit producing the TR1, in the Spring of 1955, Then, the Rev totally turned tail and ran away, Flats the Japanese company was poised to enter the helpfully yelling a final (cheerful) “There’s a TM Floating Cabin Repairs First Transistor Radio US market. bunch in your dining room,” as she slammed my front door. Large Boat Slip (22’ x 40’) available The first transistor radio was a joint project The only problem was that the company name good for either repairs or rebuilding between the Regency Division of Industrial was unpronounceable for Americans. They I got the remaining bugs swept up, but they Located under the JFK bridge on Packery Channel Development Engineering Associates and needed a new name. Ibuka and his partner Akio were still trickling out of the wall from beneath Call for lease terms Packery Flats Marina Texas Instruments. TI knew that it needed a Morita thought and thought. First, they found a the trim. It was time to go nuclear. I laid a paste fun product to catch the nation's attention. They Latin word “sonus” meaning "sound." That was of sea salt, ammonia and about 400 mule teams’ 361-774-8886 thought a radio was just the thing to make a a good start. At the time, bright young men were splash. TI built the transistors; Regency built the referred to as "sonny boys," and that was a good radio. On October 18, 1954, the Regency TR1 image too. Combining the two concepts, they was put on the market. It was a scant five inches developed a new name: Sony. high and used four germanium transistors. On August 7, 1955 Tokyo Telecommunications The Regency TR-1 hit stores on October 18, Engineering, the precursor to Sony, began 1954. It received AM stations and sold for selling its first transistor radios in Japan…And $50, the equivalent of more than $400 today. the rest, as they say, is history. Although a limited number of portable radios using vacuum tubes had been available, the You May Ask What It’s Good For TR-1 immediately transformed the state of consumer radio technology. “The vacuum With the transistor radio, music and information tube radios were serious battery hogs, and any suddenly became portable. No matter how vacuum tube generates a certain amount of heat isolated you were, you could hear news of the when it operates, and you have to be careful not world. And for teenagers who could suddenly to drop them,” Wallace says. “The TR-1 was listen to music anywhere they wanted -- far much more physically robust, with a lot less to away from an adult's ears -- it sparked a musical break, and it was much, much better on battery revolution: rock n' roll. life.” *A “transistor” is a device that regulates The museum’s Regency TR-1, currently on current or voltage flow and acts as a switch or display on the second floor, was donated in gate for electronic signals. 1984 by Dr. Willis A. Adcock, who was actually Dotson’s Other Note: For you Moon Monkeys, involved in developing the product at Texas do who remember when and what was your first Instruments. The museum is also home to a transistor radio? Before transistors, did any of you, as I did, build your own “superhet” (super heterodyne) receiver? Thank you for reading and commenting on Senior Moments. I can be reached at: [email protected] and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 or Cell: 530-748-8475. Please Note: The next Veterans Round Table Meeting will be Tuesday, August 7th, 9-11 AM, 3209 S. Staples. All veterans, their families and anyone interested in veterans’ affairs, are invited. Coffee & doughnuts are provided. Hope to see you there. Also our Veterans Radio Round Table is on the air on KEYS AM 1440, 8 – 10 AM, Saturdays. The next show will air August 4, 2018. Please listen and call in. The listener/ text line is: 361-882-5397…It’s your two hours, let’s hear from you. Hang in there/Have fun! Sharon Buhrle took this photo of her avid spearfisher son last weekend. August 2, 2018 Island Moon A 7 Island Moon on a Spoon Sicilian Tradition Equals Delicious By Chef Vita Jarrin Summer is a time 2 red pepper, washed and chopped when vegetables are at their peak. Everything 2 yellow pepper, washed and chopped seems to blossom and taste better with the summertime heat and sun. Since we’ve 3 celery sticks, washed and chopped established that this dish is Sicilian, lets just say 20 pitted green olives that the Mediterranean components are what make this dish extra special. Ingredients such 1 tbsp. salted capers, drained as olives, capers, eggplants, combined with 2 cups chunky tomato sauce (can use can or peppers and crunchy celery makes this dish preferably fresh) filling, as well as waistline friendly. ¼ white wine vinegar Caponata is a stew if you will. Interestingly it shines as a cold stew, which you seldom see. 1 tbsp. caster sugar

It tastes great spread over grilled, crusty bread, Directions: or tossed with farfalle pasta, or as a veggie side dish as part of your plate. The vinegar gives it Fry the onion in a large saucepan until softened. an acidic tang that compliments any meat or fish Add the eggplant, peppers, celery and garlic dish you serve it with. This dish is very forgiving and gently cook for about 10 minutes until recipe wise, therefore, if you like spice you can softened. add chili flakes, or serrano peppers, if you want Add the olives, capers, pre cooked tomato less vinegar, you add less, more sweetness, add sauce, vinegar and sugar. Mix well and cover, more sugar. You are in charge of the end result. leaving to cook on a gentle heat for 30 minutes. Another option for vegetarian ideas, is to serve If you want to add spice, add chili flakes or it over grits or polenta. You can eat it with serrano peppers while cooking. hummus, the two pair amazingly well. Serve hot with pasta or cold with crusty bread, The great thing about Caponata is that it tastes or over hummus. better the day or few days after you make it. The flavors have a way of marrying together. Tip of the week: Most Sicilian households can Caponata and eat Not everyone is a fan of sweet and sour. It’s it all year long. So if you’re are wondering what definitely an acquired taste. So if you like to do with eggplant, this dish would be a great the idea of this stewed dish, you can omit the way to let it shine. vinegar, and if eating it right away you can fry Sicilian Caponata (Sweet & Sour Stewed potatoes before frying eggplant and then add to the cooking stew. This is called peperonanta. Eggplant): If adding veggies, make sure they are veggies ¼ c olive oil (more if needed) that will hold up in the cooking process such as potatoes. Others like zucchini might not. 1 onion, peeled and chopped The important thing is to Have Fun! Try New 2 large eggplants, washed and cut into (1in) Things! Happy Eats… Enjoy! cubes Send letters and photos to [email protected] 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed A8 Island Moon August 2, 2018 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon Once a Raider Always a Raider Part I Guide to NFL's 2018 New Rules By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon didn’t know the positions. By Dotson Lewis As I entered the room, he saw me out of the I knew the center was in 2015) and fear of mass "pooch" kicks did probably in the middle, but Dotson’s Note: Some of you football minded corner of his eye. Standing 6’ 8” inches tall not materialize. But injury rates remain high, I’d only been to one or two games and I never Moon Monkeys may remember my report in the and weighing a shade over 275 pounds, it took according to Green Bay Packers president really paid much attention to it.” Ben flourished May 31, 2018 issue of The Island Moon. It was him a minute or so to completely stand up. As Mark Murphy. In fact, concussions remain five at Washington but was moved back and forth an early discussion of NFL rules and policy he started toward me, a smile spread across his times as likely to happen on kickoffs than on between the first and second string defense. The changes. I believe now is the time to go in-depth face. It had been awhile since we had seen each the average play, and the league's competition Huskies won two Rose Bowl Championships, on what happened at the last owners’ meeting. other, and I was happy to see him. He offered committee will consider elimination of it in 1960 and 1961. At the age of 20, Ben was Thanks to Rich McKay, Matt Weston, Sam his hand and I accepted graciously, as my hand altogether if that number doesn't decrease soon. about to become a professional football player. Farmer, Al Riveron, Eli Rosenberg, Malcolm disappeared inside of his. They say inside of Jenkins, Chris Long, Erwin Chemerinsky, New rule: No PATs at end of regulation every great athlete there is a mean streak, but Playing under Lombardi Eugene Volokh and a few active and retired you would never know it now that he had retired. 1961, during the NFL draft, Davidson was NFL on- the-field officials, for their help with What it means: Teams will no longer be A father of three girls, he could be kind and chosen in the 4th round by the New York Football this report. required to kick a meaningless extra point, or gentle, softer kneel down, after a score on the final play of than a shoebox Giants. He was not drafted by any AFL team. Here’s A Review On What We Know regulation. This situation arose in the divisional full of kittens. “I never spoke to anyone about pro football,” round of the 2017 playoffs, after the Minnesota said Ben. After three pre-season games, he was About On-Field Changes That Were He owned a Vikings' game-ending 61-yard touchdown play traded to the Green Bay Packers and third-year Recently Approved, Tabled And Rejected gravelly deep against the New Orleans Saints. The play put Head Coach Vince Lombardi. He signed with voice and wore It is obvious the Vikings ahead with no time remaining, the Packers for a $500 bonus, wore #72, and a handlebar that NFL owners setting off a wild celebration, but both teams was paid $9,000 for a fourteen-game schedule. mustache; had an eventful had to reassemble for the PAT. That will no Ben was once asked to run an errand to Bart each screamed annual rules longer be necessary. Starr’s house. “Our dog is a good watchdog, meeting when intimidation all but she took one look at Ben and ran howling a substantive Tabled rule: Hiring head coaches who by itself. During under the bed,” said Starr’s wife. As luck would change to the are in the playoffs his playing days, have it, the Green Bay Packers beat the NY catch rule isn't he had made Giants that year for the NFL Championship, What it means: NFL teams still can't formalize more enemies the biggest a head-coaching hire until that coach's current and Ben collected an additional $5,194.78 and headline of than some small a championship ring. Davidson said, “I thought team has played its final game. The competition Ben Davidson countries had the meeting. committee had proposed an amendment that Lombardi was a great psychologist.” A data-and people; he may would allow the coach to sign a contract with By 1962, Davidson was rapidly becoming an research-filled have read the Art the hiring team but not begin his new duties NFL reject. He was traded again and found Rich McKay presentation of War one too many times. This guy did not until after his current team's season is over. himself in Washington, D.C., playing for the from the NFL's invent spearing; it just seemed that way. This would have prevented episodes such as Redskins and wearing #75. He would stay medical staff in the one the Indianapolis Colts experienced with “That’s just the way I was taught to play through the 1963 season. March prompted owners to demand a new and Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, football,” he once said. Some claimed he would After joining the Oakland Raiders, former potentially far-reaching rule to ban players from who verbally agreed to terms in January but hit a quarterback while he was getting into his Dallas Cowboy, Pat Toomey, once said, “All my lowering their heads to initiate contact with then reversed course after Super Bowl LII. car with his girlfriend, after the game was over. life I knew that somewhere in the league there their helmets. Competition committee chairman The Colts had no recourse because McDaniels It was like fighting the Vandals or the Huns; must be a club like this.” “Big Ben” Davidson Rich McKay scrambled to incorporate an had not signed a contract. Teams that opposed when his name was called, it was hurricane joined the Oakland Raiders in 1964. He wasn’t intended point of emphasis into the rule book the rule change argued that coaches could be time and destruction was about to begin. He the best defensive end, but he was the most within hours, with plenty of details left to be distracted from their postseason duties, despite had no problem pounding in the stake or cutting recognizable. Davidson would be recreated determined. the required delay in starting their next job. off the opponent’s head and holding it up for all the villagers to see. Even his best line in by the Raiders into a fine quarterback killer. New Rule: 15-yard penalty for lowering Tabled rule: Video on sidelines one of his movies was “Kill them all.” It was Playing for the Raiders was like playing for the head to initiate, make contact with like Santa Anna attacking the Alamo. He didn’t New York Yankees, Duke, or Notre Dame; they What it means: Incredibly, in the year 2018, just want to hurt you; he wanted to hurt your were hated at every turn. Playing the Raiders helmet the NFL will continue to ban the use of video family’s feelings too. He was the sort of player was less popular than a case of the chickenpox. What it means: For the moment, the biggest by coaches and players during games. They will who could get 5 to 10 years in prison instead It was always nice to see Ben on TV because takeaway is mass confusion and angst. An continue to use still photographs instead, either of a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike like that meant he was not hiding in the back seat of unexpected, hurried and partial rollout has left printed or viewed on their Microsoft Surface conduct. He didn’t scare easily. your car with a knife and masking tape. As for many unanswered questions about a rule that tablets. But many coaches adamantly opposed that scary voice, Ben claimed that Kansas City McKay said was intended to change behavior the addition of All-22 video to the tablets. Why? He was one of the most-feared defensive tackle Jim Tyrer hit him in the throat during a of players at all levels of football. Here's what They believe video would make it easier for ill- ends in the game and had been instrumental in game. “Jim Tyrer was easily the best blocker I we know: It is now a foul when a player lowers prepared or lesser-skilled teams and coaches to creating the early Raider mystique. “There was ever faced,” Davidson recalls. “At 6’6” tall and his head to "initiate and make contact" with his make in-game adjustments. While not defeated, nothing menacing about my mustache; I just 280 pounds, he had power and finesse. I used to helmet against an opponent. It will cost 15 yards the rule is unlikely to be put to a vote before the grew it. I hope my play was menacing enough,” kid him about who had the biggest head, him, or and could -- as with the NCAA's targeting rule 2018 season begins, McKay said. he said. During his playing days there was a my Raider teammate, Jim Otto. I would often -- lead to ejection. What remains to be decided: lot more violence in the game. Quarterbacks say at banquets that Tyrer wore a big red trash Would ejections be mandatory, or based on Withdrawn proposed change: 15-yard were not protected as they are now. Leg penalty for pass interference can as a helmet when he played,” said Ben. severity of the hit? Would those ejections be whips, piling on, and late hits helped turn the “Those games with the Chiefs were my favorite subject to replay? And how strictly will officials What it means: Pass interference will remain a Oakland Raiders into the “Hell’s Angels” of games. I always likened them to a heavyweight enforce the rule? Players lower their heads to spot foul. The New York Jets had proposed a rule pro football. Davidson lived and played by the fight. You knew you were going to get beat initiate contact, with varying levels of contact, to change it to 15 yards, regardless of where it Al Davis creed. “Within the first five to eight up, but it was fun. We needed the Chiefs. We all the time. Stay tuned. occurs on the field. This idea has been proposed minutes of a game, the other guys quarterback wouldn’t have been as good without them,” must go down and go down hard,” said Davis. New Rule: Revised standard for a catch before, but it gathered more momentum than exclaimed Davidson. “Tyrer would come up to in years past. Among those who supported it Teammate Tom Keating once said, “We were the ball for the first play and say ‘Hi, Ben.’ I’d What it means: The requirement to "survive was New York Giants co-owner John Mara. Of the most penalized team in the game. There say, ‘Hi, Jim.’ Then we bent down and went at the ground" has been eliminated -- a change the 303 such penalties last season, 129 were were some games where we would have 200 it. After the game, we’d shake hands and say, designed specifically to avoid future instances walked off more than 15 yards. But the Jets yards in penalties, and Ben would have 75 to 80 ‘See you in a couple of weeks.’ He should be in of counterintuitive rulings that spurred debate withdrew it before a vote, knowing it would yards all by himself.” When he pulled on those the Hall of Fame,” noted Ben. about plays involving Detroit Lions receiver not pass. Concerns remain about the incentive shoulder pads, he became the perfect storm. Calvin Johnson in 2010, Dallas Cowboys for defensive backs to commit intentional “Once a Raider always a Raider,” said Ben. Next week: Show business awaits receiver Dez Bryant in 2014 and Pittsburgh fouls beyond 15 yards to prevent big plays. Benjamin Earl “Ben” Davidson and I had Andy Purvis is a local author and radio Steelers receiver Jesse James in 2017. Now, a The proposal made exceptions for "intentional met at Super Bowl XXVII in Los Angeles, personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. receiver must control the ball, establish himself and egregious" contact, but that distinction is California, at the NFL Experience. Ben was in com for all the latest info on his books or to in bounds and perform a football move -- such considered too subjective for officials to make the Miller Brewing tent, greeting fans, shaking listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books as a third step or a lunge -- to make a legal on a consistent basis. hands and signing autographs, along with other are available online and can be found in the catch. This definition applies to players who retired NFL players. Now he was in Corpus local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be remain standing or are going to the ground. It Dotson’s Other Note: There you have it, but as I wrote in May, you can rest assured that we will Christi at a local restaurant called the Ancient contacted at [email protected]. Also will remain eligible for replay review. McKay Mariner. Ben was a guest of the local Miller listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Q believes this change makes the rule objective, have more discussion before the 2018 season starts. Dale Rankin (former wide receiver) Beer distributorship owned by Barry Andrews. & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc.com but others -- including former officiating chief He was touring the country for Miller Lite 1230 AM, 96.1 FM and 103.3 FM. The home of Dean Blandino -- think it will simply swap one and I have agreed that in order to properly prepare our readers for the upcoming season, and had made a series of commercials for the the Houston Astros. set of debates out for another. Most notably: Did product. I was there as a quest. the receiver in fact perform a football move? two more reports are needed. 1. High School/ College (UIL/NCAA) playing rules update 2. Son of a librarian New rule: Permission for command The rules differences for the three (or maybe Ben had been born in Los Angeles, California, center to eject players four*) organizations which conduct football Charter Boat Owners and Operators Wanted on June 14, 1940. He was the son of Benjamin contests in the USA. Your comments will be for new location on Packery Channel What it means: Senior vice president of greatly appreciated. Franklin Davidson, and his mother, Avis, was a officiating Al Riveron can now order the librarian. Ben attended Woodrow Wilson High ejection of a player who has been penalized for *NFL (National Football League), NCAA School in the El Sereno neighborhood located a non-football act such as punching or fighting. (National Collegiate Athletic Association), UIL in northeast Los Angeles. Ben Davidson never Referees retain the authority to eject as well, but (University Interscholastic League), NFHS played football in high school. 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Wakemaker of the Week. Jetski on Sunday afternoon. Photo from Cartagena ramp so not much detail. Send your wakemaker photos to [email protected]! A 13 Island Moon August 2, 2018 The Great Outdoors On the Rocks By Jay Gardner Backwater Adventures I was visiting with Donna detection. The lines also kill turtles and other By Joey Farah Shaver and Cynthia the other sea life, including what I suspect is many of the day at Dr. Tunnells’ memorial sharks that we’re tagging up this way. A form Farah’s Fishing service, and they mentioned of sanctions were placed on Mexico by the U.S. Adventures a problem that are having on last year, which got the Mexican governments With the ocean at its lowest many small boat the seashore, something I have written about attention; but we’re not dealing with the owners are venturing out past the bays into the in the past; lanchas. A lancha is an excursion government in this case. Something needs to big blue. With this come responsibility and risk, (typically aboard a panga) from Mexico (usually be done. but the experience is many times extraordinary. Playa Bagdad, just 5 miles south of the border) My favorite is to catch big fish on light tackle. We were enjoying a nice Sunday funday at Most heavy bay set ups are good enough when into Texas waters. A perfect lancha trip will North Packery the other day, and the water deliver drugs and people to the U.S., and then spooled with 30-40lb braided line. Leader is the was extremely clear. I was bummed about not key. For many fish offshore a good 60lb leader is poach a bunch of fish on the way back across bringing my mask, fins, snorkel, and camera, but the border without getting caught. fine, but when you hook up on toothy gamefish others like Augs were more prepared. Despite that can be snapped in a second. I short piece Coast Guard numbers put lancha excursions up looking Caribbean green, he said the visibility of wire leader is perfect. Any time you have a around 100 a year (that are detected) and thanks once you got under the surface was really only wire leader the fish can see it, use only a length to collaboration with Game Wardens and the about 4 feet. Nevertheless, him and CT got in twice as long as your lure. My favorite casting Border Patrol, they have upped their interdiction the water and were looking around. After not baits have been the DOA TERROR EYES rate from 10% to around 35%. Undeterred, seeing any fish with the sling, they decided to AND THE 4”shad on a 1ounce jig head, and these “business losses” are evidently still get back in the water and see about cleaning up the always dangerous deep diving DOA BAIT within an economically feasible model for the the place. They were amazed at the amount of BUSTER. THESE ARE ALL AT ROYS BAIT lanchas, which are subsidized by gangs and fishing line in the water and weights on them. AND TACKLE. The guys there can show you drugs. They just keep coming, year after year. They cleaned about 15 yards and came up with exactly what you need and how to tie wire On the poaching end of it, the lanchas were these wads of bad juju (see pic). leader as well. Krystal came in from Fort Worth to show estimated to take 760,000 lbs of red snapper When I first started diving many moons ago, from Texas waters alone in 2015, and it’s likely I’m idling in from a trip out with my daughter her brother up on the fishing. We had a there was an organized cleanup of the Port A and her friend and the MOON MONKEYS closer to 800,000 these days. To put things in jetties. I remember being in nearly zero visibility great afternoon and brought this beautiful perspective, the entire Gulf of Mexico private ARE WONDERING WHERE MY ATUFF trout to hand in the natural gut bye Pit with a whacko dive partner with a long knife IS. Enjoy each day of summer, it’s going to be recreational quota is around 2.2 million pounds that was slicing and dicing and then handing the Island. these days, and that’s for all five Gulf states! over before you know it! FOLLOW ALL OUR wads of line and stuff to me. Everyone cleaned a HOOKUPS AND REPORTS ON FACEBOOK Some other disconcerting stories regarding the ton, and you know that fishing line can and does AT JOEY FARAHS BACKWATER FISHING!! lancha excursions are coming from the Coast tangle sea turtles that are swimming around the Get wet. Guard. They have located miles of illegal jetties. I don’t remember who sponsored those longline that has been deployed in US water events I did so long ago, but I think it’s time to using non-traditional methods to mark it. Legal get another clean up going. There may already longlines are marked with tall floating bouys be a cleanup organized by a local dive shop or with flashers and sometimes GPS units so they other organization, but I haven’t heard of it and can be located and retrieved. A lancha long line would like to know if there is. Friends of Padre set a couple of years ago was discovered by a President Aaron Baxter has expressed interest patrol as they drove by a brown pelican, who in supporting a cleanup as well. If you know tried to fly away from the patrol, but whos legs of one that is already in the works, please have were tied to something. They turned around them drop me a line at [email protected] and were able to capture the pelican in order to but if there isn’t one planned for Packery jetties, free it, and then realized that it was tied to a long I think it’s probably past time to get one going. line, which they pulled up. They were using a Who’s with me? Time to get a sharp dive knife, live pelican to mark their lines in order to avoid put on some gear, and get out there IN the Rocks the next clear period we get.

Coryne Farah with one of her nice You’re never too old for your uncle to take snapper this week. 60’ of water off of you fishing! The best trout action has been Packery. in the ICW this week on live croaker and piggy perch

Augs and CT with removed fishing line.

Swimming with the Sharks Lauran Russle with a light tackle kingfish just off the beach. DOA 4” swim bait TEXAS CROAKER COLOR. The Travels of Harvey the Shark Catch and Release Techniques for Sharks Starting from near Corpus Christi, Harvey the She likely visited the Flower Garden Banks Many sharks are subject to minimum size out of the water (just long enough to take shark traveled far into the Caribbean Sea and National Marine Sanctuary, an ecosystem that limits, and some species may not be legally photos and measure the fish). back two years in a row, clocking more than needs these top predators to remain healthy. retained at any size. Check the shark regulations • If possible, keep the fish from thrashing 14,000 miles in all. Scientists at the Center for In addition to numbered and satellite tags, the before planning a trip. When releasing sharks, Sportfish Science and Conservation at the Harte without using a net. If a net is required, use a center uses acoustic tags, which send signals to the following tips will help protect both anglers rubber-mesh landing net instead of abrasive Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies receivers placed in coastal inlets. These work and fish. attached a satellite tag to the 8-foot shortfin nylon. well on species such as bull sharks, which Equipment mako. Sending a signal every time it breaks the spend a lot of time near the coast. This summer, • Lay the fish horizontally. surface, the tag allows them to track Harvey in scientists plan to tag bull sharks in the Laguna • Sturdy gloves • Do not place on a hot surface, place on a near real-time. de Terminos protected area in Campeche, • Wet towel(s) wet towel if possible. Big sharks play equally big roles in ocean Mexico. • Use a wet rag or glove, or wet hands ecosystems, yet scientists know little about • Pliers, wire cutters, hook remover “Tracking will help determine whether these before handling fish. their day-to-day lives. With many shark animals are connected to those elsewhere in the • Bolt cutters species declining, tracking their distribution • Cover the fish’s eyes to calm it. Gulf,” says Nature Conservancy scientist Jorge • Camera(s) and movement could identify critical areas to Brenner. “Mexican fishermen catch pregnant • Don’t put your fingers in the eyes or gills. protect. The sportfish center and recreational females in the laguna, so it also may reveal Handling Your Catch anglers have tagged thousands of sharks Removing the Hook whether it serves as a bull shark nursery.” Safety for Anglers along the Texas coast since 2012 with simple • Remove the hook as soon as possible numbered tags. Tagging and tracking help scientists work with Handle sharks carefully. Sharp teeth and following landing of the shark. their peers on conservation in other countries. thrashing tails can cause serious injury. “To date, 94 have been recaptured,” says • Using pliers, remove the hook by backing sportfish center director Greg Stunz. The times “Sharks are very migratory,” Stunz says. Safety for Sharks it out the way it went in. and places of recapture reveal patterns in the “Tagging shows us that some of those in the sharks’ movements. Tagged sandbar and tiger Gulf spend time in up to five different territorial Proper handling increases the chance that a • If the hook is difficult to remove: sharks each went three years before recapture. waters. So, we can have the best management shark will survive the release. The internal organs of many species of shark are loosely o Cut the hook with bolt cutters and A blacktip tagged off Padre Island National plan in the U.S., but sharks may go beyond remove the sections, or Seashore traveled 580 miles before getting our range to countries where they are still held in place by connective tissue. In the water, hooked three months later in Veracruz, Mexico. harvested.” these organs are supported, but if the shark is o Cut the leader as close to the hook Another blacktip was recaptured three times in lifted by the tail, the tissue may tear, causing as possible. Swimming into the wrong waters could put an damage to the organs. one year, and a great hammerhead, twice. end to Harvey’s impressive travels. • If the fish is hooked deeply, cut the leader A satellite-tagged 11.5-foot female mako, • Leave fish in the water if possible. If that as close to the hook as possible. (Note: Harvey is named not for the infamous isn’t possible, minimize the time the fish is Peggy Hughes, proved more of a homebody hurricane but for renowned sportsman Harvey than Harvey, cruising near the edge of the Weil.) continental shelf off Texas and Louisiana. Trust Send letters and photos to [email protected] Padre Island and Port Aransas’ Oldest Island Based Pest Control Company.

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Today’s of the Coastal Bend: flooding. Given our living in areas susceptible to flooding should has worked for both HOA’s and Professional Board is much more cautious and guarded community’s proximity to the Texas coast, many pay close attention to local emergency alerts HOA Management Companies. His starting about spending YOUR money. Hands-on residents may already be aware that flooding and weather advisories issued by the National date will be on or about September 5. Stay involvement and research are now in practice. can occur near the water or in other low-lying Weather Service. These alerts and advisories tuned for more information. In the past, the tail wagged the dog. It is now areas. However, as illustrated by the recent are helpful in determining the risk of flooding time for the dog to wag the tail. That is, the floods in Houston, flooding is a possibility Lot Mowing- The mowing is continuing. in your area and what, if any, action you should PIPOA will oversee, take charge of spending even in those areas not typically at risk for this On Tuesday, I had an excellent meeting with take. Typically, there are four key terms used projects, and if necessary hire project type of weather disaster. With this in mind, I an island homebuilder. This gentleman owns that help to indicate your risk level: managers to be true advocates for the PIPOA. would like to share some of the necessary steps approximately 100 lots in the PIPOA. He has you can take to ensure your family is safe and • Flood Watch: Flooding is possible due a contract with a mowing company. However, PIPOA Staff- The compliance department prepared in case of a flood. to the weather conditions in the area. he agreed to expedite his mowing even if of the PIPOA is now staffed up. (Please Monitor radio and television stations for he has to hire a second mowing company. recall, we had zero employees for a time.) The One of the most important ways to prepare more information. Furthermore, we discussed the processing PIPOA needs a kinder and gentler approach for a weather emergency is by developing a • Flash Flood Watch: Flash flooding is of his building permits, payment of his to gaining property owner’s cooperation family disaster response plan. This can be possible. Be prepared to move to higher accounts receivable, and so on. I plan to regarding the maintenance of their property. accomplished by first identifying specific flood ground. Monitor radio and television continue to meet with builders to create better We want to work with the community to risk factors such as geographical location, the stations for more information. relationships and ensure proper procedures. create PRIDE in our Island. The PIPOA structure in which you reside, and personal needs everyone’s participation to keep their circumstances such as medical conditions. • Flood Warning: Imminent threat Billish Park- The contractor is scraping properties looking good and property values Another important component of this disaster of flooding in the area. If advised to the dead grass and weeds from the park. The up. Therefore, the PIPOA has renamed the response plan is identifying evacuation evacuate, do so immediately. new sod cannot be far off. The playground compliance personnel. They are no longer strategies in order to prevent confusion and build will start this weekend. This is real • Flash Flood Warning: A flash flood is Compliance Inspectors, but Community injury in times of emergency. progress!!!! occurring or will occur soon. Seek higher Representatives. Their mission is to work In addition to a comprehensive family disaster ground on foot immediately. The Audit- The CPA will start the audit WITH PIPOA members and not against them response plan, another key way to prepare for a on Thursday. The CPA firm will examine to make our properties both attractive and flood is by creating a disaster response kit that When flooding occurs in your area, it is 2017 and 2016 so that we can have accurate serviceable as a boating community. includes items such as flashlights, batteries, important to remember to always avoid walking numbers for filing our tax return. Then, if or driving through floodwaters when possible. As always, I want to hear from you. You can telephones, radios and sufficient tools in case of need be, additional auditing will be done. an emergency. It only takes six inches of moving water to reach me at [email protected]. affect the ability to walk and two feet of water Other important items to consider are blankets, to sweep a vehicle away. Information regarding pillows, seasonal clothing and special items evacuation routes and travel safety during a for infants and the elderly. Be sure to also storm is available by calling the Statewide include first aid supplies as well as medicines Road Conditions hotline at 1-800-452-9292 or and prescription drugs. Along with various by visiting the official website of the State of Notes from Nueces necessities, this kit should include copies Texas at www.texas.gov of personal documents such as insurance information, birth certificates, and family and If you have questions regarding any of the By Brent Chesney information mentioned in this week’s article, Nueces County Commissioner Precint 4 emergency contact information. The American Red Cross also recommends having a three-day please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or Medical Tent Sponsors-Physicians Premier supply of nonperishable food and water on hand District Office. Please always feel free to SANDCASTLE RUN A HUGE contact my office if you have any questions T Shirt sponsors-Prints Charming Royal in case of a flood. SUCCESS-THANK YOU! or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if Tees and Core Coastal Realty Protecting your home, car, and other personal you would like to contact my office regarding I am pleased to report that the third annual Awards sponsor-Coastline Properties property should also include ensuring you constituent services. As always, my offices are Sandcastle Run was a big success. We had a have the right insurance coverage in case of a available at any time to assist with questions, great turnout and I feel certain we will at least Bronze sponsors- Rock Engineering and weather event such as flooding. The National concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- match the amount of money raised last year. 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Atlantic sharpnose sharks Rhizoprionodon terraenovae It may seem like summer vacation just began, Many parents and students are relying more on 2. Blacktip sharks but it’s already time to start thinking about the websites to get their shopping done. According The Atlantic sharpnose is a small shark, new school year! As parents look to check off to BBB’s 2017 Risk Report, online purchase 3. Bonnethead sharks usually around 3-4 feet long. It sticks to coastal areas, often hunting for its preferred meals of supplies on their child’s back-to-school list, schemes are the riskiest type of scams. BBB 4. Bull sharks the upcoming Tax Free Weekend and shopping offers the following advice to make sure you mollusks, worms, small fish and crustaceans 5. Spinner sharks online both offer great opportunities to stock up get what you pay for. in surf zones and the mouths of rivers. While Check shark regulations and learn to identify many species of requiem sharks do not thrive in and save on some of your shopping needs. • Use a secure site. When shopping online, the different species as well as any size limits. captivity, the Atlantic sharpnose is well-suited This year’s Sales Tax Holiday is Aug. 10-12. the first step is to make sure the URL Recreational Texas anglers are allowed one to life in public aquariums. According to the Texas Comptroller of Public starts with “https” and includes a lock shark per person per day with a two-shark Accounts, you can buy most clothing, footwear, symbol. The “s” in “https” stands for Whale Shark possession limit. school supplies and backpacks tax free from a secure, which means your information is Rhincodon typus Texas store or from an online or catalog seller being protected. Click on the lock symbol Hammerhead Shark doing business in Texas. A list of qualifying to verify that it is activated. Sphyrna sp. items can be found here. • Look up the website’s privacy policy and To make the most out of Tax Free Weekend contact information. If it is not clearly this year, Better Business Bureau recommends listed, or they only have an email as the shoppers: point of contact, take that as a big red flag and shop elsewhere. • Know the difference between “back-to- school sale” and tax-free items. Retail • Protect your personal information. Be stores may advertise back-to-school sales sure to use your credit card instead of because they know consumers are buying your debit card, as credit cards not only items for the upcoming school year. provide additional protection, but it’s also Certain discounts will still have taxes easier to dispute a fraudulent charge with Whale shark applied to them unless the item appears a credit card. Also, be extremely wary of on the state comptroller’s tax-free list. any website or store that asks for your Hammerhead Shark At 40 feet long, whale sharks are the biggest child’s personal information to access fish in the world, and a bit of a mystery. No one • Read the fine print. Retailers aren’t special deals. has ever seen whale sharks mating or giving required to collect state and local sales Wide-set eyes, positioned on either side of their birth. Despite having a 5-foot-wide smile, these or use tax on most clothing and footwear For more tips on school shopping, head to flattened head, give hammerheads 360-degree gentle, spotted giants don’t use their three rows sold for less than $100 during Tax Free www.bbb.org/backtoschool. vision. Among sharks, only hammerheads have depth perception, useful for seeking prey. of 300 teeth to eat. They slurp up vast quantities Weekend. The exemption applies to items Kelly Trevino is the regional director for the Hammerheads can grow up to 20 feet long of water and filter it for krill, plankton, small that sell for less than $100, regardless of Corpus Christi/Victoria area of Better Business and more than 1,000 pounds, although many fish and other marine organisms. Populations how many items are sold on the same Bureau serving the Heart of Texas. Kelly is are smaller. In the absence of male sharks, have been in decline for the past few decades. ticket. available for media interviews and speaking hammerhead females can reproduce asexually, • Save your receipts. You’ll need them if engagements. You can reach her by phone: (361) Lemon Shark but it leads to a lack of genetic diversity. you want to make an exchange or return 945-7352 or email: ktrevino@corpuschristi. Negaprion brevirostris an item. Remember some items are non- bbb.org. Bull Shark refundable or have a 30-day return period. A dark-yellow coloration helps lemon sharks Carcharhinus leucas blend in with the sandy bottom of the coastal These shallow-water sharks are one of the waters they frequent. Lemon sharks often most aggressive species. Bull sharks can weigh gather in groups of up to 20 as they cruise the up to 500 pounds, and sometimes reach lengths coral keys and mangrove forests at dawn and of over 11 feet. The bull shark’s name comes dusk in search of fish, crabs and rays. Lemon CLUB NEWS from a penchant for head-butting prey with its sharks have been seen sitting still (difficult for short nose before biting, and from its chunky, sharks, many of which must move to breathe) The Island Moon provides this space for endorsement process, proactive and while smaller fish clean parasites off their skin. Island organizations. If you are a member unified voting in non-partisan races and muscular body. Bull sharks generally eat fish, of a club and want to get the word out other issues and referendums put to public dolphins and even other sharks. Shortfin mako Shark about your events and/or projects send vote. Meetings are open to the public. Tiger Shark them along and we will get them in. IUPAC meets meeting the 2nd Thursday Isurus oxyrinchus Be sure to include a brief description of of the month from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM at Galeocerdo cuvier With wide, flashing black eyes and a snaggle- the Island Time Sushi Bar, contact: Nick what your organization does and a contact Tiger sharks get their name from the dappled toothed mouth, shortfin mako sharks have a Colosi 618-889-9160 ncolosi@yahoo. person for those interested in joining. stripes on the flanks of young sharks. The crazed look. Makos (which feed on bony fish, com. squid, octopuses, turtles and other sharks) catch Send the info to [email protected] average tiger shark is between 10 and 14 feet POA - Padre Isles Owners Association. long, and weighs from 850 to 1,400 pounds. their dinner by lunging upward at its flanks, and we will include it. Or call us at 949- tearing off pieces of flesh with several rows of 7700. The Association’s primary responsibility Tiger sharks will eat anything: turtles, trash, is to maintain the Common Areas, assess sea snakes and more. They’re the second-most angled teeth. These open-ocean sharks are speed Padre Island Antique Classic Car and collect the annual fees and provide dangerous species to humans. Thousands of demons, sometimes clocking in at 46 miles per Club (PIACCC) is open to all vehicles information and assistance to property tiger sharks are killed each year for their fins, hour. They are the fastest sharks on record. 25 years and older: Antique, Classic, owners. .. Membership in PIPOA is skins and vitamin-rich livers. Sandbar Shark Roadsters, Hot Rods, etc; who would like automatic for anyone acquiring record to meet to plan meetings, socials, rallies, legal title to any property within Padre Nurse Shark Carcharhinus plumbeus tours, car shows on and around the Island. Isles. Their office is located at 14015 Ginglymostoma cirratum This peaceful, gray-blue shark skims the Please contact [email protected] for Fortuna Bay Drive on The Island. (361) seafloor in coastal areas, sticking to its diet of information on the upcoming meeting. 949-7025, [email protected]. fish and the occasional crab. Sandbar sharks Please include your contact information ARK – Animal Rehabilitation Keep. have large dorsal fins to stabilize them as and the type of car owned. Located in Port Aransas the ARK is they cruise through currents in shallow water, Youth Development Foundation of affiliate with the University of Texas at preventing them from being flipped over or Port Aransas. YDF meets at noon each Austin Marine Science Center. They rolling. handle the rehabilitation of most species Thursday at Stingray’s, 401 Beach Ave., Silky Shark Port Aransas. For more information please of wildlife in the area with an emphasis email [email protected]. on marine animals. If you find an animal Carcharhinus falciformis in peril they can help. 750 Channel View Padre Island Ukulele Club – We meet Dr. Port Aransas. Contact Alicia Walker at Silky sharks’ super-soft skin lends them a every other Tuesday night! Call or text 337-290-0251 or alicia.walker@utexas. Danny Salazar at (316) 877--‐7071 edu Nuse shrak for the next meeting date. Beginners Workshop: 6 to 7 PM and Open Jam: Island’s PIPPs Chapter of Corpus 7 to 8 PM. All Skills levels welcome. Christi Red Hat Society. In 2004 a Slow-moving nurse sharks trawl the sandy Location: Island Joe’s Coffee and Gallery, group of Island ladies got together under ocean floor in search of tasty fish, shrimp or 13919 SPID, right here on the island. a Palapa and founded the Padre Island cephalopods. They are relatively small with A $3 per person donation covers the Palapa Pals (PIPPs). Our only rule is that long tail fins. These benthic beauties have small workshop, materials and the open jam. there are no rules! We are all about fun fleshy whiskers around their curled mouths, Loaner ukuleles available at no extra cost. and friendship. We meet once a month and their skin is soft to the touch, unlike that RSVP online. PadreIslandUkeClub@ for lunch and various fun outings from of some other sharks. Nurse sharks are highly gmail.com cupcake making to CPR. social, huddling in large groups as they sleep Silky shark. For color photos, download the day away, then breaking off alone to forage this issue at www.islandmoon.com KIWANIS Club of Padre Island. Padre Island Book Wine & Spirits. at night. Kiwanis meets at Veranda Restaurantat This is the Island book club. We meet Schlitterbahn at Noon on the first and the first Wednesday of each month at The Blacktip Shark metallic sheen as they slice through the pelagic third Wednesday of the month. Barrel at 7:00 pm. Wonderful group of zone. Measuring up to 12 feet and weighing ladies that like to read, love socializing Carcharhinus limbatus nearly 800 pounds, silky sharks range from dark Island Strategic Action Committee. with the girls and drinking wine! Come brown to silvery blue-gray, with piercing pale Is a 14-member committee which meets Named for its elegant black-dipped fins, the out and join us we would love to have blacktip shark is relatively small, reaching eyes. Like many other sharks, they eat bony fish at 5:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each you! Contact Linda Walsh, lawalshva@ and cephalopods; scientists often observe them month at the Comfort Suites on Windward. maximum lengths of about 8 feet, and weighing yahoo.com or 361-445-7999, or just show at most just over 200 pounds. They have sneaking around schools of tuna. The committee’s purpose is to advise the up! Corpus Christi City Council on matters pointy noses and robust, barrel-chested bodies. pertaining to The Island. All meetings are Parrot Heads of Port Aransas - is open to the public and the public is invited a local chapter of the Parrot Heads in to address the committee during the public Paradise Inc., a not-for-profit corporation Send letters and photos to [email protected] comment period. whose purpose is to assist in community and environmental concerns and provide a Padre Island Business Association. The variety of social activities for people who association is a not-for-profit organization are interested in the music of Jimmy Buffett whose primary purpose is to advertise and and the tropical lifestyle he personifies. promote Padre/Mustang Islands, Flour Founded in 2009, the club motto is “Partying Bluff and Corpus Christi while advancing with a Purpose’’. To join or ask questions go the interests of the business community. to portaransasparrotheads.com or email or It is managed by a 9-member board of call Deno “Moon Dog” Fabrie, President at directors. A membership luncheon is held 361 749 0256 or [email protected]. on the 2nd Thursday of each month at The Veranda starting at noon. Mixers are held The New Neighbors League: New Neighbors on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. The League is a women’s social organization open association annually has two fundraising to women of the coastal bend, promoting fun events – Taste of the Island in the fall and & friendship. New Neighbors League holds a Wine Tasting in the spring. monthly coffees, luncheons, as well as monthly activities such as Ladies Night Out, Couples P.I.E. Padre Island Enrichment Club Dinners, Movies, Cards, and Golf to name a is a ladies only social club open to all few. Visit our website at newneighbors.com or owners/residents of North Padre. We hope email us at [email protected] to enrich our members through social activities and community involvement. Flour Bluff Padre Island 4H Flour Bluff We have monthly luncheons (2nd Friday) Padre Island 4H (FBPI4H) is a club for kids along with groups of bunco, bridge, in 3rd grade-12th grade. We meet at 6:30 spades, craft club and book clubs. We pm the first Monday of every month in the enjoy raising money for scholarships FB Intermediate cafeteria. 4H provides for local graduating seniors as well as opportunities and experiences where young people learn by doing. 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By Ronnie Narmour show this year… we hope.” Congratulations to will be at Shorty’s and Americana singer Chris all of these talented artists. Saucedo (San Antonio, TX) will play the Back [email protected] Porch. Also on Thursday, there’s a big show in I thought you were driving… Scattered shots… town at Brewster Street with super star Randy Rogers. On Friday Okie Joe Mack (Tahlequah, The world is spinning out of control. From the Finding Friday, Oddfellas… OK) will return to Shorty’s. Just for the record, “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” department, a Tahlequah is in Cherokee County in the foothills We were hitting on all cylinders last weekend, 61 foot sport fishing boat out of Port Aransas, of the Ozarks and the heart of the Cherokee the Got ‘M On, recently sank in a fishing nation. That explains a lot. Joe Mack’s musical tournament 45 miles out of Port O’Connor. work is an exhaustive acrobatic display of guitar Apparently the boat captain put the million technique that is nothing short of a Fourth of dollar vessel on autopilot while cruising at 32 July fireworks show. Watch closely folks, his knots. What could possibly go wrong? How fingers never leave his hands. You really gotta about broad siding The Lady Toni , a 75 foot Leslie Willie played the Belt Sander Races see Joe Mack, if for nothing else but to marvel shrimping boat that only got her guardrails at the Gaff on Friday. bent a little. He reportedly left the wheel to go measure the 100 inch marlin they’d just and for making sure caught. Fortunately, no one was hurt badly, Willey has a stage to beyond a few bumps and bruises, and they play on. Also, Brooke were rescued quickly by a passing vessel. I Finding Friday played the Back Porch last Graham from Taylor, understand there were five captains on board. weekend. Texas was in town to Reportedly heard just before the collision, “Oh throw her 2nd annual man! I thought you were driving.” And over at Beach Party this the State Aquarium in San Antonio, they caught same day. It was a some guy on security camera stealing a small lovely event that had shark from one of the tanks. He got it out of everything from a tug- the building by wrapping it in a wet blanket o-war on the beach and placing it into a baby stroller. He waltzed it to a nice concert on right out the front door disguised as a baby, just the backyard stage like he was the proud papa. Of course they were Dave Zuefeldt shows that evening. I even off his winning belt later arrested. Some people take Shark Week a noticed our resident Okie Joe Mack will play Shorty’s this sander, the mighty little too seriously. SMH. You can’t make this conga player, Luis Friday night. stuff up. Turbo Trout. Never Villareal, playing with her. Brooke plays doubt the Trout. at his kazoo stylings. Also on Friday, the boys The Oddfellas ripped it up at Treasure a laid back Texas Hill who stand somewhere between the Ramone’s Island last Saturday. Country style and has a really nice voice. I hope and Dwight Yoakum, Two Tons of Steel (San she does this again next year. She fits in quite Antonio, TX) will play their yearly show at the the weather was HOT, HOT, HOT and dry (and nicely around here. Back Porch and Jonmikael MREZ will be at stable), the island was seething with tourists Treasure Island. On Saturday country singer and the nights were filled with music, literally. DO NOT MISS LIST Johnny Kiser is at Treasure Island, jump-blues Between the different outdoor stages around Coming this weekend… rockers Michael Milligan and Texiana Bluez town (Shorty’s, Treasure Island, The Back Porch, (Austin, TX) will blow the roof off Giggity’s like Bron’s) I could clearly hear bands playing If things go like they usually go, year after he always does, the Chanklas will be rocking until the wee hours. I love that. I love pedaling year, we have a couple more strong weeks of some groovy reggae at Shorty’s and over at the around on my three wheels and automatically tourist mania, then drop off for a couple of Back Porch Larry Joe Taylor (Stephenville, gravitating towards the music in the air. The weeks right before school starts, then a big, The Got M On sank 45 miles off shore TX) will be giving another musical tutorial on Pied Piper knew what he was doing. The nine- bad Labor Day Weekend of full goose crazy from Port Oconnor. Photo by John virtues of island time. Spoiler alert: he throws piece-funky- jumping-big horn-party band from and then we can finally exhale. So gather your his Timex into the water. Hafernick. SA, Finding Friday, returned to the Porch for wits, suck it up one more time and let’s do this two nights last weekend of funky fun. It felt like thing. On Thursday, the 2nd, local fave Ty Dietz ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ th disco night and all the girls were wiggling. Led 34 Songwriter’s Showcase announces by the big man, Chris Byrd, on lead vocals, this lineup… band has got 70’s and 80’s funky soul down to Port Aransas’ an art. Byrd tells me the band stays as busy as 34th Songwriter’s they want and it shows. This is one tight unit. Another very cool band from Corpus I’d really Live Music Showcase has announced the been wanting to see, The Oddfellas, played Koe Wetzel, Kody West @ lineup for their Treasure Island this weekend. I see where they Brewster Street 2018 show, to get their name. Their two horn players were a Tonight Philip Hand @ House of be held in the trip and it was all eyes on them. Playing trumpet Rock courtyard of the and trombone, these cats went beyond stepping. Wednesday, August 1 historic Tarpon They were the show and had their moves down. Open Mic @ Executive Friday, August 10 Inn on Monday, This was a polished act and it never slowed Surf Club Ken Morrow @ Sunset Sounds October 15th. down. Those guys have one speed and its wide Joe Mack @ Giggity’s open. They too got the gals wiggling. And the Damon Scott @ House of Mike O’Neill @ Giggity’s This event is a True Country @ Treasure singer was a surprise. Not just anyone can pull Rock CHRIS SAUCEDO AUG. 02 Proprietor Lee Roy fundraiser for TWO TONS OF STEEL AUG. 03 Island the Port Aransas off Stevie Wonder. What a blast it was to see Hoskins stands on Thursday, August 2 LARRY JOE TAYLOR AUG. 04 Gary P. Nunn @ Back Art Center and both of these bands in one night. It was a whole Free Beer Band (7-10) @ Porch his new stage in the this year’s show lot of funky, funky fun. Giggity’s SQUEEZEBOX BANDITS AUG. 09 Billy Snipes @ Shorty’s courtyard of the Tarpon Ty Dietz @ Shorty’s GARY P. NUNN AUG. 10 Cuveralls, David Martinez will feature Bill Turbo Trout, Leslie Willey, Brooke Inn. Averbach, Elvin Billy Snipes @ Treasure MAX STALLING AUG. 11 @ Rockit’s “Preecher” Graham… Island San Juan Underground @ Vino Mio Social Club Williams, James Derkits, Carol Elliott, Chris Saucedo @ Back 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront Also on Saturday, the Gaff had it going on Porch Def Leggend @ Brewster Hamp Brockman & Janet Drew, Guy all day and night. They had a huge turnout for Falco & the Wolf @ Street Le Roux, Ty Dietz, Independent Thieves the beltsander Rockit’s Micro Wrestling, Tropicoso (Garrett Wieland & David King), Jered races in which Randy Rogers & Wade @ House of Rock Clark, Triggerfish (Mark Wiles, Woodie my buddy, Dave Bowen Parking Lot Party Lawson & Luis Villareal + Ron Baker), Billy Zutfeldt let @ Brewster Street Saturday, August 11 Snipes, Mike Williams and Lela Caldwell. it be known, BELT SANDER RACES Each artist will play three songs of original “Turbo Trout Friday, August 3 @ Gaff Toman Brothers @ music. The event was cancelled twice last year is back.” Never Red Giant @ Giggity’s Jonmikael MREZ @ Ty Dietz Aug. 02 & 11 Giggity’s due to weather; once it flooded and once there doubt the trout. Brooke Graham played Treasure Island Joe Mack Aug. 03 Max Stalling @ Back Porch was a cat 4 hurricane. You may have heard about It was nice to Joe Mack @ Shorty’s Jason Suthern @ Treasure it. But Lee Roy Hoskins and the folks over at the Gaff on Saturday. see Leslie Willey Two Tons of Steel @ Back Chanklas Aug. 04 Island the Tarpon Inn have been busy repairing all the performing after Porch Ty Dietz @ Shorty’s damages from Harvey and have built a new the race. Willey is an island treasure who’s Blind Owls @ Vino Mio Selfie Aug. 09 Return to Sender, Falco & deck in front of Roosevelt’s and a new stage been making music here since the 50’s. He’s Social Club Billie Snipes Aug. 10 the Wolf @ Rockit’s with thatched palms on the roof and everything an excellent fiddle player and recorded a record Clarissa Serna, Samantha Sing Along Piano Bar @ looks just great over there. According to under the moniker, Fiddlin’ Willey. God bless Aiken @ Rockit’s OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port Aransas Brewster Street Summer Breakout @ House showcase talent coordinator, Woodie Lawson, the Gaff owner, Kip Shannon, for having Spazmatics @ Brewster Street of Rock “We’re not going to let a little weather stop this wonderful homegrown events like this (and the long time island tradition. There WILL be a Bluegrass Festival, and the Black Eye Pea Off) Saturday, August 4 Sunday, August 12 PAPHA Art Show & Sale Mike Williams (brunch), @ PA Community Center Antone & the All Stars @ Johnny Kiser @ Treasure Giggity’s GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR Island Billy Snipes @ Back Porch LIVE MUSIC Michael Milligan @ Fundaze @ House of Rock LIVE MUSIC Giggity’s Free Beer Band Aug. 02 Chanklas @ Shorty’s Monday, August 13 EVERY Red Giant Aug. 03 Larry Joe Taylor @ Back Open Jam w/ Ray Summy NIGHT Mike Milligan Aug. 04 Porch @ Giggity’s Antone & All Stars Aug. 05 Jarrod Birmingham @ Brewster Street Tuesday, August 14 Open Jam Aug. 06 All You Can Eat Myndfield & the Chili Open Mic w/ Rev Matt @ Paul & Victoria Aug. 07 Funk Horns, Sonny Salinas House of Rock FRIED Magnus Aug. 08 @ Rockit’s Expert Computer Repairs Paul Taylor and Victoria FLOUNDER Eclipse: Tribute to Journey Majors (7-10) @ Giggity’s Everyday 11-7 @ House of Rock 722 Tarpon, Port Aransas, TX Wednesday, August 15 Sunday, August 5 Open Mic @ Executive Mike Williams (brunch), Surf Club Antone & the All Stars @ Billy Snipes @ Giggity’s Giggity’s Treasure Island Damon Scott @ House Ray Summy @ Back of Rock Porch BILLY SNIPES AUG. 02 San Juan Underground @ Fundaze @ House of Rock JONMIKAEL MREZ AUG. 03 Vino Mio Social Club JOHNNY KISER AUG. 04 Monday, August 6 TRUE COUNTRY AUG. 10 Thursday, August 16 Free Beer Band (7-10) @ Open Jam w/ Ray Summy JASON SUTHERN AUG. 11 @ Giggity’s Giggity’s PASSING STRANGERS SEPT. 02 Ruben V @ Back Porch Tuesday, August 7 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Falco & the Wolf @ Open Mic w/ Rev Matt @ treasureislandporta Rockit’s House of Rock Paul Taylor and Victoria Friday, August 17 Majors (7-10) @ Giggity’s Chanklas @ Giggity’s TBA @ Back Porch Wednesday, August 8 Magnus @ Shorty’s Open Mic @ Executive Audiobox, Falco & the Surf Club Wolf @ Rockit’s Magnus @ Giggity’s Audic Empire @ House of Damon Scott @ House of Rock Rock Ruben V @ Vino Mio Social Club Thursday, August 9 Summer Jam w/ Lil Baby, Free Beer Band (7-10) @ Trippie Redd + @ Concrete Giggity’s Street Squeezebox Bandits @ Back Porch Saturday, August 18 Selfie @ Shorty’s BELT SANDER RACES Falco & the Wolf @ @ Gaff Rockit’s The Gaff Now Open! Pizza Beer Darts Belt sander Races