2019 IBC Bank La Posada Lighted Boat Parade Winners
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Inside the Moon La Posada A2 Golf Cart Parade A5 Enchanted Forest A6 Fishing A11 Live Music A18 Issue 817 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Britt Thompson. Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 December 12, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around It’s a Small The Island World After All By Dale Rankin La Posada 2019 has come and gone and by all accounts was one of the best ever. The weather cooperated and more than thirty boats took to the water on Friday and Saturday nights. Other than the great weather the biggest change this year was the move to begin the Friday night parade at the JFK Bridge which drew good crowds to the businesses along the Intracoastal Waterway. It was a great idea that really worked out well. Colleen McIntyre with Sawyer Jenkins, on a field trip in Chiang Mai Thailand. "Rudolph" won first place in the Power Over 30' category at last weekend's La Posada Lighted Boat Parade. More photos on page A2 Islanders Bradley and Carolyn Chester Coe recently went to Chiang Mai, Thailand and were surprised to find out that former Seashore Charter 2019 IBC Bank La Posada School Superintendent Colleen McIntyre is now teaching at the international school there and the Lighted Boat Parade Winners Coes have grandkids enrolled at both Children's Choice Award 2nd Place - Boat 13, Migration. Power over 30 feet schools! This is Colleen with their Captain: Donald Muir. granddaughter Sawyer Jenkins, on a 1st Place- Boat 7, Rudolph. Boat 7, Rudolph. Captains: Chris field trip in Chiang Mai. and Jodie Brzozowski Power under 30 feet Captains: Chris and Jodie We list the parade winners here but Brzozowski. Military or First Responder 1st Place- Boat 26, Little Red the boat we got the most comments Theme- Boat 28, Bare With It. Truck. Captain: Bill Davenport 2nd Place- Boat 28, Bare with it. about was this one. It’s a custom City Planners Captains: Robert and Kelly Beck and Masten GMC Captains: Robert and Kelly Ann made fifty-three footer that is said to Ann Pruski. Buick. Pruski. cost over $2 million and is powered say Corpus by four 675 horsepower Corvette Sail 2nd Place - Boat Best in Fleet motors. There are only three of them 24, Toot, Toot. Christi Will Boat 27, Tenacious II. Captains: in the world and this one live here on 1st Place- Boat 16, Dynamic Captain Frank Mike & Cindy Taubert. Padre Island. Friends of the owners Equilibrium. Captains: Tom and Harding. Need a say they use it to get to offshore & Barbara Gottemoller diving spots – in a hurry. Desalinization Beach driving good Plant by 2023 Eric Brunnemann has taken over Final Funding for Island as the new Acting Superintendent at Current water Padre Island National Seashore. Not Water Exchange Bridge Approved that there is any connection but beach system expected to driving conditions at PINS have Work to begin on new canal in January 2020 been excellent of late as high tides be at 75 percent have removed much of the flotsam By Dale Rankin funding for the bridge bringing “Once that is done Hass-Anderson and jetsam that usually pose driving capacity by 2022 the total TIRZ #2 contribution to can begin negotiating with sub- hazards. If you have never been down The final piece of the complicated $6,884,815.66. The low bid on contractors to try and find ways to the PINS beach now is a good time puzzle for funding of the Park Road By Dale Rankin the project by Hass-Anderson lower the cost of the bridge,” Smith to go. 22 Water Exchange Bridge was put in Construction Ltd. was $13.9 million, said. The City of Corpus Christi as the place by the Board of the North Padre however the contract to begin work regional water supplier for 500,000 Seawall bollards moved Island Development Corporation Changing plans for private on the bridge could not be issued customers in the Coastal Bend will Tuesday clearing the way for the development around the bridge The non-vehicular portion of the until final approval of funding from need to begin construction on a awarding of the construction contract site have removed the need for beach at the Michael J. Ellis Seawall the TIRZ board which came on saltwater desalination plant by 2023, on the project which is expected to long embankments leading to the has been extended north to a point Tuesday. The remainder of the bridge according to information presented to be on the council agenda on Tuesday, bridge site included in the original just south of the Holiday Inn. The funding was already in place, coming the Corpus Christi City Council on December 17 and for work to begin design. A design change removing location is further south than the from funds left over from other bond Tuesday. on the canal connecting the bridge the embankments is expected to spot where the wooden bollards were projects. substantially lower construction last summer due to a widening of site to Island canals. Dan Grimsbo, the city’s Executive District 4 City Councilman Greg costs. City planners also believe Director of Water Utilities, told the the beach past the 150-foot width. The North Padre Island Development Smith said Wednesday that he that seeking additional bids from council that current demand for State rules require that vehicles Corporation controls the purse expects approval of that contract, subcontractors on the three arches water is at 58 percent of the system’s be prohibited on the beach once strings for the Island Tax Increment which requires two readings by the consisting of pre-stressed concrete capacity but with the addition of two the width is less than 150 feet. The Reinvestment Zone #2 (TIRZ) city council, to be included on the which make up the main component new heavy industry plants at the Port barriers can be moved in the future as and Tuesday’s vote committed of the bridge can reduce costs further. the width of the beach changes. next city council agenda. $2,884,815.66 from the fund to Bridge cont. on A4 Desal cont. on A4 Christmas deliveries Each year about this time we get A little Island history questions here about the portable storage units that spring up in the parking lots at various Island boat The First Survey of the Island by United States Was in 1876 ramps. They are there because of the heavy increase in deliveries to Island A land of wolves, coyotes, panthers, sand, rattlesnakes, and men who would homes this time of year and they keep our UPS driver Gus from having to kill you for your saddle and clothes return to the warehouse OTB to fill up his truck. Gus has help from some At the beginning of 1876, R. at the north end of the island, Halter cart driving elves who swarm our E. Halter from the United States remarked that his nearest neighbors little sandbar each December. If you Coast and Geodetic Survey arrived were a family living twenty miles see Gus driving around in his UPS in Corpus Christi for the purpose down the island and an old hermit truck let your dogs know because of surveying the coast from Brazos "living in a hovel without even a Gus is known to carry pockets full of Island to Aransas Pass. Between dog." From a camp sixty miles down tasty dog treats! 1876 and 1882 he and a crew of the island he commented again on about four to six men spent several conditions on Padre. He had found Christmas deadline months every year moving up and it necessary to purchase a rifle for The Christmas version of the Moon down The Island setting markers protection against coyotes, wolves, will come out on Tuesday, December and making observations. From his and "panthers," which had "become 24 and that means our deadlines that correspondence with Washington, more plentiful as we go down the week will move to Monday when one gains the impression that Padre island." we go to press. If you have stories was all but deserted during these In April 1878, Halter observed, or photos to get in try to get them years. "This is a very desolate place. There to us early so the Moon Elves don’t In December 1876, in one of is no one living within forty miles of have to work on Christmas Eve. In his monthly progress reports to me that I know of. Even the sea is the meantime say hello if you see us Washington written from his camp particularly lonesome . We do have Around The Island. 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