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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 October 15, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The By the Numbers Island By Dale Rankin Who Cares We had a report this week of a bottle-nosed dolphin swimming Who Wins down the Intracoastal towing a campaign sign. The Island campaign City Council season is punctuated every two years with a plethora of campaign signs Races? competing for attention at the SPID/ Whitecap and this year has been Here’s who… joined by a collecting of used cars plying the state right-of-way there. follow the money! In year’s past city inspectors, at the Editor’s note: The following are behest of state authorities and the the contributions to candidates PIPOA have cleared the right of way seeking seats on the Corpus but this year it has become the Island Christi City Council as filed in Speakers’ Corner. But not to worry, the 30th Day Before Election this too shall pass. Campaign Finance Reports with Our Season of Playing Chicken with the City Secretary. It is not a Hurricanes has taken a hiatus but complete list as some candidates the high water hereabouts ebbs and were not listed on city records, flows. Friday morning storm surge. Photo by Jason Cox of Island Escapes. others reported less than $3000 in contributions or expenditures. As of this writing we have on the first day of numbers to judge only The names are listed here in by but it looks like the turnout for ballot order. the November election is going to break records around Nueces Mayor County. Padre Island has one voting Eric Rodriguez site and it was busy the first day of $346 Contributions Early Voting. By this time next week we will have a better idea of whether $4235 Expenditures the early turnout is just regular voters $697 Maintained in Account going to the polls early or whether is it is first-time voters who are new to Carolyn Vaughn the system. $14,654 Contributions Short-term rentals $83,275 Expenditures The subject of short-term rental $38,981 Maintained in Account property on Padre Island is catching $100,000 Personal Loan fire Around The Island as complaints mount from full-time residents Lori Rasheed owner of the IGA Island Market presents a Largest Contributors check for one thousand dollars to Jan Rankin and Jeanie dealing with parking and noise $5000 Timothy Lange issues at short-term rental units in Valenzula of the Riley P Dog Park. The check will be the neighborhoods. Currently there used to sponsor a section of fencing which will feature a $2500 Ray and Stephanie banner for the IGA Island Market. If you or your business DeLos Santos Jr. are about seventy short-term rentals Friday morning at Packery Channel. A rare shot of the being offered, with most at least would like to sponsor a section of fence or make a donation please message us at [email protected] tide over the jetty. Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth. $1000 Richard Groomer, Robert initially being on the VRBO site. and Donna Catalona, Bryan The progression as neighbors Gulley register complaints with the city is $750 Dan Leyendecker that the short-term rental owners First Day of In-Person retreat from the VRBO site, the one Stampede! $500 Three contributors most monitored by city authorizes, to Early Voting Priscilla Gonzalez do-it-yourself sites in an attempt to First day of Early fly under the radar. Locations with highest turnout $2500 Contributions 440 Adkins Middle School – Voting breaks As things now stand property owner 616 Veterans Memorial High 2400 block Ennis Joslin $1000 Expenditures associations can't regulate short- School records 414 A&M University $1500 Maintained in Account term rentals due to a court case in The first day of Early Voting on 595 472 Del Mar College Corpus Christi Largest Contributors Boerne. Ultimately regulations will Monday saw an increase of more than be done through city zoning and as 595 Tuloso Midway High School 365 Johnny Calderon Building - 6700 voters over the last Presidential $1500 Jesse Davidson Robstown election in 2016. we have reported in previous issues 580 Corpus Christi Christian $1000 Ryan Reyna an ordinance is working its way Fellowship – 6000 block of 356 American Bank Center The number of Mail In ballots across Joe McComb through the Island Strategic Action Staples (Southside) Nueces County was also up over the 345 Ben F. McDonald Library – Committee that will ultimately go to 2016 cycle as voters cast ballots by $52,841 Contributions the council for a vote. The PIPOA is 562 Flour Bluff ISD Greenwood area long distance – 3788 in 2016 to 7023 $27,594 Expenditures currently doing a survey to determine 557 Hilltop Community Center – 306 Corpus Christi Army Depot in 2020. where to allow and not allow short- North Leopard Street $37,126 Maintained in Account term stay and that will be the basis 286 Port Aransas Community The total first-day total across of the ordinance so if you want to be 527 Padre Island Baptist Church Center Nueces County was 16,963 as $2500 Sam Susser, David Engel, Robert Parker, heard from now is the time. 471 Nueces County Courthouse compared to 10,231 in 2016. Some Island addresses are turning Stampede cont. on A4 $2000 David Loeb up on a regular basis in police $1500 Linebarger Googan Blair reports as weekly calls are made to & Sampson rental properties. Deed restrictions in Island subdivisions don’t address A little Island history $1000 Claude Jennings, Henry short-term stay as they were written Nuss, Michael Yankee, Gloria so long ago that it was not an issue. Hicks, Sam Beecroft, Al Jones, Changing those would require a 51% When South Texas Was in the Jennifer Skrobarczyk, Philip vote in each of the 36 subdivisions on Skrobarczyk, Darryl Haas, the island and would take years to get National Spotlight Jim Barnette, Capt. And Mrs. done. The city zoning only requires T.C. Wimberly Dr. Michael five votes on the council and can be For all the wrong reasons Skrobarczyk , Mike Uppincott done quickly once we tell the city Ray Jones, Valero Political what we want. Action Committee Editor’s note: With elections front By Dale Rankin This is an issue that will have a $500 30 contributors and center this week, and in light To understand what major impact on Island life for years of a response from a reader (see Paulette Guajardo to come and city leaders are looking happened in the 1948 Letters to the Editor in his issue) race between Lyndon $120,395 Contributions to Island residents for direction. If we take a look a back an infamous you received a questionnaire from Johnson and Coke $51,623 Expenditures election that put South Texas in the Stevenson you have to the PIPOA make sure you fill it out national spotlight in 1948. $54,050 Outstanding Loans and return it. Again, if you want to be go back to 1941 when heard from now is the time. In question was the outcome of Johnson lost his race for $83,147 Maintained in Account the 1948 U.S. Senate race between the senate after leading From the Maybe Department then Congressman Lyndon B. by 5000 votes when Largest Contributors We also continue to hear persistent Johnson and former Governor Coke “late” votes came in $10,000 Manual Green () Stevenson. The race was decided from East Texas which tips that the waterpark formerly $5000 Robert Hilliard, Timothy by 87 votes out of 988,295 cast lost cost LBJ the race known as Waves and the surrounding Lange, Joel Tamez, CCFA with 200 of them coming in a full by 1311 votes. In his land may turn into housing. No one Governor Coke Stevenson. Cope Fund is saying anything on the record but six days after the election from Jim autobiography “In valuable lesson from the 1941 loss. $2500 Chris Clark, Scott we will keep trying. This is a case of Wells County earning Johnson the History’s Shadow” When longtime Senator Morris Corliss, Wilson Almonte hurry up and wait. name of Landslide Lyndon (which John Connelly who was Johnson’s he hated). Here’s the story… campaign manager in both the 1941 Shepard died in office a cattle (Victoria), Jay Baradaran, That’s all for now. Say hello if you and 1948 races said he learned a see us Around The Island. History cont. on A4 Numbers cont. on A4 October 15, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Island Beauty Paddle Out for Karl West

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Letters to Ed cont. on A4 Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth. islandmoon.com October 15, 2020 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Numbers cont. from A1 call of twenty-nine candidates signed up to But Parr did not get to be Duke of Duval by Ravi Mallaputam (Pearland, TX), Eduardo $2373 Maintained in Account not being resourceful. While his power base which included sitting Governor Pappy do Lachica (), Kenneth Lee Largest contributors Lee O’Daniel, a reactionary congressman, was in Duval County he was not without (Bellaire, TX), Jose Barrera connections in Alice, the county seat of Jim $1000 Lizbett Vest, Benjamin Vela, Lyndon Johnson, twenty-five Democrats, two $1500 Four Contributors Republicans, and one communist. Wells County, where he was the President and $500 David Loeb principle shareholder of the Texas State Bank. $1000 Twenty-nine contributors Johnson locked up the “controlled” votes Patricia Pena-Noyola But his influence did not extend much outside $500 Eighteen contributors of the hamlet of Alice according to prosecutor $1050 Contributions John E. Clark who later prosecuted the Parrs, At Large City Council in his book The Fall of the Duke of Duval. $3786 Expenditures So any votes Parr found in Jim Wells County $2711 Personal Loan would have to come from Alice, which was Mike Pusley Brian Rosas where Precinct 13 was located. According to $35,575 Contributions Clark the more voting precincts Parr used to $16,390 Contributions “find” votes the more people would have to $38,885 Expenditures $13,800 Expenditures know about the plan and in a county where $10,000 Personal Loan his Parr’s power was not absolute the more the $2589 Maintained in Account $17,100 Maintained in Account risk of exposure of the plan. Largest Contributors Largest Contributors While the votes from Box 13 were not called $7500 Diana Rosas in to state party authorities were reported to $2500 Robert Parker the Texas Election Bureau one hour after the $3000 Manual and Guadalupe Lopez polls closed on election night and printed by $2000 Nova Herlin, David Wilson, Phillip Ramirez, Timothy Lange, $1000 Manuel Lopez, Delisa and JM the Alice newspaper. Tthe tally showed 765 Garcia for Johnson 60 for Stevenson. But six days $1500 David Massie later when the vote count was supplied to the $500 Two contributors $1000 Brandon Stewart, Tom Wilder, Larry Democratic Executive Committee Johnson’s Urban, Jason Zipperian, LInebarger Goggan District 4 City Council tally showed 965 – the 7 had become a 9 and Blair & Sampson LLP, Phillip Skrobarczky, Johnson picked up 200 additional votes. When Kaylynn Paxson In 1948 LBJ was one of the first politicians Fred Braselton, Barton Braselton, Stevenson drove to Alice he was refused copies No report listed to campaign by helicoptor. of the voting records but was told he could $500 Fourteen contributors Jim Klein look at them but not take notes. What he saw Michael Hunter that belonged to the Archer Parr machine in was that the names of the first 841 voters listed $9097 Contributions the South Texas counties from The Island to were written in black ink, with the remainder – $14,361 Contributions $3164 Expenditures the Rio Grande Valley and when the precinct the 200 Johnson needed to win, written in blue $17,881 Expenditures chairmen there called Connelly with results he ink. Furthermore, the 7 in the vote total of 765 $2000 Personal Loan told them to call them in to the Texas Election votes had been written over with in ink to form $2881 Personal Loan Largest Contributors Bureau which was owned by the Dallas a 9. And equally suspicious was the fact that $40,739 Maintained in Account Morning News and served as the unofficial the names of all the voters listed after number $1850 Rene and Nelda Rodriguez reporting agency for election results, the 841 were in alphabetical order. Largest Contributors $1000 David Bright, Juan Filipe Santos agency had no legal status but once the votes While Stevenson and his friends went about $7500 Dr. Mike Moore totals were called in they could not be changed $250 Terry Shamsie contacting voters whose names appeared in the $2500 Phillip Ramirez, when they were later called in to party officials. list of the final 200 voters – all of whom said $250 David Loeb As Johnson’s team called in their numbers $1000 Raju Bhagat they did not vote – Johnson set about getting Greg Smith they were ahead by 5000 votes. an injunction in Jim Wells County ordering $500 Eloy Salazar Stevenson to stop “eliminating or attempting to $0 Contributions (Self Financed) Meanwhile in a suite in the Driskill Hotel in Larry White downtown Austin Governor O’Daniel, Coke eliminate any votes on the ground of illegality, $7925 Expenditures Stevenson former governor Pa Ferguson, the irregularity, or fraud…” $4284 Contributions first Texas governor ever impeached for taking $2141 Maintained in Account A theft outside a tavern $3844 Expenditures bribes, knew exactly how many votes they $25,100 Personal Loan needed to “find” in order to overtake Johnson. When the dust finally settled Johnson won John Martinez Dan Grimsbo By July, two months after the election O’Daniel the election by 87 votes out of nearly one $33,900 Contributions was declared the winner by 1311 votes out of million cast. Lawsuits and accusations flew $2010 Contributions more than 600,000 cast. By 1948 Connelly $24,309 Expenditures and an investigation was launched in Jim $4000 Personal Loan had learned his lesson and instructed his South Wells County where the law required that $9590 Maintained in Account Texas campaign operatives to understate their three copies of the voting list were to be kept $3858 Expenditures Largest Contributors early returns in the vote canvassing and not call for file. Subpoenas were issued and it was Largest Contributors them in to the Texas Election Bureau because, found that the former Secretary of the County $2000 Philip and Michelle Ramirez, he claimed, "we had been bitten once. It would $500 Gabi Canales Democratic Executive Committee had given $1250 Vishnu Reddy not happen again." his copy to the current party secretary who $400 Chris Torres worked at the bank owned by George Parr who $7500 Bob Hilliard Charm a handkerchief out of a $350 Eloy Salazar according to his wife had disappeared that $2500 Catherine Hilliard, Doug Allison silkworm very morning for parts unknown and had later $300 Doug Allison $2000 Philip and Michelle Ramirez The 1948 race had ten candidates including phoned from “somewhere in Mexico.” Specific Purpose Committee Stevenson who when asked to recall his The second copy of the list, as required by law, $1000 , Linebarger Goggan greatest decision in office replied, “Never had been in the possession of one Luis Salas, Blair & Sampson, Bryan Gulley, Staples/ the Bay For the Greater Good had any” and he was not shy about stating Chapman Ranch Road Hwy. Properties the Election Judge of Precinct 13 who testified (Public Voting on Desalinization Plant) his racist views to anyone who asked. For on the very day the lawsuit challenging the $750 Wayne Squires his part Johnson buzzed his way around the election was filed he had left it in his car $1650 Contributions $500 Twenty-one donors district in a small helicopter which the press outside a tavern where he was drinking beer $76,299 In Kind Contributions – Texas dubbed Johnson’s Windmill and could “charm and when he came out it was gone. So the final Frank Arriaga Campaign for the Environment (Austin) a handkerchief out of a silkworm,” according copy of the voters in Box 13 was the one inside $3200 Contributions to Connelly. the actual ballot box when it was opened by $76,299 In-Kind Expenditures When it came time to count the votes Connelly the judge in the case it was gone too! Three $827 Expenditures $1650 Maintained in Account instructed the precinct chairmen in South lists required but none that could be found. Texas held their vote totals back until they Salas, who had been a pistolero for Pancho saw the totals from around the state; they, like Villa and later was commissioned as a deputy O’Daniel’s men in 1941, wanted a stationary in three counties by Parr, said years later he target as they went looking for the votes needed and Johnson had been present when the order to win. At midnight on Saturday, August 28 was given by Parr to add the votes to the Jim the Texas Election Bureau’s unofficial returns Wells rolls. In 1973 when Parr was on trial for On the Rocks gave Stevenson a lead of 1894 votes. As the income tax evasion he told his By Jay Gardner story emerged it was learned that George attorney Anthony Nicholas that he was in Parr, the South Texas political boss known as “direct phone contact” with Johnson in the Great things are happening in lanes, and that will become a two-lane highway the Duke of Duval, who had backed Johnson days after the 1948 election and Johnson told in the race had in fact delivered all but four our City folks! I’m going to separated by barrels. That will be that way on him how many votes to add to his total to win give top billing this week to City that stretch from Whitecap to Compass until votes for Johnson in Duval but when it came the election. to voters in Duval County Parr was tapped out; Manager Peter Zanoni and his team for getting they get that bridge done, and then the reverse he had voted every man, woman, and in some But it was all too little too late and Johnson projects started and accomplished. will happen for the south bound bridge side. cases child in his county and produced 4662 became the junior Senator from Texas, George As Charles has been telling me recently, it’s Access to all businesses and homes will be open votes for Johnson and, just to make it seem Parr shot himself with a shotgun on his Los only taken 20 years to get things off high-center, at all times. The plans call for the speed limit to fair, four for Stevenson. There was no way to Horcones Ranch while facing prison time in but it’s rolling downhill now. I want to also give be reduced to 50 mph, but I doubt many will get squeeze out 200 more votes in Duval County. 1975, and the rest, as they say is history. a shout out again to Islander Richard Martinez up to that speed. for shaking things up at Public Works and Short-term rentals getting his road crews to focus on the second part of the name of that department; “Works”. Feedback regarding short-term rentals is Stampede cont. from A1 Ha! But seriously, Richard has the ground starting to flood in, which is a good thing. I Beach Clean-up running and things are popping all over town. have had more than a few people reach out to The first-day turnout at the Island polling Awesome! me regarding the future of short-term rentals station was 527 – seventh highest in the city. and I’ve forwarded the good stuff on to our There are currently 8323 registered voters on Laguna Shores subcommittee for inclusion into the library that Padre Island. The polling station at Flour Bluff is growing by leaps and bounds. We’re actually Speaking of roads, we just had the kick-off ISD was fifth highest with 562, the Port Aransas receiving some surprising information, and the meeting with the contractors for the Laguna site was fifteenth with 286. Shores project. That’s going to be interesting nuts and bolts are starting to fall into place. In Early Voting, as in Election Day balloting, when they have all three segments closed down Don’t’ forget to turn in your PIPOA survey voters can vote in any precinct in the county for reconstruction at the same time. Ouch! when you get it and stay tuned! – they do not have to vote in the precinct Like ripping that band aid off all at once, and Charles and I were visiting about how the where they are registered. There are currently hopefully the sting goes away soon. Hang on subcommittee are going to synthesize the 211,418 registered voters in Nueces County over there in the Bluff, it’s going to be a bumpy information, and one thing that became and historically just over 100,000 cast ballots ride, but I guess the road can’t get any bumpier apparent is that we may recommend two sets in elections during the Presidential cycle. than it already is. You will start seeing signs on of regulations to the City regarding both the However, if the large turnout through the first October 26th and residents along the route are future of short-term rentals, and the past. What day of Early Voting holds that number will supposed to get a mail out with some details on do you mean by past, you ask? What we’re increase dramatically in this election. re-routes, closures, and the RTA bus routes in talking about is getting folks that have been Here is a list of the turnout at the top fifteen the next week. I want to highlight that last part, doing short-term rentals under compliance, and sites after close of voting on Monday. For more as I know some folks depend on the bus daily, that may also include new regulations going election information see page A12. and you’ll need to reach out to the RTA and they forward. For example, potentially one of the graciously will make provisions for you. requirements will be regarding parking spaces. If the new regulation requires “X” numbers of Park Road Bridge spots, and a rental property doesn’t have the Speaking of detours, we also got news that the required number, then a place might not be able PR 22 Water Exchange Bridge is supposed to to be included in the short-term rental pool. start construction soon, but you all have heard Obviously, this will set up for negotiations, and that story already. You loyal readers know potential lawsuits, but that is one of the tough that the plan is to build two bridges in two roads we’re going to have to hoe. Pun intended, years, with the northbound bridge first. I dug err, something like that. out the drawings and took a look at the traffic Anyhoo, it’s pretty busy these days folks. control plans, and it’s pretty interesting. When Hopefully the tides will return to normal construction starts, when you go through the soon. I might try and duck out for a bit and Whitecap intersection headed towards town, get some perspective. Y’all drop me a line at you will immediately be forced into the left lane. [email protected] and I’ll read your fan And then right about the Sandwich Shoppe/ and/or hate mail when I get back here On the Rock-n-Roll, they will build a temporary road Rocks. across the median into the two south bound

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Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier October 15 - October 22 Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon Sometimes the feeling of change is palpable and this summer has been /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible one of those times. Th 15 High 2:44 AM 1.8 7:29 AM Rise 6:04 AM 6 Once upon a time there was an Island where 15 Low 8:34 AM 1.2 7:00 PM Set 6:37 PM each October the tourists went OTB, the heat 15 High 2:27 PM 2.0 broke, the ocean water was still warm, the traffic slowed down, the hurricanes only hit us the 15 Low 9:19 PM 1.0 occasional glancing blow, the fishing was good, F 16 High 2:53 AM 1.7 7:30 AM Rise 7:12 AM 1 flounder ran in the channels, the Winter Texans were just starting to trickle in, the surf was up 16 Low 8:55 AM 0.9 6:59 PM Set 7:16 PM sometimes, and locals had a few weeks to enjoy 16 High 3:47 PM 2.2 it by themselves. But that now seems to be in a 16 Low 10:35 PM 1.2 time far, far away. I can’t put my finger on it, but somehow the Island winds have changed. To me Sa 17 High 2:58 AM 1.6 7:31 AM Rise 8:20 AM 0 it seems like it started with Hurricane Harvey. 17 Low 9:27 AM 0.6 6:58 PM Set 7:58 PM If the mainland remembers 2020 as the year 17 High 5:05 PM 2.3 of the epidemic those of us on The Island will remember it as the year that the epidemic Su 18 Low 12:04 AM 1.5 7:31 AM Rise 9:30 AM 1 changed The Island. Whether it is a onetime- 18 High 2:53 AM 1.6 6:57 PM Set 8:43 PM only phenomenon, a sign of things to come, or 18 Low 10:08 AM 0.3 just the new normal remains to be seen but at a time of the year when we are accustomed to 18 High 6:23 PM 2.4 seeing mostly empty beaches in October this M 19 Low 10:54 AM 0.1 7:32 AM Rise 10:39 AM 5 year that is not the case. The memory of Beach Bums gone before. Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth. 19 High 7:46 PM 2.5 6:56 PM Set 9:32 PM Tu 20 Low 11:46 AM 0.0 7:32 AM Rise 11:47 AM 12 and stretches of our little sandbar that have been 20 High 9:15 PM 2.5 6:55 PM Set 10:25 PM empty land since the Karankawas went OTB for the last time will fill in before we know it. W 21 Low 12:44 PM 0.1 7:33 AM Rise 12:50 PM 21 21 High 10:44 PM 2.5 6:54 PM Set 11:22 PM Bridgedropper Th 22 Low 1:50 PM 0.2 7:34 AM Rise 1:47 PM 31 If I sound like a Bridgedropper I’m not. For the past decade from this outpost I have said, and 22 High 11:57 PM 2.4 6:53 PM still believe, that our biggest challenge going forward is to manage change, not to decide if we want it. That decision gets made on the other side of the Laguna as population pressure there and the natural longing to get out of doors and Packery Jetty constructon in 2004. head to the beach in these confining times bring people south in record numbers. The fact is that Kids are homeschooling, parents are working we live in a place that most everyone wants to from home, and everybody gets a little stir crazy call home – even if only for a few days at a time. and heads for the beach including Islanders. We have been discovered. We always had our share of daytime autumn Everyone who lives on The Island –whether daytrippers and retirees on the sand but this it is Port A or Padre – somewhere in their October it is families with kids and regular consciousness has a vision of the island they visitors out socially distancing and enjoying found the first time they topped the JFK or rode the beach. The beaches, if not full, are at least the ferry across the channel and saw what lay on well-attended even on weekday mornings. For the far side and said, “I’m never leaving.” And the first time ever the number of vehicles that while those of us lucky enough to call this place arrived over the JFK Causeway topped 83,000 home may never change – in our own mind at in one day. That’s a lot of ice and Roofer Beers least - the Island around us is changing right at Stripes. The number of Island police calls before our very eyes. It’s the only constant. went up in May and hasn’t come back down yet. Even the number of political signs that spring Our old friend Mr. Dick who was the pro at the up like so many mushrooms every two years Padre Island Country Club still holds the record is up…even though the number of races on the of 438 days without going OTB. But once the ballot hasn’t changed. Island grocery store opens I might just give him a run for his money. Anecdotingly As it was… What I have discovered after growing up across When I first moved back to The Island in the bay and living on The Island for nigh on two 2000 and up through late 2004 the hangout decades now is that there are a few things that Pond Girls was the beach at Zahn Road. The typical day never change. for the Beach Bums then involved a beach walk By Abigail Bair south to Bob Hall then back to the Sand Bar at The feeling of finding a perfect sand dollar on Holiday Inn for a sundowner before heading the beach. As many of you loyal Knowing that the likelihood of us getting super home. The music was too loud but hanging out Seeing a dolphin work the skinny water in the readers know, I have a gigantic decorative pond lost some place where cell phone signals were with the tourists was a break from recycling the Laguna. in my yard. I’m using the term “decorative” unheard of (and with the possibility of serial same stories amongst ourselves; stories that got And watching the sun set over it all. loosely here since most of the time it’s about killers and/or C.H.U.D.s), I decided to be safe better with each telling. The pace of Island life as attractive as an alga encrusted kiddie pool and packed us a lunch. and change was slow and predictable. It felt And for that we can all be grateful. abandoned on the side of the road. I’ve been I did not pack: mace, a hatchet, a helmet, steel like Mayberry on the Gulf and we all took turns working on it lately – by which I mean Amber toed boots with nails in them, a scarf OR a being Goober. and I recently crawled in and scooped out about jacket, a gas can, jumper cables, a tent, or a road That all came to a stop in 2005 when Hurricane 70 gallons of odiferous sludge – and now it’s flare. looking a little better. Emily, if memory serves, blew through and I told Amber my serial killer stories, told her washed the sand plug out of Packery Channel My quest to appropriately balance the about my multidirectional running theory, and putting an end to that beachwalk. In hindsight ecosystem has failed epically in years past, then advised her that we had a rather abject lack it might well have been our own little Rubicon. but I pledged this time to “get it right” so that of weaponry. hopefully I don’t have to dive back in with my A walk along the South Packery beach these trusty five-gallon bucket. “I put garlic herb cheese on the turkey days is a reminder of all of the Beach Bums who sandwiches, though,” I casually mentions. “It are no longer with us. The sign on the beach In my reading, I had discovered that water should be pretty good serial killer deterrent.” there is a stark reminder that nobody gets out lilies help with reducing sludge and with pond of here alive as the photos continue to grow and clarity. Evidently, their little root systems love “I think garlic is more for vampires, Ab,” the number of us still around continues to shrink the gross stuff. Armed with this knowledge, Amber replied calmly, obviously not taking the by the year. Andre moved off to parts unknown I was elated when I spotted a Facebook threat seriously enough. and Gib hardly cooks there anymore. Big Bob Marketplace advertisement for water lilies. I I kept my mouth shut, figuring the calmer and Mark the bass player are holding down that messaged immediately and scheduled a pickup. Amber was, the greater the likelihood of me lonely fort. I am pretty leery about serial killers just in being able to outrun her. 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When we arrived, we followed a very nice Our Warm, crispy, delicious, hand crafted paninis Luckily, I went home with a puppy instead. (absolutely non-serial killer) guy back to his are back on the menu. even-larger-than-mine pond, which was covered Since the Basil incident (with the notable with water lilies. Several sported cheeky pink Choose from: exception of the procurement of Stadler who I blooms. • Fig Jam, Brie, Prosciutto got in almost the exact same manner), I have had a general rule about bringing backup to these Stadler exploded from the back seat of the car, • Sicilian Slammer types of meetings – reasoning that if myself gave the gentleman a cursory bark, and then ran • Caprese and my friend run in different directions, maybe off to explore while Amber and I learned about only one of us would wind up taking a dirt nap. water lilies from the expert. • Smoked Salmon & Cream I called Amber, my friend and Derp-ball buddy. We loaded our loot into five-gallon buckets Cheese wedged in the back seat of the car. The haul Served with chips & a pickle “Hey, do you want to go out to Petronilia to consisted of three large plants and a gazillion pick up some water lilies on Thurdsday,” I minnows. Stadler didn’t seem to mind sharing 14254 S Padre Island Drive Ste 101 | 361-589-4130 asked, with a tiny whine in my voice. her space, although she may have slurped up a “Sure!” Amber-the-rainbow-princess replied. few poor fishies on the ride home. “Where’s Petronilia?” We planted the pots (chunked them into the I didn’t know -- despite looking at a map -- pond) and dumped the little fish. I was positive but I felt like perhaps I shouldn’t mention my that one of the minnows got blasted through the general ignorance of the exact location. geyser-like pond pump, but Amber says I was probably hallucinating. Still, I swear I heard a “By Robstown,” I replied reassuringly and tiny “WHEEEE!” I imagine that once we get with the full force of my authority. the waterfall going again, I’m going to have a 24 Hour Honestly, by now Amber should know to backyard Minnow Schlitterbahn (with more Emergency Service question me any time I act like I know where algae and less lifeguards). something is. We’ve spent more time lost on It’s been a couple of weeks and the new lilies our adventures than we’ve spent at our actual are doing great. They will probably go dormant intended destination. during the winter, but I’m looking forward to a Carpet Cleaning Tile & Wood Cleaning “Yay!” Amber replied! She brings the much nicer pond this spring. I suppose that if enthusiasm to our missions, while I bring the this doesn’t work, I’ll lean into the yuck with all Air Duct Cleaning Fire & Water Damage missions themselves. my might, and buy myself a cow to stand in the thing to complete the grossness tableaux. 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Others drinking what few meals he can scrape up the Dotson’s Note: There are two versions of the they began exploring lands farther south, at first spoke of the “desolate” prairie landscape and money for. He is sick, sick, sick. story of how the U.S. purchased Alaska from looking only for people to trade with so they how they chose to drive across the plains at Russia. One hundred and fifty three years ago, could import the foods that wouldn’t grow in night, so they wouldn’t have to look at it. Yet when the time is right, when the suffering on March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State Alaska’s harsh climate. They sent ships to what has been suffered enough, Francis blooms in I’m afraid I actually snorted—not a very William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron is now California, established trade relations the pasture of his family again. It's a fragile becoming thing for a Presbyterian pastor to do, Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. with the Spaniards there and eventually set up blooming--he may be able to hold off the but I snorted nonetheless. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had their own settlement at Fort Ross in 1812. temptation of alcohol, and he may not. But his Though I wasn’t born and raised on the family gives him a warm, clean bed and hearty ceded Alaska, his country’s last remaining Thirty years later, however, the entity set up to prairies, I have come to love them—but I’ll food, a bath and clean clothes, and he clearly foothold in North America, to the United States handle Russia’s American explorations failed admit it took some training by the GP, the is able to start the healing process. Simple, for US$7.2 million. That sum, amounting to just and sold what remained. Not long after, the biologist and prairie farmer. Once I knew how wholesome things have given Francis the hope $113 million in today’s dollars, brought to an Russians began to seriously question whether to look, and what to look for, I was amazed for a new life. end Russia’s 125-year odyssey in Alaska and they could continue their Alaskan colony as by the richness of prairie flora and fauna, and its expansion across the treacherous Bering well. For starters, the colony was no longer This is the stuff of Christian charity. Though delighted by the seasonal changes. The tones Sea, which at one point extended the Russian profitable after the sea otter population was Francis has hurt his wife and his family, they of golden browns and rusty reds of the grasses Empire as far south as Fort Ross, California, 90 decimated. Then there was the fact that Alaska find a place for him. They make no demands miles from San Francisco Bay. Thanks to Davey during the dry season and through the winter on him for apologies or atonement. They give Nelson and William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, for are simply stunning. And while you have to simple things, healing things: hot, wholesome the facts contained in this report and thanks to really look for vibrant colors, they are there: food; a bath; a clean bed and a warm room. Davey Nelson and Laura Rauch for the photos. bright orange butterfly weed, for example, They give him the space to think about who huddles close to the earth where it’s likely to Today Alaska is one of the richest U.S. states he is and what he has become, and they don’t be overlooked by humans, but the butterflies thanks to its abundance of natural resources scold or mock or act self-righteously. They let don’t miss it! The flowers themselves seem such as petroleum, gold, and fish, as well as its Francis decide what he wants to do, what he all the more spectacular in their setting of dry vast expanse of pristine wilderness and strategic needs to do. They are gracious to him. grasses and yucca. location as a window on Russia and gateway They are not, however, blind to the issue of to the Arctic. So what prompted Russia to Back on the plains, the ironweed has justice. Francis’ family is honest about the withdraw from its American beachhead? And bloomed. Ironweed is one tough plant--a plant pain they have suffered because of him. It has how did it come to possess it in the first place? that grows freely in pastures and has been not been easy for his wife, who had to support a known to survive the worst hailstorms, which In a way, there are two histories of how Alaska family as a single mom. She doesn’t guarantee may shatter this year's stem, but can't kill the came to be American – and two perspectives. that she can ever have the same relationship was difficult to defend and Russia was short on root. It's a survivor, a plant of “iron.” And One concerns how the Russians took with Francis that they had before he became cash due to the costs of the war in Crimea. in good years, this rather plain plant's tough “possession” of Alaska and eventually ceded dissolute. Justice will have to be served. stem develops a beautiful, steely-purple head it to the U.S. The other is from the perspective Americans Eager for a Deal of flowers that bloom for an extended period But mercy is abundant. The old relationship of the native Inupiaq people, who have lived in of time. is gone, but there can be a new one, and it can Alaska for thousands of years, and for whom So clearly the Russians were ready to sell, but be rich and rewarding. There will be joy in the anniversary of the cession brings mixed what motivated the Americans to want to buy? When I see ironweed, I am reminded of living a simple, quiet life. There will be joy in emotions, including immense loss but also In the 1840s, the United States had expanded William Kennedy’s book of the same name. tasting good, hearty food. There will be joy in optimism. its interests to Oregon, annexed Texas, fought Published in 1983, it took the country by teaching a grandson how to catch a ball. There a war with Mexico and acquired California. storm, winning the Pulitzer Prize. Ironweed will be joy in learning a new trade. Russia Looks East Afterward, Secretary of State Seward wrote in describes the life of Francis Phelan, an alcoholic who has been homeless for years. Will Francis choose to be true to his new life? The lust for new lands that brought Russia to March 1848: “Our population is destined to Kennedy gives us no answer, only possibilities. Alaska and eventually California began in the roll resistless waves to the ice barriers of the Kennedy's book gives a vivid picture not 16th century, when the country was a fraction of north, and to encounter oriental civilization on just of a man who has given in to his genetic And that’s what so many non-profit its current size. That began to change in 1581, the shores of the Pacific.” Almost 20 years after predisposition to the disease of alcoholism, but organizations in the Coastal Bend are all when Russia overran a Siberian territory known expressing his thoughts about expansion into of the other homeless with whom he haunts about—giving folks possibilities for a new as the Khanate of Sibir, which was controlled the Arctic, Seward accomplished his goal. the back alleys of Albany, NY. The author life. And yes, we take risks when we do that, just like Francis’ family takes a risk with him. by a grandson of Genghis Khan. This key In Alaska, the Americans foresaw a potential minces no words when it comes to describing victory opened up Siberia, and within 60 years the appalling conditions the homeless take for Sometimes when you care for that wild thing for gold, fur and fisheries, as well as more trade you get bitten! the Russians were at the Pacific. with China and Japan. The Americans worried granted--sharing broken buildings with rats, The Russian advance across Siberia was fueled that England might try to establish a presence in going without food for days, sitting hunched But you set boundaries, and you stay calm, in part by the lucrative fur trade, a desire to the territory, and the acquisition of Alaska it was near warm exhaust fans to try to protect against and accept that the change you long for may expand the Russian Orthodox Christian faith believed, would help the United State become a frostbite--until the police run them off. not be there. And if it isn’t, you grieve it, but to the “heathen” populations in the east and the Pacific power. And overall the government was Francis is an ironweed. Kennedy traces you go on living, and when the time is right, addition of new taxpayers and resources to the in an expansionist mode backed by the then- approximately one year in his life, a year in you try again. empire. popular idea of “manifest destiny.” So a deal which he suffers the hailstones of joblessness, Because sometimes resurrection takes more with incalculable geopolitical consequences In the early 18th century, Peter the Great, who of having to accept self-righteously offered than three days. was struck, and the Americans seemed to get charity, of drunkenness, of hunger, of cold. created Russia’s first Navy, wanted to know All weeds are welcome at Island Presbyterian quite a bargain for their $7.2 million. Francis is no hero in these circumstances— how far the Asian landmass extended to the Church, worshipping on Facebook and Zoom like the prodigal son, he revels in selfish lusts: east. The Siberian city of Okhotsk became the To Be Continued at 10 a.m. every Sunday. the lust of his addiction, the lust of an off- staging point for two explorations he ordered. Dotson’s Other Note: The reason for my And in 1741, Vitus Bering successfully crossed submitting the foregoing report was when I the strait that bears his name and sighted Mt. was re-reading a narrative written by my good Saint Elias, near what is now the village of friend, the late David M. Nelson, who wrote the Yakutat, Alaska. story of his being assigned to the Alaskan island Although Bering’s second of Kiska in 1943. It occurred to me that many of Ask Ralph Where to Find Good Advice Kamchatka Expedition you Moon Monkeys might need being reminded brought disaster for him of “whys and wherefores” of Alaska becoming personally when adverse the 49th of these United States of America. weather on the return Thanks for reading and commenting on the By Ralph Coker journey led to a shipwreck articles in The Island Moon. Contact me at on one of the westernmost [email protected] or call/text: 530-748-8475. Q. How can I find good advice a lot of hands on experience. Free advice is Aleutian Islands and his Please note: The Weekly Veterans Round for running my business? available from organizations like SCORE and eventual death from scurvy Table Meetings are now on Zoom on Tuesdays SBDC. A lot of good information and advice in December 1741, it was A. There are 3 kinds of business advice. 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It is a great opportunity the advisor whether it be a volunteer mentor But maintaining these settlements wasn’t easy. to learn the newest cutting-edge practices in or a consultant. Pick a person with a lot of Russians in Alaska – who numbered no more your industry. successful experience preferably in your than 800 at their peak – faced the reality of being industry. They should have good judgment half a globe away from St. Petersburg, then the Second is advice about the business functions and no conflicts of interest. If your advisor capital of the empire, making communications including marketing, advertising, accounting, is a volunteer mentor, always express your a key problem. taxes, insurance, financial management, appreciation for the time and work they spend Fully Guided • All Tackle Provided human resources, safety, and training. Also, Alaska was too far north to allow for helping you. That is the only payback they Each of those functions are different. 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Greetings Readers, Backwater Adventures 1 Tbsp. Flour As you may know…Fall By Joey Farah 1 Tbsp. Corn Starch is here. Although it’s a bit hard to believe, since Farah’s Fishing Adventures we Islanders are still enjoying sunny, 90 degree 6 Tbsp. Montreal Steak Seasoning in butter days. However, the temp has gone down a bit, paste Every morning the copper tones of light in the mornings and somewhat in the evenings, start to unfold another day over my shoulder therefore, it’s still considered a temperature 1 Stick of butter salted and sand dunes of our Padre Island. Like a break and I’ll take it. Bunch of Fresh Herbs minced (Sage, Thyme, beautiful woman smiling with sparkling eyes Cast Iron cooking is very appropriate in the Rosemary) she beckons me to live another day to the fullest. I think sometimes about all the souls fall. It allows for food to cook at a higher ¾ C Sherry or Marsala temperature, because the skillet or Dutch oven, saved, healed, and mended by the sunrise and holds heat as well as an elevated temp, due to the Fresh Made Tea Brine: sunsets over the water here on our island. We try to capture the moment in photo and share to iron made vessel. With cast iron, you can sear 3 quarts (12 C) of home made tea (8 bags) and continue the cooking process in the same others, there is something special about sitting pan, pot or skillet. In this recipe we’re coating 1 cup sugar with someone and watching the start and end of a day that can be described with the silence the chicken with a buttery herb paste and then 1 cup salt we deglaze the pan with Marsala or sherry and between you. In these days of seasonal change, pop it in the oven and bake it to perfection. But Boil 2 Cups of water to steep tea, steep tea for share a waterfront view and give thanks for our there are a few tips and tricks for the best end 15 min add sugar & water beautiful Island Life. result, so let’s go! Pour tea into remaining water and add 3 cups Lunar feedings When I want to take an ordinary chicken dish of ice and add chicken to the next level I brine my chicken for added Soak from 2 to 4 hours tenderness and juiciness. I like to brine my chicken in a sweet tea brine. I don’t really Apple cider brine add herbs in this step, because herbs don’t If you want quick and easy… Soak chicken in get a chance to bloom in a cold water brine. a Gallon of apple cider or a ½ gallon of orange Therefore, save them for when we braise the juice for 2 to 4 hours. Remove from liquid and chicken. When done brining, drain, and pat the pat dry, discard liquid. chicken dry with paper towels and set aside for Another beautiful flounder! Again caught cooking. Removing the liquid from the chicken, Creamed Butter & Herbs on DOA 3” CAL Shad. Texas croaker allows it brown and not steam in the skillet. 1 stick Softened butter add minced herbs and color with a 1/4ounce weight! Montreal steak seasoning randomly stopping where I see bait flipping on Spread on to the underside of the surface and that slightly cloud “trout green chicken skin and all over the outer water.” We usually drift and make ten casts a pieces of chicken as well. piece, if we don’t get a bite we move on. Windy days are best and when the winds are slack Cooking instructions: we head to the deep drop offs along the ICW. While chicken is brining, you can Big reds are still coming from the jetties in make your softened butter paste Port A in live finger mullet and large pieces of with herbs and begin to prep your cut horse mullet. The anglers fishing with live veggies. Clean and prepare your shrimp there at the jetties are smacking trout at Dutch Oven or Cast Iron Skillet. sunrise. Live shrimp and popping corks in the By prepare I suggest you rub oil bay are a great way to collect trout, reds, and of choice on to the skillet or Dutch Viet caught this mighty bull red on a soft flounder. Look for the dirty water south of Bird oven to season it and get ready for plastic this week along the King Ranch Island along the west side of the channel. This cooking. I season it after washing, Shoreline. He was using an OWNER Jig is where you will not get your shrimp taken by drying and rubbing it with oil, but head with a spinner on it to make flash pin perch, but large schools of drum and redfish. if not used often, it’s best to clean it and vibration. Way to go Joe! before each use. The oil saves the cast iron from rust and drying out. My father Joe Farah has had quite a year Fishing this week has been great when the in 2020. 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Here goes: On April 10, 1953, that if he would go with other players to the have planned their life’s work and now they are teams from 1938–1942 and 1946–1959. He is hit a over the 100- South Pacific he would be guaranteed a quick working the plan. This story is about one of noted primarily for his playing for the St. Louis foot high grandstand wall at Forbes Field in discharge when the war ended. He accepted those fellows who knew what he wanted out of Cardinals and is best known for scoring the Pittsburgh. Up until that time, only two players the deal and was part of a contingent of 94 life and went after it, never looking back. winning run in of the 1946 World had ever done that, and Ted Beard; ballplayers that arrived in Hawaii in June 1945. Series. A ten time All-Star, he has been elected It has been said that the hardest part of the but the greatest accomplishment that day may to both the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Representing the 58th Wing, along with game of baseball happens between the ears. He have been just getting to Forbes Field in the first the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame. Thanks to teammates Bobby Adams, , Birdie was a smart-aleck kid and cocky, but if there place. On April 9th, the Yankees were riding Bill Morgan (former SWC SID) and Jay Hanna Tebbetts and , the ballplayers was one game you needed very badly to win, a train north, playing exhibition games. When Dean, for the facts contained in this report and island-hopped towards Japan following you wanted this left-handed guy on the mound. they arrived in Cincinnati it was bitterly cold, to Bill Morgan for the photos. American forces. On Tinian, the Seabees Calm, cool, and collected, it appeared that but they played anyway and after the game, bulldozed out a ballfield on top of a coral reef he had no blood in his veins. The man was a Ford, Martin, and Mantle headed out on the -St Louis Cardinals and made bleacher seats out of bomb crates. tremendous technician, a thinking pitcher and town to have some fun, before catching the Exhibition games were also staged at Saipan, he could make that ball talk. With this guy on train to Pittsburgh. They had to be back at the Guam and Iwo Jima with an estimated 180,000 the mound, a one-run lead was usually enough. train station by ten p.m. to ride all night to get soldiers getting the chance to witness major He just knew how to win. Watching him pitch, to Pittsburgh the next day, for batting practice. league baseball players in action. you would think the plate was five feet wide. At 9:30 p.m., Mantle starts looking for the other He may not have ever pitched a no-hitter, but he Twenty-seven games were played on the tour two. They finally all hook up at 11:00 p.m., too sure won the city of New York. He would grow late to make the train. Mantle says, “Aw, to and Slaughter batted .342 with five home runs to the height of 5 feet 8 inches tall, but would and 15 RBIs. The tour concluded in October and hell with it. Let’s stay the night and catch a be listed at 5 feet 10 inches tall in the Yankees plane early in the morning.” So they get up at the players returned to the United States in early programs. This guy never weighed over 178 November. dawn and it’s snowing. They get to the airport pounds, even with rocks in his pockets. an hour later, and all the flights have been Slaughter received his military discharge on cancelled. So, Whitey says, “No problem, let’s March 1, 1946 and returned to the Cardinals catch a cab.” Mantle slides into the front seat to lead the National League with 130 RBI and and tells the cab driver, “Take us to Pittsburgh.” guide the Cardinals to a win over The cab driver says, “Get the hell out of my cab; Enos Slaughter the Boston Red Sox. I hear that crap all the time.” Finally, Mantle Slaughter batted left-handed and threw right- convinces him they are for real, so the cab driver Enos B “Country” Slaughter was born near handed. He was renowned for his smooth calls his boss and says, “What’s the charge to the town of Roxboro, North Carolina on April swing that made him a reliable “contact” hitter. go to Pittsburgh?” Three hundred and eighty 27, 1916. In high school, Slaughter played dollars is the answer and off they go. Anyway, basketball, football, and baseball. He played they get to Forbes Field and the team is already well enough to earn an athletic scholarship taking batting practice. Ford wasn’t scheduled to Guilford College in Greensboro, North to pitch so all he had to do was run. Mickey Carolina, but instead chose to take a job and Billy hurry into the locker room trying to working at the Collins and Aikman textiles mill get their socks on and praying that Casey didn’t where his older brothers worked. notice that they weren’t on the train. Mantle is bent over tying his shoes and whispering to Slaughter began playing second base for the Billy out the side of his mouth, when a hand is Ca-Vel minor league baseball team and his placed on Mantle’s shoulder. Billy is gone and abilities caught the eye of Fred Haney, the Casey is standing there. Casey says, “I don’t sports editor of The Durham Morning Herald. know where you have been and I don’t know Haney passed Slaughter’s name to Oliver what you have done, but I wanta know. You two French, who owned the Greensboro farm team are going to play the whole game.” Then Casey of the St. Louis Cardinals. French took Haney’s turns and storms out. Billy has been hiding in photo authgraphed. advice and invited Slaughter to a tryout for the the bathroom laughing and when they get out Cardinals’ organization in September 1934. In 1993, I got to meet Whitey Ford personally. to the field, batting practice is over. The first Slaughter’s performance at this tryout earned He was signing autographs in Houston, Texas, time Mantle comes to the plate, he hits that him a position with the Martinsville Redbirds and traveling with teammates Hank Bauer and long home run over the grandstand. “Nice hit of the Bi-State League. Moose Skowron. He appeared very much at Mickey,” says Casey. “Take the rest of the day In 1936, Slaughter played for Columbus, ease, smiling and telling stories. He’s one of off.” “Billy ends up playing the whole game Georgia in the South Atlantic League, and then the few guys who can smile while he’s talking. and is madder than a hornet,” says Ford. with Columbus, Ohio in 1937. He made his He seemed to take an interest in all the different Andy Purvis is a local author and radio first major league appearance with the St. Louis things fans brought for him to sign. I was thrilled personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. Cardinals in 1938, batting .276 in 112 games. to meet him and shake his hand. As I listened to com for all the latest info on his books or to He led the NL with 52 doubles in 1939 and with him speak, I realized he could not talk about his listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books 188 hits in 1942, but enlisted with the Army Air playing days with the Yankees without talking are available online and can be found in the Force in August 1942 although his induction about Mantle, his closet friend. I had him sign local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be was postponed until after the World Series. Slaughter had 2,383 hits in his major-league a Yankee jersey with his #16 on the back and a contacted at [email protected]. Also career, including 169 home runs, and 1,304 RBIs Yankee hat. They make very few men equal to listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s in 2,380 games. Slaughter played 19 seasons Whitey Ford. He may have been the greatest Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. with the Cardinals, Yankees, Kansas City person who ever played with the Yankees. In 16 com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of Athletics, and Milwaukee Braves. During that years, he had won 69 percent of his games, and the Houston Astros. period, he was a 10-time All-Star and played in five World Series. His 1,820 games played ranks fourth in Cardinals’ history behind Ozzie Smith, Lou Brock, and . He presently ranks second in RBIs with 1,148; fifth in ABs with 6,775; and sixth in doubles with 366. Immediately upon returning from his military service in 1946, he led the National League with 130 RBI and led the Cardinals to a World Series win over the Boston Red Sox. In the decisive seventh game of that series, Slaughter, running with the pitch, made a famous “Mad Dash” for home from first base on ‘s hit in the eighth inning, scoring the winning run after a delayed relay throw by the Red Sox’ Johnny Enos Slaughter Base Running. Pesky. The hit was ruled a double, though most observers felt it should have been ruled a single, The 1942 World Series against the Yankees was as only the throw home allowed Walker to the first to be broadcast live to American troops advance to second base. This play was named overseas. After the fourth game, Slaughter #10 on the Sporting News list of Baseball’s 25 was asked to speak to the troops by radio. “Hi Greatest Moments in 1999. fellows,” he told them. “We played a great game today and we won. And we are going to finish Enos “Country” Slaughter retired from baseball this thing tomorrow. Then I’m going to report in 1959. He was a player-manager in 1960 for a for duty in the Army Air Corps and join you.” minor league team in Houston and for Raleigh in 1961. Slaughter coached baseball for Duke The Cardinals did indeed wrap up the World University from 1971 to 1977. In 1985, he was Series the following day with Slaughter inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. contributing a home run in the fourth inning. He was then assigned to the San Antonio Aviation Talking about his military service some years Cadet Center (SAACC) for what he hoped later on an episode of ESPN’s Major League would be flight school. “I wanted to be a pilot,” Baseball Magazine, Slaughter said “The three he told author Frederick Turner, “but they said years I missed really didn’t hurt me that much.” I was color blind. They wanted me to be a Dotson’s Other Note: One of my most vivid bombardier, but I said if I couldn’t be the one baseball memories is listening to the 1946 world flying the plane, I’d just as soon not be flying. series and hearing the account of Country’s So, I became a physical education instructor in “Mad Dash” for home from first base on Harry charge of about 200 troops.” Walker‘s hit in the eighth inning, scoring the Slaughter was assigned to the 509th Base winning run. One of the best plays ever! 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You can are now available at the PIPOA office for $10 is to raise fire safety awareness and ensure that families are prepared. While • Teach household members to STOP, DROP reach me at marvin@ each. These stickers are required to park your and ROLL if their clothes should catch on fire pipoa.net or call at 469- boat trailer on a boat ramp parking lot. Boat house fire deaths are dropping (largely due to 231-3485. ramp parking lots are for the exclusive use of fire safety awareness), it’s still a number that is It is important to check fire alarms every the PIPOA members. far too high for something so often preventable. month to make certain they are working Board Meeting- The next Board meeting Given these startling statistics, I’d like to provide properly in the event of a fire and the batteries will be on Tuesday, October 27, 2020, at 5:30 Covenant Amendment Committee- This some simple steps aimed at reducing deaths and do not need to be replaced. When smoke alarms PM at the Hyatt Place located on SPID beside committee needs members. If you wish to be injuries resulting from home fires. fail to operate correctly, it is generally due to Salt Grass restaurant. on this committee and participate in updating missing, disconnected or depleted batteries. It the covenants, please send an email of interest As one of the nation’s leading disaster relief Short Term Rentals- The PIPOA’s short organizations, the American Red Cross is important to note smoke alarms should be term rental committee met on Tuesday, to Jim Smock at [email protected] or call the replaced every 10 years from the manufacturer’s PIPOA at 361-949-7025. responds to thousands of disasters each year. October 13, at the PIPOA office. Topics While many might associate the organization’s date listed on the back of the alarm. According discussed were should short term rentals Boat- The PIPOA will be initiating a boat outreach efforts with major catastrophic events to the National Fire Protection Association, be allowed in the PIPOA, and if allowed, on the canals to look for decks and docks, such as hurricanes and wildfires, the American three out of five home fire deaths occur in where should they be allowed? Should the sunken boats, and other hazards to our Red Cross reports that home fires represent homes where there is no smoke alarm or no City have strong restrictions regarding short waterway system. Members, our canals are approximately 90 percent of its disaster response working smoke alarm, which is why this is so term rentals, and should the restrictions be the main amenity of our Island. Members efforts. In fact, home fires represent one of the important. aggressively enforced? A brief questionnaire must recognize that unstable decks and biggest disaster threats to families in the United In addition to following the American Red will be sent to the members by the end of this docks create hazards when storms hit. There States. Fires affect more Americans each year Cross’ tips to plan for fire safety, I would month. are many decks and docks that appear to be than all-natural disasters combined, and affect encourage you to take the time to read more Litter Critter- According to the City, the hanging on by a thread. Please make your people from all backgrounds and geographic information about the different ways you can Litter Critter will not return to the Island. decks and docks safe. locations. Given these startling statistics, the protect your home from a fire. This includes This is unfortunate because it was well used. Bulkheads- Our Bulkhead Manager, American Red Cross suggests tips, aimed at keeping flammable objects a safe distance The Litter Critter helped to keep the Island Dusty Gordon, has been busy. There are reducing deaths and injuries resulting from from items that get hot, such as heaters and looking good. approximately 19 properties in the queue home fires by 25%. As such, I would like to stoves, never leaving a candle unattended, and share some simple steps you can take to protect learning about safe cooking methods. To read Budget- The Board and the Executive to have their bulkheads repaired. The your family and home in the event of a home more about the different ways you can protect Director have been working diligently to PIPOA contractor completed repairs on fire. your home and family from fires, please visit prepare the 2021 Budget. It should be ready two properties this week. If you think your the American Red Cross website https://www. for the December Board meeting. The bulkhead may have a problem, please send The American Red Cross has created a redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for- November and December Board meeting has an email to the PIPOA bulkhead hotline at Home Fire Campaign to help families prepare emergencies/types-of-emergencies/fire.html. been combined and will be held on December [email protected] for a home fire. The American Red Cross The National Fire Protection Association also 8, 2020. Article- Last week’s article drew a very recommends taking the following steps in protecting your home: has information on fire, electrical and related Billish Park- Good news, the park now large response to the questions I posed to the hazards at https://www.nfpa.org/. has new picnic tables at the far North end. members. Thank you for your participation • Install the right number of smoke alarms. Test If you have questions regarding any of the It is nice to see many families enjoying the regarding the question about short term them once a month and replace the batteries at information mentioned in this week’s article, playground, volleyball court, basketball rentals. The response was about 75% in least once a year. Purchase smoke alarms here. please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or court, and seeing soccer practice happen in favor of limiting short-term rentals in the • Teach children what smoke alarms sound like District Office. Please always feel free to the park. Please make sure you reach out to neighborhoods. The response to, should the and what to do when they hear one. contact my office if you have any questions the parks and recreation department if you are PIPOA adopt another park, was about 65% or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if interested in having a private function or if in favor of the PIPOA adopting another park. • Ensure that all household members know two you would like to contact my office regarding you would like to have an event at the park. However, most comments were critical of the ways to escape from every room of your home constituent services. My offices are available The City may require a permit. The PIPOA City for not maintaining the Island parks to and know the family meeting spot outside of at any time to assist with questions, concerns, does not require a permit. the standard of the parks on Ocean Drive. your home or comments (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; • Establish a family emergency communications District Office, 361-949-4603). plan and ensure that all household members know who to contact if they cannot find one - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 City Update another. Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). • Practice escaping from your home at least He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. By Greg Smith, City Council Member District 4 twice a year. Press the smoke alarm test button texas.gov or at 512-463-0672. or yell “Fire” to alert everyone that they must Tuesday’s Council meeting is a legislative body and all actions require a get out. was mostly housekeeping. It majority his interest in the Island was always started with a Covid presentation by the Health welcome and he consistently supported me on District. New cases are in a small decline Island and District initiatives. He will be missed. New Flood Insurance Rate Maps now along with hospitalizations and ICU stays. The I have received some inquires on the status District is working with Operation Warp Speed of the Whitewater wastewater treatment plant. Available for Viewing (Administration) on the distribution of the One major project has been completed there, New revised Flood Insurance Rate Maps FEMA Map Specialist can help identify your vaccines as they become available. In the past the upgrade of the UV system. This system (Firms) are now available for review by residents community FPA and is available by telephone vaccines such as H1N1 went to the District for disinfects the effluent by going though an Ultra and business owners in the cities of Bishop and at distribution to the various health care facilities. Violet bank. This is preferable to chemical Corpus Christi. Maps of unincorporated areas With Warp Speed the vaccines will go directly disinfectants because it eliminates the chance 1-877-FEMA-MAP (1-877-336-2627) or by of Nueces County are also are also available. to the users cutting a link in the supply chain of disinfectant chemicals being able to enter the email at FEMAMapSpecialist@riskmapcds. Renters and property owners are encouraged to and decrease the time from production to the Laguna and the possibility of a fish kill if there com. review the latest information to learn about local user. The District will be providing vaccines for is an equipment malfunction. Just finishing up flood risks and potential future flood insurance The preliminary maps may also be viewed City and County needs. is replacing the bulkheads around the Plant. requirements. online at the following locations: Council accepted the resignation of Most importantly LAN Engineering is currently Councilmember Rudy Garza. Rudy was termed in the design phase for plant upgrades on this For this Physical Map Revision, the Flood • The Flood Map Change Viewer at http:// out on Council and his last meeting would old plant. These upgrades will address the odor Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) serve multiple msc.fema.gov/fmcv have been October 27. He is leaving to fill issue that originates from the plant. While our purposes, including defining Special Flood • The FEMA Map Service Center at http:// an unexpired term on the Del Mar board of prevailing breeze generally sends the aroma Hazard Areas (SFHAs) and setting rates for msc.fema.gov/portal regents after serving eight years minus three across the Laguna many can attest on those flood insurance. SFHAs are areas at high risk for weeks on Council. Working with Rudy for the days with little breeze or wind coming from flooding. Communities and residents can use the For more information about the flood maps: last four years I found him always a friend of a different direction the plant is too near of a information to make informed decisions about • Use a live chat service about flood maps District Four and the Island. Since Council neighbor building, development, and flood insurance. at http://go.usa.gov/r6C (click on the “Live FEMA Region 6 Administrator Tony Robinson Chat” icon) states, “Flooding is the #1 natural disaster in the • Contact a FEMA Map Specialist Acting Navy Under City Council United States and most homeowner’s insurance by telephone at 1-877-FEMA-MAP policies do not cover the effects of flooding. I (1-877-336-2627) or by email at encourage everyone to purchase flood insurance [email protected]. Secretary Visits Decision on because more than 25 percent of flood damages occur outside the Special Flood Hazard Area Most homeowner’s insurance policies do NAS Corpus Christi Loan Program and policies are typically less expensive.” not cover flood. There are cost saving options available for those newly mapped into a high- Acting Under Secretary of the Navy Gregory Review the preliminary flood maps by visiting risk flood zone. Learn more about your flood J. Slavonic visited Chief of Naval Air Training for Seawater your local floodplain administrator (FPA). A insurance options by talking with your insurance (CNATRA) at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi agent or visiting https://www.floodsmart.gov/. this week. Desalination Project

The purpose was to experience the Navy’s new Leads to Low approach to primary flight training. Interest Rates Editor’s note: The City of Corpus Christi issued this statement following the council meeting on Tuesday, October 13. At Tuesday’s regularly scheduled City Council meeting, Corpus Christi Mayor Joe McComb and the City Council approved issuing Utility System Revenue Improvement Bonds as security for the first portion of a loan from the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) for the City’s Seawater Desalination Project. Acting Under Secretary of the Navy The City has been approved for up to $222.5 Gregory Slavonic tries out a virtual million through the TWDB State Water Implementation Fund for Texas (SWIFT) loan reality trainer device with the help of program that can be used for funding design Lt. Cmdr. Kerry Bistline at Training Air and construction of a Seawater Desalination Wing 4 aboard Naval Air Station Corpus Facility to provide a future potable water supply Christi. for all customers. The City will use a portion, $11.4 million, to cover costs for environmental CNATRA Rear Adm. Robert Westendorff studies, permits, land acquisition and other showed Slavonic how CNATRA is leveraging planning tasks. These next steps will provide virtual and mixed reality technology while the final information necessary for the City providing flight students continuous access to Council to determine how to proceed forward interactive media in the new syllabus named with the project. Project Avenger. Project Avenger is a prototype syllabus designed to train naval aviators to a City Council’s decision on using the first Lake JFK was full at the foot of the causeway through the weekend as water covered the greater level of proficiency in a shorter period portion of the loan will NOT lead to higher water road and parking lot at Snoopy’s. Driving through saltwater there has become the norm of time to increase fleet aviator availability. utility rates, and the City will receive a 20% this season. Slavonic toured various Training Air Wing reduction in interest as compared to traditional 4 facilities and experienced flight both on a financing methods for the bonds issued in 2020. virtual reality trainer device and in a T-6B The final interest rate guaranteed to the City is Texan II turboprop aircraft, the Navy’s primary 1.996%, saving the ratepayers 64 basis points in flight trainer. interest that equates to $1.5 million over the life of the bonds. Slavonic visited multiple commands in Texas to engage with Sailors and Marines and view Today’s City Council action is the first reading readiness and training efforts. CNATRA is of the Ordinance to collateralize the loan. The responsible for training all Navy, Marine second reading and consideration of approval Corps, and Coast Guard aviators, naval flight will be at the next City Council meeting on officers, and naval aircrewmen. Training is October 20, 2020. spread across five air wings located in Texas, (361) 251-3469 Florida, and Mississippi. Headquartered in Corpus Christi, CNATRA trains combat quality aviation professionals. ARRY LLEN L A CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION October 15, 2020 Island Moon A 14 Online safety tips for National Nature Notes Cyber Security Awareness Month Hummingbird Fun Facts #3 By Emily Gaines | PR Coordinator for BBB serving the Heart of Texas By Kay Lookingbill The Internet has become a significant part of our unsecured public network. Gulf Coast Bird They inhabit all types of habitats - mangrove everyday lives, allowing us to work, socialize • Stay secure while you work. As more Observatory Note: swamps, rainforests, cloud forests, prairies, and shop online. Unfortunately, cybercriminals employees work virtually during the We asked expert bird deserts, etc. - from sea level to the highest also benefit from that same convenience and COVID-19 crisis, they should be more bander, Kay Lookingbill, if we could compile elevations in the Andes Mountains. Many have accessibility. That’s why the Cybersecurity and vigilant about internet scams and online some of her wonderful fun hummer facts from elaborate tail feathers, crests, bills, or plumage Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the fraud. Business and personal information her Facebook posts and pass them on to all of that is simply spectacular. National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) team should be treated with the same care; you, and she happily agreed! So here is article No hummingbirds are native to Europe, Africa, up each October for National Cyber Security avoid sharing it with unfamiliar parties or number 3 of hummingbird fun facts… in no Asia, Australia or Antarctica. There are 17 Awareness Month. This year’s theme is “Do over unsecured networks. It is important particular order. Thank you, Kay! -Martin hummingbird species confirmed to breed in the Your Part. #BeCyberSmart,” which emphasizes to keep the security software on your Hagne, Executive Director, GCBO US and Canada. Ruby-throated hummingbirds the importance of individuals taking steps to business devices up to date, because only breed east of the Rocky Mountains. The other protect themselves online. Digestive System one employee needs to be compromised 16 species breed from the Rocky Mountains Through its online reporting tool, the Internet for an entire organization to experience a Hummingbirds consume their body weight (or westward to the Pacific Ocean, and from the Crime Complaint Center (IC3) connects the data breach. more) in nectar every day, and that nectar is 75 Mexican border to Alaska. An additional 15 public with the FBI. According to IC3’s 2019 - 80% water. Do the math! Hummingbirds are • Use social media responsibly. Social species of hummers have been recorded north annual report, almost 500,000 complaints and one of the few wild birds that consume large media is a great way to connect with of Mexico, but don’t breed up here. $3.5 billion in losses were reported last year, quantities of excess water in their daily diet that friends and family, but it can also allow with adults over 60 being the demographic they must get rid of. Most birds have very little Yes, they can open scammers and cybercriminals to target most impacted by internet crime. Texas ranks excess water in their diet, and what little does their bill! you. Only accept friend requests from exist is expelled in their poop. Hummingbirds third in the United States for number of victims The hummingbird people you trust, avoid clicking links in have a highly efficient digestive system. Their and fourth for total dollar losses. diet consists of nectar messages from strangers, and refrain from specialized kidneys extract and retain all of the and insects. They need Step up your online safety practices with these posting your personal information online. sugar content from nectar, and the excess water insects for the protein, tips from your Better Business Bureau: Remember to be careful about what you is expelled as urine. Hummingbirds are one of vitamins, minerals, and • Increase your online privacy. Protect share. Remember, there is no “delete” the few bird species that actually pee! They other nutrients not found your online accounts by implementing button online. do this quickly, too. In as little as 20 minutes A female in nectar. Nectar provides multifactor authentication and using after feeding from a feeder or flowers, they’ll For more online safety tips, visit us at BBB. Ruby-throated energy, but is just sugar strong passwords, which consist of be peeing. We can always tell when someone org, and go to CISA.gov to learn more about Hummingbird water. They catch insects letters, numbers and special characters. in the neighborhood is using red nectar in their National Cyber Security Awareness Month. in flight by opening their Individuals should also refrain from feeders, because they pee pink! Please do NOT with her bill open. Have you encountered cybercrime? Report it to bill like this (see photo). accessing banking information or making use food coloring in your hummer food mix or Photo by Kay BBB.org/ScamTracker and IC3.gov/Complaint. I’ve watched hummers online purchases when connected to an purchase premade red nectar! Lookingbill amidst a swarm of gnats, How Many Species? snatching them in mid- air. They also glean insects from foliage and The Barnacle Line There are about 340 different species of tree bark, and even steal insects from spider hummingbirds in the world, and they ALL live webs. Hummingbirds will hit your feeders first By Del Smith in the Western Hemisphere (The Americas). Moored at Anchor Resport thing in the morning for energy, then spend The actual number of species sometimes most of the day in search of insects (especially Here it is, the day after that it all now. --- Way back, in our past, in a far- changes because authorities keep lumping and on sunny days). Then hit your feeders again in annual fall event. The time when flung solar system, on one of it’s planets, a space splitting species as they learn more about them. the late afternoon to tank up for the night. we all have to go back to using real time, not commander calls in his most trusted cadet and the fake stuff that we call Day Light Savings tells him. “Cadet Zixt’vut, got a job for you. Go Time. That springing-forward and falling-back on down to that new planet we just found and season, we all seem to enjoy because of the mess with their minds. Teach them some screwy Padre Island Real Estate Ticker extra daylight hour it gives us to play in the time keeping, or something. ------Arrest their warmth of the summer sun. development. If they get off that planet ------? Our whole neighborhood would go to pot!!” September 16 – September 30 The unreal part about Day Light Savings is By Cindy Molnar how we, as human beings, go about getting that Another thing messed up, is the way we extra hour of summer fun. And, if you think humans look at the start of each day. The zero Coldwell Banker Island Realtors about it, don’t we actually look upon that as hour. Using the same logic of counting your Waterfront Homes Sold an extra hour that has somehow mysteriously digits, you would think that sunrise would equal 14521 E. Cabana Street #501 appeared. Human nature, being what it is, wants zero. ---- The day begins when your day begins. 13757 Tajamar Street 15014 Beach Walk Loop to completely ignore the hour lost during the But, oh no, someone, in their infinite wisdom, 15353 Yardarm Court normal sleep period, that this suddenly found decided that the day should begin about halfway 15016 Beach Walk Loop hour represents. ----- “Man! If I can’t play with through the night!! ------Zixt’vut, is that you 15010 Tesoro Drive 15018 Beach Walk Loop it, it just ain’t there!” back there? ----- Again?? 13638 Camino De Oro Court 15025 Beach Walk Loop It’s not as if that Day Light Savings is the only Yes, the way we humans measure our apparent 13729 Cayo Cantiles Court 38 Interior Condominiums/Townhomes/ unreal ------, well unrealistic thing about the time is confusing and archaic. It was born in a Duplexes Listed From $125,000.00- way we humans measure the different periods time when the world was flat and there were 13937 Man O War Court $429,900.00 of a day. demons and monstrous beasts if you fell off 13870 Hawksnest Bay Drive the edge. But we humans love the way it is and Think about it now, we break our visualization 15373 Beaufort Court Waterfront Condomiums/ cherish it’s existence, so it isn’t any wonder of time into a couple of easily understood Townhomes Sold that we made the desire to start working an 15353 Cartagena Court chunks of time, as in; -- a year is the period it hour earlier, during certain parts of the year, as 13997 Fortuna Bay Drive #203 takes earth to circle around the sun and a day is 13801 Doubloon Street difficult to understand as possible? ---Day Light time it takes for the earth to revolve around it’s 15302 Bonasse Court #105 Savings Time??? --- Should be called Day Light 39 Waterfront Homes Listed From poles. ---- Simple, what? --- But can humanity Losing Sleep Time!! $357,500.00 - $ 3,200,000.00 15433 Seamount Cay unit E keep the rest of time keeping that simple, also? ---- Does the sun set in the East? Do rocks roll As an old-fart mariner, (okay, okay, ---- ancient 14205 Jackfish Drive Unit D uphill? --- Of course not and mankind has really mariner ------and no, I do not have six fingers Interior Lot Homes Sold 15409 Salt Cay Unit B made a muddle of the little divisions of time and albatross does not taste like chicken), Day that represent one day. Light Savings Time has no meaning to me, 13950 Jibstay Street 14813 Leeward Drive #604 when it’s used for navigation. Time to me, under Just who was this six-fingered guy? --- And 15237 Main Royal Drive 15001 Harbor View Drive those circumstances, is the time in Greenwich, how did he get so much power to forever 59 Waterfront Condominiums/Townhomes/ England. (Probably the home of Zixt’vut, the 13910 Skysail Street complicate our time keeping? ----- Now, to me Duplexes Listed From $50,000.00- six-fingered alien.) ----- Other wise, I punch the logical number of hours in a day would be 14258 Natal Plum Drive $1,290,000.00 no time clocks and the only local time I am a full complement of either fingers and/or toes interested in, are the beginning times of certain 15734 Dyna Street to make up the daily time divisions. You know, Waterfront Lots segments of the Weather Channel, news and ten or twenty --- So just where did this twelve/ 15038 Aquarius Street sports events. The rest is just the period between 15346 Beaufort Court twenty-four stuff come from. To my knowledge waking up and going to sleep. 13806 Captain Kidd Drive no anthropologist has ever found a bunch of 41 Waterfront Lots Listed From six-fingered humans. --- If they have, they sure So there you have it, humans dearly love to be 14249 Avenida De San Nico $167,000.00-$2,000,000.00 aren’t talking about it! And what happened to confused. Makes us easier to control, I suppose. 15737 Escapade Street Interior Lots Sold all of the extra fingers and toes???? But for us to change the way we measure time, 15429 Dyna Street ------just ain’t gonna happen. ------It’s 13742 Whitecap Blvd. Now as to all of the other time divisions, you tradition, you see. 13909 Lighthouse Drive know, minutes and seconds, just where the 15613 Chris Craft Street number sixty came from is a place I do not But, as an old fart mariner/navigator, I get to 14113 Palo Seco Drive 15629 Chris Craft Street want to go. ------Hummm? --- You don’t deal with other confusing traditions. Such as 14153 La Blanquilla Drive suppose it was the number of hairs that this six- three hundred sixty degrees in a circle and the 15617 Palmira Street fingered person had on his, or her, chest? ------really weird way we got the Earth laid out for 14010 Rudder Court 15621 Palmira Street Or head?? ------Or butt???? ------As I said, a navigation grid. ------But that’s enough now. 15905 Cabo Blanco Drive 15625 Palmira Street let’s don’t go there. Time to climb down from the soap box. -- I am tired. --- I want to go to bed. After all it is Time 45 Interior Lot Homes Listed From 29 Interior Lots Listed From $49,900.00- Maybe this whole thing is, even more, evidence Mark 13.7492 and it’s way past my bed time. $239,500.00-$899,000.00 $129,000.000 of ancient, alien astronauts. ------Yes, I can see Good nite all! Interior Lot Condominiums/ Commercial Lots Townhomes/Duplexes Sold Lot 9 Crowsnest Avenue 14401 Commodores Drive #108 Lot 10 Crowsnest Avenue 10% Discount for Island Homes! 14721 Whitecap Blvd #284 15 Commercial Lots Listed From 14721 Whitecap Blvd #262 $125,000.00-$2,200,000.00 14721 Whitecap Blvd #275

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Snyder informed Affiant that a few days Beach drowning 14200 block Anegada 8 p.m. October 8 Bobby Sherwood was indicted this week after a after the meeting with Sherwood, Maldonado met with Snyder and handed him an envelope High water due to Hurricane Delta claimed Burglary of a Vehicle Port Aransas taxi driver accused him of offering a cash bribe in exchange for dropping charges containing $300 and Maldonado stated that the the life of a man just before 11 a.m. on 14200 block Jackfish 4 p.m. October 8 Theft money was from Sherwood. After receiving the Friday, October 9 in the 11500 of Gulf in a criminal investigation in 2016. The charges 14000 block SPID 1 a.m. October 8 Theft of bribe money, Snyder spoke with Sergeant Olan Beach Road. First responders were called include tampering with a witness, bribery, Services Kelley and declined to pursue the charges. and found the man unconscious, CPR was and engaging in organized crime. Sherwood performed and the man was transported to 15100 block Leeward 5 p.m. October 10 is currently free on $20,000 bond. He won 11. On 3-13-2018 Affiant interviewed Bay Area hospital along with two life guards Theft the Republican primary in November and is Sherwood in which he admits to speaking with who suffered minor injuries while trying to running unopposed on the November 3 ballot. “the guy from San Antonio” who wanted to 13800 block Gunwale 7 a.m. October 8 “make this go away.” Sherwood said that “they rescue the man. Burglary This is the affidavit filed in the case and the indictment. gave me the money and I gave to” Maldonado Suspicious Person to pass to Snyder to make the case go away. 14000 block SPID 4 a.m. October 11 AFFIDAVIT FOR ARREST WARRANT Sherwood verified that he knows the people from San Antonio because they are part of an BEFORE ME, THE UNDERSIGHNED 100 block Zahn Road 2 a.m. October 9 organization that has a big party in Port Aransas AUTHORITY, PERSONALLY APPREARED every year and Sherwood has worked security 15200 block SPID 2 a.m. October 7 THE AFFIANT HEREIN, A PEACE OFFICER for them in the past. Sherwood claimed that the UNDER THE LAWS OF TEXAS, WHO 15400 block Finistere 11 a.m. October 6 idea of money ($1000) for making the case go BEING DULY SWORN, ON OATH MADE away was Snyder’s idea. 15800 block SPID 3 a.m. October 10 THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS: 12. On 3-13-2018 Affiant interviewed 15800 SPID 2 a.m. October 10 My name is Samuel Cody Lankford and I am Maldonado, who corroborated that Sherwood commissioned as a peace officer by the Texas 14200 block SPID 8 a.m. October 13 had given him an envelope to give to Snyder. Rangers Company D, Department of Public Then Affiant recorded a conversation with 100 block Zahn Road 1 p.m. October 12 Safety. I, hearinafter referred to as Affiant, 13900 block Sea Anchor 4 p.m. October 8 Maldonado and Sherwood, with Maldonado’s hereby state upon my oath that I have reason 14800 block SPID Noon October 12 Burglary of a Vehicle consent, in which Sherwood asked Maldonado to believe and do believe and hereby charge “Hey, did the Texas Rangers come to see Disturbance 13800 block Gunwale 11 a.m. October 7 and accuse the suspected party, and identified you? Maldonado stated “No sir.” Sherwood Burglary of a Habitation below, committed the offense of Bribery in 13500 block SPID 2 a.m. October 10 informed Maldonado that “We’re gonna have a violation of Texas Penal Code Section 36.02 15700 block Cuttysark 10 p.m. October 7 conversation and you’re gonna deny everything 13300 SPID 7 p.m. October 9 Second Degree Felony. Burglary of a Vehicle I tell you.” Sherwood then went on to tell 13900 block SPID 3 p.m. October 8 15700 block Cruiser 9 p.m. October 12 Bobby Wesley Sherwood, Port Aransas, TX Maldonado that the idea of money ($1000) for 14000 block SPID 4 a.m. October 11 Criminal Mischief 78373 making the case go away was Snyder’s idea. Sherwood informed Maldonado “I told you 14600 block SPID 2 a.m. October 10 1. In June of 2017, the complaining witness 15000 block Leeward 1 a.m. October 12 about it so you know it’s true.” Public Intoxication Burglary of a Vehicle Loye Dalton Snyder, reported that Sherwood bribed him to withdraw the assault charges Affiant has probably cause to believe that 14200 block Jackfish 2 p.m. October 9 Traffic/Fire Snyder filed against two people who assaulted Robert Wesley Sherwood, date of birth (xxx) Theft of Services 38 Traffic Stops him in mide-2016 in Port Aransas, Nueces did on or about May 16, 2016 commit the 11700 block SH 361 10 a.m. October 9 County, Texas. offense of Bribery in violation of Texas Penal Commodores/SH 361 Noon October 8 Fire 100 block Zahn Road 2 a.m. October 9 2 .On 2-27-2018 Affiant obtained an incident Code Section 36.02 Second Degree Felony. Gulf Beach/Whitecap 8 p.m. October 10 13900 block SPID 3 p.m. October 8 report from Port Aransas Police Sergeant Olan Affiant has probable cause for said belief by Crash Kelley that describes an incident that occurred reason of the facts and circumstances listed 14500 block SPID 11 a.m. October 7 Cumana/Cayo Gorda 9 a.m. October 9 May 13, 2016 in which Snyder, alleged to have above. been assaulted by two unknown males that had 13500 block Peseta 11 p.m. October 10 Parking Violation Wherefore, affiant asks for issuance of a been passengers in his taxi cab. 15100 block Dory 9 p.m. October 10 Zahn Road/Newport Pass 11 p.m. October warrant that will authorize affiant and other 10 Crash 3. On 3-01-2018 Affiant interviewed Snyder. peace officers to arrest Robert Wesley Sherwood 15200 block SPID 7 p.m. October 10 During the interview Snyder played for me date of birth (xxx) where ever he may be found. 13300 block SPID 3 a.m. October 13 Crash three audio recorded conversation that he 13500 block Peseta 3 a.m. October 10 (Signed) 13500 block SPID 1 a.m. October 12 DWI had about the incident that occurred on May 13900 block Whitecap 6 p.m. October 9 13, 2016. The first is a phone call between Affiant 14800 block SPID 10 a.m. October 12 Violation of Court Order Snyder and his boss at the taxi company, Adam Parking Violation Texas Ranger Samuel Cody Lankford 15300 block SPID 1 p.m. October 6 Maldonado, in which Maldonado tells Snyder Gulf Beach/Zahn Road 3 p.m. October 12 that Sherwood wants to talk about the incident. SWORN AND SUBSCIBED BEFORE ME 14000 block SPID 7 a.m. October 13 DWI During the conversation Maldonado stated that BY THE SAID AFFIANT ON THIS THE 14 100 block Zahn Road Noon October 12 Sherwood wanted to “erase everything” and DAY OF MARCH, 2018. Assault that they needed to get a “price.” 15700 block Cruiser 9 a.m. October 13 (Signed) 14800 block Granada 4 p.m. October 7 Shots 4. The second recording Snyder presented, was 15300 block SPID 3 p.m. October 12 SANDRA L. WATTS Fired a phone call between Snyder and Sherwood Theft 16000 block Gulf Beach 4 p.m. October 10 where Sherwood asked Snyder to come to DISTRICT JUDGE Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon Sherwood’s office so that they could talk about 117TH DISTRICT COURT 14000 block SPID 1 a.m. Theft of Services what happened to Snyder over the weekend and the cab company. NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS 5. The third recording that Snyder presented Indictment was an in person conversation between Arresting/Investigating Agency: Texas Snyder and Sherwood in Sherwood’s office Rangers, Texas Department of Public Safety October Bag Hero in Port Aransas, Nueces County. During the The Skip the Plastic project of the conversation Snyder provided Sherwood with Bond: $20,000 Surfrider Foundation – Texas Coastal the details of the incident on May 13, 2016. The State of Texas vs. Robert Wesley Sherwood Bend Chapter recognizes community Sherwood asked Snyder “Where is this going? members and businesses that set a positive What do you want to do?” Charge: Tampering with a Witness example by making the shift to reusable Statute: Texas Penal Code 36:05 shopping bags or other alternatives to 6. Snyder tells Sherwood that Maldonado single-use plastic bags. “called me (Snyder) Saturday and said that Degree: Third Degree Felony you called and asked him what we got to do to Court: 105th Judicial District Our October Bag Hero is Tonya Delk. squash this.” Sherwood responded, “Well, that’s Tonya shared with us that, “I use reusable what I said, that’s what I told him. They came IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY shopping bags to help the environment and talked to me about it you know.” OF THE STATE OF TEXAS from less plastic being thrown in the land fields. I also think that the reusable bags 7. Sherwood stated, “So here’s the deal. What The duly organized Grand Jury of NUECES are more durable and carry more items do you want to do to make it go away? I mean, County, Texas, present in the District Court than the plastic bags that are normally what’s it worth to you to make it go away? You of NUECES County, Texas, that on or about used. I am a single mom of two wonderful want a hundred bucks? You want a hundred MARCH 13, 2018, in NUECES County, Texas, kids. We enjoy recycling and making the dollar tip?” ROBERT WESLEY SHERWOOD, did then and there coerce ADAM MALDONADO, world a better place by doing it.” 8. Snyder responded, “I lost money that night” who was then and there a prospective witness and then stated that he wasn’t sure that if the During the current COVID-19 pandemic, in an official proceeding, namely THE others involved in the incident may have taken it is important to remember that it is still STATEOF TEXAS VO. ROBERT WESLEY some of his money that night. safe to use reusable shopping bags. Just be SHERWOOD, by harming the credit of sure to wash and disinfect them along with 9. Sherwood informed Snyder that the other business repute of any person, with intent to everything else you touch frequently. people in the incident are powerful and may influence ADAM MALDONADO to withhold We would like to thank Tonya and come after him and the taxi company. Sherwood information in the official proceeding, against everyone who is taking responsibility to also asked Snyder two more times what wanted the peach and dignity of the State. to “make it go away.’ Snyder told Sherwood that reduce plastic pollution on land and in Filed: August 8, 2020 our oceans by skipping the plastic. Your he would get back to him and Sherwood thanks efforts are making a difference him for coming in. Revive the Drive ISLAND’S EDGE City officials broke ground this week on the $12.8 million project to overhaul Ocean Drive from IH-37 to Ennis Joslin. S  f Her The last time the road got an overhaul was in the late 1950s, since then repairs have been patchwork to cover potholes. 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By Ronnie Narmour who are tying the knot this April in Shreveport, [email protected] Louisiana. Ashley is currently a bartender at the Gaff and B.J. is a drummer you might Is we is or is we ain’t? remember from the band Transisterdale that As I sit here at my desk this Tuesday morning, often played the Tarpon Ice House back in the like I do every Tuesday morning, I am waiting day. Old Tarpon Ice House owner Paul Fain for Judge Barbara Canales to tell us if she will will conduct the marriage ceremony. Both of allow the bars in Nueces County to reopen or these fine folks are dear friends and we wish not. Governor Greg Abbott announced last them a lifetime of happiness. I remember the week that the bars in Texas (that don’t serve day they met. We should be more than ready for food) could open on the 14th if the county judges a road trip by April. in each county signs off on it, depending on Scattered shots… their current COVID numbers. The numbers of Debra Scott Brown and Dreaming in Color played Giggity’s last Friday. infections and deaths in Nueces County aren’t especially high, but they are steady. Indeed, Judge Canales has a tough decision to make Tide will be back at Treasure Island and in On the horizon… here. I know Canales has reached out to some town, Americana stud Cody Canada will play On the near horizon watch for shows by people in the bar business for their opinions, Brewster Street Downtown and Trisum will Johnny Boy Amundsen, Jerry Ward, Ruben including Edwin Meyers, proprietor of play Rockit’s. Also this weekend, Port A will Limas, Stevie Start, BackPew Revival, Mark Giggity’s, Shorty’s and Kody’s in Port A. By the have their annual Shop Around on Saturday and McKinney, Fundaze, Bri Bagwell, The time you read this, the decision will hopefully Sunday. Jam Band, Timeline, Robin Blue, Parker have been made. I may be barking at the moon, McCollum and Shattered Sun. but I honestly think the judge will allow the bars in Nueces County to reopen with COVID ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ precautions (masks and social distancing) in place. I’ve got my fingers crossed. On the local front… I have some sad news… Halloween will be Live Music Giggity’s last night open. Yep. The building currently housing Port A’s top live music venue will soon meet the wrecking ball. It’s been coming for a long time and that day is finally Tonight here. I kept thinking it really wasn’t going to Jerry Ward @ Doc’s happen but I was just fooling myself. And just Thursday, October 15 John Eric @ Pelican to let you know, the whole block that is home to Free Beer Band @ Lounge Giggity’s Shorty’s, Flats and Bernie’s is also destined for Coach Jim Dugan is playing every demo at some point. I heard around two years. Clay Hollis @ Treasure Thursday, October 22 Island The landscape of Port A is changing before Saturday in October at the Gaff. Free Beer Band @ Billy Snipes @ Doc’s Giggity’s our very eyes and has been since Hurricane Ruben Limas @ Island Harvey. And the annual Pig Party, usually held Billy Snipes @ Doc’s Italian Ruben Limas @ Island on Miss Rose’s birthday every October, won’t Falco & the Wolf Italian be happening either. I feel like I’ve had the @ Brewster Street TEMPORARILY Falco & the Wolf @ stuffing kicked out of me. 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Red Tide Departed, Powell Bros Monday, October 26 will be there again this Saturday. On Saturday @ Brewster Street TEMPORARILY Open Jam @ Giggity’s we caught Debra Scott Brown and Dreaming Downtown Stevie Start @ Doc’s in Color at Giggity’s and Coach Jim Dugan at the Gaff. Dugan will play there every Saturday Sunday, October 18 CLOSED AS COVID Tuesday, October 27 Shorty’s by Wade Koniakowski 2013. Port A Shop Around @ @ Paul & Victoria @ in October. The Gaff also has a large outdoor Port Aransas stage and lots of room in their backyard for PRECAUTION Giggity’s Art Barrera @ Treasure Stevie Start @ Doc’s Wade as one of the spreading out. Coach Dugan was on his game Island and it’s good to see him get off that tractor every OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. resident artists at the Antone & All Stars @ Wednesday, October 28 Felder Gallery in the now and then. And finally, DIC seemed more Giggity’s Hank Reeves @ Giggity’s Tower Center a few than ready to perform and it showed. Debra has Billy Snipes @ Doc’s Open Mic w/ Ray Summy years ago. The gallery a strong stage presence and puts on a fun show Damon Scott @ Pelican @ Executive Surf Club has since relocated interacting with the crowd and dancing around. Lounge Jerry Ward @ Doc’s to San Antonio with John Eric @ Pelican Coming this weekend… Monday, October 19 Lounge proprietor Robby Open Jam @ Giggity’s Felder. Wade did a Let’s put it this way, if Judge Canales does open Stevie Start @ Doc’s wonderful series of Shorty’s Thursday, October 29 the bars, will have the powerhouse Free Beer Band @ Port A “Night Life” blues of John Cortez on Friday and rockabilly Tuesday, October 20 Giggity’s paintings in 2013 monster Matt Hole on Saturday. Otherwise it’s Paul & Victoria @ Bri Bagwell @ Third that are spectacular. Clay Hollis at Treasure Island on Thursday Giggity’s Coast Theater I absolutely love the and Art Barrera on Saturday. On Friday Rudy Stevie Start @ Doc’s Billy Snipes @ Doc’s one of Shorty’s that Llanes with Starlite and the Moonbeams will Sierra Dawn @ Ruben Limas @ Island Ashley Ruder and Scuttlebutt’s he painted. And finally be at Giggity’s and get ready for some boot Italian BJ Shuler are on the local front, scootin’ on Saturday with the smooth country Rich O’Toole @ Brewster taking the plunge in Wednesday, October 21 Street Downtown congratulations to our sounds of Todd Dorn and the Sea Drifters Magnus @ Giggity’s April. pals Ashley “Olive” from San Antonio. Also on Saturday, Red Open Mic w/ Ray Summy Friday, October 30 Ruder and B.J. Shuler @ Executive Surf Club Jam Band @ Giggity’s

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