It's Time to Sandfest!

Inside the Moon Seashore Happenings A2 Whoop it Up! A7 Bloomin' Island A7 P.I.B.A Mixer A15 Issue 732 The Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 April 26, 2018 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Photo by Grayson Armstrong Around POA President It’s Time to SandFest! Announces The Island Examination By Dale Rankin The tides are about to go crazy into Member’s this week, the tide chart looks like a Rorschach Test for Alfred E. Allegations Neuman’s crazy brother – what us By Dale Rankin worry!? The tides along much of our In a tense monthly meeting of beaches of late have been washing all the Padre Isles Board of Directors the way up to the dunes which has Tuesday night the President said he made driving down Kleberg way a bit is opening an examination after a dicey, reducing the civilian and law member took the podium to raise enforcement presence and bringing questions concerning a credit card about the sneaky return of the Naked account opened six years ago and Men of Kleberg. A count Sunday closed last year, and tax filings from afternoon found two of the tribe the organization over a seven year hiding their squishy parts behind period. trucks as civilians approached. If you head down that way be sure to take Allegations cont. on A4 your Buck Knife to poke out your one good eye. Packery Jetties Seawall follow up Artists begin creating their SandFest sculptures. For a complete schedule of Sandfest events, see page A4. Photos by Ronnie Narmour Continue to Sand sculptors from far and away are gathered in Port Aransas this Erode weekend for the highlight of the spring season on our little sandbar as Recent north wind SandFest 2018 hits the beach. Things kick off Friday and continue breaches south wall through 5 p.m. Sunday when winners in the Advanced Amateur & Master Repair may be Awards are announced. In between barrels of wet sand will be turned into delayed until 2020 beautiful works of art right in front of By Dale Rankin your eyes as the sculptors work their When Hurricane Harvey pushed After our story last week on the magic. history of the Michael J. Ellis Seawall fast-moving water out through the we got this photo from a resident More than one-hundred thousand Packery Channel it undermined the at Island House. As you can see people typically attend the event structure on the portion of the jetty hurricanes and seawalls don’t always which is located on the beach structure on the south side of the Access Road 1A. Bron’s Beach get along. This was the seawall in between Mile Markers 9 and 13. Drive and Beach Access Road 1A channel causing the sidewalk and carts will be providing free beach 1980 after Hurricane Allen paid a The north entrance is on the beach to the SandFest entrance gates. substructure to collapse. Now eight cart shuttle service to take people visit. As we reported last week the at Sandcastle Drive (Mile Marker This is the big weekend folks and the months later the north winds have to and from the end of Sandcastle seawall is open to the public but 8), the south entrance is near Beach weather looks like it will cooperate. continued the process begun by the privately owned by the property storm, and this week the water owners along the seawall who would Island Political Action breached the structure entirely even have to pay to repair it if it takes Schlitterbahn to Have Committee Packery cont. on A4 another hit. There is also the added complication New Owner on Tuesday By the numbers that the beach along the seawall is Meet the the only local beach not covered by Auction on for Schlitterbahn park, hotel, Corpus Christi the Dune Protection Act, however, Candidates without the seawall the Act would surrounding 206 acres The Island United PAC presents Housing attach and no new development would Cocktails and Conversations with $185,000 median home price in be allowed with one thousand feet of By Dale Rankin 2015. Candidates on May 2, 6-8 at Veranda Corpus Christi 2018 the dune line, meaning that further Pending unexpected legal action The public notice for the auction Restaurant. development along the seawall would $134,000 median home price in by 1:01 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1 the calls for the sale of the assets between With the Run-Off election on be difficult. Corpus Christi 2006 Schlitterbahn Riverpark & Resort, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Tuesday. May 22 and the Mid-Term General hotel, and surrounding 206 acres of Where’d the money go? Jon Lowe, with Martin & Drought election on November 6, it is an $51,000 Median household land will have a new owner. P.C., which is handling the action important time to be an informed income in city 2018 The Corpus Christi City Council is The land, park, and building on behalf of IBOC, said that while voter. There will be light snacks wrestling with $2,251,397 shortfall $57,500 Median household are schedule to be auctioned in a the land is legally divided into four provided by Representative Todd income in city 2006 in General Fund revenue in what is foreclosure proceeding sparked parcels they will be sold collectively. Hunter and music sponsored by now a $243,543,700 budget, much of county commissioner Brent Chesney, 101 homes in the city under by lender International Bank of “Whoever buys it will buy all four the shortfall is due to Public Safety along with a cash bar, door prizes, $110,000 (affordable with Commerce which is owed $30.5 of the together,” Lowe said. He said budget items related to the Health Plan music, and a small silent auction. The $51,000 median income) million in loans for construction so far he has no indication how many for police and firefighters. According of the park and building with the event is open to the public. to numbers presented to the council bidders may show up. The land, park, 56 percent of residents own surrounding land held as security. and hotel, have been in Chapter 11 The Island Political Action homes Tuesday medical expenses for The bank claimed as collateral a total police officers and their families are Bankruptcy since late 2017 when Committee unites Island voters 44 percent of residents rent (not of $30.5 million loaned to the park’s Judge Craig Gargotta appointed behind candidates chosen by its expected to be $3.7 million short of developers in two tranches beginning including mobile homes) funds by the end of the current fiscal Dallas-based trustee Dawn Ragan to members, all registered Island voters on February 12, 2013 when $18 *Source: Corpus Christi year, the fund for medical expenses market the property to prospective are eligible, at open candidate forums million was loaned, and a second buyers. prior to non-partisan election. Association of Realtors for firefighters and their families is loan of $12.5 million on February 25, expected to be $4.5 million short by year’s end. If those numbers hold by Auction cont. on A4 the end of the current fiscal year the city’s General Fund will be upside A little Island history down by almost $11 million. To their credit the current council Packery Channel is dealing with it head on by cutting By Dale Rankin cut through Padre Island that was expenses across the board. Years of known historically as Corpus Christi Newcomers to Padre Island property tax and fee increases by Pass. It began on the back side of after 2005 don’t remember the prior councils were swallowed up The Island near where Fish Pass is place before Packery Channel by corresponding spending increases located today and split into two paths was cut open prematurely by leaving the current council looking at a point near where the 361 Bridge Hurricane Emily in July, 2005 just for seats as the music stopped. The over Packery Channel is now located, weeks before Hurricane Katrina plan this council inherited wasn’t leaving an island where the seawall slammed into New Orleans. working, something they unlike is now located. Corpus Christi Pass Construction on the channel was previous councils are not running began to silt up after the Corpus nearing completion but a land from. For those of us on The Island Christi Ship Channel opened in the bridge bisecting the channel at the who feel the tax burden acutely this 1920s. Packery Channel was named beach was still being used by work is good news. for a meatpacking plant built along its crews to move equipment. Emily shores in the 1870s. The next meeting of the Island only pushed a 1.5 foot surge tide Strategic Action Committee is but was enough to blast the 75- In 2000 Corpus Christi voters meeting Tuesday May 1, 5:30 p.m. at foot wide plug in the channel out, passed a funding measure to build the Holiday Inn Express. We’ll see you connecting the Gulf of Mexico to Packery Channels and construction there, in the meantime say hello if the Laguna Madre. began in late 2003. It was dredged you see us Around The Island. to seven feet in the back channel and The opening on the Gulf side Packery Channel after Hurricane Allen in 1980. of Packery is part of a natural History cont. on A4 April 26, 2018 Island Moon A 2 Seashore Happenings: We Almost Needed a Bigger Boat! T-Joe tells them how he lost half of his finger in a fight with a shark.

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