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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 September 12, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around Padre Island The Island is Worth $2.2 By Dale Rankin Billion What a week it's been on our little By Dale Rankin sandbar. We got enough rain to wash The most recent valuation by the the sand off our cars and just enough Nueces County Appraisal District thunder to send Island dogs under puts the market value of real property the bed. As we sit here Wednesday it on Padre Island at $2,204,359,535. looks like we're about to play chicken with a storm system with the ominous name of 94L. We're not sure why the National Hurricane Center named it that but simple math tells us it must be twice as bad as 47L. The Weather Wonks say it will be in the eastern Gulf of Mexico by this weekend. It's not time to start gassing up the car yet, but it might be a good idea to check the battery supply as there is a 60 percent chance of it becoming a hurricane over the next five days, up from a 30 percent change on Tuesday. And then there's this… Across Nueces County the district Islanders literally "jumped ship" for Stevie Start's "Thank God It's Padre" video last Saturday. placed the net taxable value of property at $27.88 billion as of January 1, 2018, up by 4.43 percent Study Identifies Area Speed Traps from 2017, more recent figures were not available. Five in local area, two on route to San Antonio If anyone is missing a washer you can find it on the beach in Kleberg By Dale Rankin The two most travelled by Islanders Driscoll collected $270,333, $715 on their way north to San Antonio County. We didn't catch the brand but A national study released this week for every resident the price is right. are George West which collected tabs 161 cities across Texas as speed $216,727 and Three Rivers which Refugio $247,694 $113 per resident traps which collect large portions of Packery collected $484,516. But others close Freer $356,282 $177 per resident their city revenue from traffic tickets City staff told the Island Strategic by include Refugio, Driscoll, and with nine of them in or near the Freer. Encinal $179,229 23.4 percent of Action Committee last week that Coastal Bend and two on the route total city revenues there is shoaling in Packery Channel Currently the total market value of between Corpus Christi and San The collectors Carrizo Springs $369,465 10 near the boat launch area and city Antonio. real property in the City of Corpus engineers are looking at that along Here are a list of the towns in percent of total city revenues Christi is $25,510,160,970, according with the slope of the boat launch. It The study by the magazine South Texas where you are most Lytle $247,492 11.9 percent of total to the Appraisal Districts findings for is possible that some changes in the Governing the States and Localities likely to get pulled over for a traffic city revenues the 2019-2020 fiscal year. ramps on the Zahn roadside could be found that in 2018 90 Texas towns violation. garner more than 10 percent of their La Vernia $110,722 7.5 percent of Closer to home the total market included in the repairs of the Packery Three Rivers $484,516 $344 for value of property in the Flour Bluff Channel jetties. The plans to repair revenue from ticket fines, 39 get 20 total city revenues percent or more, 22 get 30 percent or every resident Independent School District for 2019 the jetties after Hurricane Harvey is $4,285,748,687. damage are still a work in progress more and 10 get more than half. George West $216,727 $119 per with the city staff saying that FEMA resident has indicated, but not promised, they will fund the work. Rumor Department A little Island history We don't normally comment on rumors around the old Word Factory but sometimes if there's enough smoke we start looking for the fire. 1919 Hurricane Centennial For several weeks the word has been By Jim Moloney occupants to the winds and waves. that Margaretville, Jimmy Buffet's On September 14, 1919 Corpus People who failed to evacuate took company, is looking at coming to shelter in their homes and were Padre Island. We could not get a Christi suffered its worst disaster, the Hurricane of 1919. It is hard stranded in the buildings. As homes comment from the company but we began to disintegrate around 3:00 did come across a reliable piece of to imagine the circumstances under which this storm hit the city. p.m. they found themselves in thrown information that the company has into the flood tides or trapped in secured a "6.2-acre piece of land on The storm formed on September 2 out in the Atlantic Ocean. By buildings surrounded by the water the water" somewhere here on our and waves. Island. Word came from the Padre the 7th it was a Category 2 in the Isles Property Owners Association Bahamas. On Sept 10th it was near Around 5:00 p.m. there were three that they received written notice Key West and sank the steamer great waves. Water was rushing like a that a parcel of land on the Michael Valbanera carrying 488 people. All mighty river. The roar was deafening J. Ellis Seawall has changed hands, perished. Then the storm was lost and the waves seemed mountain high. and that parcel just happens to be 6.2 in the Gulf of Mexico. On the 12th From about 10 o'clock to 2:30 a.m., acres. Stay tuned. storm warnings were issued for the storm reached its greatest fury. the Gulf Coast from Pensacola to Water on Chaparral Street stood 10- Water Exchange Bridge Mobile. On the 13th warnings were 1/2 feet deep. In the Nueces Hotel Storm surge damage in Corpus Christi. Image credit L.M. Gross Bids on the proposed Park Road 22 extended to the entire Texas Coast. lobby, it was even with the top of the Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Mary and Jeff Bell Water Exchange Bridge are still set On Saturday, Sept 13 Corpus desk. After 2:30 the barometer began Library, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. to be opened next week, September Christi rumors had the storm to rise, wind shifted to the southwest 29. Bid openings were originally hitting Louisiana. The Weather and the water began to recede rapidly. supposed to be way back in mid- Bureau took down storm warnings Around 3:00 a.m. the wind quieted August have been postponed twice. that afternoon. As late as 11:00 down and the water went out of the City sources say the delay was due p.m. that evening the Bureau houses that had stood the storm. Most to a geotec item, having to do with assured a caller there was no had not. The morning light revealed the solidity of the soil at the bridge danger, just a 35 – 45 mph gale. As that the pretty town now lay in ruins. site, and to allow for an alternate the barometer began to fall, at 9:00 Many people living on the bluff supplier for bridge components a.m. on the morning of the 14th, were unaware of the horrors in rather than a sole source supplier, to hurricane warnings were issued. Beach Section and North Beach. reduce the price. We will attend the Fire trucks went through the town The storm did little damage on the bid openings, assuming they happen below the bluff and North Beach bluff. Most houses did not even have as scheduled and have a full report. telling people to evacuate to higher missing shingles or broken windows. Newspaper headline the day after the hurricane from the Ballinger Island Moon Music Series ground. Trolleys ran to North Some people only realized what Daily Ledger. beach offering rides to the bluff at had occurred when they walked Our friends Randy and Russ Toman, no charge. Despite the warnings, to Broadway and gazed on the the Toman Brothers band, will be at some people decided to ride out the wreckage below. Streets and lots Waves on Thursday, September 19 storm or evacuated too late. were full of cotton bales, boards from for the Music from the Moon Concert Around noon tides began to cover buildings and wharves and debris Series. The shows start at 6 and are free. low areas up to 18 inches deep. At from houses and stores. Buried in The Indian names for the September 1:15 p.m. streetcars were stranded. the rubble were bodies of the people Full Moon are Full Harvest Moon, Water in the streets rose to 6 feet who did not make it to safety along Full Turning Color Moon, Full Cool deep in 20 minutes, stranding with the belongings and furniture of Moon. We put out a Full Cool Moon everyone. Wooden buildings began the wrecked houses. The downtown every Thursday. We'll see you at the to float and disintegrate leaving was still covered with water as storm Toman Brothers' show and in the meantime say hello if you see us History cont. on A4 Around The Island. September 12, 2019 Island Moon A 2 Islander Makes a Music Video at TGSA Texas State Surfing Championship the Waterline at Doc's

Islanders turned out to help local musician Stevie Start (above) shoot a video for his song, "Thank God It's Padre" Photos by Debbie Noble

Photos by Scott Ellwood -- check out www.gscottimaging.com September 12, 2019 Island Moon A 3 Moonfire Moon Monkeys The September Moonfire will be on Friday, Did Ya Mike Ellis, Founder Letters to the September 13, 2019 at beach marker 25ish. To get to beach marker 25, you may drive down the Hear? beach or take Hwy 361 to Beach Access 1 and By Mary "Scoop" Craft Editor after you get to the beach turn left (or toward Port A). Look for the spirit pole. You should bring your own drinks, chairs, and food if you wish (not required). And everyone New Advertiser or anyone you wish. The Moonfire is open to all. Grey Dog Construction does both commercial and residential remodels and The Indian names for the September Full new construction. They are licensed bonded Moon are Full Harvest Moon, Full Turning and insured. Call 533-1385 Distribution Color Moon, Full Cool Moon. A good time will be had by all and we hope to see you there! The Pete Alsop start time is about 7:30pm, as it cools down. Business Briefs Island Delivery Deno Fabrie (fire starter) A Puppy Splash Party will be at the Waves Coldwell Banker Resort pool on Sunday, September 15th 4 - 6 Advertising pm. The Bark Park, Tugboat and Children’s Redfish Bay Pool will be open but not the rest of the Jan Park Rankin Busing Editor, waterpark. The last day the waterpark will be Classifieds I would like to applaud Avica Burrill’s article in the September 5, 2019 edition. Her story open this year is Saturday, September 14th 10 Arlene Ritley Axis Midstream Holdings, LLC is proposing am - 6 pm. The rest of the resort will continue gave insight to a student’s perspective on having to construct a series of facilities and pipelines at Production Manager to utilize public transportation for school. with their year round activities. This weekend several locations within San Patricio and Nueces Harry Potter movies will be shown on the Abigail Bair As Miss Burrill stated, students are just trying Counties. A portion of the proposed project outdoor screen. Contributing Writers to pursue an education of their choice. will transect Redfish Bay State Scientific Area Joey Farah (RBSSA) with the installation of a pipeline Rumor has it that a seawall lot has been Did Flour Bluff ISD violate their own Anti- bundle consisting of two 42-inch pipelines, one sold. Hope to find out buyer and their Andy Purvis bullying policy? intentions if any. Mary Craft 12-inch pipeline, one 6-inch pipeline and one According to Flour Bluff student handbook, 2-inch fiberoptic line. Emily Gaines Doc’s Seafood & Steaks will begin serving bullying is defined as “conduct is considered traditional American breakfast on Saturdays Jay Gardner While Axis Midstream proposes to install bullying if it exploits an imbalance of power and Sundays 8 am – 1 pm starting October 5th. Todd Hunter 4,250 feet of pipeline bundle across the RBSSA between the student perpetrator(s) and the by using Horizontal Directional Drilling They will have Saturday and Sunday Brunch Dotson Lewis student victim and if it interferes with a student's technology, some installation (across RBSSA) 9 am – 1 pm until then. They have live music Dr. Tom Dorrell education or substantially disrupts the operation will require a 75-foot-wide open trench with Sunday – Thursday. of the school.” Ronnie Narmour temporary stockpiles of material placed on the The Waterline below Doc’s is open Brent Rourk FB ISD Board of Trustees voted to not enter adjacent bay bottom. An estimated 16.6 acres Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays 5 – 10 pm, Photographers into agreement with PAISD against its own of seagrass, tidal flats, and other shallow-water Saturdays 1 – 10 pm and Sunday’s noon – administration that recommended to enter into aquatic resources would be directly affected by Miles Merwin (Emeritus) 10 pm. They have Game Day food and drink this agreement. this activity. specials and $1 Margaritas 1 – 3 pm and are Debbie Noble Money is at the heart of this situation. Schools CCA Texas has submitted a letter to the U.S. pup friendly. They will have live music on Jan Rankin receive $6500 per year/ student from the state. Army Corps of Engineers voicing our concerns Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Mary Craft (70 x $6500= $455,000 loss to FBISD) on impacts that the project would have on the Mutts at the Hut is a FUNdraiser to benefit region’s coastal resources. The public comment Ronnie Narmour FBISD recently voted to waive out of district Animal Friends of Port A that will be held at period for this permit (SWG-2018-00789) th Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) transfer fees due to dwindling enrollment. They the Beer Hut on Saturday, September 14 at closed Monday, September 9. 5:30 pm. There will be a dog costume contest, Riley P. Dog also elected to do away with their University Prep program which many Island students have Respectfully, hot dog eating contest, live and silent auction. utilized through the years including one of my Robby Byers | Executive Director | CCA Texas The Sweepstakes Game Room near Thai own. Siam Restaurant has closed. FBISD will not “bully” students wanting to go Trash The Doobie Brothers will be at the Selena to Port Aransas. They will still go believing that Auditorium on Wednesday, September 25th 8 this is a better educational opportunity than FB Sir, pm. Tickets start at $57. would provide. I enjoy your informative articles in the Island The Sunset Sounds monthly concert this Moon each time I visit Port A. The one this month will be the alternative rock music past week on the importance of tourism and the What Miss Burrill doesn’t include is that the played by Patrice Pike & Wayne Sutton on impression we leave on the guests was good. th return B bus afternoon pickup in Port A is not Friday, September 13 7 pm. The concert will till much later than school dismissal leaving I mention the article as the impression I got be held at Roberts Point Park in Port A. Publisher kids exposed to many potential problems. Most while leaving Port A on Labor Day (poor choice Scuttlebutts has wine tastings the third Dale Rankin elect to ride the bus back to La Concha judging on my part) was not a positive one based on all Tuesday of each month 4 – 6 pm. The next About the Island Moon by the amount of kids getting off the afternoon of the trash along the ditch on right side of 361. one will be September 17th. The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale bus. The good thing about no recent rains is that the Rankin, Editor / Publisher. trash Billish Park volleyball courts have nets and We are thankful that we have a choice in what are ready for play. Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes schools our island kids can go to. Already Flour Is easy to get to and pick up. The bad thing delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 The Brooklyn Pie people did not understand copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, Bluff HS has issued two statements of concern about no recent rain is that all the trash is now as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 to parents this week. The latest being a fire highly visible and a real eye sore. Since we why all these customers were coming in copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. set in a bathroom. Not saying PAISD is going were moving at 2 MPH, I had plenty of time to showing their driver’s license. Well, I take the News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, to immune to these instances but hopefully a see all the trash, to include left over items from blame. I took from their ad that Islanders get a payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. smaller school will focus on education like Harvey, clearly visible. discount with ID referred to people living on Flour Bluff used too. the Island. It’s been years since my college The Island Moon Newspaper I felt a bit embarrassed for our guests to see this days so it never dawned on me they meant as the last impression of our coastal town. 14646 Compass, Suite 3 Ronnie Pate | Padre Island. Texas A&M Islanders. So I am correcting my Would it be possible for you or your staff to mistake with this column. The truth is they Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Hearings forward a request to city of Corpus to send a are giving all college students who show 361-949-7700 clean-up crew to work that ditch? Since I'm an ID a $3 giant slice or 14” $9 pepperoni To the Editor: not a Corpus resident, I don't get much of a pie which can include us Islanders who are [email protected] It's a simple question. Will the Army response to such requests. I can tell you that my college students. Sorry Richard. little patch of 361 in front of Royal Sands Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper Corps of Engineers grant an extension of the Real Estate Broker Mary Melick has public comment period on the proposal by Subdivision in PA is clean as a whistle. a priced to sell waterfront home at 13810 Axis Midstream Holdings to build a crude oil Primavera for $599K. This 3399 sq. ft. home My final request would also be for the crews to terminal on Harbor Island, a tank farm near has direct short access to the Laguna and empty the trash cans and pick up the building Taft, a staging area near Aransas Pass, and two is move-in ready. Mary has an open house supplies dumped at the end of the roads going pipelines crossing the Intercoastal Waterway at 15822 Cuttysark with a recent almost to the bay after Packerey Channel. There are Where to Find The and Redfish Bay? 35K price drop to now $425K on Sunday, several dirt roads off of 361 to the left heading September 15th 2 – 4 pm. Could I get any kind of answer from the Corps' to PA. I believe I drove down the one next to fish Island Moon Project Manager in Corpus Christi, Robert pass and was shocked This week has a Friday the 13th with a full Jones? Absolutely not! Four days before the Harvest Moon. cutoff date, he would NOT answer if requests by At the garbage pile that was left next to cans. The last day I will be seeing patients at Port North the City of Port Aransas and the Port Aransas Thank you sir. I do appreciate your time on this my optometric office located in the Sears Conservancy would be be honored. He would matter and your continued help limiting TWIA Aransas Padre NOT answer clearly when he would decide. building is Saturday, November 2nd. I will Gulf Stream RV rate increases. All Stripes Stores "Maybe next week." Pressed, he admitted that be joining Dr. Ramos and Dr. Leclear at Pioneer RV he may be able to decide sooner, but had to go Best, Complete Family Eye Care. The practice is Black Sheep/ to a meeting in five minutes, and would be out Chuck Anderson | Port A resident currently located at Saratoga near Kohl’s. Stripes on 1A Barrel of the office on Friday. He gave his supervisor's It will be relocated to a much larger space in a new strip mall at 7042 S. Staples next My Coastal Home CVS phone extension, which also went to voicemail. No return calls to my voicemails. Perhaps the From Our Facebook Page week. I am looking forward to seeing patients WB Liquor Store Dollar General South Jetty will get an answer from public Editor's note: the following are comments in this updated office with state-of-the-art Island Wine Room Whataburger relations at the Corps. received on our Facebook page: equipment, large selection of frames, contact islandmoonnewspaper lens inventory and a lab. “See” you there! Kody’s Doc’s Restaurant I guess I have another question. Why are we Coffee Waves paying the salaries of "public servants" who On the Rocks, by Jay Gardner Snoopy’s Pier refuse to do their job of answering taxpayers' Moby Dicks requests for information? Hallie Rushing Davis Just wanted to clarify Isle Mail N More some things about the hogs and hunting license. IGA Island Italian Luke Dailey- Port Aransas, Texas and Colton, They changed the law to where a hunting Get Well Soon! Treasure Island New York license is not required at all when hunting hogs Brooklyn Pie Co. on private property. Also, you do not have to Ms. Woody’s have your hunting license in your possession Automotive Ace Hardware More Hearings (a photo is ok) when hunting doves and other Port A Glass Studio Holiday Inn Corpus Christi Field Office, US Army Corps of species that don’t require tags. Engineers September 6, 2019 San Juan’s Restaurant Texas Star (Shell) Becky Smith Owens Nice article on the Regulatory Division CESWG-RD-R Wash Tub Jesse’s Liquor hummers. We have recently noticed the increase 5151 Flynn Parkway, Suite 306 in activity. Woody’s Sports Scuttlebutt’s Center Corpus Christi, Texas 78411-4318 I am seeing rising numbers of Hummers at my Restaurant feeders, east of Austin. attn: District Engineer Back Porch Bar Subway Dear Sir or Madam, Shorty’s Place Island Tire PIYC Car Rally Fisherman’s Wharf I am writing to request formal public Hi, Dale- Padre Pizzeria hearings in ALL four communities that would Giggity’s Nick Colosi and I wanted to let you and the And all Moon be impacted by the projects proposed by Gratitude Axis Midstream Holdings; namely, Ingleside, readers know that the PIYC retail advertisers Aransas Pass, Rockport, and Port Aransas. Car Rally is this Saturday The Gaff WB Liquor The tank farms, staging areas, pipelines, and evening. Beginning around Trinity By the Sea oil terminal present multiple issues in various 5:30pm, some Island Episcopal sites that would affect these communities homeowners may see a car Flour Bluff individually and as a whole. The public in going by to snap a picture H.E.B. EACH area deserves the opportunity to present of their house. It's possible different concerns, comments, and knowledge their home is on our rallye Whataburger on that need to be brought forward before any route. We brought our Island Moon Newspaper Waldron decisions are made. Of course, all hearings To help alleviate anxiety, we are asking rally to MD Anderson Cancer Center today. Ethyl Everly need to be well advertised in each location, and participants to display the attached participant Ryan is having surgery to remove cancer Senior Center held at a time convenient to the most people, sign to their vehicle. CCPD has also been given from his solitary kidney. We have so much meaning an evening after work hours, or on a a heads up. Fire Station weekend. Thank you for your consideration of love and support from The Island that he Thanks! wanted The Island to know that they are Police Station this matter, please respond as to how you will address this important matter. Sincerely, Michelle Jeffers here with us today!! Kim Pendergraft Stripes on Flour Lucia Dailey Bluff & SPID Send letters and photos to [email protected] September 12, 2019 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Hurricane of September 14, 1919 Editor’s note: This is a synopsis of the 1919 The North Beach area was where the hurricane A more realistic death toll is believed to range Hurricane which hit Corpus Christi one hundred would become deadly. With warnings being from 600 to 1000 people. years ago this week. The local Weather Service issued just on that morning of September 14th The citizens of Corpus Christi were resilient in office put together this synopsis. and then not heeded, many people stayed in a rebuilding their city. On the seventh anniversary dangerous area susceptible to the storm surge. On September 14th of 2019, a century will have of the hurricane, the deep water port at Corpus passed since the deadliest hurricane to affect the Coastal Bend of Texas made landfall between Baffin Bay and Corpus Christi. The hurricane water from Nueces Bay drained back into the devastated the Florida Keys as a Category 4 bay and gulf. Everything was coated with oil. hurricane (Saffir-Simpson scale) on September 10th, 1919. The hurricane became a large storm At the back end of Nueces Bay and at White over the Gulf of Mexico and maintained its Point, jutting out of the northern shore of the strength as a category 4 hurricane through the bay, bodies were left as the waters receded. 13th. During this time, without the assistance of Some people were miraculously still alive, but satellite imagery and radars, meteorologists lost just as many were dead. All were covered in track of this hurricane as ship reports from the oil and had puncture wounds from nails in the Gulf of Mexico temporarily ceased. wreckage which battered them as the floated across the bay, clinging to wreckage. Their Early in the 20th century, citizens of Corpus clothes were torn and some were naked from Christi came to believe that their Sparkling City the tearing nails and waves. Those that lived by the Sea was safe from hurricanes after several found themselves on at beach or in shallow near misses occurred during the early 1900s. water as the dawn broke, dazed, battered. Two Category 4 hurricanes made landfall on the Texas coast in the previous 4 years - the first On North Beach, all but one of over 200 homes at Galveston in August of 1915 and the second had been washed away. Overnight, North Beach near Baffin Bay in August of 1916. Some had disappeared. Only three heavily damaged believed the barrier islands protected their city structures — from hundreds of homes and other from devastating storm surge. buildings — were left standing. Much of the area of the city between the high bluff and the By the early morning on the 14th of September, bay, the area known as the Beach Section, was tides began to rise sharply at Port Aransas while the pressure steadily dropped as the northwest all but destroyed, along with some 900 homes. A downtown street became a river. Hundreds of bales of cotton were scattered over winds increased. The hurricane would weaken slightly before reaching the Middle Texas coast. the streets. Mud and muck from the bay bottom Christi was opened in 1926. This would lead and huge amounts of storm debris — sheared- The hurricane made landfall in the southern Coastal Bend as a Category 3 hurricane with to growth of the city during the remainder of off lumber, cisterns, incongruous bathtubs, gilt the 20th century. A seawall was constructed in chairs and mirrors and fine furnishings — all sustained winds of 115 mph and a central pressure of 950 millibars. 1940 in the Bayfront area to prepare for future littered the ruined downtown area. hurricanes and mitigate destruction from storm That Monday morning the dead were laid out 16-foot storm surge surge. on the courthouse lawn. Bodies were covered with oil. Men worked night and day searching Dr. Robert Simpson for bodies. Many of those who drowned — Interestingly, a as well as many survivors — washed up in the survivor of the back area of Nueces Bay at White Point and 1919 Corpus on the other side of the bay at Portland. The Damage to a tour boat named Japonica. Christi hurricane bodies were collected and lined up near the west was Dr. Robert Portland School for identification. Index cards Simpson who was were completed giving as full a description of six years old at the the body as possible for future identification time. His memories and then the bodies were buried in several mass of this hurricane graves. Records were kept of body locations. and being witness In October, Maxwell P. Dunne had the bodies to many tragedies exhumed and brought to Corpus Christi for Dr. Robert Simpson during the storm proper burial. Most were buried in Rose Hill ignited his passion Cemetery. Those who could not be identified to study hurricanes are in a mass grave topped with a large rock and throughout much of his adult life. In 1940, Dr. plaque near the entrance. Simpson started work with the United States One of the few homes on North Beach to The official death toll in Corpus Christi was Weather Bureau and in 1955 he organized and 284. All are named except for two people. The avoid complete destruction. led the National Hurricane Research Project. bodies not identified or missing and presumed After receiving his doctorate in meteorology in dead are not in the total. 1955, Dr. Simpson continued to study hurricanes and collect data from hurricane hunter aircraft. Corpus Christi recovered. The port to replace Much of the data collected proved invaluable in the Harbor Island port was opened in Corpus better understanding the lifecycles of hurricanes Christi on September 14, 1926. After another while also improving the forecasts of their hurricane filled downtown with water and intensities and tracks. covered North Beach in 1933, the Seawall was Cotton bales relocated by the storm surge built to protect the Downtown in 1940. North . Along with Dr. Simpson's knowledge Beach is still at risk. of hurricanes, his ability to successfully direct research teams forged his leadership May it never happen again. But the large storm generated a dome of water credentials - an accomplishment that aided in that would serve to produce the highest storm him becoming head of the National Hurricane STORM MEMORIAL EVENTS: surge on record in the Corpus Christi area. Center (NHC) from 1968 to 1974. While at the Friday, September 13-A panel discussion will The hurricane produced a storm surge that Hundreds were swept into Nueces Bay after NHC, he helped develop the Saffir-Simpson be held about the 1919 storm at 1:00 p.m. affected the entire Texas coast into Louisiana. their homes were destroyed. Some survived Hurricane Scale. This scale remains in use to followed by Mary Jo O’Rear, local historian, The highest storm surge was at Corpus Christi their trip across Nueces Bay to White’s Point, this day and classifies hurricanes based on presenting “100 Years after the Storm”, at the at 16 feet. The storm surge was 13 feet at but many perished in the surge. The official their wind intensity. In 1974, Dr. Simpson Mary and Jeff Bell Library on the campus of Port O’Connor and 9 feet at Galveston. This death toll is listed at 284 people. However, this retired from federal employment, but continued Texas A&MCorpus Christi. hurricane was similar to Hurricane Ike of 2008 is considered to be a significant underestimate studies both locally and abroad until his death in regards to storm surge affecting a large area, Saturday, September 14-Beginning at 8:30 as the total only counted those that were in 2014 at the age of 102. Dr. Robert Simpson's weakening before landfall, and having a large positively identified. Oil tanks at Port Aransas contributions to understanding hurricanes are a.m. at Rose Hill Memorial Park, located at eye of around 35 nautical miles. 2731 Comanche Street in Corpus Christi, a were breached during the storm. Victims swept vast and a testament to his career inspired by service will be held in memory of those who into the bay were covered with heavy crude the Hurricane of 1919. perished. Many of the named dead, as well as oil and many victims could not be identified. countless unnamed victims, rest in this sacred place. Saturday, September 14-The Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History will open at 10:00 a.m. Events will take place inside ranging from a photo exhibit featuring images of the aftermath of the storm, reenactors telling first-hand accounts of survivors Theodore Fuller, Lucy Caldwell, and Sarah Faubion Pangle, and various other speakers Peoples Street after the storm. will address the storm as well as hurricane preparedness. A children’s experiment The damage was catastrophic in the downtown to ‘make a hurricane in a bottle’ will be area of Corpus Christi as water reached 11.5 feet available. and debris was piled as high as 16 feet. Debris Monday, September 16-The Nueces County littered in the downtown area included 1400 Historical Commission and various other bales of cotton that were awaiting shipment in historical groups will open an exhibit on the addition to large stockpiles of lumber. Damage Leopard Street side of the Nueces County was estimated at 20 million dollars, which Courthouse. The exhibit will be on display for correlates to nearly 300 million dollars in 2019. several months. September 12, 2019 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island Tides of the Week By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier September 12 - September 19 There’s a lot going on OTB and the humidity starts to reach the point Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon around here this week… where you can stand in the shade without /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible here is some of it. sweating through your shirt. Th 12 High 4:25 AM 1.7 7:13 AM Set 5:48 AM 94 We got a reminder on Tuesday of just how The football season kicked off and the fun of 12 Low 10:07 AM 1.4 7:37 PM Rise 7:11 PM tenuous our OTB umbilical cord is when a watching football around here is that we have fans of teams all over the country. We got 12 High 1:32 PM 1.5 fender bender on the JFK Causeway caused traffic to back up from the bridge all the way Viking fans with those hats with the horns, and 12 Low 9:13 PM 0.5 to Whitecap. There was no way to get off Padre we got the Packer fans who wear cheese on their F 13 High 4:31 AM 1.7 7:13 AM Set 6:40 AM 98 Island for almost an hour. As the population of heads. Then we got the long-suffering Cowboy our island has grown the off-season isn't as off- fans who just know this is the year the Pokes 13 Low 10:19 AM 1.3 7:36 PM Rise 7:44 PM seasony as it used to be around here and we are are going to the Super Bowl. On The Island 13 High 2:33 PM 1.5 just one distracted driver away from gridlock. Football Season is a sideshow for the Betting Season whether it is fantasy football or just the 13 Low 9:50 PM 0.6 Word also came this week that ferry crossings old dumb-luck squares game. I quit the Losers in Port Aransas will be effected by dredging in Sa 14 High 4:36 AM 1.6 7:14 AM Set 7:32 AM 99 Pool after going out two years in a row before the channel. 14 Low 10:30 AM 1.2 7:35 PM Rise 8:16 PM I even paid my entry fee. That's the Football A change of direction God's way of telling you that you stink. 14 High 3:31 PM 1.6 As the Corpus Christi Convention and Visitors Like all my weeks now Monday starts at 14 Low 10:25 PM 0.8 Bureau continues its search for a new leader o'dawn-thirty as I do Jim Lago's radio show Su 15 High 4:43 AM 1.5 7:14 AM Set 8:23 AM 99 the word from downtown is that the new hire on KKTX (check that) with Jim and former Congressman Blake Farenthold. We solve the 15 Low 10:41 AM 1.1 7:34 PM Rise 8:47 PM will be instructed to focus more on visitors to the area rather than the convention business. world's problems for two hours and it had been 15 High 4:28 PM 1.6 This is good news for The Island because we a while since I did radio before joining the show 15 Low 11:00 PM 0.9 pay in $4 million, out of $16 million total, in about a year ago for what was to be a one-off Hotel Occupancy Tax and conventioneers who deal that turned into a habit. I like doing radio M 16 High 4:50 AM 1.5 7:15 AM Set 9:15 AM 97 stay on The Island are scarce as hen’s teeth. and we talk about Island things from the Moon 16 Low 10:55 AM 0.9 7:33 PM Rise 9:18 PM This has been an ongoing issue for two decades and have some fun along the way. ever since the City of Corpus Christi annexed up 16 High 5:28 PM 1.6 Island video State Highway 361 from Padre Island halfway 16 Low 11:38 PM 1.1 to Port Aransas to capture the HOT on the On Saturday we shot the final act of a video Tu 17 High 4:55 AM 1.5 7:15 AM Set 10:07 AM 93 condominium developments there to pay for for Stevie Start's song Thank God It's Padre. We the American Bank Center downtown. Most had a three-camera shoot at Doc's with a couple 17 Low 11:15 AM 0.8 7:32 PM Rise 9:51 PM of those business self-identify as being in Port hundred of Stevie's best friends on hand to sing 17 High 6:32 PM 1.7 Aransas to piggyback the Port A brand because along, doing a little dancing, and some hula they realized it is more known across the state hooping broke out before everybody jumped off W 18 Low 12:25 AM 1.3 7:16 AM Set 11:01 AM 88 as a tourist destination than Corpus Christi. the boat into the Intracoastal. The final product 18 High 4:52 AM 1.5 7:30 PM Rise 10:27 PM We have seen the demographics of our beach- should be out in a few weeks and we will let you know where the release party will be. Maybe on 18 Low 11:44 AM 0.6 going public change in recent years toward more daytrippers who are gone at sundown. But the big screen at Waves. 18 High 7:44 PM 1.7 things are changing here and more attractions The television dodge Th 19 Low 12:21 PM 0.5 7:16 AM Set 11:56 AM 81 are coming. Already 80 percent of the out of towners who visit this area come here for The Saturday shoot morphed into my second 19 High 9:09 PM 1.8 7:29 PM Rise 11:05 PM the beaches, focusing on them rather than sideline doing a once-weekly Island Report conventioneers has always seemed like the way on KIII which aired Wednesday night. Doing to go and now maybe that is going to happen. television is a strange thing. I did it for twenty Traffic flow studies have also shown that a years and had a lot of fun but there wasn't a day smaller percentage of drivers coming over the that went by that I didn’t wonder if I was too JFK Bridge are making the turn-up SH 361 at the old to be riding around in a news van from fires SPID/Commodores intersection. Traditionally to council meetings to street killings to stories that number has been over 60 percent but since about tree-climbing dogs. It's kind of like a Harvey that has dropped to around 50 percent. habit you want to break but never get around Much of the southbound traffic now finds its to doing it. way to the six miles of beach in Kleberg County. This week aside from the story on Stevie's video I was recruited to do a live shot at the 2.5 million voters scene of the tank fire halfway up the Island Texas Senator John Cornyn came to town last Road. week to speak to a group of local Republicans. It’s strange how you just lock into the old The take away was that he expects 11 million mindset when you do live television. As the Texas voters to show up at the polls for the moment approaches everything just fades into 2020 election, up from 8.5 million in the 2016 the background except the live shot right in Presidential election. Who those 2.5 million front of you. It focuses the mind. Deadlines new voters are is going to go a long way toward work like that. I used to watch my elders in deciding where Texas falls as we go through the the reporting dodge at a newspaper who had redrawing of political districts after the 2020 nothing but problems in their personal lives; census. Ask Ralph divorces, arrests, bad debts, alcohol - lots of Locally we are going to have an item on the that. But they lived for that daily deadline that ballot to lengthen terms on the Corpus Christi allowed them to escape the world around them Better Planning City Council to four years from the current and focus on cranking out a few hundred words By Ralph Coker two. The first meeting of the Charter Review before starting it all over again the next day. Committee two weeks ago confirmed that the Q. How can I be a better intermediate mile post target dates. It’s easier As they used to say I don't have twenty years outcome of the committee’s deliberations was of experience in this business, I have one-years’ planner for my business? to manage smaller short term segments rather decided when they were appointed. They are than the whole project. experience twenty times. A. Planning is an essential part of good not there to weigh the issues, they are there to management. Each project should have an “Why” is often overlooked. However, provide political cover for the council to do As John Prine says, "all the news just repeats action plan and the business should have an employees need to know why the project is what they already wanted to do which is to not itself like some forgotten dream. annual plan. important for the business. “Where” state have to run every two years. And so it goes. where the action will take place. It could The project plan answers the key questions be in house by employees or outsourced to Tourist Season of what-when-why-where-who-how? The a consultant. “Who” is critical. The plan “what” portion of the project action plan Things have settled into the steady hum of the must state who is responsible for each task describes exactly what is to be accomplished. offseason as the last of the tourists disappear or segment. Several employees may work It could be to increase sales revenue by 20 on a task, but one should be designated percent, reduce inventory by 10 percent or responsible. “How” describes how the project reduce costs by 10 percent. “When” is the will be accomplished. Whenever possible, Suicide Prevention Rally project schedule and completion date. Every the how should be left to each employee to project should have a schedule, otherwise it decide because that is a strong self motivator. will never be given the necessary priority to get it done. There are always other goals and The annual plan includes a budget for the projects competing for the business’s limited business and for each major department. The resources of employee time and attention annual plan also has key goals and objectives and money. Divide the project into well- for the business and each major department. defined segments and set a completion date Each goal should be measured and progress for each segment. State whether segments should be reported monthly or quarterly can be worked on simultaneously or in indicating whether the business or department sequence. When possible, work segments is on goal, above or below goal. If below simultaneously because that shortens the goal, the owner or general manager should project completion date. For large projects, identify why and take corrective action to get there may be what planners call the “critical back on goal. path” of segments that must be finished in Bio: Ralph Coker volunteers with SCORE series to complete the project in the shortest which provides free mentoring to small time possible. If so, identify the critical path businesses and nonprofits up front so those segments can be given priority. If it’s a long duration project, set

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Send Letters and Photos to [email protected] and follow us on Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper A6 Island Moon September 12, 2019 Senior Moments Anecdotingly Last Combat Mission Of World War II By Dotson Lewis Taken, Too? Special to the Island Moon By Abigail Bair I didn’t think Jan (although she’s tiny) would be particularly easy to take, either. As Shakespeare Dotson’s Note: Until a Army Air Forces, pursuing an adolescent love Yesterday was sort of a wrote, “though she be but little, she is fierce.” couple of days ago, I had of aviation that had led him to build models of messed-up day. I went to the Still, my anxiety would not be mollified. never heard any part of this historical aspect to World War I-era planes. gym for a swim around 11:30, came home, got in “Time is passing,” screamed my anxiety. “The WWII. Thanks to Harrison Smith, Don Brown, He was slightly nearsighted and initially failed the shower to hose off the chlorine, and stepped The Warfare History Network and The National out onto my dog. I wasn’t expecting Stadler to longer the bad guys have them, the more difficult an eye exam for pilots. "The doctor told me to it will be to get them back! Do something!” WWII Museum for the facts contained in this go home and stay in a dark room, eat a lot of be there. She’s the world’s only hydrophobic report and to The National WWII Museum for carrots, don't read anything, and come back in black lab and hasn’t voluntarily stepped foot I decide the way to start would be just to ask the photos. three days and take the test again," he said in a into the bathroom since she emerged victorious my fearless leaders if they’d been abducted. I 2014. In place of the rabbit food, he sought help from an epic battle of You-Have-to-Take-a- sent Jan a text that read, “Did you get taken?” from his mother, who served on the draft board. Bath-Because-You-Smell-Like-You-Rolled- in-a-Fresh-Diaper. She flailed so hard I was I decided I’d wait five minutes for a response, She filched a copy of the eye chart, allowing and then start calling people. him to memorize the letters and pass the exam positive she’d break my glass shower doors, and on his second try. Jerry Yellin proved to be a we’d both wind up in the hospital. "I'll call Jan and then Dale and if neither of skilled pilot, escorting B-29 bombers on 19 I wound up spraying her with Febreze and them answers then I'll call Mary and the Rev missions over Japan. locking her out of the bedroom. (that was for me because I sometimes need my Mom to talk me down) and then I'll call His military honors included the Distinguished In any case, I knew there was a problem if the Channel 3 and drive all over the Island and IF I Flying Cross and Air Medal, and in recent dog was in the bathroom – either we were both STILL CAN'T FIND THEM, I'LL CALL THE years he served as the national spokesman for about to be murdered, or she’d heard thunder. NATIONAL GUARD," blurted my anxiety. the Spirit of '45, a nonprofit organization that A few seconds later, a loud boom resounded promotes the legacy of World War II veterans. I had a PLAN, by God, and I was sticking to it. throughout the neighborhood and the power There was no way I wasn’t going to SAVE THE He later said that he had long believed that went out. DAY, even if I had to call in the A-Team. the Japanese were "terrible people" and that Solution! he felt no remorse when he participated in Exactly three minutes later, I got a return text bombing runs on Tokyo and other cities. "They I sent my boss at the Moon (Jan) a text message from Jan. did horrific things in China, and I saw horrific to see if there was power at the office, and she “We have not been taken. We are at lunch.” Captain Jerry Yellin-World War II Pilot things done in Iwo Jima to dead Marines — responded in the affirmative. “But,” reasoned my anxiety, “isn’t that exactly faces bashed in to get gold out of their teeth. “I guess we’re going to work,” I told Stadler what they’d make her say if she had been They just were not human beings to me then." The last combat mission of World War II who (although she is so “afraid of thunder” that taken?” began Aug. 15, 1945, when fighter pilot Jerry His views began to change after a business she must lie on top of me shivering and drooling My phone beeped again with another text Yellin and his wingman, 19-year-old Philip trip to Tokyo in 1983, when he was working as on my forehead every time there’s even the hint message, “I’ll be back at the office shortly,” Jan Schlamberg, took off from Iwo Jima to attack a real estate consultant for banks. He said he of a nocturnal BOOM) grabbed a toy and raced returned. airfields near Nagoya, Japan. "looked up through the buildings in the Ginza out her dog door. The war seemed all but over. Germany had and envisioned B-29s dropping bombs, not on When we got to the office, there was no one I decided I’d wait a few minutes and see what surrendered in May, and much of Hiroshima those people, but on me." there except a totally freaked out Lizzy-the- happened. I was feeling a bit better regarding and Nagasaki were in ruins, decimated by Official-Moon-Doggie. everyone being shanghaied. I started working atomic bombs dropped the previous week. If on this week’s edition of the paper. I was very worried. Captain Yellin heard a code word — "Utah" — The minutes ticked by slowly. Ten passed and Japan's rumored surrender had occurred, and Jan and Dale never leave Lizzy alone for very then twenty. Still no bosses. I started imagining he was to cancel his mission and return to Iwo long. She usually gets a baby sitter if they’re that they had been hauled out to some evil Jima, the rocky island that he had helped secure going to go anywhere for more than an hour, yacht and were now somewhere offshore being months earlier and was a base for our bombers plus it was storming out and Liz is also terrified prepared to be auctioned off as sex slaves. headed north to Japan. of the weather. If you’ve never pictured Dale in a pair of harem Later that day, on what was still August 14th in Immediately, my standard racehorse-on-meth pants and a bikini top, don’t. the United States, Emperor Hirohito announced level anxiety blossomed into a verdant garden Japan's surrender. For some reason, however, of what-ifs. After about two seconds of rapid- My phone beeped again. Yellin and Schlamberg never got the message. fire synaptic processing, my brain decided that "Abi, we have still not been taken. There's Taking on antiaircraft fire in their P-51 Captain Jerry Yellin-2015 Dale and Jan had been taken. been an accident on the bridge. I'm stuck in Mustangs, they strafed their targets and headed “The Moon had,” my anxiety argued, “recently Scuttlebutt's parking lot. I will be there soon," texted Jan. home, passing through a thick bank of clouds. Captain Yellin's son Robert later moved to received a fairly non-specific, racist death threat Schlamberg, who had previously admitted a Japan and became engaged to a Japanese lady. on the answering machine.” In fairness, we had A few minutes later Jan and Dale arrived, much sense of foreboding to Yellin, saying, "If we go Captain Yellin was shocked when he found unilaterally decided to consider it a wrong to my (and Lizzy’s) great relief. on this mission, I'm not coming back," never number because it was directed at a race that out that her father, Taro Yamakawa, trained That’s anxiety for you. It’s not fun when emerged from the haze. couldn’t easily be confused with “random white as a kamikaze pilot and worked at an airfield you’re in the terror zone, but it’s often hilarious people with strange tans” which is what we all Disappearing from Yellin's wing, he was during World War II. The fathers bonded, he when you’re out. The upside is that if anyone are. presumed dead and considered one of the last said, after discussing their flying strategies ever does get taken, I have Emergency Plan A Americans killed in combat during World War and experiences during the war with the “How would they take Dale, though?” I already in place. So what if it mainly rests on II. help of a translator. They eventually struck thought. Dale is a big guy who would not be the shoulders of an imaginary team of 1980’s up a correspondence, and Yellin described easily subdued by idiots. television mercenaries? Yamakawa as his best friend. My rational side worried that my bosses were In this life, sometimes you’re going to need "Taro said that in Buddhism, the soul of the just at lunch and that I’d look stupid if I texted B.A. Barrakas to lift a van for no reason. dead is worshiped for 50 years as an individual, them to see if they were kidnapped. then, all souls merge to become one and are It may not save your bosses from gold silk looked upon as equal," Captain Yellin said in “They chloroformed him!” my anxiety harem pants, but hey – Mr. T. just lifted a van, 1995, describing a letter from his friend. "Taro responded happily. “Check the carpet for drag and that is also cool. wrote that it has been 50 years since the war. It marks. They would never leave Lizzy!” is time for the souls to merge and put it behind I checked the blue rug for anything that us." looked like a 6’2 guy had been hauled across it. Unsurprisingly to you, but shockingly to P-51 Mustang His wife of 65 years, the former Helene Schulman, died in 2015. Survivors include four me, there was nothing. Also, it didn’t seem like sons, David Yellin of Winter Haven, Fla., Steven anything in the office was especially disturbed For Captain Yellin, the war was a hellish Yellin of Orlando, Michael Yellin of Montclair, (frankly, our office usually looks like a hurricane necessity, essential to halting the spread of N.J., and Robert Yellin of Kyoto, Japan; a sister; flung a metric ton of paper all over everything, Nazism and Japanese aggression. But he also and six grandchildren. but that’s just our organizational system). Both spoke forthrightly about its costs, including of their cars were also gone, which gave me the mental anguish over memories of combat Captain Jerry Yellin, who later became an some pause. I could see a kidnapper stealing that nearly led him to suicide. He recalled with outspoken advocate of veterans with post- one vehicle, but both would present a problem. particular horror the experience of landing on traumatic stress disorder, died December 21, I mean it’s not like they could just tell Dale to war-torn Iwo Jima for the first time, where 2017 at his son Steven Yellin's home in Orlando, follow along in the truck. "there wasn't a blade of grass and there were Fl. He was 93 years old and had lung cancer. "Okay," said my anxiety, "then Dale's at 28,000 bodies rotting in the sun. “The sights Dotson’s Other Note: I believe that the facts Channel 3 and they only kidnapped Jan." and the sounds and the smells of dead bodies contained in the foregoing report should be and the sights of Japanese being bulldozed into required reading for all high school students mass graves absolutely never went away." in the U.S.A. I can be reached at: dlewis1@ He was in the 78th Fighter Squadron of the stx.rr.com and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 Army Air Forces, which counted 16 downed or Cell: 530-748-8475. I really appreciate the pilots in his unit during the war, including phone calls, Emails, texts and conversations Schlamberg. For years afterward, he struggled about Senior Moments. to keep a steady job, moving a dozen times in Please note: The next Veterans Round Table the United States and Israel (where he settled, at Meeting will be Tuesday, September 17, 2019; one point, partly in protest of the Vietnam War). 9-11 a.m., 3209 S. Staples. All veterans, their He eventually found solace through families and anyone interested in veterans’ FOUR STYLISTS Transcendental Meditation. He soon began affairs, are invited. Coffee & donuts are speaking to other veterans who struggled to provided. Hope to see you there. 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Guess which one he was? He also achieved 21 winning seasons, 13 AFC West season last week. Here are a few officiating but they can call a playoff game. With so many was smart, motivated and owned a gunfighter division tittles, nine conference championships items that I thought you may wish to look for retirements in the past few years and a few other stare. The man was as dependable as tomorrow and seven Super Bowl appearances. early in the season. These should be of interest referee retirements on the horizon, these four and as quiet as a forest. Witty and wise, he to you Moon Monkeys who I know to be very referees need to step up quickly and step into John Elway was traded from the Baltimore owned a competitive spirit but stayed in the Colts to the Denver Broncos in 1983, one year knowledgeable NFL football fans. Thanks to playoff roles. background. He loved allowing others around Mark Schultz, Rich Madrid and some unnamed prior to Pat Bowlen’s purchasing the team. Dan There are many precedents of first-year- him to receive the credit for his team’s success. active NFL officials for the facts in this report. Reeves was the head coach at the time and, with eligible officials taking the field for a playoff He could be shy at times, but funny, and had a Also thanks to my old friend, Bill Morgan, the help of John Elway, the Broncos played in game. Not to put too much pressure on the four great sense of humor. He was not one to bark former SWC SID for the photos. three Super bowls but lost all three. After an out orders, but he did expect to be informed on 8-8 season in 1992, Bowlen fired Reeves. Wade Expanded Instant Replay for Pass a daily basis. He hired the right coaches, put Phillips replaced Reeves for a short time before them in the right place to succeed and let them Interference Mike Shanahan was rehired. Shanahan’s teams share the glory. The man understood that those won the franchises first two Super Bowls, but who are afraid of asking are also ashamed of he was let go after the 2008 season when the learning. He may have had struggles during his team became mediocre. Josh McDaniels was career but he never surrendered. There is an old hired with no head coaching experience. That saying that goes like this: “When you want to decision was a disaster. After 22 months, test the depth of a stream, don’t use both feet.” McDaniels was fired. In 2011, after careful This fellow didn’t just wade into the water, he consideration, Bowlen did what he should have did a cannonball. This guy didn’t punch out at done all along. He brought back John Elway the end of the day. He constantly thought about and promoted him to Executive Vice President sophomore referees, but it’s time to step up and football. The man was clever and smart and, of Football Operations. Elway hired Gary be playoff-quality referees. like Santa Claus, he could tell if you had been Kubiak and signed Peyton Manning. As Mark Schultz said: “This could get ugly.” good or bad. He became a walking motivational New this year, coaches can challenge to see if Will We Have A “Quiet” Season? leadership speaker and he was so rich, China Denver eventually won three Super Bowls the opponents committed defensive or offensive Last year, Riveron had a challenging year may have owed him money. under Pat Bowlen’s leadership. In the pass interference. Centralized replay will of trying to mentor new referees, put crews 1997 Super Bowl (XXXII), conduct the review. The object of this rule is to together after several late retirements and the Broncos were 11 point fix the errors that “20 drunks in a bar” could shepherd through the roughing the passer point- underdogs to Green Bay, yet agree on. Al Riveron, senior vice president of-emphasis. One of those issues was a huge they won, 31-24. In the 1998 of officiating, reviewed 54 pass interference assignment, but Riveron had to juggle all three. Super Bowl (XXXIII) Denver situations (called or not called) in the 2019 beat the Atlanta Falcons, 34-19, preseason. Of those 54 replays, he issued only Many pundits opined that Riveron was on thin and in the 2015 Super Bowl (L), 7 reversals (13%); however he didn’t once ice with the league office last year. Then the they beat the Carolina Panthers, overrule a pass interference flag on the field NFC Conference Championship was marred 24-10. Pat was not able to from the Art McNally GameDay Central. with an error and many thought Riveron was attend the Super Bowl in 2015, going out the door. Yet, he’s here in 2019 and and John Elway accepted the All of Riveron’s reversals assessed a pass putting his stamp on the league’s officials Lombardi Trophy for the team. interference penalty. (Keep in mind that the Stricter Interpretation of ‘Quick and Abrupt’ Elway promptly repaid Pat by 54 replays are rather high, because coaches Pat Bowlen declaring. “Well, I’m going to were using preseason to test pass interference We hear that this year the NFL is cracking down say this and he would not want scenarios in replay.) This is good news. It shows on the excessive movements that quarterbacks me to say this, but this one’s for William Faulkner once wrote, “Try to be better that Riveron is not over-officiating the replay are using pre-snap if a clap or leg lift is not Pat!” and trying to find a penalty to call. immediately followed by a snap. During the than yourself.” The real question in life for most of us is what kind of man am I? Not, how During the 2009 season, it became obvious This rule change will not be the perfect be- preseason, Arizona Cardinals quarterback does the world see me? He loved his players that Pat was having trouble with his short-term all and end-all for pass interference. Aggrieved Kyler Murray and his back-ups were flagged and they loved him back. You have to believe memory. He slowly stepped out of the spotlight fans will always say their player was mugged in others more than they believe in themselves. and the decision-making role for the team. By or played good defense. I hope that this won’t People push you when they care about you. 2011, Executive VP John Elway and President become a hot mess like the catch rule of 2017 In life, unlike chess, the game continues after Joe Ellis assumed control of the team. On July or the roughing the passer point of emphasis checkmate. Pat Bowlen’s motto was “I want to 23, 2014, due to Alzheimer’s disease, Bowlen during the early part of last season. But, as long be number 1 in everything.” relinquished all control to Joe Ellis. Pat was as there is judgement involved, fans will never inducted into the Broncos’ Ring of Honor on On January 25, 1998, Pat Bowlen’s dream be happy. November 1, 2015. He is also a member of the came true. The Broncos took the field against Colorado Sports Hall of Fame. Centralized Replay Will Have a Hand in the Green Bay Packers at Qualcomm Stadium Ejecting Players for Actions Other Than in San Diego, California, in Super Bowl XXXII. In addition to his role with Broncos, Pat Fighting It was Denver’s fifth trip to the big dance and helped the NFL secure the league’s labor and several times for false start penalties due to this this time would be the charm. John Elway, TV contracts. He worked tirelessly on 15 Last year, centralized replay would step in “excessive” movement. Terrell Davis and the Broncos’ defense played different NFL committees over the years. His and help the officiating crew make sure they Quick or Abrupt Movement well, as Denver outlasted the Packers, 31-24, negotiations on the broadcast committee helped properly ejected the right players if a fight broke to win the franchise’s first Super Bowl. Coach secure the most lucrative single-sport contract out. I supported this as officials hate it when a With no explanation during the preseason, the Mike Shanahan did an outstanding job putting in history. His $18 billion TV contract for the player gets away with a cheap shot. That rule NFL appears to be strictly applying the “quick the team in a position to win. Owner Pat NFL may have been his greatest achievement worked well, and now it will expand. or abrupt movement” portion of the rule now Bowlen was beside himself with joy as he stood as an owner. Bowlen was also instrumental in This year, replay will weigh in if a personal to quarterbacks who try to initiate a snap with atop the winner’s podium at midfield. There he creating Sunday Night Football. The Sunday foul is ejection-worthy. It started in the first more than just a leg kick. The clap is a staple raised the Lombardi Trophy and said aloud for NFL broadcast has been America’s top-rated preseason week when replay interceded, and 4 of college offense snap counts but the NFL all to hear, “There’s one thing I want to say here program for the last eight years. appears not to be as keen on the movement. players were disqualified in preseason alone. tonight, and it’s only four words. This one’s Bowlen was also a part owner of the Colorado for John.” So, if the officials call a player for a personal NFL Rule 7-4-2-Item 4 states: “A player who Crush, an Arena Football League team (AFL) foul, Riveron can review to see if the player is in position to receive the snap in shotgun Patrick Dennis Bowlen was born on February with John Elway. The Crush entered the AFL should be ejected; additionally he confirms any formation is permitted to shift his feet prior to 18, 1944, in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Pat in 2003 and eventually won the Arena Football ejection by the crew. Some call it “The Gronk the snap, but any quick and abrupt movement is is one of four children born to Arvella and Paul League Championship in 2005. In 2006, Rule.” It will be interesting to see if the on-field a False Start. This includes thrusting his hands Bowlen. His two brothers were named John Bowlen purchased a Major League Lacrosse officials issue an ejection for flagrant fouls, or if forward when there is not a simultaneous snap.” and Bill, and his sister was named Marybeth. team known as the Denver Outlaws. The they’ll pass on ejecting and “let Riveron handle During the Monday Night Football broadcast, Pat, a Catholic was born into wealth as his Outlaws have been to the playoffs every year it.” Many hope it is the former. Officials need rules analyst and former NFL referee John dad became a millionaire in the Canadian oil except one (2015), and won the championship to be a strong presence on the field when things Parry stated that “Hands are a bit of an issue business. He grew up in Alberta, Canada, but three times. are getting out of hand. They can’t afford to let with the clap, but it’s that quick jerk prior to the attended Campian High School in Wisconsin. On Thursday, June 14, 2019, Pat Bowlen died centralized replay take back control. clap. They all do move, but it’s got to There he played wide receiver for the Campian In Englewood, Colorado, due to complications be rhythmical It appears that clapping Knights. Pat also played hockey and ran track of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 75. Alzheimer’s could be considered to be ‘thrusting before graduating in 1962. He enrolled at the disease is hard to stop at the goal line. It has his hands forward’ when there is no University of Oklahoma where he continued to a winning streak unsurpassed in the annals of snap imminent.” In the first week of the play football as a wide receiver for one season, disease. For years it toyed with him. John preseason, Cardinals quarterback Brett before ending his career to focus on his studies. Elway said, “I will miss Pat greatly and will Hundley was flagged for the clap once. By 1965, Pat had earned a business degree and, always treasure the times we had together. He Murray was flagged twice for 10 total three years later, a law degree. He returned to was a tremendous mentor and a tremendous yards in preseason week two against Alberta to work as an executive for his father friend.” The Denver Broncos won 333 regular the Raiders for the clap. Hundley was before opening his own law firm. But he season games under Bowlen’s leadership, flagged again for two more false starts would make his name and fortune in real estate. the third highest among NFL teams and in preseason week three. Competition fueled Pat mentally and physically. fifth highest in American professional sports In 1984 Pat competed in the Ironman Triathlon After the Raiders game, Murray said, franchises. The team is now valued at $2.6 in Hawaii. He finished 135th out of 1,100 billion and the ownership has been placed in a “To me, it’s like any other hard count. entrants. It’s the defense’s job to watch the ball, trust fund to his seven children. Pat is survived so it really doesn’t make sense to me. With the help of his brothers and sister, Pat by his wife Annabel, their five children, Patrick, I think we’re trying to fix things right Bowlen purchased the Denver Broncos from John, Brittany, Christianna and Annabel. He is now.” Edger Kaiser in 1984 for about $78 million. Pat also survived by his first wife, Sally, and their was the first owner in the history of pro football two children, Amie and Beth. Three New Referees And it isn’t just the Cardinals. In the season to reach 300 wins in his first 30 years (333-212- opening game, Packers quarterback Aaron On August 3, 2019, less than two months 1). Under Bowlen’s tenure, the Broncos win- after he passed away, Pat Bowlen was inducted This year, the NFL will have three new Rodgers was also flagged for the same abrupt loss record in home games played during the referees: Adrian Hill, Scott Novak and Brad movements. Rodgers appeared to lift his leg posthumously into the Pro Football Hall of regular season and playoff games, stood at 214- Fame with the class of 2019. Rogers. They take over for the retired Pete twice and clapped furiously for the snap prior to 86. Therefore, Denver held the record for the Morelli, Walt Coleman and John Parry. In the being flagged. It remains unclear what prompted best win-loss percentage at home (.713). At the Andy Purvis is a local author and radio last two years, seven referees have retired — an the strict enforcement of the rule but prior to time of Pat’s death, the New England Patriots personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. astounding turnover. Hill, Novak and Rogers their week three preseason game, Cardinals had surpassed Denver in win-loss percentage. com for all the latest info on his books or to have been well prepared for this new role. I will head coach Kliff Kingsbury gave some insight, He was also the only owner to reach the Super listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books be interested to see how the three perform this stating: “Abrupt motion without the clap is what Bowl with four different head coaches: Dan are available online and can be found in the year. By rule, rookie white hats aren’t eligible we’ve got to avoid.” Reeves, Mike Shanahan, John Fox and Gary local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be for the playoffs, so we won’t know how accurate Dotson’s Other Note: There you have it. I will Kubiak. contacted at [email protected]. Also their calls are, but we can see how they’ll run a be interested to hear what you have to think listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s game. During the Bowlen era, the Denver Broncos Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. regarding the early season officiating. It ain’t posted the second-highest regular-season How Will the 2nd Year Referees Perform? nothing until it’s called. com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of winning percentage of any NFL team. The the Houston Astros. Last year, Clay Martin, Shawn Hochuli, Shawn -30- Have fun and hang in there. Smith and Alex Kemp were rookie referees. Send letters and photos to [email protected] A9 Island Moon September 12, 2019

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This annual late summer occurrence with re-claimed material from an adjacent well is the signal for all the baitfish and larger pad. This did serve two-fold purposes, but it gamefish to start on their migrations out to sea, also left a bit to be desired regarding the life and their winter hangouts in the bays. We have expectancy of the road. You have to keep in been following these schools of fish on their mind that this is a road two miles long that is journey and catching some great numbers and 15 miles down the beach, and then on the back external trophy fish as well. side of the dunes. Getting equipment down there was entirely up to the contractor and taking equipment into basically the toughest environment for expensive equipment was quite a gamble. The road base is caliche, and you Rachel and Paz hitting the clays. loyal readers know something is about to change. In addition, the from growing up hummingbirds are also getting a bit thicker around here that and a little more aggressive around the feeders Winds of change brought this nice 27inch when caliche gets lately. Make sure to get those feeders up and red into the birthday hands of this lady wet it turns into keep them clean, as the tiny birds need to bulk angler this week. Shrimp and popping gumbo with okra up all they can before they take off for the corks. Farah that they didn’t Yucatan and places south. blanche; very drifting with live shrimp and lures is a breath of slimy indeed. The Babes on Baffin CCA ladies fishing fresh air. Their diets are changing as well, and Couple that with tournament is around the corner, make sure to throwing big croakers out there finds anglers inexperienced get signed up for that at babesonbaffin.org as staring at the end of the poles most of the time entries are picking up. There are a couple new after trout have fed on smaller baitfish. 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My dad, Dan, walked out of the machine a bringing to hand trout redfish, drum, and some sheep head. CT and Augs have been watching for a weather week ago. He retired after working for 30 years The redfish are really starting to become the window to get back out and clean the jetties, to the day, doing electrical work for the IBEC main attraction. Fishing with live finger mullet Change is good when you are dealing with but it’s been pretty messy as far as water clarity. Union up north, and then he worked for Flour along the channels and jetties is your best bet. the dog days of summer and the same kind of Every week it seems some kind of weather Bluff ISD for 20 years. About 4 years ago, Out in the boats we are targeting shallow edges fishing day for months on end. Play a loose system is moving through and dicing the water him and mom followed the grandkids up to the of Channels and shorelines. Sometimes we cut hand and relax and make some drifts! Life on out. While this rain we’re getting is great for Houston area where he finished out his career the larger mullet into pieces, the smaller ones the Island is about to change as well. Many of the weeds in the back 40, it’s not conducive to with Tomball ISD. Literally the day after he we use live or dead. Redfish can definitely the recent projects that have left us all with just clear water conditions. We may have to wait retired, him and mom jumped on a plane and smell the mullet from a long way off. We have a bunch of sand are starting to move forward. until after the first cool front to get some calmer headed up north to hang with some friends at also caught a lot of reds drifting with a GULP Unfortunately here lately I see some out of conditions. Y’all keep your ears open and be Niagara Falls. Good for him. Congrats to my aplastic shrimp under a popping cork. This is a town money pouring into this small Island and ready to jump out and help clean during the next Dad, love you man, now let’s go fishing! great way to cover water and find concentrations trying their hardest to make some changes. This good window. Well folks, the weather forecast for this of fish. Out on deep structure, live shrimp is is fine but with them comes a bit of smug and weekend looks pretty good for getting and working well but as soon as you get close to dishonorable attitude. The Island is and will Speaking of windows, the birds are getting grass the pin perch attack your bait and within always be a place of FREE SPIRITS. restless for the first migration window. Roadkill having some fun. The tides should be still up, the sun out, and the winds manageable. Dove seconds you are empty. Redfish are feeding and I were sitting around at his new pond the on small pin perch and crabs. Staying close to WHEN IT ALL COMES DOWN TO IT IF other day after the skeet shoot and noticed season officially starts this Saturday morning YOU ARE NOT COOL ENOUGH TO GO PUT (not Friday at noon like usual). Get your chores those food sources will keep you hooked up on that the birds were starting to group up. Yes, solid action. YOUR FEET IN THE SAND SOMETIMES there were still two’s and three’s, but we also done so you can go play, drop me a line at AND RELAX, you don’t belong on this Island. [email protected] and I’ll see you next Trout fishing has also taken a good change. saw groups of sevens and eights. When the Go get wet. dove birds start grouping up, you know that week On the Rocks. After a few long months of live croaker fishing,

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Measure Approved by Port A. City Council Letter to Port A. Marina continued The emergency ordinance approved by the commercial structures historically were Under the Marina Lease, the City acknowledged uses of Harbor Island as they were on January Port Aransas City Council in August and which small and primarily wooden with peaked the importance of the Port Authority’s ability 1, 2018. Section VII continues: preceded the lawsuit filed by the Port of Corpus roofs. The City in its commercial area had to develop Port Authority property on Harbor Accordingly, the Parties hereto agree, that his Christi against the City of Port Aransas as and still has the flavor and ambiance of Island. Specifically, Section VII of the Marine Lease will immediately terminate in the event, follows: a small fishing village which imbues it Lease states: the City, during the term of this Lease, changes with a distinctive charm and character. • In August, 2017, Hurricane Harvey City acknowledges the importance of Harbor the zoning of Harbor Island to place Harbor The city has in the past few years devastated the middle Texas coast and Island to the operation and development of the Island into any other zoning district set forth experienced extremely rapid growth and inflicted significant infrastructure and Oort of Corpus Christi; and recognizes that any in Articles III of the Code, other than HI; or is in danger of losing the charm which property damage to the City of Port changes in the zoning of Harbor Island further changes o modifies the Harbor Island District makes it an attractive, unique venue. Aransas. Among the many City services restricting the uses to which property within the Regulations set forth in said section 25-121 of In recognition of this situation the City impacted by the Category 4 hurricane Harbor Island District may be put will have a the Code as they existed on January 1, 2018, Council is considering re-zoning some was the City’s fire department, which significant adverse impact on the Authority and such that the Harbor Island District Regulations of Harbor Island and/or the imposition was effectively destroyed as every single on the Authority’s development of the Port of become more restrictive as to the uses to which of additional controls upon new piece of firefighting equipment was lost. Corpus Christi.” property within the HI District may now be development on Harbor Island. In order While the City is currently in the process put.” to prevent the development of Harbor As an inducement to the Port Authority to enter of rebuilding its fire department, the City Island in a way which would adversely into the Marina Lease, the City agreed not to does not have the capability to provide affect, damage or destroy the aesthetics or change the permissible uses of the Harbor Island fire protection services and emergency environment of the City, and to recognize District in a way that restricts the permissible response to heavy industrial uses on the historical uses of Harbor Island, the Harbor Island and, in particular, oil and Texas Department of Transportation Submits Questions on Deepening Council considers it necessary to pass this gas related operations. temporary moratorium on an emergency of Ship Channel • As a result, a public emergency exists basis to allow the City to study and, if Editor’s note: The local office of the Texas Can the applicant provide mitigating measures which adversely affects the life, health, determined to be appropriate, institute Department of Transportation (TxDot) to help alleviate the impacts this project could property and public peace of those additional zoning and other development submitted the following questions to the U.S. have on the traveling public? properties located on Harbor Island. To controls on Harbor Island.” Corps of Engineers this week regarding the 2. The proposed project description includes ensure that these life safety concerns are deepening of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel. • From and after the passage of this the need to accommodate transit of Very Large protected, a temporary moratorium on ordinance and for a period of 60 days Crude Carriers (VLCCs). Activities that increase further heavy industrial development on thereafter, unless sooner repeated by the size and volume of shipping traffic could Harbor Island is warranted until adequate U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the Council, no development permits or pose additional challenges to ferry operations. fire protection services and emergency approvals shall be issued for development Galveston District - Regulatory Division Ferry vessel operation is an on-demand service, response are available. of Harbor Island property. Under Section Corpus Christi Regulatory Field Office meaning ferry vessels cross the ship channel at • The City of Port Aransas developed as 3.13 of the City Charter, unless extended undesignated times, when loading is complete a fishing village. It is a non-industrial by further Council action, this emergency 5151 Flynn Parkway, Suite 306 and they are able to cross the channel safely. town and relatively clean and free of the ordinance will automatically expire on Corpus Christi, TX 78411 Can additional information be provided to pollutants which normally accompany the sixty-first day after its enactment. TxDOT regarding the anticipated shipping some industrial developments. Its traffic volumes, frequencies and duration, in RE: Comments Submitted for Public Notice order to assess the effect of the proposed project Port vs the City of Port Aransas Lawsuit (SWG-2019-00067) on ferry operations? 10 radically and comprehensively changed and (Partial language) Dear Sir/Madam, 3. Deepening of the ship channel would modified the Harbor Island District Regulations require an evaluation and armoring of existing Editor’s note: This is a portion of the lawsuit set forth in section 25-121 of the Port Aransas In response to the Public Notice published ferry operations infrastructure including but not filed by the Port of Corpus Christi to ask a City Code. The Ordinances passed by the City on August 1st, 2019 for the proposed Channel limited to installation of deeper, larger ferry judge for an injunction blocking the City of Port are Deepening Project (SWG-2019-00067), The dolphins (pile clusters), bulkhead replacement, Aransas from enforcing the resolution by the Texas Department of Transportation – Corpus and additional shoreline protection. TxDOT Port Aransas City Council to halt development incredibly restrictive, and represent a full Christi District (TxDOT) is submitting the will need additional information on the on Harbor Island. affront to the Port Authority’s planned re- development of Harbor Island. following comments: proposed project in order to procure the C. The City Breaks its Promise. resources necessary to evaluate, design, and 25. The City’s Resolution passed in February 1. TxDOT Port Aransas Ferry Operations is plan the construction of ferry infrastructure that 22. The Port Authority and the City had been 2019 acknowledges that federal and state physically adjacent to Segment 6 of the proposed is needed as a direct result of deepening the attempting to schedule a meeting to discuss any agencies pre-emptively govern the development Channel Deepening Project (referenced in ship channel. Can you please provide detailed issues regarding the re-development of Harbor of Harbor Island. Specifically, the Resolution Public Notice for SWG-2019-00067). The drawings (plan view and cross sections) Island. Unfortunately, the City—without notice confirms that “industrial development permits ferry operation provides a connection of State showing the proposed channel deepening and or warning—did a complete ‘about-face’ with are reviewed by the public and reviewing Highway (SH) 361 between Port Aransas associated work to stabilize channel slopes regards to its support for the Port Authority’s agencies such as U.S. Fish and Wildlife, EPA, (Mustang Island) and Harbor Island, across the that are adjacent to the Port Aransas Ferry industrial use of Harbor Island, and it passed USACE, Texas Commission on Environmental Corpus Christi Ship Channel (ship channel). It Operations? Ordinances that violate Texas law and breach Quality (TCEQ), Texas Parks and Wildlife, serves to provide a critical connection between the City’s promise to the Port Authority. and others….”15 Nonetheless, the City— Mustang Island and Harbor Island for local 4. On August 12, 2019, an incident occurred by the Resolution—directed its staff to delay residents commuting to work and for tourists in which a large LNG tanker traveling in the 23. In April 2018, the City confirmed its and visitors. On average, approximately 2.0 support for the re-development of Harbor regulatory permitting processes by requesting ship channel in the vicinity of the Port Aransas extensions (whether needed or not), by hiring million vehicles per year are transported across Ferry Operations was completing a maneuver Island as a marine terminal for the storage and the ship channel via ferry vessel. This equates transportation of oil and gas products. To obtain legal counsel to challenge the data supporting that put them in very close proximity to a ferry Harbor Island’s development (without regard to over 3.8 million passengers per year served vessel that was currently docked and loading the benefit of operating the City’s marina, by the Port Aransas ferry operations. This is the City signed the Marina Lease, in which it for the data’s validity), and by causing further passengers at Port Aransas. The proximity of delays by requesting updated environmental a continuous operation, providing service 24 the tanker resulted in an emergency evacuation recognized that Harbor Island was—and should hours per day, 365 days per year. be—zoned as an industrial property: studies (irrespective of the dates of the studies of the ferry vessel. What assurances and/or relied upon). Then on August 29, 2019, the City A ferry system has been in operation to serve precautions can the applicant provide that this Harbor Island is currently zoned by Section passed the Ordinance, a law refusing to issue the community of Port Aransas since the type of situation will not occur in the future? 25-121 of the Port Aransas City Code (the permits for any development of Harbor Island: 1920’s. Numerous projects to construct ferry “Code”). City acknowledges the importance of The TxDOT Corpus Christi District is “no development permits or approvals shall vessels and ferry landing infrastructure have committed to ensuring the safety of the Harbor Island to the operation and development be issued for development of Harbor Island been federally funded. The Port Aransas Ferry of the Port of Corpus Christi; and recognizes traveling public and its employees. If additional property.” Operations is used as a Hurricane Evacuation information is needed please don’t hesitate to that any changes in the zoning of Harbor Island Route for the residents of Port Aransas and further restricting the uses to which property 26. For the reasons more fully set forth below, contact me. the City’s Resolution and Ordinance are was instrumental in providing emergency within the Harbor Island District may be put services to the community during and following Sincerely will have a significant adverse impact on the unlawful. Texas law is clear that an “oil and gas operation is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction Hurricane Harvey in 2017. There is a potential Valente Olivarez, Jr., P.E. [Port Authority] and on [the Port Authority’s] that the proposed Channel Deepening Project development of the Port of Corpus Christi. of” the State of Texas, and that the “authority Corpus Christi District Engineer of a municipality … to regulate an oil and could result in impacts to the Port Aransas Ferry In the Marina Lease, the City acknowledged gas operation is expressly preempted ….”17 Operations, which could adversely impact the the importance of the re-development of Harbor Therefore, the City’s Resolution directing its traveling public and surrounding communities. Island.13 It also expressly agreed to Harbor employees to obstruct the re-development of State Law Regarding Regulation of Port of Corpus Christi Activities an oil and gas operation, and its Ordinance that Island’s re-development as a marine terminal Editor’s note: This is the full wording of House operator’s capacity to act. for the There are exceptions to the law, but none apply here prohibits any permitting for re-development Bill 40 passed by the Texas Legislature in 2015 (2) “Oil and gas operation” means an activity storage and transport of oil and gas products. of Harbor Island, are unenforceable and should and cited in the lawsuit file by the port against associated with the exploration, development, the City of Port Aransas. 24. In contradiction to the City’s expression of be enjoined. While the Port Authority’s current production, processing, and transportation support for the Port Authority’s redevelopment re-development of Harbor Island is outside H.B. No. 40 of oil and gas, including drilling, hydraulic the scope of the City’s permitting power or AN ACT fracture stimulation, completion, maintenance, of Harbor Island in 2018, the City has since ability to zone, the Port Authority has standing reworking, recompletion, disposal, plugging passed the Ordinances, which have 13 See to challenge the Ordinance and Resolution relating to the exclusive jurisdiction of this and abandonment, secondary and tertiary Lease Agreement between the Port Authority because the City’s threatened enforcement state to regulate oil and gas operations in recovery, and remediation activities. and the City. against Port Authority makes this case and this state and the express preemption of local (b) An oil and gas operation is subject to the controversy ripe for consideration. regulation of those operations. 14 See Lease Agreement between the Port exclusive jurisdiction of this state. Except as Authority and the City; see also Harbor Island BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE provided by Subsection (c), a municipality District Regulations set forth in City Code, OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: or other political subdivision may not enact section 25-121. SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the or enforce an ordinance or other measure, or Letter to Port Aransas from the Port regarding the Marina laws and policy of this state have fostered an amendment or revision of an ordinance or Editor’ note. The following letter was sent from facility for oil and/or gas products, and for other successful development of oil and gas resources other measure, that bans, limits, or otherwise the Port of Corpus Christi to the City of Port purposes expressly allowed under Code 25-121 in concert with the growth of healthy and regulates an oil and gas operation within the Aransas on September 4. for those entities that are required to comply with economically vibrant communities for over boundaries or extraterritorial jurisdiction of the the City’s zoning and permitting requirements. 100 years. The legislature acknowledges this municipality or political subdivision. The language of the Marina Lease is quite City’s Ordinance 2019-09 effectively changes cooperative progress and that mutual benefit clear. The Port Authority unmistakably (c) The authority of a municipality or other the Harbor Island District Regulations under is derived from the statutes already in effect, communicated the importance of the Harbor political subdivision to regulate an oil and gas Code 25-121 and makes them “more restrictive which provide effective and environmentally Island development to the City, In return, the operation is expressly preempted, except that a as to the uses to which property within the HI sound regulation of oil and gas operations that City recognized the importance of assuring municipality may enact, amend, or enforce an District may (have) be(en) put [as if the date if is so comprehensive and pervasive that the that the City would not do anything to further ordinance or other measure that: the Marina Lease].” regulation occupies the field, while facilitating restrict the development of Harbor Island – or the overriding policy objective of this state (1) regulates only aboveground activity else lose its lease on the 30.07 acres made the The Marina Lease, therefore, terminated on of fully and effectively exploiting oil and gas related to an oil and gas operation that occurs subject of the Marina Lease. its own terms as of the passage and adoption resources while protecting the environment at or above the surface of the ground, including of Ordinance 2019-09 on August 29, 2019. As of January 1, 2018 and on the effective and the public’s health and safety. The a regulation governing fire and emergency Please note that the City’s obligations pursuant date of the Marina Lease, Section 25-121 of the legislature recognizes that in order to continue response, traffic, lights, or noise, or imposing to Section X of the Marina Lease survive the City of Port Aransas Code of Ordinances (the this prosperity and the efficient management notice or reasonable setback requirements; termination of the Marina Lease. “Code”) required that land and buildings in the of a key industry in this state, it is in the (2) is commercially reasonable; Harbor Island District be used for: Council for the Authority will contact the City interest of this state to explicitly confirm the (3) does not effectively prohibit an oil and gas Attorney to obtain a full and complete copy of authority to regulate oil and gas operations in (3) Marina terminals (4) Storage Facilities operation conducted by a reasonably prudent the books and records related to the operation this state. The legislature intends that this Act for oil and gas; (5) Ship yards: (7) Offshore operator; and son the Property and the net Marina Revenues, oil/gas support services; (14) Dredge material expressly preempt the regulation of oil and gas as those terms are used in the Marina Lease. If (4) is not otherwise preempted by state or placement areas, or other non-residential uses. operations by municipalities and other political you would like to further discuss this Notice subdivisions, which is impliedly preempted by federal law. Despite the assurances provide by the City and how to move forward, then please do so by the statutes already in effect. (d) An ordinance or other measure is considered in the Marina Lease, on August 29, 2019, the reaching out to (a name and number listed). prima facie to be commercially reasonable if the City Council of the City passed and adopted SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 81, Re: Notice of Termination of the Lease ordinance or other measure has been in effect Ordinance No. 2019-09, which states in the Natural Resources Code, is amended by adding Agreement for 30.07 Acres for the Marine for at least five years and has allowed the oil relevant part: Section 81.0523 to read as follows: Purposed Located in Port Aransas, Nueces and gas operations at issue to continue during Sec. 81.0523. EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION From and after the passage of this ordinance County, Texas (“Marina Lease”). that period. and for a period of 60 days thereafter, unless AND EXPRESS PREEMPTION. (a) In this Dear Mr. Parsons: SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately sooner repealed by the Council, no development section: if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the permits or approvals shall be issued for Reference is made to the Marina Lease, (1) “Commercially reasonable” means a members elected to each house, as provided development of Harbor Island property.” effective April 1, 2018, by and between the ort condition that would allow a reasonably prudent by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County, operator to fully, effectively, and economically By passage of Ordinance 2019-09, the City is If this Act does not receive the vote necessary Texas (the “Port Authority”) and the City of exploit, develop, produce, process, and transport restricting the development and use of the Port for immediate effect, this Act takes effect Port Aransas, Texas (the City”) oil and gas, as determined based on the objective Authorities’ Harbor Island District Property September 1, 2015. for use as a marine terminal, use as a storage standard of a reasonably prudent operator and Continued next column not on an individualized assessment of an actual September 12, 2019 Island Moon A 14 STATE Full Transparency and Disclosure National Ovarian Cancer Month

POA News by Marvin Jones, President By Todd Hunter, District 32 women. Also, with the passage of House Bill 21, known as the “Right to Try Act”, patients As always, let me have the 2018 Tax Return will be completed by Each year, September is your thoughts. You can mid-October, again the Tax Return will be with terminal illnesses, including advanced named as National Ovarian forms of ovarian cancer, have increased reach me at marvin@ available to all members. Cancer Month. This awareness month was pipoa.net access to potentially life-saving treatments. In Billish Park- Up until recently, it has been initiated as a way to educate communities addition to these two bills, the legislature also ISAC- Island Strategic a hot, dry summer. The recent rains will help on the importance of early detection and allocated additional resources towards cancer Action Committee met green up the grass. The volleyball nets are up, intervention in the fight against ovarian cancer. research and prevention programs, including on Wednesday, September 4, 2019. The and the courts are available for play. According to the National Cancer Institute, those specifically related to women’s health. ovarian cancer only affects a small percentage committee voted to recommend to the City Island Growth- Have you noticed the By ensuring more women are regularly tested of women, but because women are more likely Council of Corpus Christi that UTV’s and construction at the IGA Grocery Store site? for ovarian cancer, medical professionals will to have symptoms once the disease has spread, other off-road type vehicles be allowed on Rumors abound, Starbucks is coming to have a better opportunity to detect and treat the it can become dangerous. However, research Island streets. It is now up to the City to allow the island? Margaritaville is coming to the disease earlier. has shown that the survival rate for women with or disallow these vehicles. The City may craft Island? The Holiday Inn will be opening in ovarian cancer has steadily improved in recent In the 86th legislative session, members passed an amended ordnance that may or may not December? One thing is for certain; growth years, thanks to increased awareness about the HB 39, which repealed time limitations on the have restrictions such as helmets. is coming to our little Island. disease. For those impacted by ovarian cancer, award of grants by the Cancer Prevention and Financial Review- The Executive Director, Beach Clean Up- The next event for the early detection is often the most important Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). CPRIT, Jim Smock, has created a 2020 budget for the beach clean-up is Saturday, September 21, factor in determining treatment success. created in 2007, is charged by the Texas Board to review. Expect to see a final version 2019. Please think about volunteering and Legislature to grow and accelerate the potential It is estimated that in 2019, approximately by the October Board meeting. helping clean up beaches in our area. Look for for breakthroughs in cancer preventions and 22,530 women will be newly diagnosed with Member Monitoring- I am giving a big the Adopt A Beach website and on Facebook cancer cures in Texas. For more information ovarian cancer while 13,980 women will compliment to Nita Smith. Ms. Smith came for more details. about CPRIT, visit https://www.cprit.state. die from the disease. On average, the five- into the PIPOA Office and sat down with tx.us/. Boat Ramps- Please note, there is new year survival rate of ovarian cancer is 46%. the bank statements notebook that I created signage at the boat ramps. However, according to the American Cancer To learn more about the ovarian cancer and the for members to see every bank statement. Society, when ovarian cancer is found at an significance of this awareness month, please Members should always have ready access Litter Critter- The next Litter Critter will early, localized stage, 94% of patients are able visit the National Cancer Institute’s website to the financial information of the PIPOA. be Saturday, September 21, 2019, at Briscoe to live longer than five years. Unfortunately, here: http://www.cancer.gov/types/ovarian . I appreciate her diligence in taking the time King Pavilion parking lot from 9:00 AM until only one in five women with ovarian cancer are Additional information about risk factors and to review the checkbooks of the PIPOA. I 1:00 PM. If you wish to volunteer, please diagnosed at this stage. Unlike many other types prevention information is also available on the encourage all members to do the same. As reach out to Joe Hall. of cancers, ovarian cancer is often difficult to American Cancer Society’s website here: http:// President Ronald Regan once said, “Trust but PIPOA Board Meeting- The next regular diagnosis at early stages due to limited testing www.cancer.org . verify.” Thank you, Ms. Smith. scheduled Board Meeting will be Tuesday, options and the lack of early warning signs or If you would like to review more about the September 24, 2019, at the Holiday Inn Audit- The PIPOA audit for the year 2018 symptoms. Moreover, while ovarian cancer is legislature, please visit the Texas Legislature Express on the Island from 5:30 PM until has been completed. The audit should be on common in women over the age of 63 and those online at www.capitol.state.tx.us/ . If you have 7:00 PM. the PIPOA website shortly. Please feel free with a family history, there are often a number questions regarding any of the information to request your copy. It is anticipated that of women who are diagnosed with the disease mentioned in this week’s article, please do not that do not fall into these risk categories. hesitate to call my Capitol or District Office. Understanding the importance that early As always, my offices are available at any time detection is key to treatment success, members to assist with questions, concerns or comments Enrollment Open for Texas Tuition of the Texas House and Senate made improving (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; District Office; patient access to cancer screenings and 361-949-4603). Promise Fund treatments a priority during the 84th legislative - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 session. One of these measures was House Open enrollment in the Texas Tuition Promise Under the plan, 100 units equal roughly Bill 2813, which expanded health insurance Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). Fund, the state’s prepaid college tuition one academic year consisting of 30 semester plans in Texas to include ovarian cancer He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. program, began September 1 and runs through hours of undergraduate resident tuition and screenings as part of annual wellness exams for state.tx.us or at 512-463-0672. February 29, 2020. The Texas Tuition Promise schoolwide required fees at the Texas public Fund offers parents and loved ones the chance school that most closely matches the unit’s to prepay a child’s future higher education at pricing base. Participants can purchase up to National Estuaries Stop Complaining most Texas public colleges and universities at 600 Type I units — approximately six academic today’s prices. years — or the dollar equivalent of Type II or III units. 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Future payments the Coastal Bend Bays Foundation’s Adopt-A- boards tuition and schoolwide required fees at the most can be as low as $15 if a pay-as-you-go account Beach Cleanup at Packery Flats on September The City of Corpus Christi has numerous expensive Texas public four-year university or is established. 21st, and adding two more locations in the flats boards, commissions and committees which college, cost $147.80 per unit. to choose from. strive to reflect the diverse interests and abilities For more information about this prepaid college Type II units, based on the weighted average of our citizens. tuition program, including how the plan can be The event runs from 9 a.m. -12 on Saturday, cost of undergraduate resident tuition and used for Texas medical and dental institutions, September 21, with three locations to choose The City Secretary’s Office is currently seeking schoolwide required fees across all Texas Texas private colleges and universities, out- from: Highway 361 @ Packery Bridge, Packery applications for the following boards: public four-year universities and colleges, cost of-state colleges and universities, and career Flats Parking Lot, and Kates Hole Access $105.54 per unit. • Corpus Christi Convention & Visitors schools, go to TuitionPromise.org or call Parking Lot Bureau Type III units, priced at the weighted average 800-445-GRAD (4723), Option 5. An online For questions contact: Contact (361) 336-0311 • Citizens Advisory Health Board cost of undergraduate resident tuition and calculator provides estimates on the type and or [email protected]. For more information schoolwide required fees across all Texas public number of units currently needed for any Texas about National Estuaries Week and the Packery • Ethics Commission two-year community colleges, cost $26.84 per public college or university. Flats Clean Up visit http://www.cbbep.org/ • Landmark Commission unit. national-estuaries-week/. • Leadership Committee for Senior Attorney General Paxton Leads 50 Services October 4 • Library Board Attorneys General in Google Multistate • Marina Advisory Committee Entertainment from • Museum of Science and History Advisory Bipartisan Antitrust Investigation Board the USO Show If you know of anyone interested in serving on Attorney General Ken Paxton this week General Paxton. “There is nothing wrong with a a City board, commission or committee, please announced that Texas is leading 50 attorneys business becoming the biggest game in town if Troupe on the Lex direct them to the City of Corpus Christi’s general in a multistate, bipartisan investigation it does so through free market competition, but website at serve.cctexas.com. of tech giant Google’s business practices in we have seen evidence that Google’s business If the thought of the USO entertaining the troops accordance with state and federal antitrust laws. practices may have undermined consumer conjures up images of Bob Hope charging up a For assistance, please call Norma Duran at choice, stifled innovation, violated users’ crowd overseas, imagine how much fun it will (361) 826-3893 or via e-mail at NormaD2@ The bipartisan coalition announced plans to privacy, and put Google in control of the flow be to watch the USO Show Troupe performing cctexas.com. investigate Google’s overarching control of and dissemination of online information. We right here in the Coastal Bend. online advertising markets and search traffic (NEW POLICY: All individuals considered intend to closely follow the facts we discover in that may have led to anticompetitive behavior On Friday night, October 4, the entertainment for appointment by the City Council to a this case and proceed as necessary.” that harms consumers. Legal experts from each offered on the Lexington will dazzle the crowd board, commission or committee must have state will work in cooperation with Federal Past investigations of Google uncovered and remind us all of how the USO strives to be an application on file in the Office of the City authorities to assess competitive conditions for violations ranging from advertising illegal that little piece of home for our service members Secretary not later than the 14TH calendar day online services and ensure that Americans have drugs in the United States to now three antitrust no matter where they are in the world. before the date appointments are considered by City Council.) access to free digital markets. actions brought by the European Commission. The USO Show Troupe is made up of talented None of these previous investigations, however, “Now, more than ever, information is power, performers who have graced Broadway, film, fully address the source of Google’s sustained and the most important source of information and TV during their careers. Their musical market power and the ability to engage in in Americans’ day-to-day lives is the internet. genius includes patriotic tunes, big band, Follow us on Facebook: serial and repeated business practices with the When most Americans think of the internet, Motown and country from years gone by. Every intention to protect and maintain that power. The Island Moon Newspaper they no doubt think of Google,” said Attorney dollar raised at this event will go to the USO South Texas, an organization that helps the men and women who are serving our nation right Send photos and letters to: here in South Texas. 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DNA testing is a practice that is becoming BBB serving the Heart of Texas has the By Chef Vita Jarrin more common in the medical field. According following tips to help consumers avoid genetic This time of year, we either embrace the Oregano to the National Institutes of Health, one of the testing fraud: pumpkin, or we run the opposite direction. Thyme Seems like everywhere you turn, there’s a main benefits of genetic testing is the ability to • Work with your doctor. The best way pumpkin waiting for your prompt attention. Salt pepper make more informed decisions about the future to avoid being scammed is to only do The entrance to grocery stores are filled with of your healthcare. Unfortunately, some scam a genetic test your doctor has ordered. these beautiful fruit / squash and through out For garnish: companies are using these tests as a way to They will know if you need the test and your store, there are more piles of them, either pumpkin seeds raw or lightly toasted access your Medicare information or even steal can help you determine if it is covered by waiting to be placed as home décor, or waiting your money. Medicare. drizzle of Mexican crema (see tip below) to be cooked, for a healthy meal or dessert. A company commits genetic testing fraud • Keep your information safe. Do not give herb of choice cilantro, mint, parsley, dill, Now to be fair, not everything made of when it bills Medicare for a test or screening your personal or Medicare information basil etc. pumpkin, tastes like pumpkin pie. As a matter that wasn’t medically necessary or ordered by out or accept DNA tests at places like of fact, you can substitute other types of squash the beneficiary’s doctor. So, how does fraud like community events, local fairs, farmer’s Directions: this happen? Better Business Bureau has been for this soup recipe below. They are fairly bland markets, parking lots, or other events not Pre heat your oven to 375 degrees seeing it pop up across the country. Companies and pick up the flavors of the seasonings you directly sanctioned by your doctor. Fahrenheit advertise “free” DNA tests and set up booths choose to cook it with. Adding ingredients, or tables in grocery store parking lots, AARP • Read documents closely. Documents such as butter and cream, enriches the texture, as Cut the pumpkin in half and remove the groups or senior living facilities. Seniors are like your Medicare Summary Notice well as the flavor. Using different spice blends seeds as well as the stringy fibers inside. If generally the targets of scams like these, so or Explanation of Benefits can tip you helps adjust various unique flavor profiles. possible, cut the pumpkin in quarters and off if something is wrong. Words like the companies advertise tests that screen for This week I opted to give you a soup recipe, place the pumpkin into a roasting tray and “gene analysis,” “molecular pathology” cancer or dementia. They’ll swab your cheek, since it’s too early for the beloved pie recipes. season them with oil first, to create a glue or “laboratory” can be red flags of and you fill out your Medicare information Can’t promise I won’t talk pumpkin again, lol, and then add the thyme, sage & seasoning questionable genetic testing. and go on your way. Sometimes, people even however, I want to challenge everyone to start mix. Rub it all up using your hands. receive testing kits in the mail with a DIY • Report your concerns. If you or an this season, by giving these chubby beauties a Roast the pumpkin in your oven for an hour swab and instructions to fill out their Medicare elderly relative received a cheek swab or chance to impress you! – or until its fork tender. information and mail it back. screening that was not ordered by your When the pumpkin is cooked, let it cool regular doctor, report your concerns about Cajun Pumpkin Soup You might be wondering, “How does this enough to handle. Scoop the flesh into a billing errors or fraud to your local Senior benefit a scammer?” When the test gets sent Ingredients: bowl, discarding the skin. Place a large Medicare Patrol and to Better Business off, the company bills Medicare and pockets saucepan over a medium heat & add the oil, Bureau’s Scam Tracker. Not sure how to 1 Medium sized Pumpkin, peeled, deseeded the money. However, there are instances where onion & garlic. Sauté the mix with a pinch locate your Senior Medicare Patrol? You & cubed (my pumpkin was 9kg) Medicare doesn’t cover DNA tests, and you of salt for 5 minutes or until softened. can find yourself stuck paying for them. The can find them, and more information, at 4 tbsp. Cajun Spice Mix (see below) costs of these tests can end up being more than SMPResource.com Add the pumpkin to the saucepan, followed 1 tbsp. green curry by the coconut milk & vegetable stock. $10,000, which is why it’s so important to only For more, visit us at bbb.org. do one that’s medically necessary. 1 tbsp. Dried Sage Allow the soup to simmer for 10 minutes. 4 tbsp. Vegetable Oil Let the pureed pumpkin cool a bit before blending it. With a hand held or Ninja What Can a Financial Advisor Do for You? 2 tsp. Himalayan or kosher Salt blender, puree the pumpkin until super 1 tsp. Cracked Black Pepper smooth. Either store it for later use or place What does investing mean to you? If the word possibly provide suitable protection back into sauce pot to reheat the soup makes you think of transactions – buying or products and services for your needs. a couple pinches of cayenne (light heat) before serving. Assess if the soup is too optional selling stocks and bonds – you’re looking at • Help you adjust your financial strategy thick or thin and adjust by adding more just part of the picture. To work toward all your – Not much will stay constant in your 2 Onions, roughly chopped stock to thicken, or if too loose, let it cook goals, such as a comfortable retirement, you down a bit more. Either way it will taste life – and that includes your financial 3 Cloves Garlic need a comprehensive financial strategy. And strategy. Any number of events – a delicious. Before turning off the pan, add for that, you might need to work with a personal new child, a new job, a new retirement 2 sprigs of thyme (remove before serving) the tablespoon of butter to the soup for an financial advisor. But what, specifically, can this destination – can cause you to adjust your 2 cup unsweetened coconut Milk amazing gloss and delicious creamy finish. type of professional do for you? investment moves, as will some of the Check the soup is seasoned correctly before Here are some of the key services a financial factors influencing the financial markets Approximately 3 cups Vegetable Stock, serving with the garnishes. Serve as a side advisor can provide: – economic downturns, changing interest more maybe needed depending on your in a cup or serve it in a bowl, with a nice rates, new tax laws, and more. A financial preference as to the consistency of the soup slice of seeded bread, with a smear of goat Help you invest for your retirement – An advisor can help you change course as cheese and sundried tomato crostini. experienced financial advisor can look at 1 tbsp. butter needed – and sometimes encourage you all the relevant factors – your current and not to change course, when, in his or Squeeze Lemon Juice Tip of the week: projected income, age at which you’d like to her professional opinion, you might be retire, desired retirement lifestyle – to help Cajun Seasoning Spice Mix Mix your spice mix before hand, so it’s ready tempted to overreact to some event or you determine how much you need to invest, to use for this recipe, as well as others. You can other. Paprika and in which investment vehicles, to help you buy pumpkin seeds for garnish or toast up the reach your retirement goals. To cite just one • While a financial advisor can help you Garlic powder ones from the pumpkin. Additionally, you can change up the squash and adjust cooking times, example, a financial advisor can review your in many ways, you’ll need, above all Onion powder employer-sponsored retirement plan and help else, to feel comfortable with whomever based on size and firmness of the squash you you determine how to use it to your greatest you choose. Ultimately, you’ll want to Cayenne pepper use. The options are endless. ;) The Important advantage. pick someone who understands what’s thing is to have fun, try new things and Enjoy! important to you, and who will follow an • Help you save for college – Higher established process to create personalized education is expensive, and costs are strategies and recommend specific actions rising every year. If you’d like to help needed to help achieve your goals. 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In addition to the Pathways • 9:45 – 10:15am - Discover Linda S. to rely on your adult children for help? Advisor. On the Island, your Edward Jones Center pavilion, these sites will include Tule A financial advisor can recommend and Financial Advisor is Keith Clark. Keith can be Castro Nature Sanctuary, 4041 TX-35, East Birding and Nature Site, Linda S. Castro Fulton. 2nd card distributed reached at 361-979-9500. Nature Sanctuary, Connie Hagar Cottage Sanctuary and the History Center for Aransas • 10:30 – 11:15am – Explore Connie Hagar County. This is a self-guided tour with specific Cottage Sanctuary, 1401-1499 S Church times to visit each site. The tour and game are St, Rockport - 3rd card distributed both open to the public. We encourage our • 11:30 -11:45 – Meet at History Center visitors and locals alike to participate. - 801 E Cedar St, Rockport, to view the The event will Gardens and collect final card. 4th card include a game (no distributed. skill required) in Prize presentation at 11:45 at the History which participants Center will collect a special card at every site. For more information on the event 361- Each site will have 729-6445 or [email protected]. For a host who will more information on Aransas Pathways, visit AransasPathways.com Photo by Jay Garnder distribute a game card. Cards will be distributed on a first come, first served basis The participant who holds the winning hand of cards at the end of the tour will be awarded a pair of Kingbird 6.5x32 Binoculars. 10% Discount for Island Homes!

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Swimming Deer All proceeds to benefit Animal Friends of Port Items for bid are: Aransas, a local 501(c)3 non-profit organization 2009 dedicated to saving the lives of shelter dogs & Large “Sailfish” print. cats, strays, abandoned, sick & injured. Donated by Nikki Ikonomopoulos 5:30pm Dog costume contest! Handcrafted knife Entry fee $10 per category Donated and crafted by Mark Banks. Contest will have three categories. Silent Auction items. Joyce Louise 1. Best costume Bidding will end at 10:30pm 2.Best kisser Vendor tables are available for $35. Tagliaferro 3.Best Look alike (you & your dog) Contact Connie Beane @ [email protected] 6:30pm Hot Dog eating contest! If you’d like to donate for our Silent Auction, (Joy Lou) Entry fee $10 contact Connie Beane @ [email protected] Joyce Louise Tagliaferro ( JoyLou ), 78 of Contestants who eats 5 hotdogs (or the Pet Friendly! North Padre Island passed away Saturday most) in the shortest amount of time. Please leash all pets. August 17, 2019, at her daughters home in Elizabethtown, KY. Joyce was born on Hot Dogs provided by The Hot Dog Lady. Animal friendly pets only. February 27,1941 to Ralph and Cleo Koss. 7:30pm Gee Whiz contest Disclaimer: Besides her parents Joyce was proceeded in death by her brother Jerome Koss and $10 entry fee Animal Friends of Port Aransas, The Beer Hut, her husband Robert Tagliaferro. Contestants will be given a water bottle. volunteers, & employees are not responsible for any accidents due to human or canine error. Joyce is survived by her brother Ralph They will then hike their leg like a dog Koss, her sister in law Fran Koss, her and “Whiz” using the water bottle, farthest Please drink responsibly! “Whiz” WINS!! children, Ralph Smith (Margaret), Adopt...Don’t Shop ! Christine Ferguson (Shayne) her step children, Rob and Tony Tagliaferro, Tracey Musselman and Susan Gauss Tagliaferro Padre Island Poker Run to and her grand-children, Maggie, Reid and Noelle Smith, Mazzy Tagliaferro, Amber, Benefit Seashore Schools Brittany and Courtney Snapp, Christopher and Robert Tagliaferro and Madison and On Thursday, September 26th, Black Sheep student annually. It is up to the foundation to Tessa Musselman. She also has 3 great Bistro, Mikel May’s, and Angry Marlin will raise funds and make up the deficit. A large grandchildren. host their monthly Poker Run from 6pm-9pm. percentage of the schools’ funding comes from Joyce was a pillar on North Padre Island, This month’s theme is “Back To School,” and community donations and events like the annual She and her husband Tag moved from San participants are encouraged to decorate their Whoop It Up Gala, the Barefoot Mardi Gras Antonio Texas in the mid 1980’s, bought a golf carts and jeeps with this theme. The event Parade, and Winter Tea. hot dog stand and started selling hot dogs will benefit the Island Foundation, a 501(c)3 Revenue from fundraisers goes directly on the beach. From there they opened nonprofit that owns and operates three island towards improving the schools and helping the Island Italian Restaurant that has since schools: Seashore Early Childhood Academy foundation further its mission of serving and become an island institution and is family (a private daycare serving children ages 3-5), supporting education and community interests owned and operated today. Seashore Learning Center (for students grades on the island. Last year Seashore unveiled its Editor’s note: It was ten years ago we ran this K through 4), and Seashore Middle Academy story about a deer that was in the canal. Joyce was a member of the “Island in the brand new daycare and elementary school (grades 5-8). The schools, which first began buildings, and this month it is wrapping up Sun” church. Joyce was also involved in classes 25 years ago in an old Dairy Queen off a group called “The Island She Shells”, construction on a brand new Performing Arts Islanders Fish for a SPID, now serves approximately 500 students Building on its middle school campus. a group of Island ladies who would go living in North Padre Island, Mustang Island, decorate The Ronald McDonald House Flour Bluff, and NAS CCAD. Please join us on September 26th to kick back, Deer every year for Christmas and do crafts with make friends, and support this important island the kids and their families for the holidays. As public charter schools, Seashore receives organization. She also enjoyed being a volunteer at 20% less state and federal funding than regular Down on PINS there’s Driscol Childrens hospital for many years. ISDs. This comes out to about $1,800 less per Joyce was involved with the community in a deer with a heck of a her spare time, she had many friends on the Texas Drilling Permits and Completions island and was loved by all. story to tell Statistics for August 2019 When Islander Kay Schroeder took her dog for a walk Sunday morning she got a real surprise. She saw a deer walking around near the corner The Railroad Commission of Texas In August 2019, Commission staff processed of Captain Kidd and Mutiny. When the deer saw (Commission) issued a total of 960 original 446 oil, 103 gas, 27 injection and two other Kay’s dog he ran across a vacant lot and jumped drilling permits in August 2019 compared completions compared to 601 oil, 123 gas, 56 right in the canal. 1,110 in August 2018. The August 2019 total injection and three other completions in August included 865 permits to drill new oil or gas 2018. Total well completions processed for The deer was a young spike buck and couldn’t wells, eight to re-enter plugged well bores and 2019 year to date are 6,327; down from 7,297 get himself up over the bulkhead and back on 87 for re-completions of existing well bores. recorded during the same time period in 2018. dry land. Several neighbors showed up and started trying to figure out how to get him out. The breakdown of well types for those permits According to Baker Hughes Inc., the Texas rig is 229 oil, 49 gas, 605 oil or gas, 50 injection, count as of Sept. 6 was 438, representing about She got her husband Bill to help and he called two service and 15 other permits. 49 percent of all active rigs in the United States. neighbor Bob Hanson who had a boat. They got in the boat and started herding the deer toward a corner of a canal to a place where he could stand Registration for Island Holiday Market up. The fire department arrived on the scene and a rope was dropped around the deer’s neck and Bill jumped in the canal with him and with the Now Open help of a fireman lifted the deer out. Diana McEwen The Port Aransas Art Center celebrates the You will be notified of your acceptance status The rescue took about forty-five minutes and at holiday season with the Island Holiday Market, within 7 business days of the receipt of your the end of it the poor deer was scared to death Gaugler and 2019 marks our fourth year! The best of application, including receipt of your digital and shaking from the cold. The fire department Diana McEwen Gaugler, age 76, was local vendors, artists and fine craftsmen are images. If accepted, you will be sent a link to guys wrapped him in a blanket and he calmed returned on angels wings to her heavenly invited to participate in this festive, holiday register for the show and purchase your booth down. About that time a Corpus Christi police father’s arms on September 3, 2019, where shopping experience at the Port Aransas Civic space. Acceptance in the show does not reserve truck pulled up and he was loaded in the bed of she was reunited with her husband Jim Center. your space! You must pay for your booth space the truck and driven down the road towards the to reserve your spot. Booth payments must be who proceeded her in death in 2018. She To maintain the standard of quality established National Seashore for release. received by November 1, 2019. will finally have her smile and her life back by the Art Center, all vendors must submit an So as you read this somewhere down on the with her husband and both of her parents. application for jury. • One exhibiting artist, craftsman or National Seashore there is a young deer with a She was born February 3rd 1943 business entity will be allowed per booth. heck of a story to tell all his friends. And over in Panama City, Panama; while her • A variety of booth sizes will be available on Captain Kidd there is a group of neighbors Applicants must also send one booth shot Grandfather, Elmer Gardner, was building starting at $60 for a 5’x8’ booth. with a heck of a story to tell the Moon. the Panama Canal; to Carolyn & Dick and two photographs representative of their Mundee. Soon after Carolyn remarried to merchandise to islandholidaymarket@gmail. • A table and chairs will be provided for all Kenneth S. McEwen who raised Diana com. Please send high quality digital images. booths. as her Father and always shared a very These images may be used to promote your • Booths with electricity are limited and Follow us on Facebook: special bond between them. participation in this event. will be awarded to those purchasing them The Island Moon Newspaper She attended Jefferson High School in Your application will not be complete until first. Apply early if you would like a space San Antonio, Texas and later attended images of your work are received. The deadline with electricity! Send photos and letters to: University Of Texas where she received to apply is October 25. The event is at the Port Aransas Civic Center, [email protected] her Bachelors of Arts Degree. 700 W. Ave. A, Port Aransas In 1980 she married her soulmate and best friend, James Michael or “Jim”, who she enjoyed a life full of joy, adventure, and happiness until his passing on May 27, 2018. The family would be honored by anyone who would like to attend a celebration of her life and a memorial of her passing on October 4th from 2-5 p.m. at the Padre Island Yacht Club and October 5th at Trinity By The Sea Episcopal Church in Port Aransas, Texas from 12-3 pm. The family asked that in lieu of flowers a donation be made to the La Posada Foundation benefiting Toys For Tots which both Diana and Jim were active Board Members of for the past 20 years. She is survived by her siblings Kay McEwen Shepard of Plano and Tom McEwen of Lake Jackson, Randy Mundee of Lake Texoma, Dick Mundee of Houston, and Marianne Mundee of Ocala, her children Scott Harmon of Houston, Colt Harmon of Corpus Christi, James Michael Gaugler Jr. and Mary Margaret Gaugler both of Cincinnati, Ohio. She had nine Grandchildren whom she loved with all of her heart and will be forever remembered as Grams. She is preceded in death by her parents and husband and is now likely playing bridge with the three of her predecessors in Heaven or at least so we like to think.

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Snoopy’s (361) 949-8815 13313 S. Padre Island Drive Scoopy’s (361) 949-7810 Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Send letters and photos to [email protected] September 12, 2019 Island Moon A 18 DO NOT MISS LIST Three Chords and the Truth Coming this weekend… By Ronnie Narmour Scattered shots… On Friday [email protected] James Derkits and Port A I still want a rocket... Reconnect will host a show with We still had a couple of baggies of Lighthouse Pike and Sutton Rick’s ashes that had been hanging around (Austin, TX)… Tracy’s house since February waiting for the as in Patrice right time and place to do the do. Rick wanted Selfie will play Shorty’s Pike and Wayne Tracy to take some of his ashes to Corn Island in Sutton. You Nicaragua and to spread some from a plane ride The Toman Brothers will play Waves on Saturday. may remember over Mustang and San Jose’ Islands, but that Resort on Sept 19. Patrice from never happened. It kinda reminded me of when Gabe Fidel and Back Pew Revival played her rock band Sister Seven and Little Sister Hunter S. Thompson wanted Johnny Depp to Shorty’s last Saturday. when she was dancing with the big boys. And send his ashes into space on a rocket… which guitarist Wayne Sutton is a master. Also on he did and I’m jealous. But we decided to take Me and mostly my mermaid gal got dressed Friday the next big thing, Johnny Boy will Rick over to a nice dune on San Jose’ where up and went into town last Wednesday for the play Shorty’s. On Saturday the Gaff will host he could see the lighthouse and the ocean. It big Mana’ show at the American Bank Center. their world famous BELTSANDER RACES was about three miles up the beach at a place he I had seen them at the Verizon Amphitheater at the seasonal new time 4PM. Did everybody always liked to go. We thought it was the right in New Braunfels years ago and have been a get that? THE BELTSANDER RACES NOW spot. I told my mermaid gal to dump me up fan of theirs for 20 years. Mana’ is the most START AT 4PM TIL NEXT SPRING. Also there too when I croak (hopefully many years successful Mexican rock band of all time with on Saturday, Selfie will play Shorty’s, Rich from now). “I’ll keep him company.” She could over 40 million records sold. They regularly sell Lockhart will play the Back Porch and the get a little old boyfriends cemetery going up out 100,000 capacity soccer stadiums all over Groove will play Giggity’s. And don’t forget there. We could call it the Dead Peckerwood’s Latin America. This was a BIG rock show with about the great Toman Brothers show at Waves Club. Rick would love that. Heck, Shorty’s is a first class production Resort on September 19. That ought to keep you just a hop, skip and a jump across the ditch ala Rolling Stones or busy for a while. Be safe out there. from there. We may be on to something here. I Pink Floyd. I splurged suppose there are worse places to spend eternity for front row seats since Pike and Sutton will play a show at ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ …but I still want a rocket. it was my Mermaid’s Roberts Point Park on Friday. birthday and it was well worth it. I did hit a hitch when the door Nazis wouldn’t let me take my camera in but did allow the other 10,000 people Live Music Ulrich Ellison to go in with their cell played Giggity’s on phones. At one point, Robin Blue @ Scuttlebutt’s Saturday. the massive crowd was one spectacular sea of Friday, September 20 Tonight Fundraise for the Bahamas cell phone cameras… except for me because I Thursday, September 12 (5:30-8) @ Gaff still use a flip phone and carry a real camera. I Toman Brothers @ even tried to play my “press pass” credentials Justin Furstenfeld @ Brewster Street Giggity’s but they weren’t impressed that I wrote a gossip Tracy spread the last bag of Lighthouse Free Beer Band @ Riptide @ Back Porch column for the Island Moon. We did appreciate SCARECROW PEOPLE SEPT 13 Chanklas @ Shorty’s Rick’s ashes on San Jose’ Island this Giggity’s the awkward shout out from lead singer, Fher Mike Williams @ Gaff RICH LOCKHART SEPT 14 Diamond’s Edge@ weekend, Brewster Street Olvera, at the first of the show when he shined Ruben Limas @ Island RIPTIDE SEPT 20 a big flashlight he was holding on me and my Italian Nonpoint @ House of Rock Mermaid and thanked us for being one of the Darren McGill @ KEVIN DEAL SEPT 21 Stevie Start @ Island Italian Important fundraisers… Scuttlebutt’s Lyle Mathews @ Island very few Gringos there. The show was entirely CHRIS SAUCEDO SEPT 27 Wine There are some important fundraisers and in Spanish and it was beautiful in every way THOMAS MICHAEL RILEY SEPT 28 Marco Ramirez @ rallies on the near horizon, that are all for good except I had to get my pal Fred to let me use Friday, September 13 Mike O’Neill @ Giggity’s Scuttlebutt’s causes. This Saturday the 14th, Connie Bean 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront one of his cell phone pics. Also this weekend Los Fabulos @ Shorty’s and the good folks at Animal Friends of Port we caught a new band over at Shorty’s called Scarecrow People @ Back Saturday, September 21 Aransas will have a fundraiser at the new Port Gabe Fidel and the Back Pew Revival. That Porch Todd Dorn & Sea Drifters A Beer Hut aka the Swing Bar. They will have a was a good little band with outstanding fiddle Pike & Sutton @ Roberts @ Giggity’s hot dog eating contest, a doggie costume party, and keyboard accompaniment. They played Point Park Kevin Deal @ Back Porch vendors and a silent auction. I have a special a lot of familiar country/Americana faves and 5 Card Draw @ Brewster Mike O’Neill @ Shorty’s Street Crystal Method@ Brewster stake with the Animal Friends folks. Connie did a good job of keeping the gals wiggling. Street Bean saved both of my adopted fur babies from Also on Saturday, our good pals from Austria In This Moment, New Year’s Day, Hellzapoppin, The Movement @ House being put to death about five years ago and made by way of Austin, Ulrich Ellison and Tribe, of Rock it possible for me to adopt them. My wiener DED @ Concrete Street Treasure Island played Giggity’s. Ulrich plans to stay in Europe Jody Booth @ Pelican Robin Palmer @ Island dog Shorty was saved within an hour of being for a while so it might be next Spring before Lounge Italian put down in a kill shelter in San Antonio and they come back around. Also, we did make it Swimming With Bears @ LIVE MUSIC Davis Gonzalez @ Island through Connie’s network brought him to me by Treasure Island for a dose of the Scarecrow House of Rock Wine with all his shots and vaccinations and neutered People who will play the Back Porch this Friday. Stevie Start @ Island EVERY WEEKEND Michael Perez @ and wouldn’t take a dime for the gas it took to Italian Scuttlebutt’s get here. Those are good people right there. And Michael Anthony Perez @ NO COVER! Sunday, September 22 th Island Wine on Friday the 20 , Father James Derkits and Keep Her Wild Rally w/ Port A Reconnect will host a fundraiser at the Marco Ramirez @ 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Scuttlebutt’s Chanklas, Johnny Boy, Gaff for Bahamas Relief from the devastation treasureislandporta James Derkits & Carol of Hurricane Dorian last week. Over 70,000 Saturday, September 14 Elliott (4-7) @ Roberts people lost their homes and everything they Animal Friends of Port Point Park owned and desperately need our help now. We A Fundraiser @ Port A Antone & All Stars @ know all too well of the chaos they are going Beer Hut Giggity’s through. There will be music and food from BELT SANDER RACES John Eric @ Scuttlebutt’s 5-8 and over at Red’s Riviera they will be (4PM) @ The Gaff Mana’ played the Ameican Bank Center Groove @ Giggity’s Monday, September 23 selling $10 BBQ plates for the cause. And on Open Jam @ Giggity’s nd Rich Lockhart @ Back Sunday the 22 , Cara Rose, John Morris and last Wednesday. Photo by Fred Lorrain. Captain Al @ Scuttlebutt’s the good folks from the conservation groups Porch Selfie @ Shorty’s Los Fabulos Sept 13 Keep Port A Wild and Port A Conservancy will Eastside Kings Festival @ Selfie Sept 14 Tuesday, September 24 host a rally and concert at Roberts Point Park East Austin, TX Chanklas Sept 20 Paul & Victoria @ from 4-7 with music from the Chanklas, John La Conquist Reunion, Giggity’s Amundsen and San Juan Underground, Massore @ Brewster Mike O’Neill Sept 21 Aaron Jacob @ Carol Elliot and James Derkits. These groups Street Retro Vibe Sept 27 Scuttlebutt’s have been active with the protest over industrial Robin Palmer @ Island John Cortez Sept 28 Wednesday, September 25 development of the oil and gas industry and the Italian Jay Springer @ Island Hank Reeves @ Giggity’s proposed desalination plant on Harbor Island, OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. Billy Snipes @ Scuttlebutt’s the dredging of the ship channel and all things Wine Scarecrow People played Treasure Island Captain Al @ Scuttlebutt’s detrimental to the environmental well being of last Saturday and will play the Back Porch Thursday, September 26 Port Aransas. That’s lots of good causes to help Free Beer Band @ this Friday. Sunday, September 15 out. Eastside Kings Festival @ Giggity’s Mike Williams @ Gaff East Austin, TX Antone & All Stars @ Buckcherry @ House of Giggity’s Rock GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR John Eric @ Scuttlebutt’s Splendiferous @ Rockit’s LIVE MUSIC Ruben Limas @ Island LIVE MUSIC Monday, September 16 Italian Free Beer Band Every Thurs (7-10) Open Jam @ Giggity’s Magnus @ Scuttlebutt’s EVERY Mike O’Neill on Friday (9-1) Darren McGill @ Scuttlebutt’s Friday, September 27 NIGHT The Groove on Saturday (9-1) Chris Saucedo @ Back Antone & All Stars Every Sunday (9-1) Tuesday, September 17 Porch Starlite & Moonbeams @ Open Jam Every Monday (8:30-12:30) Paul & Victoria @ Giggity’s Giggity’s Kitchen Open Paul & Victoria Every Tuesday (7-10) Aaron Jacob @ RetroVIbe @ Shorty’s Scuttlebutt’s Through the Roots, Pacific Until 1 a.m.! Magnus on Wednesday (8-12) Expert Computer Repairs Dub @ House of Rock 722 Tarpon, Port Aransas, TX Wednesday, September 18 Santana Tribute @ Brewster Magnus @ Giggity’s Street Darren McGill @ Cruise Control @ Pelican Scuttlebutt’s Lounge Ron Baker @ Island Wine Thursday, September 19 Cruise Control, John Saturday, September 28 Eric, Kelly Kenning @ BELT SANDER RACES Brewster Street (4PM) @ The Gaff Toman Brothers @ Waves Thomas Michael Riley @ Resort Back Porch Free Beer Band @ Red Giant @ Giggity’s Giggity’s John Cortez @ Shorty’s Mike Williams @ Gaff My Posse in Effect @ Passing Strangers @ House of Rock Rockit’s Jake Ward @ Brewster Ruben Limas @ Island Street Italian

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