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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 July 23, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Majority of Island The Sign Goes Up! Seats on Flour By Dale Rankin We are playing chicken with our first Bluff School real storm of Hurricane Season 2020 as a tropical wave moves out over Board on the central Gulf of Mexico. Quien sabe? Maybe we’ll get some rain. November The forecast calls for hot and humid through September and if it rains for Ballot more than an hour head OTB because it’s a hurricane! Four of seven Our beaches remain closed to traffic through the end of the month and the current members up goal of keeping people from traveling here seems to be working as crowds for re-election are down. Keeping the parking lot open on the Michael J. Ellis Seawall Island taxpayers has been a great help and we thank city leaders for doing that. make up $2.5 billion 2020 bonds of $3.2 billion A bond package of $115 million is making its way toward the November taxable property in ballot with more than the usual The sign went up on the IGA grocery store on Padre Island this week. Opening is set for no later than the end of number of Island projects on it. August. The store’s General Manager Mike Inglehart expects to begin hiring in the next two weeks. For applications the district See Greg Smith’s column in this go to islandmarketiga.com. A majority of seats on the seven- issue for details. The Bond 2020 member Flour Bluff Independent will not require a City property tax School District Board of Directors rate increase due to retiring of old PINS Turtle Rescue Program Starbucks are up for election in November. bonds and the city staff is proposing Current members Jennifer Welp, $72 million of it to be allocated Is Open for Vice-President Michael Morgan, to Streets projects, $23 million to Under Review by Park Service Jerry Hooper (appointed), and Jeff Parks projects, and $20 million to be By Dale Rankin Business! Rank each face re-election on the allocated to Public Safety projects. November ballot. The seats are all At- One of the projects is a re-do of the In June the Regional Office of the Large for four-year terms. access road on SPID from Jackfish to National Park Service issued a study Commodores. of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery The district lists total revenues Program at Padre Island National of $50,138,774 in the 2019-2020 FBISD Seashore. adopted budget and levies a property Flour Bluff ISD has four seats up for tax of $1.07 per $100 of property The program headed by Dr. Donna value and makes up slightly more grabs on the November ballot, there Shaver began in 1970 and over the is still time to register to run. There than half of the property tax burden years its release of hatchling Kemp’s for Island property tax payers. has been a slight change in the school ridley turtles has drawn large crowds schedule for next month. School will and enlisted the help of thousands of Dr. Donna Shaver looks over the The Texas Comptroller’s office still start on Thursday, August 13 volunteers. last Kemp's ridley into the water. lists the Market Value of property in but Nueces County issued a Public the district at $3,835,908,969 with Health Order on July 16th that But not long after the release of a Taxable Value of $3,201,589,196. states in-person instruction cannot the report, which in many ways was mortality on only one percent Numbers presented to the Corpus take place until after September 7 complimentary of the turtle rescue of the worldwide population.” Christi City Council in September, for all school districts in the county. program The Los Angeles Times 2019 list the Taxable Value of So remote school will still begin on reported that $300,000 in grants As we first reported in June, 2019, property on Padre Island at just over August 13 for all FBISD students but raised by the program and making up friction between the turtle program $2.5 billion. from home only. about 30% of its budget were being at PINS and federal authorities diverted to other uses. The report who control its funds goes back The district has a total of seven Beach wagons contained language that doesn’t bode several years. Shaver said then that campuses, including three elementary well for the future of the program. over the past three years funding schools, one middle school and one high school as well as two combined For instance: from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the funding arm campuses. The district website list The park’s sea turtle nest protection/ which awards grants to programs enrollment at 5,600 students in relocation/egg incubation program across the country based on prekindergarten through 12th grades. can be credited for improving policy recommendations from the The election the science and techniques for National Oceanic and Atmospheric The long-anticipated Starbucks hatchling production. However, Administration, has been cutting Coffeehouse opened its doors on Filing for the four seats runs the program does implement very back on the program’s grant money. Wednesday. For more information through 5 p.m. Monday, August 17. intensive and invasive techniques to see the Business Briefs in this issue. reduce potential egg and hatchling Turtles cont. on A4 Election cont. on A4 A little Island history The seawall has become a great people watching place with the Why Are Vehicles Allowed to Drive On Michael J. Ellis Beach vehicle ban. It is mostly families who use the parking lot and then drag one of those beach wagons with their Twenty Five Years After An Agreement To Remove Them? little bitty wheels across the deep sand which is a four-person job as By Dale Rankin agreement to fund its rebuilding after it was destroyed by the storm. you can see from this photo. Those The parking lot along the Michael things are very popular but when is J. Ellis Seawall was full last By 1995, prior to the dredging of someone going to make one with weekend as the ban on traffic on Packery Channel and the subsequent skis? the beach was put in place due to widening of the beach with the use of dredge sand, seawall property owners Real estate the COVID virus. The heavy use of the lot by beachgoers prompted began asking the city to remove One of the unforeseen consequences questions about why, under normal cars from the beach which at times of the COVID virus has been an influx circumstances cars are allowed was barely wide enough for single of people coming to Padre Island that on the beach there when there is a vehicles to pass, especially at the have never been here before, 70,000 parking lot in place. south end of the seawall where it juts per day for a few weekends before toward the water. The long and winding trail that the beach restrictions, and many of In late 1995 agreement was reached them are buying property. Longtime lead to beach driving on the beach there as well as the construction to remove traffic there in exchange Islander Cheri Sperling reports for the owners purchasing land for that appraisers, realtors, inspectors, of a parking lot and restrooms is one which began in 1995 when an a parking lot and donating it to the contractors, mortgage lenders, city. That agreement was approved appraisers, and title companies agreement was reached between the City of Corpus Christi and property in 1997 by the Texas General Land are all busy as more people want a Office which leases the beach to the Restrooms at seawall parking lot under construction in 2009. little piece of our Island. There are owners along the seawall. The seawall itself is privately owned city under a management agreement. currently almost forty waterfront Under the Texas Open Beaches the seawall property owners agreed but just as work on the parking homes on the market. While many of by those who own the adjacent property. Under an agreement Act for each fifteen feet of beach to a special assessment to raise lot was about to begin something the sales are cash, as Cindy Molner that is closed to traffic one parking $440,000 to purchase the land for the unexpected happened. The then- points out, 3 percent interest rates reached between the state and property owners after Hurricane space must be created within one- parking lot. owner of the majority of the land don’t hurt either. quarter mile in either direction. The from Packery Channel to the south Allen in 1980 the private owners Stalled Keep an eye on the storm everybody, agreed to allow public access to the 300-space parking lot now in place end of the seawall pushed the city and say hello if you see us Around seawall as part of a one-time-only meets and that criteria and in 1998 The project languished until 2005 council to close to the beach to The Island. when the city approved $540,000 for traffic to make way for what was the parking lot on the donated land History cont. on A4 July 23, 2020 Island Moon A 2 The Islands in Pictures

Charlie's Pasture sunset. Photo by Steve Coons.

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Grand Opening Friday, July 24th The Island’s newest upscale beach boutique is now open. Located across from Snoopy’s near the drive way into Marker 37 Marina at Sunset Island. Look for the carved parrot door and fi nd your treasure. Clothes | Shoes & Sunglasses by Panama Jack | Beach Chairs Towels | Games | Fine Jewelry July 23, 2020 Island Moon A 3 Moon Monkeys Letters to the Mike Ellis, Founder Did Ya Hear? Editor By Dr. Mary Craft - Optometrist New Advertisers Panama Jack, an upscale beach boutique, is having their grand opening on Friday, July 24th. They are located near the driveway to the Marker 37 Marina on Sunset Island. They are selling all original Panama Jack products including clothing, shoes, hats, chairs and more items from other vendors. Howry Construction is proud of their 42 years of satisfied customers. They do additions, remodels, painting, windows, decks and patio covers. Basically anything to do with a house. Distribution Call Mike Howry at 510-4434. Pete Alsop PadreIslandARCH is where you can go to get more involved with issues involving the Padre Island Delivery Island Property Owners Association and protect your property rights and fees levied by the Coldwell Banker PIPOA. Advertising Jan Park Rankin Business Briefs Classifieds Septic System Starbucks has opened and orders are being taken at Arlene Ritley Hello Mr. Rankin, the drive thru, on their app (which shows their entire menu) or inside. The indoor dining area is closed but Production Manager My husband and I recently purchased a lot just south of sea pines. (Directly across from the the outdoor patio seating is open. Abigail Bair Contributing Writers horse farm) When I spoke with development Horses on the Beach is a great social distancing services of Corpus Christi they told me we activity that can be enjoyed on the Island. They are Joey Farah would need a septic system since the lot was open daily and are currently hiring wranglers. Call Andy Purvis too far from the nearest city sewer. I was told 991-7433. Mary Craft this more than once and was even sent a septic Emily Gaines application from the city. Now, that we’re ready to build they are telling us we cannot have a Playa del Rey has only one lot left Jay Gardner for sale on the Packery Channel. Todd Hunter septic system and we need to either wait for the city to develop that area & they will pay for it, There were two until recently when Dotson Lewis or... we pay for the construction following the one sold for $779K. Dr. Tom Dorrell city’s master plan. Their generic estimate was Dotson Lewis is working on getting Ronnie Narmour 75-100K!!! the Riley P. Dog Park at the end of Brent Rourk I’m reaching out to you because an advisor Whitecap graded. I am certain with Photographers said you might have some archived articles on Dotson on the case it won’t take long. The park will then be staked Miles Merwin (Emeritus) this sort of subject... the lack of development and fenced. There are currently three Debbie Noble in this area. I’m trying to research as much as possible so any info you could forward would bids on the fencing. More funding is Jan Rankin be greatly appreciated. needed. Donations can be made on Mary Craft the Riley P. Dog Facebook page. Thank you, Ronnie Narmour Kody’s Restaurant on Hwy 361 in Port A has ribeyes back on the menu. The dining room Name withheld by request is open and the kitchen serves 11 am - 1 am and they close at 2 am. The putt putt 18 holes of Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) golf is also open. Riley P. Dog Editor’s note: I think I know the lot you are talking about. I believe there are ten of the them there and am aware of the issue. As an aside, I believe three of the ten lots have wetlands on them and if so not only is there a septic issue there is also a wetlands issue which will require buying offsite wetlands for mitigation. Hopefully your lot is not one of them but it bears checking. The issue with the septic tank is not a new one there. Until a few years ago the city was allowing septic tanks there but as the main sewer line slowly reaches further south they Publisher have begun denying them in anticipation of Dale Rankin the line servicing that area in the near future. About the Island Moon The 24 inch feeder line now reaches to the area The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale across the street from the Angry Marlin. Rankin, Editor / Publisher. Corpus has trouble getting out of its own way Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 and infrastructure is one of the chronically copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, problematical areas. More than half the people as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 in Flour Bluff are on septic tanks fifty years after copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. they were annexed and the city is not permitting News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, anymore of them. The problem got so bad that Kody's when it was at the beach. payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. the boil water orders that went out across the The Island Moon Newspaper entire city were the result of Flour Bluff septic Ace Hardware started selling bikes this past tanks being located too close to backyard wells weekend. They had around seven bikes and the 14646 Compass, Suite 3 that were plugged into homes and when the city one pictured is the only one left. They will be crews opened the fire hydrants to check them the getting more bikes in. Corpus Christi, TX 78418 back pressure sucked the water from the septic 361-949-7700 tanks into the city drinking water...something IBC is actively looking for a buyer for the you might expect in a Third World country but Waves Resort. [email protected] not here. The reason for my telling you that is Work will begin on the water exchange bridge Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper that I don't think you are going to be able to after Labor Day. get the city to change their mind on permitting a septic tank. But there is some good news...the Island Strategic Action Committee has appointed a subcommittee to advise the city council on Where to Find The what bond projects to put on the 2020 bond issue which will be on the November ballot and Island Moon one of the projects they favor is extending the sewer line through that area as it will allow Port North development of ten A Lots (those facing SPID). From what I am hearing that is likely to make Aransas Padre the bond list and get funding. If so it still might Gulf Stream RV be a couple of years before construction takes All Stripes Stores place but at least it would give you a known Pioneer RV Black Sheep/ timeline. Stripes on 1A Barrel I think the best way to get something done is My Coastal Home CVS let me publish your letter and my response, that WB Liquor Store Dollar General will put some pressure on the city to act and fix the problem, likely through the bond election, Island Wine Room Whataburger and every little bit helps. Kody’s Doc’s Restaurant This is a known problem and the head of ISAC Coffee Waves has it on his radar and is pushing the city to do Snoopy’s Pier something and anything we can do to help that Moby Dicks Isle Mail N More along is a move in the right direction. IGA Island Italian In the meantime, I will try to get over there Treasure Island and do a story in the next few weeks, one thing Brooklyn Pie Co. I"ve learned about the city council is they Ms. Woody’s Ace Hardware pay attention to the island because we have a Automotive Political Action Committee and we vote. This is Photos courtesy of the Corpus Christ TX KOA Facebook page. The park is located at the end Port A Glass Studio Texas Star (Shell) a fixable problem. of Caribbean in Flour Bluff. San Juan’s Restaurant Jesse’s Liquor Dale Wash Tub Scuttlebutt’s Woody’s Sports Restaurant Port Aranas Art Center Center Subway Letter from Port Aransas Art Center countries. It is fun to meet and greet these Back Porch Bar Island Tire Greetings from the Port Aransas Art Center. The coronavirus seems to have taken front and visiting tourists and learn to know a little about Shorty’s Place Padre Pizzeria center in the world that is Port A and Corpus them. Send Letters and Fisherman’s Wharf Christi. Masks and physical distancing are the And all Moon Our exhibit for the month of July is “Wildlife protocol of the day. in Focus”. It is an amazing show that features Giggity’s retail advertisers Photos to The Art Center is open six days a week, Texas ranches and wildlife photographers Gratitude WB Liquor Monday thru Saturday from 11:00 to 5:00, joining forces to produce some outstanding editor@islandmoon. The Gaff which have always been our normal hours. once in a lifetime photographs of Texas wildlife. Trinity By the Sea Flour Bluff Masks are required while you are inside of Please drop by to see this wonderful exhibit. com Episcopal the Center. Don’t let that interfere with your We have cancelled our classes and workshops H.E.B. visiting with us. We have so many beautiful for July and we are hoping that we can resume Whataburger on works of art for sale and our visitors, local and them in August. Unfortunately, we will not be and follow us Waldron out of town, are buying, which is wonderful for able to have our traditional First Friday Opening all concerned! Reception. We miss you all so very much! Ethyl Everly on Facebook: In the month of June we had 353 visitors and Senior Center Thank you, Corporate Sponsors for sticking tourists come to the Port Aransas Art Center. We with us through these very trying months. Fire Station were not able to have our First Friday reception Thanks also to everyone that has renewed their The Island Moon much to our dismay, but 214 of the visitors and membership or donated to keep the Art Center Police Station tourists that came during our opening hours going during this difficult time. Every one of Newspaper Stripes on Flour were from Texas towns all over the state some those donations helps and we appreciate your Bluff & SPID as far away as Denton, Dallas and Texarkana. support. View us online at: (This figure does not include Corpus Christi or With gratefulness to all of you, our members Port A.) and member artists, We had 19 visitors from other states and Karen Winship Ridout -- President islandmoon.com Letters to Ed cont. on A4 July 23, 2020 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Turtles cont from A1 Texas White-tailed Deer Hunters Can Look promoted as a $1 billion resort to be located Shaver is currently under a gag order from the between the north end of the seawall and the park and could not be reached for comment, Forward to a Favorable 2020-21 Season South Packery Jetty. The traffic ban would however, in the 2019 article she explained the Well distributed and timely precipitation across Hunters looking for a place to hunt or a change have included more than 7000 linear feet problem. much of Texas in the spring, along with positive of scenery this fall are encouraged to apply of beach extending from Packery Channel “The NOAA rules don’t like the process we use long-term growth among the state’s white- for one of TPWD’s many drawn public hunt southward to the county park and would of ‘relocation,’ Shaver said. “So the National tailed deer population, has set the stage for a opportunities. TPWD wants to remind hunters have included Whitecap Beach, are area well Fish and Wildlife Federation follows that lead favorable 2020-21 hunting season. Spring rains that mandatory harvest reporting is required outside the confines of the seawall. The issue and started cutting back our funding three years allowed many regions of the state, including when taking an antlerless deer during archery, was a stormy one to say the least (a story for ago.” South Texas, Edwards Plateau and areas west youth-only, muzzleloader or the 4-day doe days another day). The offshoot was a petition Relocation as applied to sea turtles refers to the to recover from last year’s very dry fall and during general season in the following counties: by those who opposed the traffic ban which process of removing turtle eggs deposited on the winter, leading to an abundance of quality forbs Austin, Bastrop, Caldwell, Colorado, Dewitt, forced the issue to a citywide ballot in 2006 beach by breeding females and incubating the and shrubs, both of which are critical for deer Fayette, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Lavaca, in which city residents soundly defeated the eggs in facilities like the one located in Shaver’s nutrition. These conditions have lent to a good Lee, Waller, Washington and Wilson. Counties plan and the beach was kept open to traffic. office and the turtle pins forty miles down the start to antler growth and positive outlook for also included are Goliad, Jackson, Victoria The ferocity of the vote and the subsequent National Seashore, until the hatchlings are fawn recruitment numbers. and Wharton counties north of U.S. Highway fallout paralyzed the political class who did ready for release. TPWD biologists estimate that the state’s 59 and Comal, Hays and Travis east of IH-35. not want to touch the subject especially as “They want the eggs to remain in the sand deer population is around 5.5 million deer, or a Harvests must be reported within 24 hours of the dredging of Packery Channel, completed where they are laid until they hatch,” Shaver density of 49.25 deer per 1,000 acres. However, taking an animal via the free My Hunt Harvest in 2005, provided enough sand to widen said in 2019. “But we can’t do that because we that density is not uniform across the state and app. Public land hunters can also use the My the beach to a point where pedestrians and have vehicles driving on the beach. They started those areas with better habitat tend to support Hunt Harvest app to complete their on-site vehicles had plenty of room to coexist. reducing our funding because we use relocation higher deer populations. TPWD data suggests registration electronically. 2008 but I have told them until I am blue in the face that the hunter success rate in 2019 was All season dates by animal, along with that we can’t remove vehicles from the beach at estimated to be 60% and similar trends can be regulations, harvest means and methods and That is how things stood until 2008 when the National Seashore.” expected for the 2020-21 season. The Edward’s more, can be found online in the Outdoor the issue surfaced again as property owners Plateau and the Cross Timbers regions of Texas Removing vehicles from the National Seashore Annual. The 2020-21 Outdoor Annual will pushed for the city to live up to the 1995 are forecast to have the highest deer populations. only be available digitally for the upcoming agreement, but they faced several obstacles could be a violation of the deed restrictions in the conveyance documents granting ownership “From a statewide perspective, hunters might hunting and fishing season. Hunters will have the first of which is that, so far at least, neither the ability to print copies of relevant portions of the city nor the property owners have been of the land at PINS to the National Park Service. expect to see a higher proportion of bucks in the 6.5 to 8.5-year age classes as a result of above the Outdoor Annual before heading to the field. able to produce a copy of a written contract of The June report in effect says that the cost of Hunters can also download the free Outdoor the agreement. But in 2008 the question was average fawn crop in previous corresponding maintaining the PINS turtle rescue program years while other age classes reflect a more even Annual mobile app on iOS and Android. once again put before voters who approved is too high considering that the Kemp’s ridley reviving the 1995 agreement and plans distribution,” said Alan Cain, White-tailed Deer White-tailed deer and Mule Deer are Chronic turtles nesting there make up only 1% of the Program Leader at Texas Parks and Wildlife moved forward to place bollards at each end total worldwide population. Program supporters Wasting Disease-susceptible animals. As such, of the seawall blocking traffic. But as had Department. “While doe harvest has been down prior to hitting the field, TPWD asks that hunters point out that the nesting grounds of the turtles slightly in the last couple of years, which is happened in 2006 an initial request to limit in Mexico are volatile placing the future of review CWD information to find area testing the traffic ban to the beach directly in front of likely contributing to a widening ratio of does requirements and carcass movement restrictions the endangered species in jeopardy, the reason to bucks, the good news for hunters is that there the seawall expanded north of the seawall. A the program was founded at PINS. The PINS in CWD Containment and Surveillance Zones. committee of Islanders and city staff drafted should be plenty of carryover from previous New for the 2020-21 season, a CWD zone has program began with releases of hatchlings on years.” a plan that would have extended bollards beaches there and over the decades the turtles been established in Kimble County. Additional running parallel to the water’s edge at a point who were released there have been tracked and information about CWD can be found on the 50 feet from the mean high tide line to within some return to their beach of origin each year. TPWD website. 600 feet of the South Packery Jetty with The June report appears to be the latest move breaks that would allow for the launching of in the efforts to curtail the PINS program. We boats and watercraft. The cost of the bollards say “appears” because officials at the National was placed at $80,000 but when the plan went Seashore are not commenting beyond this First Permian Basin Oil Shipped from Port to the city council for approval they objected release they sent this week: to the expanded footprint of the non-traffic of Corpus Christi area and once again the project stalled. The National Park Service would like to issue the following statement: 2010 But even without a plan for removing traffic In June, Padre Island National Seashore from the beach work on the parking lot on released a recent program review of Padre the seawall was completed in 2010, including Island’s popular Division of Sea Turtle Science restrooms and that is where things stood until and Recovery. 2015 when then City Councilwoman Colleen McIntyre asked the city to implement the The National Park Service review not only 2008 vote and remove vehicles only in front underscores the importance of this program to of the seawall, eliminating the controversial the park, but also outlines goals to strengthen extension of the closed area north of the its mission, clarify its priorities, and expand seawall. opportunities for the program’s shared stewardship. However, once again an obstacle emerged; The first vessel loaded with oil from the Permian Basin shipped out of the Port of Corpus Christi the Texas General Land Office which must The National Park Service’s only plan forward this week. approve any traffic ban on the beach informed is to strengthen the program, which is built by the support of our employees and volunteers. The ship was loaded and departed from the South Texas Gateway Terminal Project. STG is the city that in the seven years since the vote a joint venture 50 percent owned and operated by Buckeye Partners. Phillips 66 Partners LP was taken the configuration of the beach had Sincerely, and Marathon Petroleum Corporation each have a 25 percent ownership interest. When fully changed and a new vote would be required Charles (Chuck) Lassiter operational, STG’s petroleum products storage capacity will be 8.6 million barrels, with the to move forward. Once again things were potential to expand to 10 million barrels, and up to 800,000 barrels per day of throughput apparently at a standstill. Chief of Interpretation and Education capacity at two deepwater docks. Additional phases of construction on the project, are expected to 2015 Public Information Officer be fully complete by the first quarter of 2021 But by 2015 the beach at the south end of Padre Island National Seashore the seawall had eroded to less than the 150 The only primary information feet of width required by state rules for traffic coming out is from the June to be allowed. The fluctuating width of the report and a statement issued beach was monitored for several months and this week by the Public a decision was made to place the bollards Employees for Environmental where they are located today. If the beach Responsibility group which ever widens beyond 150 feet the bollards now Shaver has turned to for help and in place would have to be removed under the Hatchling which has filed a request with rules set down by the Texas General Land headed for the National Park Service that Office. the Gulf. the study on the turtle program At this point removing traffic along the beach be rescinded. According to the in front of the seawall would have to happen PEER statement PINS officials have ordered in one of two ways; either the beach erodes limits on rescuing stranded sea turtles and to less than 150 feet, or another citywide vote reducing the number of public releases of sea would have to be taken and a plan approved turtle hatchlings. In addition, the PEER report by the GLO. goes on to say: Besides fewer hatchling releases, supposedly to save money, Review actions include – • Confining rescues of stranded sea turtles to Election cont. from A1 park boundaries; • Discouraging further work with threatened Candidates must pick up registrationpackets at loggerhead and green turtles; and the Administration Building Flour Bluff ISD • Reducing nest relocations even where Tricking it out on the Seawall. Photo By Dale Rankin 2505 Waldron Road. Their hours are: Monday beach driving is allowed and eliminating through Thursday: 7:30 am – 4:30 pm. Friday. beach patrols on weekends, when visitation is The office will remain open: Monday, August highest. 17, until 5:00 pm to accept application filings. The drawing of lots for the order in which the candidate names will appear on the ballot is Monday, August 17, 5:30 p.m. in the District Boardroom, Flour Bluff ISD, 2505 Waldron Road. Failure to appear or have a representative present at the designated time will result in a random drawing by a disinterested party. Early voting begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 and ends Friday, October 30. Election Day is: Tuesday, November 3. Hatchling release draws a crowd. Island Art Gallery is open now on Park Road 22 near the Commodores intersection. Photo Dolphin play at Robert's Point Park By Robert by Debbie Noble. It further states that: Park Superintendent Eric Phillips. Brunnemann has embraced the Review and ordered a 30% cut in sea turtle program funding and other steps limiting program operation. Here’s Why We Built Them That Way When we asked Brunnemann for a comment we received the statement quoted above. PEER alleges that Brunnemann did not share the NPS Review with Dr. Shaver before distributing it and announcing its implementation. PEER has now filed a legal complaint on Shaver’s behalf under the federal Information Quality Act demanding that the Review be retracted “due to many misleading findings, inaccuracies, and actions that violate law as well as NPS policy. One of many issues is new restrictions placed on the scope of sea turtle research, in violation of the agency’s Scientific Integrity Policy.” NPS has 60 days to respond to the complaint and Dr. Fully Guided • All Tackle Provided Shaver may appeal any denial of her demand (361)442-8145 for retraction. Shaver told the Island Moon in the June, 2019, article that by the budget year 2025 the program Islanders who live near the water know all about Flood Hazard Zones. They have been known by would be $600,000 short of its budget. several names over the years by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and are currently known as VE Zones and also known as the coastal high hazard areas. They are areas subject to Send Letters and Photos to “I’ve worked my whole career to make this high velocity water including waves; they are defined by the 1% annual chance (base) flood limits program a success,” Shaver said then “It’s time (also known as the 100-year flood) and wave effects 3 feet or greater. [email protected] to train the next generation of scientists to take over. But right now I don’t know what we are The rules for building in a Flood Hazard Zone is that the walls on the first floor must break and follow us on going to do.” away in case of rushing water without destroying the structure and those photos from Hurricane Michael in 2018 sent out this week through FEMA show why. The above structure in the Florida Facebook: The Island Moon For more information on turtle rescue see Panhandle sustained winds of 155 miles per hour. Where there used to be walls there are now only Newspaper page A7. support panels but the structure is intact. July 23, 2020 Island Moon A 5

Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier July 23 - July 30 My point here is that as managers at PINS In 2014 the Island Moon Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon cycle through their career and make their stop published a story announcing that the Texas /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible at the National Seashore they make little or no Nature Conservancy was buying 3680 acres attempt to engage the local community. Most Th 23 High 7:40 AM 1.5 6:48 AM Rise 9:45 AM 5 of land from the Texas General Land Office to Islanders don’t know the park managers or donate to the National Park Service. The parcel 23 Low 11:46 PM -0.3 8:23 PM Set 11:00 PM when they come and go. The message we get of land bordered the north end of the Padre from them is that going to the park is a privilege F 24 High 7:56 AM 1.4 6:48 AM Rise 10:50 AM 11 Island National Seashore and was to become and not a right that they can put an end to at 24 Low 2:18 PM 0.9 8:22 PM Set 11:38 PM part of the park. their discretion. But can they? 24 High 5:10 PM 1.0 When I called park officials for information they told me it was none of my business and What are the rules? Sa 25 Low 12:39 AM 0.0 6:49 AM Rise 11:53 AM 20 they would have an announcement once the Setting the question of the future of the turtle 25 High 8:09 AM 1.2 8:22 PM transaction was complete. With a few phone rescue program aside management of the park calls I was able to find out that their plan was to is essentially guided by two documents. The 25 Low 2:30 PM 0.7 place bollards across the beach about two miles first is the July 23, 1963 deed which conveys 25 High 7:13 PM 1.0 south of Bob Hall Pier and make drivers go back ownership of the land through the Texas General up the beach to Access Road #6 and enter the Su 26 Low 1:39 AM 0.3 6:49 AM Set 12:15 AM 30 Land Office to the National Park Service. The park eight miles south after paying the entry second is what is referred to the parks Founding 26 High 8:18 AM 1.1 8:21 PM Rise 12:56 PM fee. It would have greatly changed the way the Document even though it was written in 2016, 26 Low 3:03 PM 0.4 public used their beach and when the word got five decades after the park’s founding. out about moving the park boundary six miles The 2016 document states: Program History 26 High 9:22 PM 1.0 north of the current line it caused a rousing and Context. PAIS was established in 1962, public backlash and the deal was killed at the M 27 Low 3:05 AM 0.7 6:50 AM Set 12:52 AM 41 primarily for recreational purposes. Austin level. The land now belongs to Nueces 27 High 8:21 AM 1.0 8:21 PM Rise 1:59 PM County even though it is in Kleberg County. Then it incongruously says: A Standard 27 Low 3:49 PM 0.1 Operating Procedure (SOP) should be My point here is twofold: First, park officials developed defining when the beach is closed to 27 High 11:51 PM 1.2 seemed completely caught off guard by the the public, and … staff should be held to that ferocity of the reaction from locals who did not Tu 28 Low 5:44 AM 1.0 6:50 AM Set 1:31 AM 52 standard. want more land added to the National Seashore. 28 High 8:07 AM 1.1 8:20 PM Rise 3:03 PM Why were people so upset? Secondly, why This raises the obvious question, if the prime 28 Low 4:41 PM -0.2 were the locals so against expansion of the directive of the park is recreation why would park boundaries. Park officials were working in you need to close it to the public. Even in W 29 High 2:04 AM 1.5 6:51 AM Set 2:13 AM 64 secret to buy the land which is understandable if the case of the current pandemic portions 29 Low 5:36 PM -0.4 8:20 PM Rise 4:07 PM it were a private transaction – it happens all the of the park are still open. But when you read time. But here was a public entity buying land through the full 54-page Foundation Document Th 30 High 3:19 AM 1.7 6:52 AM Set 3:00 AM 74 from another public entity and they were doing a recurring theme is the removal of vehicles 30 Low 6:32 PM -0.6 8:19 PM Rise 5:10 PM it secretly. It wasn’t like the GLO was going to from undefined portions of the park. It’s clear raise the price, it was just the nature of the way they are not wanted. But the park is seventy the park has been run for decades that going miles long and the only way up and down it under the radar is SOP. is by driving on the beach. If you remove cars from the lower portion have you not effectively When the land buy became public our phone closed it? Which leads us back to the deed. began ringing with people telling us their stories about trouble with park officials and rangers. What it says Four women stranded seventeen miles down the beach after a park ranger took their keys and left The six-page deed conveys only the surface them to walk miles up the beach to get a cell rights to the National Park Service and has signal and call for help. The same park ranger draconian language which clearly states that had complaints from dozens of people who he if the park denies the owners of the mineral had stopped for things like not wearing seatbelt rights access to recovery ownership of the park on the beach to leaving the tailgate of their conveys back to the State of Texas. Exactly truck down and being treated like criminals. what that means has already been litigated once Fishermen who had their vehicles towed from and the oil and gas leases are still operating. It the boat ramp at Bird Island Basin because they also explicitly reserves all the state’s rights to had two wheels off the pavement to leave enough the park, meaning the rules of the Texas Open room for a traffic lane. It cost in excess of $300 Beaches Act, passed in 1959, apply meaning that to get their vehicles out of the pound. Dozens the beach is a state roadway unless otherwise of people whose vehicles had been towed designated which, according to the deed, would for various reasons at costs in the thousands. require the approval of the State of Texas. I can Finally a vehicle owner who got stuck and then find no case of this ever being litigated. hit with a $4500 tow bill. He sued. The SEA What the deed does not directly address is organization offered to pay to build facilities at whether the park service has the right to “define Bird Island Basin and were told the park was when the beach is closed to the public” as City Update not interested. Owners of cabins on state leases suggested in the 2016 document. during the 16-day shutdown of the federal Article 7 of the deed document reads (the By Greg Smith, City Council Member District 4 government in 2013 were told by Homeland capital letters are included in the deed): Security officers that they couldn't access their Tuesday was a busy day recommended by the Island Strategic Action cabins due to the shutdown. The stories seemed This deed shall be null and void and of no at City Hall. At nine the TIRZ #2 board met Committee. Douden Park will receive new endless. force and effect, and any and all rights, titles and approved the budget for the fiscal year playground equipment. Voting will be in the starting October 1. TIRZ #2 is the financing November 3rd election. There are other street vehicle for Island projects that was established projects planned that are not part of the bond in 2002 to build the Packery Channel. The issue but are in the regular street maintenance budget that was approved calls for $1,822,256 program. The recent reconstruction of in expenses, most of which is the debt service Aquarius is an example of the ongoing street on the channel. Expected revenue is $4,816,772 improvements. These projects will be identified resulting in almost three million dollar surplus. in the August budget workshops. With the large amount of recent commitments to the Packery restoration and the Park Road 22 As has become the norm we were briefed on Bridge and the expiration of the TIRZ in 2022 the Covid pandemic. One of the points the it is a good time to build up the reserves. TIRZ Health District made was that half of the deaths #2 has funded numerous public improvements have been under 65 in age. Hospitalizations on the Island and is a good vehicle for keeping continue to increase with 408 hospitalized Island taxes on the Island. We are working on which 121 of those individuals are in ICU as extending it past the 2022 date but in governance of Tuesday. There have been 108 deaths. The nothing is a sure thing. good news is the number of new daily cases from the prior week is declining and hopefully In the following City Council meeting most of the worst is behind us. Nationally we may also the discussion was on the proposed 2020 bond. be peaking along with the state of Texas. Looks The total is 113 million dollars with seventy-two like our work and sacrifices are paying off. The million dollars going to streets, twenty-three following chart shows how Nueces County to parks and twenty million dollars to public compares to New York, Texas and the United safety. On the Island the projects are Jackfish States since the start of the pandemic. There from Aquarius to PR 22, the PR 22 access road are additional charts on my facebook page that from Whataburger to Compass and Encantada go into more detail. to the Nueces County Park. These projects were

and interested granted and conveyed thereby In 2013 the park without any discussion had shall revert to the STATE OF TEXAS upon dropped the speed limit from 20 mph to 15 the initiation by any agent, agency, officer, mph and when an Islander pointed out they had department, or employee of the Federal not followed their own rules for doing so they GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, raised the speed limit, held the public hearings, whether appointed or elected of a suit at law found there was no adverse effect on the public or in equity in any FEDERAL COURT OF THE and dropped the speed limit back to 15 mph. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to enlarge or It increased the drive time to the down-Island expand the titles, rights, or interests granted by fishing spots favored by local anglers and sent this deed. a clear message that they didn’t much care what anyone thought. So the salient question becomes if the park at some future date decides to “close the beach to In each of these instances when locals the public” as suggested does that allow them complained to park officials there were directed to ban vehicles from the beach? And if so, how to file complaints through the federal system much of it? If you ban vehicles down the beach which everyone knew was a waste of time. In then the only way for the public to use their short the effective message from park officials beach “primarily for recreational purposes” is was “this is our park and it will be a better place to walk to get there – and it could be a very long when you stop coming down here.” It was clear walk. Does that in effect enlarge or expand the Above: a COVID virus growth comparison chart. we weren’t particularly welcome. titles, rights, or interests granted by this deed?” Fast forward to recent weeks Again, I can find no case of this being litigated. In the past few weeks the National Park Service Where this is all headed I don’t know but the completed an in-house study which will almost bottom line is that the management at PINS certainly have the effect of downsizing the Sea over time has shown little transparency and Turtle Science and Recovery Program at PINS there is no real recourse for those of us who live that literally thousands of locals and regular here and use the park year-round. We don’t have visitors have volunteered for over the past four a seat at the table. decades and thousands of spectators come to Now the Park Service, while saying it is doing the park to see each year. The merits of that the opposite, is moving to downsize the turtle plan will be decided over time. But the point rescue program that is popular with locals and here is the manner in which it was done. No visitors alike with only a three page statement public explanation, no announcement. When that damns it with faint praise as the only the story hit the Los Angeles Times, and with explanation. This is not just about that, it is every inquiry since about what is happening, the about the park being a good neighbor. answer from park management came in the form of a terse three sentence statement and nothing When is that going to start? more. It might was well have simply said, “It’s none of your business.”

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Part-II By Abigail Bair By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon I don’t know about you, was finally able to transplant him into my front but since the latest COVID-19 explosion I’ve window box. been balancing on an ebbing wave of self-care. Dotson’s Note: This is continued from last had man descending "not even from American I’m pretty sure that Barry got in through the Unfortunately, as in actual surfing, I often fall week. We left off after reporting the number monkeys, but Old World monkeys." Dudley dog door, but Toadward couldn’t have possibly off the board and wind up dog paddling in a sea of people who were in town, and with the Malone countered for the defense, arguing in a made the same journey. My friend Amber of day drinking and Divorce Court. In troubled statement: “The proceedings opened, over thundering voice that the prosecution's position suggested that perhaps Stadler-the-dog brought times, it’s hard to tell where self-care ends, Darrow's objections, to a prayer.” Also in was borne of the same ignorance "which him in, but Stadler has been “off” toads ever and self-indulgence begins. However, with a last week’s note: “If you don’t remember the made it possible for theologians...to bring Old since she licked one and her tongue swelled up possibility of as many as nineteen hurricanes Monkey Trial, you are welcome for the history Galilee to trial." It was a powerful speech. Anti- to the size of a small cat. this year on top of the plague, murder hornets, lesson. Thanks to stories I heard from Dad, T. evolution lawmaker John Butler called it "the global warming, and my backyard (which may I decided that Toadward was either a T. Martin and a bunch of really old newspapers finest speech of the century." Members of the morph into leafy terminator and kill us all) I’ve Demogorgon or a precursor to a Biblical for the facts contained in this report and to the press gave Malone a standing ovation and most stopped bothering to differentiate between the plague. I shut the bathroom door and regrouped same old newspapers which I scanned for the courtroom spectators joined in the sustained two. on the sofa until nature called. photos.” applause. The next day, Raulston ruled the The Trial Starts defense's expert testimony inadmissible. If there was ever a moment to eat those fries if I don’t know if you’ve ever had to use the you got ‘em, this seems like it. facilities defensively clutching a dustpan and A jury of twelve men, including ten (mostly Raulston's ruling angered Darrow. He said he your worst spatula like a shield and sword. If You can’t totally let go the reins, though, middle-aged) farmers and eleven regular could not understand why "every suggestion of you haven’t, you’re missing a solid opportunity because there are still questions about whether church-goers, was quickly selected. The the prosecution should meet with an endless to feel very stupid. My defenses were necessary, the world is ending. If there’s one thing that the trial adjourned for the weekend. On Sunday, waste of time, and a bare suggestion of anything though, because right as things were reaching Mayan Apocalypse of 2012 has proven it’s that William Jennings Bryan delivered the sermon that is perfectly competent on our part should a plumbing crescendo, Toadward hopped out you can’t trust people who have an exact date at Dayton's Methodist Church. He used the be immediately overruled." Raulston asked from behind the toilet and onto my foot. occasion to attack the defense strategy in the Darrow, "I hope you do not mean to reflect upon for Armageddon. All you can do is chain your Scopes case. As Bryan spoke, Judge Raulston the court?" Darrow's reply: "Well, your honor Reverend Mom to the brick pillars on your front and his entire family listened attentively from has the right to hope." Raulston responded, porch (the Rev is the only one in our family in their front pew seats. "I have the right to do something else." The any danger of being raptured) and hope she’s insult earned Darrow a contempt still there when you get home from work. finding, which was later dropped It’s tough not to look for signs of the end when Darrow, to a big hand from times, though – especially now. I find myself spectators, apologized for his observing things that in the before-times might remark. Darrow and Raulston have just passed me by. For instance, this week’s shook hands. self-indulgence party included the addition of After expressing concern some waffle cones and a pint of HEB Creamy that the courtroom floor might Creations Poteet Strawberry ice cream (highly collapse from the weight of recommend) to my curbside order. When I the many spectators, Raulston unpacked my JOY waffle cones, I noticed that transferred the proceedings to one of the serving suggestions was to fill the the lawn outside the courthouse. cones with salad. There, facing the jury, hung a That’s right: put some lettuce in your waffle sign--attached to the courthouse cone. Yummy! wall-- reading, "Read Your Bible." Darrow asked either that The box indicated that a good reason to fill the sign be removed or that a an ice cream cone with salad would be if you second sign of equal size saying were camping because it’s more “fun.” I don’t "Read Your Evolution" be put up know why you couldn’t eat the salad out of Salad in a waffle cone. Yum! A bookseller in town along with it. Raulston ordered whatever container you brought it in, and I’m not sure adding incongruous items to waffle the sign removed. Before a I’m not going to pretend that I wasn’t startled, On the first business day of trial, the defense crowd that had swelled to about 5,000, the cones is my definition of fun. Still, in and of itself, dramatically stupid marketing overreach but I MAY pretend that I didn’t jump so high I moved to quash the indictment on both state and defense read into the record, for purpose of tripped over my own underpants. I may further federal constitutional grounds. This move was at appellate review, excerpts from the prepared probably isn’t a signifier of the apocalypse, right? state (although not under oath) that during the heart of the defense strategy. The defense's statements of eight scientists and four experts the commotion the toad did not get tangled goal was not to win acquittal for John on religion who had been prepared to testify. And that’s when I discovered the toad. (along with my ankles) inside my shorts and Scopes, but rather to obtain a declaration by He was a little hopper, blessed with the unmentionables. I would further state, that I did a higher court--preferably the U.S. Supreme fiercely disappointed mien shared by most of not wriggle out of my pants like a nudist toddler Court--that laws forbidding the teaching his brethren. As he stared sourly up at me from and toss them as far from me as possible, and of evolution were unconstitutional. That my bathroom floor, his expression resembled that I later did not run, naked from the waist goal, however, would not be realized for that of the Pat Fellers (my high school English down, into the backyard and shake the toad out another 43 years, in the case of Epperson teacher) every single time I dared to use words of my panties into a potted plant. v. Arkansas. As expected, Judge Raulston like “mien” and “brethren.” denied the defense motion. Instead, I might say that I caught the little guy “That sort of language may do you some good with the dustpan and my worst spatula. Opening statements pictured the trial as a on your ACT,” Ms. Fellers would hiss, “but is titanic struggle between good and evil or I might also say that to reward myself for unnecessary when describing the shortage of truth and ignorance. Bryan claimed that "if my awesome bravery, I went directly into my tater tots in the cafeteria.” kitchen and stuffed a waffle cone with some evolution wins, Christianity goes." Darrow The trial outside argued, "Scopes isn't on trial; civilization is This toad was judging me. leftover salad. on trial." The prosecution, Darrow contended, Finding a toad at all was somewhat concerning. I didn’t. I poured myself a vodka drink and sat was "opening the doors for a reign of bigotry The statements of the experts were widely Some of you may remember Barry-the-house- around pants-less for 45 minutes. equal to anything in the Middle Ages." To the reported by the press, helping Darrow succeed lizard from earlier this summer. I hunted that I guess it’s not the apocalypse quite yet. gasps of spectators, Darrow said Bryan was in his efforts to turn the trial into a national guy for a week before he developed a profound responsible for the "foolish, mischievous and biology lesson. affection for my wicker laundry basket, and I wicked act." Darrow said that the anti-evolution law made the Bible "the yardstick to measure On the seventh day of trial, Raulston asked every man's intellect, to measure every man's the defense if it had any more evidence. intelligence, to measure every man's learning." What followed was what the New York Times David and Goliath -- Again! It was classic Darrow, and the press--mostly described as "the most amazing court scene in Anglo-Saxon history." Hays By Pastor Kris Bair Naomi losing not just her husband but both her asked that William Jennings Island Presbyterian Church sons—her entire family! Jesus being tortured Bryan be called to the stand as and crucified because he was there. an expert on the Bible. Bryan So I’m checking my assented, stipulating only that Facebook the other day and I ran across this Famine. Warfare. Plague. Pestilence. he should have a chance to meme (picture not included): “Sometimes Assyrians. Romans. Suffering! Lots of interrogate the defense lawyers. God will put a Goliath in your life, for you to it given by us to ourselves and others. God Bryan, dismissing the concerns find the David within you . . . and then you doesn’t need to give us more than we can of his prosecution colleagues, find that the David inside is spying on women handle—we do a great job of that ourselves. took a seat on the witness stand, taking baths and plotting to kill your husband.” And yeah, read the Bible and you will get and began fanning himself. Tee hee. This is, of course, the correct version some answers, but they probably aren’t ones Darrow began his interrogation of the story, albeit shortened indiscriminately. you’ll like. God does what God wants to of Bryan with a quiet question: But it sums things up pretty nicely—we all do—and sometimes it hurts. Israel’s exile "You have given considerable do pretty well for awhile, and then when we in Babylon, after the complete eradication study to the Bible, haven't you, get “in control” of our lives, they go to hell. of Jerusalem, and pretty much everyone in it Mr. Bryan?" Bryan replied, Literally. Happens all the time. Happening who wasn’t taken captive and carted off into "Yes, I have. I have studied the right now! slavery. Mary, standing at the cross beneath Bible for about fifty years." her own child. Sometimes it hurts a LOT. Sheriff Bluch Harris & Judge Ralston w/Jurors Between And there’s always someone around—that Thus began a series of questions chipper-dipper who insists that “It’s OK— And often we aren’t given answers, although designed to undermine a literalist God’s just helping you find your David.” All in the case of Babylon a series of prophets sympathetic to the defense--loved it. interpretation of the Bible. Bryan was asked the time I hear, “God never gives you more provided answers that were ignored. Too The prosecution opened its case by asking about a whale swallowing Jonah, Joshua than you can handle,” or “Just read the Bible often, it’s great that Jesus walks, talks, and tells the court to take judicial notice of the Book making the sun stand still, Noah and the great and you’ll get some answers”; not to mention me—as long as it’s what I wanna hear! Let of Genesis, as it appears in the King James flood, the temptation of Adam in the Garden of “He walks with me, and he talks with me, and those who have ears, listen! Eden, and the creation according to Genesis. Version. It did. Superintendent White led he tells me that I am his own” (put your hand But hey, we don’t have to worry because After initially contending that "everything off the prosecution's list of witnesses with on your heart), and “God is my co-pilot, so I’ll “God’s our co-pilot,” right? his testimony that John Scopes had admitted in the Bible should be accepted as it is given be OK.” And those who are suffering suffer teaching about evolution from Hunter's Civic there," Bryan finally conceded that the words of more because there is no comfort here. Oh, beloveds, listen! God is the pilot. Period. the Bible should not always be taken literally. Get that one straight. If you believe in God, Biology. Chief Prosecutor Tom Stewart then Those of us who have suffered (and Jesus fits asked seven students in Scope's class a series In response to Darrow's relentless questions as then you know that you are not in control. to whether the six days of creation, as described that demographic) know that we give ourselves Ever. And that’s even better than good! That’s of questions about his teachings. They testified more than we can handle ALL THE TIME. that Scopes told them that man and all other in Genesis, were twenty-four hour days, Bryan the way it’s meant to be—because God is said "My impression is that they were periods." And you don’t need to be bi-polar to do this! bigger and better and wiser than any of us. mammals had evolved from one-celled Everybody gives themselves more than they organism. Darrow cross-examined--gently, To Be Continued can handle--some of us more frequently than In this time of pandemic, these are lessons we though with obvious sarcasm--the students, need to take to heart—which is exactly what Dotson’s Other Note: Do you remember the others. asking freshman Howard Morgan: "Well, did he Jesus means when he says, “Listen!” Things movie that was based on this trial? If you have tell you anything else that was wicked?" "No, Read your Bible—it’s all about just plain will not always be the same—another Bible to look it up, you don’t qualify for a prize. If you not that I can remember," Howard answered. people struggling with MORE than they lesson. We cannot wrestle the world back to knew without looking it up, please Email me After drugstore owner Fred Robinson took the can handle. Cain killing his brother. Jacob where it was. That’s not our job. stand to testify as to Scope's statement that "any and I will present you with an appropriate prize. tricking Esau out of his birthright. Jacob being We need to quit trying to put words in God’s teacher in the state who was teaching Hunter's Thanks for reading and commenting on the tricked into the wrong wife after working hard mouth, and really LISTEN. And when Jesus Biology was violating the law," the prosecution articles in The Island Moon. Contact me at for seven years to earn the right one. Joseph says, “Love one another,” put on those masks rested. It was a simple case. [email protected] or call/text: 530-748-8475. being kidnapped by his own brothers and then sold into slavery and imprisoned unfairly. and wash our hands. 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Reynolds Date includes many recommendations intended to Seashore issued what is referred to as the update the program to better align with current Kemp’s ridley hatchlings and “cold stunned” Regional Director, NPS Regional Office Foundation Document Padre Island National NPS practices, which includes continuing to sea turtles (immobility due to prolonged serving DOI Regions 6,7,8 Seashore. It is a review of the park’s past and an exposure to cold) has increased. contribute to sea turtle recovery and protecting outline for its future. The role of the Sea Turtle Editor’s note: The following are direct quotes and managing the many other significant natural After the establishment of the national Recovery Program at Padre Island National from the 53 page study. and cultural resources in the park. seashore, some traditional recreational uses Seashore is a key element in the document. Here on the island were discontinued, creating The park has achieved establishment of a are some excerpts: From the report: friction both then and now between the public secondary nesting colony of Kemp’s and The Padre Island National Seashore (PAIS or Program History and Context and NPS management Present-day requests to evidence indicates the imprinting and return participate in activities not governed by the NPS park) Sea Turtle Science and Recovery (STSR) of offspring to PAIS beaches. This strategy PAIS was established in 1962, primarily for Superintendent’s Compendium also present program has been operating for over 40 years. was a key component of the 1978 interagency recreational purposes. The park’s Foundation special challenges to park management. Begun in the late 1970s to aid in the recovery Kemp’s action plan, but has not been identified document (NPS, 2016). of the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, the most as a primary recovery action in subsequent Conflicts continue between recreational endangered sea turtle in the U.S., a secondary The process of preparing a foundation FWS/NMFS recovery plans, including the most activities on the island, especially between nesting colony was successfully established document aids park managers, staff, and the recent 2011 plan. pedestrians and vehicles along the more heavily at PAIS to prevent species extinction. The public in identifying and clearly stating in used beach areas There are strong differences program has grown tremendously during this Historically, egg collection was an extreme one document the essential information that of opinion as to whether or not vehicles should time and now has an annual operating budget threat in this area, but since nesting beaches is necessary for park management to consider be allowed on the beach, in part due to resource of nearly $2M ($1.3 ONPS base and $700k were afforded when determining future planning efforts, impacts, impaired or under the influence project funds), which funds nest monitoring and outlining key planning issues, and protecting protection in both Mexico and the United driving, and speeding. management, research, and stranding response. resources and values that are integral to park States, this threat no longer poses a major In 3-5 years, the program is projecting a budget purpose and identity. Many factors complicate beach driving, concern. shortfall. A program review was requested including thick accumulated seaweed and other Unique management challenges exist in Texas The following fundamental resources and sea-borne debris; natural and human-made to evaluate the financial sustainability of values have been identified for Padre Island the program, including reviewing program at PAIS, including year-round beach driving holes, ditches, and trenches along the beach; along all 61 miles of beach (except for 4 ½ National Seashore:·Recreational Opportunities. and high tides and inclement weather that operations, staffing, interagency relationships, Created in 1962 “for purposes of public and consistency with conservation principles miles that are closed) and the fact that Kemp’s may cause safety issues when drivers become nest during the day. These circumstances recreation, benefit, and inspiration,” Padre trapped down the beach. and agency policy. Island National Seashore is recognized as an present challenges for sea turtle conservation NPS funding, particularly PAIS funding, for outstanding recreation destination. The pressure to use the islands within the (even in a “protected” national park unit) that Laguna Madre for disposal of dredge material to Kemp’s recovery is disproportionately high are not present in other coastal NPS units. The Five species of threatened and endangered sea protect islands against erosion directly conflicts compared to the number of partners involved park’s intensive sea turtle nest monitoring and turtles occur in the Gulf of Mexico, and Padre with protecting active rookeries for colonial and the percentage of the turtle population management program has continued to be Island National Seashore is the only area on the nesting birds. being addressed. The NPS should request implemented to allow unrestricted public beach Texas coast where nests from all five of these additional funding and support from the FWS driving with motor vehicles and in response species have been documented. More Kemp’s Tidal flats, seagrass beds, and the shallow for current recovery actions and nest location, to reported beach inundation that may be ridley sea turtle nests are found at the park waters of the Laguna Madre support an egg collection, and hatchling release at PAIS. associated with ongoing erosion and sea level than at any other location in the United States, important fisheries habitat and foraging bird The NMFS currently supports PAIS for the role rise. making it the most important nesting beach in habitat that could be at risk if the levels of of State Coordinator of the Sea Turtle Stranding the United States for this endangered species. commercial and recreational fishing, boating, and Salvage Network for Texas. The park should While there is some documentation that and other water-based recreational activities engage the national Kemp’s Recovery Team suggests occasional and limited nesting of Five species of threatened and endangered sea substantially increase in the future. and the FWS in determining and evaluating Kemp’s historically occurred at PAIS (likely turtles occur in the Gulf of Mexico, and Padre additional and alternative locations for nesting opportunistic), there is nothing in the 11 Island National Seashore is the only area on the Some erosion and accretion due to human sites outside of PAIS boundaries. scientific literature that suggests PAIS ever Texas coast where nests from all five of these development and use alters habitat at the park hosted robust or even sustainable populations of species have been documented. More Kemp’s In particular, leaching and erosion of caliche For a sustainable program operations funding Kemp’s. The park has carried out a voluntary, ridley sea turtle nests are found at the park from the Bird Island Basin parking area into model, the park should transition the sea turtle intensively managed program to proactively than at any other location in the United States, the Laguna Madre, resulting in turbidity and program to one that operates on existing park propagate Kemp's ridley sea turtles that making it the most important nesting beach in potential negative impacts on seagrasses base that accounts for and incorporates existing originated from the 1978 interagency action the United States for this endangered species. because of increased turbidity• permanent salaries and other fixed costs (e.g. plan. fuel use, supplies, equipment, all vehicle Sea Turtles. Sea turtles have become a major Opportunities maintenance and replacement, and additional Whether this level of intensive wildlife natural resource and major visitor draw Continue to protect sea turtle nests and release utility costs). The program should not rely on management is still necessary is a legitimate because the park offers one of the few places hatchings to contribute to the recovery of these additional parkwide base fund allocations or scientific question now that Kemp’s numbers the public can go to witness Kemp’s ridley sea species, and hopefully, see removal of these short-term project funding to cover long-term have increased from the low identified in turtles nesting on the beach and the release of species from the threatened and endangered operational costs. the 1970s that prompted intervention. The their hatchlings. In recent years, Padre Island species lists practice of nearly (removal and relocation of, National Seashore has documented nests of Alternative staffing and operationsor incubation of, eggs to produce hatchlings) all five sea turtle species found in the Gulf of Continue rescue and rehabilitation of cold- recommendations include greatly reducing at PAIS has been, and is, precedent setting for Mexico and has played an active role in species stunned turtles overtime from over $200,000 per year to the NPS. Generally, the collection of all eggs protection and conservation research. Since Continue public engagement and education approximately $16,000 per year (the NPS to eliminate potential mortality due to beach the 1970s, the park has been active in a major, about impacts on sea turtles, recovery efforts, Scorecard standard for resource programs), driving, predation, or ocean inundation is international research and conservation project and research This includes continuing to elimination of administratively uncontrollable inconsistent with NPS Management Policies to save the most endangered of all sea turtles, host special events to expand exposure of overtime (AUO), and hiring additional seasonal (Chapter 4), which requires natural processes the Kemp’s ridley. These efforts have been turtle issues to the public, such as the popular staff to accomplish priority work. to occur uninhibited to the degree possible. In expanded to include ongoing patrol programs hatchling releases. To reduce employee burnout and provide for addition to all Kemp’s ridley nests, the park aimed to detect, study, and protect sea turtle adequate work-rest ratios for normal operations, protects, collects, and incubates eggs from all nests with the help of the local community, a Continue research related to a number of green and loggerhead sea turtles. Green and different topics, including Kemp’s ridley tours of duty should be limited to 8-hour days or variety of partners and donors, and a large and 10-hour days (40 hours per week) and additional loggerhead sea turtle eggs collected at PAIS, active volunteer force. remigration intervals, satellite tracking, and those collected elsewhere along the Texas genetics, and foraging grounds, among others. seasonal staff should be hired for days or times Sixty-five and one-half miles of the island where coverage is demonstrated as critical. coast and sent to the park, are incubated at the These efforts can be coordinated with various park and the hatchlings are released on park habitat have been set aside for future university researchers, as well as part of the The park’s sea turtle nest protection/relocation/ generations to experience the sites, natural beaches. There seems to be no conservation large bi-national research effort between the egg incubation program can be credited for reason to maintain this practice, and no EA, sounds, and seemingly unending vistas and dark United States and exico. improving the science and techniques for night skies that comprise this dynamic barrier BO, or other directive exists to support this Expansion of the Sea Turtle Science and hatchling production. However, the program management action. ecosystem. The 4-1/3-mile section of beach that does implement very intensive and invasive is closed to beach driving provides an excellent Recovery Program, with appropriate volunteer, Patrols on down island stretches should be staff, and funding levels. techniques to reduce potential egg and hatchling opportunity for scientific research. This may be mortality on only one percent of the worldwide reduced to five days per week (e.g. Thursday the only stretch of Texas shoreline protected to Threats population. through Monday), 8- or 10-hour days, and one preserve its natural state while also being easily or two patrols per day (as was done in the past). accessible to research scientists. Increased development and vehicle and Other influences, such as sea level rise air traffic near the park negatively impacts and increases in coastal nuisance flooding, The park should actively work with outside The scientific study of and recovery efforts the viewshed, acoustic environment and contribute to the concern over the long-term partners to identify and conduct future research for the world’s most endangered sea turtle soundscapes, and night skies For example, the suitability and availability of sea turtle nesting that has in the past been conducted by NPS species (Kemp’s ridley) at Padre Island noise, sights, and lights associated with oil and habitat at PAIS and indicate a need to determine staff. The level of effort currently being done National Seashore offer unique insights into the gas development and associated traffic within if other suitable nesting habitat exists along by the park is not recommended by NMFS, as enormous combined efforts of the park, allied the park as oil and gas drilling and production U.S. beaches outside of PAIS. This report there is no conservation benefit. agencies, individuals, and the public to bring a equipment are escorted down the beach to reach species back from the brink of extinction. sites behind the dunes. Turtle Nest Count KEMP'S RIDLEY TURTLE Letters From Citizens So far this year, 262 nests have been confirmed on the Texas coast including (north to south in Editor's note: The following are responses would be interested in supporting, or help to https://www.doi.gov/contact-us state): to the report of funding for the sea turtle raise some corporate money for the program. Greg Abbott https://gov.texas.gov/contact 0 Bolivar Peninsula rescue program being slashed posted on our Wendy Clark -- Is there a way for private Ted Cruz https://www.cruz.senate.gov/ 1 Galveston Island Facebook page. donations for it to continue? Since it is a Matthew Connolly -- For people suggesting government program, I’m not sure. Luis Buentello Luis.Buentello@mail. 1 Brazoria County, N. of Surfside house.gov Cloud’s Field Representative donations, GoFundme, etc. your heart is in Aimee Dennis Wauters -- Disgraceful. Dr. 6 Surfside Beach the right place, but this isn’t a charity, it is Shaver is a wildlife hero!! Michael Cloud https://cloud.house.gov/ 0 Quintana Beach a federal program with federal employees. It contact/ just needs to be funded. Lauren Braddy -- I'm planning on putting 1 Bryan Beach together a letter to send to every representative John Cornyn https://www.cornyn.senate. Claude Smith -- This makes no sense. I can think of. I'll happily share the form once gov/contact 0 Brazoria County, N. of Sargent Beach Hundreds of non paid volunteers helped we have it drafted! (I'll also volunteer! ) Todd hunter https://house.texas.gov/ 0 Sargent Beach support the minimal paid staff. Jan Roberson -- I am a volunteer as well and members/member-page/?district=32 1 Matagorda Peninsula Lee Porterfield -- Well the great news is I have been working behind the scene on this Elizabeth Hardin ElizabethH2@cctexas. that they can reach out to all of us that can 0 Matagorda Island issue for months along with others. I can tell com Mayor McComb’s Chief of Staff volunteer to fill in and help. you at this point that the best thing you can do 18 San Jose Island Dennis Bonnen: https://www. Sometimes it's just logistics and running out to help Dr. Shaver and the Sea Turtle Program dennisbonnen.com/contact/ 13 Mustang Island of our tax money at a bad time. at Padre Island National Seashore is to write your political leaders. Please message me and Greg Bonnen: https://www.house. 143 North Padre Island, including 136 at So I hope that the state employees that care I will provide my contact information and add texas.gov/members/member-page/ Padre Island National Seashore about the sea turtle rescue program don't give you to our coalition list. I am inspired with email/?district=24&session=86 72 South Padre Island up as they have a lot of us they can call on! the responses thus far and hope y'all continue Eric Brunnemann New Superintendent at Susan Clarkson-Paul -- Having worked to get folks fired up. The sea turtle program 6 Boca Chica Beach helps save the most critically endangered Padre Island National Seashore as a Turtle Patrol volunteer when we lived LOGGERHEAD TURTLE on Padre Is. I strongly disagree with your sea turtle the Kemp's ridley as well as the 361-949-8068 https://www.nps.gov/pais/ comments. The difference between you & threatened greens and loggerheads, helps keep contacts.htm | PAIS Volunteers So far this year, 4 nests have been confirmed our beaches open, provides approximately on the Texas coast, including (north to south in the Turtle Patrol is first, we were trained & Dana Duncan Shuster -- It's not just about as volunteers we were deeply involved with one million dollars in revenue to our local state): economy, and advocates conservation in the budget! They want to cut the turtle program saving the turtles, educating the public & because we pick up the eggs and hatch them in 1 Brazoria County, North of Surfside protecting the seashore from people with Coastal Bend. Let's all get involved and STOP this National Park Service (NPS) MESS! protected areas, and the other turtle programs 1 Mustang Island ATV’s & other vehicles speeding in the on the Atlantic coast don't. The idiots don't park! Donna has brought so many visitors to YOU DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS! seem to understand that cars are allowed to 2 North Padre Island, including 2 at Padre experience the park & the turtles because she drive on this beach, thus ruining nests, and Island National Seashore truly cares & is conscientious & conservative Especially write Mr. Brunnemann and greet him with a Big Texas Welcome and express that's not the case on our Atlantic beaches. GREEN TURTLE with her budgeting to continue to do the right And all of our nests that are not found are thing for the park! STOP slashing programs your concerns! Light up the phones and emails! predated upon by raccoons, coyotes, or fire So far this year, 17 nests have been confirmed that benefit the world environment! ants. on the Texas coast, including (north to south in Cathy Barnard -- The hatchling releases Your help is deeply appreciated. Thank you. state): are a great tourist draw. Perhaps the CVB David Bernhardt, Secretary Department of 10 North Padre Island, including 9 at Padre Interior Island National Seashore 7 South Padre Island A8 Island Moon July 23, 2020 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon Dizzy Dean: Stepping Up to the Plate

Easily Best Broadcast Choice Andy’s note: My Friend and Island resident, discarded their old or used Pat Dwyer, would be excited about the By Dotson Lewis equipment,” said Pat. “So, I upcoming baseball start. Here’s to Pat! began to ask for those items Dotson’s Note: Each February the National composers’ name?” Dean couldn’t “ennunce” There is an old story about a doctor who asked and started recycling old baseball gloves and Baseball Hall of Fame presents the Ford C. Boston’s infield. a young fellow what he dreamed about at night. used equipment in my barn, on a ranch located Frick Award — tantamount to induction — to an in Alvin, Texas.” It was reported in 2015 that The St. Louis Board of Education vainly tried The young boy answered, “Playing baseball.” announcer. In 2016 Curt Smith wrote that Dizzy 35,000 kids around the Houston area and Central to yank Diz off the air. They had to be his The doctor then asked, “Don’t you ever dream Dean was most deserving of the award. Dizzy America have received equipment from this words, he said, because no one would take them. about anything else?” “Of course not,” said the never received the award and as far as I can program, along with personal instruction from Amazingly, the 1944 Browns won a flag. NBC young boy; “if I did, I would miss my turn at determine, he has never even been nominated. current and former professional ballplayers like Radio named Dean to the all-St. Louis Series; bat.” A young boy like the one described above Thanks to Bill Morgan (former SWC SID), Bob Larry Dierker, Enos Cabell, Mike Hampton and whereupon Commissioner Landis jibed, “His was retired here, living on Padre Island here Broeg and Curt Smith for the facts contained in Bob Aspromonte. In fact, it was Enos Cabell diction is unfit for a national broadcaster”; at with us, but his fire still burned for the game this report and to Bill Morgan for the photos. who asked Pat to bring his program to Houston. which point Diz said, “How can that Commissar of baseball. Very few of us play at the Major League level, but that doesn’t mean we don’t Pat, Bernie, and John Nash once delivered to None of those who have received the Ford C. say I ain’t eligible to talk?” Guatemala enough uniforms and equipment for Frick Award surpass or even equal baseball’s still love it. There was nothing about the game Dean missed the last Series where each team 26 teams, after hurricane Mitch destroyed their TV brightest shining star, a Falstaff behind the of baseball that he didn’t like. Everybody is shared a site. Behind, 2 games to 1, the Cardinals ball fields. mike. In 1953, Jay Hanna (Dizzy) Dean entered just a kid from somewhere and, growing up in won. “We should have known better,” said a Cooperstown as a player. Elizabeth, New Jersey, he spent as much time as The recently-departed Milo Hamilton always Browns official. “It was too good to last.” possible at Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn MC’d his fundraisers and asked Pat to sit with Was Diz, 37, still good enough to pitch? The Dodgers. As a member of the Knothole Gang, him in the booth during game night, on several 1947 Browns threw him Opening Day. Dean once his hero, Duke Snider, once he got into his occasions. “For a guy who talks a lot, I was in singled, spaced three hits in four innings, then heart, he never got out. awe and speechless,” said Pat. For the kids, the pulled a muscle. The soon-again-Voice gave a Pat was the kind of guy who RBI program has been the greatest thing since lecture: “Radio Announcing I Have Did.” The looked you in the eye and the invention of penicillin. The RBI program Soviets domineered Eastern Europe. “Got to get connected. The word “grit” still continues today in the hands of Pat’s most me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a always fit him better than his trusted friend, John Nash. couple of empires and learn them kids behind uniform, and he was so funny, Pat had been an avid memorabilia collector in the Iron Curtain how to bat and play baseball.” he could make your pets laugh. the past, but sold off most of his collection to Marshal Stalin — “Joe Stallion” — could run Handing this guy a baseball raise funds for the RBI program. He still kept concessions. “[That way] he’d getta outta’ bat was like putting a saddle a signed photo of Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle politics and get in a honest business.” on Secretariat; something and Duke Snider-- his most prized possession. unbelievable was going to Through 1948, Diz jazzed the tone-deaf Pat Dwyer The person he would have most like to meet Browns. “I slud along with them as long as I happen. Some said he could was “Babe” Ruth and the most famous person could, but I eventual made up my mind to quit.” spot talent from a moving Pat said he ever met was President John F. Joining the Yanks, he graced TV’s “What’s car and that his jump shot was illegal in three Kennedy. Pat and Lois reared three children: My Line.”“The guest could be Dizzy Dean,” states. For many kids, Pat Dwyer became the Bernie, Colleen and Michele. Irish Robin Hood with a trunk full of baseball Dizzy Dean windup blindfolded panelist Arlene Francis said. Pat Dwyer, a fine Christian man, strolled Dorothy Kilgallen: “Oh, no, this man is much equipment. Somebody had to step up to the plate. through life like he was holding the winning too intelligent.” lottery ticket. I am reminded of what writer, In 1953, Diz began the ABC “Game of the One day a disagreement erupted on the field. Bernard Patrick Dwyer was born January 7, Joseph Campbell, once said, “We must be Week” — TV sport’s first network series. Two “That batter shakin’ his head down there — he 1942. “When I was a kid, I didn’t play baseball. willing to let go of the life we planned so as to years later it entered CBS’ posher home. For a don’t know what’s goin’ on. I don’t know what A police officer by the name of Eddie Gray have the life that is waiting for us.” The RBI decade Ol’ Diz sang “The Wabash Cannonball,” asked if I wanted to play baseball. When I told program was Pat’s way of giving back, his way read telegrams to “good ol’ boys,” and razed the him I didn’t have a glove, he left, and then later of saying “thanks” to Officer Gray. language. Batters “swang.” Pitchers “throwed” returned with an old, used Wilson glove. That’s the ball with “spart.” Runners returned to when I fell in love with the game.” Little did Pat My friend, Pat Dwyer, underwent heart surgery “their respectable bases.” Mayberry loved know at that time the influence Officer Gray’s to repair a valve the first week in April. He made the 300 pounds, string tie, and Stetson — the gift would have on his future. Baseball in the it home for awhile but returned to the hospital whole rustic goods. “Pod-nuh,” Dean called summer and basketball in the winter took up with complications. I received sad news from us: his dowry, our badge. “In the hinterlands most of his time. Pat told me, “I was a better Pat’s wife, Lois, that Pat had suffered a stroke it was incredible,” said CBS sports head Bill basketball player than baseball player in high and passed away on Friday, June 10, 2016. My MacPhail. “Watching Dizzy Dean was an school, but baseball was my first love. ‘Hubie’ father once told me that life is about handling absolute religion.” Each Saturday and Sunday Brown was my first basketball coach. I was loss and then moving forward. How true, but it afternoon Middle America closed down. always the first one to arrive at the playground.” does not make it any easier. None of us deserves Dizzy and Buddy to lose a friend or a loved one, yet we all do. Inducted as a player, Dean told the Hall, “The While in high school, Pat played with and Good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong against future NBA Hall-of-Famer, Rick Barry. Everything in life appears to be a lesson. body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.” If he don’t know, but I know he don’t know.” In They played against each other during the There are things that we don’t want to happen, you were a 1960s child you were unaware of 1952, Diz rejoined Falstaff Brewery’s 20-station season and also with one another on local, all- but have to accept, things that we don’t want to Diz’s pitching genius. You knew only how he Browns network. Partner Buddy Blattner liked star tournament teams. “I always held him to know, but have to learn; and people we feel we made the game of baseball existential joy. fact and strategy. Diz shunned biography. 40 or 50 points,” laughed Pat. Many years later, can’t live without, but have to let go. I know “People liked him giving everything but the when Rick Barry joined the Houston Rockets, Pat’s in a better place and I know he is loved, The son of a migratory cotton picker was score” — fishing, hunting, thanking Grandma’s Pat took his son, Bernie, to meet Barry and get but that does not make it any easier on those born in an Arkansas shack January 16, 1910. Biscuits for meal — “but wanted me to restore his autograph. “When we met, I told Bernie of us left behind. I can close my eyes and see Schooling stopped in second grade. “And I sanity.” in jest, that this is the guy I used to outscore him now. I hear his words and his laugh. I wasn’t so good in first, either.” At 16, Dean in high school,” said Pat. After a pause, Rick can envision his walk. I know what he would crashed the Army for $21 a month. Next year, Some announcers script a program. Diz was the responded, “That may be true, but ask your have said. I understand that death does not joining the Cardinals’ Western League team, he program. “He created the audience before we father how much money he makes now and then end a relationship but it does change it. What ran into its president at 4 a.m. “So the old boy said a word.” In 1952, they added Mutual Radio. I will tell you how much I make.” my friend Pat Dwyer gave to me was a sense is out prowling by hisself, huh? Us stars and One “Game” was in Detroit. Dean’s first inning Pat received several offers to play ball in of purpose, a sense of importance. I enjoyed presidents must have our fun.” was “polished, so unlike the usual chaos.” At making him laugh and making him smile. Pat break he winked. “‘That’s enough a’ that poop. college but, tired of school, he joined the Army. Diz won his first big league game in 1930, became a large part of my sports life and, in Now Ol’ Diz is gonna’ make money. I’m going He enlisted in 1962 for two years and ended and at least 20 a year from 1933 thru 1936. many ways, I needed his approval. to butcher this today,” foreseeing what he would up in Germany. Before being shipped out to “Hold that success against the country’s tone,” say, and when. Germany he was sent to Fort Polk, Louisiana. Pat Dwyer and I could have been joined at the wrote baseball historian Bob Broeg. “In the It was there that Pat met Lois, his future wife. hip. We became instant friends the moment ’30s states around St. Louis were reeling, and TO BE CONTINUED In 1964, when he returned to the States, he we first met. We were both born storytellers you wouldn’t draw flies,” the exception being Dotson’s Other Note: This had to be continued, married Lois and went to work for Anheuser- with a love for baseball. We spent many hours Sunday. Invariably St. Louis played a double- not because I ran out of ‘Dizings’, but because Busch in Newark, New Jersey. In 1970, he was together having lunch and talking sports. Pat header. Gates opened at 9 a.m., outlanders I ran out of space. If you not have not noticed, transferred to Houston, Texas. There he played enjoyed my stories and I had hundreds of them. filling Sportsman’s Park. Among them: the this is my start to get Dizzy Dean the Ford C. softball and basketball for the Budweiser teams, I’m so glad I had a chance to share a part of Fellers of Van Meter, Iowa. “We’d muster a Frick Award. If you would like to join me in while continuing his education at San Jacinto Pat’s life with the folks who came to my last couple dollars, and sit in the bleachers,” said this crusade, check next week’s Sport Talk and Junior College. He didn’t like crunching book-signing event. Pat loved the Dennis and son Bob, knowing that Diz would pitch, since I will give you the contact information. Even numbers as much he did crunching fastballs. Andy’s Q & A Session sport talk radio show, the Redbirds stacked their schedule. though we haven’t discussed this, I’ll bet Jim Pat met Houston Astros’ scouting director, reading my books and was always one of the No other National League pitcher has won Lago will join me in this most important matter. Dan O’Brien, in 1990. “He hired me to scout first to buy one. Pat once told me he cut my 30 games since Dean’s 30–7 in 1934. The Comments/calls/texts are welcome. Email: the four counties in and around Houston,” said best newspaper articles out of the Island Moon Cardinals clinched Closing Day. A headline [email protected] Mobile: 530-748-8475 Dwyer. Pat would spend the next 20 years newspaper and placed them in a scrapbook. He made me feel like a hundred-dollar bill in a prefaced the World Series v. Detroit: “Dean: -30- Have fun and hang in there! sitting on wooden seats behind chicken wire, in ‘Me ’n’ [brother] Paul’ll Win Four.’” In Game out-of-the-way towns, for gas money and a pat two-dollar wallet. They don’t make many Pat Four, Diz, pinch-running, was hit in the head on the back, looking for the next Nolan Ryan or Dwyer’s. I miss him terribly. by a throw. Headlines of papers quoted Dean, Reggie Jackson. Andy Purvis is a local author and radio “They X-rayed My Head and Found Nothing.” Pastor, John Maxwell once wrote, “Greatness personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. Diz won the 11–0 final. “He threw so is by what we give, not what we receive.” com for all the latest info on his books or to smoothly,” said Broeg, “that my guess is with Maxwell may have been talking about guys listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books luck he’d have pitched into the ‘50s.” Instead, like Pat Dwyer. In 1994, Pat Dwyer became are available online and can be found in the hurting his arm, the Ozark encyclopedist began the brainchild of the RBI Program in Houston, local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be Browns and Cardinals radio in 1941. A one- Texas. RBI stands for Recycled Baseball contacted at [email protected]. Also handed catch was “a la carte,” fly “can of corn,” Items. The idea was to collect old or used listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s quarrel “like argyin’ with a stump. Maybe you baseball equipment for underprivileged kids Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. city folks don’t know what a stump is. It’s who could not afford their own equipment to com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of somethin’ a tree has been cut down off of.” play the game. “I noticed that many players the Houston Astros. “Don’t fail to miss tomorrow’s game,” Dean brayed. Listeners seldom did. 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That sandcastle was the first one I have ever made like that and I had so much fun doing it. I had met a man the day before, on the same beach, that gave me some incredible tips. It made me feel like a kid Christian Durante, Drew Hicks, and Barton again to get in the sand, zone out and sculpt. Kenne caught this 72-inch 110 pound Wahoo

(above and left) while flat lining with live bait I grew up coming to the island to visit my grandparents and it’s 37 miles offshore in 225 feet of water. They always been my favorite place in Texas. This past week was my first report two-foot swells in cobalt blue water. time to bring my kids and family, and no one wanted to leave! We ended up extending our stay and staying an extra night, but it still The state record was set in 1987 at 124 wasn't enough. There’s definitely pounds and 73 inches. something magical about the island, and the healing ocean waters. It was a much needed vacation, (especially for my family - we have been through A LOT this past year. You can read the beginning of our healing journey and story on my website: www.laurencloud.com) and while on the beach I had NO muscle or joint pain, which I found incredibly interesting! Now I’m back in Houston with full on pain wishing I was on the island again.

Anyways, I just wanted to tell you thank you for making me feel special by taking my photo with my first sandcastle work of art. I would love a copy of it if it’s allowed! Thank you so much!

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1 of 1 7/21/2020, 1:05 PM July 23, 2020 Island Moon A 13 Full Transparency and Disclosure Home Fire Prevention and Safety Tips PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President By Todd Hunter, District 32 As one of the nation’s leading you need help in developing your unique plan, disaster relief organizations, the the American Red Cross has made fire escape As always, let me have be room for one or two members at a time. American Red Cross responds to thousands of plan worksheets available on its website https:// your thoughts. You can The meeting will be broadcast on the PIPOA disasters each year. While many might associate www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare- reach me at marvin@ Facebook page. The PIPOA apologizes for the organization’s outreach efforts with major for-emergencies/types-of-emergencies/fire/ pipoa.net any inconvenience. However, the health catastrophic events such as hurricanes and home-fire-preparedness.html. and wellbeing of members are priority one. Boat Ramps- This wildfires, the American Red Cross reports It is important to check fire alarms every month Please watch the video. past weekend, not one truck or boat trailer that home fires represent approximately 90 to make certain they are working properly was towed. A really big Thank you to all Island Parks- Has anyone been to an Island percent of its disaster response efforts. In fact, in the event of a fire and the batteries do not the members for picking up their stickers. park other than Billish Park? The weeds and home fires represent one of the biggest disaster need to be replaced. When smoke alarms fail to The unofficial and preliminary results of sticker burs are growing nicely on the City threats to families in the United States. Fires operate correctly, it is generally due to missing, the PIPOA survey show an overwhelming maintained parks. Did you notice the piles of kill more Americans each year than all-natural disconnected or depleted batteries. It is important majority want the boat ramps and parking lots palm fronds and other assorted yard materials disasters combined, and affect people from all to note smoke alarms should be replaced every to be for the exclusive use of the members. I dumped on the park grounds? For those that backgrounds and geographic locations. Given 10 years from the manufacturer’s date listed on will keep you informed of this matter. want the PIPOA to discontinue maintenance these startling statistics, the American Red the back of the alarm. According to the National Cross suggests tips, aimed at reducing deaths Fake News- In the March election, two bylaw of certain City properties within the PIPOA, Fire Protection Association, three out of five I encourage them to visit the City parks on and injuries resulting from home fires by 25%. home fire deaths occur in homes where there amendments were placed on the ballot. One As such, I would like to share some simple steps provided the Board with the responsibility to the Island. is no smoke alarm or no working smoke alarm, you can take to protect your family and home in which is why this is so important. set a date for the annual meeting. The other Channel Markers- The PIPOA is known as a the event of a home fire. required a subdivision to have covenants to be marine community. That is, boats and boaters In addition to following the American Red a member of the PIPOA. They both passed. abound on the Island and in the canals. The The American Red Cross has created a Cross’ tips to plan for fire safety, I would A social media site claimed the PIPOA PIPOA maintains the channel markers as a Home Fire Campaign to help families prepare encourage you to take the time to read more altered the recorded bylaws. Therefore, community service. The markers are actually for a home fire. The American Red Cross information about the different ways you can depriving the members of their right to vote on the Texas GLO sand. recommends taking the following steps in protect your home from a fire. This includes on bylaw changes. This is bovine excrement. protecting your home: Speeding Boats- Speeding boats in the keeping flammable objects a safe distance The Board’s Attorney wrote the bylaw canals is now and always has been a major • Install the right number of smoke alarms. from items that get hot, such as heaters and amendments. The bylaw amendments did problem. Last weekend I saw a boat literally Test them once a month and replace the stoves, never leaving a candle unattended, and contain typographical errors. The Attorney fly by a no-wake sign. Over the 4th of July batteries at least once a year. Purchase learning about safe cooking methods. To read has corrected the errors and refiled the weekend, the Texas Game Wardens were smoke alarms here. more about the different ways you can protect document. The Attorney has apologized for out in force in the canals. I spoke with the your home and family from fires, please visit the mistake. Amazingly, some people try to • Teach children what smoke alarms sound supervisor, and he said they had three boats the American Red Cross website https://www. discredit the PIPOA with conspiracy theories like and what to do when they hear one. patrolling. In addition, he mentioned that redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for- over simple word processing errors. • Ensure that all household members know three people had been arrested so far, arrested emergencies/types-of-emergencies/fire.html. two ways to escape from every room of Board Meeting- The next Board meeting as in handcuffed and taken to jail. This was The National Fire Protection Association also your home and know the family meeting is on Tuesday, July 28, 2020, at 5:30 PM. in addition to issuing several tickets. A big has information on fire, electrical and related spot outside of your home The location will be the Hyatt Place at 6773 Thank you to the Game Wardens for their hazards at https://www.nfpa.org/. S.P.I.D. beside the Salt Grass restaurant. Due diligence. Members, expect to see the Game • Establish a family emergency If you have questions regarding any of the to the government restrictions resulting from Wardens back on the water for the Memorial communications plan and ensure that all information mentioned in this week’s article, the COVID-19 virus, the number of persons day weekend. household members know who to contact please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or allowed in the meeting room is ten people at if they cannot find one another. Good News- New basketball goals and District Office. Please always feel free to a time. The ten people include the Board and hoops have been installed at Billish park. • Practice escaping from your home at least contact my office if you have any questions the videographer. Therefore, there will only twice a year. Press the smoke alarm test or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if button or yell “Fire” to alert everyone that you would like to contact my office regarding they must get out. constituent services. My offices are available at any time to assist with questions, concerns, Texas Comptroller Zahn Road Work • Make sure everyone knows how to call or comments (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; Crews are working to remake Zahn Road 9-1-1. District Office, 361-949-4603). Projects a Fiscal from the dune line to the beach but for • Teach household members to STOP, State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 reasons unknown also plan to tear out these DROP and ROLL if their clothes should cobblestones put in in 2011 by the private catch on fire Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). 2021 Ending owners of the adjacent development. Owners of He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. Also, it is important to develop and practice the Lively Beach development which is set to texas.gov or at 512-463-0672. home fire escape plans with your family. If Shortfall of $4.6 open August 1, said they are willing to maintain the cobblestone roadway if the private city Billion in State contracts will leave it in place. The street and sidewalk were put in by the original developers Corpus Christi – Padre Island when the project was called Tortuga Dunes at Budget their own expense. Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar this week Nueces County National Seashore to revised the Certification Revenue Estimate (CRE) and now projects a fiscal 2021 ending Health Authority Temporarily Modify shortfall of $4.58 billion in the state’s biennium budget. The state budget in Texas is done on a Issues Public Health Operations two-year cycle. The shortfall, which Hegar attributed to the Order Regarding to Implement Local COVID-19 pandemic and recent volatility in oil prices, is a decrease from the $2.89 billion positive year-end balance originally projected in In-Person School Health Guidance the October 2019 CRE. Padre Island National Seashore, in coordination Instruction with Nueces County, the cities of Corpus Christi In a July 20 letter to state leadership, Hegar said and Port Aransas and to support the nation’s the state will have $110.19 billion in General Local Health Authority Dr. Srikanth Ramachandruni has issued a Public Health effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19, Revenue-related (GR-R) funds available for will temporarily close vehicular access to general-purpose spending for the 2020-21 Order imposing specified control measures and restrictions for public schools offering in- North Beach and South Beach. The closure biennium, down from a projected $121.76 will remain in effect until 6:00 a.m. Saturday, billion in the October 2019 CRE. person instruction. Schools included in the Filing Period Begins order are all public independent school districts August 1, 2020. The ending balance does not include the impact that have school district boundaries in Nueces The following spaces continue to be available: of instructions from state leadership directing County. most agencies to reduce their spending by 5 for City Council • Bird Island Boat Ramp The following restrictions are effective July 16, percent of 2020-21 GR-R appropriations. Any of • Malaquite Beach pedestrian access these savings will reduce the projected shortfall. Candidates as of the execution of the Public Health Order The health and wellbeing of visitors and Similarly, the balance also does not assume any • School systems shall not re-open schools employees at Padre Island National Seashore further financial assistance from the federal for on-campus, face-to-face instruction until remains our top priority. We continue to work government as both the prospect and nature of Candidate Information after September 7, 2020. such assistance remain uncertain. closely with the National Park Service Office Available & COVID-19 • Virtual instruction shall be permitted as per of Public Health using Center for Disease The pandemic hit tax revenues hard across the a school system’s own plan. Control and Prevention guidance to ensure board, particularly hotel, motor vehicle sales, Filing Protocols • At least two weeks prior to re-opening public areas and workspaces are safe and clean severance and mixed beverage taxes. The state’s for visitors, employees, partners and volunteers. City Secretary Rebecca L. Huerta reminds for on-campus instruction and on-campus sales tax, its largest source of tax revenue, has Modifications to operations will be flexible, everyone that the City election for mayor and activities, the school or district shall develop held up better than some taxes, but still has fallen continually evaluated and adjusted as necessary three at-large and five district council member a plan to be submitted to the Corpus significantly. Fiscal 2020’s sales tax revenues, to ensure public health and safety. buoyed by strong collections in the first half of positions will be held on November 3, 2020. Christi/Nueces County Health Authority the year, are expected to finish about 1 percent The filing period for Corpus Christi residents for re-opening on-campus activities and We ask the public recreate responsibly by below fiscal 2019 totals, followed by a drop of interested in running for one of these positions instruction. The plan must be made available adopting social distancing practices and more than 4 percent in fiscal 2021. began, Monday, July 20, 2020 and continues to parents and the public. wearing a face covering when social distance through 5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 17, 2020. • Extra-curricular sports and activities are cannot be maintained. Additional trip planning The Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF, or and health guidance is available on the NPS Candidate information, including an excluded from the Order. the state’s “Rainy Day Fund”) and the State COVID-19 response website. Highway Fund (SHF) both receive funding from application form and the requirements for filing, • The Order may be renewed or extended by oil and natural gas severance taxes. In fiscal is contained in the 2020 Candidate Packet on further action if necessary. Updates on the park’s operations will be posted 2021, the ESF and SHF each will receive $1.1 the City Secretary’s webpage, under https:// on the park’s website and social media channels The Public Health Order can be read in billion in transfers from the General Revenue www.cctexas.com/detail/2020-election-central at www.nps.gov/PAIS. its entirety at https://www.cctexas.com/ Fund for severance taxes collected in fiscal at www.cctexas.com or in paper form at the City coronavirus 2020. Severance tax collections in fiscal 2021 Secretary’s Office, 1st Floor, City Hall, 1201 are expected to drop significantly from fiscal Leopard Street. Regular business hours are Grimsbo Announces 2020, resulting in smaller fiscal 2022 transfers Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to the ESF and SHF of about $620 million each. To reduce the chance of COVID-19 Rockport Beach Candidacy for After accounting for appropriations and transmission, individuals who wish to file in investment and interest earnings, this estimate person at the City Secretary’s Office Restricting Vehicular Corpus Christi City projects an ESF fiscal 2021 ending balance of • are subject to a temperature check upon $8.79 billion. entering City Hall; Traffic Council District 4 Proposition 7, an amendment to the Texas • are required to wear a face covering while Due to the increase in Covid19 cases in the Former city employee Constitution approved by Texas voters in in City Hall and in the City Secretary’s area, local officials have made the decision to Dan Grimsbo this 2015, requires the first $2.5 billion in sales tax Office; close vehicular traffic into Rockport Beach for week announced his collections exceeding $28 billion in any fiscal candidacy for District • must sanitize their hands, with hand the remainder of the month starting Sunday, year to be deposited to the SHF. The SHF will July 19 at 11:59 pm. 4 Corpus Christi receive $2.5 billion from sales taxes collected sanitizer provided, upon entering and City Council which in each year of the biennium, although the final exiting the City Secretary’s Office; The order will remain in effect until Saturday, represents Padre transfer from fiscal 2021 collections will not • are limited to only two people at a time August 1 at 6 a.m., or until further Order of Island and Flour Bluff. occur until September 2021, the first month of allowed in the City Secretary’s Office Aransas County, Aransas County Navigation Grimsbo was Director fiscal 2022. (i.e. only the candidate and/or one of the District and City of Rockport. of Development candidate’s representatives) and only one The beach will remain open to pedestrian Services from 2014-2016 and Executive of those two people are allowed at the traffic and continue normal hours of operation. Director of the City of Corpus Christi Water reception counter at a time; Aransas County Navigation District boat ramps Utilities Department from 2016 – 2020. • must maintain social distancing; and (other than the beach ramp) will also remain According to his bio Grimsbo moved to the City open. of Corpus Christi in 2005 when he was stationed • are strongly encouraged to make an to Naval Air Station (NAS) Corpus Christi where appointment, or, at a minimum, should he completed 21 years of Naval Service. After call the City Secretary’s Office at 361- his naval retirement Grimsbo worked at NAS 826-3105 before coming to City Hall, Corpus Christi Public Works Department as a due to scaled-back staffing in the Follow us on Facebook: civil engineer. His announcement listed three City Secretary’s Office related to the The Island Moon Newspaper priorities for the city; public safety, sustainable COVID-19 pandemic. water sources, and modernization of the city’s As a reminder, the $100 non-refundable Send photos and letters to: infrastructure. filing fee that must accompany a candidate’s [email protected] The District 4 seat is currently held by two- application, must be remitted in the form of term councilman Greg Smith who is eligible to cash, money order or a cashier’s check only Available FREE online run for re-election but has not yet announced his made payable to, “City of Corpus Christi” – at islandmoon.com plans. personal checks are not accepted. July 23, 2020 Island Moon A 14 Nature Notes Foreclosure Rescue Scams The Birder’s Jargon By Emily Gaines | PR Coordinator for BBB serving the Heart of Texas By Martin Hagne It’s no secret that many consumers are • Talk to your lender. You can reach out birds… you can take it to any level you wish! I suppose every hobby, struggling financially during these trying to your lender to restructure your loan The one thing that really helps to see birds no sport, pastime, and times. Unfortunately, some are at risk of losing payment or refinance. Scammers running matter what your level of involvement is a pair obsession has their own words and jargon used their homes. In an already stressful situation, a foreclosure rescue scam may offer of binoculars. But who as time to call out for a while pursuing that activity. Some even carry scammers are targeting vulnerable homeowners. to “negotiate” with a lender on your pair of binoculars when in the midst of seeing over from a professional side of said hobby. behalf… for a significant fee. If you’re that rare birds! Binos! A few folks still stick to There are a few versions of foreclosure rescue Over time words and phrases develop that only uneasy talking to the lender yourself, ask “binocs,” but most just shorten it to “binos.” Oh scams. In one, the scammer offers to “buy” the seem to be found in those circles. So it’s no a trusted friend or relative to assist you. and if you have a nice, big, fancy spotting scope property by paying off the overdue amount on the great surprise that the world of birding does as mounted on a tripod to view far away with… loan, then convinces the homeowner to transfer • Do your own paperwork. Never allow well. the deed to a third-party owner. The homeowner anyone to complete paperwork for you, that’s just a scope. is then offered the opportunity to rent the house and read contracts closely before signing So you’ve gotten serious about those birds. and eventually buy it back. But the new rent is anything. Victims of this scam signed quit- Now you are keeping track of every one you higher than the homeowner can afford, and they claim deeds, thinking they were signing see on lists or on eBird or other listing software. are evicted. documents to secure a new mortgage. You might be keeping a list for your yard, a list • Watch for red flags. Be wary of “rescuers” of birds seen in your state, or country or… you that approach you, through mail, phone or get the picture. Now you are a… lister! You email. Some scammers may instruct you tick off species on the list as you see them. not to contact your attorney or mortgage Today I got a text from my coworker Sue from company. If the rescuer requests to be paid the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory about a fairly in gift cards or wire transfer, or pressures rare bird that had been found in our area. It you to sign a contract quickly, cut off wasn’t long before my girlfriend Denise and I contact. were loaded up in the truck with our binos and • Check BBB. If you are considering a deal scope driving over to the refuge to try to find with a company that offers to buy your it. We were chasing that bird! Well no, not home, check their business profile on like getting out and running after it chasing it BBB.org to see if they are trustworthy. or chasing it away… just going to find it to see it. Chasing! We did manage to find it, making Another version includes the scammer reaching • Search for information. Foreclosure it a successful chase. By the way, in Britain it out via phone call, text or email, claiming prevention information is available for is called twitching… chase a bird and tick it off they can lower mortgage payments to help the free at the HOPE hotline. Educating the list. homeowner avoid foreclosure. They ask for yourself on your options and the correct That same bird was a bird Denise had never payment for their services, and once they have processes is the best way to avoid falling A lister staring through binos, looking for seen before in her life, and made it extra the money, they disappear without delivering on victim to a scam. a lifer. Photo by Celeste Silling special. It was a lifer, a new bird on her life list the promised outcome. You can find more information on scams like of birds she has now seen. Lifers, especially If you’re worried about your mortgage or facing this at BBB.org, or report a foreclosure rescue First of all, is it bird watching or is it birding? the more rare ones, are certainly a reason to foreclosure, consider these tips from your Better scam at BBB.org/ScamTracker. Some say it’s the same thing, but many say that celebrate. So now a growing part of birders are Business Bureau: bird watching or being a bird watcher is maybe now celebrating with lifer pie. Yes, it really more on the “easy” side of the hobby, enjoying is pie! Eat some pie for every day with a new backyard birds and casually watching birds lifer. around your area. The more serious hobbyists The Barnacle Line define birding or being a birder as more on the And that seems to be a good place to end this By Del Smith “serious” side, even competitive, keeping lists deep lesson into the birding lingo! Enjoy the of birds for every outing, and traveling solely birds... and hopefully with some lifer pie! Coming soon! Now don’t get Day”, which confirms that gal’s reasoning for for the purpose. That’s the beauty of enjoying your hopes up, this is NOT being an “ex”. ---- I twig this gam be nay the another soon-to-be-failed Padre way fer a lotman, back from scouring the seas, Project. 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By Ronnie Narmour became another French Quarter. But back then, Antone’s was among the few breaking ground [email protected] on an area considered to be the bad part of town. What day is it? We were on 6th and Brazos, directly across Does anybody know what from the Driscoll Hotel. On our short block day this is? Seriously, it’s all one continuous between Brazos and Congress Avenue was OK blur. I’ve worked in bars in one way or the other Records on one side and Joey’s Tavern on the since 1975. And since the bars are now closed, other. On the corner by the alley was the Cat every day seems the same. I’ve got no big show Man’s Shine Parlor. The only other places I to end the week with, not to mention no show to remember on the street was The Lamplight, The tell you about. The world is sick right now, in so Green Spot, The Ritz Theater, The One Knight, many ways, and in need of huge doses of TLC. Gordo’s Billiards and the Old Pecan Street Hopefully, our latest COVID shutdown will Cafe. And that was about it. Ester’s Follies was send this monster packing for good. We’ll find out soon enough. As for me, I’m going back to the vault. Here’s one I wrote back in 2009 when I was living in my van on the beach. This week RN & Lavelle White & Sugar Bear (1994 Paris). is the 45th Anniversary of the storied Antone’s Nightclub in Austin and I thought this piece Music was abounding… days. That friendship ended me up in some wild situations throughout the years like the that I wrote many years ago would be only Music was night he got home from touring Europe with fitting. Enjoy and happy anniversary to Susan abounding and I the Clash and we ended up at Donna’s Club Antone, Ilse Haynes, Derek O’Brien, Denny was right in the at sunrise playing pool for money and using an Freeman, Rod Craig, Mike Keller, Jimmy middle of it. I took onion for an 8 ball. Vaughan, Kim Wilson, Johnny Moeller, for granted that Mark Kazanoff, Lavelle White, Eddie Stout, I was within an Pay attention boy… Lou Ann Barton, Marcia Ball and all my entire population old pals at Antone’s. BTW the club opened 45 of artists. I guess I’ll never forget the night at Antone’s when I years ago with the “King of Zydeco” Clifton I figured that was setting up the bar for a big show, I think it Chenier and celebrated their anniversary this RN & James Cotton (1993). was James Cotton. The other two bartenders, RN and Junior Wells everyone could week with a virtual concert from his son, the play ping pong Eric and Jack, and I were horsing around as we “Crown Prince of Zydeco” C.J. Chenier. on the horizon. The band Storm played the (San Antonio 1993). prepped the bar, when Clifford Antone came up One Knight all the time...Jimmy Vaughan on backstage at the ‘Dillo with Boz to us. He had a serious tone about him, “You Back to the vault… guitar, Denny Freeman on keys, Paul Ray on boys need to pay attention. You think these vocals, Doyle Bramhall on drums and Kieth Scaggs or poker until dawn with Albert King. Townes taught me to play street craps at his shows happen everywhere all the time? Some Furgeson on bass. Not a bad band. Every one day there won’t be any more Muddy Waters of those guys spawned into other noteworthy apartment in Clarksville while Joe Ely was crashing on my floor in South Austin, trying or Jimmy Reed shows. I just hope one of you bands such as the Fabulous T Birds and The is paying attention.” And, something right then Cobras, both of which became the house bands to get a gig and get discovered. I was raised in Lubbock and have known the whole Flatlander and there moved me and changed me forever. at the new Antone’s. Clifford would do blues So I did...pay attention. I still am. legends on the weekends...Muddy Waters, regime since dirt. I had the only running car, Buddy Guy, Bobby Bland, Clifton Chenier, “The Slugmobile”, in the household and would ♫♪♫ And that’s the truth ♫♪♫ James Cotton, B.B. King, Lazy Lester, Junior have to drop Joey off on the Drag to play for Wells, etc... and play the T-Bird or Cobras the tips, some days. We called him Earl in those rest of the time. The Cobras had a new guitarist, Jimmy’s little brother Stevie Ray, playing with Clifford Antone and C.J. Chenier. them. Stevie was the pain-in-the-rear new kid that lived around the corner and always needed Something drives me to write about a place a ride to the gig, that night. He did pretty well and time, another lifetime ago, when I was Live Music for himself. growing up in the bars of Austin and being privy to a music explosion. When I was a The Dillo… college student at U.T. in 1975 I was thrown to the wolves one Saturday night at the steak Tonight joint I was waiting tables and the bartender quit and walked out on the job. I became a bartender right then and there. That was the year “liquor Monday, August 3 by the drink” became legal in Texas. The steak Thursday, July 23 Open Jam @ Giggity’s joint was called Montana Mining Company Free Beer Band @ TEMPORARILY Giggity’s and the weekend music provided was no less Tuesday, August 4 Jerrod Medulla @ Back that Steven Fromholtz and Alan Damron. I Paul & Victoria @ Porch CLOSED AS COVID remember serving drinks to Richard O’Hair Giggity’s and listening to his stories of being a CIA Dave’s Duo @ Shorty’s PRECAUTION Wednesday, August 5 operative in Mexico, until his wife the famous Friday, July 24 Jim Dugan@ Giggity’s atheist, Madeline Murray, would drag him off Ray Wylie Hubbard @ by his ear in full huff. Back Porch 132 W. Cotter St. Port A Thursday, August 6 Brooke Graham Beach On the Waterfront Free Beer Band @ Making mad dog margaritas… Bash @ Gaff Giggity’s Johnny Boy @ Giggity’s Ruben V @ Back Porch Aloha Dave @ Shorty’s Dave’s Duo @ Shorty’s RN and Joe Ely (Rockport 2017). DaBaby, Mo3 @ Concrete Treasure Island Street Friday, August 7 All of this is at a time when the Armadillo Gary P. Nunn @ Back Saturday, July 25 World Headquarters was peaking and doing Porch BELT SANDER RACES TEMPORARILY CLOSED shows like Ray Charles, Commander Cody, Johnny Boy @ Giggity’s @ Gaff Grateful Dead, The New Riders of the Independent Thieves @ Brooke Graham Beach AS COVID PRECAUTION Shorty’s Purple Sage, Maria Muldair, Bette Midler, Bash @ Gaff The Pointer Sisters, or Jerry Jeff Walker, Thomas Michael Riley @ Saturday, August 8 etc. Greezy Wheels became their house band. Back Porch 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Toman Bros @ Giggity’s Elsewhere, Soap Creek Saloon was doing stuff Chanklas @ Giggity’s treasureislandporta Larry Joe Taylor @ Back like The Meters, Delbert McClinton or Doug Back Pew Revival @ Porch RN & JR. Medlow (1988 Austin) Shorty’s Sahm and Castle Creek Saloon would have Ty Dietz @ Shorty’s the likes of Townes Van Zandt, Lightning Sunday, July 26 Hopkins, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Leon Sunday, August 9 Having earned the title as a real bartender, the Antone & All Stars @ Redbone or Mance Lipscomb. I’d be failing Antone & All Stars @ next job I got was at the Texas Chili Parlour. Giggity’s my duties here if I didn’t mention The Split Rail Giggity’s This was in the heyday of the cosmic cowboy Brooke Graham Beach and many a night listening to Frieda and the invasion of Austin. Candy Kicker, the KOKE Bash @ Gaff Firedogs, Alvin Crow or Kenneth Threadgill. TEMPORARILY Monday, August 10 FM dj was a good friend of mine as was her (If these names mean nothing to you, then Open Jam @ Giggity’s husband the renowned outlaw journalist, Monday, July 27 might as well stop reading now.) Open Jam @ Giggity’s CLOSED AS COVID Nelson Allen. I did some serious growing up at Tuesday, August 11 Paul & Victoria @ the Chili Parlour making mad dog margaritas Tuesday, July 28 PRECAUTION Giggity’s for likes of Guy Clark and Hunter Thompson. Paul & Victoria @ Gary “Jap” Cartwright, the Texas Monthly Giggity’s OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. Wednesday, August 12 writer, got married one night back in the kitchen Jered Clark @ Giggity’s where we cooked the chili. It wasn’t uncommon Wednesday, July 29 Jimmy Willden @ to have a full bar of musicians, writers, artists Thursday, August 13 Giggity’s and actors all either gathering material or Free Beer Band @ polishing up their acts. One of the bartenders I Giggity’s Thursday, July 30 Jesse Stratton @ Back worked with, Eric Anderson, told me about a Free Beer Band @ Porch new blues bar that was about to open downtown Giggity’s Dave’s Duo @ Shorty’s and they were looking for bartenders. That’s Zach Walther @ Back Josh Ward, Copper Chief @ when I went to work for Clifford Antone. Porch Brewster Street Dave’s Duo @ Shorty’s Early days at Antone’s… Friday, August 14 Friday, July 31 Antone’s in 1975 was one of only about a dozen Valetta @ Sunset Sounds Mike O’Neill @ Giggity’s or less bars on Sixth Street. I ended up spending RN and Lazy Lester (Antone’s 2015). Back Pew Revival @ Starlite & the Moonbeams Giggity’s more than a decade on that street, before it @ Shorty’s Aloha Dave @ Shorty’s

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