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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 September 10, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Island Political Island The Kids Are Back! Action By Dale Rankin We weathered the Labor Day Storm Committee and all in all it wasn’t so bad. In spite of 101 traffic stops on our little Gears up for sandbar over the weekend we still had eleven wrecks along the SPID City Elections corridor. You know it’s been a busy weekend Be Informed, Vote, over on the beach side of Padre Island when you drive down Whitecap and Help IUPAC on Monday morning and catch that pungent aroma of raw sewage Unify an Island wafting out of the Whitecap Stink Factory. When all of that weekend Voice effluent from the touristy side of By IUPAC town makes its way to the four-inch The Island United Political Action force main near the Gypsy Bridge Committee (IUPAC), will hold three and the pump backs` up, well, it Candidate Endorsement Forums to smells like a busy Island weekend. endorse candidates in the upcoming Some weekends we hit the quinella About 80 percent of the students at Seashore Charter Schools took the option of returning city elections. and our little sandbar is both affluent to the classroom in person this week. More photos on page A2 and effluent. As holiday weekends IUPAC is a non-partisan Island go this one wasn’t as jammed up as group committed to creating a unified some as there was some open beach Island voice in city elections and still available south of The Bowl. See Lifeguards Save Nine-Year- LaPosada endorses candidates in the races for the traffic numberson page A5 of this District 4 City Council, Three At- issue Old Girl from Drowning 2020 is ON! Large council seats, and Mayor. Lighted Boat IUPAC cont. on A4 Parades will see Bob Hall changes but will Demolition happen Now Under By Fred Edler Labor Day near Bob Hall Pier. After a great deal of thought, Scrutiny The good news around here is that discussion and Community outreach, we got a bit of relief from the heat in the LaPosada Foundation has made Engineering firm the form of what passes for a Cool the decision to hold the LaPosada Front and the temperature dropped all IBC Bank 2020 Lighted Boat asks for more time the way down to somewhere south of Parades. stifling and sticky. While the Weather By Dale Rankin The Parades will be held Friday, Wonks won’t say it out loud locals One week after the announcement December 11 & Saturday, December know that when the first cool front from a county official that Bob 12. blows in the Jet Stream has wound its Hall Pier would be torn down due way southward and for all intents and The family back together. While we have concerns about the to damage from Hurricane Hannah purposes the Hurricane Season for us COVID-19 Virus, we have had so Nueces County Commissioners on is over even though it officially runs For a quarter of an hour the parents many community leaders, sponsors Wednesday said not so fast. through November 30. There are still called for their daughter and waited and individuals encouraging us a couple of storms rattling around out while city lifeguards searched the to hold the Parades, we made the there but let’s hope the pattern holds nearshore waters. There was hope decision to proceed with the Lighted true for 2020. as the girl was known to be a strong Boat Parades. swimmer and had a paddle board La Posada There will be several changes this with her. We’ve had several questions this year to make the Parades and the week about the La Posada Lighted Lifeguards said the rip currents supporting activities safe. While the flowed south to north near the shore changes will continue to evolve as Boat Parade for 2020 so organizer The lifeguards found the girl several Fred Edler sent us an update which but reversed course further out to we get closer to the Parades and the hundred yards south of where she sea. Lifeguards searched the water status of the virus in our community; The cement panels on the pier will we include in this issue. If there is went into the water. one thing we can say about Islanders near the shore to the north of the spot the Lighted Boat Parades will follow be removed this week. it is that they like to plan their parties where the girl entered the water and the same routes and times as last year. not finding her began working further in advance. Some of us even leave A Corpus Christi couple lived Because of the virus and the changes Nueces County Judge Barbara out while moving south and found the our Christmas lights up all year! through a parent’s worst nightmare we have had to make, we expect our Canales told the court that the girl just outside the breakers. She was early Monday morning when their annual donation to the U.S. Marines engineering firm studying the damage County budget nine year old daughter disappeared upset but unharmed. has asked for more time to inspect As we went to press Wednesday into the surf on Whitecap Beach. Dale Rankin LaPosada cont. on A4 the forty-year old structure before a Nueces County Commissioners final decision is made. Canales said approved their budget for the 2020- Bob Hall cont. on A2 2021 budget. We will have a complete A little Island history review next time when we have time to look through it. Tax rules are Repairs to clear as mud but here’s a thumbnail; Early September Has Been an Active Time for property values on Padre Island are Offshore Well up about 8 percent and 10 percent in Coastal Bend Hurricanes Port Aransas the amount of county By Dale Rankin Continue property tax on each $100,000 of property value will actually drop by As the first cool front of the season Taking longer than $2.66. That means if your property rolls through historically speaking value didn’t change you will pay it marks the effective close to the expected less, but keep in mind that is across local hurricane season. Nueces County. On Padre Island and But in years past the list of in Port Aransas with values up 8% the hurricanes that have slammed into countywide drop will be offset by the the Texas Coast in the first two increase in property value. As is often weeks of September is a regular the case the large print giveth and the rogues gallery of storms. The most small print taketh away. devastating storm to this area was The good news is that across the the 1919 Hurricane which swept county property taxes are going up away downtown Corpus Christi by 2.7 percent which is better than and inundated much of The Island. the 8 percent we have had in most We dodged a bullet in 1988 when recent years. A change in the state tax the massive Hurricane Gilbert set law in the last session of the Texas his sights on The Island. The storm Photo by Scott McKinstry Legislature cut the amount of tax grew to a Category 5 and bore down The surge tide from Hurricane Ike ran visitors off the beach at the seawall. on The Island. The barometric hikes allowed from the traditional of the Rio Grande. Then just two history of the hurricanes that have Repairs to the rig two miles offshore pressure recorded in Gilbert’s eye 8 percent to 3.5 percent annually years ago it was Ike who threatened hit our Island in the first half of from Bob Hall Pier that blew natural was the lowest ever recorded in the without an election and this is the first an early September arrival on The September. gas and condensate for almost twenty western hemisphere and the storm’s budget cycle the new rules have been Island before turning north toward four hours last week have hit a snag winds grew to 185 m.p.h. As Gilbert in effect. Galveston. Hurricane Ike 2008 and will take longer than they first neared landfall the eye began to believed. The end of summer is two weeks designate and the storm turned So keep your fingers crossed and Hurricane Ike in 2008 was one away everybody. Say hello if you see southward making landfall south your tank full of gas. Here’s a brief that we played chicken with and us Around The Island. History cont. on A4 Repairs cont. on A2 September 10, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Bob Hall cont. from A1 Seashore Happenings the final assessment is due by September 29. The t-shaped structure at the end of the pier was destroyed and the question at hand is whether to repair the pier or take it down and rebuild it. In the meantime, she said, a company has been hired for $189,050 to remove the concrete panels on the pier this week to make it easier to inspect the substructure. She said the county has received three bids for removal of debris from the damaged pier from surrounding water. The number for repairs reported last week was $13.4 million but Precinct 4 Nueces County Commissioner First graders in Dawn Brent Chesney said this week he doesn’t believe Seashore Middle Academy White's class work at the ends that will be the final cost once the engineering sixth grader Lacy Gould of tables, further protected by studies are done. sanitizes a laptop at the end of shields in-between. Students her Technology Applications and teachers were excited Canales said Wednesday the estimated cost class. Students and teachers to work together in person of local damage from Hurricane Hanna is clean surfaces and shared after leaving campus prior to Hurricane Damage exposed rusty rebar in the understructure of the pier. now $60.5 million with some of the repair equipment at the end of each spring break 6 months ago. costs, including up to 80 percent of Bob Hall period. Pier, could come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. County officials said last week that the building that houses Mikel May’s Beachside Bar & Grill, built separately after the main pier structure, sustained only minimal damage but business owner May Nardone said this week she does not expect the business to be open until at least the early 2021.

The forty year old pier is showing its age. SMA PE students play "Head Penguin" on the first day of Aerial photos by Jason Cox, Island Escapes. school. The throwing and catching volleyball-style game allowed them to play together while social distancing.

Seashore Middle Academy students move from one class to another following the new hallway protocol. The hall was divided into lanes for moving in different directions, with faculty making sure students maintained appropriate distance. The parking lot is now under construciton.

Mikel May's is not expected to reopen for several more months.

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Abigail Bair Contributing Writers Joey Farah Andy Purvis Mary Craft Emily Gaines Jay Gardner Todd Hunter Dotson Lewis Dr. Tom Dorrell Ronnie Narmour Brent Rourk Edna Jean Allison Photographers Miles Merwin (Emeritus) Dinkler, R.N. Edna Jean Allison Dinkler, R.N., age 92, Debbie Noble passed away in Ellijay, GA, on September Jan Rankin 5, 2020, after a short illness. Born Edna Mary Craft Jean Allison in Mechanicstown, OH, on Ronnie Narmour August 7, 1928, the first child of Katherine Colleen Wingfield Allison and William Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) Boyd Allison. The oldest of five children, Riley P. Dog Edna graduated Carrollton High School in 1946, and attended West Penn Hospital School of Nursing, earning her R.N. degree in 1949. Initially commissioned in the U.S. Navy, she transitioned to the U.S. Air Force, earning the nickname "Skipper" which she shortened to 'Skipp' and used thereafter instead of Edna. As a First Lieutenant, she was stationed at Fort Richardson, Alaska, during the Korean Conflict where she met and married Dr. Fred Dinkler Jr. in June of 1952. Leaving the service in 1953, she La Posada Boat Parade is still on for this year but with some changes. There will not be a and Dr. Fred eventually settled in Houston, Kickoff Party with auction. The La Posada committee is also looking at alternative ways to Publisher TX, and raised three sons - Fred Dinkler collect toys. The parades will be on December 11th and 12th. Dale Rankin III, William B. Dinkler, and Earl T. Dinkler. JB’s German Bakery is closed for vacation and will reopen Saturday, September 19th. About the Island Moon The family moved to a farm outside The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale Indianola, IA, in 1966. She and Dr. Fred Kevin Fowler will be performing at Brewster Street Icehouse on Saturday, September 12th. Rankin, Editor / Publisher. retired to Corpus Christi, TX in 1976. After Padre Acoustic Post Apocalypse Meeting will be held at the Pelican Lounge on Monday, Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes her husband's death in 2015, she moved to September 14th at 7:30 pm. All acoustic musicians are invited to play, learn and enjoy acoustic delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 Ellijay, GA. music. copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 A lover of the ocean, Skipp owned and Rockport Farmers Market is held every second Saturday at 105 S. Austin Street 9 am - noon. copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. operated a variety of sailboats, and built For what it’s worth - on my seawall walk I spoke to someone on the Holiday Inn grounds News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, a home on the water on a barrier island who said the hotel will be opening the beginning of the coming year. payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. community, Padre Isles, south of Corpus The Island Moon Newspaper Christi, TX. Her wish to live full-time on their catamaran "Plan B" was cut short 14646 Compass, Suite 3 by her husband's heart surgery. A lifelong Corpus Christi, TX 78418 seamstress, she specialized in embroidery and decoration. She and Dr Fred were co- POA or subdivision rules were granted. There area and has been put to a test time and time 361-949-7700 founders of the Island Presbyterian Church were no variances, the ACC deemed the plans to again. So rebuild so it may continue its legacy on Padre Island, Corpus Christi, TX. be in keeping with the rules as written. The real with all the up coming generations to enjoy. [email protected] question before the court is whether the design Charles Mikolajczyk Jr. - Typically, Structural Skipp was preceded in death by her of the new houses is in keeping with the existing Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper parents, her husband, Dr. Fred Dinkler Jr. Concrete like that was used has a life-cycle of houses. That is the judgment that the ACC had 50-yrs...Less when exposed to saltwater. (1925 - 2015), a son, Captain William B. to make, in fact making judgments like that is Dinkler, US Army, (1954 - 1982), a sister, why they exist. Won't be long before the JFK will need a major Patricia Anne Elliott Peach (1935 - 2016) makeover...probably that main objective for the , and a brother Ralph Roy Allison (1942 - As for why the GLO cares about rent houses I proposed Regional Prkwy Bridge Project. 2014.) She is survived by a sister, Carolyn can’t say for certain. The program included a Ross Poldark - Honestly it seems like another Where to Find The Beatrice Wagner Hannon of Mountain total of 21 houses of which 51 percent had to be case of deferred maintenance around here. Home, AR, a brother, Wendell Boyd leased to people with household incomes that When was the last time the pier was inspected? Island Moon Allison of Tempe, AZ, a son, Fred Dinkler qualified, the rest go at market rates. Without I’m guessing never. We seem to want to award III of Livingston, TX, a son, Earl T. Dinkler being privy to the intent of the program it seems new construction contracts versus awarding of Ellijay, GA, two grandchildren, Fred to be a carrot and stick approach. The idea maintenance contracts. Port North Dinkler IV of Atlanta, and Allison Griffin was to provide housing for lower-middle class Dinkler of Roswell, GA, and two great income renters (the stick) and the reward for So now we have lost the pier and it will be 5+ Aransas Padre doing that (the carrot) was to allow the builders years before it is rebuilt, if at all. Gulf Stream RV grandchildren, Tyler Bailey and Adalynn All Stripes Stores Keene of Roswell, GA. to lease out 49 percent of the houses at market Pioneer RV value, which is likely what will happen with the Black Sheep/ A memorial service is planned for a future houses on The Island. Stripes on 1A date in Corpus Christi where her and Did Ya' Hear? Barrel I hope that helps. Dr. Fred's ashes will be scattered on the Naomi Mimi Hamilton - I live practically My Coastal Home CVS ocean she so loved. The family requests Bob Hall Pier story on top of the Inn and the south side is almost WB Liquor Store Dollar General any donations be made in Skipp's name to completed but the north side is nowhere close Jack Cooper - Hopefully when they do the Island Wine Room Whataburger Island Presbyterian Church in Padre Isles, including the rooms. Maybe they are planning Corpus Christi, Tx. demo they take those concrete pieces out a little on opening the bar area to make the money to Kody’s Doc’s Restaurant ways and start another artificial reef pay for completing the job. Their pretty tight Coffee Waves Snoopy’s Pier Aaron Price- Leave the concrete structure for lipped about it and it would be nice to hear From Our Facebook Page SOMETHING, as looking at trash for three Moby Dicks fishermen. Build a new pier a couple hundred Isle Mail N More Dale's Column yards away from it. years is pretty sad. Just saying. IGA Island Italian Ward Jones - Dale, I heard some interesting Teresa Johnson - I have such special memories Ginger Mabry DePalma - So glad to hear of Treasure Island things on how quickly these housing projects of the Bob Hall Pier. We arrived late at night things reopening!!! Brooklyn Pie Co. got approved at the city and POA level. Got any Ms. Woody’s on our honeymoon and walked out on the pier story on that? In a city where everything takes Automotive Ace Hardware almost 44 years ago. Many happy memories months and years it seems kinda fishy when over the years. Kudos to Ronnie Port A Glass Studio Texas Star (Shell) something sails through in mere days. Ronnie, Jeffrey Ferris- "Concrete slabs that could be San Juan’s Restaurant Jesse’s Liquor Ruben Bomar - You got the nerd in me all removed in the event of a future storm" yet they Your column always brings a smile to my face, especially in these times. I really enjoyed Wash Tub Scuttlebutt’s excited with construction and POA talk. So stayed on the pier which I'm sure added more I read the article. Half way into it you drop getting to know your backstory during the Restaurant frictions from the waves. The pier was also just Woody’s Sports bombs. I mean what in Sam Hill is the GLO inspected a few weeks before Hanna and was closed-down portion of the summer music Center Subway building houses for? And rental houses at that! giving a good bill of health. Oddly the same venues. I also didn't know your Mermaid gal Of course as soon as I had asked myself that worked for Jace, or that she really had a name. Back Porch Bar Island Tire inspector called back out and said it’s beyond question. You answered it. I thank you. Rarely repair. Hanna was a little Cat 1 storm. I worked with Jace years ago at the Bays & Shorty’s Place do I read an article where my internal questions Estuaries Program-good guy. Padre Pizzeria Gene Guernsey- Drop it in place. Leave it there Fisherman’s Wharf are answered further down the page. I’m still And all Moon to create a reef structure. Build the new pier to I think it's great you're still encouraging people curious about 1 thing. Why does the GLO care to mask up and stressing the importance of Giggity’s retail advertisers whether it’s a rental house or a home owner? (I the North about were the access road comes in. Build the new pier with removable panels so being safe, washing hands. Too many times I've Gratitude get that’s probably an entirely different article). WB Liquor when a storm comes it can be disassembled (for seen in Jetty pictures from fishing tournaments, The Gaff Editor’s note: Let’s start from the top. real this time.) gatherings, and there is absolutely no social Trinity By the Sea distancing and there are no masks. Flour Bluff Based on what I heard at the court hearing in Alberto Zuniga - I think the concept of Episcopal H.E.B. the case last week the permitting process for the removable panels sounds good, but I’m not Johnscott and I don't miss the island Port five houses went like this. The house builders sure it’s practical. The panels need to be A has become, but your column reminds us Whataburger on took a set of plans to the Architectural Control sturdy enough for normal wear and tear, which of the special people and memories that the Waldron Committee for review and got a preliminary means they would likely be heavy and require island gave us. It's supposed to snow Tuesday, approval of the stem foundations and overall and we've got our beanie hats ready (we don't Ethyl Everly substantial equipment to remove. If the process design of the houses in the form of a letter. Based of removing them is costly and time consuming, miss the heat either). Stay safe and know your Senior Center on that pre-approval the builders then went to how does one make the call to do it. I don think writing gives comfort to a lot of people...music Fire Station the city with plans pending official approval of many expected Hana to be an issue until it was or no music. the plans by the ACC. That sped up the process. too late. Flora Buerger Police Station Again, according to court testimony, the plans then were filed with ACC and were officially Patricia Cisneros-Ortiz - Do what needs to be Stripes on Flour done, it’s been a legacy in our Coastal Bend Bluff & SPID approved in twelve days. That seems quick but keep in mind that the ACC had already reviewed the plans before they were officially submitted and knew what was coming. It is also important Send letters and photos to editor@ to note that in approving the plans no waivers to Letters to Ed cont. on A4 islandmoon.com September 10, 2020 Island Moon A 4

History cont. from A1 force winds measured 575 miles in diameter. IUPAC cont. from A1 It came roaring across the Gulf of Mexico In the past IPUAC endorsements have been use to vote to [email protected]. won. We got water to the top of the seawall with North Padre Island right in its sights done through public meeting but because of We will verify your voter registration and enter and eventually a huge amount of flotsam and until it stalled offshore like a hurricane that the coronavirus, this year it will be conducting your information in our email database. Later jetsam on PINS but little in the way of damage. couldn’t make up its mind. While it tried to the Candidate Endorsement Forums virtually in September we will send you ballots for the decide where to go its eye split into producing Ike became a hurricane on September 3, and using Zoom, and will be relying predominately endorsements. two less dangerous storms rolled into one. on email voting to determine who will receive reached an estimated peak intensity of 145 Normally, only one ballot from each registered But as often happens Gilbert decided to chart endorsements. Do not miss out on your chance mph (Category 4) on September 4 when it was email is accepted. If you have other voters in a course for Mexico. to vote and to create a strong Island voice in our located 550 miles northeast of the Leeward your household (immediate family living with local elections. Islands. I was sent here to cover it and I remember you) who will be voting using the same email, standing on the beach looking up at only Ike developed a large wind field as it moved Islanders will be able to watch on their please make that known when you register partly cloudy skies and spitting rain as the northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico with computers and phones how candidates present and we will contact you to make the necessary storm veered south and went in near the town tropical-storm-force winds extending up to themselves and address the pressing issues. The arrangements to ensure that all eligible votes are of La Pesca on the Mexican Gulf Coast on 275 miles from the center and hurricane-force coming election is important in the history of counted. the evening of September 16th as a strong our Island and city, as well as the nation, and it winds extending up to 115 miles from the If you are unable to vote by email, you will be Category 3 hurricane. Gilbert’s remnants is vital that we know the candidates and issues center. The hurricane gradually intensified as it able to vote in person at the Property Owners spawned 29 tornadoes over Texas two days so that we become informed voters and create moved across the Gulf toward the Texas coast. Association office using a paper ballot. To later. It produced 8 to 13 feet at landfall in an Island voice for local elections. Help select verify that votes are cast by eligible registered Ike made landfall over the north end of mainland Mexico. the candidates that IUPAC will support in the Galveston Island in the early morning hours voters, you will have to complete the ballot We dodged a bullet. November election. of September 13 as a Category 2 hurricane in full and include your name, address, voter IUPAC Candidate Endorsement Forums will registration number (if readily available), with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph. 1919 Hurricane It produced gusts of hurricane strength as be held on the following evenings: contact information, and sign the ballot. The Before Hurricane Celia, and still for the City far north as Canada. Storm surges of 15-20 September 29th @ 6:30pm CST - Mayoral dates and times for in person voting will be of Corpus Christi proper, the 1919 storm – feet above normal tide levels occurred along Candidates publicized later in the month via the Island the Bolivar Peninsula of Texas and in much before they were named – was The Storm. It Moon, our Facebook page, our website, and via September 30th @ 6:30pm CST - At Large of the Galveston Bay area, with surges of hit town as a Category 4 on September 14 with e-blast. a storm surge of up to 12 feet and ranked as Candidates up to 10 feet above normal occurring as far Your prioritized votes are key to creating a the third most intense to hit the United States. east as south central Louisiana. Storm total October 1st @ 6:30pm CST - District 4 unified Island voice about the candidates we The storm made landfall between Baffin Bay rainfalls from Ike were as much as 19 inches Candidates want to see representing us. Voting closes at and Corpus Christi putting Padre Island on in southeastern Texas which was the reason for noon on Monday, October 5th. IUPAC will the dirty side of the eye. Candidates will answer selected questions the large amount of debris that found its way so that Islanders have a better idea about how support the winning candidates with signs on to our shores. Two Category 4 hurricanes had made landfall they might represent us. See the Candidate the ISLAND to advertise and garner support Ike's storm surge devastated the Bolivar on the Texas Coast in the previous four years, Endorsement Forums live streamed or recorded for our chosen candidates. Get involved in Peninsula, and surge, winds, and flooding one at Galveston in August of 1915 and the on Facebook or YouTube. our community by watching the Candidate from heavy rains caused widespread damage second near Baffin Bay in August of 1916. It Endorsement Forums and voting. led to the belief by some that the barrier island After viewing the IUPAC Candidate in other portions of southeastern Texas, There are many important local issues we call home protected Corpus Christi from a Endorsement Forums, Island registered voters western Louisiana, and Arkansas. Twenty according to Islanders; police protection, road devastating storm surge. should vote either by e-mail (preferred) or by people were killed in these areas, with 34 paper ballot. repair, city code enforcement, beach clean-up, others still missing. Property damage from Ike But that changed on the early morning on budget, city debt, desalinization, insurance, as a hurricane is estimated at $19.3 billion. the 14th of September as tides began to Candidates are selected solely by a vote of and more. The city council and mayor will rise sharply in Port Aransas as the pressure registered voters on The Island. To vote in the make decisions that impact both the Island and Hurricane Gilbert 1988 steadily dropped as the northwest winds endorsement process you have to be a registered Corpus Christi. increased. The hurricane would weaken voter in precinct 40, precinct 81, or a registered Hurricane Gilbert was a scary one. In early If you have questions you would like IUPAC slightly before making landfall as a Category voter in Precinct 19 who is also eligible to vote September 1988 it peaked as a Category 5 and to consider asking during the Candidate 3 with sustained winds of 115 mph and a in Corpus Christi elections. at one point had the second –lowest barometric Endorsement Nights, then please email your central pressure of 950 millibars. pressure ever recorded in the Atlantic. It was a The first step in this year’s voting process is to questions to [email protected]. huge storm and at one point, its tropical storm- register your email with the Island United PAC. If you have other questions about IUPAC, To register, please send your name, address, Candidate Endorsement Forums, voting, or daytime phone number, and voter registration becoming part of IUPAC, then contact IUPAC number (if readily available to speed up President David Heitzman at 312-823-9626. registration) using the email address you will Repairs cont. from A1 The repairs were expected to be complete by bottom of the platform and found it to be clear mid-week but in an announcement released and stabilized. Crews then anchored the repair List of Candidates for City Council on Wednesday the owners of the rig said: ship into place and repairs began. November 4 Ballot “Upon a closer, on-site evaluation of the City of Corpus Christi officials said Tuesday wellhead, it was determined that it had that Magellan E&P Holdings, Inc. (Magellan In ballot order experienced greater damage than originally E&P) has been holding daily briefings with the anticipated. As a result, the company was city and county that the final repairs are now Mayor Michael Hunter Incumbent unable to replace the valve that was leaking, complete. Pancho Villa Retired Myron Grossman Realtor and additional equipment is being mobilized to City Manager Peter Zanoni told the city address the full repair requirements necessary council on Tuesday that Magellan brought in a Eric Rodriguez NAVFAC – Environmental Larry White Retired Engineer to return the rig to normal operation. The work barge on Sunday and a custom scaffolding Services John Martinez Attorney inspection also revealed the cause of the release was built to allow crews to reach the valve that Carolyn Vaughn County Commissioner was a failed seal on the wellhead. Ricardo Hankerson caused the blowout and needed to be replaced. Precinct 1 Crews were unable to replace the valve that Efrain “Frank” Arriaga, Jr. The well began spewing petroleum products Priscilla Gonzalez Supervisor Marketing was leaking, and additional elements of the on the morning of Tuesday, September 1, and Herman & Herman law firm Richard Diaz Warehouse Worker wellhead will need to be repaired before the Zanoni said that by the following morning the replacement can be completed. The company flow dropped to only about 5 percent of the Joe Michael Perez Self-Employed Patricia Pena-Noyola Self-employed is hopeful a definitive estimation of the repair original flow. Zanoni said the Texas Commission Roberto Seidner M.D. Ph.D. (Retired) Brian Rosas Blaster Operator schedule can be determined as soon as they on Environmental Quality installed air and Deanna Michelle King Legal Assistant locate the necessary equipment and materials water monitoring stations around the well site Joe McComb Incumbent needed to complete the repairs.” and report no air or water pollution as a result John Medina Retired John Garcia A repair ship arrived at the rig early Monday of the incident. The Texas General Land Office (GLO) and the Railroad Commission of Texas Paulette Guajardo City Councilwoman At- District 4 (Padre Island/Flour Bluff/ morning which included a SONAR team, a Large Ocean Drive repair crew and equipment, and a wide variety (RRC) are also reported to be monitoring the of replacement parts. A statement from the area. No injuries were reported. At-Large Kaylynn Paxson Strategic Analyst rig’s owner said the SONAR team scanned the Dale Rankin Liz Perez Administrator Jim Klein History Professor Mike Pusley Retired Greg Smith (Incumbent) Dan Grimsbo Retired How To Vote by Mail in Nueces County

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Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier September 10 - September 17 Over the last three years Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon would compete. The problem for the port at the I have watched as the relationship between /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible time was that neither was coming through the the City of Port Aransas and Port of Corpus Th 10 High 12:46 AM 1.8 7:12 AM Rise 12:22 AM 56 port which meant the port got no money from Christi has gone from mostly non-existent to either. 10 Low 3:00 PM 0.3 7:39 PM Set 2:30 PM confrontational to…well, whatever it is today. That problem was solved when in a visit to F 11 High 1:48 AM 2.0 7:13 AM Rise 1:08 AM 46 As we reported in the last issue the two sides Secretary of Energy Rick Perry in Washington have settled their dispute over how much 11 Low 4:06 PM 0.2 7:38 PM Set 3:26 PM a port official was advised “not to oppose control Port Aransas has over regulating the Phillips 66 offshore project.” The reason Sa 12 High 2:30 AM 2.0 7:13 AM Rise 2:01 AM 36 development on Harbor Island cross the Corpus became apparent when a few weeks later a Christi Ship Channel from Port Aransas proper. 12 Low 5:14 PM 0.1 7:36 PM Set 4:21 PM phone call came from a Phillips’ lawyer asking Harbor Island is in the city limits but their if they could run the offshore line to their Su 13 High 3:05 AM 2.1 7:14 AM Rise 2:59 AM 26 regulatory authority over development there is project through the port’s right of way. Just like 13 Low 6:18 PM 0.1 7:35 PM Set 5:13 PM limited to noise, light, and odor pollution by that the port went from being on the outside of state law; the law specifically prohibits them M 14 High 3:34 AM 2.1 7:14 AM Rise 4:02 AM 17 the project looking in to being in a position to from doing anything to inhibit development of charge a tariff on the product moving offshore 14 Low 7:19 PM 0.1 7:34 PM Set 6:01 PM petrochemical production or transportation so through their right of way. At that point the their attempt to do just that seemed like a tilt at Tu 15 High 3:57 AM 2.0 7:15 AM Rise 5:07 AM 9 likelihood of a Very Large Crude Carrier Port a windmill from the start. on Harbor Island fell victim to what could be 15 Low 8:17 PM 0.1 7:33 PM Set 6:46 PM How it started described as a Reversed Pipe Dream since the W 16 High 4:15 AM 1.9 7:15 AM Rise 6:14 AM 4 cost of permitting, constructing and operating About two years ago I was attending a meeting 16 Low 9:46 AM 1.5 7:32 PM Set 7:27 PM the offshore facility is much lower than the of the port’s Board of Directors and a line of onshore plan and the port could still make 16 High 1:36 PM 1.7 Port Aransas residents cued up to blast them money without having to build the on-shore for taking steps to build a desalination plant 16 Low 9:15 PM 0.3 docks and the Harbor Island land can be used on Harbor Island. I thought it was odd that the for something else – they can have their cake Th 17 High 4:28 AM 1.7 7:15 AM Rise 7:22 AM 0 desal plant was getting all the attention when a and eat it too. 17 Low 9:47 AM 1.3 7:31 PM Set 8:07 PM few items down the agenda was the money to begin permitting a port for Very Large Crude Since that time plans for the offshore export 17 High 3:01 PM 1.8 Carrier ships and no one even mentioned that. terminal off PINS have been combined with those of the facility offshore from Port Aransas At the time there was a behind the scenes with the line to the now larger offshore facility tug of war between the port and the City of running through the port right of way making Corpus Christi over who would develop desal the Harbor Island VLCC less fiscally attractive in the area; as often happens both governmental – even unlikely at best. bodies wanted control. You simply can’t have development without water and control of water The settlement means power and power means money. Over The fight between the port and the City the course of the past three years the city, as of Port Aransas began on August 29, 2019 the Regional Water Supplier, won that contest when the Port Aransas city council passed a and last week took a step toward funding a plant measure stating that an emergency existed further up the channel from Harbor Island. with regard to Harbor Island that required the As one port official told me at the time, “the city to “study rezoning Harbor Island” and to port is not going to build a desal plant on Harbor issue "no development permits or approvals for Island” and judging by what happened at city development of Harbor Island property” on the hall I believe that is true. The plant the city is stated grounds that its fire department could not moving to build will provide enough water for provide fire protection services to the area. To the city’s needs and those of the port as well into call that a spurious emission is being kind since the foreseeable future. Desalinization is a matter the port industries there would likely, like the of scale – basic microeconomics says the more current ones, have their own fire department. water you produce the lower the unit cost so one The port sued and as the case wound along it big plant makes sense. If the port was dragging became apparent that the port held the cards. a red herring across the trail to take some sting Not only did they have the state mandated out of a VLCC port it worked. authority to develop petroleum facilities on Traffic Count for SPID Aquarius Harbor Island they had $11 million in a fund for legal expenses. A settlement was the obvious way to go and, according to those involved, Intersection there had been negotiation in that direction but Traffic Counts - Aquarius port officials balked at allowing the City of Port Aransas to regulate “noise, light, and odor” as Friday, August 14, 2020 40,739 allowed by state law and that was what led the city council to pass the measure they did on Saturday, August 15, 2020 41,995 August 29, 2019. Sunday, August 16, 2020 35,409 If you dig through the port budget you will find that the board has, at last check, a $3 million line Monday, August 17, 2020 Several private companies who build and run item to fund non-port-related onshore projects – desal plants are interested but each wants the Tuesday, August 18, 2020 good will stuff. There was the possibility that a same thing, hold the permits, bring the financing, settlement could have netted a good chunk of Wednesday, August 19, 2020 and build and run the plant themselves; all on a that annual money for the city. But for whatever cost-plus basis. That would put them squarely reason that didn’t happen. Thursday, August 20, 2020 in charge of the process from start to finish. But where the city is going, a story for another day, is Instead when the settlement in the form of an Friday, August 21, 2020 42,628 to hold the permits and bring the funding – less Interlocal Agreement was announced last week Saturday, August 22, 2020 45,434 than two percent interest from the Texas Water it included only a single payout of $1 million Development Board – to the deal and eventually from the port paid out in $200,000 installments Sunday, August 23, 2020 38,436 issue Requests for Proposals for the private over five years to train the Port Aransas Fire companies to build and operate the plant. That Department for duties that have in the past been Monday, August 24, 2020 puts the city squarely in the driver’s seat and is outsourced. The port agreed to allow the city Tuesday, August 25, 2020 estimated by city officials to drive the final cost of the single plant down by somewhere north of Wednesday, August 26, 2020 thirty percent which is substantial in a project of this size. That means the cost of water from Thursday, August 27, 2020 the city desal plant will be lower than those of a Friday, August 28, 2020 38,396 plant developed elsewhere. Economies of scale and funding realities mean Saturday, August 29, 2020 42,883 there is little, or no, need for a second plant Sunday, August 30, 2020 35,829 onHarbor Island. Monday, August 31, 2020 Tuesday, September 01, 2020 to regulate noise, light, and odor but given that Wednesday, September 02, 2020 state law already specifically gave the city the power to do that it was a losing fight for the port Thursday, September 03, 2020 anyway. Friday, September 04, 2020 37,651 So as we come pretty much full circle we end Saturday, September 05, 2020 34,744 up right where we started, the difference being that the two projects that started the fight over Sunday, September 06, 2020 44,755 Harbor Island years ago are now off the board due to factors having nothing to do with the Monday, September 07, 2020 39,372 legal fight and everything to do with money; the port now has better options. The traffic coming over the JFK Causeway on Labor Day Weekend was light compared to normal weekend numbers during the summer season. It is impossible to say for certain now but Above are counts from the City of Corpus Christi. failing to reach an early settlement with the port may have left several million in annual port money for the City of Port Aransas on the table, at any rate that ship has sailed. So in one since the city got what they wanted – no VLCC port and no desal plant- and if delay was the object then that was accomplished. But the land is now open to development and who knows that comes next. The port is building fast and is already looking for more land so Harbor Island isn’t going to remain empty in perpetuity and the resolution of the latest fight means the city has very little control over what goes in there. They can push back on noise, light, and odor restrictions but the latest round shows when it comes to fighting development they might have caught a lot more flies Then comes the new docks with honey than they did with vinegar. As things progressed the port was moving The port now has a free hand to find a new forward with the plan to build two docks tenant for Harbor Island. We know one is for Very Large Crude Carriers even as two coming we just don’t know who it will be. companies announced plans for offshore oil export terminals, one off from Padre Island National Seashore and another 20 miles east of the entrance to the Port of Corpus Christi, that

Send letters and photos to [email protected] A6 Island Moon September 10, 2020 Senior Moments When? If? Maybe? Development of the U. S. Armed By Pastor Kris Bair The third Great End is back to worship again, as it mandates “the maintenance of divine People are asking “When worship.” These Great Ends were written a Forces in World War II-Part V will the church be open long time ago, and that phrase “maintenance again?” By Dotson Lewis of” is a kind of outmoded way of saying Special to the Island Moon Me, I’m getting more tired of the question “provision for.” The church, the community of than I am the answer: “At their next meeting, Christians, is responsible for providing good Dotson’s Note: Part IV ended: “The reason for to the Army Air Corps to learn to fly, navigate, Session will look AGAIN at re-opening!” worship—rock solid worship. high numbers of illiteracy was the lack of access or be a bombardier. In the first months of the to educational opportunities.” Again thanks to mobilization period high numbers of men who “Yes, but when will the church open?” We need pastors and worship leaders trained USMC Gunnery Sergeant Joseph H. Clark (my scored in AGCT (Army General Classification Folks, the church is open right now—we in Biblical scholarship, so that our worshippers uncle), WWII Navy Veteran Milton Sherwood Test) grades I or II were sent to the air forces, are holding worship services on-line. It’s will not be deceived about the Word. We and my Tuskegee Airmen friends for the facts but this decision left the ground forces seriously what we’re all about—worship, you know. need pastors and worship leaders who have contained in this report and to the National short of men of higher intelligence and caused Fellowship and the Fellowship Hour come learned how to be more spiritual, so they can Archives, Time Magazine and to the National a deficiency in the tactical level leadership of next, but not first. teach us that in worship. We need pastors and Air & Space Museum for the photos. the army. Lt. General McNair saw this as a worship to provide worship experiences that reason for the high causalities being sustained There’s precedent for this. Our Book of Order are sensitive and responsive to what’s going on 1930 Study by combat commands. (a delightful read—especially the first chapter, in our world. And we need to provide worship the “Foundations of Presbyterian Polity,” or experiences that praise God (from whom all Another drain on available manpower was the “why” we Presbys do things the way we blessings flow!), but also that comfort, educate, the Army's perceived need to keep some of the do, decently and in order, as we like to say) upset, and inspire our congregations. There’s best and brightest in college to train them to be identifies six Great Ends of the Church. Listed lots to maintain, whether you’re Presbyterian doctors, dentists, veterinarians, and engineers in order of importance, these clearly state what or not! should the Army have need of them in the future. we think it means to be a Christian. And not This lead to the creation of the “Army Aptheker one, but TWO of those six ends have to do with In case you’re curious, the last three Great Literacy Specialized Training Program.” worship. Ends could be all rolled into one: “the preservation of the truth; the promotion of The very first Great End is “the proclamation social righteousness; and the exhibition of the of the gospel for the salvation of humankind.” Kingdom of Heaven to the world.” We are the church because we name it, and we claim it, and we DO it—we hear and proclaim We are as far behind in all three of those as any the Gospel together--at LEAST every Sunday other Christian community. We have a LONG Uncle Sam Wants You. together-- and alone much more frequently. ways to go—but whatever way we choose, we will hold fast to the first three Great Ends. Now “proclamation” means a lot more than One study done in 1930 showed that only 47 % just SAYING it. We sing it. We listen as You’ve seen it happen—churches holding of the nation's children of high school age were others say it. We ponder it. And when we live worship in front of their destroyed building actually enrolled in high school. The area of with Christian lives, we proclaim the Gospel just after a hurricane. Churches finding ways in the the highest rejections for military service was in as Jesus did in his words and work. But even pandemic to provide worship now, clumsy and the Fourth and Eighth Service Commands. The Jesus went to the synagogue and the Temple awkward as it may be. Churches managing fourth service command comprised the states of to worship with others regularly (did it by to be the church without the building--until Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina, South himself pretty regularly, too). VERY recently, Presbyterians were doing just Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. The Answering the Call-1943 that in post-Harvey Port A! eighth service command comprised the states The second Great End is “the shelter, nurture, of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas and and spiritual fellowship of the children of So no, Island PC’s building is not open yet. New Mexico. This program took approximately 150,000 God.” In other words, fellowship comes Given what we’ve seen after other holiday additional AGCT Grade I and II men from the second after worship. weekends, we may not be open any time soon. One can see that nearly all these states, with manpower pool. The problem arising from this But we ARE doing and being what we were the lowest rates of literacy comprised the decision was the program was never allowed to “So what?” you might say. called to do and be—the worshipping church. majority of the former slave-holding states of run its full course and many of the men were And I say, “So this!” The Gospels record that the Confederacy. White children in some of God loves US, you know. Not the buildings. pulled from the program and inserted into Jesus rewrote the 10 Commandments thusly: Why, it’s enough to make you worship! these states like Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, depleted divisions to bring them up to their “Love God, and love your neighbor as you and Georgia were four to five times as likely full complement of men before being shipped love yourself.” You love God first, and you and You’ll find us on Facebook, every Sunday to attend high school as African-American overseas. Many of these men saw action in the your neighbor follow. Which is exactly what at 10 a.m.--IF (as our mother used to say) children. Battle of the Hurtgen Forest and later Battle of the Great Ends reflect: God first, then neighbor “God’s willin’, and the crick don’t rise” (i.e., the Bulge, some of the heaviest fighting of the and self. if the technology cooperates!). Feel like some European theater. fellowship? Just click the Zoom link and join us there. Another drain on the manpower pool needed by the armed forces was educational deficiencies. Men who could not read and understand English sufficiently to perform their military duties also strained the system. Large numbers of these men required remedial help to gain the knowledge needed to perform in the military, thereby forcing the armed forces to expend additional time and resources to correct problems created by lack of educational opportunities, especially for men coming from the South. Because of the decision to send large numbers of highly intelligent men to the air forces or back to college for additional training and the lack of educational opportunity for large numbers of men who were rejected for military service, the Army's reliance on scientific personnel study to assign men in their best-fit military job fell short in its utilization of the manpower allotted it in the creation of the fighting force that would Lt General Lesley J. McNair-July 1944 fight the three-front war with Germany and Japan. Dotson’s Other Note: As I said last week: “I Many of the Northern states had rejection rates trust you Moon Monkeys are enjoying these among their African-American recruits lower war reports. Hopefully we are better prepared than most of the Southern states had among for the next one than we have been in the Skip the Plastic Recognizes Janna Shoe as a Bag Hero their white recruits. The meager educational past.” The foregoing is the last report (for now) opportunities offered by the southern states on the WWII Draft. Thanks for reading and CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS – The Skip the Plastic project of the Surfrider Foundation - Texas hampered their young men's ability to contribute commenting on the articles in The Island Moon. Coastal Bend Chapter recognizes community members and businesses that set a positive example to the nation's defense. 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I ride and she jogs since everyone plague-purchased bicycles this Does the vaccine actually give protection to the development in Corpus Christi and Victoria alongside nearly every morning. This summer, year. Dad finally ordered inner tubes in bulk people that take it? Phase 3 test are generally conducting Phase 2 through Phase 4 studies in however, our morning constitutionals have after discovering that he was more likely to find huge. The ones for COVID are the largest I’ve support of clinical research trial. He is also a been interrupted by a near constant barrage of a “hedgehog in a top hat” at Wal-Mart than flat ever seen involving 30,000 people. Phase 3 for military veteran and can be heard along with technical difficulties. repair stuff. the most part or looking for a wide variety of Dotson Lewis on the 1440 KEYS Veterans people and conditions. It is considered a real- I don’t know if you have ever personally dealt I retrieved the tire, determined to restore it Roundtable Radio Show from 8-10 AM every world test for the drug. And they are almost with a creature who communicates enthusiasm without fatherly intervention. After all, I had Saturday morning. always placebo controlled. That means a certain by bouncing straight up into the air like some taken it off. I could surely replace it. So if you’re someone who believes Bill Gates percentage of the people being tested get a shot extra-fluffy A.A. Milne character. I have, and I worked on the project for twenty minutes, is going to microchip you or vaccines cause of saline instead of the vaccine. The idea behind let me tell you, the behavior does not mix well sweating and swearing like a stevedore with all types of crazy things to you, well then save it is simple. Those getting the placebo should with leashes and human feet. a stubbed toe, before I realized that I had no yourself a few minutes and stop reading right still be catching COVID while those with the Stadler firmly believes that the shortest earthly idea how to get the chain back on the now. You won’t believe anything I’m going to actual vaccine should be protected statistically distance between any two points is whichever gears. I could clearly see how it had to work tell you anyway. For the rest of ya’ll, I hope speaking. And at this point it’s where the big way involves stepping on my feet the most. I’m (with about a 3% chance of certainty), but for I can help make sense of where we really are brains with advanced statistics degrees crunch down two pairs of flip-flops this summer alone. the life of me I couldn’t make that happen. in getting a proper vaccine for the COVID-19 the numbers and prove using math that the pandemic. vaccine either works or doesn’t. This data Now, imagine that you’ve finally gotten I was about to start wailing on the thing with a is then given to the FDA (Food and Drug your dog into her harness, dealt with all the hammer when a cool rash of unseasonable logic I’ve been saying since this started back in Administration). The FDA audits the data for slobbering appreciation because the animal washed over me. March that the pandemic isn’t going to end until accuracy and completeness. They then give the knows she’s about to get to go, managed to “I am a modern woman who knows that the one of two things happened. Either we develop final word on whether the drug is cleared for use put on your own shoes despite the 84-pound most powerful computer most of us have ever herd immunity or we mass-produce a vaccine. or not. Oh by the way, Phase 4 studies are done Labrador’s attempts at helping you, have turned owned is the cellphone in our pocket,” I thought. Herd immunity is simply the virus running its after FDA approval and usually to get more data off the alarm and unlocked all the doors, gotten “Ignorance is just laziness.” course. It is enough of a population of people about the approved medication or treatment. the leash on the dog and the helmet on your have caught the virus that there is not enough Generally, to answer a specific question related I retreated to the air conditioning to watch head, only to attempt to wheel the bike out of uninfected humans left to give the infections a to its use. the garage and finding out that it has a flat. YouTube videos about tire replacement. community to spread in. Well, two big problems This process normally takes 8 to 10 years I’m not going to mince words here: every with that as we’ve learned. First is that this virus Stadler does not take disappointment well. or longer. We are now trying to do it in less single bike guy on YouTube tells you about is so infectious that we need anywhere from 60 than one. Can it be done? Absolutely. But it I think I’m probably a noted dog abuser on everything under the sun that is bicycle related to 75% of us to catch it for herd immunity to requires everything to go right and processes to Nextdoor.com since at one point or another the except how to put the dumb chain back on. come into play. That’s a lot of people. Even be sped up. And the good news so far all the entire vicinity has witnessed me attempting to You’d need stamina sufficient to endure four through the worst of things that we’ve just been data about safety and efficacy has been not just drag a prone (to the point of looking dead) dog droning sermons wherein the pastor reads every through we’re looking at 5 to 10% of Nueces good but great. Vaccines are generally very back into my garage. begetting in the Bible followed by a visit to the county with an infection. Imagine what will well tolerated by 99% or more of the people We have had nine flat tires since May. DMV to make it through the entirety of a single have to happen to get us to 60% and how long that take them. The 2 leading contenders, the YouTube bike repair video. that will take. It’s not going to happen. The I have no idea what I’m running over. I’ve second problem with herd immunity is that ones that have started the Phase 3, are Moderna changed my route four times. I got to the part about the derailleur before I we can catch it again. Last week saw the first and AstraZeneca. Discussing those two will quit. The G.P. is the great tire fixer in the family. He verified instances of re-infection. It’s not a big require another complete article which perhaps has the tools and the know-how. I am equipped Later than morning, Amber came over to help surprise really. It’s just that we were hoping I’ll get to write, but for now the data from both with a somewhat paleolithic understanding of me with the tire. We dragged the disabled bike we’d get some level of long-term protection. has shown high levels of protective antibodies how bikes work – something like, “MAGIC into the driveway to examine the problem in 4 to 6 months might be what we have between created and no severe adverse events. There GO-GO MOBILE MAKE GO!” So, when better light. potential infections. So, it’s looking more and is some devil in those details though that will things go wrong (as they do more often than more like herd immunity isn’t going to be a big be explained another time. But getting it done “How do you get yourself into this stuff,” factor in getting us through this crisis. in less than a year is doable because so much I’d like to admit), I tend to react with extreme Amber asked as she played with the sad, petulance. of the process can be constricted time-wise. detached chain. So that leaves us with a vaccine. Coronaviruses The data is being reviewed in real-time versus I get angry when the magic stops working. are actually a pretty easy kind of virus to waiting until the end of the study. The Phases “I don’t know, dude. This thingy is called a make a vaccine against. They are very But my wizard Dad, who is not a possessor derailleur. Blame the French, I guess.”’ I replied. are running concurrently. This is something simple organisms especially when compared totally new. of great patience in extremis, is always there Then we employed the twin super-powers to something like Influenza and HIV. The to lovingly yell the enchantment back onto of teamwork and cussing and managed to pharmaceuticals have proven this by getting Traditionally, you don’t start a Phase 2 until the Gertrude (my bike). somehow (after about a billion failed attempts) effective vaccines pretty much from the get go. Phase 1 is over and all the data digested. Same This summer, however, Dad got sick of coming to restore the chain to its proper position. There are two basic questions that need to be for the Phase 3. Not anymore. They are starting answered about every new vaccine. Is it safe? for COVID studies as soon as the FDA gives over every few days to grab a tire and take it People walking past gave us weird looks, And, does it work? Clinical trials are the means its approval. Most of the stupid bureaucratic back to his house to fix it. but (frankly) I believe in celebrating even the by which we answer those questions. Research obstacles that I’ve dealt with for years testing “Just take the tire off and bring it over,” he said, smallest victories. trials are broken up into 3 (and sometimes 4) medications have gone away in this mad rush. putting down the proverbial foot. “It’s not that I guess if people want to turn to Nextdoor.com phases. Phase 1 trials are given to a very small Contracts to test new products that took weeks damn hard.” to report that the evil dog dragger has recruited number of very healthy people. This phase is a or months to negotiate and implement are now I took the tire off the bike. an even wackier confederate to dance like robust test of the vaccine’s initial health effects. getting done in days. So the process is working, witches around a bicycle in a driveway, then the testing is being done, and a vaccine will I, of course, somehow did it incorrectly even The people involved get lots of blood drawn they can have at it. be ready soon. My prognosticating self said though it took me half an hour of cussing to and are poked and prodded intensely to see if anything surprising occurs. Once successful, so to Dotson Lewis on the KEYS Veterans get the chain off and to wrestle the tire from After all, the pointy hat fits. Radio Roundtable, the leading source for between the brake pads. the vaccine (or Investigational Product, IP) is moved to Phase 2. great COVID information by the way, back in March that we’d have a vaccine ready as early Phase 2 is the safety phase. Here the product as November. I think we are on pace for that Simple Tips to Maintain and Use a Personal is tested specifically to see what side effects are still. Will it be safe and will it work? I’m very experienced. So it is given to a larger number confident on both, with certain caveats that need of relatively healthy people. Now they are still more room to explain. Now, where did I put Locator Beacon doing some testing about how it works. I mean those microchips? Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs), those pint- After testing, confirm that the battery has not if saves a ton of work if they learn their product sized, individual rescue beacons used by boaters, expired and the O-ring is in good shape. This sailors, and paddlers to summon emergency will give you peace of mind that the PLB will help have saved hundreds of lives since their operate flawlessly when you really need it. City Approves New Budget authorization for use 17 years ago. That doesn’t Battery life is typically five years. Sales Tax revenue takes a hit due to Covid virus mean they are maintenance free, according to Because they are worn by the user, PLBs can the BoatUS Foundation for Boating Safety. The get banged up or abused during normal wear. By Dale Rankin More than half of the city’s budget, including boating safety nonprofit offers these simple tips It’s a good idea to check over the outer case for all money from both Property Tax and Sales to maintain and use a PLB. cracks or damage. Revenue to the City of Corpus Christi is Tax revenue go to public safety – police and fire PLBs need to be registered with NOAA. As a down by $6 million for the 2020-2021 budget services. What makes a PLB different from an approved by the council on Tuesday. way to ensure accurate, up-to-date information, Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon The allocation of public safety officers in the registration is valid for just two years. While (EPIRB)? Both use NOAA’s Search And The drop is due to a 6 percent drop in Sales Tax budget approved by the council on Tuesday NOAA will attempt to reach you to re-register, Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT) due to the Covid virus according to city officials. includes the following staffing levels. it’s a good idea to put in on your calendar. System to detect and locate mariners in distress, The drop was partially offset by a 2.16 percent Not sure of your PLB registration’s emergency however EPIRBs are intended to facilitate a increase in the amount of Property Tax that will Police Officer Positions contact information? NOAA allows PLB owners rescue for a specific boat while PLBs are used be collected which will add $755,027 to the 393 Police officer and senior police officer - Operating Budget. The new rate is $0.646264 to update contact info at any time and if you’re for individual crew. The other big difference is 39 Police Lieutenant unsure of whom you have listed, you may want PLBs can only be activated manually − even if per $100 of property valuation. to take a look now. Outdated information can the wearer is underwater, while EPIRBs activate Total expenditures for the 2020-2021 budget 15 Police Captain delay rescuers. automatically upon submersion. year are $946,283,848 with total projected at 5 Deputy Chief $917,596,740 which includes the increase of PLBs need to be tested, typically monthly, With larger batteries, EPIRBs are also rated 3 Assistant Police Chief according to manufacturer recommendations. to activate for a minimum of 48 hours while $755,027 in property tax revenues for operating Testing does not activate a PLB so get PLBs have a minimum of 24 hours. Having and $259,915,560 for the Capital Improvement 1 Police Chief Program. comfortable checking one. both aboard for offshore passages can increase 456 Total Police Department redundancy and crew safety. Estimated total tax revenues for the 2020-2021 budget year are $130,949,000 with $44,467,848 Firefighter Positions allocated for debt service or Interest and Sinking 98 Firefighter I (I&S) and the difference of $86,481,897 is allocated to the General Fund for Maintenance 145 Firefighter II –EMS and Operations (M&O). Of the amount 73 Firefighter II – Engineer allocated to the General Fund, $8,105,031, 79 Fire Captain the equivalent of $.04 of the tax rate, will be transferred from the General Fund to the Streets 13 Battalion Chief Fund for Residential Streets., according to the 4 Assistant Fire Chief budget documents. 1 Deputy Fire Chief New construction, which is not included in the Property Tax equation, since it requires new 1 Fire Chief services, is expected to raise $608,685 in new 414 Total Fire Department Property Tax revenue.

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Football Is For Texas Boys By Andy Purvis Winnipeg, and then lead the team to what was at the time the largest single season turn-around By Dotson Lewis Charlie Brown once said, in NHL history, a 48-point improvement. He “There are three things in became the youngest NHL player in history to Dotson’s Note: Since we are in the process of in Duncanville, Victoria, Canyon, Amarillo and life that people stare at, a rippling stream, a score 45 goals and reach 100 points, finishing discussing the history of Women’s Basketball, I Nacogdoches, to name a few hot beds. fire in the fireplace and a zambone going round thought now would be a good time for a report with 103; and he won the Calder Memorial Also we have seen the rise of women’s and round.” It has been said that seeing a goal on Texas High School Girls’ Basketball. To get Trophy as the NHL’s Rookie of the Year. Dale professional basketball and then the rise of scored in hockey is like picking your brother out us all on the same page, you are reminded that also played in that season’s All-Star Game. In UConn, which took women’s basketball to a of a crowd shot at the World Series, impossible. Texas High School (UIL) boys and girl play 2006, Sidney Crosby broke Dale’s record. Dale whole dissimilar level. exactly by the same rules, except for one small Hockey players are tougher than Chinese recorded 91 points in his second year, then hit difference. Do you know what that difference Not only can females play an entire full-court arithmetic. They should have called him the 100-plus point plateau for the next five years is? Thanks to Bill Morgan (former SWC SID), game without collapsing into a coma, some of “naptime,” because his left hand could put you in a row, including a career-high 53 goals and Marcie Easton, Jody Conrad, the UIL and Amy them are dunking now. to sleep. One of his goals during a game was 130 points during the 1984-1985 season. to find out how good your second string goalie McDaniel, for the facts contained in this report There was a player in 2017 who slapped the In 1990, Dale was involved in a large trade. and to Bill Morgan for the photos. was. Somewhat shy and left-handed, this guy backboard on her way down from making a had more tricks with his hockey stick than you Hawerchuk and Winnipeg’s 1st round pick were Soon to come is the most popular season for the layup. As far as I know this had never happened could find in a clown’s pocket. Hockey players traded to the Buffalo Sabres for Phil Housley, largest number of girls in Texas high schools. in girls high school basketball. are required to have bad tempers and this fellow Scott Arniel, Jeff Parker and Buffalo’s 1st round pick. Over the next four years, #10 played well According to the National Federation of State The game is mostly still played “below the rim; played the game in a cold rage. He was electric High School Associations, slightly more than all right, like sticking your toe in a light socket. with his point totals no fewer than 86 points. In 68,000 girls participated in Texas basketball in If you punched one of his guys in the mouth, 1995, he signed with the St. Louis Blues and 2018-19. was given the #12 to wear. But he only played in 66 games before being traded again to the While track and field (478,000 girls Philadelphia Flyers in March of 1996. With participating) and volleyball (432,000) Philly he wore #18. In 1997, he played in his are bigger than girls basketball (429,000) fifth and final All-Star Game. He announced nationwide; in Texas, girls’ basketball is queen. his retirement after the 1996-1997 season Girls’ basketball is above track and field, because of a degenerative left hip that bothered which is unusual because of the high number him. Dale was only 34 years old. Although his of positions available on a track team. In teams had played in many playoff games, his comparison, boys’ track and field is the second- appearance with the Flyers in the 1997 Stanley most participated sport in Texas with about Cup Finals marked the only time any of his 2,000 more participants than in basketball. teams advanced past the second round of the Dale Hawerchuk. playoffs. After basketball, track-and-field had they punched you back twice. Professional Hawerchuk played in 1,188 games during his just under 60,000 hockey players pass out broken limbs for 16-year career (1981-1997), with the Winnipeg participants while a living. They really shouldn’t be walking Jets, Buffalo Sabers, St. Louis Blues and 45,500 competed in around without a helmet. He was such a jock; Philadelphia Flyers. He recorded 518 goals volleyball in 2018-19. he may have worn his uniform when sleeping. and 891 assists, to score a total of 1,409 points. No one that goes into battle ever comes out the Hawerchuk had 15 hat tricks during his career. It is really like same way! When you hear the sounds of the Dale also spent 740 minutes in the penalty box football is for boys. injured and see the blood of your teammate, you for fighting. His playoff totals were equally Texas athletes made realize this is no game. It’s the worst the sport impressive. Dale played in 97 games, recording up 15 % of the football the way basketball is supposed to be played,” of hockey has to offer. Anywhere you find ten 30 goals and 69 assists for 99 total points. players in America in grown men on the ice carrying sticks, most with He was a five time All-Star in 1982, 1985, the 2018-19 school as I have heard many fans say. These are both females and males who just love watching a hair-trigger tempers, crashing into one another 1986, 1988 and 1997. The Phoenix Coyotes year. Texans made at speeds up to 40 mph, you’re not surprised (successor to the Jets) retired Hawerchuk’s #10, Jody Conrad. up 15 % the girls’ completive basketball game. As many of you know, I have been trying for years to get the when you can’t find five guys in the whole during the 2006-2007 season. basketball players in league with a complete set of teeth. America in that same school year. “dunk” changed to one point. Hawerchuk was one of the most decorated Many high school football players spent their Barry Melrose once said, “He was a beautiful players in the game. He became the first NHL The reason for the popularity of girls’ and fast skater, who played the game during the big player to play in 1,000 career games before women’s basketball in Texas has to go back to entire summer getting ready for their “(big) football season.” tough physical times.” Dale Hawerchuk could the age of 31. In 2001, Dale Hawerchuk was the very earliest days and the rise of the sport. motor. The man was a walking hat trick. His inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in his A lot of girls might not realize this while And for the girls, before some curtailment outlet passes whistled to his teammates like a second year of eligibility. Dale joined the weighing all the athletic options available because of Covid-19, summer leagues, summer Tom Brady pass. For a guy who stood only 5 Phoenix Coyotes’ Ring of Honor on April 5, to them but it’s a fairly new thing for girls to camps and select teams for state and national feet 11 inches tall and weighed 185 pounds, his 2007, joining Bobby Hull and Thomas Steen. be encouraged, and allowed, to participate in tournaments have materialized in the last 30 impact on the game was gigantic. He owned The Jets’ franchise had moved to Phoenix sports. years. In the event you were not aware, the huge biceps and no display of discipline. I in 1996 and became the Coyotes. He was UIL has gradually loosened its regulations on hope you had your rabies shot, because he just included in the Buffalo Sabres’ Hall of Fame in The University Interscholastic League crowned summer participation for athletes in all sports. entered the rink. Some said he turned into Lon November of 2011. Dale was later also added its first girls’ basketball state champions in Chaney when the moon came out. I would not to the Jets’ Hall of Fame in November of 2017 1951; Comanche won in Class A and Claude Boys participate in summer basketball, too, but it’s usually a secondary interest if they also play be surprised if he got down on all fours and and will be remembered with a bronze statue. won in Class B. These were very-tiny baby started barking. According to family, Dale football. For girls, there are the same volleyball After his playing days, Dale became president steps; however, as girls had to play “half-court” received his first pair of skates at the age of two. opportunities in the summers, but across Texas, and director of hockey operations for the basketball for almost 30 years and in many “He was skating before he could walk,” said his school basketball programs still outnumber Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League’s schools, including San Angelo High School, dad. there was no school-sanctioned program. volleyball. Orangeville Crushers in 2007. He left that This leads girls’ basketball fans to Texas girls Dale Hawerchuk was born to Ed and Eleanor position in 2010 and served as head coach of Super Bowl Weekend: the UIL State Basketball in Toronto, Canada, on April 4, 1963, but he the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League Championships. grew up in nearby Oshawa. He began skating from 2010 to 2019. Dale led the Colts to the competitively at the age of four. He grew up in playoffs in six of his nine seasons. Even teams that don’t make it to the ultimate a neighborhood that was so tough they would In 2019, Dale announced that he would be taking weekend are represented at the state tournament steal your car with you sitting in it. Dale was a a leave of absence from coaching to be treated because they go to watch, and their coaches go natural on skates. At the Quebec International for stomach cancer. Dale never shied away and to watch and talk to other coaches. Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament, he scored all prepared to take on the toughest opponent of his eight goals for his team, during an 8-1 victory in It is the single-largest gathering of girls’ life. He underwent chemotherapy in September the finals. This feat smashed the long-standing basketball coaches, athletes and fans in the state, of 2019 and again in April of 2020, but it was record set by the legend Guy Lafleur. By the as 24 teams battle for six state titles. So even not effective and the cancer returned in July. age of 15, the Oshawa Generals offered him a though it might be considered blasphemous in The face of the Winnipeg Jets and a hockey tryout, but he did not make the team. In 1979, football country, many fans are now longing for phenom with a stick, Dale Hawerchuk, passed Dale was selected 6th overall by the Cornwall the start of basketball season. away on a Tuesday, August 18, 2020. He was If girls in San Angelo wanted to play basketball Royals of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey Most of us are very concerned about high only 57 years old. Hawerchuk is survived by back in the 1950s, they had to transfer to the League. He recorded a total of 103 points and school sports during the 2020-21 school year. his wife Crystal, two sons Eric and Ben, and country school – Lake View – and some girls was named Rookie of the Year. Hawerchuk Are we going to be allowed to attend any sports one daughter Alexis. did just that. was selected MVP and led the Royals to the in person? In 1978-79, high school girls were finally Memorial Cup Championship. In his second During his 2001 Hall of Fame induction speech able to play the full-court game like their male *The Wayland Flyers were featured in the season, Dale scored 81 goals and 183 points Dale said, “Even though I didn’t win a Stanley counterparts. Moon Sports Talk column in Issue 853 of The and led the Royals to their second consecutive Cup, I still wouldn’t change a thing. I think to Island Moon dated: 8/20/2020. Memorial Cup title. He was named a First Team ask for more would be greedy.” In some Texas colleges, however, they were All-Star, the Canadian Major Junior Player of getting closer to realizing what female athletes TO BE CONTINUED… Andy Purvis is a local author and radio the Year and Memorial Cup MVP. personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. could accomplish if given the chance. Dotson’s Other Note: Hopefully next issue we In 1981, the Winnipeg Jets selected Hawerchuk com for all the latest info on his books or to In the town of Plainview in the Texas will be able to share the facts of Title IX and first overall in the NHL Draft. This teenage listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books Panhandle, Wayland Baptist University*, the rules changes that allowed high school girls’ star was only 18. He would wear #10 and are available online and can be found in the playing women’s basketball since the 1950s, is basketball to roam all over the court. Comments/ become known as “Ducky” by his teammates. local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be known for being the only women’s basketball calls/texts are welcome. Email: dlewis1@stx. Interestingly, Dale was chosen before future contacted at [email protected]. Also team in the country to hit the 1,300 win plateau. rr.com Mobile: 530-748-8475 Hall-of-Famers Chris Chelios, Grant Fuhr and listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s That’s more than college super power the -30- Have fun and hang in there! Ron Francis. Hawerchuk played the centre Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. University of Connecticut, who only started position and became the star attraction in com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of playing women’s basketball in 1974-75. the Houston Astros. Even though the Flying Queens was the premier women’s basketball program just about anywhere, the school still hemmed and hawed about whether or not to continue participation. It was mainly due to the fact that the Queens were so popular, the private support of the program threatened the school’s accreditation. The school had difficulty funding the academic programs and the accrediting organization was not interested in organized amateur athletics. On a side note, the men’s athletic scholarships were never threatened during this era. Also from there, you had Old Dominion in Virginia, Southern California, Texas, Tennessee and Texas Tech, among others, who were on the receiving end of the assist from the Flying Queens. 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Then the rest of want to remind everyone that Bob Hall Pier is the juice fits perfectly into an old pickle jar that a Nueces County facility in a Nueces County goes in my fridge. I try to keep the juice fresh Park. Just because we got an update at ISAC in the feeders, as it will go bad after a few days doesn’t mean that that committee has any say and start growing the annoying black mold on or influence whatsoever regarding the future the feeder. Get some bottle brushes to help with of Bob Hall or the parking lot. Thanks for the the cleaning. If you’re not sure about the quality enthusiasm, but make sure you’re engaging the of sugar water in the feeder, watch the birds. If correct people. Contacting Nueces County, and they go up to the feeder and try multiple holes, the Nueces County Parks Board might also be that means they are not liking the flavor. Or if another avenue. We have our own issue with they try one or two holes and then fly off without a $14 million dollar shortfall for the Packery feeding, you can bet that you need to change it Channel repairs. I’m sure we’ll talk about that out. That’s why I only put a little bit of sugar later in any event. water in my feeders, so it doesn’t go to waste. The special whitewing dove season started up this past weekend and goes again this weekend from noon to sunset Saturday and Sunday. The regular South Zone dove season then starts on Monday, which is kind of weird. I know that they’re giving hunters more days because of a healthy population, but tradition has always had it start on a Friday. We were able to get out this past weekend to a secret undisclosed location This Giant family sized redfish was thanks to Kimmy Sue and get a few birds. brought to the boat last week when the Deep water trout fishing this week has had winds were up. Calm days are not the best my clients scoring on mature trout from This is the time of the year that outdoor 5-6ft of isolated structure in Baffin Bay. enthusiasts absolutely dream of. The first fronts for finding redfish, go when it’s windy! will kick off the fishing into overdrive. I just These monster reds are making their way heard a report that jackfish are blowing bait up towards the jetties and beach fronts. in the ICWW underneath the JFK Causeway bridge. That would be quite a ride for someone fishing off the pier at Clems! A 20 lb. jack will spool a bay-rod in less than a minute if you can’t If you didn’t heed my advice last week, it’s chase it with a boat. In addition, the redfish are time to clean out those hummingbirds’ feeders schooling up, and the flats will turn orange with and get them back up. You can buy the pre- them all gathered and feeding as they head for made stuff but try to avoid the red colored the passes. Teal season starts this weekend, and feeds. There is some evidence out there that the you might hear a few shotguns from various red food coloring isn’t exactly beneficial to the corners of the Laguna. Pompano season will birds. You can make your own hummingbird start after the next front, and it will be time to food very easily, with one cup of sugar to four head down the beach as well. I can’t wait! cups of water. Boiling it makes it dissolve a lot easier, although you have to let it cool. You Well folks, it’s time to move on, time to get can speed that process up by boiling the sugar going. Get those feeders up, get your fishing in three cups of water, and then when it’s done, and hunting gear gathered and go through it all add a cup and a half of ice. to make sure it’s up to snuff. 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For trout it with the guts and gills of drum and/or redfish. piggy perch works best under a popping cork Trout guts and gills and chicken wings is not with no lead. Pop the cork a couple of times then good bait. let it sit for at least five minutes. With no strike, reel it back in and repeat the action. If you are A can of sardines or tuna with small holes using a very large piggy perch wait at least five punches in the top is good bait. Also a mirror seconds after the cork goes under before setting placed in the trap will catch some perch. Set out the hook. the trap about daybreak and check it about one- half to one-hour later. Do not leave the trap in Piggies and small pin perch make for a full creel.

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1 of 1 9/8/2020, 1:38 PM September 10, 2020 Island Moon A 13 Visit Corpus Christi Cares Launches The Full Transparency and Disclosure “Stay Safe Pledge” to Encourage Local PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President Businesses to Help Fight the Spread of As always, let me have Furthermore, some people believe the City of your thoughts. You can Corpus Christi would take responsibility for COVID-19 reach me at marvin@ repairing the bulkheads, dredging the canals, pipoa.net and removing debris from the canals. The Visit Corpus Christi has launched the Stay their businesses are managing the Coronavirus City has absolutely no obligation to help the Safe Pledge as part of the Visit Corpus Christi situation before leaving on their trips. Only 12% Questions and recovery marketing efforts. The Stay Safe are “very confident” and 32.5% “somewhat Answers- The COVID has reduced the PIPOA and the homeowners by aiding the homeowners in recovery efforts. Pledge provides a unified message that health confident” that travel-related businesses can ability for members to attend Board meetings. and safety standards and protections against safely be reopened. Therefore, Board members and I will be Exploring Options- The survey conducted spread of COVID-19 are a top priority as visitors “Our area restaurants and attractions have taken available to meet with members one on one or by the PIPOA found that members want more begin to plan their visit to Corpus Christi. in small groups. I will meet with any and all communication regarding the happenings health and sanitation very seriously throughout members to discuss in a civil manner, issues with the PIPOA. Therefore, the PIPOA has The Stay Safe Pledge is a commitment by local the entire pandemic.” Said Brett Oetting, of the PIPOA. My phone number is 469-231- been exploring and comparing different businesses and its guests to help stop the spread President & CEO, “The Stay Safe Pledge is our 3485, and my email is [email protected]. Of ways to increase communications. At the of COVID-19 by following recommended way for the Corpus Christi tourism industry to course, COVID safety measures will be used. last Board meeting, the Board voted to send precautions such as washing or sanitizing give the community and visitors peace of mind.” Contact me to arrange an in-person meeting. members a newsletter four times a year. The hands and work areas, wearing face coverings, Businesses who wish to take the pledge can I invite one and all to take advantage of this Board asked Jim Smock to obtain proposals following social distancing guidelines, cleaning download a media tool kit that includes the Stay opportunity. from a variety of sources on ways to get the and disinfecting protocols, and staying home Safe Pledge badge logo to post on their website, when feeling ill. Covenant Amendments- Last week, I word out. No decision has been taken on a poster to print out to place on the businesses presented the detrimental effects of defunding engaging any company. To be clear, not one Creating confidence is the first step to front door, and social media graphics for their the PIPOA via the covenant amendments dime has been spent by the PIPOA on any PR rebuilding the tourism economy. According to social media channels. type company. presented by two members of the PIPOA. research from Destination Analysts, 75% of The Visit Corpus Christi Stay Safe Pledge can Unfortunately, some did not discuss the issues Bulkheads- Are you concerned with the travelers will research how destinations and be taken at www.visitcorpuschristitx.org/pledge but instead chose to attack via name-calling. state of your bulkhead? The PIPOA has a Please, may we have an honest and straight new Bulkhead email hotline. Send an email forward civil discussion? to [email protected] to report a problem Enrollment Open for Texas One of the proposed covenant amendments with your bulkhead. would make the PIPOA liable for when Boat Ramps- A shout out and thank you to some persons may claim the PIPOA failed to the members. No boat trailers or vehicles Tuition Promise Fund perform its duty to maintain common areas. were towed over the Labor Day weekend. Open enrollment in the Texas Tuition Promise Under the plan, 100 units equal roughly one This is enormously subjective. With a 25 to The sticker requirement is working. Parking Fund®, the state’s prepaid college tuition academic year consisting of 30 semester hours of 50% reduction in funds for the PIPOA, it will availability at the boat ramps has improved program, began Sept. 1 and runs through Feb. undergraduate resident tuition and schoolwide be impossible to maintain the current level of considerably for members. The PIPOA is in 28, 2021. The Texas Tuition Promise Fund offers required fees at the eligible Texas public school service. Together, the two propositions are need of a part-time employee to assist with parents and loved ones the chance to prepay a that most closely matches the unit’s pricing set up to make the PIPOA subject to frivolous the weekend boat ramp program. If you are child’s future higher education at Texas public base. Participants can purchase up to 600 Type lawsuits. interested, please contact Jim Smock at 361- colleges and universities at today’s prices, I units — approximately six academic years — The PIPOA is fortunate to have a reserve 949-7025 or via email at [email protected]. excluding medical and dental institutions. or the dollar equivalent of Type II or III units. account of approximately $12 Million. Special Board Meeting- A special Board “With everything that’s going on right now, The plan’s flexible payment options include The bulk of this money has not come from meeting is being held on Thursday, September thinking about how to pay for college may not lump-sum payments, installment payments members’ dues but from the reinvestment 10, 2020, at 5:30 PM. The meeting will be be at the top of many parents’ minds,” Hegar that include 6 percent interest or a pay-as- of interest and appreciation of the assets in held at the Hyatt Place beside Saltgrass on said. “Yet one day it will be time to enroll your you-go option that allows participants to the account. Maintaining and increasing S.P.I.D. The purpose of the meeting is to loved one in a college or university, and a Texas gradually add more units as the family budget the reserve account is a prudent business appoint new board members to fill the vacant Tuition Promise Fund account is an additional allows. Enrollment requires payment of a one- practice by our PIPOA. Please carefully seats. The next PIPOA Board meeting is tool to help save for your children’s future time application fee of $25 and the purchase think this matter through. In the event scheduled for September 22, 2020. education.” of at least one tuition unit of any type. Texas of a disaster, this account will be used to residency requirements apply. Future payments Participants in the plan purchase prepaid help recover property values on the island. can be as low as $15 if a pay-as-you-go account “tuition units” that can be used later toward is established. An online calculator provides undergraduate resident tuition and schoolwide pricing estimates on the type and number of required fees at most Texas public colleges units currently needed for any eligible Texas and universities, excluding medical and public college or university. Texas Drilling Serve Corpus Christi dental institutions. Prices are based on 2020- 21 academic year costs for the state’s public For more information about this prepaid colleges and universities. college tuition program, including how the Permits and – Make a Difference plan applies a Transfer Value for use at Texas Type I units, priced for undergraduate resident The City of Corpus Christi has numerous medical and dental institutions, Texas private tuition and schoolwide required fees at the boards, commissions and committees which colleges and universities, out-of-state colleges Completions most expensive eligible Texas public four-year strive to reflect the diverse interests and abilities and universities, and career schools, go to university or college, cost $151.64 per unit. Statistics for August of our citizens. TuitionPromise.org or call 800-445-GRAD The City Secretary’s Office is currently seeking Type II units, based on the weighted average (4723), Option 5. cost of undergraduate resident tuition and applications for the following boards The program’s outreach team also offers 2020 schoolwide required fees across eligible Texas webinars to provide an overview of the The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a • Building Standards Board public four-year universities and colleges, cost plan and discuss the different tuition unit total of 451 original drilling permits in August $108.35 per unit. • Construction Trade Advisory & Appeals types and payment options, as well as 2020 compared to 960 in August 2019. The Board Type III units, based on the weighted average provide information about Texas Match the August 2020 total includes 377 permits to drill cost of in-district tuition and schoolwide Promise Foundationmatching scholarship new oil or gas wells, seven to re-enter plugged • Corpus Christi B Corporation required fees across eligible Texas public two- opportunities*. Upcoming webinars are Sept. well bores, and 51 for re-completions of existing • Corpus Christi Business and Job year community colleges, cost $28.81 per unit. 16 at 10 a.m. and Sept. 16 at 3 p.m. All times well bores. Development are Central Standard Time. The breakdown of well types for original • Corpus Christi Convention & Visitors drilling permits in August 2020 is 141 oil, 33 Bureau gas, 224 oil or gas, 34 injection, and 19 other • Corpus Christi Downtown Management permits. District In August 2020, Commission staff processed • Ethics Commission 1,007 oil, 211 gas and 197 injection completions for new drills, re-entries and re-completions, If you know of anyone interested in serving on compared to 446 oil, 103 gas, and 29 injection a City board, commission or committee, please completions in August 2019. direct them to the City of Corpus Christi’s website at http://serve.cctexas.com. For Total well completions processed for 2020 assistance, please call Norma Duran at (361) year to date for new drills, re-entries and re- 826-3893 or via e-mail at NormaD2@cctexas. completions are 10,804 compared to 6,327 com. recorded during the same period in 2019. Where do people Padre/Mustang retire? Island Area The website WalletHub this week named Development Plan Corpus Christi as the 155th best city in the United States to retire in. Here are a few items included in the study. Online Community • Scottsdale, Arizona, has the highest share of the population aged 65 and older, 23.40 Meeting percent, which is 3.2 times higher than in Fontana, California, the city with the Thursday, October 1, lowest at 7.30 percent. • Brownsville, Texas, has the lowest 6:00 p.m. adjusted cost-of-living index for retirees, You are invited to participate in the upcoming 75.78, which is 2.6 times lower than in community meeting presentation and online San Francisco, the city with the highest at open house to give feedback on the draft vision, 195.86. policy initiatives and land use plan for the Island. Attend the online presentation to get an • Columbia, Maryland, has the highest overview of the draft plan elements. Then check share of workers aged 65 and older, 25.43 out the online open house to review the plan percent, which is 2.5 times higher than in elements and give us your thoughts and ideas. Detroit, the city with the lowest at 10.05 percent. The Freese and Nichols consultant team will give a short presentation at 6:00 p.m. Following • St. Louis has the most home health care the presentation, there will be an opportunity for facilities (per 100,000 residents), 57.18, participants to ask questions. Your feedback will which is 29.9 times more than in Fontana, guide the plan’s recommendations, including California, the city with the fewest at 1.91. policies, future development, and infrastructure investments for the Island. You are also invited to give your input through the online open house that will be live between October 1 through 15, 2020, and will be accessible from the project website. The link and instructions to join the meeting will be emailed out and posted on the project website One legged heron strikes a pose. Evelyn Pless-Schuberth. on October 1. To learn more about the project and sign up for updates about project meetings and materials, please visit www.cctexas.com/ island. 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If you don’t posing as grandchildren needing money to get species may perform elaborate mating dances up red objects such as fruit or flowers into small recognize a phone number, let it go to voicemail. out of a dire situation. to wow potential mates. pieces and lining their bower completely. After A legitimate caller will leave a message if they the female has stared at the red lining for a There is one group of birds, however, whose Adults 65 and older are more likely to lose need to get in touch with you. You should also period of time, the green and blue items in the males have a rather odd method of capturing the money to sweepstakes scams as well. They be alert to caller ID. Caller ID can be spoofed, bower may appear more striking. receive calls or letters claiming they’ve won the so if you’re receiving an unusual call from a attention of passing females. These impressive lottery or a sweepstakes, but they need to pay number that seems legitimate, hang up. birds, found in parts of New Guinea and In addition to color, geometry plays a large fees or taxes to claim the prize. Tech support Australia, are called Bowerbirds. They get role in a bower. In terms of item size, male • Don’t send money to strangers. Never send scams also target seniors who may not be their name from the unique structures called Bowerbirds may purposefully pile larger pieces money, especially over wire transfer or gift familiar with their computers. Scammers, posing bowers that males create to impress their female furthest from the entrance and will place smaller cards, to someone you don’t know personally. as tech support professionals, call or send a pop counterparts. pieces closer to the entrance. This counteracts Scammers may call posing as government up saying there is a problem with the computer, the usual visual phenomenon in which items employees, tech support or lottery companies but they can fix the problem for a fee. further away may appear smaller and items to ask you for money. Refrain from paying, closer seem larger. Additionally, the narrow COVID-19 has also provided additional especially if you are being threatened. If a entrance tunnel focuses attention into the opportunities for older adults to fall victim grandchild calls to ask for money, be sure that’s bower. These two illusions help make the male to fraud. Scammers take advantage of the who you are talking to. Ask specific questions Bowerbird look larger and more impressive to fear senior citizens may be feeling during the and follow up with their parents or other visiting females. pandemic. They claim to have miracle cures or relatives if you are still unsure. government funds to give. The male Bowerbird may also pick up Happy Grandparents Day, from your Better particular items to show to the female to impress While there are several different scams that Business Bureau! her even further. The object may be pleasing in take advantage of seniors, there are precautions color, or the dimensions of the object may add you can take to keep yourself and your loved to the Bowerbird’s clever body size deception. ones safe from fraud. Use these tips from your Better Business Bureau to avoid falling victim After male Bowerbirds perform their series to scams: A Satin Bowerbird weaves his bower in of strutting, vocalizing, and showing off their Eastern Australia. bower, females will choose whether or not to accept their invitation based on how impressed they were by the display. Males most often The Barnacle Line The term “bower” itself is not synonymous will mate with multiple females throughout the By Del Smith with nest, but refers instead to a structure breeding season if possible, which makes sense the mighty “ARIES”. It is the lowest deck on created specifically for use in attracting and given that bowers must be time consuming and What we have here is a column a ship that is attached to frames below the turn courting mates. The simplest of bowers are tedious to construct! To increase their chances, that I wrote before I was made of the bilge. Now this, with a little stretch of narrow tunnels or avenues constructed of sticks male Bowerbirds have often been known to aware of Talk Like A Pirate Day. imagination, sounds a lot like the cabin sole on and decorated with shell and bone. The entrance resort to foul play and destroy bowers of other --- Looking back on it, it has to be what turned my hard bilged boat. It is a, -- ‘ORLOP DECK’. tunnels of more elaborate bowers lead to an males. on that light bulb above ole Triple E’s head and “arena” or “court” filled with carefully selected got me in this fine mess to begin with. Don’t ya just love the way that rolls off the items which are often arranged in piles by color Of all of the courtship behaviors exhibited by tongue? ------OOOOOR-LOP. and shape. different species of birds, bower building is “PUT A GASKET ON YE GAM, SWABS. definitely one of the most odd and unique. The AVAST THEM BARRICOES. GIT YE UP I can’t wait to take some unlucky soul sailing These items can include anything from shells, now. cunning and deceptive behavior of the male TO THE LUBBER’S ‘OLE AN’ SWIFT ‘EM small bones, flowers, and fruits, to items such Bowerbird serves as a great example of one of FUTTOCK SHROUDS. SWIG ‘EM HARD UP “AAARRR! MATE, COULD I BE ASKING as bottle caps, pieces of glass, and other trash many amazing courtship practices that can be AND FRAP ‘EM. FAST.” YA TA GO BELOW, TO THA OOOR-LOP items. Bowers may seem simple at first glance, observed in the bird kingdom. “NOW HEAR YE SWABS, I’LL ‘AVE DECK AND FETCH ME ------” NARY FRET THERE. USE ‘AT FAKE O’ Now lets get into the task of trying to figure HAMBROLINE ABAFT O’ THE LARBOARD, out just what-the-heck was going on at the start Air Travel is Picking up at CCIA CATHEAD KEVEL. ARRR, AND ANY O’ of this thing. THAT SMALL STUFF YE HAVE LEFT, The terms were found in the 1994 copyrighted Outpacing the National Average FEAZE ‘ER UP FOR THE BOATSWAIN’S book, “THE FACTS ON FILE DICTIONARY CHEST.” during the coronavirus pandemic, said Kevin OF NAUTICAL TERMS”; ISBN 0-8160-2087- Booking at Corpus Christi International Airport (CCIA) is increasing faster than the Smith, Asst. Director of Aviation at CCIA. “As “THAT BE A FAIR TASK FER YE PETE, 6. long as CCIA is doing better than other airports AN’ WHILE YE BE A FEAZING, I WANT national average when it comes to future So there you have the source of my supposed in Texas and across the nation, we have a better SPIKE TA BE FORW’RD BECUING THE bookings. expertise, and from it we have: shot at getting the kind of attention from the STARBOARD ANCHOR. CAPT’ SAYS For the month of August, a total of 13,193 airlines that we would like to attract,” said WE’LL BE DROPPING HER IN ‘HAT FIRTH “Put a gasket on ye gam, swabs.” --- Gaskets people flew out of CCIA which represents a Smith. A POINT OR SO OFF THE LARBOARD were the lines used to furl sails. Gam was an 20% increase over July. While the numbers BOWS. SHE BE A MIGHTY ROCKY informal discussion. Of course, swabs is another are still lower than they were last year before CCIA has gone from a low of 2,000 passengers BOTTOM, SPIKE, SO BE RIGHTEOUS WIT’ nickname for a sailor. > So that would mean the the pandemic hit, the numbers show that more a month back in April to more than 13,000 YE WORK.” Mate was telling the two sailors to tie up,( stop and more people are not only confident enough passengers in August. When combined with ), their conversation. the optimism in future bookings, “this is a good “YA BEST BE SHUFFLIN’. WE’LL BE AT to fly again, they are also showing a lot of confidence in future travel. story to tell the airlines as we work with them ‘HAT ENTRY FRUSTUM ON THIS FETCH “Avast them barricoes.” --- Avast simply means on future planning.” said Smith. IN COUPLE TURNS O’ THE GLASS. SO BE to stop. While barricoes is a small keg or cask. > During the last week of August, future air AT IT NOW! YE CAN TOP OFF YE GAM The Mate is telling them to get off the kegs they travel bookings in the nation were 30% what While the airlines have responded to the soft TERMARROW, HIT BEIN’ ROPE-YARN were sitting on. they were back in 2019. This means that future bookings nationwide by pulling back on capacity (fewer seats and flights offered SUNDAY.” “Get ye up to the lubbers ‘ole an’ swift nationally, these bookings were down -70%. In the Coastal Bend, air travelers were booking at overall), all three of the airlines that serve CCIA Well by now you folks have probably guessed ‘em futtock shrouds.” --- Lubbers hole is the are still flying in and out of the community each that I have been into my nautical dictionary access hole through the platform on the mast. a much higher rate; 66% of what was booked around the same time the year before, down day. The one thing that local travelers can do again. And if that was your guess, it was a Remember, “crows nest”? Swift is the term use to make things even better is to consider flying mighty wise choice, for it was that, which when it was necessary to pull or tighten stays. only -34%. “Future bookings are just one indication of how the market is rebounding CCIA once they are ready to take to the skies created the mess above. Looks like a whole Which is what a futtock shroud is. A stay that is again. new, undiscovered language doesn’t it? Just how used to brace the top mast on those old square would you like to be a new, shanghaied, oxford rigged ships. They would be located close by the educated deck hand on an out bound vessel platform, especially at the lower end. > So the with a Mate that spoke like that. I would think order was for them to go up to the crow’s nest that your new language lessons would probably and tighten the upper mast stays. punctuated with more than just a few wallops of “Swig ‘em hard up and frap ‘em fast.’ When a cat or a belay pin, don’t you? You would most you pull at the bight of a line fastened at each likely be acquiring that old salt look a little more end, (or with a load, such as a sail, on one end), expediently than you cared for. to exert more tension, is to swig. Hard means to The reading of this book has been enlightening, do so tightly. Frap is lashings of several crossing for with some of the things I have found, I am turns. Fast means to make secure. > So here we seeing some insights, into that way of life. Take, have the Mate telling these two “tars” to pull for instance, the number of entries that begin the shrouds so that they are very tight then lash with “dead”. Such as ‘dead ahead’, ‘’deadeye’, them together securely. ‘dead horse’ and possibly the most significant Looking the next paragraph there are several of the thirty two separate entries is, ‘dead men’. terms that could perplex the average land lubber, Sounds like a lot of preoccupation with the Mate such as; * “fret” - Chaffing, and his belay pin when the opportunities came up to create a new name for something. *“fake” - A coil of line or to flake or coil line. However I don’t think it was a belaying pin *“hambroline” - Small diameter line used to that caused their apparent preoccupation with lash sails on tender or dinghy masts. cats. In the twelve entries we have; ‘cat’s paw’, *“abaft” - Towards the rear of the ship in cat ‘hook’, ‘cat back’, being some of the listings. relationship with an object or place. But I think the most telling, is that one of the definitions of, ‘cat’, is; “Slang for cat-o-nine- *“larboard” - or port. The left side of a vessel tails.” There we have it, sports fans. I would when looking forward. It is the name of a place, be thinking about that nasty looking whip not a direction. every time I saw the Mate. Maybe a little name *“cathead” - A cross-wise beam that extended Camping in front of Gulfstream. By Evelyn Pless-Schuberth. transference might help take away some of the past the bows used to store the anchors. “STING”. – Well, it is a thought, anyway. *“kevel” - A heavy cleat What these guys ate wasn’t anything you would find on a typical menu. Even if it was I don’t *“small stuff” - A term use to indicate small think it would be a fast moving item. Such as diameter rope ‘dandy funk’;--- take a semi-clean canvas bag, *“fease” - To unravel old and short rope to be fill it up with sea biscuits, borrow the Mate’s use as oakum, ( caulking). belaying pin, beat the bag until the biscuits are *“boatswain’s chest” - Where all of the rigging nothing but powder. Pour the powder into a and caulking supplies are stored. mixture of water and molasses. Stir well. Stir thick. ------UUUMM !!!-----UUMM GOOD!! Then there is ‘skillygalee’. This thin mixture So there you have it, it has taken about 700 was supposed to be a cramp preventer for all words to explain three orders, given a century those hearty guys throwing large scoops of coal or two ago. Maybe the reason this language into the boiler fires, in the great age of steam was established was to briefly covey ideas and ships. And because I just know you have been commands to one another. For a sailor it would wanting something like this, I’ll tell you how be as natural as breathing. Just confusing to us. to make it. Take sugared water and add a little Should you ever find yourself tossed through oatmeal. Doesn’t that sound wonderful? a black hole and wind up on a tall ship plowing Then there were the interesting items, I found, through the oceans. Don’t give up. You can get that applied to my own boat. Such as that little back by confusing the bejezzus out of them, deck I built on the stern to cover the engine. teaching them computer terms. Or better yet, Yessiree folks, I can say I got a genuine, -- our current political-speak. ‘POOP DECK’. From the BOAT HOUSE Library Now, don’t you wish you had one? Del Smith Also found another deck that I can apply to

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Cotter St. Port A Sunday, September 27 of my Back Porch pals (Sammy Joe, Lee, Tom Kevin Fowler (2 shows) On the Waterfront Antone & All Stars @ Tom, Catfish) at the Swing Bar and we all @ Brewster Street Giggity’s Downtown agree that we really, really miss each other and Stevie Start @ Angry Monday, September 28 can’t wait for the bars to get back open. Man, Marlin Open Jam @ Giggity’s it’s got to happen soon. Bars are going out of business everywhere. Sunday, September 13 Tuesday, September 29 Antone & All Stars @ Paul & Victoria @ Scattered shots… Giggity’s Giggity’s They filled in Lake Harvey. We did make it out to catch a couple of shows last week. We’re still a little nervous about the Monday, September 14 Wednesday, September 30 the planet in number of cases and total deaths. Open Jam @ Giggity’s Ty Dietz @ Giggity’s There was a big political boat parade outside of COVID so we don’t hang out long. The great Austin on Lake Travis where five boats sank. Tuesday, September 15 Thursday, October 1 The one here was less dramatic or at least Mermaid Gal’s B-Day Free Beer Band @ nobody sunk… their boats that is. I don’t know ♥♥♥ Giggity’s much but I do know when to keep my mouth Paul & Victoria @ Treasure Island Jon Pardi @ Concrete shut. This would be one of those times. Have Giggity’s Street I left anything out… oh, civil unrest continues Wednesday, September 16 Friday, October 2 to plague our country and Portland, OR just Magnus @ Giggity’s TEMPORARILY CLOSED Back Pew Revival @ passed 100 straight days of protests and riots AS COVID PRECAUTION Giggity’s against police brutality and racism. Plus, there Thursday, September 17 are four active tropical systems in the Atlantic Free Beer Band @ Saturday, October 3 right now. Our new generator remains on stand- Giggity’s Jon Mikael MREZ @ by and we have an evacuation plan should the Jon Wolfe @ Brewster 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Giggity’s occasion arise, sort of. Personally speaking, Street Downtown treasureislandporta Timeline Brewster Street the biggest thing on my plate right now is the Downtown $375 electric bill we just got. BOOM! Oh, and Friday, September 18 John Cortez @ Giggity’s Sunday, October 4 I tripped over the cat and now have a Popeye Randall King @ Brewster Antone & All Stars @ elbow that looks like a baseball. That’s it. That’s Street Giggity’s the current doom and gloom report. All of this OTB @ Angry Marlin would be a whole lot better if it would just cool Monday, October 5 off a little. Our northern neighbors got their Saturday, September 19 Open Jam @ Giggity’s first cold front of the season but our current Starlite & the Moonbeams temperature remains the same as that of the @ Giggity’s Tuesday, October 6 surface of the sun. If you think I’m making light Diamond’s Edge Paul & Victoria @ of a bad situation, you’re probably right… hey, @ Brewster Street Giggity’s can’t dance. Now go get your hummingbird Downtown Derek Smith @ Angry Wednesday, October 7 feeders out give our little buddies some sugar Marlin Ty Dietz @ Giggity’s water. Those little buggers are everywhere right Bart Crow will play the Brewster Street now. Ice House on Thursday and Friday. Sunday, September 20 Thursday, October 8 Antone & All Stars @ Free Beer Band @ On the local front… Giggity’s Giggity’s They filled in Lake Harvey last week. “Lake Harvey” is the pool of seawater that showed up Ty Dietz played a solo show at Giggity’s on Monday, September 21 Friday, October 9 Wednesday and Dreaming in Color played Open Jam @ Giggity’s TEMPORARILY Dreaming in Color @ next to the jetty after Hurricane Harvey plowed Giggity’s through three years ago. The storm left a hole there on Saturday. They sure had the girls wiggling (in their seats of course.) Dreaming Tuesday, September 22 CLOSED AS COVID in the jetty that created a little “lake” where Paul & Victoria @ Saturday, October 10 once only birds occupied… actually “pond” is had an all star line-up with Donald Aguirre Giggity’s 35 South @ Giggity’s a stretch here but I did actually kayak it once. and Chris Zavala in tow. PRECAUTION I’m not sure why they filled it in but I speculate DO NOT MISS LIST Wednesday, September 23 Sunday, October 11 that they needed to move all the excess sand Hank Reeves @ Giggity’s OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. Antone & All Stars @ somewhere from the numerous berms that were Coming this weekend… Giggity’s created from opening and closing the beach If any musicians or club people have upcoming Thursday, September 24 Free Beer Band @ Monday, October 12 so many times, and second guessing Mother shows you’d like to see here, please email them Giggity’s Open Jam @ Giggity’s Nature in the name of progress was as good to me. 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