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The Winter Texans have begun their annual pilgrimage from OTB as the freezing weather has hit the great frozen north. But we have noticed a change in the migration patterns this Winter Texan Season as we are seeing license plates from portions of the country we haven’t seen much of before such as Nevada, Utah, and Montana. This group is a bit harder to spot than the usual Winter Texans because they don’t all root for the same NFL teams. We know our Wisconsin friends Barred Owls at Sealife Center by their cheese hats, and our Viking When someone showed up at the Texas Sealife Center a few weeks ago with a clutch of eggs no one was completely friends because they congregate in sure what kind of animal was inside. One of the critters was scratching to get out so the eggs were put into an front of television sets each Sunday incubator and this is the result. to watch the Vikings, and our Bears fans because they are the loudest, This clutch of Barred Owls are doing fine and will be released back into the Wild Horse Prairie as soon as they are A set of townhomes are under the Cleveland fans because they cuss ready. They were fed as young owls using a hand puppet that looked like their missing mother so they didn’t become construction in the 15000 block of a lot – almost as much as Cowboy dependent on humans for survival and could be released. We can attest that they are a noisy bunch and aren’t afraid to Palmira. The permit posted at the fans. This week as a cold front blew protect themselves against intruders like photographers. site lists the builder as DSW Homes, through and a howling north wind calls to the listed number were not swept across local beaches a visitor returned by press time. Stilt homes from Colorado was standing knee- are not allowed under current rules deep in the surf in a pair of shorts Questions Arise Concerning Voting of the Padre Isles Property Owners fishing. We Islanders welcome the Association. These are outside the first-timers to our little sandbar and PIPOA boundaries. hope you like it and keep coming back. Rights in March PIPOA Election Seawall beach barriers Where did those 1900 votes come from? By the numbers By Dale Rankin in the undeveloped Cape Summer we certainly cannot say they don’t – at least not at this time.” Padre Isles Each March members of the Padre subdivision around the Ski Basin Isles Property Owners Association may have voting rights in the election To complicate things further, Property cast ballots for seats on the seven- meaning Axys Capital, which bought Jones said, the bylaws for the Cape member board. Usually about 2000 the Cape Summer land at auction in Summer subdivision which had not Owners votes are cast for either two or three 2018, could cast an estimated 1900 been reviewed in decades do not of the seats which come up on a votes in March; almost as many call for property owners there to pay staggered basis and in January 2020 votes as will likely be cast by PIPOA PIPOA dues known as Common Area Association Mother Nature reminded us who is ballots will go out for two seats. members in total. Maintenance fees meaning that they The Padre Isles Property Owners in charge this week when she blew Association this week released its “We are still reviewing the bylaws to could cast enough votes to control the over the newly-placed traffic barriers But as the 2020 election approached Financial Statement and Report determine if in fact they do have voting PIPOA board without having to pay on Michael J. Ellis Beach. The new a potentially game-changing blip for November 30, 2019. It was rights,” PIPOA President Marvin money into the organization. plastic barriers which are kept in popped up on the radar. A check of prepared by Gowland, Strealy, Jones said at the organization’s place by being filled with water but in the PIPOA bylaws found that the Morales & Co PLLC. Here are the monthly meeting on Tuesday. “But POA votes cont. on A4 this case the water was on the outside approximately 1900 individual lots highlights. and the barriers became flotation $7,452,928 Total Cash and devices. Equivalents Beach murders Developer Agreement for Park Road 22 $2,911,928 Total Marketable Securities Bridge Canal Approved $376,810 Accounts Receivable By Dale Rankin bridge (See the full agreement on The canal is part of a plan to build $199,166 Allowable for Doubtful Page A 4). Its approval on Tuesday a 3200-foot canal connecting the Accounts Receivable The Corpus Christi City Council clears the way for Diamond Beach existing Island canal system to the on Tuesday unanimously approved $148,710 Property, Plant and Holdings, LLC and Padre Island Gulf of Mexico through Lake Padre a Developer Agreement clearing Equipment, net Holdings, LLC, subsidiaries of and Packery Channel. the way for construction of the a property owners Axys Capital and $10,789,127 Total Assets The Kleberg County Sheriff’s Office new canal which would connect The next step in the process, as IBC Bank, to begin digging of the has still not filed charges in the case the planned Park Road 22 Water outlined in the Developer Agreement, $2,154,095 Total Income Jan- canal, referred to in the agreement as of the couple murdered on Kleberg Exchange Bridge to the existing is for the city to award the Nov 2019 County beach in October. The couple the Village Canal. Company official Island canal system. construction contract for the Water $1,394,359 Total Expense Jan.- was killed while camping and their have told the Island Strategic Action Exchange Bridge to the low bidder The move comes one week after Nov. 30, 2019 motorhome was recovered in Mexico. Committee that the project to dig and Hass-Anderson Construction Ltd. a council vote which secured city $1,998,812 Total 2019 Budget Two suspects were extradited back to bulkhead the canal has been bid and a Once that is done the company can funding for the bridge project the U.S. and remain in custody but contractor selected. City staff told the begin searching for ways to cut costs $759,735 Net Income currently projected to cost $13.9 so far are only charged with theft of city council last week that Diamond on the project. No date has been set million. the vehicle and not the murders. The Beach Holdings, LLC and Padre for the awarding of the contract and deaths were ruled homicides by the The Developer Agreement spells Island Holdings, LLC. plan to begin the city council is not scheduled to Nueces County Medical Examiner’s out a succession of steps leading to construction work on the project in meet again in 2019. Office but the Kleberg County Sheriff the beginning of construction on the January, 2020. has not released the autopsy report. There is no word from them when charges may be filed in the murder cases or when the autopsy will A little Island history become public. A memorial to the slain couple has been put up at the crime scene just south of The Bowl in Ranching Comes to The Island Kleberg County. Gus The Island is ideal ranch land, no fences or water wells need, and no mesquite Last week we Patrick Dunn was the son of Irish cattle entrepreneur. Either one moved mentioned our immigrants who came to Corpus farther west to the Big Bend country Island UPS Christi in the 1840s or early 1850s. or even to Arizona or one turned to driver Gus and Born in 1858 and left fatherless in another trade. As Dunn himself many no sooner did 1865, Pat Dunn grew up in the tough years later described his decision to we do that than social and economic environment go to Padre Island: He says after of the Texas Gulf Coast. It was a "The occasion of going to Padre twelve years period when a young man without Island was this: in the early days of delivering means was forced to work hard to the range was all free, there were no on the Island create a material existence. pastures, and then people commenced Gus is calling Like many of his contemporaries, building fences and buying the land, it quits. That’s Lizzy and Gus Pat Dunn turned to cattle as his and my brother and I had some cattle right Gus is vocation and occupation. With and we had to go some place and so retiring much his brother, Dunn as a teenager we went to Padre Island." to the disappointment of Island dogs worked cattle on the open range. who will need to find a new source of The fencing of the range in the dog treats. 1870s meant the end of the landless First Dunn home Around cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 December 19, 2019 Island Moon A 2 Prosperity Bank Hosts Local Artist Padre Island Yacht Club Lines Up for Toy Drive

Prosperity bank hosted an art show for local artist Noel Stephenson last Thursday. Photos by Debbie Noble.

Moon columnist Andy Purvis (far right) had a book signing at Barnes and Noble last weekend. Padre Island BIRDING TOURS • 25 Years Experience • Custom Shallow-Water Bird Boat • $200 for up to 3 people Book Your Trip Today! Call Captain Joey Farah Members of the Padre Island Yacht Club took part in the annual loading of the Toys for Tots the Sunday after the IBC Bank La Posada Lighted Boat Parades filling two trucks with toys. Even 361-442-8145 LSU Tigers and Ohio State Buckeyes were on the same side.

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provide their identity we will print it in the next Moon Monkeys Letters to the edition. Did Ya Mike Ellis, Founder Crickets chirping as far as the POA transparency and full disclosures in regard to Sea Pines filing. Hear? Editor Since February 2019, Marvin Jones and By Mary "Scoop" Craft company has flooded your paper and social media about the legal separation of the Sea Pines subdivision from the PIPOA. The first filing was met with the objection from the New Advertisers POA law firm stating that in their “opinion” the Texas Junk Removal offers many document filed at the Nueces County Clerk’s residential or commercial services including office was “legally insufficient.” removal of appliances, carpeting, hot tubs, In the course of this circus, the Sea Pines brush construction debris and more. They Distribution neighborhood has been bullied, harassed and also do donation pick-up, pressure washing, popcorn removal, tree trimming and more. Pete Alsop members called out in your paper and every social media outlet the Island has to offer. Call Bryan Garcia at 361-227-9434. Island Delivery Coldwell Banker The opinion was never substantiated, no explanation was ever given, homeowners were Business Briefs Advertising told to pay their POA CAM fees or be sued. Floyd’s Christian Family Restaurant Jan Park Rankin (Which according to the By Laws cannot happen in Flour Bluff is for sale after serving the Classifieds News unless a homeowner is late 4 years or $1000). community 55 years. Call Paul at 937-1164 Some people were afraid of the threat and paid for more information. Arlene Ritley Thanks for the rant on local beat reporters in last week's Moon. I don't often pick up a copy only to be told their money would be pro-rated Production Manager back to them when the POA saw fit. Documents of the Caller-Times, but did last Friday. Of Abigail Bair three top stories about Corpus Christi, all had were shared with personal information by the Contributing Writers the by-line of "USA Today Network," implying POA to their friends and every month since Joey Farah that the newspaper has no local reporters 2/19, there has been something said about the Andy Purvis covering such issues. A friend of mine called rights of those homeowners in Sea Pines being denied. Mary Craft the newspaper's number last week and said the Emily Gaines telephone was answered by someone in India. First of all, POA has absolutely no right to have Thank you for your responsiveness to the issues Jay Gardner an opinion or recourse in any manner involving affecting the population. the removal of a subdivision. There are 6 other Todd Hunter subdivisions that have set precedence to prove Dotson Lewis My grand-uncle was Grady Kinsolving, the editor of the 1920s and 1930s who joined it. The POA lawyer even stated in a video Dr. Tom Dorrell the Caller and the Times into one publication recording of a town hall meeting that the POA Ronnie Narmour shortly before he and Barney Farley started the did not have any say over the matter. Brent Rourk Tarpon Rodeo (today the Deep Sea Roundup). The Sea Pines residents then hired another law Photographers He would have been ashamed of such a paucity firm, retained the required amount of signatures Miles Merwin (Emeritus) of reporters, of reporting, and of the now-lost yet again, and refiled with the Nueces County concept of fair and balanced news. Clerk; that was November 19, 2019. The filing Debbie Noble Charlie Bass was acquired by the POA and reviewed. A Jan Rankin statement was issued in your paper and every Mary Craft Islander not known for being neither loquacious social media outlet within earshot of the Island nor verbose Ronnie Narmour by Marvin Jones. Marvin Jones sent the filing information to their Law Firm, once again Giggity’s in Port A will be closing the Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) From Our Facebook Page trying to stonewall the property rights of the Sea day after Halloween 2020. The strip mall it Riley P. Dog Pines residents. The Cagle Law firm confirmed was attached to has already been torn down. Dale's Column that the filing was legal, and Sea Pines is out Howie’s Bar is now open in the former Flats Lounge. Read more about the Port A scene Neill J Everitt III Thanks, Dale. I do appreciate of the PIPOA. Marvin Jones, unwilling to accept the fact, consulted yet another law firm on Ronnie’s Three Chords & the Truth page. the efforts you & your team make with integrity on behalf of our little islands residents (and past and got the same answer. The next step in the series of charades by the POA was to question The Dollar General on the Island will have residents.) For 20 years I have looked forward Santa on site December 24th 2 - 3:00 pm. on Thursdays to the news, entertainment, the signatures of the homeowners. They even flavor, history, celebration, frustration, & went so far as to call a homeowner and question Mikel May’s Beach Bar & Grill has pride on Padre Island served effectively and their validity. The person doing the shoddy Winter Time Drink Specials with $2 wells, considerately by a true local newspaper. Mike investigating apparently doesn’t know you $4 Margaritas and many more. There are E gave it a solid birth and childhood & you search CAD records, they don’t update until heaters to keep you warm on the chilly days. have continued to keep it relevant, legitimate, the end of the year. One has to scroll down and The gift shop receives new merchandise fun, and essential to the people of our island & check the deed records that show the current daily and has beachy Christmas decorations Publisher surrounding areas. owner. That is why Marvin in pleading in his and ornaments. They will be closed Dale Rankin blurb to “Please, please call the POA office and Christmas Eve and Day. Diana Whatley Braziel Houston/Harris About the Island Moon give us your email and the persons on the deed.” The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale County has very little news coverage. The City They actually think the Sea Pines homeowners Rankin, Editor / Publisher. of almost 4 million folks never has articles nor are going to help them at this point. Every Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes tv coverage of City Hall, Sherriff, Police Chief, signature is valid and every person whom delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 HISD. More has been discussed during the signed IS a homeowner in Sea Pines. copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, recent election, but that was suspect (on both as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. sides) due to "mud slinging" Its easier to keep A home was sold in Sea Pines after the up with sports than the City/County. Sad state filing. There was a question from the Title News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, of affairs. Company whether to include the CAM fees and payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. documents that are required to be in the closing The Island Moon Newspaper Murders papers for properties that are in the PIPOA. A Mark Midkiff The judge put a gag order on phone call was made to the POA office in which 14646 Compass, Suite 3 all info regarding the murders, l am frustrated Jim Smock told the new homeowner that Sea Corpus Christi, TX 78418 we can’t get any news about it, but understand Pines was still in and the POA was suing every the reasoning. homeowner in Sea Pines. The title company Dave’s Affordable Mobile Auto Repair 361-949-7700 took his word for it. Oops. works on autos, motorcycles, diesel engine We all want them to be convicted and pay for and small engines. Islander Dave is the [email protected] their awful crimes. We are going on 3 weeks of the Sea Pines filing and there has not been a word from Marvin, Jim, owner/mechanic and offers free estimates Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper Karl Rubinstein Your comments about the (name withheld since he is not a PIPOA official) and discounts to everyone. Call 271-5256 autopsy report seem to concede that it doesn't or any of the others who made Sea Pines their or email [email protected]. have to be released yet. AND it's true that daily source of harassing entertainment and Island in the Son United Methodist allowing the accused and others to review bullying tactics. Have you not questioned why? Church invites you and your family to it prior to law enforcement has thoroughly Well, just in case you have the answers have spend Christmas Eve with them with worked the case, COULD allow all kinds of been given to you. The hard, cold truth about Services and Holy Communion at 6:30 Where to Find The baseless rumors that would cost us thousands this whole fiasco of property right denial and pm. They welcome you to “come as you if not millions of dollars to chase down-- control. are.” The Church is located at 10650 Hwy Island Moon all for nothing. A free press is a press free to At this point, the PIO must remove Sea 361two miles north of the Packery Channel write whatever it wants, BUT not a free pass to Bridge. demand information just to have a story. Pines from the PIPOA. Sea Pines is no longer Port North required to pay CAM fees but can however, The Waterline below Doc’s is hosting Alan Inkpen Why would a news organization still get ballots. (Not that I think they care or a family friendly New Year’s Eve Party Aransas Padre make a request for information in order not to it is proper for a subdivision to vote on a POA 6 pm – 1 am with music by Dave’s Duo. Gulf Stream RV do a story? Finding stories is their job. If you Board that they (are) no longer affected by.) The Admission is $10 and includes appetizers All Stripes Stores don't like it, write a letter to the editor or change Pioneer RV POA must also remove Cape Summer I & II or and a champagne toast at midnight. Well Black Sheep/ the channel. collect CAM fees from the last 50 years. (Tell behaved pups and owners are welcome. Stripes on 1A that to AXYS Capital) Barrel La Posade Boat Parade in The Black Marlin Bar & Grill in Port My Coastal Home CVS Around the Island So, I challenge you to speak to the almighty A will have a Holiday Brunch on Sunday, WB Liquor Store Dollar General OZ and see what kind of spin you put on this. December 22nd and they still have seatings Drew Stevens It was a BLAST this year.... There needs to be a public statement issued available at 10 am and 1 pm. Some of the Island Wine Room Whataburger Great idea to include Marker 37 & Doc's for because it is obvious the POA is unwilling to do featured items are eggnog baked French spectators! Best Weather in 20 years!!! Kody’s Doc’s Restaurant it. I believe that this needs to end and end now. toast, seafood crepes and a prime rib So much fun to hang with the CCPD Marvin Jones is hoping that he can continue to carving station. The fee for adults is $50 Coffee Waves Snoopy’s Pier be a bully and control people, and when he is and $25 for age 12 and younger. Call 749- Nickie Garcia First time to view the boat looking down the barrel of defeat it will just go 4653 to make your reservations. Moby Dicks Isle Mail N More parade. It was great but would of been nice to away like a whisper. IGA hear Christmas music coming from the boats! The Island’s Edge Salon as big booth Island Italian The best boat for me was the very last one. If you are concerned about printing the truth space available for rent. Call or text Roni at Treasure Island Brooklyn Pie Co. Biggest and brightest of them all. It had the and Marvin being offended, just remember that 361-244-5748. Ms. Woody’s he isn’t paying your bills. The people that live sleigh and reindeer. Santa was missing. The Fulton Mansion in Rockport is Automotive Ace Hardware and work on this Island are; and the Relators now re-open after damages from Hurricane that make up a good portion of your ad space Port A Glass Studio Holiday Inn Harvey. Sea Pines really do not like the POA at all. So please Dale, San Juan’s Restaurant Texas Star (Shell) Editor’s note: Normally we don’t run Letters print the truth and not some ½ baked story by Wash Tub Jesse’s Liquor to the Editor that are not signed. We make an a (personal insult redacted by the editor) that exception here in the interest of making sure preys on the positive vibes of the Island People. Woody’s Sports Scuttlebutt’s everyone has their say. This unsigned letter Regards Center Restaurant arrived at the Moon office and if the writer will Back Porch Bar Subway Shorty’s Place Island Tire Fisherman’s Wharf Padre Pizzeria Giggity’s And all Moon Gratitude retail advertisers The Gaff WB Liquor Trinity By the Sea Episcopal Flour Bluff H.E.B. Whataburger on Waldron Ethyl Everly Senior Center Fire Station Police Station Stripes on Flour Bluff & SPID The Coastal Bend Restaurant Association hosted their annual holiday party at Costa Sur on Padre Island this week. Photo by Jan Rankin

Send Letters and Photos to [email protected] and follow us on Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper December 19, 2019 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Around cont. from A1 POA votes cont. from A1 The PIPOA elections are decided on a Dunn sets up a cattle operation wells in the sand. Dunn simply adopted this Holiday deadlines plurality basis; the top two or three vote getters technique. Padre had additional environmental When Dunn first went to Padre in 1879 he Our deadlines are moving around for the (depending on the year) take office whether characteristics which were advantageous to did not, as far as is known, own any land on holidays. The Christmas edition of the Moon they have a majority or not. Three candidates cattle raising. The island required no fencing. the island. When he sold the island in 1926, he will be out on the day of Christmas Eve and the are running for two seats in the March 2020 The Gulf on the east, the Laguna Madre on owned almost all of it. When he moved onto first edition of 2020 will be out on Thursday, election meaning the single owner of Cape the west, Corpus Christi Pass on the north, Padre, Dunn apparently had a lease from two January 2. Due to the holiday schedule we will Summer could cast the estimated 1900 votes for and Brazos Santiago Pass on the south formed Corpus Christi gentlemen who owned land need Moon Matter in by Monday, December 23 two candidates almost assuring them of victory. natural barriers. Dunn never had to worry on the island, John McCampbell and Stanley and Monday, December 30. Oh 2019 we hardly about his cattle wandering off his range nor Jones said on Wednesday that the attorney for Welch. It is probable that this was a verbal knew ye. did he have to construct fences to distinguish the PIPOA is still reviewing the documents to agreement, for that is how Texas gentlemen his land from his neighbors. The sea was the Say hello if you see us Around The Island. determine the final outcome, but a solution has conducted their business. fence. been found to divert a major upheaval in the After a man named Healy moved his cattle March election cycle. off Padre, Dunn stocked the island with 400 “I contacted an official with Axys,” Jones cows he had purchased from a man named City Developer said, “and they have no interest in voting in the Rachel who lived at White Point. Dunn and election. They are going to send us a letter to his brother drove the cattle from White Point Agreement for the that effect in the next few days to make sure we are in a good legal position. The Axys folks Canal Leading to the want to be good neighbors. The letter will let us get through this election cycle while we sort out Park Road 22 Bridge the legal end of things.” The question of voting rights in the Cape Approved by the Corpus Summer subdivision goes back all the way to 1980 when Padre Island was annexed by the Christi City Council City of Corpus Christi. Records show that when Tuesday, December 17 the private owners of the developed property on Padre Island, Westinghouse Financial Editor’s note: This is the Developer Agreement Corporation, wanted to move the property into approved by the Corpus Christi City Council on the Corpus Christi City Limits they needed Tuesday. the Cape Summer votes to meet the city Motion to approve Developer Agreement for requirements for requesting annexation. As a Park Road 22 Bridge and Village Canal result the Cape Summer votes were counted. The lots on the more than thirty-five fingertip CAPTION: Hotel on old Padre and Don Patricio streets in Cape Summer, almost all waterfront, Causeway to the Island. Motion to approve Amendment No. 1 to were already platted but not yet developed; the Developer Agreement for Park Road 22 situation that still exists today. Bridge and Village Canal Good grass and water plus natural fences When Island developer Paul Schexnailder and made Padre an ideal place to run cattle. The SUMMARY: partners purchased the land in 1993 PIPOA officials told them that since the land was island possessed still another attribute which The purpose of this item is to approve an included in a Developer’s Agreement that did very few cattle ranches in that part of the amendment to the Developer Agreement for not require the property owners to pay PIPOA country could claim. There was no brush on Park Road 22 Bridge and Village Canal. The dues they could not vote in PIPOA elections. Padre such as the mesquite and chaparral amendment will allow for the award of the That supposition stayed in place until a recent which made cattle raising on the mainland construction contract along with a limited review of PIPOA bylaws and Deed Covenants as difficult as the periodical drought. Brush notice to proceed for purposes of value associated with the move by the Sea Pines was as much the vaquero's enemy as the engineering and resolving any design issues. subdivision to remove itself from the PIPOA. outlaw steer. When riding in the brush he Without the amendment, the City would not That preliminary review by the PIPOA attorney dressed appropriately. Toe fenders and thick award the construction contract until after found that in fact the Cape Summer property boots protected his feet while heavy leather substantial completion of the canal. leggings and ducking jacket covered his body. did have voting rights attached and under their Gauntleted gloves took care of his hands and BACKGROUND AND FINDINGS: own bylaws were not required to pay PIPOA wrists and a stout hat shielded his head. Diamond Beach Holdings, LLC (DBH) fees. Jones said there is also a legal question and Padre Island Holdings, LLC (PIH) regarding the current validity of the city plats at When working cattle in brush the vaquero Sea Pines due to their age. did not quietly ride along singing a cattle song are the current owners of land adjacent to with one leg swung over the saddle horn. He the proposed location of the Park Road 22 “We are not sure yet if the platting has a time "tore a hole" in the brush or "split the brush." Bridge. DBH and PIH are proposing to build limit on it,” Jones said. “We are checking that He was not called a cowboy but rather a "brush a canal to create a water connection under with the city.” the Park Road 22 Bridge and provide for popper" or a "brushwacker." As J. Frank So things appear to be settled for the 2020 connectivity from the existing canal system Dobie was fond to note, a good brushwacker round of voting with regard to the Cape Summer owned by the Padre Island Property Owners chasing a cow was "likely to emerge from a property but there are still multiple legal Association to the Packery Channel. thicket with enough wood hanging in the fork questions that need to be checked and resolved. of his saddle to cook a side of yearling ribs." A Developer Agreement for Park Road 22 Still unknown is whether ballots for the March For some reason the brush so typical on the Bridge was approved by City Council on election will be sent to property owners in the mainland was not found on Padre. April 23, 2019. That agreement lays out the Sea Pines subdivision. Property owners there requirements for the proposed bridge and Vaqueros working the Dunn ranch did not have been trying for over a year to remove canal project. Historic map have to weigh themselves down with extra themselves from the PIPOA but, according clothing nor worry about splitting their skulls Amendments to the agreement are as follows: to Jones, are still members at this time due to on branches or scarring their faces and hands. to Flour Bluff and then forded the Laguna Section A.1. Roles and Responsibilities of legal questions. However, he said, the matter is Cattle did not get lost in the brush, requiring currently under review by PIPOA attorneys and Madre. For decades this was the way Dunn the vaquero to spend hours searching for them. the City, paragraph 1.5 of the Agreement is got his cattle on and off the island. hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced he expects it to be resolved before the deadline for mailing out ballots for the March election. Nature was unkind the first year. A severe with the following language: winter badly damaged the herd, which was 1.5 Following the determination of available Science and the Sea not in any case made up of prize animals, and funding, the City will award the construction Dunn was unable to meet the payment on the contract for the Bridge Project and issue Sea Turtles Get note due Rachel. Fortunately a firm called a limited notice to proceed to that the the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company was construction contractor for purposes of value Hands-On with looking for someone to drive 1,000 head to a engineering and resolving any design issues ranch in Webb County. Dunn took the job and related to the Bridge Project. The City will Meals received a dollar a head as commission. The have no obligation to issue a full notice to money enabled him to meet his payment. It proceed or begin work on the Bridge Project was to be the last until the Village Canal is substantially time that Dunn completed. For purposes of this Section 1.5, was not able to substantial completion of the Village Canal earn a living on shall mean the date when the dredging and Padre. bulkheading is completed for the Village Project;” His family moves to The Section A.1. Roles and Responsibilities of the Island City: 1.6 As soon as practicable following notice By 1884 he of the Village Canal’s substantial completion had firmly in accordance with Section 2.5 below, the established his Sea turtles use flippers to swim and glide City shall issue a full notice to proceed cattle operations. through the water or sometimes crawl across Padre at the time of the U.S. Mexican war. (the “Notice to Proceed”) to the contractor Patrick Dunn In that year he the beach—anything related to moving awarded the Re-Bid, and will provide written decided to move around. But it turns out that these aquatic They were always in the open between the two notice of the Notice to Proceed to Developers his family to the island. The family lived at reptiles use their flippers in other ways too, water fences, easy to find and easy to string within 3 days of its issuance. For purposes of the settlement about 20 miles from the north including handling food. out. According to Jim Lynch, a south Texas this Section 1.6, substantial completion of the end. About five or six years later one of his cattleman who has worked Padre Island cattle Village Canal shall mean the date when the Most animals that use limbs for eating daughters contracted scarlet fever, which left since his boyhood, the island's good grass and dredging and bulkheading is completed for learned those behaviors from parents, her partially paralyzed. Thinking conditions water, the natural fences, and the absence of the Village Project; siblings, or other members of their social on Padre contributed to this misfortune, Dunn brush made Padre one of the easiest ranches group. But sea turtles never know their moved his family into Corpus Christi. For the Section A.3. Sequencing of Obligations, in the area. parents and live solitary lives. Without paragraph 4 is hereby amended to add next sixteen years he lived at the settlement fingers or toes, they use suction or biting to the following language at the end of said or at one of the line camps he built to manage Lining up the camps consume their prey, and their brains are not paragraph: his cattle ranch. Some of these line camps still highly developed. So researchers presumed exist on The Island today. Another environmental characteristic to which Dunn adapted his cattle ranch was the island's 4. City shall determine its funding capabilities that sea turtles would not use their fins to In 1907 Dunn decided to build a two-story size and dimensions. Padre is approximately based on bids submitted in response to Re- grasp prey or carry food—that is until they house on Packery channel. Constructed 115 miles long and from 500 yards to three Bid (Section 1.3), and City shall certify observed it on an underwater video unit entirely from drift lumber found on the miles wide. Although the majority of the cattle funding for the Re-Bid to Developers (Section located on a French Polynesian coral reef. 1.4), The City will award the construction beach, the house was an imposing structure grazed on the northernmost sixty miles, some Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium contract for the Bridge Project and issue a Although the family continued to maintain wandered down the island to the southern end. in California saw a hawksbill turtle use its limited notice to proceed (Section 1.5)” its permanent residence in Corpus, they spent In order to work cattle spread out over such limbs while feeding, sending the scientists several months during the summer on Padre. a great distance, Dunn built a string of line Section A.3. Sequencing of Obligations, on a hunt to discover evidence of similar In 1916 an exceptionally severe hurricane camps down the island. Ranch headquarters paragraph 9 is hereby amended to add behavior by other sea turtles. They pored blew the house away. Dunn replaced it with a on Padre was located at the northern end. Here the following language at the end of said through underwater surveys and searched smaller structure also located at the north end Dunn had a house, a bunkhouse, traps, and paragraph: photos and videos online, including on of the island. This structure, which since 1916 working pens. Going south down the island he 9. City shall award construction contract for sites such as Google, YouTube, Flickr and has been remodeled a number of times, is still located three line camps at approximately 15- Shutterstock. standing and in use. mile intervals. They were called respectively the Bridge Project (Section 1.5) and issue Novillo, Black Hill, and Green Hill. the Notice to Proceed (Section 1.6), City They sought any examples of sea turtles Ranch with no fences shall issue the Notice to Proceed on the using flippers to capture, manipulate or These facilities covered about sixty miles of When Dunn moved the first four hundred construction contract for the Bridge Project transport their food in the water. They found the island's prime range. The choice of 15- cows to Padre in 1879, he was confronted with (Section 1.6)” a surprising variety of ways turtles handle mile intervals was not accidental. That was the the problem of adapting a type of agricultural prey such as sponges, jellyfish, algae and distance it was possible in the old days to drive land utilization to the island's environment. fishes. In one image, a green turtle appears the cattle and get them in the trap before dark. The two most important elements of successful NO JOB TOO SMALL…NO JOB TOO BIG to “hold” a jellyfish. In another, a loggerhead Each camp was similar to Novillo. First there cattle raising, food and water supply, were CONCRETENO JOB TOO SMALL…NO CONSTRUCTION JOB TOO BIG turtle uses its fins to roll a scallop along the was a large trap which enclosed the entire already present. The island's grasses had for CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION sea floor. In yet another, a hawksbill turtle camp area. Within the trap Dunn built two years supported cattle and horses. arry Allen uses a reef for leverage as it pulls away an huts or cabins, an outdoor kitchen, smaller arry Allen anemone. This research demonstrates just Padre Balli, who had learned the technique traps, and corrals or working pens. One of the Loncrete how “hands on” turtles are with their meals from the Indians, has solved the problem of huts was for Dunn's personal use and the other LConcrete and how much more scientists have to learn obtaining fresh water by digging shallow functioned as a bunkhouse for the men. ConstructionC Construction30 years experience simply by observing sea creatures. 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Police are characterizing it as a Gentle /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible over the road that says, “Keep Your Eyes on the or Kind Murder since it appeared the weapon Th 19 Low 4:35 AM 0.8 7:14 AM Rise 12:27 AM 54 Road!” It’s a sign not on the road that tells me to was simple boredom. The council member’s 19 High 7:55 AM 0.9 5:38 PM Set 1:09 PM keep my eyes on the road. What to do?! demise escaped notice through the Consent Agenda and was discovered only when a voice 19 Low 2:26 PM 0.4 It reminded me of all those signs you see along vote was required on an agenda item that would the Landing Strip between Packery Channel and 19 High 9:31 PM 1.2 move the city’s homeless population into the Port A telling you all the stuff you must and Downtown Hilton. The councilman’s silence F 20 Low 4:43 AM 0.5 7:14 AM Rise 1:29 AM 43 can’t do while riding the Ferry. was put down in the record as an abstention 20 High 10:25 AM 1.0 5:39 PM Set 1:46 PM “Turn off Engine While on Ferry! No Smoking and the Medical Examine was summoned. The on the Ferry! No Reciting the Alphabet speaker has not yet been charged but police say 20 Low 4:14 PM 0.7 Backwards on the Ferry!” No elephants on the he could face charges of "Assault with a Deadly 20 High 9:42 PM 1.1 ferry!” Boring Weapon.” Sa 21 Low 5:10 AM 0.1 7:15 AM Rise 2:31 AM 32 There are about fifteen of these signs and once A third leg 21 High 12:36 PM 1.2 5:39 PM Set 2:24 PM when I was going to Houston and was actually going to go across the ferry I wanted to be a If you don’t think words matter consider the 21 Low 6:16 PM 0.9 responsible ferry rider so I tried to memorize difference between a hiccup and a hick down. I once had a reporter write a story about a man 21 High 9:47 PM 1.1 all the rules; “No Spitting on the Ferry! No Rap Music on the Ferry! No Elves on the Ferry! No who was hit by a train: “A man lost two legs Su 22 Low 5:45 AM -0.2 7:15 AM Rise 3:34 AM 22 Barry Manilow on the Ferry!” That music one after being hit by a train this morning.” “It’s a 22 High 2:10 PM 1.5 5:39 PM Set 3:04 PM was easy, but it was bad news for the elves. good thing that third leg wasn’t on the track,” I said. “That would have been a brutal death.” M 23 Low 6:25 AM -0.5 7:16 AM Rise 4:37 AM 13 But nowhere did I see a sign that said, “No “Residents on the Northside are the most 23 High 3:19 PM 1.7 5:40 PM Set 3:47 PM Biting on the Ferry!” and neither did Riley P. Dog and so he nipped one of the ferry workers Effluent” read the headline and while it may Tu 24 Low 7:07 AM -0.6 7:16 AM Rise 5:40 AM 6 who stuck his hand in the back window. 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Being a dork, I picked the one with the Dotson’s Note: The Louisiana Maneuvers and V, moving from left to right. On day three, improvement, deciding that it no longer wanted absolutely dumbest name. Pro-tip: adding a “z” were a big deal in my part of the country during he launched an assault on Lear’s VII Corps to suck, rebelliously kicking the dog hair and to make a word plural doesn’t make cellphone 1940 and 1941. 24 hours a day during these along the Red River, which, after a promising dirt right out the back of its roller. My Roku repair an ‘edgy’ business. It’s still cellphone maneuvers, we had all kinds of military convoys start, settled down into a slugging match rather decided that disco was a valuable new trend repair. The only thing dangerous about it is pass through my home town in Arkansas. than a dramatic breakthrough. His numbers in television viewing and started flashing the possibly having to tell a customer that their Thanks to Mark Perry and the National World were eventually decisive here, however, and programs on and off. My sewing machine (in $1000 phone (worth literally $1.72 in materials) War II museum for many of the facts contained Lear had to give ground. copious use this time of year) mysteriously shut isn’t repairable. Believe me, in that scenario, that ‘z’ won’t save you. After waiting in line for in this report and to the National WWII Museum The next day would see Lear’s armored down in the middle of a seam and wouldn’t a bit, a nice gentleman told me my phone wasn’t for the photos. divisions launch an assault on Krueger’s left, kick back on. My cheap iron wouldn’t heat up repairable because it was an “international which, after a promising start, bogged down (no more grilled cheese). My modem decided The United States at War phone.” I’m pretty sure that was industry speak in the face of Blue’s antitank guns. This was to play cat and mouse with my internet service for, “Sorry, lady, your phone is trash unless the situation by the afternoon of September 19 provider, and my waterproof iPod tried to you intend to use it for target practice.” I was when the whistle blew ending Phase 1. Nothing electrocute me in the swimming pool prior to okay with this since their average price for revolutionary or shocking had taken place—this ‘shuffling’ off this mortal coil. Worst of all, was operational art by way of the Civil War, a though, my cellphone wouldn’t charge. classic evocation of an American way of war— I know this has happened to a lot of you as well but, it was probably just what this army needed – your cellphone charges increasingly slowly, the most. you have to carefully connect the charging And that is why Phase 2 is all the more cable, wiggling it into perfect synchrony with shocking. Here, the young US Army would the innards of the phone, and then one day: show a very different face, one that, perhaps, its WHAMMO, no charge-o, no mo’ (usually enemies in the upcoming conflict should have approximately 14 minutes after the warranty noted more carefully. expires). I thought maybe the end of the phone was nigh, but I was hoping to not have to buy The Siege of Shreveport a new one until I got Christmas out of the Americans like to think of World War II as way. Phones (even the crappy ones I buy) are The opening round of the US Army’s Louisiana a “great crusade,” but if it was, the country notoriously expensive. I tried several methods Maneuvers in 1941 was an exercise without a certainly didn’t seem all that fervent about of phone salvation I found on the internet. rushing into it. Think of it: by the usual great deal of flash or excitement, but rather reckoning, World War II lasted six years, from one designed to give a newly formed army First, I minutely adjusted the tiny tab within the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to some seasoning and a green officer corps some the charging port. The Wikihow page said Japan’s surrender on board the USS Missouri on experience in maneuvering large formations in to remove the battery first, but my phone (as September 2, 1945. US participation spanned the field. previously noted) was a junker. Popping the less than four years of that total, a little over battery could be done, but you’d have to use a half the war. Of seven campaigning seasons, bludgeon to get it out. I turned the phone off the United States missed the first three and was and proceeded with the work. In retrospect, active only in the final four. my super pointy eyebrow tweezers may have not been the best tool for the job. By the time It wasn’t until 1940, when the Wehrmacht I was done, the tab was certainly “pushed up,” De facto phone charger. overran France and drove the British off the but it also looked like it had been chewed on by continent, that the United States began actively carpenter ants. I plugged the phone in with no preparing for war. The country had made great results, but by this point I was considering any phone repairs (on the Apples and Samsungs that strides, certainly. In September 1940, President lack of electrocution a win. evidently aren’t ‘international’) was hovering Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Service As I moved the cable around, trying to find the around $100, and my whole phone cost $40 to Act into law, the first peacetime draft in US begin with. history. Some 16 million men registered for the sweet spot, I soon realized that if I looped the draft that fall. By the end of 1940 there were cord back around the phone, I could get some I went home and ordered a new phone from 630,000 men in the army (13 divisions), and six contact. Unfortunately, the cord didn’t want Amazon. I splurged and got one with a super months later (June 1941) there were 1,400,000 1st Armored Division M3 tanks leave Ft. to stay twisted in a position that defied at least battery, figuring that if I had to charge it less, (36 divisions). The military budget for 1940, Knox for Louisiana Maneuvers three laws of physics and probably at least one the fragile port would be preserved longer. The about $9 billion dollars, exceeded all the of thermodynamics. I had to weigh it down phone, plus an extra 32G of memory was $99 – military budgets combined dating back to 1920. After four days to separate the armies, with a hammer. quite a hit for poor little me. Then I spent the reorganize them, and return them to their start- I left my new charging station to work on two terrible days in the Gulag of No Phone. I As force levels exploded, big open-field lines, Phase 2 of the Louisiana maneuvers didn’t realize how much my life is ruled by the maneuvers became possible for the first time. the kitchen counter, and set about figuring out began. This time, the Blue Army (Lieutenant where to get a phone repaired in Corpus Christi, device until I was cut off. It does everything! The field is where armies hone their craft, General Walter Krueger) was both twice as It monitors my sleeping, exercise and eating commanders learn to command, and soldiers with brief forays into Sewing Machine Junction large as Red (Lieutenant General Ben Lear) and the Great and Terrible Territory of Vacuum habits. It gives me my email and lets me check learn to fight. Manuals and training help, but and equipped with its own armored division, my account balances. I read all of my morning any officer will tell you that the best way to get Cleaner Dissection. Eventually, my phone got the 2nd, which had switched sides since Phase charged up to 100% and I transferred (for the newspapers on the phone. It tells me the ready for the real thing is to plunk down your 1. Blue’s mission was advance upon and seize temperature outside. All my music is accessible formation in real terrain and let your personnel first time my history of phone ownership) all Shreveport, Louisiana. Krueger’s able chief of my contacts to my SIM card. The little bar on my phone – I actually had to listen to the see how challenging even the simplest march or staff, Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower, decided RADIO in my car – BLECH. Oh, and it allows maneuver can be. dimmed down to 96% after this activity, so (just to send his armor on a wide sweep across the to see if I could make it through the holidays me to communicate with my family and friends. Sabine River to drive round Red’s western with a little dopey engineering and some luck) It took those entire two days to convince the flank, break into the rear, and attack Shreveport I attempted to plug it back into my hammer rig. Rev and the G.P. that my phone wasn’t working, from the north. The Red force was much smaller No dice. This was the phone’s final charge. and even then they were a little shaky on the and tasked largely with positional defense for a topic. Ten minutes after the new phone arrived 100-mile zone south of the city. Lear decided That’s when every person in my contacts list decided it would be an awesome idea to text me and was set-up, I got a text from my Dad that on a slow retreat, accompanied by massive read, “You can have my old iPhone if you want.” demolitions that would hopefully, slow down photos and videos. To put this in perspective, the pace of Blue’s advance. only three people on the planet regularly text After a considerable moment of face palming, me, and one of them is Facebook’s password I wrote back: “Thanks, Pops. That might have reminder service. That day, however, people I worked, but I now have a new phone…which is hadn’t spoken to in years decided it would be how I got your text message.” an auspicious time to send me pictures of their “Have some gratitude,” Dad replied, “as least flooring/neighbor’s cat/houseplant with at least you HAVE a phone now.” one of their thumbs at the side of the frame. Then they wanted to have a looooonggg talk He was right. Gratitude is important. I’ll find about it. Try explaining that your phone has no mine just as soon as I figure out where I put all charge when your phone is dwindling slowly the screws to the vacuum cleaner.

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Lt Col Eisenhower Dotson’s Other Note: In 1941 a friend of my dad’s who was a judge in the Louisiana Maneuvers told my dad that during the action By the time the US Army gathered for its first he had hidden behind a rather large tree while great field maneuvers in the fall of 1941—in observing the tanks maneuvering. During Arkansas in August, Louisiana in September, a break in action, he asked an M-3 tank and the Carolinas in November—it was high commander if the tree he was hiding behind time for a test. The war had been raging for two would protect him. He answered by crawling full years. Japan had already overrun much of in his tank and flattened the tree. Dad’s friend China, and the Wehrmacht had smashed one was a quick learner and never used any tree opponent after another in Europe and was even as protection…in fact he worked for and got then in the midst of the greatest land campaign transferred to the 1st Armored Division during of all time: the opening drive into the Soviet the Louisiana Maneuvers. He commanded a Expert Haircolor HUGE RENTAL BOOTH NOW AVAILABLE Union, Operation Barbarossa. World War II was tank for three years in combat in Europe and Starts at $45 racing to a climax, and not only had the United was never scratched. If you are interested in this States missed out on the action, it remained to ON THE ISLAND report being continued, please let me know and 15033 S. PADRE ISLAND DRIVE be seen if it would see any action at all. I will continue it. I can be reached at: dlewis1@ CALL RONI OR TEXT FOR FASTER RESPONSE In operational terms, all three of these great stx.rr.com and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 maneuvers featured a similar approach. It was or Cell: call or text: 530-748-8475. I really one that would have been familiar to previous appreciate the phone calls, Emails, texts and generations of our field commanders, especially conversations about Senior Moments. Union generals in the Civil War. The Louisiana Please note: The next Veterans Round Table Maneuvers, for example, were essentially a Meeting will be Tuesday, January 7, 2020; teaching tool in battle management for an 8:30-11 a.m., 3209 S. Staples. All veterans, officer corps that had virtually overnight been their families and anyone interested in tasked to lead mass armies in the field. “The veterans’ affairs, are invited. Coffee & donuts field,” in this case, was the district bounded are provided. Hope to see you there. 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He has ejected mostly managers college football bowl games and also I have Rice’s Dicky Maegle, tell you about this fellow. He was a positive for arguing balls and strikes. Those managers included the championship playoff schedule. and tried to hide, after person who was extremely likeable. This included Bobby Valentine, Terry Collins, Mike In the event you are interested, the reason for which Meagle was guy could put the good in good morning. A Hargrove, Charlie Manuel, Clint Hurdle, Bob the Cotton Bowl logo being inserted above is credited with the 95- fun guy, baldheaded and smart, he was as Brenly, Ron Gardenhire, Tony LaRussa, Bobby to remind you that the Cotton Bowl Game and yard touchdown run. straightforward as a bayonet. He loved Notre Cox, Dusty Baker, Jim Leyland and A. J. Hinch. supporting activities have, and always, been Did you know that Dame Football and could be seen wearing their Hall-of-Famers Frank Thomas and Mike Piazza rated at the top of the heap…I had the privilege was part of a record- gear in the umpire’s dressing room. He wasn’t also made the list. Eric Cooper was inducted of participating in Cotton Bowls from 1978 thru setting day? Maegle averaged 24.1 yards on born with tremendous speed or the ability to into the Hover High School Hall of Fame. 2000…what fun! Thanks to Matt Bonesteel and 11 touches, giving him the most explosive leap tall buildings in a single bound. I don’t Bill Morgan, former SWC SID, for many of the bowl ever by almost eight yards per play think he could even skip. But what he was Cooper’s last game as a Major league umpire facts contained in this report, and also to Bill (among players with at least 10 touches). More born with was a love for the game of baseball, occurred on October 7, 2019, during the Morgan for the photos. importantly, did you know Rice is 3-0 all-time a lot of patience, determination, “guts,” will American League Division Series between the against Bama? The 1959 Air Force-TCU, was power and nerves of steel. You can’t be a Major New York Yankees and Minnesota Twins. He December 27, 2019-Military Bowl - the last-ever scoreless postseason game, and umpired second base during Game 3 at Target North Carolina vs. Temple League Umpire without all five of those. After 1991, the greatest moment in University of graduating from college, he attended the Joe Field in Minnesota. Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Miami history. Brinkman Umpire School and spent nine years Eric Cooper was a rising star. Before Annapolis, Maryland-Noon ET, ESPN December 28, 2019-Peach Bowl College in the Minor Leagues. This guy watched kids interleague play the All-Star Game was the Football Playoff semifinal-LSU vs. pitch who couldn’t find the mound, much less crown jewel of baseball. It was the only time Past facts: Selection Sunday is always a home plate. Most baseball umpires are like fans could see players from other teams, besides dizzying pile of contracts, logistics, politics, Oklahoma elephants, they never forget. He was taught at the World Series. He was selected to work the and emotions. A masterpiece: Way down the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, that umpires must be quick to think and slow to All-Star Game in 2005. He worked three Wild list of the 2009 Eagle Bank Bowl’s conference anger and that a good umpire umpires the ball, Georgia-4 p.m. ET, ESPN Card Games in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Coop ties was the MAC, giving a spot to Temple, not the player. Umpires behind home plate may also worked nine Division Series’ in 2003, which was in the middle of its exile from the Past Fact: After a 26-6 make as many as 275 to 300 calls per game. 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and Big East for not trying hard enough at football. humiliation at the cruel This man had fantastic strike-zone awareness. 2019. He was part of the umpiring crew for four 6-6 Notre Dame declined the other bid amid hands of 1981 West Virginia, Most umpires are loners. It has to be that League Championships Series’ in 2004, 2015, Charlie Weis’ firing, likely leaving the spot Florida coach Charley Pell 2016 and 2017. Eric Cooper was picked to work to Army, but UCLA began practicing in case way. Umpires very rarely stay in same hotels buried the Peach film under a as the teams. They are never seen in the same the 2014 World Series between the Kansas City Army missed bowl eligibility by losing to Navy grave marker by the Gators’ Royals and the San Francisco Giants, because a week after bowl invites went out. Army lost restaurants. Chances are if you’re a regular practice field. It remained fan, you would not recognize an umpire off the of his success rate on replay challenges. Eric to Navy, so Rick Neuheisel traveled across the there for nearly a decade until Cooper had only three calls reversed all season. world to beat Al Golden in a sub-freezing RFK field. He is usually with a fellow umpire or an Steve Spurrier walked in and got rid of it. old friend outside of baseball. Cooper also worked the World Baseball Classic Stadium. games in 2009 and 2013. December 28, 2019-Fiesta Bowl College In case you’re wondering, the three toughest December 27, 2019-Pinstripe Bowl- Football Playoff Semifinal-Ohio State vs. plays for the home plate umpire to call are Cooper was also present during some historic Michigan State vs. Wake Forest Clemson number one, stealing home: he has to call a games, as part of the umpiring crew. On October 6, 2001, he worked home plate in Cal Yankee Stadium, New York City-3:20 ball or strike, make sure the pitcher didn’t balk, State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona 8 determine if there was interference on the batter Ripken Jr.’s final game. He was the third-base p.m. ET, ESPN p.m. ET, ESPN or the catcher, and call the runner out or safe, all umpire in the last game played in old Yankee in three seconds; number two, the half-swing: Stadium in 2008. Eric was behind home Fact: The 2010 Wildcats of Manhattan, Kansas Facts: Fiesta CEO John Junker earned an because the umpire’s sight is usually blocked by plate on September 11, 2008, when Francisco lost a game near the other Manhattan because eight-month federal sentence for maximizing the catcher; and number three, the foul tip in Rodriquez tied the Major League single-season they respected the troops too much. his income with the help of some fellow hard- the dirt. record for saves. Cooper was also behind home December 27, 2019-Texas Bowl- working public servants, which also jeopardized plate during three no-hitters. Hideo Nomo threw Oklahoma State vs. Texas A&M the game’s BCS status. That went down in Legendary sportswriter, Grantland Rice, once a no-hitter in 2001, and two no-hitters were 2010-2011, during which time the game hosted wrote, “Class is a very hard thing to define. It thrown by Mark Buehrle in 2007 and 2009, the NRG Stadium, Houston-6:45 p.m. ET, the reviled Kiddie Table Bowl between upstarts could be the swing of a slugger’s bat. It could second one a perfect game. ESPN Boise State and TCU, each of whom should’ve be the lift of a thoroughbred’s hoof. It could gotten to square off against powers, AND be the flick of a quarterback’s arm, but once Players’ Union Chief Tony Clark said upon Facts: Listed is one game from each of THEN hosted UConn, the worst big-bowl team you see it, you never forget. Eric Cooper was a hearing the news of his passing, “Eric Cooper’s Houston’s three eras: “The Bluebonnet Bowl” of the whole BCS era. class act!” This wasn’t just a paycheck for Eric, friendly and familiar presence in the baseball made sense as the name for a game in Texas. being a Major League umpire was a dream. community will be missed by all of us. He was It’s the state flower. But it was in Houston, so January 1, 2020-Citrus Bowl-Alabama If your kid wants to grow up to be a baseball a professional and a gentleman whose passion in 1968, they added “Astro” to the name. “The vs. Michigan umpire, just show him Eric Cooper highlights. for our game, the players, and his fellow Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl.” That’s something a umpires was evident in the way he went about 1950s space traveler scribbles on a container Camping World Stadium, Orlando, his work and life.” while collecting vegetation on a new planet. Florida-1 p.m. ET, ABC Here is an example shared with me by former Deranged poetry. Every game with that name Facts: Lots of bad teams have made bowl Baltimore Orioles’ manager, “Buck” Showalter. makes the cut. The 2003 Houston Bowl games. Many bowl games that have hosted Cooper once spoke to Showalter after working offered the best styles-make-fights battle of bad teams still exist. Based on SRS ratings, an Oriole’s game behind Caleb Joseph, a young our millennium: Paul Johnson’s Navy vs. Mike 15 teams who graded more than a touchdown catcher. “This kid can catch,” said Eric. “It Leach’s Texas Tech. Unfortunately, Leach was worse than an average FBS team played in may have been the difference in me making the in too much of a hurry and won by 24. Also, bowls that are still around. The worst ever: team or not,” said Joseph. do you remember when the NFL Network aired Lou Holtz’s 5-7 William & Mary in 1970, who They all stood at attention for Eric Cooper that a couple bowls for a couple years in 2008? rate 17 points below average (the equivalent of 180,000 watched Rice beat WMU. Eric Cooper night in Houston, Texas. The date will read 2019’s 1-11 Old Dominion, for reference), beat October 22, 2019, and it was Game One of the December 27, 2019-Holiday Bowl-Iowa nobody better than 4-6 Richmond, and posed no 115th Fall Classic. Life had thrown “Coop” a vs. USC challenge for undefeated Toledo. Eric Richard “Coop” Cooper was born on Major League curveball. Eric Cooper died on January 1, 2020-Rose Bowl -Oregon vs. December 18, 1966, in Des Moines, Iowa, to October 20, 2019. He was but 52. Cooper had SDCCU Stadium, San Diego-TV: 8 p.m. Bill and Beth Cooper. Eric played baseball Wisconsin had knee surgery earlier in the week and was ET, FS1 with Hoover High School. He attended and recuperating at his father, Bill’s home. The graduated from Iowa State University in 1989, Past facts: “Screwiest game I’ve ever been Pasadena, California-5 p.m. ET, ESPN surgery was successful, and Eric phoned his with a degree in Transportation Logistics. In involved in,” BYU head coach LaVell Edwards fellow umpires on Saturday. Eric suffered a Facts: Weirdest game, there are many options 1990, you could find Eric in Florida at umpire said of 1989, and that’s saying a lot, since pulmonary embolism (blood clot) on Sunday — 1938, 1941, 1975, 2001, 2003, etc., but school. He had grown to 5 feet 10 inches tall (among other events) his 1980 team came back and passed away. Eric Cooper made his home the first was in 1901, when a sport that’d and weighed about 215 pounds. For the next from 20 down with only four minutes left to in Citrus Park, Florida, with his wife Tara, and gone more than three decades with almost no nine years, Cooper honed his skills in the beat “Pony Express” SMU in another Holiday two stepsons, Chaz and Colt. Eric Cooper organized postseason competition suddenly Appalachian League (1990), Midwest League Bowl. In ‘89, BYU dominated the box score thought he was lucky to be an umpire. I thought had a horticulture caravan in suburban Los (1991), Florida State League (1992), Eastern as Ty Detmer posted what remains the highest it was the other way around. Angeles paying the Point-A-Minute Michigan League (1993-1994), American Association total-offense mark in bowl history (594 yards), Wolverines to spend a billion hours riding trains (1995-1997) and the Pacific Coast League Andy Purvis is a local author and radio but out-of-its-element Penn State won due to ... across the planet so they could make a mediocre (1998). personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. a 102-yard two-point conversion runback and Stanford quit after 49 minutes of football in com for all the latest info on his books or to a 53-yard strip sack runback by safety Gary front of 8,000 fans. Everyone needed 12 years On June 17, 1996, Coop made his debut in the listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books Brown. to decide a second Rose Bowl was worth the Majors as a Minor League fill-in. He wore #56 are available online and can be found in the and joined a Major League Umpire staff in 1999 local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be December 27, 2019 Cheez-It Bowl-Air trouble. Everyone, at some point, then agreed the Rose Bowl is perfect. until his recent death. He would spend the next contacted at [email protected]. Also Force vs. Washington State 21 years doing what he loved the most besides listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s January 13, 2020-National National Chase Field, Phoenix-10:15 p.m. ET, his family. Coop became a part of “crew chief” Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. Championship Joe Wests umpiring crew that also included Will com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of ESPN Little and Andy Fletcher. Interestingly, I went the Houston Astros. Facts: The 2018 edition was one of the most Ohio State or Clemson vs. LSU or to college with Joe West and his roommate, delicious debacles in sports history. Please note Oklahoma Drew Coble, now a former National League Umpire. West and Coble were my suitemates the 2006 Insight Bowl — the Pre-eez-It Bowl, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New if you will — when Texas Tech pulled off the for two semesters. “Country Joe” West was most numerically daunting comeback in bowl Orleans, Louisana-8 p.m. ET, ESPN a fine quarterback in college and pitcher for history. Facts: I believe most of you Moon Monkeys the baseball team. You know umpires are will watch the national title game. I am certain funny guys, too. One time, West and some December 28, 2019-Camping World that my team will win. I also believe that the of his fellow umpires including Cooper gave Bowl-Iowa State vs. Notre Dame weirdest national championship game so far, legendary baseball announcer, Vin Scully, a was the 2011 LSU vs. Alabama. gift. It was a book entitled Everything I Know Orlando, Florida-Noon ET, ABC about Broadcasting by Vin Scully. “When you Dotson’s Other Note: I am still in favor of Past facts: Due to injuries, 2015 Baylor ran open the book,” laughs Scully, “every page is adding more teams to the playoffs….hopefully out of quarterbacks. Against a decent UNC completely blank. I keep it out on display at my it will soon be changed to eight, and eventually defense, the Bears trotted out wildcat-type home in the living room for all to see.” to sixteen, which is the best number. I have guys, spackled together a World War I offense, worked out the proposed schedule, so that all and set an all-bowls record with 645 rushing Division I teams can play their full eleven game Advertising for the Christmas yards. Five different Bears took snaps during schedule before the playoffs begin. You thoughts the opening drive alone. Edition of the Island Moon is Due on this very important matter are appreciated. 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This there were some drastic reductions in limits for year was held at Scuttlebutts, and that was a and confidence in fishing with artificial lures. Winter fishing is many times passed by by both commercial giggers and recreational folks. Most anglers rotate their fishing styles with the heck of a deal! The food and the drinks were Plus there were some critical times that were anglers working their lures too fast and never off the chain as usual, and the troops with the turning of the pages on their calendars. Many getting a strike. Slow it all down by counting made off limits to gigging. Well, it seems like times we get swept up in the live bait hype only Surfriders had put together quite a silent auction those regulations didn’t fix the problem. your lure to the bottom at the beginning of your to benefit their activities through the year. I got because of the lack of conference in our ability cast. One second per foot and fluffing the bait to visit with Cliff Schlabach, Neil McQueen, One of the things that was probably mentioned to be effective with lures. Now is a great time to as it falls works well. Start with soft bounces in Christie Irps, Adriana, Weldon, and the other at the meeting (or if it wasn’t, I’m sorry I wasn’t learn the lessons that will fuel your lure fishing a non-rhythm pattern. Imitate a small baitfish brass of the organization about what all they there to do so) was that the creel surveys that for the entire year. Changes in tackle set up and or sand eel staying close to the bottom, cold have been up to, and what they are planning TPWD does at the docks isn’t capturing the rod strokes can make all the difference in the for the next year. They will be continuing their data of how many flounder are being caught. world. awesome programs which include beach clean Flounder gigging is entirely a night-time A warrior’s worth in the field is only as good ups, Earth Day-Bay Day, Skip the Plastic, and activity, and gigging is the most common as the weapon in his hands, this is true with educational programs. One of their most popular method of taking flounder. If the TPWD do our selection of rods and reels. Every day I see programs is the Leo Garza Surf Camp for the their creel surveys only in the afternoon and people learn to actually feel not just the bite, Disabled. I witnessed one of these camps years early evening before dark, then they are not but the way these fish take the bait, the head ago, and I tell you what loyal readers, watching capturing any catch data from the flounder shaking, and even the lure movement as we these volunteers help the disabled literally have giggers. That’s kind of a big hole in the data set retrieve. the ride of their lives still puts a lump in my required for management. throat today that it did all those years ago. Truly Speaking of hole, TPWD sampling methods God’s work. Check out what they’re up to at include bag seines, trawls, and gill nets that are set up against the shorelines of the bays and Laguna. Everyone knows that flounder typically hang out in channels and sand and deeper water than shorelines. Plus they swim along the bottom and because they’re flattened the way they are, they aren’t prone to getting caught in gill nets. They go under trawls and bag seines as well. So, it’s hard to believe that they are getting reliable data on this particular fish. That being said, I heard that some of the most vocal people there were guides from along the mid coast. That kind of surprised me until I thought about it and put two and two together. The limits were reduced for commercial gigging fishermen down to 20 per person. The fishing guides however, are able to take out four fishermen to get their five each (during most 5lb flounder. of the year) from 8pm – midnight. Then they and scared. Summer time retrieves are fast and can take another group of four out for another erratic, slow things down to a winter crawl. I like five fish each from 12:01am – till daylight for to use a few rod strokes to find out how fish are another 20 fish. So, guides are actually able to reacting to my bait and keep catching fish all take more fish (potentially 40 fish in less than day. The scratch is a bottom sliding technique 24 hours) than commercial fishermen, and the guides don’t have to report those fish. And all that scratches the bottom and can create this occurs before/after any dock creel surveys vibration and visual disturbance that drives fish are done by TPWD. I think that’s kind of a bum crazy. The double pump is a double bounce that deal, and I believe that these fish need to be swims the bait with a lofting pulse. The single pump brings the bait up two feet or slightly more accounted for in some fashion. Let’s figure that Cold water fishing. Low and slow. out before we start reducing limits any further. and let’s game fish strike the bait on the drop. Geoff Austin with one Fat Christmas When I start getting hits as soon as the bait hits Redfish! Berkley Gulp! Well loyal readers, I can’t believe that it’s the water I move towards a lighter jig head and Christmas next week. I have been buying WATERLOO RODS are the key. Stop by Roy’s Bait and tackle and put one in your hand float and swim my bait as it falls. Remember http://coastalbend.surfrider.org Christmas presents for months now and have that as soon as your lure hits the surface the eyes already given them all out. I got a pile of toys or look them up on the web, they ship to your There was a flounder scoping meeting last of every predator within 20yds fixes in on that for Toys for Tots and hope that it brings a smile house in one day! Along with a super store of week conducted by the Texas Parks and entry. They move towards the sound and can feel to some kids that deserve happiness. Drop me a unique fishing and outdoor gear and custom Wildlife (TPWD) held at the college. I was your bait’s presence with vibration only. Make line at [email protected] and I’ll see you lures for Christmas gifts that are absolutely unable to make it, but I heard that it was a fairly each cast count. next week On the Rocks. original. The line that we spool on the rod is contentious meeting. Seems that the flounder important as well. Lighter casts farther and The joy of having everything you need in your feels more. Monofilament stretches but gives pocket with a handful of lures is a free feeling. a more lifelike presentation, while braided line This allows anglers to jump from location to has zero stretch so you can feel every tap. I like location much easier. Here on Padre Island 6-8lb diameter braid, which is 15-25lb test on we have unlimited resources for public fishing my spinning reels and 15lb mono on my bait spots, we are surrounded by water. A quick casters. During the winter months and from the 20 minute stop anywhere you spy deep water boat use a 1/8-1/2 ounce jig head with your soft around a bridge, a boat ramp, side channel along plastics. This will keep your bait on the bottom the road, or any where you can cast a rod will and in the strike zone. Lure selection can be as be a good spot at any given time. When you find wide as the sky with every color and body style success note the weather conditions and patterns you could dream of. Keep in mind that having a because fish will follow a pattern throughout quiver of small medium and large plastics, in a the winter months. This winter jump start your color selection that includes naturals, darks, and fishing and come with me for an adventure on brights is best. Match the fish’s feeding attitude the water learning how to fine tune your fishing. at that time. Let’s get in the Christmas Spirit and enjoy the A sensitive rod rigged with a balanced reel and winter here on OUR ISLAND! God Bless and the right line, connected to a 1/4 ounce jig head GET WET! with a soft plastic is going to allow you to really

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You can test the strength needed to stabilize the wall at energy efficiency, which identifies where reach me at marvin@ the time of installation. The repairs on the ten With the winter months now upon us, I want air leaks may be occurring, inefficient pipoa.net properties will begin in January. to talk about an issue that some households appliances, etc.) may face during the cooler parts of the year. Investments- The Sea Pines- The Executive Director, In addition to colder temperatures, our area’s • Installation of weatherization measures Tuesday, December 17, Jim Smock, reported that our Attorney combination of humidity and high winds can be to increase energy efficiency of a home 2019 Board meeting was a big one. The Board had approved the statements seeking the particularly grueling during this time of year, (structure must be able to benefit from heard from Courtney Bechtol from Oxbow nullification of the subdivision’s covenants. especially for those living in homes without being weatherized) Advisors, the PIPOA’s investment advisor. The Sea Pine’s covenants require 51% of proper insulation. Fortunately, the State of • The weatherization work, including Courtney noted that the PIPOA’s investments the subdivision members to terminate the Texas has a program to help limited income caulking; weather-stripping; adding had a very good year. According to Courtney, covenants. Unfortunately, the Court filing residents properly equip their homes for the ceiling, wall, and floor insulation; the overall return on our investment fund was seven members short. That is, four winter months. This program, administered patching holes in the building envelope; was approximately 5.6%. Subsequently, the statements had wrong legal descriptions (lot by the Texas Department of Housing and duct work, and tune-up, repair or Board adopted an investment policy guideline and block number), two statements did not Community Affairs(TDHCA), is known as the replacement of energy inefficient heating statement for the Oxbow firm to follow. This have the correct owner’s signature (according Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). and cooling systems new policy was long overdue. to deed records), and one statement had a In this week’s article, I would like to share signature that does not match the owner’s • Installation of weatherization measures The upcoming Board election- At the information about this program to help ensure signature on file. Therefore, at the time this that meet specific energy-savings goals Tuesday, December 17th Board meeting, the health and safety of all residents of the article is written, Sea Pines covenants remain the Board debated what entity the PIPOA Coastal Bend this winter. • Ensure all installation materials meet in effect. The PIPOA is sending a letter to should hire to administer the election. After the standards meet state and federal each of the seven property owners regarding WAP was established with the goal of helping considerable debate, the Board voted to retain regulations the deficiencies. Hopefully, these deficiencies lower income residents live in more efficient a company known as Election Trust. The can be cured quickly and refiled with the homes through weatherization. To do this, the • To learn more about the program discussion centered around the cost of using county. The PIPOA is not prohibiting the program provides assistance with installing and eligibility requirements, please this company because it provides both paper Sea Pines subdivision from terminating their weatherization-related materials and making see the information below from the ballots and electronic voting. The vote was covenants. The PIPOA is required to follow other minor home repairs as well as providing Texas Department of Housing and Dan Brown, Dan Herrington, John Weis, and the rules of the Sea Pines’ covenants to avoid helpful home safety tips. By weatherizing their Community Affairs regarding the Home Marvin Jones in favor of hiring the company. any future legal entanglement. The bottom home, residents are able to lower energy costs Weatherization Program visit: https:// Carter Tate and Nick Colosi voted against, line is, let’s get it right, get it done, and we by ensuring their homes are properly insulated. www.tdhca.state.tx.us/community- and Marta Sprout abstained. In my view, can all move on. affairs/wap/index.htm this action brings the PIPOA further into the The program is administered through local digital age. Board Vote- The Board conducted an WAP providers across the state. In ourarea, If you would like to review more about the Executive Session concerning matters TDHCA works with the Nueces County legislature, please visit the Texas Legislature Financial Statements- The Board approved involving personnel, litigation, and Community Action Agency to provide online at www.capitol.state.tx.us/ . If you have the November financial statements and confidential communications with the Board’s assistance to Coastal Bend residents. To contact questions regarding any of the information the 2020 budget. Furthermore, the Board Attorney. After the session, Dan Brown made the Nueces County Community Action Agency, mentioned in this week’s article, please do not approved the contractor, John Pezzi’s price a Motion to remove Marta Sprout as Vice located at 101 South Padre Island Drive, please hesitate to call my Capitol or District Office. list for Bulkhead repairs. President. This motion failed because it call 361.883.7201. According to the TDHCA’s As always, my offices are available at any time Bulkheads- Urban Engineering, the firm received no second. website, the program offers the following types to assist with questions, concerns or comments the Board has contracted with to provide of services: (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; District Office; Candidates for the Board- The next assessments regarding the maintenance of 361-949-4603). election will be in March 2020. There are two our bulkheads, says the bulkheads are not Board seats up for election. The candidates State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 going to fall in anytime soon. This is good are (in alphabetical order), Sandy Graves, news and hopefully will quiet the “sky is Marvin Jones, and Anita Smith. A meet the falling” syndrome. The engineering firm has candidates will be held in the first part of recommended using something called a Manta Get Ready For Taxes: What To Do Before January. An election newsletter profiling the Ray Earth Anchor system as part of the repair candidates will be sent out in early January. process to secure the ten properties studied The Tax Year Ends Dec. 31

The Internal Revenue Service reminds Update address taxpayers there are things they should do now Taxpayers who moved during 2019 should to get ready for the tax-filing season ahead. Texas General City Holiday tell the US Postal Service, employers and the Charitable Contributions IRS. Notify the IRS by mailing IRS Form 8822, Land Office May Schedule for Change of Address, to the address listed on the For most taxpayers, Dec. 31 is the last day form’s instructions. Taxpayers who purchase to take actions that will impact their 2019 health insurance through the Health Insurance Take Over Houston Christmas and tax return. For example, those who plan to Marketplace should also notify the Marketplace itemize deductions should know that charitable when they move out of the area covered by their contributions are deductible in the year made. current plan. Harvey Recovery to New Year’s Donations charged to a credit card before the Most City of Corpus Christi offices including end of 2019 count for the 2019 tax year, even if For name changes due to marriage or divorce, Speed It Up libraries, the Health District, Animal Care the bill isn’t paid until 2020. Checks to a charity notify the Social Security Administration so the By the Texas Monitor Services and Municipal Court will be closed count for 2019 if they are mailed by the last day new name will match IRS and SSA records. Wednesday, December 25, and Wednesday, of the year. Also notify the SSA if a dependent’s name The Texas General Land Office is looking for January 1, 2020. Here’s a complete list of City changed. A mismatch between the name shown companies interested in taking over Houston’s office closings and schedules: Retirement Plans on a tax return and SSA records often causes housing repair program, the Houston Chronicle refund delays. reported. Garbage & Recycling Collection will be the Taxpayers who are over age 70 ½ are generally Saturday after the holiday, if your scheduled required to take distributions from their ITINs But state officials say that inquiry will be moot collection day is Tuesday. individual retirement accounts and workplace if local officials pick up the sluggish pace of retirement plans by the end of 2019. However, Taxpayers with expiring Individual Taxpayer Hurricane Harvey recovery. Collection will be Saturday, December a special rule allows those who reached 70 ½ Identification Numbers can get their ITINs 28 and Saturday, January 4 instead of in 2019 to wait until April 1, 2020, to receive renewed more quickly and avoid refund The newspaper reported that the proposal would Wednesday, December 25 and Wednesday, essentially start the $428 million program over them. delays next year by submitting their renewal January 1, 2020. application soon. again by requiring the company it selects to staff Most workplace retirement account Houston offices with case managers, perform Garbage and recycling will be collected contributions should be made by the end of An ITIN is a tax ID number used by any community outreach, process aid applications as normal for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday the year, but taxpayers can make 2019 IRA taxpayer who doesn’t qualify to get a Social and supervise repairs. & Friday the weeks of Christmas and New contributions until April 15, 2020. For 2019, the Security number. Any ITIN with middle digits Year’s. GLO spokeswoman Brittany Eck told the basic limit for 401(k) contributions is $19,000, 83, 84, 85, 86 or 87 will expire at the end of this Chronicle the agency hasn’t taken over the Brush & Bulky items: No collection plus another $6,000 for those who are at least year. In addition, any ITIN not used on a tax program but is prepared to step in if the assistance Wednesday, December 25 or Wednesday, age 50. return in the past three years will expire. ITINs process in Houston and Harris County continues January 1, 2020. with middle digits 70 through 82 that expired in For 2019, total contributions to all traditional 2016, 2017 or 2018 can also be renewed. to drag. Landfill: The J.C. Elliott Collection Center and Roth IRAs cannot exceed $6,000, or for “We are still hopeful that the City of Houston will be CLOSED Wednesday, December 25 taxpayers age 50 and older, $7,000. Taxpayers Affected ITIN holders can avoid delays by and Harris County both will see drastic and Wednesday, January 1, 2020. should check IRS.gov for more information starting the renewal process now. Those who about contribution limits, as well as cost-of- fail to renew before filing a return could face improvement in their programs and that this will Animal Care Services: CLOSED living adjustments affecting pension plans and a delayed refund and may be ineligible for not be necessary,” Eck said, “but at a certain Wednesday, December 25 and Wednesday, point we’ll have to make a decision if that other retirement-related items for tax year 2019. some important tax credits. More information, January 1, 2020. including answers to frequently asked questions, progress is not made. … [W]hat we’re trying Some taxpayers may be eligible for the Libraries: All Public Libraries will CLOSE is available on IRS.gov/ITIN. to do right now is to minimize the disruption Retirement Savings Contributions Credit, also at 6pm Tuesday, December 24 and Tuesday, that would come from having to take over those known as the Saver’s Credit. The income limit December 31. Recordkeeping programs.” is $64,000 for married couples filing jointly, Keeping copies of tax returns is important. Parks and Recreation: $48,000 for heads of household, and $32,000 The newspaper compared the efforts of Taxpayers may need a copy of their 2018 return for singles and married individuals filing Houston and the GLO and the differences are Lozano Golf Center and Oso Golf Course: to make it easier to fill out a 2019 return. Anyone stark: the Houston program has finished 51 separately for 2019. • OPEN Christmas Eve using a software product for the first time may home repairs and reimbursed 30 homeowners Refunds need the Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) amount who took care of repairs themselves out of its • CLOSED Christmas Day shown on Line 7 of their 2018 return to file their $1.3 billion federal allotment. The GLO, which The vast majority of taxpayers get their refunds • OPEN New Year’s Day 2019 return electronically. is implementing repair programs in 48 counties, faster by filing electronically and using direct has finished work on 367 homes and has put • All eight Senior Centers: deposit. It is simple, safe and secure. This is the Taxpayers can also visit View Your Tax Account same electronic transfer system used to deposit on IRS.gov. Anyone using the tool must verify another 714 under construction with its $3.2 • CLOSED December 25 and New nearly 98% of all Social Security and Veterans their identity. Taxpayers can learn more about billion federal allotment. Year’s Day Affairs benefits into millions of accounts. that process and electronically signing a return Eck said GLO staff had productive meetings at Validating Your Electronically Filed Tax with city and county leaders on Wednesday as Just as each tax return is unique and individual, Return. the state agency works with local officials to try so is each taxpayer’s refund. Here are a few and speed up the recovery process. things taxpayers should keep in mind if they Connect with the IRS are waiting on their refund but hear or see on The IRS uses traditional and social media tools social media that other taxpayers have already — available in English and other languages — received theirs. Stacking Lane Project Underway at Port to share the latest information on tax changes, Different factors can affect the timing of scam alerts, initiatives, products and services. a refund. Even though the IRS issues most The IRS uses several social media tools Aransas Ferry Landing refunds in less than 21 days, it’s possible a including: The Texas Department of Transportation’s $9 location as well as performing similar pavement particular taxpayer’s refund may take longer. million stacking lane project began a new phase and median removal and repaving inside traffic Some tax returns require additional review • Instagram: The IRS Instagram account this week that will require a modified procedure staging areas for Ramps 1 and 2 and the exit and take longer to process than others. It will share taxpayer-friendly information for loading and unloading vehicles at the Harbor lane. Work also is under way on the Port may be necessary when a return has errors, is on a variety of topics to help people get Island TxDOT ferry landing. Aransas side involving earthwork, intelligent incomplete or is affected by identity theft or ready for tax season. traffic system boring, utility relocations and fraud. The IRS will contact taxpayers by mail Weather permitting, TxDOT contractor Haas • Facebook: News and information for signal foundations. when more information is needed to process a taxpayers and tax return preparers. Anderson Construction will continue to remove return. existing pavement and concrete medians inside Motorists are encouraged to use caution when • The IRS also has its own app, IRS2Go. traffic staging areas for Ramps 3, 4, 5, and the entering this work zone and are asked to pay By law, the IRS cannot issue refunds to people Taxpayers can use this free mobile app exit lanes. The contractor will then sealcoat and close attention to flaggers, workers and heavy claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to check their refund status, pay taxes, lay new hot mix pavement in these areas. During equipment being operated in proximity to or Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) before find free tax help, watch IRS YouTube this phase of work, there will be limited ramps traffic. mid-February. The law requires the IRS to hold videos and get IRS tax tips by email. Like the entire refund, including the portion not available for boarding ferries on the Harbor The stacking lane project, which began in Instagram, the IRS2Go app is available Island side. TxDOT ferry operations will adjust associated with the credits. This helps ensure from the Google Play Store for Android October and is expected to take about 18 taxpayers receive the refund they’re due by traffic routes daily for vehicles entering and months to complete, is designed to better devices, or from the Apple App Store for exiting the ferries. This work will be performed giving the IRS more time to detect and prevent Apple devices. IRS2Go is available in handle vehicles waiting to board ferries in Port fraud. only during day. Aransas and on Harbor Island. Stacking lanes both English and Spanish. The contractor this week is completing are dedicated areas for vehicles waiting to Taxpayers should not count on getting a refund • The IRS has a special page on IRS.gov pavement and striping work at the park and ride board the ferries. by a certain date, especially when planning with steps to take now for the 2020 tax major purchases or paying other financial filing season. obligations. Send letters and photos to [email protected] December 19, 2019 Island Moon A 14 Tips for Buying Smart Toys Sanderling, the Most By Emily Gaines PR Coordinator for BBB serving the Heart of Texas Common Shorebird Many toys can now be connected to the • Know the law. Toy companies are legally Taylor Bennett internet. This offers both fun and educational required to post privacy policies disclosing don’t bob their heads and have shorter bills than opportunities for your kids but can also come how they will collect and handle a child’s Sanderlings are a type of Sanderlings. Now, Ruddy Turnstones will also with risks if you’re uninformed. Many of these personal information. sandpiper that you can often see on the beach bob their heads, but they have more striking in the winter and summer. For those of us who toys may collect a child’s personal information • Use a secure connection. Only connect plumage than Sanderlings. watched the movie “Finding Dory,” you might without parents’ knowledge. It is important the toy on a secure, trusted network, recall seeing a short film called “Piper,” which Sanderlings tend to have more of an energized to remember that, just like in most offline such as password-protected Wi-Fi. Avoid was actually based on Sanderlings. The film behavior than most other shorebirds because situations, a parent’s permission is required to connecting on public networks, which stayed true to their behavior and how they feed, they feed with the rhythm of the waves. collect or use a child’s information, such as a could allow anyone to access your child’s but unfortunately, you won’t see any Sanderling When the wave comes in, it not only brings name or email address. information if there is a security flaw. chicks running on the beaches of Texas. This is invertebrates to the shore, but also awakens the In 2017, The Children’s Advertising Review • Teach the moment. Use the opportunity to because Sanderlings actually breed in the Arctic filter feeders like small clams and worms that Unit (CARU) referred a toy company to the teach your kids about online responsibility. tundra. are buried within the wet sand. When the wave Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after the Smart toys are a great way to educate goes out, the Sanderlings come in and probe company failed to respond to CARU’s privacy them on protecting their information, the sand for those hidden morsels. This is why inquiry regarding one of its toys. There were online spending, and to speak up if they you typically see them constantly running back fears that the Bluetooth connection and built- encounter a questionable situation. and forth as the waves go in and out. They will in microphone of the doll in question made it also feed in the moist areas of the beach as well. vulnerable to hacking. • Check the settings. The toy’s default If there are no tasty morsels around, they will settings may not be set for privacy. actually eat plant material like seagrass and If you’re looking at a smart toy for your kids Check parental controls and other safety algae. this holiday season, use these tips from BBB measures the toy has in place. and CARU to keep playtime safe and fun: Sanderlings have been observed roosting and • Turn it off. Turning off the smart toy feeding with other non-breeding shorebirds Do your research. When considering a when it isn’t being used can help prevent such as Red Knots, Ruddy Turnstones, Willets, smart toy, search for product reviews information from continuing to be Black-Bellied Plovers, Dunlin, Dowitchers, and online. You can also go to bbb.org to collected. other sandpipers. Like Red Knots, Sanderlings check the company’s business profile. A A flock of Sanderlings observed huddling rely on the horseshoe crab eggs for survival. simple search can uncover major issues. Happy shopping, from everyone at BBB serving the Heart of Texas! together on Follet’s Island, TX. Sanderlings are also considered a long distant Photos by Taylor Bennett migrant. They can travel as few as 1,800 to Here in Texas, we only see Sanderlings when more than 6,000 miles. Not too shabby for a Islander of the Year Your Chance to they are migrating or stopping over. They can little guy if you ask me. be seen eating and resting on beaches along the gulf coast. As a biologist for the Gulf Coast Let us know your Make a Difference Bird Observatory, I see Sanderlings at all of my The City of Corpus Christi has numerous nonbreeding shorebird survey sites: Matagorda nominees are boards, commissions, and committees. Beach, Bryan Beach, Quintana Beach, and As hard as it is to believe there are only two The City Secretary’s Office is currently seeking Follet’s Island. weeks left in 2019 and that means it’s the time applications for the following boards: Sanderlings are medium in size and can be of the year when we start thinking about who · Building Standards Board identified by their pale sand-like plumage. They should be our Islander, or Islanders, of the Year are light gray on the top and white on the bottom for 2019. · Committee for Persons with Disabilities with a stout black bill and black legs. They also If you know someone who you believe · Island Strategic Action Committee have a broad white wing stripe when they fly. Sanderlings look similar to a Red Knot in non- deserves the honor let us know at editor@ · Mechanical/Plumbing Advisory Committee islandmoon.com or visit our Facebook page breeding plumage, but are a tad bit smaller. A sanderling observed feeding along the at theislandmoonnewspaper. You can even If you know of anyone interested in serving on They are often seen feeding and roosting in shore at Follet’s Island, TX nominate yourself if you want to but that might a City board, commission, or committee, please large flocks along the shore. This benefits them automatically disqualify you for the honor…or direct them to the City of Corpus Christi’s because when a predator is near, they can all fly up at once. Even though Sanderlings are considered maybe not… website. For assistance, contact Management common shorebirds, their population has been Assistant Norma Duran at (361) 826-3893, or Let us hear from you. When it’s cold, the large flocks can huddle in decline over the past few years. They are now by e-mail at [email protected]. together to stay warm. You might even observe being classified as a species of high concern. birds standing on one leg. This actually helps This is due to habitat loss and oil spills. So, like them retain heat because of an adaptation called the other shorebirds on the beach, please be “rete mirabile.” When birds stand with one leg kind and give them their space. December’s Bag Hero to their chest, the warm blood in the arteries in their legs warms the cool blood in the veins Taylor graduated from Old Dominion close to their heart. It’s an adaptation that all University with a Bachelor of Science degree birds have. in Biology concentrating in Marine Biology, and performs shorebird surveys along the You can typically identify Sanderlings by upper Texas Coast. The GCBO is a non-profit their round and plump silhouette, but you can organization dedicated to saving the birds and also identify them by their behavior. When their habitats along the entire Gulf Coast, and Sanderlings run or walk they will bob their beyond into their Central and South America heads like bobble heads. 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The options are endless. ;) The Important thing So here we go! is to have fun, try new things and Enjoy! 81 Interior Lot Homes Listed From 15633 Three Fathoms Bank $200,000.00-$950,000.00 34 Interior Lots Listed From Stuffing Ingredients: Interior Lot Condominiums/ $30,000.00-$150,000.000 20 large stuff-able mushrooms Advertising for the Townhomes/Duplexes Sold Commercial Lots 4 C of Chopped bread or crumbled corn bread Christmas Edition of 15010 Leeward Drive #701 17 Commercial Lots Listed From 15002 Leeward Drive #5202 $125,000.00-$2,800,000.00 1 package of sausage of choice (Italian, Brat, the Island Moon is Due Hot or Mild) without casing if possible 15005 Windward Drive 3203 1 large carrot small dice Friday, Dec. 20th December 19, 2019 Island Moon A 15 Flour Bluff Interact Club Anglers Reel in Hundreds of Record-Setting Fish in Texas in 2019 Since 1971, the Texas Parks and Wildlife youth applications for the First Fish Award and Department’s Angler Recognition Program has Outstanding Angler Award. We are thrilled to recognized fishing excellence by maintaining recognize young anglers for their time spent on the fish record lists for all public and private the water pursuing their passion, and we hope water bodies across the state. Participation in the having this award or certificate on their wall will program has continued to grow every year, and inspire a lifetime of exploring and enjoying the 2019 was no exception with anglers receiving state’s diverse fisheries resources.” more than 638 official awards for their big fish. All-ages anglers set 33 state records and 326 “With 47 new state fishing records and 434 water body records in 2019. Some notable new waterbody records set at lakes, rivers and all-ages records set in 2019 include the state bays across the state, it’s clear that 2019 was a freshwater fly fishing record Alabama bass great year for fishing in Texas,” said Ron Smith, caught by Smith Swinburn at Lake Alan Henry TPWD Angler Recognition Program director. Apr. 5; the state freshwater fly fishing record “In addition to providing bragging rights bowfin caught by Stavros Cotsoradis at Lake and a lifetime of memories for anglers, these Conroe Jun. 1; the state saltwater fly fishing achievements showcase the world-class fishing record red drum caught by Candace Kern in opportunities that can be found in every part of Matagorda Bay on Aug. 14; the state saltwater Texas.” rod and reel record silk snapper caught by Tyler Young in the Gulf of Mexico July 6; and the Anglers can submit their water body or state state saltwater rod and reel record scamp caught record-setting fish in a variety of categories, by Brice Sanchez in the Gulf of Mexico Jan. 6. including freshwater and saltwater; all ages and junior; weight and length; and the method Even though not every fish qualifies as a of catch, including rod and reel, fly rod, bow waterbody or state record, anglers can still fishing, other methods, and catch and release. submit and receive special recognition for their catches. In 2019, 48 anglers submitted their first Junior anglers under 17 set 14 state records catch to the program for the First Fish Award; and 108 water body records in 2019. A few 57 received the Outstanding Angler Award for notable junior records include the junior state their special catch; and 261 received a Big Fish freshwater rod and reel record largemouth bass Award for catching a fish that met the minimum caught by Gavin Mikeska at Oak Creek Lake length requirement for the species. Apr. 20; the junior state freshwater rod and reel record blue catfish caught by Brayden Rogers at To participate in the program, anglers should Lake Tawakoni March 16; and the junior state become familiar with the rules to ensure they saltwater rod and reel record bull shark caught submit a complete application. In addition to The Flour Bluff High School Interact Club is 60 members strong. They are area by Johnny Garner in the Gulf of Mexico January locating a certified scale, anglers should learn to teenagers committed to making a difference in the community. On Monday morning this 25. properly measure a fish and take a camera along to snap the required photos. Anglers should week, the club met before school to wrap 105 Christmas gifts that they and their families “The increase in youth participation in the also keep in mind that all fish need to be legally donated to six indigent households. Through the Angel Network, the High School Angler Recognition Program is very exciting,” caught in Texas waters and only one person may Interact Club sponsored and enlightened the lives for 20 children for the holidays. Smith said. “Not only are we seeing an increase catch the fish (except for netting or gaffing the in applications for youth state and waterbody fish to bring it into the boat or onto shore). Nueces Bay Rookery Island Restoration records, we are also seeing an increase in Mustang Island Breaks Ground! Remember When The Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Funding for the $3 million dollar project State Park Gets New (CBBEP) is excited to announce that was provided by National Fish and Wildlife construction on the Nueces Bay Rookery Islands Foundation‘s (NFWF) Gulf Environmental Ten Years Ago Restoration Project is underway! This project Benefit Fund (GEBF), General Land Office, Vehicle will protect and restore three critical rookery Coastal Conservation Association, and Port of Phillips 66 donated a utility terrain vehicle islands in Nueces Bay and when completed is Corpus Christi Authority. All GEBF projects to the Mustang Island State Park this week. expected to support hundreds of additional pairs are developed in consultation with state and Rangers say the UTV will help them maintain a of wading birds and ground nesting birds each federal resource agencies and designed to more consistent presence on the bays side of the year. remedy harm and reduce the risk of future harm park, which is lightly developed and has limited to natural resources that were affected by the access due to rough terrain. 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This project was designed taking into consideration relative sea level rise, and current trends in high tides and storms. “These islands were designed for resiliency,” said Rosario Martinez, Senior Ten years ago this month the restrooms Project Manager for the CBBEP. “With this on the Michael J. Ellis Seawall were type of construction we are reducing the risk of island inundation, and looking forward to many under construction. Construction begins with placement of the productive nesting seasons.” rock breakwater around the perimeter of one island.

Since the 1960s, nesting islands in Nueces Bay have been lost to persistent erosion, hard shell dredging, and storm events. In 2002 a handful of the islands were protected with geotubes, which was a great temporary solution, but the life expectancy of a geotube is approximately 15 years, and time has taken its toll. Christmas Time A lonely Great Blue Heron fledgling during last nesting season on one of the (Advent) at Island islands to be restored. The new elevated, protected islands should support hundreds Presbyterian Church of pairs of birds. Island Presbyterian Church invites all our neighbors and friends to join us on our Christmas The Black Sheep Bistro opened ten journey and the celebration of the birth of Christ years ago this month. Birds eye view of one of the islands to Once the new material is placed, and thanks at 14030 Fortuna Bay Drive. to additional support from CCA Texas Habitat be restored showing failed geotubes and Today for Fish Tomorrow and CCA’s Building On Sunday, December 22, in addition to our eroded shoreline. Conservation Trust, the rock breakwaters regular service, a “Blue Christmas” service will be held at 3:00 p.m. This service is for the Construction began in late November and will surrounding the islands will be enhanced below the waterline for oyster recruitment. entire community, but it is especially focused continue through mid-February, and includes on helping those who are struggling with the placing limestone rock around the perimeter Rookery islands are critically important holiday “Blues”. Pastor Anne Kowalczyk will of three islands that were previously protected because they provide a safe nesting area for provide words of inspiration and music to help by geotubes. The area will be filled with new colonial waterbirds, free of predators and you get through these rough and rocky times. material and provide over 2 acres of essential human disturbance. Colonial waterbirds such as nesting habitat. “Lack of nesting area and terns, black skimmers, laughing gulls, herons, Christmas Eve brings us to our celebration suitable vegetation are the primary factors egrets, ibises, roseate spoonbills, American of the birth of Jesus Christ. At 6:00 p.m. we preventing recovery of colonial waterbird avocets, American oystercatchers and black- will hold a traditional Lessons and Carols species in Nueces Bay” said David Newstead, necked stilts will all benefit from the restoration service with Communion. Hear the scriptures Director of CBBEP’s Coastal Bird Program. of these islands. Stay tuned for updates and prophesying the coming of the Messiah and the “Rebuilding islands that once supported pictures, great things are on the horizon for birth story, sing your favorite Christmas Carols, thousands of birds is really exciting, and Nueces Bay rookeries! and as we prepare to go home to our own getting do it essentially from scratch gives us celebrations, we will light our own individual *$450,000 was provided by the Port of Corpus the opportunity to prescribe and manipulate Christmas candle, turn down the house lights, Christi Authority as part of a mitigation plan the soil type, prevent invasive vegetation from and close with the singing of “Silent Night”. that requires the enhancement of one of the establishing, and ensure the best conditions for islands to compensate for planned channel The members and staff of Island Presbyterian nesting success.” activities. Church invite all of you to join them on their journey to Bethlehem and wish you a very This was the Toys for Tots collections Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! For more information see (www.islandpresby.com). at LA Posada ten years ago. Photos by Gil Shelden.

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ARK – Animal Rehabilitation Keep. Send the info to [email protected] Located in Port Aransas the ARK is and we will include it. Or call us at 949- affiliate with the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Center. They 7700. handle the rehabilitation of most species Youth Development Foundation of of wildlife in the area with an emphasis Port Aransas. YDF meets at noon each on marine animals. If you find an animal Thursday at Stingray’s, 401 Beach Ave., in peril they can help. 750 Channel View Port Aransas. For more information please Dr. Port Aransas. Contact Alicia Walker at email [email protected]. 337-290-0251 or alicia.walker@utexas. Padre Island Ukulele Club – We meet edu every other Tuesday night! Call or text Island’s PIPPs Chapter of Corpus Danny Salazar at (316) 877--‐7071 for the Christi Red Hat Society. In 2004 a next meeting date. Beginners Workshop: 6 group of Island ladies got together under to 7 PM and Open Jam: 7 to 8 PM. All a Palapa and founded the Padre Island Skills levels welcome. Location: Padre Palapa Pals (PIPPs). Our only rule is that Photo by Maddie Phillips. Island Baptist Church. A $3 per person there are no rules! We are all about fun donation covers the workshop, materials and friendship. We meet once a month and the open jam. Loaner ukuleles for lunch and various fun outings from available at no extra cost. RSVP online. cupcake making to CPR. [email protected] Coastal Bend Republicans: Coastal KIWANIS Club of Padre Island. Bend Republicans meet every Kiwanis meets at Veranda Restaurantat Wednesdays at 5:30pm for a "Wine and Schlitterbahn at Noon on the first and Dine With The Republicans" at the Island third Wednesday of the month. Italian Restaurant, 15370 SPID. Island Strategic Action Committee. Join us to get informed and involved. Is a 14-member committee which meets For more information, call Suzanne at 5:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each Guggenheim - 361 290 7068 month at the Holiday Inn Express. The committee’s purpose is to advise the Island Book Wine & Spirits: This is Corpus Christi City Council on matters the Island Book Club. We meet the first pertaining to The Island. All meetings are Wednesday Evening of each month at 6:30. open to the public and the public is invited Our location will be alternating between to address the committee during the public various Island locations for awhile. We have comment period. a wonderful group of ladies that like to read, love socializing with the girls, and drinking Padre Island Business Association. The Wine or Spirits! Come on out and join us, we association is a not-for-profit organization would love to have you. To find our locations whose primary purpose is to advertise and for the next few months follow us on facebook promote Padre/Mustang Islands, Flour at ISLAND BOOK WINE & SPIRITS. You Bluff and Corpus Christi while advancing can also contact Linda Walsh, lawalshva@ the interests of the business community. yahoo.com. It is managed by a 9-member board of Photo by Annalyn Harton. directors. A membership luncheon is held Parrot Heads of Port Aransas - is on the2nd Thursday at Waves Resort 4th a local chapter of the Parrot Heads in floor starting at 11:30 Mixers are held Paradise Inc., a not-for-profit corporation on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. The whose purpose is to assist in community association annually has one annual and environmental concerns and fundraising events – Taste of the Island provide a variety of social activities in the fall. For more information, email for people who are interested in the [email protected]. music of Jimmy Buffett and the tropical lifestyle he personifies. Founded in P.I.E. Padre Island Enrichment Club 2009, the club motto is “Partying with a PIE, or Padre Island Enrichment Club is Purpose’’. To join or ask questions go to a Ladies' Social Club for all ladies living portaransasparrotheads.com or email or on Padre Island. Dues are $25.00 per call Deno “Moon Dog” Fabrie, President year, and we have monthly luncheons on at 361 749 0256 or [email protected]. the second Friday of the month at 11:30 a.m. at the Port Royal Convention Center The New Neighbors League: New Neighbors Restaurant. You can join many different League is a women’s social organization open Interest Groups, such as: Bunco, Bridge, to women of the coastal bend, promoting fun Spades, Book Clubs, and Craft Club. For & friendship. New Neighbors League holds Membership information, please contact: monthly coffees, luncheons, as well as monthly Jo Ann Holden, at: 720-937-8711, or our activities such as Ladies Night Out, Couples Club President, Sandra Leber, at: 361-949- Dinners, Movies, Cards, and Golf to name a 7145. We are welcoming new members! few. Visit our website at newneighbors.com or email us at [email protected] Island United Political Action Committee: Maximize representation Flour Bluff Padre Island 4H Flour Bluff of Corpus Christi residents on Padre Padre Island 4H (FBPI4H) is a club for kids and Mustang Islands in area government in 3rd grade-12th grade. We meet at 6:30 by promoting and supporting, by the pm the first Monday of every month in the Photo by Maddie Phillips. 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Snoopy’s (361) 949-8815 13313 S. Padre Island Drive Scoopy’s (361) 949-7810 Corpus Christi, TX 78418 December 19, 2019 Island Moon A 18 to while away your time. You’ll feel like you’ve Three Chords and the Truth just been transported to the Caribbean. By Ronnie Narmour has. I’ve heard three years but that number On the horizon… is questionable. These are all noteworthy [email protected] Just to state the developments in my world. It will be interesting obvious, Christmas is to see what evolves. Our landscape is changing We made it. Christmas time on the near horizon. before our very eyes. I’ll keep you posted. is here everybody. HAPPY Hank Reeves will HOLIDAYS!!! I hope Santa is good to you Scattered shots… be at Giggity’s on and yours. I gave my mermaid gal a doorbell Christmas Night. for Christmas. That’s what she wanted. Life Me and my beautiful The fabulous Toman is much easier these days since Amazon now mermaid gal stayed on a Brothers will has personal “wish lists” that take all the guess dead run all weekend and Ocean Roots, a reggae band from Austin, play Giggity’s on work out of Christmas shopping. I sat down at really had a lot of fun. December 28 and the computer and tried to make my wish list but One of the big highlights will play the Beer Hut on Saturday for BIg TIm’s Birthday. the unadulterated didn’t get too far. I really don’t need anything. was a silent auction “King of Tex Mex” I’m darn near 67 years old and have enough and fundraiser for the Joe King Carrasco On Friday, look for the Latin tinged blues Joe King Carrasco stuff to last another couple of life times. And, as Animal Rescue Keep will play Giggity’s on band, Los Fabulous, at Giggity’s. This band will play Giggity’s on far as my “wants” go, the things I want can’t be (ARK) hosted by the is the coalition of blues boy John Amundsen New Years Eve. New Year’s Eve. This bought. I want our country to come back together Facebook group, Texas and the San Juan Underground from Puerto will be Joe’s fourth and I want my friends back who happen to have Beaches Photography Rico. The SJU will play Shorty’s on Saturday. straight year to play New Year’s at Giggity’s different political views than me. I want all this Group and coordinated Also on Saturday, the Chanklas will bring and brother, you don’t want to miss it. They’ll tension to be gone. Christmas is a time of loving by Neesy Thompkins. some reggae to Giggity’s. Plus on Saturday, Big have some laripan dinner specials and you fill and giving and sharing. We’ll see what 2020 The world famous Group members donated Time Everitt will be celebrating his birthday of black eyed peas and champagne. That really brings, but it’s apparent to me that something’s Belt Sander Races framed wildlife photos at his new beer joint, the Port A Beer Hut aka: is the place to be. That’s it. Have a goodern. Be got to change before this volatile situation gets are alive and for the auction held at the Swing Bar, with reggae from Ocean Roots safe out there. And please, treat your neighbors any worse. This incessant bickering between well at the Gaff Bernie’s Beach House, (Austin, TX). That one will be a lot of fun. How kindly… everyday. Peace. ourselves has got to go. It’s going to be a tough which raised close to every 2nd and 4th old are you Tim? And speaking of the Swing couple of weeks in Washington and the eyes $3,000 for the ARC. The ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ Saturday. Bar, what a welcome addition this place is to our of the world are upon us. So on my wish list, Rasta Cowboy himself, little island. It’s a wonderful lazy environment simply put, “your love and friendship”… that’s Billy Snipes, donated his ample talents for the all I sincerely wish for. You can throw a hug in event. I want to quickly mention here that I’m there, too. I wonder what Amazon charges for still a failure at belt sander racing. I took my hugs. I hope she likes her doorbell. I would have Moon Monkey to the Gaff last Saturday and was bought her the whole door. Merry Christmas to sent walking after the very first race. But realize, all. May peace be with you. I was paired with the Gaffinator in the first Live Music race, who has a long history of beating me with little or no effort. And it’s more than evident that the Winter Texans are walking amongst us in mass now. Just count the number of belt Tonight sanders racing last week. Look out Gaffinator, Thursday, December 19 this thing ain’t over yet. I’ll be back… and with Free Beer Band @ a vengeance! Otherwise, we caught music from Giggity’s Mike O’Neill and RetroVibe at Giggity’s and Ruben Limas @ Island Aloha Dave over at Shorty’s. I want to mention Italian Harvey... the gift that keeps on giving. that Renee Garland over at Red’s Riviera Soulfire @ Executive Surf Giggity’s Downtown Port A meets the wrecking has adopted two Club RetroVibe @ Shorty’s hammer. needy Port A Passing Strangers @ families with six Friday, December 20 Rockits Seattle Rising @ Brewster kids ages 2-13, Los Fabulous @ Giggity’s MERRY CHRISTMAS The Wrecks @ House of Street On the local front… for the holidays. Rock AND OddFellas @ Executive Have you seen what used to be the strip center They are taking Stevie Start @ Island Surf Club across from Shorty’s and next to Giggity’s in donations over Italian HAPPY NEW YEAR downtown Port Aransas across from the Tarpon at Red’s to help Jon Wolfe, David Sunday, December 29 Adam Byrnes @ Antone & the All Stars @ Inn? It’s gone… all except for the bank vault provide them 132 W. Cotter St. Port A Tony Tish and RetroVibe Giggity’s that now looks like a huge displaced metal box. with a Merry Brewster Street On the Waterfront played Giggity’s last Clarissa Serna @ Randy Rogers acoustic @ The entire area is in flux these days. The area Christmas. It feels Friday. good to help those Rockits Brewster Street that used to be the Pelican and Fisherman’s Fundaze @ House of Rock less fortunate. Voosoo Logic @ Wharf went bye-bye a few weeks ago and now Executive Surf Club all that’s left is Giggity’s proper, including their Monday, December 30 Tiki Room where they have karaoke shows. And Saturday, December 21 Open Jam @ Giggity’s on the other side of the street are still Shorty’s Ocean Roots @ Port A and Bernie’s. Plus a new bar, Howie’s, has Beer Hut New Years Eve, Todd Dorn & the Sea December 31 Drifters @ Giggity’s Treasure Island Joe King Carrasco @ San Juan Underground Giggity’s @ Shorty’s Timeline @ Brewster Brian Winfrey @ Island FULL BAR Street Italian Diamond’s Edge @ Metal Shop @ Brewster Rockits Street 14 TAPS Black Magic Flower Splendiferous @ Rockits Power @ House of Rock Emo is Forever @ House DANCE CLUB Scarecrow People @ of Rock 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Executive Surf Club The Mike O’Neill blues band played Bar Nutz @ Executive treasureislandporta Giggity’s last Friday. Surf Club Wednesday, New Years Day Damon Scott @ House of Sunday, December 22 Rock DO NOT MISS LIST Antone & the All Stars Jim Dugan @ Giggity’s @ Giggity’s Coming this weekend… Fundaze @ House of Thursday, January 2 Rock Free Beer Band @ Giggity’s Monday, December 23 Open Jam @ Giggity’s Friday, January 3 Neesy Thompkins shows one of the many San Juan Underground Dec. 21 Mike O’Neill @ Giggity’s photographs sold at the silent auction Tuesday, December 24 Retro Vibe Dec. 28 Randall King, Triston benefitting the ARC last Saturday at Paul & Victoria @ Marez @ Brewster Street Bernie’s. Giggity’s Selfie Jan. 11 Tamale Dinner @ House Saturday, January 4 of Rock Ty Dietz Feb. 21 Chanklas @ Giggity’s popped up where the Flats Lounge was for many Open Mic @ House of The Detentions Feb. 22 Another Level @ Rockit’s years. It looks like a bomb went off down there. Rock I’m told by Shorty’s and Giggity’s proprietor, OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. Sunday, January 5 John Amundsen and San Juan Mike Williams Birthday Edwin Myers, that their days are numbered. Christmas, December 25 Hank Reeves @ Giggity’s Brunch @ Giggity’s Halloween 2020 will be Giggity’s last day and Underground will play Shorty’s and Giggity’s this weekend.. Mexican Pot Luck Dinner Fundaze @ House of Rock it’s unclear how long the other side of the street & Reindeer Games @ Red’s Monday, January 6 Damon Scott @ Open Jam @ Giggity’s House of Rock GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR Tuesday, January 7 LIVE MUSIC Thursday, Paul & Victoria @ LIVE MUSIC December 26 Giggity’s Free Beer Band every Thurs (7-10) Free Beer Band @ EVERY Los Fabulous on Friday (9-1) Giggity’s Wednesday, January 8 Ruben Limas @ Island Jered Clark @ Giggity’s

NIGHT Chanklas on Sat. (9-1) Italian Antone & All Stars Every Sunday (9-1) Flatbroke @ Brewster Thursday, January 9 Open Jam Every Monday (8 -12) Street Free Beer Band @ Chain Links @ Executive Giggity’s Kitchen Open Paul & Victoria Every Tuesday (7-10) Surf Club Hank Reeve on Wednesday (8-12) Friday, January 10 Until 1 a.m.! RetroVibe @ Giggity’s Friday, December 27 Expert Computer Repairs 722 Tarpon, Port Aransas, TX The Groove @ Giggity’s Diamond’s Edge @ Stevie Start @ Island Rockit’s Italian Another Level @ Saturday, January 11 Rockits Todd Dorn @ Giggity’s Kyle Park @ Brewster Selfie @ Shorty’s Street Lil’ Boosie @ Concrete Scarecrow People @ Street Executive Surf Club Sunday, January 12 Saturday, December 28 Fundaze @ House of Rock BELT SANDER RACES Antone & All Stars @ (3PM) @ The Gaff Giggity’s Brian Winfrey @ Island Italian Monday, January 13 Toman Brothers @ Open Jam @ Giggity’s

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