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Get Ready to La Posada! Inside the Moon Island Photos A2 Flats Restoration A5 Traveling Moon A9 Fishing A11 Issue 866 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Lu Ann Kingsbury Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 November 19, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Couple Slain Island on Kleberg By Dale Rankin There is a lot going on Around The Beach Were Island this week. Slow your roll… Shot Complete indictment in this issue By Dale Rankin James and Michelle Butler whose bodies were found in shallow graves on the beach in October, 2019, were killed by gunfire, according to information in the indictment of their accused killers obtained by the Island Moon Newspaper this week. The indictments offer the first official The speed monitoring machines information on the cause of death of along eastbound Whitecap tell their the couple due to a gag order in the story by the second. After a several case which has prohibited prosecutors recent accidents there and outcry Photo by Riekie Roncinske from the office of Kleberg County from residents, the city has put up the District Attorney John T. Hubert from signs to tell us how fast we are going commenting on the case and which and just about all of us are going sealed the autopsy report from the too fast. Golf carts are permitted 61.7 Pounds of Cocaine Found on Nueces County Medical Examiner’s on that stretch of road and they top Office specifying the cause of death. out at a blazing 19 mph which is The Capital Murder indictments one reason they are not allowed Mustang Island Beach By Dale Rankin against Adam Williams and Amanda on streets with a speed limit over Noverr allege that Williams and 35 mph. This has been an ongoing It’s a question most of us have asked handles that looked suspicious. She Noverr “did intentionally and problem as evidenced by the fact that ourselves as we walked along Island called Port Aransas Police. knowingly” cause the deaths by the pedestrian walkway on Whitecap beaches; what would I do if suddenly “shooting them with a firearm.” is named after a woman who was I came upon a cache of contraband? When police arrived they found a killed while walking there. Be a good The first response is to immediately bundle containing twenty-eight, one A strict reading of the indictment Islander and slow your roll… call the police…but then there’s kilogram, bricks of cocaine - 61.7 indicates that both Williams and always that little voice in the back pounds. The bundle was wrapped in Noverr fired shots at the victims but Talkabout story of the week… of the Island Mind that says, “Man, I cellophane and other material that stops short of being specific on that was covered in barnacles indicating The most talked about story of the could use a new car.” Right? point. Both Williams and Noverr the package had been in the Gulf for week Around The Island has to do other federal agencies to attempt to have been in jail since shortly after Well, Friday morning a lady walking some time. the crime on related charges after with the photograph you see on this the beach near Mile Marker 39 just determine the origin of the bundle. page. A lady walking the beach in Port Aransas Police Chief Scott The markings on the bundles were being arrested in Mexico driving a south of Beach Access Road 1 in Port vehicle belonging to the slain couple. Port Aransas found sixty pounds Aransas found herself in just such a Burroughs said the packaging and redacted by investigators who are of cocaine. Island law enforcement dilemma. There near the dune line several of the bricks had distinct still working to determine the origin See the complete indictment on page officers who have been around for she saw a barnacled box with red markings and that the Port Aransas of the packages. A12 of this issue. long periods of time have noticed PD is working with Customs and a correlation between finding contraband washed up on local beaches and active hurricane seasons that move it from open water to our shores. The sturm and drang of big Get Ready to La Posada! storms, and the temperature changes La Posada they engender bring in flotsam and Lighted Boat Parade jetsam that have been at sea for long Boat entry forms and parade maps in this issue periods of time and the high tides December 11th &12th like we have seen of late wash them By Keith Clark is slightly different in that organizers and we will have several judges in ashore where, like this week, people not promoting Island residents or locations throughout the parades Four weeks from now on Friday, Maps and Entry find them. It’s just a reminder that we visitors to host parties for viewing on both nights and the La Posada December 11 the first of the two La do live in a smuggling lane. the parades and there will not be toy Foundation Committee will be Posada Lighted Boat Parades will Forms collector boats with U.S. Marines awarding trophies to the winning Rumor control… kick off with a viewing party at going house-to-house. Toys will be boats as we did last year and we Marker 37. The next night, Saturday on page A4 of When Al Gore invented the internet collected from donors using trucks, will also be awarding a special December 12, the second parade he didn’t put a filter on it and as a golf carts and drop-off locations. Commander’s Cup trophy to the will make its way around the south this issue result much bad information is to be winning boat decorated representing part of The Island and organizers are There will be a mandatory Captain’s found there. The latest has to do with any of our Branches of Military as encouraging boat owners who want meeting via WEBINAR on night of short-term stay rules currently being well as First Responders! We hope to to take part to please register early. Thursday, 10 December at 7:00 p.m. written for Padre Island. A couple have as strong or better competition - 8:30 p.m. and organizers will talk points of clarity: First, the rules for The registration form and parade in this year’s parade from all entrants. with each Captain individually on the which portions of Padre Island will route maps for both nights are phone if captains are unable to attend Please feel free to contact either me, allow short-term rentals are not and included in this issue of the Island the WEBINAR. David Rossi or Fred Edler with any will not, be written by the City of Moon. Please consider entering your boat Corpus Christi. The city ordinance The event, as always, is part of the into this year’s lighted boat parade La Posada cont. on A4 which will eventually be written Toys for Tots toy drive but his year will be done in two parts with the City Attorney’s office writing the language for the zoning laws which will enforce the short-term rules. A little Island history The second part, the decision on which parts of Padre Island will allow short-term rentals and which Doc Blankenship an Island Legend will not, will not come from the city it will come from the Padre At 21, he had sailed around the world five times before making The Island his home Isles Property Owners Association Dale, some years back you had away we asked Doc to write us a bio University of Texas Dental Branch in which is currently in the process of an obituary about a guy who had of himself and he did. The following Houston in 1958 and his M.D. from canvassing its members to determine an extensive military career and information was taken directly from University of Texas Medical Branch which neighborhoods want short- owned Doc’s Restaurant. Can I get Doc’s own account of his career. in Galveston in 1963. in 1953 with term properties and which do not. A a copy of his obituary? a Bachelor of Science degree and questionnaire has gone out and we Doc was born in Longview, in 1954 with a Master of Education Ron Raybon include a copy in this issue. Once Texas, on February 13, 1928 and degree. He earned a D.D.S. from the that feedback is gathered it will Editor’s note. raised in Mineola, Texas. He was University of Texas Dental Branch in be provided to the city so that the a fifth-generation Texan who had Thanks Ron, you are referring to Houston in 1958 and his M.D. from boundaries desired by residents can an illustrious career as a military longtime Islander Billy Jim “Doc” University of Texas Medical Branch be written into the new zoning. To officer, as a doctor, dentist, pilot, Blankenship who passed away in in Galveston in 1963. restate for clarity; no one at the city professor and entrepreneur (DDS, October, 2010 at the age of 82. will decide where to allow short-term MD, Captain, MC, U.S.N.R. (Ret). Doc’s grandfather served in the Texas Doc was a friend of us here at the stay on Padre Island, that is up to the He graduated from Stephen F. Austin Militia and both great grandfathers Island Moon and a true gentleman residents so fill out the PIPOA form State University in 1953 with a served in the CSA during the Civil who had a book full of stories and get it back to them.
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