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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. Now is the Bachelor of Science degree and in War. Dr. Blankenship grew up in which, unlike some Islanders of time to be heard. 1954 with a Master of Education Mineola, Texas, and at an early age the Tall Tale variety were all true. degree. He earned a D.D.S. from the Say hello if you see us Around The About a year before Doc passed Doc cont. on A4 Doc Blankenship Island. November 19, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Photos From Around the Island

Beach Bus by David Hamilton.

Salty Life by Marvin Amaraldo

Photos by Riekie Roncinske

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Distribution Business Briefs Pete Alsop The Island Art Gallery will have a Sip & Island Delivery Shop on Friday, November 20th 5 – 7 pm. Check out their Christmas ornaments and new Coldwell Banker art pieces. Gift cards are now available. Advertising Copies of the Moon The Island Foundation Bingo for Bags at Jan Park Rankin Dale, Port Royal on December 2nd has been sold out. Classifieds This is about six months late, but thanks for Island Wine in Port A has weekly bingo every Arlene Ritley your on-line version of the paper. Thursday at 6:30 pm. The bar is located at the Production Manager There were lots of pleasant surprises during Tower Center on Hwy 361.

Abigail Bair our Winter Texan rookie season. The Island Starbucks has closed their indoor dining due Contributing Writers Moon on the driveway was one of them. to the increase in Covid cases. Joey Farah I don’t know how you provide such great work Island Art Gallery Christmas WB Liquors November Sale has 36 liquor Andy Purvis for free. You have great writers. I really like ornaments. pints on sale including Maker’s Mark $14, Mary Craft your take on local politics. The local daily here Tito’s vodka $12 and Avion Reposado tequila Emily Gaines on the banks of the Canadian Pacific could take $18. a clue on civic involvement and accountability. Jay Gardner Brooklyn Pie Company has closed their Yup – Minot, ND is that far north. Pastor Kris Bair south side location. Their Island location has a Todd Hunter We are taking our lead from the Whoopers $5 lunch menu available until 2 pm. and heading to the island. Looking forward to Dotson Lewis Cinnamon Shore Resort in Port A is an a paper copy of the Moon with a schnitzel – Dr. Tom Dorrell ideal spot for multiple family members to get takeout of course. Ronnie Narmour together for Christmas or Thanksgiving. The Brent Rourk Steve Becker large beach homes have two master suites, multiple decks and plenty of seating for meal Photographers time. Lisabella’s Bistro, Dylan’s Coal Oven Miles Merwin (Emeritus) From Our Facebook Page Island Art Gallery new piece by John Pizzeria and Coffee Waves are on site. Debbie Noble Roy Sharp Jay, thanks for the update. I think Clutter. many people would disagree with the statement Jan Rankin “unless a property is already specifically Mary Craft banned from being a short-term rental by deed Black Sheep Bistro is taking reservations only for Thanksgiving Day. The main courses Ronnie Narmour restrictions, then a property owner can use their property how they want, including short term are turkey, ham, smoked prime rib (ribeye) Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) rentals”. and Chateaubriand (roasted beef tenderloin). The desserts will be pumpkin pie, pecan pie From our Protective Covenants: and bread pudding. The meal will be served -All lots in said subdivisions shall be used 1 – 5 pm and bottomless mimosas will be for single family dwellings, and for no other served. The cost is $35/person and $15 for purpose. children under 12. -No commercial, trade, or business activity The Riley P. Dog Park received sponsorships of any nature shall be carried on upon any lot, this week from Black Sheep Bistro/Angry Cinnamon Shore Beach Resort homes on nor shall anything be done thereon which may Marlin owner Glenn Mier $750 and Oh My! the beach. be or become an annoyance or nuisance to the Furniture store owner Renee Mardis $400. neighborhood. Douden Park Garden plots are available with just a small fee to join. Call the PIPOA office Riley P. Dog -All living quarters on the property are to be for at 949-7025 and they will put you in touch with the person that oversees the plots. the bona fide use of the owner’s or occupant’s The Angry Marlin Restaurant will Publisher immediate family. feature The Jam Band on Friday, Dale Rankin Lori Wooten Highly disagree. With that being November 20th and John Amundsen About the Island Moon said, STR all over the island will DESTROY & the Padrinos will be playing there The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale for the first time on Saturday. Rankin, Editor / Publisher. our neighborhoods and make life miserable for those of us who live on the island full time & Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes The Back Porch in Port A will have delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 have jobs to report to daily while trying to deal their annual Turkey Bowl on Sunday, copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, with party houses all night long. I hope all the November 28th. This will be the first as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 work we have done & $$$$ we have invested copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. year the bar will not be closing the in our property pays off when we are forced to Sunday after Thanksgiving. It will News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, sell and move away due to the ruination of the be open all year, weather permitting. payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. island!!! We had a STR next door and completely Rich Lockhart will be playing on The Island Moon Newspaper lost the use of our backyard during most of the Friday, November 20th and Riptide The Jam Band at Angry Marlin. pandemic lockdown due to vacationers!! SAD on Saturday. 14646 Compass, Suite 3 state of affairs Jay Gardner. We were hoping for Corpus Christi, TX 78418 more from our representation!!!!! BTW - read the City of CC Unified Development Code that 361-949-7700 already restricts use by zoning classification. [email protected] Bruce Terrill Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper Just read what the Texas Supreme Court ruling says , he paraphrased , but STR are considered residential use , not Commerical use. No difference between short term and long term rental. Sorry folks! Where to Find The Jan Page There is a rental 2 houses over from where I live. Parties all the time with food Island Moon trucks etc. Lots of people. About a month or so ago there was 24 people staying in that house. It Port North is very concerning. Brian Hausknecht It seems some people on Aransas Padre ISAC don't represent the needs of The Island Gulf Stream RV All Stripes Stores OWNERS/RESIDENTS. I don't agree with your Pioneer RV silly comment that STRs are permitted unless Black Sheep/ they are specifically disallowed. Property rights Stripes on 1A Barrel in a POA are reasonably limited for the benefit My Coastal Home of the POA members, which principally means CVS the property owners. Short term rentals are NOT WB Liquor Store Dollar General compatible with single family residential areas. Island Wine Room Doc’s Restaurant Just because the city of CC has been negligent or incompetent in regulating and prohibiting as Kody’s Snoopy’s Pier use in writing, does not change the fact that this Turkey Bowl at The Back Porch in Port Aransas Coffee Waves Isle Mail N More use is 100% incompatible with our subdivisions. Any council member or ISAC member who Moby Dicks Island Italian chooses to side otherwise does not support the IGA needs of the majority of Island property owners Brooklyn Pie Co. Treasure Island and will see that disconnect reflected in future Ace Hardware election and appointment results. Ms. Woody’s Automotive Texas Star (Shell) Regarding Water Exchange Bridge construction Port A Glass Studio Spanky's Scuttlebutt’s Kirk Colby I encourage everyone to text San Juan’s Restaurant Restaurant “SLOW THEM DOWN“ to 361-834-4125 & Wash Tub 361-500-9735. Paulette Guajardo 361-834- Subway Woody’s Sports 4125 and Greg Smith 361-500-9735, please Center Island Tire instruct CCPD to conduct speed enforcement on Aquarius & Whitecap streets. Back Porch Bar Padre Pizzeria Now that the Water Exchange bridge Shorty’s Place And all Moon construction has started on SPID, some people Fisherman’s Wharf retail advertisers are detouring through our neighborhoods at 55+ mph. Gratitude WB Liquor A bicyclist was just hit recently. The Gaff Trinity By the Sea Flour Bluff Thank you and good luck in the runoff election. Episcopal H.E.B. CW McCarty I wondering how the water exchange bridge construction traffic will affect Ethyl Everly first responders’ response times to emergencies Senior Center in the area. Stripes on Flour Bluff & SPID

Thanksgiving Deadline Monday, Nov. 23rd for advertising & all content November 19, 2020 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 La Posada cont. from A1 and Vietnamese Special Forces. He received was recommended for the Carnegie Medal questions or concerns and we look to another several commendations from the Government for Heroism for rescuing an elderly woman great Lighted Christmas Boat Parade in 2020!! of South Vietnam, and the State Department from her burning home. He was a Boy Scout This has been a difficult year for many and we of the United States and the Humanitarian and also lettered in football and track at the need to uplift hearts going into the Christmas Service Award from the American Medical age of 14 and scored several touchdowns as a season!! Thanks to all! Association. He was also wounded when varsity end. In early 1943, after working as a his USAF C-130 was hit by ground fire. PLEASE ask your friends, neighbors locomotive fireman and engineer for 28 years and coworkers who own boats to consider his father became a Company Official and In 1971, Dr. Blankenship was appointed decorating and entering their boats into this was promoted to Road Forman of Engines. Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology at the years lighted boat parade for the benefit of all We then moved to Ft Worth where he became University of Texas Health Science Center, San Islanders and visitors to help build our spirits a Texas and Pacific Rail Road official with Antonio. While there, he served as a Major in for the Christmas holidays and to especially offices in the T&P main office building. the USAFR as a Flight Surgeon and Hospital benefit our children who anxiously look forward

Commander, and logged 500 hours in C-130 to seeing our Christmas Lighted Boat Parade! In Ft Worth he was ineligible to play football, aircraft with the 433rd Tactical Airlift Wing. ! All they need to do is fill out the forms and but he was allowed to participate and lettered He graduated from the USAF Aerospace get to any of us on the La Posada Foundation in Track events and during the summer he and Medicine School and later graduated from Committee and I will contact them with all Fully Guided • All Tackle Provided several Mineola friends worked in the T&P the USAF Air Command and Staff College details. Thanks to everyone! shops as machinist apprentices for 25 cents and then later from the Air War College. (361)442-8145 per hour. Contacts: Keith Clark 813-900-0662. Fred Dr. Blankenship again entered the U.S. Edler 713-412-6402. Navy as a Commander on active duty in 1974, attended Submarine and Diving school, and Naval Special Warfare training (UDT/SEAL) and served two years in the Western Pacific operating out of Subic Bay, Philippines in What You Need to Know to La Po! USS GRAYBACK (SS-574) as the Submarine and Diving Medical Officer for Naval Special Warfare (UDT/SEALS) and the 7th Fleet. On one Special Operation (SpecOp) with a SEAL team, Intelligence predicted that there was a 90% chance of losing the SEAL team and a 50% chance of losing the submarine! In 1977, he was promoted to Captain and became the Force Medical Officer for the Submarine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, with headquarters at the CINCLANTFLT Compound, Norfolk VA, where he was the doctor for 26,000 submariners and deep sea divers. He also served short tours on several nuclear fast attack and fleet ballistic missile submarines. During 1980-81, he returned to Okinawa after 35 years, as the Division Surgeon, Third Marine Division, FMF and Force Surgeon, He graduated at the age of 16 from Polytechnic III Marine Amphibious Force, FMF with High School, Fort Worth, Texas, in 1944 and Headquarters in Okinawa, Japan, where he immediately entered Army ROTC Training at was the doctor for 46,000 Marines in the North Texas Agricultural College (NTAC). At Western Pacific and Indian Ocean. age 17, he volunteered for the U.S. Merchant Marines and attended U.S. Maritime School In 1982, he became the Executive Officer at Catalina Island, California, where he and Director of Clinical Services at the Naval received U.S. Coast Guard papers for service Hospital, Corpus Christi and then requested in the deck force of U.S. merchant vessels. release from active duty in 1983. From 1983- He served aboard a troop transport in the 1988, he served in the USNR Active Reserve Pacific and during the invasion of Okinawa as the Commanding Officer of Fleet Combat went ashore with the troops for a short period Support Hospital-10; Diving Medical Officer of land combat. He later served aboard with Special Boat Unit 22 (UDT/SEAL) tankers and freighters in the Atlantic, Pacific, and as the Senior Naval Medical Officer, Mediterranean, Indian, North Sea and Persian NR Headquarters, European Command, US Gulf. By the time he was 21 years old, he had Army, 1985-1987. sailed around the world five times on ships. He had Permanent or Temporary Additional Duty and served aboard nine US MERCHANT Upon reaching 18 years of age he volunteered MARINE freighters, tankers and a troop ship, for the Regular Navy and served two years in and 9 US Navy submarines (diesel, nuclear the Pacific aboard destroyers as a Seaman and fast attack and fleet ballistic missile), carriers, Sonarman 3rd Class. After discharge from destroyers, submarine rescue vessels, patrol the Navy, he again sailed merchant ships boats, auxiliary rescue vessels, submarine all over the world for another three years, tenders, and a Vietnamese armed river junk. served briefly with General Chiang Kai- Captain Blankenship has had a very satisfying, Shek Forces during the fall of Tientsin, China productive and exciting military career! and ended his career as a Licensed Third Deck Officer (unlimited) after graduating with highest honors ever from the Southern Captain Blankenship’s military awards Navigation and Marine Engineering School. include the Legion of Merit Medal; Navy & He presently held a USCG Master’s License, Marine Corps Medal; Purple Heart Medal; Mechanical and Auxiliary Sail (limited). Navy Meritorious Service Medal; Navy Commendation Medal x2; Combat Action; In 1951, after six years of sea duty, Bill Navy Unit Commendation; Meritorious Unit returned to Arlington State College for one Commendation; Air Force Outstanding Unit; semester and then moved on to received B.S., Organized Marine Corps Reserve Medal x2; B. A. and M.Ed. degrees with honors and Armed Forces WWII Victory Medal; Navy highest honors from Stephen F. Austin State Occupation; China Service Medal; National College, Nacogdoches TX. He was a Biology Defense Medal; Vietnam Service Medal; Laboratory Instructor under Dr Edwin Miller Humanitarian Service Medal; Sea Service for two years. While in college he married x2; Navy & Marine Corps Overseas Service; Carolyn Keeling, a school teacher, and Fleet Marine Force Ribbon; Air Force Friday night La Posada Parade Route. they later had three girls, Roberta, Jimmie, Longevity; Armed Forces Reserve Medal and CDR Jean Ann Blankenship, USNR, x3; Navy Expert Pistol Medal x3; Navy who is a combat rated patrol bomber plane Expert Rifle Medal x2; Air Force Small Arms commander who flew in the Persian/Arabian Expert; US Merchant Marine Victory Medal, Gulf. In addition to her gold Naval Aviator USMM Pacific War Zone; USMM Atlantic Wings, she received Army Parachute Wings War Zone; and USMM Mediterranean War at Ft. Benning GA. Roberta is an Account Zone ribbons; Vietnam Meritorious Unit Executive for the Fossil watch company and Citation Gallantry Cross Medal; Republic lives on Padre Island. of Vietnam Medal; China War Memorial Medal; Association of Military Surgeons of Doc was a 1958 honor graduate of the the US Medal; Letters of Commendation x5; University of Texas Dental Branch-Houston, Letters of Appreciation x4; US Parachutist where he received the D.D.S. degree and was Wings, Basic; Flight Surgeon Wings; Navy elected to OKU Honor Dental Society. He Parachutist Wings; Submarine Dolphins; also received a two year U.S. Public Health Diving Medical Officer badge; Command Service Post-doctoral Fellowship to pursue Ashore badge; USMM WWII Badge; Ph.D. studies at Baylor University College Vietnamese Parachute Wings and Philippine of Medicine. He was commissioned a LT, Parachute Wings. As a physician and also a Dental Corps, USNR in 1958 and organized, dentist, Captain Blankenship received very commissioned and commanded USNR little formal basic military training in the Dental Company 8-3 in Houston during this Armed Forces and attributes his success as time period. He also served as Battalion a military doctor to his early training in the Dental Officer with the First Battalion, 23rd Army Infantry R.O.T.C Unit at North Texas Saturday night parade route. Marines, 4th Marine Division, FMF, USMCR Agricultural College in Arlington, Texas! in Houston. He was a 1963 honor graduate of the University of Texas Medical Branch- To Corpus Christi Galveston where he received his M.D. degree, When Doc arrived on Padre Island bought was elected to AOA Honor Medical Society, a house on Suntan and he was involved and completed internship and residency with business ventures, that included, training to become a Board Certified Oral and farming, ranching, oil and gas, real estate, Maxillofacial Surgeon. In 1967, he became condominiums, a chemical company, timber Assistant Professor of Surgery and Chief, production, aircraft sales, charter and flight Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery school, stocks and bonds, shopping centers, until entering private practice in Harlingen, restaurants, a car wash, a drug abatement Texas in 1969. During this period, he served consortium, a sailboat company, a water as Battalion Surgeon with 1/23, 4th MarDiv, distribution company, a heavy trucking FMF, USMCR in Houston, and Delta company; a charter motorboat company and Company, 4th Amphibious Tractor Battalion, a few other businesses. FMF, USMCR in Galveston, TX. He also attended the US Army Parachute School at Ft. Doc’s family still owns land on Padre Island Benning, Georgia. and as we know Doc’s Seafood and Steaks is an Island institution. We hope that answers 1966 your question about Doc’s life Ron. As you In 1966, Dr. Blankenship volunteered to serve can see it was a life well lived – although it in Vietnam with the U.S. State Department sounds like three or four lives well lived - and and U.S. Navy as a surgeon, working at times we still miss hanging around with our friend with U.S. Special Forces (5th out of NaTrang) Doc and hearing his stories. Dale Rankin

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Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier November 19 - November 26 Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon Thirteen years ago when I took over the Island down that same road we were on in 2004 /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible Moon there was an air of frustration and futility and headed for the same predictable results - Th 19 Low 11:26 AM -0.2 6:53 AM Rise 11:30 AM 16 among Island voters. A laissez-faire attitude irrelevancy. When it comes to FBISD elections toward voting, especially in regards to city and we don't get involved, we don't run or endorse 19 High 9:20 PM 2.2 5:35 PM Set 10:09 PM school board governments, had left us without candidates and we don't really pay much F 20 Low 12:26 PM 0.0 6:54 AM Rise 12:18 PM 25 a say at city hall and on the Flour Bluff school attention even as the district alone makes up 50 board. Even as most of the complaints about percent of our property tax load. In the two city 20 High 10:10 PM 2.0 5:35 PM Set 11:09 PM government, then as now, centered on local races where Island voters hold the most sway Sa 21 Low 1:30 PM 0.2 6:55 AM Rise 1:00 PM 35 issues like property taxes - the City of Corpus we split three ways in the race for Mayor and 21 High 10:41 PM 1.9 5:35 PM Christi and the Flour Bluff School District make three ways in the race for the District 4 City up about three-quarters of the tax load on Island Council seat. That is the road to irrelevancy Su 22 Low 2:40 PM 0.5 6:56 AM Set 12:08 AM 45 homeowners - the talk of politics centered on that we were on then forgetting the lessons 22 High 10:56 PM 1.7 5:35 PM Rise 1:36 PM Presidential politics at the federal level which we learned the hard way the first time. We’re does not levy property taxes. headed back to where we started. Irrelevancy. M 23 Low 6:02 AM 1.1 6:57 AM Set 1:03 AM 55 Call it taxation without representation but that's I had been writing off and on for the Moon 23 High 8:40 AM 1.2 5:35 PM Rise 2:08 PM not what it is. We have representation we are since 2000 and city elections and school board just splitting it into so many slivers that none are 23 Low 3:57 PM 0.7 elections just weren't sexy enough to get big enough to matter. 23 High 11:00 PM 1.5 people's attention and it was reflected in the attention we got at city hall. In 2004 a $950 How did we get here? Tu 24 Low 6:03 AM 0.9 6:57 AM Set 1:56 AM 65 million bond package that went before voters Islanders consistently vote in higher 24 High 11:03 AM 1.2 5:34 PM Rise 2:39 PM contained a scant $1.2 million for Padre Island even as we got $9 million of the bill, and that percentages that the rest of the city. In non- 24 Low 5:14 PM 0.9 was only after the bond package was going to partisan races - city and school board - when 24 High 11:03 PM 1.4 the council for final approval and it was noticed we vote together we can and do swing elections. The question is how to choose candidates to get W 25 Low 6:19 AM 0.7 6:58 AM Set 2:48 AM 74 that there was nothing on it for Padre Island so the Park Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge was behind. 25 High 12:52 PM 1.4 5:34 PM Rise 3:08 PM added in an effort to garner support from Island The solution was the formation of the Island 25 Low 6:32 PM 1.1 voters. United Political Action Committee. The IUPAC was formed and in the following city election 25 High 11:06 PM 1.4 Two years later in 2006 the ugly fight over whether to ban vehicles on Island beaches cycle more than 300 Islanders packed the Th 26 Low 6:39 AM 0.5 6:59 AM Set 3:39 AM 81 had opened a split in Island opinion regarding room at the Holiday to pick candidates with a 26 High 2:11 PM 1.5 5:34 PM Rise 3:37 PM candidates for city council - those who had success rate of four out of our five candidates supported the ban and those who had not - that winning their seats including first time Mayoral 26 Low 7:51 PM 1.2 mirrored and cemented the subsequent split candidate Joe Adame. It worked and shortly 26 High 11:07 PM 1.4 in Island voting patterns that had become the thereafter the Aquarius Extension which had norm. The vote on the beach ban which lost been hanging fire for a decade was done. We decisively across the city split Island voters with were on the map. 51 percent in favor and 49 percent against and But reaching consensus is hard work and firing the die was cast for the split Island vote going up the IUPAC for each city election cycle after forward. two years of hiatus led to complacency and In 2008 a $153 million bond package was atrophy and this year when the tally was taken passed by voters with the same scant projects for the city races - granted in the Year of Covid for Padre Island and this time a $1.5 million bill when a public gathering was impossible – less for Island property owners. Due to our division than 90 votes were cast. That is not a sustainable we were irrelevant; except of course when it model. came to paying the bills. So what is to be done? The Padre Island Business Associated whose Maybe nothing. We now have 8642 registered board had supported the driving ban without a voters on Padre Island and 6249 of them voted canvass of its membership was at that time the in the last city election and maybe with that only Island-wide organization and seats on the many voters we just throw it open to a “every board were chosen by a vote of members at a voter and every candidate” for themselves monthly spring luncheon each year with votes system. Maybe candidates will still come here being cast at the beginning of the event, counted looking for votes and our numbers will be of during the meeting, and winners announced sufficient weight to keep us relevant anyway. just before adjournment. I remember watching From what I can observe that is the road we as the votes were counted and seeing the same are on and it may be inevitable as Padre Island split in voting patterns that was reflected in the grows and newcomers bring new ideas and divisions of opinion of Island voters as a whole. don’t worry about the history. Those who don't Half the membership supported the old board like the outcome of the IUPAC vote cite the low who supported the vehicle ban and half wanted number of voters and go their own way. If that's to throw them out for the same reason. the case then the IUPAC has run its course and Along about the same time then Mayor Henry we chalk it up to a good idea whose time has Garrett, an Island resident who ran unopposed come and gone. in 2007 spoke to a PIBA lunch crowd and was But nature abhors a vacuum and someone or a City Update asked about the lack of Island projects on bond group of people will step into that vacuum and packages and his response was, "The feeling at By Greg Smith, City Council Member District 4 start raising money for city races and they will the city is that the island takes care of itself." In in effect be the political voice of Padre Island the same cycle Mike McCutchon, a leader in the The highlights of Tuesday fund due to the pandemic. The final number - albeit a self-appointed one. In my opinion no anti-driving ban fight, was elected to council in Council’s meeting was the is nine million dollars. Expenses were cut mid matter the system for doing so it is time that District 4 as two candidates from Padre Island status of the Harbor Bridge, reviewing our year in order to not have to tap into reserve we Islanders back our choice for office seekers ran against each other and split the Island vote 2020 budget status and setting the City run-off funds and staff did achieve that goal. The at the city and the school district with money. which was already split because of the rift over schedule. City’s cash reserves did not change for the year As Tip O'Neill famously said, "There are two the vote on the beach vehicle ban vote. We didn't prior and remains at seventy-two million dollars things that matter in politics, the first is money... Flatiron-Dragados, contractor and TXDOT matter. which is twenty-four million dollars over City and I can't remember the second." gave an update on the new Harbor Bridge policy of forty-eight million. This puts the City construction. In 2019 the engineering firm Déjà vu all over again But in the case of city and school board in a favorable position with the credit rating that designed the bridge for the contractor politics Padre Island has enough votes to swing agencies since many municipalities across the What Mayor Garrett was really saying is that was terminated. In July of this year Flatiron elections so why raise money to seek votes nation have been struggling with the economic Padre Island wasn't getting bond projects - or engaged a new firm and review of the plans when we already have all the votes we need. effects of the virus. for that matter police and fire protection, a full- of the portion of the bridge that crosses over time ambulance, streets and park maintenance, We just need to get Island voters all headed in the ship channel are under way. The review The election schedule was set for the Mayoral beach maintenance, enforcement of building the same direction - the question before us is is expected to be complete in the fall of 2020. and District runoffs. Early voting will begin at and aesthetic standards called for in the Island whether that is worth the effort and if so how I asked the question of when the bridge was the Courthouse on December 5 and 6 which is Overlay Zone - for the simple reason that we to do it. expected to be complete; the answer was there is the weekend. On Monday the 7th polling places split our vote and therefore the political class The political class from OTB is looking for date set. Following this I asked when schedule will be open across the City through the 11th. could ignore us without fear of political peril. divisions among Island residents they can be determined, answered by TXDOT, the spring Election Day is December 15. The County Because we were a house divided we were exploit and right now they are finding them. of 2021. Also asked was the status of all the Clerk and City Secretary have not determined irrelevant. We just didn't matter. As Benjamin O'Neill also said, "All politics is local" and interchange work and bridge approaches, they the Island location but are looking at several Franklin famously said, "If we don't hang when it comes to Island politics if we don't hang will continue working on them but at a reduced sites. They goal is to have a location by next together we shall certainly hang separately” and together we shall surely hang separately. tempo and reducing the workforce about half Tuesday. Ethel Eyerly will be the location in that was what was happening. from 600 to 300 employees. the Bluff That banging sound you hear is the scaffold As I look at the Island voting patterns in the under construction. We had good news on our revenue and expense In the Covid brief new cases and November elections just past I see us heading numbers for the fiscal year that ended on hospitalizations continue to rise. Patient count September 30. The City had projected a 14-21 was up to 105 this Tuesday as compared to 83 million dollar revenue shortfall in the general the week before and 56 on October 30. Egery Flats Restoration Project Complete! Bob Hall Pier by Kathryn Tunnell Two 30-inch pipe culverts were replaced and November Bag The Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program upgraded with three 3-foot x 6-foot box culverts Update (CBBEP) has just wrapped up the Egery Flats at each location. The upgraded culverts will Hero Restoration Project! Funded by the National Fish increase water exchange and reduce salinity, Nueces County Commissioners this week & Wildlife Foundation’s Gulf Environmental which will facilitate the re-vegetation and discussed funding for rebuilding Bob Hall Pier. Benefit Fund, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, recovery of the Egery Flats ecosystem. To Nueces County Coastal Parks Board Executive Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, and CCA jumpstart that re-vegetation, the last phase of the Director Scott Cross told commissioners in Texas Habitat Today for Fish Tomorrow and project included planting 8 acres of emergent their Monday that the concrete slabs on the CCA’s Building Conservation Trust, this project marsh vegetation (Spartina alterniflora). pie’s surface are now back in place but the pier restored hydrology to the Egery Flats system, “It’s great to see the improved flow through the is closed to the public for safety reasons. Cross which will reduce salinity to enhance over 600 culverts connecting Egery Flats to the Copano said that funding to replace the pier, estimated acres of emergent marsh, submerged aquatic Bay system,” said Adrien Hilmy, Project at around $20 million, is currently not in place vegetation, and tidal flats. Manager for the CBBEP. “Not only will this due to a rule with the Federal Emergency A favorite increased water exchange improve the salinity Management Agency that requires a total of among roadside levels, but it will also help increase the nutrient $38 million in damage among the thirty-two fishermen, and sediment input into the marsh, creating a counties hit by Hurricane Hanna which has crabbers, and more productive and diverse ecosystem.” not been met. Cross said that problem may be birders, Egery averted if the President declares the counties a To measure the success of the project, CBBEP Flats sits along disaster area due to Hurricane Hanna damage. worked with the Mission-Aransas National View of FM 136 and the western edge Estuarine Research Reserve (MANERR) at the He also said that if the pier is rebuilt within two of Copano Bay, University of Texas Marine Science Institute years no requirement for new permitting from Egery Flats (right) near the mouth showing reduced and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the U.S. Corps of Engineers as long as the pier of the Aransas collect valuable preconstruction data, including is rebuilt within the boundaries of the current emergent vegetation. River. Though porewater salinity and vegetation monitoring. pier. seemingly The monitoring will continue for several years One of the two public restrooms near the pier is productive to the recreational user, the ecosystem post construction and will help determine the now open. Cross also said the county is working has suffered greatly since the placement of effectiveness of the culvert replacement and Farm to Market Road 136 in 1945 with only with the Texas General Land Office to remove Skip the Plastic is pleased to success of the restoration project. chunks of asphalt from the old parking lot two water exchange points. While it connected announce our November Bag Hero, communities and provided public access to the The marshes in Egery Flats and the Coastal which were deposited in the dunes near the pier Leah Murray. As an avid surfer and Bend are essential habitat for living marine after Hurricane Hanna. flats, it also limited water flow. Over time the traveler, Leah advocates for reducing culverts at the water exchange points became resources and provide feeding grounds for consumption of plastics that pollute clogged and the water flow was restricted waterfowl, wading birds, and shorebirds. Many Send Letters and Photos to our water and litter our beaches. enough to impact water quality and habitats, of the birds that use Egery Flats also rely on the [email protected] She has brought her own reusable which resulted in the conversion of over 100 nearby Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. The proximity of Egery Flats as a healthy feeding bags to the store for years, but has acres of estuarine marsh and vital habitat to and follow us on open water since the 1950s. ground and marine nursery will enhance the also found they are handy for other overall ecological productivity and value of the Facebook: The Island Moon uses like carrying yoga mats and The project involved replacing the culverts at Aransas Bay complex. Great things are on the Newspaper other gear. the water exchange points along the roadway. horizon for Egery Flats! A6 Island Moon November 19, 2020 Senior Moments Open Doors? Thanksgiving--Fact, Fiction By Pastor Kris Bair Talk around my church is refugees from the law, from persecution, from and Trivia all about opening. How do domestic violence, etc. Sadly, sanctuary didn’t we do it safely? How much will it cost to do By Dotson Lewis work any better back then than it does today. Special to the Island Moon it safely? Who will do the work of being safe? Inquiring minds want to know! Kansas homes and vehicles were left open Dotson’s Note: Here are some facts, fiction all the time, in spite of the fact that crimes did Thanksgiving and the Poem “Mary Had Right now, our doors are not open unless you and trivia, so you have something to talk about occur. Out by Dodge City, for example, the A Little Lamb” have a key, or you make arrangements with (other than politics), around the Thanksgiving famous Clutters, a ranch family who lived far our office. Our mantra is “Be safe.” And we dinner table, (if you have one), on November The first official proclamation of a national out in the country, were viciously attacked and have good reason for that. Just ask our ad hoc 26, 2020. Thanks to Yvonne Nethaway, Randi Thanksgiving holiday didn’t come until 1863, murdered in the middle of the night. Their committee, who have worked diligently (as in Baker, Edward Winslow, King Massasoit, when President Abraham Lincoln called for an murderers found nothing much of value to meeting after meeting, for hour after hour— Thomas Jefferson, George Washington & annual Thanksgiving celebration on the final steal the only person who made money off the with homework assignments!) to pull together Franklin Delano Roosevelt for facts, fiction and Thursday in November. The proclamation was crime was Truman Capote. a phased-in plan to open. trivia found in this report and to my 4th grade the result of years of impassioned lobbying A product of the High Plains open door reader for the photos (photo edited by Gimp), by "Mary Had a Little Lamb" author and Their report notes that the “mean, median, mentality, the GP famously leaves doors open and to Bill Morgan (former SWC SID) for the abolitionist Sarah Josepha Hale. and mode age” of the congregation at Island all the time—within certain limits. He does cartoon. Pumpkin Pie Part of Thanksgiving Presbyterian Church “is above 65 years of NOT shut cupboard doors, microwave oven age.” In other words, though there are some Thanksgiving is an American national holiday, doors, dryer doors, or closet doors. It’s a Pumpkin pie was a staple on New England younger members and families, there are and its history is all over the place. Even matter of honor with him. He locks car doors Thanksgiving tables as far back as the turn numbers of REALLY old folks to balance the details of the famous feast between the about half the time. He usually manages to get of the 18th century. Legend has it that the them out—and everybody else is over 65. Plymouth Colony settlers and the Wampanoag the garage doors closed and locked at night, Connecticut town of Colchester postponed its and since we’ve moved to Corpus Christi, he Indians in November of 1621 are hazy. The Thanksgiving feast for a week in 1705 due to And of course, with an aging congregation, best account that has been found a letter from there are age-related health conditions that go religiously closes and locks all house entry a molasses shortage. There could simply be no doors day and night. English settler Edward Winslow that never Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie. with the territory! We have a congregation mentions the word “Thanksgiving,” but tells of that is susceptible to the very worst of COVID, I spend my days shutting doors behind him. a weeklong harvest celebration that included Botched Thanksgiving Order and the TV and we are rightfully anxious about exposing I see no reason to use up appliance lightbulbs a three-day celebration with King Massasoit Dinner anyone, in any way! that will be difficult if impossible to replace. and 90 Wampanoag men “so we might after a I see no reason to heat and cool our closets. In 1953, an employee at C.A. Swanson & Sons Some of us think that being extra-super- more special manner rejoice together.” Over the specially-careful is exactly what we should do. But I DO like to let air and light into the house centuries, that briefly-mentioned feast week has overestimated demand for Thanksgiving turkey in the daytime, so I’m constantly opening the taken on a life of its own, with each generation and the company was left with some 260 tons Some think, however, we are being TOO entries after he puts us in lockdown. adding its own take on the fall tradition of extra frozen birds. As a solution, a Swanson careful. They worry that we’ll lose members salesman ordered 5,000 aluminum trays, devised if we don’t round them up and herd them back COVID has not helped this situation. The First Thanksgiving a turkey meal and recruited an assembly line of into our sanctuary. They worry that we are other day, I was wandering past his closet and workers to compile what would become the first losing much-needed financial support because automatically slammed the door shut. Little TV tray dinners. A culinary hit was born. In the we’re unable to collect a loose-change offering did I know that he was in it! I heard this little first full year of production, 1954, the company every Sunday. voice say, “Uh, Kris.” I was halfway out of the sold 10 million turkey TV tray dinners. room, looking around for him when he said, Sigh. Both suppositions have some truth “You’ve shut me in the closet!” Football a Thanksgiving Tradition behind them! But this is COVID-time, and the most important truth is that we take a great risk “Oh, dear,” I said, not in the least bit sorry. The winning combo of football and when we open our doors—especially if we’re Thanksgiving kicked off way before there was And so the conflict continues—not just in in a surge. anything called the NFL. The first Thanksgiving the church, but on the home front. Perhaps football game was a college match between Church isn’t the only place where an open the only good answer to the question of “open or closed” is to be vigilant and be patient. First Thanksgiving.= Yale and Princeton in 1876, only 13 years after door policy is problematic, though. Back Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday. where I come from (Western Kansas), leaving COVID isn’t going away any more than the Soon after, Thanksgiving was picked for the doors open and unlocked was the standard. GP is going to start closing doors. Colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared date of the college football championships. Churches were left unlocked so folks could “It is what it is,” an old friend used to intone. an autumn harvest feast in 1621 in Plymouth, By the 1890s, thousands of college and high access them for prayer at any time, day or Was, is and shall be—world without end, Massachusetts that is widely acknowledged school football rivalries were played every night. But that ended in our part of the state amen! Thanksgiving. as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations. when our Christian Education Administrator, GP in the closet does not mean dead marriage But some historians argue that Florida, not Presidents Pardon the Thanksgiving working alone in the church, was attacked and (47 years and counting!). Massachusetts, may have been the true site Turkey raped in Fellowship Hall by a transient who of the first Thanksgiving in North America. had AIDS. Our church got a security system Closed doors, thank God, do not mean dead In 1565, nearly 60 years before Plymouth, a Starting in the 1940s, farmers would gift the ASAP, and the doors were kept locked all the church! Come join us on Facebook (Island Spanish fleet came ashore and planted a cross in president with some plump birds for roast turkey time after that. Presbyterian Church) where we livestream the sandy beach to christen the new settlement over the holidays, which the first family would worship Sundays at 10 a.m. You can use the Most of the other churches in town followed of St. Augustine. To celebrate the arrival and invariably eat. While President John F. Kennedy Zoom link there to see some of our faces and suit, despite the hue and cry from many church give thanks for God’s providence, the 800 was the first American president to spare a join in Fellowship following the service. Or members that it was “just plain wrong to lock Spanish settlers shared a festive meal with the turkey’s life (“We’ll just let this one grow,” JFK watch our videos on FB to join a service any church doors!” They refer, of course, to the native Timucuan Indians. quipped in 1963. “It’s our Thanksgiving present time you feel the need. God is good! to him.”) The annual White House tradition medieval idea of the church as a sanctuary for First Thanksgiving Menu of “pardoning” a turkey officially started with The Thanksgiving meal in Plymouth probably George H.W. Bush in 1989. had little in common with today’s traditional President Receives Raccoon Gift for holiday spread. Although turkeys were Ask Ralph indigenous, there’s no record of a big, roasted Thanksgiving bird at the feast. The Wampanoag brought deer In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge received Avoiding Qualifiers and there would have been lots of local seafood a somewhat odd Thanksgiving gift in the (mussels, lobster, and bass) plus the fruits of form of a live raccoon. Meant to be eaten (the the first pilgrim harvest, including pumpkin. Mississippi man who sent it called raccoon meat By Ralph Coker No mashed potatoes, though. Potatoes had first “toothsome”), the Coolidge family adopted the Q. I have a bad habit of signals that the following statement is a lie. At been recently shipped back to Europe from pet and named it Rebecca. Rebecca was only the using a lot of qualifiers when I talk to other the least it is totally unnecessary. The writer's South America. latest addition to their already substantial White businesspeople and it tends to offend them. purpose in writing should be evident by what House menagerie that included a black bear, a First Day of National Thanksgiving How can I break that habit? they write and needs no stated purpose up wallaby, and a pygmy hippo named Billy. front. The fourth kind of qualifier avoids America first called for a national day of A. There are dozens of qualifiers phrases commitment. Both "I am thinking that" and thanksgiving to celebrate victory over the President Changes Date of Thanksgiving some people use. It is a habit that adds "As far as I know" mean that the speaker or British in the Battle of Saratoga. In 1789, Concerned that the Christmas shopping season nothing to communication and often confuses George Washington again called for national or offends the other person. One type is writer are not committed to what follows. was cut short by a late Thanksgiving, President They are often used in writing letters, memos, day of thanks on the last Thursday of November Franklin Delano Roosevelt decreed in 1939 disclaimers that like legal disclaimers attempt in 1777 to commemorate the end of the to absolve the speaker for responsibility for reports, and e-mails to avoid accountability. that Thanksgiving would be celebrated a week In my business career I occasionally received Revolutionary War and the ratification of the earlier. “Franksgiving,” as it was known, was what they say. Have you ever heard anyone Constitution. During the War Between the start out with "Don't take this the wrong way" memos and reports from others that had so decried by Thanksgiving traditionalists and many qualifiers, conditions, and exceptions States, both the Confederacy and the Union political rivals (one even compared FDR to and heard anything nice? Another disclaimer issued Thanksgiving Day proclamations is "I'm only telling you this because I like that what they said was meaningless. Legal Hitler) and was only adopted by 23 of the 48 documents are usually a maze of qualifiers following major victories. states. Congress officially moved Thanksgiving you". A sentence starting like that never ends well. The person on the receiving end of that and disclaimers to the point that what is President Refuses to Recognize back to the fourth Thursday of November in certain is a small sliver. That is the reason a 1941, where it has remained ever since. is not going to like the speaker when it is over. Thanksgiving Disclaimers never absolve the speaker of Score member friend says never, ever ask an Dotson’s Other Note: I believe the foregoing responsibility for what follows and can only attorney to make a business decision. is a much better than a political debate among damage relationships. To break the habit of using qualifiers make friends. Of course it may not be on par with a list of all those you use and review it daily. a good football game. What do you Moon Another type of qualifier confuses the other person. When the speaker starts with Then train yourself to think before you speak. Monkeys think? Thanks for reading and Consider how the other person will perceive commenting on the articles in The Island Moon. "I want you to know" or "I'm just saying" the following sentence is always unclear what you say. Remember that qualifiers Contact me at [email protected] or call/text: always impede good communication. If a 530-748-8475. and confusing. The speaker often really means the opposite of what they say. Those person is unwilling to stop using qualifiers, Please note: The Weekly Veterans Round Table qualifiers often signal bad news, criticism, that may be an indication that person wants to Meetings are back now live at Del Mar College or the speaker's dishonesty. What purpose is avoid responsibility and accountability. That Thomas Jefferson. CED (masks required) in Room 106 and on there in saying "I just want to say you made a is a character problem not a speech problem. Zoom on Tuesdays 9-11AM. All veterans, their great presentation?" If the speaker is sincere, Ralph Coker volunteers with SCORE which Thomas Jefferson was famously the only families and anyone interested in veterans’ just say, “you made a great presentation." provides free help and mentoring for small Founding Father and early president who activities, are invited. The Veterans Radio businesses and nonprofits. refused to declare days of thanksgiving and Round Table is on the air on KEYS AM 1440, Other qualifiers signal that the speaker is fasting in the United States. Unlike his political 8 – 10 a.m., Saturdays. The next show will be about to lie. The phrase "I am writing to say" rivals, the Federalists, Jefferson believed in “a November 21, 2020. Please listen and call in or at first seems harmless. However, it often wall of separation between Church and State” text. The listener/text line is: 361-882-5397… and believed that endorsing such celebrations It’s your two hours, please let us hear from you. as President would amount to a state-sponsored Riley P. Dog Park Shoe Drive religious worship. Fundraiser Continues Trust park, and we have the chance to help families Riley P. Dog Park is conducting a shoe drive in developing nations who need economic Padre Island and Port Aransas’ Oldest Island Based Pest Control Company. fundraiser October 26th-December 24th to opportunities. It’s a win-win for everyone.” raise funds for the opening of our island dog By donating gently worn, used and new shoes park. Riley P. Dog Park will earn funds based to the Riley P. 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Pitching Horseshoes- Part II By Andy Purvis

By Dotson Lewis On October 6, 1912, two The 1970s ushered in a new area for measuring Major League pitchers, Walter Johnson and speed. On August 20, 1974, Nolan Ryan was Dotson’s Note: Last week in The Island Moon totals about 15,000 with 6,200 in the league “Nap” Rucker, visited a shed in Bridgeport, clocked at 100.9 by an infrared radar device Sports Talk we reintroduced you to pitching program. Connecticut, at the test range of the Remington from Rockwell International. By spring of horseshoes and since I was running out of Arms Company. The speed of their fastballs 1975, a former Michigan State baseball coach This successful handicap league program space, the report ended with: “On February 26, would be clocked that day using Remington’s named Danny Litwhiler, who has been credited allows beginners as well as seasoned players 1919, the National League of Horseshoe and ballistic equipment. This apparatus consisted with introducing the radar gun, joined a fellow to pitch together. It is a good program for Quoit Pitchers was organized at the National of two parts. A square wooden frame with named John Paulson of the JUGS Corporation attracting new players to take their first step Tournament in St. Petersburg, Florida, with copper wire strung across it and a large steel to develop the baseball radar gun used today. into organized horseshoe pitching. The NHPA representatives from 29 different states plate, mounted 15 feet from the frame. A They then convinced Major League teams to strives to promote and organize the sport and to attending. They were given a charter under sensor was used to record the moment the ball purchase it. Soon every team owned one, and standardize the rules, equipment, and playing the laws of the State of Ohio, June 17, 1921, broke one of the wires, and a second reading clocking pitches with radar guns would become procedures. The top priority is to serve as a to be continued.” Today we are continuing occurred when the ball struck the plate. The widespread. Next time you go to a Corpus unifying agent between state associations, that report and finishing it with: “The Gentle ball’s velocity was calculated in feet per second. Christi Hooks’ game, watch the scouts behind local clubs, unorganized groups, and individual Art and Sport of Horseshoes.” This is a look at Even after warming up, it was hard to throw the home plate. Every one of them has a radar players. Indoor courts are constantly becoming this ancient game which is still played solely for ball through this apparatus. Rucker’s fastball gun. Also the latest technology, PITCHf/x, is more popular. Year after year, more indoor fun. Thanks to Bill Morgan (former SWC SID), was measured at 77 mph and Johnson’s at 83 installed in every Major League park and uses courts are being built in the non-sunbelt areas. William Waldron and my dad (1893-1978), for mph. This experiment was not considered a high speed cameras as opposed to radar guns, These courts make horseshoe pitching a year- the facts contained in this report and to Bill success. to measure the throwing speed of all players, round sport. Besides World Tournament Awards, Morgan for the photos. not just the pitchers. championship awards are given at all NHPA At San Diego, on sanctioned tournaments, and numerous awards September 24, 2010, in many categories are given to the NHPA PITCHf/x clocked League program. Six classes are recognized as Cincinnati Reds’ Championship. They are: men, women, boys, lefthander, Aroldis girls, senior men, and elders (70+ years old Chapman, at 105.1 and pitch from 30 feet). Women and juniors mph, the fastest pitch also pitch from 30 feet. Senior women's classes ever thrown in a are held when enough entries are received to Major League game. support the division. But on April 18, 2011, The Art of Playing Horseshoes Chapman created another buzz when he threw a fastball Horseshoe Pitchers to Pirates’ Andrew McCutchen. The scoreboard at Great In the 1919 Tournament, the distance from American Ballpark each stake was changed to 40 feet, distance that Bob Feller throwing. read 106 mph. Did is in effect today. The 8-inch height of the stake Chapman throw at this time leaned one inch toward the other the fastest pitch of all time, or were our eyes Twenty-four years later in 1936, Bob Feller stake and the stake was 3/4 inches in diameter. deceived? Only 19 pitchers pitched in the tournament. burst onto the scene. Everyone wondered how Games were 50 points. In 1920, the game rules fast he threw. In 1940, he stood in Chicago’s In a 1998 interview, Bob Feller answered the were changed drastically. Stakes were raised Lincoln Park, facing two large sheets of paper question of who was the fastest, ever. “The to 10 inches, stakes were 1 inch in diameter, some 60 feet away. He would test his fastball world may never know,” answered Feller. against a motorcycle. As the rider roared past ringers counted three points, close shoes one Andy Purvis is a local author and radio him at 85 mph, Feller unleashed his fastball point, and leaners were abolished. In 1923, the personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. and it burst through the paper ahead of the lean of the stake toward each other was changed com for all the latest info on his books or to How to hold a horseshoe. motorcycle. The experiment was filmed and to three inches. The 1920 Winter and 1923 listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books officials concluded that Feller had thrown the Summer World Champion, George May from Crrr-ING! What the sound of a can opener are available online and can be found in the ball at 104 mph from a flat surface. Six years Akron, Ohio, has been recognized as the father is to a cat, the resonant chime of a horseshoe local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be later, Feller took part in another trial. He threw of the "open" shoe. He won the title in 1923 striking a steel stake is to horseshoe pitchers. contacted at [email protected]. Also his ball through a U.S. Army photoelectric with a 14-1 record and 60 ringer percentage. Give them that sound, and the will search out listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s chronograph, which was used to measure the However, in the winter of 1909, a game was its source and stand pathetically on the sidelines Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. velocity of shells during WWII. This time, his played in Florida in the sand where sometimes until someone orders them off or invites them com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of fastball was clocked at 98.6 mph. all four shoes would bury themselves so deep in. They love pitching horseshoes, not because the Houston Astros. in the sand that they would all be covered out they are particularly good at it, but because it is of sight. While digging out the shoes that had all the things they want in a game. It is simple been pitched by Dr. F.N. Robinson from New and straightforward, yet challenging enough York, one of the pitchers who was digging to allow all some pride in a good pitch and an His First Redfish out the shoes made a new discovery and said, excuse for a lousy one. It can be played either "Doc, your shoes all come fork to." This had alone or with other people. It is perfect for a never been previously noticed even by the sometimes-social, sometimes-hermit person. doctor himself. The other pitchers then began It is a friendly, leisurely sport, but one that is to question the doctor to find out how he did it, always, in the end, a contest. It is also portable but the doctor didn't know, only that it became and inexpensive, requires no particular athletic natural to him to release his shoe so that it fell prowess and can be played almost anywhere, by open toward the peg with a one and a quarter almost anyone, young or old. turn. He had held the shoe with his first finger around the heel calk as all others did at the time. No wonder, given the game's democratic nature As far as is known, this was the beginning of and competitive spirit, that pitching horseshoes trying to control the open shoe in pitching, now is at least as American as apple pie and 4th known by every good pitcher. of July fireworks. According to the National Horseshoe Pitchers' Association (NHPA, Munroe Falls, OH), some 30 million Americans enjoy the game. They play it in back yards, at picnics, behind gas stations and firehouses, in churchyards and prison yards, in summer camps and retirement communities, and just about anywhere else there's enough room to drive a couple of pieces of pipe into the ground and throw horseshoes at them. Dotson’s Other Note: Your great-grandparents played the game, and chances are your great- grandchildren will, too. Along with mumble peg, marbles and croquet, pitching horseshoes fits in to my Island Tournament plans for the near future. Suggest you start practicing now! Questions, problems and etc., please call, text and/or email me. Email: [email protected] Mobile: 530-748-8475 Pitching -30-Hang In There and Have Fun

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November 19, 2020 Island Moon A11 The Island Outdoors On the Rocks By Jay Gardner Backwater Adventures By Joey Farah Greg Smith and I bombed down We then checked out Packery Channel and Farah’s Fishing Adventures the Seashore this past weekend talked about the damage, and what it’s going to to see what was shaking on the sand. We picked take to fix it. We popped over to the seawall and The last few weeks I have been a bit absent you may find them easily the next morning you the perfect day and time to go - Sunday morning Greg got out and stepped off where the cones from my Island Moon Monkey Duties. I’ve are out. We make drifts with the wind casting right as the cold front blew through. Greg said have been placed preventing traffic; they need been feeling the Call of the Wild. This is the downwind using a steady retrieve back towards the only way he could force it to rain was to to be moved south and he mentioned that he time of year that a good old boy from this island the boat. You must keep recalling and swim the plan something other than work, and he was was going to coordinate with Beach Ops. We can’t decide what he is doing with his spare bait above the bottom -- trout will blast out of right. We got a real frog floater 10 minutes after then checked out the south end of the seawall time. Deer season, dove, duck, hogs, fishing their hides and strike the soft plastic lures. From I picked him up, but we beat it south along the and WOW! There is no beach on the south end. most every day for a living, and the surf has the boat we use a heavier jig head than when causeway and back into sunny skies. We would Beach crews need to be moving sand south as been outrageous!! All of that along with raising flirt with the front all the way down into the 20’s soon as they get that amendment to the permit. my kids full time, which translates to laundry where it finally overwhelmed us and we had to It was great running around with Greg, and he and cleaning. Each day I look over my shoulder turn around due to encroaching wind driven is a strong advocate for the Island. on the way to our fishing grounds counting my tides. Short-term rentals blessings. What a good life we have just to be The structure down south is amazing, and here on this skinny little island! I am so very we were both shocked to find that little shell I continue to get lots of feedback on the STR’s, thankful to all of the residents and visitors to (Malaquite) has returned! The beach is and that must mean we’re over the target for all our Island for all of your support and kindness. extremely steep from about the 5 to 9 MM, and the flack being launched. I’d say don’t shoot I always look forward to sharing my knowledge then around the 17 MM it starts again in earnest. the messenger, but that point is evidently lost on of our bays and the best fishing in Texas! My Points and cusps, deep sand, steep beach face, some folks. Go ahead and keep firing; I would goal each week is really to just get you out of and lots of shells. Absolutely amazing! We’re feel like we weren’t doing anything if I didn’t the house and into our great outdoors. Happy going to have to start paying attention to tides get some ALL CAPS responses occasionally. Thanksgiving. again, because the days of taking a two-wheel For the record, not everyone is going to feel drive Cadillac to the channel are over again. like they “won” over this issue, no matter which This nice 5lb trout came to hand with a Plus, they are dredging the channel and the side you stand on, and you need to keep that in DOA Near Clear shrimp under a oval lower beach is closed anyway. mind. Also, don’t forget to carbon copy your popping cork, along the king ranch comments to the PIPOA if you live in one of For those of you still sitting on the edge of your shoreline in about 4’ of water. the 26 subdivisions there; that’s where your seat wondering, no, neither Greg nor I caught comments are supposed to be routed to in the anything. We stopped at a few good-looking first place. Last I checked, Charles and his places and threw some topwaters into a few wade fishing, 1/4-3/8ths ounce DOA short ISAC subcommittee have yet to receive any suspicious rip currents, with no results. The shanked jig heads will be your best bet threaded formal input from the PIPOA subcommittee on oncoming storm likely had the fish headed for into a 3” DOA Cal Shad. This is a magic bait, the matter, but we will be discussing it at our the hills, and we didn’t see anyone else catching smaller in size than many but exactly the size next ISAC meeting the first week of December. anything either. This round of weather will of the small pin perch that are the main food Here’s a little advice from your Uncle Larry: if change the nearshore current to north to south source at this time. you want to change something that is already for the season. Hopefully next week will yield occurring and is currently legal, then you might Dawn Patrol some decent weather and we can get down have to DO something instead of throwing a south for our annual pilgrimage. One day many Thanksgiving breaks away, a keyboard at the wall. Talk to your neighbors. young Laguna Madre Explorer prepared for his Island issues Contact the PIPOA. Start a petition. Draft idea of the perfect day here along the bay and some legislation. Sue the Texas Supreme Padre Island. At first light we skipped the 14 Greg and I visited Court. Like, DO SOMETHING. How’s that about a good many foot Jon Boat across the bay and settled into our for CAPS? But, I’m genuinely glad that I’ve secret stashing spot in the undeveloped canals. things, including gotten your attention. Please let your voice be the re-authorization From there we walked across the trails and heard in the relevant forum, and remember, we empty streets to Bob Hall Pier. Catching sunrise of the TIRZ #2 need to get this down the road sooner than later. which is coming waves was called Dawn Patrol. The cold sand Rachel came down from Bandera to visit felt like a path to a way of life back then, and up this year. Greg Well loyal readers, here we are sliding into the and fish with her dad and had a great day holidaze season amid one of the weirdest years it was. is the chair of catching limits of trout with soft plastics the TIRZ #2 and on record. I hear that windshield wiper fluid We always have Thanksgiving waves and we his institutional is the new toilet paper shortage, which makes along the flats adjacent to the ICW. Texas surfed till about 11 o’clock. Walking back to sense, because people in northern latitudes Croaker 3” DOA Cal shads. Greg Smith inspecting knowledge will the boat the sun warmed us up as well as the be instrumental in use wiper fluid to melt frost and ice off their swarms of mosquitos and horse flies! We hit the the bollards. getting it renewed windshields in the morning. We typically don’t boat running and blasted out into the back of properly. We have that issue, so we might just have to use Good week for fishing Night Hawk Bay. We stopped and made a drift, dropped by the new IGA and peeked our heads regular water for a while in our wiper buckets. catching a few trout and a redfish. We headed inside; the shelves and signs are up, and they Oh the humanity! Continue to direct your hate Fishing this week is so great it is hard to for the house in Flour Bluff along the Tropic were sealing the stained concrete floor. I really mail to [email protected] and maybe I’ll highlight everything going on, but there is Isles Canals. Lunch was an all you could eat like the color and the mural on the wall so far. see you here again next week. something for everyone. Beach fishing for fried fish throw down, then we retired to a few sharks big and small is going off! Cut bait and minutes laying in the Mexican Hammocks live mullet casted out with bottom rigs in the swinging in the mesquite trees behind my mom first few guts is a sure bet to catch a small shark. and dad’s house. Spinner sharks are blasting out of the water as we surf after small baitfish. Hit the jetties in Port Royal Laguna Flush A or PACKERY, as well as Horace Caldwell Rolling out of a slumber and gathering the Pier out on the beach in Port A. As we get some shotguns, decoys and rifle we were intent on stronger cold fronts the whiting, pompano, and finishing up on the Royal Laguna Flush. A croaker run will start in the passes. Flounder few decoys along old Sulfur Road was all we fishing is hot right now, but during the month needed to use up the last of our shotgun shells of November anglers can only keep two, and no on a few ducks. Sound like a great day? Well gigging. Jigging lures along the docks, piers, there was one more deed to be done. The King and sea walls in Port A will keep you eating a Ranch didn’t have commercial hunting back few flounder each week! then, and they never really cared too much Magic bait about a few dirty teenagers wandering around in a boat along its shores. Those deer would On my boat, we have been catching full run out into the salt flats for us to take our pick limits most every day. More often than not of multiple 8 and 10 point bucks each evening. we are releasing as many keeper sized fish as The young but impressive buck was a little we retain. 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1 of 1 11/17/2020, 12:18 PM November 19, 2020 Island Moon A 13 Full Transparency and Disclosure Park Road 22 Traffic Shift The northbound lane of Park Road 22/SPID is Construction could take as long as twenty PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President now detoured into one lane on the southbound months, but Franklin says, if weather permits side of the roadway as work on the Water the timeline could be shorter. As always, let me have Douden Garden Plots- The PIPOA has Exchange Bridge is well underway. Bridge project will begin Friday, November your thoughts. You can renewed with the City its adoption of the Project Manager Mike 13. This project will begin with a traffic shift reach me at marvin@ Douden Park Garden Plot area. The adoption Franklin is asking on Park Road 22 between Cruiser Street and pipoa.net or call at 469- is free to the PIPOA. If you want a garden drivers to slow down and Compass Street. Construction will begin on 231-3485. You can also plot, call the office at 361-949-7025, and the for bicycle riders and the east side (northbound lanes) of Park Road call the PIPOA office with office will put you in touch with the person pedestrians to use the 22. Motorists traveling northbound along Park any questions you have at 361-949-7025. that oversees the garden plots. There is west side of the roadway Road 22 will be shifted to the southbound Short Term Rentals- The PIPOA wants your a small fee to join. The fee money is used where a ten foot easement lanes (west side) between Cruiser Street and opinion regarding short term rentals. A blue to weed around the outside the garden plot has been designated for Compass Street. Travel lanes will be reduced to survey card has been sent to the membership. fence. non-motorized vehicles. one-lane, each direction, along the southbound lanes (west side) between Cruiser Street and The Blue Cards have been pouring into the Good News- There was a large patch of The traffic will be down Compass Street. PIPOA office. It is extremely important weeds on a corner used as a bus stop for Mike Franklin to one lane well into that members voice their opinion by filling the kids. The kids were forced to stand in 2021 as the bridge on the The traffic shift is anticipated to last a out and returning the card. If you have not something of a briar patch. The PIPOA was northbound lane, followed by a separate bridge minimum of six months. Motorists are advised received one, please email the PIPOA office able to have the owner clean up the area. The on the southbound lane, are put in place. to obey warning signs and flaggers which will at [email protected] or call 361-949- kids are safe. Thank you to the owner. guide them through the work zone. 7025. The office can send you a survey card by email, U. S. Mail, or you can come into It is the property owner’s responsibility the office and pick one up. Do not let this to maintain their properties to reasonable Water Exchange Bridge Design opportunity to be heard pass by. If you did standards. Members, please pull your weeds, not receive a packet, call the office to verify trim your bushes, and trim your trees. Editor’s note: We have had several questions about the design of the Water Exchange your address on file. 2021 Boat Trailer Stickers- The 2021 Bridge now under construction on Park Road 22 between Commodores and Whitecap. 2021 Board of Directors Election- The stickers are now available at the PIPOA office Here are the drawings from the city bid package that show the specifics of the design. registration to run for the Board of Directors for $10 each. These stickers are required to The bridge’s arches are constructed of pre-stressed concrete. for 2021 has closed. The following members park your boat trailer on a boat ramp parking have registered to run for the three seats up lot. Boat ramp parking lots are for the for election. Drew Diggins, Ken Hughes, Jim exclusive use of the PIPOA members. McFadden, Vicki Marsden McGinley, Ray Board Meeting- The next Board meeting Singleton, Nita Smith, Dennis Sprout, and will be held on December 8, 2020, at 5:30 Frank Stover. Eight members are seeking PM. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt three seats. Place beside Salt Grass Steakhouse. The Candidate submitted bios will be published meeting will be lived streamed via the PIPOA in a newsletter. They will be placed on the Facebook page. The reason the meeting is PIPOA’s Facebook page and be placed on held over the bridge is that there is no place the PIPOA’s website. If you have questions, to hold it on the Island. All members are please contact the PIPOA at padreisles@ welcome to attend the Board meeting. Social pipoa.net, or call 361-949-7025. distancing and masks will be required for attendance. The PIPOA is seeking applicants for the job of Executive Director. Applicants should The PIPOA will be closed for the have experience as a Business Manager with Thanksgiving Holiday on Thursday, excellent skills in multitasking. If you or November 26, and Friday, November 27. someone you know would be interested in this The PIPOA wishes Members a very Happy position, please send a resume to padreisles@ Thanksgiving. pipoa.net. For further information, call me at 469-231-3485.

November Brings Attention to COPD By Todd Hunter, District 32 November is National Chronic is early diagnosis and treatment. Lifestyle Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) changes and treatments are best to help slow Awareness Month. COPD is an umbrella term the progress of the disease. The goals of COPD used to describe progressive lung diseases treatment are to relieve symptoms, slow the including emphysema, and chronic bronchitis progress of the disease, improve exercise and and possibly asthma. I would like to take this improve the ability to stay active, preventing month to bring Awareness to COPD and the and treating complications, and improve overall issues facing many of our friends and families. health. This disease is characterized by increasing This awareness month is important to breathlessness. COPD is a progressive and educate ourselves about COPD. This disease (currently) incurable disease, but with the right is not curable, but through education and diagnosis and treatment, there are many things awareness we can protect ourselves and our you can do to manage COPD. Symptoms of families from COPD. If you would like to COPD can be different for each person, but learn more information please visit: https:// common symptoms are: www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/copd, https:// • Increased shortness of breath www.copdfoundation.org/What-is-COPD/ Understanding-COPD/What-is-COPD.aspx, • Frequent coughing (with and without and https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/ mucus) lung-disease-lookup/copd. 2021 PIPOA Board Make a Difference • Increased breathlessness If you have questions regarding any of the The City of Corpus Christi has numerous • Wheezing information mentioned in this week’s article, of Directors Election boards, commissions and committees which please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or • Tightness in the chest IIn 2021, there will be three board seats for strive to reflect the diverse interests and abilities District Office. Please always feel free to election. The seats are currently held by Drew of our citizens. The City is still seeking a pool of The most common cause of COPD is the long- contact my office if you have any questions Diggins, Vicki McGinley, and Ray Singleton, applicants to fill the following vacant positions term exposure to lung irritants that damage the or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if respectively. as soon as possible after the new Council is lungs and airways. According to the National you would like to contact my office regarding seated. Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), in constituent services. As always, my offices are For those wanting to run for the board, the the United States, the most common irritant that available at any time to assist with questions, registration period will open on Friday, October • Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corporation causes COPD is smoking. Other examples of concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- 16, 2020, at 8:00 AM, Central, and close on lung irritants include air pollution, chemical 463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603). Monday, November 16, at 5:00 PM, Central. • Marina Advisory Committee fumes, dust, and secondhand smoke. State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 Per the Bylaws, board members must be at least • Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces According to the NHLBI, over 16 million 18 years old and be members of the association. County, TX Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). Americans suffer from COPD, and several He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. Interested members are asked to please send a • Watershore and Beach Advisory additional millions likely have COPD and don’t texas.gov or at 512-463-0672 notice and a brief bio to Jim Smock, jim@pipoa. Committee even know it. Fortunately, people can live for net. Notices and bios may also be mailed to the many years with COPD and enjoy life, if there Ifinterested in serving go to serve.cctexas. PIPOA office or dropped off at the office: 14015 com. For assistance, please call Norma Duran at Fortuna Bay Dr., Corpus Christi, TX 78418. (361) 826-3893 or e-mail NormaD2@cctexas. For questions, please call 361-949-7025. com. Visit Corpus Christi Unveils Three-Year Strategic Plan Visit Corpus Christi, the official Destination “We are very pleased with the final plan as we Early Voting for December 15 Management Organization for Corpus Christi made the process as transparent as possible by this week unveiled their three-year strategic including both visitors, stakeholders, and the City Runoff Election plan which will guide their new mission to build general public.” says Brett Oetting, President & a better community by sharing Corpus Christi CEO of Visit Corpus Christi. “Our organization Early voting for two seats on the Corpus Christi Ben F. McDonald Library – 4044 with the world. has lofty goals for Corpus Christi and we feel City Council begins Saturday, December 5, and Greenwood Dr. this plan puts us on track to realize our new The strategy makes a connection between the ends Friday, December 11. vision to become the Gulf Coast Capital for Lindale Senior Center – 3135 Swantner Dr. visitor economy, economic development, and coastal and outdoor recreational experiences.” There are three races on the citywide ballot community well-being. The overall goal of the Deaf & Hard of Hearing Center – 5151 Highlights within the plan include gaining with only two on Padre Island. They are: Mayor McArdle Rd. plan is to ensure economic sustainability for Joe McComb and Paulette Guajardo. Council Corpus Christi while preserving the quality of international accreditation as a best-in-class Member District Four Kaylynn Paxson and The Valencia – 6110 Ayers St. life for residents and quality of place for visitors organization, a new website and visitor profile, incumbent Greg Smith. creating a shared vision for a future-proof, the development of a 10-year destination C. C. Christian Fellowship – 6602 S. Staples management strategy, the creation of the Corpus Registered voters may vote at any Early Voting St. livable, lovable, and valuable Corpus Christi region. Christi Sports Commission, and working with location in the city, voters are not required to Veterans Memorial High School – 3750 CCIA leadership to increase air service. vote in the precinct where they are registered. Cimarron Blvd. The three-year plan takes the design of an Voter registration for the election has closed. action plan after the organization completed “Corpus Christi is a unique and beautiful city. a community-wide assessment called The work Visit Corpus Christi is doing will Early Voting Locations DestinationNEXT. The assessment was make the city a major tourism destination in the Nueces County Courthouse, 901 Leopard completed by their development partner country.” Said Peter Zanoni, City Manager and Street. Nextfactor which was comprised of survey VCC executive board member. results from tourism industry partners, Saturday, December 5 – Sunday, December “The city looks forward to the positive impact meeting planners, past visitors, one-on-one 6, 2020 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. DestinationNEXT and the strategic plan will stakeholder interviews, and public town halls. bring to our tourism industry.” Monday, December 7 – Friday, December The assessment was unveiled to the community 11, 2020 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. during a public event in September. The full plan as well as the DestinationNEXT assessment can be found on the Visit Corpus Branch Polling Locations To develop the strategic plan, the Visit Corpus Christi website. Christi Board of Directors and staff looked at Monday, December 7 – Friday, December According to an annual economic impact 11, 2020 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. data from all levels of the DestinationNEXT assessment to prioritize the needs of the report by the state of Texas, Corpus Christi Padre Island Baptist Church – 14253 SPID community. Four distinct pillars were created welcomed over ten million visitors in 2019. with focuses on sales and marketing strategies, Visitor spending contributes over 26% of all Ethel Eyerly Senior Center – 654 Graham sales tax revenues to the city which helps pay Rd. (Flour Bluff) community engagement, and experience development. for street repairs and essential services like fire Hilltop Community Center – 11425 Leopard and police. 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The Barnacle Line

By Del Smith

From way back when, --- when I looked around and could mentally see all of life on the Island was so much the loins being girded, greaves being buckled, more simple; helms being polished, edges carefully tested, It was just another day at the old gauntlets adjusted just so and could hear the watering-hole, the beer was cold and the promise cannons being rolled out, the chain mail rattle, of a spectacular sunset was showing itself over and in the echoes of all the visors slamming on the western horizon. One of the normal down, I swore I could feel the vibrations of the I really prefer the longbow or recurve when hangers’-out showed up and prepared himself gavel slamming down. rattling with a bow because they are much a cool libation to settle down all of the stress KERR --- BANG!!!! 4 yard buck. quicker and instinctive and I think a definite of work OTB. He had no more than settled in advantage. Open sight rifles are also good for Knowing that I was in for it now, I wiped the on his stool and was screwing the lid off of the The rut is the slang term for the breeding period rattling in the brush with a little more open sweat off my palms, topped off the beer and pretzel jar when another end-of-the-day refugee of any ungulate but in our world generally that country being better for rifles. Be cognizant of started to fuss with my pipe. All of this to gain a showed up. His day-ender involved a box and a means whitetail deer. Hunters look forward where every hunter is in this scenario to prevent little time and composure before I answered him. lot of ice to mellow the day’s frustrations. The to this time of year because even wise old accidental injuries. It is not for the rookie and As I was explaining the rational of converting talk started out, among we three, with a lot of monarchs are known to lose their wits when judging deer is a challenge on the hoof and in an ancient, plastic, outboard runabout into an rehashing the current events being shown on chasing does in the breeding season. This is not a split second. inboard, using an equally ancient, four cylinder, the boob-tube. You know cattle ranch diseases, dissimilar to behavior out of human males from gasoline, sailboat engine, I could see the fires of In all the years for doing this I have shot 2 with along with cave and rock bombing, that seems time to time. Males of any species can be down hunger in the committee’s eyes. Like little pits the longbow. Both shots were running. The to be so prevalent on the news channels, these right ignorant when they have romance on the of coals burning on a dark and gloomy night. --- most recent was two years ago when I shot a days. mind. ---- Folks, -- this is going to be ugly. cull 3 year old seven point at 4 yards running by Now, I knew that this topic could not hold our It often happens that mature bucks that are me. Luckily it was a 10 ring and all was well. It was during the lopsided discussion about attention for much longer. You see, we three are nocturnal or otherwise hard to locate during the The boys and I are really looking forward to this the dangers of gasoline verses the safety and boaters by nature, (and some delusional choice), year are more apt to bolt right out into the open year and I think the next cold snap will put us in reliability of diesel, that I started mentally and any time you get three or more boaters during the daylight hours when the rut is on. It pretty much full gear on the rut by Thanksgiving thanking sea nymphs, wood sprites and every together, you got the prime opportunity for a is true that many times if started early deer can in Goliad. We only take experienced clients on deity known to man that I had the counter full blown secession of a Wharf Committee. be patterned at their food source even mature this type of adventure due to the tremendous between me and this inquisition like committee, One of nature’s really dangerous creatures. deer. The biggest bucks sometimes those that amount of chaos involved. Only experienced that were also mentally piling a lot of tree are rarely or never seen during daylight hours adrenaline junkies need apply…. Sure enough the conversation switched to trimmings around an imaginary post. – the will make their appearance during the rut. On boats and what everybody had been doing one with all the chains hanging off of it.The Good Luck to all you hunters this year the flip side they get very difficult to pattern recently on their own and others. It was sail explanation of using it as a test-bed for A-4 especially the youngsters. We should all take because they leave their routines and become handling changes here, the construction of upgrades seemed to hold no water to these guys. a youngster hunting. I applaud our friend and erratic. Erratic is better than nonexistent. amas for the changing of a home built row boat ------I knew the torches were being gathered. neighbor Bill Blodgett with Majesty outdoors into a tri there. About the time that I was telling When these conditions are present I prefer to for doing this with fatherless kids. Bill is the It was after the thorough dissecting about my about the bottom job I had just completed, skip the routine bow and rifle blinds and get into real deal. Happy Hunting, Doc Tom lack of success with the old outboard, that came mentally wondering why I haven’t heard any areas that are productive for rattling bucks in to gavel pounding for the begging of a committee with the boat and during the directives about session, a fourth boating guy wandered in. He what I should name this abortion that I was poured himself a tall cold one as we brought building, that it happened. A fishing skiff came him up to speed on the conversation we had by, outside, plowing up a huge wake, yanking been having. all of the docked boats against their lines. He settled down on his stool, blew the foam off All heads swiveled around,, “What the ----!!”. the head, took a long pull, looked me directly in “Will you look at that dumb son ------!!”. As the eye and asked, “Speaking of converting old one guy went outside to scream and holler at boats, ------!!!”. the boat, I almost swooned with relief, knowing that the committee’s attention had been turned. 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By Ronnie Narmour [email protected] COVID help… This has been a most amazing week for me and my mermaid gal. We found out yesterday that we both tested COVID free and the monoclonal antibody trial we participated in was successful. The bad news is the pandemic is at an all time high everywhere and as expected the numbers are soaring. The good news is that there are now two viable vaccines that appear to be ready for public consumption in the very near future and the antibody infusion developed by Eli Lilly has been approved by the FDA for emergency use!!! I’m going to put this out there one last The Dunebilly’s at the Gaff with Sean Jackson, Charlie Stovall, Our local gator who’s missing a paw pad Randall Higgins and Tim McIntosh. has been making news lately. pad on her front paw, has been getting a lot of unwanted attention lately. She likes to hang out in the ditch behind the Dollar General and a Live Music bunch of idiots have been feeding her lately and messing with her. That’s really a bad idea on many levels and will eventually lead to our resident gator’s demise. I’ll spring for a “Do Tonight Not Feed the Gators” sign if it will do any good. Sheesh. Tony Lopez y Su Thursday, November 19 Conjunto, Los Campeones Scattered shots… Tyler Davis @ Treasure @ American Bank Center Because we were quarantined last weekend, we Island Ronnie receiving his antibody Billy Snipes @ Doc’s weren’t able to kick Sunday, November 22 infusion for COVID. Ruben Limas @ Island Art Barrera @ Treasure around town and do Italian what we love… listen Island time: Nueces County COVID numbers aren’t Karaoke @ Angry Marlin Billy Snipes @ Doc’s good, in fact, terrible is what they are. We are to live music. Our pal Pecos & the Rooftops @ Brian Winfrey @ Island starting to see our friends and family testing Franny sent me a pic Brewster Downtown Italian positive, but you can get help right here and of Magnus playing at Jim Dugan @ Brewster right now in Corpus Christi and the antibody the Back Porch and the South Monday, November 23 treatment is free. If you test positive for COVID folks at the Gaff had a John Amundsen @ Stevie Start @ Doc’s new band of musically Tannins the clinical trial me and Tracy did is available Ty Dietz @Cassidy’s Pub and if you get the infusion quick enough, like we talented locals, the Tuesday, November 24 Dunebilly’s, playing OPEN NOON -11PM Stevie Start @ Doc’s did, chances are good you won’t even get sick. Friday, November 20 Karaoke @ Angry Marlin We were skeptical at first but at the insistence of in the back yard. And Starlite & the Moonbeams RICH LOCKHART NOV 20 Rockin’ Dale Rankin, we went for it and it was Eric Magnussen I know for a fact that @ Shorty’s RIPTIDE NOV 21 Wednesday, November 25 a good decision. Our experience was sublime. played the Back Shorty’s had a stellar The Groove @ Treasure Jerry Ward @ Doc’s Island MATT HOLE NOV 27 The doctor and nurses were absolute angels Porch on Friday. weekend of blues with Karaoke @ Angry Marlin and saved our health and possibly our lives. But Mike O’Neill and Two-Tars @ Gaff WORLD FAMOUS Queen Tribute @ Rich Lockhart @ Back again, you have to get to them right away when John Cortez, but we TURKEY BOWL Brewster Downtown sat at home and watched John Legend on Austin Porch Rubin Limas @ you first test positive. It hasn’t helped patients Jam Band @ Angry SUNDAY, NOV 28TH near as much where the virus has taken hold, City Limits. In fact there was music virtually all Blackbeards Marlin 132 W. Cotter St. Port A so do not hesitate. And, please spread the word. over the island but we weren’t allowed in public John Amundsen @ Black yet. We could actually hear it at night coming Thanksgiving, November This infusion is the same treatment they gave Sheep Bistro 26 President Trump and it worked for him, too. from Treasure Island and the Back Porch and Jerry Ward @ Doc’s Billy Snipes @ Doc’s I’m not a doctor or a scientist, but trust me, this that was soothing. But now we’re free and this Stevie Start @ Island Ruben Limas @ Island stuff really does work and me and my mermaid coming weekend will be a different story. Look Italian Italian are now free to roam the earth again, good out world, we’re on the move. This will be the Kyle Park @ Brewster Karaoke @ Angry Marlin health intact. And as an added bonus, Jerry tells last time I tell you about what we didn’t see Downtown barring any unforeseen disasters. It is still 2020 Hank Reeves @ Tarpon Friday, November 27 us that we will actually be immune to COVID Inn for a few months. Here are the contact numbers: and I don’t take anything for granted. Treasure Island Matt Hole @ Back Porch Meza Band @ Rockit’s Max & Heather Stalling Crossroads Research (361) 288-4668. The DO NOT MISS LIST Felipe Esparza (comedy) @ Third Coast Theater trial in Austin is with Central Texas Clinical @ American Bank Center TYLER DAVIS NOV 19 Coming this weekend… Hank Reeves @ Tarpon Research (512) 480-9660. And now back to our Red Tide @ The Chalet THE GROOVE NOV 20 Inn regularly schedule programming…. This is as good a time as any to declare my John Cortez @ Boozerz Jerry Ward @ Doc’s Ty Dietz @ The Exchange RED TIDE NOV 21 Stevie Start @ Island On the local front… Ruben Limas @ ART BARRERA NOV 22 Italian Blackbeard’s The coconut telegraph was ringing off the Justin & Nikki @ Saturday, November 28 hook on Friday. It seems an employee of one 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Brewster South Riptide @ Back Porch of the big condos way down the beach in Port Riptide @ Sugar Shack treasureislandporta Jim Dugan @ The Gaff A found a surprise in the way of a big box of Mike Perez @ Ty Dietz @ House of cocaine bricks that had washed up in the high Crawdaddy’s Rock tide. She called PAPD and I asked our beloved Buddy Cortines & Ruben Rebel Yell @ Brewster Chief Scott Burroughs for a pic because we Longoria @ Bar Nutz Downtown smelled a story (no pun intended). The Chief Joseph Martinez @ Sunset Gann Band @ Doc’s told us, “About 0800 Friday morning a citizen Hideaway Brian Winfrey @ Island Italian reported a suspicious package on the beach Saturday, November 21 near marker 39. Officers responded and found a Billy Snipes @ Tarpon Riptide @ Back Porch Inn Red Tide @ Treasure Max & Heather Stalling Island @ Third Coast Theater Jim Dugan @ Gaff John Amundsen @ Texas Ronnie and Big Tim are past Jered Clark @ Shorty’s Mesquite BBQ Turkey Bowl Champs. Red Tide @ Treasure PORT ARANSAS’ Island Sunday, November 29 unbridled depression for missing Giggity’s. Billy Snipes @ Tarpon Inn Turkey Bowl @ Back Jam Band @ Pelican OLDEST AND It was such a big part of our lives for so long Porch Lounge Billy Snipes @ Doc’s and I still can’t believe it’s gone. I bet Clyde Alan Rickertsen @ Black FRIENDLIEST Smith’s orb is getting lonely in there. I haven’t Sheep Bistro Monday, November 30 been back inside since Halloween night. Seems Falco & the Wolf @ OPEN Till 11pm • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. Stevie Start @ Doc’s like years ago. As you can see by the size of Rockit’s the LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT box, there’s a ton Aaron Watson @ Tuesday, December 1 of shows to choose between this weekend. On Brewster Downtown Stevie Start @ Doc’s Thursday my recommendation would be Ty Joseph Martinez @ Did anybody lose a bunch of cocaine... Dietz at Cassidy’s Irish Pub… they pair nicely. Brewster South Wednesday, December 2 Gann Band @ Doc’s Jerry Ward @ Doc’s asking for a friend. On Friday I’d say DO NOT MISS Starlite for Two Tars @ Hook and sure at Shorty’s which pairs nicely with Rich Ladder Thursday, December 3 Lockhart at the Back Porch and maybe the Matt Hole @ The Billy Snipes @ Doc’s bundle containing twenty-eight, one kilogram, Groove at Treasure Island on the way home. On Exchange Ruben Limas @ Island bricks of cocaine. The bundle was wrapped in Saturday, Riptide for sure at the BP which pairs John Amundsen @ Angry Italian cellophane and other material that was covered nicely with Red Tide at TI and Billy Snipes in Marlin in barnacles indicating the package had been the courtyard of the historic Tarpon Inn. On the Brian Winfrey @ Island Friday, December 4 in the gulf for some time. The packaging and horizon keep in mind the also historic Turkey Italian Jerry Ward @ Doc’s several of the bricks had distinct markings. The Bowl coming up on the 29th at the Back Porch. Ty Dietz @ Tooter’s Stevie Start @ Island Michael Anthony Perez @ Italian Port Aransas PD is working with Customs and Look out Big Tim, that trophy is mine. Rock Bottom other federal agencies to attempt to determine Two Tars @Hook and ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ Rich Lockhart @ Sunset Ladder the origin of the bundle.” Also on the local Hideaway front, our resident gator, whose missing one

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