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Island Poker Run A2 Business Briefs A3 Demolition A4 Turtle Release A7 Three Chords and the Truth A16 Issue 907 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Mary Craft Island Free

The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 September 2, 2021 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth By the numbers Convention Center and Hotel By Dale Rankin The most asked question of the week Occupancy Tax Around The Island this week is when the tower at Waves Resort is coming Taxpayers down. As crews have removed the remainder of the building surrounding subsidize the the Island most visible structure it has taken on the look of one of Elon operation $14.5 Musk’s rocket ships about to blast into space. The second most asked million question is how it will be taken down. We are told that some additional The following are numbers equipment will be brought in for from the 2021-2022 City of the job. We will know the answer to The Texas Women Anglers Tournament was held last weekend. Photo by Kimberly Zahn Wilson. Corpus Christi Budget. The both questions when the tower finally Results and more photos on page A2. city-owned facility is run by a comes down but when that will be is private contractor with the city unknown. responsible for maintenance of both the Corpus Christi Waves project Convention Center and the Funds for Packery Channel American Bank Center Arena. The developers of the property at Waves Resort have been meeting A report to the city council this with residents of the Whiskey Streets week showed that the amount of that border the land on the west as Repair in Place funds generated from the Hotel they roll out plans for redevelopment Occupancy Tax (HOT) is up for of the property. The rumor mill has the year even as the Convention fired up along with the phone line City Council approves $4 million in safeguards Center is inactive, meaning that here at the newspaper so we went to By Dale Rankin the total HOT funds raised come the source for information. We talked from non-convention sources. The Corpus Christi City Council on which clears the way for the repair to Jennifer Hoff, Vice President of remaining 20 percent coming from Tuesday approved the final piece of work to go out for bids. The city is $16,441,995 total revenue Diamond Beach Holdings, LLC., local sources. If the FEMA money stopgap funding for the estimated $15 currently applying for funds from generated from Hotel who is in charge of the project and is not forthcoming the $4 million million needed to repair the damage the Federal Emergency Management Occupancy Tax citywide here is what we found out. in Certificates of Obligation would to the Packery Channel Jetty system. Agency which city staff has said they fill the funding gap between funds $4 million HOT generated on Preliminary plans for the property believe will be approved but are not As part of the 2021-2022 city Padre and Mustang islands are in the hands of the various city finalized. FEMA funds typically pay budget the council approved $4 departments involved and should be for 80 percent of repair costs with the million in Certificates of Obligation Packery cont. on A3 Convention Center taxpayer available for public viewing within subsidy three to four months. Hoff said the plans have not been released publicly $6,988,000 in Hotel Mizzen cont. on A4 because city regulators may not allow Occupancy Tax to fund the some of the elements of the plan to go Water Exchange Bridge Project Update Convention Center forward and Diamond Beach officials $7,283,709 Arena Tax don’t want to release plans until they (tax money paid into arena know where the city rules will land. operations) She also said International Bank 7,602,617 Revenue of Commerce plans to develop fromConvention Center and the property themselves and is American Bank Center hiring a National Master Planning Community Developer to manage the $22.1 million operating budget development. for Convention Center and American Bank Center She also said that the homebuilders D.R. Horton are not involved and $5,587,092 annual debt service that the property will not be solely on Convention Center and houses or condos. She said the plan American Bank Center bonds is to use Planned Unit Development $14,590,617 total taxpayer zoning to build a combination of subsidy for arena and retail, residential, and green space Convention Center operations that will connect to the current canal on the south end of the property and Work on the south approach to the Water Exchange Bridge is underway and City Manager Peter Zanoni to the Water Exchange Bridge. The told the Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday that installation of the vertical panels that support the plans also call for the current canal approach to the bridge on the south side of the bridge structure will begin within the next two weeks. which runs along Cabana East and No Wake dead ends at Commodores Drive Zanoni said the $15 million project is on schedule to be complete by December, 2022. to be extended under Commodores Zone south of to the development at the Waves site. We will print the plans for the A little Island history JFK Bridge project here as soon as they become Gets Council available. The Texas Revolution Comes to Turtle Release Approval The turtle release on Michael J. Ellis the Coastal Bend Beach last weekend drew a good $500 fines along crowd. The turtles were rehabilitated This story is based on the at the Texas Sealife Center. It was a writings of Herman Ehrenberg the Intracoastal great Island event and we hope to see who in 1836 immigrated to Texas more. from his native Germany to fight Waterway for Texas’ independence from By Dale Rankin Two items Mexico. He fought at many of More than a decade of attempts to This issue contains columns from the early battles of Texas’ War make the section of the Intracoastal Mayor Paulette Guajardo and City for Independence and was one of Waterway south of the JFK Bridge Councilman Greg Smith. The the few to escape the massacre of a No Wake Zone came to fruition in Mayor addresses the work to write Texian troops at a Goliad by the less than two minutes at the Corpus a city ordinance regulating Short- Mexican General Antonio Lopez Christi City Council on Tuesday. Term rentals by the end of 2021. de Santa Anna. Fortunately for Councilman Smith writes about our us Mr. Ehrenberg was a literate It took longer for the City Clerk’s friend and Islander Richard Martinez man who kept a full diary of his office to read the contents of the who died suddenly this week. experiences in the struggle. But his proposed city ordinance into the Martinez came to town to overhaul journal was lost to history for 100 record than it took the council to the way the city builds and maintains years until 1936 when “an ancient unanimously approve it on a voice streets and in the short time he was German manuscript was found vote. A second vote is needed here he did just that. He was a very by instructors at the University of for final approval but following Texas” but the language was old nice man and did a great job here and San Patricio Graveyard. Tuesday’s council action the second he will be greatly missed. German that was not understood reading, scheduled for Tuesday, by any of the professors at the he recognized the language as the versions; one is still on file at the September 14, the second reading Hunker down everybody the tourist University. old German dialect that his mother University of Texas Library, the will likely be listed on the council’s season is over after this weekend and had taught him as a child and he other was a red-bound folder Consent Agenda and approved with the heart of the hurricane season isn’t As fate would have it a student from Refugio was working on his translated the 100 year-old story to which was passed down through no discussion. far behind. Say hello if you see us English and wrote it down in two Around The Island. Master’s Degree at the time and History cont. on A4 No wake cont. on A4 September 2, 2021 Island Moon A 2 Texas Women Angler's Padre Island Poker Run Tournament Benefitting the Riley P. Dog Park

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The Texas Women’s Anglers Tournament was held last weekend in Port Aransas. Twenty- Seven boats participated bringing in a total of Sixty-Nine Billfish. The overall winner was Tenacious with 1,291 points. Overall 2nd place was the Rebecca with 1,086 points. The top woman angler was Cole Scott. This month's Island Poker Run raised $515 for the Riley P. Dog Park. Photos by Neesy Thompkins and Kimberely Zahn Winton Photos by Jan Rankin.

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New Advertiser Venus Nails & Spa is opening Friday, September 3rd in the Bluff on Waldron Road where Papa John’s was located. They have the Fiori 9000 massage pedicure chairs that does a full massage including arms and legs. Besides the usual massage the chair also uses air and heat. The Owner Steven Hao sold his salons in Oklahoma that were popular with the Oklahoma Distribution Thunder team. The salon is offering 20% off all services through September. Pete Alsop Island Delivery Fiori 9000 massage Coldwell Banker Business Briefs pedicure chair. Advertising Packery Channel Repairs Snoopy’s Oyster Bar work is complete even the fishing lines that keep birds from the dining Jan Park Rankin area are in. Only the necessary paperwork is left so we may be looking at an opening by the end When the Packery Channel was constructed, Classifieds of September. Snoopy’s and Scoopy’s will be closed Labor Day 4 pm through Thursday and somebody made a major goof, they excluded the reopen Friday. The new owners are continuing the tradition Ernie Buttler started of giving the Arlene Ritley metal sheet pilings from the final construction staff a few paid days off after the season ends. Production Manager plans. A few years ago I tried to find out who eliminated the metal sheet pilings but all the Abigail Bair Contributing Writers engineers included in the project were pointing fingers at each other including the Army Corp Joey Farah of Engineers. Andy Purvis Mary Craft It is not my intent to discredit anyone at the City, our City Engineering Dept. is highly Emily Gaines professional. It IS my intent, however, to Jay Gardner insure the metal sheet pilings are included in Pastor Kris Bair the repair this time starting from the Hwy 361 Todd Hunter Bridge all the way down to the huge granite Dotson Lewis blocks. If the sheet pilings are excluded again, Dr. Tom Dorrell the next hurricane will damage the sides of the Snoopy's Pearl Oyster Bar. Ronnie Narmour channel again. There are two seawall lots that just became for Brent Rourk This email is most important. Thank you for sale. One is next to Gulfstream Condos and the any information you can respond with. other next to the parking lot. They were originally Photographers purchased about ten years ago for $2 million each. Miles Merwin (Emeritus) Respectfully, Debbie Noble Ignatius J. Minervini The Lookout Restaurant, an elevated dining venue, will be Evelyn Pless-Schuberth opening soon at Bluff›s Landing & Marina. They will have an evening seasonal menu and will take reservations, as well Jan Rankin Local Moto Fundraising as, walk ins. They will launch a Sunday Brunch soon after Mary Craft Host has Motorcycle opening. Ronnie Narmour The Hangout Ramen & Bar is getting closer to opening. The inside bar has been constructed STOLEN and there is a dining bar along the storefront window facing the Packery Channel. It is located Tyler Hutcherson is a familiar face in the Texas near Spanky’s Liquor on SPID. motorcycle community. Earlier this year he The Island Market IGA now has hot soup. I enjoyed the hosted the annual Worldwide Distinguished broccoli cheese soup that was tasty and thick. Some of the Gentleman's Ride in San Antonio where fewer other soups they will have are tomato bisque, chicken and riders, due to Covid, still managed to raise dumplings, chili and roasted poblano. There are no soups $25,000 and bring the city's fundraising total on Mondays. for Mens Health Awareness and the Movember Foundation over $100,000 overall! Guajillo’s Restaurant has their beer and wine license but due to shortages caused by Covid of appliances including This weekend on a short beach day vacation commercial refrigerators it is still BYOB. Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) with his wife and mother in law, his motorcycle Riley P. Dog was stolen (Sunday morning 8/22 between Larry Joe Taylor will be at The Back Porch in Port A on 4-5am) from the back parking lot of Beach Island Market soup station. Saturday, September 4th. Club Condos building #5 on Whitecap Blvd in Publisher A new hotel is going in on the lot next to the Holiday Inn on Corpus Christi. the seawall. There is equipment drilling for core samples to check soil so engineers know how Dale Rankin About the Island Moon The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale Rankin, Editor / Publisher. Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. The Island Moon Newspaper 14646 Compass, Suite 3 Corpus Christi, TX 78418 361-949-7700 [email protected] Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper They are drilling core samples next to the Holiday Inn where Where to Find The a new hotel will be going in. Island Moon deep the pilings need to be. Tyler has been riding for 10 years and Padre Pizzeria is celebrating their 25th anniversary. They customizing and roadtripping 1000s of miles in offer seating at the bar where they serve local draft beer and half Port North his 2016 Harley Davidson Dyna Sport Bob for 5 price wine on Wednesdays. They offer cauliflower and gluten years! It got him thru the stress if keeping a new free pizza. Their popular lasagna dish is only $5.99 Mon. thru Aransas Padre job gone remote throughout ALL of COVID-19 Thurs.11 am - 3 pm and is dine in only. Call 949-0787 to order Pioneer RV lockdown and remains his favorite form of take-out or delivery. All Stripes Stores therapy and a connection to the community of Marker 37 Marina is celebrating Labor Day with live music Stripes on 1A travelers he surrounds himself with. Black Sheep/ with Rich Lockhart at 7 pm Saturday and the Flat Broke Band on Kody’s Barrel Tyler posted over 25 social media posts with Sunday 6 pm. There will be other festivities on Sunday including Coffee Waves CVS dozens of reposts from riders and friends These girls are enjoying volleyball and face paintings. NATIONWIDE. Even influencers with 1000s of Moby Dicks their favorite Padre The Coastal Bend Blood Center is offering a free COVID-19 Dollar General followers who know Tyler only thru interaction Pizzeria item. the antibody test to all blood donors. They will be at Wal-Mart in the IGA on their online posts- because he is a GOOD Doc’s Restaurant pepperoni rolls. Bluff on Sunday Sept. 5th from 9 am - 3 pm. Treasure Island GUY. One who helps everyone, and they all Snoopy’s Pier know and see they can count on. And most of The August Poker Run raised $515 for the Riley P. Dog Park. The September Poker Run San Juan’s Restaurant Isle Mail N More all - this motorcycle is part of his identity. theme will be "Back to School" and will benefit the Seashore Learning Center. Wash Tub Island Italian We are hoping to blast this image in the south The Balli Park office has beach wheelchairs available for free 9 am - 6 pm. You just need to Woody’s Sports Texas region in hopes of recovering the bike. A fill out paperwork. Center Brooklyn Pie Co. local police report is on file with Corpus Christi Ace Hardware Police Department after working with Officer Back Porch Bar R. Gamez (Badge #5704). Texas Star (Shell) Shorty’s Place LAST SPOTTED: *one follower commented Gratitude Spanky's he had seen the motorcycle parked in an HEB Scuttlebutt’s parking lot on Goodnight Rd in Port Aransas The Gaff around 12:00pm on Sunday (8/22) Red's Riviera Restaurant ** No other leads Sounds Good BBQ Subway Island Tire Please call for any more details that would Spanky's Liquor assist in getting this story published- photos Beach Lodge Padre Pizzeria attached. Ellis Memorial And all Moon Sarah Hutcherson Library retail advertisers 713-875-2216 Beach wheelchairs. Bernie's Beach House WB Liquor Dotson’s report on Doc’s Seafood & Steaks To-Go window outside next Island IGA to the main door and you are welcome to take your meal Island Fitness Guam WWII downstairs to the Waterline and enjoy the view. My favorite seafood entree is the crab stuffed flounder with From: Ted Mandel My Coastal Home poblano sauce. Enjoyed the Guam story! Please continue it. Flour Bluff I visited Guam and Saipan in the early 70’s. Rember visiting Banzai Cliff, picking up M-1 H.E.B. shells in the surf and climbing on rusting Ethyl Everly landing craft and other equipment….Eirie and Senior Center sad to walk on the battelfield.

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Crab Stuffed flounder with poblano sauce. September 2, 2021 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Packery cont. from A1

his family. In June, 1975, as part of the 140 shot down without mercy, tho vigorously available in the Island Tax Increment Refinance anniversary of the original events the Refugio defending themselves. Zone, which captures property tax from all new Timely Remarks newspaper printed Herman’s At the same time the fatigued troops were construction inside the zone after 2003. That last first-hand account of the Texas War for awakened out of the sleep by the enemy piece of the puzzle approved Tuesday allows Independence. It is from that newspaper, with bugles sounding the signal for attack. Many design work and bidding to move forward even many thanks to Islander Blackie Pitzer who hundreds of them, sprang thru the town under as the FEMA funds hang in the balance. brought it to us, that this account is taken. incessant shouting and with the cry, “Viva Some of the grammar is clunky; but hey, is Mexico, Down the Americans; Death to all almost 180 years old. Texans.” They took up the scattered houses in which our people were quartered. The largest band of the enemy now surrounded the block house in which about twenty- funding was voted down by the council after two of our men were located. District 4 City Councilman Greg Smith pointed Their position was revealed out the problems that would have created. by the still flickering fire in “We’re already four years out from Hurricane front of the door. The other Harvey and the jetties are deteriorating. The five men and Johnson rushed longer we wait the more it’s going to cost to fix out of the littler house that was them,” Smith said. “If we don’t put this funding surrounded by at least twenty Approval of the $4 million in Certificates of in place as a safeguard against the lack of times as many of the enemy, Obligation faced a final hurdle at Tuesday’s FEMA funding we will have to start this whole and broke their way thru their council meeting when District 5 City process over again and that will take another lines. Only one fell; and while Councilman Gil Hernandez made a move to three years.” the circle opened in a cowardly torpedo the funding by removing it from the manner, the remainder rushed Capital Improvement Budget included in the City Manager Peter Zanoni has made it a thru and out on the open 2021-2022 budget which was up for final priority to move the repair work forward while prairie from where they set out approval. Hernandez’s attempt to stop the awaiting word from FEMA on funding. Tuesday to Refugio. vote clears the way for that to happen. The remainder defended themselves to desperation. Already many were wounded but nevertheless they continued to fire vigorously on the enemy whose musket balls from the artillery punctured the walls of the block house by the hundreds. A short stillness set in interrupted only the yelling of the distant Mexicans Historical marker in San Patricio who were driving together the frightened horses. Then a The small town of San Patricio, about Mexican officer stepped forward and offered thirty miles north of Corpus Christi, was the men mercy if they would surrender without engulfed in fighting during the early stages further contest. Since they had nothing to of the Texas Revolution. Fort Lipantitlán, risk, several stepped forth; but Pearson and built in 1833 across the Nueces near the the other declared that they would rather die colony, surrendered to a company of the fighting than to surrender themselves to the colony's settlers in 1835. In February 1836 a mercy of such enemies. detachment of Texans commanded by Francis W. Johnson encountered a Mexican force in But barely did the unfortunate ones stand the town of San Patricio. All but four of the before the house than a volley from the enemy Texans were killed or captured. Most of the wounded several and killed ones. The others colonists subsequently moved to Victoria fled back into the house that they had just left, and other havens. We pick up the story as and all were now determined to sell their lives our narrator and eyewitness, Ehrenberg is as dearly as possible. The firing continued in Goliad with the Texian troops of Colonel thru the whole night and only when the sun James Fannin when a detachment of the rose did it quite down. And only occasionally four surviving Texans under Johnson who did a single bullet from a crash in the block No Wake cont. from A1 had been along the Rio Grande rounding up house bring down from his horse a Mexican Uhlan as he rushed by. horses for the Texas Army rides into Goliad The move ends years of attempts by the iconic is complete and signage is in place enforcement with an eyewitness account of the Battle of Toward eight o’clock the blowing of the businesses along the area from Doc’s Seafood would begin. How long that process will take is San Patricio. bugles announced the arrival of a high officer, & Steaks, past Snoopy’s Pier, to Marker 37 to currently unknown but No Wake signs can go By Herman Ehrenberg and shortly several of the enemy appeared tamp down wakes by passing boats which cause up prior to final approval. The city ordinance with a white flag before the block house damage to structures and have injured three approved Tuesday includes $8000 to pay for Johnson himself and the four remaining men that protected the few still living heroes, and people in recent months leading to work by the signage. According to information presented of his detachment arrived from San Patricio. requested an interview. Hope never seems to city staff to make the area a No Wake Zone. at the August meeting of the Island Strategic Five days before they had retur4ned from the completely leave the human heart. Practically Once the move is finalized offenders will face Action Committee private business owners can Rio Grande with several hundred horses and, all the wounded Texans again trusted the fines of up to $500 per infraction. also put up signs if they so choose. as formerly had taken up quarters in the now sham promises and soon stood among their Game Wardens from Texas Parks and Wildlife Baker also said Game Wardens will patrol the completely evacuated town. ranks. But only for a short time; before noon will be the primary agency in charge of Island canal system during the busy Labor Day As the trip had somewhat strained the their bodies, full of holes watered the soil of enforcement and TDPW Captain Ben Baker Weekend for dangerous behavior by boaters as horses, they were turned out on the green the prairie with their blood. Only two of them, said last week his agency intends to actively well as enforcement of No Wake Zones. The meadow during the night, and guarded. Langsheim the tall Brunswicker, and a y oung enforce the new rules in the interest of safety. current city ordinance, which was established in Toward midnight as the guards sat carelessly Creole from Missouri who spoke Spanish, 1993, states that all man-made canals adjacent on the horses, they were surrounded by were saved for other sufferings. “The fines range from $25 to $500,” Baker to and through residential developments and the several hundreds of mounted Mexicans and said. “We will be active in making sure people entire width of Packery Channel are designated follow the rules.” a “Slow, No Wake Zone” making them After city council approval Baker said the enforceable by state and federal authorities. language of the new ordinance would need to The full ordinance was printed in the previous Skip the Plastic Recognizes Joel Trevino be vetted by federal authorities to make certain edition of the Island Moon. as Cleanup Hero it is in line with federal rules. Once that process

In January of this year, the Skip the Plastic project of the Surfrider Foundation - Texas Coastal Bend Chapter switched from recognizing community members and businesses that have made the shift to reusable shopping bags to those who go out of their way to clean up their local park, neighborhood, or their favorite stretch of beach. Our September Cleanup Hero is Joel Trevino, Owner of Dagon Produce, a local company providing fresh local & seasonal produce for Corpus Christi and surrounding areas. Joel shared with us that, “I find it outstanding how a plastic straw or a Styrofoam cup can make its way into a remote area. The nature of my Business gives me the opportunity to visit farms through the coastal bend area in search of fresh produce, and during these travels, I have noticed the growing amount of plastics and other non-compostable materials accumulating in and around these farms. During these visits I like to take a little time to pick up some of it as I walk through the farm.” We commend Joel for his efforts to clean-up as he walks the farms. He has inspired us to keep cleaning up and we hope he inspires you too! The Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves and beaches, for all people, through a powerful activist network. Waves demolition continued this week. September 2, 2021 Island Moon A 5

Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island Tides for Bob Hall Pier September 2- September 9 By Dale Rankin As I watched the coverage with exempt plates rolled up and walked over to Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon of Hurricane Ida as it rolled across Louisiana where I was sitting in my lawn chair. /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible last weekend my mind went back to sixteen “Where did that body come from?” he Th 2 High 3:29 AM 1.9 7:09 AM Rise 2:43 AM 27 years ago this week when I was sitting in what demanded. is now the Boathouse Bar and Grill when my 2 Low 6:23 PM 0.0 7:48 PM Set 5:08 PM phone rang. It was an old friend from CBS “What body,” I said. I figured he had seen F 3 High 4:01 AM 2.0 7:09 AM Rise 3:39 AM 19 News. something I hadn’t. 3 Low 7:14 PM 0.0 7:47 PM Set 5:56 PM “The Japanese are looking for you,” he said. “That one,” he said, and pointed at Manny. Sa 4 High 4:26 AM 1.9 7:09 AM Rise 4:38 AM 11 “Well, I don’t owe them any money, what do “It floated up here,” I said. “This street was they want?” covered with water. But be careful, part of it is 4 Low 8:02 PM 0.0 7:46 PM Set 6:40 PM missing.” “They want to know if you want to go to New Su 5 High 4:43 AM 1.9 7:10 AM Rise 5:39 AM 5 Orleans where Hurricane Katria had just hit. He began barking instructions into his radio 5 Low 8:48 PM 0.1 7:45 PM Set 7:20 PM and pretty soon the street is filled with DMORT M 6 High 4:55 AM 1.8 7:10 AM Rise 6:40 AM 1 crews whose job it was to pick up the dead. They had a couple of ambulances, a firetruck, 6 Low 10:40 AM 1.4 7:44 PM Set 7:57 PM a couple of cars, and guys in the DMORT 6 High 1:46 PM 1.5 truck who got out wearing masks and pushing a gurney. They walked across the median until 6 Low 9:33 PM 0.2 they were within about ten feet of the “body” Tu 7 High 5:03 AM 1.7 7:11 AM Rise 7:42 AM 0 when the man had one of those eureka moments. The guys with the gurney started laughing. The 7 Low 10:31 AM 1.3 7:43 PM Set 8:33 PM man who called them in tried to act like he 7 High 3:07 PM 1.6 knew all along it was a mannequin. 7 Low 10:20 PM 0.4 By this time I had found my camera and started W 8 High 5:11 AM 1.5 7:11 AM Rise 8:44 AM 0 The CNN camp next to us taking pictures as the man from the Health Department picked up the mannequin by the leg 8 Low 0:39 AM 1.1 7:41 PM Set 9:07 PM 8 High 4:26 PM 1.7 Less than twenty-four hours after the phone call 8 Low 11:12 PM 0.7 I found myself driving a recreational vehicle I had picked up in Rockport leading the caravan Th 9 High 5:16 AM 1.4 7:12 AM Rise 9:47 AM 3 of Japanese crews I was working for into the 9 Low 1:03 AM 0.8 7:40 PM Set 9:43 PM city. We heard, erroneously as it turned out, that President Bush was headed for New Orleans in 9 High 5:47 PM 1.7 Air Force One so we headed to the airport where someone, we never found out who they were, had put up a blockade. We got in but couldn’t get out for almost eight hours. I knew we had to get downtown but the route was blocked by a collapsed bridge. By pure luck Our camp on Canal Street I encountered a caravan of National Guardsmen from Texas who looked like they knew where and the leg broke off. The Japanese kept asking they were going and I fell in with my Japanese what he was doing as he picked the mannequin - crews behind an NBC crew as we headed one piece at a time - and put it in the trunk of his up over the Huey P. Long Bridge, around the car. As the body snatchers drove away I heard New Orleans West Bank, past the machine gun on the Japanese say “We got way too many cops emplacements and Armored Personnel Carriers, in this town.” and through checkpoints where crews of heavily armed men smoked and eyed the news crews as Establishing the rule of law One morning at our camp at the corner of Basin and Canal a line of black Cadillac Escalades lined up. The Blackwater teams in their black riot gear piled out with their weapons. By late afternoon an eight-foot fence ringed on top by prickly concertina wire is in place around a multi-story building that was public housing; the place where most of the trouble in The Quarter originated. There had been no power in the building in the weeks since the storm but at When It’s Time to Evacuate Don’t night from our camp we could see the jungle fires through the windows. The gangs had never Forget Your Pets left. While law enforcement was still trying to Manny recover from the shock the gangs had walked By Marilyn Knapp Litt the streets firing into buildings to let anyone August and September are the peak of If you don’t use a crate, use a harness and a we passed. I paid $130 for an ice chest full of there know this was still their turf. Now they hurricane season. We need to be prepared all short strap to fasten the dog’s harness to the ice. I had to keep reminding myself this was were up there in that building and the teams season, but especially now. One lesson learned seat belt. These short straps are sold in pet America. went in. The thudding of the battering rams on from Katrina is, “Not without my animals!” stores and have an end that clicks into the seat doors followed by shouts and the flash of the When we got to the highway overpass at the When you evacuate with animals, there are a belt, while the other end has a clip for the D Flash Bang Grenades, more shouting, some Superdome it was filled with upwards of fifteen few things you can do to prepare. ring on the harness. Don’t do this to a cat. A gunfire. Then dirty, angry, sullen men led from cat must be in a carrier, which should not be a thousand people who had sheltered in the dome the building in flex cuffs and loaded into buses Animals sense storms coming and pick up on cardboard box which your cat will exit faster and got trapped by rising water. When they got with wire mesh over the windows, driven off your anxiety. Be especially vigilant that your than you can say, “Houdini.” Two things are out they took refuge on the raised highway. into the night to who knows where. I went two dog or cat does not decide to evacuate early particularly hazardous when transporting a pet: The Japanese decided we would camp out on years later and the entire building is gone. Like when you open a door. Keep them in an interior putting them in the front seat, where the air bag the highway which, as I looked around didn’t Storyville, Treme, the Slave Market, and Marie room if necessary as you prepare to leave. could be lethal, or fastening them by the collar, seem like all that good of an idea. I walked up to Laveau they are the voodoo of the city’s cloudy Check that dogs have tags with the correct because a sudden stop could be fatal. a truck full of armed National Guardsmen. past. 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By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: A number defensive line in depth, anchored in swamps and of you Moon Monkeys gave me the go ahead low hillocks, concealed by heavy undergrowth, for continuing The Island of Guam report, and bristling with automatic weapons so here goes. Thanks to Ted Mandel (Friend The 77th Infantry Division had taken over the & Islander), Cynl O’brien and the “War in rest of the southern beachhead, relieving the 4th the Pacific National Historical Park,” which Marines of its patrolling duties to the south and is located in Guam, for the facts and photos in the hills to the east. The division's artillery contained in this report. and a good part of the III Corps' big guns The Southern Beaches hammered the Japanese on Orote without letup. Just in case of enemy air attack, the beach defenses from Agat to Bangi Point were manned by the 9th Defense Battalion. There were not too many Japanese planes in the sky, and so the antiaircraft artillerymen could concentrate on firing across the water into the southern flank of the enemy's Orote positions. On Cabras Island, the 14th Defense Battalion moved into position where it could equally provide direct flanking fire on the peninsula's northern coast and Photos by Paul Haynes Moon Island Rev. Pete Desopo conducts a wedding for stand ready to elevate its guns to Shuttle. his niece. fire at enemy planes in the skies above. The 5,000 Japanese defenders Get out your metal detector and go to huntin ‘ on Orote took part in General Takashina's all-out counterattack Where Be the Treasure, Matey? and it began in the early morning hours of 26 July. The attackers All sorts of pirate swag is supposedly hidden in the stormed vigorously out of the concealing mangrove swamp Coastal Bend area and the response was just as spirited. Here, as in the north, The Island is littered with treasures lost and • Treasure belonging to a member of the Guam Map there was evidence that some buried. Russian nobility hidden on the western of the attackers had fortified side of Mustang Island. Treasure buried in Moon Mike left us with a treasure of a different In the south at Agat, despite favorable terrain themselves with sake and there were senseless sand dunes on Mustang and Padre Islands. sort in his collection of Island history books. for the attack, the 1st Brigade found enemy actions by officers who attacked the Marine One of them is a 1972 book, "A Guide to • A chest of gold and other valuables buried resistance at the beachhead to be more intense tanks armed only with their samurai swords. Treasures in Texas," by author Thomas Penfield along the Nueces River on the Riverside than that which the 3d Division found on the There were deadly and professional attacks as who unearthed hundreds of buried-treasure Ranch. northern beaches. Small arms and machine gun well, with Marines bayoneted in their foxholes. stories, legends dealing with sunken treasures, fire, and the incessant fires of two 75mm guns There was one attendant communications • Money, jewels and gold plates belonging stolen payrolls and life savings buried by their and a 37mm gun from a concrete blockhouse breakdown obliging Captain Robert Frank, to Maximilian, former emperor of owners. Some of the might even be true. As with a four-foot-thick roof built into the nose commanding officer of Company L, 22d Mexico, dumped in Laguna Madre just Jimmy Stewart said in The Man Who Shot of Gaan Point, greeted the invading Marines Marines, to remain on the front relaying artillery off Flour Bluff Peninsula. Liberty Valance When the legend becomes fact, as the LVTs churned ashore. The structure spots to the regimental S-2 and thence to brigade artillery. print the legend. • A Laffite fortune buried under a millstone had been well camouflaged and not spotted on the northern tip of Padre Island. Gold, Among the treasures supposedly hidden in the by photo interpreters before the landing nor, silver and jewels hidden by Hernando Coastal Bend are: unfortunately, selected as a target for bombing. Cortez, later unearthed and reburied by As a result, its guns knocked out two dozen • Payroll for Spanish soldiers buried on St. Jesse James, near Three Rivers. amtracs carrying elements of the 22d Marines. Joseph Island's southern end. For the assault forces' first hours ashore on • Gold buried in Kleberg County from a W-Day on the southern beaches, the Gaan • Gold and ornaments for a Vera Cruz Spanish ship stranded 20 miles south of position posed a major problem. cathedral buried on St. Joseph's Island Padre Island's northern tip. opposite Rockport. The assault at Agat was treated to the same thunderous naval gunfire support which had • A treasure chest buried on the west bank disrupted and shook the ground in advance of Marine Tank of the Nueces River where the old Laredo- the landings on the northern beaches at Asan. to-Goliad road once crossed. When the 1st Brigade assault wave was 1,000 yards from the beach, hundreds of 4.5-inch Securing the Force Beachhead Line rockets from LCI(G)s (Landing Craft, Infantry, With the breakthrough at Fonte and failure of Gunboat) slammed into the strand. It would be Takashina's mass counterattack, the American the last of the powerful support the troops of positions could be consolidated. The 3d and 21st the brigade in assault would get before they Marines squared away their holds on heights touched down on Guam. and the 9th Marines (July 27-29) pushed its final way up to Mount Alutom and Mount Chachao. The most serious resistance to occupying the Mount Alutom-Mount Chachao massif and securing the Force Beachhead Line (FBHL) across the hills was a surprisingly strong point at the base of Mount Chachao. Major Donald B. Hubbard, commanding the 3d Battalion, 9th Marines (replacing Lieutenant Colonel Asmuth, wounded on W-Day), called down artillery, and, after the barrage, his Marines attacked with grenades and bayonets. They destroyed everything that stood in their path. When that Marines Landing. fight was over, Major Hubbard's battalion counted 135 Japanese dead. As the assault force pushed up these commanding slopes, Fonte Ridge the Marines could spot men of Company A of the 305th Infantry atop Mount Tenjo to the The two days of fierce fighting on the left of the west. Lieutenant Colonel Carey A. Randall's 3d Division's beachhead in the area that was now 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, then moved up and dubbed Bundschu Ridge cost the 3d Marines made contact with the Army troops. Originally, 615 men killed, wounded, and missing. The Mount Tenjo had been in the 3d Division zone, 21st Marines in the center held up its advance but General Bruce had wanted to get his men on on 22 July until the 3d Marines could get the high ground so they could push ahead along moving, but the men in their exposed positions the heights and not get trapped in the ravines. along the top of the ridge, seized so rapidly on He also wanted to prevent the piecemeal W-Day, were hammered by Japanese mortar commitment of his division and to preserve its fire, so much so that Colonel Butler received integrity. permission to replace the 2d Battalion by the 1st, which had been in division reserve. The TO BE CONTINUED IF REQUESTED 9th Marines met relatively little resistance as it overran many abandoned Japanese positions Dotson’s Other Note: Well, you made it through in its drive toward the former American naval the second part of the possible four-part report. base at Piti on the shore of Apra Harbor. The Are you interested in hearing the last two? 3d Battalion, after a heavy barrage of naval Thanks for reading and commenting on the gunfire and bombs, assaulted Cabras Island in articles in The Island Moon. Contact me at mid-afternoon, landing from LVTs to find its [email protected] or call/text: 530-748-8475. major obstacle dense brambles with hundreds of mines. Please note: The Weekly Veterans Round Table Meetings have resumed at Del Mar College Orote CED in Room TBD on Tuesdays 9-11AM. All The 22d Marines had driven up the coast from veterans, their families and anyone interested Agat in a series of hard-fought clashes with in veterans’ activities, are invited. The Veterans stubborn enemy defenders. The 4th Marines had Radio Round Table is on the air on KEYS AM swept up the slopes of Mount Alifan and secured 1440 & 98.7 FM, 8 – 10 a.m., Saturdays. The the high ground overlooking the beachhead. next show will be September 4,2021. 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By Dotson Lewis that Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been In Texas, the disease was first discovered in discovered in a deer breeding facility in Duval Dotson’s Note: In the 2012 in free-ranging mule deer along a remote County, marking the first positive detection of area of the Hueco Mountains near the Texas- early days of football, the forward pass was the disease in the county. ridiculed by college football’s powerhouse New Mexico border and has since been detected teams only to be proved wrong by Coach Pop The tissue samples were submitted by the in 260 captive or free-ranging cervids, including Warner and his Carlise Indians. This was in the deer breeding facility as part of required CWD white-tailed deer, mule deer, red deer and elk in era where an incomplete pass resulted in a 15- surveillance programs. The samples indicated 14 Texas counties. yard penalty. Thanks to Bill Morgan (former the presence of CWD during testing at the CWD is a fatal neurological disease found in SWC SID), Sally Jenkins, Kent Stephens, Jim Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic certain cervids, including deer, elk, moose and Morrison and the New York Times for the facts Laboratory (TVMDL) in College Station on other members of the deer family. CWD is a contained in this report and to Bill Morgan for August 18. The National Veterinary Services slow and progressive disease. Due to a long the photos. Laboratory in Ames, Iowa confirmed CWD in incubation, cervids infected with CWD may those tissue samples on August 25. In 1905, college football was all the rage, not produce any visible signs for a number of attracting tens of thousands of fans to games at Officials have taken immediate action to secure years after becoming infected. As the disease a time when major-league baseball teams often all deer at the facility and plan to conduct progresses, animals with CWD show changes attracted only 3,000 and pro football was still additional investigations for CWD. In addition, in behavior and appearance. Clinical signs may a few years away. It was also an increasingly other breeding facilities that received deer include, progressive weight loss, stumbling or violent and deadly game. from this facility or shipped deer to this facility tremors with a lack of coordination, excessive during the last five years are under movement thirst, salivation or urination, loss of appetite, restrictions and cannot move or release deer at teeth grinding, abnormal head posture, and/or this time. drooping ears. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) To date there is no evidence that CWD poses and Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) a risk to humans or non-cervids. However, as a are working together to determine the extent precaution, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control of the disease within the facility and evaluate and the World Health Organization recommend risks to Texas’ free ranging deer populations. not to consume meat from infected animals. Quick detection of CWD can help mitigate the Special meeting September 15 disease’s spread. Teddy Roosevelt TPWD officials also announced a special “Early detection and containment remain meeting on September 15 to address proposed critical strategies in our efforts to help mitigate rules related to Chronic Wasting Disease There were 18 fatalities nationwide that year, the risk of further spread of this disease,” said (CWD). Earlier this year, the discovery of including three college players (the rest were Jim Thrope Carter Smith, TPWD Executive Director. CWD in six deer breeding facilities necessitated high-school athletes), and President Theodore “There is too much at stake across Texas to do the filing of emergency rules in an attempt to Roosevelt, whose son was on the freshmen School to showcase the potential of the pass. otherwise.” stop the further spread of this disease. Texas team at Harvard University, made it clear he In 1907, Glenn Scobey (Pop) Warner had Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) wanted reforms amid calls by some to abolish returned to coach at the boarding school for Animal health and wildlife officials will staff has been working with Texas Animal the college game. In a commencement address Native Americans that he’d built into a football conduct an epidemiological investigation in Health Commission (TAHC) and numerous at the school earlier in the year, Roosevelt powerhouse beginning in 1899, largely through an effort to determine the source and potential stakeholder groups to develop rules that will alluded to the increasingly violent nature of trick plays and deception. dispersal of the disease from this facility, but ultimately replace the emergency rules. football saying, “Brutality in playing a game Warner had drawn up end arounds, reverses, the nature of CWD will likely prevent definitive should awaken the heartiest and most plainly flea flickers and even one play that required findings. At the September 15 meeting the TPW shown contempt for the player guilty of it.” deceptive jerseys. Warner had elasticized bands “The incubation period of CWD can span years Commission will hear invited testimony from TPWD and TAHC staff, CWD experts and In December representatives of 62 schools met sewn into his players’ jerseys so that after taking creating disease detection and management stakeholder groups. TPWD staff will provide in New York to change the rules and make the the kickoff, they would huddle, hide the ball challenges,” said Dr. Andy Schwartz, TAHC a briefing on proposed rules intended to replace game safer. They made a number of changes, under a jersey and break in different directions, State Veterinarian. “Response staff are the emergency rules and seek guidance from the including banning the “flying wedge,” a mass confounding the kicking team. Warner argued diligently working to address each herd affected TPW Commission on publishing rules for public formation that often caused serious injury, there was no prohibition against the play in the by this new detection to manage further spread.” rules. The tricks were how the smaller, faster comment and potential adoption on November created the neutral zone between offense and CWD was first recognized in 1967 in captive Native Americans could compete against players 4, at a regularly scheduled TPW Commission defense and required teams to move 10 yards, mule deer in Colorado. CWD has also been 30 or 40 pounds heavier. The forward pass was Meeting. The meeting is at 9 a.m. and can be not 5, in three downs. documented in captive and/or free-ranging deer just the kind of “trick” the old stalwarts avoided viewed live online on the TPWD website. but Warner loved, and one he soon found his players loved as well. “Once they started practicing it, Warner pretty much couldn’t stop them,” says Sally Jenkins, author of The Real All Americans, a book about Carlisle’s football legacy. “How the Indians did take to it!” Warner remembered, according to Jenkins’ book. “Light on their feet as professional dancers, and Catch of the Week every one amazingly skillful with his hands, the redskins pirouetted in and out until the receiver was well down the field, and then they shot the Carlise Indians 1899. ball like a bullet.” For the 1907 season, Coach Warner had created Their biggest change was to make the forward a new offense dubbed “the Carlisle Formation,” pass legal, beginning the transformation of an early evolution of the single wing. A player football into the modern game. But at first, it could run, pass or kick without the defense didn’t seem like a radical move. divining intent from the formation. Carlisle Established coaches in the so- called elite Eastern schools like Army, Harvard, Pennsylvania and Yale did not use the forward pass. It was also a gamble. Passes couldn’t be thrown over the line on five yards to either side of the center. An incomplete pass resulted in a 15-yard penalty, and a pass that dropped without being touched caused loss of possession by the offensive team. “Because of these rules and the fact coaches at that time thought the forward pass was a sissified type of play Pop Warner. that wasn’t really football, they were hesitant to adopt this new strategy,” said, opened the season with a 40-0 triumph over a historian with the College Football Hall of Lebanon Valley, then ran off five more victories Fame. by a total score of 148-11 before traveling The idea of throwing an overhand spiral was to the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin relatively new, credited to two men, Howard R. Field, to meet undefeated and un-scored upon “Bosey” Reiter of Wesleyan University, who Pennsylvania before 22,800 fans. said he learned it in 1903 when he coached On the second play of the game, Carlisle’s Pete the semipro Philadelphia Athletics, and Eddie Hauser, who lined up at fullback, launched a Cochems, the coach at St. Louis University. long pass that William Gardner caught on the St. Louis quarterback Bradbury Robinson dead run and carried short of the goal, setting completed the first legal pass on September 5, up the game’s first touchdown. The Indians completed 8 of 16 passes, including one thrown by a player relatively new to the varsity squad named Jim Thorpe. The sub-headline to the New York Times account of the game read: “Forward Pass, Perfectly Employed, Used for Ground Gaining More Than Any Other Style of Play.” The story reported that “forward passes, end runs behind compact interference from direct passes, delayed passes and punting were the Indians’ principal offensive tactics.” Dotson’s Other Note: What would today’s game be a without the forward pass? Answer: Three yards and a cloud of dust, with a very few bored relatives watching. Thanks for reading and commenting on the articles in The Island Moon. Contact me at [email protected] or call/text: 530-748-8475. Aricin Gonzalez caught this trout right off the beach mm -30-Have Fun-Hang in There 207 with a little dock demon and shrimp! Grilled Cheese Burgers Send letters and photos to Bradbury Robinson 1st Forward Pass. 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September 2, 2021 Island Moon A11 The Island Outdoors On the Rocks Backwater Adventures By Jay Gardner By Joey Farah When news of Richard proves that they deserve an exemption gets one. Farah’s Fishing Adventures Martinez’s passing rocked the I was unable to watch the presentation that Gabe RED RUN with decent water quality and an abundance of airwaves last week, there was a collective groan Hinojosa stepped in and did for the stormwater baitfish signs. Not all giant mullet but varied September marks the beginning of the massive like we had all been punched in the gut. I because I have this pesky day-job, and I haven’t sized bait and a multitude of bird activity on push of redfish to herd together and both follow had just written about him a week or two ago heard the outcome, but I have a feeling a certain the shorelines and in the air. Mixed bottom is bait schools, and move towards the Gulf for their and the new stormwater program that he was Councilperson threw a monkey-wrench in the essential when hunting redfish because areas of spawn. When the largest of redfish reach lengths planning on rolling out, in addition to the great works. solid grass limit oxygen and tidal flow, grass up above 28" they start to take part in the breeding. work he was doing with the streets. Richard I texted City Manager Peter Zanoni the other your lures and baits, and redfish like to cruise This is why we have the slot limit, with anglers was in the middle of making sweeping changes day and mentioned that the best way we can open sand pockets waiting for small pin perch able to retain one fish over 28" with a tag off of for the better that the City of Corpus Christi had honor Richard is by continuing his work. He to be caught out in the open. When you find your license. With the drastic reduction of fish never seen the likes of before. Richard and I was a blow torch of change around these parts, a good area without floating grass, topwater after the freeze and the increased spotlight on had planned to go fishing on his boat so I could beginning with something as simple as changing action is incredible! It defiantly comes not have the harvest of redfish this year, we should all show him a few places in mother lagoon. He the way that road crews repair the potholes in to be slick calm to pick a topwater plug up. release every one of these giant super spawning was taken much too soon. this town. The practice of “dump asphalt and The best conditions are the first and last three redfish. Those massive 40" redfish are about 30- I was just talking to Councilman Pusley about move on” has ended. Now everyone knows hours of the day on cloudy days, with some 40yrs old, that's hard to replace. These larger the new stormwater plan on the radio last week, better, and we can’t move backwards. I hope wind. Do not set the hook as soon as you see the redfish are marbled with bloodline all through and sure enough, public comment this week that the City will move forward with Richards explosion, wait for the fish to tighten the line. their meat, making them not so great for the tore off down the road how this was going to plans and get them implemented in the long cause undue hardships on some businesses term. To get you started head to the shallow marshes and flats behind and non-profits. It goes to show that people Anyhoo folks, I know I’m a bit short this week, the Island between North Padre just don’t listen; when he rolled the plan out a but we’ll get it back together next week after the and Port A. The many dirt roads couple of weeks ago, Richard spent a lot of time holiday weekend. The storm washed the beach off to the east access some going over how there would be an Exceptions flat and driving and shell collecting is excellent great shallow water fishing. Committee, and how they would be lenient right now. And life is short; be careful out there Water shoes and booties are all on the elderly and some types of businesses, and make sure to tell everyone you love them you need with a pocket full of including churches and non-profits. Two hours because tomorrow isn’t guaranteed. Drop me lures and start walking. Try to of public comments showed that people weren’t a line at [email protected] and we’ll stay less than waist deep, and listening. I hope that the new stormwater rates hopefully see you next week On the Rocks. are rolled out and pass, and that everyone that for sight casting less than knee deep. Large soft plastics with lightly weighted jig heads will help you keep the lure above the bottom in shallow water, or use a Weedless style hook. Bringing some dead shrimp with you will allow you to offer both redfish Monster Bull Redfish should be quickly revived in the water and drum bait when you sneak after bringing them to hand. Just throwing them back after a up on them in ultra shallow fight will most often find them dead within a hour. water. The shorelines of the King Ranch are a great place table. Catching one of these great trophys is a to both drift fish and wade for these migrating gift, pass it on and release those oversized reds. redfish. The areas around the PACKERY

This week is the start of the Texas Parks and Wildlife License deadline. Most hunting and fishing licenses start and stop on Sept 1st. Get yourself papered up and support the outdoors. Sept 1st also starts the new law of Open Carry here in Texas. I'm not sure what that will bring, and won't get into the politics. Just don't be alarmed when you see someone with a pistol on the hip, they may not be law enforcement.

Redfish are schooling up at night and herding large schools of baitfish. By morning they are hearing the first sounds of boats and suddenly get pretty cautious and spooky. They have been chased around all summer. As a This rehabilitated sea turtle was released last weekend by the Texas Sealife Center pack they feel the vibration of the boat motors and rise to the surface, showing themselves as a large group of wakes moving together. Getting close to these fish even with a trolling motor is hard. They usually are not feeding so throwing lures or bait into the school is not a for sure thing. Large gold spoons We sight casted this big redfish out of a school of 200 we or small soft plastics with a heavy burped up on a shallow sand bar. The REDFISH RUN IS ON!! jig head is your best bets. Always aim for the lead fish in the front of the school. Channel and Port A jetties will see big waves This will give you a greater chance to hook up, of redfish traveling through at times. Live the outside fish in a school are the first to see finger mullet and shrimp are the most popular, baitfish and crabs running away from the school. but pin perch can rob you of your shrimp. When we have wind, drifting the flats for This is a great time of year for being in redfish is hot! The wind can mask your presence, the outdoors. The call of the Wild will soon be and move you up to redfish before they know upon us all with the first cold fronts. Get up and you are there. Select shallow flats 2-4ft deep outside!

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As always, let me have at every boat ramp, at entrances to and from By Greg Smith, City Council Member District 4 your thoughts. You can the Intracoastal, and many signs scattered reach me at marvin@ around the canals. The question is, with signs Last Friday Island resident from the front with his staff with his work pipoa.net or call me at appropriately placed, who is going to enforce and City of Corpus Christi ethic, concern for the public, employees and 469-231-3485. You can the no-wake ordinance? also call the PIPOA office Public Works Director Richard Martinez citizens. Weeds- The City's Code Enforcement with any questions you passed away unexpectedly. Richard starting Richard loved fishing and boating. He first division is responsible for enforcing the have at 361-949-7025. working for the City in January of 2020, arrived in an RV on Mustang Island and City's ordinance concerning weeds growing taking the most challenging job of improving moved on the Island as six weeks later, as Douden Park- The City removed the on people's property, particularly in vacant our streets. Prior to coming to Corpus Christi he said as soon as he could. He was a truly playground equipment and scraped the lots. You will see a few blue signs staked he had worked in the Street Department a “sandie”. It was tough to out “Texan” ground down to the bare sand. I am not aware on overgrown lots. Thank you to the City in San Antonio and then Fort Worth as the Richard, he was born in Pleasanton and of any timeline for replacement. The rest of for that. The blue sign warns the owner that Assistant Director of Public Works. Arriving a descendant of the Esparza family. He the park remains a mess. I have not received they must cut the weeds or face a citation and here he hit the ground running, starting told me the story of his ancestor Gregorio a response to my letter sent to the Parks possible fine. If the owner does not cut the with how we patched pot holes and then Esparza who died defending the Alamo Director. I will resend it in hopes of at least weeds, the City will have the lot mowed and moving up the ladder from there. As anyone and Gregorio’s brother Francisco who was an acknowledgment. bill the property owner at some time in the familiar with government knows things a member of the San Antonio de Bexar future. This process takes months. I am told In last week's Island Moon, Letter's to the don’t happen fast but that didn’t apply to garrison. Gregorio was the only Alamo the City has only one mowing company under Editor, Ms. Karen Easton took "offense" to Richard. Soon new policies and procedures defender allowed a Christian burial by Santa contract for the entire City. According to our my "criticism" of the City for their lack of were coming to Council regularly, all with Anna. maintenance of the Island parks. Ms. Easton Councilman, Greg Smith, the Island provides one thing in mind, to improve our streets. made the point that many volunteers work to 14% of the City's property taxes. (Not to Under Richard’s leadership the City has Richard was a great leader and a improve and provide amenities for the parks. mention sales tax and hotel/motel tax.) This created two paving crews to increase the professional to the core. He inspired those She is absolutely correct. Her point is well amounts to millions of dollars. Why can't tempo of repaving with a third to be added he worked with, instilled confidence in those taken, and a big thank-you to the volunteers. the City spend $50 paid to an Island mowing next year, changed the designs to a longer he reported to and earning the respect of the However, my article did not demean or ignore company to mow a lot? lasting section, added a maintenance program citizens he worked for. He always operated with a smile. He will live on in the many volunteers; instead focused on the City's lack There is a lot on Escapade that has sunflowers for concrete streets, increased the volume changes he made in the City during his short of interest in Island parks. The parks have and weeds seven feet tall. An out-of-state of contractor reconstructions, created a time and the example that he set to all. I acres and acres of land with no amenities person owns the lot. The PIPOA sends a five year rolling rebuild plan for residential speak for so many on how he will be sorely such as soccer fields, pools, tennis courts, and letter to the lot owner monthly. In addition, streets, consolidated the storm water program missed as an executive and most importantly other outdoor-oriented amenities customarily the PIPOA reports this unmowed lot to the within streets to establish the Public Works as a person and a friend. found on other City parks. City regularly. Does anybody want to start a Department and establish a storm water pool on how tall the weeds will get before it drainage fee to name a few. Richard was Richard is survived by his wife, Mabel No Wakes- This week, I have written a always accessible, always happy to discuss letter to the Parks Department regarding the gets mowed? Martinez; mother, Petra Esparza Martinez; with the changes being made. He was out in daughter, Cristal Martinez Stevens and wife; City's no-wake ordinance that provides a No Hurricanes- Hurricane Ida devastated public participating in open houses, town halls Mabelita. Wake Zone Ordinance within the PIPOA the barrier Island Grand Isle, Louisiana. and radio shows to get the word out. He led canals. The ordinance requires no-wake We live on a barrier Island. (North Padre signs to be posted in the canals. However, Island) Ladies and gentlemen, please prepare before posting the signs, consultation with your properties for a potential hurricane. the Parks department is required. Therefore, Hurricane season runs through the end of I have written the Parks Department Director November. There is plenty of time remaining Senate Panel Approves $1.8 Billion for and copied the City Manager requesting a for a hurricane to strike our little Island. meeting to discuss the placement of the signs. Border Security Of course, there are already no-wake signs Labor Day- The PIPOA office will be closed on Monday, September 6, 2021. By Richard Lee The Senate Finance Committee in the Texas addition to wall funding, the bill would allot Senate approved a measure on Monday that $300 million to increase National Guard forces would allocate $1.8 billion in state funds along the border by 1,800 troops and would to beef up border security. The bill would allocate $100 million to pay for overtime and dedicate $750 million to build walls, barriers, equipment for additional DPS troopers. It also Mayor's Moment and temporary fences along the Texas- includes $100 million in direct assistance grants By Mayor Paulette M. Guajardo Mexico border. For three decades, at least, to local law enforcement along the Rio Grande. the federal government has failed to stop the McCraw told members that the state is planning flow of migrants, drugs, and criminals across to build 733 miles of walls, fences, and other Fall is upon us, but that Overall, the General Fund revenues for the the Texas-Mexico border, said DPS Director doesn’t really mean much 1st, 2nd and 3rd quarter exceeded budgeted barriers covering more than half of the 1200 Steve McCraw, and that the consequences of an mile border. Fences are being erected on state for us here on the Coast. amounts, and expenditures were below budget. unsecured border reach across the nation. "This What’s more important Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hotel land as well as private property, but only at the is a federal, bipartisan failure," he said. "Drug owner's consent. now is that we are at the height of hurricane Occupancy Tax revenues were higher than trafficking organizations in Mexico… evolved season and Ida just reminded us of that fact. projections for the first three quarters, even or transformed into the most significant, violent, "If that landowner does not want it there, the Our neighbors in Louisiana, Mississippi, and higher than 2019. In November, the City will ruthless and powerful organized crime groups state is not going to use the power of eminent Alabama have just been hit hard by a Category provide the 4th quarter budget and financial in the world. If you have a cocaine problem domain to install either the temporary fence or 4 and our hearts go out to them as an experience report. in New York City, you have a Mexican cartel the wall," said Sarah Hicks, a senior advisor we wish we didn’t know so well. We send our To get a more in-depth look into the City’s problem and a border problem." for the Office of the Governor. Hicks said prayers to those affected and remind ourselves proposed FY 2022 budget, you can find all that the fences serve a number of purposes; that we must remain vigilant and prepared- DPS Director Steve McCraw told members besides acting as a direct barrier to entry, details at www.cctexas.com/budget2022. The with a month left to go in the current federal which Corpus Christi is. The City and the next step in the budget adoption process is a the fences funnel those trying to cross the rest of the Coastal Bend just hit the four-year fiscal year, the state has reported more than border illegally to areas that are easier for law Public Hearing and First Reading Ordinance on a million border apprehensions this year, anniversary of Hurricane Harvey last week. It’s August 31st with a final estimated adoption on enforcement to patrol, and they serve as a notice amazing to see the progress our community and surpassing the previous record of 750,000 set to migrants when they are trespassing on private September 7th. Thank you all for your input at in 1986. In response, Governor Greg Abbott close neighboring communities (Port Aransas the District 4 Budget Town Hall. property. The state national guard has joined and Rockport) have made since then. began Operation Lone Star in March, surging the construction efforts and the focus right As we shift to development on the Island, state law enforcement and state National Guard now, according to state adjutant general Maj. As we work to be proactive in our preparations you can’t miss Park Road 22 construction. As personnel to the border. Those caught can be for natural disasters, I am also doing what I can to Gen. Tracy Norris, is putting up fences in high of this week, the contractor has completed the arrested on state trespassing charges and housed traffic areas. It's not clear when construction fight the COVID-19 pandemic. As your Mayor, retaining wall and footings on the Northeast in certain Texas state prisons before they are I have made it my mission to make COVID-19 on permanent barriers will begin, with the state side of the bridge. Park Road 22 will see the handed over to federal immigration authorities. still working through the bureaucratic processes vaccines easily and readily available to anyone completion of the northbound side of the bridge The money approved by Senate Finance on who wants one. In partnership with the Corpus necessary to design, implement and manage come November, along with a traffic switch Monday looks to enhance those efforts. In such a large project. Christi Fire Department, I created the In-Home and construction on the Southbound side. Vaccination program. This program is taking Construction completion is on schedule for vaccinations directly to your doorstep with December of 2022. no stiupulations. Almost 900 residents have registered, and 363 vaccine doses have been As I focus on the responsibility and safety of given since the start of the program on August our waterways, we must address the possibility 12. For anyone wanting to receive an In-Home of extending the current No Wake Zone on the Vaccination, call the City’s Customer Call Intracoastal Waterway south of JFK bridge. Center at 361-826-CITY (2489). A call center The area has seen some unfortunate accidents representative will collect your information and and if approved, the ordinance will create a CCFD will schedule your appointment. barrier of safety as we see boat traffic increase. This ordinance could be in effect as soon as Additionally, your City Council and Executive September 14. I want to thank Texas Parks and Leadership are working tirelessly to create a Wildlife Game Wardens for working with me strong budget for fiscal year 2022. The Fiscal on this most important matter. Year 2022 Proposed Annual Operating and Capital Budget is $1.2 billion for the City of Finally, City Council recently denied a Corpus Christi! This is a balanced budget that rezoning request for a Bed and Breakfast earlier addresses council and community priorities. this month. Short Term Rentals (STR) have One highlight to this year’s budget is the General been a serious concern for quite some time. City Fund Sales Tax, it is up 9.4%. This means that staff continue to work on developing a Short the adopted 2020-2021 budget saw an increase Term Rental policy that will be presented to of $5.4 million just from sales tax. Another council at the end of 2021. Your City Manager, positive from the fiscal year 2022 proposed Councilman Greg Smith and I, are working side budget is that there is no change to the property by side to bring forth a fair and balanced plan to tax rate. A major focus from this year’s budget allow for the economic benefits of STRs without is street maintenance and repairs. For fiscal disturbing residential peace on the Island. We Lifeguard stations were removed for Hurricane Ida and as of Wednestday they still year 2022, there is a proposed 56% increase will always represent the best interest of all had not been returned for the holiday weekend. in street funding for arterial, residential, and Island residents. collector streets as well as street maintenance. In an Island state of mind, Having a strong infrastructure program is essential to our developing city, and I am proud Mayor Paulette M. Guajardo to follow through on my promise to rebuild and rehabilitate our city streets. 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Parents can find find plenty of food and beverage educators to develop a plan to notify students, containers. There’s nothing wrong more information about CARU and its impacts faculty and staff should there be a data breach at BBBPrograms.org. with enjoying a beer on the beach, or security problem once classes are back in just make sure you’re throwing away session. Learn about COPPA. The Children’s Online all of your cans and bottles. As for Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects the Styrofoam food containers, these Keep a clean machine and update devices personal information of children under the break into smaller pieces in the ocean that connect to the internet. Scheduling and age of 13 on websites and online services— and so can easily be swallowed by regularly backing up critical lesson plans, including apps. COPPA requires those sites and turtles and other animals. Solving personal information and assignments is the services to notify parents and get their approval Tent frame at San Luis Pass. Tents, chairs, and this problem is simple enough- best defense against viruses, malware and other before collecting, using or disclosing a child’s food and beverage containers are only some of the bring a trash bag with you, put your online threats. The only way to do this is to stay personal information. many items we find abandoned on the beach after garbage in as you finish with it, then updated on the most current software to protect holidays. Photo by Kristen Vale. take the bag home and throw it away. against attempts by cybercriminals to access Read privacy policies together. Parents can electronic devices. have their children read the privacy policies Finally, another common post- and terms of use for any apps they want to use. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Labor Day item is fishing line. As mentioned Parents: Be careful Remind them of the importance of knowing Ocean Conservancy has shown that Texas has above, fishing line can easily tangle up birds Creating accounts on websites without what they are signing up for and insist that they the highest average weight of litter per mile and other animals, injuring or killing them. permission. Social media sites are ripe with read the policy in full. Take time to learn and surveyed of any state in the nation. To cut down on this problem, you can bring strangers with intentions that may be quite understand the privacy settings on each of the a trash bag with you fishing, or wad up your All this marine debris isn’t just an eyesore, different than yours. Many sites are designed apps and games. Less is more when it comes to excess line and put it in a beach trash can. it’s also a serious threat to Texas wildlife. to collect and sell unauthorized user details and sharing information. Trash, especially plastic, can harm wildlife in We hope that this article has inspired you behaviors to advertisers looking to engage in Use parental controls if necessary. Although two main ways: entanglement and ingestion. to clean up our beaches this Labor Day! targeted marketing. When creating an account, the best way to keep a child’s online privacy Entanglement occurs when an animal is These solutions are simple, but effective some children may falsely create a birthdate safe is to teach them to manage it themselves, trapped or tangled up in debris. Animals both and can make a big difference for wildlife. to meet the minimum age requirement. Know enabling parental controls is an additional tool in the water and on the beach get tangled up SPLASh (Stopping Plastics and Litter what your child is doing online and keep track to help monitor their online activity. Today in fishing line, nets, and other plastic items Along Shorelines) is a new program from of the social media sites and accounts they have Android, iOS, and most web browsers offer and can’t escape. This can prevent them from American Bird Conservancy, Gulf Coast Bird access to. built-in features that allow parents to monitor hunting or foraging Observatory and Black Cat GIS focused on Phishing. Adults are not the only ones who their children’s online activities, but third-party creating a cleaner environment for people, Ingestion occurs when animals mistake trash receive spam and junk mail. Kids often get apps are also available. Research the option that birds and other wildlife. If you want to for food or consume it by accident. When junk mail, and since they don't have much works best. learn more about marine debris or beach animals consume plastic, it can do damage online experience, they are more likely to cleanups, visit us at splashtx.org or follow @ Share with care and remember, personal to their digestive tract. Sharp edges can cut click on links and answer questions they SPLAShTrashTX on social media! information is like money. What is posted soft tissues, injuring the creature from inside. probably shouldn't. While some emails may be online can last a lifetime: parents can teach legitimate, the last thing parents want is a $500 children that any information they share online bill from a fraudulent website where their child can easily be copied and is almost impossible may have made a purchase - or worse, releasing to take back. Talk to them about who might personal information that con artists can track see a post and how it may be perceived in the to your home. future by showing them how anything they Understand apps. Short for “applications,” do online can positively or negatively impact The Barnacle Line apps are downloaded software that operates on other people. Sharing personal information can various devices, such as smartphones. However, also give online thieves an idea of what login By Del Smith certain apps might collect and share personal information or passwords might be used for banking or other online accounts. Yup, it’s one more time Now notice, if you will, that they did not go to information about your child or target your back to 1996 another Key West either. child with ads. Even free apps may include paid Avoid sharing your location. These days nearly features, and children may not understand that every app automatically tracks a user’s location. column sent back to Read all of the clippings and other stuff on the some apps or game features cost money since It’s a good idea for children to disable this Mike’s Moon; wall. Looks like it has been a pretty good place the developer labeled them as free to download. feature on the apps they use. Advise them not Now you just don't go all to come to. Killer fishing and equal opportunity They may click on these so-called free games to geo-tag their posts with their location either. the way to Florida and set at a dock twiddling hunting, –- You hunt gators and mosquitoes and end up costing parents or guardians a hefty Visit BBB.org for more information on how to ones thumbs. Even if it is kind of fun, the hunt you. bill at the end of the month. twiddling anyway. Heck, we could of done that protect a child’s online privacy. Glad that humans were out of season that night. File sharing sites. Many websites allow back at the ole home dock, 800 miles due west, Visit the National Security Alliance So after walking the hallowed halls we set out children to download free media. They may in Texas. – Would’a saved all of the travel time. at StaySafeOnline.com for the latest news to find the restaurant, and bar, that Davy told us not know that these sites often come with the regarding internet safety. So there we sat, watching the last batch of "was just around the corner, across the street". risk of downloading a virus, allowing identity pretty ugly weather exit only to hear all of the weather gurus tell us that an even uglier group Davy, this place is just around the corner, was on it's way. It was not much of a window WWAAAAAAAAY down the street. You walk to go exploring the Southwest Florida area this and walk, and your still not there. The next stop late February week. But as a window it was all is nothing but Everglades! we had. Anyway find it we did. Had a munchie or two Out come the charts. Going north is out as and some small samples of the brewers art. that is where the crud is coming from and did Delighted in all of the scenery, the people and not feel like being chased home by a big blue the noisy air-boats heading for the Everglades norther. (They are not as bad in Florida as they taking touristas for the thrill ride of their life. are in Texas so it does not get capitalized.) We On the way back to the boat we had to take preferred to go south and race the sucker back, a small rest stop. Such a long way. Fortunately which was pretty prophetic, as you will see. there just happened to be an establishment close East was out as you run out of water you-bet- by that said rest stop that served a wonderful em quick. Going West was definitely out as that pick-me-up pale yellow carbonated beverage is where we came from to begin with. So South that seemed to hit the spot. Or three. it was. Couldn't have made it back without it. And The Keys were a no-no as we had been there made it we did. Only to find out one of the and done that. Found out that they had been major differences between Florida and Texas, discovered, ------four lane hi-way discovered. and why you don't use short breast lines there. It is as if they were a sock, (hung by the chimney –- Called tide. Two to three feet, twice a day. with care), with Key Largo as the top. Now if Well, -- the boat wasn't heeled over to terribly A rare sight. An empty beach at the Michael J. Ellis Seawall Friday morning after a rain. you will go pull out your chart and look at it bad,-- only15 / 20 degrees or so –--- maybe. sort of squinty eyed you will see what I mean. Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth. So into that opening at the top, where you would Sure snapped upright, right briskly though, normally put your foot, place large amounts of when I let off that short breast line. But kind tee-shirt, souvenir, art, and food shops, along of stayed listed over as a lot of the fuel had run with automobiles, buses, boats, micro and over from the port tank to fill up the starboard macro aircraft, bunches of jet skis ---- and a one. partridge in a pear tree. – OH! Yah, you got to Hey, jest ain't right havin' mo thann ah six inch add about ten bazillion touristas and other forms tide, anny gol-durn way! of human life. Now what happens is that all of this conglomeration of people and things start a The next morning the weather guru informed rapid downhill slide with a few of each catching us that big ugly was going to be there that here and there while the majority comes to a afternoon. We decided that it would be prudent toe jamming HALT ----- at, you guessed it, Key to head back as we did not know how long it West. Super Touristaville. Home of the Mega would blow after the front came through. Norm's Boat Wakes, and other delightful endeavors. time was critical. Also we decided to go in the "back" way, by Goodland and the Marco River. Anyway we didn't have enough time to go –- In other words the skinny water, protected there. Remember, big ugly was coming our way. from the north wind way. Not the deep water, So Everglades City it was, a little port about six mega bouncy way, outside hours south of our Isles of Capri, Florida base. Good thing too, Ugly hit us about two In order to reach Everglades City you have to hours before we dropped the hook behind the wind your way through an area known as the mangrove island just south of Goodland, and Ten Thousand Islands. Now don't look at me the beginning of Marco River. And the wind did to verify this number. There could be. I did hooowllll. And the temperature did drop. And I not count them. But there is a whole bunch of had to dig out all of my warm stuff for the short little bitty mangrove covered islands we had to journey back to the dock the next morning. And go through to get to our destination. –- Pretty I had it all on to. though. So there we were setting at the dock again, Made it we did. Tied up in front of a place waiting out weather. called The Rod and Gun Club. A hotel that Twiddling our thumbs. has been there just about forever. Their main claim to fame is the hosting of a large number Del Smith of various dignitaries and other famous people "Samuel D II" wanting to get away from it all. Even a president or two. PS; Davy, just what do you people use for units of measurement back there in the bayous, anyway? 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The images Eastside Kings Festival (Austin), Marshall coming in from Hurricane Ida’s destruction Tucker Band, Roger Creager, Butch Morgan, Johnny Boy Amundsen with Cody Strong brought back all those scary Harvey memories Selfless Lovers, Toman Brothers, Janie on drums and Jose' Felix on bass will play from four short years ago. Those poor souls in Balderas, Gucci Mane, Dropkick Murphy, Shorty's on Friday. New Orleans are in a world of hurt right now. Rancid, Jon Pardi, Tommy Alverson, Trisha Lynn, SandFest, The Kerrville Folk Festival Their hospitals were already full of COVID of free food, Jim Dugan and Ty Dietz. Over and the Texas Jazz Festival. That ought to patients and now its one big horrible mess… at Treasure Island Marco Ramirez plays on hold you for a spell. Be safe and be smart out Terrible’s what it is. I know I don’t have to say Thursday, the Groove is there on Friday, Jason Todd Dorn and the Sea Drifters played there. And if you can, give our Cajun cousins in it, but remember how we made it through the Suthern plays Saturday and the big ten piece Shorty's on Saturday. Louisiana some love. days after Hurricane Harvey only because of party band, Cruise Control, plays on Sunday. It was jumping at the the kindness of strangers. For days and weeks ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪ we had no running water, no electricity, no bars last weekend. The cell phones, no internet, no grocery store, no town and the beaches gasoline, etc, etc, and what was left of the island have slowed down some was covered in muck and mold. That’s where merely from the fact that Louisiana is now. Ida could have just as easily it’s the “end” of summer slammed us and the next one possibly could. and school has started Live Music So pay it forward and help however you can. back. But the bars were My heart goes out to these desperate folks who still jumping. Me and my Mermaid Gal puttered literally lost everything. This was a bad one… Thomas Michael like Harvey bad or Katrina bad, as bad as it around on our trusty golf Tonight Riley played the gets. It was the fifth worse storm in U.S. history cart and saw some great Back Porch on shows. For one, you can’t Thursday, September 2 and it’s going take a long time to recover. And Saturday. Marco Ramirez @ what’s really scary is hurricane season still has beat Mike O’Neill at Jerry Ward & Dirty Birds Shorty’s last Thursday. Treasure Island @ Pelican Lounge another three months to go. Get a plan people. Ruben Limas @ Island It’s a perfect fit with the likes of Charlie Rouzer, Jacob Jaime @ Doc’s This is serious business. Italian Waterline Art Galvan and Antone Perez laying the blues Jerry Ward @ Doc’s down on that “well seasoned” porch of Shorty’s. Sierra Dawn @ Doc’s On the local front… Giovannie & the Hired Ruben Limas @ On Friday it was Ty Dietz playing his original The folks over at Guns @ Brewster Blackbeard’s tunes with the help of Wild Bill Lieber sitting Downtown the Port A Visitor’s RUBEN V SEPT 3 Open Mic @ House of in on harmonica. On Saturday, Todd Dorn and Alley Catz @ Brewster Center are hosting Roc k the Sea Drifters did the honors at Shorty’s. I Southside LARRY JOE TAYLOR SEPT 4 the Port Aransas keep telling y’all that Todd’s brand of country Scarecrow People @ Labor Day, September 6 Music Festival is smoother than a mango margarita. Over at the Katz 21 CHANKLAS SEPT 5 Stevie Start @ Doc’s on September Anthrax, Philip H. Back Porch Dusty Neuman played Friday and 17-19. There Anselmo & the Illegals, SCARECROW PEOPLE SEPT 10 sweet Season Ammons played Saturday. Both Tuesday, September 7 will be a variety Drowning Pool, Crobot shows were in the vein of singer-songwriter- GUS CLARK SEPT 11 Open Mic @ Rialto of live music CANCELLED@ Concrete Theater- Aransas Pass Americana-country. But on Saturday Thomas performances at Street Stevie Start @ Doc’s Michael Riley and guitarist and chick magnet 132 W. Cotter St. Port A multiple locations Last Call Duo @ Katz 21 Kenny Grimes played country music like they Friday, September 3 around the island do it in Luckenbach. Groove @ Treasure Island and patrons will Wednesday, September 8 Ruben V @ Back Porch John Amundsen & the be shuttled from Johnny Boy @ Shorty’s Season Ammons played DO NOT MISS LIST Padrinos @ Cinnamon venue to venue. Coming this weekend… TBA @ Sunset Sounds Shore the Back Porch last There will be a Roberts Point Park Friday. Billy Snipes @ Doc’s kick-off concert Jim Dugan @ Fisherman’s Ty Dietz @ Vernon’s at Palmilla Resort Wharf Open Jam @ Executive on September 17 with Land Shark, a Jimmy Billy Snipes @ VFW Post Surf Club 8967 Treasure Island Buffett tribute band. Also state rep, Todd Seranation @ House of JonMikael MREZ @ MARCO RAMIREZ SEPT 2 Rock Hunter, will be announcing Port Aransas as Pelican Lounge the newest Texas Music Friendly Community Rich Lockhart @ Jerry Ward @ Doc’s GROOVE SEPT 3 Harrison’s Landing which is a Texas Music Office program that Stevie Start @ Island JASON SUTHERN SEPT 4 Ty Dietz @ Vernon’s provides Texas communities with a network Italian for fostering music industry development, Justin & Niki @ Rockit’s CRUISE CONTROL SEPT 5 Thursday, September 9 Michael Burtt @ Brewster and sends a clear message to industry MARIO FLORES SEPT 10 Ruben Limas @ Island professionals that certified communities are Southside Italian Castillo & CJ Simmons @ 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Jerry Ward @ Doc’s serious about attracting and developing music Brewster Downtown industry growth. Cities that have received treasureislandporta The Offspring, Daughtry, Friday, September 10 the official Music Friendly Communities Pop Evil CANCELLED @ designation from the Texas Music Office Mario Flores @ Treasure If its Labor Day that must mean that Larry Concrete Street Island include Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Joe Taylor will play the Back Porch on Dreaming in Color @ John Cortez @ Shorty’s Denton, Lindale, Stephenville, Conroe, San Saturday. Sugar Shack Rockport Scarecrow People @ Angelo, Nacogdoches, Abilene, McKinney, Reno Perez @ Vino Mio Back Porch Waxahachie, Waco, Alpine, Bastrop, New Make that Labor Day Weekend!!! We did it. Aloha Dave @ Sunset Braunfels, Victoria, Arlington, Denison, We’re finally here at the end of our 100 day Saturday, September 4 Sounds , , , tourist season and time to put your straw hats Larry Joe Taylor @ Back Dreaming In Color @ Lubbock Brenham Dripping Springs Porch Round Rock, El Paso, Odessa, and Vidor. up until next year. It got pretty sketchy at times Marker 37 this season but the light at the end of the tunnel Jim Dugan @ Gaff Jerry Ward @ Doc’s I should have a complete listing of all the Groove @ Shorty’s has arrived. If we can just get through this week Stevie Start @ Island shows in next week’s column. For more info Jason Suthern @ Treasure Italian go to www.portaransas.org. without too much trouble, then that sweet spot Island that we locals so enjoy, is finally here. September Dirty River Boys, Cody JOHNNY BOY SEPT 3 Saturday, September 11 and October usually belong to us, although Canada @ Palmilla Beach Butch Morgan @ I saw something recently from the National Rich Lockhart @ Marker GROOVE SEPT 4 Shorty’s Weather Service saying that we’re going to 37 Gus Clark & The Least Jam Band @ Pelican have a blistering summer until November. I JIM DUGAN, TY DIETZ SEPT 5 of His Problems @ Back know, Ronnie ruins everything. But as for now, Lounge Porch it’s Labor Day Weekend which in Port A means Robin Palmer @ Island Eastside Kings Festival Italian JOHN CORTEZ SEPT 10 that Larry Joe Taylor will be on stage at the @ East Austin, TX Gann Band @ Doc’s Roger Creager @ Back Porch on Saturday night. That’s the rules. Seattle Rising @ Brewster BUTCH MORGAN SEPT 11 On Friday the Porch will have the phenomenon Brewster Downtown Downtown Marshall Tucker Band @ OPEN 10am - 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. known at Ruben V from San Antonio, Texas. If Trisum @ Brewster American Bank Center you haven’t seen Ruben V before, I don’t think Southside Gann Band @ Doc’s Mike O'Neill with Charlie Rouzer on we can be friends. He’s from another world. On Koe Wetzel @ Concrete Robin Palmer @ Island Hammond B-3, Antone Perez on drums and Art Street Italian Galvan played Shorty's last Thursday. Matt Hole @ Executive Surf Club Sunday, September 12 Dreaming in Color @ Ty Dietz, Kevin Kurtz @ Scattered shots… The Bus Shorty’s Justin & Niki @ Cassidy’s Eastside Kings Festival Last Call Duo @ Tannin’s @ East Austin, TX Reno Perez @ The Open Mic @ House of Exchange Roc k Art Barrera @ Doc’s Sunday, September 5 Waterline Chanklas @ Back Porch Sierra Dawn @ Doc’s Jim Dugan, Ty Dietz, @ Shorty’s Monday, September 13 Cruise Control @ Stevie Start @ Doc’s Treasure Island Robert Earl Keen @ Tuesday, September 14 American Bank Center Open Mic @ Rialto Jered Clark @ Virginia’s Theater- Aransas Pass Dusty Neuman played the Back Porch on Flatbroke @ Marker 37 Thursday.

Marco Ramirez will play Treasure Island on Mike’s Barbershop Thursday.

Sunday the Back Porch will have the tight island sounds of the Chanklas. Shorty’s has Johnny Boy Amundsen on Friday, the Groove on Wild Bill Lieber sat in with Ty Dietz at Saturday and their usual Sunday Funday lineup Shorty's last Friday.

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