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By Dale Rankin It’s been relatively slow Around The Island this week. We haven’t had a summer squall or abnormal tourist invasion. A new term has entered the Island lexicon and a new habit inured into Island life this summer, or even the entire year. The Term is Right Turn Weekend and the habit is to consider time of day and day Waves Resort (formerly of the week before venturing out to Schlitterbahn) entered the final the beach or even attempting to cross stages of demolition this week. SPID as Island hoards regularly clog Soon the landmark will be gone. up the system. Port Aransas has been dealing with this reality for several years as those thinking of crossing the Port Aransas ferry routinely check the By the numbers web camera for traffic before leaving the house. Now Padre Islanders can 2022 City of do the same with four webcams available on the city’s website. They Corpus Christi are located at the Aquarius/SPID La Posada's Christmas in July event took place last weekend. The La Posada Foundation was able to intersection, the Whitecap Beach collect enough toys to fill 13 large contactor bags, two bicycles, and a riding firetruck. Story and more Proposed Access Road, the Michael J. Ellis photos on page A14. Seawall, and the Commodores/SPID/ Budget SH 361 intersection. The cameras can be found at https://www.cctexas. Editor’s note: City Manager Peter com/gulf-beaches-webcams. They Zanoni on Tuesday presented his can save a lot of time. Island Town Hall Meeting proposed city budget for Fiscal Year Port Aransas apartments 2022. Here are some highlights. $1.2 billion total budget on Short-Term Rentals $298.4 million General Fund $265.4 million General Fund City will not enforce current ordinance 2021 By Dale Rankin 11% increase in General Fund $420.1 million Capital Budget We get regular inquiries about Officials from the City of Corpus The UDC does not allow for Special development review application is the new and massive apartment Christi informed the Padre Isles Permits in residential areas making being reviewed. $118.2 million Debt Funds Property Owners Association this Short-Term Rentals a violation of the development going in as you enter Port 10.3.3. Aransas. They are designed to meet week that city regulators will no code with the following penalties: General Fund Budget longer enforce violations of the city’s The penalty for violation shall the need for affordable housing in the § 10.3. Penalties $144.8 million (48.5% of GF) city, especially for people working Short-Term Rental ordinance on be cumulative of other remedies Police and Fire there. They are called the Palladium Padre Island. 10.3.1. provided by State law, and the power $70 million Police Department project and are a public-private The move comes after City Attorney of injunction may be exercised in Any person who shall violate any enforcing this Code whether or not budget partnership with the City's non-profit Miles Risley told the PIPOA and the provision of this Code within the City there has been a criminal complaint $74.8 million Fire Department Public Facilities Corporation and Corpus Christi City Council weeks limits shall be guilty of a misdemeanor filed. budget Palladium Group which lease and ago that the City has put on hold and upon conviction shall be fined manage the 183 units. It is partially enforcement of the RS6, Single- not more than $2,000 for a violation Under the UDC provisions any $31.7 million Streets funded with HUD Tax Credits Family Residential zoning violations homeowner cited for violation of the of any provision governing the public $30.7 million Solid Waste and designated as Low-Moderate because his office cannot determine health, safety or general welfare and Short-Term Zoning ban has thirty Income (LMI) project. There are how to gather the evidence to shall be fined not more than $500 for days to bring their property under $20.2 million Parks and some restrictions; 80% of the units prosecute the citations given for the any other violation. compliance; which has led to the Recreation in first phase must be made available violations. enforcement problem as interpreted $13.2 million One Time expenses to LMI applicants. To be clear and 10.3.2. by the City Attorney. contrary to rampant rumors...this will The City of Corpus Christi’s Unified Development Code (UDC) in Article Each day any violation continues In spite of dozens of STR homes General Fund revenue not be a Short Term Rental project shall constitute a separate and 4 contains a provision regulating being offered in violation of the $91.7 million (31%) Property nor is the City "reserving" units for distinct offense. Assessment of certain individuals, according to “Bed and breakfast home” which ordinance in Island residential Tax allows for Special Permits for bed the fine shall cease temporarily neighborhoods only a handful of Rick Adams with the City of Port when a person submits a complete $82.9 million (28%) Services, Aransas. The City isn't involved in and breakfast facilities inside RS-6 citations have been handed out, and Zoning areas which includes all development review application to once issued the property owner has Finds, Fees the leasing and 20% of the units will rectify the violation. No fine shall be be made available at "Market Rates" residential areas of Padre Island with $63 million (21%) Sales Tax the exception of areas east of SPID. assessed for the time period that the intended to partially subsidize the Rentals cont. on A4 $57.8 million Fees from other below market rates of rest of the departments units. The units that will be available to residents earning incomes in the $47.6 million (16%) from other low $20,000 to low $40,000 range per A little Island history resources year. They are taking reservations on $13.2 million Fund Balance their website. Million Dollar Inn Becomes Braniff Place… Carry Forward Water Exchange Bridge Revenue Growth from 2021 and then Rubble budget to 2022 By Mary Craft $5.2 million (6%) Property Tax The Million Dollar Inn was sold in l972 to Resort Enterprises $5.4 million (9.4%) Sales Tax which was made up of President Eric Labian and four other $10.5 million (8.7%) All Other investors. The hotel was closed to upgrade the main building Revenue Sources and expand the third floor over the portico. The 110 hotel rooms were freshly painted. Streets Work on the Water Exchange Bridge The Padre Island Investment Corporation (PIIC) located on $121,500 (56% increase) on SPID is moving along on schedule the third floor would occupy the expansion for more needed total Street Maintenance and as crews this week continue putting space. The corporation initially owned 4500 acres in the mid- Reconstruction budget 2022 up the retaining wall on the east side 60s and was responsible for island development including $78,023,875 2021 Street Budget of the road. Foreman Mike Franklin infrastructure, canal dredging, bulkheads, streets, sewers, has the project humming along on water lines, etc.. $128,365,000 2020 Street Budget schedule with the finish and opening of the waterway set for late 2022. You The sales office for the Galleon Bay lots and the lots for $328 million spent on streets in can now see how high the roadway future subdivisions was also located here. The Island was not three years yet annexed by Corpus Christi so the city was not involved in over the canal will be and get an idea The Padre Isles Investment Corporation 2022 Street Budget of what the incline of the approaches any of this. flew in potential buyers on Braniff $42,857,995 Street Maintenance will be. It’s going to be a great The hotel was reopened as Braniff Place because Braniff International Airways. They were a addition to our Island and we include International Hotels, Inc. a subsidiary of Braniff Airlines was $60,188,554 Arterial and more photos of the construction in flamboyant airline during that era and their Collector streets reconstruction contracted to manage it. Braniff Place was not the same hot advertising slogan was "if you got it - flaunt this issue. spot it was under the management of the flamboyant former $18,454,211 Residential Streets owner/manager Joe Fay. People would come from in town, it." The stewardess pictured is wearing That’s all for now, stay cool one of the uniforms created by top fashion Reconstruction everybody and say hello if you see us Port Aransas and surrounding areas to enjoy the music and Around The Island. designers. The airline ceased to operate in History cont. on A4 1982. 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PADRE ISLAND SOUTHSIDE 15326 S. Padre Island #106 6181 Saratoga Blvd. #107A Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Corpus Christi, TX 78414 361.949.1100 www.brooklynpie.com July 29, 2021 Island Moon A 3 aware of what size we could weigh. The outlaws would sell their catch off the road. Island Obituary Moon Monkeys Letters to the Sport fishermen would buy so they could tell Mike Ellis, Founder their story on how big a fish they caught. Matt Cantu he had his commercial license so Editor your guess is wrong. He said they used to go for $0.70 - $0.80 a pound. The notion that the commercial fishermen were too good to sell 30"+ Redfish or that people weren't willing to buy 30"+ Redfish is laughable. Heck even nowadays people try to buy Bull Reds from people. Richard Rivera guess you read between the lines. As I stated fish houses were not able to Distribution buy oversize fish. If they did and were caught with, they would face a big fine. Pete Alsop Island Delivery Marc Villarreal: Idk. About All this .....but there are more fish now than back then ..... Coldwell Banker gill netting hurt fishing in all ways big time Advertising Beach ...if there were no regs sport fisherman I use Jan Park Rankin that term loosely would keep everything they Dear Editor, Classifieds caught...... where are you going with this? Rabble . Rabble...rabble....there are still people Arlene Ritley This is the type of riff raff our beaches are increasingly attracting; apparently using gill nets illegally .....wake up smell the Luella (Lou) Production Manager coffee..... passed out in the middle of the road just Abigail Bair south of Bob Hall. Captured this morning. Todd Watson : Bucky Vannoy was a good Simpson Clouse Contributing Writers friend of my granddad J E Faris ,I fished with Joey Farah him and he was a good person trying to make a MacLean Andy Purvis living on the water. Luella (Lou) Simpson Clouse MacLean passed away on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 Mary Craft David Pace: Bucky was a great guy. As a kid at the age of 98 in Jupiter, Florida, where Emily Gaines my dad Johnny Pace would take him down to she had resided for the past 28 months. Jay Gardner the houseboat and Bucky would fish all night Luella was born March 8, 1923, in Wilson, Pastor Kris Bair and it was a pleasure to learn from him how Texas. She lived in Houston and Bellaire, Todd Hunter to fish as a kid. I remember he was always so Texas, before moving with her husband hiyper and crazy. Dotson Lewis Fred MacLean to North Padre Island, Dr. Tom Dorrell David Loeb: Gill net average catch rate for Texas. She was a founding member of the Padre Island Garden Club and loved the Ronnie Narmour reds on the Texas coast went from 1 an hour in 1975 to .4 an hour in 1979 showing a pretty “Island Life”. Her husband Fred Malcolm Brent Rourk stark crash in population. MacLean preceded her in death March 13, Photographers 2004. Commercial catch numbers did not decline in Miles Merwin (Emeritus) the early 80's. From 1979 to 1986 the Gulf of Debbie Noble Mexico catch of redfish went from 2.7 million Evelyn Pless-Schuberth pounds to 13.5 million pounds. Why? Because they stopped overfishing the estuaries where the Jan Rankin Paula Coleman: I came to the hotel in 1969 fish breed and introduced a stocking program with my parents. We lived in SA. I think we got Mary Craft that is paid for out of sales tax and fishing free lodging to attend a sales pitch for homes Ronnie Narmour license revenue. Stocking program releases 30 they were showing. I was about 10. million fingerlings a year. Barbara Madrid: Same story here. Came I don’t know what is going on with the Island The economic impact of the recreational with my parents and siblings for a great these days. It has always been a bit of a loose fishing industry for redfish and trout is half a weekend. Not sure of the year, but around cannon, but with short term rentals, extreme billion dollars a year now. That's a lot more than same time. I recall being on the third floor overcrowding on the weekends, limited to no 500 jobs. looking at the model and seeing the view. They regulations on things like golf carts, limited Glenn Robert Davis: David Loeb Exactly purchased a lot and built a wonderful policing (IMO) relative to the level of crime correct Dave, a lobbyist wrote that article above vacation home. Good times and accident activity (perhaps their hands are and did they mention that for every 1 pound Dwayne Urban: I remember staying there in tied with resources), degrading home upkeep of shrimp they catch in nets, 20 pounds of “by with no ability for the PIPOA to do anything the 60s with my parents and brothers and you product” is discarded (dead), that’s baby trout, could rent dune buggy’s to drive on the beach Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) about it (and the city simply not doing anything flounder, reds, snapper, kings, etc… Riley P. Dog about it), many of us who have been out here a Tina Ryan Bond Leahey: I just love all the while are concerned. I used to live here in the John Travis: Nets don’t discriminate they take history and everyone’s stories. I don’t remember late 90’s, early 2000’s before moving to Florida all that can’t get through the mesh. Limits on ever going here, I’ll need to ask my mother, Publisher then NC for several years. Since moving back, size and number of fish have really helped as however, I DO remember going to Dairy Queen Dale Rankin it seems like the situation is getting worse out well. Want fresh trout go out and catch them it’s every trip as a kid. I also remember the ice fun and tastes great! About the Island Moon here yet property values are rapidly going up. cream drips on the ceiling. (Which we had to The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale Interesting paradigm, and we will see what Mark Menking: 35 years ago there was very put a net over to catch them when my daughter Rankin, Editor / Publisher. the future holds. The island is in a precarious little fisherman around and a crazy abundance of used that building later as part of seashore Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes situation with its future. It’s a beautiful fish. Now there are thousands of fisherman with learning center) before they knocked it down. It delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 place with amazing nature; hopefully, it can is my dream to have a history museum just for copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, little fish to go around. Things have changed in as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 withstand the onslaught. One thing is consistent the sport fishing industry in the Laguna Madre. the island thank you. - the Island Moon is always top notch. copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. Editor’s note: We have been pursuing an Island Reese Hunt III: BTW, This group of sport News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, museum for a while. Our city councilman Greg I am not requesting this post to be shared in the fishermen it didn’t happen to be the GCCA payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. Smith has offered to donate the house built for moon beyond the picture, if so inclined. I prefer known as the CCA today? the Dunn Ranch which is still here. We have The Island Moon Newspaper to remain anonymous. Troy Lawrence : Bucky Vannoy was the been collecting material for years, we just need 14646 Compass, Suite 3 Name withheld by request coolest outlaw dude! Bought a lot of great fish a location. from him thanks to Scott Wilson introducing Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Port A. me to him in the mid-80’s! Carol Hucker: I would love to stay there now! 361-949-7700 Charles Brown : And I'm still a firm believer Scott Sanford: Love your story and can't wait Editor’s note: Our story last week quoting that they shouldn't be selling red fish even if they for more! [email protected] a Nueces County official stating that the City are farm-raised or trout. But then I'm just an old of Port Aransas plans to issue its own Beach Classic PINS photos Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper commercial fisherman that had to change ways. Parking Permits drew this response. I've ate the farm raised and they don't have no Nancy Davis Peterson: I remember this our Dale, flavor. May as well chew a piece of paper school Ebony Acres (Weldon Gibson) took a field trip to Padre Island to witness this with Where to Find The I'm compelled to reach out and offer some Davey Wright : Yes very true, excellent write- Lady Bird Johnson critical corrections to your story in the most up. Island Moon recent issue of the Moon. Specifically the story Stuff I Heard regarding "Port Aransas to drop out of Beach Did Ya' Hear? Lisa McCue: I guess my hometown worked Access Permits". I can tell you there has been Juleen Rohne Axelsen: Speaking of painting around this by people that listen to the scanners absolutely no discussion with Nueces County Port North the AT&T box I recently went home to Pearland and post the police call on Facebook . Crime has Judge Barbara Canales or Corpus Christi City and the have Pear statues around town that local risen significantly. They keep everyone updated Manager Peter Zanoni regarding Port Aransas Aransas Padre artists paint. I thought it would be nice if we on where shootings, murders, carjackings, Pioneer RV altering any aspects of the interlocal Beach All Stripes Stores came up with something to showcase our local stolen vehicle, traffic accidents…. Stripes on 1A Parking Permit agreement. The agreement has artists...just like the AT&T box.. Maybe a sea Black Sheep/ a provision that the parties meet on a scheduled shell or fish would be great. Any thoughts? I even observed where people would connect Kody’s basis to discuss methods used for the sale of the this car was involved in a drive- by yesterday Barrel Editor’s note: We love the idea Juleen, what Coffee Waves permits and those discussions are long overdue. and connect the dots with a new crime. The CVS about decorating moons…Island moons – the work these scanner sites do has been very Last week Port Aransas City Manager Parsons Moby Dicks Dollar General real thing not the paper. important keeping the community informed. I sent a letter to CM Zanoni inviting just such a Pam Isaacson: Prices Chef would do well on do hope the police restart making it easier to IGA Doc’s Restaurant discussion. A similar meeting is planned in the the Island! But, I hope they don't close the 6 to receive reports. Information is helpful and future with Judge Canales. We cannot identify Treasure Island Snoopy’s Pier points location! amazing how the community having knowledge anyone that notified Scott Cross that Port San Juan’s Restaurant can also be a help to the police. Isle Mail N More Aransas planned to drop out of participation Around the Island Ro Coleman: I remember the Police Blotter Wash Tub Island Italian in the Beach Permit Program. We would be interested to know who that source is because no Yvonne Caffey: Smart for Port A to pull out printed on the Local page of our daily paper. I Woody’s Sports one here has said that. As previously mentioned, and venture permits on their own!! My bet think it informed us but also kept people from Center Brooklyn Pie Co. we haven't even had a discussion with the other is they will flush that money right back into doing something foolish knowing it would be Back Porch Bar Ace Hardware parties. progress on the beaches. Unlike North Padre published for all to see Texas Star (Shell) (JP Luby, Whitecap, etc..) other then moving Shorty’s Place Regarding the "Lifeguards", like many sand around.....nothing to show for it Roy Sharp: keep chipping away at them Dale! municipal departments there is a range of It’s important work being a watchdog and the Gratitude Spanky's Dianne Wassenich: I read about that moon Scuttlebutt’s salaries depending on skills, tenure, etc. We Island is lucky to have you! The Gaff wobble. Alarming! Restaurant have TWO guards that are in the $18 range. Red's Riviera The average is much less than that rate for the Million Dollar Inn Subway remainder. Sounds Good BBQ Wolfgang Von Klemstein: My dad was one of Spanky's Liquor Island Tire Let me know if you have any questions. the salesmen there in 68 and 69. 5000.00 would buy a canal front lot. He told me the story of Beach Lodge Padre Pizzeria Rick Adams one buyer from Houston that bought three lots Send Letters and Photos to Ellis Memorial And all Moon Director Development Services because if one was such a good deal then three [email protected] Library retail advertisers was even better. He basically bought an entire Bernie's Beach House From Our Facebook Page cul de sac worth of water front property that and follow us on Facebook: WB Liquor weekend. Commercial Fishing story The Island Moon Island IGA Derek Burgess: My dad Jim Burgess used Chris Bell: That was a very brutal time in local Newspaper Island Fitness to sell here back in ‘70. Jim Burgess, Derek’s fishing! The stories I heard proved to be right it dad was #1 salesman in worldwide contest and My Coastal Home was for political gains not for the fishermen that won top prize of new red El Dorado Cadillac fished the waters. convertible. Great memories of selling property Flour Bluff Scott Wilson: It all started when a guy Perry on Padre Island 50 years ago. I remember all of bass had a nephew on Texas parks and wildlife these events….remember Joe Fay. Jack Lavers H.E.B. commission, Perry is doing farm raised reds and I worked together in sales for PIIC in offices Ethyl Everly which competed w commercial fish, so him and on top floor of Million Dollar Inn. Hurricane Senior Center his nephew help abolish some of the commercial Celia hit in 1970…many stories . fishing. Amanda Port Weaver: Wow- there were nicer Matt Cantu: My dad told us when he had hotels with resort like amenities on the island Riley P. Dog Park his commercial fishing license back in the 70s in the 60’s than now! Too bad we can’t have they would sell Bull Reds (36"+) left and right, something like this again. Coming Soon to Padre Island! which conflicts the statement that they only Reese Hunt III: For me the hotel was long To Donate or Volunteer: bought Redfish up to 30 inches. gone and was only a bowl in the sand behind a Richard Rivera: well guess your daddy was seawall. The name remained the same but this Follow our Facebook Page at: an outlaw. I worked in the fishhouses where was a local hangout that offered off the beat Rileypdogpark or email we bought fish. Those commercial fishermen parking for surfers and a somewhat secluded [email protected] measure their fish before docking. We were place for a small fire. July 29, 2021 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Rentals cont. from A1 thirty days to remove the home from STR acute and where the impetus for a new ordinance dancing that a live band provided Tuesdays it. The modular units where the hotel rooms offering which resets the thirty day clock. originated. In early 2021 a subcommittee of the through Saturdays. Joe had connections with were located were in disrepair and difficult Island Strategic Action Committee conducted a “We’ve got a huge loophole in the current downtown and arranged for many community to maintain. For example, the plumbing lines study of SRT ordinances in about a dozen cities ordinance,” District 4 City Councilman Greg events to be held at the hotel. were behind the preformed walls which made around the country and issued a list of provisions Smith said this week. “The only way we are them difficult to get to. they recommended be included in the future going to be able to close it is with a new Short- ordinance. That list of recommendations was PIIC provided free lodging Term Rental Ordinance.” for prospective buyers they not presented to council members during the had flown in and because of Corpus Christi City Manager Peter Zanoni briefing and based on questions from council the better accommodations told the council several weeks ago that his members it did not appear most were aware elsewhere, no longer used the office expects to have a new SRT ordinance in such a list been compiled. place by the end of the 2021. But with the lack hotel’s rooms. They set up most A new SRT ordinance requires five of nine of enforcement Smith said that timeline is too of their clients at Gulfstream votes on the council and Islanders, like all long. because of the large balconies citizens of Corpus Christi, cast ballots for overlooking the Gulf and the “We need to get moving now and get a new five members of the council in city elections. panoramic entryway view of ordinance done,” Smith said. Those members are: Smith, At-Large Council the Island that made for a great Members Mike Pusley, Michael Hunter, and selling point. To move that process forward Smith said he is scheduling a town hall meeting on Padre Island John Martinez, and Mayor Paulette Guajardo. In September 1974 the no later than mid-August to hear from Islanders Smith said he will announce the time, date, and hotel reportedly closed for on the subject and push the city council to take location of the town hall meeting no later than remodeling but never reopened. action. A recent briefing to the city council failed early August. We will report that information It filed a petition in Federal to generate much attention in the four other here as soon as it becomes available. For more Court seeking reorganization Single-Member Districts around the city since information on this topic see PIPOA President with debts totaling 2.2 million. Creditors filed Padre Island is where the problem is the most Marvin Jones’ column in this issue. suit in April 1976 which kept the property tied up in court until 1980. In the meantime Resort Enterprises abandoned all claim to Short Term Rental ISAC Overview the property and it was auctioned off to pay creditors in l980. Gibraltar Savings & Loan of Corpus Christi had first claim which was $2.6 Benchmark Findings & ISAC Recommendations million and next was PIIC with $172,000. Editor’s note: A subcommittee of the Island Strategic Action Committee issued a report in The main building was still being used January, 2021 with their findings and recommendations for a Short-Term rental ordinance for by Padre Isles Investment Corporation but the city. This is that report. the hotel rooms were unoccupied and were Councilmember Greg Smith requested that ISAC create a subcommittee to look at how other eventually ransacked and vandalized. It began cities are managing the rapidly growing segment of Short-Term Rentals (STR) to attract unsavory types so the county tore ISAC Chair, Jay Gardner formed the STR subcommittee with the following resources: down the buildings with the hotel rooms in 1980. The main building was razed in l987 Sub Committee Members Role and PIIC moved to where the American Bank is now. Originally the PIIC administrative Charles Duffley Subcommittee Chair- ISAC Member-Developer and sales office were located in the building Armon Alex ISAC Member-Resident/owner where Angry Marlin Restaurant is now. In Polly Balzer ISAC Member-PIPOA 1967 they moved the sales office to The Alex Harris Former ISAC Member, Current CVB Board Member Million Dollar Inn. Brain Gulley ISAC Ex-Officio-Nueces County Sub Committee Members Role The only evidence left now at the hotel site Keith McMullin ISAC Ex-Officio-Former Major of Port A Charles Duffley Subcommittee Chair- ISAC Member-Developer Braniff Place had a restaurant and is some broken up concrete. Some of the Marvin Jones President PIPOA cocktail lounge on the second floor but no Armon Alex ISAC Member-Resident/owner information for this story gathered in 2008 Hannah Husby Staff member of CVB entertainment. It also had to compete with was from Joe Bibbs, the Million Dollar Inn Polly Balzer ISAC Member-PIPOA the new condominiums Island House (1968), Alex Harris Former ISAC Member, Current CVB Board Member maitre d' and his brother Herman who was a Other Resources Surfside (1969), Gulfstream (1970) and The bartender for both hotels. Brain Gulley ISAC Ex-Officio-Nueces County Red Carpet Inn (1973) that opened around JKaeyit hG aMrcdMneurllin CIShAaCir &E xE-Ongffincieoe-Fr ormer Major of Port A BMraurdv iJno Jnoenses VPircees-iCdheanitr P &IP ROeAsidential Property Owner Hannah Husby Staff member of CVB The subcommittee created a list of the top 10 to 15 benchmark cities. We narrowed the list to eight key citiesO basedther R ones theou rcriteriaces of demographic's current STR By the numbers Sinage if Number of Registration Fee Annual Fee if Occupancy Parking 3rd Party Software Curfew-Noise issuesJay G Cwithiniaty rdne ther Ow communitiesner of Data and accessChair to& rEtheesindeg ncity'stsi nin ee rordinances andShor tprocedures Term on how these (YES or NO) Applicable Restrictions Restrictions used (if any) Restrictions citiesBrud are Jo nmanaginges STR's today. Vice-ChairST R& Residential PropeRerntayls Owner Destin, FL Charles-Hannah Yes, Annually $500-$700 Yes Yes Yes 3200 Yes Yes, 10:30 pm-7am Short Term Rentals New Braunfels, TX Hannah Yes $125 Yes Yes Yes 1400 Yes TBD PTheort Aran sfollowingas, TX K echartith Mc is an overviewYes of$ 5the0 findingsYes on Ythees eightYes benchmark1696 citiesMyGov No* City staff made a presentation regarding 25-50% of HOT in Corpus Christi goes Galveston, TX Armon Yes 50 No No, 2/bed Yes 2 on st. 2500 Yes, built database Yes, Noise Curfew South Padre Island, TX Hannah Yes $50 No Yes TBD 2800 Yes Yes Sinage if Number of Ashville, SC Alex RegistYraetsion Fee Annu3a0l0 Fee if Yes OccYuepsancy PYaerksing 1250 3rd ParYteys SoftwareY es, C1u0r:f3e0w p-mNo-7isaem Short Term Rentals to the Corpus Christi City uncollected (estimated by city staff) City Owner of Data residents in Short Term Ft Myers, FL Alex (YESY eosr NO) App9li5cable Yes ResYterisctions ResYterisctions useYde (sif any) Yes, 1R0e:3s0tr ipcmtio-7nasm STR Rentals Council in June. Here are some of the findings. Additional: Myrtle Beach Hannah Yes $100 Yes Yes Yes 4600 Yes Yes, 11pm-7am How they find STR places Destin, FL Charles-Hannah Yes, Annually $500-$700 Yes Yes Yes 3200 Yes Yes, 10:30 pm-7am 1722 Homes available for STR in Corpus New Braunfels, TX Hannah Yes $125 Yes Yes Yes 1400 Yes TBD 11% find STR accommodations through Port Aransas, TX Keith Mc Yes $50 Yes Yes Yes 1696 MyGov No* Christi in 2020 Galveston, TX Armon Yes 50 No No, 2/bed Yes 2 on st. 2500 Yes, built database Yes, Noise Curfew Airbnb South Padre Island, TX Hannah Yes $50 No Yes TBD 2800 Yes Yes Ashville, SC Alex Yes 300 Yes Yes Yes 1250 Yes Yes, 10:30 pm-7am 2140 Homes available for STR in Corpus Ft Myers, FL Alex Yes 95 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, 10:30 pm-7am 23% Find STR accommodations through Additional: Myrtle Beach Hannah Yes $100 Yes Yes Yes 4600 Yes Yes, 11pm-7am Christi in 2021 Vrbo The following is a recap of the benchmark cities 24% increase in STR 2020-2021 55% find STR accommodations through 1379 STR units available on Padre Island direct contact with property owners 1. Registration Fee with an Annual Fee of $125 to $700 2020 Enforcement 2. Occupancy Restrictions, Max of 2 people per bedroom 1712 STR units available on Padre Island 3. Parking Restrictions, on-site Parking of 1 car per bedroom 2021 (up 24% from 2020) 70 short-term rental complaints reported and investigated on Padre Island in 2021 4. Curfew-Noise Restrictions outside gatherings of 10 PM 209 STR units available downtown/North Beach 12 cases started as confirmed zoning 5. Signage, any STR would need to display a sticker that shows Occupancy and Parking. violations 196 STR units available in the remainder of 6. 3rd Party Software, The COCC should use a 3rd Party to manage the registration of the Corpus Christi 17% of complaints validated as zoning STR violations 2875 STR units available in Port Aransas 7. STR's are allowed based on property rights unless otherwise prohibited by zoning, deed (up 24% from 2020) 5 hours of staff time required to research restrictions, or neighborhood restrictions each case 915 STR units available in Rockport (up 8. The COCC should have a searchable database for all registered STR. 350 man hours to investigate 70 STR 33% from 2020) 9. The City and CVB need to manage the administration and the monitoring system violations in 2021 2727 STR units available in South Padre 10. COCC needs to establish enforcement of fines and penalties for offenders Island (up 7% from 2020) 26 citations for short-term rental violations issued Citywide since January 1, 2020 The benchmark study findings were presented to the full ISAC committee at the December 1003 STR units available in New Braunfels 2020 meeting. Discussion included both members of the ISAC committee, as well as the Port Aransas 4032 STR units available in Galveston subcommittee members. A motion was made and seconded that recommended to the City $3,263,019.17 in HOT collected for fiscal year Council to ban STR’s in single family zoned neighborhoods. The call for vote carried Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) from STR through May (8 months). Up 295% over same the motion with 3 ayes and 6 abstentions. A second motion was made and seconded that $1.2 million in HOT collected in Corpus time last Fiscal Year. recommended to the City Council to enforce the current regulations that are in place regarding Christi in 2020 STR’s. The second motion carried unanimously with no abstentions. $1 million in HOT collected in Corpus Based on the subcommittee findings above, discussion/motions passed at the ISAC meetings, Christi so far in 2021 and the research done on the benchmark cities, a best practice by other key cities is the creation of new ordnances and zoning for all STR. These ordnances address how to manage STR within current single-family neighborhoods through new zonings restrictions Building cont. from A1 The Padre Island Property Association (PIOPA) independently conducted a survey of their owners and those results and recommendations were presented to the full ISAC committee. For the most current results, please contact Marvin Jones, President of the PIOPA. Numbers continued from A1 During discussion at the January 2021 meeting, we see a key next step and recommend that the City Council create a “Super” committee with the City-wide stakeholders with a key Police funding 2022 representative from the following areas (but not exclusive to); $1 million for ten new Police Officer North Beach HOA positions City Staff CVB City legal ISAC Other Large HOA within $1.1 million New Police Academy City Limits Development Services PIPOA $21.3 million New Police Academy at The EDC Del Mar South Campus over three years The charge of this “Super” committee will be to work with City Staff regarding registration, Fire Department funding 2022 enforcement, fees, zoning, and then draft ordinances for ratification in the UDC to codify the new STR regulations. We feel that the finding of the benchmark study and resulting $500,000 eight new firefighter positions recommendations to the City fulfills the original charge from Councilman Smith. We $1.5 million New Fire Academy recommend that the “Super” committee begin their charge immediately in order to expedite $2.3 million new Medical Unit, Potable enforcement and regulations of existing, current STR’s operating within single family zoned Water Tanker Truck, Hazmat Response neighborhoods. The subcommittee, and full ISAC stand at the ready for further instructions Unit regarding STR’s. Parks and Recreation $1.5 million park improvements (six parks including Billish Park) $900,000 dog parks (none on Island) Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) $16.4 million total 2022 $15.5 million total 2021 $5.6 million Convention and Visitors Bureau funding 2022 American Bank Center and Convention Center 2022 $4.5 million Revenue generated $18.9 million Operating and Capital costs Robla Refuse paid by Sales Tax and HOT Trash has been piling up on Robla street $14.4 million Operating and Capital cost for weeks now. It is either not being deficit picked up or is just too much trash for a once a week pick up?

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Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island Tides for Bob Hall Pier July 29 - August 5 By Dale Rankin When it comes to people Are you the decision maker?..No I’m Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon concerned about my welfare I am a very lucky dead! /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible man. And several times per week I get a call asking Th 29 Low 1:19 AM 0.4 6:51 AM Set 12:11 PM 76 In the last two weeks alone I have had almost for Mike Ellis. Mike founded the Island Moon in 29 High 7:54 AM 1.1 8:20 PM three dozen calls from the Vehicle Protection 1996 and passed away in 2012. When I inform Agency which starts out with “We have been 29 Low 2:42 PM 0.5 them of this and tell them their company should trying to reach you” then informing me that they stick a crowbar in their wallet and purchase a 29 High 8:17 PM 0.9 are very concerned that the warranty insurance newer phone list they don’t bat an eye, they ask on my 2006 Cadillac car has expired. They worry F 30 Low 2:13 AM 0.7 6:51 AM Rise 12:15 AM 67 if I am the “decision maker” at the business that without the plan to fix any problem with the and if I answer in the affirmative they then ask 30 High 7:53 AM 1.0 8:19 PM Set 1:04 PM fifteen year-old car which I sold in 2009 the me my name which I usually give as George 30 Low 3:20 PM 0.3 expense could “cause me to incur devastating Washington to which they also never bat an eye. expenses and leave me without a reliable means “Well Mr. Washington we can offer you a low 30 High 10:41 PM 1.0 of transportation.” In fact, they are so concerned interest signature loan for your business” and I Sa 31 Low 3:57 AM 0.9 6:52 AM Rise 12:45 AM 57 that they have called me at 9:05 each and every hang up. When they call back and ask for Mr. morning to remind me of my peril and leave me 31 High 7:45 AM 1.0 8:18 PM Set 1:57 PM Washington I say “Mr. George Washington?” a voice message informing me that “since I have “Yes, George Washington.” 31 Low 4:01 PM 0.1 not responded this will be the last notice of the expiration of the warranty insurance on my 2006 “He’s dead you twit, did you skip all your Su 1 High 1:54 AM 1.2 6:53 AM Rise 1:17 AM 48 Cadillac car.” In fact they are so concerned they history classes!” This doesn’t stop them from 1 Low 4:44 PM 0.0 8:18 PM Set 2:50 PM grace me with a final call at least twice daily. calling but somehow makes me feel better and now no matter who they ask for if I tell them he M 2 High 2:53 AM 1.4 6:53 AM Rise 1:51 AM 38 IRS or she is dead – including myself. “That was a 2 Low 5:28 PM -0.2 8:17 PM Set 3:44 PM Then there is the Government Enforcement bad time and I don’t appreciate you reminding Tu 3 High 3:36 AM 1.6 6:54 AM Rise 2:30 AM 29 Agency which calls each morning right after me of it” I say. 3 Low 6:13 PM -0.3 8:16 PM Set 4:39 PM the Vehicle Protection Agency to inform me Police Officers Retirement Fund that there is a “serious problem with the Internal W 4 High 4:14 AM 1.7 6:54 AM Rise 3:13 AM 21 Revenue Service” and offering to connect The calls got much more frequent two months ago when I got a call from the “Police Officers 4 Low 6:58 PM -0.4 8:16 PM Set 5:33 PM me immediately with the “IRS Federal Agent assigned to my account.” Apparently my account Retirement Fund.” Th 5 High 4:50 AM 1.7 6:55 AM Rise 4:01 AM 14 is in arrears and rather than notify me through the “How much of the money goes to the police 5 Low 7:42 PM -0.4 8:15 PM Set 6:26 PM mail or a registered letter “for my convenience officers,” I inquired. “And how much goes to they are contacting me by telephone before your overhead. And how much goes to our local initiating criminal proceedings.” They are so police officers? And I’m a little busy so is there concerned that they have been calling me each a number where I can call you back?” The man of the last four years but have yet to send me became quite angry and said, “Why are you anything by mail. The funny thing is that they wasting my time?” never call me from the same number twice and when I ask for a number to call back they just “You called me! Who is wasting whose time?!” hang up leading me to believe that the federal On the Fecal List government has so much money that they don’t need any more of mine so once again I got that I think as a result I got put on some fecal going for me. list that has made my welfare such a concern among the Calling Class that they call me at How old are your bathroom appliances? least a dozen times per day now. I block each Then there is the nice lady who calls the Moon number but to no avail. I’ve put my name on office weekly and begins her conversation with the Do Not Call list and it seemed to increase “How old are your bathroom appliances?!” “I the number of calls. I consulted a lawyer friend dunno,” I say each time. “You don’t know how who told me to tell them that their calls are a old your bathroom appliances are?!” each time violation of the Consumer Protection Act and she seems incredulous that I don’t have the age that did work for a while. of my bathroom fixtures stored in my brain pan. But seldom a week goes by that we don’t get at “I can’t say that I do, the age of my toilet and least a dozen calls on the office landline offering bathroom accoutrements isn’t high on my list one or more of these valuable services and there of things to keep track of. I’ll try to pay more isn’t much we can do. It’s old technology and Thoughts From Dr. Tom attention.” we are a stationary target so they just go to voicemail and we erase them. But a cellphone And she is so concerned that she calls each is a different matter. It seems to me that if we Fishing Sabbatical Part 2 week, usually on Wednesday when we are on can put a man on the Moon and provide our our deadline to ask me the same question. I citizens with a phone that can be carried around have told her that if my toilet turns to dust or By Dr. Tom Dorrell in our pockets and ring no matter where we go I need a $1,146 bidet to shoot a little water and that we could find a way to keep these people, The exploration of the toes. All in all we had a blast and I would love warm air in my nether regions I will notify her concerned about my welfare as they are, from Florida Keys continued to spend more time figuring that fishery out. immediately so I got that going for me. One less calling me. thing to worry about right? with a short early morning The admiral hung out at the hotel the last day, Every day I get an email from the Texas jaunt to the marina at Cudjoe Key in the Lower her shoulder and body was worn out in general Free trips! Attorney General’s Office informing me of Keys. We arrived a little early since they do someone he is suing on behalf of Texans. Maybe from so many days on the water. She was a And then there are the nice people who even not open till 0730. This was a surprise to me he can sue the people who waste their time and trooper. That put me on the water early and during the Covid problem when airlines weren’t but worked out allowing me to get prepped. mine trying to sell me stuff I’m never going added a layer of difficulty as a one man show. flying call each week to offer me free trips, We loaded up and headed out ocean side to to buy. But until then I’ve got a small army of Fortunately it was slicked off and I was more mostly to Las Vegas. If I ever want to travel for the Atlantic initially but it was still a little too people out there who are very concerned about familiar with Islamorada area and I was able to free all I have to do is wait for the next call and bumpy so we headed to the back country where my car insurance, my business, my need to get on the tarpon ocean side only to have another boom, I’m on the plane. So I got that going for it was nice and flat and incredibly beautiful. travel, my taxes, police retirement, and the age fisherman run right over their backs as I was me too. Deep creeks and passes combined with flats and preparing to make a cast. It was odd, wonder if of my toilet. mangroves. The only down side is that every my TX tags had anything to do with it? I then So I got that going for me. spot I had sniffed out on satellite had a guide went to the backcountry side and again located boat set up on it. The late opening of Cudjoe some size large tarpon. I was able to get set up allows the local fleet to get a head start. I saw a and get shots on three groups and discovered nice 100 lb tarpon take to the air in the distance. you cannot use your power pole when they are Very beautiful early morning sight. even within a hundred yards of you. Filed that Red Snapper Season Closes in Federal The Lower Keys guide association has an away in the do not do again file. etiquette publication that prevents guys from I found some more reds and snook and then Waters August 5 running shallow flats and gives guidelines continued to explore several banks (under water to avoiding other fisherman so I did my best flats in open water) and filed away numerous The private recreational angler red snapper “For the fourth year in a row, Texas anglers to follow that. It really does create a better cuts for my knowledge base for the next time season in federal waters will close at 12:01 a.m. were able to enjoy more than two months of red experience. I would like to see something (don’t tell the admiral) I make this trip. Overall August 5. State waters out to nine nautical miles snapper fishing in federal waters,” says Robin voluntary like that down here. We made our way we had a blast. The two full day trip home is will remain open with a four fish daily bag limit Riechers, TPWD Coastal Fisheries Division to the Gulf side and we poled some flats looking another matter with serious storms for six hours and a 15-inch minimum. Director. “This demonstrates the ability of for permit and bonefish. We saw a few bones but TPWD to effectively manage the red snapper of the drive and watching your trailer hubs, Under an agreement between the Texas Parks no shots. We found a basin with good baitfish fishery by establishing federal season lengths hoping you can make it back without doing a and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and the and were able to catch quite a few cuda on the and most importantly being able to keep state hub replacement on the road. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), fly which was a hoot. waters open year-round.” If you decide to do this trip, I’ll relay a couple TPWD can establish the opening and closing The tides down there are about three feet and pieces of advice. Good tires are a must and I of the red snapper fishery in federal waters Results from the Harte Research Institute’s when they decide to leave you need to be on took two spares for truck and trailer, a floor jack off Texas. TPWD uses a combination of data The Great Red Snapper Count estimate there your toes. We were able to pole out to the Gulf and blocks are indispensable. Take some cables from creel surveys, historical landings and the are 23 million red snapper in Texas waters. This with the dropping tide and it reminded me of and locks to secure things. Make sure your iSnapper app to calculate the state’s red snapper number is significantly higher than previous drifting the South Fork in my Hyde drift boat trailer hubs are new or refurbished prior to trip. landings each year. This system was designed estimates and highlights Texas’ robust stock back in the day. The admiral was getting a little Take an extra hub and tools and educate your to monitor harvests in a timely manner and was abundance. Moving forward, TPWD hopes to nervous we would get stranded but the Chittum self on changing it out. It is not difficult. Extra approved by NMFS under the Exempted Fishing be able to work with NMFS and the Gulf of Skiff did great, in fact I came away even more grease for your wheel bearings. I like Lucas Permit in 2018. As part of this agreement, Texas Mexico Fishery Management Council to use impressed after this expedition. wheel bearing grease and functioning grease must close the fishery when the state’s allotted the results from this study to better manage and Once safely in the Gulf we made our way back gun. Take an extra prop and keep it on the boat poundage is reached for the year. sustain red snapper populations in Texas. toward Key west and then cut over to Sugarloaf along with tools to change it. I took s small cruising some houses like a looky-loo. We propane grill, eating out gets old after a week or then took the cut from Sugarloaf Sound to the so. A good GPS unit and Florida Marine Tracks Atlantic and it was an experience to run for the chips are indispensable. Make sure your motor first time. All of the lower Keys is hard bottom has been serviced and greased and fluids are all with coral heads and you need to be on your good. Get ready for an adventure and have fun! Doc Tom

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By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon By Pastor Kris Bair Things have been on in the back pool, and we spent some time Dotson’s Note: Lest we build-up to Desert Storm, so the collaboration pretty crazy at our house—housekeeping has relaxing with the show-off dolphin in the forget, Operation Desert was an important dynamic and integral to the been abandoned to grandboys-keeping. And viewing room. Storm was the first major foreign crisis for the operation's overall success. that takes a LOT of energy. United States after the end of the Cold War. The otters did make an appearance, but weren’t On August 2nd, 1990, Saddam Hussein led a In addition to the boys, factor in the two playing for anyone, including us. well-equipped Iraqi army into Kuwait, a major kittens, now big enough to be a real hazard. The We spent hours there, and then loaded up for supplier of oil to the United States. Thanks boys are on cat duty 24/7—guarding the doors home, only to find as we tried to exit the parking to Katie Lange for the facts contained in this so they don’t escape; providing the necessary lot that the ticket person had neglected to get the report and to the US Air Force and the US Army mothering for kittens that are growing out of magic token into my hands—the one that raises Signal Corps, for the photos. that stage; and playing for hours with them. the semaphore so you can leave the parking lot. Feeding both sets of kids has become a chore. Operation Desert Storm Revisited We discovered this right after someone tried to Growing boys (ages 10 and 14) require TONS back into us—another excitement point. United States Army General Norman H. of food, and the growing cats are eating non- Schwarzkopf, commander of U.S. Central stop, too. Luckily, no one was behind us at the semaphore, Command, speaks to U.S. soldiers inside a so we backed up and I sent the ready-to-scoot And where there’s food, there’s dishes. eldest grandboy back to the ticket booth to find hangar while visiting a base camp during Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Constantly. Dishwashers-full of dishes, Operation Desert Shield, April 1, 1992. out why we couldn’t get out. He came right sometimes twice a day. In addition to the pots back with the token and away we went. These days when people think of Iraq, many and pans that won’t go in there. think of the war that began in 2003, ISIS As we figured out how to get back on the I had gladly forgotten this part. And I will highway, it grew silent in the back of the car. I (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) and the long gladly forget it again. fight against terrorism. But the U.S. military's could see one boy was fast asleep and assumed first major conflict with the country came more Yesterday I had a reprieve, loading up the boys the other was, too. than two decades before that, more than 30 to go out to lunch and then take in the Texas Of course, he informed me later on that HE had years ago, in fact. State Aquarium. Both were a huge hit, but not been asleep. Or at least, I thought, he didn’t when we were done, I felt like I was the one know he was asleep. Operation Desert Storm began January 17th, who’d been hit. They fell asleep in the backseat 1991, after Iraqi forces who had invaded on the way home, but I couldn’t let down until How often does that happen to us—we don’t neighboring Kuwait refused to withdraw. The we arrived, and then I went to bed. Pronto. realize we’re asleep. Oh, the eyes are open, but conflict is now commonly known as the Gulf Schwarzkopf Speaks. the brain is not engaging as it should be. It’s as War. Dinner was in Grandpa’s hands, with the boys if we were stuck in neutral. wide awake and ready to go again after their Why It Happened short naps. I’m pretty sure if I asked the youngest Desert Storm started as an air campaign with grandboy what he saw when he was “awake” Operation Senior Surprise, which became I managed to crawl out and get them ready in the backseat, he couldn’t have told me about known as "Secret Squirrel." Seven B-52G for bed, after employing them to chase down much more than that we were on the road. And Stratofortresses left Barksdale Air Force Base, the kitten who had escaped outside when I let yes, that’s something, but it’s lacking so much Louisiana, and flew 14,000 round-trip miles the dog out for his obligatory toilet time in the else! to, for the first time, launch 35 conventional backyard. air-launched cruise missiles at strategic Iraqi Christianity is like that—and it was like that Kitten captured, dessert finished, teeth brushed, in Jesus’ time. He called it the Way, instead of targets. It was the longest aircraft combat sortie and we all trundled into bed where I suspect of its time. the road, and he insisted that if you were on the there were dreams of jellyfish and barracudas, Way, you had to put it in gear—not just idle in Iraq's Scud Missiles Were Meant to Split not to mention sharks and otters. neutral. the Coalition The Aquarium was a huge hit, and the only sad In other words, you can’t be “asleep at the part was that they had forgotten to bring their Hussein realized he couldn't defeat the military wheel” stay on the Way. You need to wake up Above, F-16A, F-15C and F-15E wallets so they could shop in the gift store (my forces and international political will represented and keep your lamp lighted. wallet was wiped out by this time). aircraft fly over Kuwaiti oil fires set by by the coalition, so his only option was to try the retreating Iraqi army during Desert That’s what Island Presbyterian Church is to divide it. In retaliation for Secret Squirrel, We loved the new Caribbean exhibit and had all about—being awake to the needs of our Storm. From start to finish, Desert Storm Iraq launched Scud missiles at Israel and Saudi big discussions about what was what and where only lasted 43 days, from January 17th neighbors as we worship and grow together in Arabia. His hope was that Israel would retaliate, it came from and oh yes, where can we see it the Way. to February 28th, 1991. In fact, the as it historically had, with military force, a in there? Who doesn’t like to play “Where’s land campaign is infamously known as move that would have transformed the fight into Waldo?” You can join us at beach worship at 8 a.m. on Sundays (the end of Whitecap—bring a chair the "100-hour ground war" for obvious another Arab-Israeli conflict. But Israel resisted The only thing we missed was the dolphin reasons, that's about as long as it lasted. as the U.S. promised to help protect it. and coffee and your pet!) or in our sanctuary at show—but we got to see some training going 10. We’ll be sharing communion this Sunday, The MIM-104C Patriot missile detects, targets as well as a potluck afterwards (masks optional After the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, Iraq was and detonates near incoming ballistic missiles if you’re vaccinated). Hope to see you there! in debt to Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, to disable or destroy them. It had been under who had financed its war efforts. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein insisted both countries cancel that debt because he felt they owed him for Missile Cluster on Padre Island! protecting them against Iran. Both countries refused, however, so Hussein threatened Kuwait, its oil-rich, militarily-weak neighbor, reigniting a decades-old border dispute over Kuwait itself. In July 1990, Saddam claimed that Kuwait and the UAE were over producing crude oil, driving down prices and depriving Iraq of critical oil revenues. He accused Kuwait of stealing from an oil field on the Iraq-Kuwait border, and he accused the U.S. and Israel of encouraging Kuwait to lower its oil prices. Patriot Missile. Relations deteriorated with all parties, which led to Hussein invading and annexing Kuwait development since the 1960s, but its first in August 1990.The United Nations Security successful use in combat was during Desert Council placed an embargo and sanctions on Storm. The first Patriot missile intercepted a Iraq, but months later, when Hussein refused Scud launched over Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on to comply with a resolution requiring him to Day 1 of the conflict. Two days later, President withdraw, Desert Storm began. George H.W. Bush sent two Patriot air defense missile batteries to Israel, marking the first time U.S. Army crews had ever been sent to help with that country's defense (and, as stated above, helping to keep the coalition together). The Patriot missile system intercepted many Scuds over the course of Desert Storm, making major contributions to the success of the operation. The War Had Lasting Impact While Desert Storm has largely been Above, Bahraini Defense Minister overshadowed by the more recent Iraq War and the ongoing current crisis with ISIS, the impact Maj. Gen. Shaikh Khalifa Bin Ahmed and relevance remain. An estimated 697,000 Al-Khalifa presents Gen. Norman United States troops took part in the war; Schwarzkopf with a sword. unfortunately, 299 lost their lives. Editor’s note: This item ran in the monthly publication put out by the Padre Island Investment Corporation in the 1970s with the headline seen above and the Before the invasion, 40 countries quickly Dotson’s Other Note: If nothing else, the First following caption: "Wrong…It is not an Arab missile cluster in the Sanai Desert, Gulf War taught military planners that the use of entered into a nonbinding alliance against or a condominium on the Planet of the Apes…It’s a stockpile of fiberglass manholes Iraq. The "Coalition of the Willing" included strategic bombing could greatly lessen ground casualties once ground operations begin. The being used in the construction of the sewage system in Barataria Bay. Padre Island NATO allies, several Arab nations and -- Investment Corporation pioneered the use of this technique which has since been most importantly -- several former Cold War strategic air plans of the coalition effectively adversaries, including the Soviet Union. The had the ground forces fighting deaf and blind in adopted by the City of Corpus Christi. Cold War had thawed the year before the regard to their command and control and as to invasion, which helped ease U.S. and United where the enemy was coming from. The United Kingdom security concerns and ensured near States is still in good standing with many of the global unity in opposition to Iraqi aggression. countries involved in the Coalition of the Willing today, and we can only hope those relationships Also, for the first time, a U.S. Central Command continue to flourish into the future. Thanks for THE commander, Army Gen. "Stormin" Norman reading and commenting on the articles in The Schwarzkopf, teamed up with a regional ally, Island Moon. Contact me at dlewis1@stx. Saudi Arabia's Prince Khaled bin Sultan, to co- rr.com or call/text: 530-748-8475. command the allied forces. 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A7 Island Moon July 29, 2021 Island Projects Water Exchange Did Ya' Hear? Bridge Crews this week continued putting the retaining wall on the east side of the bridge By Mary Craft | [email protected] in place. Much of the recent work hasn’t been visible from the roadway since it is below grade Business Briefs The Costa Sur Wok & Ceviche Bar is the only restaurant but the wall which will support the roadway is My Coastal Woodworking & Design will be opening next week next in South Texas that serves authentic Peruvian food. The now being placed on the foundation. The bridge door to Coldwell Banker. Also in the same location will be Cobblestone kitchen closes at 10 pm and the bar stays open until at least is on schedule to be completed by the end of Bath Company. I will have photos and more details next issue. midnight. They are closed Sundays and Mondays. 2022. Ramen Hangout Restaurant in the strip center near Spanky’s is closer to becoming a reality. The wall mural and furniture are in.

Ramen Hangout

Market in the Park will be held at Billish Park on Saturday, July 31st Costa Sur owner Nicolas Mackrizz with The Rock. 10 am - 2 pm. There will be about 50 vendors and several food trucks. The July Poker Run benefiting the Texas Sealife Center will be held on Thursday, July 29th and start at 6 pm at Island Gatherings on Compass There were 17 pool permits given in the month of May for Street. You will register and get one of your poker cards there. Then the Island. on to Black Sheep Bistro, Joyride Rentals and ending at the Angry Servicemaster recently cleaned my carpet and couch and Marlin. The event is free and open to the public. There will be prizes for did a great job for a reasonable price. They do a variety best decorated vehicle and best poker hand. You may use any type of of other services including tile/grout cleaning, wood floor transportation. cleaning, HVAC air duct cleaning, mold remediation and

more. Sea Stories - Turtles vs Tortoises will be at Janet Harte Library in the Bluff on Saturday, July 31st at 1 pm. The program is partnered with Boathouse Bar & Grill and Port Royal no longer serve the Mission Aransas Reserve at the UT Marine Science Institute. The Sunday Brunch. The closest restaurant that does is The discussion will be the difference between land and sea turtles and there Black Marlin in Port A. will be a Meet & Greet with shelled friends. The program is geared Marker 37 at Sunset Island will feature the band Dreaming toward 2 - 5 year olds. Registration is at eventbrite. in Color on Saturday, July 31st at 7 pm. Diana Homes is one of the finalists for Best of the Best Home Builder and Best Home Contractor’Remodeling. The voting will take place August 1 - 15. Saigon’s Civet Cafe will be opening soon at the Meadowbrook Shopping Center at 2222 Airline and will be the only Vietnamese coffee shop in town. They have an in house roaster and imported coffee. They will also serve Vietnamese pastries. It has a drive thru window and is expected to open mid-August.

Sea Stories - Turtles vs Tortoises.

Access Storage is climate controlled and has new units available and they also have boat and RV spaces.The property has 24/7 surveillance and is located at 8041 SPD near Ennis Joslin. In the Game Funtrackers Amusement Park in the Bluff added a new rollercoaster ride this week called The Storm Chaser. The park also features Go Karts, mini golf, bumper boats, batting cages, bungy jump, Dragon coaster, Himalaya ride and arcade. They also have a new menu.

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San Antonio schools start on Monday, August 9th so this coming weekend should be our last crazy busy weekend Waves Comes Down of the season. Historically, people don’t vacation the week before school starts. The Red Carpet Inn with 150 rooms was built in 1973 where the Holiday Inn is now. The name was changed in 1977 to Padre Island Beach Hotel to garner more business.

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Paul’s Seafood Market in the Bluff is expanding their store. This week they got in live blue crabs and are selling them for $4.99/lb. They are Padre Island Beach Hotel sign also available at their Port A store. La Palmera Mall has a large play area for children upstairs near the Build a Bear Workshop. I›m guessing if you do take your child there to play you will be bringing home a teddy bear. There were 20 crashes reported on the Island between July 10 - 27. Seawall tidbit - It was built in 1968 and was the only privately owned seawall in the country. In 1969 there was a request to close the beach in front of the seawall. At the hearing were 65 Corpus Christi residents and 59 opposed the request. When I moved here from Chicago in 1993 it was a retirement community. We were one of the few young families and enjoyed what was then called «ski alley» many times with no other boats there. Later when I wrote for the Moon I would write stories called "How did you end up here?" because it truly was a good question at the time. Most residents came from other states and I would always say the minority on the Island were Texans. I would also say we were the best kept secret. Now no need to ask how did you get here because we have been discovered and I welcome the diversities in background and age groups. I am looking forward to the next stage and embracing our new Islanders. So post your “How you ended up here” story on Live blue crabs at Paul's Seafood Market.. Facebook when I post briefs or email editor@islandmoon. com. I think it will make for an interesting read. A8 Island Moon July 29, 2021 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon Elevating the Game

Harrison Dillard By Andy Purvis College Football Hall graduated in 1966 with a degree in history. In By Dotson Lewis of Fame Coach, Pat Dye, 1968, you could find Terry at the University of once said, “Great football teams improve when Kansas as an unpaid defensive line coach for Dotson’s Note: With the although he filled out to 158 pounds on a 5-10 they win. They are not satisfied with their “Pepper” Rogers. Terry was allowed to eat with 2020 (2021) Olympics in full swing, I could not frame at his physical peak. performance.” The fellow I’m writing about the team, but managed an apartment complex pass up the chance to remind all of you Moon Eddie Finnigan, his college coach, refined his represented everything you would believe in the for money. He was paid $7,500 the following Monkeys of one of the greatest Olympic athletes skills as he became the world’s best hurdler. game of football. This guy had something very season. I ever met. He was a true American hero, He led his team mates four Ohio Athletic few coaches had, he connected with the fans. having served in the army in WWW II. Thanks Terry would follow Rogers to UCLA in 1971, Conference track crowns. Finnigan called him Young or old, it made no difference. He was to Bill Morgan (former SWC SID), Bob Dolgan as the offensive line coach. When Rogers left, “the finest young man I have ever known.” one of them. This coach was a positive guy and Phillip Morris for the facts contained in new head coach Dick Vermeil took over and Dillard served in the Army for 32 months during who understood that dark skies don’t always this report and to Bill Morgan for the photos. kept Donahue as an assistant. Terry Donahue World War II. After the Germans surrendered, mean rain, but he always looked like his dog became the UCLA Bruins head football coach he won two hurdles’ races at the GI Olympics had just died. The man squinted a bit when, he in 1976, when Vermeil departed. Sports in Frankfurt before a crowd of 25,000 U.S. talked and the running joke was that if he ever Illustrated announced that Donahue may be soldiers. Gen. George S. Patton called him the fully opened his eyes you could be sure there one of the best young coaches in the country. best athlete he ever saw. would be six more weeks of summer. Squint as Donahue’s best finish came in 1982 when he led he might, this guy could also spot talent from Constant Wins the Bruins to a 10-1-1 record. He also posted an airplane. His impact as a coach went way two other ten-win seasons, in 1987 and 1988. Dillard became a household name on Cleveland beyond drawing up a play, and he worked his Coach Donahue later flirted with the passing sports pages. In 1947 and 1948, he won 82 guys hard, yet never raised his voice. As their game with quarterbacks like Troy Aikman, Steve straight races, breaking the college mark of 67 coach he gave his team leadership, excellence Bono, Jay Schroeder and Tommy Maddox. He held by distance runner Greg Rice. On April 18, and a part of his big heart. He always thought understood that a rivalry game is the one you 1948, he set the world 120-yard hurdles record his job was twofold, to either push his kids too circle on your calendar. The longstanding of 13.6 seconds, beating the runner-up, Clyde far or push them to excel. As a head coach, he rivalries are the ones that matter the most. “Smackover” Scott, by 10 yards. At his peak, he made sure everybody brought their A-Game held virtually every world hurdles mark. every Saturday. There is no doubt the Terry Terry became the lead college football analyst Donahue elevated the game of college football. for CBS, from 1996 to 1998. On January 1, Stunning Loss His legacy will live on in each of his players. 1997, I attended the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in Harrison Dillard was a huge underdog when Dillard was considered cinch to make the Tempe, Arizona, as a guest he lined up for the 100-meter dash at the U.S. Olympic team as a hurdler in the Olympic of the Pepsi Cola Company. Olympic Games of 1948 in London’s Wembley Trials. All he had to do was finish in the top My trip included a dinner two Stadium. A capacity crowd of 83,000, including three. Unbelievably, Dillard crashed into the nights before the game. This the king and queen of England, assumed he had hurdles in the final qualifier, hitting the second, is where I got to meet the CBS little chance to win against an unequalled array fourth and sixth barriers. He finished last. TV announcers, Terry Donahue of speedsters. Fans actually felt sorry for him, and Jim Nance. Also present because he had failed to qualify for the high “I was greatly disappointed,” Dillard said. “I were the two head coaches of the hurdles, at which he was acknowledged to be still felt I was the best hurdler in the world but Penn State Nittany Lions and the the best in the world. that it was not meant to be in 1948.” University of Texas Longhorns, Joe Paterno and John Mackovic. But he pulled off one of the most memorable Fortunately, he had qualified in the 100, coming in third on the U.S. team behind Mel Patton and Running back Curtis Ennis of Olympic Games track victories in history in Penn State took on the Texas a skin-tight finish. When he walked into the Ewell. But he was given almost no chance to win in London. Patton, the world-record holder; quarterback, James Brown, Olympic dining room for supper that night, the and UT running backs, Ricky assembled athletes gave him a standing ovation. Ewell and Lloyd LaBeach of Panama were the Terry Donahue. heavy favorites. Dillard was not giving up. On Williams and Priest Holmes. That was one of four Olympic gold medals the ship going to England, he practiced fast With 65,105 fans on hand, the Dillard won in his career. He is the only male score ended 38-15, with Penn State on top. starts. He told Ewell, his roommate, he was Terrence Michael Donahue was born on June runner in history to win Olympic gold in both Texas outrushed Penn State and actually led at going to beat him. Ewell said, “You’re crazy.” 24, 1944, in Los Angeles, California. Terry a dash and the high hurdles. He halftime, 12-7. In 2006, Donahue landed at the was one of five boys in the family. He attended took the hurdles in the 1952 NFL on FOX. Terry also served as an analyst St. Charles Borromeo Elementary School, Olympics at Helsinki, and ran on College Football Now on NFL Network and played football and graduated in 1962 from on winning relays in both 1948 Dial Global. Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks. and 1952. Because of his size, Terry was not recruited to Terry Donahue died at his home at Newport In an interview, Dillard play football in college, but that never stopped Beach, California, on July 4, 2021, after a two- proudly recalled his days as him. He walked on at San Jose State University year battle with cancer. He was 77 years old a sharpshooter for the famed his freshman year and then walked on at Los and is survived by his wife, Andrea, whom he Buffalo Soldiers, the all-black Angeles Valley College for one year. Terry also met on a blind date in 1968, at the University U.S. Army 92nd Division that spent some time in the gym learning to box. He of Kansas. They married two weeks after she fought in Italy during World actually beat one fellow who outweighed him graduated in 1969. They had three daughters, War II. “Please thank all the by 40 pounds. His next opponent was set to be Nicole, Michele and Jennifer, and ten service men and women for their Jerry Quarry, but Terry’s father stepped in and grandchildren. His life did not pass unnoticed. service,'' Dillard said in 2019 a put a stop to boxing. Terry would spend his final Even though he has left us now, there is no few days before Veterans Day. two college years at UCLA as a Bruin. He was doubt for me that he’s still winning. In July 2018, six former scared every time he put on his uniform because Andy Purvis is a local author and radio Olympians, including hurdles he feared he would not live up to what was personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. expected of him, yet he continued to show up com for all the latest info on his books or to great Edwin Moses, gathered 100 Meter. with dozens of others to and play. There he would play two seasons for listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books celebrate Dillard’s 95th birthday the Bruins at defensive tackle, even though he are available online and can be found in the at picnic in his backyard, at which he gladly The work on the starts paid off. Dillard sprang stood only 6 feet tall and weighed 190 pounds. local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be posed for photos and shared memories. “I’m so to a big lead as the gun went off. At 50 meters, His 1965 team became the first Bruins team to contacted at [email protected]. Also grateful for the people that showed up,” Dillard he was three to five feet ahead. But Patton, win the Rose Bowl. This team was nicknamed listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s said. “There are many people here that meant Ewell and LaBeach poured it on in their long- the “Gutty Little Bruins,” because nobody on the Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. so much to me over the years. I don’t see them legged fury. When they hit the tape they were all defensive line weighed more than 225 pounds; com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of every day anymore but the chance to see and practically even. that is unheard of in today’s game. Donahue the Houston Astros. talk with them and restore the memories.” But Dillard knew he had won. It took two Ties Owens minutes for the photo finish camera to confirm his opinion. Dillard had prevailed in 10.3 His four golds tie the record of his idol seconds, tying the Olympic record. and fellow Clevelander, Jesse Owens, who dominated the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Dillard Relay Victory spent his entire life in Cleveland. In 1995 he He picked up his second gold medal in the won the Sullivan Award, given to the nation’s Catch of the Week 400-meter relay. Ewell led off the race, followed outstanding amateur athlete. by Lorenzo Wright, Dillard in the third spot Life did not begin with promise for Dillard. His and Patton anchoring. A few days later, Dillard late mother, Tarah, remembered in 1953 that he was one of a handful of U.S. athletes chosen to was frail and sickly when he was born. “The attend a reception in Buckingham Palace. poor boy suffered from rickets and he couldn’t Dotson’s Other Note: Harrison Dillard died even stand up until he was 16 months old,” Mrs. November 15, 2019 at the age of 96. For information regarding watching the Olympic events on TV, I suggest you contact your local NBC Station or for streaming in case you missed it above, go to: www.NBCOlympics.com or to me: [email protected] and or: Mobile: 530-748-8475

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Dillard said. But speed was in his blood. “I inherited my Send letters and photos to speed from my father, William Dillard,” he said. “When I was 14 and plenty fast, Dad could beat [email protected] me in a race.” Dillard grew up on E. 63d St., between Woodland and Beaver avenues, an Facebook: The Island integrated neighborhood. Early Success Moon Newspaper At East Tech, he quickly became one of the best sprinters and hurdlers in high school. He Now available online at won two state titles as a senior in 1941. His Tech coach, Ivan Greene, nicknamed him “Bones,” islandmoon.com because of his thin build. It was a nickname that would remain with him throughout his life,

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We all knew that a against the setting sun. Those are by far not they are pulled in the jetty that they have hatched cut bait, mono leader speckled trout spawn was imminent based on the only wildlife that has called this island and are motile, feeding, and happen to land on over 50lb, or light wire the full moon (and Joey’s reports), but there home for longer than we claimed this strip of their preferred seagrass around Mollie Beattie leaders are best to keep was the evidence right in front of us. Trout are sand. Most of my scrambled stories revolve and Packery Flats. So, part of the spawned them from cutting your protracted spawners, which means that they around the local outdoors but, the importance eggs, or at least the lucky millions that stay in line. Circle hooks will will spawn several times over a period of days. of the big changes in the old Schlitterbahn the water instead of washing up on the beach, catch them in the corner So, some of them spawned a few days before, exceeds the metamorphosis of Padre’ Island. Mr. Floyd Anderson can find a niche and get to growing and avoid of the mouth and allow some during, and some a few days after the The Lakes inside this property are VITAL got out this week being bird food. This process happens around you to release them full moon. The eggs have a high lipid content, GREEN SPACES for this area. Big business with his daughters all the Texas passes, and is obviously tide and easily. Limit is one per which makes them buoyant and they float to is aiming to develop this island in a big way in and brought this current dependent. That’s the advantage to angler, and you need the surface after they’ve been fertilized. The all the remaining areas that are crucial to local broadcast spawning over days and weeks, and magnificent Trout to to know what kind of eggs float along at the mercy of the current and wildlife, including the human life forms! If we several times a year, and in different locations. hand. shark you are catching winds, and hatch around 24 hours later. The fry Spread the odds. That way nature doesn’t put as there are some you immediately start looking to drop out and settle all of her eggs, uh, well, you know. I couldn’t can keep and some you can›t. If you have a child, into preferred habitat, which is seagrass beds to help it. And that’s your too-much-information grandchild or mentor who loves the outdoors, begin the next phase. science lesson for the week. take them shark fishing this month. The first But what happens if you’re in the surf, no one is always a memory you never forget. Stay with me! Besides the biology lesson, the more motile than plankton, and you’re 7 miles reason I bring this up is twofold; stocking efforts (or many more) from the pass and extensive Trout fishing has been good around zones of the fish hatcheries, and the recent pressure seagrass beds that you can hide in? Or worse of good tidal circulation. Summer spawning is on the resource. I’ll get to the hatcheries yet, you’re still in the egg and the egg washes usually very minimal, but this year after a great in a minute. You loyal readers have seen the up on the beach? Well, you’d better either freeze set back we are seeing large spawning immense pressure of having tournaments every instantly sprout legs and walk back into the activity in all of our trout populations. This weekend, and now also with the pandemic water, or you are bird food. In fact, many eggs makes it very important to release the larger and people crowding the coast, and how many that wash up on the beach become exactly that. trout if not all of your catch. Populations will people are pulling fish out of the water. Last Birds like the red knots, ruddy turnstones, and return, but that will take years not months. week I wrote about a few questionable guides some sandpipers likely gorge themselves on who are putting additional pressure on the trout the eggs, although I don’t have any pics of that The edges of the ICW have been a great populations, despite a majority of the “good occurring. place to find redfish and trout with live shrimp. guides” laying off the trout this season. It’s Recent low tides are pulling bait and gamefish However, there is alternative ending for some tough to be a speckled trout out there these days. off of the grass choked flats and into the tidal of the eggs. The trout eggs that get spawned in CCA Banquet movements of the main channel. Soft plastics the surf (and happen to stay in the water) close at dawn along the edge is a great way to spend to the passes on the south side drift north with I’ll land the plane! The CCA Banquet is your morning. Walking the west side shallow the prevailing current and can get pulled into the today, and a lot of the money raised goes to crest along the channel is easy walking. Most passes during the incoming tide, which is what habitat, but also to support game wardens and Cannon and his dad Duncan got off the of the boats you see fishing the PACKERY has been lining up with the full moon lately. our fish hatcheries. Some of the previous funds beach with me this week hunting Cannon’s Channel the last few weeks are fishermen Using an average of a 2-knot current, and an raised went to a new building specifically for first shark! casting at schools of black drum. Getting in the incoming tide of nearly 12 hours, that means a hatching flounder, and they recently spent some middle of twirling boats and casting anglers the tax payers are going to deal with the tax constant stream of trout eggs could be coming emergency funds on four large heat exchangers is sometimes too much for sports fishermen. breaks, the construction, and the environmental for the trout tanks at the hatchery for increased These schools of black drum can be caught on changes coming with the flow through bridge, trout production this season. I spoke with our the bottom with live shrimp and crab as well. we should demand a series of city parks around friend and hatchery manager Ashley Fincannon these ponds. If not they will only become water over at the Flour Bluff facility, and she said her Redfish have been spending their days under view lots for large rental properties. Half of Fish team has stocked just over 1 million trout from all that thick grass out in the flats. The best the waterfowl that migrate here in the fall and Aransas Bay to South Padre already this year. time to catch them is in the afternoon, when winter use this area for fresh water and shelter. This easily surpasses last years numbers, and the winds are strong enough to push your bait It is a habitat for turtles, fish, snakes, and who they still have a production cycle or two to go across the flats. Big 1/2-3/4 ounce spoons will Cleaning knows how many other species. Everyone I this fall! Amazing efforts by the TPWD team let you send a cast well away from any boat know that lives around the property is worried Only $.50 per Pound at MARKER 37 out there! Without the hatcheries putting so noise and vibration. A steady retrieve will bring that their once golf course view will be reduced many fish back in the water, I don’t know how those redfish up and out of the grass when they Let us clean your fish! to the backside of an apartment building! The much of a resource we would have based on the feel the pulse of the spoon. I’ve also continue to Snoopy’s will deliver food time is now to work with city and regional amount of pressure we’re seeing. So, I will see catch most of my redfish on OWNER FLASHY groups to secure a place where residents and while you wait! some of you this evening at the banquet, and the SPINNERS with a DOA 4” shrimp; you have visitors can walk through some green areas rest of you next week here On the Rocks. to order them on line cuz they are hard to find! Order at Marker 37 within all the new projects of the future. Another sexy redfish bait is a 1/16-1/8 ounce

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Full Transparency and Disclosure Flood Preparedness & Safety Tips PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President By Todd Hunter, District 32 As always, let me have of this group would be to organize political Previously, I shared important information on attention to local emergency alerts and weather your thoughts. You can pressure on the City to receive City services how to prepare in case of a hurricane. I would advisories issued by the National Weather reach me at marvin@ in proportion to the taxes that are paid. This like to revisit that topic in relation to another Service. These alerts and advisories are helpful pipoa.net or call me at community pours millions of dollars into the type of weather emergency with the potential to in determining the risk of flooding in your 469-231-3485. You can City coffers and receives little in return. affect residents of the Coastal Bend: flooding. area and what, if any, action you should take. also call the PIPOA office Given our community’s proximity to the Texas Typically, there are four key terms used that with any questions you Board Meeting- On Tuesday, July 27, 2021, coast, many residents are already aware that help to indicate your risk level: have at 361-949-7025. the Board held its monthly meeting. The meeting was routine and quiet. Only five flooding can occur near the water or in other Flood Advisory: A Flood Advisory is issued Bad News- On Tuesday, July 27, 2021, I members attended the meeting. Highlights low-lying areas. However, as illustrated by the when flooding is not expected to be bad enough had a chance meeting with the Island Code from the meeting are as follows. A recent flood events, flooding is a possibility to issue a warning. However, it may cause Enforcement Officer. The officer disclosed the representative from our Investment Advisory even in those areas not typically at risk for this significant inconvenience, and if caution is not City has put on hold enforcement of the RS6, Company gave a presentation regarding the type of weather disaster. With this in mind, I exercised, it could lead to situations that may single-family residential, zoning violations. status of our investment/reserve account. would like to share some of the necessary steps threaten life and/or property. That is, the City is not enforcing the ordinance According to the advisor, our account is in you can take to ensure your family is safe and against short-term rentals. Apparently, this great condition. However, the extremely prepared in case of a flood. Flood Watch: A Flood Watch is issued when has been the case for some weeks now. The conditions are favorable for a specific hazardous low-interest rates are inhibiting the income One of the most important ways to prepare for reason given by the officer was that the City weather event to occur. A Flood Watch is issued produced by the account. The Board a weather emergency is by developing a family Attorney’s office could not figure out how to when conditions are favorable for flooding, but discussed the issue with lumber being piled disaster response plan. This can be accomplished gather the evidence to prosecute the citations it does not mean flooding will occur. on canal ends and boat ramps. A draft of a by first identifying specific flood risk factors given for the violations. policy to deal with this matter was discussed. such as geographical location, the structure in Flood Warning: A Flood Warning is issued During the last campaign for election, the The Board decided to invite deck and dock which you reside, and personal circumstances when the hazardous weather event is imminent Mayor and the Island City Council Person builders to a meeting with the PIPOA to such as medical conditions. Another important or already happening. A Flood Warning is voiced their support for prohibiting short- discuss this issue and get their input before component of this disaster response plan is issued when flooding is imminent or occurring. finalizing a policy to control the placement term rentals in our single-family residential identifying evacuation strategies in order Flash Flood Warning: A Flash Flood Warning areas. In addition, the ISAC (Island Strategic of the lumber. Members of the PIPOA are to prevent confusion and injury in times of repairing and building new decks and docks is issued when a flash flood is imminent or Action Committee) and PIPOA Boards have emergency. occurring. If you are in a flood prone area unanimously voted for enforcement of the at a record pace. Oftentimes, the contractors In addition to a comprehensive family disaster move immediately to high ground. A flash zoning ordinance. The position of the PIPOA require a deposit from a property owner, response plan, another key way to prepare for a flood is a sudden violent flood that can take and ISAC has been on numerous occasions which the contractors use to purchase lumber. flood is by creating a disaster response kit that from minutes to hours to develop. It is even presented to the City Council and the City Many people have called for the PIPOA to includes items such as flashlights, batteries, possible to experience a flash flood in areas not Manager. Furthermore, I have attended two confiscate or destroy the lumber. It may be telephones, radios and sufficient tools in case of immediately receiving rain. recent Council meetings at which the City the contractor’s fault for placing the material an emergency. Manager and the City Attorney were present. on the canal end, but destroying the lumber When flooding occurs in your area, it is In my presentation to the group, I made it clear hurts a homeowner who has paid for it. Other important items to consider are blankets, important to remember to always avoid walking that 80% of our members do not want short- Finally, the Board unanimously voted to stay pillows, seasonal clothing and special items or driving through floodwaters when possible. term rentals in single-family residential areas. with tradition and not hold a Board meeting for infants and the elderly. Be sure to also It only takes six inches of moving water to The City Council and City management are in August. include first aid supplies as well as medicines affect the ability to walk and two feet of water fully aware of member’s rejection of short- Boat Ramps- The PIPOA intends to have the and prescription drugs. Along with various to sweep a vehicle away. Information regarding term rentals and yet the City will not enforce Cartagena and Gypsy boat ramps repaved this necessities, this kit should include copies evacuation routes and travel safety during a their ordinance. year. It is difficult to get bids from cement of personal documents such as insurance storm is available by visiting https://drivetexas. information, birth certificates, and family and org/. For more information please related to The PIPOA is not designed for political companies. Business is booming in the emergency contact information. The American floods, visit https://www.ready.gov/floods, action activities. (My editorial comment) construction business. Thus, the contractors Red Cross also recommends having a three-day https://www.weather.gov/safety/flood, and This island needs a full-blown independent are too busy to put out bids. Plus, these supply of nonperishable food and water on hand group of dedicated citizens that will create contractors have a labor shortage. If you have questions regarding any of the in case of a flood. an active political action group. The purpose information mentioned in this week's article, Protecting your home, car, and other personal please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or property should also include ensuring you District Office. Please always feel free to have the right insurance coverage in case of a contact my office if you have any questions weather event such as flooding. The National or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if PUC and ERCOT Provide Update on Flood Insurance is a pre-disaster flood program you would like to contact my office regarding designed to reduce flood disasters. There is constituent services. As always, my offices are Summer Preparations and Expectations typically a 30-day waiting period for most available at any time to assist with questions, insurance policies to go into effect, which is concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- Taking critical steps to more aggressively why it is essential to have the right coverage 463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603). in place before a weather emergency occurs. You can learn more about the National Flood - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 manage the grid Insurance program at https://www.floodsmart. Public Utility Commissioner Chairman Peter So far in July, ERCOT has procured more than gov . Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). Lake and ERCOT Interim President and CEO 800 additional hours of generation service by He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. In the event of inclement weather, those living Brad Jones this week issued an update on steps overriding normal market functions to force texas.gov or at 512-463-0672. in areas susceptible to flooding should pay close their organizations are taking to improve grid power plants into action. This is more than any reliability as the hottest days of summer draw single month in recent history. The purchase of near. reserve power in July 2021 was up 38% year over year with the August increase projected “As summer heats up and we work to make the Webinar Offers Michael White at 56%. Most Texas customers will not see an most out of existing resources, we’ve directed increase in their bill as a result of this action. ERCOT to take aggressive action to increase Information for Announces His the amount of reserve power available,” said “We expect there is sufficient generation to meet Chairman Lake. “While our policy efforts are summer 2021 electric demand; however, there School Board Candidacy for sharply focused on the long-term goals set by may be times when we will call on customers Governor Abbott and the Texas Legislature, to conserve just as other grid operators across Candidates Justice of the Peace these operational changes will increase the the country and around the world do – it’s just Anyone interested in running for the Flour grid’s margin of safety in the near-term.” another tool in the toolbox,” said Jones. “In Bluff ISD School Board can get background Precinct 4 response to a conservation notice, Texans may The PUC has directed ERCOT to significantly information through a free webinar offered Island resident Michael White this week need to take some simple steps for a limited increase the amount of power on standby for by the Texas Association of School Boards announced his candidacy for Justice of the duration – such as doing laundry in the morning the afternoon hours when summer demand is at (TASB) on Tuesday, August 10, noon–1 p.m. Peace Precinct 4 which covers Padre Island, or running the pool pump at night instead of the its highest. ERCOT is doing this by purchasing This webinar helps participants understand what Flour Bluff, and Port Aransas. afternoon – to ensure grid reliability.” is involved in being elected to and serving on a more reserve power from generators whose Justice of the Peace courts hear traffic and other local school board. Learn the difference between plants can respond relatively quickly when The PUC website, www.powertosavetexas.org, Class C misdemeanor cases punishable by fine the board’s and the staff’s responsibilities, needed. Known as Ancillary Services, these offers a variety of simple conservation tips for only, civil cases with up to $10,000, landlord how to campaign constructively, and where reserves are essential for a grid operator like Texas electric customers. and tenant disputes, truancy cases, performs to find information about being a candidate. ERCOT to maintain the critically delicate Over the long-term, the PUC is working magistrate duties and conducts inquests. balance between power supply and demand. to implement the laws passed by the Texas There is no cost to participate, but registration In addition to working as an Assistant District In addition, ERCOT is acting more quickly Legislature which focus on reforming ERCOT, is required. If you are unable to attend the live Attorney, White is also Treasurer of the Texas to secure additional power when the cushion weatherizing the state’s electric system, session, you will receive a webinar recording Longboard Surf Club and has served as a between generation supply and customer bolstering the integrity of the grid and giving to watch after the session concludes if you Republican Party Precinct Chair. While in demand is too small. In years past, ERCOT may the agency greater penalty authority to compel are registered. For more information about college White joined the United States Coast have held off on exercising its authority to force compliance. the webinar, call TASB Board Development Guard Reserve, serving in Port Aransas and a power plant to come online at cost (known as “As we tackle the challenge of redesigning Services, 800.580.8272, extension 2453. Corpus Christi, and was activated for Desert a Reliability Unit Commitment or “RUC”) until the electricity market, everything is on the Shield/Storm. the very last moment, hoping the price for power table, from incentivizing the construction of For information on board service, would convince generators to fire up their plants. Michael is the consummate Island resident, new power plants to capitalizing on improving visit our For Board Candidates page. who enjoys the beach and waterways, every “In keeping with the PUC’s direction, our battery technology,” concluded Lake. “In the weekend. Whether he is surfing, fishing, new standard process is to pull the trigger meantime, we’ll keep Texans informed as our TASB is a nonprofit association established in boating or beach combing, his vision is always much earlier to help avoid potentially tight grid state weathers another hot summer and we 1949 to serve local Texas school boards. School the Island. He has been a strong public servant, conditions,” said Jones. “For Texans and Texas pursue the grid reliability that Texans demand board members are the largest group of publicly who understands the importance of applying businesses, this simply means that the electricity and deserve.” elected officials in the state. The districts they common sense to the application of law. is there when they need it.” represent serve more than 5.4 million school students. Election Day for the race is Tuesday March 1, 2022. The Justice of the Peace elections will be held concurrently with the statewide direct primary election. The seat is currently held by Duncan Neblett Jr.

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We got Maybe Sunday huh? here last Tuesday. It is now Friday. Refections on the journey, so far; As researchers at Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, At Colorado River Mouth Flats, seven chicks The above mentioned locals are starting to call we still have a month left of beach nesting bird that hatched last month have successfully DOLPHINS; In my mind I see the two leaping, us by our first name, and we probably have two season along the Upper Texas Coast. The target fledged. We also discovered two more broods side by side, high in the air, a full body length more days setting here. Everything is starting to species we focusing on are Wilson’s Plover and with three chicks total. We had one nest hatch out of the water before pitching over in perfect look very familiar and achieve that comfortable Least Tern. Both of these species are protected with two chicks, but unfortunately, they have unison back into the water. This, one hundred patina of home. by the Migratory Bird Act and are considered disappeared. The last active nest at CRMF yards in front of the boat as we left the Port species of high concern due to habitat loss and ended up failing due to depredation by ghost Not the normal definitive expectations of O'Conner jetties, Lat. 28 26.5'N. disturbance. For each species, we monitor for crabs. We banded four more chicks and one people on a timetable cruise is it? Long. 85 49'W, West Bay, I see four swimming pairs, nests, and chicks. We also band Wilson’s female adult Wilson’s Plover (M6). So far, side by side, surfing in our wake. Largest Plover adults and their chicks to help keep track What it is, –- is, here we are waiting on a lady. we have zero active nests, three small chicks, inside, next to the boat, graduating in even of them. Wilson’s Plover chicks are able to fly – Again.-- Lili is her name. And a stormy ole seven fledged chicks, five banded adults, and 16 increments to the smallest outside. In the clear within 30 to 35 days after hatching. Chicks that gal she is. Just ask a bunch of the people south banded chicks total for Matagorda. water I see their every movement, almost as if are able to fly are declared fledged. The Least of us in Cuba. it were a dance well practiced. Every few yards Tern chicks take 20 days to fly. At Sargent Beach, we split the island into It is a pity though, for the seas were as smooth the largest would leap full length out of the face two sections, Sargent East and as they could get for our next leg, outside from Sargent West. This past month of the wave and roll over on her side, to land Carrabelle Pass to Big Marco Pass some 300 back in the water with a resounding SLAP! -- we discovered six more broods miles south of here and our final destination. with a total of 11 chicks. One of There to start the whole dance over again. For the two chicks from last month The decision was made to stay here to watch over a mile these beautiful friends entertained has successfully fledged. We Lili while she made up her mind as to which was me and made that particular moment, in the had seven more nests fail due to the direction of her choice. As everybody knows sunshine, very special. either weather or disturbance. these lady storms seem to have the propensity to Never have I seen so many of these wonderful We banded two more Wilson’s make last minute decision changes. creatures in aerial displays in so many different Plover adults: one female (N6) And Apalachicola has a very good hurricane places. Besides the two incidents above there and one male (L6) and banded hole about three miles away, should she decide were the ones in the Mississippi Sound, the 10 more chicks. Two Least Tern to come here. Galveston jetties and Mobile Bay to name other chicks have been observed so spots. far; however, one has already So here we set, ourselves and about 10 to 15 disappeared and the other is other southbound boats. Getting on a first name THE COLD; Looking down, I see my face unfortunately in a bad spot in the basis with these folks too. reflected in the instrument panel cover of the fly-bridge helm. I am reminded of an arctic way of vehicles. Very few Least But if you gotta be holed up some place, explorer, with the watch cap, the hooded shirt, The first 2021 banded Wilson’s Plover chick to Terns still have nests. So far, we Apalachicola is about as good of a spot as you the kerchief and the sunglasses to ward of the successfully fly on Sargent Beach. have zero active nests, 11 small could ask for. Sort of a small, (2500 people), bright sunshine reflections on the water before Photo by Taylor Bennett. chicks, six banded adults, and 13 Port Aransas, without the ferry, with clear water. me. And I am still cold, in this combined breeze banded chicks at Sargent. And great oysters!! of East wind and East bound boat. As you can see, it’s extremely difficult for But we have already bought the tee shirt and On Matagorda Beach, we monitor half of Am I so thin blooded, with my Padre Island these birds to hatch and fledge chicks! April are ready to go. Matagorda Peninsula and three areas: Colorado life style, that any cool breeze will chill me to River Mouth Flats (CRMF), Three-mile Cut, through August is the most vulnerable time for Wilson’s Plover, Least Tern, and other nesting You would think that because we know where the bone? Probably so. As was reinforced by the and Dunes Drive. At Matagorda Peninsula, we Lili is now going, and with the smooth sea state guy at Long. 87 26'W, Perdido Key, Fla. who had three more nests hatch this month with a birds. So, please remember to fish, swim, and play 50 yards away from nesting birds and outside, we and a bunch of other boats would was standing up and rowing his skiff down the total of five chicks. We had four nests that were leaving this small piece of paradise like a covey channel as we passed, wearing only that little- due to hatch, but unfortunately did not make chicks. Drive slowly, avoid the dunes and sandy areas where birds tend to nest, and keep dogs of flushed quail. bitty piece of cloth, just big enough to cover it after the 4th of July due to disturbance from what was being frozen off on me!! vehicles and people. All of the chicks have on a leash. All of the Wilson’s Plover adults and Not to be, for this very afternoon arrives another disappeared and have not been observed since chicks we band this year will be available for piece of named type weather. More commonly From the galley of the "SAMUEL D II", the day they hatched. Hopefully they are safe symbolic adoption through our online nature known back in Texas as "Blue Norther". It will Apalachicola, Fla., Del Smith and hidden in the dunes! store www.gcbo.org. On behalf of Gulf Coast no doubt arrive just when I am halfway to the Bird Observatory, thanks for reading! BBB Tip: Save money and Christmas in July avoid scammers this back-to- Sandy Graves | La Posada Foundation school season I just wanted to take a moment to thank you all Lastly I want to thank the entire La Posada for the overwhelming support of The La Posada Team. Each and every one of you are dedicated Katie Galan | Regional Director, BBB. Foundation's Christmas in July event to benefit and work hard to make all our events a success and Christmas in July was no exception. Students and parents are gearing up for back- Research expensive purchases to-school season as the summer break comes Before purchasing expensive items such as Thank you all again! to a close. With the emphasis on in-person computers, laptops, or a refrigerator for a instruction resuming in Texas, shopping for dorm, be sure to spend some time to research back-to-school supplies is expected to be vastly the brand, reviews of the product, warranty and different this year than it was during the 2020- prices at multiple locations. Universities often ’21 school year. have rules regarding the size and placement of According to the National Retail Federation, refrigerators in dorms. Check with the housing almost half (49%) of parents with school- office at the college or university on whether an aged children said their kids are most excited energy-efficient refrigerator is required or not. about shopping for back-to-school clothing this year. Additionally, 61% of consumers plan to Ask for student discounts purchase their back-to-school supplies around Stores and software companies often offer major sale events including Prime Day, Fourth discounts to students that have either a student of July or Labor Day. With the majority of ID or valid .edu email address. Even if a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots. I consumers turning to online marketplaces for discount is not advertised, it never hurts to ask. also would like to thank Amy, manager at The their shopping needs this year, it is important Boathouse Bar and Grill for allowing us to hold to exercise caution before making an online Shop in bulk our event there. I also must thank our island's purchase. If purchasing standard items that are needed own Stevie Start who so graciously shared his Between May-July 2020, Texas consumers at the beginning of each school year, such time and provided lost an average of $50,000 per month to online as binders, notebooks or writing utensils, us with wonderful purchasing scams, according to BBB Scam purchasing items in bulk is a great way to save entertainment. Tracker data. Many of those who lost money money. It was you the to online clothing stores found the business Shop safely online Islanders who made through an advertisement on social media, a this event such common tactic that scammers use across the If purchasing school supplies online, verify a success. Your nation. One Texas consumer reported more than that the URL starts with “https” and includes generosity is greatly $500 lost to an online seller who “takes your a lock symbol. The “s” in “https” stands for appreciated. money when you order his merchandise but secure and includes additional encryption and Because of you, never sends anything that was purchased. When security measures than a “http” website. The La Posada I tried to message him about the missing order, If purchasing from a lesser-known website, Foundation was able he blocked me and told me I couldn’t make him make sure to take the time to read reviews and to collect enough do anything.” feedback from previous customers. The lowest toys to fill 13 large “It is important to exercise extreme caution price may not always be the best route. If the contactor bags, when dealing with online sellers, even if the company’s contact information is not clearly 2 bicycles, and a advertisement appears to be for a well-known listed, or they only have an email as the point riding Fire truck. company,” said Heather Massey, vice president of contact, that is a red flag. You may want to You all also donated of communications for BBB serving the Heart shop elsewhere. $323.00! Those of Texas. “Scammers know how to make toys collected are BBB strongly recommends against using websites and advertisements look legitimate. now safely secured unprotected payment options when interacting They know the shopping trends of American in our storage unit with online marketplaces. If the seller asks for consumers and, right now, the trend is for until December payment via wire transfer or a gift card, that is a back-to-school supplies and clothing. If you when we present all sign it may not be a legitimate business. Using encounter an advertisement on social media, toys collected to the a credit card is almost always the best option be sure to check with the official website of the U.S. Marine Corps when purchasing online due to the additional company to verify it is a legitimate offer.” Reserve. protections they have to dispute and resolve To assist back-to-school shoppers this season, charges when purchased products are not The La Posada Better Business Bureau offers the following tips received. Foundation team to save money and avoid scams: have several more For more tips for back-to-school shopping, upcoming events Check around your home visit BBB.org/BackToSchool. planned, so be on Start back-to-school shopping right at home by If you or someone you know has been a victim the lookout for when of a scam, report it to BBB Scam Tracker. they are announced. making a list of everything that you need and then taking stock of everything that you may Information provided may prevent another I would like to also thank the generosity of Dale have stored in desks, drawers, closets or storage person from falling victim. and Jan Rankin. The Island Moon has never areas. Some supplies may still be left over from hesitated to print what we submit on behalf of La last year, saving you from purchasing the same Posada and Toys for Tots. Without your support item twice. the foundation would not be as successful. 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By Ronnie Narmour [email protected] Hot enough for you? I just saw a forecast online that said the devastating heat wave that’s engulfed the entire western half of our country is supposed to last until November. Meanwhile it’s flooding most everywhere else. And I hope everyone is hurricane prepared because the Gulf waters are bath tub warm already and the weather wonks say to get your act together now Mike O'Neill with Charlie Rouzer on B-3 because it’s going to be a very active season. and Antone Perez on drums and not shown Now begins the game of watching every tropical disturbance and watching their trajectory is Art Galvan on bass played Shorty's on compared to the spaghetti models and not Friday. exhaling until it gone away. It’s nerve racking. The local live music I stay glued to Mike’s Weather Page and the scene is on fire and Real deal blues man E.J. Mathews will play the Back Porch on Thursday. NOAA radars watching the storms develop. that’s the way I like And, I feel sorry for Louisiana whose been it. Taylor native, catching the lion’s share of these tropical storms Brooke Graham, in recent years… not that I’m complaining. I’ve was in town this been dodging Texas weather my whole life. If it weekend with her annual “Beach Live Music wasn’t for all the dust storms and tornadoes in Lubbock, the floods in Austin and San Antonio Party.” She had a lot and all the various storms on the coast that I’ve of fun activities going been eluding for the past 68 years, then I’d need and played a show Thomas Michael Riley at the Gaff after the Tonight to find a new hobby. Truth be told, I honestly enjoy a good storm. They’re really exciting to played the Back Porch world famous BELT Thursday, July 29 John Amundsen & watch them build in the sky. I can remember as on Saturday. SANDER RACES Padrinos @ The in which I came in Falco & The Wolf @ a kid in Lubbock my mom would get the whole Treasure Island Exchange family down into the storm cellar every time the a dismal fourth place. The Moon Monkey did OTB @ Shorty’s Ty Dietz @ Tulita wind swirled. And she would get so mad at me not abide. I did get to run down the line giving E.J. Mathews @ Back Community Center for staying out in the yard to watch the storms out Island Moon Newspapers in grand Opra Porch come in. It’s a different story with hurricanes Winfrey style… “You get a Moon, and you get Rich Lockhart @ Bron’s E.J. MATHEWS JULY 29 Sunday, August 1 though. I’m no hero there.Not since Harvey. a Moon. “ That was fun! On Thursday the show Sonny Salinas @ Rockit’s Jim Dugan, Ty Dietz @ But in the mean time it’s hotter than dickens out to catch was the Chanklas at the Back Porch. I Matt Hole @ Executive BRI BAGWELL JULY 30 Shorty’s Bandis Downs @ Back there. Stay hydrated yall. know I said it a hundred times, but that there’s Surf Club Colby Swift, Nathan MARIO FLORES JULY 31 Porch a very good band. They have the island beat Kevin Kurtz, Buddy On the local front… down to a science. On Friday it was country Bonnes @ Brewster BANDIS DOWNS AUG 1 Downtown Vargas @ Bron’s with Clay Hollis at the Porch, the great Ty Eric Graham @ Brewster RIP TIDE AUG 4 Ruben Limas @ Dietz at Bron’s and some super tight blues at South Side Blackbeard’s Shorty’s with Mike O’Neill who just happened John Cortez, Bushbullit @ Open Mic @ House of 132 W. Cotter St. Port A to have Charlie Rouzer on Hammond B-3, Bay Jammin’ at Cole Park Roc k Art Galvan on bass 16th Anniversary- Los Rehenes, La Sonora and Antone Perez on Swimming with Bears + 4 Dinamita @ Brewster skins. On Saturday it @ House of Rock Downtown Jerry Ward @ Pelican was Thomas Michael Art Barrera @ Salty Oak BBQ Lounge Riley’s birthday at the Art Barrera @ Tarpon Back Porch. Thomas Friday, July 30 Inn has another handful of It was a good turn out for George Ty Dietz @ Shorty’s Treasure Island Ty Dietz @ Black shows scheduled at the Bri Bagwell @ Back Diamond (2-5) Gapnepain's send off last Sunday at Porch this year and it’s Porch FALCO & THE WOLF JULY 29 Shorty's. imperative that you see Born in November @ Monday, August 2 one. Also on Saturday Treasure Island BORN IN NOVEMBER JULY30-31 Tyler Jordan @ Bron’s Stevie Start @ Doc’s On the local front, congratulations to Red’s the fabulous Back Pew John Amundsen & CRUISE CONTROL AUG 6 Padrinos @ Bron’s Riviera for placing first in this year’s dart league. Revival played Shorty’s. Todd Dorn and the Jim Dugan @ Fisherman’s Tuesday, August 3 They had their awards ceremony last Tuesday at I’m more impressed with JON MIKAEL MREZ AUG 7 Sea Drifters will Wharf Open Mic @ Rialto Red’s and the tradition those guys every time I Dreaming in Color @ Theater- Aransas Pass is for the winning play Shorty's on see them. Gabe Fidel is Cinnamon Shore 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Last Call Duo @ Katz 21 team to host the party. Saturday. a very talented musician. 16th Anniversary- treasureislandporta Supervillains + 5 @ Wednesday, August 4 Snake Farm Pies came DO NOT MISS LIST in second. Also on House of Rock John Amundsen & Coming this Saul Padron, Falco & the Padrinos @ Cinnamon the local front, it was Shore a good turnout for weekend… Wolf @ Rockit’s Sublime With Rome, The Ty Dietz @ Vernon’s George Gapnepain’s A lot. That’s what’s Dirty Heads @ Concrete Riptide @ Back Porch send off at Shorty’s coming this weekend. Street Open Jam @ Executive last Sunday. We were Starting on Thursday Deftones, Chevell Tribute Surf Club able to collect about Falco and the Wolf @ Brewster Downtown Art Barrera @ Hard Knocks $3 K for his sweet plays Treasure Island, Alley Catz Duo @ Casey Lane wife Betty. George the OTB Band plays Brewster South Side celebrates 16 years and Betty have been Ruben Limas @ Thursday, August 5 Shorty’s, blues rocker Blackbeards John Cortez @ Shorty’s at the House of fixtures on the Island Rich Lockhart is at Rich Lockhart @ Back for decades and we are The Groove @ Pelican Rock in Corpus Johnny Boy Bron’s, Matt Hole is Lounge Porch deeply saddened for Christi. Amundsen will at the Surf Club and Jam Band @ Boathouse OTB BAND JULY 29 Ty Dietz @ Bron’s her loss. And finally on play Bron's on the show to see is with Art Barrera @ The Slip Summer Showcase: the local front, I want real deal bluesman E.J. CJ Simmons, Johnny th Friday. TY DIETZ JULY 30 to wish Casey Lane a well deserved happy 16 Mathews from Ft. Saturday, July 31 Kiser, Kelly Kennien @ anniversary at the House of Rock in downtown Public Sea Turtle Release Brewster Downtown Worth, Texas plays the TODD DORN JULY 31 The East & the Crow, Corpus. Casey has been putting on world class Back Porch Thursday. (10 AM) @ Pole 35 Port A shows since its inception. Casey is a pillar of Yosh & Yimmy 3-7, Todd Yosh & Yimmy @ Bay E.J. will also be Dorn & the Sea Drifters JIM DUGAN, TY DIETZ AUG 1 Jammin’ at Cole Park the community and a key component in the playing the Eastside downtown art scene. He has a big weekend @ Shorty’s Kings Festival in east Mario Flores @ Back Friday, August 6 planned for their celebration with acts such as Kin Faux @ Back Porch Austin in September. Porch OPEN 10am - 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. the Supervillains, Swimming With Bears and I saw Mr. Mathews Kevin Kurtz, Logan Blake Cruise Control @ the Texas Takeover. Attaboy Casey. You the the last time he played Presas @ Bron’s Treasure Island man, man. the Porch and was Born in November @ The Groove @ Shorty’s Jarrod Sterrett @ Bron’s blown away. It’s like Treasure Island Scattered shots… Bri Bagwell will play Hank Reeves @ Tarpon watching Muddy Jim Dugan @ Gaff the Back Porch on Chainlinks @ Marker 37 Inn Waters or John Lee Texas Takeover @ House Latin Take Over, Friday. Hooker perform. You of Rock LIVE Frankie J, Baby Bash are in the presence Judas X @ Brewster @ Concrete Street of glory! On Friday Downtown MUSIC Spazmatics @ Brewster Bri Bagwell plays the Meza Band @ Brewster SCHEDULE Downtown Back Porch, Ty Dietz South Side BACKYARD plays Shorty’s, Johnny David Martinez, Saturday, August 7 RICH LOCKHART JULY 29 Larry Joe Taylor @ Boy Amundsen is Adrenaline @ Rockit’s Dababy @ Concrete Street JOHN AMUNDSEN JULY 30 Back Porch over at Bron’s and Yosh & Yimmy (3-7), Falco & the Wolf @ KEVIN KURTZ JULY 31 Born in November Pelican Lounge Johnny Boy @ Shorty’s C Plus aka Born in (aka: C-Plus) plays The Orphanz @ Angry LOGAN BLAKE PRESAS JULY 31 Justin & Nikki @ November play a two a two nighter at Marlin Bron’s You get Moon and you get a Moon. Ronnie Treasure Island. Also Jon Mikael MREZ @ nighter at Treasure Jerry Ward @ Doc’s hands out Island Moon Newspapers at the on Friday Dreaming Jam Band @ Sugar Shack 314 E. Ave G, Port A.| (361) 336-4723 Treasure Island BELT SANDER RACES at the Island this weekend. in Color with the Rockport Dreaming in Color @ Gaff on Saturday. dynamic Debra Scott Brown on lead vocals plays Cinnamon Shore. On Saturday, this isn’t music but it’s cool… there will be a public Sea Turtle Release at 10 AM by pole 35. Also on Saturday, Yosh and Yimmy will play an afternoon show at Shorty’s and Todd Dorn will bring his smoother than a mango margarita country show in at 9:00. Also on Saturday Mario Flores is at the Back Porch, Mike’s Barbershop Kevin Kurtz plays Bron’s, Coach Jim Dugan is at the Gaff and the Chainlinks are at Marker 37. That ought to keep you busy for a while. Be safe out there. ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ Red's Riviera won first prize in this year's Dart Leauge in Port A.

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