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Issue 743 the Island Free Inside the Moon Vacation Bible School A2 Traveling Moon A9 Fishing A13 On the Rocks A13 4th of July on the Beach A14 Issue 743 The Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 July 12, 2018 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Photo by Debbie Noble Around The Sailors take notice! Giant Spiders Island Youth Sailing World Invade the By Dale Rankin Beach! As we sit here in the Word Factory the roof is falling in, not figuratively, Championships Are in Town Run for your very literally. There are guys up top putting on a new roof and the plaster is piling lives! up on the carpet. We keep one eye on the computer screen and one on the two light fixtures that are in ongoing discussions with gravity about their immediate future. On the positive side, the red snapper season in federal waters runs another week, the water along our beaches has been beautiful, the tourist season is turning out to be one of the best in memory, Port Aransas’ comeback from Hurricane Harvey is ahead of schedule, Islander Brud Jones is in Thailand and as of this writing has not been trapped in a cave, and nobody has raised our taxes in over a week…so we got that going for us. The Island Blast Fourth of July show went off under beautiful conditions – The 4th of July crowd has gone home just ahead of the storm – and the folks but the bones of their village remain. over at the Padre Island Yacht Club The skeletons of almost fifty pop-up are already working hard to make canopies, looking like Giant Spiders this year’s La Posada Boat Parade the Practice began earlier this week for the Youth Sailing World Championships. Photo by Mary Craft. from Mars, were left behind when the best ever. All in all things are looking tourist diaspora headed OTB. This good on our little sandbar as we roll The eyes of the sailing world will to compete. The sailors are vying to time it came to North America was in photo was taken the morning after on through the summer. The humidity be on Corpus Christi when the 2018 get to the next level – their country’s 1984 in San Diego. the 4th. There were about 50 canopy is off the charts but we’re used to that. edition of the Youth Sailing World Olympic team. Last year’s race took Sailors compete in five categories of skeletons between Gulfstream and El We still can’t help but wonder; what Championships comes to town. place in Sanya, China. Corpus Christi boats: Constante. happens if it turns out it wasn’t the Opening ceremonies are Sunday, July won the rights to host the event by 29er Class – A two person high humidity after all – it was the heat all 15th and the week of racing begins on beating out two other cities. The What will the archeologists think performance sailing skiff designed by along… Monday, July 16th. event began in 1971 in Angelholm, when they dig those things up a Sweden where sixteen nations took Julian Bethwaite and first produced The event is billed as the Junior thousand years from now? part. The first time the event was held in 1998. Derived from the Olympic Speaking of weather… Olympics of Sailing and 396 sailors outside Europe was in 1976. The next We often hear various theories of from 66 countries will be in town Sailing cont. on A4 why storms approaching from the Gulf often veer off as they approached Cloud Takes the north end of Padre Island. Harvey Island Grocery Store Still Roaming the Isle made the turn north and over the Island Vote in years at least a dozen storms we have played chicken with have gone north Success is one permit away Special District at the last minute or disappeared. By Dale Rankin Nina Nixon-Mendez, Director of The issue is that the property is in a Even the recent rains that flooded Development Services for the City special flood hazard zone where, if a A little over a year ago Islanders 27 Election the upper Texas Coast turned as they of Corpus Christi said this week that project has significant fill to elevate Lori and Mohsin Rasheed bought A total of 18524 voter, out of approached landfall. the only thing still needed by the a structure, the owner’s engineer a franchise from the Independent 200707 registered voters (9.23%), Rasheed’s to obtain a site work permit must submit a “no rise” statement, A common theory for why this Grocers Alliance (IGA) and began in Nueces County cast ballots in the is the completion of a hydrological certifying that the project will not happens is an upwelling of cool the process of bringing a grocery 27th Congressional District Special study and a “no rise” statement from impact the 100-year base flood bottom water due to the shallowness store to Padre Island. Election won by Republican Michael of the water off our beaches. So we the developer’s engineer. Mendez said elevations to adjoining properties. Cloud with 19,856 votes (54.7%) The plan was to locate a 18,000 asked the experts at the local office of the developer’s engineer, Victor Hugo The study must demonstrate the followed by Democrat Eric Holguin square-foot grocery store and eight the National Weather Service. We got Garcia from Vanguard Engineering of cumulative effect of the project with 11,594 (32%). this response from John Metz who retail spaces in an 33,500 square- Weslaco, has submitted his study. development when combined with foot shopping center on land they existing and proposed development On Padre Island a total of 1119 out about such things. “The staff has provided comments on purchased on SPID just north of will not obstruct flood flows and of 7547 cast ballots with Republican the study to the engineer requesting “The cooler temperatures observed Seashore Middle School. The plan increase flooding on other property. Cloud beating second place finisher additional data to be included in the along the South Texas Coast are a also calls for 6000 square-feet of Or the owner may select other design Eric Holguin who had 142. Across study, Mendez said this week. “We result of persistent southerly winds restaurant space. They also bought options such as elevating on piers, Nueces County three Democrats have clarified with the engineer that causing an upwelling of cooler a twenty-foot wide easement on the pilings or columns, that have less totaled 9240 votes compared to 8906 we are not requesting a physical temperatures from below due to back of the property to allow for golf of an impact as opposed to fill. In Republican votes also split between survey of the adjoining properties to eckman transport principle. The carts and pedestrians to access the that case, the no rise statement is not three candidates. determine topographic data, since this image below makes it easier to store from the adjacent residents. required. type of information is available in the Cloud also won the Republican visualize. They also bought wetland property public domain (Google Earth, USGS, The Rasheeds have been married for Primary and will run against offsite to compensate for the land etc.). We have been in communication 39 years with three kids and during Holguin in the November General they would develop. with the engineer, and understand that that time have built, owned, and Election. Cloud will serve in the They are now within shouting he is addressing staff’s comments and operated restaurants and shopping position through January with the distance of making the project, will be providing us a revised report.” malls in Sacramento, where they winner of the November election including the grocery store, a reality Grocerycont. on A4 then taking office. The District 27 A little Island history Strong north winds also causes upwelling and a cooling of our First Ridley Rendezvous Festival this Weekend shelf waters. Cooler sea surface temperatures tend to weaken an Celebrates 40 Years of Saving Turtles approaching tropical storm or By Dale Rankin The event will provide a rare hurricane but they don't steer them The first ever “Ridley Rendezvous” occasion for the community to away. Weather systems are moved will be held this Saturday, July 14 engage with park rangers and subject by the deep layer of wind in our at Padre Island National Seashore matter experts about Kemp’s ridley atmosphere. Surface wind direction to celebrates the 40th anniversary conservation from the United States and currents plays a big role in the of the successful collaboration and Mexico. The family friendly movement of water in our shallow of the Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle event is free and will begin with a continental shelf.” Restoration & Enhancement ranger talk at 6:30 am followed by So now you know. Project. a turtle release. Other activities will feature presentations about sea turtles Parker Pool “I am thrilled to celebrate this for adults and kids, booths and tables anniversary with representatives operated by a variety of conservation The city and county have begun talks from the various agencies who have organizations, special Junior Ranger for the county to take over Parker Pool helped with these conservation Badges, a student art exhibit, sand in Flour Bluff. The city was looking efforts for decades,” said Dr. Donna sculptures, face painting, and to hand it off and Commissioner Shaver, Chief of the Division of appearances by Padre Island National Brent Chesney has taken it under Sea Turtle Science and Recovery.
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