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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 February 22, 2018 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around South End of The Island The Island is By Dale Rankin We are telling ourselves this week Bombed with that winter is over, that may or may not turn out to be true, as we usually Pamphlets have a cold snap come Spring Break. By Dale Rankin The water temperature on the Gulf side has been in the mid-sixties so When colorful pamphlets and letters things get a little chillier as you go sent by the federal Military Munitions near the water. Response Program began arriving in mailboxes on the south end of The Bombs away! Island last week warning residents to look out for live bombs in their yards The talk of The Island this week was it caused some uneasiness. the notification to property owners around the SPID-Encantada area to The pamphlets showed ground watch out for bombs! That’s pretty zero for the “Old Bombing Target big doings on our little sandbar… B-1” to be near the SPID/Encantada bombs in the yard! Holy Cow! intersection with the area outlined in red including Balli Park and Seashore We’re still sorting out the details Learning Center. It sounds incendiary on that one, but Moon Mike once on its face, but a closer look at existing found an exploded mortar shell Volunteers from the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network were called to PINS just north of federal and historic records finds no his grandfather brought back from Malaquite Beach Tuesday to help a stranded Pigmy Sperm Whale. In spite of their hard work the whale evidence of a “Bombing Target B-1” World War I in a closet after his did not survive located in Nueces County. grandfather’s death. Mike loaded it into his backseat wrapped in a The pamphlet includes a phone blanket and took off for the nearest number and a website to check for National Guard Armory and about old bombing ranges across the United halfway there started thinking that City Funding of Water Exchange States. A check of the website and a maybe wasn’t all that great an idea… call to the listed number this week or maybe not so bad. found 370 former bomb sites in Texas, Bridge in Place with five listed in Kleberg County, “If that thing goes off,” he figured, and four in Nueces County (all across “I’ll be that last casualty of The Big Construction now waiting on private match to begin work the Laguna Madre) but no mention War. They’ll have to put my name on of a “B-1” bombing range in Nueces memorials all over the country. That’s By Dale Rankin County. The list shows Targets B-2, not a bad way to go out!” Generally Where does the TRZ money come from? The Corpus Christi City Council on speaking, if you find a bomb, don’t Bombing cont. on A4 Tuesday put the last piece of public These revenue projections assume a 95% tax collection rate for all three taxing jurisdictions. According pick it up. funding for the Park Road 22/SPID to these projections, 53.0% of the tax increment revenues will come from the City, 32.9% will come from the County, 13.5% will come from the County Hospital District, 0.2%% will come from Del Mar College, Number of Schlitterbahn sellers Water Exchange Bridge in place when and 0.4% will come from the Farm to Market Road. they approved the use of up to $4 People from Keen-Summit Capital million in funds from Tax Increment Registered Partners were on site at Schlitterbahn Refinance Zone #2 to pay for part of Sources of this week to show around any Island TRZ the $11.5 million construction price. City of Nueces Nueces Del Mar Jr. Farm to Total Island Voters potential buyers who might happen Revenue Corpus County County College Market Christi Hospital Road by. Keen-Summit has been hired by The council had previously pledged District $6.5 million in funds leftover from 2009 1,597,917 985,617 406,158 137,838 12,165 3,139,695 Tops 7500 the bankruptcy trustee overseeing the 2010 1,273,417 786,419 324,072 - 9,709 2,393,616 Chapter 11 Bankruptcy at the park to previous bond projects for the bridge, 2011 1,203,508 745,121 307,054 - 9,201 2,264,884 2012 1,372,033 849,855 350,213 - 10,494 2,582,595 market the park to potential buyers. meaning the full funding for the 2013 1,519,533 941,476 387,968 - 11,625 2,860,601 Early Voting Through 2014 1,645,468 1,019,647 420,181 - 12,590 3,097,886 So far no takers, at least no official project is now in place; except for 2015 1,761,879 1,091,870 449,943 - 13,481 3,317,173 announcement. There is no shortage one thing. 2016 2,162,313 1,340,366 552,345 - 16,549 4,071,572 March 2 2017 2,615,229 1,621,428 668,166 - 20,018 4,924,842 The total number of registered voters or rumors though, while we can’t Tuesday’s vote commits the $4 2018 3,127,882 1,939,557 799,263 - 23,945 5,890,647 2019 3,708,557 2,299,895 947,753 - 28,393 6,984,598 split between the two Padre Island address all the stories we have heard, million from the TIRZ through 2020 4,366,726 2,708,317 1,116,057 - 33,435 8,224,535 2021 5,113,212 3,171,538 1,306,944 - 39,153 9,630,847 precincts is now at 7546 according we can say that the area is not going February 28, 2019 and is contingent 2022 5,960,390 3,697,237 1,523,577 - 45,642 11,226,846 Total 37,428,065 23,198,342 9,559,692 137,838 286,400 70,610,338 to the Nueces County Clerk’s Office. to be turned into nuclear waste site, on the owners of the land surrounding Precinct 40 has 3,803 registered intentionally burned to the ground, the canal leading to the west side of and $10 million with about 80% voters, and Precinct 81 has 3,743 turned into a Taliban training site, nor the bridge site putting up $5 million refundable by the Federal Emergency registered voters. blasted into space by Elon Musk – at to ensure the new canal is lined with What is the least not this week. Management Agency. A study to bulkheads before the funding for the determine the cost of that project is On the first day of Early Voting Knuckleheads with spray paint bridge is released. currently underway. TRZ? Tuesday 13 Democrats and On March 21, 2000, the Corpus 45 Republicans cast ballots at Our island has been invaded of late The TIRZ funding was first The future of the Water Exchange Christi City Council authorized Schlitterbahn, the only Early Voting by vandals armed with spray paint. approved by the Island Strategic Bridge now rests with the Axys the preparation of a preliminary site on Padre Island. During both After fifteen years of waiting the Action Committee, then on February Capital Group of Austin which owns financing plan for a tax increment Early Voting and on Election Day portable restrooms we finally got 21, 2017, the TIRZ #2 board, which the northern portion of the new canal, financing district covering portions voters can cast ballots at any polling on the beaches last month have now consists of members of the Corpus and International Bank of Commerce of North Padre Island and Mustang place in Nueces County, they do not been removed so the spray paint Christi City Council and three which controls the southern end. Island. This tax increment financing have to vote in the precinct where can be removed and damage can be other taxing entities which granted For work on the bridge to proceed would be used primarily to provide they are registered. repaired. For the most part graffiti on tax breaks to the TIRZ. Tuesday’s the two combined must dedicate $5 the local share of the North Padre The Island over the years has been council vote was the last step in the million for the finishing of the canal Of the total of 199,188 registered Island Storm Damage Reduction and confined to the concrete structure funding process from the city’s side. structure. The majority of the new voters in Nueces County 1900 cast Environmental Restoration Project around the water gate at the entrance canal is currently dug but stops about ballots on Tuesday - 1340 Democrats In the same vote the council also ("Packery Channel project"). Then to Lake Padre, but a few weeks ago fifty feet short of cutting through to and 560 Republicans. committed TIRZ funds to repair on June 27, 2000, the City Council these knuckleheads sprayed up the the existing Island canal system just In the November 2016 Election damage to the Packery Channel Jetties approved the preliminary Project restrooms on the seawall, and then by Hurricane Harvey. Estimates for north of Whitecap Boulevard, and has at total of 4973 Island voters cast this week the restrooms and signs those repairs run between $6 million no bulkheads on either side. TRZ cont. on A4 ballots. along Zahn Road. Keep an eye out and take their picture if you see them A little Island history at work. Holiday Inn When The Island Got Bombed A warning from the U.S. military Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi this week that property owners on began in March, 1941 and accelerated the south end of Padre Island should quickly as World War II increased the be on the lookout for old bombs demand for pilots. By the end of 1942 may have been the first time they Corpus Christi NAS and its auxiliary heard that parts of their island were bases were processing 2,500 pilots used for a bombing range. But in per month and became the largest fact, our island has a long history naval pilot training facility in the of being fired on by trainees in the world. Among the notables trained U.S. Navy and Army Air Corps – here were future President George which later became the U.S. Air Bush, Senator/Astronaut John Glenn, Force. actor Tyrone Power, and TV emcee Bob Barker – where he may or may We have had numerous enquiries The history of the ranges on not have found that the Price Was about the future of the Holiday Inn Padre comes to us from a variety Right. on the seawall. We have made several of sources, including the historical attempts to contact the owners but data compiled when Padre Island Island is off limits to civilians so far have had no luck. As you can National Seashore was founded, see in this photograph the building is a few eyewitness accounts, and Early in the war the island was buttoned up by a high fence and keep locals who came later and saw the declared off-limits to Civilians and out sign. We will keep trying. aftermath. all information concerning activity on the island was declared classified 50 caliber bullets found on Padre Island Around cont. on A4 Pilot training began at the new February 22, 2018 Island Moon A 2 Let's Go Fly A Kite!

Last Saturday was kite flying day on Padre Island National Seashore. The Ambient Burners hosted their own event right past the Kleberg country line. Pictures courtesy of PINS and the Ambient Burners. Pictured bottom left, warm air over cool water caused a mist that made photography a challenge.

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Their and the reason behind them can be found at Pete Alsop www.PadreIslandARCH.com hours are Monday - Friday 9:30 am Island Delivery - 7 pm, Saturday 9:30 am - 6 pm and The opposition most frequently cited is the Sunday 11 am - 5 pm. Coldwell Banker Letters from the extreme additional mailing cost to the PIPOA Advertising Candidates if only the Members are allowed to modify our Jan Park Rankin Bylaws. But this does not make sense to me. If Business Briefs Editor’s note: We are offering space here for it truly is such an expensive practice, then why Classifieds each of the seven candidates in the race for seat Kody’s Restaurant on Hwy 361 is “Member Only” amending the overwhelming opened last week and the mini golf Arlene Ritley on the Board of Directors on March 10. Ballots practice of Associations across the state of in the race will be sent out in the next week. course will be back open in a month Production Manager Texas and the country? or two. All you can eat shrimp is Each property owner gets one vote for each Abigail Bair How do all these other Homeowner back Wednesdays 3:00 until close Contributing Writers piece of property owned. Seven candidates are Associations handle this situation in a cost- running for three seats, with the three top vote and prime rib on Thursday nights. Joey Farah effective manner? How do they avoid these getters taking office. “extreme mailing costs”? Spring break this year at most Andy Purvis Texas schools is Saturday, March Mary Craft We are offering each of the candidates space I looked to see how other communities handle here between now and the election. Each 10th - until Monday, March 19th. Kelly Trevino this situation. And found that they handle it by candidate can submit two statements on subjects involving the Homeowners so that amending Make plans now to be anywhere but Jay Gardner of their choice up to 700 words between now on the Island. Trust me, I’ve learned Todd Hunter regularly occurs at their Annual Meetings and and Election Day. We will run the submissions only one mailing is needed. For example: over the years. Dotson Lewis in the order they are received. My parents live in Sun City Grande just on the Steak and Shake has opened at La Dr. Tom Dorrell To submit e-mail to [email protected] Ronnie Narmour outskirts of Phoenix. Theirs is a community of Palmera Mall. the statements will be run in their entirety and just under 10,000 Homeowners (almost twice Brent Rourk without edit. the size of us). Like us, they are a mixture Port Aransas Realty is now open on Zahn Road in the former Photographers I Hate False Promises of full-time and part-time residents. Like us, Miles Merwin (Emeritus) they have a set of Bylaws and Covenants. But Tortuga Dunes Sales Office building. One of the things that bothers me a lot is that unlike us, only their Homeowners are allowed However, they will be closed Spring Debbie Noble people solicit votes on promises of “I’ll listen to to amend them. Break week at that location but will Jan Rankin you” and “I’ll make sure we keep our property They have a standing committee comprised of still be available by phone and email. Mary Craft values up” and “I’m a good person” - here’s the thing, we, as property owners, never ask them Homeowners called the “Consent Committee”. We spring forward in 16 more days Ronnie Narmour to report back on their campaign promises once This committee is tasked with keeping track which means more sunshine for the Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) they’re elected. of upcoming legislation as well as changing spring breakers to enjoy. That is, if Riley P. Dog community standards. They solicit input from they get any sunshine since history Last year, one candidate successfully the Homeowners and formulate suggested campaigned on the “We probably don’t have changes to their Bylaws and Covenants through has proven otherwise. Obviously it’s enough money, in the event of a hurricane, to a series of open meetings during the spring and something I’m looking forward to. repair the bulkheads.” Great point! Do we? I summer. don’t know. As a homeowner who lives on a CC Live celebrates 100 years of canal and has now been lucky enough to be on Any recommended changes are legally jazz with an evening with Side Street the ‘good side’ of Hurricane Harvey, I totally verified and written. All documents (before, Strutters on Saturday, March 10th get that thought. However, it’s been a year and after, redline and explanations) are posted on 7:30 pm. check out their ad in this that (now) board member for a year has never their website. Then, throughout the fall, they issue to get a buy one get one free followed through on his ‘concerns/campaign host several community forums to discuss why ticket offer. lingo.’ I think we can all say that we’ll, ‘be good the changes are recommended. They allow the people’ and we’ll ‘listen to you’ but there’s no Homeowners to ask questions and then make The Back Porch in Port A is opening metric attached so how do we know if the people adjustments if necessary. Friday, February 23rd. Publisher we vote in are doing what they promised us Information is shared and consensus is The 8th Annual Pirates & Poets Dale Rankin when they were campaigning? I often consult to reached. So, by the time the items show up on Songwriters Invitational will be About the Island Moon company’s that make grandiose claims (usually the ballot at their annual meeting, the items pass held at Schlitterbahn instead of Port The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale about being the best or the benchmark for what Rankin, Editor / Publisher. easily. And no additional mailing costs have A due to Harvey. It will be held they do) but don’t have any measures to ever been incurred. Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes truly claim the prize. February 23rd and 24th and tickets delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 Perhaps we could try an approach like this. are $60 for all five shows. copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, I understand that this is neither a State or as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 We have a lot of people in our Community who copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. Federal election nor a paid position but I think want to be involved. News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, a position on the Padre Isles Property Owners Association (PIPOA) Board may really be more The Board will be able to delegate some of payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. important than a State or Federal election in that their current workload. The Community will The Island Moon Newspaper it affects our daily lives on our Island. I want be allowed the input they so desperately want. The Island to be great – I can’t promise to fix And only one mailing required. 14646 Compass, Suite 3 everything but I can lend my talents to fix some Sounds like a Win/Win for everyone involved. things and have a clear and level head when it PIPOA Election Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Kelly McFadden comes to decision making. I want to stop any Very, very few things in life are always true. 361-949-7700 perceived or real corruption or nepotism and I "The government you get is the government you [email protected] want the PIPOA to have documented processes POA Endorsement deserve" is one of them. and procedures that they use to manage their When I started attending Padre Isles Property Dear friends and neighbors, it's that time again Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper office. I want to be able to see objective, Owners' Association (POA) board meetings on to elect the folks that will oversee the operation verifiable evidence that they have followed a regular basis a few years ago, I was impressed of the PIPOA. This year there are three positions those processes and procedures. by Leslie Hess. Though I knew little about her and there are two factions of three each. background at that time, her professionalism I often help company’s document their One group is local, thoughtful, level headed, was readily apparent. As a "charter" member processes and procedures and then audit against educated, polite and experienced, the other of the POA Canals and Waterways committee Where to Find The them for compliance as an independent Process group is inexperienced, not local, has lots of for which Leslie served as "liaison" between Improvement Specialist consultant for my signs and internet gossip, is spending tons of the board and the committee for the first Island Moon livelihood, and I am happy to do the same on money and most importantly a well-established several meetings I had the opportunity to get behalf of all of us who live here. I understand desire to control the PIPOA board from day to know her better and see her "at work" in that we have a widely diverse home ownership one. This group is convinced and has convinced Trinity By the Sea a smaller group setting. It was clear to me – everything from those on fixed incomes to their following that "everybody but them" is Port Episcopal that she had an abundance of operational, those people who are financially blessed and incompetent, dishonest, hateful, is a bully and managerial, and leadership experience. As a Aransas own a second home here on The Island. I have they remind us of this at each month’s board long time faculty member at TAMU-Kingsville, Sand Piper Condos North volunteered to offer my help at a past PIPOA meeting. Meeting and they didn’t take me up on it – I was involved in, recruited would be the more Sea Gull Condos Padre and probably for good reason because I’d have accurate descriptor, a multitude of committee Historically the island has cast about 1200 Gulf Breeze RV access to more information. and organizational groups at the campus, votes in these elections. Last year with some All Stripes Stores TAMU System, and national level. Among elevated fanfare there was an uptick to about Pioneer RV As I tell my private sector clients that I don’t my activities and experience, I served on the 1600. The problem is only 24% of the voting Black Sheep/ have a magic wand but I do have a lot of La Palmilla Golf executive committee of the TAMU-Kingsville population for the PIPOA actually vote and so Barrel common sense and many years’ experience Club Faculty Senate including as President, when you twist up folks with absolute baloney CVS assessing companies, usually for a certification participated in the TAMU System Collective such as "the board has taken our rights away" Stripes (1A) that will allow them to bid DOD contracts, and Whataburger Leadership initiative, part of a national W.K. which is absolutely not true or "the board Kody’s Restaurant I can show you how to methodically improve Kellogg Foundation program, was project doesn't listen to us" you can get some votes what you do using formal process improvement out. But it's not honest and that should get your Amano Doc’s Restaurant director for several USDA grants and project methodologies. I use one of many business/ attention. Our board has spent so much time Snoopy’s Pier collaborator for several others. I complemented WB Liquor quality models based on the need and appropriate my professional experience in these activities answering these "allegations" it gets difficult to fit, so it’s not ‘the world according to Vicki.’ I 361 Bar Isle Mail N More by taking graduate coursework in Facilitation focus on the things that we are there to do and promise that I have a 100-day plan and that I’ll and Meeting Skills and in Organizational to be frank, it was their plan all along. People Moby Dicks Island Italian report my progress published on the PIPOA site Needs and Assessment. This is the context handle being called dishonest and many other and the IslandIssues Facebook page so that you Spanky’s Liquor Brooklyn Pie Co. upon which I base my evaluation of Leslie as names differently, some get mad, some are hurt can see if I’ve reached my goals. In the software a member of and leader in the Padre Island and we as a board are called a lot by these folks. IGA Grocery Store Ace Hardware world the 100-day plan is called a ‘sprint’ – in community and specifically as a board member We need to get back to the hard work, stop the the Military, it’s the equivalent of QUESTION: Port A Glass Studio Holiday Inn of the POA. The POA has been well served name calling and take care of business and to do “How do you eat an elephant? ANSWER: “One by Leslie by her contributions of time and that we need you Great Island Neighbors to get San Juan’s Mexican Texas Star (Shell) bite at a time.” It’s about making short, focused effort which are significant, she is tireless and out there and vote and vote responsibly, there is Restaurant runs. That’s how I run my business and that’s Jesse’s Liquor dedicated to the POA. What truly distinguishes a lot at stake here. We have lost our accounting Wash Board how I plan to work on the PIPOA. I truly hope Leslie is her professionalism, a term I use in firm, our engineering firm and several other Laundry Mat Scuttlebutt’s you all make an informed vote. I’d be happy to the broadest sense--please feel free to consult contractors over this meaningless bickering and answer any questions you have so please feel all the "investigations of wrongdoing" has come Drop Anchor Bar & Restaurant a thesaurus to find a plethora of synonymous free to contact me at: [email protected]. terms which encompass how the term is being to nothing, absolutely nothing. Grill Subway Vicki Marsden applied here. Part of that professionalism Carter L. Tate Port A Parks & Rec Island Tire Leslie demonstrates is the insightful way she PIPOA Board Candidate 2018 PIPOA Board Member Public Library navigates the often contentious atmosphere that Padre Pizzeria seems prevalent at POA meetings over the last Chamber of And all Moon Boots year and a half. Leslie is even handed, is a voice Commerce/ Visitor’s retail advertisers I enjoyed reading your article on combat boots. of reason, is not reactionary and her words and Center I was in the Navy and we wore ill-fitting Boon her positions are informed and well thought Woody’s Sports WB Liquor Dockers in the 60's. out. When the Compliance Committee was Center set up, Leslie was judicious in her selection of Leggings were used in training. members representing different housing types Charter Boat Owners and Operators Wanted Back Porch Flour Bluff I wanted to give you some information on (single family, condo/townhomes), location in for new location on Packery Channel Shorty’s Place H.E.B. where almost all the boots were made during the POA, dry lot vs canal lot, a wide assortment of criteria, in order to ensure a balanced and Fisherman’s Wharf Whataburger on WWI and WW2. Waldron representative group on the committee. I could Giggity’s The boots were manufactured in my home throw a few more descriptors in here that I see Packery Ethyl Everly town in Endicott and Johnson City New York. reflected in Ms. Hess and her work as a board Tarpon Inn Flats Senior Center These boots were made by the shoe company member--competent, efficient, no nonsense, TM Gratitude’s call Endicott Johnson shoes. respectful--but then I might be accused of Floating Cabin Repairs Fire Station hyperbole, which it is not, and so I won't. The Large Boat Slip (22’ x 40’) available The Gaff good for either repairs or rebuilding Police Station POA board needs Leslie Hess. Wild Horse Located under the JFK bridge on Packery Channel Stripes on Flour Doreen Kinkel Call for lease terms Treasure Island Packery Flats Marina Bluff & SPID Send letters and photos to [email protected] 361-774-8886 February 22, 2018 Island Moon A 4 Around cont. from A1 TRZ cont. from A1 Bombing cont. from A1 Spring Break 2018 and Financing Plans, and notified other taxing B-3, B-4, and B-7 in Kleberg County, but no jurisdictions of its intention to create a tax mention of a “B-1” range of any kind. Spring Break 2018 is just around the corner increment reinvestment zone. A notice of a Corpus Christi attorney David Coover whose and it is difficult to tell what kind of a crowd public hearing on the creation of the zone was father was a ranch foreman on The Island will descend on us this year. Hurricane Harvey published on August 22, 2000, and the public through 1960, and who frequented the ranch has left many of the overnight stay rooms in hearing was held on August 29, 2000. On and the bombing areas as a teen, says he does Port Aransas out of order, and there is no telling August 29, 2000 the City Council passed the not believe there were any bombing ranges what that may or may not mean for the Padre first reading of the ordinance that established north of the Kleberg-Nueces line. Island end. Most of the large Texas schools start TIRZ #2. Ordinance 024270, which established their break on March 10 with some beginning TIRZ #2 was formally adopted after being “The northernmost bombing range that I ever the next week, meaning that the weekend of passed on the second reading on November 14, saw or heard of was about four miles south of March 17 will likely see the largest crowds. Navy SNJs on the flight line at Cabaniss Field Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi. 2000. the county line,” Coover said this week. “There were as many as six sites through World War We’ll see you at the Ski Basin, in the meantime Subsequently on October 8, 2002, the City only two. But the bombing stopped when Park II, by the Korean War that had been reduced to say hellos if you see us Around The Island. Council approved Resolution 025040, which Road 22 was extended south of the Nueces/ three, and there were only a couple left when established the North Padre Island Development Kleberg county line in 1960. The last range was the military shut them all down in 1960.” decommissioned in 1966 and the Navy sent out Corporation ("NPIDC"). The NPIDC was History cont. from A1 ordinance experts to sanitize the ranges of all created to aid, assist, and act on behalf of the Crews working on expansion of the park road at unexploded ordinance. The sand at the targets City and TIRZ #2 in performing governmental PINS last year found four “ordinances” during was sifted down to a level of 18 inches using functions to promote the common good and excavation work; four were live bombs and one heavy equipment and the bombs removed. But general welfare of the City, including the area was a dummy bomb. They were practice bombs within the TIRZ #2 zone. Then on February 25, typically used for training, about three feet 2003, the NPIDC, TIRZ #2, and City Council long with a charge about the equivalent of a .40 authorized an agreement by and among the gauge shotgun shell in the nose to show the pilot City of Corpus Christi, Texas; Reinvestment where they landed. Zone Number Two, City of Corpus Christi; The pamphlet circulated by federal authorizes and the North Padre Island Development on The Island says “Bombing Target B-1 was Corporation, dated February 1, 2003. This located on Padre Island, inside the City Limits agreement commonly referred to as the "Tri- of Corpus Christi.” The federally maintained Party Agreement" spells out the responsibilities website mentioned in the pamphlet lists no such of each of the parties in the administration and site. financing of TIRZ #2. The three entities also recommended, authorized, and approved the For questions call 855 765-3837, and if you Project and Financing Plans for TIRZ #2 on find a bomb call the U.S. Corps of Engineers. NAS-Aerial-Photo February 25, 2003. But first use the three R’s suggested by the making the finding of the sites of seven bombing pamphlet Recognize, Retreat, and Report. targets and eight strafing targets, difficult to The initial Project Plan and Financing Plan Steerman trainers at NAS Corpus Christi basically addressed the funding of the City's pinpoint later. According to visitors to Padre 1941. Island during the war the sites also moved on share of the North Padre Island Storm Damage a regular basis. Reduction and Environmental Restoration from time to time, even into the late 1990s calls Project. The Packery Channel project had been Fish Olympics The bombing targets consisted of large white would come into the Island Moon Newspaper discussed and studied over a number of years. bull's-eyes encircled by concentric white rings office that someone had found an old bomb The project involved the placement of sand in Medaling in the game of 100 yards in diameter. The eight strafing targets on PINS. In 1966 bombing operations were front of the concrete Padre Island Seawall to consisted of vertical cloth or paper and, along moved to McMullen County managed by NAS restore the beach and protect the seawall. The life… with the bombing targets, were built spaced Kingsville. That range was often referred to as sand was to be taken from the dredging and The Winter Olympics is a fantastic competition about five miles apart. Bombs dropped on the Yankee/Dixie range, identifying its Yankee and channelization of a reopened Packery Channel. that tests the limits of human performance in a targets were usually very small and contained Dixie target complexes. The Packery Channel project also consisted of variety of sports. At the University of Texas only enough explosive for pilots to check their long jetties, walks, mitigation, public facilities, Marine Science Institute, researchers are testing accuracy. The principal practice bomb, the Mark A near miss and reserve for long-term maintenance. The the limits of fish. They may not win a gold IV, was only nine inches long and contained We Islanders can’t help but wonder what estimated cost of the Packery Channel project medal, but the scores in these games can let us a 40-gauge shotgun shell in the nose as an would have happened if the military had was approximately $30 million. know which fish are most likely to succeed in explosive. Some larger bombs were dropped pushed forward with a proposal to use Padre the game of life. on occasion, a few 500-pounders, and typically Island to explode the first atomic bomb. South The local share of the project, which was half of their weight would be explosive. Padre Island was one of eight sites that the US estimated at approximately $10.5 million, In a test of speed, Corinne Burns, a graduate could come from tax increment financing. This student in Dr. Lee Fuiman’s lab, measured the With the construction of the targets also came Military considered as a place to explode the type of financing was authorized by a State performance of young flounder. She found that the need to service and repair them and naval first atomic bomb and it actually came down Constitutional Amendment. The basic theory of how quickly they swam and how likely they personnel had to perform this duty. Initially, to about three sites that were pretty high on tax increment financing is that "the construction were to dash away from a predator depended crews had to travel by boat to reach many of the the list: one was in California, one was the of certain public improvements will generate upon the amount of omega-3 fatty acids they targets, but eventually a housing facility known Alamagordo site in New Mexico and the other higher tax revenues due to additional private were able to store in their body. For example, as Caffey barracks was built. Caffey barracks is one was South Padre Island. Fortunately for us development." The concept of tax increment when the omega-3s were low, the little flounder still on the island and now serves as the ranger Island dwellers, Almagordo won the contest. An financing is "but for the construction of the responded to an artificial predator less than 40% station. official involved in the decision said later: public improvements, the higher tax receipts of the time. But when they had plenty of omega- “South Padre had been used as a gunnery would not occur." In this particular case, the 3s, they responded more than 60% of the time. range for the Army Air Corps. It was a very City believed that completion of the project remote area… It was, at that point of course, would result in significantly increased taxes Researchers even use a “fish treadmill.” really undeveloped as a tourist site and then through both new private investment and The treadmill isn’t used to train the fish for increases in the existing tax values. competition, but it is used to test their limits. Researchers in Dr. Andrew Esbaugh’s lab have The preliminary financing plan that was a swim tunnel that can put fish through their adopted by the City Council, when it authorized paces. This swim tunnel allows the researchers the creation of TIRZ #2, called for funding to change the temperature of the water and $10.5 million as the City's share of the Packery measure how temperature affects oxygen Channel project, plus $750,000 for construction consumption. The temperature of the water of the parking lot on the Padre Island concrete can have a drastic impact on how much oxygen seawall. The estimates in the preliminary fish are able to absorb. This research is helping financing plan were refined, and the Project scientists better understand how fish can survive Waldron Field 1943 and Financing Plans, dated February 1, 2003, in dead zone’s like the one that forms during estimated that $12,000,000 in debt would be summer off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf Patrols also were established on Padre Island needed to complete the initial project costs. of Mexico. to ward off German submarines and by 1943, The plans identified $3,000,000 in surplus tax nine patrol stations were established. In spite of increments or bonds for secondary development In a race against each other and the clock, the new military presence on the island, cattle improvements, which included the construction researchers in the Esbaugh lab are also operations continued as they had for over a of seawall parking lot and $2,000,000 for a interested in swim performance of red drum hundred years. Bombing practice was halted "parks & recreation center." when exposed to oil. They are essentially during the annual round-ups and for the rest creating a race between fish exposed to oil of the year several thousand cattle roamed the The City is working with GLO on the voter and fish that are not. The fish exposed to oil island as they had since the days of Padre Balli. approved proposed changes to Chapter 10, Code often ‘lose’ the race, and are slower than their of Ordinances, which contains the City's GLO non-exposed counterparts. Researchers have Observers noted that cattle would move away approved beach and dune rules. This proposed discovered that oil exposure can severely impair from targets at the first sign of an airplane change addresses driving on the beach seaward cardiorespiratory function, therein affecting the engine, then "move in and around the targets as of the concrete Padre Island seawall, and the swim performance of larval fish. They’ve found soon as the firing stops and graze bombing areas installation of bollards on the beach seaward of that these fish exposed to oil just don’t have the when the ranges are quiet.” the concrete seawall and between the seawall same capacity to repay oxygen debt following across from it was the King Ranch which was and southern Packery Channel jetty. There are exhaustive exercise. also, at that time, nearly one million acres of no other proposed changes to the City's beach undeveloped land. But, on the plus side, Corpus or dune permitting rules. Just as in humans, fitness in fish can change Christi was 120 miles away and it had rail their life span and how they perform in their However, the Nueces County Beach connections and there was also a Naval Air watery world. The research and competitions Management Committee has recommended Station there. So it would have worked.” occurring in the University of Texas Marine approval of the changes to their beach Science Institute’s laboratories are helping to Then in the early 2000s a Kingsville economic management regulations. The Nueces County shed light on the limits of fish and how they development group pushed for a new bombing Commissioners' Court has not approved the survive under different conditions. site in Kenedy County to replace the bombing changes, and they have not been sent to the range being closed at Vieques, Puerto Rico. The GLO for public comment in Texas Register. 220,000 acre site near the National Seashore Charter Boat Owners and Operators Wanted The primary source of revenue for TIRZ #2 was considered since it was across the Laguna for new location on Packery Channel will be funds from the contributed property tax Madre from the vastness of the King Ranch and collections of the City of Corpus Christi, Nueces it also offered the chance to practice amphibious After World War II County, Nueces County Hospital District, landings. Opposition from Texas politicians Del Mar College, and the Farm to Market Things began quieting down after World War stopped the proposal before it reached the Packery Road on the taxable property value increment II and according to locals, by the Korean War official application level. Flats the number of bombing ranges was down to within TIRZ #2. Based on existing interlocal TM Dale Rankin agreements with each taxing jurisdiction listed Floating Cabin Repairs above, it is currently projected that each of Large Boat Slip (22’ x 40’) available these entities will agree to participate in funding good for either repairs or rebuilding Located under the JFK bridge on Packery Channel TIRZ #2 with 100% of the incremental property Call for lease terms taxes collected over the life of zone, except for Packery Flats Marina Del Mar College, which will contribute 20% in 2009 and 0% thereafter. 361-774-8886 The BACK PORCH OPEN THIS FRIDAY! The BILLY SNIPES THIS FRIDAY JEREDBACK CLARK THISPORCH SATURDAY Bar

ON THE WATERFRONT The lending library has moved from the Padre Island Property Owners Association office to the Berkshire Hathaway office at 14200 SPID. Book Lady Margie Quigley has 132 W. Cotter St. The PortA everything in order and they are open during regular business hours. BACK PORCH Bar February 22, 2018 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island Tides of the Week By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier: February 22 - March 1 I had an only-on-The- for a seat on the PIPOA board is now upwards Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon of $5000. /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible Island moment this week. I was down at the Th 22 Low 1:03 AM -0.1 7:00 AM Set 12:01 AM 33 Things have changed in the last ten years at the headquarters at Padre Island National Seashore PIPOA after a two-tier rate structure was put in 22 High 9:20 AM 1.1 6:25 PM Rise 11:29 AM trying to see if I could find maps of the old place. Members who owned their home before F 23 Low 2:03 AM -0.2 6:59 AM Set 1:02 AM 44 bombing sites on The Island which have been 2007 pay a rate of one cent per square foot of the topic of conversation this week when word their lot (not their house) if they own a water 23 High 11:31 AM 1.3 6:26 PM Rise 12:17 PM came that there was a dolphin stranded on the view (dry lot), and a rate of two cents per square Sa 24 Low 3:10 AM -0.4 6:58 AM Set 2:05 AM 55 beach just north of the sticks at the north end foot of their lot if they are waterfront. of Malaquite Beach. I was the first to arrive on 24 High 1:06 PM 1.4 6:26 PM Rise 1:09 PM the scene where what turned out to be a Pigmy But owners who bought after 2007 pay a rate Su 25 Low 4:20 AM -0.5 6:57 AM Set 3:07 AM 66 Sperm Whale was rolling in the surf. of two cents per square foot of their lot if they are water view, and ten cents per square foot of 25 High 2:03 PM 1.5 6:27 PM Rise 2:07 PM I’m not an expert but it seemed to me the whale their lot if they are waterfront. That’s quite a was in some pain and I felt absolutely helpless M 26 Low 5:29 AM -0.6 6:56 AM Set 4:07 AM 77 difference and while there are no hard numbers because I had no idea what to do. I called my currently available, the best estimate is that just 26 High 2:48 PM 1.6 6:28 PM Rise 3:10 PM friend Guy who knows about these things and over half of the owners on The Island pay the Tu 27 Low 6:34 AM -0.7 6:55 AM Set 5:03 AM 86 he said to make sure the whale stayed wet, higher rate. which was not a problem since it was in the surf, 27 High 3:26 PM 1.5 6:28 PM Rise 4:15 PM and to make sure the blowhole stayed clear, but The uptick in rates also meant an increase in revenue to just under $2 million per year and W 28 Low 7:34 AM -0.6 6:54 AM Set 5:55 AM 93 most of all, watch out for the tail, “It’s a bone breaker,” he said. the organization now has about $10 million in 28 High 3:55 PM 1.4 6:29 PM Rise 5:20 PM reserve. As the money increased the old board Fortunately, the volunteers from the Texas 28 Low 9:18 PM 1.1 moved to build a community center at a cost marine Mammal Stranding Network arrived in of about $3 million and that got the attention Th 1 High 12:24 AM 1.2 6:53 AM Set 6:42 AM 97 short order and took over. The sad fact is that of members who hadn’t been paying much 1 Low 8:31 AM -0.5 6:29 PM Rise 6:25 PM whales general don’t like the shallow water off attention and in the past two election cycles that our coast and when they end up on the beach attention has focused on the election of board 1 High 4:15 PM 1.3 it’s for a reason, and usually not a good one. members. It has been a contentious process 1 Low 9:30 PM 0.9 The survival rate of Pigmy whales that wash but that is after all the nature of participatory up is close to zero and this poor fellow was no democracy. exception. I always tell people when they go to vote that But I can’t help but genuinely admire the good they should start at the bottom of the ballot people who drop whatever they are doing to because those are the races that most impact rush to the beach to help an animal in distress. their daily lives; most of us are a lot more likely I know they don’t like attention, but their work to end up in front of a Justice of the Peace than should not go unnoticed. It is a draining job for be invited to the Whitehouse and while the race which they are not paid and we all owe them a for mayor and city council will get the most big thank you. attention come November, the taxes for the Election season Flour Bluff school district make up half of the Island’s tax total tax rate. The PIPOA races are Election Season 2018 is upon us and there is not on the ballot for Early Voting, it is a separate a rather big surprise this year. Who would have process, but the outcome is likely to have more thought that the most heated election this season impact on our daily lives than the cattle-call would be for seats on the Padre Isles Board of race for the 27th Congressional District or for Directors? Ballots in that race have already been U.S. Senate that will be at the top of the ballot. sent out and the yard signs for candidates in the race between six candidates for three seats No matter who you vote for I encourage outnumber those for all the other races on The everyone to pay attention and get involved, as Island combined. I’m told the cost of running they say democracy dies in darkness.

News from the Padre Isles Property Owners Association Editor’s Note: The following is a letter issue may remain on the former Bombing Target B-1, this week by the Padre Island Property Owners the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recommends Association that landowners and visitors follow the 2Rs of explosive Safety-Recognize, Retreat and The Board Election Ballots have been mailed. Report. If you or someone you know did not receive theirs please call the PIPOA office, we can If you have any questions about the Formerly have another ballot issued to you/them. Please Used Defense Sites Program or explosives read the instructions on the ballot carefully. If safety, please contact our tool free information you have any questions please call the PIPOA center, 1-855-765-3837. Additional information Office at 949-7025. Ballots are to be mailed to on the Formerly Used Defense Sites Program the address on the ballot. can be found at www.fuds.mil. Bomb letters The PIPOA is working with the City and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to schedule a Some of you may have received a letter from Town Hall Meeting to give the property owners the Department Of The Army informing you a chance to ask questions and gain additional that back in 1941-1947 that an area on the island information. was used for defense sites. Property owners in the designated area called B-1 received the Once we have a set date for the meeting we information. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will notify property owners. is responsible for identifying, investigating and, February Board of Directors Meeting is when necessary, conducting an appropriate February 27, 2018, at 5:30 P.M. response to address contamination and military munitions resulting from past Department of Billish Park is under construction, they expect Defense activities at Formerly Used Defense the park to be completed in 4 1/2 months. We Sites. are so excited that work has begun. Because explosive hazards associated with The Annual Meeting is March 10, 2018 at 10 military munitions from past military training A.M., please plan to attend.

Ask Ralph How Can I Improve My Productivity?

By Ralph Coker Q. As a professional business person, how can fewest meetings, fewest data, fewest goals I improve my performance and productivity? while retaining what is essential to achieve top performance. Top performers learn how to say A. In a recent Wall Street Journal essay, Morten no to their bosses when they assign too many Hansen describes how in his early career as an tasks and priorities. In saying no to your boss, investment banker, he had a colleague who explain your goal of top performance in all you worked a strict schedule from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. do and more work will detract from that. Ask weekdays only and consistently out performed your boss which of the prior assigned tasks to him despite his working 80 hours per week. cut back on to make time for the new task? That Later in his career as a university business puts the responsibility on the boss, not you. professor, Hansen and several team members conducted a study of 5,000 managers and Evaluate each task critically. Some tasks truly business professionals to determine the keys to don’t need to be done, or they can be delayed or a superior performance. delegated to someone else. Another technique is to evaluate each task on its actual value to The conventional wisdom is that it’s individual the business rather than on achieving internal talent and skill plus long hours of hard work and business goals. luck. Instead, the study showed top performers were extremely selective about what tasks Before setting new goals or accepting new or projects they committed to do and then tasks, top performers ask themselves: “What applied intense focused effort to those fewer value can I create by dong this”. Adding value projects in order to excel. Talent, hard work could mean making the job of co-workers and luck contributes to top performance, but upstream or downstream easier. The keys to are not the key. The key is to work smarter. making work simpler and more valuable are: Working smarter means always seeking the eliminate unnecessary tasks, combine tasks if Two things rarely seen in Island parks happened this week. First, after nearly six years simplest solutions to a problem or task. That more efficient, reassign tasks if more efficient, of planning crews are hard at work on improvements at Billish Park. The work was means choosing the fewest steps in a process, and change the sequence of tasks. funded through a $500,000 bond project in 2012 and supplemented with $200,000 from the Padre Isles Property Owners Association. It will include a multi-use athletic field, a baseball field, and playground area. Send letters and photos to editor@ Meanwhile, over at Aquarius Park the recent rains helped wash away the sandburs and Island kids actually got to play baseball in the park! islandmoon.com A6 Island Moon February 22, 2018 Senior Moments Anecdotingly Beetle Bailey-My Friend Since 1950 What’s in a Name? By Abigail Bair By Dotson Lewis to trip me with) and yell, “BAIR, GRRRR” every time I walked past. No, it wasn’t because This Christmas, my niece Special to the Island Moon he liked me. It was because he was a little jerk. (who is now in college and as fully grown – at Dotson’s note: As I recall, I first met Beetle In 2000, Walker was honored at the Pentagon least in terms of height -- as she can be expected Although, with a name like “Rob,” he probably Bailey in 1950, on the pages of the Tokyo edition with the Army’s highest civilian award — the to get) announced to the Rev that she was ought to have avoided being hyper-literal. I of the military newspaper, “Stars & Stripes.” Distinguished Civilian Service award — for his considering changing her name. “I just hate it,” hope his cell is nice, but not particularly roomy. At the time I was an Army Corporal, in Korea, work, his military service and his contribution Jessamin-call-me- Jess complained. “All the College didn’t change much, except that I got actively involved in the “United Nations Police to a new military memorial. old ladies in the nursing home ask me about it, so sick of no one ever being able to spell my Action.” In 1954, I was in Japan, when the Stars He also developed a reputation for helping and then I have to tell them the entire story. It name correctly, that I changed my nickname & Stripes banned the “Beetle Bailey” comic aspiring cartoonists with advice. “I make friends takes FOREVER. I just lie and tell them that it’s to Abi (from Abby) insuring that it would be strip. Many of you younger Moon Monkeys for people,” he said. short for Jessica.” forever unspellable. “That’ll teach them!” I may not know, and/or remember that when Jessamin has insisted upon being called “Jess” thought, relishing what I thought would be an Beetle Bailey first appeared in public, he wasn't Addison Morton Walker was born Sept. 3, ironic revenge. in the army, he was a lazy college student. For 1923, in El Dorado, Kansas, and grew up in since she was around eight years old. It’s an six months, Beetle skipped class, hung out with Kansas City, Missouri. In 1943 he was drafted unusual moniker, and I’m pretty sure she caught Even then, my name continued to feel like an girlfriend Buzz, and mooched off his propeller- into the U.S. Army, serving in Europe during some grade school flack for having a strange ill-fitting shirt, awkward, constricting, with a beanie freshman roommate. In March 1951, as World II. He was discharged as a first lieutenant, name in a small town filled with Jennifers, weird binding sleeve – as though it was cheaply his friends got drafted, Beetle enlisted (against graduated from the University of Missouri- Lindseys, Heathers, and a few unfortunate made in China for a much smaller person. Ciaras. I know how she felt. his will). My thanks to Morton Walker, Greg Columbia and pursued a career as a cartoonist I thought about changing my name, but no Walker, Brian Walker, and the Saturday Evening in New York. Walker most recently oversaw the Abigail isn’t a terribly common name now, but other seemed to fit me either. Was I an Amy or Post, for contributing to this report. work of the staff at his Stamford, Connecticut was even less so when I was growing up. If you a Cindy or a Cheryl? A Mary or a Celeste or a studio. Intro to Beetle Bailey wanted to name your kid something Biblical, Penelope? None of them worked any better than It is my sad to duty to inform you that Addison you stuck with good, stolid “Sarah.” I didn’t Abigail. I didn’t really like my moniker, but I The character that was to become Beetle Morton Walker passed away on January 27, meet another Abby until I was 15, and she was sure stuck with it. Bailey made his first appearance as “Spider” in spelled it Abbie. We hated each other because 2018. (September 3, 1923 – January 27, 2018). The reason was this: it wasn’t my name that Addison Morton Walker’s cartoons published the variance in spelling guaranteed that no one An “Associated Press” report from Los Angeles was awkward -- it was me. Changing wouldn’t by the Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. would ever get our names correct on anything. stated: “Comic strip artist Mort Walker, a World have helped in the least. “Amy” would have Walker changed Spider’s name and launched War II veteran who satirized the Army and “Beetle Bailey” as a humor strip in 1950. I never had personalized license plates, chafed just as much as “Abi,” the only difference tickled millions of newspaper readers with the necklaces or friendship bracelets because they is that jerks would have to find something else At first the strip failed to attract readers and antics of the lazy private ‘Beetle Bailey,’ died didn’t exist. In first grade, when we were to make fun of me about. And they would have. King Features Syndicate considered dropping at his home in Stamford, CN. Greg Walker, his learning vowels, they made me use my whole Hate your name or love it, it’s part of you, your it after just six months, Walker said in a 2000 eldest son and a collaborator said “his father’s name (Abigail) with 4 total. The next closest history, who you were and who you’ve become. interview with the Associated Press. The advanced age was the cause of death.” kid was named Owen. I’m still mad about that. You can change the word all you like, legally syndicate suggested Beetle join the Army after Some Beetle Bailey Characters I got stuck with the name Abigail because my adopt a name like Miss Black America (I met the start of the Korean War, Walker said. her in a doctor’s office – she didn’t win, so In his 1975 autobiography, Backstage at the father had a “Lunch Line Policy of Naming Walker said “I was kind of against it” because she changed her name), but it won’t make you Strips, Mort Walker shared some insights about Children.” The G.P., about to become a first- after World War II other military comic strip anything other than who you are. the different methods he used for generating time Daddy, decided he wanted his child to be characters were fading away. But his misgivings Beetle Bailey gags. Here are some quotes from right out front in life for everything good. Mom Jessamin Elizabeth’s name is special, anyway – were overcome and Beetle "enlisted" in 1951. the book on this subject. argued with him, noting that this strategy would at least to me. She was named after both of my Walker attributed the success of the strip to put me up first for a lot of bad things, too, but Grandmothers: Jasmin and Elizabeth. I always “Over the years I’ve devised many ways of Beetle’s indolence and reluctance to follow Dad prevailed. Grandma Betty was positive thought she got her name because her mother developing gags. The most obvious way is authority. He said “Most people are sort of the G.P. was going to name me Aardvaark, and (Lace) was trying to brown-nose my wealthy simply sketching funny pictures and putting against authority.” forced Mom to promise not to take any drugs Grandma Jasmin. I was angry about it because words around them.” during the delivery (just in case). The Rev’s still this insured that I wouldn’t be able to name my “Beetle Bailey,” which appeared in as many “Switching, sometimes know as stealing, is resents that. daughter after either of my grandmothers. Lace as 1,800 newspapers, sometimes sparked another highly regarded art form. It is considered didn’t like the name Jasmin (which happens to controversy. The Tokyo editions of the military I can tell you that, after decades of practical legitimate if you can change anything to make also be my favorite flower) so she changed it to newspaper Stars & Stripes dropped it in 1954 experience, Dad was mostly wrong. I was first it yours.” Jessamin. This aligned with the name Jesse (my for fear that it would encourage disrespect of its in line for lots of things -- book reports, tetanus shots, lice checks and chin-ups to name a few – brother’s best friend growing up), so it suited officers. But ensuing media coverage spurred “A lot of gags are just visual tricks. It catches everyone. more than 100 newspapers to add the strip. the eye and makes you curious, then sets you up but generally you don’t have to force kids to get for the punch line. We call this type a ‘wallpaper into alphabetical order for fun stuff. In terms of No one bothered to tell Grandma about Shortly after President Bill Clinton took office, gag’ because of the repetitiveness.” lunch lining up, fortune tends to favor the bold. her “namesake” until after Jess was born Walker drew a strip suggesting that the draft be Even if they reversed the order and used our last and the birth certificate was singed. Gran’s retroactive in order to send Clinton to Vietnam. “We can’t resist doing ‘inside gags’ for our names first, I still got stuck way out in front. actual response was somewhat less rosy than Walker said he received hundreds of angry own amusement. I doubt if readers get the It’s possible that I’ve had more scoliosis checks anticipated: “Jessamin was MY birth name! letters from Clinton supporters. double meaning.” than any other student ever. Very few people I hated the damned thing and changed it to For years, Walker drew Camp Swampy’s “There are so many gag prodders that it would ever got ahead of Bair. How I prayed for an Jasmin just as soon as I could.” Aaron Aaronson or an Adam Anderson. highest-ranking officer, Gen. Amos Halftrack, be tedious to explore each one. I use them all I laughed so hard I shot most of an Arnold ogling his secretary, Miss Buxley. Feminist from time to time. One will work for a few gags, It should be noted the “Lunch Line Naming Palmer out my right nostril. groups claimed the strip made light of sexual then mysteriously depart and I’ll have to try a Policy” was only ever applied to one of my A good story is worth a quite a few teases and harassment, and Walker said the syndicate new one.” parents’ children. My brother’s name is Josh – derisive cat-calls from the “Federation of Future wanted him to write out the lecherous general. smack dab in the middle. The Rev may not win “All too often, though, the gag method used Felons.” At the end of the day, we are our stories. every battle, but she sure tends to win the wars. That wasn’t feasible because the general was is ‘sheer desperation.’ After an hour or so of You might as well hold tight to the great ones. such a fixture in the strip, Greg Walker said. His straining, staring, and stupor, I grit my teeth, And so I grew up hating my name and singled Maybe names aren’t quite as interchangeable as father solved the problem in 1997 by sending blame my wife and the President, wonder if out because of it. Bair isn’t great either, so I felt Ms. Juliet would have us think. Halftrack to sensitivity training. there is another gag up there in the dusty attic like I got hit with a grand slam double whammy I’ll love Jess whatever she chooses to call of my mind, and snarl: ‘I’ll get a gag out of one of existential awkwardness. How I wished to be “That became a whole theme that we could herself, but I believe I’ll keep my names. I am, word..and the word will be YES!’ I write down a Smith or a Jones! All through high school I got use,” said Greg Walker, who with his brother, however, willing to hyphenate. Anybody know ‘Yes’ and make myself perform.” teased. This kid named Rob would sit alongside Brian, intends to carry on his father’s work. a cute, single, employed guy with the last name the lockers with his feet stretched out (the better Both have worked in the family business for These are words of wisdom from one of the Buns? decades. greatest gag writers of all time. “Beetle Bailey” also featured one of the first Dotson’s Other Note: Beetle Bailey had earned African-American characters to be added to modest circulation until the mid 1950s when the a white cast in an established comic strip. Tokyo edition of “Stars & Stripes” banned it BOAT = HAPPY. BUY BOAT (“Peanuts” had added the character of Franklin out of fear it would encourage service members in 1968.) Lt. Jack Flap debuted in the comic to model Bailey's lackadaisical behavior. The strip’s panels in 1970. ban backfired, leading to a massive wave of publicity and a surge in distribution for the In a 2002 interview, Morton Walker said that comic strip. If you can’t name at least 10 Beetle comics are filled with stereotypes and he likes Bailey characters, here is a website that may to find humor in all characters. help: https://comicvine.gamespot.com/beetle- “I like to keep doing something new and bailey/4050-20118/characters/ different, so people can’t say I’m doing the Thank you for reading and commenting on same thing all the time. I like to challenge 2017 24’ BLAZER BAY 2400 250hp Suzuki 4-stroke Senior Moments. I can be reached at: dlewis1@ myself,” he said. stx.rr.com and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 or This is the perfect Bay boat! Walker also created “Boner’s Ark” in 1968 Cell: 530-748-8475. Smooth, dry, high sides and runs and gets up very shallow. This big king of the bay boat using his given first name, Addison, as his pen will idle and drift in shin deep water. 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By Dotson Lewis By Andy Purvis Award. In 2012, at the age In 1883, the Northwestern League, the Special to the Island Moon of 17, Ehab was selected the African Youth Player- Dotson’s Note: Major league baseball play National League and the American Association Sitting there, he looks like 200 pounds of begins early every April, and fans across signed an agreement that bound the clubs to trouble. The man isn’t real big or all that fast. He of-the-Year. In the last five years, he has played the United States flock to ballparks to watch honor the contracts of players on reserve lists, is just dangerous. He is so soft-spoken only five basketball in over 17 different countries. In their favorite teams and players. Professional to recognize each other's suspensions and guys on his team know which three languages 2013, he was recruited by St. Johns Military baseball players today often make the game look expulsions, to establish territorial rights and to he speaks. One of the best things about sports is Academy, located in Wisconsin. St. Johns is a so effortless that it's easy to forget what a tough form an arbitration committee to settle disputes. the characters the game produces. You see, we private prep school. He was then recruited by path they've followed to get to "The Show." Few The agreement also set minimum salaries -- can’t see inside someone’s chest. Just because the Islanders for the 2014-15 season. Last year, players reach the majors without first playing at a higher level in the National League and you know one thing about a person doesn’t Amin averaged 16.9 points and 6.6 rebounds in the minor leagues, sometimes referred to as the American Association and lower in the mean you know everything about them. You per game. Amin was included on the 2017 the "farm system" or, more recently, the "player Northwestern League -- and basically assigned can’t buy time, tradition, rituals or memories. Southland Conference All-Defensive Team. He development program." Basically, this system "major" or "minor" status to teams, Hoie said. You can’t buy kindness. These are things that was also selected to the 2017 CollegeInsider. enables players to prepare for the big leagues by cannot be bought, but they can be found in a com All-Tournament Team. Ehab collected In 1885, a new National Agreement was 3.4 steals per contest, while leading NCAA playing in progressively tougher minor leagues adopted, making the National League and the good home. This guy lives life like it’s the based around the country. My thanks to Dirk 15th round and he is behind on points, yet I’ve Divison-1 basketball with a total of 124 steals. American Association (which had just accepted That brings his total to 218 steals in three years. Hayhurst and Bob Hoie for their contributions the Interstate Association as an "alliance" never met a nicer man. He can read defenses to this report. league) the principal parties and removing better than stop signs and has a PhD in stealing Several weeks before the 2017 season basketballs. This guy understands that when started, Amin injured his right hip. He needed Almost All Major League Baseball from minor league clubs the protection of the reserve clause. Two years later, that clause was you play hard and give it everything you’ve got, surgery to remove a bone spur and mend some Players Play in a Minor League reinstated for the minors, but the lines had been two things can happen: winning and learning. damaged cartilage. The surgery was performed Experts say minor league baseball has become drawn and the major-minor league distinction successfully on October 10, more popular over the years because it's had been formalized. and Ehab qualified to be red- affordable, fans can see and hear all the action shirted for the season. At The next new National Agreement, which our meeting, Ehab had tossed a¬nd the players -- young guys with big club came on the heels of the American Association's ambitions -- really hustle. aside his crutches and is now collapse in 1892, established minor league participating in physical therapy In many ways, the minor leagues, which also classifications for the first time and awarded every day along with hydro begin play in April, mirror the majors. But there major league teams the right to draft minor works. He hopes to be back are also ways in which life in the minors is quite league players at fixed prices. (While all these at full strength by May. When different. negotiations were underway, the number of asked how he has handled not minor leagues in the country had grown from What's a Minor League Team? being able to practice or travel two in 1883 to 17 by 1888.) with the team, he answered. 1. A minor league baseball team is affiliated Briefly, organized baseball was confined to the “I go to practice but its super with a major league team, and today any northeast quadrant of the country, expanding tough to stay mentally focused. minor league team has two major goals: to the South in 1885, to the upper Midwest in I want to be out there with the 2. The development and preparation of 1886, to California in 1887, Texas in 1888 and team. So, I focus more on my young players for the big leagues the Pacific Northwest in 1890. studies.” Ehab is trilingual and speaks Arabic, English and The forging of a successful local business. Meanwhile, the Negro Baseball League, which French. He is taking four classes Many major league teams have minor leagues was being raided (for players) by the partially this semester and is scheduled structured like this: integrated minor leagues, sought -- and received to graduate with a degree in -- protection under the National Agreement. • Rookie team - This level is usually young General Business, in May. Unfortunately, economic woes and, some say, Ahmin and me players just out of high school or college, the pressures of the times, led to the closing Make no mistake, Ehab has a with an average age of 19. of the league two weeks later. According to funny bone. Maybe it’s because • Class A - This level of play is just above Hoie, that kind of casualty was common during Ehab Amin is a maniac on the floor. His he rooms with teammates Joe Kilgore and the rookie team. Some major league the 19th century when more than 40 % of the teammates call him “Easy E.” Maybe that’s David Bloom. Ehab chose to wear the #4 to teams, such as the Devil Rays, have both leagues that started a season failed to finish it. because he makes the game look so easy. He honor his brother, Sherif, who wears the same owns great hand-to-eye coordination and is number. Like most young men, Ehab enjoys A and "advanced A" clubs playing in two Minor league baseball continued to hang in different leagues. highly intelligent. His hands are like water, so playing video games and watching movies in there with its core supporters over the economic fluid, and he can throw a bounce pass through his spare time. He also loves to travel and being • Class AA (Double-A) - Players are more battles of the next several decades -- battles that a hurricane. He may have three or four arms, close to the water. His favorite NBA player experienced at this level (average age is often focused on draft issues and salaries and depending on who you are speaking with. The is Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs. 23) and more likely to jump from here to pitted majors against minors and higher minors man moves faster than bad news, and he has When asked where he sees himself in five the majors. AA teams may include former against lower minors. never met a jump shot he didn’t like. With Ehab years, he answered immediately, “Fulfilling my major leaguers who are there temporarily By 1963, 90% of the minor league clubs were on your team, the impossible becomes possible. dream and playing in the NBA. I would love to recover from an injury or work out a major league affiliates and the overall number But what makes him different is his love for to play for Pop (Gregg Popovich), if he’s still performance problem before returning to of minor clubs was down. But that had changed playing defense. coaching,” exclaimed Amin. the big club. by the 1980s, when minor league baseball “When I started playing basketball, I found out Interestingly, there are several other Egyptians • Class AAA (Triple-A) - This is the step exploded (experts aren't sure why), topping I could take the ball from the other guys and playing college basketball in the U.S. Anas just below the major leagues and the 20 million in attendance in 1987 for the first score,” said Amin. The guy has mad skills and Mahmoud, a 7-footer who plays center for the quality of the baseball at this level is very time since the 1950s. The Buffalo, N.Y., team handles the ball like it’s a bubble. If he were University of Louisville, is a friend. Omar El close to what we might see at a major set an all-time minor league attendance record Robin Hood in tennis shoes, he could steal Manasterly just graduated from Jacksonville league game. with 1.1 million in 1988. And -- in what may everything on the court. Make no mistake; he’s University in Florida. Ehab and Omar grew have been the catalyst for the 1990 major-minor Although there are some baseball stars who are a thief all right. If you are bringing the ball up up in the same neighborhood and played on the crisis -- minor league franchises, which could drafted or signed to contracts and go straight the court and Ehab Amin is waiting for you, Egyptian National Team. They all speak with be picked up for a song in the 1970s, were being to the majors, they are the exception to the you are in trouble. Because you know it is as each other quite often. sold for millions. much his ball as it was yours. Amin can steal rule. The majority of players play at least one I enjoyed my time with Ehab and look forward the basketball and all the gold out of your teeth. minor league season. Occasionally, exceptional The Professional Baseball Agreement that to seeing him play for the Islanders next year. I You couldn’t take your eyes off of him. Going players hit, field or pitch their way through all binds the majors and minors was set to expire reminded him that sometimes when you have to an Islanders’ game and not watching Ehab the farm teams in one season and wind up in the at the end of 1990. Under that agreement, the someone counting on you, you can find strength Amin would be like climbing to the top of the majors, that or the following season. majors provided significant support for the you didn’t know you had. minors. The majors proposed a reduction in Empire State building and not looking down. Each minor league team plays in a league those subsidies, claiming that the minors were He led the nation in Division-1 basketball last I asked Ehab, since he had a love for the of teams with players at similar levels of healthy enough to pay more of their operational year, with 124 steals. It was like he was playing water, if he would have come to Texas A&M proficiency, usually with all the teams in the expenses. On the other hand, minor league with a four-leaf clover tucked in his sock. University Corpus Christi, if it had not been league within busing distance of one another located near the ocean. “Yes!” he said. “I came clubs resented what they perceived as attempts Ehab Mohamed Mohamed Amin was born by (long, dull bus rides are among some players' here to play basketball for Coach Wilson.” It to take financial advantage. the sea in Alexandria, Egypt, on August 1, 1995. least favorite memories of their time in the has been said that an athlete will never forget Both his mom and dad love sports and have a minors!). As a player advances to AA and AAA, After the dust settled, most minors gave in, his coach. He may forget his teachers but not background in the medical field. Ehab grew up many of those bus trips are replaced by plane fearing they couldn't survive without players his coach and how and what kind of person they with two brothers and he loved playing soccer, rides because league teams are geographically provided by the majors. Under the new were. I don’t know about you, but I’m an Ehab basketball and swimming. “Everybody is super farther apart. (Salaries go up, too!) agreement, the majors would still pay most of Amin fan. Go ’Ders! the operational expenses, but minors were now passionate about soccer in Egypt, but I was All (with the exception of short-season teams required to pay a share of their ticket revenues to always better at basketball,” said Amin. “The Andy Purvis is a local author and radio which play 76 games) professional baseball the majors, forego their share of big-league TV game is played much different back home. The personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. players play at least 140 games, working seven- revenues and meet newly established minimum emphases on fundamentals are taught early on com for all the latest info on his books or to day weeks from early April until (depending standards at their parks. and no one is surprised to see the “bigs” shoot listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books on post-season play) the summer's end. Rain- 3’s.” are available online and can be found in the outs, which once provided an occasional day It was generally believed that these changes local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be When asked about his uncanny ability to take off, seldom happen anymore, due to the much would reduce minor league clubs' profits and, contacted at [email protected]. Also away the basketball, he offered this take. “Since improved drainage systems in today's ballparks. in the process, stabilize or reduce the value of listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Q the age of six, I’ve always been good at stealing The only remaining day off? All-Star Game day franchises, Hoie said. This did not turn out to & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc.com the basketball from others,” said Amin. “I like in July and that's only a day off for players who be the case; in 1992, the Las Vegas franchise 1230 AM, 96.1 FM and 103.3 FM. The home of playing defense, on the ball and off the ball. And aren't chosen to play in the game. sold for a record $7 million and some less-than- the Houston Astros. successful Class A franchises were sold for like shooting three-pointers, I practice taking Some minor league teams have long affiliations more than $1 million each. the ball away from my teammates. A big part with major league clubs. As most of you know, of my success comes from anticipation, the help the “Corpus Christi Hooks” are part of the Despite the positive trends of the past decade of my teammates and scouting. The defensive Houston Astros organization. However, one or so, not all minor league clubs enjoy the positions we are placed in by our coaches also minor league team might be affiliated with degree of success of the Corpus Christi, plays a big part. I do have to admit, I’m a risk several major league systems over its lifetime. Buffalo, Indianapolis, Louisville and Durham taker,” he said with a smile, “and sometimes it That's why, experts say, smart minor league clubs; around 25% of the clubs still draw fewer gets me in trouble.” team owners promote and market team loyalty, than 1,000 fans per game. Only time will tell if rather than loyalty to individual players who minor league baseball's roller-coaster ride of the No doubt Ehab is blessed with instinct. It’s may be gone next week! past century will continue. as if he knows what the opposition is going to do ahead of time. In Egypt, there are no History of the Minors Dotson’s Other Note: The minor leagues sports teams in the school systems. You have are, as they have always been and are still, According to minor leagues expert Bob Hoie, to join a club team to participate in any sports. a tough way to make a living, but you rarely Ehab attended Riada American School in the first recognized minor league was the hear of a player turning down a chance to make Northwestern League, which was organized in Alexandria and graduated in 2013. He joined professional baseball a career…there is always the Alexandria Sporting Club at the age of six. 1882. League officials sought cooperation and a chance that he may make “The Bigs”! Many protection of player contracts from the National Ehab has been very successful in his travels. In are called, but few are chosen. 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Last weekend the Island hosted Coast were crazy for fishing Baffin Bay. He on the Habitat projects that Please show up at the VC around 7-7:30am a fishing tournament that put invited the best television hosts, and did amazing we approved a couple weeks this Saturday and pitch in if you can. Thanks together some of the best shows with Terry Bradshaw and some of sports ago, and on the way back we were detoured goodness the driving is excellent lately. See you tournament fishermen on the most famous characters. When the pressure coming in to Refugio due to a wreck. This soon Ranger Buzz, Donna, and Cynthia! coast, the SALTWATER LEGENDS FISHING was on he shined bright, blinding bright. One winter with a Houston newspaper editor Cliff forced us down to Tivoli and through Rockport, Speaking of cans, the new high-tech solar TOURNAMENT. More important was that and I’m glad that it did, although it cost us an the traveling tournament series was honoring caught an amazing TEN FISH STRINGER powered stainless restroom that was placed OF 29”-32” trout in one day. This amazing extra 45 minutes getting home after a long day. at the Packery Channel boat ramp has been one of my heroes, and a man who has made a The devastation there is still absolutely heart huge impact on trout fishing here in the Laguna stringer still stands in his house today along the removed by City staff due to vandalism. Vandals many museum quality mounts of true giants. breaking, although the lights are starting to have removed fixtures, spray painted, and Madre’ and Baffin Bay. CLIFF WEBB grew come back on and there are some bright spots stolen components off these public restrooms. up here with his father being one of the local of renewed and brand new construction. The Many Islanders have been historically vocal Game Wardens in the 60’s and 70’s. I always piles of debris are still staggering, and it seems about having ADA compliant restrooms at the heard stories of Mr. Webb Sr. and all the outlaw like they may never get it all done, but it’s a boat ramp area, and when we finally get them bluff rats. They had a special relationship that lot better than it was. The majestic oak trees purchased and out there, the Vandal Contingent was a lot like the old cartoons, friendly “checks that symbolized Rockport are still war-torn, but shows up and ruins a lot of TIRZ money and & balances” I guess you could say. Cliff grew many of them are sprouting a few leaves despite hard work. They also hit several signs and up fishing, surfing, and hunting. From what I’ve losing a lot of their branches. Make sure to keep structures in the area. As Kevin says, “this is heard he was always the same charismatic fun everyone in your thoughts and efforts when why we can’t have nice things.” loving person he is today. traveling to Port Aransas, Rockport, Bayside, and surrounding areas. Originally, several committees recommended Cliff and Legends owner Chad with a few that the City place ADA compliant skid-o- trout off the wall in Cliff’s house. 32 in can restrooms and screen them with some slat and bigger! boards to make it look nice. The City Parks staff actually stepped up and identified these really nice restrooms, and after some time, got Cliff guided anglers who religiously fished to them ordered, purchased, and placed. They catch the new state record trout. When one of looked great and were a nice amenity. It’s his customers caught the new state record cliff really a shame that a few bad apples ruin it for stood beside him landing a 12lb plus trout the the rest of us. Looks like back to the drawing same morning. The excitement that shook this board, and likely plastic skid-cans for the time area after that record was broken was electric! being. Hopefully a solution can be found so Our winter economy here in North Padre went that the TIRZ doesn’t pay for restrooms that from nearly empty to groups of fishermen in Exploring the local lakes and rivers with are immediately trashed or never put on site. every hotel and restaurant. Along with all of Roadkill and Keith. It seems counterintuitive to me because that this he was influential in the design of so many area attracts a lot of people there that enjoy the lures, tackle, and rod and reels. He helped create And it’s Go-Time around here folks! Today amenities, and then they get trashed. the entire sport of TEXAS TROPHY FISHING is the 40th Annual CCA-Corpus Christi FOR SPECKLED TROUT! fundraising banquet. We’re been sold out for And trashed is about right, hopefully the over a week, and it’s coming together just fine. lawyers in Laredo will make the right decision In the late 90’s a new live bait technique started A few last minute details and we’ll be ready to regarding the plastic bag ban and many to build popularity. Live croaker fishing was new throw open the doors at 5:30pm at the American municipalities across the Lone Star state will to the Lower Texas Coast. It was unbelievable Bank Center. Hope to see you loyal readers out be able to get back on track with our their bans how many big trout we were catching using there, say hello. and start to clean up. The amount of plastic them. I had just started guiding and Cliff asked floating around in the environment is almost me to be a camera boat on a special FISHING This Saturday, while we’re still licking our demoralizing. Please do your part, support the TEXAS TV SHOW he had planned. He took wounds from the banquet, we’ll be heading Skip the Plastic initiative, the local Surfriders Nolan Ryan at the peak of his popularity and down the beach on the National Seashore to club, Friends of Padre, the Coastal Bend Bays filmed the most amazing television show ever. “show up, suit up, and get it done.” We will be and Estuaries Program, the Coastal Bend Bays On camera catching DOZENS OF TROUT heading farther south this year than ever before, Foundation, Nueces River Authority, CCA, the OVER 28”. This was before cable tv fishing and we’ll need extra help. What we really need Mission Aransas National Estuarine Reserve, shows and it started a massive movement of is experienced beach drivers with four-wheel the TGLO, and other groups that are out there Capt Cliff Webb with a monster winter freshwater fishermen towards saltwater. The drives and it would absolutely fantastic if you cleaning up after the bad apples. Seems we trout. entire area exploded in so many ways, bringing also had a trailer that you could tow and collect need more enforcement out there handing out our small Island to so many. trash on the way back north. As it stands, a tickets to change the status quo. Drop me a line When I was a teenager, we would watch as many Today Cliff still shakes when he tells you few folks who are brave of heart and solid in at [email protected] and I’ll see you out fortitude make multiple runs up and down the fishing shows as possible. Problem was there fishing stories, and can’t keep his mind away there trying to make a difference. was very few saltwater fishing shows. Cliff got from those monster trout. He inspired me to some really big names down here to showcase become the guide and fisherman I am, as well this special area. I remember watching him with as father. Cliff has a special electrical current some of the greats catching fish like crazy, made that runs through his body. It expels positive Game Warden Field Notes me proud to live and fish here, as well as the energy to everyone around him. The fish can The following items are compiled from recent warden arrived, found the vehicle, and tracked rest of this community. Those days in the 80’s feel it, and they swim towards him. He is a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law the suspects. He located an adult and a fishing guides could be counted on both hands teacher, a comedian, and a pleasure to be with. enforcement reports. teenager hunting deer on the property without in each region. Cliffs outreach started to change He still guides anglers hunting big trout with permission. The adult stated he had not killed this and the tourism and national attention grew. lures and would be my first choice to call if Poser anything during the year. As the warden I met Cliff a few times around the bay, but on you want to step off the boat a better angler. Social Media Tip #39: When posting photos inspected his hunting license, he noticed a a surf trip to Mexico one time he really stole His stories of watching trout, and seeing things of yourself with the deer you falsely claim to turkey tag missing. His memory jogged, the my heart. I watched him and Mike Doyle with happen at first sounded too unbelievable, until have just harvested, be sure to pin the location; man did recall shooting a turkey. Asked if he their families traveling and enjoying the remote I held in hand so many of HIS TROUT OVER it helps game wardens when they come to was certain he hadn’t harvested anything else, beaches of deep Mexico, diving for lobsters, TEN POUNDS. He would call me every year investigate. After spotting Facebook photos of the man then remembered a doe he had killed surfing, and I watched him walk up the beach when he caught the big one so that I’d come a woman with a mule deer buck she claimed to earlier in the year, but had forgotten about it. with two monster snook one on each arm. I over and see those fish. That’s what made me have shot, game wardens ran a quick check, and He’d also forgotten how to tag it and enter it in always knew that someday I wanted to be that start glaring a bit harder into the water. I started learned she did not have a hunting license. The the harvest log. The cases are pending. kind of dad. Cliff and his wife Carol have been to see them, feel what they felt, and understand pinned location of the posted images appeared sweethearts since grade school! Their beautiful those creatures of the sea. There is one word that to be a ranch in Brewster County enrolled in Working on Their Night Moves kids and now grandkids over flow with kindness describes Cliff Webb, it’s not fisherman, surfer, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Game wardens received information about two and love. Just the kind of people that make you husband, father, WATERMAN, legendary Managed Lands Deer program, which carries subjects that had allegedly killed several deer at smile, every time. trout fisherman, or anything else but FRIEND, certain tagging and harvest log requirements. night near Grapeland, in Houston County. After The 90’s found me running dad’s bar and because that’s what he is as soon as you meet After identifying the individual’s boyfriend, obtaining IDs through TPWD’s databases, the working the afternoons away at Marker 37 him. who also appeared in the photos, the wardens wardens were able to locate the residence of one Marina. I was trying to start my own business. Cliff, thanks for everything you really are went to the hunting camp to sort things out. of the subjects, and were fortunate enough to Cliff was one of a few guides that suggested that the best! Follow Cliff on Facebook and treat When questioned, the boyfriend told wardens catch both subjects there. The subjects initially I get my captains license and be a fishing guide. yourself to a fishing trip you will never forget. he had killed the buck, legally, and showed denied killing any deer other than what was I pushed the idea away until Cliff sat down with You can always find him along the water’s edge. them the deer head and MLD tag with his name logged on their hunting licenses, but once me and talked me into it. It set me off on my Go get wet! Spring is here! on it. He then confessed his girlfriend made the questioning revealed inaccuracies in their journey. Those years in the 90’s were magical. the initial shot on the deer, and he dispatched accounts, they admitted to poaching several Cliff was the most sought after guide on the the buck due to her misplaced shot. She only additional deer. Wardens discovered several claimed it to show off because she is a city deer heads in various locations on the property, girl, he said. Upon further investigation, it was and two more deer heads at another residence. found only the backstraps were saved and the Through their investigation, the wardens learned Impact of Freshwater’s Feast and Famine remaining carcass was dumped because “the one of the illegal deer was shot by a third There’s a saying in Texas that goes “if you don’t the people that live here,” said lead researcher deer was old.” Multiple citations were issued subject, who admitted to the crime the following like the weather, just wait until tomorrow.” That Amber Hardison. “With this research we hope and the deer was seized. day. So far, 21 citations and warnings have been adage couldn’t be truer for coastal Texas and to gain a better understanding of how the feast issued for various violations involving the five An Illegal Commercial Fishing License, its estuaries. The recent hurricane and extreme and famine of freshwater shapes the uniqueness bucks and two does seized. The investigation is drought in 2015 are just a few of the drastic of the estuaries and learn the underlying Please ongoing. swings in weather patterns we’ve experienced mechanisms for what makes it so.” On Dec. 8, an individual came into the Texas When Duty Calls lately. These weather patterns change the amount Parks and Wildlife Department’s Victoria Law of freshwater flowing into our estuaries, which Enforcement Office to purchase a general A Freestone County game warden was enjoying change the quantity and quality of nutrients commercial fishing license. One of the his day off duck hunting at the Richland Creek delivered to those estuaries. Those nutrients are office clerks was attempting to complete the Wildlife Management Area when he observed the fuel that plankton, shrimp, crabs and fish transaction, but the computer system didn’t a game law violation. The warden watched as a rely upon. Drastic swings in weather patterns recognize the individual’s social security vehicle stopped on a designated public hunting can have an impact on nutrients and the animals Why Purchase From Gary Lunt, Inc.? number. A game warden on hand was handed lands road, the driver exit and shoot at ducks. that need them. However, very little is known t 13 years of proven quality and service t Over 4,000 lights sold and working toDay the individual’s Texas ID card, which he The warden cut his hunt short, switched hats about how nutrients, in the form of particulate t The only know system on the Gulf Cost immediately recognized as a fake. The warden and was eventually able to make contact with organic matter, change during flood and drought which has actually passed the verified through dispatch that the individual the subject, charging him with hunting from a conditions. Building Inspector’s test using the designated roadway. His passenger was charged national electric code requirements didn’t have any documentation on record with u.s. Patent 7,008,081 Issued march 7, 2006 for not having the required Annual Public Biogeochemists Drs. Amber Hardison and the Texas Department of Public Safety. After Zhanfei Liu at The University of Texas Marine 1 year LImIteD Warranty questioning the individual regarding his fake Hunting Lands permit. The driver was also part Call for references of a group recently apprehended by the warden Science Institute in Port Aransas are interested ID, the subject admitted he bought the social in amending the knowledge gap. 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Legal duck hunting hours end at sunset. an outgoing tide, north winds and the fact research projects that will advance knowledge, The warden was able to walk to and observe the the PV Captain Murchison drafts 4-5 feet, integrate research and extension, and result in group of hunters shooting at a duck roost on a the Murchison carefully approached the first broader impacts that benefit society,” said Dr. small island in the lake. After making contact violator, made contact and one of the wardens Pamela T. Plotkin, Director of Texas Sea Grant. with the hunters, the warden also discovered boarded. As the Murchison held its position, the “These research investments will generate corn scattered around the subjects’ gear. He warden onboard the oysterman’s boat informed substantial social, economic and environmental pulled one of the hunters aside and when asked the captain of the violation and directed him to impacts, help develop the workforce and how much corn was located on the island they approach the second vessel. The warden then contribute to the sustainability of Texas’ natural were hunting, the hunter dropped his head and boarded the second vessel in violation. Both and built environments.” said, “Fifty pounds.” Citations for hunting after captains and crews were arrested for harvesting In South Texas, higher temperatures and drier sunset and placing bait to attract migratory oysters in a restricted area and transported to conditions lead to very low freshwater inflow waterfowl are pending. the Chambers County Jail. This marks the first levels to estuaries for much of the year, often time in the 30-year service of the PV Captain Bad Memory multiple years. These long dry conditions are Murchison that a restricted oyster case was interspersed with sporadic pulses of rain that Fully Guided • All Tackle Provided On Christmas morning, a Houston County made off this deep water platform. The cases flood the estuaries with freshwater and bring game warden received a call about trespassers are pending. with it nutrients, sediment and vegetation. on a piece of property near Kennard. The “Our estuaries in South Texas are as unique as (361)442-8145 Free Daily Printable Crossword Puzzles http://www.onlinecrosswords.net/printable-daily-crosswords-1.php A 13 Island Moon February 22, 2018

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Dib Waldrip; Jay Brandon; Michelle Slaughter Republican Party Ballot Member, State Board of Education, District 2 Tourism Resource - Eric Garza; Charles “Tad” Hasse “I am a Republican and understand that I By Todd Hunter, District 32 Film Commission has estimated that, between State Representative, District 32 - 32 Todd am ineligible to vote or participate in another This week I want to discuss 2007 and 2013, the $94 million that was spent Hunter political party’s primary election or convention the film and video game on incentives has led to $744 million in direct during this voting year.” Chief Justice, 13th Court of Appeals District - industries in Texas and how spending in Texas. To put that in perspective, Ernie Aliseda they can create opportunities for growth and for every dollar spent in the moving image United States Senator - Mary Miller; Bruce development in our state, as well as our region. industry, there were seven dollars spent in the Jacobson, Jr.; Geraldine Sam; Ted Cruz Justice, 13th Court of Appeals District, Place The motion picture or moving image industry Texas economy. In 2011, the Bureau of Business 2 - Greg Perkes United States Representative, District 27 - encompasses film, videogames, and other Research reported that, between June 2007 Bech Bruun; Eddie Gassman; Christopher Justice, 13th Court of Appeals District, Place entertainment ventures. It’s an exciting time for through December of 2010, $598.3 million in K. Mapp; Michael Cloud; Jerry Hall; John 4 - Jaime Tijerina this industry, as the state sees more and more “direct moving production spending” in Texas commercial, television and motion pictures could be attributed to the Texas Moving Image Grunwald Justice, 13th Court of Appeals District, Place being developed here. Our South Texas and Industry Program. This report includes other 5 Clarissa Silva Governor - Barbara Krueger; SECEDE Coastal Bend region is particularly well-suited entertainment industries, such as video games. Kilgore; Greg Abbott District Judge, 105th Judicial District - Jack to film and moving image production because The total effect of the incentives is estimated to Lieutenant Governor -Scott Milder; Dan W. Pulcher of low costs, an excellent climate, and a wide be around $1.08 billion through 2010. Patrick District Judge, 148th Judicial District - Mark array of geographic locations, including cities, The moving image industry (which includes small towns, beautiful beaches and farmland. Attorney General - General Ken Paxton W. Stolley; Bill Kelly both the film and video game industries) has a long history in the state of Texas. After Thomas District Judge, 319th Judicial District - David In particular, the film industry has had a long Comptroller of Public Accounts - Glenn Hegar Edison’s Kinetoscope invention in 1891, the Stith history in the Lone Star State. The earliest Commissioner of the General Land Office documented moving image in Texas was of first Kinetoscope booths in Texas opened in - Jerry Patterson; George P. Bush; Davey County Judge - Mike Pusley the Galveston hurricane aftermath in 1900. Austin. The first “film” in Texas was technically Edwards; Rick Range Judge, County Court-atLaw No. 1 - Russell Many film production companies established a documentary. Several movies have been made or partially shot in South Texas, including Commissioner of Agriculture - Trey Blocker; Manning themselves in the first half of the century, “Pearl Harbor” (2001), “Selena” (1997), “The Sid Miller; Jim Hogan particularly in the South Texas/San Antonio Judge, County Court-atLaw No. 4 - Mark H. area. While Hollywood and New York City grew Open Road” (2009), “The Legend of Billie Railroad Commissioner - Weston Martinez; Woerner into two major entertainment hubs of the nation, Jean” (1985), “Los pequenos gigantes” (1960). Christi Craddick Judge, County Court-atLaw No. 5 - Timothy Texas remained an important shooting location. If you have questions regarding any of the Justice, Supreme Court, Place 2 - Jimmy McCoy The 1950s and 1960s saw an increase in Western information mentioned in this week’s article, Blacklock movies, particularly with the popularity of John please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or District Clerk - Anne Lorentzen Wayne and the iconic film “Giant.” In the 1970s, Justice, Supreme Court, Place 4 - John Devine District Office. Please always feel free to County Clerk - Kara Sands the Texas Film Commission began coordinating contact my office if you have any questions shooting locations throughout the state. As Justice, Supreme Court, Place 6 - Jeff Brown County Commissioner, Precinct No. 4 - Brent or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if Texan filmmakers established themselves in you would like to contact my office regarding Presiding Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals - Chesney Hollywood in the late 1970s, they would later Sharon Keller; David Bridges constituent services. As always, my offices are return to Texas, allowing the state to emerge as available at any time to assist with questions, Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 7 - a top area to both produce and shoot movies. concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- Barbara Parker Hervey Movies shot and set in Texas have proliferated. 463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603). In the last twenty years, Austin has been a premiere destination for film producers, and Whooping Crane Festival Opens Thursday that influence has spread throughout the state. - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 The 22nd annual Whooping Crane Festival For more information and online registration, In Texas, we value the film industry and its Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). opens Thursday, February 22 in Port Aransas, visit www.whoopingcranefestival.org. Online competitiveness by allocating funds to the Texas He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. Texas. Festival events will run daily February registration closes at 12:00 p.m. CT on February Moving Image Industry Incentive Program. state.tx.us or at 512-463-0672. 22-25. The festival is open to birders, 19. Onsite registration will open on February 22 This program allows Texas to compete with photographers, families, and anyone who loves at 1:00 p.m. at the Port Aransas Civic Center neighboring states such as New Mexico and the outdoors and nature-related activities. and run daily through the festival. Louisiana, who have also enjoyed economic Port of Corpus benefits from the film industry. The Texas World renowned crane expert, Dr. George Discover the original ISLAND LIFE Archibald, Co-Founder of the International destination – Port Aransas & Mustang Island. Christi Dredging Crane Foundation, will be one of the featured The Port Aransas & Mustang Island Chamber Veterans Resource speakers, along with representatives from of Commerce and Tourism Bureau is the one- Included in the Operation Migration, Wood Buffalo National stop information planning source for all travel Park, the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, trade and media professionals. Experience our Fair March 3 and more. Festival attendees will have the 18 miles of wide, sandy beaches, world class Nueces County Veterans Services, Del Mar President’s Proposed opportunity to take guided boat tours to the watersport activities, sport fishing, kayaking, College Veterans Services and Veterans Aransas National Wildlife Refuge to view the nature preserves, championship golf, and more. Administration are hosting a Veterans Resource FY 19 Budget world’s last naturally-occurring population of Port A is famous for nightlife and endless Fair, March 3, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 pm at Del For the first time funding for a plan to dredge Whooping Cranes on their wintering grounds. varieties of food, entertainment and great Mar College East Campus Harvin Center, 101 the Port of Corpus Christi’s Ship Channel to a Additional festival activities include birding and shopping. Accommodations for all lifestyles Baldwin Blvd. depth of 53 feet has been included in the FY nature boat and bus tours, interactive workshops and budgets include hotels, vacation homes, This event is aimed at providing Veterans and 19 Presidential Budget for U.S. Army Corps and seminars, a painting and wine tasting class, condos, cottages, and RV parks. their dependents the opportunity to inquire of Engineers (USACE) Coastal Navigation and a free nature-related trade show. about the different benefits that are available to Construction that was released by the White them from health care, claims filing information, House Monday. “Big Bloom” Plant Sale at the Botanical education, land board, burial, purchasing home The President’s budget includes $13 million in information and counseling services. funding for port of Corpus Christi’s CIP in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in its civil works Gardens April 7 budget. Completion of the CIP will allow the Fish Fry Friday Port to increase export volumes of U.S. oil and The “fix is in” for the August hurricane, wetland boardwalk. From February 16 through March 23 the St. natural gas, supporting the nation’s allies abroad December snow, and hard winter freezes! South Food trucks will be Andrew Knights of Columbus will hold a and bolstering domestic energy production. Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center’s on site for lunch! Lenten fish fry each Friday evening from 5-7 According to Energy Analysts International, annual BIG BLOOM mega Plant Sale, garden Corporate sponsors p.m. at St. Andrew by the Sea Family Life the Port of Corpus Christi exported more than festival, and Dollar Day, will be 9 am to 5 pm, underwriting Center, 14238 Encantada Avenue. $6 billion of crude oil to U.S. trading partners Saturday, April 7, on Gardens & Nature Center DOLLAR DAY The cost is $8 per plate and includes fried fish, in 2017 contributing to offset the United States grounds, 8545 S. Staples St. Visitors may shop include Bay, Ltd., trade deficit. and tour the entire Botanical Gardens for just City of Corpus Christi fries, green beans, Coleslaw and ice tea and $1 each. Members are admitted free, and may Solid Waste Services, coffee. The Port of Corpus Christi has committed up begin shopping at 8 a.m. Parking is free with City of Corpus Christi For more information call 361 949-7193. to $50 million to fund the dredging with the festival entrance through Rose Pavilion. More Water Utilities, Jason’s Deli, Port Corpus hope of recovering some of that amount from than 6000 attended BIG BLOOM 2017! Christi, Valero Energy Foundation, RICOH. the federal government. Shoppers are asked to bring plant carriers. Vendor spaces available through April 4. Visit stxbot.org; call 361.852.2100.

Plant include the popular orchid sale, sponsored by Corpus Christi Area Garden Council; plumeria; water-conserving native, Xeriscape and lots of other durable landscape choices; tropicals and exotics; roses, butterfly attractor plants, herbs, tomatoes, peppers and more. Independent vendors will offer more plants plus outdoor décor and other nature and garden-related merchandise. Nueces Master Gardeners, Plumeria Society of South Texas, Charter Boat Owners and Operators Wanted and sponsor Corpus Christi Rose Society will for new location on Packery Channel be on hand for plant picks and horticulture help. Eco-entertainment includes two NAVYARMY COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION Butterfly Packery Releases; three WHATABURGER Lady Bug Flats releases; H-E-B Kids Fun Zone with ‘Touch TM & Learn’ projects and inflatables; Flint Hills Floating Cabin Repairs Resources EcoFun Tent, with Resident Reptile Large Boat Slip (22’ x 40’) available shows and Parrot Talks; plus Texas Master good for either repairs or rebuilding Naturalists nature trail walk-and-talks, Wetlands Located under the JFK bridge on Packery Channel Boardwalk birding scopes; and Monkey Call for lease terms Mansion Treehouse. BIG BLOOM visitors also Packery Flats Marina can tour the Orchid Conservatory, Bromeliad Conservatory, all other floral exhibits, trails and 361-774-8886

Sunflower Beach hosted a ribbon cutting on Saturday, February 17th for the luxury beach cabins known as The Camp. Eight of the 25 cabins are under contract and completion of phase one will be in early Summer. Brandon Miller of the Brandon Miller Group and Cass Brewer from Legacy DCS has partnered to bring this exciting project to Mustang Island. Each cabin at Sunflower Beach offers an attention to luxury that you Send letters and photos to [email protected] won’t find anywhere else on the coast. February 22, 2018 Island Moon A 15 Military Saves Week: Scams Targeting Service Members By Kelly Trevino The IslandCLUB Moon provides this space for NEWSIsles. Their office is located at 14015 Regional Director, Corpus Christi Better Business Bureau Island organizations. If you are a member Fortuna Bay Drive on The Island. (361) of a club and want to get the word out 949-7025, [email protected]. Military Saves Week is an opportunity to help members, posting their photos on popular about your events and/or projects send ARK – Animal Rehabilitation Keep. service members and their families focus on dating websites. Once they gain the trust them along and we will get them in. Located in Port Aransas the ARK is financial readiness, reducing debt and saving of someone they’re engaging with online, Be sure to include a brief description of affiliate with the University of Texas at money for the future. Unfortunately, scammers scammers then ask for everything from what your organization does and a contact Austin Marine Science Center. They are interested in service members, too. 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According claim they are service members about to Club (PIACCC) is open to all vehicles edu to the Federal be deployed and need to sell a vehicle fast. 25 years and older: Antique, Classic, Trade Similarly, others offer a special discount Roadsters, Hot Rods, etc; who would like Commission’s for serving their country but require a to meet to plan meetings, socials, rallies, (FTC) 2016 wire transfer deposit. tours, car shows on and around the Island. Consumer Please contact [email protected] for BBB offers some helpful tips to protect information on the upcoming meeting. Sentinel yourself from becoming a victim of a scam: Network Data Please include your contact information Book, imposter scams were the number one Protect finances. Never wire money or give out and the type of car owned. complaint category for military consumers, personal information, like your Social Security Youth Development Foundation of followed by identity theft. That same year number to strangers. Avoid using a debit card Port Aransas. YDF meets at noon each 103,076 complaints were reported by military that is linked directly to your checking account Thursday at Stingray’s, 401 Beach Ave., consumers. That is an increase from the previous to pay for an online transaction, use a credit Port Aransas. For more information please year, when there were 96,587 complaints. card instead. email [email protected]. Here are the most common scams that target Safeguard your identity. Actively deployed Padre Island Ukulele Club – We meet members of the military: military personnel can place an “active duty Island’s PIPPs Chapter of Corpus every other Tuesday night! Call or text Christi Red Hat Society. In 2004 a alert” on their credit reports to help minimize Danny Salazar at (316) 877--‐7071 • Imposter scam: Some scammers the risk of identity theft. group of Island ladies got together under are contacting the families of service for the next meeting date. Beginners a Palapa and founded the Padre Island members by phone or email and making Report scams. You can find and report scams Workshop: 6 to 7 PM and Open Jam: Palapa Pals (PIPPs). Our only rule is that false claims that their son or daughter on BBB Scam Tracker. To file a complaint, go 7 to 8 PM. All Skills levels welcome. there are no rules! We are all about fun is injured or wounded overseas. Often, to bbb.org or ftc.gov. Location: Island Joe’s Coffee and Gallery, and friendship. We meet once a month they ask for a wire transfer or money 13919 SPID, right here on the island. for lunch and various fun outings from BBB Military Line is a year-round program that A $3 per person donation covers the order to cover medical bills. BBB advises brings BBB services to military members and cupcake making to CPR. consumers never wire transfer money, as workshop, materials and the open jam. their families. BBB has provided free resources Loaner ukuleles available at no extra cost. Padre Island Book Wine & Spirits. there is little to no way of getting your and support to our military communities in money back. RSVP online. PadreIslandUkeClub@ This is the Island book club. We meet the areas of financial literacy and consumer gmail.com the first Wednesday of each month at • Online romance scam: Scammers protection since 2004. For more information Island Time Sushi Bar and Grill at 7:00 steal identities of real soldiers on social about BBB Military Line, visit BBB.org/ KIWANIS Club of Padre Island. pm. Wonderful group of ladies that like networking sites and pose as service central-texas. Kiwanis meets at Veranda Restaurantat to read, love socializing with the girls and Schlitterbahn at Noon on the first and drinking wine! Come out and join us we third Wednesday of the month. would love to have you! Contact Linda Island Strategic Action Committee. Walsh, [email protected] or 361- NASA Solar System Ambassador Is a 14-member committee which meets 445-7999, or just show up! at 5:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at the Comfort Suites on Windward. Teaching Flour Bluff ISD Students The committee’s purpose is to advise the Corpus Christi City Council on matters pertaining to The Island. All meetings are About Space Planes open to the public and the public is invited Island resident, Vaughn Hunter, a retired Mr. Hunter’s goal as Corpus Christi’s SSA is to address the committee during the public aerospace engineer, has been accepted as a to be a resource for schools and museums to comment period. NASA Solar System Ambassador. (SSA). For share the volumes of information and training Padre Island Business Association. The his first activity the Flour Bluff School District material provided by NASA with Corpus association is a not-for-profit organization has invited him to make a series of eight Christi and nearby communities. The Solar whose primary purpose is to advertise and presentations to their Intermediate students on System Ambassadors Program of NASA’s Jet promote Padre/Mustang Islands, Flour the development of Space Planes. Propulsion Laboratory offers information and Bluff and Corpus Christi while advancing The Solar System Ambassador program excitement about real missions that explore the interests of the business community. comprises more than 900 space enthusiasts from our solar system. Volunteer ambassadors It is managed by a 9-member board of Island Emmaus reunion is open to all walks of life who serve as NASA volunteers in communities throughout the country are directors. A membership luncheon is held anyone that has been on a Chryslis or in their states, sharing the story of the agency’s selected by JPL based on their backgrounds on the 2nd Thursday of each month at The Emmaus walk. For more information space exploration efforts with people in their and on their plans for public outreach activities. Veranda starting at noon. Mixers are held call Eileen Moeller @ 830-708-8367 or local communities. Large Texas cities have JPL provides ambassadors with educational on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. The [email protected] many SSAs, but Mr. Hunter is one of just three materials and training. However, the opinions association annually has two fundraising of Ambassadors are not necessarily those of Parrot Heads of Port Aransas - is on the Texas South Coast west of Galveston, the events – Taste of the Island in the fall and a local chapter of the Parrot Heads in other two are in Brownsville. NASA or JPLJPL is a division of the California a Wine Tasting in the spring. Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California Paradise Inc., a not-for-profit corporation P.I.E. Padre Island Enrichment Club whose purpose is to assist in community is a ladies only social club open to all and environmental concerns and provide a owners/residents of North Padre. We hope variety of social activities for people who Radio Drama Coming to Port to enrich our members through social are interested in the music of Jimmy Buffett activities and community involvement. and the tropical lifestyle he personifies. We have monthly luncheons (2nd Friday) Founded in 2009, the club motto is “Partying Aransas Theatre along with groups of bunco, bridge, with a Purpose’’. To join or ask questions go spades, craft club and book clubs. We to portaransasparrotheads.com or email or By Darlene Secich of the U.S., Canada, Australia, Cyprus and the enjoy raising money for scholarships call Deno “Moon Dog” Fabrie, President at United Kingdom. Pulp-Pourri Theatre can be for local graduating seniors as well as 361 749 0256 or [email protected]. Theatre Manager found at www.naradaradio.libsyn.com, and all other worthy causes in our community. Padre Island Women’s Golf Association. The Narada Radio Company is a troupe of shows are free to download. For more info please contact Rebecca voice actors in the Coastal Bend who produce a All skill levels are welcome. Call Fran more The live performance, “Audio Drama Dessert Robbins 303-434-0947. information: 361-877-2551 regular audio drama series for podcast, and who Theatre”, scheduled for March 3, 2018, at 7:00 occasionally perform live at certain venues, Island United Political Action The New Neighbors League: New Neighbors PM in the Port Aransas Community Center, will Committee: Maximize representation bringing the excitement and immediacy of a consist of a half-hour original comedy program, League is a women’s social organization open mock broadcast to a “studio” audience. of Corpus Christi residents on Padre to women of the coastal bend, promoting fun followed by a short intermission during which and Mustang Islands in area government Pete Lutz, a Corpus Christi resident and retired desserts will be available, and will finish with & friendship. New Neighbors League holds by promoting and supporting, by the monthly coffees, luncheons, as well as monthly Navy Petty Officer, is an award-winning audio a half-hour drama selected from the archives of endorsement process, proactive and drama playwright and producer. He founded Old-Time Radio. activities such as Ladies Night Out, Couples unified voting in non-partisan races and Dinners, Movies, Cards, and Golf to name a Narada in 2001 when he wrote and directed a other issues and referendums put to public pair of radio dramas that were staged that year few. Visit our website at newneighbors.com or vote. Meetings are open to the public. email us at [email protected] at Harbor Playhouse, entitled “Science Fiction IUPAC meets meeting the 2nd Thursday Double Feature”. A lifelong admirer of Old- of the month from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM at Flour Bluff Padre Island 4H Flour Bluff Time Radio shows, and a more recent devotee the Island Time Sushi Bar, contact: Nick Padre Island 4H (FBPI4H) is a club for kids to modern audio drama, Mr. Lutz brings these Colosi 618-889-9160 ncolosi@yahoo. in 3rd grade-12th grade. We meet at 6:30 two together - the old and the new - in a blend com. pm the first Monday of every month in the of acting, music and sound effects that is certain FB Intermediate cafeteria. 4H provides to thrill any audience. POA - Padre Isles Owners Association. opportunities and experiences where young The Association’s primary responsibility people learn by doing. Please visit us on Pete revamped Narada in 2013 when he is to maintain the Common Areas, assess decided to create his audio drama podcast, Facebook at Flour Bluff Padre Island 4H or and collect the annual fees and provide our website at FBPI4H.com. “Pulp-Pourri Theatre”, which takes as its source information and assistance to property and inspiration the classic stories and genres owners. .. Membership in PIPOA is Port Aransas Art Center 104 N. A;lister of 20th-century pulp fiction. The troupe boasts automatic for anyone acquiring record 361-749-7334 Classes offered, call for details. nearly 80 members, and is comprised of local legal title to any property within Padre actors from nearly all of the Coastal Bend playhouses, plus remote actors from other parts Follow us on Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper Send photos and letters to: [email protected]

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And for that, you have done not important this issue is to the veterans here and just our area but yourself a special service. Here how a group of them are fighting as hard as they it’s the other 50% or so of the other veterans in can to bring the resource here where they are our midst that need to do something that may badly needed. This is a simple numbers game make the difference in their lives and currently right now. When we go to our elected officials someone else’s. This selfless act will only take and ask for more for the VA Clinic they respond a few hours of your time, protect you and your by saying, “I want to help but the numbers don’t family in the future, and make certain that the support the need”. This is the roadblock, this is resources our veteran’s desperately need are the cause we are fighting the hardest for right here when and where we need it. So what is here right now. This is where we need every this action we are calling? What is this selfless veteran to again take his and her place in the step to aid our brothers and sister in-arms? Well, line. If you truly support the troops, truly want we need for each and every veteran in our area those that sacrifice to get what they need, then to register with the VA. that’s what we need you to do. Ask each and every veteran you know, “Are you registered Now here are the responses I get when I with the VA Clinic?” ask if a vet if they are registered. “There’s nothing wrong with me.”, or “I just use the VA for helping my home loan”, or the most common, “I don’t want to register because I don’t want to take resources from the vets that really need it.” It’s that last sentiment that we Police have to fight back the strongest against. Because it is that mindset of sacrifice that is ingrained in our way of thinking is actually not helping Blotter but hurting our brothers and sisters in our veteran community. And the reason for this is really pretty simple. The bean counters at the Veteran’s Administration in Washington, D.C. allocate resources based almost entirely on number of veterans living in a designated area. And for example, our numbers look something like this. We are aware that approximately 31,000 veterans reside in Nueces County. Of the 31,000, we know that only about half of these (15,000), are registered at the VA Health Clinic. Because of this, it appears that we are allocated half of the resources that we should be getting. Half of the help we could be getting our local vets. This means we are getting half the doctor and nurse’s positions, half the facilities, half the support staff slots, and most importantly, we are getting half of the support we need for building a highly desired veteran’s hospital for our community. Here are some of the problems with the process of communicating this important step to our newest group of citizens returning home from service. Every military member with Active Duty service is required sometime within their last year of service to undergo a Transition Assistance Program. In this program, soon to be civilians are given classes on topics such as job-hunting and preparation, education benefits, financial planning, and generally how- to-be a civilian again life expectations. The problem is that the majority of veterans just don’t pay too much attention to these classes. And I can say this from personal experience as I went through this process just 3 years ago. I can also safely say that as part of this process at no point was I encouraged to go register with Vandals have been busy in recent weeks the VA clinic. I think this is because you only spray painting graffiti on several structures get this information if you are someone who on The Island. 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And if we can keep our of mine for 20 years. head above water until we get some more He used to own the condos and hotels up and running, I think we’re old Winston’s Pub going to be just fine.” I guess that about sums it on Nac & 410 and up. Love your optimism Chief. Spring Break is This is George just now owns Barflies on a little over two weeks away. There’s no turning The Detentions, Dan Sullivan and Chris before he went into Broadway and 410. back now. Hillier, will play the Pirates and Poets the hospital. Both well respected and world class show at Shorty’s this Saturday. neighborhood bars in speakers, workshops, field trips for birding San Antonio. George and photography by land and boat, a nature keeps a trailer at Fun Time RV Park in Port A related trade show and many other activities and has for years. You may know George from for birders as well as their families. Go to sitting on a bar stool with his big pit Steven or www.whoopingcranefestival.org for specifics. “Steve” as the girls like to call him. So right The Ty Dietz Band will be dusting the webs after Harvey, George asked me to go by and down at Shorty’s on Friday. Shorty’s has been take some pics of his trailer, which I did. It was Spring break is imminent. Are we ready? laying low on the music scene lately. They toast. So a few weeks later George came down have another show on Saturday afternoon with to clean up the mess and get it ready for a new Scattered shots… Lisa Morales will play Third Coast this the Pirates and Poets folks. Brian Shayne trailer. He spent the whole weekend knee deep Saturday night. will play at 12:30 and Dan Sullivan will play in Harvey muck then went back home to SA The Art Fair with his group, The Detentions, at 2:00. Also on Sunday. Three days pass and George’s face over at Shorty’s on Friday, the Bad Buoys will play Giggity’s. started to swell badly. He could feel something last weekend was Inching into On Saturday the great Toman Brothers will very wrong in his back jaw so he went to his another rousing Spring…The Back return to Giggity’s for some fine boot scootin’. dentist who couldn’t figure out which tooth success. It’s a laid Porch will get their Get ready for some Gary Stewart. Also on it was so he sent him to a specialist. But the back home grown doors back open Saturday, Lisa Morales will play Third Coast. specialist couldn’t see him for three days. In deal with local for the season on Lisa always puts on a lively show with or the mean time, George’s face was so swollen artists sitting around Friday with a show without her Sisters Morales partner Roberta. he was about to explode so he went to the ER Shorty’s on a nice by Billy Snipes. I like her all Spanish shows the best. Be safe at one of the local hospitals and was admitted afternoon listening Jered Clark will be out there. into ICU with a staph infection he got in Port to Stevie Start play there on Saturday. A and was given a battery of antibiotics. Then music and digging ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ Stevie Start provided The Toman Brothers Welcome back guys! they were going to “wait and see”. the vibes. Thanks to the entertainment for will play Giggity’s The annual three day Shorty’s Art Fair last K.K. Knapp, Nikki It’s a face-off… Ikonomopoulos and on Saturday, but not Whooping Crane Saturday. Kathleen Moore for with Gary Stewart, Festival starts this George knew something was way wrong, so Thursday in Port A. he yanked all the tubes out and walked out of their artistic efforts. Dean Dillon and Ray I want to also give Wilburn. The festival includes the hospital looking like the Elephant Man world renowned and went looking for his dental specialist, Nikki a shout out who he found. He freaked out when he saw for volunteering her George and immediately put him under right efforts and talents to there in his dental office. When George woke paint wildlife murals up in the hospital, he thought it was the next on the new buildings day but it had been a month. In that time he had The local artists, at the ARK. When I Live Music five surgeries in one 24 hour period and now Karen Knapp, Nikki caught up with her, Surf Club holds the record at Ikonomopoulos and she was painting a Damon Scott @ House of University Hospital Kathleen Moore at big turtle on a wall Rock for most surgeries in in the new turtle Tonight the Shorty’s Art Fair Thursday, March 1 a 24 hour period. He tank building. Nikki Thursday, February 22 last Saturday. Free Beer Band @ was given two hours Whooping Crane Festival Giggity’s to live and they @ Port Aransas Jimmy Willden @ called his family to Free Beer Band @ Executive Surf Club Giggity’s come pick up the Roger Creager @ Brewster Magnus @ Scuttlebutt’s body. But during Street William Clark Green @ the time he was OPEN THIS APEX @ Rockit’s there, the doctors Brewster Street Donavon Frankenreiter @ FRIDAY! Friday, March 2 aggressively tried Executive Surf Club BILLY SNIPES THIS FRIDAY Red Giant @ Giggity’s to save Georges life Rudolf Llanes @ Vino Mio Davin James @ Back Porch and get the infection Social Club JERED CLARK THIS Spazmatics @ Brewster out. They removed George Todt and his Ty Dietz @ House of Rock SATURDAY Street all his teeth on one APEX @ Rockit’s pal Steve are looking 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront Reno Perez @ It’ll Do side of his head and pretty good these Saloon Nikki Ikonomopoulos is painting a mural Friday, February 23 made an incision Folk Family Revival @ days. Whooping Crane Festival across his throat in the turtle building at the ARK. House of Rock @ Port Aransas and behind his ear so they could literally peel Mammoths @ Executive Bad Buoys @ Giggity’s is a true lover of wildlife. I understand she is Surf Club his face off and clean the infected area under it Chris Saenz @ Clarissa Serna @ Rockit’s before it went into his brain. When he woke up, in the process of Scuttlebutt’s there was a Priest in the room giving him last developing another Oddfellas @ Brewster Saturday, March 3 rites. I’m telling you George, you have an angel wildlife publication Street Scarecrow People @ Back on your shoulder. You’re one tough old bird. with proceeds going Ty Dietz @ Shorty’s Porch directly to the ARK. Another Level @ Rockit’s Mike O’Neil @ Giggity’s Six months later… Rockinstine @ It’ll Do Also last weekend, Cody Jinks @ Brewster Saloon Channel 8 News in Dallas did a progress report I went to another Street Dave’s Duo @ Katz 21 TY DIETZ BAND THIS FRIDAY house concert at Fist Full of Metal @ It’ll on Port A recently, “Hurricane Harvey Six The Groove @ Executive Bubba and Patti PIRATES & POETS SATURDAY Do Saloon Months Later”. They interviewed Chief Scott Surf Club Naked & Fearless Tool Burroughs and Mayor Charles Bujan who Brandenberger’s Out of Bounds @ Vino BRIAN SHANE 12:30 - 1:45 Tribute @ House of Rock were focused on Spring Break and tourism. Rasta Casa on Padre Mio Social Club Shayna Sands @ Executive What Bujan and Burroughs say Port Aransas Island with a show Gary Brandenberger Tropicoso, Tribe Called THE DETENTIONS 2 - 4 Surf Club by Houston blues hosted a house Red @ House of Rock needs most is for its dedicated legion of tourists Another Level @ Rockit’s and spring breakers to return as they always great, John Egan. concert last Saturday Saturday, February 24 have, giving the tourist economy the support it Man, that cat has got with Houston blues OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port Aransas Sunday, March 4 Whooping Crane Festival needs to fuel a complete recovery. Burroughs Howlin’ Wolf down. Antone & All Stars @ great, John Egan. @ Port Aransas It’s a slow boil. Giggity’s BELT SANDER RACES @ Gaff Monday, March 5 Pirates & Poets (Brian Open Jam @ Giggity’s GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR Shayne (12:30-1:45), Detentions (2-4) @ Tuesday March 6 Shorty’s Paul Taylor @ Giggity’s LIVE MUSIC Lisa Morales @ Third LIVE MUSIC Free Beer Band EVERY THURS (7-10) Coast Theater Wednesday, March 7. EVERY Bad Buoys this Friday (9 - 1) Toman Brothers @ PA Rockers @ Bernie’s Giggity’s NIGHT Toman Brothers This Saturday (9-1) Billy Snipes @ Giggity’s Pirates & Poets @ Shorty’s Antone & the All Stars EVERY SUN (8-12) Damon Scott @ House of Michael Burtts @ HAIR BY Rock Open Jam EVERY MON (8-12) Scuttlebutt’s All You Can Eat Open Mic @ Executive Paul Taylor EVERY TUES (7-10) 5inco Gang @ House of Surf Club FRIED Independent Thieves This Wed (8-12) Rock \ FLOUNDER Cruise Control @ Rockit’s HEIDI Thursday, March 8 Everyday 11-7 722 Tarpon, Port Aransas, TX Jam Band @ It’ll Do at Trinity By the Sea Free Beer Band @ Saloon Giggity’s Nothing More @ Brewster Trojan & Ave E. Sweet Daddy @ Executive Street (512) 914-8846 Surf Club Jason Neville @ Vino Mio David Martinez @ Rockit’s Social Club PORT A. PROUD . Friday, March 9 Sunday, February 25 Chanklas @ Giggity’s Antone & All Stars @ Cody Angel @ Back Porch Giggity’s BELT SANDER RACES John Eric @ Scuttlebutt’s @ Gaff Stoney Larue @ Brewster Monday, February 26 Street Open Jam @ Giggity’s APEX @ Rockit’s Melissa Ann @ Scuttlebutt’s Saturday, March 10 Garrett Simon @ Back Tuesday February 27 Porch Pau l Taylor @ Giggity’s Treasure Island Ty Dietz @ Giggity’s Billy Snipes @ Sing Along Piano Bar @ Scuttlebutt’s FULL BAR & Brewster Street Open Mic @ House of Iya Terra @ House of Rock Port Aransas Rock 14 TAPS Myndfields @ Rockit’s

Construction Wednesday, February 28 OPEN EVERY Sunday, March 11 Independent Thieves @ Est. 1999 Antone & All Stars @ Giggity’s DAY AT 3 Giggity’s Residential/Commercial PA Rockers @ Bernie’s 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Michael Burtts @ treasureislandporta Monday, March 12 Scuttlebutt’s Open Jam @ Giggity’s (361) 453-0147 Open Mic @ Executive Expert Computer Repairs The Gaff Now Open! Pizza Beer Darts Belt sander Races