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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 August 29, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around Musical Labor The Island Day on the By Dale Rankin Island The last few weeks have been Many venues surprisingly slow Around The Island. are offering live Streets from Sea Pines to Cotter have music this labor been bereft of the type of late summer day weekend traffic we have seen in years past as starting Thursday, families concentrate on heading back August 29th with to school. It’s not like Island dogs can the Mike O'Neill Blues Band from sleep in the street but the occasional 6-9 p.m. at Waves Resort. Admission lonesome coyote might be seen is free. roaming the neighborhoods. It is the Mikel Mays will be featuring quiet before the storm as sometime Karaoke on Friday from 8-Midnight. Thursday afternoon someone opens Smokehouse Guitar Army will play the gate on Interstate 37 and the Saturday (7-11PM). On Sunday, Tim tourist invasion comes swooping in Layden (Noon-4PM) and Sierra (5- from OTB and over the course of a 9) will provide live entertainment. few days hundreds of thousands of Winner, winner Sashimi dinner! The Sashimi won the best-decorated boat in the Texas Women Anglers Art Barrera will close the weekend people will fill up our little sandbar on Monday from Noon-4PM. until Monday afternoon. Whatever Tournament last week in Port Aransas. Results and photos by Jan Rankin on page A7. happens on The Island leaves on Marker 37 is hosting the Island Monday. Music Festival on Sunday, Sept 1st starting at 6 PM with Bart Crow and Over the Michael J. Ellis Beach After Ten Years of Trying the Red Tide. much of the area that has been closed to traffic along the seawall is now back open as city crews have been working By the Numbers for weeks to widen the beach from Bags are Still Flying the north end southward. The berms blocking traffic had been located on Plan to ban on plastic bags on Padre Island shot down by courts Hotel the beach just north of the parking lot but are now well south allowing By Dale Rankin the Island landscape and taking up with the revenue raised to be used residence in Island trees and dune to clean them up on local beaches. Occupancy cars on most of the beach there. But a If the move to ban single-use plastic grass like so many White Pelicans a But the Island Strategic Action check this week found that the width bags in retail outlets on Padre Island group of Islanders began a move to Committee was not yet in place and of the beach was sufficient to allow were a child it would be in fifth grade Tax get the Corpus Christi City Council the idea didn’t catch traction for six room for vehicles and beachgoers to now. Editor’s note: Corpus Christi to ban or curtail their use in Island years. have plenty of room. Convention and Visitors Bureau Ten years ago after seeing the stores. Proposals varied from an Meanwhile, there were similar Chief Executive Officer Paulette Grocery store progress ubiquitous white bags flying across outright ban to a per-bag surcharge moves across the state with the city Kluge resigned from her post this of Brownsville taking the lead as month and City Manager Peter the first city in Texas to place a bag Zanoni told the city council this ordinance into the municipal code. week that the CVB board will hire The ordinance took effect in 2010 a successor. and by 2014 ten Texas cites including The City of Corpus Christi Austin, Sunset Valley, Laguna charges a 15 percent Hotel Vista, Fort Stockton, Eagle Pass, Occupancy Tax on local overnight This area along Packery Channel was eventually closed to the public Brownsville, Kermit, Freer and South facilities around the city. Six due to the bags that took up residence in the dune grass. Padre Island had bans in place. In percent of the HOT funds go to 2014 the Port Aransas City Council the state with 9 percent going to passed a bag ban to take effect in Wednesday, August 4 the city to fund the Convention Less than a week after the Corpus 2016 to give businesses time to adapt and Visitors Bureau and to Christi City Council approved the to the new rule. installation of a twenty-four inch ISAC to Consider Allowing advertise the city to out of town sewer line south of Whitecap the visitors. The tax historically has right of way has been cleared and Utility Vehicles on Island Streets raised about $16 million per year, stacks of pipe are on site. Normally but Zanoni last week estimated the building of a sewer line isn’t Recommendation goes to City Council the tax will raise $19.2 million in much in the news department but this the coming fiscal year. By Dale Rankin removes the ban on unlicensed one clears the way for the building of Four issues back we reported vehicles other than golf carts on the adjacent IGA grocery story and The Island Strategic Action revenue numbers for the City a city street with a speed limit of that folks is news. Committee will consider whether of Corpus Christi’s Hotel 35 mph or less. When the city’s to recommend to the Corpus Christi Occupancy Tax (HOT) for the current golf cart ordinance was City Council that Utility Vehicles second quarter of 2019 showing put in place several years ago, a and/or All-Terrain Vehicles should that the tax raised $4,181, with move also approved by the ISAC, Bags and birds don't mix well. be allowed to use on Island streets. $308,111 (7.4%) from Mustang state law forbade inclusion of the Island and $1,070,646 (25.6%) The agenda for the ISAC meeting slightly larger, faster-moving, and The most progressive of the city from Padre Island, meaning that on Wednesday, September 4, generally safer vehicles. ISAC bans came from Brownsville where $1,378,757 (33%) of the total 5:30 p.m. at Holiday Inn Express members at that time stated their in 2011 a surcharge of one dollar across the city came from Mustang on Windward, includes an item support for including the UTVs in per bag was levied with the money and Padre Islands. That was in that allows the fourteen-member the golf cart ordinance but were raising $300,000 the first year with spite of the fact that all of the advisory board to the council to told by the City Attorney that the money raised earmarked from major short-term stay facilities vote on the issue. The issue is anything other than golf carts as cleanup of the bags around the city. along State Highway 361 are still This photo shows the retaining wall timely since on September 1 a defined under state law at the time A seven–member Environmental at the back of Balli Center which is new state law takes effect that closed due to Hurricane Harvey also back under construction after last ISAC cont. on A4 Bags cont. on A4 damage. week’s council vote. We know there This week we go back in time were skeptics and given the history to the First Quarter of 2019, the of so many Island projects we were A little Island history slowest time of the year for short- in the group, but seeing is believing. term rentals on Mustang Island If anyone sees a White Whale in the and Padre Island. Gulf try to get a picture. Weak Dollar, Real Estate Bargains $5.4 million in annual city Pan the Goat funding for CVB Remember a Attracting Germans to Texas 95% of CVB funding comes while back when from the city Editor’s note: This story ran on we told you 13 CVB employees about Blue’s goat the Associated Press on November Kid Tuaca that 9, 1987. Hotel Occupancy Tax First got kidnapped CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas Quarter 2019 in front of Padre (AP) _ West Germans taking Island Burger advantage of a weak dollar and a $478,048 (14.9%) I-37/Leopard Company? The real estate slump are buying into $143,188 (4.5%) North Beach Kid returned but Texas, say developers who credit $779,004 (24.3) Downtown we got us another foreign money for an ambitious goat related development on Padre Island. $1,166,966 (36.5%) disappearance Crossdown/SPID/Ocean Drive Fifty West Germans provided this time but not a total of $2 million for initial $21,592 (0.7%) Southside exactly around here. Local Tim Bruce, funding of Lake Padre, the 450- known as Sir Alexander Nomad, who $274,185 (8.6%) Padre Island acre project under construction, frequents The Island and Flour Bluff J.F. Boudreau, vice president of $334,279 (10.4) Mustang Island lived up to his name recently and set Island Development Corp., said out hitchhiking and train hopping to $608464 (19%) Total Padre and Monday. Mustang Islands Padre Island in the early days of its development. Around cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 August 29, 2019 Island Moon A 2 Texas Women Anglers Tournament

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on its own. and Road, Waldron to up Boulevard Lexington those days. It’s that time of year for cities and counties was it First, complicated. be to out turned This The Angry Marlin outdoor across Texas to tell you how wonderful they are concerts at their tiki bar will be for lowering your property tax “rate.” Stevie Start on Thursday, Carlos Don’t be snowed! Almaraz on Friday and The Jam The tax “rate” is a meaningless number on its Band on Saturday all 6 – 10 pm. Mikel May’s Beachside Grill Labor Day Weekend will feature karaoke on Friday with drink specials, Publisher CLUB NEWS Smoke House Guitar Army Band on Dale Rankin The Island Moon provides this space for other issues and referendums put to public About the Island Moon Island organizations. If you are a member vote. Meetings are open to the public. Saturday 7 – 11 pm, Tim Layden of a club and want to get the word out The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale POA - Padre Isles Owners Association. noon – 4 pm and Seirra Dawn 5 – 9 Rankin, Editor / Publisher. about your events and/or projects send The Association’s primary responsibility pm on Sunday and Art Barrera noon Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes them along and we will get them in. delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 is to maintain the Common Areas, assess – 4 pm on Monday. copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, Be sure to include a brief description of and collect the annual fees and provide as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 what your organization does and a contact information and assistance to property Schlitterbahn has a boogie board copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. person for those interested in joining. owners. .. Membership in PIPOA is contest on Saturday noon – 2 pm and News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, automatic for anyone acquiring record Send the info to [email protected] Planet 102.3 will be broadcasting payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. and we will include it. Or call us at 949- legal title to any property within Padre Isles. Their office is located at 14015 live on location. Come watch some The Island Moon Newspaper 7700. Fortuna Bay Drive on The Island. (361) amazing tricks before the contest and 14646 Compass, Suite 3 Youth Development Foundation of 949-7025, [email protected]. Port Aransas. YDF meets at noon each the winner will get a boogie board Corpus Christi, TX 78418 ARK – Animal Rehabilitation Keep. donated by Wind and Wave. The Thursday at Stingray’s, 401 Beach Ave., Located in Port Aransas the ARK is 361-949-7700 Port Aransas. For more information please affiliate with the University of Texas at water park will be open 10 am – 6 email [email protected]. [email protected] Austin Marine Science Center. They pm Friday through Monday. Padre Island Ukulele Club – We meet handle the rehabilitation of most species Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper every other Tuesday night! Call or text of wildlife in the area with an emphasis Mike O’Neill with The Texas Danny Salazar at (316) 877--‐7071 on marine animals. If you find an animal Blues Runners will be on the main for the next meeting date. Beginners in peril they can help. 750 Channel View stage at Waves Resort on Thursday, Workshop: 6 to 7 PM and Open Jam: Dr. Port Aransas. Contact Alicia Walker at th 7 to 8 PM. All Skills levels welcome. 337-290-0251 or alicia.walker@utexas. August 29 6 – 9 pm. There will be a Where to Find The Location: Island Joe’s Coffee and Gallery, edu DJ Pool Party on Friday 5 – 9 pm and 13919 SPID, right here on the island. Island’s PIPPs Chapter of Corpus Saturday 3 – 9 pm. Island Moon A $3 per person donation covers the Christi Red Hat Society. In 2004 a workshop, materials and the open jam. group of Island ladies got together under Marker 37 is having a free Kids Loaner ukuleles available at no extra cost. a Palapa and founded the Padre Island Fishing Tournament on Sunday, RSVP online. PadreIslandUkeClub@ Palapa Pals (PIPPs). Our only rule is that st Port North gmail.com September 1 1 – 4 pm. Every there are no rules! We are all about fun fisherkid age 5 – 14 receives a pole Aransas Padre KIWANIS Club of Padre Island. and friendship. We meet once a month Gulf Stream RV Kiwanis meets at Veranda Restaurantat for lunch and various fun outings from and tackle box. Awards will be given All Stripes Stores Schlitterbahn at Noon on the first and cupcake making to CPR. on the stage at 6 pm. The Red Tide Pioneer RV Black Sheep/ third Wednesday of the month. Padre Island Book Wine & Spirits. band will open the show at 7 and Bart Stripes on 1A Barrel Island Strategic Action Committee. This is the Island book club. We meet Crow Band will play afterwards. My Coastal Home CVS Is a 14-member committee which meets the first Wednesday of each month at The at 5:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each Barrel at 7:00 pm. Wonderful group of The Pelican Lounge will have a WB Liquor Store Dollar General month at the Comfort Suites on Windward. ladies that like to read, love socializing Labor Day Sunday Party featuring Island Wine Room Whataburger The committee’s purpose is to advise the with the girls and drinking wine! Come Diamond’s Edge Band 9:30 pm – Kody’s Corpus Christi City Council on matters out and join us we would love to have Doc’s Restaurant pertaining to The Island. All meetings are you! Contact Linda Walsh, lawalshva@ 1:30 am. Coffee Waves open to the public and the public is invited yahoo.com or 361-445-7999, or just show Snoopy’s Pier My Coastal Home is having a Moby Dicks to address the committee during the public up! Isle Mail N More 10 % Labor Day weekend special comment period. Parrot Heads of Port Aransas - is IGA th Island Italian Padre Island Business Association. The a local chapter of the Parrot Heads in in celebration of their newest 4 Treasure Island Brooklyn Pie Co. association is a not-for-profit organization Paradise Inc., a not-for-profit corporation location at 5017 Saratoga. The sale Ms. Woody’s whose primary purpose is to advertise and whose purpose is to assist in community runs Friday – Monday and includes Automotive Ace Hardware promote Padre/Mustang Islands, Flour and environmental concerns and provide a Bluff and Corpus Christi while advancing variety of social activities for people who special orders. Port A Glass Studio Holiday Inn the interests of the business community. are interested in the music of Jimmy Buffett The Back Porch in Port A will host San Juan’s Restaurant Texas Star (Shell) It is managed by a 9-member board of and the tropical lifestyle he personifies. directors. A membership luncheon is held Founded in 2009, the club motto is “Partying Thomas Michael Riley on Friday, Wash Tub Jesse’s Liquor on the2nd Thursday at Waves Resort 4th with a Purpose’’. To join or ask questions go Larry Joe Taylor on Saturday and Woody’s Sports Scuttlebutt’s floor starting at 11:30 Mixers are held to portaransasparrotheads.com or email or Cruise Control on Sunday. Center Restaurant on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. The call Deno “Moon Dog” Fabrie, President at association annually has one annual 361 749 0256 or [email protected]. The Scuttlebutts musical guest Back Porch Bar Subway fundraising events – Taste of the Island will be John Eric on Sunday. Shorty’s Place The New Neighbors League: New Neighbors Island Tire in the fall. For more information, email League is a women’s social organization open Fisherman’s Wharf [email protected]. The next meeting of the Island Padre Pizzeria to women of the coastal bend, promoting fun Giggity’s P.I.E. Padre Island Enrichment Club & friendship. New Neighbors League holds Strategic Action Committee will And all Moon PIE, or Padre Island Enrichment Club is monthly coffees, luncheons, as well as monthly be on Wednesday, September 4th at Gratitude retail advertisers a Ladies' Social Club for all ladies living activities such as Ladies Night Out, Couples on Padre Island. Dues are $25.00 per Dinners, Movies, Cards, and Golf to name a 5:30. The issue of whether to legalize The Gaff WB Liquor Trinity By the Sea year, and we have monthly luncheons on few. Visit our website at newneighbors.com or UTV’s will be discussed. Episcopal the second Friday of the month at 11:30 email us at [email protected] Flour Bluff a.m. at the Port Royal Convention Center Flour Bluff Padre Island 4H Flour Bluff Restaurant. You can join many different H.E.B. Padre Island 4H (FBPI4H) is a club for kids Interest Groups, such as: Bunco, Bridge, in 3rd grade-12th grade. We meet at 6:30 Whataburger on Spades, Book Clubs, and Craft Club. For pm the first Monday of every month in the Waldron Membership information, please contact: FB Intermediate cafeteria. 4H provides Jo Ann Holden, at: 720-937-8711, or our opportunities and experiences where young Send Letters and Photos to Ethyl Everly Club President, Sandra Leber, at: 361-949- Senior Center people learn by doing. Please visit us on [email protected] 7145. We are welcoming new members! Facebook at Flour Bluff Padre Island 4H or and follow us on Facebook: Fire Station Island United Political Action our website at FBPI4H.com. The Island Moon Police Station Committee: Maximize representation Port Aransas Art Center 104 N. Alister 361- of Corpus Christi residents on Padre 749-7334 Classes offered, call for details. Newspaper. Stripes on Flour and Mustang Islands in area government The Island Moon is Bluff & SPID by promoting and supporting, by the endorsement process, proactive and available online at unified voting in non-partisan races and islandmoon.com August 29, 2019 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 Around cont. from A1 Bags cont. from A1 Without their original capital, it would not the Great Northwest with his goat Pan. But due the ban was popular on Padre Island and in have gone forward, he said. to the viscidities of the wandering lifestyle Tim 2016 the Island Strategic Action Committee found himself in conflict with the constabulary recommended to the Corpus Christi City Island Development is managing partner of in those parts and when he was again able to go Lake Padre Ltd. while Rosche Finanz, based in Council that a ban be put in place for Island awandering Pan was missing. As of this writing businesses. It went to the council in August, West Germany, is the other general partner in Pan’s whereabouts are undetermined but here’s the South Texas real estate venture. 2016 with what appeared to be enough votes to hoping for a happy reunion. One thing about put it in place. But by then Paxton’s legal fight The development is located in Corpus Christi traveling with a goat, you don’t have to worry was weaving its way through the courts and at on the northern tip of Padre Island. The much about what to feed him. the advice of the City Attorney it was shelved partnership has obtained $11 million from Watch out for the heat and the tourists pending the outcome of the Laredo court case. Westinghouse Credit Corp. for the first phase, everybody and we’ll see you on the other side. to include apartments, a hotel and a retail center. Say hello if you see us Around The Island. Total cost of the project is expected to reach $30 million. ISAC cont. from A1 The late Tony Amos (left) worked to help ban the bag. was prohibited on public streets and the city had no jurisdiction to go around state rules. Advisory Committee was set up but the But a move by the 2019 Texas Legislature committee was short lived as it was found that aimed at allowing the vehicles to be used on it was unneeded since local merchants were state roads and city streets by farmers and other behind the effort. rural dwellers also included a provision to allow Then the trouble started them on state beaches which are considered city streets by state law and where the vehicles are But it was in 2015 in the city of Laredo where currently used by city crews and members of the demise of the ban on single-use plastic bags This sight welcomes visitors to Padre the turtle patrol. The new law includes vehicles in Texas began. In 2014 then Texas Attorney Island from the JFK Bridge. such as Polaris Rangers and John Deer Gators. General Greg Abbott had issued a nonbinding It requires some safety provisions – lights, opinion advising that bag bans are legal if they The end signals, roll cages, seatbelts and in some cases are not aimed at “solid waste management.” helmets – and any eventual city ordinance could That murky phrase, which appears in the Texas Flash forward to August 2016 when the 4th Boudreau said the development has attracted include them or even expand them. Health and Safety Code, became the fulcrum Court of Appeals rendered a summary judgment that the debate and eventual Texas Supreme in favor of the Laredo Merchants Association, investors from other parts of Europe as well as An informal straw poll of ISAC members Mexico and Canada. Court decision on the issue turned on. As a which argued that the city of Laredo’s ban on this week found the vast majority in favor of result of Abbott’s ruling in 2015 the Laredo single-use bags was illegal because it violated "Now is the perfect time to invest in Texas," expanding the current golf cart ordinance to Merchants Association sued the city arguing state law regulating solid waste disposal. Texas’ said Michael O. Vogelbacher, a West German include the UTVs. Aside from the new state that the city’s ban on single-use bags conflicted Health and Safety Code prohibits making representative of Rosche Finanz. "Real estate law a recent crackdown on use of the UTVs with a state law regulating solid waste disposal. a rule to “prohibit, restrict, for solid waste came down - it’s at the bottom right now; the by Corpus Christi Police on Island streets has The fate of the bans across the state centered management purposes, the sale or use of a dollar is down, so the exchange rate is good; brought the issue to the fore. on the arcane legal argument on whether the container or package in a manner not authorized and the state of Texas has gone through rough Texas House Bill 1548, which takes effect bags are “garbage.” Lawyers for the city, led by state law.” years because the oil prices have gone down." September 1 also provides a path for UTV by former Texas Supreme Court Justice Dale The Texas State Supreme Court agreed in Vogelbacher, who travels from West Germany owners to license their vehicles through the Wainwright, argued that the bags are not January, 2018 and in July, 2018 Attorney to Corpus Christi each month, has been leading state and drive them on city streets under the garbage and are therefore are not covered by General Ken Paxton issued a press release potential investors and property owners through current ordinance. With those changes in mind the relevant state law regarding waste disposal. applauding the ruling and sent letters to eleven the area for 16 years. He said Europeans, Corpus Christi Police addressed the ISAC in its Lawyers on the other side, who were joined Texas cities, including Port Aransas, informing particularly West Germans, are more interested August meeting to seek guidance on whether by Abbott’s successor and current Attorney them that the Texas Supreme Court found that than ever in U.S. investments and in Texas. to amend the City Code to allow for ATVs on General Ken Paxton argued against the Laredo banning plastics bags in violation of state law Island streets ban and pushed the issue through the courts and therefore enforcing them was also illegal. "These investors are leaving the 60 percent reaching the Texas Supreme Court in 2018. tax bracket in Germany to come to the 15 to 28 The ISAC meeting is open to the public and “The Texas Supreme Court declared that percent income taxes in the U.S.," Vogelbacher a public speaking session at the opening of the Corpus Christi banning single-use plastic bags is illegal. told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times while meeting will give Island residents a chance to Municipalities ignoring this law are unlawfully state their support or objection to the proposal. While that fight was going on Corpus Christi showing the area to a contingent of West was behind the original groundswell but in passing their duty to manage solid waste on German investors. 2016 a move to ban the bags citywide launched to their residents and retailers in violation of Ralph Durden, president of Island Development By the numbers… with plans varying from an outright ban to settled Texas law,” Paxton said. “A dislike of Corp., said the West Germans and other foreign a per-bag surcharge. It was backed by more state law is no justification for a municipality investors who have visited the area recently are Taxable Property in than two dozen organizations including but not to violate it.” a good economic sign. limited to the Texas Surfrider’s Foundation, the The City of Brownsville, where the ban had City of Corpus Christi Clean City Advisory "People from other places seem to be able to Port Aransas ISD been popular issued a statement: Committee, City of Corpus Christi Watershore see the opportunities here that we can’t see," Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts & Beach Advisory Committee, City of Corpus “Let me remind everyone that our ordinance Durden said. "It’s the attitude we have toward Glenn Hegar this week released appraisal Christi Marina & Marina Advisory Committee, under Ken Paxton, we had done away with the things." values for school districts around the state. dollar fee previously and there (were) a lot of Here are the values for the Port Aransas and launching the Skip the Plastic organization things we were able to get under this ordinance; Boudreau said development of Lake Padre is Independent School District. which is still active today. expected to take about 10 years, and eventually projects such as sanitation trucks, reusable bags, $2,238,602,097 Total taxable value By that time city staff told the city council will include a 150-acre lake, single-family street sweepers,” Assistant City Manager Arturo that the Solid Waste Department had more houses, a marina and a yacht club. $1,837,867,365 Single family residences Rodriguez said shortly after receiving Paxton’s than a million pounds of the discarded plastic letter. From 2011 to 2017, Brownsville had $20,194,640 Multi-family residences bags stored in bounded bales because they had generated more than $4 million in plastic bag $156,884,234 Commercial real estate nowhere else to put them; no recyclers would fees which was also used to fund other items, Galveston Shoring $10,510,767 Industrial real estate take them and they could take up to one- such as a trail master plan, curbside recycling, thousand years to degrade if placed in landfills. landfill compactor and duck pond. Up Beaches with $287,097 Mobile homes Even so the move met quickly met with So ten years after the idea was first discussed $184,120,667 Value of vacant lots pushback from some merchants who objected Help of $13.3 to the cost of replacing the bags with paper and in Corpus Christi and three years after it was in the case of a surcharge with the accounting approved by the ISAC and went to the city Million In FEMA and handling costs of administration and the council the bags are still in use and finding their idea of a citywide ban was abandoned. way around the Island landscape. And now, due to the lawsuit, banning them would be tougher Grants But a survey of Island merchants found than ever, leaving Islanders to wonder what to Galveston has begun replacing hundreds of Send letters and do about all these flying bags. thousands of cubic yards of sand that were eroded from its beaches during Hurricane Harvey, working to make the city safer from photos to future storms and bolster its tourism industry. Salty Dog Reopens! FEMA’s Public Assistance program is editor@ providing 90% of the funding for three Galveston beach restoration projects whose islandmoon.com combined cost exceeds $14.8 million. FEMA’s share is over $13.3 million. Galveston’s beaches are the main attraction for its 7 million annual Facebook: The visitors, who spend more than $800 million a year in the city. Island Moon FEMA’s Public Assistance program reimburses eligible applicants for actions taken in the immediate response to and during recovery Newspaper from a disaster. Eligible applicants include states, federally recognized tribal governments, U.S. territories, local governments and certain Now available private nonprofits. The program provides project funding directly to the state for disbursement to applicants; the Galveston grants were disbursed online at through the Texas Division of Emergency Management. islandmoon.com

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Snoopy’s (361) 949-8815 13313 S. Padre Island Drive Scoopy’s (361) 949-7810 Corpus Christi, TX 78418 August 29, 2019 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island Tides of the Week By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier August 29 - September 5 My friend Robert Bob He wrote a smash hit called I’d Rather Loan Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon rolled through town the Her Out Than Let Her Go. He played it for his /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible other day on his way from wife and she left him and he wrote about that Th 29 High 4:50 AM 1.9 7:06 AM Rise 6:04 AM 4 Oklahoma the to Nuevo Laredo. too so he got one last little bit of material out of her on her way out the door. 29 Low 9:06 PM -0.2 7:53 PM Set 7:43 PM “They got them Zetas down there,” he said. “But “Around Tishomingo you don’t really lose F 30 High 5:15 AM 1.8 7:07 AM Rise 7:14 AM 0 if I can survive Saturday night in Tishomingo I can get by. I got me a plan.” your wife,” Robert Bob said. “You just lose 30 Low 10:33 AM 1.4 7:52 PM Set 8:29 PM your turn.” His truck looked like a beer can left in the 30 High 2:10 PM 1.6 parking lot at Cain’s Ballroom on Sunday Septic Tank Blues 30 Low 10:04 PM -0.1 morning, it was full of pock marks. Like someone had pounded out the Lovesick Blues His second wife came and went before I met Sa 31 High 5:33 AM 1.6 7:07 AM Rise 8:22 AM 0 on it with a ball-peen hammer. Robert Bob but I think the honeymoon lasted 31 Low 10:44 AM 1.2 7:51 PM Set 9:11 PM longer than the marriage. All Robert Bob would “Who’s gonna wanna steal a truck like that?” ever say is, “Sometimes I’m just not right.” He 31 High 3:37 PM 1.6 Robert Bob said, and he had a point. told me he had to get rid of her because she’s 31 Low 11:02 PM 0.2 Robert Bob said they had hail the size of golf hard to haul. I’m not certain but I think that means she was high maintenance and in Robert Su 1 High 5:47 AM 1.4 7:08 AM Rise 9:29 AM 2 balls north of the Red. Robert Bob heard the hail start to hit the roof of his French Fry and Bob’s world that is a Tishomingo Turnaround. 1 Low 11:11 AM 1.0 7:50 PM Set 9:52 PM realized his pickup was parked in his front He met his third wife at a door raisin’. Robert 1 High 5:01 PM 1.7 yard and was about to get golf balled. Just as Bob was making money on the side by buying up he ran out the front door his birddog Killer was the contents of storerooms when people didn’t M 2 Low 12:05 AM 0.6 7:08 AM Rise 10:35 AM 8 running in. pay their bills. They raise the door and he would 2 High 5:57 AM 1.3 7:49 PM Set 10:32 PM “I realized Killer had the sense to get out of a bid on the contents sight unseen. Sometimes it 2 Low 11:50 AM 0.7 hail storm but I didn’t,” Robert Bob said. was feast and sometimes it was famine. The worst was when the former owner of the stuff 2 High 6:29 PM 1.7 It was about that time that Robert Bob realized showed up as Robert Bob was loading it in his Tu 3 Low 1:16 AM 0.9 7:09 AM Rise 11:38 AM 15 that if frozen lobes of water the size of golf balls truck. He carried a gun in those days. could do serious damage to his truck they could 3 High 6:03 AM 1.3 7:48 PM Set 11:12 PM also put some dings in his own brainpan. He ran They lasted a couple of years and then one day Robert Bob pulled up at their trailer house and 3 Low 12:38 PM 0.5 to the kitchen and found a pizza pan and headed out but as soon as the first couple of chunks of all he saw was a vacant lot. He called me and 3 High 8:07 PM 1.7 falling ice hit the thin pan he dropped it and ran said, “I think Linda stole my French Fry.” I later W 4 Low 2:51 AM 1.2 7:09 AM Rise 12:41 PM 25 for cover. This time he grabbed a frying pan for learned that a French Fry is a single-wide trailer. his ice umbrella and made it to his truck but not 4 High 6:01 AM 1.3 7:46 PM Set 11:54 PM “All she left me was the septic tank,” Robert before the hail had done its work. Bob said. “I bet if she had a shovel she’d have 4 Low 1:33 PM 0.3 “It looks like my bank account after my third taken that too.” 4 High 10:02 PM 1.8 divorce,” he said. I never saw his bank account That episode produced the classic Septic Tank after his third divorce but I can say for sure that Blues. When I pulled up in my front yard, I knew his third wife was a real booger. something stank. All she left me was my septic Th 5 Low 2:36 PM 0.2 7:10 AM Rise 1:42 PM 35 tank. So far Nashville has not caught up with 5 7:45 PM Loan her out blues Robert Bob’s art. He’s still at the door factory Robert Bob has never had much luck with but as he put it, “Now I’ve worked my way to women. His first wife was a rounder who as the back of the ditch where the soft dirt’s at.” Robert Bob says was “a hard dog to keep under I’m not real sure what that means and it makes the porch.” She had the honkytonk gene and me wonder if Robert Bob didn’t catch one of Robert Bob was working third shift at the door those hail stones in his brainpan. factory putting the knobs in the holes. “The good news is it left enough dings in the “You’re stuck there but your mind has a lot of French Fry that with the insurance I can get out time to wander around,’ Robert Bob said. that dump and get me a dang Double Wide,” One night he came home early and saw one Robert Bob said. “And I can furnish it with all of his friends running through the backyard the stuff I got from the door raisins.” and when he got into his house the bedroom "If I get my turn back I’m not wearing my hat window was open and his wife was there. He at the next wedding,” Robert Bob said. “I’m didn’t divorce her and when I asked him why going informal.” he said, “Well she’s a mess but I still need material.” You see Robert Bob is only working at the door factory until his singing/songwriting career takes off. After that he taught his parrot to say, “jump out the window he’s home early,’ just to get even.

Turtle Count Total numbers of nests found this year, by 118 North Padre Island, including 110 at species and area, have been updated below. Padre Island National Seashore KEMP’S RIDLEY TURTLE 40 South Padre Island So far this year, 190 nests have been 6 Boca Chica Beach confirmed on the Texas coast including (north to south in state): LOGGERHEAD TURTLE 3 Bolivar Peninsula So far this year, 8 nests have been confirmed 4 Galveston Island on the Texas coast, including (north to south 0 Brazoria County, N. of Surfside in state): 6 Surfside Beach 1 San Jose Island 0 Quintana Beach 4 North Padre Island, including 3 at Padre Island National Seashore 0 Bryan Beach 3 South Padre Island 0 Brazoria County, N. of Sargent Beach

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By next April 1, the a yield sign) house. Dad is out of town, and As soon as Rowlf left the now very damp dish, Census Bureau plans to send a letter or a door the Rev doesn’t like to leave ol’ Rowlfie home Stadler ran worriedly over to it, picked it up, ran knocker to every U.S. household. It's part of alone, so the enormous, shovel-headed, street to me, and dropped it on my big toe. a once-a-decade tradition of counting every cur (retired) is staying at my place. He’s nice “Fill my bowl NOW, Bowl Lady! You have person living in the U.S. The 2020 census will to have around most of the time. He’s got ONE JOB!” asserted my dog as forcefully as be the first since the rise of social media. The great manners and is a terrific (if a bit stinky) she could. government has already begun preparing to snuggler. Stadler has made many attempts to combat disinformation campaigns that may try get him to play with her, mostly by placing her So, not knowing what else to do, I refilled her to disrupt the count, which is rolling out during toys on top of his head, but Rowlf prefers sleep dish. “No way Rowlf will eat enough to gain all the next presidential race. Thanks to Dr. Mary and ear rubs to any untoward rambunctiousness. the weight back in five days,” I reasoned, and Jane Gaza and Hansi Lo Wang for the facts There is one big problem with Rowlf, though: went off to do something else. contained in this report. Photos courtesy of he is on a diet. A few minutes later, an even damper bowl was the U.S. Census Bureau. Posted on the Census delivered to me while I was cleaning the toilet. Bureau website: “U.S. Census Bureau media The poor guy got fat due to Dad sneaking him assets (audio files, photographs and videos) are bacon grease and because he figured out how to “No! You can’t have any more! I don’t care if free to use in news media and public information stick his entire head into his food bag and eat as Rowlfie ate it all!” I hollered at a very cheeky products.” Census training much as he wanted. looking Stadler. I picked up the empty and Mom caught him late one night after letting moved it to the kitchen counter. Are Census Responses Confidential? him out for his third perambulation because he “Click-a-click-a-click” echoed through the Under current federal law, the bureau cannot got his whole gator-mouthed noggin stuck in house as Stadler paced between the bathroom share census responses identifying individuals the Candidae bag and needed help getting out. and the kitchen, jumping up and down and with the public or other federal agencies, My parents had to put a large box on top of the crying when she reached me, asking me to including immigration authorities and other law bag so that ol’ Hungry couldn’t get into it. He “Follow her to the big problem!” This behavior enforcement, until 72 years after the information simply pulled off the chip clip that they tried continued for hours, until finally it was time for is collected. The Census Bureau, however, can at first. bed. release anonymized census information about Mom and Dad realized that the problem was I realized that there was no way I was going specific demographic groups at a level as serious after Rowlf’s last vet appointment to be able to sleep with Captain Clicky Claws detailed as a neighborhood. when he weighed in at a whopping 91lbs. Now stomping all over the house and whining. Rowlf Can I respond to the census in a Rowlf is a big boy, and far from obese. He gets was already passed out on the rug, sawing logs language other than English? two walks (rain or shine) every day, and is in so loudly I’m surprised we didn’t get a noise Is The Census Important? pretty much glowing good health -- although I complaint. I decided it would be safe to give While paper forms will only be available in suspect that some of the phosphorescence may poor, starving Stadler a little food. The census is required by the Constitution, English and Spanish, you can respond online or be flatulence-related radioactivity. However, a I filled up her bowl and placed it on the floor. which has called for an "actual enumeration" by phone in Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, French, five-pound gain was significant enough that our She looked at me reproachfully (after all this once a decade since 1790. The 2020 population Haitian Creole, Japanese, Korean, Polish, vet recommended a diet. numbers will shape how political power and Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog and Vietnamese. should have been done HOURS ago) and took “I have a fat dog, federal tax dollars are shared in the U.S over The bureau is also providing video and printed two bites, leaving the rest. too,” said Dr. Lowell. the next 10 years. The number of congressional guides in 59 non-English languages, as well as Then a striking inspiration of sudden genius hit “Some of them just seats and Electoral College votes each state gets a video in American Sign Language. me: maybe if I filled up a second dog bowl, both like to eat. We add are determined by census numbers. They also dogs would be able to eat the correct amount a can of green beans guide how an estimated $880 billion a year in Why Is Hispanic Or Latino Not A Racial when they wanted. This was the ticket! It had to our dog’s food to federal funding is distributed for schools, roads Category On The Census? to work. and other public services in local communities. make it seem like Among many things the demographic data The Office of there’s more in the I went back to bed secure in the knowledge that are by emergency responders to locate injured Management and bowl. The only both of my pups would spend a happy and full people after natural disasters. Budget (OMB), problem with that is night. requires that the that now she’s very One hour later I was awakened by a loud When Does The 2020 Census Start? Census Bureau ask territorial about green about ethnicity in Not one iota of clattering next to my head. “NO, STADLER!” I The head count is set to officially begin on beans. Humans don’t terms of Hispanic remorse. yelled not even pulling off my sleep mask, “GO Jan. 21, in Toksook Bay, Alaska, more than two get to eat green beans or Latino origin EAT OUT OF THE OTHER BOWL!” months before Census Day (April 1), which in our house anymore.” before asking about is a reference date. Most households can start Seconds later, another loud crash caused me to race. The ordering Now, on doctor’s orders Rowlf gets a cup and participating around mid-March, when letters sit bolt upright as Stadler dumped the second is designed to a half of food twice a day and people food is with instructions are expected to be sent to 95% empty dish at my bedside. capture the racial strictly forbidden (although I’m positive that of U.S. homes. I leapt up, looking for the culprit. Rowlf lay fast diversity among Dad still sneaks him bites). asleep at the foot of the bed, snoring so loudly people of Hispanic How Is The Census Taken? Rowlf is not happy about this development. he sounded like the trombone section of the or Latino origin. He thinks green beans are stupid, so he picks The 2020 census will be the first time to allow local high school marching band had recently them out of his bowl and drops them on the all U.S. households to respond online. Paper A growing number of Latino census participants experienced a massive outbreak of asthma. have been confused by this question format, floor where he smooshes them disdainfully forms will still be available or you can call “Honk, hork, honk,” said Rowlf, deep in dog resulting in "some other race" ranking as the under his saucer-sized paws. 1-800 numbers to give information over the dreams of bacon fat. phone. Census workers will make home visits third-largest racial group in census results from Stadler is pretty much the opposite of Rowlf. to remote areas to gather information in person. 2000 and 2010. The bureau has recommended She never wolfs down her food, instead However, as I stormed past him with the two Households in the U.S. that do not respond combining the race and ethnicity questions into preferring to daintily graze throughout the day. empty bowls, Rowlf lumbered to his feet and themselves by early April will start receiving one, with "Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish" as an Even when she was a puppy, she had to be hand- followed me to the kitchen – probably to see if I visits from door knockers trained to conduct option for both race and ethnicity. So far, OMB fed to keep the other dogs from stealing all her was dumb enough to do a refill. census interviews and collect responses using has not made public whether that proposal has kibble. She also has a weird quirk caused by I did not. I set both dishes on the counter, smartphones. been approved. excessive exposure to Hot-Fat-the-Cat in her walked back into my bedroom, locked both youth -- Stadler hates when she can see the Who gets counted in the census? How Do I Apply For A Census Job? dogs in the hallway, and stuffed earplugs into bottom of her bowl. It is always my sworn duty my head. The Census Bureau includes every person Applications for the half-million temporary and most important job to keep that bowl full living in the U.S., regardless of citizenship or census positions, including door knockers and or WOE BETIDE ME. If her dish ever totally The next morning, both dogs were sleeping in immigration status. International visitors on outreach specialists, must be submitted online. empties, she delivers it to wherever I am, and a pile outside my bedroom door. Stadler woke vacation or work trips to the U.S. during the You can find more information on the bureau's lets it crash to the floor with the mighty thunder immediately and ran to the kitchen where her census are not included. Residents are counted recruitment website. of righteous dog indignation. bowl had mysteriously flown off the counter and on to the floor (no dog would do that -- at the address where they usually live and sleep. When Will The 2020 Census Results Be I tend to keep her bowl full. The Census Bureau has a detailed breakdown obviously we have a poltergeist). of how the 2020 census will count deployed Released? The first thing ol’ Rowlf did after the Rev I put in one and a half cups of food. troops, college students, incarcerated people, dropped him off was eat ALL of Stadler’s food. The Census Bureau is expected to announce It’s going to be a long week. those displaced by natural disasters and other the new population counts by December 31, I was back in the bedroom cleaning and didn’t groups in unique living situations. 2020. That's the bureau's deadline for sending to notice until I walked into my kitchen to find the President numbers for the reapportionment him lying flat on the floor, legs happily akimbo, What Questions Will Be Asked? of congressional seats, which goes into effect Most of the questions will be similar to what beginning with the 2022 elections. 2020 census census forms have asked for in recent counts: data used for state and local redistricting are set • The number of people living or staying in to be released by March 31, 2021. The bureau a home on April 1, 2020. is planning to release other new census data beginning in spring 2021. • Whether the home is owned with or without a mortgage, rented or occupied Dotson’s Other Note: You will be hearing without rent. much about Census 2020 in the next few months. I know that all Moon Monkeys like to FOUR STYLISTS • A phone number for a person in the home. stay informed, so here you are, a step ahead as • The name, sex, age, date of birth and race usual. I can be reached at: [email protected] AVAILABLE FOR of each person in the home. and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 or Cell: 530- ALL HAIR SERVICES 748-8475. I really appreciate the phone calls, • Whether each person is of Hispanic, Emails, texts and conversations about Senior CALL RONI OR TEXT FOR FASTER RESPONSE Latino or Spanish origin. Moments 15033 S. PADRE • The relationship of each person to a Please note: The next Veterans Round Table central person in the home. 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The Census Bureau, however, continues to include a citizenship question on other forms it asks some U.S. households to complete, including the American Community Survey; census forms for American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands; and the 2019 Census Test, which is collecting responses through August 15, 2020. Can I Refuse To Answer A Census Question? You can skip questions, submit an incomplete census form, and still be included in the head 00 off any oil change count. But you can be fined for refusing to $6. ! answer a census question or intentionally giving a false answer, although the penalty has been enforced rarely in the past. Returning a partially filled-out questionnaire may result in a follow- up phone call or visit from a census worker. A7 Island Moon August 29, 2019 2019 Texas Women’s Angler’s Tournament a Sporty Success

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In sports, games are played on retrofitted tennis courts, he says. “It’s great for hand-eye coordination Macleod completed his head-coaching career you only have a certain life span. It’s kind of with eight seasons at Notre Dame (1991-1999). it’s quick and easy for a parks and recreation for younger kids.” like the food in your refrigerator, everything has department to get the game up and running. During that time MacLeod was instrumental As to the sport’s future, there no signs of it an expiration date. As a coach he understood One of the fastest growing sports in America in helping the Fighting Irish program go from slowing down and eventually envisions it as a that talent is important, but what the best involves a court and a net. No, it's not tennis an independent status to joining the Big East varsity sport. It’s already an intramural sport players have is “want.” They want to be great. or badminton, it's pickleball. Yes, pickleball, the in conference play. MacLeod was voted Big on many college campuses, and because it is He revealed little of himself to others and his game your grandma plays, and the one you may East Coach of the Year in 1997. John’s son, affordable, it would be a natural progression for face should have been on a “No Days Off” consider beneath your athletic pay grade. Time Matt played two years for his dad and the Irish. it to get to high schools.” t-shirt. He was a man of cool reserve, in perfect to rethink that. Thanks to Amanda Loudin for Notre Dame suffered five losing seasons before control, completely calm on the sideline and MacLeod finally resigned. John MacLeod many of the facts contained in this report and to How To Play Pickleball always dressed in appropriate attire. Some said Bill Morgan, former SWC SID. never coached an NCAA tournament game in The game is played on a badminton-sized he was as square as a checkerboard. The man his 14 seasons in the college ranks. What Is Pickleball Exactly? court: 20’ x 44.’ The ball is served diagonally was like Santa Claus; he knew when you were (starting with the right-hand service-square), lying. This guy believed in having good men After leaving Notre Dame, MacLeod joined and points can only be scored by the side that on his team because they were the kind that the Suns again as an assistant coach. He was serves. won consistently. This coach wanted players also an assistant with the Denver Nuggets and who thought about basketball day and night, the Golden State Warriors, until he retired for Players on each side must let the ball bounce and not just when they stepped on the court. good in 2006. once before volleys are allowed, and there is a He disliked bad language and guys who drank seven-foot no-volley zone on each side of the Unfortunately, I never got to meet Coach too much, and he expected them to watch the MacLeod in person. I did get to see his net, to prevent “spiking.” The server continues company they kept. He treated everyone the to serve, alternating service courts, until he or Phoenix Suns’ teams play in person on several same, with respect, and his idea of having “class occasions. So, I reached out to my good friend she faults. The first side scoring eleven points people” made a difference. and leading by at least two points wins. Coach Willis Wilson for some feedback. Willis has been coaching college basketball since Serve 1985 and got his start at his alma mater, Rice University, as an assistant. “One of my duties She only plays Picleball Serves are to be made diagonally, starting with in those days was to set up the gym for all of the right-hand service-square and alternating the NBA teams that came to Houston to play For the uninitiated, pickleball is something each serve. The serve must clear the seven-foot against the Rockets, and to do the same for them of a mix between tennis, racquetball and ping non-volley-zone in front of the net and land in when they needed a place to practice,” said pong. Players use special paddles and a wiffle the diagonal service court. Willis. “In those days, none of the NBA teams ball, and games take place on tennis courts with Serves must be done underhand with the paddle had practice facilities, and because they played specific pickleball lines. Nets and court sizes below the waist, and the server must keep both in city-owned arenas there were always other are smaller than their tennis counterparts, and feet behind the back line when serving. The activities such as concerts, rodeos, the circus, or the most common game is doubles, although John MacLeod serving side will continue to serve until the “whatever” using the buildings so the visiting singles is also an option. It has its own set of there is a fault on the service, at which point the teams had to find somewhere else to practice. quirky rules — for instance, try to stay out of service will be given to the opposing side. Most every NBA team that practiced around a the “kitchen”— but they’re easy to learn. There was another side. The man was a runner. The serve is made underhand and the Server Running provided him time to think and plan. scheduled game with the Rockets used the gym Josh Jenkins, a 30-year old who plays in must hit the ball in the air on the serve. The He would much rather run six miles than to sit at Rice University because of its close proximity professional tournaments around the country, Server is NOT allowed to bounce the ball and have lunch. He was also tough and could to the Summit, where the Rockets played.” says the game appeals for several reasons. “For and hit it off the bounce. The service is made be brutal in the things he said to you, things Willis continued, “John MacLeod was the head one, it’s very social,” he says. “You’ll see a big diagonally cross court and must clear the non- that would stay with you the rest of your life. coach of the Phoenix Suns at that time, and I mix of demographics out there.” Another factor volley zone, including the line (a serve that hits He learned to listen to his “gut.” You don’t remember him vividly the day that I opened up Jenkins appreciates is its mental component of the non-volley zone line is out) .Only one serve stay around as long as he did without doing the gym for the Suns to practice. He greeted having to out-think your opponent. attempt is allowed, except if the ball touches the that. The man was a burning competitor, and me very warmly, which I can assure you was The game is also quick, making it a convenient net on the serve and lands in the proper service the local sportswriters made a big deal out of not the typical protocol for NBA head coaches. way to get in some exercise. Games in a typical court, in this case the serve may be taken over. it. One of his sayings was treat the media like He treated me like a peer coach as opposed league run only 15 minutes each — you can At the start of each new game, the 1st serving mushrooms: keep them in the dark and feed to the rookie low-man-on-the-totem-poll that get in as little or as much as you want. Jenkins’ team is allowed only one fault before giving up them manure. He also believed that if you do I was. That day he showed me what a fine doubles partner, Rocky Brown, likes to go for the ball to the opponents. Then both members the little things right, the big things will take teacher of the game he was to his players, which broke. “I wear my fitness tracker when I play of each team will serve and fault before the ball care of themselves. The power of Coach John was unusual for the NBA level, even in those and after two hours, I’ve moved the equivalent is turned over to the opposing team. When the MacLeod was that he made believers out of days. He was very patient, thoughtful, and both of four miles of walking,” he says. “But the nice receiving team wins the serve, the player in the the fans of the Phoenix Suns, and his players coached and moved in a very distinguished thing is that if you’re playing doubles, you can right hand court will always start play. became conditioned to believe the things that manner about the court, during his practices. get in a workout without killing yourself.” he said. His approach was not to yell or scream but to Volleys get his team to buy into fundamentals and team Pickleball Is Inexpensive and Requires John Matthew MacLeod was born on October To volley means to hit a ball in the air without 3, 1937, in New Albany, Indiana. He got lessons concepts for what would prove to be a winning Minimal Gear first letting it bounce. In Pickleball, this can in leadership every day from his parents. formula. Alvan Adams, Paul Westphal, Dennis only be done when the player’s feet are behind Johnson, and Garfield Heard were just some John played basketball at New Providence the non-volley zone line (seven feet behind the of the players I remember as the core of an High School in Clarksville, Indiana, and at net). Note: it is a fault if the player steps over outstanding Suns’ team, but there was no doubt Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky the line on his volley follow-through. that John MacLeod was in control. The only (1956-1959). His first coaching job was at time during a two-and-a-half hour practice that Smithville High School in 1963-1964. He Double-Bounce Rule there was any disruption of the workout was later coached as an assistant at Cathedral High when he would shrill out the loudest eardrum- Also called the Two Bounce Rule, each team School in Indianapolis, Indiana. must play their first shot off of the bounce. That rupturing whistle that I have ever heard. And is, the receiving team must let the serve bounce In 1973, Suns’ owner, Jerry Colangelo, took when he did, everything that was moving and the serving team must let the return of the notice of this unknown, hungry young man in practice froze to a standstill like ice in an serve bounce before playing it. Once these two coaching at the University of Oklahoma, named Alaskan winter. That whistle of John MacLeod bounces have occurred, the ball can either be John MacLeod. John served six seasons (1968- was one of two things that I took away from Paddle and Ball volleyed or played off the bounce. 1973) in Norman, Oklahoma, and recorded 90 him, and have used throughout my coaching career wins for the Sooners, the eighth most career.” Fault in school history. He also took the Sooners Pickleball is also affordable, making it I asked Willis about MacLeod’s interaction to the NIT twice. MacLeod recruited Alvan accessible to all. A beginner can pick up a basic A fault is committed when the ball: Touches with his players. “Just watching one of his Adams, while at Oklahoma. Adams would wooden paddle and balls at retailers like Dick’s any part of the non-volley zone on the serve practices, that more appropriately might be follow MacLeod to Phoenix and win the 1976 Sporting Goods or on Amazon for around $30, (including the line); Is hit out of bounds; Does described as a classroom session, I learned great NBA Rookie of the Year Award. Gar Heard, an although prices for composite paddles can run not clear the net; Is volleyed from the non- coaches always allowed great talent to perform. Oklahoma alumnus, also played for MacLeod into the hundreds of dollars. As the game grows volley zone; Is volleyed before a bounce has Coach MacLeod was not caught up into forcing in Norman and Phoenix. and spreads throughout the country, access to occurred on each side. his players to do all things the same way, but many municipal courts is free, and even league Scoring John became a defensive-minded coach and he allowed each man to play with freedom by play is relatively cheap when compared to other his system was simple. No days off. You have using their talents the best way they could, racquet sports. A team scores a point only when serving. A to trust your preparation. Play tough defense, and then figuring out a way to fit them into a Dedicated courts are not needed as most play player who is serving shall continue to do so practice hard and, if you don’t do both of those, winning system. But the one thing he would on retrofitted tennis courts. With some tape and until a fault is made by his/her team. If playing be prepared to sit on the bench. John never had never yield on was how to feed the low post; a portable net, you can be good to go within a doubles, each player on a team keeps serving a problem using his bench. MacLeod’s first two it was a baseline pass. It almost looked like half hour,” There is a “places to play” database until their team makes a fault, then the serve seasons in Phoenix were a bit troublesome, but the perimeter players were bowling when they all over the country, and the sport is getting a moves to the opposing team - this is called eventually he became the winningest coach in threw the ball so close to the ground, almost good deal of attention from media right now. a Side Out. The game is played to 11 points, Suns’ history! From 1973 to 1987, his Suns’ rolling it into the post man. After watching so however a team must win by 2 points. teams won 579 regular season games, while many Phoenix Suns’ games and so many other There’s no shortage of information available Dotson’s Other Note: According to USA losing 543. games both college and pro, this particular for the beginner on up to the elite, from a technique proved to be a ‘fail safe’ and one that dedicated YouTube channel, to a bi-monthly Pickleball Association (USAPA), the game has MacLeod’s 1976 Suns’ team ended the year had a 650% increase in numbers over the last with a 42-40 win-loss record and just slipped I have taught my entire coaching career. That magazine, and even books on the topic. There is day observing Coach MacLeod still stands out a children’s book on the sport called “Pickleball six years. The biggest subset of that growth is into the playoffs for the first time in their team not in the over-60 crowd, says Justin Maloof, history. Remarkably, Phoenix took down the as one of the pivotal days in my coaching career. with Pop,” which is aimed at drawing kids into As you might guess, I will always remember the game. executive director of USAPA, but the younger top-ranked and favored Golden State Warriors set. “When the sport first caught on in the in seven games, to win the Western Conference Coach John MacLeod as a gentleman, teacher, There’s even the first pickleball-themed Sunbelt states around 2009, it was at 55-plus Championship and advance to the NBA finals, coach and most importantly, a very kind and restaurant, Chicken N Pickle, a combo of centers and RV communities,” he says. “It where the Boston Celtics waited. With the humble man,” said Willis. indoor/outdoor courts, a chicken, beef and snowballed from there. But these days, there Finals tied two games apiece, Game Five went John MacLeod touched many other great pork restaurant that also serves craft beers. are many municipalities and parks and rec into triple overtime at the Boston Garden. The players during his time in Phoenix. Connie The pickleball-playing owners launched the departments that are setting up courts, making Suns tied the game at the end of regulation and Hawkins, Charlie Scott, Walter Davis, Larry Send letters and photos to editor@ first location in Kansas City, have expanded to it accessible to a younger crowd. ”While there again at the end of the first overtime. Celtics’ Nance, Maurice Lucas and Jeff Hornacek were Wichita, and will soon open in San Antonio. are certainly senior citizens in the league, guard, John Havlicek, hit a last-second shot at just a few. MacLeod is tied with Al Attles for Pickleball Is For Everyone there are plenty of middle-aged and younger the end of the second overtime to put the Celtics the third-longest tenure as a head coach in NBA islandmoon.com participants moving around the courts as well. in the lead, 111-110, but the referees ruled that history, behind only “Red” Auerbach and Greg Pickleball is a great family sport, too. One The City Parks & Recreation Department there was one second left on the clock. Then Popovich. Coach John MacLeod joined the father of twin nine-year olds, loves getting the has Pickleball Sets available. Please call the improbable occurred. Suns’ guard, Paul Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005. He entire family out on the court. “Anyone can Lisa Oliver (361-826-3469) for additional Westphal called a timeout even though Phoenix was inducted into the Phoenix Suns’ Ring of information. Please contact me by phone, text had no timeouts left. That cost Phoenix a Honor in 2012 and the Arizona Sports’ Hall of and/or Email for questions, comments & etc.: technical foul and sent Boston to the free-throw Fame in 2016. [email protected] ; Mobile: 530-748-8475, line for a foul shot, which was good. Now with Coach John MacLeod died on a Sunday, April call and/or text. one second left and the Celtics with a two- 14, 2019. He was 81 and had suffered from point lead, the Suns inbounded the ball at center -30- Have fun and hang in there Alzheimer’s disease for more than ten years. court. Suns’ forward, Gar Heard, received For years, his strength remained silent. He is the inbounds pass, shot and scored, sending survived by his wife Carol, a daughter Kathleen, the game into triple overtime, tied 112-112. and a son Matt. Unfortunately, it was not to be. The Celtics Creating Dreams hung on and won Game Five, 128-126, and won There is no playbook for losing such a fine man for Island Homeowners the Series, four games to two. and coach. His spirit is still with us. since 1987 MacLeod led the Suns to eight more playoffs Andy Purvis is a local author and radio personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. • New Homes and two more Western Conference finals, before he was done. MacLeod was also chosen com for all the latest info on his books or to • Remodels the head coach of the West team in the 1981 listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books • Additions All-Star Game. He still holds the franchise are available online and can be found in the • Repairs record with 11 playoff appearances and 37 local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be • No job too big playoff victories. The Suns let John go in 1987 contacted at [email protected]. Also or too small after a slow start. He was hired by the Dallas listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Mavericks in 1987 and stayed until 1989, taking Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. Call 774-7043 for estimate them to the playoffs once. 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Like an empty canvas I there will bring redfish, trout, and flounder is known as “Kali’s Law” and was signed situation with the safety feature when it kills draw lines each morning like an abstract artist to the edge of the channel. In the Lagoon the into law back in June by Governor Abbot. If the motor suddenly while on plane. I’ve been with an open mind. When there are many other sunken spoil islands south of Bird Island are full you haven’t heard of this, Kali Gorzell was a experienced. Stories like that will obviously fishermen racing for spots your natural instincts of bait, trout on the 3ft drop off and reds up on teenager back in 2012 that was killed in a tragic come out over time, and we’ll see how long top in the extreme shallows. Here live croaker boating accident near Aransas Pass. Evidently it’s enforced. Some of the feedback out there are working best for the trout at first light then the flats boat she was riding “swapped ends” is that this is government overreach, like some throw live finger mullet into the shallow sand ejecting her, and consequently running over her. motorcyclists not wanting to wear a helmet. pockets up shallow. Try spoil areas on both the It happened in the blink of an eye. A similar east and west side of the channel. The Rocks of situation happened along the JFK Causeway UTVs Baffin have been pretty good for trout on live recently where everyone in the boat was ejected The folks in Austin finally caught their rules up shrimp with some black drum showing up from and the boat went into the “Circle of Death.” with what us Islanders have been doing for years- time to time. My favorite has been walking in Thankfully the three guys ejected were able to driving golf carts and UTVs on our local roads, the ultra shallow water of Nine Mile Hole sight get outside the “Circle” before help came along. and it’s time for the City to update our local casting for redfish and drum. This is a exciting ordinances. But, before the City will amend way to actually hunt fish by sight. One learns so the current ordinances, they want to hear from much while seeing the fish, lesions remembered us Islanders. Council requested that the ISAC forever. Peeled shrimp on a small hook is what provide a formal recommendation regarding you will catch the drum on and soft plastics and UTV’s and other off-highway vehicles on the gold spoons for the redfish. Island. They are seeking input from Islanders Get ready! Those reds are starting to through ISAC, since the regulations will mostly school up and get WILD! Laguna Shores Take advantage of the quiet water and come out and enjoy our backyard. The seasons will affect this area. In addition, CCPD also asked redfish. for ISAC/Islanders input. Personally, I think be changing soon, and we are always on the that there should be a moratorium on ticketing lookout for the next tropical storm. The next anyone using UTV’s responsibly, as most have are broken with the sight of other fishermen. few weeks will deliver some great fishing, but been for years, until we all get this sorted out. Now is a great time to go out and just flow. everything including the fish is ready for those first cool fronts to sweep in and get everything Cleaning up Looking for fish can be more than just luck. So earlier this week, Polly Balzer, your a bit FRISKY! Give me a call for your next Imagine that most of the water flow and baitfish PIPOA ISAC representative, and Marvin Jones, adventure and FOLLOW ALL OUR HOOK As someone who has experienced “end migrations are centered around the ICW, natural president of PIPOA, organized a PIPOA social UPS ON FACEBOOK AT JOEY FARAHS swapping” personally, it’s pretty scary. I was shorelines, and passes. Gamefish will not be far media survey. Polly will share the results of BACKWATER FISHING! Get wet. even driving the boat at the time. I was actually their survey at the next meeting. The poll goes away, stay close to the tidal areas for boat fishing working in San Antonio Bay on some of the through Monday, so if you live in the PIPOA water level monitors I used to help maintain service area, make sure to take the survey, or and was by myself. The bay was choppy, contact Marvin or Polly directly. That should and I had an idea that the boat I was in was a cover everyone in the PIPOA regarding “squirrely” one (I’m not going to mention the comments. make). I caught a wave on a bad quarter, and That segment covered, who we need to hear that thing turned on a dime and flipped stern to from at ISAC are the business owners on the bow around in a heartbeat. I was wearing my Island. We need to hear from citizens inside the kill-key but wasn’t ejected. I had a death grip TIRZ, including the seawall populous. We need on the helm with a wide stance and luckily my to hear from Cane Harbor. We need to hear position was literally right in the middle of the from Island Waves, Island Joes, and the Island boat. It was a quick pirouette which scared me, Garage. We need to hear from Axys, IBC, and I shut down for a second. If someone else the Rasheeds, Tim, Alex, Paul and the other had been on the boat with me, they would have developers in the area. We need to hear from been either up front or behind me, and likely the folks in the Packery Woodlands. Contacting would have been ejected. City Council, City Staff, or myself on this issue Most of us seasoned Lagunatics don’t typically isn’t the correct procedure, but showing up to wear our kill keys unless we’re by ourselves and ISAC and giving your support is. See you loyal conditions are dicey. However, when I get in a readers there, wear something nice and comb vehicle, I automatically put on my seat belt. I your hair as I’m sure both City legal staff and always have for years, even if I’m at the ranch the news will be there. besides closed gates on private roads. It’s just Everyone have a great Labor Day weekend and second nature. Seems like we all need to get be safe out there. We will get our beaches and into the habit of wearing the kill-key lanyard lagoon back once most folks’ clear town now sooner than later. that school has started. We’ll see you next week The kill-key isn’t a perfect solution to saving here On the Rocks. lives though. Some folks have learned that if Capt Drew from Scuttlebutt’s with a giant amberjack, season is open now!

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These properties were emails and never emails taxpayers about the computer or secretly download software that challenge to build on their legacy and continue transferred by the 86th Texas Legislature on the the preservation of these unique sites for new status of refunds. tracks every keystroke, eventually giving recommendation of the Texas Sunset Advisory them passwords to sensitive accounts, such as generations of visitors to enjoy. We are pleased The IRS this week detected this new scam as Commission. The action will allow both the financial accounts. that we will be able to work with many of the taxpayers began notifying [email protected] THC and TPWD to improve efficiency by same staff who have operated and maintained about unsolicited emails from IRS imposters. The IRS, state tax agencies and the tax industry, focusing each agency on its core mission— all the transferring sites. 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Additionally, the 86th Legislature turned sending fake emails or harrassing phone calls. management of the Star of the Republic Museum The emails have links that show an IRS.gov- “Our primary goal as stewards of these sites in Washington County (part of the Washington- like website with details pretending to be about The IRS doesn’t initiate contact with taxpayers has always been the preservation of these iconic on-the-Brazos complex) to the THC, effective the taxpayer’s refund, electronic return or tax by email, text messages or social media channels landmarks for the enjoyment of current and Jan. 1, 2020. The THC is working with the account. The emails contain a “temporary to request personal or financial information. future Texans. We entrust the future care of site’s owner, Blinn College, on management password” or “one-time password” to “access” This includes requests for PIN numbers, these notable parks to the capable hands of the logistics. 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It’s time to get those hummingbird feeders out. up to two weeks (a covered container). Feeders Our beautiful fall visitors are flying in and they should be cleaned and refilled with sugar water are hungry! Get your feeders prepared and help every two to three days or immediately at the us celebrate our 31st Anniversary HummerBird first sign of mold. To make your yard even Celebration. This is the time to give our more inviting to hummingbirds, plant some feathered friends a little extra help to fuel their hummingbird attractant plants. continued migration south. Hummingbirds are bullies, always have been, Remember to always start with clean feeders. always will be. And there isn’t just one bully; Any time you see or suspect mildew or mold they’re all combative. Hanging feeders in a you may clean them with a bottle brush and a cluster can ease some of the competition but not mixture of one-part bleach to ten parts water, all. 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Unused now! sugar water can be stored in the refrigerator for Arts Alive Brings Creativity to the The PIE Luau gathering was held on August 9th at the Port Royal Restaurant. We Last Days Of Summer were entertained by Hula Dancers led by Carolyn Arwood, her sister, and friend. The Padre Island Ukulele players entertained us with many festive Hawaiian songs, after The last festival of the summer will be buzzing Crazy Creativity with artists, live music and beer garden in the a delicious Luau dinner. This was all followed by a huge Conga line! A fun time was Ever heard of a steamroller making art? Watch park, food trucks and nonstop hands-on creative had by all. PIE is always looking for new members, who want to have a good time, and this massive machine create beautiful artwork. activities for the whole family. raise money for College Scholarships. We have many interest groups, including Bunco, Choose a design and Full Court Press will Crafts, and Book Clubs. 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POA News by Marvin Jones, President By Todd Hunter, District 32 On the southern coast, Corpus Christi and As always, let me have tropical storm looming on the horizon, being Port Aransas have several beach locations to The Coastal Bend is one of visit. These include the Padre Island National your thoughts. You can prepared is always a necessity. We learned the top tourism destinations reach me at marvin@ a lesson from Hurricane Harvey, in addition Seashore, Mustang Island State Park, J.P. Luby in the State of Texas. This is in great part due Surf Park/North Packery Beach, Whitecap pipoa.net to the damage to buildings and houses, items to our region’s many historical, cultural and left on decks and docks went directly into the Beach, Padre Balli Park/Bob Hall Pier, I.B. Litter Critter- The coastal attractions. I would like to spend some canals. Poorly constructed decks and docks McGee Beach Park/Horace Caldwell Pier, North next Litter Critter will time discussing the different components of the collapsed into the canals. It cost the PIPOA a Beach, South Packery Channel Beach, and be Saturday, September 21, 2019, at Briscoe tourism industry in our region. The coastline great deal of money to have these items fished San Jose Island. Each of these locations offer King Pavilion parking lot from 9:00 AM until and beaches of Texas are important to our great out and removed from the canals. Please outstanding views and recreational activities. 1:00 PM. If you wish to volunteer, please state as these areas are home to wildlife unique secure or at least have a plan to secure items Some of these include fishing, hiking trails, reach out to Joe Hall. to the region. Texas beaches are also popular RV access/camping, swimming, windsurfing/ on the decks and docks. Now would be a tourist destinations so preserving these natural PIPOA Board Meeting- The next regular kiteboarding, kayaking/canoeing, and birding/ great time to make repairs to decks and docks, areas is essential to our state’s wellbeing. Today, scheduled Board Meeting will be Tuesday, wildlife viewing sights. Links to each of making them more secure. I would like to share with you information September 24, 2019, at the Holiday Inn these beaches can be found at http://www. The City has on its website information about this important type of tourism as well as a Express on the Island from 5:30 PM until visitcorpuschristitx.org/see-and-do/beaches/, and checklists regarding preparation for a number of unique nature-based attractions and 7:00 PM. http://onpadreisland.com/beaches.aspx, and hurricane. Please take a look at it, make a activities found in our area. https://portaransas.org/play/beaches/. Boat Ramp- The PIPOA is currently plan, and be prepared. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department evaluating our boat ramps. The Cartagena Other great sources for coastal and tourism Boring- It has been a boring week at the defines nature tourism as tourism based on the ramp has been temporarily closed pending information is the United Corpus Christi PIPOA. The usual applications for home natural attractions in the area and may include the conclusion of the evaluation. We hope Chamber of Commerce and the Port Aransas building, and complaints about barking dogs, such activities as birdwatching, stargazing, to have this Boat ramp open for the Labor Chamber of Commerce. Their links can be and so on. Members, please do the best you camping, hiking, hunting, fishing and visiting Day weekend pending the evaluation. Please found at http://www.unitedccchamber.com/ and can to keep your dogs from barking and parks or wildlife habitats. The beauty of the watch Social Media for an announcement. https://portaransas.org/ . disturbing neighbors. Next week, after the Coastal Bend lies in the waterscapes and Labor Day Weekend- The last chance for Labor Day Holiday, I will have more to report. beaches that line the Gulf of Mexico and If you have questions regarding any of the the tourist to invade the island is coming soon. Corpus Christi Bay. Spring break draws both information mentioned in this week’s article, Canals- There have been some sightings The traffic coming over the bridge will be tourists and residents flocking to the coastline please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or of jet skis racing around the canals. We all heavy, and the beach will be crowded. Please to soak up the sun, but these destinations have District Office. Please always feel free to know what fun it is to race on a jet ski, but the be careful, the visitors to the Island often so much more to offer than a good tan. contact my office if you have any questions canals are a no-wake zone, and we certainly lose focus of their driving as they search for or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if do not want anyone to be injured. No doubt, Fishing the bays and surf around Corpus restaurants and gift stores. you would like to contact my office regarding law enforcement will be ever-present during Christi and Port Aransas is a year-round pursuit, constituent services. As always, my offices are Hurricane- This is the hurricane season. the upcoming weekend. NO WAKES, please! by boat, kayak and on foot. Plus, we have acres available at any time to assist with questions, Although there does not appear to be a and acres of shallow flats for wade-fishing. And concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512- many of these opportunities are free. When the 463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603). heat of summer begins to fade away, little feels as good as an autumn ocean breeze along the - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 Paulette Kluge Nueces County Gulf Coast. Enjoy a change of pace with a visit Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). to Hazel Bazemore Park, where more than one He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. Appraisal Review million hawks migrate over Corpus Christi each texas.gov or at 512-463-0672 Resigns as CEO of fall. Visit Corpus Christi Board Needs Visit Corpus Christi (Corpus Christi Visitors 2019 City Labor Day Holiday Schedule Bureau) announced this week that Paulette Members Most City of Corpus Christi offices including • Al Kruse Tennis Center - CLOSED Labor Kluge, Chief Executive Officer for Visit Corpus City Hall, Public Libraries and Municipal Court Day Christi has tendered her resignation to the will be closed Labor Day, Monday, September Public Pools: (Holiday Weekend Schedule) Board of Directors, effective September 27. The Nueces County Appraisal Review Board 2, 2019. • Collier Pool - OPEN Labor Day for Lap “The Board would like to sincerely thank is seeking applications from residents interested Garbage Collection: Monday, September 2: Swim 5:00 a.m. – 7:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. – Mrs. Kluge for her service, leadership and in helping resolve disputes with property NO change in schedule. 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. commitment to Visit Corpus Christi over the appraisals. Candidates must reside in the county Recycling Collection: Monday, September past five and a half years and we wish her the for the past two years. This is a part time activity • Natatorium: OPEN Labor Day for Lap 2: NO change in schedule. best in her future endeavors”, said Melody with training and begins January 2020. Swim 5:00 a.m. – 6:30 a.m., 6:00 p.m. – Nixon-Bice, Chairwoman of Visit Corpus Applications are due by September 15, Heavy Brush Collection: Monday, 8:00 p.m. Christi Board of Directors. 2019, and available at ncadistrict.com under September 2: WILL NOT BE COLLECTED Oso Bay Wetlands Preserve & Learning A press release said an Interim CEO will Organization or at the Appraisal District, 201 Transfer Station: The Citizen Collection Center: be named within the next 30 days until the N. Chaparral, third floor. A legible copy of the Center located at the J.C. Elliott Transfer applicant’s driver license or Texas identification • Walking trails and playground OPEN daily, recruitment process is complete. This will Station will be closed Monday, September 2. dawn to dusk. ensure continuity and will facilitate the card is required. The application can be turned in as described on the application or directly to Animal Care Services: Monday, September • Learning Center - OPEN Saturday, August transition of a new permanent Chief Executive 2: OPEN 1pm – 5pm for adoptions. Officer. While a search for Mrs. Kluge’s the Taxpayer Liaison Officer on the third floor 31 from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. of the Appraisal District. successor is underway, the Visit Corpus Christi The following schedule will be observed CLOSED Labor Day Board of Directors will work closely with the For additional information contact Bob on Labor Day weekend at City Parks and Interim CEO and the Visit Corpus Christi team Maupin, the Taxpayer Liaison Officer, at 361 Recreation facilities: Senior Centers: CLOSED until the appointment of a new Chief Executive 696-7683. Golf Courses: Recreation Centers: CLOSED Officer. • Lozano Golf Center - OPEN regular hours Latchkey: CLOSED • Oso Golf Course - OPEN regular hours Gymnasiums: CLOSED Keep Solid Waste FBISD Free Lunch Tennis Centers: Flour Bluff ISD to offer free breakfast and • H-E-B Tennis Center CLOSED Labor Day Collections Clean lunch for all students in Pre-K & Kindergarten Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, all Pre-K and Kindergarten students at the Flour Conditions Ripe for Prime and Safe Properly Bluff ISD Early Childhood Center (ECC) will receive free breakfast and lunch. The campus Dispose of qualifies to operate the Community Eligibility Texas Dove Hunting Provision (CEP) under the U.S. Department of While most Texans are sweltering under a shift and federal restrictions on opening dates Agriculture which allows the school to serve all brutal August heat wave, savvy dove hunters that prohibit starting the South Zone season Hazardous Waste students at the campus free meals. Flour Bluff will gladly suffer along providing conditions prior to Sept. 14. Solid Waste Services encourages residents ISD participates in the National School Breakfast don’t change before the September 1 season During the early two weekends for the Special to keep our streets safe and clean by properly and Lunch programs which offers students opener. White-winged Dove Days (in the South Zone), disposing of your household hazardous waste nutritionally balanced lunch and breakfast A hot, dry landscape heading into the season hunting is allowed only from noon to sunset and at the J.C. Elliott Collection Center FREE of meals daily. Currently, the District also serves can concentrate dove around feeding and the daily bag limit is 15 birds, to include not charge! breakfast free-ofcharge to students who attend watering areas, making for excellent hunting, more than two mourning doves and two white- Flour Bluff Primary, Flour Bluff Elementary according to wildlife biologists with the Texas tipped doves. During the regular season in the Many jobs and chores around your home and Flour Bluff Intermediate campuses. “We’re sometimes require the use of products containing Parks and Wildlife Department. In addition to South Zone, the aggregate bag limit is 15 with excited to be able to offer free breakfast and prime conditions heading into the opener, dove no more than two white-tipped doves. hazardous components, such as chemicals that lunch for our youngest students,” said Flour are poisonous, corrosive or flammable. When populations have thrived this year thanks to the Hunters are reminded that licenses are on sale Bluff ISD Superintendent Dr. David Freeman. amount and timing of spring rains across most improperly disposed with recyclables or waste “We know that students who are well-nourished now for the 2019-2020 hunting seasons and materials, the joining of those chemicals could of the state that kicked habitat into high gear for can be purchased through the agency’s 28 law learn better. This addition to our school nutrition dove breeding season. prove dangerous or messy. For example, paint program will ensure Pre-K and Kindergarten enforcement field offices, at more than 50 state is one many household materials. If disposed students are on the right path to a healthy start Dove hunting is huge in Texas, with a deep parks and over 1,700 retailers across the state. of improperly, it could leak out of a collection at school.” Under the Community Eligibility culture that spans generations. Each fall, more Licenses may also be purchased online through truck onto city streets resulting a huge mess. Provision at the Flour Bluff ECC, the campus than 300,000 Texas hunters take to the field the TPWD website or by phone at (800) 895- Residents can properly dispose of paint and will no longer have to collect meal applications where they harvest nearly one third of all 4248. Call center hours are Monday through other hazardous materials at the J.C. Elliott for free, reduced-price and paid student meals mourning doves taken nationwide each year — Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and there is a required Collection Center located at Highway 286 which helps ensure all students receive a on average an estimated 10 million birds — far $5 administrative fee for each phone or online and Ayers Street, Monday through Saturday nutritious breakfast and lunch. Staff and visitors more than any other state. While those statistics transaction. The online transaction system is from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. All residents must show at the Early Childhood Center will continue to may appear staggering, consider Texas supports available 24/7. a valid driver’s license with an address within pay the designated meal price. For additional breeding populations of over 34 million New this year, enhancements have been made city limits. For more information, visit www. information, please visit the FBISD School mourning and 10 million white-winged doves, to make the licensing process simpler and ccwasteplace.com. Nutrition website at, http://flourbluffschools. and those numbers rise even higher during the faster. “Expedited checkout” speeds the process net/student-nutrition/ or contact Gina Valdez, fall when birds from northern latitudes funnel For more information, contact Public of re-purchasing the same license items bought Flour Bluff ISD Director for Student Nutrition, south. 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Texas made headlines around the world as in addition to your password. You can go By Chef Vita Jarrin ½ C flour news broke of ransomware attacks on 22 to the settings of your email, banking or Ahhh the infamous potato. It’s truly known for ¼ C rice flour municipalities across the state. The attacks social media accounts to activate two- it’s multitude of applications. It’s made into so happened on the morning of August 16 and factor authentication. many various favorites! From French fries, to ¼ stick of butter for frying seemed to target the local governments of mostly • Install antivirus software. Anti-virus mashed potatoes, to potato salad, to diced in a light olive oil for frying rural towns. What does this mean? Ransomware soup for richness, as well as a thickener. They software is another protective measure Filling Ingredients allows hackers to remotely encrypt computers, you can take against hackers. Do research work fabulous in a salad with mayo and hard locking out the primary users. Then, they are on the software you want before you boiled eggs. 2 C of your favorite raw mushrooms able to demand payment (usually bitcoin or download it to your computer and search However, sometimes we have potatoes sitting another type of cryptocurrency) before they 2 shallots minced the company’s business profile at bbb.org. in the bin and aren’t too sure of what to do will release the computers or files that are being 1 garlic clove minced You should also check that it includes a with them, or there’s mashed potatoes in a held hostage. The mayor of one city said the ransomware removal tool before buying. bowl from last nights dinner and we look at 1 bunch parsley minced attackers are asking $2.5 million in ransom. • Be cautious with attachments. the cold lump of mush and think “oh lord.. not 3 strands of thyme (pull of leaves) Ransomware attacks don’t just happen to local Ransomware and other vicious softwares mashed potatoes again”! Well maybe not quite 1 lemon zested governments; they can target small businesses can be sent to you through links or that response, lol.. who doesn’t love good Ole and individuals as well. Cybersecurity attachments in emails and phishing scams. mashed potatoes for leftovers? But you get the salt & pepper to taste authorities said damage could have been much It is best never to open anything from an idea. worse, but because Texas has worked hard 3 tbsp. butter unknown sender. You can also enable your Well here’s a fun and easy recipe to use up on incident response, everyone knew exactly system to show file extensions, which raw potatoes or cook up those smashed ones drizzle of olive oil whom to call when the attack happened. If makes it easier for you to spot potentially in your fridge. How does a stuffed potato cake consumers and small business owners know 2 tbsp. Marsala wine or wine of choice harmful files. Look for file extensions like sound? You can stuff them with just a favorite how to protect themselves from ransomware “.exe,” “.vbs,” and “.scr.” cheese of choice, or add ham to the cheese, or 1 C mozzarella or quesadilla cheese and how to respond if they find themselves how about sautéed mushrooms and Swiss? How (shredded) or shredded cheddar hacked, they can minimize damage as well. • Disconnect from the network. If you discover you’ve been affected by about Italian style with mozzarella, pepperoni Dipping sauce BBB has these tips on preventing and or sausage and tomato sauce, or Greek style, by ransomware, disconnect from your 1 C Hellman’s mayonnaise responding to ransomware attacks: internet connection immediately. adding sautéed ground lamb and drizzling them • Stay updated. Keeping your software Disabling that connection may cut off the with Tzatziki sauce. Maybe Mexican style with ½ C sour cream taco meat and quesadilla cheese! updated will ensure you have the latest hacker’s access to your data. You should ¼ C ketchup and strongest security measures on your also disconnect from internal networks, Oh…. I see the excitement in your eyes, the 1 tsp. grey poupon devices. The weaker your system, the because it can spread to multiple light bulb turned on right? Because the Ideas easier it is for hackers to get in. computers from the same system. are infinite and the options are endless. And 1 chipotle pepper • Have a backup. Routine backups ensure • Keep your money. Ransomware attackers who doesn’t adore potatoes? Additionally, cilantro or basil potato cakes are seared in a skillet, with oil and you have access to your data in the event will demand payment to release your juice of 1 lemon of a ransomware attack. computer, but there is no guarantee they butter. That means the outer layer, is nothing will do so. Keeping your data backed short of spectacular, because it adds a bite of salt & pepper to taste • Use stronger logins. While a strong up will prevent you from needing to pay crispy outer layer, before your teeth sink into password can help keep unwanted 1 tsp. honey hackers. that soft, fluffy, cheesy, goodness of that mashed attackers out of your accounts, you potato consistency of the interior. Blend all of the above in a food processor may also want to consider two-factor • Report the attacks. If you are a victim of for dipping authentication. This would allow you a ransomware attack, report it to the FBI, to use your fingerprint, security keys or Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Directions: one-time codes sent to your cell phone and BBB Scam Tracker. Clean and cut potatoes and add to a sauce pan and cover with salted water. Cook until fork tender. In the meantime, get your other Interested in Fixed Annuities? Beware of ingredients ready to sauté the mushrooms. Wipe off and slice your mushroom blend. If using Common Misconceptions oyster mushrooms, remove woody stems. In a skillet, melt the butter and heat the oil. Sauté Between your 401(k) or pension, your IRA won’t immediately start receiving income. You the herbs, zest of lemon, garlic and shallots for and Social Security, you hope to have enough will, however, be able to factor future expected about 2 minutes and add the mushrooms. Sauté to enjoy a comfortable retirement lifestyle. Yet, payments into your retirement plan. until they are wilted and golden, about 6 -7 min. you may want, or need, to find other financial “When I die, the insurance company keeps Add the Marsala and stir for 2 more minutes resources – one of which might be a fixed my money.” If your payout plan includes a and drain and set aside in a bowl. When cooled annuity, which offers a guaranteed interest beneficiary agreement, your beneficiaries will add the shredded cheese for the filling. Once rate and can be structured to provide a lifetime receive the remaining amount of money in the potatoes are cooked, drain and smash. Add the income stream. But you may be nervous about contract. Read the terms and conditions listed butter and spices. Mix well and add the eggs, investing in annuities because of some negative with an annuity, as they will spell out where the flour and using a scoop or spoon, spoon about things you’ve heard about them. How concerned remaining money will go after you pass away. half of a cups worth onto the palm of your hand should you be? and make a circle and a center well. Add the Of course, even if the above concerns are mushroom and cheese filling and working the To help answer that question, let’s consider simply misconceptions, it doesn’t mean there For this recipe I thought I’d go vegetarian. potato with your hands, enclose the filling into some common misconceptions about fixed are no issues about which you must be aware Not everyone eats meat and well I also think the center, so that the filling is trapped inside. annuities: when considering fixed annuities. For one thing, the infamous mushroom is grossly overlooked. If you need to add a little more of the potato, the safety of your lifetime income stream and So how about you jump on this veggie delight “I won’t be able to touch any of my money feel free to use some. Create these little cakes guarantees will depend on the claims-paying wagon, and let’s go for a yummy ride? You’ll if I need some of it before I retire.” A fixed and set aside. Once all are shaped and ready ability of the insurer that issued the annuity, thank me later. ;) annuity is designed to provide you with income for frying, heat oil and butter in a skillet and so you’ll want to choose a company that has during your retirement years. But if you want to Ingredients: place the patties down and fry them until golden demonstrated financial strength and stability. withdraw a significant amount of your money and crispy and then flip and do the same for the One other concern about fixed annuities: They 4 – 6 Large Yukon Gold Potatoes peeled and before you retire – when your annuity is in other side. Blend all of the ingredients of the typically don’t carry a cost of living adjustment, cut into quarters what’s called the “accumulation phase” – you’ll sauce (make ahead and refrigerate if you wish) such as that found in Social Security. You can likely face a surrender charge, as well as a 10% 2 Tbsp. for water to boil potatoes in and set aside for dipping. Once all patties / find annuities that do offer some inflation federal tax penalty. Withdrawals may also be cakes are ready, dip and eat. Yum! subject to a market value adjustment. However, protection, but this feature can reduce early ¼ stick of butter melted (pour over hot to access a small percentage of your allocated payments significantly. potates) Tip of the week: funds, you might not encounter any fees. And If it’s appropriate for your situation, a fixed fresh ground pepper to taste some annuity contracts allow a 10 percent The fillings for these cakes as well as the annuity can be a valuable addition to your ½ tsp. granulated garlic dipping sauces are endless. You can make these withdrawal with no penalty. retirement income. Before purchasing one, 1 tsp. ground nutmeg (fresh ground ahead and fry them before serving. If you wish “Annuities cost too much.” Many annuities are though, you’ll need to weigh all the potential preferred but store bought works) to keep them simpler, just use leftover mashed actually low in cost. Be sure to compare the cost benefits and issues. But don’t be swayed by potatoes, add the eggs and flours, and stuff them against the value of each additional guarantee, misconceptions – you’ll want to base your 2 pinches of cayenne (optional) with ingredients that don’t require cooking, feature, and benefit—and only pay for what you decision on facts, rather than fears. 1 -2 eggs (depending on size) you want a such as Ham and Swiss! The options are need. This article was written by Edward Jones soft, yet firm shaping consistency endless. ;) The Important thing is to have fun, “A deferred annuity isn’t worth the wait.” If for use by your local Edward Jones Financial try new things and Enjoy! you set up a deferred annuity, it’s true that you Advisor. On the Island, your Edward Jones Financial Advisor is Keith Clark. Keith can be Thoughts From Dr. Tom reached at (361) 949-9500. Diverticulitis By Dr. Tom Dorrell not come and go it just steadily gets worse. 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It’s so hot I saw a funeral procession Thomas Michael Riley for many the golf course and my old San Antonio pals, pulling through Dairy Queen. It’s so hot my Darryl Lee Rush played the Back Porch on years. Also on John Boyd and Passing Strangers will play thermometer reads, “Are you kidding me?” will play the Back Porch Saturday. on Friday. Thursday, watch Treasure Island. On Sunday the great Bart (Thank you Johnny Carson) But, soon this for Americana Crow will play Marker 37 and Hyde After insane heat will morph into Winter Texan stud Cody Bryan Nine will be at Treasure Island. And finally on deployment and we’ll have something new to at the Back Porch, Art Barrera at Treasure Wednesday, September 4th, the world class band complain about. Actually, I think it’s the Winter Island, old school torcher Mike Williams at from Mexico, Mana’, will play the American Texans who have it figured out how to follow the Gaff and Dave’s Duo at Shorty’s. On Friday Bank Center. This is big stuff. I’m taking my the good weather around and we really do look the 30th, the radio rockers The Groove will mermaid gal for her birthday. I adore this band. I forward to them coming each year. Labor Day play Giggity’s, Rasta Cowboy Billy Snipes is at saw them years ago at the Verizon Amphitheater is the official gateway to our “off -season” Marker 37, and the nicest guy in country music in New Braunsfel and guarantee you, I was the serenity. So enjoy this last big blowout and and our good pal Thomas Michael Riley will only gringo in the crowd. These guys are huge. get ready for some less oppressive conditions. grace the Back Porch with his most outstanding They fill soccer stadiums in Latin America. Relief is on the way. And, although it can get presence. Me and my mermaid always look That ought to keep you busy for a while. Be dicey, October is the absolute bomb, with cooler forward to seeing Thomas Michael. This is safe out there. temperatures and fewer tourists. September is definitely a DO NOT MISS show. On Saturday ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ pretty much just another summer month only Larry Joe Taylor will play the Porch, Mark without the kids. If we can just make it through hurricane season unscathed (November 30th), The Brothers Toman Rusty and Randy life in paradise should continue without a hitch, played Giggity’s on Friday. although, I realistically don’t take anything for granted anymore. There could easily be Me and the mermaid kept it on a dead run all a plight of locust lurking around any. We (the weekend. On Friday we stopped at the Back Live Music community of Port Aransas) seem to have Porch for some soulful San Antonio country- navigated the dubious second anniversary of rock with Mark Monaco and the Strayhearts. Darren McGill @ evil Harvey with minimal fanfare last Sunday. The great Toman Brothers played Giggity’s Scuttlebutt’s To me, it’s like celebrating the date someone to a big boot scootin’ crowd. On Saturday we Tonight Tuesday, September 3 died. We can certainly celebrate how our village saw the always rocking Darryl Lee Rush at the Paul & Victoria @ came together as a family and rebuilt, but the Back Porch, he had the girls wiggling and so did Thursday, August 29 Giggity’s storm itself was horrific and something most of the funky funky Jonmikael at Treasure Island Free Beer Band @ Aaron Jacobs @ us would as soon forget. (they’ll be back this Friday as well. On Sunday Giggity’s Scuttlebutt’s we went to the swing bar with James Derkits, Dave’s Duo @ Shorty’s CODY BRYAN AUG 29 On the local front… Art Barrera @ Treasure Carol Elliott and reggae from Austin: Ocean Wednesday, September 4 Island THOMAS MICHAEL RILEY AUG 30 Mana’ @ American Roots, who turned out to be a lot of fun. I’d like Mike Williams @ Gaff to see more of those guys. Bank Center Mike O’Neill @ Waves LARRY JOE TAYLOR AUG 31 Jim Dugan @ Giggity’s Resort Clarissa Serna @ Rockit’s Cody Bryan @ Back CRUISE CONTROL SEPT 1 Billy Snipes @ Scuttlebutt’s Porch Stevie Start @ Angry Thursday, September 5 Marlin 132 W. Cotter St. Port A On the Waterfront Tomar & the FC’s, Falco & the Wolf @ Splendiferous @ Waves Rockit’s Resort Flatbroke @ Brewster Free Beer Band @ The new Salty Dog is now open. Street Giggity’s Captain Al @ Mike Williams @ Gaff Scuttlebutt’s Another Level @ Rockit’s The recently rebuilt Salty Dog chose this Ruben Limas @ Island Ruben Limas @ Island Harvey invasion date for their grand re-opening Italian Italian last Sunday. Not only is it good marketing but The Jonmikael MREZ Band played Robin Blue @ Scuttlebutt’s we’ll easily remember their birthday. Me and Treasure Island on Saturday. Treasure Island my mermaid gal stopped in for a peek at the Friday, August 30 Friday, September 6 new club and were impressed. It was bigger and Thomas Michael Riley ART BARRERA AUG 29 Chanklas @ Giggity’s @ Back Porch had that new club smell. It was packed to the Starlite & Moonbeams @ DO NOT MISS LIST The Groove @ Giggity’s JONMIKEL MREZ AUG 30 Shorty’s rafters with locals standing in long lines trying Jonmikael MREZ @ to get a drink. I must say, it did have the look Coming this weekend… Clay Hollis @ Back Porch Treasure Island PASSING STRANGERS AUG 31 Spazmatics @ Brewster and feel of the old club. I noticed their signature Chanklas @ Shorty’s Street shuffleboard table was still around and they had Billy Snipes @ Marker HYDE AFTER NINE SEPT 1 Stevie Start @ Island Italian a nice big stage and sound system. They should 37 Marco Ramirez @ 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 do well. I shot many a game of darts in the old Carlos ALmaraz @ Scuttlebutt’s club when I played with the Tarpon Ice House. Angry Marlin treasureislandporta The Dog has been a constant companion to Majors & Taylor @ Saturday, September 7 Black Sheep Bistro many through the years and is a sight for sore Ulrich Ellison & Tribe @ Oddfellas @ Rockit’s Giggity’s eyes. Good luck to you Ronda, Kitty, Boo, Scarecrow People @ Sheila and Kimberly. It’s good to have you Gabe Fidel @ Shorty’s Executive Surf Club Shaker Hymns @ Back back. Attila, Hawk @ House Porch of Rock Sing Along Piano Bar @ Diamond’s Edge @ Brewster Street Brewster Street Zavier Wulf @ House of Stevie Start @ Island Rock The Mike O’Neill blues band will play Italian Robin Palmer @ Island Wave’s Resort on Aug 29th. Darren McGill @ Italian Scuttlebutt’s Mike Guerra @ Scuttlebutt’s Tonight, Thursday the 29th, blues guitar wizard Saturday, August 31 Dave’s Duo Aug 29 Mark McKinney, Bri Mike O’Neill will take the big stage at Waves Chanklas Aug 30 Sunday, September 8 Bagwell @ La Palmilla Antone & All Stars @ Resort (formerly known as Schlitterbahn) for Larry Joe Taylor @ Back another Island Moon sponsored performance. Red Giant Aug 31 Giggity’s Porch John Eric @ Scuttlebutt’s The show will be from 6-9 and there is no cover. Passing Strangers @ Starlite $ Moonbeams Sept 6 Ocean Roots, a reggae band from Austin, This is a very comfortable setting. The stage is Treasure Island Gabe Fidel Sept. 7 Monday, September 9 played the Port A Beer Hut on Sunday. located above the swim-up bar with the back Independent Thieves @ Open Jam @ Giggity’s Giggity’s Kiya Vance @ Scuttlebutt’s Jam Band @ Angry OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port Aransas

Marlin Tuesday, September 10 GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BAR Smokehouse Guitar Paul & Victoria @ Army @ Mikel May’s Giggity’s LIVE MUSIC Red Giant @ Shorty’s Aaron Jacob @ LIVE MUSIC Cruise Control @ Scuttlebutt’s Free Beer Band Every Thurs (7-10) Rockit’s Josh Abbot, Robert EVERY The Groove on Friday (9-1) Wednesday, September 11 NIGHT Ray, Grant Gilbert @ Jered Clark @ Giggity’s Independent Thieves on Saturday (9-1) Brewster Street Darren McGill @ Robin Palmer @ Island Scuttlebutt’s Antone & All Stars Every Sunday (9-1) Italian Open Jam Every Monday (8:30-12:30) Mike Guerra @ Kitchen Open Thursday, September 12 Paul & Victoria Every Tuesday (7-10) Scuttlebutt’s Justin Furstenfeld @ Until 1 a.m.! Jim Dugan on Wednesday (8-12) Brewster Street Sunday, September 1 Free Beer Band @ 722 Tarpon, Port Aransas, TX Antone & All Stars @ Giggity’s Giggity’s Mike Williams @ Gaff Hyde After Nine @ Ruben Limas @ Island Treasure Island Italian Cruise Control @ Back Darren McGill @ Porch Scuttlebutt’s Bart Crow, Red Tide @ Marker 37 Friday, September 13 Tim Layton & Sierra @ Mike O’Neill @ Giggity’s Mikel May’s Expert Computer Repairs Johnny Boy @ Shorty’s John Eric @ Scarecrow People @ Back Scuttlebutt’s Porch 5 Card Draw @ Brewster Labor Day, September 2 Street Open Jam @ Giggity’s Art Barrera @ Mikel May’s

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