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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 November 25, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Photo by Miles Merwin Around The Nineteen Parcels Island of Island Land By Dale Rankin Sold for $2.1 The good news this week is that the first of the La Posada events kicks off the season on Sunday with live Million music at Billish Park. There’s plenty of room there to socially distance and Eleven Years for the kids to play. La Posada will be a little different this year due to Ago This Week the fungus among us but we Islanders will endure. Sold property In response to several inquiries we can announce that the Hinkle’s will included marina not have their Friday night party on Jackfish this year for obvious reasons. site on Lake Padre, If ever there was an event that was not meant for social distancing it bids on beachfront is the Hinkle’s party that has been going on more than a decade. Maybe lot and a corner of next year. SPID and Whitecap We include a complete list of La An Abundance of Ducks. Photo by Miles Merwin. Posada events in this issue with rejected a schedule and maps for the boat By Dale Rankin parades on Friday, December 11 and Saturday December 12. The Friday A Cabeza de Vaca Eleven years ago this week, on night event will feature a deck party Saturday, November 21, 2009 at Marker 37 where the parade will seventy-six parcels of land on Padre kick off that night. This is the year Thanksgiving on Padre Island Island were put up for auction by for Island boat owners to move their developer Paul Schexnailder and parties from back decks to boat decks By Dale Rankin related partners Asset Development to celebrate the event without having It was November, 1534 and four Partners and Gulf Shores Partners. Spain in 1527 to seek to worry about drawing large crowds shipwrecked Spanish wanderers Out of the seventy-six parcels offered their fortune in the to land bound parties. making their way across the prairies nineteen separate pieces of property New World. On their of what is now South Texas had little were sold for a total of $2.1 million at Christmas boxes voyage to Florida by to be thankful for – at least until the way of Santo Domingo Each holiday season we are reminded end of November rolled around and a Moorish woman had how many newcomers we have to their fortunes began to change. our Island when questions come in predicted that few of about the storage boxes going up A Moorish prediction the men who went around Island boat ramps. Those are ashore would survive Before 1536 there were 95 Church and anyone who did placed there each year to facilitate holidays, plus 52 Sundays, when the delivery of packages to Island survive would be people were required to attend church blessed by God who residences through a longstanding and forego work and sometimes agreement with the Padre Isles would perform great barrier Islands, now called Galveston, pay for expensive celebrations. In miracles through them. By November Property Owners Association. The 1536 reforms reduced the number Mustang, and Padre, where fish delivery service drops packages at of 1534 the four survivors had arrived and cattail roots would keep them of Church holidays to 27 and the on the Isle of Misfortune and had the storage units so that they can be Thanksgiving holiday as we now fed through the season of the Blue picked up by helpers on golf carts. little to be thankful for other than Norther. The Karankawas had seen know it began to take shape. Days their simple and unlikely survival. The idea is to cut down on truck of Fasting were called for after the passing Spanish ships on the horizon traffic on Island streets during the drought of 1611, and for relief from They talked with a “click” but they were now about to come face holiday season. the plagues of 1604 and 1622; in to face with the Spaniards for the first Brochure announcing the sale. On the blustery night of November 1588 it was the defeat of the Spanish time. Whitecap speeders 4, 1528 a group of Karankawa Armada, and in 1705 the deliverance The Karankawas were later described The speed monitors on Whitecap Indians were huddled around the auction at Padre Isles Country Club. of Queen Anne, then the failure of the by the Europeans as tall and angular have been in place for a couple of hearths of their open-sided wigwams The 76 lots offered included Gulf Gunpowder Plot in 1605. people, unlike the builds of the squat, weeks now but frankly don’t seem on the Isle of Misfortune sheltering frontage, a permitted marina site, thicker Indians they would later to be doing any good. There are still These were Protestant celebrations from the violent storm which was canal frontage, and ranged in purpose encounter inland. Little is known of more drivers exceeding the 35 miles that were foreign and probably upon them. As they had always done from hotels to condos, to commercial. the Karankawa culture as they left per hour limit than observing it. We unknown to the four Catholic they migrated to the Texas Coast little behind in the way of structures Three beachfront parcels were listed all know where this is headed. If the Spaniards who had found themselves each fall, leaving behind the long hot or writings. Their unusual appearance for possible sale but when the dust speed monitors don’t work police washed upon what is now the summers of the upland river valleys Alabama shoreline on November where they ate fruits and seeds and and the peculiar “click” which was officers with radar guns will be next Property cont. on A4 and then the complaint will be that 4, 1528. The men had set out from hunted the bison. They came to the de Vaca cont. on A4 the police are conducting a speed trap. High speed mixed with residents along Whitecap backing out of their La Posada driveways is a combination that can A little Island history lead to nothing good. Please, slow Events Kick Off your roll everybody. Thanksgiving: An Alternative Story This Weekend Big Boy has left Port Aransas By Dale Rankin with Tunes for We all grew up hearing the story sixty-year old Irish of Thanksgiving. You know the aristocrat who was heir Toys in Billish one, the Pilgrims suffered through a to a baronetcy in Ireland tough winter with the help of their but broke. Bellomont Park Native American friends and then managed to bring King threw a big party to celebrate and William III of England bang, we got Thanksgiving. Well, into the project and Changes to La that makes for a warm and fuzzy Kidd was presented Posada 2020 Sometimes people are just story but that may not be exactly with a letter of marque, La Posada 2020 kicks off Sunday, knuckleheads. Big Boy was a 30- how it went down. signed personally by the King which reserved November 29 with Tunes for Toys in 40 year-old Port Aransas resident Author Richard Zacks in his book 10% of Kidd’s captured Billish Park from 2:30-4:30 p.m. who was living behind the Dollar “The Pirate Hunter – The True Story loot for the Crown, and General Store in Port A but people of Captain Kidd” tells a slightly Music provided by our very own subsequent historical kept feeding him and this week was different version. Dan Herrington. Please bring a evicted. Big Boy was/is a ten-foot evidence suggests that new un-wrapped toy to place in the alligator who weighed in at over England 1695 the King may have even collection box, along with a chair, 400 pounds and as he lost his fear fronted some of the money blanket, picnic lunch, and all family The story begins in England for the voyage himself. of humans (knuckleheads) he had to in 1695 when some of the most members. Kids play in the park and go. So Big Boy is being relocated to powerful men in the Empire put At the time, Bellomont burn off some energy while adults Gator Country which is an adventure financial backing behind the voyage had secured an enjoy the music. park in Beaumont, that has over 450 of ship captain William Kidd whose appointment as Governor Online auction other alligators and reptiles. So if you of Massachusetts Bay mission was to put to sea and raid Captain William Kidd are thinking you had a tough week the ships of England’s enemies in the New World and There are some changes this year to just consider poor old Big Boy who for plunder and profit. Four-fifths was looking to add the Scheming governor the La Posada parades and the events got moved from Port A to Beaumont. of the cost for the venture was governorships of New York and New leading up to them on December 11- Kidd did indeed put to sea but Now that’s a tough week folks. paid for by noble lords, including Hampshire to his resume in hopes 12. when he found the pickings of the Earl of Orford, the Baron of of garnering a combined salary of Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving foreign vessels too slim for his First the auction by the La Posada Romney, the Duke of Shrewsbury, 1800 pounds a year and to reverse his and say hello if you see us Around likings he was accused, subsequent Foundation that has in recent years The Island. Sir John Somers, and Lord Richard falling fortunes, which he eventually Bellomont a tall, gout-ridden, did. History cont. on A4 La Posada cont. on A4 November 25, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Bulls on Boats? Photos From Around the Island

Love is…showing upport Unlike the brown pelican, the American white pelican does not dive for its food. Instead it catches its prey while swimming. Each bird eats more than 4 pounds of food a City Marina Port A. day. Photo by Ronnie Narmour.

Professional Bull Riding on the flightdeck of the USS Lexington to benefit Operation Homefront. Photos by Debbie Noble. Dolphins at Play

White Pelican at Leonabelle Birding Center. Photo by Ronnie Narmour.

Photo by Steve Coons.

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There were not many places for Islander and Flour Bluff students to work back then and Padre Pizzeria was the “Rite of Pete Alsop Passage” for many of them. My son enjoyed working there and found Island Delivery new friends back in the early 2000s. The only other restaurants at the Coldwell Banker time were Island Italian, Snoopy’s, Frenchy’s and 2 Seas Bar & Grill Advertising Galaxy Froyo that opened the same week. No need to tell you how good the food is Arch Update Yogurt Shop. since their tenure is proof enough. Jan Park Rankin There are now 14 PIPOA subdivisions who Classifieds are voting to amend their covenants to roll back Arlene Ritley the annual rates to 2007 levels and to hold the PIPOA accountable if they fail to maintain the Production Manager bulkheads, boat ramps, and canals. The details Abigail Bair can be found online at www.PadreIslandARCH. Contributing Writers com. Joey Farah Each subdivision is a separate and unique Andy Purvis amendment decision, controlled by only those Mary Craft who own property in that subdivision. The Emily Gaines document you sign to amend is unique to your Jay Gardner specific subdivision. Pastor Kris Bair There are 5 ways to vote, and votes are arriving Todd Hunter every day. This whole process is being done Dotson Lewis without having to answer a knock at your door Dr. Tom Dorrell or worry about the pandemic. We are keeping Ronnie Narmour the vote tallies confidential, but we want our neighbors to know we are making steady Brent Rourk progress. Photographers One by one, as subdivisions vote and we reach Padre Pizzeria staff photo. Miles Merwin (Emeritus) the approval threshold, we will go to Nueces Debbie Noble County and file the amendment on your behalf. Tunes for Tots at Billish Park is this year›s La Posada Kick Off event on Sunday, November Jan Rankin The legal and filing fees have already been 29th 2:30 – 4:30 pm. Bring a new unwrapped toy and for yourself a chair and picnic lunch. paid on your behalf so it costs you nothing to Kids can enjoy the park while parents enjoy the music by Dan Herrington Mary Craft voice your opinion. Once that happens your Ronnie Narmour covenants will be officially amended. If you The 2021 Barefoot Mardi Gras Parade has been cancelled due to COVID-19, beach Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) agree to lowering your rates, then we will send erosion and bridge construction traffic. The event will return on February 26, 2022 with the PIPOA notice of a refund due to the Owners possibly an expanded beach parade. Holding the Queen’s Ball with social distancing is still in that subdivision. being considered. There is no statutory time limit on this The Annual Mazoch Family amendment process. We expect it could take a Christmas Display at the corner of couple of years to amend all subdivisions. The Whitecap and Isabella Court have added only rule is that the day we file the amendment a new addition to their tradition. This the Owner who signed the petition must still be year they are asking Islanders to add an the Owner of the property. We have a process in ornament with their family name and place to verify ownership when you first vote, year to trees located throughout the yard. and we will check it again when we are ready to They hope to have everything up by Saturday, November 28th. Riley P. Dog file an amendment. If you have already voted, and ever wish to The Back Porch in Port A will feature Matt Hole on Friday, November 27th and Publisher change your vote, just request a new ballot, Mazoch Family Christmas Display. and vote again. There is no need to go through Riptide on Saturday. Dale Rankin a complex recission process. We have kept this My Coastal Home is now the exclusive About the Island Moon simple for everyone. It is your last vote that will The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale dealer here for the Panama Jack Furniture Collection. They have moved their in-town location Rankin, Editor / Publisher. be part of the final amendment filing. to a larger 7200 sq. ft. unit in the Hamlin Shopping Center at 4024 Weber. They have locations Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes The PIPOA has no place in your decision about on Padre Island and Port A with hours of 10 am – 4 pm. Interior design and decorating services delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 your property. The PIPOA will not be asked for are available call 692-2177. copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 their approval, and we will not be giving them Surfside Sandwich Shoppe invites you to shop there online on Black Friday with drink copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. your signatures to review. We are determined to specials. Enjoy half price wine bottles, $4 margaritas and $4 Surfside sunsets. Happy hour is 6 News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, maintain your confidentiality. - 8 pm with $4 well and wine. They offer $50 gift cards and you get a $10 gift card free. Shop payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office. This is an open and democratic process. Please in their expanded outdoor patio. The Island Moon Newspaper let your neighbors know about this amendment Early Runoff Election voting will be held at the Padre Island Baptist Church December 7th - drive. 11th 8 am – 5 pm. Election Day is December 15th. 14646 Compass, Suite 3 Jim & Kelly McFadden Rivera’s Lawn & Landscape does an excellent professional job of setting up festive Corpus Christi, TX 78418 www.PadreIslandARCH.com Christmas lights on your home and landscape. They spent over four hours carefully and artistically decorating my son’s home on the Island. Call Joe at 834-9622 for a free estimate. 361-949-7700 [email protected] Collector Boats YES VIRGINIA, THERE WILL BE Facebook: The Island Moon Newspaper COLLECTOR BOATS La Posada this year has been a challenge to come up with ways to collect toys for our area Where to Find The children in need. While La Posada is not sponsoring deck parties, we understand that some may still Island Moon hold festivities while viewing the Lighted Boat Parade on both North and South Canals. Port North La Posada with provide Collector Boats during the Parade on both nights. La Posada asks that Aransas Padre if you are collecting toys that night to benefit Gulf Stream RV All Stripes Stores La Posada Toys for Tots, please let us know Pioneer RV in advance so that we may come by with a Black Sheep/ U.S. Marine to pick up your “Bounty” of new Stripes on 1A Barrel unwrapped toys. My Coastal Home CVS On Friday night December 11th we will have WB Liquor Store Dollar General an additional Toy Drop off located at the Boat Ramp on Jackfish. There will be a couple of Island Wine Room Doc’s Restaurant Marines standing by to accept your generous Kody’s donation. Snoopy’s Pier Home decorated withChristmas lights by Rivera's Lawn & Landscape. Coffee Waves Isle Mail N More On Saturday night December 12th, we will also have a Toy Drop off located at the gates of Moby Dicks Island Italian the Padre Island Yacht Club. IGA Brooklyn Pie Co. Please let La Posada know of your gathering Treasure Island plans. You can notify via our La Posada Ace Hardware San Juan’s Restaurant Facebook Page. Texas Star (Shell) Wash Tub Thank you for your generous spirit. Spanky's Sandy Graves Woody’s Sports Scuttlebutt’s Center La Posada Foundation Restaurant Back Porch Bar Subway Shorty’s Place From Our Facebook Page Island Tire Fisherman’s Wharf Around the Island: Padre Pizzeria Gratitude Robert Alexander: I love going to the island. I don't get down there as often as I would like The Gaff And all Moon retail advertisers but when I do I don't understand why anyone Trinity By the Sea would be in a hurry once they are there. I get Episcopal WB Liquor it that the locals get caught up in everyday life just like I do when I'm home and not all guests have respect for the local order but I would love Flour Bluff to live on island time all of the time. Hope to see H.E.B. y'all again soon. Ethyl Everly Jeri Roberts: Thank you, Dale, for addressing Senior Center speeding on the island. As a parent who rides to and from school daily with my children, I Stripes on Flour appreciate you reminding fellow islanders to Bluff & SPID slow their roll...and perhaps look up from their phones. Aaron Price: Come drive crosstown at 6 am going to Portland during the week. It’s basically Russia roulette with all the plant construction clowns November 25, 2020 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 de Vaca cont. from A1 historical evidence also casts doubt on his guilt, of instead raiding ships belonging to the part of their language and was also peculiar to “sunburned” skin of Esteban which made them English East India Company which did not win the tribes of the African shore has lead modern mysterious to the Indians. linguists to speculate that their origins may have him any friends in Jolly Old England. Kidd was Each year in the late summer the scattered been from that part of the world. Their origin is subsequently arrested in New England where bands of the Karankawas gathered in the area still the subject of speculation. by this time Bellomont was in fact Governor. just south of the Nueces River. Their daily Charges of piracy were brought against Kidd As the storm abated the Karankawas set about wanderings took them from the mainland to the and he was clapped in irons and Bellomont, their business; the men inspected fishing traps island in search of food, but as the days grew while scheming to get his hands on part of set along the Laguna Madre, others waded out shorter they migrated to the inland prairies in Kidd’s loot, was also scheming to keep himself with their bows ready to shoot the large black search of the ubiquitous prickly pear cactus from being blamed for bringing King William drum and sheepshead that came to shelter in the which grew there. It was during this time of into a pirating adventure which could have calm shallows. The women searched for fresh year when the tunas fruit of the prickly pear landed him in the Tower of London or worse. water and uprooted the tubers which the tribe ripened to a bright red and became the staple of Battling fits of gout with visions of being drawn ate for their starch, and searched the beach for the Indian diet. and quartered made for a chilly October in driftwood for fires. It was there they first sighted “It was the best time of year for these people,” Boston town for the scheming governor. something rising and falling with the sea as it Dorantes later told the Mexican Audiencia. came closer to them and their shore. It was a “For, although they have almost nothing else boat much larger than the canoes they knew and to eat other than these prickly pears and a few the children were dispatched to tell the men of snails they search for, they fill their bellies the approaching boat which by now they had day and night. That makes them very happy, realized was filled with men. because for the rest of the year they waste away The first Thanksgiving from hunger.” Lord Richard Bellomont. Now, six years later, in November of 1534 only The first Thanksgiving four of the original shipload of men had survived A gouty Lord and a burnt rope It was also the only time of year when the to make their way to South Texas. Álvar Núñez four Spaniards who lived apart, got to see each But alas his euphoria didn’t last long. The Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, other and in the Prickly Pear Season of 1533 very next day the ship St. Antonio which Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, and an black they had begun to plan their escape. Now in Bellomont had dispatched to the island of Moroccan Berber slave named Esteban (later autumn of 1534 it was now time to move. As Santa Catalina in what is now the Dominican called Estevanico) who had made the Atlantic the new September moon waxed they bided Republic sailed into Boston Harbor and crossing in bondage, had seen much hardship their time until its full face would shine its Captain Kidd's ship was found in the presented him with a burnt rope, called a and suffering at the hands of the elements and light on the trails they would follow to the Domican Republic in 2006. “bass cable”, that had once been attached the cannibalistic Karankawa. They were trying place of rendezvous they had agreed on. The to the treasure Kidd had left there. The rope to get to the Spanish settlements in Mexico. ended at the water’s edge and had been tunas season was winding down but would October thanks burned asunder by another pirate who knew The four had survived thus far by making provide sustenance for the four as they fled their themselves valuable to the Karankawas along captors. As the four men gathered they made Boston at the time was under the staunch of the treasure and sailed off with it. The the coast by gathering wood and performing their decision. ecumenical spell of father and son ministers gouty lord was left to sit in Boston and finger whatever task they could find to stay in the Increase and Cotton Mather whose beliefs his burnt rope and think of the treasure that “And so, Oviendo recorded, “believing that it good graces of their captors. Six years of living were far enough on the conservative side that might have been. were better to do their duty as Christians and as among the Indians left them little but their Bostonians didn’t celebrate Christmas based noblemen, which each of them was, than to live On the positive side, Americans got the survival to be thankful for but had taught them on the belief that is was a pagan holiday. Since like godless savages, they entrusted themselves Thanksgiving Holiday followed by Black a few things about life among the Karankawas the 1660s ministers and governors in New to Our Lord” and fled. “And Jesus Christ in his Friday. Captain William Kidd was convicted and their roles had eventually evolved to that England had been singling out various fall days infinite mercy guided them, showing them the in a show trial in London then hauled through of shamans whose charms were valuable to the in October for a thanksgiving, usually based paths they should follow, while God tamed the the streets in a cart from Newgate Prison to primitive coastal peoples. Cabeza de Vaca’s on the harvest season for the local crops. The wild hearts of the indomitable savages.” the banks of the Thames River in Wapping to account of his journey, Shipwrecks, would later day of thanksgiving varied by region according be hanged. Along the way he was informed fascinate Europe. It told stories of shamanism, As so it was they rushed headlong into the to the ripening of the local harvest and in the of the death of Governor Bellomont and miracles, and how the four survivors became brush country of South Texas with no idea of northeastern portion of the continent that was celebrated in a pub so that by the time he the first celebrities of the New Word, celebrated where they were going or how they would get always in October. reached the Execution Dock was drunk as, from the Indian campfires of the Texas plains there. With fear driving them forward at the end But as Governor Bellomont wrung his hands well, as a drunken sailor. He proclaimed his to the court of the Spanish King. How it came of the first day of their journey Oviedo later and pondered his uncertain future in Boston innocence as the floor under him fell away to be should be regarded as cause for the first recorded, “It pleased the Mother of God that the he had little to be thankful for until the middle but his bad luck was not over. The rope Thanksgiving story of the New World. very same day at sunset, they came upon some of October when a letter arrived by ship around Kidd’s neck broke leaving him dazed Indians of the kind they had hoped for. They from England. When he opened the letter he and sprawling to the ground as he looked up The season of the tunas were very gentle and although they had heard learned that Parliament had given orders to the at his three companions on the gallows and Castillo and Esteban, who were kept together something of the Christians, they know nothing Admiralty to send a ship to Boston to bring saw his fate; he was lifted back up and ten among the Iguace band of the Tonkawa Indians, of how badly we had been treated. This was a the jailed accused pirate Captain Kidd back minutes later told the clergyman present, one began to work as “doctors” among the Indians as very good thing from the point of view from a to England to stand trial. Immediately, instead Paul Lorrain, to send his love to his wife and early as 1533. De Vaca did the same among the bunch of sinners.” daughter back in New York, saying that his of facing trial for making the King a financier Karankawas with whom he lived. The American By now the end of November was approaching greatest regret “was the thought of his wife’s of a piratical cruise Bellomont now would be Indians, unlike their Spanish visitors who were and the three Spaniards and the former slave sorrow at his shameful death.” absolved of any guilt, which would now fall fresh off the Inquisition, were tolerant of other were free of their captors and headed out across exclusively on the woebegotten Captain Kidd, Nonetheless the clergyman Lorrain rushed to belief systems and were inclined to incorporate the South Texas flatlands. They had plenty to and in fact the Right Honorable Governor the printer where he published the “deathbed other religious practices into their own. The be thankful for in what history will record was Bellomont would be entitled to any of Kidd’s confession” of the notorious captain which Indians found comfort in the incantations and almost one hundred years before the Pilgrims loot that he could find. immediately sold 5000 copies in London. rituals which the Spaniards brought with them landed at Plymouth Rock and was in fact, the from their training in the Catholic Church. Oh Thanksgiving! Kidd’s body, as was the custom with famous first Thanksgiving in North America – if not in Their acceptance as shamans was helped by record at least in deed. If ever there was a man with a reason for pirates, was left hanging until the waters of the long blonde beards of the Spaniards and the giving thanks it was Governor Bellomont. He Thames washed over it three times before it decided that all his loyal subjects should share was removed and carried twenty-five miles Property cont. from A1 in his joy and in his jubilation on October 23, down the river to Tilbury Point where the 1695 declared that then and forever more the river meets the sea where it was hoisted in settled after the hour-long bidding only one was last Thursday in November of each year would chains on an oak gibbet to be “plainly seen” bid on but the bid was rejected, two more were corner and fronting SPID did not sell, nor did be the day of giving thanks for the good fortune by all the ship traffic going in and out of kept off the block. The only canal frontage, a an additional three lots located further south, that had befallen him; no Tower of London, no London. multi family site at the end of Nemo Court, also bordering SPID. drawing and quartering. Thanksgiving for all! For the luckless Kidd there was little to be was not sold after a bid of $150,000 was not • Two lots near the end of Nemo Court zoned thankful for, but today 319 years later we accepted. A bid of $280,000 was made for four for mixed-use and totaling 7.9 acres with still celebrate the holiday that his exit from adjoining lots making up a site at the southwest frontage on Padre Isles County Club sold for America engendered from a gouty governor corner of Whitecap and SPID - $70,000 each $20,000 each. with a burnt rope instead of a treasure. – but was not accepted and the land still sets vacant today. • Twenty lots on the east side of SPID beginning at the corner of Whitecap and The big sale of the day was the marina site running north along SPID to Las Tunas Drive bordered by SPID, Whitecap, and the western were offered. Each lot was 450-feet deep shore of Lake Padre which with two adjoining with 50 feet of frontage on SPID. Only one tracts sold for a combined $1.35 million. of the lots was sold, the northern most lot at It was the third such auction Schexnailder the corner of SPID and Las Tunas (which is and related companies had held on The Island currently platted but not built) which sold to monetize a portion of the 1200 acres they for $20,000. A bid was placed at the same owned. The auctioned parcels were part of a $20,000 price for each of the four lots at the larger development known as The Villages corner of Whitecap and SPID but was not of Upper Padre, a wide-ranging, all inclusive accepted. plan which has since been cut into parcels and • The marina site consisting of 5.1 acres bought at tax auctions and is now owned by running from Whitecap north along the three major owners. western shore of Lake Padre is already Two adjoining tracts on the western shore of permitted for a marina and sold for $400,000 Lake Padre with frontage on the SPID that is to the same bidder who bought the adjacent designed for a marina sold that day for a total marina site. of $1.35 million. • One out of four beachfront lots consisting A 5-acre site zoned for multi-family at the end of a twenty-acre plat bordered on the north of Nemo Court on the Cruiser Canal was offered by Whitecap and on the south by Marquesa for sale but the $150,000 bid was rejected. Drive, on the west by Windward Drive and fronted by the beach was put up for auction. Here is a summary of the sale in the order they That 6.6-acre lot was the southern most of the were sold: four and a bid of $400,000 was rejected. The • 9 lots between Padre Isles Country Club and remaining three lots bordering Whitecap and SPID on Nemo Court were sold. Five sold for the beach were not offered. $12,000 each, two sold for $14,000 each, and Included in that twenty-acre area were two of two sold for $11,000 the most valued lots set for auction but which • A 1.8 acre lot at the corner of SPID and were not put on the block. They consisted of Nemo Court zoned for mixed use sold for an 8-acre tract located behind Island House $130,000 which is zoned for a hotel or condo. It includes an easement that runs along Whitecap from • Two lots totaling 2.9 acres on Nemo Court Windward Drive to the beach. A portion of bordering Padre Isles Country Club zoned for that property has subsequently been developed These parcels were offered for sale at auction but did not sell. mixed use –multi family were sold. One sold as The Pathway to the Sea and the adjacent for $70,000, another for $75,000. property to the north which includes 300 • Two lots totaling .8 acre combined at the feet of seawall frontage was purchases at tax corner of Leeward and Running Light Drive auction and is now owned by Axys Capital zoned hotel, multi-family and restaurants. which is vacant but zoned for a hotel or condo The lot at the corner of Leeward Drive and development. Running Light sold for $29,000, the lot The auction prices were considerably lower behind it at the corner of Running Light and than the appraisal value at the time. Schexnailder Aruba sold for $35,000. said at the time the reduction in value was due to • Four lots surrounding the cul-de sac at the a market downturn and also to a lack of interest end of Running Light totaling 2.7 acres are from developers outside of the area. zoned for condos and multi-family were put “This is what you can expect when there is no up for sale. The permits allow for up to 43 attempt made to bring in outside developers,” units per acre and a structure there can go up he said after the auction. “Local developers to 50 stories high. One lot sold for $310,000 alone cannot sustain the land values needed to but bids on the remaining three did not meet encourage development of The Island. We have the $500,000 minimum. to have some outside interest or The Island will • A 6.3-acre Marina site on the west side not develop.” Lake Padre with frontage on SPID sold for In the years since the auction nearly all of $950,000. the land offered for sale that day remains • Ten lots were offered for sale on the undeveloped. southwest corner of SPID and Whitecap, (Pictures left) These parcels sold for $1.3 million at auction as a marina site but plans have since total acreage of 3.4 acres. A bidder offered changed and the use of the land is uncertain. $70,000 each for four lots right at the corner - a total of $280,000 but the bids were not accepted. Three adjacent lots south of the November 25, 2020 Island Moon A 5

Tides of the Week Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides for Bob Hall Pier November 25 - December 3 Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon So there I was sitting in the easy chair surfing gouging political season thrown in, affects our /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible the internet with the intention of catching up on brainwaves but for now the power of observation W 25 Low 6:19 AM 0.7 6:58 AM Set 2:48 AM 74 college football scores when I realized I was about all we have to go on and it’s a mixed bag. two hundred and fifty words into “How sleeping 25 High 12:52 PM 1.4 5:34 PM Rise 3:08 PM Just look at the aforementioned college football with your socks on can affect your long-term season. Last week I watched a few games and 25 Low 6:32 PM 1.1 health.” But it got worse. I realized that to get the games on both the left and right coasts were as far down the wormhole as I found myself I 25 High 11:06 PM 1.4 played in front of mostly empty stadiums. Then had read through “How to dig a proper hole… Th 26 Low 6:39 AM 0.5 6:59 AM Set 3:39 AM 81 I watched the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State game How to get a German Shepard out of a tree… and it looked like déjà vu all over again with 26 High 2:11 PM 1.5 5:34 PM Rise 3:37 PM Woman in Hertfordshire finds chimpanzee in a stadium full of people. But what does it all her walk-in closet…Proof that Big Foot came mean? What is the context here? 26 Low 7:51 PM 1.2 from Mars!” I had swallowed the clickbait. I 26 High 11:07 PM 1.4 realized I had been Coviditized. Literally what is it… F 27 Low 7:00 AM 0.3 7:00 AM Set 4:30 AM 88 Oxford Advanced American Dictionary Is it the Shakespearean? The Winter of Our 27 High 3:09 PM 1.7 5:34 PM Rise 4:08 PM Discontent? Echoes of Richard III: "Now is Coviditized the winter of our discontent / Made glorious Sa 28 Low 7:22 AM 0.1 7:00 AM Set 5:23 AM 93 1: Zombie-like state brought on by too many summer by this sun [or son] of York.” months of isolation, unrequited paranoia, trips to 28 High 3:58 PM 1.8 5:34 PM Rise 4:41 PM Is it Dickensian? “It was the best of times, the refrigerator for reasons unknown, obsessing it was the worst of times, it was the age of Su 29 Low 7:45 AM 0.0 7:01 AM Set 6:16 AM 97 over sock color for the day and deciding on wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the differentiating between each foot, counting of 29 High 4:43 PM 1.9 5:34 PM Rise 5:17 PM epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, floor tile, endless hours of naval gazing while M 30 Low 8:11 AM -0.1 7:02 AM Set 7:11 AM 99 it was the season of light, it was the season of contemplating the proper number of ice cubes darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the 30 High 5:26 PM 2.0 5:34 PM Rise 5:57 PM in a glass of sun tea. winter of despair.” Tu 1 Low 8:39 AM -0.2 7:03 AM Set 8:07 AM 99 2: Subconscious desire to overfill the bird bath Nah, it feels more Cainian: “They threw me and betting the dog on the over and under on 1 High 6:10 PM 2.0 5:34 PM Rise 6:43 PM off the hay truck about noon.” And in fact the how long it takes for it to need refilling (the postman did ring twice last week – or was it last W 2 Low 9:12 AM -0.3 7:03 AM Set 9:02 AM 98 dog’s a welcher). Wondering aloud whether month – when I fell asleep feeling no Paine re- after all these years it really is just the heat and 2 High 6:55 PM 2.0 5:34 PM Rise 7:34 PM reading The Age of Reason as he tried to deliver not the humidity. Recurring habit of asking the the box of ice trays I ordered off Amazon. The Th 3 Low 9:48 AM -0.3 7:04 AM Set 9:55 AM 94 dog the proper number of ice cubes in a glass of dog woke me up but by the time I got to the door 3 High 7:40 PM 2.0 5:34 PM Rise 8:29 PM sun tea...and hearing her answer. he had fled his van and I tripped over the box 3: Staring at the pages of a book for two hours of ice trays he had left on the stoop. Call it the without reading, watching Pawn Stars so many Coviditized shuffle. times you know the value of Santa Anna’s pencil These are strange times my friends. The virus box, naming the ceiling tiles. is all around us. It’s not a time to act like things Verb Forms are normal. When the bars reopened the mood Present simple: I / you / we / they are seemed to be “that Covid was a booger I need coviditized a drink” and now we're paying the price. But there is some light at the end of the tunnel here Past simple: We have all been coviditized folks. A vaccine is coming but the next month Past participle: We are all coviditized is crucial and it’s a time to be careful. In spite of everything we still have a lot to be thankful Use it in a sentence: I hate being coviditized for here on our little sandbar. We will get Decades from now, after the Sociologists have through this. I think its Paine who defines the done their work we may find out how being Coviditized epoch. cooped in our houses for a year, with an eye- “These are the times that try men’s souls.” La Posada cont. from A1 La Posada 2020 been held at Waves Resort this year will be held online. Organizers will create an Auction Schedule of Events Album with donated items for auction and • Sunday November 29- “Tunes for Tots.” bidders can place their bids in the comment Billish Park, 2:30 to 4:30pm. Live music area. That process will be explained in more by Dan Herrington. Bring the family and detail at 8 a.m. on December 1 when the a new toy to donate. auction opens. • December 1 - 7 - Online Auction on Collector boats Facebook. Everything from hunting Anecdotingly There will be some changes to how toys are and fishing trips, HEB Gift Cards to collected this year as well. La Posada is not Whataburger’s for a year. sponsoring deck parties this year but will • Sunday December 6 –La Posada ESD2 Going to the Dogs provide Collector Boats during the Parade on Christmas Land Parade, presented by both nights. La Posada asks that if you are Beck & Masten Buick GMC. Parade By Abigail Bair collecting toys that night to benefit La Posada forms up at Briscoe King parking Toys for Tots, please let them know in advance lot 4:45p.m. Route can be found in so that they may come by with a U.S. Marine upcoming Island Moon. First 200 Every single year, the Rev says Thanksgiving “Deck the halls with boughs to pick up your “Bounty” of new unwrapped people who hand the U.S. Marines a Dinner will be at noon, and that we all have to of holly….Fa la la la la la la, toys. new toy will receive a complimentary get to her house early for ‘family time.’ We la la la ….” On Friday night December 11th there will be Whataburger. have never, on any occasion in the history of A massive crash sounded an additional Toy Drop off located at the Boat • Friday December 11- La Posada Lighted time, eaten any earlier than 6 p.m. She usually from the kitchen. puts a plate of desultory vegetables (we call Ramp on Jackfish. There will be a couple of Boat Parade North Canals. 7:00 p.m. them CRUD-ites) out for us to snack on, and We leapt up from the table Marines standing by to accept your generous start time. Best place to see parade is makes “secret recipe” (back of the box) Chex and ran to the doorway. donation. On Saturday night December 12th, Marker 37/ Snoopy’s. Please bring & mix to help absorb the booze. Everybody gets There, on the slick floor, was we will also have a Toy Drop off located at the Donate a new toy for “Toys for Tots”. U. cranky by 2 p.m., and once dinner is served my mother attempting to gates of the Padre Island Yacht Club. S. Marines on site. wrestle a 26 pound turkey out of the jaws of we look like a conclave of wood chippers in Please let them know if you need toys • Saturday December 12- La Posada approximately 320 pounds of Newfoundland. a Christmas tree dump, rather than a happy collected through the La Posada Facebook Lighted Boat Parade South Canals. 6:00 Basil (the mastermind) soared over all of them, Norman Rockwell style family holiday tableau. page or through the phone number included p.m. start time. See the route maps in plowing her way through my starving family in this issue. this issue. Please bring and donate a new The major thing that messed up this like a wide receiver looking for a pay raise — toy for “Toys for Tots". Thanksgiving was that I had been blatantly clutching an entire turkey leg in her maw. This year will be a bit different but with a sneaking all the dogs nibbles since 10 a.m. – little caution La Posada will go on. yelling, “It’s Thanksgiving for dogs, too” every Mom let loose a great roar, and fought her Toy drop off and pickup time I got caught. That got Basil thinking. I way to her feet, holding what was left of the • Friday Night-Jackfish Boat Launch. don’t know if you’ve ever been around a very, massive turkey above her head, screaming at • Saturday Night-Padre Island Yacht Club very smart dog before, but there are usually the dogs to “GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE gate, POA Boat Launch. signs that they’re on to something. I ignored THIS SECOND!” The Boys tucked their tails some pretty big portents that day. I blame between their legs and scrammed. We parted • For toy pickup call: Sandy Graves @ starvation and Franzia Blush (which I suspect is like the Red Sea to let them by, still staring 254.640.9348. made of kerosene, dirty socks, and sugar beets). (awe struck) at the Rev, who by now looked like she’d been baptized with stuffing. We waited all day, getting “What the hell are you looking at?” yelled fussier and Mom. “GO. SIT. DOWN.” Behind us, cowering fussier. The dogs at the edge of the living room, The Boys sat. slept and drooled. We adjourned to the table. Water started to Finally, the run in the kitchen, and moments later, the Rev moment arrived delivered the turkey, daring us to make even a when the Rev peep. She placed the bird in the center of the pulled the golden spread, respectfully turning the side that still brown turkey had a leg towards my grandmother. from the oven. We feasted in silence. After a short while I “Go sit down,” commanded the kitchen heard a strange smacking noise coming from Gestapo, “It’s dinner time!” We raced to the underneath the festive holiday cloth. table, faster than ravenous raccoons at an all- you-can-eat shrimp buffet. I surreptitiously peeked, and there was Basil, daintily tearing apart her turkey leg while my The turkey was a king, weighing 26 pounds – Dad snuck her pieces of dinner roll. by far the biggest the Rev had ever cooked. She slid the big bird from the roasting pan onto her To this day, when confronted with this story china serving platter, and turned to the stove to the Rev will puff like an adder and say, “THAT Saturday night parade route. make quick gravy from the hot juices. TURKEY WAS STILL GOOD.” My dad usually replies (quietly because we’re alla little That’s when the unwieldy ninjas attacked. bit scared of Mom), “We’re just lucky we didn’t Stealthily, the huge dogs crept up behind my all get worms.” mother, intent as ocelots on their prey. The Rev happily stirred corn starch into the thickening Happy Thanksgiving, folks. sauce as she sang along with the Christmas I sincerely hope you don’t get worms. carols she insisted on blasting while she cooked. 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Her mother was furious with Dotson’s Note: On Thanksgiving Day in 1950, Mao Zedong formally announced the creation everyone; the annual jumping-the-gun-on- him. we Troopers* of the 1st Cavalry Division of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Christmas with Black Friday sales already (Infantry), United States Army, had our holiday October 1949. A year after the creation of the begun and T-Day becoming just that big meal We cuddled Jess when it was over, set her on feasts in our foxholes, if we were lucky enough PRC, Mao decided that China would enter the we have before Advent starts. the floor, each of us taking a hand, and tried to have one. We were expecting to be back in Korean War and fight the United States and its to get out of there as fast as we could with a Just what does that do to our ability to give Tokyo by Christmas. But shortly afterward, the United Nations allies for control of the Korean four-year-old taking small steps. Jess’ tears thanks? We give thanks when we GET conflict changed. Thanks to Kathy Gilsinan, peninsula. still ran, but we were almost to the door when I stuff, right? If so, maybe we should move Bill Shepard, Douglas MacArthur, The Armed heard her sob, “Thank-you, Mean.” (sob) Old. The war in Korea had begun on June 25, Thanksgiving to after the Christmas harvest of Forces Newsreel Services, and my so far, (sob) Nurse!” 1950, when communist North Korea invaded gifts? Hmmm. pretty good memory for the facts contained in the South. Within days of crossing the border, I hadn’t said thank-you. Her mom hadn’t this report and to 1st Cavalry Division for the Thanksgiving has become THE time when we the North Koreans routed the southern army said thank-you. Neither of us was about to say photos. give thanks, and that’s unfortunate. We should and captured the South’s capital at Seoul. In thank-you! be giving thanks all the time! For example, September Douglas MacArthur, a hero of World Korean War I’m thankful that I’m a member of the FB But we were put in our places by a four-year- War II, stopped the North Korean advance and PINS group, because I get to read and see old child. In late November 1950, U.S. and South Korean then launched an amphibious attack behind thank-yous every day for the beauty around troops approached China's southern border enemy lines at Inchon, which recaptured Seoul What did we learn? Well, it’s always correct the island! with Korea as part of an offensive that General and led to the rout of the North Korean army. to say thank-you, even when you don’t feel Douglas MacArthur hoped would reunify Korea And one reason I love church so much is that very thankful. Washington was uncertain about how to and end the Korean War. The conflict had begun we are all about saying “Thank-you!” to God. follow up Seoul’s liberation but MacArthur was Even when life is beating down on you, you that summer when North Korean forces poured We forget to do that in our daily lives. We get determined to march north to the Yalu River and can, and should, say thank-you—and say it so over the 38th parallel, the latitude line that had so wound up in just staying alive, and doing the Chinese border. Mao, for his part, decided in others can hear it. You can be thankful that divided the Korean peninsula roughly in half that well, that we forget to say thank-you. It’s you can be thankful, if nothing else. since the end of World War II, and captured kind of therapeutically humbling to say out Thank-you for giving me vaccines that help most of the southern half before the United loud, “Thank you!” and acknowledge that it me stay healthy. Thank-you for providing States-led intervention pushed them back. As wasn’t really just all about ourselves. Thanksgiving approached and MacArthur's them for free. Thank-you for getting us in and forces began what then appeared to be their final And we need to do that, especially in those out quickly. Thank-you that I don’t have to offensive, the general declared that he hoped to times when we think there’s nothing for us to stick around! be thankful about. "get the boys home by Christmas." There were lots of things to be thankful for in The Defense Department reportedly shipped When our first grandchild Jessamin was about that little episode. four years old, her mother and I took her to the some 12 million pounds of turkey to service But what I loved about it was the honesty. members overseas for Thanksgiving and public health nurse to have a whole mess of Christmas dinners. "Am so full I can hardly vaccines she hadn’t had because her mom had Saying thank-you doesn’t mean you have to move!" the Army's Bill Shepard, of Plymouth, gotten lax about taking her in for them. She imply that it was all hunky-dory. You can and Massachusetts, wrote home from the war. was missing boosters to her earliest vaccines should tell the truth. "Typical Army—feast or famine, but today we and some new ones, too. You don’t have to be “nice” when you’re had the feast." Jess got up on the table with no idea of what thankful. You can tell the truth, and say An Armed Forces newsreel released in 1951, was going to happen. The male nurse laid out “Thank-you” because even if the truth is ugly, gives a glimpse of what that Thanksgiving a whole tray of shots, and I asked him if it was YOU don’t have to be ugly about it. looked like in the combat zone. "It is bitter cold proper for her to be having all those vaccines And there’s a lesson for our time. in the valley as they advance doggedly across Gen Charles Willoulby. at one time! He responded that it was, so we the snow patches," recounts the narrator as gray let him have at it. May your Thanksgiving be blest, your families safe, and your stomachs full. figures trudge up a frozen hillside. At around early October to send his army south across the Jess hollered with the first one, but she sat still 3:19 in the clip come images of Thanksgiving Yalu River and fight MacArthur’s forces. as he put needle after needle in her arm, tears Come tell us about it at worship this Sunday, dinner from the troops dug** in near the banks The American army in Korea and Japan, the racing down her cheeks as she sobbed. I was 10 a.m., livestreamed at Island Presbyterian of the frozen Yalu River, which separates Korea Eighth Army, was poorly prepared for the war. so proud of her! Church’s Facebook page, where you’ll find the from China: "turkey with all the trimmings, The occupation troops in Japan who were rushed bulletin and a Zoom link if you want to have and served piping hot," in the narrator's words, to the Korean front were not combat ready; some Fellowship, too. - providing "a pleasant interlude brings a touch of many of the officers were too old for frontline home to the icy wastes of Korea." battlefield conditions. Training was “slipshod The frozen idyll unspools until about 4:06, with and routine.” The relatively easy victory over machine-gun crews gratefully accepting extra- North Korea at Inchon had reinforced a sense Ask Ralph large helpings of turkey and mashed potatoes of complacency among the commanders and from the mess sergeant—"hot chow that hits the GIs that the war was all but over. MacArthur Bookkeeping Accounts right spot when it's so cold." promised that the troops would be home by Christmas 1950. "But Thanksgiving peace doesn't last long," the newsreel narrator continues. On November 25, *In the 1st Cavalry you were a “Trooper”, not By Ralph Coker the Chinese army counterattacked in support of a “Soldier” and certainly not a “GI”. Q. What bookkeeping Purchases. That account tracks your its communist ally, and in concert with North **The narrator said “dug”, the ground was accounts should I have for my business and purchases of raw material or resale goods Korean forces drove most of the U.S. and frozen, as you see in the photo, if you scraped what do they mean? and determines your cost of goods sold South Korean troops back south to the 38th hard, you might be able to make a small A. If you do not understand the different which when subtracted from sales gives you parallel by Christmas. The narrator quotes a indentation in the frozen earth. “Dug”-- are your business's gross profit margin. Payroll Marine commander insisting of the withdrawal: accounts your bookkeeper uses to organize you kidding? the finances of your business, you cannot Expense. For most businesses that is the "We're not retreating—we're just advancing single largest cost. The payroll determines Dotson’s Other Note: Two more Thanksgivings effectively use them to run the business. in a different direction." By November 28, how much you must deduct from employee's would pass with American troops in combat There are 10 standard accounts that most MacArthur was describing the conflict as "an checks and how much you owe for payroll in Korea, and more than 36,000 U.S. soldiers businesses use plus other special accounts for entirely new war." taxes. Not paying accurate payroll taxes can would die there, before a July 1953 armistice special purposes. Korea Not Tokyo, Christmas 1950 cause you major grief from the IRS. ended the fighting almost exactly where it had Cash. That account is usually subdivided The American intelligence community’s ended up that first December. That Newsreel into cash receipts and cash disbursements. All Owner's Equity. That account tracks how experience with the People’s Republic of that I mentioned earlier is still available in the revenue whether by cash, check or credit card much each owner puts into the business. China and North Korea began with a disaster, archives of the DOD (Department of Defense). passes through cash receipts. All expenses There are two subaccounts. The capital a catastrophic intelligence failure in 1950 that The winter of 1950-51 was to say the least, very paid whether by cash, check or credit card account tracks all capital put in and the cost the lives of thousands of Americans. Worse, unpleasant. Regardless of what happens in passes through cash disbursements. Accounts drawing account tracks all capital taken out. it was a self-imposed Corpus Christi, TX in the winter of 2020-21, it Receivable. If you sell on credit what you are The owner's equity shows how much of the disaster—the result of will not hold a candle to that winter in Korea owed is accounts receivable. It is critical to business each owner owns. terrible intelligence seventy years ago. Thanks for reading and invoice and collect on time. You have not Retained Earnings. That tracks any business management, not the poor commenting on the articles in The Island Moon. made a sale until you get paid. profits that are reinvested in the business collection or analysis of Contact me at [email protected] or call/text: and not paid out to the owners. Retained information. To add insult 530-748-8475. Inventory. That is stock you have on hand to sell or raw materials to make products. Do earnings are accumulative and record the total to injury the government Please note: The Weekly Veterans Round Table profit retained in the business since startup. of India had warned the a physical inventory periodically to ensure Meetings are back now live at Del Mar College the inventory is correct and not been stolen Potential investors and lenders will want to United States that disaster CED (masks required) in Room 106 and not analyze retained earnings to see how well the loomed, but was ignored. or lost. Accounts Payable. That is what you on Zoom, on Tuesdays 9-11AM. All veterans, owe others for inventory, materials, supplies business has done over time. MacArthur’s intelligence their families and anyone interested in veterans’ and services. Keep track and pay on time At the end of the month and each year your chief (G2), was General activities, are invited. The Veterans Radio Korean Winter to avoid penalties or qualify for discounts. bookkeeper will use the accounts to prepare Charles Willoughby, Round Table is on the air on KEYS AM 1440 & Fox Hole. Likewise, you do not want to pay early if the business's balance sheet and profit & loss who had been with his 98.7 FM, 8 – 10 a.m., Saturdays. The next show there is no discount by doing so. statement (P&L). The P&L is used at the end commander since serving will be November 28, 2020. Please listen and of the year for tax purposes and monthly to in the Philippines in 1939, before World War II. call in or text. The listener/text line is: 361-882- Loans Payable. If you have borrowed to buy determine if the business is doing as well as 5397…It’s your two hours, please let us hear equipment, vehicles, furniture, or inventory, In June 1950 Willoughby assured MacArthur you expected. that North Korea would not invade the South, from you. what you owe and when is recorded in loans despite alarms raised by then-CIA director payable. Sales. That account tracks all Ralph Coker volunteers with SCORE which Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter. In the fall of that incoming revenue from what you sell. Sales provides free help and mentoring for small year Willoughby’s office refused to believe or tell you how well your marketing plan is businesses and nonprofits. confirm reports that thousands of CCF troops PENN THOMAS, P.C. working or not working. were in North Korea. Even when Chinese CPA FIRM prisoners were captured, Willoughby dismissed them as a few experts or advisers, not as group of P  T, CPA soldiers. The G2 in Tokyo recognized that some Chinese divisions had entered the North, but [email protected] argued that they were not full-strength combat units. Willoughby “doctored the intelligence in order to permit MacArthur’s forces to go where they wanted to go militarily, to the banks of the Yalu,” with no contrary or dissenting voices U O I  O heard in Tokyo or Washington. The Tokyo  N. C,  S.P.I.D. estimate of the number of CCF forces in Korea   C C, TX C C, TX     was less than one-tenth the reality. T : ( )  - T : ( ) - : ( ) -  : ( ) - 

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A were trailing the Redskins 20-17 in this one ligaments and tendons serenade the early light the holes are not guarded by guys named Mike few years ago, it was a national tradition to before scoring 10 fourth-quarter points to win with “Snap, crackle and pop.” I did enjoy the Singleterry or Lawrence Taylor. The toughest watch the Lions lose while eating lunch, and the game. This game featured two quarterbacks game of football, but I had no idea that my part of a round of golf may be taking off one take a nap while watching the Cowboys in who have pretty much been forgotten. Chad body would pay for the pleasure for the rest of your shoes to play your ball out of a water the afternoon. After hours of research and Hutchinson got the start for the Cowboys against of my life. I should have taken up golf. Then hazard. These guys make millions of dollars film (video) reviewing I have decided on what the Danny Wuerffel-led Redskins. the worst thing that could have happened to me without bruising a shoulder, coughing up blood I consider to be the worst and the best NFL was hitting my golf ball out of bounds. Golf or sustaining a concussion and it’s hard to 2001: Packers 29, Lions 27-The 0-9 Lions Turkey Day football games. Thanks to Bill is a game where a “late hit” means a slice, not fracture your thumb on a six iron. Heck, there’s put quite a scare into Brett Favre’s Packers on Morgan (former SWC SID), James Tate, Jason a separated shoulder. The game is played at a no heavy breathing, no heavy lifting; and a guy Thanksgiving Day back in 2001. Brett Favre had Lisk, for the facts contained in this report and to walk, and no one ever sweats. A “bad lie” is carries their clubs for them. Golfers don’t need a big day for the Packers in that one, throwing Bill Morgan for the photos. a ball buried in the sand, not a pile up at the a helmet. They don’t have to stand in a pocket for 252 yards and two touchdowns. The Lions goal line against Dick Butkus of the Chicago while blitzing linebackers try to take their head Worst actually scored late in the fourth quarter and Bears. A “career-ending play” is scoring a 6 on off. They don’t have to fun fast, hit hard or had a chance to tie the game with a two-point a par 3. The most terrifying thing a golfer ever knock anybody down. Going from a football conversion that was no good. sees is a twenty-foot downhill putt. You never game to the golf course is like going from 2001: Broncos 26, Cowboys 24-Back in 2001, hear words like blitz, cover two, or spearing. a Siberian prison camp to Waikiki. When a the Broncos entered the fourth quarter with a The word “rough” refers to tall grass, not the football player says, “Something bad happened 23-3 lead over the Cowboys on Thanksgiving play of J.J. Watt. In golf, you don’t have to to me yesterday,” he says it through a body cast Day. The Cowboys scored three touchdowns stand in a pocket, nor do you need a cut man where only his eyes and mouth are showing. in the fourth quarter to end up falling just short on the sideline. Canes, walkers and wheelchairs When a golfer says, “Something bad happened 26-24. Ryan Leaf was the quarterback for the are off limits on the golf course, because most to me,” it means he was two over par. Golfers Cowboys that day and ended up with 193 yards likely you will never need a knee operation. can make 1.2 million on a weekend, and they passing. The star of the game was Broncos You don’t have to block or cut anybody while don’t have to stop Earl Campbell at the goal 1940 Eagles vs Steelers running back Mike Anderson, who carried the playing a round, and you get to keep your teeth. line or knock down linebacker Ray Lewis. I’ve ball 33 times for 118 yards and one touchdown. Missing the “cut” in golf refers to their score never seen a disabled list in professional golf. when it is not in the low 60’s, not stitches. Philadelphia Eagles 7, Pittsburgh Steelers 0 1999: Lions 21, Bears 17-The Lions led this Playing golf is like finding money. Dustin (1940): The Eagles won their only game of the game 21-0 in the second quarter. They gave Johnson is never going to be able to tell if it’s 1940 season on Thanksgiving, over the 2-7-2 up a touchdown before the end of the first half, going to rain by the feeling he gets in his knees, Steelers. Only 5,000 people attended, and could but it still looked like it was going to be an easy yet Drew Brees get headaches, broken ribs and you blame them? The game was scoreless until win for the Lions. Well, the Lions won, but it a collapsed lung for a living. These guys go the 4th quarter until the immortal Dick Riffle was anything but easy. The Bears scored 17 through life with a sun tan, wearing the best broke the tie with a touchdown run on a reverse unanswered to make it interesting. The star of fashioned clothes, laid out for them by style after a Steelers fumble. the game was Gus Frerotte, who threw for 309 coordinators. When they finish a tournament, The Mud Bowl (1968): This earlier yards and two touchdowns. they don’t have to soak in a tub of ice or inflate a collapsed lung or get their blood to clot. Yet, Thanksgiving game between the Lions and 1996: Chiefs 28, Lions 24-This game was back Eagles had it all, if “all” is things that make for people are in awe of them because they once during the years when Barry Sanders was the shot a 66 at The Masters. a terrible game. Two bad teams, and horrible only reason to watch the Detroit Lions. Sanders weather, in what was designated the “Mud did not have his best game in this one, but it Dustin Johnson. Golfers are the luckiest guys in sports. I should Bowl.” Eagles kicker Sam Baker made four was still a fun game to watch. The Chiefs would have taken up golf. field goals, one in each quarter, in what turned score two fourth-quarter touchdowns to win the out to be controversial fashion, as the Eagles You never see a golfer with a mark on him. Andy Purvis is a local author and radio game 28-24. Kansas City featured a two-headed His nose isn’t bleeding, his eyes are clear, he personality. 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November 25, 2020 Island Moon A11 The Island Outdoors Island Moon on a Spoon What’s Your Side? On the Rocks Cornbread Oyster & Sausage Dressing By Jay Gardner By Chef Vita Jarrin

Short-term rentals It’s hard to imagine in 90 degree weather 1½ cups celery diced want to make it really easy to operate STR’s that Thanksgiving and the rest of the holidays 1 C carrots diced Ok, I’m going to try one more on your street, then recommend some very are just around the corner. This time of time to get through to some folks about the lax restrictions, low registration fees, light year is my favorite time of year, because I ¼ cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley short-term rentals, and then give up. Maybe penalties, etc. If you want to make STR’s love binging on holiday movies as well as 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh thyme this time it will stick in your brain. First almost impossible in most neighborhoods, then cooking up all types of foods that represent off, it doesn’t matter whether I am “for” or recommend some draconian restrictions. Does annual traditions from our family. However, 2 tsp. kosher salt “against” STR’s; that point is completely that make sense? What we put together at ISAC I also love creating new twists on traditions. 1 tsp. freshly ground pepper moot because currently, they are legal. So, and forward to the City will be exactly that; a For example, mashed potatoes. There are I personally and formally have no opinion on list of recommendations. So, sitting back and so many things you can do to make mashed 1 pt. shucked oysters in their liquor (about whether to allow or not allow STR’s. Until the throwing darts and acting like an “aginner” potatoes more interesting. You can roast them 1 cup liquor) and not taking part in the process is just plain Texas Supreme Court says they’re illegal, then first, you can boil them and even use a wide 4 large eggs, whisked they will continue to remain legal and in need stubborn and counterproductive. The idea is variety of potatoes to try new dishes with of management. We are not pushing for or that you need to ENGAGE the process instead of also. You can mash some with skin on and ¼ Cup fresh squeezed lemon juice grumbling or keyboarding. There I go throwing against them, we are simply trying to facilitate others the skin off… is a must! 2 Tbsp. horseradish some recommendations to the City Council CAPS back at some of you. If some of you put on the future of STR’s. Let’s get them under as much effort into providing recommendations Another favorite of mine is stuffing or what 2 Tbsp. Franks Hot Sauce a management system, that’s the current goal. as you do complaining on social media, this some call dressing. Some now call it savory bread pudding. Regardless what you choose 12 cups of sweet cornbread (preferably Pretty simple. ISAC’s role is to promulgate the would have been moved forward months ago. day old) crumbled Mustang Island/Padre Island Area Development See you on ISAC next week and submit your to call it, It’s a great staple to have as a side, Plan (ADP), not to represent homeowners. That lists to the appropriate people, and don’t forget with any protein. Because I personally love ½ Stick of butter melted to drizzle on top is the role of the PIPOA. We were tasked with to turn in your card to the PIPOA. Enough said. the versatility of this dish, I can’t wait on before baking + 2 Tbsp. To butter baking making some recommendations to the City and just the holiday season to enjoy it. I create dish Rising Tide different dressings to accompany anything include those in the ADP. Directions: I was visiting with Greg Smith from fish to poultry, even steak. the other day, and he was telling Seeing that we live on the coast I came Preheat oven to 350°. Heat broth in a small me about a Rising Tide Grant across an amazing recipe that’s perfect for the saucepan; bring to a boil. Remove pan from that he recently just wrote and abundance of oysters we have. I love oysters heat until ready to use. was funded for. This grant and this recipe has had me very excited to Meanwhile, heat a large skillet over helps homeless people find try it. It’s a cornbread Oyster dressing. But medium heat and cook sausage with chopped their families and get them back since I like to add my own twist, I decided to rosemary and sage, breaking it up with a together. It also provides for enhance the flavor by adding lemon juice, hot spoon, until cooked through, 7–8 minutes. some employment opportunities sauce and horseradish. These components Using a slotted spoon, transfer sausage to a for homeless, which can help lend a flavor that compliments oysters large bowl, leaving any rendered fat in pan. get folks back on their feet. It’s beautifully. things like this that Greg does Melt butter in skillet; add onions, carrots because it’s the right thing to In my research, I see that’s it’s a southern and celery and cook until softened, about do, and he doesn’t post about staple, therefore Texans may already have 10 minutes. Add onion mixture, parsley, these things on social media. this recipe in their files. However, for those and thyme to bowl with sausage. Mix well; He recently took his tractor out of you who don’t, I hope you enjoy this one. season with salt and pepper. Add oysters with liquor, reserved broth, lemon juice, to the dog park and did some Ingredients: site grading and mowing. He horseradish, hot sauce and eggs; toss to got the entrance statue re-lit for 8 TO 10 SERVINGS combine. Add cornbread; toss until well our Island. He served on the 2 cups low-salt chicken broth blended and cornbread absorbs most of the Beach Management Advisory liquid. 2 sprigs sage Committee for years. We need Spoon stuffing into a 3-qt. buttered baking to keep Greg on Council. 1 sprig rosemary dish. If any liquid remains in bowl, drizzle Down to the beach 1 pound breakfast sausage, casings ¼–½ cup over to moisten cornbread (amount removed varies depending on dryness of cornbread). We finally got the skiff out Drizzle melted butter on top the top and bake in the water the other day and ¼ cup (½ stick) unsalted butter until browned and liquid is absorbed. About actually fished a little. The trout 2 medium onions diced 1 hour are moving into their wintertime patterns, and Rachel and Karla Tip of the Week: with a K were able to get on a It’s no secret how much fun few good ones just using soft plastics under a The definition of that goal is as far as one can have with casseroles. cork. I got skunked, but I didn’t mind, because recommendations from the STR subcommittee They can be vegetarian it was a beautiful day. I’m really enjoying the and eventually ISAC will be how the City by adding mushrooms for Indian summer we have sticking around for a will regulate STR’s as far as enforcement, umami flavor, you can add while. This week will find us down the beach, HOT tax collection, and penalties. The cheese, various meats, and and I am already thawing my turkey. I think subcommittee has come up with some really wow…even oysters. They I’m going to try and spatchcock it and put it on great recommendations, including registration are filling and so delicious. the smoker. I’ll let you know how it turns out. fees, parking restrictions, noise restrictions, You can swap out cornbread Y’all have a great Thanksgiving, and we’ll see etc. Here’s the short story folks – if you for ciabatta or other hearty you back here next week On the Rocks. breads of choice. 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1 of 1 11/23/2020, 1:48 PM November 25, 2020 Island Moon A 13 Full Transparency and Disclosure Changing Weather Brings New PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President Challenges to Some Home Owners By Todd Hunter, District 32 As always, let me have website. If you have questions, please contact I want to talk about an issue • Installation of weatherization measures your thoughts. You can the PIPOA at [email protected], or call that some households may face during the to increase energy efficiency of a home reach me at marvin@ 361-949-7025. cooler parts of the year. In addition to cooler (structure must be able to benefit from pipoa.net or call at 469- The PIPOA is seeking applicants for the job temperatures, our area’s combination of being weatherized) 231-3485. You can also humidity and high winds can be particularly call the PIPOA office with of Executive Director. Applicants should • The weatherization work, including have experience as a Business Manager with grueling during this time of year, especially for any questions you have at 361-949-7025. those living in homes without proper insulation. caulking; weather-stripping; adding excellent skills in multitasking. If you or ceiling, wall, and floor insulation; Short Term Rentals- The PIPOA wants your someone you know would be interested in this Fortunately, the State of Texas has a program to help limited income residents properly equip patching holes in the building envelope; opinion regarding short term rentals. A blue position, please send a resume to padreisles@ duct work, and tune-up, repair or survey card has been sent to the membership. pipoa.net. For further information, call me at their homes to improve energy efficiency. This program, administered by the Texas Department replacement of energy inefficient heating The Blue Cards have been pouring into the 469-231-3485. and cooling systems PIPOA office. It is extremely important of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA), that members voice their opinion by filling 2021 Boat Trailer Stickers- The 2021 is known as the Weatherization Assistance • Installation of weatherization measures out and returning the card. If you have not stickers are now available at the PIPOA office Program (WAP). In this week’s article, I would that meet specific energy-savings goals for $10 each. These stickers are required to like to share information about this program to received one, please email the PIPOA office • Ensure all installation materials meet park your boat trailer on a boat ramp parking help ensure the health and safety of all residents at [email protected] or call 361-949- the standards meet state and federal 7025. The office can send you a survey card lot. Boat ramp parking lots are for the of the Coastal Bend. exclusive use of the PIPOA members. regulations by email, U. S. Mail, or you can come into WAP was established with the goal of helping To learn more about the program and eligibility the office and pick one up. Do not let this Board Meeting- The next Board meeting lower income residents live in more efficient requirements, please see the information opportunity to be heard pass by. If you did will be held on December 8, 2020, at 5:30 homes through weatherization. To do this, the below from the Texas Department of Housing not receive a packet, call the office to verify PM. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt program provides assistance with installing and Community Affairs regarding the Home your address on file. Place beside Salt Grass Steakhouse. The weatherization-related materials and making Weatherization Program visit: https://www. meeting will be lived streamed via the PIPOA other minor home repairs as well as providing Billish Park- I was in the park with the tdhca.state.tx.us/community-affairs/wap/index. Facebook page. The reason the meeting is helpful home safety tips. By weatherizing their grandchildren on Tuesday. The playground htm. area was crowded with young ones. I noticed held over the bridge is that there is no place home, residents are able to lower energy costs a few weeds growing in the playground area. to hold it on the Island. All members are by ensuring their homes are properly insulated. If you would like to review more about the welcome to attend the Board meeting. Social legislature, please visit the Texas Legislature Those weeds will be gone by next Tuesday! I The program is administered through local WAP distancing and masks will be required for online at www.capitol.state.tx.us/. If you have also noticed ants around the playground area. providers across the state. In our area, TDHCA attendance. questions regarding any of the information The ants will also be gone as soon as possible. works with the Nueces County Community mentioned in this week’s article, please do not Please recognize that ants and sticker burs are The PIPOA will be closed for the Action Agency to provide assistance to hesitate to call my Capitol or District Office. survivors and can never be eradicated. Thanksgiving Holiday on Thursday, Coastal Bend residents. To contact the Nueces As always, my offices are available at any time November 26, and Friday, November 27. County Community Action Agency, please 2021 Board of Directors Election- The to assist with questions, concerns or comments The PIPOA wishes Members a very Happy call 361.654.7944. According to the TDHCA’s registration to run for the Board of Directors (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; District Office; Thanksgiving. website, the program offers the following types for 2021 has closed. The following 361-949-4603). members have registered to run of services: State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 for the three seats up for election. • Energy audit (a review of your home’s Drew Diggins, Ken Hughes, Jim energy efficiency, which identifies where Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). McFadden, Vicki Marsden McGinley, air leaks may be occurring, inefficient He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. Ray Singleton, Nita Smith, Dennis appliances, etc.) texas.gov or at 512-463-0672. Sprout, and Frank Stover. Eight members are seeking three seats. Candidate submitted bios will be published in a newsletter. They will be placed on the PIPOA’s Facebook page and be placed on the PIPOA’s City Update By Greg Smith, City Council Member District 4

There was no Council working on allocations and protocols preparing Early Voting for City Seeking Tuesday because of the for the arrival of the new vaccines. Both Pfizer Thanksgiving holiday. Outside of Council we and Moderna have submitted their request for December 15 Vendors for Its had good news from County Clerk Kara Sands. emergency authorization to the FDA for use She has secured the Padre Island Baptist Church of their respective vaccines. The FDA Vaccine City Runoff Election Beaches and Parks for the Island early voting location. The Church Advisory Committee is meeting December 10 agreed with the conditions that there will be no for its recommendations. Moderna has stated Early voting for political signs or electioneering taking place on that the will have 20 million doses ready to two seats on the Accepting Applications Church property. Not a bad thing, if folks don’t ship by the end of December and Pfizer 25 Corpus Christi City know who they are voting for in the runoff they million. Pfizer has also said they will be ready Council begins from November 25 – probably won’t be voting rather than picking the to ship in four hours after approval. There Saturday, December best sign to determine which lever to pull. Early has been a number concerns raised about the 5, and ends Friday, December 11 voting at the Church will be from December 7 low temperature requirements on the Pfizer December 11. to 11, 8 AM to 5 PM. Thank you Padre Island vaccine at -94 F. They will be using dry ice as Are you looking for a spot to set up your Baptist for providing your facility for early a coolant and expect a fifteen day life within There are three food truck? The City has great locations on its voting. the containers. Dry Ice is a common method races on the beaches and parks to operate your business. citywide ballot with of refrigeration and most meats that are sent Apply now for a vendor permit before time runs Like the persistent gopher mound showing through package delivery are cooled this way. only two on Padre Island. They are: Mayor out. up in the yard TWIA is back. On December 1 Joe McComb and Paulette Guajardo. Council they are holding an actuarial meeting that will Astra Zeneca announced early results of their The Corpus Christi Parks and Recreation Member District Four Kaylynn Paxson and consider how much more the coast should be vaccine Monday from a trial in Great Britain. Department will begin accepting applications incumbent Greg Smith. paying for windstorm insurance rates. This will The efficacy was 62 percent for one dosing for vendors at its City beaches and parks be followed by a board meeting on December regime and 90 percent for a smaller sample. Registered voters may vote at any Early Voting beginning Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 8. Representative Todd Hunter will be leading AZ’s trial in the US was restarted on October location in the city, voters are not required to until 5 pm on Friday, December 11, 2020. the charge as always to prevent a hike. With the 23 after being put on hold. The FDA evaluates vote in the precinct where they are registered. Seven-month Vending Permits from March next session of the State Legislature starting in results 60 days after the median period of the Voter registration for the election has closed. 2021 to September 2021 will be issued to January we should expect TWIA to be high on second dose as opposed to Britain’s 14 days. vendors who qualify. There are two Cole Park Early Voting Locations the list of reform candidates. As part of Todd’s This makes the US results likely to be announced and nine Gulf Beach vendor locations. In Windstorm Task Force I expect to be spending in January. The other front running candidate, Nueces County Courthouse, 901 Leopard addition, vendors can also request other park a fair amount of time in Austin this session on Johnson & Johnson also restarted its US test in Street. locations throughout the city. trying to bring TWIA under control. late October. It is a one dose treatment so it may Saturday, December 5 – Sunday, Applications will be reviewed, and if be the next vaccine in line for announcement. Covid new cases and hospitalizations continue December 6, 2020 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. necessary, a drawing will be held to determine The US government has priority contracts in to rise. Patient count was up to 139 this Monday vendor locations if multiple vendors select place for 100 million doses each from Pfizer, as compared to 105 the week before and 56 on Monday, December 7 – Friday, December the same location. Vendors will be notified Moderna and Johnson & Johnson. The contract October 30. ICU occupation is 47, an increase 11, 2020 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. after the selection has been made to issue the with Astra Zeneca is for 300 million. The light of 18 in seven days. The Health District is Branch Polling Locations permits for the locations prior to the beginning is at the end of the tunnel for the pandemic. of the permit period. The selected vendors Monday, December 7 – Friday, December are required to undergo and pass background 11, 2020 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. checks prior to issuing permits. The application form and requirements are available on the City Goose Island Reopens Fishing Pier, Padre Island Baptist Church – 14253 SPID of Corpus Christi website. Ethel Eyerly Senior Center – 654 Graham Completed applications and required Bayfront, Bayfront Campsites Rd. (Flour Bluff) documentation for vending permits must be After suffering damages from Hurricane cast a line and try to hook spotted seatrout, Hilltop Community Center – 11425 submitted by email by the deadline to the Harvey more than three years ago, Goose snook, red and black drum, mullet and flounder. Leopard St. following: Island State Park near Rockport has reopened Fishing licenses are not required when fishing • Parks & Recreation - Special Events Office. its new fishing pier, bayfront area and bayfront from the pier or shoreline in a state park. Oveal Williams Senior Center – 1414 Contact Sandra Flores at (361) 826-3411; email campsites to the public. Martin Luther King Dr. Anyone planning a trip to a Texas State Park [email protected]. When Harvey hit the park, the high wind speeds should keep in mind that parks are operating at Ben F. McDonald Library – 4044 • Parks and Recreation - Gulf Beach Operations tore off most of the lights throughout the pier a limited capacity, so reserving day passes and Greenwood Dr. Office. Contact Martha Lawhon at (361) 826- and removed large portions of floorboards. The overnight camping spots in advance is highly Lindale Senior Center – 3135 Swantner 3469; email [email protected]. running boards, which support the floorboards recommended since some parks are expected of the pier, were flexed to a point where stress to reach their capacity limit. Day passes and • For vendor permit information, call (361) Dr. fractures could be seen throughout the length of overnight reservations can be booked online 826-3411. Deaf & Hard of Hearing Center – 5151 the pier. Almost all the handrails had also been though the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department McArdle Rd. For more information about the wide variety destroyed. website or over the phone by calling (512) 389- of programs and services offered by the Corpus The new pier spans 1,620 feet into St. Charles 8900. The Valencia – 6110 Ayers St. Christi Parks & Recreation Department, visit and Aransas Bay, and visitors will be able to C. C. Christian Fellowship – 6602 S. www.ccparkandrec.com or call (361) 826- Staples St. PLAY. Veterans Memorial High School – 3750 Cimarron Blvd. 2021 PIPOA Board Make a Difference The City of Corpus Christi has numerous of Directors Election boards, commissions and committees which IIn 2021, there will be three board seats for strive to reflect the diverse interests and abilities election. The seats are currently held by Drew of our citizens. The City is still seeking a pool of Diggins, Vicki McGinley, and Ray Singleton, applicants to fill the following vacant positions respectively. as soon as possible after the new Council is seated. For those wanting to run for the board, the registration period will open on Friday, October • Corpus Christi Regional Economic 24 Hour 16, 2020, at 8:00 AM, Central, and close on Development Corporation Emergency Service Monday, November 16, at 5:00 PM, Central. • Marina Advisory Committee Per the Bylaws, board members must be at least • Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces 18 years old and be members of the association. County, TX Interested members are asked to please send a • Watershore and Beach Advisory Carpet Cleaning Tile & Wood Cleaning notice and a brief bio to Jim Smock, jim@pipoa. Committee net. Notices and bios may also be mailed to the Ifinterested in serving go to serve.cctexas. Air Duct Cleaning Fire & Water Damage PIPOA office or dropped off at the office: 14015 com. For assistance, please call Norma Duran at Fortuna Bay Dr., Corpus Christi, TX 78418. Upholstery Cleaning Restoration (361) 826-3893 or e-mail NormaD2@cctexas. 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By Emily Gaines | PR Coordinator for BBB serving the Heart of Texas by Taylor Bennett Gulf Coast Bird Observatory have a surprisingly musical chirp or shrill of Online retail has become more important positive customer reviews and found that is currently surveying for non- a voice instead a mighty cry like most hawk than ever in the face of COVID-19. Online affordability, punctuality, friendliness breeding shorebirds that spend species. The most obvious way to tell if you shopping has become a convenient way to and communication are the top qualities the winter in the Upper Texas are looking at an Osprey is that it appears to be shop while staying safe. A recent report from for consumers when reviewing online Coast along Matagorda Beach, Follet’s Island, giving a fish the ride of its life between clasping BBB examines the e-commerce industry and businesses. Bryan Beach, and Quintana Beach. Along with talons. 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Dog Park is conducting a shoe drive Photo by Taylor Bennett. fundraiser October 26th-December 24th to opportunities. It’s a win-win for everyone.” easily be disturbed by people, vehicles, and raise funds for the opening of our island dog By donating gently worn, used and new shoes dogs, so please give them their space. On behalf Ospreys are brown and white raptors with of Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, thanks for park. Riley P. Dog Park will earn funds based to the Riley P. Dog Park Shoe Drive Fundraiser, a mostly white head and a dark eye stripe. on the total weight of the pairs of gently worn, the shoes will be given a second chance and reading and we wish you and your families safe The adults have golden yellow eyes and look and well during this holiday season. used and new shoes collected, as Funds2Orgs make a difference in people’s lives around the somewhat pigeon-like in the face. Ospreys also will issue a check for the collected shoes. world. Those dollars will benefit our island dog park. Anyone can help by donating gently worn, used About Riley P. Dog Park and new shoes at 14646 Compass St. Suite Our goal is to establish a fenced-in, off-leash The Barnacle Line 3 on the porch. All donated shoes will then dog park where well-behaved canines and be redistributed throughout the Funds2Orgs citizens can exercise and socialize in a clean safe network of micro-enterprise (small business) environment without endangering or annoying By Del Smith partners. Funds2Orgs works with micro- people, property or wildlife; to develop a entrepreneurs in helping them create, maintain Had some friends of mine areas where you can anchor out, away from all beautiful, well-maintained space, open to all dog drop off some magazines for my and grow small businesses in developing lovers and friends who are willing to uphold the of the sun-baked paving and concrete. We look countries where economic opportunity and edification and pleasure. I presume that was for those native villages of drift-wood walls and park’s rules and restrictions; to view this park the reason, anyway. One of these magazines jobs are limited. Proceeds from the sales of the as a community project, in partnership with the rusty, tin roofs. Where the native girls, wearing shoes collected in shoe drive fundraisers are was all about islands. As a matter of fact that long, loose, soft cotton dresses, cook on empty City of Corpus Christi, designed to satisfy the is the name of the slick. And slick it is, mostly used to feed, clothe and house their families. needs of dog-owners and non-dog owners alike. five drums, fueled by coconut husks; supplied One budding entrepreneur in Haiti even earned full of advertisements for upper scale hotels by the native guys in ragged tee-shirts, shorts enough to send to her son to law school. Contact and resorts on islands in the sun, surrounded by and a dirty baseball cap perched on the back of tropical, clear, blue-green water. “We are excited about our shoe drive,” said Jeanie Valenzula, Officer | Riley P. Dog Park their heads. All of the stuff that normally attracts people Jan Rankin, President of the Riley P Dog Park. Office: 214-621-4848 These people know that the starch and the palm “We know that most people have extra shoes stuck in a high paying, a-pocket-full-of-Tums, fronds are both scratchy and itchy. in their closets they would like to donate to us. Email: [email protected] rat-race, nine-to-five, wading-thru-the-slush, Villages that have little, one room grocery By doing so, we raise money for our island dog form of indentured servitude. Having that glazed look in their eyes, as they sit or stand stores, with expensive canned goods and bottles behind desks or counters, thinking of that of rum that you can buy three of, for what a Home for the Holidays tropical paradise waiting out there; --- just six-pack of coke costs. Villages that have sand for them. Dreaming about those pages full of streets that wander down to, less than perfect, Editor’s note: Our friend and long-time There was ham and a small turkey, and some beautiful resort buildings surrounding concrete beaches with rickety little piers that are the Islander Mindy Niles passed away. In spite of a mashed up orange mush which I had never ponds. Imagining themselves walking down docks for beat-up working sailboats and skiffs life-long battle with heart disease Mindy never experienced. Sweet potatoes, but mashed, and paved roads to funky little bars and restaurants with sun-weathered, hand cranked, outboard lost her optimism, love of life, and most of all no marshmallows on top. At my house they were over looking the beautiful tropical beaches. engines. Villages where the food, cooked on the her sense of humor. Mindy was a great friend having marshmallows. There were no bread Watching native girls dancing, wearing palm empty, husk fired ex oil drums, taste wonderful of Mike Ellis and his Island Moon and she left plates, and no salad forks, no centerpiece and no fronds over their green bikinis, as they sip and fresh. Where your rum concoction is also us this story of a Thanksgiving long ago which flowers, and no real whipped cream either. exotic concoctions out of coconuts, with a fresh and sweet out of the green coconut you we are proud to published here in her memory. Tupperware trouble flower or umbrella stuck in it. Served by native just knocked out of the tree. --- Sans umbrella. We miss our friend. guys in crisp starched uniforms. --- Sans the expensive coke. After the family ate, the men retired to a den By Mindy J. Niles that was lighted by lamps, while the windows As to why they thought that I would find this Yes sailors are cheap. But by the nature of the magazine interesting, I do not know. I guess beast, they would probably be uncomfortable Thanksgiving. Ok, ok, ok, I suppose I should were covered with air raid curtains. They read it is because they are not boaters and do not over there on the other side of the island, sitting begin to categorize all that I am thankful for the paper and drank coffee in the hot, close room, understand. And especially about sailors. The by the concrete pond, sipping the rum and coke, which, I might mention, is no slight undertaking. and spoke not a word to each other. fact that all sailors do want to go those very dodging the umbrella with their nose. Just as Having exactly nine days to complete the task I Women folk retired to the kitchen where same islands is only on the surface of their rat- would the nine-to-fiver would be, on the back better get started. they argued over which Tupperware to use for race abandonment dream. What they don’t see side amongst all of the sand flies, the lack of Not wishing to bore the Reader anymore than leftovers, each speaking over the other using is that, way down deep, far below the surface of indoor plumbing and air-conditioned bedrooms. usual I am not going to list either alphabetically volume for leverage. It was a tiny room with normalcy, all sailors are cheap. –-- After all the metal cabinets and a small aluminum breakfast I think that each one of us has their own form or chronologically all the blessings bestowed on wind is free. ---- Isn’t it? of get-away-from-it-all, which makes that time me in the past year or worse, in my life. Instead, set with a bright red top. It was a trip, as Never mind that most sailors won’t discuss the among the crystal-clear waters and palm trees a single momentous memory. they say. facts about the cost of those sails, the supporting swaying in the warm tropical breezes, satisfying. While pondering a subject suitable to write My Mother always believed that “travel was rigging and all of the string that is supposed to Which is good. After all, if everybody wanted about, something that might include at the least the best education”….. better than school even, keep it all under control. --- (Some of the time.) the same thing, it would get awful crowded on an insinuation of Thanksgiving, a vivid memory which often resulted in exciting adventures in No, they will not admit that the amount of fuel that side of the island. --- Wouldn’t it? popped into my cavernous cranium that just other cities, and exposure to other cultures. This that all of that stuff represents would have them trip however, was within 30 miles of home and Now the really strange thing, about all of this won’t let go. in a whole bunch of ports, for a lot of years, desire to get-away-from-it-all, that we here in was one of the most educational experiences of sucking on a rum and coke, (with or with-out Green, dark, and gelatinous my youth. the States have, is what my Venezuelan friend, the itty-bitty umbrella), while they want to be, Jose, pointed out, “It’s crazy, you want to go It was green, slick, and gelatinous, like moss Blessings found out there, pounding through heavy seas with the down there to have what they have, while they on a Kansas farm pond in August. That would wind on your nose. ---- Eating cold beef stew. want to go up there to have what you have!” have been an excellent alternative locale; How I missed my Grandparent’s home that day, –-- Out of a can. and the family that gathered round the beautiful Now ain’t that the truth. however I found this less than delightful But we’re purists. By George! We got to have vision on the dining table. On Thanksgiving, Duncan Phyfe table set for fourteen. There Got to be some sort of time-sharing scheme in would be silver candlesticks with long white that canvas, stretching in the wind, over our at a friend’s grandparents home. Folks kind heads while we head for those selfsame islands. there somewhere. enough, generous enough to include me in tapers, flowers and linen napkins and sometimes individual salt servers. A gorgeous turkey And when we do get there, the ole sailor-cheap their celebration of the season. I guess it was a comes out again. 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By Ronnie Narmour mermaid gal’s parents, Jack and Sally, a very [email protected] Don’t let up yet… I’ve been staring at this blank page for a couple of hours now trying not to write any more about COVID or masks or treatments. Excuse the expression, but I’ve about beat that horse to death, but it’s still the most important thing Rich Lockhart played the Back Porch going on right now. Me and my mermaid gal on Friday. got the COVID, and then got the monoclonal and Nikki are at Bron’s and Johnny Boy antibody infusion from Crossroads Research Amundsen is at the Texas Mesquite BBQ on and we are now completely well, and all in a Padre. Be safe out there. two week period. And in the meantime, the plague rages on. It’s everywhere now. We do ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ see where there’re three viable vaccines on Kevin Kurtz played Red’s Riviera the way soon and the antibody treatments we on Saturday. took are now FDA approved for emergency Happy 60th Anniversary Jack and Sally. use. Finally, we can see a little glimmer of light at the end of this horrible tunnel. It’s th hard to imagine a worse way to usher in the Happy 60 Anniversary. You read that right… holidays. Some of our friends and family have 60 years of marital bliss. They’re a wonderful recently tested positive and we’ve been making couple of kids who live in Round Rock, Texas. Live Music ourselves available to them for help with food His name is Cecil and supplies since we are now immune to this but we call him Jack. monster…at least for a little while. We’re in the We’d go see them COVID sweet spot where we can’t get it or give except for this pesky Tonight pandemic thing. But it to anyone right now, though the doctors and Thursday, December 3 researchers aren’t sure for how long. Because of next year we’ll be Wednesday, November 25 Billy Snipes @ Doc’s that treatment, I never really got very sick and there for number 61. Jerry Ward @ Doc’s Ruben Limas @ Island Karaoke @ Angry Marlin only had mild symptoms, but we were fortunate Last weekend we Italian tooled around a little Queen Tribute @ in that we got the infusion immediately after Brewster Downtown testing positive… and that’s the trick. We wish bit and caught Jered Friday, December 4 Rubin Limas @ Jerry Ward @ Doc’s everyone a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING Wolfjaw Clark for a short at Shorty’s. Blackbeards Stevie Start @ Island and hope there’s not a big spike in cases after Falco & the Wolf @ Italian the holiday. I might have mentioned that masks It’s looking like rain Rockit’s this weekend so no Two Tars @Hook and are a pretty good idea right about now. Please Open Mic @ Executive Ladder be safe people, and be responsible and maybe music at Shorty’s. Surf Club don’t give grandma a hug this year. As much as The place is so small Sweet Daddy @ House Saturday, December 5 that if the weather’s of Rock Gann Band @ Doc’s we are all sick of this routine, we cannot let up John Cortez @ Vernon’s yet! We just can’t. Not yet. Stay diligent people! Jered Clark played bad, it’s just not Jon Wolfe @ Brewster I implore you. OK, pep talk is over, now go Shorty’s on Saturday. COVID safe to try to Downtown Thanksgiving, November OPEN NOON -11PM Brian Winfrey @ Island wash your hands. put shows inside right now. Plus, the 50% 26 MATT HOLE NOV 27 Italian Billy Snipes @ Doc’s Sonny Salinas @ House Turkey bowl this Sunday… rule puts them at about 20 people and that don’t Ruben Limas @ Island RIPTIDE NOV 28 pay the bills. Our pal Flanny Flynn who works of Rock It’s that time of year where perfectly otherwise Italian the door at the Back Porch sent me a pic of normal people will assemble in mass to hurl Karaoke @ Angry Marlin WORLD FAMOUS Sunday, December 6 Rich Lockhart on Friday and we ran by there a frozen dead and plucked turkey at a bunch TURKEY BOWL Billy Snipes @ Doc’s on Saturday and caught some of Riptide’s first Friday, November 27 Crosstown Expressway set. The singer, Michael Isbell sets the bar high Matt Hole @ Back Porch SUNDAY, NOV 28TH @ House of Rock covering the likes of Roy Orbison and Sam Tony Two Tars @ Gaff 132 W. Cotter St. Port A Cook. On Sunday they had a little shindig at Max & Heather Stalling Monday, December 7 Red’s and I finally was able to see the new kid in @ Third Coast Theater Stevie Start @ Doc’s Rich Lockhart @ Bron’s town, Kevin Kurtz. He’s got a strong voice and Ty Dietz @ House of a tow sack full of familiar songs. He’s a nice Tuesday, December 8 Rock Stevie Start @ Doc’s addition to the island. Hank Reeves @ Tarpon Inn DO NOT MISS LIST Wednesday, December 9 Avrazzas: Santana tribute, Jerry Ward @ Doc’s Coming this weekend… John Cortez @ Brewster Treasure Island Downtown Thursday, December 10 Meza Band @ Brewster Billy Snipes @ Doc’s South Side Ruben Limas @ Island David Martinez, Falco & THE DAZE NOV 27 Italian the Wolf @ Rockit’s THE GROOVE NOV 28 Jerry Ward @ Doc’s ART BARRERA NOV 29 Friday, December 11 Stevie Start @ Island Jerry Ward @ Doc’s Italian Geoff Tate @ Brewster Jim Dugan @ Lulu’s Downtown 315 N. Alister (361) 416-1020 Landing Stevie Start @ Island treasureislandporta Italian Saturday, November 28 Riptide @ Back Porch Saturday, December 12 Jim Dugan @ The Gaff Gann Band @ Doc’s Justin & Nikki @ Bron’s Brian Winfrey @ Island Flatbroke @ Rockit’s Italian Ronnie turkey bowling. Rebel Yell: Billy Idol Reno Perez @ Thirsty’s tribute @ Brewster Satisfaction: Rolling Downtown Stones Tribute @ innocent bowling pins for nothing more than Falco & the Wolf @ th Brewster Downtown bragging rights. That’s right, the 14 Annual Brewster South Side Turkey Bowl will be held at the Back Porch this Ty Dietz @ Black Monk Sunday, December 13 Sunday afternoon. This time honored tradition Tavern Billy Snipes @ Doc’s was the brainchild of the Back Porch founder, Gann Band @ Doc’s Crosstown Expressway Susan Powell back in 2007 when Chrissy Brian Winfrey @ Island PORT ARANSAS’ @ House of Rock Fox won it. It’s really a lot of fun to watch. I Italian won in 2012, the year I was nearly killed by a Jam Band @ Angry Monday, December 14 Marlin OLDEST AND Stevie Start @ Doc’s twenty pound frozen turkey when Lighthouse Billy Snipes @ Tarpon Inn Rick hurled one past my head at high velocity. Max & Heather Stalling FRIENDLIEST Later, Rick launched the turkey completely Tuesday, December 15 @ Third Coast Theater Stevie Start @ Doc’s over the roof and nearly smashed Susan’s car John Amundsen @ Texas OPEN Till 11pm • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. in the parking lot and they banned him from all Mesquite BBQ Wednesday, December 16 future turkey bowls. It’s why we can’t have nice Michael Isbell with Riptide will play the Jerry Ward @ Doc’s things. Management wanted me to mention that Back Porch this Saturday. Sunday, November 29 no turkeys were ever harmed at a Back Porch Turkey Bowl @ Back Thursday, December 17 sanctioned Turkey Bowl but I know for a fact Porch Billy Snipes @ Doc’s Billy Snipes @ Doc’s that many a turkey has been bowled down that Coming this Thanksgiving weekend in Port Ruben Limas @ Island A… the big show in town is at the Third Coast Crosstown Expressway @ Italian runway with giblets leaking out of the pillow House of Rock case. It’s not pretty. In years past, local celeb Theater with a two-nighter Friday and Saturday Friday, December 18 Keith McMullen usually did the MC honors with Max and Heather Stalling. It happens Monday, November 30 every year and for good reason… this show is Jerry Ward @ Doc’s but GM Lee Harper tells me they’re going to Stevie Start @ Doc’s Stevie Start @ Island pass the mic around this year. I need to mention magical. They are beyond talented and complete Italian that the big artistic centerpiece that is painted each other’s sentences. I highly recommend this Tuesday, December 1 in the middle of the runway each year is always show. Also on Friday, rockabilly monster Matt Stevie Start @ Doc’s Saturday, December 19 fantastic. The kid’s division starts at 2:00 and Hole plays the Back Porch, Rich Lockhart Gann Band @ Doc’s Wednesday, December 2 the adult turkey bowling starts at 3:00. plays Bron’s, The Daze plays Treasure Island, Brian Winfrey @ Island Tony Two Tars plays the Gaff and Hank Jerry Ward @ Doc’s Italian Scattered shots… Reeves is in the courtyard of the historic Tarpon This would be a good time to wish my Inn. On Saturday, Riptide is back at the Back Porch, Coach Jim Dugan is at the Gaff, Justin

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