Inside the Moon Spring Break A2 Fishing A11 Seashore Happenings A13 Island Outdoors A16 Live Music A18 Issue 778 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 March 14, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around My Dog The Island Thunder By Dale Rankin By Joey Farah The herd of spliflicated scholars Sunday Spring Break Traffic was matriculating in from OTB for Spring halted by a single car rollover Break 2019 has been light so far. along the Flour Bluff end of the There could be many reasons, for JFK Causeway Sunday as spring one we don’t have beachfront condos breakers filed past the twisted car available that twenty kids at a time and emergency crews. All the people can pack into, and two the price involved including myself were in for of all-inclusive trips to Caribbean a very wild two-day ride. destinations is actually lower than a drive to The Coast and a week in a hotel. Combine that with the heavy law enforcement presence, particularly in Port A, and sea fog and you got yourself some peace and quiet hereabouts. Spring Breakers crowded the beaches this week. Buckle up for this weekend, which will boast the largest crowds of the year. Spring Break on The Island pretty much comes down to a scrum of kids at Mile Marker 34 in Port A and Two major Island projects moving forward traffic jams headed to the JFK in the afternoon. No South Padre signs We did encounter a lost reveler Lake Padre Development in Port Aransas who said she was headed to South Padre but ended up here because there are no signs along IH 37 showing the way to Platting Approved South Padre. There are signs saying Thunder with owners Mike and Kingsville and other towns but none Agreement for Water Exchange Bridge scheduled for Karen King with the words South Padre. How do you get to South Padre from North City Council March 19 Back in the 80s I met Mike and Padre? Well, you go north on South Karen King, as the colorful couple Padre Island Drive. Somewhere at a By Dale Rankin and is scheduled to go to the city apartment complex just south of the that lived next door to Wind and council on March 19. bridge site. The platting does not planning meeting that made sense. Two milestones for Island Wave Surf shop. The fence was include residential tracks along the development moved forward this Approval of development plans guarded by the ferocious Blue Healer, north side of Lake Padre near State Bluebonnets week as the Corpus Christi Planning for 86 acres of undeveloped land THUNDER DOG. Being a young Highway 361. The crop of bluebonnets and Indian Commission approved platting for surrounding Lake Padre on the east teenaged kid in love with surfing, paintbrushes along the IH37 corridor development around Lake Padre and side of SPID clears the way for the Nueces County Appraisal District hunting, and fishing Mike and I between here and San Antonio is the an agreement that would lead to the building of a marina on the north Records show the land is owned by soon became inseparable. Mike is a most prolific in memory. Last Sunday building of the Park Road 22 Water end of the property, just north of the drivers were stopping all along the Exchange Bridge has been negotiated canal leading to the bridge, and an Lake Padre cont. on A4 Thunder cont. on A4 road to take pictures of their kids and dogs frolicking in the flowers. It’s a PIPOA Elects Two New Flappers Take Notice! Island by the Numbers Texas Thing. Seashore Karankawa shells Board Members There are several known old Whoop It What Karankawa campsites Around the Recount requested Island but lately we’ve had reports Up takes on Islanders do of people finding bits of pottery The Padre Isles Property Owners votes with 696.33, followed by Kelly and wampum. The pottery is in tiny Association Board of Directors has McFadden with 673.09, and both took Roaring ‘20s for a Living shards that are red on the outside and two new members after the results of office for three-year terms. Editor’s note: After several years black, from charring, on the inside. voting were announced at the annual Brian T. McCabe was third with Theme April 13 of trying we recently got numbers The Karankawa used them for water membership meeting last Saturday. 662.91 votes, followed by Robert The Whoop It Up “Roaring ‘20s” from the U.S. Census Bureau carriers. The wampum is seashells concerning the population on filled with black tar which the However, POA Executive Director Algeo with 415.17, Judith Cutright Gala will be held on Saturday, April Jim Smock said a property owner with 118.5, and fifteen write-in votes. 13th from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the Mustang and Padre islands inside Karankawa are said to have collected the Corpus Christi City Limits. and used to trade with inland tribes. on Tuesday delivered a request for The vote fills two of three empty brand new Schlitterbahn Ballroom. a recount of the votes. For details The event is 21 an older and in These numbers are compiled from The Karankawa were an unusual tribe seats on the seven-member board. A data gathered between 2013 and that were taller and more angular on the process see Marvin Jones’ seat became vacant last year when keeping with the times Prohibition column in this issue. will not be observed. 2017 and do not reflect changes in build than most tribes and their board member Vicki Marsden, who after December 2017. language included a click which Just under 1300 members cast was elected in March 2018, resigned Tickets are on sale now at www. is usually associated with African ballots, each allowed to vote for two after selling her Island home and seashorecharterschools.com. $40 This week we are looking at what tribes. candidates with the two top vote became ineligible to serve. The before April 1st, $50 at the door. Islanders do for a living, and how getters taking office. A total of 2581 organization’s by-laws require that we get there. Typo of the Week Limited general seating is available votes were cast, meaning about 1290 vacant seats be filled by the remaining but tables are available. Reserved 8468 Island population 16 years Last time we ran an inquiry about members voted. board members, rather than by a tables come with tickets for eight and and over whether anyone could identify the membership vote. When the votes were counted are available for a donation of $500. circles in the satellite photo of St. 5993 Islanders in the labor force Daniel R. Brown III tallied the most Jose Island but we left out the photo. P.I.P.O.A cont. on A4 Whoop cont. on A4 5452 Employed The photo wasn’t all that good 154 Unemployed anyway so we’ll just ask if anyone A little Island history knows what the dozen or so perfectly 387 in Armed Forces round circles on St. Jose Island are? 2.7% Island Unemployment Rate When we got the numbers from the The King Ranch, New Horses, and Census Bureau last week I found a How we get there line item that said that 1.5% of the 5606 Islanders commute to work population was not counted…how Into Bandit Country 4808 Commute alone could they possibly know that? Editor’s note: This is the second to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe installment of a local history series Hidalgo at the end of the U.S./ 435 Carpool Dog Park based on a book by Texas Ranger Mexican War in 1848. George Durham. The book called 338 Work at home Progress on the Riley P. Dog Park has Border lord Juan Cortina operated Taming the Nueces Strip is a telling been slowed over the last couple of a cattle operation near the Village 22.4 minutes Mean Travel Time of the story of the troop of Texas months due to issues with the AT&T of Las Cuevas on the Mexican side to work Ranger formed in 1875 to remove tower located on a portion of the site. of the river in the Rio Grande Valley 0 Use public transportation bandits and raiding Indians who The city long ago leased that small where he bought cattle without asking had been riding up from the border portion of land to AT&T for their questions. Many lawless characters What we do… and terrorizing towns as far east tower and they placed a gate across found their way to Texas in that era as Goliad and including Corpus 2386 Management, business, the entire property preventing access and rustling cattle in the Nueces Strip Christi. Durham died in 1940 on science, arts to the area leased by the dog park. were a way to make quick and easy a house built for him on the King The city engineering department and money. 515 Service occupations Ranch but fortunately left behind city development services department 1244 Sales and office occupations are trying to get it worked out but a big trunk full of yellowed papers Located in the heart of the strip was, meanwhile Island dogs are waiting that told his story. and is, the legendary King Ranch. 419 Natural resources, The story of the ranch is the story of construction, and maintenance ball in mouth.