Inside the Moon Kite Day A2 Island Spring A4 Botanical Gardens A7 Fishing A11 Remember When A16 Issue 829 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 March 5, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around Island Grocery Store Waterpark How the Island Voted The Island Going Up! Ride Nueces County Constable By Dale Rankin Precinct 4 (Runoff) Once upon a time on a beach not so Set to open by summer 2020 1123 (45%) Monty Allen far away Spring Breakers swarmed to Comes 1101 (44%) Robert Sherwood the beach north of Packery Channel By Dale Rankin space. Mr. Rasheed said a verbal between Zahn Road and Newport agreement has been reached to locate 269 (10.8%) John Bowers The 20,420 square-foot IGA grocery Pass. Cheek to jowl they lined the a Denny’s diner on a separate three- store under construction on South Down Padre Island totals beach with tents, couches, giant thousand square-foot site fronting Padre Island Drive south of Whitecap bonfires, and bags of trash, most of SPID. 7882 Total Padre Island which got left behind when they went Boulevard will be open by summer Registered Voters home. 2020, according to owners Lori and Mr. Rasheed said the IGA store will Moshin Rasheed. be roughly based on the design of a 2510 (32%) Total Padre Island Police flooded the area but to little Sprouts Farmer’s Market and will voters “We will have the equipment for avail as the revelers, very few of include walk-in coolers for produce the grocery store arriving in the Contested Races Republican which were actual college students, and meat with a butcher on duty, a next few weeks,” Mr. Rasheed said. created the kind of trouble that draws full selection of beer and wine, along 1659 (98%) Padre Island votes “Everything is on schedule.” police. Two single traffic lanes were with a regular selection for Donald J. Trump President cut to allow for southbound traffic of grocery items. It also from Newport Pass to Zahn Road and 1282 (80%) Senator John includes large icemakers. Cornyn U.S. Senate a temporary traffic light was placed Ms. Rasheed said an on State Highway 361 at the Zahn experienced grocery District Judge 347th Court Road intersection and traffic officers store manager and Island 1305 (82%) Missy Medary controlled vehicular access even as resident has been hired to the traffic lanes looked more like manage the store, Michael 297 (18%) Guy Williams parking lots. Ingle Hart. The IGA store District Attorney One year the beach there got so is owned and operated by crowded that beach goers bypassed the Rasheeds who said 595 (42%) James O. Gardner the area and headed for Port Aransas finishing out the interior 826 (58%) Jon West where traffic was so backed up that of the store will cost about Nueces County Constable Port Aransas restaurants were empty $1.6 million. Precinct 4 because no one could get there and Of special interest to IGA owners Moshin and Lori Rasheed 209 (13.5%) John Bowers large supplies of food bought in Island residents the Balli anticipation of Spring Break crowds Center includes a golf 682 (61.4%) Monty Allen The entire complex is called the Balli went bad. Something had to be done. cart path to connect it to the adjacent Center and Rasheed said contracts 391 (25.1%) Robert Sherwood street, meaning Islanders can grocery So before Spring Break 2013 have already been signed with shop by golf cart. And for the parents the Corpus Christi City Council tenants for most of the 8000 square- Republicans Port Aransas outlawed pit bull dogs on the North and students at Seashore Middle feet of retail space on each side of the President Academy next door the Rasheeds A work crane so tall the top reached Packery beach. They soon found out grocery store. They include an 8000 have also included spaces to allow for into the foggy air arrived at Waves 840 (93%) Donald J. Trump that so –called “breed bans” had been square-foot Hardknocks Bar & Grill off-street parking for parents waiting Resort on Tuesday and by late held unconstitutional by the courts on the south side of the center. On the U.S. Senate to pick up kids from the school rather Wednesday had removed most of the (possibly due to the Pit Bull Lobby) north side of the center an “authentic” than having to park along SPID. Padre Plunge ride. The ride never re- 576 (73%) John Cornyn and so the next year banned all dogs – Mexican food restaurant and a Steps are also being installed to allow opened after Hurricane Harvey. good and bad of all breeds- from the 2500-square-foot Dominoes "pizza District Judge 347 District access between the school parking lot area during the Spring Break season theater" store have already signed Court and that, along with the heavy police and the center’s parking lot. lease agreements, Mr. Rasheed said. Hay! Look Up 472 (62.4%) Missy Medary presence did the trick. A nail shop and a phone store are Since that time Spring Breaks along currently in negotiations to lease IGA cont. on A4 in the Sky! 284 (37.57%) Guy Williams the North Packery beaches have been Nueces County Constable relatively tame affairs. For the last FEMA “Unlikely” to fund Packery If you have cast your gaze skyward Precinct 4 dozen or so years city crews kept the in the past week you have probably three lanes in place during the Spring 60 6.43% John Bowers Monty seen a helicopter with a long tether Allen 163 17.47% Break season until 2019 when traffic Channel Jetty Repairs attached hauling freight along high was light enough and the beaches By Dale Rankin they will not reimburse the city for above the beach. Speculation on its 710 76.10% Robert Sherwood wide enough that only a single the project.” More than two years after Hurricane mission has ranged from a coyote Democrats Padre Island emergency lane was cut on the beach. eradication program to the latest That is the plan for this year as well. Harvey did millions of dollars worth The move comes after months of of damage to the Packery Channel questions from ISAC members who way to smuggle contraband across President A few years ago the Port Aransas jetty system the effort to fund repair consistently pushed the city staff for the border. In reality it is nothing so 279 (36%) Joseph Biden City Council put a ban on alcohol work suffered a serious setback definitive answers on funding for the exotic. 154 (20%) Michael Bloomberg consumption on their city beaches Tuesday when city staff told the repairs, estimated to run between $7.5 after sundown and the demographics Island Strategic Action Committee at million and $14 million depending on Hay cont. on A4 146 (19%) Bernie Sanders of local Spring Breakers changed its March meeting that funding for the which design plan is finally adopted. 90 (12%) Elizabeth Warren radically. Now the only portion of our project from the Federal Emergency local beaches that really looks like “This is exactly where we didn’t 29 (5%) Amy Klobuchar Management Agency (FEMA) is want to be,” ISAC Chairman Jay “Spring Break” is the area just south “unlikely.” U.S. Senate of the bollards in Port Aransas where Gardner said Tuesday. college kids congregate to party “We don’t have a final letter from Sources Wednesday said that a 52 (8%) Cristina Tzintzun under the watchful eye of police them yet,” Assistant City Manager behind the scenes effort to FEMA Ramirez Keith Selman told the group. “But officers and Constable’s deputies. A to seek commitment for the funding 190 (30%) Mary “MJ” Hegar small army of “State Police” descend the indications at this time are that on Port Aransas to aggressively corral FEMA cont. on A4 74 (12%) Amanda K. Edwards Spring Breakers and locals alike. It’s 66 (10%) Annie “Mama” enough to keep most of us home. A little Island history Garcia Make no mistake, if the weather is 40 (6%) Sema Hernandez merely tolerable our beaches will be packed the next three weekends, they Nueces County Attorney will be door to door from Port A to Mustang Island Abandoned By J. Guthrie Ford human hands, the milk cows were 214 (37%) Carlos Vela PINS but it won’t be crazed college easily coaxed from their pastoral kids burning down lifeguard stands February 1862 began with a strong 363 (65%) Rene Flores grazing to the surf line; there, they – they are made of composite now. norther. After it blew through, the stood passively as their throats were Port Aransas It will be mostly families cooking, turning wind made it easy for the slit. Each bovine's knees buckled as playing horseshoes, and playing a Federal sailors to get from their 1,321 votes out of 3,179 her blood pumped onto the sand. A game with the unwieldy name of ship to the Mustang beach. Registered Voters 42% sailor took the bell from the Clubbs' Corn Hole. Each of the next two Once the longboat was pushed black and white Jersey; it would be President Sunday afternoons will be scavenger ashore and the oars stored, the a unique souvenir of time spent in hunts for locals looking for pup tents, 128 (36%) Joseph Biden leader of the landing party, a burly enemy waters. cots, beach toys, firewood left behind master's mate from Massachusetts, 87 (24%) Bernie Sanders for the taking on Sunday afternoon.