Inside the Moon Easter Fun A2 Stuff I Heard A5 Moon on a Spoon A6 On the Rocks A11 Issue 835 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Riekie Roncinske Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 April 16, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Easter Fun Island Strange Days on Padre on Isolation By Dale Rankin It’s been a week of high tides and Island relatively low temperatures on our little sandbar. It was exceedingly strange to drive the beach on Easter Sunday and see nothing but seagulls. The high spring tides pushed higher by northeast winds have covered Island beaches during high-tide this week. Closed-toed shoes are in Around The Island these days as the manicure shops are closed and we’re getting some choppy-looking haircuts popping up as shaggy- haired Islanders break out the hedge clippers for a self-trim. But if those are the worst problems we face in these uncertain times we will be fine. Beach maintenance Since 2005 maintenance crews Knox celebrating his first Easter is from the City of Corpus Christi and 5 months old. Nueces County have literally passed each other on the road as they move from one end of The Island to the other. The problem has been that the city and county each maintain portions of the beach north and south Photo by Denise Godoy. Signs of the times. Photo by Debbie Noble of Packery Channel and since the channel opened in 2005 the crews had to take to the roads to move from one area to the other. Everyone agreed it was/is a silly and wildly inefficient system but attempts over the years to rejigger it have all failed. The city has even been working to build a maintenance barn behind the fire station on Commodores to give crews access to the beach on both sides of the channel. But word came this week that a tentative agreement has been reached to give the city responsibility for Jackson Billings was happy to find maintaining the beach north of the cash in his egg. Packery, including Newport Pass, and the county responsibility of the beach in the city limits south of Bob Hall Pier. The plan has been approved by the county and is now headed to the city council for a final vote. It looks like a long-needed solution may be at hand. Flour Bluff ISD meeting As we mentioned in the last issue the Flour Bluff School District Board of Directors will live stream their monthly meeting on Thursday, April 30. It will mark the first time a meeting of that board has been made available for on-line viewing. This is a landmark for Islanders who until this month have had to drive to the district headquarters to watch board Kaytin, 4 years old, meetings where Padre Island has celebrates Easter. traditionally been underrepresented. It was a strange Easter on our little island. A report last month from the Aquarius Texas Comptroller’s office shows $3,201,589,196 in taxable property Getting New in the district with $2.3 billion of that Progress on A little Island history on Padre Island. Playground That means Island taxpayers will foot Park Road 22 around $40 million of a $60 million The Karankawas Had Equipment bond package being discussed by that Water Exchange By Dale Rankin board and likely to turn up on a ballot Their Quirks later this year. The last bond package Bridge Project issued by the school district was in By Dale Rankin Editor’s note: The following was always well oiled and polished. an off-season and under-publicized compiled by historians doing Strings were kept in perfect election in May, 2013 in which $48 Sources at Corpus Christi City Hall research prior to the founding of condition. An arrow was a yard million in bonds were approved by said this week that talks to begin Padre Island National Seashore long; and a half-inch in diameter. only an 82-vote margin with only 456 digging the canal leading to the Park fifty-two years ago this month. It carried a head about three inches Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge are long which was set in the cleft of total votes cast. FBISD taxes make Karankawa tools, utensils, progressing and an announcement on the shaft and wound with sinew. up half of the property tax burden for and weapons were simple and a start date on the canal is imminent. Three feathers completed the Island taxpayers and no matter which primitive. They consisted of arrow. The Karankawas knew no way any bond vote may go our voice The $13.9 million project is funded knives, scrapers, and some pottery. equal in the power and accuracy of needs to be heard. We will keep you and a construction contract from the The oval pots were decorated with This equipment at Aquarius Park their shots with the bow and arrow. informed as things develop and being city is in the hands of Haas-Anderson black lines and figures. The most will be replaced. able to view the meetings live on-line Construction, Inc. pending progress prominent Karankawa implement is a positive step. A wandering tribe on construction of the canal leading was the bow and arrow, which was Aquarius Park on Padre Island will to the bridge on the west side of the truly amazing. In length the bow Karankawa settlement pattern was Life under lockdown nomadic. They roamed the coastal get new playground equipment under roadway. extended from a warrior's foot to a move approved by the Corpus A check of the Police Blotter in prairie, following the seasons and The sources say the two owners his chin: it was at times as long Christi City Council on Tuesday. recent issues shows a big uptick in as six feet. Made of red cedar, the the food supply. They probably the number of Suspicious Person of the land which the canal will stayed three to four weeks in each The Chairman of the city’s Parks and transverse, Axys Capital and bow was about two inches wide calls. We’re not sure if there are more in the center and one and one-half location before moving on. They Recreation Advisory Board, Dotson Suspicious People turning up or just International Bank of Commerce, are returned to the same campsites Lewis, said the equipment has been close to working out the final details inches thick. The string was made more people home to be suspicious of twisted deer sinew and was year after year. Although the stored for several years awaiting of them. to allow construction of the canal to Karankawas moved away from the funding for installation, that funding begin. about one-quarter inch in diameter. Being the Karankawas' single most coastal islands during the winter, was approved Tuesday and the city important implement, a bow was staff said the new equipment will be History cont. on A4 Around cont. on A4 Aquarius cont. on A4 April 16, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Island Kids Celebrate Easter Addison Huber 8, Gracyn Harmon 8, Madelyn Huber 2 and Peyton Huber 10 in their Easter outfits.. Adorable Landrey Gabrel age 5. Benji 3 months old dressed up for Easter. Lila (age 2 1/2) and Palmer (5 months) Park. Daisy age 2 hunting for eggs in her backyard. Elli age 5 and Lily Age 7 in their cute matching Easter dresses. Ellie Venegas in her pretty bunny dress is in the 3rd grade. 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