Inside the Moon Art Walk A2 Seashore A2 Cotillion A4 Fishing A11 Live Music A18 Issue 709 The Photo by Miles Merwin Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 November 16, 2017 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Kickoff party Tuesday, Around Lake Padre Padre Project December 5 The Island La Posada By Dale Rankin Moving Slowly In Matador, about 80 miles northeast of Lubbock deer season took a Pending settlement may allow work to continue is Largest slithery turn when hunters lifted a blind to find twenty-six rattlesnakes living underneath. Single Toys for Tots Event in Texas Off the coast of Portugal a Prehistoric, Dinosaur-Era Shark with scary teeth was sighted Work has stopped in the area around Lake Padre and on land adjacent to the Schlitterbahn waterpark pending a hearing in a bankruptcy court in San Antonio on December 4. The canals leading to the site of the proposed SPID/Park Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge are in place and the recently dug canal at the south end of the park site, see photo, stops just short of connecting to the current Island canal system north The La Posada Lighted Boat Parade Things haven’t been that exciting of Whitecap. and the surrounding events began here on our little sandbar but we more than thirty years ago when the have been dealing with own set of The City of Corpus Christi has earmarked a total of $11.5 million to building the Water Exchange Bridge and has a bid in place for construction, but has not population of The Island was less predators and like OTB type one than 5000 souls. It has grown with of them moves on four legs and the released the money. The waterpark is currently in Chapter Eleven Bankruptcy for re- organization and a court trustee is working on a settlement that will allow work to The Island and now raises more toys other slithers around lower than a and money for the Marines Toys snake’s belly. In the first case coyote continue. for Tots program than any single sightings continue on a regular basis event in Texas – and Texas is a Big all over The Island with a video FEMA by the numbers State. In 2016, more than 7000 surfacing this week of a person Island Chef Competes toys and $18,000 were collected feeding menhaden to a coyote along Since Hurricane for underprivileged children in the Packery Channel. In the second case Coastal Bend! we have had two confrontations with in World Food burglars in action this week as Island Harvey… “We are really blessed to live on the residents confronted two sets of 886, 083 Total registrations Island, in a community that takes burglars as they slithered their way in Texas Championships pride in stepping up to help our neighbors and others as the needs into Island backyards to steal other $3.33 billion paid out to people’s belongings. arise, said event organizer Doug Texans Seefeldt. “The Island’s support of La One sighting was on Cabana North Posada events is one of the greatest when a resident observed a man 50,182 Registrants in Nueces County ways you help others! I need to share sitting in a pickup truck then watched with you the impact you make and as the man went into a backyard and $13, 241,473 paid out by I’ve included a word from our local came out with a bag which he left FEMA in Nueces County Marines.” behind when confronted. The second sighting was near the Compass/ 13,085 Total Registrants in By GySgt Walter V. Rose Whitecap intersection when a group Aransas County Company Operations Chief of thieves was observed going around a security fence at a condo $24, 248, 302 paid out in Co C., 1st Bn, 23d Mar Aransas County development exiting with a fistful of I&I Corpus Christi, TX fishing rods and disappearing before 16, 525 Registrants in San The annual La Posada events mean they were caught. Witnesses later Patricio County found boxes piled behind a strip a great deal to the Toys for Tots center near the intersection which $14, 495, 410 paid out in San Campaign in Corpus Christi, TX. thieves had used to scale a wall. Patricio County Owner of A la Mode Gelateria and Moon Columnist Chef Vita Jarrin The La Posada Foundation is our (pictured above left with business partner and fellow chef, largest contributor to the local Toys It’s easy to blame the recent spate $1.99 billion in U.S. Small for Tots campaign, and their 3 events of burglaries on a lack of police Gail Huesmann, right) competed in the World Food Championships in Business Administration Orange Beach, Alabama last weekend. She took second in her recipe bring in the majority of our monetary presence, but the fact is that in the (SBA) Loans approved donations and toys collected within case of the four-legged and the two- category, but did not advance to the final table. a compressed timeline. These events legged predators the real problem is $1.34 billion Individual and The World Food Championships is the largest competition in Food covered are the La Posada auction, bait. As long as we leave pet food Households Program (IHP) Sport, where grand champions of previous events convene for a and the 2 boat parades on Padre outdoors and garage doors open and Grants approved: chance at winning the ultimate food crown and a share of hundreds of Island. Last year, the auction brought fishing tackle in plain view and cars 800-621-3362 FEMA thousands of dollars in prize money. The World Food Championships in $18,000 along with 7000 toys. left unlocked we are going to attract is also the springboard for many up and coming culinary stars and Through the generosity of the La thieves. The scary part is that, as we helpline from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. home cooks as they seek TV fame through many well-known food saw this week, citizens are going to shows and acting opportunities. La Posada cont. on A4 come in contact with coyotes and the slithering humans and sooner or later either the citizen or the slitherer will A little Island history be armed. Offshore Reef How The Island Got Annexed by Corpus Christi and Can We Secede? By Dale Rankin Let’s start at the beginning It’s almost a rite of passage when How did we get annexed? newcomers arrive on The Island. Annexation of The Island could only After a few months they want to come about after the annexation of know if The Island can remove Flour Bluff which was annexed in the itself from the City of Corpus 1960’s and according to the records Christi. We’ve had several such provided by the City annexation of inquires this week so his is a short The Island began in earnest in 1981. history. The short answer to the Development on The Island began in question is is yes…but…no. The the early 1970’s and by the 1980’s answer is complex and based on a Island developers were desirous of Freedom of Information request to city services and began the process the city asking for the Annexation of requesting annexation. Island Mike Hurst from the SEA Agreement between The Island developers paid to have the water organization reports that a survey and the City of Corpus Christi by line to The Island increased from of the offshore reef created by the Islander Pat Marshall here is the 16 inches to 24 inches. They also sinking of the 155-foot freighter long answer. paid to have the height of the bridge Kinta nine miles offshore from over Packery Channel raised from a Birdseye view of Corpus Christi, TX from 1887. Around cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 November 16, 2017 Island Moon A 2 Belt Sander Races Seashore Happenings at The Gaff The Gaff Bar in Port Aransas celebrated their grand re-opening on Saturday, Nov. 11th with their belt sander races. The event was packed and Mark from Colorado was the winner of the races with his purple passion belt sander. Photos by Jan Rankin. SLC Veteran’s Day Program...students thanked all who served and fought for our freedom! Photos by Teri Beck. 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