Inside the Moon Mardis Party A2 "Synonym Rolls" A7 Traveling Moon A9 Backwater Adventures A12 Kahuna Kid A13 Issue 721 The Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 February 8, 2018 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Photo by Ronnie Narmour Laissez Le Bon Temps Around The Future of Island Traffic Roulet! The Island Study Recommends Multi-Use Paths, more turn It’s Time for By Dale Rankin Barefoot Whomever ordered this cold weather lanes, and “Superstreets” Mardi Gras! can feel free to send it back north of By Dale Rankin the Mason-Dixon. It was so cold this week we saw a pocket gopher Traffic along the SPID corridor on Beach parade and knitting a sweater. We don’t know if Padre Island increases by four percent there is such a thing as Padre Phil the each year and by the year 2036 four King & Queen’s Ball Pocket Gopher but if there is here’s “superstreets” will be needed to this Saturday hoping he didn’t see his shadow this keep up, according to a Management week because we’ve had about all the Access Study done by Maldonado- This is the cool weather we need for one year. Burkett Intelligent Transportation weekend when The only thing left now is the annual Systems, who was hired by the City The Island has Spring Break Cold Front that puts of Corpus Christi to study Island some fun, New the goose bumps on the lobster tans traffic patterns. Orleans style in mid-March. It’s time we Islanders The four percent increase means as the Barefoot retire our fur-lined flip flops for this an increase in the daily traffic of Mardi Gras Beach Parade and King & year and get on with spring. over 1000 vehicles per year. Most Queen’s Ball will he held on Saturday, population growth rates for Corpus February 10. He’s a stylish little fellow Christi during the same period The events feature a colorful and We got this plea for help this week indicate a growth rate just above one unique beach parade followed by on our Facebook page… percent, according to the study. The a festival of food, family fun, and “Can you please help me find my study found that this past summer, music, and the ball in the evening. The dog? My mini schnauzer got out as Park Road 22 experienced some of Barefoot Parade, which travels the my nieces arrived from out of town. the highest traffic volumes on record beach on North Padre Island between He is 10 pounds and silver. He is and without improvements to the Whitecap Blvd. and Nueces County wearing pajamas with monkeys. I live existing transportation infrastructure, Park Road near Access Road 5, is at the Whitecap condos.” expected growth will continue to diminish safety and operations in the Well, we don’t know what’s going area. Congestion and the resulting on over there at the Whitecap condos longer delays would increase the but if you got little dogs wearing point where it would restrict future pajamas with monkeys that sounds growth. like our kind of place. Now if you could get some Great Danes wearing The study began two years ago pajamas with mini schnauzers on with traffic counts at main Island them you got yourself quite a dog intersections during peak seasonal party. We hope the little fellow turned up, he would be hard to miss in those Traffic cont. on A4 Daily average traffic counts as measured by counters expected to have more than 60 floats. pajamas. The Official Barefoot festivities kick Don’t feed the pigeons off when the Parade begins at 11a.m. Auction Date for Schlitterbahn Park, The parade is free to attend. We got a complaint here at the Word Factory this week from a local who Mardi Gras cont. on A4 is having trouble with a Winter Texan Hotel, and Land Passes without Action feeding pigeons in the neighborhood. By Dale Rankin $18 million, the second on February San Antonio Bankruptcy Judge For many years there was an Island 25, 2015 was for $12,500,000. IBC Craig Gargotta gave Ragan and IBC Adopt-A-Beach Tuesday’s scheduled auction of falconer who would come to your had the right to sell either or both until January 31 to find a buyer for 28.63 acres of land containing the house if you had a pigeon problem parcels on Tuesday. the park, hotel, and 72.31 acre tract Schlitterbahn waterpark and hotel, Winter Cleanup and the falcon would run the pigeons or the bank could auction the land along with 72.31 acres of land The registered Trustee for the sale of off, at least for a few days. But then on Tuesday. The bank filed the containing the south end of the the property, Jon D. Lowe of Martin for some reason the pigeon problem necessary paperwork to proceed with Feb. 10th new canal passed without action & Drought in San Antonio, said receded and we haven’t heard from the auction but did not exercise the on the steps on the Nueces County Tuesday that no future date has been The Texas General Land Office him in a while. option, meaning the property would Courthouse Tuesday. announced for a sale. will hold its Winter Adopt-A- The thing about pigeons is they have to be re-riled twenty-one days Beach Winter Cleanup on Saturday, Both tracts were posted for sale at Dawn Ragan, the court appointed need some grit in order to digest their prior to March 6, the first Tuesday of February 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. auction prior to the required twenty- Bankruptcy Trustee for the property pigeon food and the grit they like for the month to be sold at that time. Volunteers are asked to wear closed- one day period before the first said Monday that an agreement had their gizzards is found on the shingles A local developer has been rumored toe shoes and bring plenty of drinking Tuesday of the month, but when been reached to postpone the sale of houses. That’s right, it’s a little to be interested in the 72.31 acre tract water. Adopt-A-Beach will provide the sun set on the courthouse steps while the property is marketed to known fact that the pigeons will eat with the intention of committing a all necessary materials. Tuesday night both parcels remained potential buyers. Sources at the park the shingles right off your house. Try portion of the $5 million required under the control of International said officials from the Six Flags Since 1986, more than 517,000 explaining that one to the Windstorm to guarantee the currently dug canal Bank of Commerce which holds two Entertainment Corporation, which Texas Adopt-A-Beach volunteers Insurance guy. “The pigeons ate would be bulkheaded, but he could not separate liens against the property for owns Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San have picked up more than 9,500 tons your roof you say, was it during a be reached for comment this week. a total of $30.5 million. According to Antonio, toured the park in recent of trash from Texas beaches, some hurricane?” The City of Corpus Christi has issued documents filed last month with the weeks, but a spokesperson for the of it originating from as far away as a Memorandum of Understanding If you must feed the birds we locals Nueces County Clerk the first loan San Antonio park on Tuesday offered South America. To register go to the stating it will move forward with ask that you feed the seagulls, and against the property was issued on a “no comment” on the company’s GLO website. funding and construction of the $11.5 please, do it in Kleberg County, at February 12, 2013 in the amount of potential interest. night, in the winter, when there is no Auction cont. on A4 Cleanup cont. on A4 one there but you and the gulls. Time to vote A little Island history The political signs springing up like so many toadstools after a rare Island Schlitterbahn Project rain are a sure sign that election Editor’s note: With the partners; Wind Water and Waves season is upon us. We have 7200 Schlitterbahn waterpark and hotel made up of Willard Hammond and registered voters on our little sandbar in the news lately we take the partners who contributed $9 million; and they turn out for every election in opportunity for a background on and the Henry family, owners and high numbers and the office seekers the project from its inception. The operators of Schlitterbahn. The know this. Unfortunately, if you have information here is taken directly entire development, which included, not yet registered it is too late to vote from bankruptcy court documents a riverwalk feature with retail space, in in the March 6 Primary Elections. filed by the parties involved, and as well as some residential, had a But if you are registered the first day from Island Moon archives as we total cost for the entire development to vote early is Tuesday, February 23 covered the story as it developed. estimated at $552 million. Under and the polling place for Early Voting the bylaws of UPP major decisions on The Island will once again be By Dale Rankin required the votes of all three Schlitterbahn. When groundbreaking for the ownership groups. According to Vote early and vote often. And when Schlitterbahn Riverpark & Resort court filings, the Henry family was you die asked to be buried in Duval was held on February 15, 2013 the obligated to cover any costs of park County so you can continue voting plan called for a very different park construction in access of the original after you are dead.