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The voice of The Island since 1996 February 1, 2018 FREE Weekly Issue 720 The Island Moon Around The Island By Dale Rankin Inside the Moon Managing Deer A5 The sniffling, coughing, and sneezing continues unabated hereabouts as we Islanders navigate our way through the cold and flu epidemic that is sweeping through the population. It’s been the soundtrack of our Island for the past few weeks, punctuated by the occasional shotgun blast as duck hunters work the water along the Laguna Madre. Reports from the Hill Country are that the trees there are covered with red pollen just waiting for a ride on the north wind to find its way into Island nostrils. The Weather Wonks are calling for a chilly February…but they’ve been wrong before. Sad news Tragedy struck at Del Mar College this week when it was announced that the Clown School classes would be cancelled due to lack of instructors. Where are the clowns? Send in the clowns…oh, don’t bother they’re not here. It was very sad. Selling the city It was reported to the Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday that the Hotel Occupancy Tax is up $765,000 from the same period last year but attendance at local attractions is down - $1 million at the State Aquarium alone. The increase in hotel business is due to workers in town for repairs after Hurricane Harvey. However, Convention and Visitors Bureau CEO Paulette Kluge said that increase is not seeping over in the restaurants and tourist attractions who are having a slow season across the city. To address the problem the council released $336,000 in funds from the Hotel Occupancy Tax early to fund a Rediscover the Coastal Bend campaigned aimed primarily at the feeder markets of San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and the Rio Grande Valley which are the source of the drive-in tourist trade. Kluge told the council the common belief in those markets is that Corpus Christi was hard hit by the storm and the campaign is aimed at letting them know the city is still open for business. The money will be rolled into an ongoing $1.7 million campaign which so far has seen a 45 percent increase from the Rio Grande Valley region. The new campaign will include an ad in this month’s Texas Monthly. Really Big Show Last Thursday was a big night at the Third Coast Recording Studio in Port Aransas as legendary Texas songwriter Terry Allen and a group of friends came rolling into town to raise money for the Port Aransas Museum and Farley Boat Works. The shindig was the work of Islander Rick Pratt and the place was packed. It was a great time and even David Koresh’s lawyer was there. Bridge update The outlook for the proposed Park Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge got a little brighter this week with unconfirmed reports that a local investor is considering buying the land on the south end of the new canal, increasing the likelihood of funding for bulkheads there. Funding for those new bulkheads is a condition set down by the city to release funds for the $11.5 million bridge. No matter what happens this week with the Schlitterbahn park, the bridge is the keystone of future development on The Island and the project has been hanging fire since the bids were opened last April with no progress to show on actual construction. We will keep you up to date as things develop. Moon on a Spoon A7 www.islandmoon.com A little Island history Revolution in Mexico, Raid on a Texas Train, Heads in a Gunny Sack, and Finally Peace in The Valley History cont. on A4 Traveling Moon A9 Around cont. on A4 Boots and Bling Ball A16 Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of stories about the warfare which broke out along the Texas/ Mexico border in the area south of Corpus Christi one hundred years ago. By Dale Rankin The relationship between the United States and Mexico with regards to The Border as always been a symbiotic one. Whether it be a maquiladora plant where cheap Mexican labor assembles parts made in China with a finished product shipped to America, or whether it be a deadly border fight among drug cartels literally fighting for access to an underground American market. The problems along the 1915 U.S./ Mexico border were much like the ones we face now, except the cause of the fight going on in Mexico then had nothing to do directly with the United States. It has been accurately said over the years that there are three ways of doing things; the right way, the wrong way, and the Mexican way. The Mexican way to fight a revolution was not to divide into two camps and fight it out, but rather to divide into five camps and fight a Balkanized war of attrition. By the fall of 1915 the revolution had narrowed to two groups; one headed by agrarian land reformer Emiliano Zapata in southern Mexico and Pancho Villa in the north, the other by Venustiano Carranza who’s policies, unbeknownst to American President Woodrow Wilson, had been the cause of the cross-border killing spree along the Rio Grande River. Carranza’s flirtation with the Germans who were looking for a foothold on the American continent had encouraged him to foment the Border War. Even as the warfare Mardi Gras cont. on A4 continued along the border Carranza had forged an alliance with General Álvaro Obregon in Northern Mexico and was closing in on victory in the revolution. In October Carranza requested and was granted permission to move troops over the American Railroads Photographer Steve Coons caught this shot of Big Foot on the move this week. more photos on page A2. Schlitterbahn cont. on A4 Spelling Champ A16 Pancho Villa (left center) and Emiliano Zapata in the National Palace in Mexico City. Schlitterbahn Deadline Passes With No Action Park and hotel could be auctioned on Tuesday By Dale Rankin The January 31 deadline for finding a buyer for the Schliterbahn Waterpark and hotel passed this week with no action taken by the lean holder, IBC Bank, and no indication of their plans for a potential auction of the property on Tuesday, February 6 when it has been listed for sale. In December San Antonio Bankruptcy Judge Craig Gargotta signed an order placing the property, which has been in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy since October, in foreclosure where it has remained without change since that time. The Judge gave the parties until January 31 to find a buyer or IBC Bank can sell the property at auction on the steps of the Nueces County Courthouse on Tuesday, February 6. The property is listed for auction, but IBC which loaned $28 million for the project, has the option of continueing to hold the property in foreclosure but not selling it and so far the bank spokesmen have declined to give indications of their plans for Tuesday. IBC Bank was the orginal financer of the park and is the first-position lender in case of foreclosure on the park and of 92-room hotel. Gargotta’s ruling effectively made the bank the owners of the property, unless/until a buyer can be found. The January deadline included only the park and hotel, the court appointed trustee, Dawn Ragan, has until May to file a plan for the entire development including the nine-hole golf course and surrounding land, and according to those involved in the deal has hired an outside search firm to market the IThe following data was compiled by the National Hurricane Center and released this week. The 78-page report details the tropical system from its origin in Western Africa, its rather ponderous journey across the Atlantic and into the Caribbean, across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico as a weak tropical depression. Then it’s quickly elevating status into a Category 1 storm and even quicker rise into a Cat 4 before slamming Island by the Numbers Hurricane Harvey in Port Aransas and the Texas Coastal Bend. 68 Direct deaths from Harvey in Texas alone 36 Direct deaths in Harris County 125 million dollars in damage by the storm 300,000 Structures flooded in the region 500,000 Cars flooded in the region 60.58 Inches of rain that fell in Nederland 2 New colors added to the NWS rainfall chart because of the epic rainfall 336,000 Customers who lost power during the hurricane 30,000 Water rescues during and after the storm 57 Tornadoes reported during Harvey, most in the Houston region 40,000 Evacuees sent for shelter or refuge between Texas and Louisiana 15,000 homes destroyed in Aransas County, Nueces County, Refugio County and the eastern part of San Patricio County. 25,000 homes damaged in the same areas. 220,000 customers lost power. 6 days interruption to the primary water supply to Port Aransas. Adopt-A-Beach Winter Cleanup February 10 The Texas General Land Office will hold its Winter Adopt-A- Beach Winter Cleanup on Saturday, February 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers are asked to wear closed- toe shoes and bring plenty of drinking water. Adopt-A-Beach will provide all necessary materials. Since 1986, more than 517,000 Texas Adopt-A-Beach volunteers have picked up more than 9,500 tons of trash from Texas beaches, some of it originating from as far away as South America. To register go to the GLO website. Laissez Le Bon Temps Roulet! Barefoot Mardi Gras Set for February 10 Kickoff Party Friday February 2 The Barefoot Mardi Gras Fat Friday kickoff party is set for Friday, February 2 at Briscoe King Pavilion at Padre Balli Park. It begins at 6 p.m. with live music. Then on Saturday, February 10 the Barefoot Mardi Gras Beach Parade and King & Queen’s Ball will he held. The events feature a colorful and unique beach parade followed by a Beaches cont. on A4 Photo by Claudia J Harbison Fitts

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The voice of The Island since 1996

February 1, 2018

FREEWeekly

Issue 720 The

IslandMoon

Around The Island

By Dale Rankin

Inside the Moon

Managing Deer A5

The sniffling, coughing, and sneezing continues unabated hereabouts as we Islanders navigate our way through the cold and flu epidemic that is sweeping through the population. It’s been the soundtrack of our Island for the past few weeks, punctuated by the occasional shotgun blast as duck hunters work the water along the Laguna Madre. Reports from the Hill Country are that the trees there are covered with red pollen just waiting for a ride on the north wind to find its way into Island nostrils. The Weather Wonks are calling for a chilly February…but they’ve been wrong before.

Sad news

Tragedy struck at Del Mar College this week when it was announced that the Clown School classes would be cancelled due to lack of instructors. Where are the clowns? Send in the clowns…oh, don’t bother they’re not here. It was very sad.

Selling the city

It was reported to the Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday that the Hotel Occupancy Tax is up $765,000 from the same period last year but attendance at local attractions is down - $1 million at the State Aquarium alone. The increase in hotel business is due to workers in town for repairs after Hurricane Harvey. However, Convention and Visitors Bureau CEO Paulette Kluge said that increase is not seeping over in the restaurants and tourist attractions who are having a slow season across the city. To address the problem the council released $336,000 in funds from the Hotel Occupancy Tax early to fund a Rediscover the Coastal Bend campaigned aimed primarily at the feeder markets of San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and the Rio Grande Valley which are the source of the drive-in tourist trade. Kluge told the council the common belief in those markets is that Corpus Christi was hard hit by the storm and the campaign is aimed at letting them know the city is still open for business. The money will be rolled into an ongoing $1.7 million campaign which so far has seen a 45 percent increase from the Rio Grande Valley region. The new campaign will include an ad in this month’s Texas Monthly.

Really Big Show

Last Thursday was a big night at the Third Coast Recording Studio in Port Aransas as legendary Texas songwriter Terry Allen and a group of friends came rolling into town to raise money for the Port Aransas Museum and Farley Boat Works. The shindig was the work of Islander Rick Pratt and the place was packed. It was a great time and even David Koresh’s lawyer was there.

Bridge update

The outlook for the proposed Park Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge got a little brighter this week with unconfirmed reports that a local investor is considering buying the land on the south end of the new canal, increasing the likelihood of funding for bulkheads there. Funding for those new bulkheads is a condition set down by the city to release funds for the $11.5 million bridge. No matter what happens this week with the Schlitterbahn park, the bridge is the keystone of future development on The Island and the project has been hanging fire since the bids were opened last April with no progress to show on actual construction. We will keep you up to date as things develop.

Moon on a Spoon A7

www.islandmoon.com

A little Island history

Revolution in Mexico, Raid on a Texas Train, Heads in a Gunny Sack, and Finally Peace in The Valley

History cont. on A4

Traveling Moon A9

Around cont. on A4

Boots and Bling Ball A16

Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of stories about the warfare which broke out along the Texas/Mexico border in the area south of Corpus Christi one hundred years ago.

By Dale Rankin

The relationship between the United States and Mexico with regards to The Border as always been a symbiotic one. Whether it be a maquiladora plant where cheap Mexican labor assembles parts made in China with a finished product shipped to America, or whether it be a deadly border fight among drug cartels literally fighting for access to an underground American market.

The problems along the 1915 U.S./Mexico border were much like the ones we face now, except the cause of the fight going on in Mexico then had nothing to do directly with the

United States. It has been accurately said over the years that there are three ways of doing things; the right way, the wrong way, and the Mexican way.

The Mexican way to fight a revolution was not to divide into two camps and fight it out, but rather to divide into five camps and fight a Balkanized war of attrition. By the fall of 1915 the revolution had narrowed to two groups; one headed by agrarian land reformer Emiliano Zapata in southern Mexico and Pancho Villa in the north, the other by Venustiano Carranza who’s policies, unbeknownst to American President Woodrow Wilson, had been the cause of the cross-border killing spree along the Rio Grande River.

Carranza’s flirtation with the Germans who were looking for a foothold on the American continent had encouraged him to foment the Border War. Even as the warfare

Mardi Gras cont. on A4

continued along the border Carranza had forged an alliance with General Álvaro Obregon in Northern Mexico and was closing in on victory in the revolution.

In October Carranza requested and was granted permission to move troops over the American Railroads

Photographer Steve Coons caught this shot of Big Foot on the move this week. more photos on page A2.

Schlitterbahn cont. on A4

Spelling Champ A16

Pancho Villa (left center) and Emiliano Zapata in the National Palace in Mexico City.

Schlitterbahn Deadline Passes With No Action

Park and hotel could be auctioned on TuesdayBy Dale Rankin

The January 31 deadline for finding a buyer for the Schliterbahn Waterpark and hotel passed this week with no action taken by the lean holder, IBC Bank, and no indication of their plans for a potential auction of the property on Tuesday, February 6 when it has been listed for sale.

In December San Antonio Bankruptcy Judge Craig Gargotta signed an order placing the property, which has been in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy since October, in

foreclosure where it has remained without change since that time. The Judge gave the parties until January 31 to find a buyer or IBC Bank can sell the property at auction on the steps of the Nueces County Courthouse on Tuesday, February 6. The property is listed for auction, but IBC which loaned $28 million for the project, has the option of continueing to hold the property in foreclosure but not selling it and so far the bank spokesmen have declined to give indications of their plans for Tuesday.

IBC Bank was the orginal financer

of the park and is the first-position lender in case of foreclosure on the park and of 92-room hotel. Gargotta’s ruling effectively made the bank the owners of the property, unless/until a buyer can be found. The January deadline included only the park and hotel, the court appointed trustee, Dawn Ragan, has until May to file a plan for the entire development including the nine-hole golf course and surrounding land, and according to those involved in the deal has hired an outside search firm to market the

IThe following data was compiled by the National Hurricane Center and released this week. The 78-page report details the tropical system from its origin in Western Africa, its rather ponderous journey across the Atlantic and into the Caribbean, across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico as a weak tropical depression. Then it’s quickly elevating status into a Category 1 storm and even quicker rise into a Cat 4 before slamming

Island by the NumbersHurricane Harvey

in Port Aransas and the Texas Coastal Bend.

68 Direct deaths from Harvey in Texas alone

36 Direct deaths in Harris County

125 million dollars in damage by the storm

300,000 Structures flooded in the region

500,000 Cars flooded in the region

60.58 Inches of rain that fell in Nederland

2 New colors added to the NWS rainfall chart because of the epic rainfall

336,000 Customers who lost power during the hurricane

30,000 Water rescues during and after the storm

57 Tornadoes reported during Harvey, most in the Houston region

40,000 Evacuees sent for shelter or refuge between Texas and Louisiana

15,000 homes destroyed in Aransas County, Nueces County, Refugio County and the eastern part of San Patricio County.

25,000 homes damaged in the same areas.

220,000 customers lost power.

6 days interruption to the primary water supply to Port Aransas.

Adopt-A-Beach Winter Cleanup

February 10The Texas General Land Office

will hold its Winter Adopt-A-Beach Winter Cleanup on Saturday, February 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers are asked to wear closed-toe shoes and bring plenty of drinking water. Adopt-A-Beach will provide all necessary materials.

Since 1986, more than 517,000 Texas Adopt-A-Beach volunteers have picked up more than 9,500 tons of trash from Texas beaches, some of it originating from as far away as South America. To register go to the GLO website.

Laissez Le Bon Temps Roulet!

Barefoot Mardi Gras Set for February 10

Kickoff Party Friday February 2

The Barefoot Mardi Gras Fat Friday k i c k o f f party is set for Friday, February 2 at

Briscoe King Pavilion at Padre Balli Park. It begins at 6 p.m. with live music.

Then on Saturday, February 10 the Barefoot Mardi Gras Beach Parade and King & Queen’s Ball will he held.

The events feature a colorful and unique beach parade followed by a

Beaches cont. on A4

Photo by Claudia J Harbison Fitts

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Editor's NoteWe are offering space here for each of the seven candidates

in the race for seat on the Board of Directors on March 10. Ballots in the race will be

sent out in the next week.Each property owner gets

one vote for each piece of property owned. Seven

candidates are running for three seats, with the three top

vote getters taking office. We are offering each of

the candidates space here between now and the election.

Each candidate can submit two statements on subjects of their choice up to 700 words between now and

Election Day. We will run the submissions in the order they

are received. To submit e-mail to editor@

islandmoon.com the statements will be run in their

entirety and without edit.

Scary Island MemoryEditor’s note: Our request last time for help

in gathering information on Island history garnered this response from our friend Dee. It sounds pretty scary.

Dale,

This not really a “history” of The Island but a “memory” of the past.

Way back in 1965 we lived in Mobile, Alabama, working at Brookley AFB and were being transferred to NAS in Corpus Christi. While visiting The Island we discovered the restaurant now called Island Italian, I do not remember its name at that time.

There was a little creepy room with black lights that made your face look like monster – very scary!

Harvie on the seawall

Did Ya Hear?

New AdvertisersChris Mapp is asking for your vote for U.S. Congress 27th District in the Republican Primary on March 6th. “I have a passion for service, for people and government as it relates to our freedoms, independence and opportunities without burdensome regulations”.

Business BriefsMarker 37 has big changes coming soon. The new owner, Austin developer Mitchell Kalogridis, has plans to put in a larger outer deck, restaurant, large area of fish cleaning stations and more. Manager Trey is on site and will be involved in the renovations.Port A Restaurants - Moby Dick’s opened this week but for now they are accepting cash only. MacDaddys’ Family Kitchen will open Friday, February 2nd. La Playa Mexican Restaurant is open. Jay’s Seafood & Spaghetti Works opened last week.The Island Strategic Action Committee (ISAC) is looking for people interested in being involved in the planning for Island parks team. If interested, go to the next meeting scheduled for Tuesday, February 6th 5:30 pm at the Holiday Inn Express.The Farmers Insurance Agency

office next to Bangkok Star Restaurant has closed.Havana Nails & Spa will be opening soon in the former Bella’s location.The Barefoot Mardi Gras Fat Friday Kickoff Party is set for Friday, February 2nd at Briscoe King Pavilion at Padre Balli Park. It begins at 6 p.m. with live music. A new bait & tackle shop is being built at the corner of SPID and Laguna Shores.Island Joe’s Coffee Shop now has home baked quiche daily.Animal Hospital Padre Island is offering 20% off recommended dental procedures through the month of February.The historic 72-foot Port Isabel Lighthouse near South Padre is reopening its doors to visitors after being closed to the public for repairs in early 2016. It was built in 1850 and is the only public accessible lighthouse in Texas. Police units were sent to the Holiday Inn Express on Tuesday for reports of a man going through some type of mental health or drug related hysteria.    He was transported to a hospital where he died. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.The Annual Ellis Memorial Library Book Sale will be held Saturday, February 3rd 9 am – 5 pm at the Port Aransas Civic Center at 710 West Avenue A.Reminder – Bingo at Schlitterbahn Thursdays at 7 pm.A Big Happy Birthday to Islander Harvie who celebrates her 103rd birthday Saturday afternoon at Snoopy’s Pier. Chocolate gifts are expected for this chocolate lover who calls Hershey kisses “points.”

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In the room was a large coffin with a hug dead Indian laid out inside. It was so spooky! And it was the favorite memory of our new home. I’m wondering if anyone else remember “old Spooky.”

Dee Haveman -- Island

Litter CritterDale:

Last week we inquired at the property owners Assn. as to when the Litter Critter will start up again. We were informed that the city told the POA that they didn't think that they were going to do it any more. This was a highly used service and is sure to be missed. We are wondering if you would have any interest in following up on this. It seems as though taxes keep going up and benefits keep going down.

John & Dottie Drew

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Mardis GrasWhat is the attire for the Kings and Queens

Ball ? Jeans and sneakers or suits and dresses?

Thanks,

Derrick D. Richardson

Firefighter, Author, Volunteer

Editor’s note: We don’t know of anyone ever being turned away from the ball due to their dress Derrick. Anything with Mardi Gras colors, flip-flops are good for any occasion on The Island. Throw on some beads, a grocery story Mardi Gras hat, pretty much anything – except a suit, unless of course you want to stand out.

Board CandidatesOn January 18 of this year the PIPOA hosted

a question and answer session for all PIPOA Board Candidates. Six of the seven Candidates attended. JR Miller was sick with the flu and could not attend. We all hope he is feeling better, and can make the next Candidate night on February 15.

Our PIPOA President, Brent Moore, was the MC of the January meet and greet. All the questions for the Candidates were written on 3x5 cards by the homeowners and given to Mr. Moore to read. Unfortunately, not all the questions were read which he claims were due to a time restraint.

My suggestion is at the next PIPOA meet and greet, all cards should be placed in clear fish bowl, and someone other than a PIPOA Board Member, employee, Board Attorney, or PIPOA Candidate should read the questions on the 3x5 cards as they are pulled from the bowl. That mystery Master of Ceremonies should be any PIPOA homeowner who attends the February 15 Candidate meeting, and after signing in, their name will be pulled randomly from the hat. That procedure would be fair to all and unbiased.

Thank you, Pete Allsopp

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History cont. from A1

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from Eagle Pass, Texas to Sonora to reinforce Obregon’s forces fighting Villa. Wilson, unaware of Carranza’s double game of pushing a Border War on one hand while seeking diplomatic recognition for his government on the other, recognized the Carranza government effectively making him the winner of the Mexican Revolution.

Carranza received American diplomatic recognition on October 19, 1915. This opened the way for Carranza to move his troops across American soil on American railroads, it also made him the de facto President of Mexico.

The train will be a little late

Unbeknownst to Wilson was an attack the night before his recognition of Carranza on the St. Louis, Brownsville, & Mexico Railroad by Mexican Revolutionaries acting presumably without Carranza’s orders. At 10:45 p.m. raiders stuck the rail line which was the lifeline of the Rio Grande Valley. The southbound passenger train was less than seven miles north of Brownsville, near Olmisto, when sixty raiders, mostly from Matamoros and led by Luis de la Rosa and Aniceto Pizana derailed the train. They had pulled up the spikes holding a rail in place and as the locomotive approached they yanked the rail away.

The engine overturned, killing the engineer and severely scalding the fireman with steam. The engine, tender, baggage, and express cars left the track, while the smoking car and first-class coach remained upright.

Half a dozen masked raiders stormed the train yelling, “Viva Carranza, Viva Luis de la Rosa, Viva Aniceto Pizana and began robbing and shooting Anglo passengers. Hispanics were not molested.

Three soldiers in uniform were shot immediately, one died and the other two were wounded. An ex-Texas Ranger and a Texas quarantine officer tried to hide in the lavatory but a Hispanic youngster on the train revealed

their hiding place and the raiders fired through the door. The ex-Ranger had a finger shot off and was shot in the shoulder but survived. The quarantine officer died.

The local District Attorney, John Kleiber, was returning from court in Corpus Christi and was saved because he was covered in blood from one of the soldiers who was shot and the raiders thought he was dying. Kleiber later said there was blood from one end of the coach to the other.

The raiders took $325 in cash from the passengers along with diamonds and watches, even a sample case from a traveling salesman. They stole shoes – favoring regulation U.S. Army footwear which they stripped from the soldiers. Kleiber had his shoes stolen as well but would later prosecute several men who participated in the attack. The ex-Ranger later testified he recognized Luis de la Rosa even though the raider was wearing a mask.

“I’m going to kill those fellows”

What really disturbed the Texas authorities was that de la Rosa had learned that the army had removed the detachment guarding the train station near where the raid occurred only a few days before. The raiders had an infiltrator in the American Army’s ranks. They headed out for Mexico and burned a railroad trestle south of the station so that when the Army troops arrived to help they had to walk the last mile. By then the raiders were back in Mexico.

Along with the army troops from Fort Brown the Texas Rangers also arrived from their camp in Brownsville along with about 1000 Brownsville citizens who flocked to the scene, including a “large number of Brownsville women who had to be carried from the scene due to feinting spells.”

The Texans wanted revenge and Ranger Captain Henry Ransom obliged by seizing four random Hispanics and executing them. This act created a rift between state and local lawman. Sheriff W.T. Vann from Brownsville later testified “We came out there and arrested those four men. Captain Ransom had them and walked over to me and says, ‘I am going to kill those fellows’ and I told him no. He says ‘if you don’t have the guts …to do it, I will go myself.’ I says, that takes a whole lot of guts, four fellows with their hands tied behind them, it takes a whole lot of guts to do that.”

A few days later a local newspaper reported

Around cont. from A1By the numbers

The head of the Corpus Christi Association of Realtors told the city council on Tuesday that the median price of a home in the city is now $184,000, up from $134,000 in 2004-2005. The bad news is that median household income ten years ago was $56,900 and is now $50,000. We’re going in the wrong direction. One consequence of that drop is that 46 percent of residents in the city rent their home. To further exacerbate the situation, he said, coastal dwellers have additional costs not always borne by upland livers such as Windstorm and flood insurance. Think of it as a Paradise Tax.

It’s time to Super Bowl everybody. That means it’s time to get out the guacamole and fire up the pit, here’s hoping everybody wins their football pool. If you are not a football fan and the weather holds it will be a good Sunday for boating because you will have the water to yourself.

We’ll see you on the other side, and say hello if you see us Around The Island.

property to potential buyers. If no buyer is found by that time that property, which has also been in foreclosure and Chapter 11 Bankrutpcy since October, it too can be sold at auction.

Sources close to the deal said this week that IBC Bank is in discussions with the owners of the Schlitterbahn parks statewide to continue operating the park. Park officials have announed the park will not be open for Spring Break 2018 but will open for the summer season on April 28.

Schlitterbahn cont. from A1

Mardi Gras cont. from A1festival of food, family fun, and music, and the ball in the evening. The Barefoot Parade, which travels the beach on North Padre Island between Whitecap Blvd. and Nueces County Park Road near Access Road 5, is expected to have more than 60 floats. The Official Barefoot festivities kick off when the Parade begins at 11a.m. The parade is free to attend.

The parade will be followed by a festival at the Balli Park Pavilion, entry fee is $5 and features food trucks, kids’ activities, live music, awards, float displays, zany costumes, face painting, demonstrations, sand castle play area, The Kidz Fun Zone, crafts, and beer. It runs from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. and you’ll find happy hour prices for Lone Star beer, and live music this year from OTB.

Then at 7 p.m. the King & Queen's Ball kicks off at the Veranda Restaurant at Schlitterbahn and has ramped up the adult only night with a new Cajun menu and a shrimp boil with Rollin’ Tide Boil Company from 7 p.m. to midnight with dance music and New Orleans style blues from the band Splendiferous.

Join in the fun by Sponsoring, Participating, Volunteering, and Attending!!

Contact: [email protected], www.barefootmardigras.com. On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/barefoot.mardigras/.

Register your Krewe to be in the parade or apply to be a vendor at the festival at http://www.barefootmardigras.com/about/#events. Email [email protected] for more information. Come early with all the friends and family for a great day at the beach on Padre Island near Bob Hall Pier.

Beaches cont. from A1The sites in the Coastal Bend Are:

Packery Flats

Parking lot off Hwy 361, on Mustang Island near Packery Channel

Contact: Jace Tunnell, Coastal Bays Foundation

361-882-3439

[email protected]

[email protected]

Kleberg County - Padre Island National Seashore

Malaquite Visitor Center

20420 Park Road 22

Contact: William “Buzz” Botts

361-949-8068 or 8069

[email protected]

Port Aransas

Avenue G at the beach

Contact: Harry Martinez

361-215-2763

[email protected]

North Beach Corpus Christi

Texas State Aquarium

2710 North Shoreline Boulevard

Contact: Melanie Kudra

361-881-1319

[email protected]

Rosanna Gossett 361-881-1204

[email protected]

Luis de la Rosa

The Border War was a dirty fight.

Train wreck and robbery.that “no inquest would be held” over the four bodies found. The same day as the newspaper posting twenty-five raiders attacked the fifteen-man Signal Corps detachment at Ojo de Aqua killing three and wounding eight soldiers. This was the last straw for U.S. General Frederick Funston who issued a statement of No Quarter authorizing the execution of captured raiders on the spot. He also asked the Secretary of War for bloodhounds and Apache scouts to be sent to the border. Three days later raiders tried to burn the railroad trestle which had been rebuilt but were driven off by Army troops.

Heads in a gunny sack

Little did anyone know this was to the last raid of the Border War which had begun in 1911 and burst into full combat in 1915. This was due partially to Wilson’s recognition of Carranza and partially due to 800 men from the 28th Infantry regiment sent to South Texas to augment the 5000 troops already there.

Local citizens put up a $1000 reward for the killing or either or both de la Rosa or Pizana. The U.S. Attorney General reduced the amount to $250 apiece and stipulated that the reward would only be paid to persons who delivered the heads of either of the men in a gunny sack to the American side of the Rio Grande – an unusual bounty to be issued forth by the U.S. government.

But Carranza had withdrawn his support for the raids and they stopped. The guerrillas were now so busy dodging the Mexican Army they had no time for raids into Texas. The death toll from the Border War was put at around 5000 – about 300 executed by hanging or shooting by governmental entities. The war to return South Texas to Mexico was over. Carranza executed Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa would flee into the Mexican interior pursued by the U.S. Army.

But the damage caused by the war between Anglos and Hispanics in South Texas was done. The Anglos viewed the Mexican-Americans as a fifth column for Mexican interests. The Mexican-Americans, many of whose families had live on their land since before it was part of Texas or the United States, were ostracized by former friends.

The Border War was history but its legacy was not.

The Mexicans who had instigated the war with the intent of retuning Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California to Mexico were left with nothing but the oft repeated fateful line still heard today in the Border Region, “Tan cerca de Estados Unidos tan lejos de dios;”

So close to America so far from God.”

ISAC Meeting February 6

The Island Strategic Action Committee will meet Tuesday, February 6, at Holiday Inn Express on Windward Drive. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. and the public is invited to speak.

Topics for the meeting include a briefing on the Traffic Mobility Study for Padre Island, and dates on improvements to the Beach Access Road 3A. ISAC is an advisory board the Corpus Christi City Council. The meetings are open to the public.

Luis de la Rosa

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Tides of the WeekTides for Bob Hall Pier: February 1 - February 8

Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible

Th 1 Low 9:24 AM -0.9 7:15 AM Set 8:08 AM 99

1 High 5:43 PM 1.3 6:10 PM Rise 7:42 PM

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F 2 High 2:08 AM 1.0 7:15 AM Set 8:53 AM 97

2 Low 10:16 AM -0.6 6:11 PM Rise 8:45 PM

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Sa 3 High 3:32 AM 1.0 7:14 AM Set 9:35 AM 92

3 Low 11:08 AM -0.3 6:11 PM Rise 9:46 PM

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Su 4 Low 12:11 AM 0.5 7:13 AM Set 10:14 AM 86

4 High 4:58 AM 0.9 6:12 PM Rise 10:45 PM

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Tu 6 Low 1:43 AM 0.1 7:12 AM Set 11:28 AM 68

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8 High 1:11 PM 1.1 6:15 PM Set 12:45 PM

By Dale Rankin

One way you can tell Island kids from non-Island kids is the Island

kids are the ones who take off their shoes to play in the street and put them on to play in the parks. Even Island dogs won’t venture into Island parks barefoot because they know it will be a sticker bur laden experience.

Since the majority of The Island was annexed in 1981 our five city parks have been like the weather, everyone complains about them but no one does anything about them. It looks like work is about to begin at Billish Park this month, but even for the other four parks, as of this week, it looks like we have our chance to finally address the problem.

First some background

The Island has five city parks: Commodores Park 18.99 acres, Billish Park 11.15 acres, Aquarius Park 8.62 acres, Douden Park 6.77 acres, and Ulberg Park 3.40 acres. The parks were deeded to the City of Corpus Christi when the majority of The Island was annexed in November, 1981. A Memorandum of Understanding was drawn up between the Padre Island Investment Corporation which then owned the property, the Padre Isles Property Owners Association, and the City of Corpus Christi spelling out what each would and would not do once The Island became part of the city. The heart of the quid pro quo between the city and The Island with regards to the parks is found in Section II Parks.

Section IV. Parks and Recreation; Subsection B. Park Maintenance

“Upon conveyance by Padre Isles Investment Corporation and acceptance by City, City will assume responsibility for maintaining existing park areas and improvements thereon. Such level of maintenance will be equal to that provided to other parks in the City.”

That level is zero. The city by its own admission has no money for park upkeep beyond mowing the grass, in fact Parks Director Jay Ellington said Tuesday nine parks have been sold recently simply because there was not, and likely never will be, money to maintain them and no amount of complaining is going to change that in the foreseeable future. But there is an opportunity.

Window of opportunity

A steady stream of citizens lined up at city hall on Tuesday to stress the importance of parks in attracting and keeping young, professionals in the city. Several physicians and attorneys took to the microphone to explain how keeping young professionals in town due to the lack of park space. It a common story that the city has difficulty keeping young doctors in town, not because the doctors don’t like working here, but because their spouses don’t like living here due to the lack of lifestyle amenities, parks being at the top of the list.

Each five years the city’s Master Plan for parks is revisited and this is that year and the council will spend $75,000 on a study to determine the best course of action. The plan will take about a year to finish and when it’s done may or may not make a difference but one thing for certain;

it will not mean more money to maintain parks. But the fact that it is being updated means it is a time when changes can readily be made.

That’s where our opportunity lies.

Island plan

Four years ago when the city began work on a citywide development plan The Island was left out of the equation so the Island Strategic Action Committee took on the task and drew up an Island plan that was adopted as part of the citywide plan. The advantage of Islanders doing it ourselves meant we didn’t have to wait on the city to act, and we got to determine what we wanted in it and it worked great. We can now do the same with our parks.

The current park plan suggests that certain elements can only be in parks of fifty acres or more – such as splash pads for kids in the hot summer months. The restrictions are suggestions only but are obstacles to certain features in park development. Since the city is willing to donate water to parks, as is currently the case in Aquarius Park, splash pads could be an addition to any or all parks across The Island – one is planned for the new Billish Park. The same is true for tennis courts, playground equipment, and dare I say it, even a swimming pool.

Adoption system

If the right rules are put in place by Islanders and only for Island parks, we can determine for ourselves what we want and place that language in the new park plan. The city encourages citizens to adopt their local parks and will help with construction, the key is long-term maintenance and there we are on our own. It is up to us to decide what we want to do, but the formation of the new plan offers us an opportunity, through the ISAC, to decide for ourselves what we want.

We at the point where we know complaining and asking the city to fix our parks is just not going to get the job done. If we want good parks we can have them, the opportunity is there, we just have to get organized and make it happen. So talk to your neighbors, find out if others might be interested in joining an effort to improve the park near you house. It is already being done with success in Aquarius Park and can spread to the others as well. It’s time to act, otherwise we’ll be raising another generation of kids who put their shoes on to play in the park.

The ball, as they say, is in our park…

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Ask Ralph

"Success is 50% Chance,

50% Hard Work"Editor’s note: Ralph Coker is a retired

petroleum refinery plant manager and long time Islander. He is a volunteer mentor with SCORE which provides free mentoring to small businesses and nonprofits.

Q. I’m about to start my new business. I have good management experience, a good business plan and start-up financing. However, I still have doubts whether I will succeed or fail. How can I be more confident?

A. Sounds like you are well prepared. However, you never know whether customers will buy your product or service until you open your doors and try. To limit your risk, try to put your product or service on the market at the least cost possible.

When making a high risk major business decision, a good strategy is to identify the worst possible outcome and decide whether you can live with that emotionally and financially. For a new business start-up, the worst outcome is you won’t have enough customers and sales revenue to pay all your expenses. You’ll run out of cash to pay expenses and go bankrupt. That’s a painful process emotionally and financially. If your business fails, be realistic and shut down to stop your losses before you get too far in debt. Sell off your inventory before shutting down and after shutting down, sell your equipment to reduce your debt.

If you can live with that outcome emotionally and financially, go ahead and start. When you are retired someday, you don’t want to look back and regret not trying. That would really be the worst possible outcome. You can survive business failure and go on with your career and your life. Failure is not the end.

I’ve been retired for many years. I often reminisce about my business successes and failures. Fortunately, mine were mostly successes with a few failures. I was a business manager, not an entrepreneur. I did make a major career change at age 55 after 30 years with one company. I could have retired comfortably at that point but didn’t want to end my career. I took another job and had another 15 years which was the most satisfying and rewarding years of my career. However, it was a scary experience because there was no way to know how it would turn out.

I found most business success is 50% chance and 50% hard work, persistence and ability. However, chance can’t work for you if you are not in the game. Market timing may be just right for your new business and make it successful. However, you’ll never know if you don’t try.

Thoughts From Dr. Tom

Managing Deer This week I am going

to chat about managing deer to help care for the environment they live in

and also to improve the overall health of the deer herd. In general lessons learned from large high fenced ranching for wildlife can be applied to low fenced large ranches as long as neighbors are big or follow the same management plans. Small low fenced properties are hard to manage due to every landowner being afraid his neighbor will kill a deer prematurely and therefore all premature deer are shot.

My back ground is coming from 1000 to 4000 acre ranches both low and high fenced. Prior to last year I managed a 4000 acre ranch with the help of a group of seasoned game biologists who we partnered with to allow them a place to hunt and give us help reaching harvest quotas. Over that 15 years I learned a lot. Most folks know nutrition, age and genetics create big deer. In order to provide age and nutrition, population numbers have to be controlled and then deer have to be allowed to reach maturity of 6 to 8 years of age if they are being fed supplemental protein. Six years is a better number if they are free range with no supplemental feed.

Nutrition is big deal especially here in South Texas where when it rains it looks like Vietnam and when it doesn’t it looks like the moon. I believe in supplemental protein feeding especially here because rain is finicky and food plots are useless when it is dry because they will not grow and when it rains you don’t really need them. In areas with more moisture year around food plots are good. South Texas just doesn’t get enough rain most of the time. I have been more aggressive in recent years making sure that I have a 2000 pound feeder for every 200 acres free choice of 20 % deer protein There are many good brands out there. I am feeding about 56 pounds per acre during the January to October period. Good water

available is also very important.

Population control is paramount or no matter how much you feed, the land and brush will be overgrazed and you will go broke. Keeping a buck to do ratio of 1 to 1 is perfect in my opinion because at that ratio your big mature bucks have some breeding advantage theoretically and you will find rattling around the rut more effective due to competition for does. Keeping doe numbers under control is therefore key since they have the highest reproductive efficiency, often having twins during good times. Getting census numbers then is very helpful for determining harvest quotas. This can be done from helicopter surveys, stand counts , game drives and game cameras. If you know about what your census is and the buck, doe and fawn numbers then you can predict what you need to harvest to keep the ranch in good shape. In general 1 deer per 20 acres was considered healthy but now I shoot for about 1 to every 15 acres due to high feed rates and it allows us to see more game and still keep the ranch in good shape. Fawn recruitment essentially means how many does have surviving fawns each year. That number directly affects your census and we usually assume a 1 to1 buck fawn to doe fawn ratio.

When we first started out on the big ranch we would kill 200 plus does annually which is a ton of work. High fencing helps eliminate some of that because this keeps out deer from adjoining property that may not be well managed and therefore has poorer range conditions and then animals of all kinds will leave to greener pastures. The nice part about being a good steward of the land is that all animals benefit from quail, doves, song birds, javis, coons and even the predators that prey on them because of improved conditions and population.

Managing these ranches and lands can be a challenge when doing it with stick and string but it can be done. Rifles are much more useful for completing your doe harvest because face it the girls are just smarter but don’t tell my wife that. The benefits of this are a healthier ranch and more animals of every kind and as a bonus you will begin to see older larger deer and that can be exciting as well.

The flu seems to be winding down a little. We appreciate all the kind words from the patients that we see and we are always here when you need us. Have great week. Doc Tom

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February 1, 2018Island MoonA6Senior Moments

What Should You Do In Case Of Nuclear Attack?

By Dotson Lewis

Special to the Island Moon

Anecdotingly

By Abigail Bair

Frankenvacuum

Dotson’s Note: Do you remember soon after the end of WWII the drills and other “stuff” that we, in the US of A, went through preparing for a possible nuclear attack? Do you believe that we should be preparing again, just in case? Thank you to James Jainey, Brooke Buddemeier; Dr. Robert Levin, Irwin Redlener, and Barb Graff for their contributions to this report.

‘Don’t Run. Get Inside’

The threats seem to come almost daily now out of North Korea — ballistic missile firings, preparations to test a nuclear bomb and routine bravado. In April, state-owned media in the rogue nation vowed a “super mighty preemptive strike,” one that will reduce the U.S. to “ashes.”

A few of weeks ago, residents in Hawaii were sent into a panic when they received alerts on their mobile phones and televisions warning that a ballistic missile was on its way. The warning, which claimed "this is not a drill," somewhat quickly prompted officials to say later that it was sent in error.

Meanwhile, American weapons experts believe Pyongyang is likely a few years from having the capability of firing a nuclear–equipped missile that can reach the U.S. mainland.

Yet some leading emergency response planners view the persistent menace of North Korea as a new opportunity: reason to alert the American public that a limited nuclear attack can be survivable, with a few precautions.

That conclusion has been the consensus of the U.S. emergency and public health establishments for years, though national, state and local governments generally have been less than aggressive about putting the word out to the public.

“The goal is to put as many walls and as much concrete, brick and soil between you and the radioactive material outside.” Officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Department of Homeland Security say the nuclear safety directives are available, including online at Ready.gov, but they have not broadcast them more widely. Asked about spreading the word beyond the website, a FEMA spokesperson emailed a terse response: "At this time there are no specific plans to do any messaging on this topic."

Part of the reticence has been out of a fear of alarming the public and part has been an attempt to balance education about “radiation safety” with other messages about threats like earthquakes, hurricanes and floods, say academics who advise the government.

“There is a lot of fatalism on this subject, the feeling that there will be untold death and destruction and there is nothing to be done,” said Irwin Redlener, director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness. “But the thing that is frustrating for me is that, with some very simple public messaging, we could save hundreds of thousands of lives in a nuclear detonation.”

Duck-And-Cover Drills A Thing Of The Past

Brooke Buddemeier, a nationally-recognized expert on nuclear disaster preparedness from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said that following the 9/11 attacks, Americans may have suffered a kind of “preparedness fatigue.”

“There was so much information that came out altogether,” Buddemeier said, “but then it’s kind of hard to fit information about nuclear terrorism in with warnings about earthquakes and hurricanes and wildfires and all other emergencies that happen on a regular basis.”

The last time that the threat of imminent nuclear attack gripped the American conscious, John F. Kennedy was in the White House. But duck-and-cover drills soon became a thing of the past and at-home fallout shelters are a rarity.

Local governments abandoned the mass public shelters they built during the Cold War. Parking garages beneath the Los Angeles Civic Center and a subterranean vault beneath a Seattle freeway overpass are no longer designated as safe zones for a retreating public.

While North Korean provocations have received the most attention in recent weeks, government officials remain at least as concerned about the possibility of an attack by terrorists or other “non-state” actors. In these scenarios, a nuclear device might be secreted into a ship, or some other delivery device, and

exploded at ground level.

The largest nuclear blasts would create a fireball a mile in diameter and temperatures as hot as the surface of the sun, followed quickly by winds greater than the force of a hurricane, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (North Korea’s past nuclear tests have been far smaller, with the largest an estimated 10 kilotons, less than either of the atomic bombs used on Japan in World War II). Radioactive fallout would be carried for miles by the jet stream and surface winds. While little might be done for immediate blast victims, researchers say that the public’s response will be crucial.

Resist the Instinct to Run For the Hills

Years of novels, television and movie dramatizations have popularized visions of nuke victims flowing out of cities in unruly masses, seeking out radiation-free air. But experts say that finding a route to safety would range from difficult to impossible, given the droves who would be gridlocking freeways.

Survivors of an immediate blast would be much better served by finding cover. A car is better than the open air, while most houses are considerably safer than a car, particularly if there is room to hunker down in a basement.

“Go as far below ground as possible or in the center of a tall building,” says Ready.gov, the website created by FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security. “The goal is to put as many walls and as much concrete, brick and soil between you and the radioactive material outside.” The site recommends staying inside for at least 24 hours, unless authorities recommend coming out sooner.

The sheltering directives go against the basic human instinct to flee and to reunite with family members as quickly as possible, emergency preparedness officials acknowledge. But parents are directed to leave their kids in school or day care, rather than risk driving to them in the radiation-laden atmosphere. “The response we got over and over again from people was ‘Thank God somebody is finally doing something about this.”

When the Los Angeles area conducted a nuclear-threat exercise in 2010 called Operation Golden Phoenix, Lawrence Livermore’s health physicist Buddemeier presented a model of a possible terrorist attack near Universal Studios Hollywood. His findings showed that 285,000 could die or get radiation sickness. But the vast majority of those, about 240,000, would be spared if they could find their way to basements or other more substantial shelters.

Those findings are common knowledge among public health officials and the subject of routine meetings like the recent one near Washington, D.C., of the National Council on Radiation Protection. Yet there is a “gap” between expert knowledge about these best practices and “getting it all the way into the public consciousness ... to keep them and their families’ safe,” Buddemeier said.

Deferring To the Feds

The cities most often mentioned as possible targets of a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from North Korea are Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. All three rely on the federal government to inform the public about how to prepare for a potential nuclear attack.

Barb Graff, director of Seattle’s Office of Emergency Management, said the city polled residents several years ago and found that they would hear and respond to messages about earthquakes and other threats but would “shut down,” and not take any preparatory action, when informed about nuclear threats.

“It’s a hard discussion,” Graff said. “How do we pay attention to something we know is important but might cause people to shut down and not take any action if they are informed about it?”

Her department has received only a few calls in recent weeks, in response to the Korean nuclear provocations. Those residents were referred to Ready.gov. Los Angeles and San Francisco, similarly, refer inquiries to the federal government.

Dotson’s Other Note: What do you think? Do you believe that we should be taking a proactive approach at the local level?

Hang in there/Have fun!

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This is a difficult column for me to write, mostly because it’s about vacuum cleaners and I have great difficulty reliably spelling the word “vacuum.” Honestly, it’s right up there with “bureaucrat” and “hors d'oeuvres” (if either of these words is spelled correctly here, it’s because Jan or the Rev fixed it. I tried. Microsoft Word doesn’t know what I’m talking about). Anyway, I think I mentioned a few weeks ago that my ancient Bissell rug sucker shot craps. Vacuum cleaners tend not to last very long around me. It’s like I generate some kind of field of electronic resonance that causes them to keel over, wheels up, having shuffled off this mortal coil – kind of like bug zapper vs. mosquito. Either that, or it’s the truly excessive amount of dog hair that lurks in unexpected crevices around my house.

I took the old vacuum completely apart three times, and cleaned it out with the much smaller Shark vacuum that I own because I have to remove fuzzy sub-Stadlers from my couch. Maybe because this was an act of forced cannibalism, it didn’t work, and I wound up with a still-broken rug sucker and eight extra screws which may or may not belong somewhere in the motor housing. I called the Rev to inform her of the familial loss. The burgundy Bissell had been her vacuum cleaner for six years before I stole it, and I thought she might mourn its death with me. “It lived a good, long life,” said my mother, in a fashion so undramatic you might think we weren’t actually related.

The Rev had recently purchased a Dyson on Cyber Monday. “It was half price,” she argued, “and by God, I have earned a good vacuum cleaner.” For months, Dad had been dragging an enormous shop vac around the house in an effort the clean up the drifts of dog hair. What wound up happening was that (while some ingress was made in terms of cleanliness) he’d abandon the shop vac in the middle of the hallway and everyone would trip over it for two weeks. Sometimes, even though the shop vac was a natural impediment (think “Titanic” and “iceberg”) he’d forget where he’d left it and drag in a second, even larger shop vac to “finish the operation.” However, like diamonds and herpes, dog hair is forever and the task never quite got completed. The hallway was a veritable pile of black hose and orange tubs, which constituted a pretty serious tripping hazard since you had to negotiate the equivalent of a blue whale’s intestine of cords, tubes and buckets to get to the bathroom. There was yelling.

The Dyson arrived (in spite of my father’s protests about not needing it, citing from memory the entire history of familial vacuum cleaner expenditure (“It’s got to be in the damned billions”). Mom refused to let him use it until he read all the directions. “NO!!! YOU DO NOT JUST TURN IT ON!” yelled the Rev, waving the instructions at my father as though he might absorb knowledge of proper vacuum cleaner usage via osmosis. In an effort to avoid all-out war, Dad read them. He says you basically just turn it on.

The Dyson is a beast so impressive that I’ve named it Mike. Like its namesake, the vacuum possesses a tough demeanor – like, if it was accused of domestic violence, you might say, “Yeah. I could see that.” It looks like it probably owns a tiger, which it walks daily on a logging chain. Mom offered to let me use Mike, but I was terrified of breaking it. Fear didn’t stop me from sneaking over to Mom’s and adhering stickers to the side of its tank, though. Probably, lots of adults sneak over to their parents’ house during naptime and dress the new vacuum cleaner up to look like Mike Tyson, right?

I ordered a new rug sucker from Amazon. It was small, but it came with a variety of nifty attachments for cleaning things other than just floors. Since everything around here is covered in a fine film of dog hair, I was pretty excited about the accessories. The new vacuum didn’t work super well on the rugs, but it really did a good job on the vents and tops of door frames – until about 40 minutes into my intensive cleaning session when the motor committed suicide via self- immolation. It literally caught on fire, which made me think (momentarily) that perhaps a flame thrower was the real solution to the dog hair crisis.

I sent it back to Amazon and ordered another Bissell, per the Rev’s recommendation. By the time it arrived, fluffy tumbleweeds were drowsily floating across all the floors. The house was embarrassing, even by my somewhat loose, that-pizza-is-fine-in-the-box-on-the-counter-for-five-days standards. I dragged the box (so big it could double as my coffin if my brain melted from frustration) into the house. The new vacuum was easy to assemble, and I had it going in a couple of minutes. I gotta tell you, I really expected more from “cyclonic” technology. Upon close examination, I couldn’t find a single witch on an antique bicycle whirling above the dust cup.

I bravely tackled the living room rug, immediately sucking up an entire Stadler’s worth of hair (the metric system unit for dog hair measurement is the “Stadler”). The new vacuum was good – so good, in fact, that I feel like it’s judging me. “Did you never clean before I came,” says my new appliance, “You didn’t, did you? You just left all this here for ME to take care of.” Maybe I’m only projecting because once a housekeeper I had hired hit me with an identical rant regarding the condition of my bathroom. I do, however, feel that maybe this vacuum is just a little cocky. I’m thinking of naming it Luke Rugwalker. It has lessons to learn.

I angrily relegated it to the spare bedroom, rather than the place of honor in the utility closet. The old burgundy Bissell still sits there. Like everyone on Earth, I’m hanging on to my old, worn out, crappy vacuum for no apparent reason. It‘s too old to use for parts, and it spits all the dirt right out of the back of the brush roller when you try to use it. A friend of mine said that he understands this impulse because he currently owns three vacuums, none of which is fully functional. I reckon most of us have at least one broken rug sucker stashed somewhere “just in case…” Maybe we should combine all of them into one gigantic Frankenvacuum – like a huge Transformer – and use it to suck up guys trying to steal Talaveras pots on the Island.

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Let The Good Times Roll

By Chef Vita Jarrin

Mardi Gras is around the corner and so are the celebrations! As we cheer with hand crafted cocktails in one hand… we eat with the other.

What helps in this case is finger foods. You can walk around, chat and enjoy hand held appetizers without getting tied down to a heavy meal.

One appetizer that is sure to be a hit at any party are warm, flaky, crispy, pinwheels.

Pinwheels are made with sheets of puff pastry layered with various ingredients and then rolled into a log and cut into circles. Once you bake them, they become these bite size pieces of heaven. Puff pastry puffs up in the oven, surrounding the fillings with a buttery crust and warm stringy cheese. You can make pizza flavored pinwheels, taco flavored, ham and cheese, vegetarian… the ideas are endless. Choose your fillings and roll them up.

For my recipe this week, I want to celebrate with Mardi Gras flavors. One popular sandwich in New Orleans is the Muffuletta. Its an Italian specialty sandwich made with salami, mortadella, provolone cheese, and an olive and pickled pepper relish that adds a spicy acidic bite. The spread is known as an olive tapenade, or giardiniera. Both are available in the Italian isle at your favorite grocers as well as World Market.

Ingredients:

1 Box Puff Pastry (available in freezer section)

1 Jar of Olive Salad

1 Jar of Giardiniera hot or mild

½ lb. genoa salami sliced medium

½ lb. mortadella sliced thin

½ lb. Provolone cheese or Havarti sliced medium

flour for dusting

rolling pin

cooking spray

sheet pans

Directions:

Preheat Oven to 375 degrees. Thaw the puff pastry for about 30 minutes before making this dish. Gently unwrap a sheet over a flour dusted counter top or table. With a rolling pin, gently roll the first sheet and then the second. In a food processor or on a cutting board, mince the olive salad as well as the giardiniera. Spread over the sheets of pastry leaving an inch from the edges free of any spread. Layer slices of cheese, then mortadella, then salami. Starting from the bottom roll upwards, away from you, making a log. Place both in freezer for 15 minutes.

This will harden the logs for easier slicing.

Remove from freezer and with a sharp or serrated knife, cut 1 inch rounds. Place them on a cookie sheet that has been sprayed and bake them for about 12-15 minutes. They should look bubbly and golden. Let cool for 5 minutes, Serve while warm.

Tip of the week:

These bite size bites of goodness, can be prepared in advance all the way to them being cut into rounds. Then freeze covered very well and thaw out one hour before baking. Additionally, you can swap out the meats for prosciutto, bacon, make them into a spinach artichoke dip…or better yet, you can make dessert ones as well. S’mores, Cinnamon Apple, Peach Cobbler, Nutella…

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SPORTSSports Talk Special to The Island Moon

John Stockton-Basketball Legend

By Dotson Lewis

By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon

Onward to Victory:Ara Parseghian. (Part II)

Send letters and photos to [email protected]

Dotson’s Note: I’m glad that I do not have

to choose the best point guard that has played in the NBA. At present in my opinion, the best players ever at that most important position are Bob Cousy, Nate Archibald and John Stockton. There are a few currently playing in the league who someday may reach that plateau, but not yet. Karl Malone, John Wooden, Jack Ramsay, Sam Smith, Jerry Sloan, Frank Layden and Athlon Sports contributed to this article.

Some Play A Position Exquisitely, Just As It Was Designed.

That would be John Stockton at point guard. A fast, gritty, durable player who saw the floor as well as anyone who ever played the game, he left the NBA after 19 seasons with the Utah Jazz, holding a mass of assists records, including the career mark (15,806).

As Stockton giveth, he taketh away: He led the league in steals twice and, with a career total of 3,265, he retired as the NBA's all-time leader. He also played all 82 games in 17 of his 19 seasons and his career shooting percentage was .515, a remarkable statistic for a guard.

"There absolutely, positively, will never ever be another John Stockton -- ever," said Karl Malone, Stockton's teammate for 18 seasons.

The Jazz never missed the playoffs during Stockton's career and they reached the Western Conference finals five times in a seven-year span. The enduring image of Stockton is him sinking a buzzer-beating 3-pointer over Houston's Charles Barkley in Game 6 of the 1997 Western Conference finals, and then embracing Malone and Jeff Hornacek as they celebrated their first NBA Finals berth.

Utah went to consecutive NBA Finals, losing to the Chicago Bulls in six games in 1997 and 1998. After his final NBA game, a playoff loss in Sacramento on April 30, 2003, Stockton was asked to summarize his feelings about retiring without an NBA title.

"A lot of this is about the journey," he said. "I'm sure there are people that have won championships who haven't had to work very hard at it. We worked very hard and haven't done it, and yet I feel a lot of reward out of the effort that it took to compete."

Stockton's other assists records included most in a season (1,164), highest average for a season (14.5 average per game) and most seasons leading the league and most consecutive seasons leading the league (nine). He also shared the record for most assists in a playoff game (24), had the second-highest assists average for a career (10.5 average per game) and tied for third for most assists in a regular season game (28).

John Stockton made his NBA debut in the 1984-85 season. Famed UCLA basketball coach John Wooden once said Stockton was the NBA player he enjoyed watching the most and the only one he would pay to see. Hall of Fame coach Dr. Jack Ramsay called Stockton the ultimate team player and best point guard ever in the half court.

Stockton did it all without fanfare. Sam Smith said it this way: "He doesn't dribble behind his back or through his legs. He doesn't crossover. His highlight reel features primarily bounce passes and layups. Despite evidence to the contrary these days, that's basketball. He doesn't practice the no-look pass, but we'll all be poorer not able to watch him anymore."

Stockton was also known around the league for using his 6-1 body to set picks on much bigger players, absorbing the blows while freeing up teammates for baskets.

"It's unfortunate we couldn't keep statistics on screens," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said. "That's one of the most important things he does for a team and that tells you a little bit about who he is and what he's about -- to try to make somebody else better. He wasn't screening midgets. The rules probably changed because of the way he set screens on big guys."

His career accomplishments are even more impressive considering his modest basketball

beginnings. Stockton played college ball at little-known Gonzaga University in his hometown of Spokane, Wash., where he averaged 20.9 points and 7.2 assists as a senior and finished as the first player in school history to register more than 1,000 points and 500 assists.

The Jazz selected Stockton with the 16th overall pick in the 1984 NBA Draft, which also included Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael Jordan and Barkley. The following year, the Jazz drafted Malone. During their years together in the NBA, Stockton and Malone would become the most consistently productive guard-forward combination.

"He's a great great friend of mine," Stockton said of Malone, "and I'm thankful we're part of each other's families."

Dynamic Duo

John Stockton and Karl Malone reached the playoffs in each of their 18 seasons together.

In an Athlon Sports article, Stockton's first coach in Utah, Frank Layden, admitted the Jazz did not know what they had when Stockton arrived. "Nobody thought that he was going to be this good," said Layden, who himself thought Stockton was a project. "Nobody. But the thing was, you couldn't measure his heart."

During his retirement ceremony at the Delta Center on June 7, 2003, Stockton thanked Layden for giving him some good advice early in his career. Specifically, Layden told Stockton never to change the person he was once he entered the league.

"I haven't changed a thing. I haven't even changed the length of my shorts," joked Stockton, one of the only NBA players to ignore the trend toward long, baggy shorts in the 1990s.

Stockton posted his best statistics from 1988-89 through 1990-91, a period in which his combined scoring average was just better than 17 points and his assists average ranged from 13.6 to 14.5 per game. Also, in 1993-94 and 1994-95 he recorded the highest field-goal percentages among NBA guards.

He was also selected to the All-NBA First Team for the first time in 1994 and again in 1995. Stockton became the NBA's all-time assists leader in 1994-95, surpassing Magic Johnson's 9,921 dishes on Feb. 1, and topped the 10,000-assist mark for his career by season's end. The following season, Stockton also surpassed Maurice Cheeks as the all-time record holder in steals. Through 1995-96, he led the NBA in assists for nine consecutive seasons, besting the record of eight set by Bob Cousy.

During his 18th season with Utah in 2001-02, he set a league record for most seasons with the same franchise. He also became just the 10th player in NBA history to play at the age of 40. Another milestone he reached that season was his 15,000th assist.

Stockton finished his career after the 2002-03 season having played in 1,504 games. That figure ranked third on the NBA's all-time list in games played, trailing Robert Parish (1,611) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1,560). He also finished his career with 19, 711points for the 28th spot on the NBA's all-time scoring list.

Dotson’s Other Note: John married Nada Stepovich in 1986 and they currently reside in Spokane, Washington with their two daughters Lindsay and Laura and four sons Houston, Michael, David and Samuel. All of their children play or played basketball and/or other sports, in various colleges and NBA teams. The couple has been going strong for many years without any rumor of divorce or extra marital affair. John released his autobiography “Assisted” in 2013. He has coached many teams and trained many basketball names. He is also involved in numerous businesses. John Stockton is a credit to the sport. Do you agree with my top three?…If no…who or is it whom? Your comments, suggestions, questions and concerns regarding Sports Talk articles are greatly appreciated, please call LL: 361-949-7681 Cell: 530-748-8475 or Email: [email protected]

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Editor’s note: This is the second part of a series about former Notre Dame Coach Ara Parseghian who took over struggling Fighting Irish problem in 1964 and began to make changes.

One of those changes involved moving Jack Snow from the running-back position to wide receiver. Snow was soon selected a Consensus All-American. Coach also converted three rather large running backs to offensive linemen. Parseghian loved the passing game and relied on smaller, quicker, more athletic players to run his offense. Last but not least, Ara decided to start senior John Huarte at quarterback. Can you say “Abracadabra?” In his first season as head coach, his Irish horde almost ran the table with a 9-1 record. They finished the season ranked #3 in the nation and their quarterback, John Huarte, won the Heisman Trophy. The “Era of Ara” had begun.

He was nothing if not a competitor. Never resting on his laurels, he always seemed to have something going on. Ara never resorted to rude behavior like breaking clipboards or cursing his players. Ara applied a different technique to coaching. He had learned from Paul Brown to ease off the physical side of the game as Saturday approached, and focused more on the mental side of football. He understood that mistakes could kill the best of teams.

In 1966, Parseghian led the Irish to their first National Championship since 1949. The team went undefeated with the only “hiccup” being a 10-10 tie with #2 Michigan State. Notre Dame fell behind 10-0, and then rallied to tie the score. As the game wound down, Notre Dame, with the ball on the Fighting Irish own 30-yard line, played somewhat conservatively for the final 70 seconds in an effort to not turn the ball over. After four straight running plays, the game ended in a tie. This contest has been called one of the best college football games ever to be played. Michigan State’s season was over, but Notre Dame rolled over the USC Trojans 51-0 the following week and the Irish were voted #1.

In 1969, Ara finally convinced Notre Dame to end its longstanding policy against playing in post-season games. The Irish had not played in a post-season game since they had been beaten by Stanford in the 1924 Rose Bowl. Notre Dame accepted an invite to play Texas in the Cotton Bowl. The Longhorns won 21-17 on New Year’s Day in 1970. In the 1971 Cotton Bowl, the Irish forced six turnovers and beat Texas 24-11. This defeat ended Texas’ 30-game winning streak. Revenge is sweet, and Parseghian was carried off the field by his players.

His finest season may have been 1973. Parseghian led his Irish to an 11-0 record, which included a “stuffing” of #1 Alabama 24-23, in the Sugar Bowl, and the National Championship. To everyone’s surprise, 1974 would be his last on the sidelines in South Bend. Notre Dame finished the year 10-2, but lost their last game to Southern California 55-24, after leading 24-0. The 2017 UCLA-Texas A&M game reminded me of this debacle. Ara announced his retirement in December of that year and cited physical exhaustion and emotional drain as the reason for stepping aside. He was only 51, when he left South Bend in 1974.

I would be remiss to not mention Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger, a 1974 walk-on. Rudy stood 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighed 165 pounds. Parseghian had always encouraged walk-ons from the student body and Rudy eventually made the scout team as defensive end. When Parseghian stepped down, Dan Devine was hired to lead the Irish. Although contrary to the movie “Rudy,” it was Devine’s idea to let Rudy dress out for his final game. So, on November 8, 1975, Rudy entered the game on the kickoff team and later recorded a sack on Georgia Tech’s quarterback, Rudy Allen. You can’t make this stuff up. The team did carry Rudy off the field on their shoulders.

Ara appeared as a coach one final time on July 24, 1976. He led the College All-Stars against

the Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers at Soldier Field. For the record, this is the only game in NFL history to be stopped by a rainstorm. It was stopped in the third quarter, never to be resumed. This game also turned out to be the final match between the College All-Stars and NFL Champs. This match-up was discontinued after 42 years. Ara’s final collegiate win-loss record stands at 170-58-6. Ara Parseghian was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1980.

After leaving Notre Dame, Ara became the color commentator for ABC Sports from 1975 to 1981, with Keith Jackson, and for CBS Sports in 1988.

Ara Parseghian built a football powerhouse in South Bend. With two National Championships in his pocket, Ara joined Frank Leahy and Knute Rockne as the only Irish coaches to win more than one National Championship. With a record of 95-17-4, in 11 seasons, Ara won .836% of his games which placed him third on Notre Dame’s coaching list. His teams finished in the top ten, nine times, and six times in the top five. Only Rockne (105) and Lou Holtz (100) won more total games. His 1966 and 1973 teams were both voted National Champions.

Unfortunately, in my many travels, I never got to meet Coach Ara Parseghian, but I do have a good friend who played against some of Parseghian’s finest teams. Rick Hobbs from Evansville, Indiana, was a walk-on for the Purdue Boilermakers’ football team. “My mother worked at Sears with future Hall-of-Fame quarterback, Bob Griese’s, mother. That is where the idea of me going to Purdue came from,” said Rick. “During my freshman year (1968), I won a scholarship starting the second semester. I played defensive tackle and was number two on the depth chart.” Purdue was 1-2 against Notre Dame from 1969-1971. “Parseghian was a great coach and they had a fine quarterback named Joe Theismann. We won the Shillelagh Trophy in 1969, but lost to the Irish in 1970 and 1971,” said Hobbs. “I’ll never forget that 1971 game. We lost 8-7 to them at home,” said Rick. My pal Rick Hobbs played with several great players while at Purdue: Gary Danielson, Otis Armstrong, Darryl Stingley, Mike Phipps, Tim Foley, Greg Bingham and Dave Butz, to name a few.

In 1994, Ara started the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation in an effort to find a cure for Niemann-Pick Type C disease, a genetic pediatric nerve disorder that took the lives of three of his grandchildren, Michael, Marcia and Christa Parseghian.

Ara Parseghian died early on a Wednesday morning at his home, not far from the Notre Dame campus, in Granger, Indiana. The date will read, August 2, 2017. He was 94 years old. Ara had battled an infection in his hip that had undergone five surgeries. Ara is survived by his wife, Kathleen, a daughter, Kristan and a son, Michael. Another daughter, Karan, died in 2012, from multiple sclerosis.

Notre Dame President, Rev. John J. Jenkins said, “Notre Dame mourns the loss of a legendary football coach, a beloved member of the Notre Dame family and a good man. Among his many accomplishments, we will remember him above all as a teacher, leader and mentor who brought out the best in his players, on and off the field.”

No doubt, Ara Parseghian woke up the echoes and shook down the thunder at Notre Dame. The mystique continues.

Andy Purvis is a local author and radio personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks.com for all the latest info on his books or to listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books are available online and can be found in the local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be contacted at [email protected]. Also listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc.com 1230 AM, 96.1 FM and 103.3 FM. The home of the Houston Astros.

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On the RocksI swear I’ve just been looking

at and talking about data all day today. From writing my own reports at work, to listening to the Gulf Council meeting

during lunch regarding state control of red snapper, to hearing back from my doctor on my cholesterol levels, to the water level numbers of the Laguna. Dr. Philippe Tissot got back to me on the high water levels that we’ve been experiencing over the past year. You loyal readers remember that recently I wrote about

catching up with Philippe regarding the water levels, and he remarked that he was surprised that they stayed as high for as long as they did. Well, now he has the data that shows it, and it’s pretty interesting. But, despite my secret desire for a dramatic headline, our high waters lately are not entirely the result of cataclysmic sea level rise.

Now, don’t get me wrong, sea level rise is definitely occurring (see mean sea level trend graphic) and the water levels have come up a couple inches over the past 3 or so decades.

A few inches in a micro-tidal location like ours can have pretty interesting effects on our coast, especially when some sections of Laguna Shores are only about 6 inches above the mean high tide anyway. Hopefully the Bond 2018 project will take care of that, but I digress.

What Philippe is talking about surprising him is the seasonal variability. See the second graphic, which shows that yes, sea levels are coming up, and also they are becoming more variable (higher highs for longer periods is one of the things to look at) on an inter-annual

basis. As quoted in the iconic movie, “The Blues Brothers” by the waitress at “Bob’s Country Bunker” that “we have both kinds, Country AND Western!” We are experiencing changes in our mean sea level, and the levels of our highs and lows.

So….what does any of that mean? Well, there’s a bajillion potential effects that this could have beyond the completely obvious need to raise Laguna Shore road. Storm water drains may become backed up, as well as waste

water treatment plant outfalls. If your house is already close to the FEMA flood level, and then FEMA decides to respond to rising flood levels, then your insurance goes up. Coupled with the proliferation of black mangroves into our local bays, the higher than normal tides will push them higher up on the banks, and they will also colonize lower than they normally would. This will cause a shift in vegetative zonation along the shores. Lower low waters may expose seagrass roots to air, causing them to die back towards deeper water. Sure, the band of seagrass may only move a foot out deeper, but you multiply that by the many miles of shoreline we have, and suddenly you’re losing acres and acres of seagrass. Besides causing the loss of production for shrimp and fish and crabs, it also may exacerbate erosion, and resulting water quality of the area. Older dock boards will start floating away, but I suppose that’s par for the course anyway.

Well, you know I’m just spit-balling here folks, but the numbers are there in black and white (and blue and orange and fuchsia). Changes are here, and will continue to occur. Philippe says he thinks the inter-annual variability will return to closer than normal, and he will be really surprised if it doesn’t this next year. Meaning, he thinks we won’t have the high water for as long as we did the past year. If we do, we know exactly who we can turn to for more answers. Big thanks to Philippe, and of course the Conrad Blucher Institute (CBI) for the information and graphics.

Well, January got by us pretty quickly, my stocks are taking a beating, we got skunked on the boat the other day, and I have City jury duty next week. It’s a familiar tempo already here at the end of the first month of 2018. Hope it picks up soon, but as busy as February looks on my calendar, I don’t know how it can’t. I’m sure some of y’all are glad you all can get some sleep now that the duck season is over. I actually got out a few times with Jay E., and it was just as fun as I remember years and years ago. It’s all about the fellowship, as Tyler says. Drop me a line at [email protected] and I’ll see you On the Rocks next week.

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The Great OutdoorsGame Warden Field Notes

Editor’s note: The following items are compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports.

Up on the Rooftop Mule Deer Paws

‘Twas the season for deer hunting December 10 in Crosby County, just not for mule deer; whitetails were still fair game, but mule deer season ended a week earlier. So, when a game warden received a text message with an image of an SUV being driven through Crosby County with a deer trussed to its roof like a Christmas tree, it was the “branches” that caught his attention. One physical trait muleys possess that differentiates them from their cervid cousin, the whitetail, is a distinctive branched antler. After a quick run of the vehicle’s license plate, the warden contacted the registered owner on his cell phone, and asked if he was driving down the highway with a dead deer strapped to his roof. The man acknowledged, and claimed it was a whitetail he had harvested in Floyd County. When pressed, however, the man could not offer details on exactly where in Floyd County he hunted. The warden told him to text a photo so he could verify the deer was a whitetail, and at that point the man confessed. He had shot the mule deer earlier that morning. The warden later met with the man, gained a verbal and written statement, and seized both the deer and rifle used in the crime. Criminal charges for the out-of-season mule deer and for having illegally tagged it as a white-tailed deer are pending in Floyd County, and civil restitution for the mule deer are pending.

In Self Defense

Some hunters believe commercial scent attractants to be effective at luring in white-tailed deer, particularly during the rut. A Smith County man argued recently that these products work too well, and caused him to have to shoot two undersized bucks in self-defense. After a logging crew reported finding two buck heads on top of a shed hidden in the woods, a Smith County game warden began asking around. Upon hearing the law was investigating, a subject called the warden and confessed, but claimed there were extenuating circumstances. The subject stated he was hunting in a ground blind and decided to spray a commercial scent attractant out the window. Moments later, a five-point buck with a nine- inch inside spread

appeared. He claimed the buck took several steps toward him, and then charged at his ground blind. The subject said he shot the buck at 30 feet away in self-defense. After dragging the buck to his blind, the man claimed he left the area to get his truck, and later returned to collect the deer and his hunting gear. While exiting his blind with his gear, the subject said a six-point buck with a six- inch spread came charging at him and he was forced to shoot in self-defense again, this time from 36 feet away. The subject stated he put the deer heads on the shed with the intention of turning himself in, but never got around to it. Multiple charges are pending.

Shared and Not Liked

Scofflaws are not bashful about posting their exploits to social media, and game wardens regularly scan the “bragging boards” for clues into illegal game and fish activities. In December, game wardens gathered intelligence from a Facebook post of a man with two white-tailed bucks he claimed to have harvested at the same time near Lubbock. Wardens identified the individual in the post and questioned him about his feat. The man admitted to taking the two bucks in a one buck limit county. Over the limit and tagging violations were filed along with civil restitution. The cases are pending. In an unrelated case, a Trinity County warden found a social media post of an untagged 8-point buck, and began investigating the individual who claimed to have shot it. As it turned out, the young man did not possess a hunting license. Multiple citations and civil restitution are pending.

Drive-by Poachers

Deer stands offer hunters a unique elevated view of the landscape, and enhance their ability to go undetected while observing nature. You never know what you might see. Case in point: in the late afternoon of December 9, a Frio County game warden got a call from dispatch advising that a hunter in his deer stand had just witnessed a white van stop, discharge a firearm from a public road and load a deer in the back of the vehicle. The warden responded to the location and made contact with a white van. The subjects admitted to shooting a deer from the public road, as evidenced by a freshly killed doe in the back of their van. They were transported to the Frio County Jail. The cases are pending.

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Red Sea Fan Coral, Brain Coral, and a Message in a Bottle.

By Marian M. McNabbThere are times you find

unusual treasures on the beach. The last two weeks while traveling back from mile 60, I found a Brain Coral, Red Sea Fan Coral, and a message in a bottle. I found them all up in the dunes, both corals were mostly sand covered. When taken back to our camp sight, I sprayed them lightly with water to remove the sand and find some beautiful specimens of Corals.

The Red Sea Fans are still attached to material it grew on, while the Brain Coral is in a perfect rounded shape.

The message in the bottle was found on Friday, January 12th., put in the Gulf on November 21, 2017 off the Coast at Brownsville. It arrived faded due to water getting into the bottle but when I dried it out, it was still legible enough to read the

contents. It’s from an exchange student living with a family in Northern Texas, she had an email address so I contacted her by email. On Tuesday, the16th., she phoned me and we agreed to stay in contact. Her name is Marloes, she’s from the Netherlands.

I was picking up trash when I found the message in the bottle, so don’t be afraid to look in the dunes and help with trash pickup, if we all work together we can make a difference on our beaches.

In February of 2017 I found my first message in a bottle, it didn’t have a contact only a Bible Verse and a first name. It was still a great find as my husband had just passed, having a Bible Verse in the bottle was an excellent find at the time and would be for me today.

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The Sixth Biggest Liar in Texas

The Legendary Lake Corpus Christi Bass Battle: Potato Cannons and

Mountain DewEditor’s note:

Our friend Andy Prevaricator is an ongoing contestant in the Texas State Liars' Contest at the George West Storyfest. He entered the contest five times with stories about South Texas and place Third twice, which by Moon Math

means he is The Sixth Biggest Liar in Texas. And for the record, no, he is not our own Andy Purvis.

By Andy Prevaricator

These were tense times in Mathis. South Texas was suffering through its third year of drought and mandated water releases had Lake Corpus Christi water levels at an all-time low. In fact, water levels were so low the alligators were taking turns getting wet. All the fish in the lake were concentrated in the ten acres left just above the dam and fishing was good if you could get your boat in the water. It was the San Antonio anglers from the Alamo Bass Fishing Club that had to ruin it for everyone.

Word had gotten out about fishing conditions at the lake and the out-of-towners had shown up in fleets, which really grated on the local fishermen. Big Charlie was also out of temper. The normally reclusive 20-foot long albino alligator had to rub shoulders much more than he liked with other alligators in the lake and was constantly running afoul of the fishing flotilla currently working the lake.

The local park ranger and the game warden, knowing Big Charlie’s ugly mood would only become worse if there was any Mountain Dew within smelling range took measures to ensure none came onto the state park grounds. You may know from my earlier encounter with the giant gator that Big Charlie would go into a feeding frenzy whenever he scented Mountain Dew, leaving a trail of destruction, mayhem and despair behind him. Fortunately, alligators don’t have that great a sense of smell and, for some reason, he had a phobic fear of Chihuahuas.

The park ranger had his Chihuahua, General Custer,bred (she was a female) and raised a litter of Chihuahua puppies trained to defend the park against Big Charlie incursions. Big Charlie was now wearing a radio tag so the game warden could track his whereabouts and let the park ranger know if he was too close to their location. He was usually across lake from the park to avoid the pack of Chihuahuas.

Battle for Lake Corpus Christi

The battle for Lake Corpus Christi began rather innocuously one Saturday afternoon when I rode the motorcycle out to the lake to visit my friend, Joe. We were hanging out

on the deck at his lakeside house and one of the out-of- town anglers got too close to our side of the lake. Joe was fuming, he had been watching this fellow limit out every day all week long and there was a lot of muttering going on in the evenings at the local watering holes. I was drinking my Mountain Dew (we were downwind of the lake) and a thought occurred to me.

“Joe, do you still have that potato cannon you made last summer to entertain your grandkids?”

“I sure do,” Joe replied with a grin gradually starting to show on his face.

“Well, why don’t you dig it out?”

Joe hurried off to the garage, rummaged around for a few minutes, and came back with his potato cannon. In case you’re not up on potato cannons, they consist of about five feet of three inch PVC pipe, with a larger piece of pipe and a cap on the bottom end for a firing chamber. They’re fuelled with hairspray and lit off with a BBQ lighter. The load is a potato hammered down into the pipe with a broomstick. Or, in our case, a can of

Mountain Dew wrapped in rags to fit the gauge of the PVC barrel. We charged the cannon with lighter fluid and ducked down behind Joe’s hot tub for some cover. Joe aimed the cannon in the general direction of the fisherman drifting past the house and pulled the trigger.

The results were much more than we imagined. The rag-wrapped flaming can of Mountain Dew flew out of the cannon barrel, arced over the lake and, with a stroke of incredible luck, or unbelievable misfortune, depending on your point of view, slammed into the boat’s outboard motor. The impact showered the boat and angler with flaming bits of rag and shrapnel from the aluminum can. The flames were then put out by the spray of Mountain Dew. The angler dove over the side of the boat to get away from the sudden disaster (he thought his motor had blown up), but the report from the potato cannon woke up Big Charlie, who had been dozing nearby in the mud by the side of the lake.

When gators attack

Big Charlie was enraged when his afternoon nap was disturbed by the boom from the cannon, then got a good whiff of the Mountain Dew vaporized by the impact with the outboard motor. The dog-paddling fisherman watched in horror as the 20-foot gator launched into the lake and torpedoed his fishing boat amidships. The impact was even louder than the potato cannon and the boat was crushed. Big Charlie chewed through floating cooler, fish, and bait and a couple life jackets for dessert, but didn’t bother to go after the hapless fisherman who was setting an unofficial lake record for the 200 yard

Australian crawl.

Joe and I watched this unfold in front of us and our reactions quickly went from “Oh no!” when the can actually hit the boat to rolling around on the deck howling at the outcome seeing the fisherman get away unhurt. The brief naval engagement was seen by a number of lake dwellers and fishermen and we didn’t have to buy a beer that evening at Grunt’s Cantina as the story quickly spread and neighbors wanted to know how to build a potato cannon.

Stay beyond range

The visiting fishermen were upset when the game warden didn’t take any action on the situation, but only pointed out the damage wasn’t done by the pop can, but by an alligator, making it an unfortunate natural event. The fishermen quickly learned staying another 100 yards out would put them beyond the range of any potato cannon and began fishing more toward the middle of the lake.

The standoff lasted for several weeks, until Hector got involved. A retired machinist from CCAD, Hector lived further up the lake at Pernitas Point, didn’t appreciate the influx of visiting fishermen and decided to escalate the artillery war on fishing rights at

Lake Corpus Christi. His version of a potato cannon involved six feet of high-strength seamless steel tubing, rifled for accuracy, aimed with electronically-controlled stepper motors, fuelled with acetylene, and firing a sabot round encasing a two- liter bottle of

Mountain Dew. The secret to aiming Big Bertha was the GPS tracking units dropped into the fishermen’s boats when they were parked in the hotel parking lots at night.

The out-of-towners found out Hector and Big Bertha could cover the lake with incredible accuracy and after a couple more encounters with Big Charlie hunting them down after scenting a Mountain Dew artillery barrage, they loaded up their boats, screaming profanities at the locals, vowing to return with the sheriff or Texas Rangers, if needed.

Due to the local law enforcement also being local fishermen, that never happened and

Lake Corpus Christi fishing activity returned to more reasonable levels with Big Charlie dozing in the mud by the side of the lake, everyone hoping to see the South Texas rains return.

Water Fowl. Photo by Jim Dugan.

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With the start of the New Year, it is important to know about the laws that went into effect. Certain laws that were passed during the 85th Regular Legislative Session came into effect on January 1, 2018. Over the past four weeks, we have reviewed some new laws and I’d like to continue to review others this week. These new laws range from bills addressing residential mortgage loan originators to confirmation elections. Each of the bills that took effect on January 1 went through a 140-day legislative session. During that 140-day period, these bills went before House and Senate Committees before going before the Texas House and Senate as a whole and then going to the Governor’s office.

The laws mentioned below represent some more of those pieces of legislation that passed and went into effect on January 1:

House Bill (HB) 3342 relates to the prelicensing education requirements for residential mortgage loan originators. Interested parties contend that many people working in Texas as residential mortgage loan originators will soon be considered out of compliance with certain federal regulations regarding the mortgage industry. HB 3342 seeks to address this issue by adjusting the prelicensing education requirements for residential mortgage loan originators. HB 3342 amends the Finance Code to change the period during which an individual fails to maintain a residential mortgage loan originator license that triggers the requirement that the individual retake the prelicensing education requirements prescribed by the S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act from at least five consecutive years to the period established by rule of the Finance Commission of Texas. HB 3342 requires the finance commission to adopt such rule not later than December 1, 2017.

Senate Bill (SB) 549 relates to refunds of certain bingo licensing and registration fees. License fees for a bingo conductor’s license can be as much as $3,300 per year. If an organization chooses to withdraw its application or the Bingo Division denies the application, the organization cannot get a refund on any portion of the license fees. In 2013, the Texas Lottery Commission issued legal opinions indicating the commission did not have statutory authority to refund charitable bingo-related license application fees, or a portion thereof, to applicants who withdraw their applications or whose applications are denied. The commission does have express authority in the State Lottery Act to refund a portion of a lottery sales agent’s license application fee. The Bingo Enabling Act provides that the commission shall set the fees for a conductor or lessor license application fee in an amount necessary to defray administrative costs but not less than the amounts set out in the Act. Bingo-related license application fees must be submitted with the application or the application is considered “incomplete” and will be returned unprocessed to the applicant. The commission’s 2018-2019 Legislative Appropriations Report Efficiency Measures

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Laws (Part IV) indicate the projected average cost per application processed for 2018 and 2019 is $25. SB 549 provides express authority to the commission to refund license fees and allows the commission to retain a portion of the license, not to exceed the lesser of 50 percent of the fee or $150, in order to defray the commission’s administrative cost of processing the application.

HB 2358 relates to eligible voters in a confirmation election for a conservation and reclamation district. This bill amends the Water Code to require a voter in a confirmation election for certain water districts, or any election to authorize taxes and bonds held in conjunction with such a district confirmation election, to be a qualified voter of the district as provided by the Election Code. HB 2358 establishes that a vote cast in a district confirmation election or any election to authorize taxes and bonds held in conjunction with a district confirmation election is an illegal vote and that a district may not count the vote of a person who has received monetary consideration from any developer of property in the district in exchange for a vote or who, on the date of the election, was a developer of property in the district, was related within the third degree of affinity or consanguinity to such a developer, or was an employee of such a developer. HB 2358 requires an election officer to obtain, as part of the acceptance of a voter offering to vote in a district confirmation election, a voter affidavit from the voter in a specified form and with specified contents and authorizes the acceptance of a voter only for provisional voting if the voter is unable or unwilling to complete the voter affidavit. HB 2358 requires a district to submit original or certified copies of voter affidavits to the office of the attorney general in a transcript of proceedings of the confirmation election and requires that office to prescribe the form of the voter affidavit. HB 2358 requires the voter affidavit to require the voter to make certain statements under oath and requires the voter affidavit to include certain prescribed statements.

It is important to learn and know about the new laws that were passed by the 85th Texas Legislature. If you would like to view any of the other legislation that was passed during the 85th Session, these websites are great resources:

The Texas Legislature at www.capitol.state.tx.us .

The Texas House of Representatives at www.house.state.tx.us .

The Texas Senate at www.senate.state.tx.us .

If you have questions regarding any of the information mentioned in this article, please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or District Office. As always, my offices are available at any time to assist with questions, concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603).

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Texas Oil and Gas Production Statistics for November 2017

Production for November 2017 as reported to the Railroad Commission of Texas (Commission) is 75,573,142 barrels of crude oil and 543,212,976 mcf (thousand cubic feet) of total gas from oil and gas wells. These preliminary figures are based on production volumes reported by operators and will be updated as late and corrected production reports are received. Production reported to the Commission for November 2016, was: 72,322,284 barrels of crude oil preliminarily, updated to a current figure of 83,156,082 barrels; and 571,259,135 mcf of total gas preliminarily, updated to a current figure of 647,261,024 mcf.

The Commission reports that from December 2016 to November 2017, total Texas reported production was 1.012 billion barrels of crude oil and 7.6 trillion cubic feet of total gas. Crude oil production reported by the Commission is limited to oil produced from oil leases and does not include condensate, which is reported separately by the Commission.

Texas preliminary November 2017 crude oil production averaged 2,519,105 barrels daily, compared to the 2,410,743 barrels daily average of November 2016. Texas preliminary November 2017 total gas production averaged 18,107,099 mcf a day, compared to the 19,041,971 mcf daily average of November 2016. Texas production in November 2017 came from 180,060 oil wells and 92,177 gas wells.

Top Ten Crude Producing Counties

Top Ten Gas Producing Counties

Top Ten Crude Producing Counties

Rank County Crude (BBBL)

1. MIDLAND 7,953,9902. KARNES 5,737,6773. UPTON 4,359,4264. MARTIN 4,013,5335. REEVES 3,856,4436. LOVING 3,666,4847. LA SALLE 3,343,5598. DE WITT 3,007,7239. REAGAN 2,951,999

10. ANDREWS 2,838,305

Top Ten Producing Counties GasRank County Total Gas (MCF)

1. WEBB 55,228,5112. TARRANT 33,501,1113. MIDLAND 20,119,6404. KARNES 18,173,3725. REEVES 18,035,1976. PANOLA 17,062,2967. JOHNSON 16,582,6208. DE WITT 15,754,6579. LA SALLE 15,083,39310. WISE 14,458,120

Top Ten Crude Producing Counties

Rank County Crude (BBBL)

1. MIDLAND 7,953,9902. KARNES 5,737,6773. UPTON 4,359,4264. MARTIN 4,013,5335. REEVES 3,856,4436. LOVING 3,666,4847. LA SALLE 3,343,5598. DE WITT 3,007,7239. REAGAN 2,951,999

10. ANDREWS 2,838,305

Top Ten Producing Counties GasRank County Total Gas (MCF)

1. WEBB 55,228,5112. TARRANT 33,501,1113. MIDLAND 20,119,6404. KARNES 18,173,3725. REEVES 18,035,1976. PANOLA 17,062,2967. JOHNSON 16,582,6208. DE WITT 15,754,6579. LA SALLE 15,083,39310. WISE 14,458,120

IRS Announces 2018 Tax Filing Season Opens with April 17 Deadline

155 Million Tax Returns Projected, 70 Percent Expect Refunds

The Internal Revenue Service has begun accepting and processing 2017 federal individual income tax returns. More than 155 million returns are expected to be filed this year.

Filers have until Tuesday, April 17, 2018, to file their 2017 returns and pay any taxes due. The filing tax deadline is later this year due to several factors. The usual April 15 deadline falls on Sunday this year, which would normally give taxpayers until at least the following Monday. However, Emancipation Day, a Washington, D.C., holiday, is observed on Monday, April 16, giving taxpayers nationwide an additional day to file. By law, Washington holidays impact tax deadlines for everyone in the same way federal holidays do. Taxpayers requesting an extension will have until Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, to file.

The IRS expects more than 70 percent of taxpayers to get tax refunds this year. Last year, nearly 112 million refunds were issued, with an average refund of $2,895.

Use e-File and Free File

The IRS expects about 90 percent of returns to be filed electronically. Choosing e-file and direct deposit remains the fastest and safest way to file an accurate income tax return and receive a refund. The IRS Free File program, available at IRS.gov, gives eligible taxpayers a dozen options for brand-name products. Free File is a partnership with commercial partners offering free brand-name software to about 100 million individuals and families with incomes of $66,000 or less. About 70 percent of the nation’s taxpayers are eligible for IRS Free File. People who earned more than $66,000 may use Free File Fillable Forms, the electronic version of IRS paper forms.

Refunds in 2018: More than 90 Percent in Less than 21 days

The IRS issues more than nine out of 10 refunds in less than 21 days. However, it’s possible a tax return may require additional review and take longer. Where’s My Refund? has the most up to date information available about refunds. The tool is updated no more than once a day.

The IRS also notes that refunds cannot be issued before mid-February for tax returns that claim the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit. This applies to the entire refund.

To get help, taxpayers can visit one of the more than 12,000 community-based tax help sites that participate in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance and Tax Counseling for the Elderly programs. To find the nearest site, use the VITA/TCE Site Locator on IRS.gov or the IRS2Go mobile app.

Filing Assistance

No matter who prepares a federal tax return, by signing the return, the taxpayer becomes legally responsible for the accuracy of all information included. IRS.gov offers a number of tips about selecting a preparer and information about national tax professional groups. The IRS urges all taxpayers to make sure they have all their year-end statements in hand before filing. This includes Forms W-2 from employers and Forms 1099 from banks and other payers. Doing so

will help avoid refund delays and the need to file an amended return.

Online tools

Taxpayers they have a variety of options to get help filing and preparing their tax return on IRS.gov, the official IRS website. Taxpayers can find answers to their tax questions and resolve tax issues online. The Let Us Help You page helps answer most tax questions, and the IRS Services Guide links to these and other IRS services.

Taxpayers can go to IRS.gov/account to securely access information about their federal tax account. They can view the amount they owe, pay online or set up an online payment agreement; access their tax records online; review the past 18 months of payment history; and view key tax return information for the current year as filed. Visit IRS.gov/secureaccess to review the required identity authentication process.

Renew ITIN to Avoid Refund Delays

Many Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) expired on Dec. 31, 2017. This includes any ITIN not used on a tax return at least once in the past three years. Also, any ITIN with middle digits of 70, 71, 72 or 80 (Example: 9NN-70-NNNN or 9NN-80-NNNN) is now expired. ITINs that have middle digits 78 or 79 expired Dec. 31, 2016, but taxpayers can still renew them. Affected taxpayers should act soon to avoid refund delays and possible loss of eligibility for some key tax benefits until the ITIN is renewed. An ITIN is used by anyone who has tax-filing or payment obligations under U.S. tax law but is not eligible for a Social Security number.

It can take up to 11 weeks to process a complete and accurate ITIN renewal application. For that reason, the IRS urges anyone with an expired ITIN needing to file a tax return this tax season to submit their ITIN renewal application soon.

Sign and Validate Electronically Filed Tax Returns

All taxpayers should keep a copy of their tax return. Some taxpayers using a tax filing software product for the first time may need their Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) amount from their prior-year tax return to verify their identity. Taxpayers using the same tax software they used last year will not need to enter their prior year information to electronically sign their 2017 tax return. Taxpayers can learn more about how to verify their identity and electronically sign tax returns at Validating Your Electronically Filed Tax Return.

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BBB Warning: Pyramid Schemes Taking Aim at Social Media

By Kelly Trevino

Regional Director, Corpus Christi Better Business Bureau

It’s a scam that almost seems as old as the ancient structures in which it was named after, but this time, it appears to be targeting a much younger demographic. Pyramid schemes have recently been showing up on social media feeds, like Facebook and Instagram. It’s also targeting Snapchat, where, according to Statista, 60% of users are between the ages of 13 and 24.

This new type of pyramid scheme uses the same concepts as the age-old trick. It involves s o m e o n e buying into a company where their return on investment

doesn’t depend on the sale of a product, but on bringing in new investors. It eventually becomes mathematically impossible for this investment to continue as it constantly needs new recruits to continue making money, and there are only a finite amount of people. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to the few investors at the top of the pyramid.

For this new scam, con artists attempt to lure social media users to send money via cash apps like PayPal or Venmo. The scam artists say recruits can make anywhere from $400 to $1,200 depending on how much money is put into the pyramid scheme.

To avoid the scheme altogether, the Better Business Bureau recommends taking the following steps:

Be very wary of buzz words. Certain phrases should raise a red flag for an investment opportunity. Don’t believe anything that is “guaranteed” to do well, or that offers low or no risk with a high return. Pyramid schemes (even if they are not called that) require you to bring in other investors in order to recoup your initial investment.

Be careful of shortened links. Scammers use link-shortening services to disguise malicious links.

Don’t trust your friends’ taste online. It might not actually be them “liking” or sharing scam links to photos.

Report suspicious links to the site. Whether on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, report any suspicious posts or activity to the site by going to their help link.

It’s also important to know the difference between a pyramid scheme and multi-level marketing. While pyramid schemes are illegal and focus solely on recruiting new members, multi-level marketing companies make money through their own sales as well as the sales of people who they recruit to their sales teams. For those with any interest or concerns about joining a legal, multi-level marketing operation, advice on what to know before becoming a member can be found at bbb.org.

Kelly Trevino is the regional director for the Corpus Christi/Victoria area of Better Business Bureau serving Central, Coastal, Southwest Texas and the Permian Basin. Kelly is available for media interviews and speaking engagements. You can reach her by phone: (361) 945-7352 or email: [email protected].

                                   

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CLUB NEWS The Island Moon provides this space for

Island organizations. If you are a member of a club and want to get the word out about your events and/or projects send them along and we will get them in.

Be sure to include a brief description of what your organization does and a contact person for those interested in joining.

Send the info to [email protected] and we will include it. Or call us at 949-7700.

Padre Island Antique Classic Car Club (PIACCC) is open to all vehicles 25 years and older: Antique, Classic, Roadsters, Hot Rods, etc; who would like to meet to plan meetings, socials, rallies, tours, car shows on and around the Island. Please contact [email protected] for information on the upcoming meeting. Please include your contact information and the type of car owned.

Youth Development Foundation of Port Aransas.  YDF meets at noon each Thursday at Stingray’s, 401 Beach Ave., Port Aransas.  For more information please email [email protected].

Padre Island Ukulele Club – We meet every other Tuesday night! Call or text Danny Salazar at (316) 877--‐7071 for the next meeting date. Beginners Workshop: 6 to 7 PM and Open Jam: 7 to 8 PM. All Skills levels welcome. Location: Island Joe’s Coffee and Gallery, 13919 SPID, right here on the island. A $3 per person donation covers the workshop, materials and the open jam. Loaner ukuleles available at no extra cost. RSVP online. [email protected]

Padre Island Yacht Club (PIYC) –Padre Island Yacht Club (PIYC) - is welcoming new members. We have boat slips available now for members. Contact Doyle Thomas at [email protected] for slip rental information. Padre Island Yacht Club members enjoy small and large boat cruises, Pot Luck Dinners, small boat Poker Runs, Cruises to area restaurants, Progressive Dinners, 4th of July Fireworks up close, extended boat cruises to South Padre Island, Ingleside, Rockport, Fulton and other areas. Please come and join us, for more information and a invite to attend one of our Friday Night gatherings contact our Rear Commodore Ignacio (Nacho) De Landa who is in charge of our membership at [email protected]

KIWANIS Club of Padre Island. Kiwanis meets at Veranda Restaurantat Schlitterbahn at Noon on the first and third Wednesday of the month.

Island Strategic Action Committee. Is a 14-member committee which meets at 5:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at the Comfort Suites on Windward. The committee’s purpose is to advise the Corpus Christi City Council on matters pertaining to The Island. All meetings are open to the public and the public is invited to address the committee during the public comment period.

Padre Island Business Association. The association is a not-for-profit organization whose primary purpose is to advertise and promote Padre/Mustang Islands, Flour Bluff and Corpus Christi while advancing the interests of the business community. It is managed by a 9-member board of directors. A membership luncheon is held on the 2nd Thursday of each month at The Veranda starting at noon. Mixers are held on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. The association annually has two fundraising events – Taste of the Island in the fall and a Wine Tasting in the spring.

P.I.E. Padre Island Enrichment Club is a ladies only social club open to all owners/residents of North Padre. We hope to enrich our members through social activities and community involvement. We have monthly luncheons (2nd Friday) along with groups of bunco, bridge, spades, craft club and book clubs. We enjoy raising money for scholarships for local graduating seniors as well as other worthy causes in our community. For more info please contact Rebecca Robbins 303-434-0947.

Island United Political Action Committee: Maximize representation of Corpus Christi residents on Padre and Mustang Islands in area government by promoting and supporting, by the endorsement process, proactive and unified voting in non-partisan races and other issues and referendums put to public vote. Meetings are open to the public. IUPAC meets meeting the 2nd Thursday of the month from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM at the Island Time Sushi Bar, contact: Nick Colosi   618-889-9160  ncolosi@yahoo.

com.

POA - Padre Isles Owners Association. The Association’s primary responsibility is to maintain the Common Areas, assess and collect the annual fees and provide information and assistance to property owners. .. Membership in PIPOA is automatic for anyone acquiring record legal title to any property within Padre Isles. Their office is located at 14015 Fortuna Bay Drive on The Island. (361) 949-7025, [email protected].

ARK – Animal Rehabilitation Keep. Located in Port Aransas the ARK is affiliate with the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Center. They handle the rehabilitation of most species of wildlife in the area with an emphasis on marine animals. If you find an animal in peril they can help. 750 Channel View Dr. Port Aransas. Contact Alicia Walker at 337-290-0251 or [email protected]

Island’s PIPPs Chapter of Corpus Christi Red Hat Society. In 2004 a group of Island ladies got together under a Palapa and founded the Padre Island Palapa Pals (PIPPs). Our only rule is that there are no rules! We are all about fun and friendship. We meet once a month for lunch and various fun outings from cupcake making to CPR.

Padre Island Book Wine & Spirits. This is the Island book club. We meet the first Wednesday of each month at Island Time Sushi Bar and Grill at 7:00 pm. Wonderful group of ladies that like to read, love socializing with the girls and drinking wine! Come out and join us we would love to have you! Contact Linda Walsh, [email protected] or 361-445-7999, or just show up!

Island Emmaus reunion is open to anyone that has been on a Chryslis or Emmaus walk. For more information call Eileen Moeller @ 830-708-8367 or [email protected]

Parrot Heads of Port Aransas  - is a local chapter of the Parrot Heads in Paradise Inc., a not-for-profit corporation whose purpose is to assist in community and environmental concerns and provide a variety of social activities for people who are interested in the music of Jimmy Buffett and the tropical lifestyle he personifies. Founded in 2009, the club motto is “Partying with a Purpose’’. To join or ask questions go to portaransasparrotheads.com or  email or call   Deno “Moon Dog” Fabrie, President at 361 749 0256 or [email protected].

Padre Island Women’s Golf Association. All skill levels are welcome. Call Fran more information: 361-877-2551

The New Neighbors League: New Neighbors League is a women’s social organization open to women of the coastal bend, promoting fun & friendship. New Neighbors League holds monthly coffees, luncheons, as well as monthly activities such as Ladies Night Out, Couples Dinners, Movies, Cards, and Golf to name a few. Visit our website at newneighbors.com or email us at [email protected]

Flour Bluff Padre Island 4H Flour Bluff Padre Island 4H (FBPI4H) is a club for kids in 3rd grade-12th grade. We meet at 6:30 pm the first Monday of every month in the FB Intermediate cafeteria. 4H provides opportunities and experiences where young people learn by doing. Please visit us on Facebook at Flour Bluff Padre Island 4H or our website at FBPI4H.com.

Port Aransas Art Center 104 N. A;lister 361-749-7334

Jewelry Making Mon. February 12th 11a.m. -1p.m. Instructor- Noel Stephenson from Steve’s Custom Jewelry- Instructor fee: $15 Supplies: $45=$60 Total Make a Coastal Bracelet, Pearl and Natural Stone (turquoise, amethyst etc.) Bracelet on Sterling Silver wire with Sterling Silver finding & a charm. Sign up and pre-pay to save your space!

Port Aransas Artfest Needs Artists for

MayWe invite you and your artisan colleagues to

join us on the island for the 13th Annual Port Aransas Artfest. This year, the festival will be held May 26 & 27th at Jerry McDonald Field, located @ Alister & Avenue C. We are actively seeking to expand ArtFest and make it bigger and better than before and we need YOUR help! Historically, Memorial Day brings thousands of visitors to the island to “kick off” summer and Port Aransas is diligently working to make Summer 2018 the best yet.

ArtFest is a juried show that features original fine art and fine crafts for sale in all mediums. During ArtFest, visitors can stroll and shop while listening to music and enjoying great food at this fun event! ArtFest is sponsored by the Port Aransas Art Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, and the Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce.

The $150 registration fee includes one 10 x 10 booth space (no electricity provided). The Artist/Vendor must be present at event .Setup will begin on Friday the 25th from 12:00 to 5:00 pm. The Art Center will provide cold water and temporary sitters for your booth throughout the weekend.

The deadline for applying is April 15th. You can download an application online. We look forward to seeing you in May and thank you in advance for helping us make this year’s event a huge success!

Bingo on the Beach Draws Great CrowdBy Brent Rourk

Six consecutive weeks of BINGO on the Beach began last Thursday as a full house enjoyed this popular Winter Island pastime at Schlitterbahn.

The Kiwanis of Padre Island fundraiser rewarded the enthusiastic crowd with 55 cash prizes and door prizes, including cash prizes of $172, $150, and a few $100.

Kiwanis invites locals to join the ‘Dauber Crowd’ this Thursday evening beginning at 7PM, but encourages players to arrive early to secure a seat and enjoy meals and beverages for purchase.

Historic Port Isabel Lighthouse ReopensOnly public accessible

lighthouse in TexasThe historic 72-foot Port Isabel Lighthouse,

located in a plaza overlooking the lower Laguna Madre, is reopening its doors to visitors after being to the public for repairs in early 2016.

The maintenance is the latest phase of restoration scheduled for the site. Repairs included the replacement of the exterior hand railings, stucco repair, paint, repair of three casement windows, replacement of a glass panel on the lantern, new wood doors at the lantern level, repair of a roof leak and the repainting of the exposed exterior iron surfaces at the watch room level.

Authorized by U.S. Congress in 1850, the Port Isabel Lighthouse was built for $7,000 in efforts to aid navigation for booming maritime trade on the lower Texas coast. Lit for the first time in 1853, the lighthouse spent the next seven years guiding American, European and Mexican ships to the blossoming Brazos Santiago port. By the end of the decade, $10 million worth of cotton exports passed through Port Isabel annually.

During the Civil War, the lighthouse was used as a lookout for both Union and Confederate occupying forces. The lighthouse sustained bomb damage during the war and its lenses were removed. The lenses remain missing to this day.

On Feb. 22, 1866, the lighthouse was rehabilitated, refitted and relit. However, ten years later it was dilapidated. In 1881, the lantern area was reconstructed to raise the level of the light and add a watch room floor with iron gallery. Six years later, the lighthouse board recommended that the Port Isabel Light Station be abandoned due to decreasing commerce in the port.

The lighthouse board soon reconsidered its decision and in 1889 Congress voted to re-establish the light. Six years later, the lighthouse was relit in July 1895. With the heyday of maritime trade ending, the light was permanently discontinued 10 years later.

The Texas State Parks Board acquired the property in 1950 and after rehabilitation to the structure the lighthouse was reopened to the public April 25, 1952. Since then, generations of Texans have climbed to the top of the lighthouse to enjoy the view of the Gulf of Mexico from this historic structure.

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Seashore Happenings

These are the Seashore 3rd grade Science Fair Winners. Micah Smith 1st place, Prax Morgan 2nd place, and Evelyn McDevitt 3rd place. Congratulations students!

Congratulations to the 2018 SLC Spelling Bee Winner, Micah Smith! The 3rd grade student from Mr. Andrews class, correctly spelled ‘conspiracy’ to win! 2nd place went

to Phoebe Yeang, a 3rd grader in Mrs. Ciardelli’s class, and Kaise Burrill, a 4th grader in Mrs. Fuller’s class took 3rd place! There were 22 participants and everyone did an

outstanding job!

New Life Refuge Ministries, the passion project of Padre Islander, Minta Moore, put on their Celebration of Courage Boots and Bling Ball at the Ortiz Center on Friday,

January 26. New Life educates about and fights against human trafficking and modern day slavery. It also provides a physical REFUGE of hope and healing for survivors. This year’s annual event featured powerful poetry, heart wrenching stories and the

support of Master of Ceremonies, Todd Hunter, and Honorary Chairman, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Our own Island Horses on the Beach pitched in to provide a

popular steer roping activity. Many Island residents made the trek OTB to support this worthy cause!

Celebration of Courage Boots and Bling Ball

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Al-Anon meets at 7:00 pm Sundays at Padre Island Baptist Church Friends and families of problem

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anything with strings on it and accompanied Ely for many years on pedal steel. There were also three other poets, two of which were past State Poet Laureates. The whole show had a sort of theatric

feel to it. Ely played a few of his standards, Down on the Drag, Dalla,s and Me and Billy the Kid and in the end, the entire ensemble joined in on a couple of Terry Allen songs. It couldn’t have been a more magical night and I’ve been seeing Joe perform for over 40 years and have the distinction of giving Terri Hendrix her first paying gig back in the mid 90’s when I paid her a whopping fifty bucks to open for Marcia Ball at the old Billy Blues in S.A. I did get a chance to catch up with Ely a little bit after the show. He told me that he had just come across a picture of me and Connie Hancock with yo-yos many, many years ago. We kind of made our own fun back in Lubbock in the 70’s. I remember Joe had an old caddy convertible that he painted pink with a broom. It was a different time. Hey Pratts… can’t thank you enough for that show. The universe owes you change on that one. A definite goodern!

DO NOT MISS LIST

Coming THIS WEEKEND, Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines will be back at the Third Coast for Terri’s 50th Birthday. I feel like I’ve watched this child blossom into the savvy artist, businesswoman, teacher and mentor she is today. I remember when she’d drag her little guitar amp into our jams at Billy Blues and was so shy she would play with her back to the audience. Not anymore. This lady commands any stage she’s on with grace and artistry and has made a huge difference in this world. Happy birthday Terri and good luck with your big show at the Paramount Theater on the 16th. Also this weekend, Giggity’s has reggae on Friday with the Chanklas and blues on Saturday with

Mike O’Neil. And, NEXT WEEKEND is the big Barefoot Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday, the 10th. Plus next Saturday, Shorty’s will have another of their great homegrown Art Fairs from 1-5. This is a very cool event with all local artists showing their stuff on the porch at Shorty’s. Stevie Start will be providing the music. And on Fat Tuesday, the 13th, Port A will have their Mardi Gras Parade and Miss Neesie and Earfood will play Giggity’s. Lots going on. Be safe out there.

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will have the Island Queen back soon and maybe the big green jet boat, too. I know Glenn Martin has been working hard to get Woody’s and the gas pumps at the marina back in the saddle, and it appears that it’s all coming together. I

heard the same thing about Kody’s Restaurant. Word is they will be back open within a couple of weeks. And, Moby Dick’s got their familiar doors back open this week as did Jay’s Spaghetti Works. This is all good stuff folks. Our town is coming back to life.

Scattered shots…

I was privileged to attend an absolutely wonderful show at the Third Coast Theater last Thursday. The event was a fundraiser for the Port Aransas Museum and Farley Boat Works. Museum curator and celebrity bag piper, Rick Pratt along with his go-getter wife Cameron put an outstanding show together by enlisting

the help of singer-songwriter Terry Allen (Lubbock, TX), who brought most of his talented family along and a few choice artists, close to the lair. Terry’s wife Jo Harvey treated us to some West Texas wit and humor with her poetry and his two sons, Bale and

Bukka, pulled double duty both as band leaders and sidemen. Also, stellar fiddler Richard Bowen didn’t miss a note all evening and was as comfortable as a reversible jacket on stage. Also on the bill with Terry Allen was Texas State Musician

Joe Ely (Lubbock, TX) and Terri Hendrix (San Marcos, TX) who brought along the maestro picker, Lloyd Maines, who plays

ON THE LOCAL FRONT

Bigfoot and a very blue moon…

We had a couple of rare occurrences this week. The mother of all drilling rigs, Bigfoot, came barreling through town on Tuesday at a brisk pace of two knots. The 40 story structure was one long drawn out photo op and if the number

of pictures on Facebook are any indication, everyone in town got at least one shot of it. It really is an impressive sight coming down the channel. A giant metal fortress on water, led by a dozen tethered tug boats. Some folks out at Charlie’s Pasture brought ice chests and lawn chairs and made a day of it. My friend Red, who lives in Comfort, said we were lucky. All they ever got to see was big wind turbine blades going through town on giant trucks. Just not the same. Certainly not enough to bring a sack lunch. And on Wednesday, the wait was up. We were finally treated to a Blue Moon which only comes around every…well… blue moon or so. Why so blue. Well, it’s actually the second full moon in the month and that makes it rare plus it was also a “super moon” which occurred during a total lunar eclipse, which makes it very rare. So the correct terminology would be a Super Blue Moon. According to Snopes.com, “Supermoons, which have most recently occurred on 3 December 2017 and 1 January 2018, are full moons that happen to occur when the Earth and the moon are at or near the closest positions in their orbit (an event called a “perigee”), making the moon appear about 14% larger and up to 30% brighter.” There will be another blue moon on March 31 in case you’re keeping score.

Coming back to life…

I ran into Lee Harper, GM at the Back Porch, this week and we talked about the upcoming tourist season. His band booker, Becky Hyden, got a bit of a late start this year waiting on the obvious and has been in heavy deliberation with Lee as to what to expect come March 12 when the majority of Texas schools let out for Spring Break. Becky tells me , “I have confirmed dates with Larry Joe Taylor, Thomas Michael Riley, Cruise Control, Jul

& The Chrome Wheels. “ And that, “I have faith it will all come together and we’ll have a stellar lineup this year!” Lee told me that he had been working on a fresh finish on all the tables and chairs and that the marina behind Woody’s is 90% repaired. In fact the Mustang and the Black Booty are back in their familiar spots, right beside Gentry Powell’s sail boat with the black mast. I’m hoping Captain Billy

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Friday, February 2 Chanklas @ Giggity’sCarol Elliott (6-8) @ Tiki Room at Giggity’sChris Saenz @ Scuttlebutt’sCulture Wars, Smash, Decadence @ House of RockSpazmatics @ Brewster StreetClarissa Serna @ Rockit’s

Saturday, February 3 Terri Hendrix & Lloyd Maines @ Third Coast TheaterMike O’Neill @ Giggity’sMelissa Brooke @ Scuttlebutt’sEdison @ House of RockAnother Level @ Rockit’s

Sunday, February 4Antone & All Stars @ Giggity’sJohn Eric @ Scuttlebutt’s

Monday, February 5 Open Jam @ Giggity’sTori McClure @ Scuttlebutt’s

Tuesday February 6Paul Taylor @ Giggity’sBilly Snipes @ Scuttlebutt’sOpen Mic @ House of Rock Wednesday, February 7 Billy Snipes @ Giggity’sPA Rockers @ Bernie’sTori McClure @ Scuttlebutt’sDamon Scott @ House of RockOpen Mic @ Executive Surf Club

Thursday, February 8 Dunes Danceland @ Mustang Isle Episcopal Conference CenterFree Beer Band @ Giggity’sMagnus @ Scuttlebutt’sHoly Knives, Wings Over Society @ House of RockRobert Ray, Jade Marie Patek @ Brewster Street

Friday, February 9 The Groove @ Giggity’sCarol Elliott (6-8) @ Tiki Room at Giggity’sSing Along Piano Bar @ Brewster StreetChris Saenz @ Scuttlebutt’sOddfellas @ Rockit’s

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