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IslandAugust 12, 2021

By Dale Rankin

Things are mostly both hunky and dory as we wind down toward the end of the summer season on our little sandbar. The beach crowds have been steady but not overwhelming. A wreck that jammed up the JFK Causeway on Saturday reminded us that our umbilical cord is only two lanes in each direction and the screech of tires and crumpling fenders at the Aquarius/SPID traffic light are now part of the Island soundtrack.

Cancellations

The Beach to Bay event for October has been cancelled due to COVID and it was announced Tuesday that the Town Hall Meeting regarding Short-Term Rental properties that was scheduled for August 26 has also been cancelled. There was discussion of doing it as a Zoom meeting but it was decided it needs to be an in-person event so tentatively it will be reset for September if the COVID numbers come down. We will keep you advised.

Get off my lawn!

The Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday passed an ordinance making it illegal to park on “unimproved” surfaces in front yards but it won’t have much of an effect on The Island. The first thing to know is that gravel is considered “improved” so as long as there is enough gravel that a vehicle doesn’t leave tire tracks it is fine. Grass is off limits since vehicles leave tracks in grass but most Island front yards with grass are not used for parking anyway.

Riley P. Dog Park

The Riley P. Dog Park at the west end of Whitecap is now open on weekends. It is still a work in progress but is far enough along that Island dogs can run free there. Volunteers are still needed so if you can help visit the Riley P. Dog Park Facebook page.

Updates on Islanders

We have updates on two longtime Islanders this week. Colleen McIntyre was back in town for a few weeks from Thailand where she had been teaching and is headed for Casablanca Morocco…of all the gin joints in all the world…where she will be teaching English.

And in other news David Dunseth is still alive! We got a call from David and his first words were, “I’m calling to let you know I’m still alive.” It seems another David recently passed away and some of David D’s friends thought I was him. “My wife got a nice note from someone I barely know telling her what a great guy I was,” David said. So news of David’s demise has been greatly exaggerated.

Home subscriptions

The Island Moon is considering doing home subscriptions again. We have regular requests from readers who want it mailed so if anyone is interested please e-mail us at editor@islandmoon and let us know.

Pickleball

The Island has been without tennis courts for almost a year now and we have only one pickleball court which is reserved for guests at an island resort. The city is in the process of adopting a new budget that will have money for courts and splash pads. Maybe we can get pickled or splashed…or better yet, how about a pickleball court that is a splash pad! Oh man!

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Beach Before School A7

Mizzen cont. on A4

By the numbers

Who lives on The Island?

The Padre/Mustang Island Area Development Plan is now finalized and contains demographic information for The Island based on the year 2019. Here are some of the numbers it includes.

10,178 Mustang/Padre island population (not including Port Aransas)

10,783 projected population in 2024

Income

$103,202 Median household income

$315,139 Median home value

Age

48.5 Median age

42% age 35-64

23.5% age 65-84

21.2% age 15-34

13% age 85 plus

8.1% age 5-14

3.4% age 0-4

Education

39.1% College degree

25.9% Some college

17.8% Graduate or Professional degree

16.7% High School diploma

Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth

Photo courtesy of Texas Surf Camp.

No Relief in Sight for The Island's Short-Term

Rental ProblemCity council denies request to allow a Bed and Breakfast on Mizzen Street

By Dale Rankin

Months of frustration from Islanders enduring the presence of houses being leased by the day as hotels in Island neighborhoods boiled over at Corpus Christi City Hall on Tuesday as forty-four of them made their opinions known.

The occasion was a vote on whether to rezone a house at 13845 Mizzen Street from RS-6 Residential to allow it to operate as an overnight stay Bed and Breakfast facility.

The council unanimously denied the request after only two people spoke in favor of the rezoning, one of which was the manager of the Mizzen property who said the owners would prefer to operate the location as a STR rather than a Bed and Breakfast but STR properties are not allowed under the current city code. It was also revealed Tuesday that the property owners do not live at the Mizzen property which is required for it to be approved as a Bed and Breakfast operation under city zoning rules and

have been leasing the property as a STR since purchasing it in October, 2020.

The discussion at city hall took more than two hours and exposed the frustration of Islanders at a lack of enforcement of illegal STR properties on Padre Island, about 70, and the critical flaws in the enforcement process from the Corpus Christi City Attorney’s Office. The complaints ranged from noise, to increased crime, trash, light pollution, and speeding boats in Island canals. One Island resident told the city council she and her husband moved to Padre Island from Galveston because of the proliferation of STR properties there.

Testimony from the Code Enforcement arm of the city said they have written four citations to the Mizzen property for illegally leasing to short-term renters which is a violation of the city’s Unified Development Code after complaints from neighbors. Each of the citations

carries the possibility of a $1000 fine, however, under questioning from City Councilman Mike Pusley it was revealed that due to a backup of 4500 cases in the Corpus Christi Municipal Court system none of the cases have been to court and while the cases are pending the STR properties that have been cited can continue to operate. The new city budget allocates $50,000 to hire new code enforcement officers.

“But hiring new code enforcement people isn’t going to help the Short-Term Rental problem if none of the cases ever get to court,” Pusley said.

The request by the owners of the Mizzen property to rezone was previously unanimously denied by the city Planning Commission. The city staff recommended approval because a city staff member told the council, the staff only checks to see if the application meets city planning

A little Island history

History cont. on A4

When Sports Illustrated Came to Padre IslandPrimitive, desolate and hot as a branding iron

Editor’s note: In July, 1960 Sport Illustrated Magazine came to Padre Island and interviewed one of the few people actually living here at the time. This is the story that resulted.

Flotsam for a familyThe beachcombing Frenches

find pleasure and profit roaming the Texas sand bar

By Houston Horn

The longest stretch of undeveloped seashore in the U.S., little known outside its own neighborhood, is a noodle-narrow 117-mile sand bar called Padre Island. Sixty thousand acres of subtropical semiwilderness, the island lies a rough five miles off the Gulf Coast of Texas and extends from Corpus Christi in the north to Brownsville in the south. It was once the year-round playground of the Karankawan Indians. They were cannibals. Today, tastes on Padre Island run more to shrimp salad and Lone Star beer; but otherwise, except for the small civilized outposts at either end, the island is much as it has always been, primitive, desolate and hot as a branding iron.

There are some, of course, who like

FBISD Board Approves Pay

Increase for All Employees

Teachers and employees in the Flour Bluff school district will get pay raises after a vote by the board on Thursday.

The pay increases for staff include the following:

$1,200 pay increase for all teachers

2% pay raise for Administrators (Increase at the mid-point of the salary range)

3% pay raise for Paraprofessionals (Increase at the mid-point of the salary range)

3% pay raise for Auxiliary (Increase at the mid-point of the salary range)

Additionally, the Board was provided information on the option to provide retention stipends for all employees. If approved by the Board of Trustees during the August 26th Regular Board Meeting, a retention stipend will be paid out to employees in December 2021 and May 2022 which coincides with the end of the fall and spring semesters.

$1000 Teacher Retention Stipend ($500 paid December 2021; $500 paid May 2022)

$750 All Other Staff ($375 paid December 2021; $375 paid May 2022)

Employees can expect to see the pay increase reflected in the September paychecks.

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Texas Surf Camp Coming to Port Aransas Sunday, August 22

It's that time of year again! The Texas Surf Camps/TGSA Grom Roundups will be held on Saturday August 21 in Galveston TX and on Sunday August 22 in Port Aransas.

This is a fun contest aimed at introducing new surfers to competition and all the fun that comes with it; friends, lots of surfing, and even more fun! This is the perfect stepping stone to get your surfer into competition and just see what it's like to compete.

Sign up links for each event are below. All we ask is for a donation of any amount to the TGSA Allstar Team when you check in with us in the morning.Texas Surf Camp surfers get a special 24 hour period to register before anyone else so make sure and take advantage of this because it will fill up. There are 48 spots in each contest.

The contests start at 7:30am and should end by about noon if we don't have any snags. Please check in by 7 to ensure we start and finish on time.

Photos courtesy of Texas Surf Camp.

Rosy Bird Watching on the Island

Shake It Off. Photo by Lu Ann Kingsbury.

Splish splash I was taking a bath, Photo by Morgan Faulkner.

The preening flamingo. Photo by Mary Craft.

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Half AcreI first met “Half Acre,” Wren Warneke, at my

dad’s Red Dot Bait Stand when it was on the Intracoastal Canal.

Half Acre inherited $250,000 when his father died. He wasted most of it buying worthless land in West Texas and gambled off most of the rest.

Half Acre became a sports fishing salesman for many years then worked the night shift at the Red Dot.

He won many awards for bait casting and was an expert with a sling shot, also called a pea shooter. Half Acre was also a butcher and worked at Nicholsons grocery store on SPID which is now the Barton Street Pub. He sold knives, especially the six-inch blade used for gutting and gilling fish. He and I caught a lot of big redfish in the flats across from Snoopy’s using a big silver spoon for bait. The water was clear and all you had to do was let the spoon drop the bottom in front of them and they would pick it up.

Yes, Half Acre was quite a character, a jokester and could swap stories with the best of them. I compare him to Ernest Hemmingway.

Bobbie Kimbrell

Douden ParkWe have lived near Douden Park since 1994

and the park has never been in worse shape. The city park folks do a good job emptying the trash receptacles and, until recently, mowing the grass. Low tree limbs need to be trimmed so they don’t prevent mowing under them.

Some limbs are touching the ground and are surrounded be tall grass. The many dead plants, some killed in February and some by Hurricane Harvey, need to be removed. A tree near the playground has been dead for at least a year. The children’s slide has been taped off for more than 6 months instead of being easily repaired.

William Kerr

From our Facebook PageTown Hall Meeting on Short Term

Rentals August 26

John M Mckinney: Just come spend a weekend in Port Aransas, you’ll find out real quick why you should cut the STR HOUSE cancer out of N Padre Island ASAP.

Adam Richards: I was referencing the Texas Supreme Court decision, not the article. Read the decision. It says if you are renting your house out for families to spend the night it is a residential purpose not a commercial purpose. The length of stay does not matter.

#2) Why do you think Corpus Christi does not enforce those zoning restrictions? Because Austin had those same restrictions and they were deemed unconstitutional by an appellate court in 2019 therefore Corpus Christi's are unenforceable. Here is an article about that. Again read the court decision you don't have to believe everything that's in the article. The court decision says renting your house out for three days is the same as renting it out for three months there's no difference in time if your HOA is going to allow long-term rentals they must allow short-term rentals. Cities all over Texas including Port Aransas have regulations on short-term rentals that are not legal and not enforceable. That's why they're not enforced.

Editor’s note: The court decision referenced was in Boerne and was directed at rules against SRT put in place by the property owners association and did not address city ordinances. The case came down to the language in the covenants in the rules for the leasing a home in a specific residential neighborhood for SRT. The court ruled that since the language in those covenants allowed leasing for residential purposes and did not address length of stay as long as the SRT rental was for residential purposes there was no prohibition against it. The ruling was specific to the language in the covenants in that subdivision and did not address the larger question of whether property owners associations can in fact outlaw SRT. In

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Island Moon Rain Report

Rainfall Totals on The Island

Padre: Dyna St.

Aug 3 – 9 0.43”

Padre: Aquarius St.

Aug 3 – 9 0.36”

Padre: Elbow St.

2021 year to date 39.27”


Padre: Scallop St.



Padre: Cayo Cantiles


2020 year to date 16.65

Thank you to Tom Cullinan for providing the rainfall totals.

Port A. Happenings* Sunset Sounds Concert: Friday, Aug. 13, at the Patsy Jones Amphitheater in Roberts Point Park Friday, Aug. 13, 7-9pm. Josh Gilbert, an American bassist, vocalist and songwriter, will perform American, southern rock & metalcore. FREE! (tips accepted). Bring a chair or blanket, your friends & family and listen to the music in open air. Held at the Patsy Jones Amphitheater in the park. Bring whatever food & drink you want. (Leashed) dogs welcome. Kid friendly-playground within view. The Hot Dog Lady will be selling. Social distancing requested. Golf carts may drive up. Watch the ships go by, dolphins jumping, birds flying and sun set. Enjoy!

*Yoga on the beach, Saturday, Aug. 14, 8:30am at the beach south of Horace Caldwell Pier at the end of Beach Street. Free courtesy of Port A Parks and Recreation. Certified instructor Nancy Myers will lead class. Bring mat or blanket suitable for use on beach.

*Silver Screen Under the Stars: Saturday, Aug. 14, 8:15pm. Bring a chair or blanket & watch an old movie outdoors at the Patsy Jones Amphitheater in Roberts Point Park. Free movie, free popcorn and free lemonade. Movie will be "the Inspector General", a comedy.

*Guided Nature Walk: Saturdays, 8-10am, Community Park Trail Head, FREE guided birding in the Nature Preserve. Walk through the Gulf Coast Prairie habitat, see birds, plants and other critters. Pre-registration 5pm the Friday before required at https://porta.recdesk.com.

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*Summer water aerobics classes: Shallow water aerobics: Tuesday-Friday, 7-8am with Carrol, tougher weight workout in 4' at Community Pool. Deep water aerobics: Tuesday-Friday, 10am with Pam. Work at your own rate of exertion with weights/dumbbells/noodles in deep end. Belts available to hold you up & equipment is provided. Jazzercise with Selena every Friday at 11am. Register at https://porta.recdesk.com.

*Port Aransas Parks and Recreation is still hiring pool lifeguards. Go to Employment Opportunities - City of Port Aransas for more information and to apply.

*Nature Preserve Yoga: Tuesdays, 11:30am-12:30pm, in-person only at NP Pavilion. Practice a variety of yoga styles with Selena Esensee in the wild. Previous classes on FB. FREE.

*Birding on the Boardwalk: Wednesdays, 9-11am, Birding Center, FREE, for novice to expert birders. Ray Dillahunty and Leslie Hoekstra lead the way, pointing out exciting wildlife.

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fact there are many instances of them doing that around Texas.

We have also read the case from the Third Court of Appeals (Zaatari v. City of Austin, Appeal No. 03-17-00812-CV in case you want to look it up.) There is a crucial difference between the facts of that case and the current situation with SRT in Corpus Christi. In the Austin case the property owner who was leasing his second home (not homesteaded) for STR bought the house under city ordinances which did not prohibit SRT then the city retroactively passed an ordinance which prohibited the practice. The court ruling was based on the notion that the city was attempting to remove a property right (to lease short-term) that was present when the house was purchased.

That ruling would fit the facts in Port Aransas where the city council passed an ordinance allowing SRT about five years ago and houses bought since that time were purchased when the practice was allowed under ordinance. To deny a property right previously allowed is usually referred to as “down zoning” and when cities attempt that a common remedy is for the city to have to compensate the homeowner for lost value – another issue entirely. That is the situation Port Aransas is now confronting.

However, that is not the case in Corpus Christi and Padre Island where current zoning does not allow for SRT unless it is in a Bed and Breakfast establishment allowed under the Unified Development Code (we printed the language is a previous issue) which requires that the property owners be present (as opposed to a second home) and which requires a specific affirmative vote either by the Planning Commission or, if denied there, a two-thirds vote to override the commission vote by the city council.

The issue now for Padre Island is that the city is not enforcing the ban on SRT even though it is not permitted under the current code. Certainly any future ban on SRT in Corpus Christi and Padre Island could be challenged in court. However, the ruling in the Austin case would likely not apply since the material facts are very different. Our issue is not that STR are legal and we need to make them illegal; it is that they are currently not legal but the ordinance is not being enforced. In that case a new ordinance making a violation is not removing an existing property right, it is a crucial difference if/when the issue goes to court.

Niki Samberson: As a full time resident in Port A, living in a neighborhood that has turned STR, I can tell you from experience that it isn't the change of families every week. If it were JUST families, it would not be an issue. The problem is when three or four families rent one house. Then, when you have an entire block of that happening, parking is an issue. On weekends, we have a hard time getting out of our cul d'sac because of parking on both sides of the street.

The PD does what they can, but they are overwhelmed by the situation because it is the same all over town.

For those of you buying in N Padre for investment purposes, please put yourself in the position of full time residents. Would you like it if your entire block where you live full time went totally STR? Would you be ok with basically being confine to your own house because you can't get out? Would you be ok with the increased noise levels all night?

I think the folks who are opposed are those who DO live here full time and just want to live their lives, go to work, raise their kids...you know. Those things that maybe investors take for granted in their own quiet neighborhoods.

Cheri Sperling: Thank you for posting this!

SEVERAL of we ISAC members have spoken regarding this issue a good number of times! We need a BIG presence ….

Thank you again.

Mizzen Bed and Breakfast

Pam Isaacson: I don't have a horse in this race, but NO! You know a) if you change the rules for one it just trickles down and b) no one is going to enforce

Jason Page: If we're going to prohibit businesses from operating out of homes prepare for the backlash from the fishing guides, contractors, snow cone truck owners, etc., to be treated the same way.

Editor’s note: So far we have had no indication that any future STR ordinance would reference any types of businesses other than STR.

Saskia Gonzalez Short: We are in a single family home residential area.....just a big NOOOOOO.

Shannon Solimine: RIDICULOUS. If you want to own and operate an STR, which this is, BUY IN THE ZONES PERMITTED. Why oh why must neighbors constantly accommodate these poor foresighted investors? The neighbors, I’m sure, purchased with forethought of NOT having STR ISSUES.

Billie Ryon: Against this for sure, BUT if it happens, who is going to be responsible for holding them to all those rules??

Gretchen Chaney: Pandora's Box

Jito's

Tom Spiewak: Always good to read about Jito. I grew up there. Tom's name is spelled Spiewak. (My Dad) The W is pronounced as a V. It's Polish. I ate more than my fair share of burritos.

Greg Easterling: A morning of surfing then Jito’s burritos for lunch.

Terri Tandy: Miss those days

Osha Parsley-Golden: Fun days indeed … I remember it fondly

No Wake Story

Jesse Castillo III: I’m glad that is becoming a no wake zone.

Had my trolling motor damaged tied up there. Also picking up customers at Docs for a charter. It wasn’t fun.

Jeri Lynn Berkemeier Thompson: Corpus needs a water protection/quality plan!

Gary Loessberg: Is that no wake zone also going to apply to barges?

Editor’s note: That has yet to be addressed but likely will be at the City Council meeting on August 24. Barges must maintain speed when going under the JFK Bridge in order to maintain steerage. We will report the answer when available.


Mizzen cont. from A1 History cont. from A1

August 26, 2020 Bene� � ing the Riley P Dog Park� eme: Who Let the Dogs Out!

•Canine costume contest•Prizes for top 3 poker hands

•Prize for best decorated vehi� e•Prize for best dog costume

� e poker run begins at Island Gatherings on Compass Street. � ey are behind Island Joe’s Co� ee shop. � en players will go on to the Bla� Sheep Bistro. � e

next stop is Joyride Rental Company on Wh� ecap Blvd and ending at � e Angry Marlin where cards will be drawn at 8 p.m.Dog costume contest and

prizes will take place at 9. Don’t miss the fun!

it this way just fine, including jack rabbits, curlews, sand crabs, rattlesnakes and one independent young Texan named Eugene Lee French. Gene French says this: "One man can walk all the way down that beach and maybe not see anything. I can walk down it and see nickels, dimes and dollars all over the place." Gene French is a beachcomber.

As French will tell you, Padre Island, because of its relative isolation and because of its long reach down the western rim of the Gulf

of Mexico, offers a man some of the best beachcombings in the whole U.S. It is so rich in such seaside staples as shells, bottles and driftwood that French, after only 18 months on the job, has built up a business worth $20,000. And he sees even brighter prospects for the future because ocean currents and trade winds will doubtless continue to supply his wants, and people, especially touring people who come to the area, will continue to indulge their weakness for almost anything that has been picked up off a beach

To encourage and develop this tourist weakness, French has naturally gone to some trouble. FRENCH THE BEACHCOMBER, YOUR HOST says a sign in front of his shop on the Corpus Christi end of Padre Island.

And weathered d r i f t w o o d planks and melancholy fish nets contribute to an intoxicating illusion of a d v e n t u r e and mystery. Once inside, the customer succumbs to the spell, it would seem, for French demands, and usually gets,

such adventurous prices as these: $5 for a nice fat whelk shell, 5¢ for an ordinary, everyday scallop shell; $9 for a polished piece of ebony driftwood washed up from the faraway Amazon; 25¢ for a cork float lost from a shrimp boat net; $25 for a 1-inch, "perfect specimen" of a Mitchell's Wentletrap shell; $15 for an old bottle scuffed by the sand and blackened by time; and 35¢ for a pound of assorted little shells, just the thing for the aquarium back home and available to French by the ton on a patch of Padre Island known locally as Little Shell beach.

Yet, expedient and profitable as the practice is, running the shop is a burden somewhat alien to the nature of Gene French. "Ever since I was a little boy living in Corpus Christi," he says, "I've had a thing about this island. It was only a couple of years ago, though, that I realized I could spend a lot of time out here and still earn a living. Now that I know it's possible, I guess I've become a little spoiled. I'm just waiting for the day I can afford to pay somebody to run the shop for me so I can spend all my time on the beach." His feeling for Padre Island is shared by his wife, Evelyn, who says: "Without our trips down the beach, work in the shop would be plain, mean drudgery. When we're out beachcombing, that's our reward. We're on vacation."

On that fortunate basis, Gene, Evelyn and their two children, Kenneth, 7, and Carol Anne, 9, take 12 vacations each year (Padre Island merely simmers down in the winter). And the two-day expedition each month, about 180 miles round trip, is surrounded with the excitement of a holiday outing.

To get where the pickings are best, French drives an old army command car, a sort of outsize jeep, left over from World War II. It is painted a furious orange color and may well be visible in Mexico. His latest trip, a few weeks ago, began shortly after sunup. With his children perched on the groceries in the back and his wife on the running board, French shifted into four-wheel drive and the command car scratched off in the sand.

Beachcombers at work

A beachcomber, to be successful, must be selective. He does not want everything that litters the beach; he would not have room for it anyway. The four Frenches at work, therefore, function like four radar scanning antennas. Their eyes sweep over the beach in widening circles as the command car bears them along at a jiggling 15 miles per hour, and they shout out when a likely object comes into range. "Sea bean, sea bean!" cried Mrs. French, startlingly, after the first five minutes. Sure enough, 25 yards off to the right, lay a sea bean and, as French lifted his foot from the accelerator, the command car mushed to a stop in the puffy sand. A sea bean is a kind of seed the size of a half dollar and it closely resembles a burned butter bean. It is worth 10¢ on the beachcombing market any day of the week. Hardly a remarkable discovery for a trip that had already cost French $50 in gasoline and groceries, but a discovery all the same. Happily, the sea bean lay close beside a beer bottle barely visible in a drift. No ordinary beer bottle, this was one of 150,000 dumped into the Atlantic early last year by Ireland's

Guinness Brewery as a promotion stunt. Sealed and bearing a note inside, it is worth a small ashtray to anyone troubling to write the brewery. It is worth, on the other hand, $1 to French, who has found more than 300 on the beach and has sold them for that. "I guess everybody has a little of the beachcomber in him," says French. "Owning a bottle with a note in it makes him feel authentic."

For the first 35 miles, the car described a zigzag course over the beach, and by 10 a.m.

the Frenches had gathered in a harvest of Guinness bottles, wooden plugs from the sea cocks of shrimp boats (a shrimp-boat plug, the size of a coffee can, is fine as a lamp base, candlestick stand or doorstop and fetches 75¢ back at the shop), coconuts, a mahogany stump worth $50, cork and plastic net floats, whelk shells, sand dollars and wine bottles. Bottles abound on Padre Island and, says French, they are irresistible to his customers. "Any wine or rum bottle so long as it's green and sandy is worth a dollar. I find it hard to pass them up."

But commonplace green bottles, dollar or no, were not what French wanted most. The real money is in antique, or almost antique, bottles (a tourist sees visions of Blackbeard and the boys chucking them into the Spanish Main after a hanging party), and the few old bottles on Padre are to be found off the beach and behind the dunes that migrate along the island's spine. "The old bottles are nearly all buried," says French, "and to find them we have to keep going back to the same places to see if the wind has uncovered any." Accordingly, French turned the command car into the dunes (he has permission from a cattle ranch holding title to the dune land to do so), and everybody piled out and walked. Last year Evelyn French found a Belgian hand-pressed bottle, estimated by a glass expert to be 150 years old, and French has turned down an offer of $150 for it. This particular venture was less rewarding, although one bottle found by Kenneth now bears a $20 price tag.

Alternately nosing into the dunes and following a meandering course on the open beach, French had by sundown accumulated more than $175 worth of plunder, not counting an anchor found beside the beached, burned-out hull of a shrimp boat. Wrecked shrimpers are rare enough, but anchors are rarer still. That being so, Evelyn announced with some finality that it would not be for sale; it would serve instead, she said, to further the shop's seafaring atmosphere. (The $175 figure does not include, either, the possible value of a glass stopper picked up by Carol Anne. To all appearances, it had fallen out of the neck of an old Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce bottle.

Camp that night was pitched some 70 miles from Corpus Christi in a driftwood-plank

shack French built for such occasions on an earlier trip. (A supporting column of the shack bears the name, in Japanese ideographs, of Sugi Masasumi, the significance of which remains cloaked in Oriental mystery.) The next morning, after a breakfast of eggs, scrambled because nine of the dozen brought along were broken en route, the Frenches pushed off to the south again, using the same exploratory patterns as before, until they reached the Port Mansfield channel, a man-made boat canal that cuts across the lower fourth of Padre Island. Here, beside concrete jetties marking the channel's mouth, French and his family waded into the Gulf to gather tiny, convoluted shark-eye shells inhabited by hermit crabs. Worth a dime apiece, they were clinging to the jetties by the thousands.

A major discovery

The return trip, begun after noon of the second day, was uneventful except for two occurrences. One, minor in French's view, was running out of gas 40 miles from home—a passing jeep with extra gas solved that problem. The other, major in French's view, was Evelyn's discovery of a glass-ball fishing-net float. The float, said French with some excitement, had made its way to Padre Island from Japan, you could believe it or not. An oceanographer said later it was hard to believe, noting that the float's almost necessary trip through the stormy Strait of Magellan would have been its undoing. Another man said it was easy to believe, considering he had seen such glass floats used in West Indies bars that affect an Oriental decor. Beachcomber French won't argue the point. He counts the floats so rare, which they certainly are on Padre Island, and so valuable that he doesn't even offer the few he has found for sale.

And that, of course, is what makes Eugene Lee French a beachcomber. It is also what distinguishes him from a shopkeeper.

guidelines. But an overturning of the Planning Commission Vote requires approval of three-quarters (seven) of the city council.

The city currently is working on a STR ordinance but prior to Tuesday’s meeting the issue had been on the backburner at city hall since most of the violations, and complaints, were on The Island and the issue was not a heated topic elsewhere. But after the litany of problems caused by the short-term renters described by Islanders the issue looks to take a more prominent role at city hall.

While STR are not allowed under the current city code the homeowners told the council

that recently purchased homes, like the one on Mizzen Street, were bought for the purpose of turning them in STR properties.

City Manager Peter Zanoni said he plans to hire an outside consultant to help write a Short-Term Rental ordinance for the city which he expects to have ready for a council vote by the end of 2021.

In the meantime city inspectors can continue to write citations but no fines can be assessed until the cases make their way to court. So until at least the end of 2020 Island homes can continue to be leased illegally for short-term rentals with no monetary penalty for the property owners.

Remember When

Ten Years Ago This Week

This is McKayla Long she was the 7 years old at the time of this photo and is granddaughter of Jerry and Sharon Watkins. McKayla always has a project and can be very creative and disciplined. Since everyone else had tried and failed with the

tootsie roll thing (she wanted to do something original to become famous and maybe be in the Guinness book of records) she decided to find out how many licks it would take to reach the center of a blow pop with out biting. So McKayla kept tally marks for every lick and found out it takes 930 licks to make the gum show and 2785 licks

to make all the candy around the gum disappear. Oh... and it only took four days but makes your tongue a little sore! Way to go McKayla! Photo by Jerry Watkins

Jim Cantori from the Weather Channel was here for Hurricane Don which broke apart before making landfall.

The Flour Bluff Walmart was under construction.

There was a demonstration of the newest sport on The Island. Stand Up

Paddleboarding.

Hurricane Hunters.


Stuff I Heard on the IslandBy Dale Rankin

Tides of the WeekTides for Bob Hall Pier August 12 - August 19

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The futility of the enforcement effort of Short-Term Rental properties on The Island was in full display at Corpus Christi City Hall Tuesday. As we report on page one of this issue the city council voted down a proposal to allow a house in an Island neighborhood to be leased by the day as a bed and breakfast but the process of enforcing the current rules on STR is made tepid by the constrictions on code enforcement officers currently being used. Here is what we learned.

The problem is at the City Attorney’s Office

The city’s code enforcement officers are doing their jobs but they are being saddled with a set of procedures for writing citations that hamstring their efforts. According to testimony Tuesday the City Attorney requires them to make direct contact with people staying in the Short-Term Rental properties and get them to say they are leasing short-term in order to write a citation. The inspector said Tuesday that if no one comes to the door they can’t issue a violation notice under the procedures handed them by the City Attorney’s Office. The problems with this approach are obvious.

Getting the cases into court is nearly impossible

During the discussion at city hall on Tuesday it was pointed out that the Municipal Court system has a backlog of 4500 cases meaning that, at least as things now stand, getting a STR case before a judge likely won’t happen before a new city ordinance is written by the end of this year.

A check of the flowchart for the city court system finds that while the judges are hired by the city council and a head judge manages the system, the prosecutors work for the City Attorney who has said in previous meetings that prosecutors must see money change hands before they can prosecute. There are several solutions to this problem, none of which are currently being applied. As the prosecutor the City Attorney has the option of moving at least a few of the STR cases to the top of the docket to send the message that the city is at least trying to prosecute violations and maybe hand out a few $1000 fines in the process. There has also been discussion of a sting operation that would make reservations through the various websites that offer STR. But as things now stand none of that is being done so out-of-towners leasing Island homes by the day can continue going so and in fact may not even be aware they are violating the local law.

Issuing citations works

Even with the clunky system now being employed writing citations that carry the possibility of a $1000 fine for each incident works. That is why the owners of the property on Mizzen applied for rezoning. They had been issued four citations which each carry a $1000 fine and avoiding future fines is why they were

there. They know that if they continue to lease the house as a STR they can be subject to fines of $1000 per day going forward– that is if the people staying there open the door when the inspectors arrive. At this stage of the game there is no telling when any of the cases will actually go before a judge and the fines actually assessed but at least the out-of-town owners will have to show up for a court appearance or face a declaratory judgment which would mean they would have to pay the fines. Just the threat of that alone was enough to make the shoe pinch Tuesday.

As the City of Port Aransas has learned if the goal is to bring STR properties into compliance the case is won when the citation is issued. The mere threat of a $1000 per day fine makes STR renters think twice. Even if the cases are eventually dismissed the violators will at some point have to tell it to the judge and that has value for compliance so writing citations helps even if the cases never see a courtroom.

Short-Term Rentals are not popular in Island neighborhoods and now the council members know it

A collective gasp from the vast majority of the city council members was almost audible at city hall on Tuesday. It was clear that it was the first time all but a couple of them had come face to face with the severity of the problem. City Councilman Greg Smith and PIPOA President Marvin Jones have been delivering the message of the magnitude of the situation for months but it hit home when more than forty Islanders spoke up on Tuesday. I got the feeling that the issue moved up closer to the top of the In Box at city hall. Port Aransas let this problem run wild and now they are paying the price. Padre Island has the chance to get out in front of it but the longer we let the Wild West approach run free the harder it will be to reverse the process when an ordinance is eventually passed.

For clarity, let’s reiterate, we are only talking about areas of Padre Island which are zoned single-family residential; that is to say the neighborhoods west of SPID. There is no issue east of the road on the Gulf side. And on the west side multi-family developments or Planned Use Developments with their own property owners association can allow STR at their discretion. We are only talking about houses in residential Island neighborhoods which were not designed to have houses used as hotels.

Unless things change with regards to how the STR rules are enforced it appears that we will have the Wild West until at least the end of 2021. Unless/until some of the impediments placed on inspectors by the City Attorney are streamlined the Cost Benefit equation for out-of-town property owners leasing short-term will mean the enforcement effort is like trying to hold back the tide with a broom.

Unless the council got the message Tuesday that the current system is unacceptable and it’s time to act.

Thoughts From Dr. Tom

Get Physical To Combat CovidBy Dr. Tom Dorrell

This week lets talk about strategies to prevent disease including covid

by getting and staying healthy. In general all disease preys on those that are in bad physical shape. To combat this we need to ask, what can I do to improve my health and possibly prevent disease and or decrease the severity of disease if I do contract covid or another problem.

Our immune system can be compromised by many things, some of these include bad diet, lack of exercise, sedentary behaviors, lack of sunlight which reduces our vitamin D levels. Excess bad behavior such as smoking of any kind, excess alcohol, drug use, poor sleep habits and too much stress.

The fix for many of these things is purely a will power issue. The easiest to correct is exercise and making it a priority just like an appointment with your accountant. Exercise in a perfect world would be allotting 1-1.5 hours of exercise 5- 6 days per week. This would include strength training with resistance and cardio. This is not hard to do but you have to make it a priority. Cardio can initially be a 30 minute walk but increasing the rate or incline, changing to cycling or swimming if you have musculoskeletal issues may be a better choice.

Resistance training can be lifting weights or using resistance bands or even your own body weight with push-ups, sit-ups and arm resistance. Squats, leg lifts and many other types of exercise can be used for strength training. Strength training is important to build a bigger engine and burn more fuel so you can lose more weight. Weight loss is not just burning calories you have to eat right as well.

Diet is the other half of the equation. We know that covid preys upon those with low immune system and deficits in vitamin D, Zinc, Vitamin

C and other vitamins which increase your risk. This is true for people with high blood sugars and obesity as well. Eating a diet that has lean protein and fruits and vegetables is the best course. This means avoiding fried foods as much as possible, avoiding saturated fats and greasy processed foods. This includes avoiding fast food as much as possible. Fresh vegetables and multiple small meals daily is better than skipping meals and eating a big dinner. Many times you do not need supplements if you are eating a diet high in fresh fruits and vegetables.

If you are not complying then you need to consider a multivitamin with iron, vitamin D3 supplementation, Zinc, Vitamin C and maybe quercetin. Dosages of these can be reviewed on NIH and CDC websites. Making yourself get enough rest and exercise is key. If you are not doing it then you need to decrease the value you place on the dollar and increase the value of your health. Smoking or any tobacco use increases your risk of covid, flu and every cancer known to man. It also is a main contributor to heart disease and peripheral vascular disease which in turn increases your risk of dying of covid.

Alcohol in moderation meaning no more than 2 drinks a few times per week may not be harmful. It does cause increase weight gain as empty carbs and in excess is for sure a problem, so be aware and try not to over utilize. Stress is high these days with the craziness in our country from the border to violence, inflation and covid. It is hard to get away from. My advice is get outside early and late and get a little sun for your vitamin d and a little exercise, fish, relax on the beach and try not to over imbibe. Set some limits to protect yourself. Sear or grill that backstrap instead of frying it, do the same with your fish. Eat good meals at home and get some rest. Stay Well! Have a great week! Doc Tom

Holding the meeting on the beach seemed like a good idea at the planning meeting. Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth.

Rockport to Kick Off Labor Day Weekend with Free Concert

Little Bay Labor Day Music FestThe City of Rockport is sponsoring a free

concert on Friday, September 3 at the Festival

Grounds at Rockport Harbor. Featuring The Spazmatics, the concert is being held in conjunction with the Little Bay Labor Day Music Festival. Gates open at 5 pm and the music begins at 6 pm. All the awesome sounds, styles, and way cool dance steps from the 1980’s, a decade we would all love to forget. Complete with skinny ties, Brill Creamed hair, and horn-rimmed glasses, The Spazmatics recapture all the best of the worst. Outstanding musicianship combined with creative flair and style makes for an evening of pure energy and entertainment.

Opening act for the free concert is The Band Daily. A Coldspring-based, all-family band.

This up-and-coming group has a large following in the Texas/Red Dirt music genre.

The Little Bay Labor Day Music Festival continues Saturday night with a Fiesta en La Playa Tejano night. Featured to appear are Joe Lopez & Grupo Mazz, Jesse Turner Y SIGGNO, South TX Homies, Boni Mauricio, and DJ Lucky J. Advance tickets are available for $30 at the

new Zavala’s Furniture, located on Business 35 and Traylor in the Harbor Oaks Shopping Center or online at https://myticketgenius.com/tc-events/fiesta-en-la-playa-2021/. A limited number of VIP tickets for both events are also available.

Photo by Mary Craft.

Dotson’s Note: After the December 7th 1941 Japanese

attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States entry into the war, the use of civilian labor in war zones became impractical. Under international law civilians were not permitted to resist enemy military attack. The following report hopefully reminds/informs all of you Moon Monkeys of the Seabees. Thanks to Doug Mueller (former Seabee), J. David Rogers and Naval History & Heritage Command for the facts contained in this report and to Americas Navy Photo Gallery for the photos.

Formation of The Seabees

The need for a militarized Naval Construction Force to build advance bases in the war zone was self-evident. Therefore, Rear Admiral Ben Moreell determined to activate, organize, and man Navy construction units. On December 28, 1941, he requested specific authority to carry out this decision, and on January 5th 1942, he gained authority from the Bureau of Navigation to recruit men from the construction trades for assignment to a Naval Construction Regiment composed of three Naval Construction Battalions. This is the actual beginning of the renowned Seabees, who obtained their designation from the initial letters of Construction Battalion. Admiral Moreell personally furnished them with their official motto: Construimus, Batuimus -- "We Build, We Fight."

Who Should Command?

An urgent problem confronting the Bureau of Yards and Docks was who should command the construction battalions. By Navy regulations, military command of naval personnel was limited to line officers. Yet it was deemed essential that the newly established construction battalions should be commanded by officers of the Civil Engineer Corps who were trained in the skills required for the performance of construction work. The bureau proposed that the necessary command authority should be bestowed on its Civil Engineer Corps officers. However, the Bureau of Naval Personnel (successor to the Bureau of Navigation) strongly objected to this proposal.

Despite this opposition, Admiral Moreell personally presented the question to the Secretary of the Navy. On March 19th 1942, after due deliberation, the Secretary gave authority for officers of the Civil Engineer Corps to exercise military authority over all officers and enlisted men assigned to construction units. The Secretary's decision, which was incorporated in Navy regulations, removed a major roadblock in the conduct of Seabee operations. Of equal importance, it constituted a very significant morale booster for Civil Engineer Corps officers because it provided a lawful command authority status that tied them intimately into combat operations. From all points of view, Admiral Moreell's success in achieving this end contributed ultimately to the great success of the Seabees.

First Seabees

With authorization to establish construction battalions at hand and the question of who was to command the Seabees settled, the Bureau of Yards and Docks was confronted with the problem of recruiting, enlisting, and training Seabees, and then organizing the battalions and logistically supporting them in their

operations. Plans for accomplishing these tasks were not available. Workable Plans were quickly developed, however, and because of the exigencies of the war much improvising was done.

The first Seabees were not raw recruits when they voluntarily enlisted. Emphasis in recruiting them was placed on experience and skill, so all they had to do was adapt their civilian construction skills to military needs. To obtain men with the necessary qualifications, physical standards were less rigid than in other branches of the armed forces. The age range for enlistment was 18-50, but after the formation of the initial battalions, it was discovered that several men past 60 had managed to join

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Seabees-World War IIBy Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon

Senior Moments

up, clearly an early manifestation of Seabee ingenuity. During the early days of the war, the average age of Seabees was 37. After December 1942 voluntary enlistments were halted by orders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and men for the construction battalions had to be obtained through the Selective Service System. Henceforward, Seabees were on average much younger and came into the service with only rudimentary skills.

The first recruits were the men who had helped to build Boulder Dam, the national highways, and New York's skyscrapers; who had worked in the mines and quarries and dug the subway tunnels; who had worked in shipyards and built docks and wharfs and even ocean liners and aircraft carriers. By the end of the war, 325,000 such men had enlisted in the Seabees. They knew more than 60 skilled trades, not to mention the unofficial ones of souvenir making and "moonlight procurement." Nearly 11,400 officers joined the Civil Engineer Corps during the war, and 7,960 of them served with the Seabees.

Seabee Training

At Naval Construction Training Centers and Advanced Base Depots established on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, Seabees were taught military discipline and the use of light arms. Although technically support troops, Seabees at work, particularly during the early days of base development in the Pacific, frequently found themselves in conflict with the enemy.

After completing three weeks of boot training at Camp Allen, and later at its successor, Camp Peary, both in Virginia, the Seabees were formed into construction battalions or other types of construction units. Some of the very first battalions were sent overseas immediately upon completion of boot training because of the urgent need for naval construction. The usual procedure, however, was to ship the newly- formed battalion to an Advanced Base Depot at either Davisville, Rhode Island, or Port Hueneme, California. There the battalions,

and later other units, underwent staging and outfitting. The Seabees received about six weeks of advanced military and technical training, underwent considerable unit training, and then were shipped to an overseas assignment. About 175,000 Seabees were staged directly through Port Hueneme during the war.

As the war proceeded, battle-weary construction battalions and other units in the Pacific were returned to the United States to the Construction Battalion Recuperation and Replacement Center at Camp Parks, Shoemaker, California. At Camp Parks, battalions were reformed and reorganized, or as was the case in several instances, the battalions were simply disestablished and the men assigned to other battalions. Seabees were given 30-day leaves and also time for rest and recuperation.

Dotson’s Other Note: “We Build. We Fight.” During and after WWII the Seabees received nothing near the acclaim they should have for their service in World Ward II. If you know of anyone living in the area who served in the Seabees during WW II, please let us know, we would like to give them the recognition that they so richly deserve. I am considering a Part 2 of this report, to provide you Moon Monkeys the story of the unbelievable accomplishments of the Seabees during combat. Thanks for reading and commenting on the articles in The Island Moon. Contact me at [email protected] or call/text: 530-748-8475.

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Fresh Pasta Super EasyBy Chef Vita Jarrin

aking fresh pasta sounds overwhelming, and for the

novice it could be. But once you make it the first time, you realize it wasn’t that difficult at all. Lately the food magazines I’ve been getting, all feature fresh pasta. So to stop my mouth from watering, Sunday I opted to make the dough at work, so that I can have fresh pasta for my Sunday dinner. It was so easy and super delicious. I wanted to share it with you and although the directions sound tedious, it really isn’t once you go through the steps. I would love to see any pictures of your dishes if you choose to make this. Who doesn’t love fresh pasta??? I look forward to hearing from you… Chef Vita

Yield makes 8 Servings

Pasta Dough Ingredients:

3 C Double Zero 00 Flour Anna Brand Imported (HEB)

5 Whole Eggs

1 Tsp salt

2 Tsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Cooking Spray for a bowl that will hold the pasta for 30 minutes before making the noodles

Keep a little water on hand if you need to soften the dough

Extra Flour for dusting pasta while letting it rest

Super Useful would be a pasta drying rack but if you don’t have one, use a couple of large cookie sheets to lay out your pasta once you’ve passed it through the machine

NOTE***Need a pasta machine for best results. The pasta machine must have an attachment that can cut pasta into spaghetti, fettucine, unless you’re making ravioli with the dough. If not… You can use a rolling pin, but keep in mind you must roll out the dough to a thin almost see through layer for a light pasta, and then you need a knife to cut in strips. This process is much more difficult for a pasta making novice but don’t get discouraged, it’s just pasta.

On a table or counter place the flour down and with your hands form a well in the center. Add your eggs, oil and salt. With a fork, start beating the egg mixture and start to incorporate the flour and keep mixing flour into eggs. When the eggs are no longer runny, and you start to see dough forming. Start kneading the dough with your hands. This process needs ten minutes. If for some reason the dough is slightly dry you may sprinkle a little water, not too much, in order to continue kneading the dough.

After kneading the dough for 10 minutes and you form it into a ball, spray a little cooking spray in a bowl, place pasta dough ball inside and spray the top with a little more cooking spray and cover with a sheet of plastic wrap. Let rest for 30 minutes.

Affer 30 minutes of resting, cut the pasta in 4 quartered pieces. While working with the first piece, keep the rest covered under the wrap, so a skin doesn’t form, making the pasta

hard. Set up your machine by according to manufactures directions.

Before you start to use the machine, with a floured surface, place the dough down and roll it with a rolling pin in order to get thickness reduced enough for the machine. Also keep the shape of the dough the same width of the machine so that you can run it through smoothly.

Set your gauge on pasta machine at the lowest setting. On some it’s a zero and others it’s a one. Sprinkle a little flour on the machine and dough before using it. Run your dough through this setting twice. Increase your setting by two numbers, therefore your next number will be 3, then 5 and so on. Do this until your pasta sheet is practically see through. Then run this sheet through the die cut on machine for either a spaghetti noodle shape or fettucine. As your pasta comes out, place on a floured surface and before layering other pasta on top, sprinkle flour on top and continue to make the pasta.

Let pasta rest for about 10 minutes and then boil a pot of salted water. Add a drizzle of olive oil and when water reaches a rolling boil, drop pasta. I normally drop half a batch, remove that batch when it floats and then cook the other half. This eliminates clumping. Pasta will float when it’s ready. It will be al dente, but remember this is fresh pasta so there will be less of a bite. You can add any favorite sauce to this dish, or drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, crushed red pepper flakes, fresh grated parmesan cheese and voila! You have a delicious low fat meal that tastes like you’re in Italy.

This sounds complex, but I am detailed in order for you to learn the process, but it’s truly super-fast and easy recipe and the rewards are grand!!!

Tip of the Week:

This dish can be made ahead and frozen in Ziploc bags for future use. The sheets can also be used for making ravioli. Cut the sheet in half, add a filling of choice and place the other sheet on top and press with a ravioli cutter. Cooking ravioli gets the best result if frozen first.

This recipe is super versatile.

Enjoy yourself, get creative, try new things have fun!!! Happy Eats!


Beach Before Back-to-School

Many families are visiting the Island before school starts. (Above) Kids from Ft. Worth. Photos by Mary Craft.

Kids from Paris, Texas visit The Island.

Kids from Salado, Texas.

Martinez family from Round Rock visit the jetties.

Visitors from Lubbock enjoy the beach.

Did Ya' Hear?By Mary Craft | [email protected]

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Business BriefsTable 22 Restaurant (notice that it is not a Mexican name) will be opening in the old country store and it will be - drum roll.........................A DINER! It will be an upscale diner that will be serving 6 am until 2-3:00 pm. There is a drive thru window where they will sell meals, ice and drinks including Margaritas. Booths are being added along the walls. The restaurant manager is someone who was a regional manager for Olive Garden and received a Million Dollar award four years in a row. The lease has been turned over to the new tenants so it is official. The family is from San Antonio and that is where the transfer was made. After the restaurant becomes established they hope to have it be a steak house for dinner. There is outdoor seating that can easily hold 100 people. Construction is currently being done by the former tenant Joe who is a contractor. Joe’s crew will complete the remodel and add the kitchen. I have not met the new tenants yet. The information here was given to me by Joe.

Smuggler’s Cove is being built at the end of Windward across the street from Beach Access Road 3A. There will be 44 one and two bedroom units with two pools and Pirate Playground in the center. The price range is $230K-360K and completion is expected in about a year. Call sales agent Adrianna at 331-0798 for more information.

Seashore Learning Center schools will open Wednesday, August 18th. Port A schools will open Tuesday, August 17th.

Scuttlebutts is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays until further notice.

Third Coast Catering by Aunt Sissy’s Kitchen again will be serving meals to pick up starting next week. On Tuesday, August 17th the meal is meatloaf, green bean casserole and au gratin potatoes and Wednesday chicken breast in gravy with bacon bits and shredded cheddar, rice pilaf and roasted green beans and carrots. The meals are $12.50 and you can text or call 549-4677 and pick up time is 11 am - 1 pm. You can have it delivered for a $5 fee.

Gary P. Nunn will be at the Back Porch in Port A on Saturday, August 14th.

Island Market IGA has a new salad called Summer Salad that has grape tomatoes, cucumbers, mozzarella cheese, basil and olive oil. I love it just had to add salt.

Sunset Sounds Concert will be held on Friday, August 13th 7 - 9 pm at Roberts Point Park. Singer Josh Gilbert will be playing American Southern Rock.

The next Padre Island/Flour Bluff Rotary Club meeting will be at the Hardknocks meeting room on Tuesday, August 17th 5:30 pm and everyone is invited. There should be a confirmed new Rotary Club with set up and bylaws by the end of September.

Dreaming in Color will perform at Marker 37 on Saturday, August 14th. The drink special is $5 Margaritas.

The Little Bay Labor Day Music Festival in Rockport will feature The Spazmatics for their free Friday

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come close and lose, come close and lose, come close and fall short. It makes it taste and feel much more special when you go through the hard times."

The U.S. got off to a fast start by scoring the first four points behind strong attacking by Michelle Bartsch-Hackley. It never trailed in the opener, winning it 25-21 on a soft shot by Bartsch-Hackley that gave her eight points in the set.

That pattern continued the next two sets as the U.S. ended up winning all nine sets in the

knockout round.

The match then ended in fitting style with a kill by Larson, leading to the tearful hug among the players on the court.

"A lot of people had to sacrifice a lot for us to be here and we had to learn along the way," Larson said. "We had to learn that in London and in Rio that we just weren't enough at that point. Did we believe it in that moment? Absolutely. We had

to go one extra step to figure it out."

The journey to this stage has been a long one for a U.S. women's team that started more than 40 years ago when the 1980 Olympic squad made the decision to begin year-round training,

only to get denied the opportunity to compete because of a U.S.-led boycott of the Moscow Games.

But the foundation had been put in place, and the Americans have won six medals in the past 10 Olympics and now finally have their gold.

Brazil had won gold in either men's or women's indoor volleyball in four straight Olympics, with the men claiming the title in 2004 and 2016 and the women in 2008 and 2012. But it will leave only with a silver this year, after the women lost for the first time in Tokyo following seven straight wins. The men lost a semifinal match to the Russians and then the bronze medal game against Argentina.

"The first feeling that comes to mind is a feeling of sadness," Brazilian outside hitter Gabi Guimarães said. "We could not implement the tactics that we had been implementing in previous games."

Brazil played the match short-handed after outside hitter Tandara Caixeta was sent home before the semifinals following her suspension for a potential violation of anti-doping rules. Tandara's lawyer said a banned substance found in a July test was introduced accidentally into her system.

In the bronze medal game, Serbia beat South Korea 25-18, 25-15, 25-15 to go home with a women's volleyball medal for the second straight Olympics. The Serbians won silver in 2016 for their first medal in the sport.

Dotson’s Other Note: It was the sixth women’s volleyball medal for the United States. It had previously won three silver and two bronze and it was the fourth Olympics in a row that the U.S. had medaled. But this was the most complete effort of any previous team. The U.S. lost just one of its eight matches in Tokyo. Thanks for reading and commenting on the articles in The Island Moon. Contact me at [email protected] or call/text: 530-748-8475.

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U.S. Women's Volleyball Team Wins First Olympic Gold Medal

By Dotson Lewis

Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon


Dotson’s Note: It was a long time coming (never), on the final day of the Tokyo Summer Olympics, the U.S. women's volleyball team did something it had never done before: win a gold medal. The squad defeated Brazil 3-0 (25-21, 25-20, 25-14) at Ariake Arena. Thanks to Bill Morgan, Jordan Larson, Jordy Poulter and the Associated Press for the facts contained in this report and to Bill Morgan for the photos.

U.S. Women Defeat Brazil to Win first Olympic Volleyball Gold

Jordan Larson fell to the floor, put her head in her hands and cried after Brazil couldn't return her spike on match point. The frustration of being so close but not quite good enough was replaced by a feeling of relief after the U.S. women's volleyball team finally claimed Olympic gold with a 25-21, 25-20, 25-14 victory over Brazil on Sunday.

"I'm just still in a state of shock," Larson said. "I cried more in the last 24 hours than I think I have in my career. I'm not an emotional player, an emotional person. But I think just the emotions got the best of me. I'm now in kind of this euphoria, a state of shock."

The United States, which had won three silver medals and two bronze since first getting on the medal stand in 1984, got to the top step by beating the team that denied it a chance at gold in the final match of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

Larson, who was part of that silver-winning team in 2012 and the bronze medal team five years ago, paved the way with her leadership on the court and her strong play on the attack and on defense.

Larson and middle blocker Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson, who both came back for a third Olympics after falling short in Rio de Janeiro, now have a complete medal collection following

what is expected to be the final Olympic match of their careers.

"I couldn't write a better story for her," setter Jordy Poulter said about Larson delivering the winning point. "Her and Fouke have put so much time into this program and been through thick and thin. To be on this journey with them has been incredible."

The victory also allowed U.S. coach Karch Kiraly to join Lang Ping of China as the second person to win gold as a volleyball player and then lead a country to gold as coach. Kiraly won gold indoor as a player in 1984 and 1988. He also won gold in beach volleyball in 1996.

But he said this was more gratifying because of how tough a process it has been since he joined the staff as an assistant before the 2012 Olympics and took over as head coach before 2016.

"The goal here was not to help Karch win a fourth gold medal. The goal was to help the USA women become Olympic champions," he said. "It was more powerful in some ways for me today than when I was a player, because the first Olympics I played in, we won. We didn't

DutchBy Andy Purvis

There he sat with bags of ice on each knee before

every game. It was hard for others to ask for a day off with this guy in the room. Big smile, Hollywood looks; he thought he was lucky to be a big league ballplayer. I thought it was the other way around. This man was the kind of guy you wouldn’t mind getting stuck in a submarine with. It didn’t make any difference who you were or what you looked like, if he liked you, you were stuck with him. That’s just the way it was. He was true to himself. On the field, he looked as happy as a cocker spaniel in the back of a pickup truck on the freeway. He played very little at first; if you reached for your beer during the game, you would miss seeing him. He was a rugged do-it-all kind of player. If this guy had two good knees, he could have played forever. He turned into a fan favorite and a pleasure to watch.

There is an old Chinese proverb that goes like this, “You cannot pick up a pebble with one finger.” Darren “Dutch” Daulton understood that there isn’t anything little in baseball. Every man plays his own part to the best of his ability; no matter how boring it may seem, how simple, or how mundane, it all matters. As for most of the things that cause teams to lose, they don’t even know what they are. Most of what you do in the outfield is thankless, and defense is a nine-man effort on every play.

Hall-of-Famer Tony Gwynn once said, “When you sign your name on the dotted line, it means more than just playing the game of baseball. You’ve got to be responsible and show people how things are supposed to be done.” That was the very definition of Darren Daulton. No one loved baseball more than Dutch.

To the majors

Darren Arthur Daulton grew up in Arkansas City, Kansas. He was born on January 3, 1962, to Carol and David Daulton. Darren was the starting quarterback and played baseball for Arkansas City High School. He was drafted in 1980, by the Philadelphia Phillies, in the 25th round. Daulton was just a wide-eyed kid when he was called up in 1983. The Phillies were composed of a core of fine players like Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Gary Maddox, Steve Carlton, and Mike Schmidt. “I learned to play baseball from these old-school guys,” said Dutch.

Darren made his Major League debut on September 25, 1983. The Phillies had two All-Star catchers on their roster, Ozzie Virgil Jr., and Lance Parrish. Daulton received only three at-bats that season. He would play sparingly until 1988. Dutch became the Phillies’ starting catcher in 1989. Known primarily as a defensive catcher, he suffered at the plate until 1990. Dutch hit .268 and caught Terry Mulholland’s no-hitter on August 15, 1990. His career almost ended before it began. On May 6, 1991, Daulton was riding home with Lenny Dysktra from a bachelor party for teammate John Kruk when Dysktra slammed his car into two trees. Dysktra had three broken ribs, a broken collarbone and cheekbone, and was charged with drunk driving. Dutch had a broken left eye socket, scratched cornea and bruised chest.

Dutch’s best year at the plate was during the 1992 season. He hit 27 home runs and drove in 109 RBI’s but, unfortunately, the Phillies

finished in last place in the Eastern Division of the National League. Dutch was presented his one and only Silver Slugger Award and made his first of three All-Star teams.

The Philadelphia Phillies’ first post-season playoffs in ten years occurred in 1993 and #10, Darren Daulton, set the tone for the team. Phillies’ Manager Jim Fregosi was able to get the most out of his club. The Braves had just won the last two National League pennants. Kruk, Dykstra and Daulton surprised newly-acquired pitcher Greg Maddux and Fred McGriff of the Atlanta Braves, by snatching the National League Championship Series from them. Atlanta made the playoffs eight times in the 1990’s, and this would be their only first-round loss. Philadelphia would now meet the Toronto Blue Jays for “all the marbles.” Philadelphia lost Game 4 of the World Series, 15-14, in the highest-scoring game in World Series’ history, but Daulton was able to guide Curt Schilling to a shutout win in Game 5, to send the Series back to Toronto. Darren Daulton was catching Game Six of the 1993 World Series against the Toronto when teammate Mitch Williams threw the final pitch that Blue Jays’ Joe Carter hit for the winning home run. Williams later said to the New York Times that Dutch had called for a fastball high and away, but Williams had jerked the ball and had thrown it low and inside. Even though Williams received death threats after the Series from disgruntled Phillies’ fans, the team was supportive, especially Daulton.

Dutch Daulton played 14 seasons of Major League ball. He retired with a .245 career batting average, a .357 on-base percentage and a .427 slugging percentage. He hit 137 home runs, recorded 588 RBI’s and scored 511 runs, while playing in 1,161 games. On August 6, 2010, Dutch was inducted into the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame.

Daulton understood that, as players, they compete against the baseball and not the other team or who’s pitching. After the pitcher lets go of the ball, he can’t do anything about it. It’s what are you going to do to the baseball. You are always playing against the baseball, not your opponent.

Daulton was a long-time resident of Clearwater, Florida, the home of the Phillies’ Spring Training complex. Daulton married Lynne Austin in 1989, but they divorced in 1995. Dutch is survived by his second wife, Amanda, and four children, Zachary, Summer, Savannah and Darren, Jr.

I am reminded of what Hall-of-Fame broadcaster, Vin Scully, once said, “It’s a mere moment in a man’s life between the All-Star Game and the Old-Timers’ Game.” Darren Daulton died of brain cancer at the age of 55. The date read August 6, 2017.

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, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of the Houston Astros.

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The Island OutdoorsBy Jay Gardner

On the RocksOriginal causeway

Ok loyal readers, I had promised to catch up on a couple of things in previous articles. One was the location of the first, originally proposed causeway from downtown Corpus Christi, extending along the bayfront (Ocean Dr.), Ward Island (now TAMUCC), Flour Bluff (now the N.A.S.), and then across the “bulkhead” and Crane Islands to Padre Island. From there, it was planned to pave the upper beach from North Padre all the way down to South Padre (before the Mansfield Pass), called the Gulf Beach Highway. This would have landed the proposed causeway around where the Island in the Son church is on Mustang Island. See attached picture. This is from a State Highway Department planning map from 1931 and was used until the late 1930’s and ‘40’s for planning purposes. It shows the Don Patricio Causeway on the map as a light dashed line, but that was knocked out by the storm of 1933 as you know. The Highway Department from back in the day had what I think was a pretty good plan that would have alleviated traffic coming from Port Aransas at the Hwy 361 and PR 22 intersection before it even got started. But who knows; maybe that would have caused other problems? Things that make you go “hhmmm….?”

Erosion and the Packery Channel

Another thing I was supposed to catch up on is the erosion occurring because of Packery Channel opening. As a part of the conditions

of the original U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Permit and Texas General Land Office Lease, the City of Corpus Christi was responsible for monitoring the Mollie Beattie Habitat for five years to determine if the new pass was going to erode the fragile shore bird habitat, seagrass and oyster beds, and marsh adjacent to the pass, as well as the neighborhood bulkheads along Packery. The monitoring period ended more than a few years ago back in 2007, however there are a few conditions of that MOU between the City and the TGLO that have yet to be met. Remember, this is a 99 year lease that ends November of 2101. Just typing that makes me giggle; we need to fix Packery first and then prioritize the remaining six-pack items, and future projects with the TIRZ #2.

However, the first stipulation I find fun is 3. Establishment of Packery Channel Task Force – this body was supposed to be formed by representatives of the TGLO, City, USACE, and members of the Mollie Beattie Coastal Habitat Committee (MBCHC) to address issues related to the impacts of the Packery Channel on Mollie Beattie. The City was responsible to mitigate any effects that were identified by this committee that resulted from increased navigation. I remember that there might have been a meeting or two back in the day, but if

there is a committee today, they are as secretive as the Knights Templar.

No Wake Zone

One of the most forgotten responsibilities of the City is 7. Enforcement of No Wake Zone (b) – (and I’ll directly quote this one from the document CL20020005) “The City will establish and maintain a marina/parks office adjacent to the project, which will be staffed with Marina marshals, or other appropriate City Staff. The Marina marshal….will be empowered and directed to enforce the no wake zone, as part of their duties. Any enforcement of the no wake zone by the City is in addition to any enforcement by game wardens from TPWD, who have previously agreed to enforce the no wake zone.”

Marina and maintenance building

This is another example where the original intent of the TGLO, the USACE, and the City was that there would be a marina office and maintenance building adjacent to the Packery Channel Parking lot and boat ramp. All of the original drawings show an office adjacent to Zahn Road and a maintenance building in the current boat ramp parking lot, and the language in the lease refers to it. I’m not sure how the building is now planned way over on Commodores. The intent of the original project has changed, and I wonder how the TGLO feels about that. I will admit, I/we have previously helped “refine” some of the scope of a couple of projects over the years through Watershore and ISAC to both save money and provide more pertinent amenities to the user groups of Packery Channel, but they are still within the same area, and with the same intent. However, there are still some conditions and responsibilities written in black and white in the lease, signed and counter-signed, that cannot be ignored without the City contacting the TGLO.

Well folks, sorry about going down the history rabbit hole again this week. Fellow Moon Monkey Mary Craft has been pulling some cool information out of a black hat and we’ve been comparing notes on a few

things because Island history is fun, and we are also using it to help learn and plan the future. Drop me a line at [email protected] and we’ll see you next week On the Rocks.

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14400 block SPID 7 p.m. August 7 Public Intoxication

14400 block Compass 8 p.m. August 4 Noise Ordinance Violation

Aquarius/SPID 9 a.m. August 3

14100 Cabana East 2 p.m. August 2

15200 block Windward 8 p.m. August 8

15200 block Leeward 5 p.m. August 8

13500 block Bullion 8 p.m. August 7


14700 block Whitecap 9 p.m. August 7 Child Locked in a Vehicle

15300 block Leeward 9 p.m. August 6 Noise Ordinance Violation

Gulf Beach/Whitecap 5 p.m. August 6 Fail to Identify

Gulf Beach/Whitecap 5 p.m. August 6 Public Intoxication

Whitecap/Gulf Beach 5 p.m. August 6

15200 block Cartagena 8 a.m. August 6

15200 block Beach Bay 10 p.m. August 3 Noise Ordinance Violation

15200 block Windward Midnight August 3

14900 block Topgallant 11 a.m. August 2

15800 block Cuttysark 9 p.m. August 7

15600 block Gulf Beach 3 p.m. August 7 Public Intoxication

13900 block Ports O Call 11 a.m. August 5 Public Intoxication

11300 block Gulf Beach 11 p.m. August 8

11500 block Gulf Beach 1 a.m. August 8 Fire

La Concha/Bikini 6 p.m. August 5


14400 block SPID Noon August 10

14500 block Verdemar 10 a.m. August 10

14400 block Sand Dollar 6 p.m. August 9



15800 block SPID 3 a.m. August 9

Traffic

73 Traffic Stops

10400 block SPID 9 a.m. August 3 Crash/Hit and Run

14500 block SPID 9 p.m. August 7 Crash



100 block Zahn 7 p.m. August 6 DWI

13300 block SPID 2 a.m. August 6 Crash/Hit and Run

Aquarius/SPID 11 a.m. August 3 Hit and Run

14000 block SPID 10 p.m. August 2 Hit and Run


SPID/Whitecap 7 p.m. August 8 Crash

15300 block Noon August 8 Parking Violation

14900 block Leeward 5 p.m. August 7 DWI

15300 block SPID 2 p.m. August 4 Parking Violation

15200 block SPID 7 a.m. August 4 Hit and Run

Sea Pines/Palo Seco Noon August 8 Crash

Gypsy/Fortuna Bay 3 a.m. August 8 Crash

14200 block Allamanda 1 p.m. August 7 Parking Violation

11500 block Gulf Beach 8 p.m. August 4 DWI

9300 block SH 361 9 p.m. August 7 DWI


SPID/Aquarius 1 p.m. August 9 Crash

14900 block Windward 4 p.m. August 10 Parking Violation


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PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President As always, let me have

your thoughts. You can reach me at [email protected] or call me at 469-231-3485. You can also call the PIPOA office with any questions you

have at 361-949-7025.

Great News- On Tuesday, August 10, 2021, the City Council heard a request for a zoning change at 13845 Mizzen Street. The current zoning is RS6-Single-Family Residential. Property owners requested a zoning change to allow a Bed and Breakfast to operate at that address. The public comments were overwhelmingly opposed to this change. In addition, the Council was flooded with written statements from members opposed to the change. The Council voted nine against the change and zero in favor. This puts a dent in the illegal trend for short-term rentals in the RS6 zoning. Currently, many properties are operating as short-term rentals in the RS6 zone. Now, the issue is enforcement of the zoning by the City. It is time for the City Manager, Peter Zanoni, and the City Attorney, Miles Risley, to step up and do their job. The citizens, taxpayers, voters deserve enforcement.

A really big Thank you to the PIPOA members that attended the council meeting or sent in written statements. Recently, I wrote about the need for Island political action. The efforts put forward by members of the PIPOA and residents of the Island demonstrate what can be done when the voters participate and get Council member’s attention. Great work, ladies and gentlemen.

Canal ends- Last Friday, the PIPOA had a meeting with deck and dock builders. It was a two-hour meeting with plenty of heated discussion. The point was made to the builders that the property at the canal ends and boat ramps is controlled by the PIPOA.

Full Transparency and Disclosure

Therefore, the builders are responsible for following the PIPOA rules. It was agreed the builders would provide the PIPOA office with advance notice of pilings being placed on canal ends or boat ramps. Furthermore, the builders must put a sign on the pilings noticing every one of their ownership. It was also agreed the builders are allowed 72-hours to move them off the canal ends or boat ramps. In the event the 72-hour time limit is not met, the PIPOA will remove and sell them to the highest bidder. An extension for extenuating circumstances may be granted by the PIPOA.

Virtually all decks and docks that have been built over the past 40 years have had pilings placed on canal ends, vacant lots, or boat ramps. It is almost physically impossible to transport these pilings from a homeowner’s driveway to the canal. Please bear in mind the property owners on the Island are requesting these pilings for their decks and docks. The builders are simply the conduit to accommodate members of the PIPOA.

New City Parking Ordinance- At the City Council Meeting, the City passed an ordinance prohibiting people from parking vehicles and other movable objects on front yards. Parking on driveways and improved areas are allowed, but parking on grass and landscaped areas will not be allowed. This information comes directly to me from the head of City Services. This ordinance comes as a bit of a surprise as the PIPOA was not consulted regarding it. The ordinance applies City wide. The members of the PIPOA have mixed opinions about this restriction.

Douden Park-This Park is a disaster. It has weeds growing, piles of debris, and in general, is an embarrassment to the City and the community adjacent to the park. My project for next week will be trying to get the City to clean up the park and make it usable for members of the neighborhood. Good grief!

By Todd Hunter, District 32

TWIA: “To be” Transparent or “not to be” Transparent? That Is the Question

Recently, the TWIA (Texas Windstorm Insurance Association) board voted for a 5% rate hike on Coastal residents and businesses. This action was wrong and demonstrates why TWIA transparency and disclosure must be improved.

Transparency Question 1

How many Coastal residents and businesses were contacted by TWIA to get their input? I bet hardly anyone. Each year, TWIA threatens and tries to increase rates on Coastal residents and businesses, creating a constant battle that people living and working on the Coast must fight. Prior to each annual TWIA board meeting, public comment is solicited, but the results are rarely published. Maybe it's because the answer is overwhelmingly no. Where is the transparency?


Why is the TWIA board’s annual vote for higher rates an issue of insurance versus non-insurance? Maybe because insurance almost always wins. Higher rates mean higher costs to Coastal residents and businesses, but when the rate increases, someone else benefits — not the Coast. Those pesky insurance experts and corporations always say TWIA rates are actuarially unsound and need to be increased. However, private insurance is unavailable or unaffordable to the Coast and so Coastal residents and businesses are driven to TWIA by a lack of alternatives. The result becomes increased rates because TWIA is the insurer of last resort. Is this the insurance industry guarding the TWIA henhouse? Where is the transparency?


If TWIA is in favor of helping the Coast, which involves 14 counties, then why is TWIA located in Austin and not in one of the 14 Coastal counties? I haven't seen a weather hurricane hit Austin yet. It seems reasonable that if you service the Coast, you should be located in the Coast. Where’s the transparency?


Does the TWIA board really represent and reflect Coastal policyholder interests? How many TWIA board members are connected to the insurance industry? On rate increases, the TWIA board almost always sides with insurance interests. If certain insurance corporations and groups are contacting, lobbying, communicating with interest groups, lawmakers and others on issues that may be adverse to Coastal policyholders, then shouldn't this information be provided to TWIA board members so it can be disclosed before a vote on rate hikes? This seems reasonable. Where’s the transparency?


The Texas Legislature recently passed a new law that requires a 2/3 vote of the TWIA board before any rate increase can be validated. The law goes into effect on September 1, 2021. However, the TWIA board meeting took place on August 3, 2021 and the board voted to raise rates on a 5-3 vote. (TWIA has a nine-member board.) This vote was not 2/3. It is interesting that public comment, 22 legislators, county/city representatives, bankers, realtors and others asked that the TWIA board wait until after the new law went into effect before taking a vote on any rate increase. The TWIA board ignored these requests and went ahead and voted to raise rates just weeks before the new law went into effect. Where’s the transparency?

Overall, I’m proud of the Texas Coast and our great State of Texas. If taxes, fees, insurance, expenses and rates are going to be increased, then let’s have full transparency and full disclosure, so everyone knows. Listening to the public, ratepayers and policyholders should be impactful and constructive. “To be” or “not to be” seems to still be the TWIA question.

State Representative Todd Hunter of Corpus Christi represents District 32 in the Texas House of Representatives

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Texas Senate update

Second Special Session Opens in AustinBy Richard Lee

Saturday, just one day after the First ended, the Second Called Session of the 87th Legislature began. Opponents to a controversial elections bill were able to halt consideration of all issues before the Legislature in July by breaking quorum and leaving the state, heading to Washington, D.C. to plead with federal lawmakers to pass national voting reforms. Governor Greg Abbott, who can call as many sessions as often as he likes, followed through on his vow to call session after session until that bill, and others, reach his desk to be signed into law. Saturday began with the full membership of the Senate, save two excused absences, but as of 5 pm Monday, still no quorum in the House. Nevertheless, the Senate pressed forward on the special session agenda over the weekend and into Monday, holding hearings and passing bills that were mostly identical to those passed by the body in the first called session.

All of the items from the first session are back on the agenda, and the Governor added a few more for the second round. One would end the use of quorum breaks by lowering the threshold for a legislative quorum from a supermajority of two-thirds to a simple majority, in line with the practices of Congress and 46 other states. Granbury Senator Brian Birdwell is carrying the proposal to amend the state constitution in the Senate, and he says that the nation's founders were well aware of the problems a supermajority quorum rule could cause. "The Founding Fathers understood the virtue of a simple majority when they enshrined it in our Constitution," he said. His bill, SJR 1, would ask voters next May to approve such a change but it faces a significant obstacle: proposed constitutional amendments must pass each chamber by a two-thirds supermajority. In essence, those who used the parliamentary tactic this year would have to agree to make it impossible to use in the future. The measure passed out of committee on Monday unanimously and will now be considered by the full Senate.

Other new issues for the second special session relate to the ongoing COVID pandemic. Abbott has requested legislation that develops and implements mitigation strategies for public schools, but without mandating masks or vaccines. It would also require that in-person instruction is available for any student whose parent wants it but leaves the door open for the development of virtual education programs. Abbott also authorized legislation that spends more than $10 billion in federal COVID relief funds, calling for bills that address staffing needs, vaccination infrastructure, creation of alternative care sites, nursing home operations, and equipment needs.

Over the weekend, Senate committees advanced bills addressing more than half of the agenda set forth by the governor, and Monday the Senate considered and passed a number of them. Senators unanimously supported SB 7, which authorizes a bonus annuity check to retired educators. The Senate also passed, for the fifth time said author and Houston Senator Joan Huffman, legislation that would seek to reform the state's bail system. The Senate also approved legislation, by Houston Senator Paul Bettencourt, that would allow new home buyers to apply their homestead property tax exemption in the year they purchase their home and to lower tax rates for senior homeowners or those with disabilities.

Whether or not the work of the Senate this session will have to be repeated once again isn't clear after the House failed to reach a quorum by Monday evening. Abbott has said he will keep calling legislators back until these bills reach his desk and at least one more special session is sure to be called to draw new political maps after census data delays prevented this during the regular session.

FBISD to Offer Free Meals to All Students in 2021-2022 School Year

Flour Bluff Independent School District will serve free meals to all students during the 2021-2022 school year.

District officials announced this week that in past years a student’s household was required to meet income eligibility requirements to qualify for free or reduced-price meals. However, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued guidance that allows schools to offer meals to all students at no cost for the 2021-2022 school year.

While no application or eligibility determination process is required for students to receive free meals this school year, the income eligibility requirement will likely resume in the 2022-2023 school year, district officials said. In addition to the one breakfast meal and one lunch meal a student will receive free each day, students will also be allowed to purchase á la carte items using their student lunch account.

The Alamo Opens to Debut "Phil Collins Collection Preview: Texian Edition"

Exhibit on August 18The Alamo will open a limited time

exhibit previewing artifacts from the Phil Collins Collection starting August 18. From August 18 through October 3, Alamo visitors will be able to see a selection of the priceless artifacts graciously gifted to the State of Texas by musician, Phil Collins. The "Phil Collins Collection Preview: Texian Edition" will be available for viewing in the Alamo Exhibit Hall, and will be free-of-charge on August 18 only. After August 18, the exhibit will be accessible with the purchase of an audio tour. "This preview exhibit will be a great way to share a selection of the amazing artifacts Mr. Collins generously donated," said Kate Rogers, Executive Director of the Alamo Trust, Inc. "We only have enough space to display 1% of the historic artifacts we have, which includes more than 400 items from the Phil Collins collection, and over 2,000 from the Alamo's collection." The exhibit will serve as a preview for what will be on display in the upcoming Alamo Exhibition

Hall & Collections Building, which will open in 2022. The Exhibition Hall & Collections Building will be 24,000 square feet, and will house state-of-the-art storage for the long-term care of historic artifacts. It will also feature 10,000 square feet of new exhibit space -- a fivefold increase over what the Alamo has today. "These artifacts offer a glimpse into 1830s life in Texas," said Kristi Miller Nichols, Director of Archaeology, Collections, and Historical Research at the Alamo. "As we research the provenance and background of the items in our care, we often find ourselves in awe of these artifacts and the stories they tell about the time period." Earlier this year, the Alamo held a preview exhibit of the Phil Collins Collection, which focused on artifacts from the Mexican side of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. This limited time exhibit will feature artifacts from the Texian side of the Texas Revolution.

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The Barnacle LineBy Del Smith

It’s 1995 and we, Norm, myself and the Samuel D II, finally get to our destination in Southwest Florida. My temporary

home for the next 6 months;

Not your typical place, no, not at all. This is how I would describe the Pelican Bend. The restaurant, bar and marina where we are keeping the boat as a base of operations while staying here in Florida. But then again I wouldn't call Isles of Capri typical in the Florida way of things. Isles of Capri is the island on which the Pelican Bend rests.

So here we have it, two atypical things surrounded by a lot of typical Florida madness. How can I describe all of this so that you may understand and wonder as I do.

First let us place the Isles of Capri in the scheme of things. It is located just across the "river" from Marco Island, the largest developed community / playground south of Naples, Florida.

Now you are no doubt asking why I quotation "river". Well it's like this, if this same "river" was in Louisiana, it would be known as a bayou. Myself I would just call it a natural channel between islands. But when in Rome,--

But back to Marco Island, and it's relationship to The Isles of Capri. Take both North and South Padre Island and combine them so that you would have a fairly good sized bedroom community with a lot of condos and hotels on the beach. Throw in a couple of small but complete eating, drinking and shopping areas and you would have similar scenario to Marco. Oh hey, did I mention that fairly deep pockets would come in pretty handy should you desire to own property on Marco Island. Example; a boat slip at the yacht club, -- I had heard that the price was --- $80,000. I didn't even ask to find out what the maintenance fees were.

Aw shucks! Didn't like the view anyway.

A short, distance wise anyway, drive, over a bridge, turn left at the stop light, (Isles of Capri's only one), down a mangrove lined road for a couple of miles, over a bridge to a little “river”, to arrive at the first houses on Capri. Time spent; from 10 to 30 minutes! Oh, did I not mention that there are a lot of people on Marco, with the normal result of heavy traffic as seems to be typical in Florida. During peak periods it would be easier to take a boat across the river. (Note if you will, I did not quotation river that time. Am I becoming Floridian?)

"But why even go to Marco?", you might think. Because there is no grocery store, here on Capri. (Sounds real familiar, doesn't it?) So like Padre Islanders you must go OTB, (Over The Bridge), to get your staples. But unlike Padre there will never be a large grocery store on Capri, because it is just about as fully developed as it will ever be. There is not enough population on this one half wide by two mile long island to warrant one. Remember that two mile drive we just took through the mangroves. You can't cut mangroves any more. Instant end to development.

So here we are at the Pelican Bend; with it's restaurant, the owner’s house, big chickee hut bar, little chickee hut, and marina. Now because of the size of Capri there is very few other food businesses here. Four other places if you count the mini-market that has breakfast. Two of them flank the Pelican Bend. Competition is there just enough to compliment each other. But to me the Pelican Bend seems to be the center of attraction.

During lunches, largely served in and around the chickee huts, and then again at dinner time the parking lot is always overflowing. The waiting list for tables can just about be matched by the cars parked across the street on the grass median.

Needless to say the food is excellent. They claim that the grouper sandwich is the best in the area. This may be, but I have also seen this same claim to fame in several other menus here in South Florida. I do know that the ones I had at the Pelican Bend were great. So are the luncheon soups in the Big Chickee. HUMMM! HUMMM! But it is not the food alone that makes this place so special. You have to understand the chickee huts and the events that take place there.

To answer all of you uninitiated folks as to, "What the heck is a chickee hut?", I want you to visualize a Seminole version of a Mexican palapas hut. Now if you are still confused, picture a pole framed, palm thatched roof, type of hut, without any sides. The big hut does have screening and roll-down clear plastic curtains for the occasional spell of bad weather. The little one is open to the world. This is where the beer and wine bars are located. They overlook the marina behind the restaurant on the property. Hours of normal operation; 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM, every day. No locks, they just take the money out and go home. The honor system is alive and well here on the Isles of Capri. Now if that is not unusual enough I want you to consider and reflect upon the ringing of the bell. Now I know that all of you people have been in places that had bells either to signal a buying of a round or to announce a large tip. But unlike anywhere else this bell gets rang a lot, ---- a real lot and it is not for tips.

As a matter of fact just in the time that it took me to write the above paragraph it rang twice! DRAT!! SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!

Now comes the other part of the operations. When the bell rings, out come the tokens to indicate that, you do in fact have, another cool-one due you. Yup, you might have guessed it, the venerable old wooden nickel is that token indicating that you have one free beer due. If you are a slow imbiber, you can get quite a collection of nickels stacked in front of you. Now, you must understand, all of this would never work if it was not for the people. Special people, like Mickey Cooper, the owner, who holds court every afternoon, either in the Big Chickee on bad weather days or out at the Little Chickee on good ones. For him it is a short walk from his home located on the property.

SHUCKS!! JUST MISSED ANOTHER ONE.

Then you must add all of the regulars; Clyde, retired businessman - Bob, ex airline pilot - Sandy, yacht broker - Ken, retired tour golfer - Duffy, charter boat captain - Stew, powerboat racer - Doug, yacht repair - Jug, caterer - Stephan, boat owner and first mate from Germany - Dick, insurance - and the list goes on. The famous and near famous rub elbows with even old boat bums such as me. And we mustn’t forget “Fancy Nancy” the dispenser of the Wooden Nickels.

RATS!!! THERE IT GOES AGAIN

Then wait until you hear the conversations, ---- be prepared. No subject seems to be favored but once one is started it is thoroughly dissected, analyzed, and put to rest. Usually with some very colorful and picturesque methods. Shyness is not something to carry into these discussions and sometimes modesty does not get you very far either.

Yes it is the people and the camaraderie, that must be added to all the rest, that makes this place so "Not Typical".

Now if you will excuse me, I have to go see a man about an elephant.

"AS THE PELICAN BENDS" Del Smith

Mickey C.--- "Norm, You ever see any place like this one?"

Norm B. ---- "No Mick, I can't say that I have."

Mickey C.--- "You know, I haven't either."

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The End of Nesting Season on the Beach

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By Taylor Bennett

We are at the tail end of the beach nesting season along the Upper Texas Coast. The Wilson’s Plover are beginning to make their way South to their wintering grounds. At the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, we are studying the Wilson’s Plover and Least Tern for our beach-nesting birds program.

Both of these species are protected by the Migratory Bird Act and are considered species of high concern due to habitat loss and disturbance. For each species, we monitor for pairs, nests, and chicks, and band them for our research. Once hatched, the Wilson’s Plover chicks are able to fly within 30 to 35 days which are then declared fledged. The Least Tern chicks take 20 days to fly.

On Matagorda Beach, we monitor half of Matagorda Peninsula and three areas: Colorado River Mouth Flats (CRMF), Three-mile Cut, and Dunes Dr. On Matagorda Peninsula, we unfortunately ended up with zero fledged chicks for the season. We found a total of 17 nests, of which only three ended up hatching. We observed a total of eight chicks and were able to band seven of them. All of those chicks ending up disappearing. Multiple factors could have been played a part, but we believe disturbance from vehicles and people were the main cause due to the fact that the chicks were gone after July 4th weekend.

At CRMF, we had a total of 10 fledged chicks. We ending up finding a total of six nests, of which only two hatched. Only one of the four hatched chicks made it to fledging. We then found five additional broods with each successfully fledged at least one chick. In total, we observed 12 chicks and we were able to band seven of them. At Matagorda, the Wilson’s Plovers ended up with a total of 10 fledged chicks, five banded adults, and 16 banded chicks. No Least Tern chicks fledged.

At Sargent Beach, we split the island into two sections, Sargent East and Sargent West. We ended up with just two fledged Wilson’s Plover chicks for the season. We found 17 nests, of which only two ended up hatching

with one chick each. We found 8 additional broods with only one brood successfully fledging one chick. Total, we saw 14 chicks and we were able to band 13 of them.

For the Least Terns, we observed three chicks, but those unfortunately did not make it. All of the other nests failed due to disturbance. For the Wilson’s Plover we ended up with a total of two fledged chicks, six banded adults, and 13 banded chicks.

In total, we had 12 fledged Wilson’s Plover chicks for the entire season, and hope that

next season will be better. While the birds weren’t very successful this season, it is important that we gathered this data. The first step to conservation is knowing how a species is doing and what is affecting them.

If you would like to help support this project, all of the Wilson’s Plover adults and chicks we banded this year are available for symbolic adoption through our online nature store at www.gcbo.org. On behalf of Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, thanks for reading.

The last banded Wilson’s Plover chick to successfully fly on Sargent Beach. Photo taken by Taylor Bennett at Sargent

Beach, TX on July 30, 2021.

Game Warden Field NotesThe following items are compiled from recent

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) law enforcement reports.

Kids Say the Darndest Things

A Polk County game warden received a call from county dispatch regarding a father and his 9-year-old son who had gotten stuck in their buggy deep in a deer lease. They attempted to walk back to their camp and got lost in the process. County dispatch was able to ping their location within a three-mile radius. Once in the area, the warden was able to follow the tracks to the father and son. Dad commented to the son, “Yeah, might be bad luck being the second time we’ve been stuck together,” as the son responds, “but each time, dad, you were driving.” The warden responded, “you’re a smart kid,” and presented him with a Texas Game Warden badge.

Seedy Situation

Cargo was being inspected at a Dallas-Fort Worth Airport by Customs and Border Protection Agriculture Specialists and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Inspectors when they came across packages containing what they claimed to be steel nippers. The package didn’t have the expected weight and was opened for inspection. Inside the box was numerous bags of vegetable seeds and dried shrimp. A package contained Ipomoea Aquatica seeds (water spinach), which is a harmful aquatic species in Texas. A second package claimed to be shirts. Wrapped inside the clothing was a bag that also contained Ipomoea Aquatica seeds. It is illegal to import or possess seeds in Texas. The cases were referred to a Tarrant County game warden and the packages were seized as evidence. The individuals who imported the products were issued citations. The cases are pending.

Swift Water Rescue

A Terrell County game warden responded to a call from the sheriff’s office when a local rancher was caught in a flash flood. His truck had died and was starting to move downstream from the rising water reaching the hood of his truck. It was dark and there were no lights to light his way to safety, so he called 911 for help. The warden responded along with a deputy and volunteers. Armed with swift water personal floatation devices (PFD), a throw bag, and rope they were able to make their way to the truck and extract the rancher to safety while being mindful of fencing downstream that could trap anyone who may lose their footing in the rushing water. Everyone went home safely that night.

Cue the Mutombo Finger Wag

Two Jefferson County game wardens were patrolling Taylor’s Bayou when they saw a man in a shallow-drive mud boat quickly approaching them in the narrow bayou. The wardens motioned for the subject to slow down and he shook his finger at them. The wardens were able to position their patrol boat beside the subject and get his full attention, forcing him to come to a stop. The subject claimed he didn’t understand they asked him to stop. After checking his safety equipment, the wardens initiated an investigation after noticing signs of intoxication. The warden placed the subject under arrest for Boating While Intoxicated (BWI) and booked him into the Jefferson County Jail. The subject consented to a voluntary blood draw. Case is pending.

Four-Wheeler of Misfortune

While patrolling Twin Buttes Public Lands in Tom Green County, a local game warden made contact with several individuals riding all-terrain vehicles. Some of the individuals were unable to produce a limited public use permit, as required to access the public lands. The warden decided to check if some of the ATVs were stolen and discovered one individual was in possession of a stolen four-wheeler from a nearby city. The case was turned over to the originating jurisdiction for investigation.

Don’t I Know You?

A Montgomery County game warden received a call from a local deer camp lessee who said he was texted photos of a truck entering the property without consent. While responding to the location, the warden provided sheriff’s deputies with the location of the lease and the layout of the property. The deputies walked into the property, due to heavy rains and the lack of 4X4 vehicles. They apprehended a suspect, who entered the camp illegally and was filling bags with hunting equipment. The warden arrived and aided in getting the suspect, the suspect’s vehicle, and the officers out of the property. The warden had previously arrested the suspect for theft of property and stealing an ATV and other property from a nearby deer lease in 2017. The suspect was charged with burglary of a habitation and had a parole violation warrant for the earlier charge

Reddish Egrets do not breed until their third or fourth year. Their courtship behavior is variable and entertaining to watch; some of the notable behaviors include head tossing;

raising the neck, back and crest feathers; bill clacking; and loud calling followed by chases and circle flights. The season of nesting seems to be flexible across this bird’s

range. Photo by Riekie Roncinske


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her 50th birthday party last Saturday at the Gaff. The party theme was “Hawaii Five-O” and the Dunebilly’s provided the music. Go see Heidi over at Hair by Heidi next to Dr. Russell’s on Cutoff Road with Mike the Barber. She’s simply the best. And finally on the local front, here’s a little bit of warm and fuzzy. Petunia, the big red cow in front of the Sounds Good BBQ on Cutoff Road got a new hat. Proprietor Tracy Doiron went a step further and put some flowers on Petunia too, and I think she looks adorable. I don’t know much but I know a good photo op when I see one. And the food there is to die for, especially the banana pudding. Tell ‘em Ronnie Three Chords sent you.

Scattered shots…

Me and my Mermaid Gal stayed on the run again last weekend. It was blues abound on Thursday with blues rockers John Cortez at Shorty’s and Rich Lockhart at the Back Porch. I thought Rich looks especially dapper in his top hat. We also caught Johnny Boy Amundsen who was on fire at Shorty’s and Larry Joe Taylor who sold out the Back Porch on Saturday with his Island Time show honed to perfection.

But the real deal, couldn’t believe my eyes or ears show was Kin Faux from San Antonio at the Back Porch on Friday. Simply put, they blew my little mind. Where have these guys been hiding? Seriously, I can talk San Antonio music with the best of them, so why haven’t I heard these guys before? They were country but not the cry in your beer kind. It was jumping! These boys had the girls wiggling from the get go. Their fiddle player/singer Rico Gonzales was Joe King Carrasco with a fiddle… on steroids. He is a star. Am I gushing? Kin Faux took me by surprise. I love it when that happens. Good work Becky Hyden!

DO NOT MISS LIST Coming this weekend…

Coming this weekend, you got options. On Thursday its trop-rock at Shorty’s with

Aloha Dave and the Tourists, the Police/Sting reincarnated with Scarecrow People at the Back Porch and Brandon Michael at Bron’s. On Friday it’s the Ramone’s meet Dwight Yoakum with Two Tons of Steel at the Back Porch, the great folk-rock of the Independent Thieves at Shorty’s, Justin and Niki at Bron’s, the 80’s dance party with the Groove at Treasure Island and in town at Brewster Street will be Pat Green. On Saturday the Gaff will have another installment of their world famous B E L T S A N D E R RACES at 6 PM. Coach Jim Dugan will perform afterwards. Come watch the Moon Monkey abide. Also on Saturday, one of the pioneers of the cosmic cowboy scene, Gary P. Nunn will bring it home with the armadillo to the Back Porch. Also on Saturday, the Americana outfit, Back Pew Revival, will play Treasure Island, there’s great R&B with Starlite and the Moonbeams at Shorty’s and Caleb

Live Music TonightThursday, August 12Aloha Dave & the Tourists @ Shorty’sScarecrow People @ Back PorchBrandon Michael @ Bron’sRuben Limas @ Island ItalianJohn Cortez @ Executive Surf ClubYoung Klassics, Eric Graham @ Brewster DowntownGoatwhore, Necrofier, Frozen Soul @ House of RockOut of Bounds, Chanklas, Dreaming in Color @ Bay Jammin’ at Cole ParkGoatwhore, Frozen Soul, All Life Dies @ House of Rock Rich Lockhart @ Baypoint

Friday, August 13Two Tons of Steel @ Back PorchJustin & Nikki @ Bron’sJosh Gilbert @ Sunset SoundsIndependent Thieves @ Shorty’sThe Groove @ Treasure IslandDreaming in Color @ Cinnamon ShoreRuben Limas @ Blackbeard’s on the BeachPat Green @ Brewster Downtown Reno Perez @ Vernon’sOTB @ Chalet InglesideTy Dietz @ The Barn

Saturday, August 14BELT SANDER RACES (6:00) @ GaffJim Dugan @ GaffStarlite & the Moonbeams @ Shorty’sGary P. Nunn @ Back PorchCaleb Navarro @ Bron’sBack Pew Revival @ Treasure IslandJered Clark @ Virginia’sChanklas @ Marker 37OTB @ Angry MarlinTrisha Lynn @ Pelican LoungeJerry Ward @ Sunset Hideaway InglesideRuben Limas @ Mo Meaux’sTimeline: Journey Tribute @ Brewster DowntownOscar & the Doctors @ House of RockRich Lockhart @ Cinnamon Shore

Sunday, August 15Ty Dietz, Jim Dugan @ Shorty’sBrandon Michael @ Bron’sRich Lockhart @ Back Porch Jered Clark @ Virginia’sJerry Ward @ Pelican LoungeRuben Limas @ Blackbeard’sOpen Mic @ House of Roc k

Monday, August 16Kevin Kurtz @ Bron’s

Stevie Start @ Doc’sTy Dietz @ Tavern

Tuesday, August 17First Day of School @

Port AransasTy Dietz @ Goldfish

Ruben Limas @ Blackbeard’s on the

BeachOpen Mic @ Rialto

Theater- Aransas PassLast Call Duo @ Katz 21David Salinas @ Paradise

Key Rockport

Wednesday, August 18John Amundsen & the Padrinos @ Cinnamon

ShoreRuben Limas @

Blackbeard’s on the Beach

Ty Dietz @ Vernon’sRiptide @ Back Porch

Falco & the Wolf @ Pelican Lounge

Open Jam @ Executive Surf Club

Rich Lockhart @ Harrison’s Landing

Thursday, August 19Zack Walther @ Back

PorchMarco Ramirez @

Treasure IslandReno Perez @ Shorty’s

John Amundsen @ Bron’s

Ruben Limas @ Island Italian

Groove Chili @ House of Rock

Friday, August 20Red Tide @ Treasure

IslandMark Monaco @ Back

PorchJam Band @ Shorty’s

Ty Dietz @ Bron’sAnother Level @ Marker

37Dreaming in Color @

Pelican LoungeRich Lockhart @ Sunset

Hideaway InglesideBad Chords @ House of

RockThe Wailers, Audic

Empire @ Brewster Downtown

Saturday, August 21Back Pew Revival @

Shorty’sDarryl Lee Rush @

Back PorchChainlinks @ Treasure

IslandCaleb Navarro @

Bron’sSplendiferous @ Pelican Lounge

Dope Show: Marilyn Manson Tribute @

Brewster DowntownMatt Hole @ Executive

Surf ClubWings Ovcr Society @

House of Rock

Mike’s Barbershop

August 12, 2021 Island Moon A16

By Ronnie Narmour

[email protected]

Three Chords and the Truth

The GaffCold Beer Open Daily at 11 am Hot Pizza

Just to state the obvious…

I just wrote 150 words here detailing all the lousy stuff going on in the world and then decided to go another direction. I mean the fourth COVID wave is a real deal and it definitely needs to go away. And, there’s no shortage of disasters to talk about but there’s also way too many cool things in the future for me not to talk about either. We have a music festival in September, SandFest in October and a bunch of great music shows all along the way. The weather will eventually cool off and life as we know it will resume … I hope. Me and my Mermaid Gal just did a little beach run and it really did look like it’s supposed to this time of the year. I had started wondering if it was going to be spring break all year long after the pandammit. Public schools have started back up and Labor Day is just around the corner. There’s a ton of fun things on the horizon and we just have to make it to that horizon. Be safe and be smart. It’s not quite time to exhale yet. There’s fun to be had out there and you don’t want to miss it. I don’t.

On the local front…

We recently lost two musicians whom were friends of the island. Roberta Morales of the Sisters Morales died last week. We received word via Facebook from her sister and musical partner Lisa Morales. The sisters were a team, plain and simple. I met them in the 90’s when they ran a “singer songwriter open mic” for me at the Laboratory Brewing Company in San Antonio. They had recently moved there from Houston. After I moved to Port Aransas I’d see them sometimes at the Back Porch but more often at the Third Coast Theater. They had a harmony that only sisters have and Roberta was a beautiful soul. We also lost a fellow who had many friends here in Port Aransas; Greg “Smiles” Layne died this week of natural causes. He was living in San Antonio. We met when his band Transisterdale would play the Tarpon Ice House or the Gaff. Smiles was the singer and guitarist for the band and was just a lovely man and a good person… always happy and always smiling. Their drummer, BJ Shuler, lives in Port Aransas now and is recently married to long time islander, Ashley Ruder. Also on the local front, sweet Heidi Hagan had

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Navarro at Bron’s. On Sunday Shorty’s will host their regular Sunday-Funday program with Jim Dugan and Ty Dietz performing. Also on Sunday Brandon Michael is back at Bron’s and Rich Lockhart plays the Back Porch. And

there’s tons more coming on the near horizon. That ought to hold you for a while. BE SAFE.

♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫

Brandon Michael will play Brons on

Thursday and Sunday.

David King and Garrett Wieland of the Independent Thieves will play Shorty's this

Friday.

Gary P. Nunn will play the Back Porch on

Saturday.

Happy happy 50th birthday to sweet Heidi Hagan.

Rest in peace Roberta Morales. You were a beautiful soul. Rico Gonzales with Kin

Faux from San Antonio blew the roof off the joint

at the Back Porch on Friday.

The Groove will play Treasure Island on Friday.

Tracy Doiron shows off Petunia's new hat at the Sounds Good BBQ in Port A.

Transistordale at the Tarpon Ice House on New Year's Eve 2012. Greg Smiles Layne on guitar, BJ Shuler on drums and Spence

Thompson on bass. Rest in peace Smiles, you will be missed..jpg

Two Tons of Steel will play the Back Porch on

Friday.

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