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Issue 649
Island Moon
The voice of The Island since 1996
September 22, 2016
Around The Island
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At-Large Candidates Come to The Island Monday
By Dale Rankin editor@islandmoon.com Life is good here on our little sandbar this week as we have made it through the heart of the 2016 Hurricane Season with nothing more than some unusually high tides and even after a full week of the Harvest Moon shining down on us we have not had a single report of a Comanche raid anywhere on the Wild Horse Prairie. So we got that going for us. For the lunarly challenged the Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, which is this Thursday, September 22. These days we Islanders don’t worry about Comanche raiders riding in, but we do keep the dogs inside lest they go canal jumping and we keep a wary eye on lunatics among us – we all know who they are. When the earth, sun, and moon all line up like they did last Friday it can exert a strange pull on the highly-strung among us
Watch out everybody And speaking of lunatics and highly strung people there is a purse snatcher making his way around the city. This desperado has hit twice but so far has not made his way to The Island. But you never know, because anyone stupid enough to take up a career as a purse snatcher has a broken picker and is capable of just about anything.
Island Moon by E-mail We Moon Monkeys were a bit taken aback by the response from readers wanting us to send the Island Moon to them each week by e-mail. We got requests from as far away as Saudi Arabia and as close as Swinney Switch. But alas, the Corporate Giant that is the Island Moon has sprung into action and, we think, got a copy to everyone who made a request. If you didn’t get one hit us up again. As we say here at the Word Factory – there’s always time to get it right the second time. The address is editor@ islandmoon.com and we thank all of you for reading.
Shoaling in Lake Padre The boating crowd has alerted us to a burgeoning sandbar which has formed just inside the watergate leading from Lake Padre into Packery Channel. The high tides of late have helped but boaters say at normal slack tide the water is barely two feet deep. The gate is scheduled to be expanded to about 70 feet and with the opening of the channel under the Water Exchange Bridge Mother Nature will likely remove the problem, but in the meantime if you head through there you might get yourself a free Bottom Job.
Jammin’ on the B Bus We stirred up the B-Bus riders last time when we wrote about Selena on the B-Bus. Boy those B-Bus riders are a tough crowd. We are paraphrasing here because the messages all came by voice mail; they want us to make sure and tell you that the Selena Bus that comes to The Island doesn’t go downtown. It only goes to the station on Stapes and from there B-Bussers have to catch another bus for downtown. A matter of contention as it turns out. We were also instructed by them – even though we didn’t mention it before – that there are no homeless people on the B-Bus. So we got that going for us. We hope that sets the record straight, if not we’ll see you on the B-Bus. In the meantime say hello if you see us Around The Island.
Sleepy Towns girls on a flight to Idaho with their parents.
Work has begun on the bulkheads along the canal leading from Lake Padre to the site of the planned Park Road 22/SPID Water Exchange Bridge.
About 200 of the Island’s 7332 registered voters gathered at the Holiday Inn Monday night to hear from candidates in the races for the District 4 Corpus Christi City Council Seat and for Mayor. In the end they voted to endorse candidate Greg Smith in the District 4 race and incumbent Mayoral candidate Nelda Martinez in the November General Election. The District 4 seat will have a new face after City Councilwoman Colleen McIntyre announced she will not seek re-election. There are two candidates seeking the position: Businessman, and former Chairman of the Island Strategic Action Committee Smith, and Dr. Lloyd Stegemann, a surgeon. Islanders will get a chance to hear
IUPAC cont. on A4
BIG ISLAND WEEKEND
Extreme Kayak Fishing Tournament to Benefit Sealife Center A gaggle of kayakers will take to the water Saturday as the Extreme Kayak Fishing Tournament will take place at Bob Hall Pier, Saturday September 24, from 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. to benefit the Texas Sealife Center. The latest and hottest extreme sport has drawn major attention from all over the USA as registrations are coming in from Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, the Carolinas, Alabama, Oklahoma, New York and all over the State of Texas. This sport attracts all extreme fishermen for the excitement of using paddle power instead of motor power and being solely on your own when fighting monster fish on a small plastic boat. Registration will be open at the
Captain’s Meeting taking place at the Boathouse Bar and Grill on Friday September 23rd from 5 p.m.—8 p.m. “There will be live entertainment and all registered anglers receive an awesome goodie bag. Huge raffle giveaway including Eddy Gear Kayak and 75L Cooler, 72” Sailfish Mount, Costa Del Mar Sunglasses, Hobie Gear, AFTCO merchandise, ACK Gift Certificates and so much more to benefit the Texas Sealife Center. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun and take part in the raffle!” said Maria Hector, Marketing Director and event organizer. The Copper Tones will be performing live on stage from 12 p.m.-4 p.m.
Kayak cont. on A4
Adopt a Beach Cleanup This Saturday
This is the weekend to get out and help clean up our beaches as the 20016 Texas General Land Office Adopt-A-Beach Fall Cleanup takes to the sand at 30 sites coast-wide. Volunteers can sign up online at www.TexasAdoptABeach.org or show up on-site Saturday morning to take part in a fun-filled day at the beach that makes a difference. Everyone who signs up online and checks in at their cleanup location will be entered to win one of seven RTIC Soft Pack 20 coolers. The random drawing will take place after the cleanup. Winners will be contacted directly. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. The cleanup begins at 9 a.m. Volunteers
are asked to wear closed-toe shoes and bring plenty of drinking water. Adopt-A-Beach will provide all necessary materials. The Texas Adopt-A-Beach program began in the fall of 1986, when 2,800 volunteers picked up 124 tons of trash. Since then, more than 496,000 volunteers have removed more than 9,200 tons of trash from Texas beaches. Each volunteer will be given data cards, gloves, pencils and trash bags. All volunteers are advised to wear closed-toe shoes, bring sunscreen and plenty of drinking water. The Texas General Land Office Adopt-A-Beach cleanups are
WHAT'S IN THE WATER?
Beaches cont. on A4
Distilled Island water leaves behind mystery gunk
water came out of the filter it still had some minerals in it which could be seen when the water was used to clean dark tile. “I called the filter company and they told me that while the filter got most things out it didn’t get all the minerals,” Fraley said. “So I bought a distiller.” The distiller worked Paul Fraley and the mystery gunk fine but when the clean water drained By Dale Rankin into a bottle what it left behind When longtime Islander Paul Fraley has Fraley scratching his head and bought a new Aquasana water filter concerned about exactly what it is. for his house on the south end of The “The stuff in this jar is what was Island he figured his water problems left after we distilled a gallon and were taken care of. But when the
a half of water,” he said. “I tasted list of accredited laboratories around just a tiny bit of it and it tastes the state so send the gunk for testing. like petroleum. It took me a day “I’m going to get to the bottom to get the taste out of my mouth.” of this,” he said. “Because people Concerned that the new filter on his without water filters may be house may be the source of the gunk drinking this stuff, whatever it is, he tested the water at his sister’s house without knowing it, whatever it is.” and got the same result. Thinking Let the testing begin. that maybe both filters were the source he tested a friend’s house which had no filter and got the same result again. “I’m going to test houses all over the Island just to see if it is everywhere,” he said. “And I am going to find out what it is.” Fraley called a scientist at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality who is also curious as to what is Three tests from three separate houses left behind the same gunk. in the water and sent Fraley a
A little Island history
Historic Artistic Journey Finds its Way to the Art Museum of South Texas
By Brent Rourk and Dale Rankin Our story begins in Mexico City and winds its way through New York City, the salons of Paris, Houston, and finally comes to its denouement with the largest and most ambitious show ever presented at the Art Museum of South Texas here in Corpus Christi. The show will open on Friday, September 30 at the museum, located next to the American Bank Center downtown, will bring together the life’s work of Houston-based artist Dorothy Hood who passed away in 2001 at the age of 81. The works run
the gamut from small drawings to wall-sized abstracts with pieces borrowed from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, to McNay Art Hood in Mexico Museum in San Antonio, circa 1943 D a l l a s Museum of Art, and private collections from across the United States and Mexico. Plans are in the
works to take the show on the road to Houston and Monterrey, Mexico with the ultimate goal of bringing the worldwide recognition to Hood fifteen years after her death that eluded her in life.
An artist’s life Hood cut a wide swath through the international art world beginning in 1941 when Hood, described by contemporaries as a stunning strawberry blonde with a sense of adventure and a lust for bohemian life, after her graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design Hood drove her father’s roadster
Hood at Work History continued on A2