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December 29, 2016

Around The Island

By Dale Rankin As we wind down to the end of 2016 on our little sandbar we are hunkered down for the last blue northern of the year to blow through as the Weather Wonks tell us to expect winds of 45 knots and offshore seas of nine to eleven feet.

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2016 The Year That Was As we look back on 2016 here are some of the highlights that we saw on our Island.

Lake Padre Work

Here is some of what has happened hereabouts in the past week.

New beach signs New signs are going up along our beaches this week. The first of the new signs was at the parking lot at Michael J. Ellis Beach.

The idea from the City’s Parks and Recreation Department, the City’s Watershore and Beach Advisory Committee and the Corpus Christi Convention and Visitors Bureau is to standardize the signs along the beaches in the Corpus Christi City Limits. The new signs should all be in place within the next few weeks.

Water problem Some additional details are coming to light about the recent problems with our water supply. For the third time in the past year a ban was placed on the use of water on North Padre and Mustang islands, the ban did not affect Port Aransas. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality reported to the city that a malfunctioning backflow valve at the port allowed gallons of Indoline and Hydrochloric Acid to flow into the city’s water system meaning that even boiling the water would not remove it.

The problem arose only three days after the new Corpus Christi City Council took their seats but the new arrivals didn’t hesitate when trouble found them. We’re told that by the afternoon after the problem was initially reported a conference call was arranged by State Representative Todd Hunter including officials from Washington to Austin to City Hall to find answers to exactly what a happened and what was to be done about it. After some backing and filling by the city staff they were told

by State Representative Hunter who organized the meeting to come up with solutions…in three hours. That’s the speed of light in bureaucratic circles.

It turns out that the chemicals released amounted to concentrated soap that in the long run won’t do any permanent harm, and in fact could even help to clean out our aging water lines. What the problem brought to light is that there are 102 compounds separated from our water system by backflow preventers around the city but there is no definitive list of exactly where they are, how often they are checked, and what the protocol is when the fail. In hindsight we are probably lucky that things didn’t turn our worse than they did and now we have a chance to fix the problem before it happens again.

Beach Access Road 3A

Around continued on A4

The biggest project that kicked off this year was the excavation work around Lake Padre that will change the Island landscape literally and figuratively. As 2016 winds down the work initial phase of the work, the ground work, at the 104-acre site is nearing completion. More than 9000 linear feet of bulkheads are in place with less than 1000 feet yet be installed, the marina site adjacent to the planned SPID Water Exchange Bridge has been excavated and work has begun on the marina itself. The actual shape of the lake has been changed and expanded with the sand removed from the site used to raise the surrounding elevation to eight feet above sea level.

When fully developed the project will include hotels, apartments,

several marinas, and retail space surrounding a 3200-foot long canal feature which will connect the Lake Padre development with the area around the Schlitterbahn waterpark and allow water flow from the Gulf of Mexico directly into the existing Island canal system through a 40-foot wide channel. As the year ends the Corpus Christi City Council plans to bid the bridge project – now estimated to cost about $11.5 million – with bids expected to be open by the end of January ready for a start by mid2017. But before work begins on the bridge an agreement must be in place to complete the connection to the existing Island canal system on the Schlitterbahn side of SPID where the existing canal – not yet bulkheaded –

A History of Zahn Road

The recently revived interest in the Tortuga Dunes development jogged my memory regarding an article that I was supposed to write a couple years ago but never got around to it. During the construction of the subdivision, I did a lot of research on the immediate area as I wrote both the USACE and dune protection permit applications. I learned about the early history of Zahn Road, although there are a few curiosities involved with it. Beach access roads are the lifeblood of tourism around here, and we’re going to re-build one and hopefully get another one on Mustang Island soon.

No connection to the beach In September of 1978, an application was submitted by Dr. George Strickhausen III to the USACE that proposed to dredge about a four acre area in the wetlands north of where Zahn road is currently located, and build a half-horseshoe road and fill areas for development around it.

The original road was to stop before the 1000’ dune protection line and not connect with the beach. This application, of course, was met with resistance from various agencies and stakeholders in the public that commented that the project would impact too many wetlands and sensitive habitats. The League of Women Voters even turned in a comment letter. I agree with their early assessments.

Comments went back and forth

Nueces County Emergency Services District #2 $6919 cost per call for 2015, $8470 per call estimated for 2016

The Nueces County Emergency Services District #2 (Originally called the Flour Bluff Volunteer Fire Department) is located at 337 Yorktown Road in Flour Bluff. They provide fire, water and auto rescue and EMS services to an 80 square-mile area which includes Flour Bluff, Padre Island, Padre Island National Seashore, and unincorporated areas of Kleberg and Nueces County.

The department was the Flour Bluff Volunteer Fire Department until the City of Corpus Christi annexed the area in the 1960s when it became the Nueces County Emergency Services District and it now funded primarily by property tax revenue levied on property owners in Flour Bluff and on Padre and Mustang islands.

The board meetings are normally scheduled at 6 p.m. on the last Tuesday of each month at the fire station at 337 Yorktown Road and are open to the public.

According to their website the company’s equipment consists of an engine, a pickup, a rescue boat, a tanker brush truck, a large brush truck engine, a brush truck, and an EMS unit. $961,845 in total operating expenses for 2015 (up from $761,849 in 2014) $6919 cost per service call for 2015 31 service calls on Padre Island in 2016 68 service calls in Flour Bluff in 2016 139 total number of service calls in service area in 2016

$1.2 million Net Assets of according to a 2015 audit $837,335 raised from property tax in 2015

2016-2017 Proposed Budget $1,177,330 total income $8470 per service call in 20162017 based on number of calls in current fiscal year $930,000 income from property tax revenue $687,713 Wages $247,330 net income from ambulance services $50,860 Accounting and Professional fees expense $6,036 Administrative expense $7,016 Advertising and Promotion expense $14,545 Communication software $11,440 Building Maintenance expense $49,800 Equipment Maintenance expense $34,000 Fuel expense $104,300 Insurance expense $17,064 Interest $28,970 Training and Dues $15,170 Utilities $1,030,544 total Operational expense $146,786 left over after operational expenses

2016 Cont. on A2

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By Jay Gardner

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for another year, with lawyers from Austin getting involved, local environmental consultants, the Sierra Club, and Audubon Club. In July of 1979, the applicant submitted a revised plan that reduced major impacts and did not include dredging large ponds and filling acres and acres of wetlands. The road was to be moved south of the wetland ponds, and was to go straight towards the beach, and then take a left before the 1000’ dune protection line and dead end out in the back dunes. The road was still not designed to go all the way to the beach.

Of course, comment letters again were received that there was too much impact to filling wetlands.

There was a quick revision, likely due to the involvement of Charlie Belaire and Paul Carangelo, who proposed an intertidal back lake be dug out and connected with the tidal waters that go under the bridge there at the current 1852 Pass bridge at State Highway 361. The dredge material was to be used as fill for Zahn Road, and also there at the corner of Zahn and 361 where the sales office for Tortuga Dunes sits today. Comment letters were again received, with many still objecting to the plan, however it was actually approved in September 1979 despite objections.

Subterranean well pad Nothing would happen with the permit (or construction) for two years, until a letter appears in the

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What a Difference 100 Years Doesn’t Make Editor’s note: As we swing into the New Year it is tempting to believe that the times we live in are the most turbulent ever in South Texas. They are not. One hundred years ago the Island we call home and the Wild Horse Prairie to our west and south were aflame in tension seeping north across the border.

The story that follows is taken from several sources including the book “The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution”

by Charles H. Harris and Louis R. Sadler.

The Mexican Revolution kicked off in 1910 and by 1912 was in full bloom and spilling north across the border.

Porfirio Diaz figured himself a benevolent dictator and figured he would “control” the presidential election of 1910 the way he had controlled the previous six. When it comes to fixing elections the Mexican way is not a subtle one. As soon as

By Dale Rankin Early in the second decade of a new century unrest along the Texas/ Mexico border made crossing the river dangerous to the point of impossible. Meanwhile, north of us in the heart of Texas an oil boom is creating boomtowns overnight. Roving crossborder gangs frequently bring their attacks to bordertowns and to the open ranchland of South Texas.

Meanwhile the oil boom is bringing people and jobs to the state.

Déjà vu all over again It may sound like 2016 but looking back one hundred years in South Texas life finds us pretty much where our grandfathers were a century ago.

Rangers 1915

Francisco I. Madero declared his candidacy Diaz promptly had him thrown in jail – election over; or so Diaz thought. What he didn’t count on was Madero’s escaping from jail and running to San Antonio where he promptly issued his Plan de San Luis Potosí, with its main slogan Sufragio Efectivo, No re-elección (“free suffrage and no re-election”).

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2016 cont. from A1 needs about 300 yards of additional digging. As the year ends that agreement is not done.

Aquarius light

After more than two decades of trying work finally began this year on the installation of a third traffic light on The Island, at the intersection of Aquarius and SPID near the JFK Causeway.

As the year ends activation of the light is held up by the lack of the required warning signs on the causeway and the developer of the adjacent property, whose $420,000 jump started the project, has received a six-month extension on platting of the lots which will be developed as commercial property. At year’s end a planned 105 room hotel, at the site - cited as the original need for the light - has been dropped from the plans.

Spring Break 2016

2016 was a mixed bag for Island tourists as a restrictions on alcohol consumption on Port Aransas beaches kept some revelers away, but as you can see from this photo, the beaches were still packed during the day before the ban kicked in at 6 p.m.

On the 4th of July weekend reports of flesh-eating bacteria also scared away some visitors, in spite of the fact that the man who contracted the disease did not get if from water along the beach but rather in the Laguna Madre several miles away.

Then during the Labor Day weekend a water-boil order in the City of Corpus Christi thinned the tourist herd.

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King, was for years the voice of NASA missions. ('T-minus 15 seconds and counting'.

Remember?) Chip would charge neighborhood kids a quarter each to hear his dad. Jack would wake up from naps surrounded by nine-yearolds waiting for him to say, 'We have lift off'.

Biff was to fly me in an F- 14D Tomcat, a ridiculously powerful $60 million Weapon with nearly as much thrust as weight, not unlike Colin Montgomerie. I was worried about getting airsick, so the night before the flight I asked Biff if there was something I should eat the next morning.

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Business Briefs The Waterline open air bar under Doc’s is the perfect place to enjoy the last week of the NFL while enjoying the beautiful weather we are having.

The Boathouse Bar & Grill New Year’s Eve Party will feature DJ Erik upstairs 10 pm – close. Dinner packages include steak, lobster tail, side items, dessert and bottle of wine is $100 for two guests and $55 for one.

The New Year’s Eve Bahn Bash at Schlitterbahn Resort 8 pm – 1 am. You can buy tickets at the admission gate or online and use code 156010413 to save 10%.

Noon Year’s Eve Party in Port A will be held at Roberts Point Park Pavilion at 11:30 am with countdown at noon. There will be free cookies and non-alcoholic drinks or you can bring your own. Great event for those who don’t want to wait until midnight to countdown and for those who want to celebrate the New Year twice.

The Black Sheep Bistro/Barrel Wine & Tappas has a huge party planned for New Year’s Eve. The new owners have started a new Wild Game Wednesday feature.

Mikel May’s Beachside Grill is hosting a New Year’s Eve Party with live music by Now and Zen. There will be $1.50 Bud Light draft, $2 well drinks and $3.50 frozen margarita. There are $30 table reservations available after 10 Pm that includes a bottle of champagne.

The Annual Night at the Races sponsored by the Rotary will be held at Schlitterbahn on Saturday, January 28th.

It is a fun event that I was sorry I missed last year after I heard all about the great party it was. More details in later issues.

See you there!

The Padre Island Antique Classic Car Club will have their monthly Car Show and Drive-Ins at the Black Sheep Bistro/ Barrel parking starting Saturday, January 28th 11 am – 1 pm.

Deluxe Nails next to Padre Pizzeria offers much more than manicures and pedicures. They also do waxing, facials, eyelash extensions, permanent makeup and more. While you indulge yourself you can enjoy free soft drinks or wine.

The Blue Crab is having the biggest sale of the year with many items 25% and 50 % off plus everything in the store is buy one get one of equal or lesser value at 50% off. The sale runs through January 7th.

A fighter pilot named Psycho gave me a safety briefing and then fastened me into my ejection seat, which, when employed, would 'egress' me out of the plane at such a velocity that I would be immediately knocked unconscious.

We broke the speed of sound. Sea was sky and sky was sea. Flying at 200 feet we did 90-degree turns at 550 mph, creating a G force of 6.5, which is to say I felt as if 6.5 times my body weight was smashing against me, thereby approximating life as Mrs. Colin Montgomerie.

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And I egressed the bananas.

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photo of the roads is attached. I put together a group of graduate students with the intention of educating the public to get them to voluntarily stop the destructive behavior. Signs threatening legal action were not working. We did several things including a poster contest for the kids in three different grade levels in the Port Aransas schools. The top prize in each level was $50.

That was a huge amount of money for a kid in the late 60s. Why the big prize? To talk it up at home and teach their parents. We convinced the lab manager to put up a couple of huge signs to educate the public rather than threaten them.

I have attached a photo of the sign which was on Beach Street. You can see the vehicle roads in the background. Well, it worked, people stopped driving in the dunes, the county made it illegal and later the state did as well. Maybe if the county put up a similar sign in the problem areas, it would convince at least some of the people to keep their vehicles out of the dunes.

The sign said Protect the Natural Dune Seawall, Please do not drive on sand dunes.

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I egressed a box of Milk Duds from the sixth grade.

I made Linda Blair look polite. Because of the G's, I was egressing stuff that never thought would be egressed.

I went through not one airsick bag, but two.

Biff said I passed out. Twice… I was coated in sweat. At one point, as we were coming in upside down in a banked curve on a mock bombing target and the G's were flattening me like a tortilla and I Was in and out of consciousness, I realized I was the first person In history to throw down.

I used to know 'cool'. Cool was Elway throwing a touchdown pass, or Norman making a fiveiron bite. But now I really know 'cool'. Cool is guys like Biff, men with cast-iron stomachs and freon nerves. I wouldn't go up there again for Derek Jeter's black book, but I'm glad Biff does every day, and for less a year than a rookie reliever makes in a home stand.

A week later, when the spins finally stopped, Biff called. He said he and the fighters had the perfect call sign for me. Said he'd send it on a patch for my flight suit.

What is it? I asked.

'Two Bags.'

R.I.P. DUNCAN

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And I egressed the pizza from the night before.

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The next morning, out on the tarmac, I had on my flight suit with my name sewn over the left breast. (No call sign -- like Crash or Sticky or Lead foot. But, still, very cool.) I carried my helmet in the crook of my arm, as Biff had instructed. If ever in my life I had a chance to nail Nicole Kidman, this was it.

Those 20 minutes were the rush of my life.

Unfortunately, the ride lasted 80. It was like being on the roller coaster at Six Flags Over Hell. Only without rails. We did barrel rolls, snap rolls, loops, yanks and banks. We dived, rose and dived again, sometimes with a vertical velocity of 10,000 feet per minute. We chased another F-14, and it chased us.

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'No,' Biff said, 'because they taste about the same coming up as they do going down.'

Just as I was thinking about aborting the flight, the canopy closed over me, and Biff gave the ground crew a thumbs-up In minutes we were firing nose up at 600 mph. We leveled out and then canopy-rolled over another F-14.

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The U.S. Navy invited me to try it. I was thrilled. I was pumped. I was toast! I should've known when they told me my pilot would Be Chip (Biff) King of Fighter Squadron 213 at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach.

Whatever you're thinking a Top Gun named Chip (Biff) King looks like, triple it. He's about six-foot, tan, ice-blue eyes, wavy surfer hair, finger-crippling handshake -- the kind of man who wrestles dyspeptic alligators in his leisure time. If you see this man, run the other way.

Fast.

Biff King was born to fly. His father, Jack

By Brent Rourk Duncan, famous Island Golden Doodle at Padre Island Mail Plus and friend to all passed on suddenly this week. All Islanders who went to Padre Island Mail Plus surely remember Duncan as he greeted every customer and made them feel welcome.

“Hi Duncan, how are you?” were the first words customers cheerfully said as they entered the popular Island mail and gift store, dispelling any illusion that customers came to see owner David Devlin. Most customers knew that the first order of business at Padre Island Mail Plus was to share love with Duncan.

housemates creating a warm home, a friendly business, and a pleasant journey wherever they traveled. Most Islanders will remember Duncan as that large, warm fuzzy and friendly dog that would greet them as they entered the store.

We know that a dog [and really every animal that we share time and love with] is indeed ‘Man’s Best Friend’. As all Islanders know, our animal friends are more than pets, but rather family. Such was the case with Duncan who had a nuclear family, a business family, and a cherished extended and caring Island family. The island quickly became attached to Duncan.

“The story goes Duncan was picked up from Devlin shared that Duncan’s inoperable a Oklahoma City shelter by a Doodle rescue tumor came on suddenly, and sadly there was organization when he was two years old.” nothing that could be done. stated Devlin. Not long after being rescued a tight 6 year friendship ensued where Devlin In reflecting about Duncan, Devlin commented, “I think Duncan hit the Island by and Duncan became inseparable. storm and he was meant to be here. We spent Fortunately for the David and Donna Devlin, all of our time together, and I will really miss Duncan adopted them as his friends and him.”

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Padre Island National Seashore Distributes MADD’s Red Ribbons

record stating that Exxon Company wanted to revise the permit drawings to include heavier culverts “due to heavy rig loads they will require to transport via the road.” This falls in line with the fact that a well pad was constructed on the north side of Zahn road before you get to the beach. In fact, the well pad is still there today; buried under 100,000 cubic yards of sand that is the dune mitigation for Tortuga Dunes.

Padre Island National Seashore is teaming with MADD this December to distribute red ribbons to visitors, in honor of the 30th Anniversary of the Designated Driver and Red Ribbon awareness campaign, Tie One On For Safety.

Construction was then supposed to start July of 1981, but it didn’t again for some reason. The permit was transferred to Devco International by request of Charlie Zahn in November of 1982, with the same permit application drawings referenced.

Construction was supposedly initiated in December of 1982, with the final authorization of transfer to Devco in February of 1983. The road doesn’t show up on GoogleEarth until 1985 though. The road was later deeded from the County to City, likely due to the area being incorporated by the City. I am missing some pieces to the story though, and I know it. Maybe some of the old timers could fill me in sometime.

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Caesar Kleberg in the Norias Ranchhouse

But anyway, while it seems like a simple thing, constructing a road to the beach, things evidently aren’t that easy around here. I mean, it took 55 years to get Packery Channel dredged, from inception to Hurricane Emily popping it open prematurely. I’m hoping that it doesn’t take anywhere near that long to re-build Access Road 3A (north end of the seawall). But we’re all going to have to have a little patience during construction, which hopefully should start here in the next couple of weeks, and be finished by spring break. Access roads to the beach around here are very important things.

feuding but instead a campaign of guerrilla warfare being waged by people from the Mexican side of the river.

Well, that’s it folks. 2016 is in the history books. I hope you all had a blessed year, and will follow up with a blessed 2017. Drop me a line at tarponchaser@mail.com and I’ll see you all on the rocks more often next year.

The next night it was the Texans’ turn to strike. They surrounded the house of one of

The very next day fourteen bandits swept across the river into Sebastian and looted a store then raided a corn sheller being run by a pair of farmers one of whom was A.L. Austin the president of the local vigilante Law and Order League and his son both of whom they executed. The next day they took a pot shot at a random automobile near Los Fresnos wounding the driver and then shot the night watchman in the town of Lyford. It was open war.

Around cont. from A1 We reported a few weeks ago that Beach Access Road 3A at the end of Windward Drive is about to undergo a facelift after years of neglect. When the project went to the city council for a vote last week it was revealed that about half of the money spend on the project was for design and permits meaning that there will be about $400,000 of actual improvements made to the road. The council approved the use of $340,389.04 of the money that came from bonds passed in 2014, the rest from other sources in the city budget. Maybe that’s normal but it seems like a lot of pencil pushing for an access road improvement project. Construction is set to begin in January.

and while the ranchers were trying to figure out their meanings the Mexicans opened fire with 7mm Mauser rifles at 250 yards. The sixteen defenders were outnumbered four to one and two of them were immediately wounded and the ranch’s carpenter George Forbes was shot through the lung as the group raced for the cover of a nearby railroad embankment.

The raiders charged from three sides but their initial onslaught was stalled when a King Ranch cowboy named Lauro Cavazos shot the bandit leader’s horse from under him. But in a whimsical twist that was a sign of the changing times straight out of a Roy Rogers movie the bandits forgot to cut the telephone line to the house. The ranchers called Kleberg who was in Brownsville and one can only imagine how the call must have gone; “Hello, operator we’re calling from the King Ranch and we are being attacked by Mexican bandits.”

“Mexican bandits? Okay, hold on while I connect you.”

Kleberg explained that there were no locomotive captains willing to take the risk of running a train to their rescue and his failure to act was said to be a sore spot with the cowboys for years afterward. After two solid hours of fighting – about 8:30 p.m. – the raiders “yelling like Indians” mounted a full charge at the headquarters but cowboy Pinkie Taylor shot and killed the bandit leader at forty yards and when five other raiders were hit it took the momentum out of the raiders. They strapped their wounded on horses and rode off south leaving their white flag behind.

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Difference cont. from A1 It declared the Díaz regime illegal and called for revolt against Díaz starting on November 20, 1910 and the revolution was on.

Pancho Villa and other rebel leaders “liberated” Juarez across from El Paso and revolution spread like wildfire along the Texas border. Over the next five years The Border was an uneasy place. The Coastal Bend became a transshipment point for arms into Mexico and local tales of intrigue and boats headed south in the night abounded.

The only fatality suffered by the Norias contingent was an Hispanic woman whose husband worked as a section hand on the ranch who was captured by the bandits and ask how many gringos were on the ranch. She cursed the bandit chief and was shot in the mouth and killed.

When in doubt shoot

We were here!

In 1915 that things escalated. Captain Henry Lee Ransom commanded Company D of the Texas Rangers headquartered in San Antonio but billeted in Harlingen. Just five days after he took command of the Rangers cross-border raiders, later found to be connected to Madero forces – struck against a the forty-two-foot bridge of the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railroad near the Valley town of Sebastian destroying it, cutting telephone and telegraph lines and isolating Brownsville from the rest of Texas.

Ransom managed to identify one of the raiders and arrested him at his house where he gave up the names of several other raiders. Ransom was in charge of security for Nueces County and his method of law enforcement was stated clearly and left little room for nuance, “When in doubt shoot.” He believed in shooting bandits on the spot and that included “those who looked like bandits.” As he put it, “A bad disease calls for bitter medicine” and he unleashed his bitter medicine and racial profiling down the barrel of a gun which only served to heat up an already simmering border environment. His instructions from Texas Governor Pa Ferguson, an anti-prohibitionist Democrat, were to “clean it up down there if he had to kill every d--- man connected with it.” Governor Pa promised to pardon every man who had to do the dirty work.

It was a declaration of war.

On July 24, 1915 raiders connected to Madero robbed S. Saenz’s store on the American side of the Rio Grande at Progresso, the favored border crossing these days of Winter Texans in search of cheap prescription drugs. Two raiders were killed “resisting arrest.”

Then on August 3 twenty-six cavalrymen of Troop A, 112 Cavalry were called to the Scrivner Ranch twenty miles north of Brownsville where it was said that a Madero supporter was harboring the same group of raiders on his ranch called Los Tulitos. The group of about fifty raiders managed to hold off three troops of cavalry but the fight brought the borderland into open warfare.

King Ranch the Sebastian raiders in a house near the main crossing of the Arroyo Colorado and killed the occupant and one of his sons, riddling one body with seventeen bullet holes. The next morning as the Rangers searched the house a surviving son fired a point blank shot from his hiding place under a bed which left powder burns on a Ranger’s nose before the Ranger returned fire and dispatched him.

Raid on the King Ranch

The Army sent troops along with two companies of Rangers to the Ranch including a former Ranger named Marcus Hines who weighted over 300 pounds. When the troopers arrived at the headquarters of the Norias Ranch which consisted of a two-story frame ranch house located next to the railroad tracks that cut across the ranch, they found that the Rangers and several of the King Ranch cowboys had already left the house in search of the bandits.

They were sitting around the ranch house at six o’clock that evening trying to plot their next move when they saw riders approaching

Business leaders in South Texas decided they must act. They met behind closed doors in San Benito on August 5 and while there are no minutes of what was discussed the outcome was the realization that the recent violence was not of the typical form of South Texas political

Rangers from across the plain. They figured it was the Rangers returning until they got close enough to see they were about sixty of them wearing large sombreros and heading for the ranch house in a dead run. One of the leaders was wearing a Mexican Army uniform. The guerrillas carried a white flag of truce and a red flag of no quarter

“We hope community members will help make our roads safer than ever this holiday season by planning ahead for a designated non-drinking driver if celebrations include alcohol,” said Colleen Sheehey-Church, MADD National President. “We’re honored to join with The National Park Service to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Tie One On For Safety and the critical role played by designated drivers.”

With 3,000 DWI arrests made this year alone in national parks, this partnership is vital to both MADD and The NPS.

“We are thrilled to partner with MADD to kick off a safe holiday season in our national parks by distributing red ribbons to visitors,” Charles Cuvelier, Chief of NPS’s Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services. “We hope to remind everyone to designate a nondrinking driver if their plans include alcohol, with the Tie One on for Safety Campaign.

The following parks will be distributing red ribbons this holiday season: •

Acadia National Park in Maine

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Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina and Virginia

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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal national Historical Park in Washing DC, Maryland and West Virginia

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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

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Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas

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Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama

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Padre Island National Seashore in Texas

The holidays are one of the most dangerous times on our nation’s roadways, with more people traveling, an increased number of festivities where alcohol is served, and a surge in drunk driving. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve in 2015, there were 973 drunk driving fatalities across the country, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. With so many options today such as Uber, taxis, public transportation and alcohol-free friends or family members, there is no excuse to drink and drive.

To order a free Tie One On For Safety red ribbon or donate for a window decal, visit madd.org/toofs. For safe party tips, visit madd. org/safeparty.

About Mothers Against Drunk Driving

After Ranger Captain Ransom let fly with his version of how things would have gone down had he been present Pinkie Taylor could stand it no more.

“Listen, we were here – we did not get a man killed – and we were here when they came, we were here when they left, and we are still here,

In order to cover up the double game they were playing the Madero representative in San Antonio issued a statement saying that the bandits operating in South Texas were American citizens. But that claim was put to the lie when on August 8 the manager of the King Ranch, Caesar Kleberg learned that raiders had been seen on one of the ranch’s five divisions, the Sauz Ranch just south of Kingsville. The fight was moving north.

Horses and automobiles Once again, on August 4, telephone and telegraph lines to Brownsville were cut and the railroad bridge on the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railroad line was burned three-three miles north of Brownsville isolating that city and making Corpus Christi the southernmost functioning city in the United States.

The Rangers had missed out on the fight and when they returned after 10 p.m. they began to offer gratuitous advice on what they would have done had they been there for the fight.

(MADD) popularized the “Designated Driver” concept starting in 1986. The concept changed the culture of drinking and driving in America and created an understanding that impaired driving is socially unacceptable. As a part of the campaign, MADD is asking drivers across the country to show their commitment to protecting the public from drunk driving by displaying MADD’s Tie One On For Safety red ribbon or decal on their cars available at: madd.org/ toofs and at select national parks throughout the country.

Founded in 1980 by a mother whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver, Mothers Against Drunk Driving® (MADD) is the nation’s largest nonprofit working to end drunk driving, help fight drugged driving, support the victims of these violent crimes and prevent underage drinking. MADD changed American culture by popularizing the “designated driver” and related red ribbon awareness campaign Tie One On For Safety® now in its 30th year.

Norias Ranch Headquarters and I don’t know what you all would have done if you had been here, but I know THERE WAS NOT A @#$%#$% SON OF A (*%*! OF YOU HERE!”…less like a Roy Rogers movie than a Mel Brooks one.

One raider survived the fight but “died during questioning” but not before telling his captors that the raiders expected to find only three or four cowboys at the ranch headquarters and they planned to loot the place to obtain money, rifles, ammunition, food, and saddles from the ranch store before burning the headquarters to the ground then stopping the next train and robbing the passengers, then burning the train.

The bodies of the guerrillas were lassoed and dragged into a pile for burial and photos were taken of Rangers posing with the skulls of dead men. It caused an outrage in the Hispanic community which led to another raid on Progresso in which an Army private was captured and taken across the river where his ears were cut off and his decapitated head placed on a pole where it was visible from the American side.

Decapitations on the Mexican side of the border; not much has changed in the last 100 years.

Next time: Martial law in South Texas?

MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving® is marking its 10th anniversary and reducing drunk driving fatalities by 25 percent since its launch. MADD supports drunk and drugged driving victims and survivors at no charge, providing a service every four minutes through local victim advocates and the 24-Hour Victim Help Line 1-877-MADD-HELP. Power of Parents® and Power of Youth® programs reduce underage drinking. Learn more by visiting madd.org or calling 1-877-ASKMADD.

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Father James Derkits of Trinity By the Sea Episcopal Church in Port Aransas

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Senior Moments

Those Being Considered for the VA (Veterans Administration) Secretary

By Dotson Lewis

Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: The veterans community is shoulders at reform becoming concerned as to who will be the next the Secretary of the VA. While many of the major concepts that nominees have been named by the “Trump H e g s e t h ' s Team,” very little has been made public f o r m e r regarding those in consideration for this most organization, wellimportant office. As a reminder to you Moon and Monkeys, the VA receives the second largest k n o w n slice of the national budget and employs a d v o c a c y 316,000. Chris Neiweem contributed to this g r o u p , Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) article proposed publicly. Now, after a major VA Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), former Sen. Scott scandal and continuous turmoil at the VA, Brown (R-Mass), and former Concerned it seems Pete may have been right from the Veterans of America Chief Executive Officer very beginning in suggesting that VA needs Pete Hegseth and Admiral Michelle Howard strong firing authority reform to eliminate bad have been discussed as possible VA Secretary employees, extended private care options for Nominees. veterans that wait-too long for care, and a new In 2014, the veterans’ community was rocked leader that understands these reforms need to when they woke to the headlines describing the get done. secret waiting list of veterans at the Phoenix Michelle Howard VA hospital who had not received care, and the subsequent resignation of then VA Secretary Adm. Michelle Howard is a 1978 graduate and Retired Gen. Eric Shinseki. Veteran patients of Gateway High School in Aurora, Colorado. died while waiting for care, and the sacred bond She graduated from the United States Naval between our government and its war veterans Academy in 1982 and from the Army’s was shattered.

Command and General Staff College in 1998, with a Masters in Military Arts and Sciences.

Bob Mcdonald Her qualifications to be VA Secretary are President Obama primarily her experience as active duty military. encouraged the Admiral Howard’s initial sea tours were aboard veteran community USS Hunley (AS 31) and USS Lexington when selecting (AVT 16). While serving aboard Lexington, Secretary Bob she received the secretary of the Navy/Navy McDonald (a League Captain Winifred Collins award in May w e l l - r e s p e c t e d 1987. This award is given to one woman officer businessman and former Fortune 500 CEO) to step in as the next VA Secretary.

Unfortunately, Bob McDonald has done little to improve the Agency’s damaged image. Mr. McDonald has the right experience to fix the VA, but has not been given the authority from the White House to fix the workforce issues, which have plagued this Agency for years.

Secretary McDonald urged this Congress to provide the VA Secretary with firing authoritywhich would finally provide the needed ability to take the first steps required to meaningful reform After many iterations, when said authority was provided (for example HR 1994 the VA Accountability Act) Secretary McDonald did an "about face" on the issue, and suggested that practice was “heavy handed” and no longer spoke of the need for workforce reform.

It was not easily understood why this reversal occurred until it was noted that the White House issued a Statement of Administration (SAP) (AKA a veto threat) of HR 1994 warning Republicans, and supporting Democrats, not to pass it, making use of stock, union talking points. It then became clear the Administration was behind the VA’s public reluctance to support the needed reform efforts Congress had presented.

McDonald could have been successful at fixing the VA had President Obama empowered him to actually fix the workforce issues.

Nevertheless, we find ourselves faced with an uncertain future at the VA, but with encouraging indications that President-elect Trump may be nominating a strong leader with proven records of reform, to step in. Trump's comments regarding the VA have made it clear he supports removing bad employees, and the days of “VA apologizing" while not fixing the problems they are apologizing for may be over. If Presidentelect Trump’s nominee is cleared, the problems plaguing the VA in recent history may finally find resolution.

The major question in American Legion and VFW halls across the nation currently is "who will be the next VA Secretary?”

Jeff Miller Congressman Jeff Miller (though not a veteran) has been an advocate for VA reform utilizing his power as House VA Chairman to hold illwilled leaders accountable, and has championed legislation to protect whistleblowers, provide discipline authority to the Secretary, and has been a fighter for veterans at a time when Democrats usually respond to VA reform with "we gave the VA more money and the accountability problem is overblown partisan rhetoric".

Scott Brown Senator Scott Brown is a veteran and has endorsed popular reform proposals such as providing private care for Veterans in the event VA is not able to get veterans in to see a doctor for extended periods of time. Brown has served on the Senate VA committee and has experience substantively working on VA issues and engaging the VA on key issues the veteran community cares about. He has the experience and perspective that are needed to actually change the status quo.

Pete Hegseth Pete Hegseth, is an Army veteran who, despite being much younger than the majority of members of both Congress and the other possible nominees for SECVA, has significantly shaped the reform landscape for the better in Washington. In the last few years many traditional veteran organizations shrugged their

Anecdotingly

Resolved

ByAbigail Bair

New Year’s is fast approaching – the final horrifying holiday of the seasonal onslaught. Every single year, I think I’m going to wear a fluffy dress, go out, have an amazing time, meet a handsome prince and ride off into the sunset. Expectations often fail to match the reality, which in my case, involves staying home with Stadler – an 80 pound dog whose solution to fear of fireworks is to physically lie across my body shivering until the neighbors stop blowing things up. She gets super angry why I have to go to the bathroom, I can’t imagine her wrath were I to actually leave her at the babysitter’s to suffer through it.

The Rev and G.P. have very little sympathy for wussiness.

Even prior to adopting Stadler, I never quite got the holiday right – unless you consider making out in a temporary photo booth with a somewhat reluctant Red Bull distributer the modern day handsome prince/sunset equivalent (Pro-tip: it’s not). I’m not great in crowds, and lately when I consume any alcoholic beverage exceeding half a glass of cabernet while not safe in my own home, you can find me standing on a bar stool yelling that I, “NEED AN ADULT.” I have somehow, in my decrepitude, become that girl.

They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. If that’s the case, then my road is a 16 lane mega highway with a ton of confusing cloverleaves, several drawbridges, and a ton of detours. My heart is pure, but my attention span is limited. Each year when I snip my shadow free and hold it up to see if it still fits, it always does. Even though a year seems like such a long time to accomplish fairly major goals, truly altering oneself is pretty difficult – especially if you quit trying by January 13th. It may come as a surprise to you, but it’s next to impossible to learn to play the banjo in 13 days.

All I managed was to drive the dog outside and possibly anger the neighbors (although that could have been because of my house’s general lack of curb appeal – another resolution that failed the second a sticker bush stabbed me in the face). This year, I’m giving up before I get started. However, if you have the desire to be resolved, here are some good ways to still make resolutions, but also insure you’ll be able to skate by on a technicality at the end of 2017.

Guidelines for Winning Resolutions

a year for outstanding leadership. She reported to USS Mount Hood (AE 29) as chief engineer in 1990 and served in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. She assumed duties as first lieutenant on board the USS Flint (AE 32) in July 1992. In January 1996, she became the executive officer of USS Tortuga (LSD 46) and deployed to the Adriatic in support of Operation Joint Endeavor, a peacekeeping effort in the former Republic of Yugoslavia. Sixty days after returning from the Mediterranean deployment, Tortuga departed on a West African training cruise, where the ship’s Sailors, with embarked Marines and U.S. Coast Guard detachment, operated with the naval services of seven African nations. She took command of USS Rushmore (LSD 47) March 12, 1999, becoming the first African American woman to command a ship in the U.S. Navy. Howard was the commander of Amphibious Squadron Seven from May 2004 to September 2005. Deploying with Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 5, operations included tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia and maritime security operations in the North Arabian Gulf.

She commanded Expeditionary Strike Group Two from April 2009 to July 2010.

In 2009, she deployed to CENTCOM theater, where she commanded Task Force 151, Multinational Counter-piracy effort, and Task Force 51, Expeditionary Forces. Howard assumed command of Expeditionary Strike Group 2 and Combined Task Force 151 (CTF 151) aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer in April 2009. Boxer was the flagship for CTF 151, a multinational task force established to conduct counter-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean.

She played a key role in the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, whose kidnapping by Somali pirates became a major motion picture film.

In 2010, she was the Maritime Task Force commander for BALTOPS, under 6th Fleet.

Her shore assignments include: J-3, Global Operations, Readiness and executive assistant to the Joint Staff director of Operations; deputy director N3 on the OPNAV staff; deputy director, Expeditionary Warfare Division, OPNAV staff; senior military assistant to the secretary of the Navy; Chief of Staff to the director for Strategic Plans and Policy, J-5, Joint Staff, deputy commander, US Fleet Forces Command, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Operations, Plans & Strategy (N3/N5), and the 38th Vice Chief of Naval Operations.

Dotson’s Other Note: I believe that all of these candidates believe that veterans should have their needs prioritized before bureaucrats and unions. Veterans need a strong leader and these candidates have the potential to change the destiny of the Veterans Administration. Who would you nominate? Your thoughts regarding this or any articles appearing in The Island Moon are greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading and commenting on Senior Moments.

I can be reached at: dlewis1@stx.rr.com and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 Cell: 530-748-8475.

Please Note: The next Veterans Roundtable Meeting will be Tuesday, January 10, 2017, 9-11 AM, 3209 S. Staples. All Veterans, their families and anyone interested in Veterans affairs, are invited. Coffee & doughnuts are provided. Hope to see you there.

Hang in there/Have fun!

1) Cheat. Populate your list with easy resolutions to offset the difficult ones. I like about a 75/25 ratio (with 75 being the easy ones). Think about it – if one of your New Year’s resolutions is, “I will take a kamikaze shot” you can whip that one out at 12:01 a.m.

New Year’s Day. 1 down. Want things that will actually improve your life…okay, fine….but make most of them easy. Instead of resolving to say “save $10,000” when you only make $15,000/year how about resolving to “find all the change in the couch and put it in a jar which

won’t be spent until 2018 even on chicken McNuggets.” You won’t save much, but you’ll have a both a jar full of pennies and a cleaner couch and maybe less of a McNugget gut– real progress for some of us.

2) NO ROMANCE RESOLUTIONS. The basic rule of thumb here is not to resolve things you can’t control. If you can agree that perhaps it would be foolish to pin your success or failure for the year on whether or not you were able to control the orbits of comets with your magic, then you essentially have to agree that you can’t control whether or not you’re going to find the person for you this year. If you want a relationship, you can resolve to make yourself more available, but if you decide that hell or high water you’re getting some poor sucker to move in with you, the probability is that you’re just going to wind up settling for someone who isn’t quite right. Face it, those are stinky socks that you don’t want to be picking up.

3) Remember the problem of process. One of the most frustrating things for me in this life is that everything is such a stupid process.

You have to lay foundations before you can build houses, and the better the foundation, the sturdier the house. When we think it would be cool to learn a new skill (cough *how to play banjo/use tape), we envision the result (annoying an entire bar by yodeling exclusively Neutral Milk Hotel songs while accompanying myself on a banjo/being able to successfully tape anything together without taping self to thing), but we tend to forget about the hours and hours of practice that is required to become even marginally banjo competent, and we also tend to forget our general lack of coordination and tendencies toward both dyslexia and distraction.

It is possible for me to learn to play banjo, in the same way that it is strictly possible that a honey badger is right now hatching a complicated, but technically accurate, plan to launch himself into space and land on the moon. Possible and probable, however, are entirely different sets of odds. Moral: remember the work when you’re resolving to get to the result.

4) When in doubt: tacos. Seriously. It is always wise to build emergency tacos into the original plan. That way, you get tacos. I really hope you understand…because tacos.

5) Keep it vague. Don’t assign numeric values to anything. “I want to lose some weight” or “I will exercise more” is much easier to achieve than “I want to lose 20lbs,” or “I will exercise five days a week.” That way, when it’s the end of 2017, the super fancy scale you purchased in January will come in handy. It will be able to tell you all about that .001 of a pound you lost – which means, by the way, that YOU WIN RESOLUTIONS. Happy New Year one and all. I hope 2017 is a kinder year than the tire fire that was 2016. Be safe. Find your happiness. And don’t call me if you need an adult. I’m woefully unqualified.

My New Year's Eve plans (metaphorically) -- I'm the cat.

Padre Island Real Estate Ticker December 1- December 15

By Cindy Molnar

15657 Cruiser

Coldwell Banker Island Realtors

14334 Cruiser #105

Waterfront Homes Sold 13522 Bullion 13937 Man O War 15813 Almeria 15833 Queen Johanna 15833 El Soccorro 13714 Three Fathoms Bank

Average Sales Price $531,300 80 Waterfront Homes Listed From $250,000-$3,500,000 Interior Lot Homes Sold 15506 Finistere 15914 Cobo Blanco 15413 Finistere 13738 Eaglesnest Bay Average Sales Price $255,254 88 Interior Lot Homes Listed From $199,000-$434,900

Waterfront Condomiums/Townhomes Sold 14873 Granada #9 15414 Salt Cay #4D

14810 Windward #619

Average Selling Price $224,500 113 Waterfront Townhomes/ Condominium/Duplex’s Listed From $68,500-$529,000 Interior Lot Homes/Condominiums and Duplexes 14721 Whitecap #146 117 Interior Lot Townhomes/ Condominiums/Duplex’s Listed From $87,000-$389,900 Waterfront Lots 15306 Bowsprit

46 Waterfront Lots Listed From $139,000-$6,000,000 Interior Lots Sold 72 Interior Lot Listed From $39,900$150,000 Commercial Lots 15 Commercial Lots Listed From $49,900-$4,557,465

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BBB’s Top 10 Scams of 2016

By Kelly Trevino Regional Director, Corpus Christi Better Business Bureau

It’s a new year, but unfortunately scams that happen every day are not.

With the help of consumers and the more than 30,000 scam reports they filed, Better Business Bureau has compiled a list of the top scams of 2016.

BBB Scam Tracker confirmed that the IRS/tax scam continues to be the top scam of the year.

These were the top 10 scams of 2016: 1. IRS/tax scam – This scam topped the list with your local BBB and BBB nationally.

How this scam works: an imposter, someone claiming to be with the IRS, will call you and tell you that you owe money to the government and if you don’t pay now, you will be arrested. Scammers threaten you to send them money via a prepaid debit card or wire transfer, and many people pay out of fear. BBB advises you to hang up – the IRS and other government agencies won’t call you to collect money or ask you to make a payment via a prepaid card or wire transfer.

2. Debt collections scam – You receive a phone call from someone claiming that you have an unpaid debt. You are threatened with garnishments, lawsuits, and even jail time if you don’t pay right now. The scammer will often use Caller ID spoofing and pretend to be a government agency or law enforcement in order to further invoke fear and make you send money.

3. Sweepstakes/prizes/gifts scam – With this scam, you receive a phone call, email or letter claiming that you’ve won a prize in a sweepstakes, perhaps that you’ve never entered. In order to receive the prize, you’re instructed to send a fee to cover expenses associated with processing, insurance or delivery. However, this prize is not real. If you’ve really won, you should never have to pay money to claim a prize.

4. Online purchase scam – This scam occurs when consumers pay for an item they never receive. While many online shopping sites are legitimate, there are scammers that set up fraudulent sites in order to steal personal or financial information, or your money.

Do your research and make sure you’re shopping on a legitimate, secure site or from a reputable seller.

5. Employment scam – Scammers may say they have a job opening or can guarantee job placement if you first pay a fee to cover the cost it takes to place you in a job. However, after you pay, the job doesn’t materialize.

If a potential employer asks you to pay the company to cover the costs of testing, training or background checks, consider it a red flag.

6. Government grant scam – This scam

comes in the form of a phone call, email or letter informing you qualify for a government grant. In order to receive the grant you must first send a processing or delivery fee, usually by wire transfer or a prepaid debit card.

BBB advises you to never send money by wire transfer or a prepaid card to someone you don’t know or haven’t met in person.

It’s almost impossible to trace this type of payment once it’s gone.

7. Tech support scam – You get a call or a pop-up on your computer claiming to be from Microsoft (or Norton, or Apple) about a problem on your computer. They say if you give “tech support” access to your hard drive, they can fix it. Instead, they install malware on your computer and start stealing your personal information.

8. Advance fee loan scam – An advance fee loan may seem like an easy way to get cash fast, but may end up being a burden because of high interest rates and unaffordable payment terms. Advance fee lenders charge an upfront fee and will “guarantee” you a loan despite your credit history, and chances are, you won’t get your money back. Also, real lenders, like banks or credit unions, will check your credit history – even if your credit history is good. A lender who isn’t interested in your credit history is an immediate red flag.

9. Fake check or money order scam – This scam can happen any time someone is paying you for goods or services, even when you are selling something online. You receive a check in the mail that is larger than the amount owed and you are asked to deposit the check and wire the difference. However, the check ends up being a fake and when it bounces, you are the one out of the money.

10. Phishing scam – Phishing is an attempt to acquire personal information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card numbers by claiming to be a trustworthy person or business. You may receive an email telling you that you’ve won a contest or that a business needs to verify your personal information.

However, links in the email can take you to a site that downloads malware on your computer to search for your sensitive data. BBB advises you to never open emails or click on links from sources you don’t know. Keep in mind that legitimate businesses won’t ask you to confirm your personal information through email.

Kelly Trevino is the regional director for the Corpus Christi/Victoria area of Better Business Bureau serving Central, Coastal, Southwest Texas and the Permian Basin.

Kelly is available for media interviews and speaking engagements. You can reach her by phone: (361) 945-7352 or email: ktrevino@ corpuschristi.bbb.org.

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Punch In the New Year

By Chef Vita Jarrin As we roll into 2017, it’s as equally important to serve memorable cocktails as it is food. Anyone can pop open a bottle of beer or wine. However if you want to make your party a little extra special and well thought out, I am suggesting that you set up stations.

When hosting a party, especially a New Year’s Ever party, the event typically starts later in the evening, in order to bring in the New Year. I find that it’s important to have stations set up with heavy appetizers so that everyone eats while drinking. Ensuring your guests have a full stomach, allows you a piece of mind, knowing that they have access to food and that you’re providing a satisfying meal along with holiday beverages at your event.

When setting up your home for the party, I find it helpful to set up a cocktail station as well.

This allows the host or hosts the opportunity to enjoy the party and mingle with the guests. It also helps with pacing the balance of alcoholic intake. You can place bottles out for self-serve according to number of guests throughout the evening ensuring your guests don’t lose track of intake and everyone still has a great time, but will get home safely.

Another great centerpiece to have at your cocktail station is a punch bowl filled with fresh fruits and spirits. Not everyone likes wine, heavy liquor or beer. Therefore, a punch bowl filled with fruity bubbly, is a great middle ground for guests to enjoy a refreshing beverage.

It also acts as a beautiful holiday centerpiece on the table, for your guests to enjoy!

Last but not least… you should have a dessert and coffee bar. Hard to picture guests eating sweets while drinking. However, the point of this bar is to introduce the coffee to your guests as a little wake me up, before they set off to go home. Adding an espresso shot, gelato / ice cream, a dollop of whipped cream, is sure to entice your guests to have one before they hit the road. I’ll gladly include a quick recipe for this too.

Hope you find these tips fun as well as helpful… Have an amazing Happy and Safe New Year and as always, thank for reading my articles and trying my dishes. Words can’t describe how happy that makes me. Happy New Year!!! See you in 2017 with new tips and

tricks and new foods to try!!!

Ingredients: 3 C Pomegranate Seeds (if using whole pomegranates remove & soak seeds to remove skin) 3 C Water Punch Recipe 3 C Pomegranate Juice 2 C Pineapple Juice ½ C Triple Sec or Cointreau or Grand Marnier 2 Bottles of Prosecco Or Moscato (less sweet use Champagne) 2 Limes Sliced 2 Oranges Sliced 2 Lemons Sliced 1 Can Pineapple Rings (Include Juice)

Directions: The night before place the Pomegranate Seeds in a bowl and add 3 C of water and freeze it.

This ice round will float in the center of the punch bowl and keep the punch cold, without diluting it. Cut up slices of fruit and add them along with the pineapple into the bowl.

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College Football Play-Offs Semi-Finals Special to the Island Moon

By Dotson Lewis

Dotson’s Note: It's bowl season in college football and all eyes will be on the College Football Playoff semifinal games. In the Peach Bowl, No. 1 Alabama faces No. 4 Washington in Atlanta. The Crimson Tide is aiming for their fifth title in eight years under Nick Saban.

Washington's last national championship came at the end of the 1991 season. The Fiesta Bowl features No. 2 Ohio State and No 3 Clemson.

The winners will earn the right to play in the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship game which will be played Monday, January 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.

Both teams have been strong on defense, too.

Ohio State is fifth in the country, allowing opponents just 282 yards per game to go with just 14.2 points per game (third in FBS). Clemson finished ninth in the FBS in yards allowed (314 per game) and 12th in points allowed per game (18.4).

Washington vs. Alabama

Curtis Samuel -- H-back - Curtis Samuel is a versatile weapon for the Buckeyes' offense, leading all receivers with 65 catches for 822 yards and seven touchdowns, adding 91 carries

2 PM, December 31, 2016 TV: ESPN

Ohio State Key Players J.T. Barrett – QB- Barrett threw for 2,428 yards, 24 touchdowns and just five interceptions in 2016, rushing for an additional 847 yards and nine scores.

Are You Kidding Me?

By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon Editor’s note: This is the second part of a series on football player Art Donovan.

At thirty-two years of age, Art met his wife for life in 1955, and her name was Dottie. They married on February 4, 1956. They had two children in the same year and I’m not talking about twins. Debbie was born in January of 1957 and Chris was born in December of the same year. Art and Dottie would later have three more kids, Arty III, Mary, and Kelly.

1958, and the Baltimore Colts were at Yankee Stadium playing the New York Giants for all the marbles, in the world of pro football. Another 64,185 fans were in attendance and an estimated 45 million watched on TV. In fact, it was the first televised NFL Championship game. It is still the only NFL Championship game to be decided by “sudden death” overtime (the team that scores first in overtime wins). Baltimore outplayed the Giants

Alabama Key Stats Opponents average just 13.4 points, making the Tide toughest to score on in the nation.

Excluding the Mississippi, game (43 points inflated by five Alabama turnovers) and the opponent scoring average drops to 11.0.

Alabama- Key Players Jalen Hurts, QB- Hurts is the best dual-threat QB Washington will face all season and if he doesn't turn over the ball could be the MVP of this contest in runaway fashion.

J.T. Barrett for 704 yards and eight touchdowns.

Tyquan Lewis - DE, -Tyquan Lewis was a wrecking ball for Ohio State's defense this season, leading the team with 7.5 sacks, 10.0 tackles for loss, five quarterback hits and three forced fumbles. He was the Big Ten Defensive Lineman of the Year this year, and is a huge part of Ohio State's success.

Clemson Key Players Deshaun Watson - QB,- Deshaun Watson, Mike Williams and Wayne Gallman form an imposing trio for a Clemson offense that put up 500 yards and 40 points per game this year.

Watson threw for 3,914 yards, 37 touchdowns and 15 interceptions, running for 529 yards and another six touchdowns.

Jalen Hurts Jonathan Allen, DT - Allen is the best of a terrific front seven for Alabama, perhaps ending up the No. 1 overall pick in April's NFL Draft.

He requires constant double-teams, allowing inside 'backer Reuben Foster to gobble up tackles and occasionally blitz.

Mike Williams - WR, - Mike Williams hauled in 84 passes this season for 1,171 yards and 10 touchdowns, Wayne Gallman - RB, - Wayne Gallman rushed for 1,002 yards and 15 touchdowns. It's a potent offensive attack that will strain Ohio State's

O.J. Howard, TE -Howard may be an X-Factor for Alabama on the offensive side of the ball.

Washington will be without linebacker Azeem Victor due to injury, leaving freshman D.J. Beavers in some situations where his three games of experience create coverage mistakes.

Washington-Key Players

defense.

Who do you think will win the Fiesta Bowl, Ohio State or Clemson?

The Championship Trophy

Levon Coleman, RB -- Coleman isn't the designated starter at running back for the Dawgs, but on occasional Myles Gaskin is bottled up and Coleman is among the best 'No. 2' backs in the country. He's also a solid receiver and the bigger of the two main ball carriers and if the Huskies plan to get anything versus Alabama's run defense, the combo of size and speed may be their best shot.

Coleman Shelton, C -- Shelton, and one of the two starting guards, will be responsible for trying to contain Allen. Shelton also is responsible for making the line calls and helping Browning with any audibles at the line of scrimmage. He cannot make mistakes in this game or one of the 'Bama's half-dozen future first-round picks on defense will take advantage.

Who Do You Think Will Win The Peach Bowl, Alabama or Washington?

Ohio State vs. Clemson 6 PM-December 31, 2016 TV-ESPN Key Stats Ohio State averages 480 yards (21st-best in FBS) and 42.7 points (ninth-best in FBS) per game. Clemson averages 506 yards (13th-best in FBS) and 40.2 points (15th-best in FBS) per game. The Tigers' specialty is the passing game (332.6 yards per game) while the Buckeyes are better at running the ball (258.3 yards per game).

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A different era Until 1956, a player was not considered down until his forward movement had been stopped.

A ball carrier could get knocked down, then get up and keep running. There were cases where ball carriers actually crawled on their knees to the goal line. There was some incredible football played before that time, and running backs dished out as much pain as they took.

Halfbacks like Marion Motley and Jim Brown would explode into tacklers scattering them like bowling pins. Now, if the ball carrier’s knee touched the ground while being touched by an opposing player, he was considered down by contact. This new rule changed the game, took out some of the violence, and put pressure on the refs to blow the whistle more quickly.

Greatest game ever played

Jake Browning, QB -Browning is the most important player in this game for the Huskies and his play may dictate more than any other whether or not Washington has a shot to upset the Crimson Tide. When he's been off his game the Huskies have had to lean heavily on their running game. That works just fine in the Pac12. It will not versus Alabama. Browning has to play well or this will turn into a route in a hurry.

If the sophomore can get the ball to John Ross and Dante Pettis early and often, this will be a fun game.

Jake Browning

In the early days of pro football, like hockey, every team had an enforcer, and it was usually the middle linebacker. Art always claimed the Colts’ Bill Pellington was a tougher linebacker than the Giants’ Sam Huff or the Eagles’ Chuck Bednarik. He looked like an extra in a Ben Hur movie. Pellington’s middle name should have been “mean.” He hit people so hard they looked like a helicopter going down. At 250 pounds, Pellington enjoyed chaos and disorder. Bill’s job was to break legs, collapse lungs, and then stop the run. He just leveled running backs and hit quarterbacks so hard they swallowed their tongues. “Pellington was the ‘King of Pain,’” said Art, “a tackling machine.” He was the kind of guy you would draft out of prison and once played with a broken arm. Guys were a lot tougher in those days. Joe Schmidt of the Lions, Dick Butkus of the Bears, and Packers’ Ray Nitschke, were considered the Clark Kents of the league, mild-mannered until game time.

Pellington could play with them all.

The 26.5-inch-tall (67 cm), 35-pound (16 kg) trophy is oblong-shaped like a football at the base, tapering up to a flattened full-size football at the top. It is made of 24-karat gold, bronze and stainless steel, with the bulk of the trophy gold-colored and the football at the top a gray metallic color. The football's four laces represent the four playoff teams. The trophy is separate from its 12-inch-tall bronze base, so it can be hoisted. The base is finished in black patina and weighs 30 pounds (14 kg). Dr Pepper sponsors the trophy, paying an estimated $35 million for the sponsorship rights through 2020.

The trophy was unveiled on July 14, 2014.

Dotson’s Other Note: I thought you Moon Monkeys might like to have a run-down of the teams in the college semi-finals. Hopefully I have given you some insight on the teams so your enjoyment of the game will be enhanced. In summary: In the 2016 Fiesta Bowl two prolific offenses meet two strong defenses. Clemson has the ability to stretch the field a bit more behind the arm of Deshaun Watson, but Ohio State's more-balanced attack has the ability to score quickly, too. The 2016 Fiesta Bowl is likely to be decided by the better defense. In the 2016 Peach Bowl Chris Petersen is arguably just behind Nick Saban and Urban Meyer in the pecking order of best head coaches in the country. As some of you may recall, Chris Petersen was the head coach of Boise State in their upset victory over Oklahoma on two well executed trick plays at the 2007 Fiesta Bowl 43-42 win. His Huskies will be prepared for this one and ready to play its best. Most of the ‘experts’ expect the Tide break out in the second half and roll closer to another national title with a win. Of course, as most of you know, my team (the Zebras), have never lost a game. Your comments, suggestions, questions and concerns regarding Sports Talk articles are greatly appreciated, please call the Benchwarmers at 361-560-5397 weekdays, Mondays thru Fridays, 5-7 PM, or contact me. Phone: 361-949-7681 Cell: 530-748-8475 Email: dlewis1@stx.rr.com Have fun -30-

By 1957, the Colts knew they were legitimate contenders for the NFL Championship. Art was referred to as one of the Colts’ “Magnificent Seven,” led by Johnny Unitas, Lenny Moore, Raymond Berry, Jim Parker, Gino Marchetti and Coach Weeb Ewbank. Unitas did not get off to a very good start. George Shaw was injured against the Bears in Chicago, and Unitas entered the game as quarterback. His first regular season pass went for a touchdown, for Chicago. J.C. Caroline of the Bears intercepted and took it back for a touchdown. Unitas then proceeded to fumble the handoff twice, once to Ameche and once to L.G. Dupree. The Bears recovered both fumbles and took them in for a score. The Colts lost 58-27.

In the late fifties, the Baltimore Colts played well, won games, and dominated the opposition.

They won the NFL Championships in 1958 and again in 1959. The 1958 Championship game has been billed “The Greatest Game Ever Played.” The date was December 28,

in every offensive category, but still had to come from behind to tie the game, in regulation.

Baltimore won 23-17 on a one-yard touchdown plunge by “The Horse,” Alan Ameche.

Seventeen players, coaches and administrators who participated in that game, would end up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

A rematch of the same two teams occurred in 1959, but this time it was played in Baltimore at Memorial Stadium. Again the Colts dominated and won, 31-16. In 1960, the Colts were picked to win the championship again, but injuries sank their season; and the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Green Bay Packers for the title.

The Five D’s

Art purchased the Valley Country Club, ten miles from downtown Baltimore, with his wife’s father, Bud Schaech. It was a rough “go” at first, but would turn into a little gold mine for the Donovan’s. “I built this business on the principle of the Five D’s: drink, dinner, drink, dance, and drink,” said Art. “Beer has been a big part of my life,” said Donovan. I’ve been drinking it since I was six. My dad used to let me go with him to a Speakeasy in the Bronx.”

It also helped to have teammates who all drank like fish.

Tired, worn-out, with an injured knee, Donovan reported to the Colts’ training camp in 1962.

It was not to be. Before the season could get started, he and the Colts decided he had played long enough. On August 30, 1962, at the age of 33, Donovan announced his retirement.

“You will do some scouting for us,” said Weeb Ewbanks. “I thought my life had ended,” said Art. “And I never did hear another word about a scouting job.” Old #70 made his final appearance on September 16, 1962, on opening day against the Rams at Baltimore Memorial Stadium. Folks turned out in record numbers as 54,796 fans cheered while the Colts retired his jersey. He received a brand new Cadillac, with telegrams and other gifts from many friends.

After it was over, he cried like a baby. “The worst thing that ever happened to me was when my mother died. The second worst thing was when I laid my head on my pillow the night after I retired, knowing that I would never play football again,” whispered Art.

Next week: Life after football

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 purvis.andy@mygrande.net. Also listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc.com 1230 AM, 96.1 FM and 103.3 FM. The home of the Houston Astros.

Local Golf Pro Gains PGA Certification The PGA of America announced that 24 PGA Professionals have completed the requirements to achieve advanced certification through the PGA Certified Professional Program 2.0 (CPP 2.0), a valuable achievement that is aimed at further enhancing the skillset of PGA Professionals and advancing career opportunities.

These four distinct certification programs encompass seven defined Career Paths (Golf Operations, Retail, General Management, Executive Management, Ownership and

Among the group is Douglas DeSive, from the Corpus Christi Country Club, Southern Texas PGA Section (Golf Operations).

Serving as the PGA’s enhanced, all-digital training and education curriculum, PGA CPP 2.0 is a state-of-theart platform that ensures that PGA members have the skills, competencies and training demanded by employers and customers throughout the golf industry.

Since the PGA Certified Professional Program’s original inception in 2004, a total of 1,227 PGA Professionals have earned a combined 1,964 certifications in their desired career paths.

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