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Issue 673

Island Moon

The voice of The Island since 1996

March 9, 2017

Around The Island

By Dale Rankin They arrive in fast cars and clunkers, sport backward caps and dark glasses. They are an inked up and amped up group looking for fun and trying to avoid the slammer. Some will even succeed at that last one. Even as you read this somewhere, in a dorm room or a frat house somewhere in America someone is uttering the words that signal the start of the tourist season on our little sandbar, “Let’s go to The Coast for Spring Break!” They will pool their money for gas and hop in the car most likely to look cool on the beach and here they come! Rolling in over the JFK. It’s time for Spring Break 2017 everybody. Here we go! Long-time Islanders know the drill; time your visits to Stripes for early morning, hit the Flour Bluff H.E.B. on Thursday, don’t answer calls from relatives unless you want them staying at your house for a week, if you go to the beach go early and stake out a spot, forget about buying ice because the ice trucks can’t get to The Island fast enough to keep up with demand, and for goodness sake avoid the JFK Causeway between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. because if you go OTB in the morning you won’t get back until late afternoon. Forget about driving up The Island to Port A on the weekends as the traffic usually backs up for miles in both directions on State Highway 361 – otherwise known as the Landing Strip. This year will be particularly treacherous as much of that stretch of highway is a work zone. Hotdogs and twelve-packs of Keystone Light will be hard to come by as cash-strapped breakers stock up on their way to the beach. The good news is that local businesses will be busy. Winter Texans will have to make way for two weeks of kids looking for fun in the sun. Some breakers will head out mid-week nursing new lobster tans only to be replaced by their pale cousins looking to achieve their own lobster tanness. It is the rites of spring hatched anew each year. Beware of the Annual Whitecap Speed Trap which sets up on Thursday afternoon as the influx of police officers arrive before the Spring Breakers. If recent history is an indicator this year they might add some officers at the base of the JFK on the Island side, near the new traffic light. Things on the residential side of SPID will calm down once the breakers arrive and pack the beaches. In the meantime watch your speed or you will get hauled down.

Island knuckleheads The movable feast of destruction made up of a few knuckleheads continues to make its way around our community hitting several cars along the seawall this week as well as some homes on the north side of The Island. This bunch started out just knocking over signs and port-o-cans and has now graduated to breaking and entering. Lock your cars, and don’t leave your garage doors up unless you want some of the junk in there to disappear.

Whoop it up The Island Foundation’s Annual Gala Fundraiser “Whoop it Up” will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 1 at the Veranda at Schlitterbahn. This is the main fundraiser for the Island’s charter school which does not get help from state funding for buildings. The event includes live music, food, and live auctions. For details on where to get tickets see the ad in this issue. It is a fun way to support the Island schools. Spring Break 2017 is upon us so we will see you on the other side or at the Ski Basin whichever comes first. Good luck everybody and say hello if you see us Around The Island.

Fishing A11

Live Music A18

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Spring Has Broken

Island by the numbers

Padre Isles Property Owners Association 32 miles of bulkheads on The

Island

168,960 feet of bulkheads that PIPOA is responsible for maintaining $600 per foot is the approximate cost to replace a bulkhead

Preparations are going on all over The Island in anticipation of Spring Break 2017 which begins this weekend. Crews worked late to finish the new Beach Access Road 3A at the end of Windward Drive and officials at Mustang Island State Park removed some of the wooden bollards installed two weeks ago at Newport Pass road to allow for two lanes of southbound traffic from Beach Access Road 3 to the north all the way south to Zahn Road on the south. High Spring tides have pushed water to the dune line all along local beaches in recent days and are expected to continue, reducing the available space on beaches for the anticipated crowds.

Annual Padre Isles Homeowners Association Members Meeting Saturday 10 a.m., Saturday, March 11 Seashore Learning Center Gym

By Dale Rankin One of the most contentious years in the history of the Padre Isles Property Owners Association will come to an end on Saturday as the organization’s Board of Directors and it members come together to review the year just passed, outline plans for the next year, and elect two new members to the seven-member board. The meeting comes on the heels of a move Sunday when, in a specially called meeting the Board of Directors accepted the resignation

of former board member Stan Hulse, then changed board policy to allow him to run in the election to regain his seat on the board. Two seats are up and one will be filled by a POA member currently not on the board due to the decision of current board member Cheri Sperling not to seek re-election. The meeting is at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 11, at Seashore Learning Center Gymnasium. A ballot and voting instructions are included in this issue.

POA cont. A7

Packery Channel: More Money Monitoring than Dredging

ISAC members push for annual savings By Dale Rankin Each year Island taxpayers pay more money to monitor the water depth and flow of Packery Channel than they do on actually dredging the channel. When Packery Channel was approved by voters in 2000 the Island’s Tax Re-Investment Zone #2 was set up to capture property tax on new construction inside the zone, which includes most of the commercial and retail space up and down SPID. So far that fund has raised more than $30 million from which funds are set aside each year to pay for studying and dredging

A little Island history By Dale Rankin If you have ever taken the jetty boat in Port Aransas across the channel to St. Joseph’s Island you know it is a stretch of beach untouched by development. What you may not know is why. The island is 21 miles long and five miles wide at its north end where it is separated from Matagorda Island by Cedar Bayou. It is also said to be the largest privately-owned barrier island in the United States. Some scholars believe it is the island which Cabeza de Vaca described in his writings and considered by some of them as his landing place on the Texas Coast in 1528. It has also been identified as the island called Snake Island by Diego Ortiz Parrilla who explored the Gulf Coast area in 1766.

the channel. Since the beginning of the project the monitoring has been done by the Conrad Blucher Institute at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. On Tuesday officials from the institute appeared before the TRZ Board of Directors, which consists of the Corpus Christi City Council as well as the other taxing entities which participate in the zone. At issue was a four-year monitoring contract at a cost of $2 million, Blucher officials said they actually asked for only $333,631 but somewhere in the city’s planning process the amount was

Island Political Action Committee Sets Schedule for Mayor’s Election Endorsment

$101,376,000 is the cost today to replace all bulkheads in event of total disaster. $9,636,803 was in the bulkhead replacement self-insurance fund as of August, 2016 8915 total residential/ commercial lots platted when Island was developed in 1965 5391 total residential/commercial lots currently developed 65 homes currently under construction on dry lots on The Island 15 homes currently under construction on waterfront lots 16 Plans for news homes submitted since January 1, 150 separate projects underway

Budget Operating

Total expenses

The Island United Political Action Committee, a group comprised of the more than 7000 registered voters on Padre and Mustang Islands inside the Corpus Christi City Limits, has set it's endorsement schedule for the upcoming May 6 Special Election to elect a Mayor of Corpus Christi. The seat became vacant when former Mayor Dan McQueen resigned after only a few weeks in office.

2006 $287,601 $620,826

IUPAC announced this week that it will hold its candidate endorsement night on Monday, April 10, at the Holiday Inn on The Island. All registered voters on The Island are encouraged to attend each of the current seven announced candidates for the office has been invited to speak after which a vote will be taken to determine the candidate for the IUPAC backing. Each registered voter can cast a ballot, the board members will then tally the vote and announce the winners. It is important to note that the endorsements are done by a vote of the membership, not the board. Early voting for the May 6 election runs from April 24-May 2. We will have more information, including the time of the April 10 meeting in the coming issues.

Channel cont. A7

2007 $238,612 $717,388 2008 $185,295 $1,004,218 2009 $243,958 $721,442 2010 $226,852 $948,456 2011$210,208 $1,020,705 2012 $307,053

$1,093,780

2013 $279,598

$1,551,233

2014 $331,010

$1,210,343

2015 $357,921

$1,350,519

Operating expenses in 2006 were 46% of the budget - last year that number was 26%

Who's Coming to Dinner Spring Break Mar.11- Mar. 18 Harvard University, Colorado State, Ohio State, U. of Oklahoma, U. of Tulsa,Oklahoma State, Rice, Sam Houston State, Southern Methodist,Texas A&M, Texas Tech, U. of Texas, North Texas, U. of Arkansas, U. of Colorado, Slippery Rock, U. of Wisconsin

St. Joseph’s Island The Handbook of Texas says the French had landed parties on the island in 1712 and 1718, and José de Escandón explored St. Joseph, Padre, Mustang, and Matagorda islands in 1766. The combined islands of St. Joseph and Matagorda were also known as Culebra. The first United States flag to be raised in Texas is said to have been raised on St. Joseph Island by United States troops on July 26, 1845 and forts were erected at various times on the south end of the island. The shallow pass between St. Joseph’s and Mustang Island in the days before dredging caused many shipwrecks and in 1834 two vessels bringing Irish colonists to the Power and Hewetson Colony on the mainland went aground on the island. While waiting for transport to the mainland 250 of the colonists died in a cholera epidemic.

Soon after the Texas Revolution several families of cattlemen and seafarers established homes on St. Joseph’s

the Union post on St. Joseph’s and secured it for the remainder of the war which was then used to store captured Confederate cotton.

In May of 1863 A Confederate Company under the command of Captain Edwin E. Hobby attacked

History cont. on A7

March 9, 2017

Island Moon

Island Car Shows

Webelos Arrow of Light Ceremony

Padre Island Antique Car Club By Brent Rourk Gleaming, brilliantly colored metal dressing classic automobiles, hot rods, and vintage drivers lined up in the parking lot in front of The Blacksheep and The Barrell tempting passersby to stop and enjoy a view into yesterday. So it was las Saturday and will be again on March 25th. The Padre Island Antique Car Club (PIACC) is comprised of a few dozen folks who love antique cars, parades, and showing cars to the public. To join you need to have a car at least 25 years old, but there is no cost to stop by one of the shows and enjoy the cars and chatting with the owners. Some of the sparkling, clean rides are reminiscent of cars that we drove, rode in, or saw in movies like American Graffiti , The Wild Ride, or Hot Rod. Others take the viewer back to the 20s and 30s when Model Ts and their successors became popular. Then there are the clean looking older stock cars that we remember as kids.

March 4, 2017 Arrow of Light Ceremony for Webelos 2 crossing over from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts! Bryan Haney is the Cub Scout leader and will be transferring as the Boy Scout Master next year, as well. Jared Van Gorder, Romeo Galindo, Garrett Pittman, Ed Mlady, Devin Lamigo crossed over during the Arrow of Light Ceremony. Gavin Prisby will be crossing over within the next two weeks and Trenton Denver received awards. Call Stephanie Van Gorder for details of the event. 361-946-5630.

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The next show will be in the Blacksheep parking lot on March 25th from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM. Check the cars out and have a beverage under the covered eating area in the parking lot. If you would like to join or have questions about PIACC, then contact Adra at piaccarclub@aol. com.

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The Island Gardeners awarded yard of the month to Michael St Angelo who resides at 15726 Gypsy St. This is a unique and practical landscape... almost all vegetables. At first glance his walkway appears to be lined with beautiful ferns but on closer inspection these are artichokes. There is a row of knockout roses of various colors followed by beets, ornamental okra, onions, Swiss chard and broccoli. Pineapple plants decorate the base of each arched window. Michael's backyard would make any farmer proud with every inch of space planted with carrots, beets the size of baseballs, onions, fennel, romaine lettuce, tomatoes and the perimeter fence is used for pole green beans. Michael could hang a shingle out front and sell fresh produce to Island residents but instead there's a yard of the month sign and rightly so! This guy will never go hungry. Suggestions for yard of the month may be directed to Dianne Gimpel of The Island Gardeners at: 361-563-0951

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March 9, 2017

Island Moon

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Letters to the Editor

Pete Alsop Island Delivery

Age Tax Unfair

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A bill has been introduced in Congress to change the law and allow health insurance companies to charge older people premiums that are five times more than they charge younger people, instead of the current limit of three times as much.

Jan Park Rankin Classifieds Arlene Ritley Production Manager Abigail Bair Contributing Writers Joey Farah Andy Purvis Christiansen Jay Gardner Todd Hunter Dotson Lewis Ronnie Narmour Brent Rourk Photographers Miles Merwin Jeff Dolan Mary Craft Ronnie Narmour Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) Riley P. Dog

Dale Rankin About the Island Moon The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale Rankin, Editor / Publisher. Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000 copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses. News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads, payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office.

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If the five-to-one age rating becomes law, 4.8 million 50 to 64 year old Texas voters will feel the sting of the “age tax,” as many will struggle to pay for the health care they need at a time they need it most. That means they may forego adequate coverage, making them less healthy at age 65 when they qualify for Medicare, a personal tragedy and a senseless cost increase of $6.4 billion to care for older citizens. Members of Congress need to stop talking out of both sides of their mouth and work to reduce health care costs for everyone. Don’t take money from Americans to increase insurance company profits. Instead, save citizens and Medicare money by allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices instead taking all our money to assure outrageous profits for big drug companies. Congress could also allow the safe importation of prescription drugs, so Americans don’t have to pay the highest Rx prices in the world. There are 2.3 million AARP members in Texas. AARP and its members work with elected officials of both parties to find responsible solutions for rising health care costs. If you agree with us, contact your members of Congress and ask them to stand up for health care fairness, not insurance companies.

As a winter Texan, we have been coming down to our winter home on the island for the last eleven years. As I look out from my balcony over the island and the gulf, I can’t help but think of a good use for the pie shaped land between Windward, Leeward and Robla.

Whataburger on Waldron Ethyl Everly Senior Center Fire Station Police Station Stripes on Flour Bluff & SPID

It sure would be nice for Padre to have an Independent League Baseball Club. Corpus has the Hooks and The Moon could have a contest to name our new team. Wouldn’t it be nice to hear the announcer say “Play Ball!” Elton Morse

Water Exchange Bridge Thank you very much for publishing and responding to my inquiry regarding the water exchange canal. I'm familiar with the Packery Channel monitoring that the Conrad Blucher Institute (CBI) has been conducting. I believe most of the data they've collected in the monitoring program is related to bathymetry within Packery Channel and associated areas within the Laguna Madre and Gulf of Mexico. The bathymetric data allow for analyses to adequately ensure and plan dredge planning, beach nourishment, and navigation safety. Another goal of the monitoring program appears to be collection of data to support expansion of coastal modeling tools. I've perused the Packery Channel Monitoring Program website and found they do also monitor water current velocities at the mouth of Packery Channel from the Laguna Madre. The highest velocity recorded today (March 5th) was 1.5 mph. That may not seem like much, but sustained currents like this have not been experienced in the Padre Isles canals. I'm not questioning the positive aspects of having enhanced circulation of water within the canals nor the construction of the actual canal that will run under PR 22. I'm looking for actual data, analyses, or reports associated with the planned canal, not assurances that this subject has been studied. If you can point me to any sources of the evaluations, I'd greatly appreciate it. My concern is that if/when the canal is eventually built, that homeowners along Cutlass and Bounty Avenues and Cruiser Street will experience unexpected strong currents running through the canals adjacent to their homes. My guess is that the current bulkheads and piers were not designed nor built for moving water. Anyone who has piloted a boat up to and through Packery Channel knows that strong currrents are experienced at times. I don't know why the narrower canals leading to the canal connecting to Lake Padre wouldn't also periodically experience some level of stronger currents. It is also likely that these canals will have higher water velocities because of their narrower width. I'm bringing this up as any potential costs incurred by the POA to better protect or repair the bulkheads that may be impacted by the currents will be borne by all of the homeowners in Padre Isles, not by the developer, Paul Shexnailder. Thanks again, Jon Brandt As a home owner on Cutlass canal I have been very concerned with the unknown potentially

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New Advertisers Cancun Mexican Restaurant across from American Bank is under new ownership and is serving breakfast starting at 6 am daily. They are open until 10 pm weekdays and 11 pm on Fridays and Saturdays. They will be serving free chili con queso with an entrée, if you present the ad in this issue. The Annual Island Foundation “Whoop it up” Gala Fundraiser will be held at Schlitterbahn Veranda on Saturday, April 1st at 7 pm. There will be live music, auctions and light appetizers. For tickets and info go to their website IslandFoundation.com.

Business Briefs Aransas Queen Gambling Ship has ceased operations in Aransas Pass and will be relocating to Galveston, Texas soon. Island Italian Restaurant is now serving a cream of crab soup that is so popular they are adding it to the menu. The South Texas Grassroots Band will be playing their last Sunday on March 12th. The Animal Rehabilitation Keep (ARK) is having their annual fundraiser dinner on Saturday, March 11th 6 pm at the Port Aransas Civic Center. The tickets are $40 and can be purchased at their website or call 332-6361. Schlitterbahn Water Resort will be open 10 am – 5 pm March 11 – 19 and will have different events each day including Shriner Circus performers and Texas Sea Life meet and greet creatures. Admission is $26.99 and for children and seniors $19.99. Port A Parks & Rec Men’s Softball League registration will be held until March 31st at their office at 739 W. Avenue A. The entry fee is $250 per team and games will be played on Thursday evenings at Jerry McDonald field. Individual players can call the office at 749-4158 to be assigned to a team. El Constante Condominiums is getting a facelift. The stucco is being removed and replaced with siding that will have each building painted a different pastel color. The wood balconies are being replaced with gray tech wood. Litter Critter will be at the Wastewater Plant at the end of Whitecap on Saturday, March 11th 8 am – 3 pm. Reminder - Spring break crowds should start coming in strong Friday afternoon so you might want to stock up on HEB supplies.

damaging current that will flow day in and day out. Not to mention the danger to swimmers, kayakers, dogs, etc. if they get caught up in swift moving water. Even a 5 mph current will have erosion capability and will make positioning ones boat in a boat lift very challenging and dangerous. I can assure you the very narrow canals were not designed with fast moving water in mind. I hope I am wrong about this but my common sense tells me I am right. Bruce Netek

Padre Isles Property Owners Association, Inc.

Dotson Scores!

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING MARCH 11, 2017

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Stripes @ Beach Access Rd. 1A

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Here’s why: Going to a five-to-one age rating will increase premiums for 50 to 64 year olds by $1,500 to $3,200 per year. For the oldest among that group, that would mean an annual premium of more than $19,000. On the other hand, compared to a five-to-one age rating, a three-to-one age rating raises the premium for a 20 to 29 year old by less than $700, with an annual premium of $4,700. The three-to-one rating spreads risk across all ages in a way that costs younger folks a relatively small amount while saving older people a considerable amount. Premiums aren’t the only health care cost either; older people already spend much more for outof-pocket costs like deductibles and costsharing. In the long run, younger people will benefit from three-to-one, and they’ll be glad that risk and cost was shared fairly.

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Make no mistake, this is an “age tax” that severely penalizes people age 50 to 64 while providing a very small benefit for younger people. An individual’s insurance premium is determined by how much risk is associated with that person. It is because younger people pose less risk than older people that their premiums are lower. The current three to one age rating spreads total risk across all of us in a way that is fair to everyone. Five-to-one isn’t fair.

Mary Craft

Port Aransas

If you build it...

It would be the perfect spot for a developer looking for a long range investment income, instead of a one-time profit by building and selling townhomes, to make a baseball field. It is located on a city bus route and there is another vacant lot, on the other side of Robla, which would make a perfect parking lot.

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Bob Jackson

Dear Dotson,

THIS NOTICE AND BALLOT/PROXY FORM REPLACES THE NOTICE AND FORM SENT EARLIER THIS MONTH THAT WAS MAILED IN ADVANCE OF THE MAXIMUM 60 DAYS ALLOWED. ANY BALLOT/PROXIES SUBMITTED ON THE PRIOR FORM WILL BE ACCEPTED, BUT ONLY ONE VOTE WILL BE TABULATED FOR EACH LOT. The Padre Isles Property Owners Association, Inc.'s Annual Meeting will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 11, 2017, at the Seashore Learning Center Gym, 15801 S Padre Island Dr., Corpus Christi, Texas (Encantada @ Park Rd 22). Property owners will receive the audit, various annual reports on the Association and elect two (2) members to the Board of Directors for 3-year terms. You have the following options for casting your vote for Board of Director candidates and other business: Option 1: If you do not plan to attend or if you are not sure whether something might cause a change in plans, you may vote in advance by completing the Ballot/Proxy. Please fill out and mail the enclosed Ballot/Proxy to arrive at Kirk, Monroe & Klostermann, L.L.P., no later than noon on Friday, March 3rd, 2017. If you attend the meeting in person, you may revoke your proxy and vote in person if you prefer.

I always greatly enjoy your columns in the Moon, but your column on Ernie Pyle was so great that I had to write you a letter of compliment. I shall look forward to more of you excellent work. Thank you, Bill McIntyre Island

Lost Kitty

Option 2: If you do plan to attend, you may vote at the Annual Meeting by turning in the enclosed Ballot/Proxy or obtaining a Ballot at the door and using it. NOTE: Property owners are entitled to one vote per lot.

2017

Padre Isles Property Owners Association, Inc. OFFICIAL BALLOT BY PROXY

2017

I authorize the Board Secretary to record my vote(s) for the following candidate(s): Three-Year Term Nominees – Vote for Up to Two Persons

 Stan Hulse Carter Tate William Kent Kerr David Dare

George Potter Dennis Sprout

Marvin Jones Robert Algeo __________________________________

The number in the BOX above equals the number of lots owned and the corresponding number of votes for this ballot. By signing below, I/we authorize the Board Secretary to cast the vote(s) indicated above.

OPTIONAL GENERAL PROXY If you cannot attend, and if you want to designate a proxy for the meeting as to other matters, you may designate one person to vote on your behalf at the 2017 Annual Meeting. You may write in as your proxy someone you know who is going to attend the Meeting or one of the above candidates, or you may check the box of one of the current members of the Board of Directors listed below:

Write in__________________________ Brent Moore Nancy Tressa Leslie Hess Darrell Scanlan

Stan Hulse Cheri Sperling John “Jack” Sharlow

This Ballot/Proxy, when properly executed, will be voted in the manner directed by the undersigned. If a General Proxy is made, it will be voted at the discretion of the proxy holder as to other matters arising at the annual meeting. If it is not marked, or if marked improperly, it will be counted toward a quorum only. This form must be signed in order to be valid.

Signature

Second Signature (if applicable)

Printed Name

Date:

POA Annual meeting Saturday, March 11 Editor’s note: The annual meeting of the Padre Isles Property Owners Association will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 11, at the Seashore Learning Center

Gym, 15801 S Padre Island Dr., (Encantada @ Park Rd 22). One item of business will be to elect new officers. Property owners can (A) vote early by using the ballot sent in the mail (B) attend the meeting and bring the ballot filled out (C) Obtain a ballot at the meeting, however this is not suggested as it causes delays. The above is a copy of the ballot.

Our cat went missing Between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. This cat is a huge part of my family. We inherited her when my fiancées father passed away June 2014. She is very dear and extremely important to us and we are devastated. We live on this island, she is 15 years old, an inside cat, Siamese and Calico . Beautiful and goes by the name of "ball" she is not wearing her collar; she is scared of new people but might go up to someone if she is scared. Help us find our precious girl ... our home is not a home without her....361-949-1386 Robert or Lisa

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POA Letters to the Editor

Questions...

Election Reform

Yesterday more than 40 home owners attended a meeting with the one topic, eligibility of those seeking a position of the POA Board..

Some residents have proposed the following solutions to real and perceived problems with the POA Board.

It was made clear that NO public comment would be permitted; then "we" were dismissed so the Executive session could take place, however the discussion continued in the parking lot outside the POA office, many concerned citizens, the ones who have paid for that office continued to share the concerns they had.

1. All members of the board should be elected every two years.

Again I was impressed with the talents, knowledge, and skills of the home owners. Numerous questions were asked; there was no clarity available. Some wondered why the term nepotism was so difficult to comprehend, others asked if the salary of the Director was $70,000, if the insurance cost for three employees purchased was $45,000, if the attorney fees are in excess of $20,000, if the board is "gifting" the charter school $100,000, and where in our Charter is all this written. Does the board institute changes with the guidance of the attorney that is paid to represent the board? Some asked who represents the property owners. Is it true that the funds accumulated are in excess of $10 MILLION ? Many questioned the manner in which the bidding process takes place, how POA jobs are posted, where they are posted, and if ALL applicants are considered as well as who decides who is hired, and what they are paid? It is hoped that this letter will be answered in The Island Moon as promised by Brent Moore so that the power of the "written word" will be "heard", that homeowners can "feel" more harmonious about business conducted, and that we, the concerned citizens who own homes here on the Island, can SEE what is going on, that and no more; which for us IS everything. Please help us to hear, feel, and see that our money and faith in our leadership is well managed. Shed some LIGHT for all of us to see; we believe it is "better to light one candle than to curse the darkness"; please bring the light of truth to the above questions that we can proceed to our meeting this Saturday peacefully informed, without doubt and erroneous facts. WE want to vote wisely for the benefit of ALL home and property owners; we need to be informed by you, the members of the POA Board and you, our Director to help us become unified in the good stewardship we each seek. WE have been told our association is the largest in Texas; are more employees needed to help eliminate the confusion that is perceived by the home owners? Numerous homeowners are qualified, trained, certified, and licensed. Please tell us in writing why these qualified certified people, who have volunteered to assist, have not been included so we can all benefit by their expertise and alleviate the doubts that are being expressed. Please answer in The Island Moon. Sincerely, Barbara DeToto

Responses... The agenda order of business was to discuss Stan Hulse. The Board does not have to permit public comment and For this special meeting, it was not allowed and the notice so stated. The Board adjourned the meeting and asked people to leave because they wanted to discuss legal issues with their attorney. As a result of that discussion, consideration of giving money to the Island Foundation is no longer being done and I believe Brent has contacted them about the decision. There will not be a presentation at our annual meeting but we Appreciate the schools and believe they are an asset to our community. As to conflict of interest regarding health insurance coverage– since the employees who wanted health insurance (not me) chose the health insurance on a blind comparison, i.e. they had not any Idea which agent had provided the information, and based on the fact that there is no contract with the agent, I did not at the time consider it a conflict of interest since I was not directing anyone to a specific policy nor were we paying him directly for the insurance coverage, but realize I should have. We have requested a change of agents so there will be no further contact with him. Again, I am not one of the employees who is covered by that insurance. All applicants are considered for positions. The compliance inspectors were interviewed by the Board of Directors and they chose the people who are currently employed. I requested they interview the candidates on the basis that several of the people who submitted applications were friends of mine and I did not want to be viewed as picking a favorite. All applicants to the various committees have been given to the Board member who is responsible for that committee. The Board member recommendations.

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Just after Ms. DeToto moved here, she met with me and advised me that she had experience writing grant applications, but that she needed some books to help her with the process. I provided them to her, but have to date received no work product from her. I am more than willing to work with people who want to volunteer. We have several who volunteer on a regular basis. All of us are human so we are not perfect and sometimes we make mistakes. Every Board member and PIPOA staff member works to make this Island a better place and to serve all of the residents of the Island. From Maybeth Christensen Executive Coordinator POA

March 9, 2017

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2. Five board members should each be elected to represent a fifth of property owners in one geographic area. This would avoid having board members from the same area on Padre Island. 3. Two board members could be elected “at large”. The above recommendations would make the POA Board similar to the Corpus Christ City Council and the US House of Representatives. The problems of having board members from only a small area of the island and not being held responsible for their actions by elections would be solved. Kent Kerr

POA & ISAC The POA has one position on the ISAC board. The POA nominates a POA member to fill that position but any POA member can apply. The City Council makes the final decision but usually takes the POA recommendation. My observation is the ISAC committee is made up of developers and other business owners from the Island who seem to forget to look out for the resident's interest and vote for what's good for business. I have a problem with Stan Hulse being the POA representative to ISAC because while he is supposed to be looking out for the well being of the RESIDENTS of the Island he is the Executive Director of the Business Assn. (a paid position), owns a business and his business does work for the Business Assn. and other Island businesses. How can he possibly put the RESIDENTS interests first? Does anyone else see a conflict of interests??? We have so many retired, highly qualified, highly experienced executives on the Island who have zero business holdings that could represent us. We don't need a POA board member with conflicting interests to represent us. Fellow Islanders also consider that Stan Hulse was not a property owner between last November and January. How can a nonproperty owner be a Vice President and POA board member and the POA representative to the ISAC when he is not a title holding owner on the Island? Are recommendations to the City Council by ISAC valid with a non-owner voting? Fred Edler

$100,000 Giveaway Yes, you read that right. The PIPOA board wants to take the dues you’ve paid, to the tune of $100,000.00, and donate it to the Seashore Charter Schools. Not only is the amount of the donation staggeringly huge, but they are planning on giving away these funds, without our consent. Many of us are already paying $3,000 to $9,000 or more to support local schools in our annual tax bills. That doesn’t mean that the cause isn’t worthy. There are many great causes such as supporting veterans, Boy Scouts, and stray dogs, but that is not the purpose of our dues. We paid in good faith, expecting that our funds would be used as promised to perform our shared maintenance. Homeowners, how do you feel about $100,000 of your dues being redirected and given away while your seawalls still haven’t been repaired? Or imagine how far that money would go, if we were to use it to curb the growing theft problem on the island by hiring off-duty police officers to patrol our streets. Then there is this nagging question: If the board has so much extra money that they can afford to give away $100,000, aren’t we, the homeowners, being over charged? The other issue is that the POA is a non-profit organization. As with all non-profits we have to operate within “a scope of mission.” In other words, the board’s fiduciary responsibilities lie with using our dues to repair bulkheads, maintain common areas, and so on. I’ve worked with other non-profit organizations and have been told many times that giving money to causes outside the scope of our mission may put our status as a non-profit in jeopardy. If homeowners want to contribute to the charter schools or some other cause on a personal level, that is their choice. However, isn’t the redirecting of paid dues to something other than what it was intended for, and doing so without our consent, fundamentally unfair and a failure of fiduciary responsibility? IMPORTANT: Speaking of limiting our right to vote: Our annual meeting is at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 11th. Note that you will have an opportunity to vote for who you want to fill the two vacant seats on the board. If you have already voted and want to change your vote, you may. The problem is that the board plans to cut off all voting at 10:10 a.m. That means that you only have ten minutes to arrive, find a seat, fill out your ballot, and enter your vote. Ten minutes is not enough for a gathering this large. Out of respect for our homeowners who have made the effort to be there, why can’t they be given a more reasonable amount of time to enter their votes? If you want to vote, you may want to arrive well before 9:30 a.m. Marta Sprout

Board Meeting Dear Padre Isles, This Saturday, March 11, 2017 @ 10:00 AM @ Seashore Learning Center Gym, 15801 South Padre Island Drive is The Padre Island Owners Annual Meeting. Please plan on attending and lets see if we

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Hulse Eligibility Dear Mr. Jones: We received your letter at the Board meeting on February 28th, 2017 concerning the status of Board member Stan Hulse and immediately began an investigation. You are correct in your assertion that Stan ceased to be a member of the Padre Isles POA on October 4, 2016, when he deeded the title to his residence to his ex-wife, Shelly. As a result, pursuant to Section 2.02 of the Bylaws, he ceased to be eligible to serve as a director.

It is fair to say, Mr. Hulse is a popular person with the Board. Also, he is involved with Local politics. The 7 candidates that followed the law and were legally eligible are disadvantaged by this waiver. We, the 7 candidates, adhered to the rules, Mr. Hulse did not. Who thinks one of the 7 outside candidates would have gotten a waiver in the same circumstance? Now reread Black’s definition above. You tell me if the above fits the definition. The Board Election on Saturday is all about power and control. The power over member’s palm trees and the control of member’s money. The only way to change the Board and correct Island problems are to elect New Board Members. Vote for me, Marvin Jones, or one of the other 6 outsiders.

Our legal counsel advised us that the issue was not cured when Stan Hulse became a record owner of the property in Padre Isles on January 9, 2017. Instead of going through the process for removal of the director provided in Section 2.03 of the Bylaws, Stan Hulse submitted his letter of resignation and the Board accepted it on March 5 at our special meeting. We confirmed in reviewing the minutes and Board actions that although he was no an eligible director at the October, November, January or February meetings none of the actions of those meetings was impacted since the quorum was present not counting him and all the members were approved by a majority of votes not counting him.

Did you know that if you have already voted you can change your old vote and revote at the meeting on Saturday? Please go to the meeting!

In your letter, however, you asserted that, “Mr. Hulse was well aware of his invalid participation with the Board.” In our investigation of this matter, Mr. Hulse and his brother acquired a townhouse unit at 14816 Leeward Drive on March 15, 2016. Although his brother handled the closing of this transaction, Stan believed that he was half owner of that unit and that he has been paying half of the mortgage payments and expenses, and he has been residing in this unit. He did not realize that he was not on record title to the unit until it was pointed out by his ex-wife in January or this year, whereupon he immediately corrected the matter. As a result, Stan Hulse was not aware of the situation and did not intentionally perpetuate a falsity on the Board as you alleged in your letter.

Nancy Tressa, John Bell, and MayBeth Christensen

Regarding his eligibility to be a candidate in the current Board election process, it is true that at the filing deadline on November 15, 2016, Stan Hulse was not an eligible candidate due to his lack of membership status. By the time of the record date for the annual meeting, however, he became a holder of record title within the Association. As you are aware under the Business Organizations Code, the record date may not be established more than 60 days prior to the meeting, and that date could not be earlier than January 10, 2017. Based upon these facts Stan Hulse is an eligible member of the Padre Isles POA for participation in the annual meeting. The Board of Directors very carefully considered how best to address this situation. To disqualify Stan Hulse as a candidate at this late date when a large percentage of the ballots already have been mailed to the outside auditor would disenfranchise many members of the Association and render their votes invalid. If the Board were to nullify the current process and send out new ballots for a new election cycle, Stan Hulse would be an eligible candidate. The requirement that candidates be members of the Association is set forth in Board Policy Statement XIII and is not part of the Bylaws. The only specification of the Bylaws is that directors and officers must be members of the Association. At our special meeting on March 5, 2017, the Board voted specifically to waive the November 15 deadline and confirm Stan Hulse's eligibility as a candidate in this election. The Board of Director disagrees with your assertion that a wrong would be perpetrated on the Padre Isles POA membership by allowing Stan Hulse to be an eligible candidate. In fact, the Board believes that a wrong would be perpetrated on the membership to invalidate the votes of those members who have selected him as one of their two -candidates. We as a BoarcfTake very seriously the rights of all of the members to participate and vote. All votes are being collected and tabulated by the outside independent auditor, so at this point we have no way of knowing how many votes have been cast and for what candidates. We do know, however, that as an active member of the Board of Directors for many years and in numerous other volunteer capacities on Padre Island, Stan Hulse reasonably would be expected to receive the support of a significant number of members, and we do not want to deny those members their ri ht to vote in this process. Thank you for your letter pointing out the issues related to the deed records. It allowed us to investigate the situation and determine all of the relevant facts. Sincerely, Brent Moore, (POA) President

Waivers According to the Black’s Law Dictionary, Corruption is: “An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and rights of others”. On February 28, 2017, at the Special Board Meeting, the POA Board admitted: 1. Mr. Stan Hulse was not eligible to be a Board Member from October 4, 2016, to January 9, 2017. 2. Mr. Stan Hulse was not eligible to be a candidate on November 15, 2016, the deadline to register to run for Board Member. Thus, his registration for reelection was invalid. Mr. Moore, President, of the POA sent me a letter dated March 6, 2017, confirming the above. I believe it will be in the Moon this week. The Board on February 28, 2017, gave Mr. Hulse a retroactive waiver canceling his ineligibility to register as a candidate for Board Member. The Board ignored their own bylaws, notice document, and Texas Property Code Section 209.00593. These Laws require a candidate be an Association Member to be eligible to run. The Board has a duty to follow the Rule of Law.

Marvin Jones- Full Disclosure- Running for the Members.

Fund Freeze Editor’s note: This letter arrived shortly before we went to press on Wednesday. March 8, 2017 Brent Moore, Darrell Scanlan, Cheri Sperling Stan Hulse*, Leslie Hess, Jack Sharlow,

We, the undersigned, are each admitted to the practice of law in the State of Texas and are active members of the Texas Bar Association. In addition, each of us owns property within the Padre Isles developments. Facts have come to our attention that cause us to fear and believe that, over time, each of you, jointly and severally, both in your individual capacities and as fiduciaries to the undersigned have engaged in numerous violations of your fiduciary duties and have also breached your contractual duties. On information and belief, we believe funds either belonging to us or held in trust for us, or otherwise held for our benefit, have been diverted from that certain pool of Maintenance Funds created under the Covenants. On information and belief, we assert that you and each of you is now engaged in a joint conspiracy and in joint breaches of contract, as well as joint torts by plans to convert, misappropriate, and otherwise improperly take amounts of money-possibly $100,000.00:from our Maintenance Funds and gift these funds to an unaffiliated entity which is generally known as the Seashore Charter Schools (hereinafter "Seashore") We assert on said basis of information and belief that this action is illegal, unconscionable, and tortious. We therefore demand that no later than 10:00 March 13, 2017 you deliver a written agreement promising us that you will not in any way transfer any funds from our Maintenance Pool or from any other account subject to your control as Board members. And that you promise no such funds will be in any way transferred, gifted, or in any other manner, including any entity that is a part of or associated with Seashore. Because we assert that these funds are a trust fund for our benefit, or alternatively are a general fund for our benefit, we now advise you that we will contend any prior transfer of funds by you to Seashore or to any other outside entity will create a constructive trust upon the funds in the hands of any and all third parties and we will include such third parties in any future litigation. Your failure to respond appropriately as demanded above, will result in suit being filed against all of you both individually and in your :fiduciary capacities. Such suit will seek all available remedies under law and equity as well as under the Covenants and under Texas and Federal law, including but not limited to injunctive relief, declaratory judgment relief, damages, punitive damages, court costs and attorney' s fees. (Signed) Sheila Allen, Karl Rubenstein and Marvin Jones

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Stuff I Heard on the Island

By Dale Rankin As you can see from our Letters to the Editor section in this issue the talk of The Island this week has been much ado about the annual members meeting of the Padre Isles Property Owners Association on Saturday. My time spent in South Florida taught me about the fierceness with which homeowner association fights are conducted; close in affairs where everyone knows each other. After a particularly ugly fight over a small dog named Willy Lump Lump who was discovered living in a high rise condo in Boca Raton an editor told me, “The fights are so vicious because the stakes are so small.” I don’t know about the stakes, but I can say the heated discourse between some of the membership and the board of the POA of late takes a backseat to no one. Things are getting testy out there. A specially called board meeting on Sunday that didn’t allow public comment before going quickly into Executive Session just threw gasoline on the fire and seems to have raised the decibel level of debate up into the Death Metal range.

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About the same time questions raised about more than $200,000 that flowed through the Island Beautification Trust and a subsequent review of the account that took over a year to complete left unanswered questions. The issue surfaced again this week in a report by a local television station. Funds from the POA to pay the trust’s Executive Director $20,000 per year stopped last year but the issue never seems to go away. Since last year’s annual members meeting things have reached the boiling point at monthly meetings that an armed guard is now called in. Claims by board members and POA officials that the protests are the work of a few disgruntled members have served only to make things worse. Heavy-handed tactics to silence critics have only raised the temperature of the debate without offering a way forward to concerned members. A property owner’s organization by nature is an organic organization; in order for it to function properly information and policy input must flow from the bottom up, not the other way around, which leads to what I see as the fundamental root of the problem – lack of transparency. Given that, here are a few things that could be done to improve the discourse and turn it in a positive direction.

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It is difficult to keep up with the issues as they change day to day. But I think it can best be summed up by saying a significant part of the membership would like the organization to be more transparent and responsive to members input. I began attending the monthly POA meetings two years ago after a plan to build a $1.2 million community center caught some fire. The project died when it turned out that the Board of Directors lacked the authority to spend more than $300,000 in discretionary money each year without approval of the membership. But the heated discourse this week can be traced directly back to that issue which brought attention to the organization which had operated pretty much under the radar up until that point.

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Make the check register readily available to members. Currently any member who wants to know whose pocket POA funds ended up

Old Bombs Found on PINS Crews working on Park Road 22 at the Padre Island National Seashore this week found four bombs leftover from the days when The Island was a military bombing range. Three bombs were live, and one was a dummy. Patrick Gamman, Public Information Officer with the National Park Service, said," the lucky thing for us here on the Island, the water table is just below the sand. So even though there was some powder in some of the unexploded ordnance, it was wet. Bomb squad members with the Corpus Christi Police Department took care of the explosives and park officials added the weapons were found where people or traffic don't travel. The bombs were leftover from when part of the Padre Island National Seashore was a drill run bombing site for World War II pilots after completion of the Naval Air Station in March, 1941. In past years it was not uncommon to find unexploded bombs on the seashore, but it has become rare in recent years. Some of the plastic and wooden bombs contained shotgun shells which exploded on impact to show pilots where they had landed.

in must go to the POA office and dig through paperwork. After a year of members pushing to have the checks listed on the POA website it still has not happened. Reasons vary from the number of checks being too great to the fear that non-members might see them. Neither holds any water. POA membership is a condition of property ownership and members have the right to know which individuals and companies their money is going to. It’s time to stop the excuses and do this. Don’t write checks to board members, their relatives, their companies or those of POA employees. This is related to the transparency issue because when members hear rumors, founded or otherwise, that contracts and/or jobs are being given to people with ties to board members, or in some cases board members themselves, and/or those of POA employees there is no realistic way to check the facts. This leads to rumors and distrust between the organization and its members. A recent change will require board members to disclose if they have a conflict of interest but does not prevent them from taking the money. A simple rule that if you are on the board or work for the organization you nor your relatives nor your company can do business there would go a long way toward providing a better level of trust. This has been a constant complaint about the organization for decades and it continues. Term limits for board members. The perceived insularly nature of the board has been a problem for as long as I can remember. It is a citizen board and turnover would mean a constant re-evaluation of how business is done. Single-member districts. Divide The Island into districts. Some mixed form such as the Corpus Christi City Council would mean that members have a neighbor on the board, while others could serve at-large. This would facilitate better feedback from members to the board and push the decision making to a more grass roots level. Do away with proxy votes for board seats. This is a big one. More than half the votes cast in the election of new officers which will be announced this week will come from people who don’t own the property they are voting on behalf of. Each piece of POA property gets one vote but board members rack up proxy votes after years on the board which make them nearly bombproof. Property managers who rent out property for absentee owners can amass large numbers of proxy votes on property they don’t own diminishing and diluting the votes of individual homeowners leaving them feeling disenfranchised and frustrated. They can also use these votes to elect themselves. Proxy votes were fine when a few developers owned the vast majority of lots on The Island, but as ownership has passed to individual owners the practice has become problematic. What seems clear after this most acrimonious year is that the system we have is not working well. Members are frustrated at the board, board members are frustrated at members. The time for some change has come, the question is whether it can be done by reasoning together or must be done by a judge. We are awash in accusations and name calling that does no one any good. Maybe members this Saturday can address some solutions; if not I fear we are in for a very litigious year.

Daytime road closure to Bird Island Basin on March 8, 9, 15 & 16 Road paving will occur on the Bird Island Basin Road on March 8, 9, 15, and 16, 2017. The narrowness of the road, complexity of the operation, and the use of oversized equipment will necessitate road closure for public and road crew safety. Details: The road will be closed from 7 am to 4:30 pm on all four days. The Bird Island Basin Campground and boat ramp will not be closed, however all campers and boat users will need to be there before 7 am and will not be able to drive out of the area until after 4:30 pm. In case of emergency call 911. We appreciate the public’s understanding and cooperation in making this operation as safe as possible.

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American (United States) Money By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon such as roofing shingles or insulation. (The Dotson’s Note: Knowing full well that none Bureau of Engraving and Printing also sells of us have any interest in the almighty dollar small souvenir bags of shredded currency that other that what it is worth, I thought it might was destroyed during the printing process.) be worth your while to give you a little update on our (US) money. On March 10, 1862 the 8. The $10 bill has the shortest lifespan of any United States Government issued the first denomination. paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & According to the Federal Reserve, the $1000) Continental currency depreciated badly estimated lifespan of a $10 bill is 3.6 years. during the war, giving rise to the famous phrase The estimated lifespans of a $5 and $1 bill "not worth a continental". Christopher Klein are 3.8 years and 4.8 years, respectively. The contributed to this report. highest estimated lifespan is for a $100 bill

Eight Things You May Not Know About American Money On February 25, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the National Banking Act (originally known as the National Currency Act), which for the first time in American history established the federal dollar as the sole currency of the United States. On the law’s 154th anniversary, explore eight surprising facts about American money. 1. The Constitution only authorized the federal government to issue coins, not paper money. Article One of the Constitution granted the federal government the sole power “to coin money” and “regulate the value thereof.” However, it said nothing about paper money. This was largely because the founding fathers had seen the bills issued by the Continental Congress to finance the American Revolution—called “continentals”—become virtually worthless by the end of the war. The implosion of the continental eroded faith in paper currency to such an extent that the Constitutional Convention delegates decided to remain silent on the issue. 2. Prior to the Civil War, banks printed paper money. For America’s first 70 years, private entities, and not the federal government, issued paper money. Notes printed by state-chartered banks, which could be exchanged for gold and silver, were the most common form of paper currency in circulation. From the founding of the United States to the passage of the National Banking Act, some 8,000 different entities issued currency, which created an unwieldy money supply and facilitated rampant counterfeiting. By establishing a single national currency, the National Banking Act eliminated the overwhelming variety of paper money circulating throughout the country and created a system of banks chartered by the federal government rather than by the states. The law also assisted the federal government in financing the Civil War. 3. Foreign coins were once acceptable legal tender in the United States. Before gold and silver were discovered in the West in the mid-1800s, the United States lacked a sufficient quantity of precious metals for minting coins. Thus, a 1793 law permitted Spanish dollars and other foreign coins to be part of the American monetary system. Foreign coins were not banned as legal tender until 1857.

at nearly 18 years. The federal government reports that approximately 4,000 double folds (forward, then backward) are required to tear a note.

Currency Nicknames U.S. paper currency has had many nicknames and slang terms. The notes themselves are generally referred to as bills (as in "fivedollar bill") and any combination of U.S. notes as bucks (as in "fifty bucks"), or, much less commonly, bones or beans. Notes can be referred to by the first or last name of the person on the portrait (George for One Dollar, or even more popularly, "Benjamins" for $100 notes).

7. Your house may literally have been built with old money. When dollar bills are taken out of circulation or become worn, they are shredded by Federal Reserve banks. In some cases, the federal government has sold the shredded currency to companies that can recycle it and use it for the production of building materials

By Abigail Bair Fort Sumner, New Mexico doesn’t have a lot going for it. There’s the “It’s My Hair and Other Things” beauty salon where I assume the local ladies gather and gawk over the eccentricities of whatever the “other things” are (do they have tails?) and at least two gas stations. It’s also where Billy the Kid is buried. The Kid rests in a desolate graveyard several miles off the main road, surrounded by an ancient adobe wall. I don’t know what drove me to visit that place (aside from the 73 garishly colored road signs), but for some reason I couldn’t resist it. The sun was beginning to set and that old New Mexico wind blew hard, kicking up silver dust. No one mows this cemetery. There was no grass and not even that many dead people. Billy’s grave was littered with bullets and small change. I tossed him a quarter (big bucks in 1881). His monument probably rakes in more revenue per year than Billy earned in his entire life. I like to think that he grasps the irony.

"Dead presidents", any amount in any denomination of Federal Reserve Note (from the portrait of a U.S. president on most denominations). Toms for the picture of Thomas Jefferson on the two-dollar bill.

Confederate Currency Featuring George Washington.

Fin, finif (from the Yiddish word for five), or finski is a slang term for a five-dollar bill.

Sawbuck is a slang term for a ten-dollar bill, from the image of the Roman numeral X. double sawbuck is slang term for a twentydollar bill, from the image of the Roman numeral XX, and in some cases can be used to denote a pair of ten-dollar bills, which would be double sawbucks, depending on the situation and type and amount of currency on hand. One hundred dollar bills are sometimes called "Benjamins" (in reference to their portrait of Benjamin Franklin) or C-Notes (the letter "C" is the Roman numeral 100). One thousand dollars ($1000) can be referenced as "Large", "K" (short for "kilo"), "Grand" or "Stack", and as a "G" (short for "grand"). In Raymond Chandler's novel, The Long Goodbye, the protagonist Marlowe refers to a five thousand dollar bill as "a portrait of Madison", due to the president portrayed on the bill being James Madison. Fed Shreds is the nickname for paper money that the United States government finds unfit for circulation and consequently shreds. Many more slang terms refer to money in general (green stamps, moolah, paper, bread, dough, do-re-mi, freight, loot, cheese, cake, stacks, greenmail, jack, rabbit, cabbage, pie, cheddar, scrilla, scratch, etc.)

Dotson’s Other Note: I do not remember ever seeing a $10,000 bill. The $1,000 bill is the largest I ever saw…My friend Lew Jenkins carried two of them in his pocket while was the “trainer” for our army baseball team in Japan during the 1948 season. If you don’t recognize the name Lew Jenkins, try googling “Lew Jenkins-Boxer.” What a character! Please let me know the largest bill that you ever saw. On January 12, 1979, Captain Glenn Shoop at the controls of the British Airways Concorde G-BOAE (N94AE), and Captain Ken Larson at the controls of the Air France Concorde F-BVFC (N94FC) made a stunning parallel landing on the two West runways at D/FW to open Braniff Concorde Service.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 Round Table Meeting will be Tuesday, March 21, 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. Also our Veterans Radio Round Table is on the air on KEYS AM 1440, 8 – 9 AM, Saturdays. The next will air March 11, 2017. Please listen and call in. The listener/text line is: 361-560-5397…It’s your show. Hang in there/Have fun!

Billy and many of Tunstall’s troops vowed revenge and formed a group called the Regulators. The legal system was corrupt – long bought by “The House.” The Regulators felt they had no hope for justice unless they took the law into their own hands, and so spent the next few months hunting down and assassinating everyone they felt was responsible for Tunstall’s death – including the Sheriff William Brady. The Lincoln County War raged on for almost a year with much bloodshed. There wasn't much of an alternative. It was locally noted that "every son of a bitch up there wanted to kill someone." The War was regarded as the perfect opportunity for often petty revenge.

Billy wasn’t about to wait around to get his neck stretched. He went rogue and took off out into the desert where he was hidden by Hispanic sheep herders. They regarded Billy as an outlaw

Billy the Kid was born Henry McCarty. He and his mother, Catherine, traveled all the way from New York City to New Mexico in an attempt to fight Catherine’s consumption. She died in 1874 when Billy was only 14, having lived only a year in Silver City. People there remembered her, though, as a laughing woman who would take any opportunity to burst into song. She and Billy would often hang out in the Mexican section of the city for the music and the company. Within six months Billy spoke fluent Spanish. After the death of his mother, Billy was left to fend for himself. His first crime was stealing some clothing from a Chinese laundry. He was put in jail, but he escaped and went on the run. He tried to be a cow hand, but his youth and small stature insured that he could only get a job on the chow line. It was a steady paycheck, though, and he used his first $40 to buy a pistol and a gun belt – “the full outfit.” He then joined up with a notorious horse thief named John Mackie and spent the next year stealing horses and getting tough. In 1877, a bully named Frank “Windy” Cahill attacked Billy in a saloon. After calling Billy a “pimp” Frank sat on the Kid’s shoulders slapping his face. Billy pulled a gun from Frank’s belt and shot him through the gut. “Gut shot is not a good way to die,” said one historian, “It took Frank Cahill all night to expire.” Billy left before they could arrest him. That was the night Henry McCarty the singing, senorita courting, twinkling eyed Irishman became William Bonney. He was 16 years old. Officially on the run, the Kid briefly joined up with a gang of outlaws called “The Boys.” In 1878, the Kid was caught by the law and charged with rustling horses. He sat in jail, thinking his ticket was punched, when the owner of the stolen horses, John Tunstall, visited him. Tunstall was a 23 year old Englishman who had moved to Lincoln County, New Mexico to become a cattle baron. He was handsome, rich and smart. He also was looking to hire guns to protect his interests against his entrenched competition, “the House.” He offered Billy a job rather than a noose, and (when Billy accepted) immediately gave him a rifle and a good horse.

Lew Jenkins--A Friend

ride toward the men. Billy tried to warn him of the danger, shouting “For God’s sake follow me” and spurring his horse to reach the shelter of some nearby rocks. Tunstall didn’t turn. The posse shot him off his horse as he approached, and in the head as he lay prone on the ground. Then they killed Tunstall’s horse for good measure. Thus began the Lincoln County war.

Billy was in every fight of any significance. His best friends were killed. In November of 1878, the new governor Lew Wallace issued a proclamation of amnesty for all parties involved in the Lincoln County wars. Billy, sick of fighting, returned and offered to parlay with his enemies for peace. The negotiations went very well until the men got drunk and “everything broke down.” Attorney Hugh Chapman was harassed and killed. Billy later testified about what happened to Chapman in exchange for a full pardon from Governor Wallace. Wallace eventually went back on his word and refused to grant Billy clemency. Billy the Kid was the only man prosecuted and tried for the assassination of Sheriff William Brady – even though Brady was hit by over 30 different bullets and shot at by 8 men. Ultimately, the Kid was sentenced to hang for it.

The Demand Notes issued in 1861 had greeninked backs, and the Federal Reserve Note of 1914 copied this pattern.

4. The highest-denomination note ever printed was worth $100,000. The largest bill ever produced by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing was the $100,000 gold certificate. The currency notes were printed between December 18, 1934, and January 9, 1935, with the portrait of President Woodrow Wilson on the front. Don’t ask your bank teller for a $100,000 bill, though. The notes were never circulated to the public and were used solely for transactions among Federal Reserve banks.

6. Two American presidents appeared on Confederate dollars. The Confederacy issued paper money worth approximately $1 billion during the Civil War—more than twice the amount circulated by the United States. While it’s not surprising that Confederate President Jefferson Davis and depictions of slaves at work in fields appeared on some dollar bills, so too did two Southern slave-holding presidents whom Confederates claimed as their own: George Washington (on a $50 and $100 bill) and Andrew Jackson (on a $1,000 bill).

Oh, Billy

More Nicknames for What It Is Worth

The $100,000 bill, printed between 1934 and 1935.

5. You won’t find a president on the highestdenomination bill ever issued to the public. The $10,000 bill is the highest denomination ever circulated by the federal government. In spite of its value, it is adorned not with a portrait of a president but with that of Salmon P. Chase, treasury secretary at the time of the passage of the National Banking Act. Chase later served as chief justice of the Supreme Court. The federal government stopped producing the $10,000 bill in 1969 along with these other high-end denominations: $5,000 (fronted by James Madison), $1,000 (fronted by Grover Cleveland) and $500 (fronted by William McKinley). (Although rare to find in your wallet, $2 bills are still printed periodically.)

Anecdotingly

At Tunstall’s concern, Billy found a home. He fit in easily with Tunstall’s men who remembered him as a community favorite who “stood as straight as an Indian, fine looking lad as ever I met. He was a lady’s man and the Mexican girls were all crazy about him. He spoke their language well. He was a fine dancer, go all their gaits and was one of them. He was a wonder, you would have been proud to know him.” Of the two authenticated photographs of Billy in existence, one is of the Kid playing croquet at Tunstall’s place. It’s a happy picture.

“The House” was run by two Irishmen named Dolan and Murphy. They owned a huge dry goods store, the bank, a saloon, and thousands of head of cattle. They controlled all of the commerce in Lincoln County. If you wanted to buy something back then, you bought it from Dolan and Murphy, or you traveled hundreds of miles through desolate country to shop someplace else. Tunstall had the idea to upset this monopoly. Dolan and Murphy didn’t like that. In 1878, the Kid was helping Tunstall herd some horses into Lincoln when a posse approached. They shouted that they had a warrant for Tunstall’s arrest. Knowing the charges were trumped up, Tunstall started to

John Tunstall hero who was striking a blow against the cattle barons who had displaced them. Pat Garrett was inserted as Sheriff of Lincoln County and vowed to bring Billy to justice. Garrett finally, with the help of six Texas Rangers, cornered the Kid in a small stone house in Stinking Springs. After his friend Charlie Bowdre is shot by mistake, Billy surrendered to Garret saying, “Well hell, Pat, I thought you had 200 Texans out here.” Then everyone ate breakfast. Billy stood trial and was jailed. He watched his own scaffold being built, and planned his escape. He had to kill two men to do it, but he got out and rode away singing. His friends told him to get out of New Mexico, but Billy felt at home in Fort Sumner and never left it for long. It’s thought that the love of his life, Paulita (sometimes called Lolita) Maxwell lived there, and that he’d never go too far from her. Pete Maxwell, Paulita’s older brother, didn’t approve of her association with the Kid, and leaked information about Billy’s whereabouts to Pat Garrett. Late at night on July 14th, 1881 Billy approached to Maxwell house to cut himself some beef for dinner. He saw Garret’s guards crouched on the long patio of the house and began backing into Pete Maxwell’s bedroom whispering, “Quien es ...quien es" (Who is it… who is it). Pat Garrett was sitting on Maxwell’s bed. He saw Billy’s moonlit silhouette, framed by the doorway. Maxwell whispered, “That’s him.” Pat Garrett fired two shots. One went through Billy’s heart. The other hit the wall. His friend, Jesus Silva carried Billy’s body to an old carpenter’s bench in the woodshed where he and a group of heart broken senoritas surrounded him with candles and watched the corpse through the night. The next morning, Silva built a simple box to serve as a coffin and he and Vincente Ortero buried the kid in the old graveyard with no pomp or circumstance. Billy the Kid was barely 21 years old. The only object to mark Billy's passing was a simple wooden cross with his name crudely carved on it. By 1904, that marker had been destroyed, maybe by flooding, but it was also a popular object for target practice. In 1932 someone (quite possibly the Fort Sumner Chamber of Commerce looking for tourist dollars) commissioned a new headstone. Billy is supposedly buried next to Charlie Bowdre and Tom O’Falliard (both friends who were also killed by Pat Garrett), but since the graves were unmarked for 28 years, the people under the concrete sepulchers may not be the Kid and his Pals at all. I think the Kid is there, though. His small granite headstone has escaped three times. Once, it stayed on the lam for 26 years only to be found in Granbury, TX – a town once filled with old outlaws. Now, Billy’s grave is surrounded by an iron cage and the marker is shackled to the ground at his feet. Somehow, I don’t think that will hold him

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History cont. from A1 Into private hands The Island’s history was much tamer after that and in1936 oil magnate Sid Richardson bought it for less than $30,000. The well worn shot of President Franklin Roosevelt holding up two fingers while riding in a boat was taken when he came to visit Richardson at St. Joseph’s. Richardson and his partner Clint Murchison made their fortunes in the oil business. According to a family history commissioned by Perry Bass, whose family interests now own St.

Channel cont. from A1

Joseph’s, Bass was commissioned immediately after World War II to design a house for Richardson on the island. According to the book Bass came up with the idea of making the house from shellcrete and that house still stands on the island today. Richardson also realized that St. Joseph’s Island was well suited for cattle raising and bought 100 Santa Gertrudis bulls from the King Ranch and began a cattle operation on the island’s 33,000 acres. One of the bulls, Mr. Sid’s Ditto, won seven grand championships by the time it was two years old in Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Houston, all in the same year. Richardson then began raising Texas Longhorns and engaged famed Texas historian J. Frank Dobie to help him select stock to begin his herd. They chose a group of longhorns from East Texas because they were the closest to the original longhorns that roamed freely on the Texas plains. The descendants of those longhorns can be seen on St. Joseph Island today. So the next time you step off the jetty boat onto St. Joseph’s Island you will know that you are stepping off into a little piece of living Texas history.

POA cont. from A1

Hulse resigned from the board after information presented at the last POA monthly meeting showed that from October 4, 2016 through January 9, 2017 Hulse did not own property on The Island as required for board membership under POA rules. “His application to run as a candidate should have been rejected on November 15,” said Board President Brent Moore in the Sunday meeting in reference to the deadline for candidates to file. The board then voted unanimously to change board policy to allow Hulse to run in the current election. However, in a letter in a letter to current board candidate Marvin Jones over Moore’s signature on Tuesday offered a different explanation of the board’s action, it stated: “Regarding his eligibility to be a candidate in the current Board election process, it is true that at the filing deadline on November 15, 2016, Stan Hulse was not an eligible candidate due to his lack of membership status. By the time of the record date for the annual meeting, however, he became a holder of record title in property within the Association. As you are aware under the Business Organization Code, the record date may not be established more than 60 days prior to the meeting, and that date could not be earlier than January 10, 2017. Based upon these facts Stan Hulse is an eligible member of the Padre Isles POA for participation in the annual meeting.” “We confirmed in reviewing the minutes and Board actions that although he (Hulse) was not an eligible director at the October, November, January or February meetings, none of the actions of those meetings was impacted since the quorum was present not counting him and all measures were approved by a majority vote not counting him.” In allowing Hulse to run in the board race, the results will be announced at the Saturday meeting, Moore cited the impossibility of calling a new election in time for the Saturday members meeting, and also stated that about half of the votes in the race had already been cast by Sunday. The top two vote getters will win the seats, property owners get one vote for each piece of property owned. Owners can also assign their proxy vote under POA rules. The latest blip in the election process follows a second mailout announcing the election after Jones pointed out that the first notice was sent before the sixty-period before the election, as required under state rules. In 2007 an increase in POA dues for new Island homebuyers served to increase the organization’s annual operating budget over the past decade from about $500,000 to over $1.5 million. The Executive Coordinator’s position pays $73,000. Budget information released by the board shows an equity fund balance for the organization of $8.2 million and total assets of $9,639,803 as of August 31, 2016. The POA, billed as the largest of its kind in the United States, with 3080 singlefamily homes, and 4553 single-family lots, was formed in 1965 and is made up of 35 separate Island subdivisions which each join with the approval of a majority of their members.

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Irish Blarney Balls (Potato Croquettes)

raised to $400,000 per year, to interpret the data collected by an outside contractor who surveys the channel three times per year. They encountered resistance in the form of a sub-committee of the Island Strategic Action Committee who told the board they believe the surveying work could be done by going directly to the contractor thereby reducing the annual monitoring costs from an estimated $184,350 to $33,000. In the end the board voted 4-3 in favor of a oneyear contract with the Blucher Institute at a total cost of $257,745 with the instruction that more cost savings be investigated before the contract comes back to the board for renewal next year. One of the key issues in the discussion is a 35% Finance and Administration fee added on to the contract by the Blucher Institute to cover administration costs that is normal when grant money is involved since it requires the hiring of a grant writer to request the money. ISAC members told the board that money is used to support infrastructure at the school rather than going directly to fund dredging of the channel and could account for as much as $90,210 of the $257,745. They objected to the 35% charge in the monitoring contract because there is no application process; the money is raised through property tax which does not require a grant application.

Landing strip on St. Joseph's Island

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“We think this same work can be done at a much lower cost,” ISAC Ex-Officio member Bryan Gulley told the board. “Blucher analyzes the data compiled from research done by an outside contractor, we cut the cost by more than half by going directly to the contractor. We have been doing this the same way for over a decade and we think it is time to examine the process and see if we can save some money.” Blucher officials countered by saying that while the contractor can gather the data they are more qualified to interpret it because of their expertise. For the past decade three surveys of the channel and the surrounding beach have been conducted each year under the contract with the Blucher Institute in the Winter, Spring, and Summer. There has also been an annual contingency fund in the amount of $75,886 set up in case of a weather event which could necessitate an emergency. In the past that money has been transferred from the TRZ account into a holding account to be accessed by Blucher officials with the permission of city staff. City officials said Tuesday that money was used this year to fund a bathymetric study of Lake Padre and did not require approval by the TRZ Board. As a result of the Tuesday vote by the board that $75,886 will now remain in the TRZ account and can only be accessed through the TRZ Board. Gully also questioned the need for an annual survey of the Millie Beattie Coastal Habitat Community which is located on the east side of Packery Channel inside the State Highway 361/ Packery Channel Bridge.

By Chef Vita Jarrin As St. Patty’s day approaches, I thought it would be fitting to give you a recipe other than Corned Beef. Several years ago, I developed a menu for an Irish restaurant in Illinois. The recipe I am sharing with you was developed for an appetizer. Everyone who tried them, loved them. How can you go wrong with potatoes, bacon, cheddar cheese and then dunking them in hot oil to get hot and crispy? They are served with a side of lemon crema (lemon infused sour cream). On another note, celebrating the potato on St. Patrick’s Day also pays homage to the potato and the importance it’s had in our history. For the Irish, potatoes were and are, a part of every meal. The more rural the family lived, the more they depended on them for sustenance. The potato is rich in carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins. However, history states that the potato was gravely effected by a fungus carried in by ships that traveled from North America to England and then eventually made its way to Dublin. This type of fungus rotted the leaves and roots of the potato crops, causing a shortage of this once very reliable food. The lack of money to purchase other food, and the lack of farmers feeding their workers, killed over a million Irish and has gone down in history as the “Irish Potato Famine”. Seeing that over 8 million Irish relied on potatoes for their main source of daily food, England tried to step in to assist with the famine. However, politics got in the way. Grains such as corn was being sent via ships, but this didn’t do any good, seeing that corn needed to be milled twice, in order for it to be digestible. Unfortunately the Irish didn’t have the equipment for milling. There is really no great ending to the story of the Irish famine… Those that survived, either fled to the U.S. or went to jail for committing crimes, in order to feed their families. I can state that because we too love this delicious bulb called the potato, that we are grateful that they found a cure to fix the crops. With the abundance we now relish, we probably don’t even realize the amount of potatoes we consume on a daily basis, in some form or another. We eat fries, chips, and mashed potatoes with our steaks, with our seafood boils and the list goes on! So celebrate St. Patty’s Day with glorious food and pay homage to the ever so wonderful potato!

Blarney Balls (Potato Croquettes) Time 45 minutes

“The person who is conducting that survey says it is unnecessary,” Gulley said. “And he is the one making money on it. If he says it doesn’t need to be done then you have to listen.”

Ingredients:

“I find it hard to believe he would say that,” said Deidre Williams, who heads the study for the Blucher Institute told the board.

4oz. unsalted butter

When Packery Channel was originally dug it was anticipated that annual dredging would be required and a contingency fund of $4 million was established for dredge funding. The money was accumulated from the approximately $6 million the TRZ tax raises each year. However, the channel has proven much more robust than anticipated and has required maintenance dredging only three times since its opening, the last in 2013 to remove sand in the channel left behind by Hurricane Ike. “The design of this channel is very good engineering,” said TRZ Board Member and City Councilman At-Large Joe McComb who was on the city council when the Packery project was approved and who voted in favor of the one-year contract on Tuesday. “There were a lot of naysayers when we voted to build this channel. No one was throwing roses at us. Now we are spending more money monitoring the channel than we are dredging it. It’s time to take a look at that.” One of the key questions moving forward is how the opening of the 48-foot wide opening under the proposed Park Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge might change water flow through the channel. That question is not addressed by the current monitoring program which does not include predictive work. However, the program was expanded last year to include the gathering of base data from the Main Canal on the west side of SPID in anticipation of the opening of the new channel. City officials told the Island Strategic Action Committee on Tuesday that bids on the bridge project will be opened at city hall at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 15 and construction could begin as early as October 2017.

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Serves 6-8 10 medium gold or fingerling potatoes, boiled and mashed

8 oz. bacon, cooked, drained, chopped 1 c. Cheddar cheese, (I recommend fresh but store bought works) 1 Tablespoons salt (adjust to taste if needed) 1/2 Tablespoon black pepper 5 Egg Yolks 1 c. green onions, chopped very small 4 C Peanut Oil for Frying (sauce pot or deep fryer) Instructions: Boil potatoes until fork tender and strain. Peel and place in a bowl. With a potato masher or stand mixer and paddle, mash the potatoes. Immediately add butter, bacon, cheese, salt, pepper, spring onions and egg yolk to mashed potatoes and mix well. Using an ice cream scoop or tablespoon, scoop even amounts of potatoes and form into the shape of balls. Heat Oil for frying. You can use a thermometer or test the oil with dropping a few breadcrumbs when you think the oil is hot enough for frying the potatoes. Ingredients for Three-step breading: (Add more of each if needed) 2 C all-purpose flour 4 eggs beaten 3 C Breadcrumbs In 3 separate bowls, place your flour in one bowl, eggs in another and breadcrumbs in third. Dip the potato balls in flour, then egg and finally breadcrumbs. Place the completed potato balls on a cookie sheet. Deep-fry potato balls until they are golden brown and are somewhat floating from the bottom. Feel free to test one or two to get the proper consistency until you are comfortable with the timing. They usually fry about 4 minutes. Potato Balls can be shaped, breaded and frozen if not being used right away. Lemon Crema: 1 C sour crème 1 Lemon Squeezed 2 pinches of salt Dash of cayenne (optional) Mix all ingredients in a bowl and use for dipping potato croquettes when ready to eat

Tip of the week! These delights can be made in advance and even frozen, until you are ready to fry them. The size of the potato croquette can be judged by how many people you are trying to serve and if you want this as a side or as an appetizer. The important this is to Have Fun! Try New Things! Happy Eats… Enjoy!

March 9, 2017

Island Moon

SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon

Fight of the CenturyPhotographed by Frank Sinatra

By Dotson Lewis

went into a clinch with Frazier until separated Special to the Island Moon by referee Arthur Mercante. Dotson’s Note: Did any In the ninth, Frazier began to work on Ali’s of you Moon Monkeys know that Frank Sinatra body again, as Ali fended them off the best he was an accomplished photographer*? Sinatra, could. But then Ali bounced back with a flurry who listed photography as a lifelong hobby, of sharp punches and some good foot work. In had secured a deal (and with it a much sought- the tenth Ali did well again, and it appeared the after ringside seat) with Life magazine to take fight might be turning his way. Yet overall the pictures of the 1971 Frazier-Ali fight. How he fight was still very close. Then came round 11. achieved this is uncertain. It was rumored that At about nine seconds into the round, Frazier even with his connections and influence he was unable to secure a place in the front row. So caught Ali with a left hook, and Ali fell to the he approached Ralph Graves, the managing canvas with both gloves and his right knee on editor of Life, to work for the magazine as a the canvas. As the referee stepped in, Ali rose guest photographer. Four of Sinatra’s pictures, from the canvas. The referee wiped Ali’s gloves, including the front cover shot, were used by but did not signal a knockdown, as the two Life to illustrate the story of the fight, which fighters resumed battle. was written by Norman Mailer. Thanks to the Near the end of round 11 Frazier again writings and photos of Frank Sinatra, Norman staggered Ali with a left hook as Ali stumbled Mailer, William Nack and Ray Setterfield for and grabbed at Frazier to keep his balance. He their contributions to this report. then stumbled to the ropes, bounced forward into a clinch with Frazier until the two were separated by the referee. As the round closed, The Fight of The Century Joe Frazier vs Ali clowned his way back to his corner, with Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) Frazier appearing in control. March 8, 1971: At the opening bell of the Sports Illustrated’s William Nack, would later scheduled 15-round fight, it was Ali who came write of the fight some years later: “…It was soon out on the attack, dominating much of the first clear that this was not the Ali of old, the butterfly three rounds. He came at Frazier with a series who had floated through his championship of repeated short jabs to the face, which took years, and that the long absence from the ring their toll on Frazier over the course of the had stolen his legs and left him vulnerable. He bout. Frazier’s face had visible welts by the had always been a technically unsound fighter: time Round 3 ended. However, in the closing He threw punches going backward, fought seconds of round three, Frazier hit Ali hard with with his arms too low and avoided sweeping punches by leaning back instead of ducking. He could get away with that when he had the speed and reflexes of his youth, but he no longer had them, and Frazier was punishing him.”

hook to the jaw, as some photos caught Ali’s head snapping back. In round four, Frazier began to dominate, again catching Ali with several left hooks. He also had Ali up against the ropes, where he went to work on Ali’s body, causing him to cover up. “Frazier didn’t fight by going for the head, the way a lot of other boxers did against Ali,” Life photographer John Shearer would later note. “He went after Ali’s body the whole fight, pounding away, taking terrible blows to the head himself.” Frank Sinatra, roaming near ringside as he took his photographs, noticed Frazier getting hit repeatedly by Ali’s jabs. “…I kept watching Frazier putting his head too far out for Ali to punch it,” he would say in a conversation with Bill Gallo, a sportswriter with The New York Daily News. “He was defying Ali, and I said to the newspaper guy next to me: ‘He may win, but if he keeps that up, he’s going to the hospital, taking all those punches’.” Still, Frazier seemed to have his plan and was sticking with it. “Frazier moved in with the snarl of a wolf,” Norman Mailer wrote of the middle rounds in his Life magazine piece. “His teeth seemed to show through his mouthpiece … Ali looked tired and a little depressed … At the beginning of the fifth round, he got up slowly from his stool, very slowly. Frazier was beginning to feel that the fight was his. He moved in on Ali, his hands at his side in mimicry of Ali, a street fighter mocking his opponent, and Ali tapped him with long light jabs to which Frazier stuck out his mouthpiece, a jeer of derision as if to suggest that the mouthpiece was all Ali would reach all night.” The fight had a “grudge match” air about it; each man fighting as if he had something to prove.

For the next three rounds, to the end of round 14, according to the judges’ scorecards, Frazier had the advantage on points for those rounds by all three judges. However, in the 14th Ali had pounded Frazier with some of his best punches of the fight. In the final round, round 15, Ali’s legs appeared leaden, and Frazier wasted no time moving in on him. After a minute or so into the round, Frazier landed a powerful left hook – described in one account as “an absolutely titanic left hook” – that put Ali on his back. Some photos show Ali going down hard, with legs in the air and the red tassels on his shoes flying. It was only the third

time in Ali’s career that he had been floored. With Ali on the canvas, referee Arthur Mercante escorted Frazier to his corner. Ali got up quickly from Frazier’s blow, as Norman Mailer wrote his Life magazine piece: Ali got up, Ali came sliding through the last two minutes and thirty five seconds of this heathen holocaust in some last exercise of the will, some iron fundament of the ego not to be knocked out… something held him up before the armweary triumphant near-crazy Frazier who had just hit him the hardest punch ever thrown in his life… and they went down to the last few seconds of a great fight, Ali still standing… As he rose from the canvas, Ali’s jaw was now visibly swollen from earlier hits. He managed to stay on his feet as the fight resumed, but Frazier continued to land several more solid hits on Ali as the round ended. A few minutes later the judges made it official: Frazier had retained the title with a unanimous decision, dealing Ali his first professional loss. As the post-mortems of the fight came in among fans and commentators, there seemed to be some consensus that Ali wasn’t prepared for the fight; that he was not in his best physical shape; and that he failed do the proper amount of training. Frazier, on the other hand was in top form.

The verbal slurs and taunts continued backand-forth between both fighters throughout the contest. The sixth round came and went – the round Ali had predicted he would knock out Frazier. By this round and the next, Ali was visibly tired. The pace he had set in the earlier rounds had slowed, though he still had flurries of punches for Frazier and his speed and punch combinations kept him roughly even with Frazier, By round eight, however, at about two minutes in, Frazier landed a clean left hook to Ali’s right jaw. At one point, as Ali tried to take refuge or on the ropes, Frazier grabbed Ali’s wrists and swung him into the center of the ring. Ali then

Dotson’s Other Note: *But not to everyone’s approval. Robert Kelley, a former Life staff photographer, wrote a scathing letter to the magazine, saying: “Sirs: I'm so mad I could chew nails and spit tacks. I've been a professional news photographer 34 years (about 18 on Life’s staff) and what irks me is your cover. It was obviously selected because Frank Sinatra took it, rather than for any photographic excellence. In fact, it was a bad picture. What millions of Life readers wanted to see was Frazier's fist firmly implanted against Muhammad Ali's mouth.” Moon readers, two questions for you: 1) How do you rate Sinatra’s photos? 2) What do you think of (Ali’s) Cassius Clay’s avoiding the draft? 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-

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Love By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon It’s been played for thousands of years and mostly by the wealthy. It’s a game as old as horse racing or hide and seek, but you could only participate if you owned a pyramid, a castle or a country. I suspect many of the players were barons or earls, and a lot of them had Roman Numerals in their names. It’s a game in which “love” counts for zero, deuces are wild, and the scoring system may have been invented by Albert Einstein. They call it tennis. Tell me why the first point would be scored 15, the second, 30, and the third, 40? If you spot a trend, then you should enroll immediately at M.I.T. Tennis is not a game; it’s a multiplication table, calculus with a net. If you don’t know what square roots are, you can’t play. Six games win a set, but only if you are two games ahead of your opponent. I wonder why that is? You can win a baseball game by one run, a fight with one punch, a football or basketball game by one point, and in soccer one to nothing is usually the final score. My theory is that queens, kings and pharaohs kept rigging the game until the masses got dizzy. Maybe it was never intended to be a sport.

Wimbledon, wearing a miner’s helmet with a light. It was just his way of saying it’s too late to start a tennis match. From 1939 to 1954, Mulloy was ranked in the top ten in singles every year except the two years he served in the U.S. Navy. A strong volleyer with a tremendous overhead smash, Mulloy was ranked #1 in the United States in 1952. He was 38 years old and participating at the Nationals at Forest Hills when he lost to the defending champion, 24-year-old Frank Sedgman. Gardner Mulloy and Billy Talbert won the U.S. Men’s Double titles in 1942, 1945, 1946 and 1948. Mulloy also won the doubles title at Wimbledon, in 1957. He was a seven-time member of the U.S. Davis Cup Team where

I’ve never understood a score like 4040 in the first place, but how it adds up to deuce, I will leave to the Garner Malloy Easter Bunny to figure out. I wonder what the difference is in a drop volley he posted an 11-3 overall record for wins and or a ground stroke. It looked like someone just losses. hitting a bouncing ball to me. And why do they I loved playing tennis while growing up and get two serves? I never got two at-bats back-tothoroughly enjoy the game. We had a neighbor back in the same inning. If I missed a putt, it down the street who built a clay tennis court in counted against me. Can anybody explain a “let his backyard. His name was Carlton Edwards, ball?” How can you play it over? Just imagine and he had two sons about my age. That’s a close play at home plate in the World Series where I first learned to play tennis. between the Indians and the Cubs, and the For many years, I was the district manager for umpire looks befuddled, throws up his hands and says, “Okay, everybody go back to where a Pizza Hut franchise that owned the restaurant you were. We’re going to play a let.” Oh well, in Hilton Head, S.C., the second home of many I’ve had my fun and I hope I made you smile. very wealthy professional tennis players. Hilton I do need to thank former Los Angeles Times Head Island is one of the top tennis destinations sportswriter, Jim Murray, for his contributions in the world. There are 500 tennis courts available, and eight of the top ten resorts and to the opening paragraph. camps are located on Hilton Head Island. It is Gardner Putnam “Gar” Mulloy was born the home of two of the game’s most prestigious on November 22, 1913, in Washington, D.C. organizations, the Tennis Industry Association He moved with his family to Miami, Florida, and the Professional Tennis Registry. It was when he was a young boy. His father, Robin, there that I met Stan Smith, Rod Laver, Dennis was in the lumber business and worked at a car Van der Meer, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, dealership. At his age of nine, Gardner’s dad Billie Jean King, Chrissie Everett, and many and an uncle built a clay tennis court in their others. backyard. Gardner would grow to be tall, thin At the age of 98, Gardner was in fairly good and handsome. Some said he had to run around in the shower to get wet. He looked more like a shape, except for being hard of hearing. But he was the only one I ever knew who was so librarian than an athlete. old he blamed his lack of hearing on Yankee He did not drink coffee, tea or alcohol. He also cannon fire. Gardner experienced a stroke at did not smoke, and his diet consisted of mostly age 99 and suffered off and on for the next three vegetables, fruit and milk. His mother, Clara, years. Mulloy left us in November on the 14th had worked as a dietitian and strongly enforced day of the month, in 2016. By his side were his good eating habits at home. Mulloy was one of second wife Jacqueline, whom he had married the best players on his high school tennis team, in 2008 at age 95, and his two daughters, Diane and he also played football. Interestingly, he Mazzone and Janice Poindexter, from his first received a scholarship to play quarterback for marriage. Mulloy married Madeline Cheney in the University of Miami. 1938 and she had passed away in 1993. He also Mulloy competed on the university’s boxing left behind four grandchildren and nine greatteam, was a diver on the swim team, and rarely grandchildren. saw playing time on the gridiron. He eventually Gardner Malloy gave 75 years to the game of went to the president of the university and tennis. He may not have been the best tennis asked why they did not have a tennis team. As player, but he surely played the longest. Mulloy an undergraduate, he was given permission was one of the best doubles players ever. He to start one. So, Mulloy set out to coach the was living proof that tennis as a game is a tennis team. He recruited Pancho Segura from lifetime sport. With a career record of 567 wins Ecuador, who would win three consecutive and 215 losses, he had won over 127 National NCAA singles championships from 1943-1945. Championships and 25 International titles. Segura would become one of the finest pro Gardner Mulloy won five Grand Slam Doubles players of his time. After getting his bachelor’s titles and was inducted into the International degree in 1936, Mulloy earned his law degree Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, from Miami in 1938. Mulloy was later inducted in 1972. For the rest of his life, he championed into the 1967 University of Miami Sports Hall Senior Tennis every chance he got. He even of Fame. It was the university’s inaugural class. created the Gardner Mulloy Cup, given to the Gardner and his father, Robin, won three best player for international competition among father-and-son national championships before males over the age of 80. At last count, Mulloy he became a Navel Officer. During WWII, has been enshrined into nine different Halls of Mulloy served as a commanding officer of LST Fame. It’s a shame we can’t play a let. 32. His theater of operations was mostly in Andy Purvis is a local author and radio Northern Africa and the Mediterranean Sea. In personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. 2015, he received the French Legion of Honor com for all the latest info on his books or to for his service in Italy. listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books Before there was John McEnroe, there was are available online and can be found in the Gardner Mulloy. A fiery competitor, who local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be would not stand for incompetence with the contacted at purvis.andy@mygrande.net. Also officiating, he screamed at officials and once listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Q threw his racquet at a lineman. One of his & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc.com funniest moments found him showing up for 1230 AM, 96.1 FM and 103.3 FM. The home of his match that was starting in the twilight at the Houston Astros.

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The Island Moon made it to the Grand Canyon with Moon Production Manager and Columnist, Abigail Bair. Bair is not pictured because Stadler (also not pictured) was actively trying to fall (or passively trying to leap) into the gigantic chasm whileAbigail was taking this photograph. Also not pictured, horrified lookers on covering their tender ears as Abigail lectures Stadler on the stupidity of trying to catch the crows who are probably just "dog teases." There was cursing.

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