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By Dale Rankin That rumbling you hear is not your stomach folks, it’s the flatlanders north of Swinney Switch revving their engines getting ready to come roaring OTB to our little sandbar for the big kickoff of the Summer Season 2017.

Get ready everybody here they come.

This will be the first big test of the effect of the new traffic light at the Aquarius/SPID intersection and the first Big Test of Islanders’ patience for 2017 after last week’s Beach to Bay warmup. This Thursday is Islanders Day at the Flour Bluff HEB as we jam the isles stocking up on enough grilling material, stress reducing liquids, aspirin, and enough gasoline to get our boats ten miles south of Bird Island and out of harm’s way.

Our Big Island Holidays last year were somewhat subdued due to a beach beer ban in Port A (Spring Break), a phony bacteria scare (4th of July), and a citywide water boil (Labor Day). No such impediments this year as the weather looks like it will cooperate and the high tides and recent high winds mean beach driving lanes are narrow and soft sand is everywhere. Expect a traffic jam from the Port Aransas ferries to the base of the JFK. This is gonna be a big one folks,

Walking paths to PINS We get regular questions about the progress of a proposed 10-mile walking/cart path between Balli Park and Padre Island National Seashore.

The path would cut across the 3600-acre tract in Kleberg County purchased by Nueces County with $1 million in grant money last year. Nueces County Coastal Parks Director Scott Cross said this week the path is part of an ongoing Habitat and Land Use Study to determine how best to use the newly acquired land while maintaining its natural state. Funding for the path would come from federal grants with the cooperation of officials at PINS. This has proven to be a very popular idea and we will keep you up to date as things progress.

Fourth of July Fireworks There will once again be fire in the sky on the 4th of July as the fifth Fourth of July Island Blast Fireworks Display is fast approaching. The launch site will be the same as previous years at the end of Whitecap.

As we reported last week Jerry Watkins has everything ready but is about $3800 short of the final amount of funds needed. If you can help out make checks payable to Island Blast, addressed to 14890 Granada Dr. #205, or drop them here at the Island Moon office, 14646 Compass. All of the proceeds go directly to the show.

It’ll be here before you know it!

T-Joe Our friend and resident pirate T-Joe from Port A complained this week that he hasn’t been in the paper in a while so here he is.

As you can see that’s a Tongue Fish he’s got there. T-Joe is the First Mate on the Mustang which drags a net while taking riders for tours around local waters and places the critters in a shallow on-board aquarium for viewing before releasing them back into the water.

T-Joe is achieved icon status a few years ago when word went out that “he broke his arm in two places Saturday night.”

“Oh man, you mean like his wrist and his elbow?”

“No, Shorty’s and The Flats.”

Now friends that’s a Port A story.

Hunker down everybody we’ll see you at the Ski Basin. Say hello if you see us Around The Island.

Gary P. Nunn A18

Grocery Store Construction Site Work Underway

By Mary Craft A grocery store on the Island will soon become a reality. Developer Mohsin Rasheed said this week that site work is underway on the land adjacent to Seashore Middle

Crews work to prepare the beaches for Memorial Day Weekend.

Council Considers Packery Funding Boaters Dodge Shallow Water

By Dale Rankin Even as crews work to widen the beach along the Michael J. Ellis Seawall this week in preparation for Memorial Day crowds and the Corpus Christi City Council contemplates a new monitoring contract for Packery Channel boaters report dangerously shallow water in the middle of the channel near its open to the Gulf of Mexico.

An Island boater in a 46-foot v-hull Bertram with a four-and-a-half foot draft ran hard aground Sunday less than five hundred feet inside the mouth of Packery Channel.

“There was barely three feet of water,” the boater, who wishes to remain anonymous said. “I was right in the middle of the channel on an incoming tide and I ran so hard aground it ruined both propellers and I had to pull the boat out of the water to check damage.”

The boater was running about ten knots and the hit was hard enough to stall both engines leaving him adrift in the channel.

“I was right in the middle in an area where there should be plenty of water in that channel, and this is not,” the boat said. Boaters have been complaining about shallow water in the last six hundred feet of the channel mouth for several years after that area was not included in the last two channel dredging projects.

The question of maintaining the channel was up for discussion at Corpus Christi City Hall Tuesday as

the North Padre Island Development Corporation Board, the financial arm of the Tax Reinvestment Zone (TRZ) founded to fund maintenance of Packery Channel, considers it 2017 budget. The Corporation Board is made up of representatives of each of the fourteen taxing districts which allowed tax breaks to fund the channel as well as the members of the Corpus Christi City Council. The Packery Channel project, funded by an earmark under the tutelage of then U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, was in fact not a channel project but a beach re-nourishment project meant to provide sand to widen and maintain the eroded beach in front of the seawall. It provided the funds to dig the channel only after a vote by city residents to provide $10 million in local matching funds.

When the channel was cut through prematurely by Hurricane Rita as construction was nearing completion in 2005 it was thought that annual dredging would be necessary at an estimated cost of $1 million and the TRZ was established to capture property tax on new construction inside the zone to provide that funding. The TRZ zone covers the retail areas of The Island and includes no residential.

According to budget numbers presented to the council this week the TRZ currently includes $353 million of taxable property and since its inception in 2003 has collected about $30 million in funds. It is expected to garner $3.1 million in 2017 and

Polo on the Beach in Port Aransas!?

Don’t know the difference between a Chukka and a Millionaire’s Shot… well fear not!

An international polo association is looking to bring a polo event to the I.B. Magee Beach Park in Port Aransas in October.

The Victory Cup 2017 series is put on by Black Stone USA, headed by former New York State Senator and U.S. Air Force Academy graduate Greg Ball. Black Stone USA is holding events in Austin, Fredericksburg, New York, and, approved by the Nueces County Coastal Parks Board and the Texas General Land Office, Port Aransas will be added to the list.

The group is now in its thirteen year and looking to expand its reach in Texas. They are set to appear the Parks Board meeting Thursday, May 25, for consideration of the event by the board.

Site work for the new Balli Center, including a grocery store, is underway at 15429 SPID. Academy, just south of Whitecap at a shopping center to be named Balli Center, and he expects foundation work on the grocery story to begin “in about six weeks.”

“We have a finalized site plan with architectural rendering. It includes seven shops with drive-thru windows in the two corner units and an 18,000

Grocery cont. on A4

Texas Monthly Model Home Open at Cinnamon Shore $1.3 billion development is expanding along 361 Corridor

By Dale Rankin As you drive the sixteen miles from Packery Channel north to Port Aransas it is hard to miss the wide stretches of freshly moved earth on both sides of the road just north of the Port Aransas City Limits sign. What you are seeing is the expansion of the current footprint of the Cinnamon

County Parks Director Scott Cross said if the event is approved by state and local officials it would be held on the beach just south of the jetties.

Their event in Austin last year drew several thousand people and include fundraising efforts.

Packery cont. on A4

Cinnamon cont. on A4

A little Island history

Teflon Inventor was an Islander

If you cook or have a certain type of hip replacement you have a connection to long-time Islander Dr. Roy Plunkett.

Prior to his death in 1994 Plunkett was an avid golfer at the Padre Island County Club after retiring to The Island but it wasn’t his golf game that made him world famous; it was something much slicker than that, Roy invented Teflon.

Plunkett, born in Ohio in 1910, went to work for DuPont after graduating with his doctorate from Ohio State University. His first assignment was at Jackson Laboratory in Deepwater, New Jersey working with chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants with an eye toward producing a replacement for refrigerants containing sulfur dioxide and

ammonia which had the side effect of poisoning factory workers and residential users alike.

Like many great inventions the discovery came by accident. Plunkett described the Eureka Moment like this: On the morning of April 6, 1938, Jack Rebok, my assistant, selected one of the TFE cylinders that we had been using the previous day and set up the apparatus ready to go. When he opened the valve — to let the TFE gas flow under its own pressure from the cylinder — nothing happened...

We were in a quandary. I couldn't think of anything else to do under the circumstances, so we unscrewed the valve from the cylinder. By this time it was pretty clear that there wasn't any gas left. I carefully tipped the

cylinder upside down, and out came a whitish powder down onto the lab bench. We scraped around some with the wire inside the cylinder...to get some more of the powder. What I got out that way certainly didn't add up, so I knew there must be more, inside.

Finally...we decided to cut open the cylinder. When we did, we found more of the powder packed onto the bottom and lower sides of the cylinder.

What he found inside was described as a waxy solid covering which was resistance to corrosion and had low surface friction – Teflon. The gas hadn’t accidentally escaped.

It had solidified into a smooth, slippery white powder as the result of its molecules bonding, a process known as polymerization. This new polymer was different from similar solids like graphite: It was lubricated

History cont. on A4

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This letter goes out to the North Padre Island fisher who must be an expert in good manners, courtesy, and neighborly consideration. Your noisy watercraft was loudly puttering away off of Port Royal Court with all the grace of a diseased dump truck half past midnight on Monday night...or early Tuesday morning. You had a rack of mounted lights in your attempt to turn night into day. Having made such an effort to get to know your neighbors and to solicit comment and opinion from them, surely you would be interested to know that the houses in these neighborhoods contain people who work, young people who have school - and final exams - this week, and my own house was full to capacity with young biologists from West Texas here doing bird studies.

As you seem so interested in keeping our neighborhood entertained with your boating antics, would you please let North Padre Island know when you plan to take your boat out to the deepest water and sink it? THAT would be a show we'd certainly enjoy.

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With a severe lack of good humor, Charlie Bass

War Brides

Good morning. There is one specific turn around (U-turn) located on SPID just south of the entrance to the Village Townhomes on the Green which is of great concern. At this turnaround, the oleander bushes are located on the wrong side (eastern portion of the ditch) of the drainage ditch and therefore it impedes a drivers field of when making a U-turn. This coupled with 55 mph traffic creates a couple of issues: one it offers a short line-of-sight; and secondly, when you attempt to creep forward toward the highway (in an effort to see) it then puts the vehicle that is turning around in the turn lane from the northbound thus requiring the U-Turn vehicle to back up to allow northbound traffic to pass around. Is there any chance that you can assist with bringing this to the proper attention in order to remedy this issue? Thank you.

Wayne Williams -- Island Resident at the Village Townhomes

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Dotson, I was very interested and happy to read you story about War Brides in the Island Moon Newspaper. I am an American citizen because of one of them.

Publisher Dale Rankin About the Island Moon The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale Rankin, Editor / Publisher.

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I am a member of an English family living in North Harrow an outer suburb of London when World War II started and the bombing of London. My father owned a holiday cottage in Parkey Berkshire near the River Thames. My father decided we would all go live there for the duration of the bombing and war.

During out time in Parkey my sister Eileen had left school and gone to work for Argentine railways, the company had evacuated from London to Pangborne, a village near us, in a manor house. Mike was a Tec-Sergeant in USAF and he flew Liberators as a flight engineer, he had done enough missions to quality for leave in a rest and recuperate place in Pangbourne.

My sister met Mike in the local village hall dance. You guessed it! They settled in Buffalo.

Eileen was very homesick but then she learnt of the Transatlantic Brides Families Association and met other English girls and made many long-term friends. Chuck was a soldier of the U.S. Engineers who was building pontoon bridges on the river near where we lived. My sister Mary got to know Chuck somewhat there.

I was a young kid at the time. I remember getting water for the G.I.s in their mess bottles.

I would take the bottles home and fill them with clean water.

The G.I.s would hold their hand open full of change, they didn’t understand the British money system. Of pounds yet as they had just come to England.

I just drove by the Tesoro boat ramp and someone vandalized another truck by writing on his windows with a black marker and threatening to tow. I'm not arguing the fact you shouldn't park there and do risk being towed unless you do have the valid stickers but it's vandalism to write on another's vehicle with black marker.

Last week the same thing happened to me even though I had the valid stickers on the dash of my vehicle. This is not the POA but someone who feels the need the try and enforce the parking requirements themselves.

Thomas Carey

Pot Hole Problems There is one specific turn around (U-turn) located on SPID just south of the entrance to the Village Townhomes on the Green which is of great concern. At this turnaround, the oleander

They would hold their hands open full of change and I would take what I though was a fair amount for my efforts. When I was eighteen years of age I was drafted into the British Army and spent two year in Egypt in a heavy ack-ack regime nt. During my time there my sister Mary had gone on a visit to my sister in Buffalo. Family members had persuaded Mary to call Chuck in Battle Creek, Michigan.

The result of that phone call was, you guessed it, another marriage.

After I was demobed from the army, my father and mother decided to migrate to the U.S.A. and I of course went as well. After living in New York State I went to live in Houston for a job opportunity. When I reached retirement age I moved to Padre Island. Did you ever hear of Transatlantic Families Association.

Did Ya Hear?

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New Advertisers CC Tree Service offers stump grinding, landscaping tree trimming and removal. They are fully insured and can be reached at (361) 443-4852.

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Call Kevin at (361) 800-5165 for all your tree trimming needs.

Bleu Frog Mercantile has an ad in this issue that can get you 20% off one single item. They have a wide variety of clothing and housewares. They are located at 1710 S. Alameda.

Business Briefs Paul’s Seafood Market on SPID in the Bluff is opening a restaurant in a building currently under construction behind the market.

Fancy Paws Boutique & Pet Styling is opening next to Jesse’s Liquor. They have a location on Saratoga in town.

Oso Grill & Pier is a great place to enjoy jazz music on a Sunday afternoon. The Crystal Persuasion band includes a sax player and singer Victoria Majors joins in for some of the tunes. They serve oysters, shrimp, burgers, musttry fried green beans and more.

They are located at 6124 Ocean Drive just as you turn to go to the campus.

The Back Porch in Port A will feature Gary P. Nunn on Friday, May 26th and Larry Joe Taylor on Saturday.

My Coastal Home is having a Memorial Day Sale at all three locations Port Aransas, North Padre and Rockport. Check out “your local complete furniture store” for all the latest coastal designs.

The Holiday Inn Memorial Weekend BBQ Beach Bash will be held on Saturday, May 27th 2 – 6 pm. They will be serving chicken, burgers, sausage, corn on the cob, hot dogs, potato salad, coleslaw, rice and baked beans.

Kids Tennis & Swim Summer Camps will be held at Schlitterbahn Monday thru Thursday 10 am – 3 pm June 5th – July 27th. The cost is $110/week.

Call Coach Todd at 830-837-6556 for details or visit lifethrutennis. com.

La Barataria Restaurant & Wine Bar now has a liquor license for their new location at 224 E. Cotter next to the Tarpon Inn. Adult Tennis Lessons will be given at Schlitterbahn on Tuesdays 7 – 8:30 pm starting June 6th for six weeks at a cost of $90. Contact Coach Todd at 830-837-6556.

Does anyone know where the two anchors in front of the Packery Channel Park sign went? They were originally at the Million Dollar Inn.

Attention

The association might be still active in some states. I have a book named War Bridges of WEII by Elfrieda Shukent and Barbara Scibetta? I bought the book at a library sale here in town. Everyone comes to this country for different reasons. I thought I would tell you of my experiences.

Boat Owners!

Do you own a boat with a cabin and would you like to make some

Thank you for the opportunity to share my experiences with you.

money with it? We have slips and are looking for boats to use for

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Garden Club

charters. If you have a boat and

A BIG Thank You to everyone who supported the Island Garden Club's annual plant sale.

are interested in an entrepreneurial

Special thanx to Keller Williams Realty for use of their property.

opportunity

The profit from the sale is used to beautify shared spaces on our Island. Currently the Garden Club maintains the Butterfly Garden at Dowden Park, Ulberg Park Garden on Jackfish, and Maryann's Way on Whitecap.

This year we would like to help neighbors who wish to spruce up their cul-de-sac islands.

This is how it will work: we will buy and plant shrubs/plants for you, you will maintain them.

You will be responsible to water and trim the plants. A responsible resident must take the lead

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call 361 332-9978. bushes are located on the wrong side (eastern portion of the ditch) of the drainage ditch and therefore it impedes a drivers field of when making a U-turn. This coupled with 55 mph traffic creates a couple of issues: one it offers a short line-of-sight; and secondly, when you attempt to creep forward toward the highway (in an effort to see) it then puts the vehicle that is turning around in the turn lane from the northbound thus requiring the U-Turn vehicle to back up to allow northbound traffic to pass around. Is there any chance that you can assist with bringing this to the proper attention in order to remedy this issue? Thank you.

Wayne Williams -- Island Resident at the Village Townhomes

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History cont. from A1

better and extremely heat-resistant, due to the presence of dense fluorine atoms that shielded the compound’s string of carbon atoms.

Setting other work aside, Plunkett began testing the possibilities of polytetrafluoroethylene, eventually figuring out how to reproduce the polymerization process that had occurred accidentally the first time. DuPont patented the polymer in 1941, registering it under the trade name Teflon in 1944. The first products — most having military and industrial applications — came to market after World War II. It wouldn’t be until the early 1960s that Teflon became a household word when it was used to produce the most effective, heat-resistant cookware yet seen. Aside from the uses we are all familiar with it was also used in early hip replacement surgery

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Grocery cont. from A1 square foot area for a grocery store. We want to find a good grocery store for our community and are speaking with Whole Foods 365, Aldi and Sprouts,” Rasheed said. “We expect to lay the foundation in about six weeks. The site is currently seven feet above sea level but will be elevated to eleven feet.”

On his death in 1994 his obituary in the New York Times eulogized him thusly:

Rasheed says he also expects to have a coffee shop in the center so parents can pick up coffee when dropping off their kids at school at Seashore Middle School Academy next door.

He also said he will provide about thirty parking spots at the center for parents picking up kids.

But at the Country Club he was just Roy, another accomplished person who was rewarded by living his golden years right here on The Island.

Dale Rankin

Packery cont. from A1

is estimated to collect just over $70 million by its expiration in 2022. The current fund balance as of March, 2017 was $10,184,645. Up to $4 million of that has been committed to funding the proposed $11.5 million Park Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge however that project has yet to be approved by the council.

Information provided to the council Tuesday showed that about $5 million has been saved since 2005 by conducting studies rather than dredging projects, however, the lack of dredging in the channel has meant less sand to widen the beach and, as the boater found out Sunday, has left shoaling in the channel, even in the middle where design calls for about fourteen feet of water. A dredging project is scheduled for next year.

The matter is expected to be discussed at the next ISAC meeting which is at 5:30 Tuesday, June 6 at the Veranda restaurant at Schlitterbahn.

The meetings are open to the public and a public comment section is included.

He continued, "It (The Lion King, jr.) was a beautiful show. It was filled with so much talent from our locals, of all ages, and I am proud to be part of the return and I hope to be able to make an announcement in a few days with all of the returning cast and crew" Auditions will be held May 31 and June 1 at 6:30 PM at the PACT Theatre at 2327 State Highway 361 in Port Aransas. Call backs will be announced if needed.

He said the permitting and financing for the center, and the grocery store, is in place.

Cinnamon cont. from A1 Shore development which is beginning Phase II of its development.

Phase I of the project, $300 million in new development, with 150 homes at the current site on the Gulf side of the highway, is almost built out and developer Jeff Lamkin said this week work on new houses in Phase II, the clearing also on the Gulf side just south of the current location, will begin in summer 2017. Crews there have already created a ten acre lake that will be the centerpiece of the new addition.

But Phase I, featuring homes ranging from under $300,000 up to over $3 million, is only a small portion of plans for the development which, according to plans, to take 15 to 20 years to complete, will feature about 900 homes, is budgeted to cost about $1.3 billion, said Lee Ann Peters, the community's director of sales.

Plans also call for a hotel and conference center.

Excavation work at the entire site, on both side of State Highway 361 has been underway for over a year and work on infrastructure is currently underway on the Phase II site on the Gulf side. That site is about four and half times larger than the existing, nearly completed, site and will have about 330 stand-alone houses when done. Lamkin said the concept for the new portion of the development, like the current one, is to create communities centered around retail area, parks, and dining.

Audition requirements include; Students must be in 9th grade or under for the 2016-2017 school year and students should come prepared to sing a portion of one of the following song’s from ‘Disney’s Lion King, Jr.”: Be Prepared, I Just Can’t Wait to be King, Hakuna Matata, and They Live in You. Students should also be prepared to read lines from the following play stars: Simba, Nala, Mufasa, Rafiki, Scar, and Zazu.

Students should wear loose fitting clothes and be prepared to learn 12 bars of choreography.

No open-toe shoes will be allowed. For more information see the PACT website at www. portaransascommunitytheatre.com or call 361749-6036 or email pactdarlene1@yahoo.com.

Rehearsals begin on June 5th when Yarbrough will provide a comprehensive schedule of rehearsals and performances. Yarbrough added, “Summer vacations and other commitments will be taken into consideration, so everyone should audition!”

Disney’s Lion King, Jr. will run July 20,21,22,27,28,29 and August 3,4,5,5 at 7:30 PM and July 23,30 and August 6 at 2:30 PM.

The TRZ is required to maintain $4 million in reserve for dredging expenses. However, the channel proved to be a much more robust system than designers anticipated and has needed only two major dredging projects in its twelve-year history, the last to clean up sand left behind by Hurricane Ike in 2008.

The Conrad Blucher Institute was contracted to monitor the beach around the channel opening and the depth of the channel to the Intracoastal Canal and began conducting three annual monitoring projects at a cost of $1 million.

Those surveys have found that no dredging was necessary for several years. However, when the Blucher Institute approached the Island Strategic Action Committee (ISAC) an advisory group for the city council, in early 2017 to approve a commitment of $4 million over the next four years from the TRZ fund to pay for monitoring they met resistance over the cost. Instead of the requested $1 million for monitoring in 2017 the budget now before the city council, set for a vote in the next four weeks, cut the surveys from three per year to one and the cost from $1 million to $257,745. ISAC members pushed for the cuts after discovering that about 35 percent of the funding going for the studies was being used for administrative costs at the institute.

Their recommendation is that rather that spend the annual fees on studying the depth of the channel that the money be used to dredge the channel and provide sand to re-nourish the beach along the seawall while also maintaining the depth of the channel. The council is expected to honor that request and approve the TRZ budget when the vote is taken.

With the summer season approaching crews are pushing to finish the $3 million Phase I improvements at Balli Park. The project is scheduled to be finished by the end of July and was ahead of schedule until problems with the new roadway surfaced.

“We feel it is important for parents to pick up their kids from school without having to park on the highway,” he said.

The progress was marked last week with the opening of the Texas Month Gulf Show Home at the current location which will be open to the public through the summer. Lamkin and Texas Monthly Publisher David Dunham were on hand for the grand opening. The three-story home is 3935 square feet with five bedrooms and bathrooms.

Dr. Roy J. Plunkett, the scientist whose accidental invention of Teflon 50 years ago not only changed the way Americans cook but also helped develop a multibillion-dollar plastics industry, died on Thursday at the Wooldridge Place Nursing Home in Corpus Christi, Tex. He was 83.

By Brent Rourk

Balli Park Work Continues

Ken Yarbrough, longtime PACT actor, director and now President of the PACT Board, is excited about bringing the play back to the Coastal Bend. Yarbrough stated, “we are in the process of getting commitments from as many of the make-up artists, tech directors, costumers, set designers, mask creators and puppeteers from the first run as possible."

Plunkett later was the chemist behind the production of tetraethyllead which became a widely used gasoline additive.

Shortly thereafter he moved to The Island, on Jackfish and was well known and liked around The Island. He was a dedicated golfer known for taking his time over a shot.

Promises Amazing Costumes and Action Last summer one of the most popular plays in the coastal Bend was the Port Aransas Community Theatre’s (PACT) and Port Aransas Independent School District’s presentation of Disney’s Lion King Jr. The music, popular songs, engaging characters, and colorful costumes pleased audiences every night. Now it is returning for a repeat performance.

The word even entered the lexicon of popular culture as in, “A Teflon President” to which nothing sticks.

For his work Plunkett was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame alongside Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur and the Wright Brothers.

DuPont named an annual award in his honor the DuPont Plunkett Awards. In 1990 President George Bush presented DuPont with the National Medal of Technology for its work with polymers. He later went into the management at Du Pont and retired in 1975 after almost 40 years of service in Wilmington, Delaware, as the director of operations producing the company's Freon refrigerants.

Disney’s Lion King Jr. Returns to PACT

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Theatre Director Darlene Secich stated, “We had so many people who did not get a chance to see the show the first time. We sold out every performance and this time around won't be any different because of summer tourists and locals helping to spread the word about how good and professional looking the show is."

“We are looking to create a place where families can come and let the kids play in the yard. A community atmosphere like small towns all over the country,” Lamkin said.

Lamkin’s company owns property in the Galveston area and in the Rio Grande Valley but the Cinnamon Shore project is the first he is developing. He is tapping into the growing Texas economy.

“Texas has more younger, wealthier, affluent people than any economy in the world and it is growing faster than any other economy in the world,” he said. “When you look at macroeconomic trends you cannot stop Texas.”

He said the scant growth along the SH 361 over the past twenty years has turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

“There is nowhere else that has this much undeveloped land on the beach, and the fact that it is open land means that we can take advantage of what we have learned over the last twenty years in terms of improved building materials, architecture, and best practices for construction.

I believe that over the next ten to fifteen years the area between Port Aransas and Padre Island will evolve into one of the nicest, newest, beach developments in the world,” Lamkin said.

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When finished the improvements will include forty-four new recreational vehicles sites, forty new tent camping sites, restrooms, and a walking trail. The work is part of $10 million in county park improvements on The Island which will include work at both Balli Park and I.B. Magee Park in Port Aransas. Most of the funds, $7.5 million, came from a grant to the Nueces County Coastal Parks Board from the settlement of the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Stuff I Heard on the Island

By Dale Rankin Reader Wayne Williams wrote this week about the oleanders in the median of SPID and the problems they cause. (See letters to the editor in this issue).

Those who lived here in 2008 will recall the Great Oleander Massacre of 2008 in which crews cut the plants down within a couple of feet of the ground. The problem then was the same as the problem now, the plants block the view of drivers trying to make the turnaround on SPID. In 2008 we had some near misses, and this time around we have had at least six incidents of wrong way drivers on SPID in recent months in part due to drivers entering the southbound lane but going northbound based on the mistaken belief it was a two-lane road because they could not see the lanes on the other side.

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Stranger things have happened.

Last week I wrote about the possibility of funding for a boat to patrol Island canals and on

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Gary P. Nunn Larry Joe Taylor Austin Meade Two Tons of Steel Davin James

Island Patrol Boat

This is a long way from a done deal but for the first time I am aware of all the pieces are in place and it could actually become a reality.

I know that sounds like crazy talk after all these years of wishing, but for the first time the money is available and the Law of Unintended Consequences has landed this opportunity in our collective lap. All that is missing is a plan and the political will to get it done.

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In the meantime, Mr. Williams is correct, the plants need at least to be trimmed before they cause a fatal accident.

Funding for the boat to patrol Packery Channel was legally required immediately after the opening of the channel twelve years ago but is no longer required. Funding for the boat in 2005 was at $80,000 but annual three percent increases got it to the $98,812 mark, up from $92,500 last year (more than three percent for reasons unknown). If the money is not used to fund the marina patrol boat it then could be used for a boat to patrol our canals on The Island where the money was raised. A canal patrol boat is something that has been at the top of the Island wish list for decades. Once the budget is approved, assuming it is approved and the $98,812 remains available, it would then be up to ISAC to come up with a plan for using the money to patrol our canals.

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One of the problems with maintaining the oleanders, and the medians as a whole, is that the roadway is maintained by the state which has been slow to react to problems. It took two years of requests before the trimming was done in 2008 and that will likely be the case here.

The light at the end of the tunnel may be in the form of the Park Road 22 Access Management Study currently underway at the Metropolitan Planning Organization. That report has not yet reached the 60 percent completion threshold that will bring it before the Island Strategic Action Committee, but early discussions last year included the possibility of removing all of the medians along SPID between Aquarius and Whitecap and using the space for turn lanes. That would solve all sorts of problems, including the sight-blocking oleanders.

Tuesday a measure containing possible funding for the boat made its way onto the city council agenda. The funding was part of the 2017 budget for the Tax Reinvestment Zone Number Two, not yet approved but soon to be, which includes $98,812 in the 2017 and 2018 budget for “Marina Patrol.” ISAC members who began looking through the budget quite appropriately asked why we have a budget for “Marina Patrol” when we don’t have a marina. It turns out the marina in question is located downtown and so is the boat which Islanders are paying $98,812 to keep patrolling the marina…downtown.

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Islanders enjoy the waterways last weekend!

That's a BIG Check A host of PACT volunteers diligently worked many days at the popular Sandfest in Port Aransas earning PACT a check for $35,000. Pact members were excited about the opportunity to contribute to Sandfest and to receive such a substantial donation that will greatly assist PACT and it continues to bring the best in theatre to the Coastal Bend.

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Senior Moments

Decoration Day (Memorial Day)

By Dotson Lewis

Special to the Island Moon 1921, the Franco-American Children’s League sold poppies nationally to benefit war orphans of France and Belgium. The League disbanded a year later and Madam Guerin approached the VFW for help.

Dotson’s Note: At the risk of sounding like an old geezer, when I was a kid (in the 1930s) the most important holiday of the year to me was Decoration Day. The most important event of the day was the journey to the local cemetery where we put flags on the graves of all* the veterans. On all of the other graves we placed either wreaths or flowers. As I recall, we placed flowers on the graves of friends and relatives, and wreaths on the graves of those whom we did not know. From the cemetery, we rushed home so we could hear “Gentlemen, start your engines.” We would be glued to our family radio for the next three or so hours. We only had one radio in the house. It was a Philco battery powered console model. That morning my dad had installed new batteries (two: an ‘A’ and a ‘B’) to insure an uninterrupted broadcast.

A Day of Remembrance

Shortly before Memorial Day in 1922 the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) became the first veterans’ organization to nationally sell poppies. Two years later their “Buddy” Poppy program was selling artificial poppies made by disabled veterans. In 1948 the US Post Office honored Ms. Michael for her role in founding the National Poppy movement by issuing a red 3 cent postage stamp with her likeness on it.

National Moment of Remembrance The “National Moment of Remembrance” resolution was passed on December 28, 2000 which asks that at 3 p.m. local time, for all Americans “To voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to ‘Taps.’”

Anecdotingly

Mighty Hikers

By Abigail Bair

A few weeks ago, my friend Mel B. asked me to go hiking with her. She is an aficionado of the sport, traveling long distances to beautiful places just to walk all over them. Mel loves hiking to the extent that she often quotes blogs on the subject, and carries a snake bite kit in her purse – even if she’s only going to Starbucks. Stadler and I are not in her league, but we do love walking, especially if we can hunt Pokémon while we’re doing it. Too often, I imagine myself and my dog wearing pith helmets and parting tall savannah grasses in hot pursuit of a duck in a wizard hat. “Shhhhh, we’re hunting purple ghosty things,” I whisper to Stadler, channeling Elmer Fudd. Stadler usually expresses her disdain by attempting to jerk my arm out of its socket to fake pee on a suspicious blade of grass.

We do not always share the same objectives.

I readily agreed to go, and in my excitement for the trip, I downloaded a hiking app to find the best/closest trails. This app is now known as the Liar Liar Pants on Fire Application (L.L.P.F.A.), for reasons that will soon become crystal clear.

Mel B. and I are very different types of early

were clearly in the potato-chip-and-weird-jerky aisle at the Stripes. The only nature photographs we’d capture on this “trail” would feature beach goers rooting through the beer cooler. “Let’s go to P.I.N.S.,” I suggested. “There’s at least one trail out there. The L.L.P.F.A. says it’s 9 miles long! That’s a great hike.” A dark thundercloud of rage rolled across Mel’s beautiful brow.

“I. HATE. SAND.” She said, enunciating each word like her tongue was a gavel.

“The trail isn’t on the beach,” I replied, turning back on to the highway. Mel’s eyes shot daggers.

Luckily, Mel was too excited to stay mad for long. We got to P.I.N.S. and bought our day pass at the visitor’s center. “Is there anything we should know about the trail,” I asked a ranger, concerned because 9 miles out and back is a pretty long hike. He looked at me like I was a congressional level idiot and said, “It’s a little windy today. You shouldn’t have any problems, though.” Pride puffed out my chest as I strutted back to the car. “He could tell we have hiking experience, Mel. Otherwise, he totally would have told us to be careful. We are MIGHTY HIKERS!”

“As Memorial Day approaches, it is time to pause and consider the true meaning of this holiday. Memorial Day represents one day of national awareness and reverence, honoring those Americans who died while defending our Nation and its values. While we should honor these heroes every day for the profound contribution they have made to secure our Nation’s freedom, we should honor them especially on Memorial Day.” “In this time of unprecedented success and prosperity throughout our land, I ask that all Americans come together to recognize how fortunate we are to live in freedom and to observe a universal ‘National Moment of Remembrance’ on each Memorial Day. This memorial observance represents a simple and unifying way to commemorate our history and honor the struggle to protect our freedoms.”

Memorial Day, which was originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in service of the United States of America. Over two dozen cities and towns claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day. While Waterloo, New York was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it’s difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day.

“Accordingly, I hereby direct all executive departments and agencies, in consultation with the White House Program for the National Moment of Remembrance (Program), to promote a ‘National Moment of Remembrance’ to occur at 3 p.m. (local time) on each Memorial Day.” “Recognizing that Memorial Day is a Federal holiday, all executive departments and agencies, in coordination with the Program and to the extent possible and permitted by law, shall promote and provide resources to support a National Moment of Remembrance, including:

Regardless of the exact date or location of its origins, one thing is clear – Memorial Day was borne out of the Civil War and a desire to honor our dead. It was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11. “The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land,” he proclaimed.

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Recognizing, in conjunction with Memorial Day, department and agency personnel whose family members have made the ultimate sacrifice for this Nation.

The date of Decoration Day, as he called it, was chosen because it wasn’t the anniversary of any particular battle. On the first Decoration Day, General James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, and 5,000 participants decorated the graves of the 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried there.

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Providing such information and assistance as may be necessary for the Program to carry out its functions.”

The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states.

The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war).

Encouraging individual department and agency personnel, and Americans everywhere, to pause for one minute at 3:00 p.m. (local time) on Memorial Day, to remember and reflect on the sacrifices made by so many to provide freedom for all.

“I have asked the Director of the White House Millennium Council to issue additional guidance, pursuant to this Memorandum, to the heads of executive departments and agencies regarding specific activities and events to commemorate the National Moment of Remembrance.” --Signed/William J. Clinton

It is now observed in almost every state on the last Monday in May with Congressional passage of the National Holiday Act of 1971.

This helped ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays, though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19th in Texas; April 26th in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10th in South Carolina; and June 3rd (Jefferson Davis’ birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.

That grows on fields where valor led, It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies.

She then conceived of an idea to wear red poppies on Memorial Day in honor of those who died serving the nation during war. She was the first to wear one, and sold poppies to her friends and co-workers with the money going to benefit servicemen in need. Later a Madam Guerin from France was visiting the United States and learned of this new custom started by Ms. Michael. When she returned to France she made artificial red poppies to raise money for war orphaned children and widowed women.

This tradition spread to other countries. In

Mel wanted to head out early – at 7 a.m. to be precise. I was halfway through my coffee when she breezed through my front door, brandishing her snake bite kit as though it could cure everything from acne to Zika. Off we went, following the directions of the L.L.P.F.A. to Port A, where the app insisted there was a beautiful five mile trail. The Google Lady took us straight to a parking lot that boasted no less than 25 small mobile homes in various states of disrepair and a few tents. This seemed wrong. “I haven’t heard of any hiking around here,” replied clerk at the convenience store after being cheerfully interrogated by Mel, and sourly stared at by me. L.L.P.F.A. indicated that we were standing a mile down the trail when we

by Melinda Myers

*Union & Confederate

We cherish too, the Poppy red

risers. Mel awakens chipper and happy – one pictures small birds and big-eyed forest critters helping her with her morning ablutions while she sings nonsense syllables at them in a warbling soprano. At my house, I have to set the alarm on my phone to fog horn/gunshot/horror movie scream/falling over drum kit/tornado siren in order to dislodge myself from sleep.

Anything less (like a lovely harp or babbling brook) and I’ll just snuggle up until it’s time for dinner. Stadler is no help. The dog might love to stay in bed even more than I do, and is immune to the morning cacophony, responding by rolling over onto her back, all four paws in the air, so she can hog the breeze from the box fan. I head, one eye begrudgingly open, directly to the coffee, grumbling the entire way… “Lazy ass dog…gets to stay in bed…gonna sleep all day…dumb dog,” and am Ab the Terrible until the caffeine kicks in. People have grown to fear morning me, giving me the wide, careful berth normally reserved for hand grenades and trapped badgers.

We arrived at the well-marked trail head a scant ten minutes later. It seemed that many people had the same idea, including an assortment of elderly folks with walkers and one guy in a wheelchair. The beginning of the walk was neatly paved, and we set off in high spirits. With 9 miles to go it had to get harder! We strolled for 20 minutes, pausing frequently so that Mel could take pictures of cacti, and then rounded a corner. The sign that marked the trail head was clearly visible. We’d hiked in a loop for less than a mile. There was nowhere else to go.

Furious (and feeling pretty stupid) we slammed into the car, driving until we saw a barbed wire gate with a sign. It marked the last vestige of the great old cattle ranching on the Island. We hiked in, only to find a rough trail surrounded by patches of strange and beautiful wild flowers. As we walked further, I let Stadler off leash. She tried to join a herd of white tailed deer – happily dog bouncing right along with them. They turned her down so forcibly that she sped back to us as though she was equipped with turbo. Don’t buck with white tailed deer.

After the hike, which was still shorter than we preferred, but wilder than we dared hope, we drove home, cautiously content. The second we passed the water tower, returning to the land of cell signal, I stopped and deleted the L.L.P.F.A., angrily stabbing it into nonexistence with my index finger. “Are you done?” asked Mel, back to her normal, optimistic self.

“Yes,” I pouted, marginally humiliated by my phone rage.

“Good,” she said. “Let’s fry up some snapper.”

And we did. All’s well that ends with a good lunch.

The Secret to a Bountiful Garden and Beautiful Landscape

Red Poppies

In 1915, inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields,” Moina Michael replied with her own poem:

Mighty Hiker (and TSA hopeful) Stadler carefully sniffing every single thing at the Oso Wildlife Preserve while I carry her stuff. Photo by Melissa Bratten

Dotson’s Other Note: Yes, the William J. Clinton who signed the National Moment of Remembrance resolution, is the one and the same “Bill Clinton” who was the 42th President of these United States. By the way, our radio in 1934 was a 1932 “Philco” which was battery powered. I don’t know what my dad paid for the used radio. I do know that the radio sold in 1932 for $40 at “Montgomery-Wards” (that’s $661.46 in today’s dollars). I have no idea what he paid for the new batteries. Do any of you Moon Monkeys remember the entire family gathering around the family radio?

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, May 30, 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 May 27, 2017.

Please listen and call in. The listener/text line is: 361-560-5397…It’s your show.

Hang in there/Have fun!

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Spring is here and the garden centers are filled with beautiful plants. Many of us are making our way to one or more of our favorite garden shops. We leave with a car full of beautiful flowers and healthy vegetables with hopes of a bountiful harvest.

But before that first plant goes into the ground, make sure your soil is properly prepared.

Though not the most glamorous part of gardening, it is the first and most important step in creating a beautiful and productive garden.

Start by adding some compost, aged manure or a garden soil labeled for flowers and vegetables to this year’s shopping list. You’ll need about two 2-cubic-ft bags of soil additive to cover 25 square feet of garden two inches deep. Calculate your garden size by measuring the length times the width, so you are sure to purchase all you need.

Once the car is unloaded the fun begins. Work the soil when it is moist, but not wet. A simple test can help with this. Grab a handful of soil and gently squeeze. Then gently tap it with your finger. If it breaks into smaller pieces, it is ready to work. If it stays in a wet ball, wait for the soil to dry slightly before digging in. Otherwise you will compact the soil, reduce drainage and create clods and crusty soil that you’ll be fighting all season long.

Start by digging several inches of compost, aged manure, or a product like Schultz garden soil for flowers and vegetables into the top 12 inches of soil. These materials improve drainage in heavy clay soils and increase waterholding ability in sandy soils.

Spread the organic matter over the soil surface of the garden bed. Use a shovel or rototiller to

blend the organic matter into the soil. Rake the area smooth and level or make a slight crown in the middle of the bed. Crowning the bed slightly can increases visual impact of flowers and can help keep soil in the bed and out of the surrounding lawn or mulch.

Don’t skip this step even if you applied these materials last year. Yearly applications of organic matter continue to build quality soil and improve your gardening results.

Apply the type and amount of fertilizer recommended by your soil test report. If this information is not available use about three pounds of a low nitrogen slow release fertilizer for every 100 square feet of garden. Check the back of your fertilizer bag for more details.

Once the soil is prepared it is time to plant.

Carefully slide your transplants out of their container. Gently loosen any circling roots.

Plant flowers and vegetables in the prepared planting bed then water thoroughly.

Mulch the soil surface with a one to two inch layer of pine straw, evergreen needles, shredded leaves or other organic material. These help suppress weeds, conserve moisture and improve the soil as they decompose.

Seem like too much work? Investing time preparing the soil at the start of the season will save you time throughout the season. You’ll spend less time watering, managing pests and replacing struggling or dead plants. This gives you more time to harvest beautiful flowers for bouquets, vegetables for your favorite recipes, or just to sit, relax and enjoy your landscape.

Make this the year to start building a strong foundation for a healthy and productive garden.

May 25, 2017

Hot Dogs!

June 1st

First Friday at the Port A. Art Center

Heat exhaustion in canines and how to treat it Dog fur is great protection against the cold but can be a problem in hot weather. This is because, unlike humans, dogs eliminate heat by panting. (Dogs have some sweat glands in the footpads which help with heat dissipation, but only minimally.) When panting isn’t enough, their body temperature rises. This can be fatal if not corrected quickly.

What To Watch For: Excessive panting and signs of discomfort indicate overheating.

However, it is important to be aware of the ambient temperature and take appropriate preventative measures.

Primary Cause: Any hot environment can cause heatstroke, but the most common cause is careless actions such as leaving a dog in a car on a hot day or forgetting to provide shade to an animal kept outdoors.

Immediate Care: It is essential to remove the dog from the hot environment immediately. If it is unconscious, make sure no water enters the nose or mouth as you follow these guidelines.

Also, do not give the dog aspirin to lower its temperature; this can lead to other problems.

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Apply a cold pack to the dog’s head to help lower his body temperature -- a packet of frozen vegetables works fine.

Massage the legs. A vigorous rubbing helps the dog’s circulation and reduces the risks of shock.

Let the dog drink as much cool or cold water as it wants. Adding a pinch of salt to the water bowl will help the dog replace the minerals it lost through panting.

The following steps should be taken, regardless of whether the dog is conscious, appears to recover well, or was only mildly affected: Take the dog’s temperature every five minutes, continuing water-cooling until it drops below 103°F (39.4°C) .

If the dog’s temperature drops a little more – to around 100°F (37.8°C) – don’t worry.

A slightly low temperature is a lot less dangerous.

Get immediate veterinary attention. Heatstroke can cause unseen problems, such as swelling of the brain, kidney failure, and abnormal clotting of blood. On the way to the veterinarian, travel with the windows open and the air conditioner on.

Veterinary Care: Treatment will consist mostly of replacing lost fluids and minerals.

This may extend to secondary conditions, which your vet will be able to identify.

Intravenous fluid therapy and monitoring for secondary complications such as kidney failure, development of neurologic symptoms, abnormal clotting, changes in blood pressure, and electrolytes abnormalities are typically recommended in cases of heatstroke.

Other Causes: Dogs with thick fur, short noses, or those suffering from medical conditions such as laryngeal paralysis and obesity are predisposed to heatstroke. In addition, dogs that enjoy constant exercise and playtime -- such as working dogs (Labradors, Springer Spaniels, etc.) -- should be closely monitored for signs of overheating, especially on hot days.

Photo Show!

The Port Aransas Art Center will host their June First Friday Reception on June 2nd from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. The exhibition is a group photography show called "Focus on Art." The sponsor for this event is American Electric Power. The public is invited to join for live music, art and artists.

Prevention: Heat stroke can be prevented by taking caution not to expose a dog to hot and humid conditions. Also, while traveling in cars, make sure that the dog is well ventilated by placing it in a wired cage or in an open basket, and never leave your dog in a car with the windows closed.

Lizzy is in hot water with a couple of crabs, but not overheated.

Put your dog in the bath tub or use a garden hose..

Run a cool (not cold) shower over your pet, covering the whole body -- especially the back of the head and neck.

Allow the water to fill up the bathtub as you shower the dog. Keep the head elevated to prevent aspiration pneumonia.

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SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon

Brief History of Professional Basketball in the United States

By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: I thought that before the NBA championship is decided, some of you Moon Monkeys might enjoy some ancient basketball history. It is a game that grows on you. Sit back and enjoy. Thanks to Wikipedia for many of the facts in this report.

First-The National Basketball League The National Basketball League was the first professional basketball league in the world.

Centered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the league's teams stretched from New York City to Central New Jersey, through the Philadelphia area and down to Wilmington, Delaware. The league began operations with the 1898-1899 season and disbanded in January 1904, prior to completing the 1903-04 season.

The league was originally intended to consist of two separate geographic districts, one based in Philadelphia and the other in New York City. The New York district never got off the ground, however.

The league debuted on December 1, 1898, with a game between the Trenton Nationals and the Hancock Athletic Association at Textile Hall in Angelo Musi Philadelphia's Kensington section.

The Nationals rallied in the second-half to win, 21-19, before 900 fans.

The 1898-99 season saw six teams in the league. Three were in Philadelphia (Clover Wheelmen, Germantown Nationals, and Hancock Athletic Association), and three were in New Jersey (Millville Glass Blowers, Camden Electrics, and Trenton Nationals). Two of the Philadelphia teams folded prior to New Year's Eve 1898, but the other four completed the season, with the Trenton Nationals winning the first championship with an 18-2-1 record.

The following season was more stable for the new league. The season was divided into two halves. Teams in the first half were Trenton, New York Wanderers, Camden Electrics, Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, Bristol Pile Drivers, and Chester, PA. The New York Wanderers joined, and only one team, out of Chester, Pennsylvania, dropped out, and it was immediately replaced by the Millville team, which had originally elected not to participate that season. Trenton and Millville provided the best teams in the loop, with Trenton gaining a disputed championship, in which the team won both halves of the season.

Warriors Win Inaugural NBA Finals Joe Fulks, the 6’5” forward of the Philadelphia Warriors, guided his team to the first championship of the Basketball Association of America, forerunner of the NBA. A crowd of 7,918 packed the old Philadelphia Arena on April 16, 1947, as the series opened between the Warriors and the Chicago Stags.

The Warriors took a 34-20 lead at intermission, then watched Fulks pour in 29 points in the second half. He hit his first eight shots of the fourth period and added five free throws to finish with 37 points in what the Associated Press called "the greatest shooting exhibition ever seen on the arena floor."

The 1901-1902 season may have been the most successful year of the National Basketball League in terms of stability, with six strong franchises, namely the Bristol, New York, Trenton, Camden, Millville, and Philadelphia teams from the previous year. The schedule expanded once again to 40 games, every game save one was played as scheduled, no teams dropped out, and there was only one really weak team in the league. Camden finally

Joe Fulks became more than a .500 team and lost the league crown to the Bristol Pile Drivers by only 3 games. Bristol had a 28-12 record.

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By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon Alfred Hitchcock once said, “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” Fans sat forward in their seats when he stepped into the batter’s box. The bang was expected. Goodlooking, muscular and baseball smart, he was a tough guy if there ever was one. Jeff Bagwell was one of a kind and could mash with the best of them. He was one strong son-of-a-gun with quick hands and the vision of a hawk.

Angelo Musi, a 5-foot-9 guard out of Temple with a smooth set shot, added 19 points as the Warriors won it going away, 84-71. The Stags, meanwhile, had taken an incredible 129 shots, hitting only 26 of them (20 percent).

Fulks cooled off considerably the next night for Game 2, but it didn't matter. Five Warriors finished in double figures, including forward Howie Dallmar with 18 points and utility player Jerry Fleishman with 16. It was just enough to allow Philadelphia to nurse a lead of as much as eight points for most of the game. The Stags took a brief advantage at 69-68, but Art Hillhouse, a 6-foot-7, 220-pound center, was the man in the fourth period. The big center scored seven of Philly's last 10 points as the Warriors made it two games to none with an 85-74 win.

The series then moved to Chicago. The weather seemed good, so the Warriors decided to take a commercial flight. As it turned out, the commercial carrier was attempting to set a record for the flight to Chicago, with hopes of covering the 800 or so miles in less than four hours. Thoughts of setting records soon ended after the plane was airborne.

"We were up in the air about five to 10 minutes when we smelled smoke," guard George Senesky said. "I asked Dallmar if he had put a cigarette out on the floor. Then all this black smoke filled the plane."

They had to return to the airport and switch to another plane. The incident was enough to lead at least one player to retire early from the league. But for the most part the Warriors resumed their trip to Chicago unscathed.

The Warriors did immediate damage the next night, April 19, as Fulks returned to form and led the Warriors with 26 points. With about four minutes left, Philly led by 10. Although the Stags closed fast, the Warriors held on to win 75-72 for a commanding 3-0 series lead.

They almost iced it the next night. Chicago held a 13-point lead heading into the fourth quarter.

Fulks had spent most of the third quarter on the bench with four fouls, but he returned in the fourth as Philly made a run. The Warriors might have pulled it off if Fulks hadn't fouled out with two minutes left and the Warriors down by two points. He finished with 21 points; Senesky led all scorers with 24. But Chicago's

The National Basketball League began the 1900-1901 season with seven teams and an expanded schedule of 32 games. Of the seven teams, six remained. The new entry, from Burlington NJ, failed to complete the season. The seven teams were the New York Wanderers, Trenton Nationals, Millville Glass Blowers, Bristol Pile Drivers, Camden Skeeters, Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, and Burlington.

With five of the seven teams finishing with records of .500 or better, NBL fans saw good competitive play from most teams throughout the season. In this season the Camden team also went by the handle of Camden Skeeters, apparently after what many call the New Jersey state bird, the mosquito. With the split season dropped, no playoffs were necessary, and the New York Wanderers captured the League title by three games.

A Call from the Hall 1997 to 2005, these two propelled the team to six playoff appearances in nine seasons and one World Series. The “Killer B’s”: Biggio, Bagwell and Lance Berkman were a force to be reckoned with.

Bagwell’s last at-bat occurred on October 2, 2005. Jeff’s career records are exceptional. He hit .297 over 15 seasons, while recording 2,314 hits, including 449 home runs. Jeff knocked in 1,529 RBI’s; he scored 1,517 runs and posted a .408 on-base percentage. Bagwell is the only player in MLB history to record 30 home runs, 100 RBI’s, 100 runs scored and 100 walks in six consecutive seasons (1994-2001). His resume also includes the 1991 Rookie of the Year Award, the 1994 National League MVP Award, and a spot in the 2005 Texas Sports Hall of Fame.

Bagwell spent seven years waiting for a call

Jeff Bagwell with kids He just had this aura about him. If he had never played baseball, if you had never heard his name and you passed him on the sidewalk one day, you’d turn around and look. Besides being able to beat a baseball out of shape, he didn’t want to be just an all-star; he wanted to be a winner. He knew a secret that just being good was the enemy of being great. Giving this guy a baseball bat was like handing Ivanhoe a sword, the outlaw Josey Wales a pistol, or Mick Jagger a microphone. Something electrifying was about to happen. He owned what the locals in Houston called “light tower power.” Writers of his day named his home runs “Moon Shots;” I like to refer to them as “The Bagwell Fly.” Jeffrey Robert “Baggie” Bagwell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 27, 1968.

Bagwell was drafted and signed by the Red Sox in 1989. Jeff’s boyhood idol was none other than Red Sox outfielder, Carl Yastrzemski. In 1990, Bagwell was acquired by the Astros as a Minor Leaguer in a trade deadline deal with the Red Sox, for pitcher Larry Anderson. What a deal for Houston. Jeff, wearing #5, debuted at first base for the Astros on April 8, 1991.

Bagwell is in good company. I am reminded that Joe DiMaggio, Johnny Bench, George Brett, Hank Greenberg and Brooks Robinson all wore the #5.

By joining teammate, Craig Biggio, the two of them helped change the culture of the Astros’ franchise. Bagwell spent the next 15 years showing patience and power at the plate, exceptional base-running skills, while playing great defense as a first baseman. From

Mike Trout from the Hall. Jeff Bagwell will now join Craig Biggio in Cooperstown, New York, on July 30, 2017. “Baggie” will be only the second player in the Baseball Hall of Fame Museum to wear an Astros’ cap. They will be teammates for eternity.

Don’t forget to check out the Astros special 5-game pack which will provide you with tickets to three games against the Toronto Blue Jays on August 4-6, the August 19 game against the Oakland A’s, and a final game on August 30, against the Texas Rangers. Bagwell promotional giveaways will include items like a Bagwell HOF jersey and a bobble head doll.

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Redfish Bay Chapter Annual Take a Kid Fishing Event The annual Take a Kid fishing event will be held at Woody’s Sport Center, 136 W. Cotter Ave, Port Aransas on Friday June 3rd and Saturday June 4th.

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Cost: the registration fee is $10.00 per participant and includes a New Tide Membership in CCA, admittance to all of the scheduled events, including a rod and reel, on Friday and Saturday.

Friday, June 2rd: registration will start at 5:30 pm under the tent out front with each participant receiving a rod and reel and participation in a tasty “shrimp boil”.

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Max Zaslofsky and Don Carlson scored 20 and 18 points, respectively, and the Stags kept their hopes alive with a 74-73 win.

The scene shifted back to Market Street, where Fulks again showed his form in Game 5. He hit for 34 points, Musi scored 13 and Senesky 11. But it was assists specialist Dallmar who salvaged a close game. With less than a minute left and the score tied at 80 apiece, he hit the big bucket.

"I scored the winning basket, which gave me a total of two points for the game," Dallmar, who went on to a career coaching at Stanford, said later. "It was from outside. I think it bounced about four times before it went in."

Fleishman added a late free throw, and the Warriors brought home a trophy for the new game's old town. Each of the players received a $2,000 bonus, quite a boost in those days, and a ring with a diamond chip in it.

Dallmar recalled being quite impressed with the money at a time when the members of the All-Star team got nothing more than a tie clasp and an autographed picture of Commissioner Maurice Podoloff. As for Coach Ed Gottlieb, the victory meant a toast. After the game he retreated to an office in the Arena for the Manhattan.

"He didn't even sip it," Senesky recalled with a laugh. "One gulp and it was gone."

1947 Finals: Philadelphia 4, Chicago 1 Dotson’s Other Note: How about the big $2000 bonus to the winning players? In my opinion the current NBA basketball is very entertaining, but certainly not basketball as I know it. I do believe that basketball has the best athletes in pro sports. I will watch many of the games, but mostly to observe the officials and wonder what they are told by the league as to how to call the games. It ain’t basketball, but it is fun to watch. I am working on a name for the game… any suggestions? 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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Dee and Rick Beekman took the Island Moon on a whirlwind Jazz themed tour of Cuba.

Islanders Bill and Vickie Hibbs enjoyed a scuba diving and sightseeing vacation recently in Grand Cayman. The picture is of Bill with the “Moon” at Rum Point on the north side of Grand Cayman.

Ken Marsh and the Island Moon by the Capitol Building in Havana Cuba April 25

The moon spent 17 days traveling through Italy with us from Lake Como, Siena, Tuscany and Cinque Terre. Scott & Kim McFarlane -- Primavera Dr.

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