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Issue 687

Island Moon

The voice of The Island since 1996

June 15, 2017

Around The Island

By Dale Rankin It’s been a calm week here on our little sandbar but that might be about to change as the National Hurricane Center announced just as we went to press Wednesday that they are watching a tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea that may develop into a tropical system over the next five days. They place a 20% chance of it forming a tropical storm and predict it will move westnorthwest by the middle of next week. Looks like we may being playing chicken with our first storm of the season, but hey, maybe it will blow the mosquitoes north of Swinney Switch, so we got that going for us.

Packery patrol boat Our story last week about the Packery Patrol boat currently on a trailer behind the #16 Fire Station on State Highway 361 drew a lot of attention and information from Islanders. Several wrote to say the boat, which is an inflatable, is the second boat purchased to patrol Packery Channel since the channel opened in 2005 with the first being a Dargel whose whereabouts are currently unknown. If anyone knows more about that boat – assuming it ever existed at all – please let us know. The current city staff which inherited the problem of how to staff the boat is also checking to see what they can find out. Hopefully we will know more by the next meeting of the Island Strategic Action Committee whose attention to the budget has raised the issue.

Up in the sky! The fifth annual 4th of July Island Blast fireworks show is now less than three weeks away and organizer Jerry Watkins is still in fundraising mode. The show is wholly supported by donations from Islanders and the show is all set, but a few extra dollars are needed for some incidentals. All of the money raised goes directly to the show. Make checks payable to Island Blast, addressed to 14890 Granada Dr. #205, or drop them here at the Island Moon office, 14646 Compass. This has quickly become an Island tradition and is viewable all over the (flat) Island from its launching point at the end of Whitecap.

So long John We lost a great Islander this week with the passing of John Fisher who along with his wife Jackie owned and operated Fortuna Bay Bed and Breakfast. John was a true gentleman and you knew when he said, “It’s just another day in paradise” he wasn’t being facetious, he meant it. John will be missed.

Dotson on the move… If you have missed our friend Dotson Lewis this week it is because he is in Birmingham, Alabama representing Texas in the National Senor Games with his partner Bob Brown in Table Tennis Men's Doubles, 80-84 Age Group and competing solo in the singles division. From guarding General Hideki Tojo during the war crimes trials in Japan after World War II to landing at Inchon with Douglas MacArthur, to leading the Nippon Professional Baseball League in hitting our boy Dotson gets around!

Sweet Little Sixteen is definitely out We went to Giggity’s in Port A on Sunday to catch Mike Williams’ show. “Hey Mike, I noticed you changed up your set list some this week. Are you learning new material?” “Well, I set my upper bridge down on my kitchen sink and when I came back there were mouse dropping right where I left it. The mouse must have got it. So I can’t sing anything with S’s in it until I get a new one.

Around cont. on A4

Snapper Fever A11

Moon on a Spoon A9

Surfs Up! A7

Live Music A18

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FREE Council Approves Change on the Packery Billish Park Improvements Work to begin by end of 2017

By Dale Rankin

of the park once the improvements are complete. The vote comes at the end of a long and tortuous road which saw the death of the first designer, and the first round of bids come in over the amount available. Since voters approved the bonds in in 2012 $100,000 has been spend on design for park, which has been redone twice.

Five years after voters approved $500,000 in bonds for a redesign of Billish Park the Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday approved a total of $600,000 to move the project to completion. Under the agreement, which will require a second vote by the council on June 20, the city will provide up to $400,000 for the project while the Padre Isles Property Owners Association will provide up to $200,000 from membership dues. The vote approves a lease with the POA which will require that organization to provide for overseeing the design and ongoing maintenance

The POA board of directors is expected to approve the final design for the park at its meeting this month, drawings of the new park are not yet complete. City Parks and Recreation Director Jay Ellington said work at the park is expected to begin by “late summer or early fall.” The description of the deal as described to the council reads as follows: “The Park will be leased to the POA for the period of construction with the POA paying the full costs of construction and being responsible to assure that all bills are paid. Upon

Billish cont. on A4

Cinnamon Shore Announces $1.3 Billion Phase II Expansion

Phase II of Cinnamon Shore Will quadruple the development’s current size, hotel scheduled to open in 2018 The Sea Oats Group, parent company of the Cinnamon Shore development in Port Aransas, this week announced a $1.3 billion, 300-acre expansion of the Cinnamon Shore development there. “Cinnamon Shore North has been enormously successful, with over $200 million in sales, and is now 85 percent sold out,” said Jeff Lamkin, CEO of Sea Oats Group, developers of Cinnamon Shore. “The phase II expansion will take place over 15 to 20 years and will more than quadruple the size of the existing community.” Sea Oats Group began developing Phase I of the 63-acre Cinnamon Shore North in 2007 which Sea Oats officials say includes $275 million in investments on 200 lots, 75 of which are multi-family residences, with a median price point of $1 million. Single-family homes start at around $636,000 and beachfront homes are priced from about $2.5 million.

As we first reported here several weeks ago the water depth near the mouth of the channel has been around five feet for some time and boaters report that the shallow water extends well inside the channel from the end of the jetties. The boat in this photo struck the bottom of the channel about 500 feet inside the jetties with enough force to crack the fiberglass on the bottom and run both propellers. Then on Wednesday the City of Corpus Christi and U.S. Coast Guard issued a warning to boaters that increased shoaling in resulting in shallow conditions in some areas of

Phase II of the project is located on the Gulf side of State Highway 361 south of the Phase I structures where excavation work is complete and infrastructure, drainage and water lines, are currently being installed. Phase II will include more than 250-acres with an estimated $800 million investment. Phase II will include a 3,300-foot wide beachfront, maintained daily – almost three times the size of the beach at Cinnamon Shore North. A key feature of phase II – an approximately 10-acre lake will be encircled by a mile-long

the channel, meaning boaters should use caution when navigating the channel.Officials said boaters should be careful when navigating the entire channel from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway to the Gulf and in particular in the Deposition Basin (boat ramp area) to the end of the channel at the Gulf of Mexico.

Packery cont. on A4

Snapper Season Extended TPWD Extends Red Snapper Season in Federal Waters

Editor’s note: As we went to press Wednesday afternoon Texas Parks and Wildlife Department issued new rules for Red Snapper Season 2017. We run it here in its entirety.

Cinnamon cont. on A4

A little Island history

Twelve years after it was opened ahead of schedule by Hurricane Rita in 2005 Packery Channel this week experienced some changes within its banks and along its shores.

Following a series of public meetings on the Texas coast to seek angler input, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), along with the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and the U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC), have reached an agreement that will allow private recreational anglers to catch red snapper in federal waters on weekends this summer.

On the Rocks

Red Snapper Controversy Explained

By Jay Gardner Hunter S. Thompson said, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” In some unprecedented movement on the red snapper issue this week, the Texas Parks and Wildlife has scheduled and hosted several public meetings regarding potential changes to the regulations. And I don’t mean like potential changes to next year’s season; I’m talking about they’ve had these meetings and taken input and they’re going to make a decisions by the time this hits print. Lance (Robinson) was talking about like, get the boat ready, because we can go fishing this coming weekend. Considering how things typically move, this is like light speed or something.

The framework agreed upon for the 2017 season will allow recreational anglers to fish for red snapper in federal and state waters for 39 Spectacular failure weekend days beginning Friday, June 16 and running through Labor As you loyal readers know, the Day. The open fishing days each management of red snapper has been week would be Friday, Saturday a spectacular failure, that resulted

Snapper cont. on A4

On the Rocks cont. on A11

Place Names in Texas

Editor’s note: I bumped into this old paper by Armstrong Price in the Autumn 1944 edition of Texas Geographic Magazine. Price was just about the father of Texas Coastal Geology and a lot more. It shows how we got a lot of the local place names in South and Central Texas by corruption of their original Spanish names. I was at a small local meeting about coastal engineering and geology at UTMSI in the early 70s. Price was there too. Larry Urban of Urban Engineering was explaining about the state of the art surveying equipment of the time that used lasers for accurate distance measurement. Price asked if he could interrupt. He said with his old and gravelly voice that when he was surveying in South Texas in the nineteen teens and that they just

clicked a hand counter every second time that the saddle squeaked and it was plenty accurate to get a measure of distance. He was active and publishing into his late 90s.

Richard L. Watson, Coastal Marine Geologist

Ph.D.

By Armstrong Price By Strange names of strange places lighten the traveler’s dull moments. The foreign name has a romantic look, and a romantic sound. Once expects an equally romantic meaning. But his anticipated local color may fade if research into these items is made too deep and too factual. One may find that “Riviere du Boeuf” should be translated Cow River, and that “La Playa Lodoso” means simply Mud Flats.

Map of 1853 Encinal Peninsula with names of the impresarios who were granted land by the Mexican government History cont. on A4

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Some Island Boats Are Afloat

Snapper cont. from A1

highs reported in 2014. TPWD Gulf trawl data also shows increasing abundance over time for juvenile red snapper. All of this data suggests that red snapper populations off of Texas can safely handle the additional landings which result from these extra fishing days. Of note is that over the last three years Texas’ private recreational landings have accounted for less than 7 percent of the total Gulf wide landings.

and Sunday only with additional open days on Monday, July 3, Tuesday, July 4 and Monday, Sept. 4. Red snapper harvest would be closed in state and federal waters Monday through Thursday each week except on the days noted above surrounding national holidays. Texas state waters will then remain open for the duration of the fall season starting Sept. 5. After a disappointing three-day federal fishing season for private recreational anglers, discussions developed between the five Gulf states, Gulf state congressional offices and the USDOC to explore ways to extend the federal recreational angler red snapper season this summer. TPWD sought public input on different options being proposed to extend the season, which involved a trade-off, closing some days of fishing in Texas waters from the shore out to nine nautical miles in exchange for more fishing days where both state and federal waters would be available for recreational anglers.

Recreational anglers can help TPWD collect important red snapper data by downloading the iSnapper app and reporting their landings. By reporting landings, TPWD can have a better understanding of the health and abundance of the red snapper fishery in Texas.

“For years we have heard loudly and unambiguously from outraged recreational anglers who have only seen their fishing seasons get shorter in federal waters,” said Carter Smith, TPWD executive director. “Based on recent public comments, we think this option, which is for this year only, provides some much needed recreational opportunity for Texas anglers, as well as important economic benefits for our coastal communities.”

“Active angler participation in our data collection efforts is essential in aiding the department with the sustainable management of this resource,” Smith emphasized.

According to the latest red snapper stock assessment, both recruitment and biomass has been twice as high in the western Gulf (west of the Mississippi River) as compared to the eastern Gulf. Additionally, several of the stock assessment indices show increasing red snapper abundance in the western Gulf with record

Agencies involved in the extension decision include all five Gulf state fish and wildlife agencies in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi; various congressional offices; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration housed in the USDOC, as well as the public and other stakeholders.

The size and bag limit for red snapper during the extended federal season days will remain the same; 15 inches and 4 fish per person in state waters and 16 inches and 2 fish per person in federal waters.

You Snooze, You Ooze

Since we showed you the patrol boat on dry land last week, we thought we'd show you some boats that are very much afloat on our Island this time. They sure are pretty when they're on the water!

A suspicious liquid was oozing out of the back of the Whitecap Treatment Plant last Sunday. It didn’t smell very good.

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Letters to the Editor

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Coldwell Banker Advertising Jan Park Rankin Classifieds Arlene Ritley Production Manager Abigail Bair Contributing Writers Joey Farah Andy Purvis Mary Craft MayBeth Christiansen Jay Gardner

From theislandmoonnewspaper on Facebook… Regarding the Packery Patrol boat currently on a trailer behind Fire Station #16 This story is interesting to me in the sense I believe it’s the tip of the iceberg. Cities don’t just go $1.6 billion in debt with very little to show for it. I think when people dig like you are digging, they will find many similar situations of mismanaged funds. On a side note, it would be interesting to go over to the boat, turn the key on and see how many hours are on the hour meter.

Todd Hunter Dotson Lewis Ronnie Narmour

On a positive note, pretty astounding that there is a yeti sitting in a boat that hasn't been stolen!

Brent Rourk Photographers

Kyle Pape

Miles Merwin

• Editor’s note: There are 200 hours on the engine.

Debbie Noble Mary Craft Ronnie Narmour Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) Riley P. Dog

Wow!! Kudos to the ISAC for this discovery! Debbie Wall Does CC use Reserve Deputy staff for patrol shifts? Thanks! Cindy Morgan Editor’s note: They do not. Boat looks immaculate. Highly doubt city employees are getting the rust stains off those transom bolts with a tooth brush. Travis Kirtland I'm about to Sailor out; but why is there a yeti cooler on a work boat, we the Islanders have been paying for???

Publisher 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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That's not the original Packery boat either!!!! They used to have a BRAND NEW Dargel cat... easily a $60,000 boat... What ever happened to that one??? Alexander Murphy Hopefully that Yeti cooler will still be there after this story gets out. Jerry Henry I'll volunteer to do a patrol shift on the boat for free! Ken Williams 2295 contacts? Has anyone ever seen this boat contact any boats ??? Bob Bennett What about the Dargel they replaced this boat with?

Padre Island National Seashore is seeking interested vendors to provide ice sales to the visiting public in the form of bagged ice or from an on-site ice vending machine. There is currently no ice for sale in the park and demand remains high from campers, fishermen and beach users. Visitation (over 634,000 in 2016) is steadily increasing with the recovery from the recent economic downturn. The majority of visitation is predominately day use. Many visitors are from the local Corpus Christi area, however, the Park is experiencing an up-tick in visitors from the San Antonio and Houston areas of the state as well as many out of state visitors. In addition to beach use, other popular activities include cam ping and fishing.

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Editor’s note: In response to the column last week regarding an effort in the state legislative Special Session to limit annual tax increases. One sided view which is what it is...an editorial. I'm sure if the Island Moon added two pages of advertising they would reduce the ad rates so they only take in the same revenue. Totally ignores: funds which are voter approved by bond elections, desire to fund residential streets, public safety, increasing health costs related to employees, etc. all while dealing with declining sales tax. Clearly someone who can run what's essentially a billion dollar business. Rex Kinnison Not to mention having a city run heavily by real estate professionals with the constant comment " it's great that property values are increasing!!" No. No it's not. I'm not looking to flip my house every 3 years, and some hypothetical assessed value does nothing for me at all. Kyle Pape The Del Mar College Bond?? Yes votes at the ballots for bonds equal higher taxes, When they say the new bond will not raise your property taxes what they are really saying, but won’t tell you is an existing bond is going to expire meaning the investors have been paid off. So existing revenue for that expired bond will continue to flow in with the yes vote for the new bond. Vote NO for any bond. The City has enough of our tax dollars as to not fall prey to banker lobbyist pushing more bond packages. As our City grows more tax dollars are generated. Vote no for any Bond package! Michael Lambert

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"Texas?" Let's Call It "Taxes."

Dale, on behalf of Nueces County Republican Women, thank you for publishing the information on our upcoming meeting. And thanks, too, for adding the pic of the Farenthold family. I loved it.

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Thanks, Dale!

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And we paid for that Yeti.

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Gratitude’s

The Texas Medical Board, pending the outcome of the July 18th special legislative session, will be responsible for writing the rules about adult stem treatments in Texas. The legislation takes effect September 1, 2017.

Jesse’s Liquor

Island Tire

Tarpon Inn

During HB 810’s committee hearing, members heard from patients Tracy, who has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years, and Jennifer, who has battled it for 13 years. Senator Jose Menendez (D-San Antonio), Representative Springer and the author of the bill Chair Tan Parker all have shared stories of their spouses’ fights against chronic illness and the hope, like so many Texans that adult stem cell therapies could extend, improve and save lives.

Time for the legislature for enact limits, with teeth, on total revenues including both taxes and fees collected by local government that can only be exceeded with referendum approval.

Port A Parks & Rec

Giggity’s

Representative Parker filed HB 810 in the Texas House to authorize doctors to prescribe adult stem cell treatment to patients suffering from the debilitating effects of severe chronic illness or terminal disease. HB 810 continues the work from last Session with the passage of the Andrea Sloan ‘Right to Try’ legislation sponsored by Senator Bettencourt, which authorized terminally ill patients faster access to safe but experimental drugs to save or prolong their lives.

For more information and submission guidelines go to the park website page at: https://www.nps.gov/pais/getinvolved/ice.htm

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill 810 by Chair Tan Parker (R-Flower Mound) and sponsored in the Senate by Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston). HB 810 allows patients with terminal illnesses or severe chronic diseases to access adult stem cell treatments that often are their last hope of significantly improving their physical well-being or even saving their own lives. The bill was passed unanimously in both the Texas House and the Texas Senate during the now complete 85th Legislative Session.

There is NOTHING more heinous than taxation under threat of eviction. We've been house hunting for a year. And are literally priced out of the market once you take into account property taxes.

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Drop Anchor Bar & Grill

Adult Stem Cell Treatment

The park is committed to supporting local business and opportunities. Proposals for meeting this need will be accepted now through June 23, 2017 via email to Mark Spier, Superintendent, Padre Island NS at: Mark_ Spier@nps.

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Our position is that we should have more federal days added to the private recreational without giving up any state fishing days. Texas has always been firm on this policy, and to start giving in to the federal managers is not in our best interest. There is no scientific data to support the closure of state water fishing and there is no data to support the 362 day closure of red snapper landing in the western Gulf of Mexico. Mike Hurst

Pete Alsop

Port Aransas

summer. However, we also feel the TPWD has done a great job of managing the red snapper in state waters. We also feel that there is no justification for altering the state plan, because the fishery is thriving.

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

We'll let you know of any future meetings on The Island. Cindy Brockwell

Snap It Up! Potential Changes to Red Snapper Season While everyone realizes that the private recreational fishermen have been treated unfairly by the unjustified 362 day closure of fishing for red snapper in federal waters, we would very much like to be able to harvest red snapper on additional weekends through the

Ruben Bomar

Sidney Austin

Thinking of John Fisher What a great loss for us all. I will miss this dear, dear man so much. My favorite memories of John are from the earlier years at the formerly known Spohn Fitness Center with the infamous 5:30 A.M. exercise group and the many social gatherings the group held. We were our own family that group. John and I would also share laughs at seeing each other so often in the wee morning hours at HEB which we agreed was the best time to grocery shop. Such an endearing man. My love and thoughts are with Jackie and the family this week as I will be out of town during the service celebrating Johns life. Forever missed but never forgotten. Kacie Sicilia, Corpus Christi

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New Advertisers CC Tree Service does tree trimming and removal, stump grinding, and landscaping. They are fully insured and can be reached at 443-4852. Garage Sale at 13574 Camino de Plata on Saturday, June 17th with antique furniture, electronics, clothes, objects d’art and knick knacks. They assure there is no junk. Tai Chi Classes will be held at the Everly Senior Center in the Bluff on Tuesdays and Thursdays 4 and 5 pm. Class cost is $40/ month or $10/class.

Business Briefs The Gladys Choyke Memorial and Celebration will be held at Doc’s Restaurant downstairs on Saturday, July 1st 2 – 4 pm. Join friends and family as they celebrate the life of Gladys Choyke and the many contributions she made to Padre Island and the many lives she touched. Barefoot Mardi Gras made a check presentation at the May PIBA luncheon to the two charitable benefactors. Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas and Island Foundation were each awarded $6000. The total of $12,000 was the highest award amount to date beating the last highest of $10,000 last year. Corpus Christi Hooks are having a Padre Island Night on Tuesday, June 20th. If purchasing tickets online use the code “padre” to get half price. Dragonfly Restaurant is celebrating Father’s Day Weekend with dry-aged ribeye Friday and Saturday. There is a limited supply available and they are taking walk-ins only, no reservations. The Boathouse Bar & Grill Father’s Day special will be a 6 oz. bacon wrapped tenderloin with six grilled shrimp and two sides for $22. Entertainment will be provided on the patio with Aaron Jacobs at 2 pm and karaoke at 6 pm. The Island Bar & Grill at the Holiday Inn is serving surf & turf on Father’s Day for $24.99 with $2 domestics and $3 imports. Call 949-8041 ext. 115 for reservations. Scuttlebutt’s Seafood Bar & Grill is firing up the smoker for Father’s Day with St. Louis smoked ribs, baked beans, potato salad and corn on the cob. Dads play for free at Schlitterbahn on Father’s Day. The Schlittebahn Junior Golf Camp conducted by golf pro Patrick Kelliher for ages 6 – 17 will run from June 19th til the 23rd 8 – 10 am. Clubs are provided or they can bring their own. Participants are divided into age groups at a 6-1 ratio. The fee is $100 for members and $125 for non-members. Call 589-4221 to register. Corpus Christi Cycle Plaza now has new Yamaha golf carts starting at $8000. They can customize any golf cart with lift kits, windshields, enclosures and more. They also now sell and service Sea-doo watercraft. They are located at 2937 SPID and can be reached at 852-7368. Blue Crab Coastal Interiors & Gifts has home décor, gift baskets, wine accessories, jewelry, purses, chocolates and much more. On Wine Wednesdays enjoy wine and munchies while you browse their unique beachy fun items until 6:30 pm. They are located at 14814 Compass and are open Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 5 pm.

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Around cont. from A1 Schenntamental Journey is definitely out, and Shattanooga Schoo Schoo ith beyond the pale.” “What about Embraceable You?” “I would have to call it Hugging Thin Air.” You got to love this place. Say hello if you see us Around The Island.

History cont. from A1 The hard-bitten West Texas vaquero – cowboybutchered “Crique Purgatoire” to give us Picketwire Creek. Quite familiar with the word Hell he did not get the French dressing. He heard the name merely as a possibly unfamiliar variant of a common cow-country item, the picket rope. “Purgatoire” to “Picketwire” was an easy corruption after he had fumbled the Spanish mestena, stranger, to give us “mustang,” which has so often appeared as the name of arroyos and bayous where wild horse once ran in droves.

Copano Bay A Texas village on Copano Bay yields “Burgolinus” as the name of a small run said to have started as a ditch dug to float out a brigantine swept inland and stranded by hurricane tide. Other local garblings, not to say garglings, of foreign words which may or may not yet have found themselves engraved on maps, include “Labardee” for Mission la Bahia on the San Antonio River, and “Lepontan” for the one-time Indian fort, Lepantitlan, on the Nueces. Some writers tell us that few if any of the forms of Indian words so numerous in America as names of states, cities, and rivers would be recognized by original members of the tribes whose language is thus commemorated if they could return and hear the white man pronounce them.

Packery cont. from A1

“Keys” in South Texas The finding of Spanish “keys” in South Texas might mean much more than merely keys to chests filled with golden doubloons or “pieces of eight” for it might indicate that rock outcroppings would be found in this land of clay and sand where rare appearances of rock usually mark disturbed strata lying above deeply buried pools of oil. On the flat, rockless, coastal prairies of South Texas where shallow, muddy, tidal creeks and narrow inlets have here and there cut into the soft clays and sands, any bona fide rock outcrop should be suspected of indicating unusual conditions in the earth beneath. Such surface indications were among the first things sought in the exploration of the region for oil and gas before the days of abundant drilling and the use of the scientific oil finder – geophysics. The writer was one of the pioneers in the exploration of the coast for its hidden mineral fluids. For a short time it seemed as though a gazetter of local Spanish place names, laboriously compiled with the aid of professional linguists, had struck pay dirt, which is to say I this case, numerous rock outcroppings. That was when the numerous cayos were first noted.

Oso Creek A series of early maps was found in country archives which yielded the clue to how the word “cayo” became transported form coral seas to the soft, rockless coast of Texa and applied to a stream instead of a reef. The evolution of the Cayo Oso, reading backward in time was: Oso Creek – on modern maps, meaning Bear Creek. Cayo Oso – a late corruption. Callo Oso – an intermediate form. La Calla del Oso – also an intermediate form.

Government map makers of two generations ago produced some useful maps in South Texas under hardships of many kinds, one evidently being their unfamiliarity with the Spanish language, including the “palao” of the local Mexicans and cow hands. However, they made surprisingly few error, although Majiris Tank” stumped several language professors as well as this dictionary addict. Even the hands on the King Ranch could not help in identifying it until we can to the place itself; then the guide suddenly exploded with, “Oh, H---, you mean mujeres “Women’s Tank.”

La Cala del Oso – the original form of the name, meaning Bear Estuary.

What’s in a name

Another American knew that cayo and callo would be pronounced alike in Spanish and he was probably familiar with the “keys” of the Caribbean region, so Cayo Oso it became. The other calas were then made into cayos to conform to the last and least erudite of the chain of map maker’s decisions. There was, actually, nothing rocky up these cayos except the path of the geologist when he turned historian of place names.

Scientists get help from early maps by studying what’s in a name. Some place names of early origin help us to determine the distribution of native animals and plants before man had so greatly changed things through hunting and by his cultivation and occupation of the land. Knowledge of local vegetation revealed in some of these names may be useful to the geologist as there is a degree of relationship in some places between different rocks and soils and the different types of vegetation growing on them. Place names may reveal also the locations of rocks, springs, fords in streams, even mineral deposits, seepages of oil and gas, and lakes of asphalt. Along the coast of Texas and northeastern Mexico, different sections have different fashions in foreign words used for creek, estuary, and river. Northward toward the Mississippi, abundant rainfall gives us many rives and bayous. La Salle’s search for the mouth of the great stream, and the search of the Spaniards for him, led to the words, riviere and rio appearing prominently. The bovine motif of the earlier “Riviere du Bocuf,” already mentioned, is still seen in the modern Lavaco River. Here, the French boeuf and the Spanish vaca were applied because the explorers saw many buffalo – actually bison on the prairie and had no name for them but cow. Not all foreign place names are prosaie in meaning. The Southwest is full of very religious Spanish names which record a large part of the calendar of the saints and other such designations as The Arms of God of “Brazos de Dios,” the full name of the Brazos River.

The Conrad Blucher Institute at Texas A&M UniversityCorpus Christi has been monitoring water depth there and said increased shoaling is usually seasonal and happens during the summer, but a mild winter season meant less sand removal, causing a peak in shoaling early. This means there's high potential that there will be continued shoaling over the summer months. A dredging project for the channel is planned for next year, in the meantime boaters beware.

Access to the channel After years of fighting litterbugs on private property along the channel the owners acted this week to restrict access on their land. First a sign went up on the channel side of SPID at the Aquarius intersection that cars entering there will be towed. Also, the popular fishing spot on the south side of the channel just inside the Packery Bridge was closed to traffic and pedestrians as well after years of trying to control the littering problem there. It is a popular spot for fishing due to a twenty-five foot deep hole in the center of the channel there. Fishing is still allowed on the north side of the channel by the bridge on

The hull (pic left) and prop were damaged on this boat when it hit a sandbar near the mouth of Packery Channel land owned by the Texas General Land Office, as well as in Packery Channel Park. Dale Rankin

Billish cont. from A1 completion of construction of the improvements according to the approved plans, the POA will deed the leasehold improvements to the City for an amount not to exceed $400,000, with an amount not to exceed $200,000 being paid by the POA, and the lease will terminate. In the event of any cost savings in the construction, the price will be reduced with two-thirds of the savings for the City and one-third for the POA. After the completion of construction, the POA has agreed to maintain the Park on a year-toyear basis for an annual fee of $14,700.00 which is the amount currently budgeted by Parks for Billish Park. The POA will be responsible for any additional costs. The parties can terminate that agreement at any time on one year’s notice.”

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The last of earliest, is the proper form of the name, meaning Bear Estuary, or Bear Bay. Cala is a tidal estuary, tidal creek, or small bay. Some careless map maker spelled cala, “calla;” and then the race was on to hide the original meaning! Another map maker said to himself that oso is a masculine noun and should require the masculine form in calla, which he treated as a modifying adjective. Thus, he changed “Calla Oso” to Callo Oso.”

Cinnamon cont. from A1 Fish have personalities just like you and me! Join graduate student Alexis Khursigara to learn about her research. These are hands-on programs so be prepared to have fun and learn about the ocean! Parents must accompany children and participation is limited to the first 24 visitors, so please register in advance to secure your seat. This program is geard for ages 6+. The program will be held at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute's Marine Science Education Center on Saturday, June 17th, from 10am to 11am.

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boardwalk. The development will also feature honeymoon cottages, a spa, town centers for retail within each phase and a boutique hotel opening in 2018. Site work is already underway, and Sea Oats Group expects to begin building homes on the property in mid- to late-2018.

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Early map of Corpus Christi Bay To continue about the fashions in names for streams: South of the section where rios are abundant and bayous are known, we have the dry zone below Corpus Christi where creeks outnumber rivers. Here, for forty miles the coast is full of funnel-shaped tidewater creeks or estuaries which are called cayos on early maps. Farther south the Rio Grande delta is full of long, narrow, winding lakes which are abandoned channels of the “Rio Bravo del Norte” – our modern Rio Grande. On the Texas side these abandoned channels are called resacas, and cute-off horseshow bends are bancos or esteros. South of the river in Tamaulipas, the term “arroyo” is used without distinction for both our cayos and resacas. Spanish dictionaries say resaca means valley. In Western American arroyo means a dry gully, and many of the arroyos of the delta in Tamaulipas are dry most of the year. But with the use of the term cayo, here, it was quite different. No Spanish dictionary gives, or Spanish language authority seemed to know, any word even remotely resembling cayo, which meant a stream or any other body of water. The true cayo is not a water body but is found in the water, being a stony islet. In the Caribbean and eastern Gulf and along the Florida peninsula there are multitudinous true cayos or “keys,” which are coral reefs and islands. Key West is the American’s phonetic translation of “Cayo Hueso” or Bond Island.

“We are proud of the community we have created with phase I of Cinnamon Shore and gratified by how well it has been received,” said Lamkin. “We plan to build on what has been a very successful model with this major phase II expansion. Full details, including the master plan for phase II, will be released later this year.” Phase III of the project is across State Highway 361 from the current Cinnamon Shore location and is projected to be a $500 million buildout. Eventually, the development will lie on both sides of State Highway 361, about a mile south of Cinnamon Shore North, with a golf cart bridge enabling residents to easily access amenities on both sides of the highway. Plans include multiple swimming pools and lakes to on both sides of the roadway.

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Longtime Islander John Benard Fisher, III, who with his wife Jackie owned and operated Fortuna Bay Bed and Breakfast for more than two decades, passed away Sunday. John, "Mr. Incredible", was born March 1, 1935 to Erna and John B. Fisher Jr. in Kingsville and graduated from H.M. King High School in 1953. He then attended Texas A&M College and was a member of "A" infantry. He graduated in 1957 and proudly wore his Aggie ring for 50 years. He married the former Jacqueline Stewart in 1958 in Corpus Christi and John and Jackie began their married life with an active duty tour in the Army at Fort Lewis in Washington State. They then came back to Texas where John began a teaching career in Calvert and Premont, Texas. He left teaching and began a career at Central Power and Light (now AEP) and worked for the company for over 10 years, living in Corpus Christi, Weslaco and Portland Texas. He was an active member in the National Guard and served as a company commander at the National Guard Armory in Alice. After he left CP&L he became the marketing director for State National Bank of Robstown where he was an active member of the community, serving as president of the Robstown Rotary Club, various committees for the Nueces

County Junior Livestock Show and was an active member of his church. He was also on the board of the Calallen High School Booster Club and coached several girls' softball teams. He retired from the bank, but did not retire from his busy life. John and Jackie bought Fortuna Bay Bed and Breakfast in 1993 which then ran for twentytwo successful years before finally retiring in 2015. John served on the POA Board, Padre Island Business Association and any and all activities on the island. He is preceded in death by his parents and his brother, Robert Kenneth Fisher. He is survived by his wife of 59 years Jacqueline, his daughters Melissa Lee Feinstein (Jeff), Martha Lynn Durham (Allen), Margaret Lucille Sita (Paul) and his son Michael Benard Fisher (Gail), 9 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, June 16, 2017 at Seaside Funeral Home Chapel. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Resurrection Lutheran Church. John was and Islander through and through and who never refused a favor when asked. He was well known and loved by all who knew him. He will be greatly missed on The Island.

June 15, 2017

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Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin

When the Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday approved the funding for the improvements at Billish Park there was considerable grumbling from members representing districts in other parts of the city who have to go back and explain why they voted to approved $400,000 for a park on The Island. One went so far as to say she drove out to the park and “there is already a baseball diamond there.” Of course what she should have said is, “there is a sticker patch out there with a backstop in it.” What we have is 49 acres of parks on The Island with only one – Ullberg Park - that is not a sticker patch. Each year we attend the Easter Egg hunt in the Billish Sticker Patch and say “someone” ought to do something. Finally it appears that is going to happen. Let’s start getting our softball teams together.

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In 2014 $45.2 million in bonds were approved for street work – none on The Island. Our share of the bill there, $6.3 million. Another $20.7 million will be spent on top of that for utilities bringing the total spent to $65.9 million with our share coming to $9.1 million. In that same election voters approved the sale of sixteen parks around the city due to lack of funds to maintain them. Parks on The Island were donated as public spaces in return for the Island’s early developers not having to build sidewalks so our parks cannot be sold. In that same election Island Beach Access Roads were funded at $4.7 million, and $1.2 million was approved for an Island Beach Maintenance Facility to house beach equipment for which a site is yet to be selected. So Island projects that time got $5.9 million.

In 2006 a total of 87.9 million bonds were approved with one project on The Island, a resurfacing of Whitecap at $1.4 million. In 2004 $49 million in bonds were approved and The Island got $1.2 to turn the then-planned water exchange culverts under Park Road 22/ SPID into a bridge; which has yet to be built. Our share of the bill that time, $6.8 million.

Total So by my count, based on the city records I found – I could find no bond numbers for 2010 – since 2004 voters have approved a total spending for bonds and support projects of $433 million, of which The Island will or has paid $60.1 million and received $9.9 million in projects. As the man said who sells new cars for ten dollars…we lose a little bit on every deal but we make it up in volume. I think our city can afford for us to spend $400,000 on Billish Park.

New Council person The current city council is about to appoint a new council member. They announced on Tuesday they have narrowed down the list of applicants wishing to fill an empty council seat to four. Individuals being considered for the position are: Sylvia Oliver, John Martinez, Kamlesh Bhula Bhika and Debbie LindseyOpel, according to Corpus Christi Public Information Officer Deanna McQueen. The Island Political Action Committee endorsed four candidates in the election in November, 2016 who are still on the council. If you have a preference in who the new council member should be contact them this week and let them know. Their e-mail contact information is as follows: Joe McComb (361) 826-3100

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In 2016 $18.3 million in bonds were approved for streets and drainage projects none of which were on The Island. Our share of the cost that time, $2.5 million.

In 2008 a total of $153 million in bonds were approved, $104,610 for streets, with $950,000 for the Island’s Aquarius Extension being the only Island project while Bayfront Development Plan Phase 3 got $11.7 million. The Island's share of the total cost is $21.4 million

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But what struck me at Tuesday’s meeting was the notion that The Island is getting some sort of preferential treatment. One of the council members actually said “Why are they getting $400,000 for a park when we have parks that need money?” So at the risk of exposing our Island Windfall, since the $400,000 in question came from bonds approved by voters in 2012, I went back and took a look at recent bond issues to see how we have done since 2004 and here is what I found.

million for parks, from which the $400,000 for Billish came. Based on our share of the property tax load in the city that means we paid out about $8 million in the bonds and debt to eventually get $400,000.

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22 Years of Hurricane Season Predictions How did the prognosticators do?

With most 2017 storm forecasts now predicting average to above-average storm activity for the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season (June 1 – November 30), just how accurate are these predictions, and do boaters need to adjust their hurricane prep plans this year?

After comparing annual predictions to actual weather, Seaworthy discovered that out of 22 years of hurricane season activity forecasts, only one was 100 percent accurate. In some years, there were up to eight more storms than predicted.

BoatUS Magazine this month compared over two decades of storm predictions from one of the better-known hurricane-season forecasts from Colorado State University’s Philip Klotzbach and the late Bill Gray. Said Seaworthy Director Charles Fort, “Our mission was not to judge the forecasters but to find out how much confidence we should have in the hurricane-season predictions and what it means to boaters,” said Fort.

Boaters often misinterpret what the forecasters try to do, says Fort. “Early season hurricane predictions don’t attempt to forecast the percentage of storms that will come ashore or which coastal locations will be in the crosshair.” The graph shows the annual predictions versus the actual hurricanes.

June 15, 2017

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Update on Veterans Affairs

By Dotson Lewis

Special to the Island Moon companies and from the Government Accountability Office and the Inspector General on VA’s IT systems; and

Dotson’s Note: The Veterans Administration is finally starting to show signs of reorganization and updating. The following are two of the many positive reports that we are receiving regarding what we believe to be excellent changes in the Veterans Administration.

First Act For Veterans In 2017 - VA Accountability On February 28, 2017, the Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Phil Roe, M.D. Introduced the VA Accountability Act of 2017. The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs approved this legislation on March 8, 2017. The bill will provide the VA Secretary increased flexibility to remove, demote, or suspend any VA employee, including Senior Executive Service employees, for performance or misconduct. It would also provide improved protections for whistleblowers; would allow the Secretary to reduce an employee’s federal pension if they are convicted of a felony that influenced their job at VA; recoup a bonus provided to an employee who engaged in misconduct or poor performance prior to receiving the bonus; and would allow the Secretary to recoup any relocation expenses that were authorized for a VA employee only through the employee’s ill-gotten means, such as fraud waste or

malfeasance. A recent study completed by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that, on average, it takes six months to a year to remove a permanent civil servant in the Federal Government, though it often takes longer. Just last year, former VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson testified at a hearing that it was too hard to fire bad employees at VA. In the past several years, VA’s arcane civil service rules have hampered the department’s ability to dismiss an employee that engaged in an armed robbery; discipline a VA nurse that participated in a veteran’s surgery while intoxicated; and hold employees accountable for the continued failures to manage several major construction projects, including the new hospital in Aurora, Colorado, that is now several years and a billion dollars over budget. Original co-sponsors of the bill were: Rep. Jodey Arrington; Rep. Jim Banks; Rep. Jack Bergman; Rep. Gus Bilirakis; Rep. Mike Bost; Rep. Mike Coffman; Rep. Bruce Poliquin; Rep. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen; and Rep. Brad Wenstrup.

It’s Time to Move Forward On June 6, 2017 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin announced that the VA will adopt the same Electronic Health Record (EHR) system as the Department of Defense (DoD) during a news briefing on June 5 at VA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. “I had said previously that I would be making a decision on our EHR by July 1, and I am honoring that commitment today,” Shulkin said. “The health and safety of our veterans is one of our highest national priorities. Having a veteran’s complete and accurate health record in a single common EHR system is critical to that care, and to improving patient safety.” Shulkin said VA’s current VistA system is in need of major modernizations to keep pace with the improvements in health information technology (IT) and cybersecurity, as software development is not a core competency of VA. This decision on EHR, according to Shulkin, did not come lightly. Shulkin said he has: • Reviewed numerous studies, reports and commissions on this topic, including the recent commission on care report; • Spent time talking with clinicians; • Consulted with chief information officers from around the country; • Met personally with CEOs from leading health systems to get their own thoughts on the best next-generation EHR for VA; • Studied reports from management consulting

• Counted no fewer than seven Blue Ribbon Commissions, and a large number of congressional hearings, that have called for VA to modernize its approach to IT. “To date, VA and DoD have not adopted the same EHR system. Instead, VA and DoD have worked together for many years to advance EHR interoperability between their many separate applications – at the cost of several hundred millions of dollars – in an attempt to create a consistent and accurate view of individual medical record information,” Shulkin said. “Without improved and consistently implemented national interoperability standards, VA and DoD will continue to face significant challenges if the departments remain on two different systems.” For Shulkin, VA’s adoption of the same EHR system as DoD – now known as MHS GENESIS – will ultimately result in all patient data residing in one common system, as well as enable seamless care between the departments without the manual and electronic exchange and reconciliation of data between two separate systems. Because of the urgency and critical nature of this decision, Shulkin said he has decided that there is a public interest exception to the requirement for full and open competition in such technology acquisition. “I have signed what is known as a ‘Determination and Findings,’ or D&F, that is a special form of written approval by an authorized official that is required by statute or regulation as a prerequisite to taking certain contract actions,” he said. “This D&F action is only done in particular circumstances when the public interest demands it, and that’s clearly the case here.” Shulkin said VA has unique needs, many of which are different from those of DoD. For health reasons and the protection of veterans, he

Anecdotingly

If the Shoe Fits By Abigail Bair Last Saturday, my nephews Jovanni (age 10) and Avery (age 6) arrived to spend a month with the Rev and G.P. (and, by association, me). This is a great thing for my family because the boys are for the most part well behaved and super fun. We have some childcare problems, however. Mom and I both work, and no one trusts Dad alone with the kids for more than a couple of hours due to an unfortunate incident a few years back. The G.P. took the boys to the park down the street. As they were returning home, toddler Avery started running and tripped on the sidewalk. Dad (who missed the whole incident because he was looking at a plant) heard the crying child, and rushed to assess the injury. Jovanni (then 7) was leaping up and down in excitement beside his prone brother. “AVERY DID A WHOLE FLIPPY, GRANDPA!” he whooped. Aside from a dented forehead (which mostly popped back into shape), Avery was okay, but the Rev decided Grandpa Daycare left something to be desired. This time, In order to make sure the children don’t die, Mom has arranged for them to attend art camp. Yesterday, Pops and I went to pick them up. The road construction downtown caused the city to resemble the more bombed out parts of Baghdad. “Do you think they spent all winter figuring out how to mess up traffic as much as possible?” asked the G.P. “That would represent the only concerted and effective civic planning event in Corpus’ history,” I responded. I spent six months last year witnessing the city’s efficacy in areas of improvement. I was unimpressed with anything other than how green the grass was when they finally moved the porta-pooper out from under my crepe myrtle. Forty-five minutes later, we arrived at the Art Center. Avery’s teacher, a small, strict woman with a long black braid, told me that he couldn’t wear his flip flops the next day. A little afraid of her (and kind of wondering if I should start checking the sky for plummeting real estate), I agreed to return him properly shod. Avery tugged on my hand, “Ab, I can’t wear my shoes.” “Why, Avox?” I asked. “Because they cut my feet! We put on BandAids AND extra socks, but it still hurts.” I looked at the poor kid’s ankles, and sure enough he had little lesions on both heels.

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We delivered the boys, and informed the Rev of the problem. She showed me Avery’s Converse sneakers which were designed in the most child chopping way possible. The medium high tops bent in towards the ankle at approximately a 75 degree angle. They were also definitely too small. New shoes were in order. I decided to brave Burlington Coat Factory, hoping that the crowds wouldn’t be too bad at 4 p.m. on a

has decided that VA can’t wait years, as DoD did in its EHR acquisition process, to get the next-generation system in place. “VA will not simply be adopting the identical EHR that DoD uses, but we intend to be on a similar Cerner platform. VA clinicians will be very involved in how this process moves forward and in the implementation of the system,” Shulkin said. “We are embarking on creating something that has not been done before. This is going to take the cooperation and involvement of many companies and [thoughtful] leaders, and can serve as a model for the federal government and all of health care.” Dotson’s Other Note: Good things are happening in the Veterans Administration from top to bottom. Even here in the Coastal Bend, we are seeing changes, mostly for the better. One sad note is the fact that Sylvester James, VA Patients Advocate for the local VA health clinic and the one in Laredo, is leaving us and moving to work with the VA Health Care Systems in Houston. We are very sorry to see him go, but we wish him and his family the best. Sylvester James, we salute you for a job well done.

kids large amounts of a frozen sugar syrup they called ‘slushies.’ “I’ll just take one of his old shoes and find a slightly bigger replacement. It’ll be much quicker.” “Not if you have to go twice,” replied the Rev, doubting my genius.

To the trenches I made it to BCF in record time, and rode the escalator up to the children’s clothing department. I was pretty positive that this whole endeavor was going to be a huge success, despite the Rev’s warnings to the contrary -right up until I hit the children’s shoe section. What the crap, you guys? Avery’s old shoes were a size 12. I thought I needed to find a 12.5 or a 13. Wrong! For some strange, untenable, mysterious reason children’s shoes loop from a twelve to a 1. I only figured this out because I developed a “trust nothing” attitude when the numbers didn’t work, and just started measuring Avery’s old shoe against every single new one. After much cussing and confusion, I finally found a pair that looked like it would fit, and took it to the register. “Hi,” I said to Valerie, the clerk, “um…do you have kids? Because I’m not sure about these shoes. Is size one bigger than size 12 here? I mean, it looks bigger, right? What’s with this numbering system? Is it a freaking clock? Is this some kind of guy thing, where if you’re lost in the wilderness you can tell time by your weird shoe size? Why don’t they just start at zero and go UP? You know, like ALL OTHER SIZES EVER IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE.” “Um….I don’t have any kids,” replied Valerie (age 16), clearly unsure whether to laugh or cry. “Would you like to give me your phone number in case you need to return them?” “Okay,” I replied, for the first time in my life not rattling off the digits to the dial-a-prayer hotline.

Fleet Feet FLASH! Bonus Pack Because I am a terrible person who absolutely did not want to have to try to figure out the demonic Dewey Decimal System of children’s shoe sizing a second time, I decided to make an enormous production when presenting Avery with his new shoes. I placed them on a sofa cushion, mimicking that hyper-intelligent Prince who decided true love was (at least in part) based upon the proper fit of footwear constructed of profoundly stupid materials. “Avox,” I called, “Get in here and try on your NEW SHOES!” He ran through the door and hopped on the couch. I pretended to put the shoes on the Rev’s much bigger feet. The kid didn’t get the Cinderella reference, and was impatient to try them himself. I gave up on fairy tales, and shoved his feet into the shoes. Thinking fast, still trying to prevent a tearful “I HATE THESE SHOES” outburst, I said, “The lady at the store sold me an upgrade for these puppies. It’s a FLEET FEET FLASH BONUS PACK. She said it will make you go 200% faster! Better try it out!” Avery’s eyes lit up. He leapt from the couch. “I’M GONNA RUN NOW!” he yelled, generously insuring that Rev and I didn’t miss a second. Off he went, chugging like a locomotive across the slate tiled floors.

“You’re so fast!” we yelled. “It’s like you’ve got rockets Avery's old, "child chopper" shoes. Do you think they were attached to your butt!” made in CalCUTta? Avery continued to run circles around my parents’ great room. Monday. “You need to take him with you,” said my Mom. “No WAY!” I replied, fearing further kid transportation, especially since I’d just fed both

“What if they’d been too big?” the Rev asked? “Avery did another flippy?” I responded. It looks like the G.P. isn’t the only watcher who needs watching. Wish the Rev some luck.

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By Chef Vita Jarrin Since opening my gelato shop and appearing on Food Network, the one thing I’ve learned is that people love Italy and love Italian food. Some people reminisce about their travels, some about the wine, or the picturesque ambiance they experienced. The one common thing is they can’t forget the food and desserts they ate while on their travels. I travel to Italy every three to four years to reconnect with family and my roots. I feel at home when I go there. I’ve been to Italy over a dozen times and as recent as August 2015. Aside from the relatives and the ocean, surrounded by beautiful mountains, olive trees & vineyards as far as the eye can see, there is something in the air that relaxes me. There is nothing processed in the fresh gardens filled with vegetables and fruits. The milk is used daily for making fresh cheese. And no matter how busy everyone’s life is there is always time for a great sit down meal with family and time to enjoy each other’s company at a café down the street or on a neighbor’s veranda. When I need a taste of Italy at home, the one quick fix I use is to create an antipasto plate. Antipasto means appetizer platter… a starter if you will, to launch your appetite for the meal. I fill my platter with cured salami, prosciutto, olives, and chunks of cheese, slices of fresh mozzarella, marinated artichoke hearts, juicy tomatoes and lots of crusty bread for dipping in olive oil and then building a mini sandwich from my antipasto platter. You don’t have to spend hours in a kitchen cooking heavy dishes of pastas and meats to

feel like you’ve transported yourself to a part of Italy. Just go to your local store and pick these delicious ingredients that are imported from Italy for this very reason. Pick up a bottle of wine and a bottle of cold pressed extra virgin olive oil and your meal is complete.

For this Platter I used: Peppered Volpi Genoa Salami Prosciutto slices Marinated Artichokes, piquillo peppers & olives from Olive Bar Galbani Fresh Mozzarella Campari Tomatoes Chunks of Grana Padano Parmesan Cheese Fresh Basil and extra virgin olive oil Suggest Wine: Nineteen Crimes (red) or Kendall Jackson Chardonnay (white) (goes well with the peppered salami and saltiness of plate)

Tip of the Week: Other deli selections that go well are cured coppa, sopressata, mortadella, and adding picked veggies To the platter. Balancing the creamy cheese, with the salty deli meats, and the pickled veggies, will compliment Any meal and or wine. Enjoy yourself, get creative, try new things have fun!!! Happy Eats!

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June 15, 2017

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SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon

Baseball At Its Best By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: This story originally appeared on ESPN.com on June 12, 2003, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of Johnny Vander Meer's back-to-back nohitters. To celebrate the 79th anniversary of his accomplishment this is an updated version to reflect the passing of the last 14 years. Dotson’s Note: ESPN.com and Wikipedia contributed to this report.

Vander Meer’s Unforgettable Feat Long before pitch counts, closers and call-in shows, a hard-throwing Cincinnati Reds lefty, in his first full season, achieved what could be baseball's most enduring pitching feat. Seventy-

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As the game progressed, the cheering section from Vander Meer's hometown witnessed a transformation among the formerly hostile Dodgers fans nearby -- they, too, got behind Midland Park's favorite son.

Nineteen fifty-four was the year Moose joined the New York Yankees. He was 23 years old and his salary was $6,000. In 1953, first baseman and future Hall-of-Famer Johnny Mize had retired, making room for Skowron. Moose and future Hall-of-Famer Joe Collins split the playing time at first base. Skowron played in 87 games that season. Stengel gave Moose jersey #53, bought him a first baseman’s mitt, and sent him to dancing school to improve his footwork. During Spring Training of that first year, Yankee veterans Hank Bauer and Gene Woodling cornered Moose one day and told him, “Don’t screw up our eight grand each fall. Abide by the rules, break up double plays, but don’t break curfew.” A winning share of the World Series money was more than most of the regular players made in a year. He moved to Hillside, New Jersey, and his first game as a New York Yankee occurred on April 13, 1954.

Fourteen years ago, Vander Meer's friend Dick Jeffer said, "They knew we were from Midland Park, and they were [yelling] 'you're gonna get beat,' and they were all hopped up because of the first night game, but the tune changed about the sixth inning when they started to root for Vander Meer because they realized what they were seeing would be part of history." Vander Meer, however, suffered a lack of precision that was common in his earlier outings. Frey, who was 92 back in 2003 and, at the time, Vander Meer's last living teammate from either no-hitter, told ESPN, "Johnny Vander Meer was a little wild at times, and I'd say plenty wild at times."

In 1954, during Old-Timers Day at Yankee Stadium, someone sent word to Moose that a

Entering the ninth inning, Vander Meer had walked five men but had a 6-0 lead and needed just three outs to accomplish the previously unimaginable. Vander Meer created a one-out jam by walking three batters. Reds manager Bill McKechnie visited the mound to calm Vander Meer. Frey said of that moment, "You wonder when Pictured above, Johnny Vander Meer in a packed Ebbets in the world is he going to get the Field on June 15, 1938, the first night game played on the ball over the plate?"

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nine years ago, on June 11 and 15, Johnny Vander Meer became the only major league pitcher to throw back-to-back no-hit, no-run games. First, the 23-year-old Vander Meer no-hit the Boston Bees 3-0 at Cincinnati's Crosley Field. Nobody reached second base, as Vander Meer struck out four and allowed three walks while facing just one batter over the minimum. Catcher Ernie Lombardi, a future Hall of Famer, doubled a man off first on a foul pop and hit a two-run homer to back Vander Meer's fifth consecutive victory in a winning streak that would reach nine games. It was the Reds' first no-hitter in 18 years, and their wait for another would be just four days.

The tension was palpable. Vander Meer's sister, Garberdina Nywening, was 15 at the time. "That was scary," she said. "That really brought everybody real quiet, and I thought maybe he would lose it then." Vander Meer got Koy to ground into a force at the plate for the second out. Reds third baseman Lew Riggs eschewed a risky doubleplay attempt against Brooklyn's fastest player, and preserved the shutout by throwing home. That brought up the Dodgers' No. 8 hitter, fiery Leo Durocher. "Durocher was a loud guy; he had a big mouth," Frey said. "We didn't want him to get a hit, of all the players on the team, that's for sure.”

The Bees once owned the rights to Vander Meer, as did the Dodgers, his next opponent. It would be a wild night, and not just because Vander Meer had trouble finding the plate. The Reds were in Brooklyn for the first-ever night game on the East Coast. The Dodgers sold more tickets than the capacity of Ebbets Field, and fire department officials had to help clear the aisles and control the overflow crowd. The game was delayed, forcing Vander Meer to warm up three times. Among the nearly 39,000 fans that night were more than 500 from Vander Meer's hometown of Midland Park, N.J. They came by the busload from the town of 5,000 and presented Vander Meer with a gold watch in a pregame ceremony. Vander Meer's parents, sister and girlfriend were also there. Years later, Vander Meer said of being feted by his hometown, "That is the jinx right there. You usually don't get by the third inning."

Home-plate umpire Bill Stewart called a ball on what appeared to be a third strike to Durocher. Stewart would later be the first to reach Vander Meer after the game to apologize and admit he had blown the call. Durocher then lofted a lazy fly ball to center field. "Boy did Harry Craft squeeze that ball," Frey said. "That ballpark was bedlam after that last out." Vander Meer's father's tie was cut off by an unruly fan as he tried to reach his son, according to Nywening. "They threw John up on their shoulders because they knew they would start tearing things off his uniform." Vander Meer escaped unscathed, and Midland Park celebrated. "It was just like a holiday spirit, even better than the Fourth of July," Jeffer said. Just a few hours after his second straight nohitter, Vander Meer kept an appointment with a friend to go fishing, avoiding a gathering throng of newspaper men at his family's house.

Before Vander Meer took the mound, he got to meet Babe Ruth, an invited guest for the first game under lights. Later that month, the Dodgers hired "The Babe" as a drawing card and coach in a short-lived experiment. When Vander Meer finally got to pitch that night, he started racking up zeroes, just like in his previous start. "I was busting the ball real good. I was probably throwing the ball 95, 96, 97 miles an hour," Vander Meer said in a 1988 interview. "When I started to lose a little bit off my fastball, I started throwing curves and everybody kept looking for fastballs, and so that really helped me." Reds second baseman Lonny Frey and Dodgers outfielder Ernie Koy disputed the claim by some that poor stadium lighting aided Vander Meer."I

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fellow playing in that game wanted to see him. “We sat on a steamer trunk in the clubhouse,” said Moose. “He said, ‘My name is Wally Pip and I have some advice for you. Don’t get a headache or catch a cold. I had a headache once and took a day off. A guy named Lou Gehrig took my place and I never started again, so stay healthy!’ Well, I’d never heard of Wally Pip, so I checked him out and sure enough, it was Wally Pip. I made sure to stay healthy every day after that because Gehrig played 2,130 straight games. I thought that would be a record forever, until Cal Ripken came long.” The Yankees won 103 games that year, but finished second by eight games to the mighty Cleveland Indians. “I couldn’t believe it,” said Moose. In 1955, Moose was given the #14 to wear for the rest of his career. Something else happened in 1955. Moose played in 108 games and Elston Howard became the first African-American to make the New York Yankee team. Moose had known and played with Ellie when they were both in Kansas City. At the start of Spring Training, Moose and his wife would extend their hand in friendship by picking up Ellie and his wife at the train station when they arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida. Howard never forgot Skowron’s kindness. Moose would come to Howard’s aid on many occasions during that first year. Skowron became the full-time starter at first base in 1956. Moose was a cut-up who wore a Yogi Berra Yoo-Hoo All Stars T-shirt with Yogi’s picture on it, underneath his jersey. His teammates loved to play jokes on Moose. They tied his socks and underwear together in knots. They stuffed his spikes with mud and once cut the leg out of a new pair of pants. They kidded him about going to college and asked him if he could spell Purdue. Moose had never been injured in high school or college, but professional baseball had been different. He always seemed to be nicked up or in pain. In 1957, Moose hurt his back lifting an air conditioning unit during the regular season. He re-injured his back again in Game One of the World Series that same year and sat out until the

last at-bat of the Series. The New York Yankees lost to the Milwaukee Braves. Manager Casey Stengel was quoted as saying, “If Skowron was healthy; we would have won.” In 1958, the Yankees played in the World Series against the Milwaukee Braves for the second year in a row. Moose hated County Stadium in Milwaukee. Arthur Daley reported for the New York Times, “The trouble with this ballpark is that you can’t tell when you’ve hit one over them,” said Moose. County Stadium had a chained-link fence in the outfield and it was hard to see a home run from home plate. Yogi Berra’s answer to Moose was, “Just stick your head down, and run. The man in the blue suit will tell you if you made it.” In 1959, Moose injured his wrist trying to catch an errant throw by Yankee third baseman Hector Lopez. “Coot” Veal ran into Moose along the first base line and broke Skowron’s wrist. He only played in 74 games. Moose always claimed that the National League was a fastball league and the American League was a breaking ball league. He was convinced the umpires were different too. “In the American League, the inside fastball is called a ball,” said Moose, “and in the National League, it’s called a strike.” Skowron usually found himself batting behind Maris, Mantle, and Berra, in the Yankee lineup. There was never anyone on base when he came up to the plate. That may be the reason he never hit 100 RBI’s in a season. “If Moose had played with anyone else in his prime and batted fourth where he should have, instead of fifth or sixth, he’d be in the Hall of Fame,” said teammate Tony Kubek.

Skowron in 1994 The toughest play for Moose in the field was catching pop-ups. Second baseman Bobby Richardson would take every pop-up he could get to and save Moose from embarrassment. Bobby Richardson was a pretty fair second baseman and a very religious man; he would later become an ordained minister, after baseball. Moose respected him. Still, his temper could roar when he didn’t produce on the playing field. Moose was a worrier and wanted to always do his very best for his team. He could be described as the definition of pre-game jitters. After striking out, Moose would come back to the dugout and slam his batting helmet down, sling his bat toward the bat rack, and start cussing as he walked down to the end of the dugout. As he passed Bobby Richardson, he would stop and say, “Excuse the language, Bobby,” and then go back to cursing as he continued to walk. It was classic Moose Skowron. Next Week: Skowron's best years. Andy Purvis is a local author and radio personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. com for all the latest info on his books or to listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books are available online and can be found in the local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be contacted at purvis.andy@mygrande.net. Also listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc.com 1230 AM, 96.1 FM and 103.3 FM. The home of the Houston Astros.

The front page of the Cincinnati Post on June 16, 1938, proclaimed Vander Meer's double nohitter the "greatest feat in [the] game's history." To break the record, you'd have to throw three straight no-hitters. Merely to tie it, you'd have to throw two straight. "I cannot imagine anybody doing that again," Frey said. In an era when even a complete game is unusual, the record seems more untouchable than ever. "They only pitch six innings now," he said. "How are they gonna pitch two no-hitters in a row?" Johnny Vander Meer died October 6, 1997, at the age of 82. Dotson’s Other Note: I remember my dad talking about this baseball feat…we didn’t listen to the game…the only games we could get on our radio, were the Saint Louis Cardinals. Of course most every baseball fan residing south and west of St. Louis was loyal to the Cards. A couple of days after the second no hitter, I did hear on the radio, a re-enactment of the game by the one and only Hal Berger “Get on your Mule!” or “The left field fence looks like a waffle iron!” -30-

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