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October 11, 2012

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Around The Island

Island Burglary Ring Broken Up by Police

We are in the midst of what the folks in the tourism industry hereabouts refer to as the Shoulder Season; that is the time between when the summer crowd goes home to nurse lobster tans and when the Winter Texans show up for the annual Beltsander Racing Season.

They thought they were smart but in the end they were no match for an off duty Marine, an alert Corpus Christi Police officer and a police dog named Kimbo.

By Dale Rankin editor@islandmoon.com

The water off our shores continues to be beautiful and the Chamber of Commerce Weather that goes with it hasn’t been bad either.

Fishing has been alternately white hot and outright dead as the wind and temps fluctuate along with the humidity. The first breath of really cold air has hit the upper Midwest so it won’t be long before the Winter Texans’ RVs start coming over the JFK. It’s been an unusual week Around The Island in the sense that crime has dominated the traffic on the Coconut Telegraph. As usual the Coconut Telegraph is fast but rarely accurate as good news travels fast, bad news travels faster, and wrong information the fastest of all. We’ve had a burglary ring which was busted, a drowning and a shooting. We’ll cover those in more detail elsewhere in this issue and move on to happier topics here.

Rigs to Reefs There is some good news with regards to the ongoing efforts to use old oil platforms to form new reefs in the Gulf. There was some relaxation of the federal rules in how that can be done that should mean we will have more offshore reefs in the future. In fact the first rig was moved under the new rules this week. What is formally called the Apache Petroleum NP-892 JA jacket is being moved now to TPWD reef site MU-828 which as you can see from this map is about 20 miles ESE offshore from The Island in about 165 feet of water. It is the sixth rig to be sunk at the site. Weather has slowed its progress and as of this writing is not yet in place but is already in route.

A pair of Island burglars struck nine times on The Island in the past two week before they were surprised by the officer Monday morning and one of them cornered by Kimbo on Seamount Cay where the desperado was caught hiding in a closet inside a vacant condo. His moll is still at large but her getaway car resides in the police impound lot.

“They were out of place and looked like they were up to something,” Tyler said. He wanted to approach them but was talked out of it by his friends. Instead he called police who responded but by then they were gone.

“It looked strange,” she said.

Then just under two weeks ago police noticed that there had been two Island burglaries in the area around Bonasse which looked like they might have been done by the same person.

CCPD does regular meetings where they look at crime statistics to see if they can spot trends that might get them a step ahead of the crooks.

Island burglars were on their radar.

That same day the burglars hit a third time and police brought additional officers to The Island just as the break-ins began in earnest. There were two in the 15000 block of Finistere, one Burglary Continued on A4

Lionfish Invading Texas Waters

New reef

Invasive Pacific species confirmed 40 miles from Port Aransas

By Dale Rankin

We’ll see you there. In the meantime say hello if you see us Around The Island.

An effort is underway to add approximately 3800 acres to the north end of the Padre Island National Seashore. The Nature Conservancy of Texas was approved for a Coastal Impact Assistance Grant in August which began the year-long process of purchasing the 3800 acres of land which is currently owned by the Texas General Land Office.

The GLO bought the land in the early 1990s with a highway beautification grant from the State of Texas but has never developed a plan for its use. The land was previously owned by a Kansas City family which currently owns the land between the 3800 acre site and Sea Pines.

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Once the sale of the land to the Nature Conservancy is finalized a public hearing process would be necessary for the Conservancy to donate the land to the park. That hearing process is expected to take about one year.

“This is a twelve step process and we are just PINS Continued on A8

Real Estate Roundup

By Mary Lou White In real estate, you can easily work a seven day week. Monday through Friday, during normal business hours, it is “desk time” needed to follow up on phone calls and emails, especially, the numerous details that produce a “successful” closing. Evenings and week-ends are often consumed with showing property and listing appointments, because that is the time frame when your “customers” have available time to spend on their housing desires. The one huge asset to living on The Island is the ability to quickly transition from work to recreation. During one brief escape, I slipped the kayak into the canal and made a tour of the adjoining waterways. Surprise!

I saw something I had never seen before. A swimming pool located in the canal.

Garden lot versus patio lot There are two types of canal lots within our POA. A garden lot has a back yard and limited area over the water. Homeowners on these lots can put a pool behind their home and their boat is moored parallel to the bulkhead. For those who live on a patio lot, your home is built very close to the bulkhead and your lot extends out into the canal, where you can build decks and docks for 25 feet into the canal. Boats can be moored at different angles to the bulkhead.

Obviously, a patio lot provides more flexibility

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A crew of local scientists has found an evasive species called Lionfish in water less than forty miles from Port Aransas. It is the first confirmed sighting of the species that close to The Island.

Colorful Lionfish have always been a favorite in aquariums and are common on menus in Asia, but until recently they have not been found in the waters off the Texas Coast. Their appearance along the Atlantic seaboard and in Lionfish Continued on A2

with dock and slip design than a garden lot.

However, if you own a patio lot and you want a pool the limitations are daunting. There are a few homes that have been able to locate a pool in the front of the home, inside a courtyard wall. However, garage design and utility easements often interfere with that option.

This is a typical scenario. Recently a couple came to the Island, looking for a home to buy as a possible “permanent” transition from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. At that time, there were 124 detached Island homes listed on the MLS system. 74 located on the water and 50 homes not adjoining a waterway. Immediately, the comment was made, “Oh, that’s a lot of houses for sale.” As we began to narrow their price range and what features they considered “a must have”, the number quickly shrank to about 10 possibilities. After the showing phase was over, not one house had the “winning” Real Estate Continued on A9

Island history

Life on The Island in 1925 Schools of redfish a mile long

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories from the autobiography of Louis Rawalt who moved to The Island in 1925 after doctors gave him six months to live due to the effects of a mustard gas attack in WWI. He lived with his wife in cabins he built out of driftwood for almost forty years. He left behind this typewritten account of his time on The Island and we run it here without editing.

He called it Island of Reprieve.

By Louis Rawalt

Tasty Island Don’t forget the 25th Annual Taste of The Island coming up at Port Royal Ocean Resort on Hwy 361 on Wednesday, November 7, from 6-9 p.m. Tickets are $25 per person limited to 500. Tickets are available at all banks on Padre Island; Isle Mail & More; POA office; Padre Isles Country Club, and American Bank in Port Aransas.

By Dale Rankin

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Then about a week later a woman on Seamount Cay saw a woman pushing an empty baby carriage down the street while her male companion went door to door ringing doorbells.

Also this week the Corpus Christi City Council gave its final approval for a storage site along the ship channel for material that will be used to construct a new artificial reef about ten miles offshore from Packery Channel in about 80 feet of water. The SEA organization has been working on this project for some time and it is now coming together and the new reef should be open to divers and fisherpersons by the end of next year.

Padre Island National Seashore May Grow by 3800 Acres

The tract is bordered by the Gulf of Mexico on the east, the Laguna Madre on the west, the Corpus Christi City Limits on the north and the existing boundary of PINS on the south.

The first sign of trouble was almost three weeks ago when an off-duty marine identified only as Tyler saw a gold jeep and a white Tahoe cruising around Cruiser Street near Prosperity Bank after midnight.

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Once in Kingsville, we lost no time in assembling our equipment. I bought a Model-T Ford for a nominal sum of money.

Into the back of it went a small tent, two army cots, a gasoline camp stove and a lantern. We took plenty of blankets and the necessary clothing and cooking utensils. When I say the necessary, I mean just that – tin plates and cups, a skillet, a stew kettle and some knives and forks. We took a month’s supply of food, mostly staples and canned stuff; and a saw, hammer and nails. Viola stored her lovely china and linen a little grudgingly, but she glowed with a spirit of adventure that was good to see.

We left Kingsville on a sunny September morning. Behind me were the years of war, the hospital corridors, the waiting rooms, and the operating tables. I kept the doctor’s

grim predictions from my mind as much as possible.

Keeping the wheels of the Model-T on the parallel planks of the causeway demanded all my attention, but every few moments Viola would cry out over some strange bird flying over the Laguna Madre. There were white pelicans by the thousands, snowy egrets, roseate spoonbills, herons, ducks and gulls and terns. Mullet leaped and played in the water, shining like silver in the bright, morning sun.

We left the causeway and followed a winding path through the dunes to the Gulf side of Padre. At the beach, we turned left, and drove along the surf to Corpus Christi Pass where History Continued on A6

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A Costa Rican Adventure

By Robbie Felder As I began a much needed vacation to visit my family who retired in Costa Rica two years ago, I began packing right on schedule – the night before leaving. It was then I came across a book my Mom gave me during the same trip exactly one year before. The book has adorned my bookshelf for an entire year and catches my eye at random. I knew the book was one of those life changing lesson types, likely why it sat unread for so long.

On the plane to Costa Rica I first opened the book. I don’t think I closed an eye the entire evening plane ride - very unlike me. I was completely drawn to the book’s story and characters. It was a story about an average American family who takes an adventure, suffers a great loss and the days to follow. It was juicy and I was hooked. It didn’t smell like a life lesson or an overly religious book. I was genuinely entertained for better or worse.

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Each night I would retire to the bodega where a makeshift bed was setup and read my book, often waking in the middle of the night to read more. It was pleasant and peaceful and at the time felt like I was reading and writing a story all at once.

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On our steep decent from the volcano to the waterfalls we decided to pass the gate and $45 fee to visit the falls in pursuit of a less traveled path before deciding

the $45 was worth it and turned around. As we pulled into the parking lot we literally drove into the hotel smashing up the front end of the car with no damage to the resort’s rock wall. After a few choice words it turned out the brakes went out! It is Sunday in the middle of the rainforest far from any working mechanic. To top it off the hotel is a top-notch resort, rated one of the top 8 honeymoon spots in the world with rates as high as $500 per night.

Nearing the end of my trip and the end of the book we decided to take a day trip to Poas Volcano visible in the distant horizon from my parent’s backyard. It is a winding road through small villages and rural towns where much of the country’s coffee and sugar cane grow. You twist and turn through cattle farms and coffee plantations where road vendors sell handmade cheese, fresh fruit and folk art, an idyllic setting almost biblical in itself.

Not being a guest at the resort the staff was not overly helpful at first. After taking a look at the damage to the car one of the concierges named Eduardo arranged for us to stay overnight in one of their deluxe suites for an extremely generous rate. The resort was a Disneyland of Costa Rica, tucked deep within the rainforest.

It was 70 acres of lush rainforest with worldclass attractions. There were ponds stocked with rainbow trout to catch and eat. A butterfly observatory, serpentarium, ranarium (frog exhibit) and aviary where hummingbirds eat from the flower you hold in your hand! You can stand next to waterfalls a hundred feet tall. The suite was perfectly designed into nature with not much to desire. There was a fireplace, rain shower, Jacuzzi tub and a waterfall!

On this trip to the volcano I didn’t bring “the book.” Why, for a day trip filled with hiking and traversing rough terrain. There was just no time or place for reading, although the book was on my mind. The volcano summit has fairly easy access and both my parents and I made it to the top with no problems. I had seen the red

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At the time, the book was describing a very similar oasis. Was this some version of what’s next? Who knows. I do know the following day we spent at a mechanic’s shop, which felt a lot more like home.

Season’s & Happy Happ Lionfish Continued from A1 waters off Florida have been a concern for more than a decade as they prey on many of the smaller fish who contribute to the growth and health of coral reefs.

Lionfish were first discovered in the Mediterranean in the early 1980s but did not make their way into the warmer waters of the Gulf until the 1990s. It is believed they may have been

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unintentionally introduced to the Gulf from aquariums when hurricane Andrew swept across Southern Florida in 1992 and have since made their way into the western Gulf of Mexico.

Scientists at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at A&M University Corpus Christi say they believe the presence of the species will eventually have a potentially severe negative impact on the Texas marine wildlife population.

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In Florida boaters regularly conduct Lionfish roundups in which they kill thousands of the fish to keep them from harming coral reefs and from displacing lobsters from their burrows which puts stress on the lobster population. Lionfish have no major predators and are venomous fish whose bodies are covered with spines which contain poison that is dangerous to humans. Scientists say they can quickly populate an area and decrease native populations through either eating them or chasing them away.

A crew from the Harte Institute in September used an underwater remote control vehicle to capture video of a Lionfish at the Southern reef site about 40 miles ENE of Port Aransas. It is the latest find of the species which had already been sighted at the Clipper Ship artificial reef site off South Padre and other rig sites off the central Texas Coast. They have also been found at the Flower Garden coral reef off the northern Texas coast. There are unconfirmed reports of them being caught offshore from Padre Island National Seashore and in the ship channel at Port Aransas.

If you catch a Lionfish researches ask that you immediately take a photo and send it to the Harte Institute or the University of Texas Marine Science Center in Port Aransas, and if possible take the fish to them for study.

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Letters to the Editor The Government Didn’t Build Our Ranch

By: Joe Parker, Jr. President of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.

“Where’s the screwdriver?” Someone hadn’t put it back on top of our old refrigerator.

That screwdriver was the only way to pry the refrigerator door open since the handle had broken a few years before. Our father had wanted to buy another refrigerator, but our mother said “no” since the calves didn’t weigh as much as expected that year and money was tight.

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Remembering those lean years back in the early 1960s, we are reminded, “The government didn’t build our ranch.”

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Sitting on the end of the loading chute with his legs hanging over the front and the hot west sun burning his face, our dad sighed and choked as the dust blew back over the top of him from the last cattle truck pulling out. He estimated the numbers through his mind of $.20 a pound times 500 pounds a head on the steers.

A $100 per head is what he expected, but the heifers didn’t weigh near that much. “Maybe the bank will extend part of the land payment,” he thought.

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Remembering those lean times back in the 1960s, we are reminded, “The government didn’t build our ranch.”

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I heard my dad tell my mother as we were headed home from church one Sunday, “You know, I know I’m supposed to see the face of Jesus when I pray, but when I close my eyes to pray, all I see is my banker’s face.” After four of the driest years on record in our area, it finally started to rain in 1957. Was the banker starting to look like Jesus? The resemblance was not close.

Remembering those dry years back in the 1950s, we are reminded, “The government didn’t build our ranch.”

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I consider my growing up years from 1951 to 1965. After all, I was grown, in mind, by the age of 14, and I had a hardship driver’s license.

We started farming some of our land in 1965, and if we weren’t in school we got to work all day grubbing mesquites and at night we would plow. The whole family worked on the ranch. Our mother was the housewife and the bookkeeper.

Remembering those family working days, we

Third Annual Ferry Art Contest See Your Art on the Dingwall The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) announced the start of its third annual ferry art contest to select art work to be featured on the towers of three ferry boats in the Port Aransas ferry system.

The contest is open to anyone and includes two age categories – children (age 18 and under) and adult (older than age 18). The deadline for submitting art work for the contest is 5:00 p.m.

Central Time on October 31, 2012. Winners will be selected by the end of 2012.

Winning entries will be reproduced on the towers of three ferry boats (the Burnett, the Goode, and the Dingwall). “Many of the folks who ride the ferries enjoy the art work,” Ames said. “When we did a survey at Spring Break, the majority of the respondents felt the art work added to their ferry experience in a positive manner. It adds color to the vessels that would otherwise be plain white.”

are reminded, “The government didn’t build our ranch.”

When I think about all the tough times that our family overcame in order to make it in the ranching business, I can’t help but wonder why on earth an elected official would assume that the government helped us build our business?

How dare that official presume we couldn’t have built our ranch without the government’s help? Does the government help build our ranch by restricting our development of water storage ponds? Does the government help build our ranch by restricting the amount of dust allowed on our roads and our cattle handling facilities?

Does the government help build our ranch by blaming the rancher for the water contaminates rather than the wildfire?

How about after years of family sacrifice in order to make land payments to fulfill the dream of actually owning the land, you find out during the saddest days of your life after your father and mother have died, that you have to pay for that land all over again at an inflated price? The government sure didn’t build our businesses or our ranches with death taxes.

We produce beef on our ranch. Beef is meat. Can you imagine an administration that has USDA employees call for “Meatless Mondays?” So what if they were told not to say that anymore.

Can you imagine hiring and keeping employees with that mindset in the agency in charge of food production and marketing?

I don’t want to tell you how to vote, but I do want you to be an informed voter. It’s important to know the platforms of each candidate. It’s important to know what each candidate thinks the role of government should be in our lives.

The history of the United States of America has always been to work for the control of spending, control of deficits, control of taxes, and the control of the economy through limited government. Today that government wants to control your health, your guns, your businesses and your investments through an expanded welfare state.

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La Posada Hi Dale, Thanks for the support and coverage of the La Posada Boat Parade organized by my husband, Jim. Throughout the years, you have come up with some creative spellings of our last name.

As you mentioned, this will be his last year.

So I hope you don’t mind if I make this small request: in future articles, would you please use the correct spelling of Weatherill? Just think of the weather, add ill, and you’ll have it down.

Thanks again, Anne Weatherill

The next time your family is together and you have time to drive or ride around on your ranch, look out across the pastures toward the horizon and think back about all that has been done to develop and maintain your ranch. Ask your family, “Who do you think built this ranch?”

Did your family, by the grace of God, build your ranch or did the government?z

Thanks Anne, we do like to be creative around here and heck, anyone can spell it right. But since Jim has been gracious enough to keep the La Posada boats all going in the same direction for ten years we’ll rein it in and we’ll see you guys at the Yacht Club for the parade.

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The “Island Pumpkin Patch” is back at Island in the Son United Methodist Church beginning October 7th through the 27th. Pumpkins will be delivered to our grounds where they will be for sale daily until dusk. A large variety of pumpkins will be available, priced according to size. This is our 5th year to have a Pumpkin Patch available on the Island and it has proven to be popular with local residents and passersby on Highway 361. Come on buy and pick from the patch! Island in the Son United Methodist Church is located at 10650 Highway 361 on Mustang Island between Newport Pass Road and Beach Access Road #3 (2 miles north of Packery Channel, 12 miles south of Port Aransas). For more information call the church at 316-749-0884 during office hours, 9 AM-2 PM, Monday through Thursday.

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After the first art contest took place in Fall 2010 and had 66 entries, last year’s contest also had over 60 art works. Three pieces of art from the adult category and three from the children’s category were selected to placed on three boats..

Artists wishing to enter the contest are encouraged to submit works that illustrate the people, places, plants, animals, environment, scenes, settings, events, or activities relevant to the Port Aransas ferry system and the community. “The ferry system is about more than just getting from one place to another. It is an important part of the visitor experience in Port Aransas,” said Gillespie. “It’s a short ride, but it captures so much about what is great about this coastal community.”

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Early Monday he headed over to Encantada to take a look at one of the houses that had the front door kicked in and while he was there a neighbor wandered over and told him he had seen a vehicle driving down the street just minutes before with two people inside who looked like they were up to no good.

“What kind of a vehicle?” Rogers asked.

“A gold jeep,” he said, and Rogers was on his way.

He found the jeep parked in a vacant lot near Cutlass and Dyna and walked over to put his hand on the hood to see if the engine was warm.

About that time a young man came walking out from behind a house.

“What are you doing here,” Rogers asked.

“I’m visiting The Island,” the man said.

Rogers frisked him and found an eighteen-inch crowbar in his front pocket. It turned out that he had been confronted by a homeowner in the backyard and his luck had turned. at a residence where a lady got a good look at a man and woman before they drove away in a gold jeep, the other where they rang a doorbell then jumped the fence into the backyard. That time they were interrupted and left behind a Playstation and an AR-15 rifle, police just missed them and when they got to the scene the fingerprints were still wet. Then two more around Encantada, then two more hits on Eaglesnest Bay, one on Canadian Mist, another in the 13000 block of Primavera where they made off with a briefcase full of guns from a family collection. By late last week police were warning residents to beware.

In all, nine houses were hit in just two weeks.

Police believed the fast pace of the burglaries and the way they were carried out meant they were looking for amateurs feeding a drug habit.

The modus operandi was almost always the same; a gold jeep, occasionally followed by the white Tahoe cruised a street, someone went to the front door and if there was no answer they jumped the fence into the backyard and kicked in a door; sometimes they didn’t bother going to the back, just kicked in the front door.

Word was getting around that there were burglars working The Island and police were frustrated because by now they had a good description of both the tall dark headed man and short heavyset woman in a gold jeep, but so far hadn’t been able to corner them.

That changed about 9 a.m. Monday morning when officer Michael Rogers showed up for work early to get a jump on trying to catch up with the pair. Rogers had been on the force for about six years, four and a half of them on the

“I’m a juvenile,” the man said as Rogers removed the crow bar.

About that time the man began to try to run away and he and Rogers went to the ground. In the scuffle Rogers drew his TASER and fired but only one of the metal prongs struck home and the man took to his heels. Rogers grabbed the man’s shirt ripping it from his back and the foot chase was on. During the melee the man’s companion had determined that discretion was the better part of valor and jumped in the gold jeep and fled the scene leaving him to his own devices.

The man, with Rogers in hot pursuit ran up Cutlass to Gypsy near the bridge where he hooked a left and took off southbound on Gypsy. He was a fast one when he had a cop on his tail and he managed to hang a right on Ports O Call bound for points unknown. But as his kind often do he made a bad decision that spelled doom for his career.

He made a right on Seamount Cay and Rogers knew he had him. It was a fingertip street and the only way out was to fly or swim. Rogers positioned himself to watch as many escape routes as he could and called in the dogs – literally.

The K-9 team arrived and began working the street. Tyler the Marine, happened to be driving by and when he found out what was going on went home to change from his flip-flops to his running shoes.

“I can run,” he said, and offered to join the pursuit.

But it wasn’t necessary. About half an hour later Kimbo found his man hunkering in an upstairs closet in unit #207 at La Hoya De La Costa Condominiums where he had seen a lockbox on the door and, figuring the place was empty had kicked in the front door.

It turned out he was a sixteen-year old lad from OTB who already had an active burglary warrant. Burglary it seems was his chosen career but, alas, he just wasn’t very good at it. It is unknown at this writing if he will be certified as an adult when tried for his crimes but he learned the hard lesson that you got to be tough if you’re going to be stupid.

Meanwhile, his lady friend, knowing that trying to flee in the gold jeep OTB would be futile drove it to the cul-de-sac on Bonasse and abandoned it in much the same way she abandoned her accomplice.

As of this writing she remains at large but police have her cell phone, fingerprints, jeep, last known address, two eyewitnesses, and finding her is just a matter of time.

So ends the saga of the Island’s own wanna be Bonnie and Clyde. Has-beens that never were.

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A Brief History of Burglary on The Island There was a time not so long ago when The Island had a burglary season. It began in the fall when the kids went back to school and left Island homes vacant during the day and ran through Christmas when Island presents wound up under trees OTB. The special place in Hades reserved for parents who give their kids stolen Christmas presents is a story for another day.

Burglaries became so common the cops even had a name for them; Island Garage Sales, which was a good name for them because most of them consisted of burglars driving down the street looking for an open garage door and helping themselves to golf clubs, power tools, or whatever was handy.

These tapered off considerably when in the early 2000s a homeowner took off after three guys in a pickup with his lawn mower in the back. To shake him the burglars crossed into the southbound lane of SPID right at the base of the JFK Causeway and collided head-on with an Island resident in a blue Mercedes coming south. The Islander suffered broken legs, two of the burglars died.

Things were quiet for a few years but by the fall of 2007 the Burglary Season was in full bloom. With the help of Island Cop Chris Hooper we put together a list of about 45 Island burglaries which had occurred in just over two months which we published and more than 300 people showed up at a town hall meeting.

One group of thieves were two members of the same family who covered each other with alibis until finally they were busted and moved to Port Aransas where the burglary rate skyrocketed for a while until they were put out of business there.

But the burglaries continued. This group were professionals who hit in the light of day much like the current crop just busted. They rang the doorbell and if no one answered one of them who was a very big man would kick in the door and go in. One resident confronted them with a handgun as they were breaking into his neighbor’s house but didn’t fire; several residents who were too slow getting to the door came face to face with them. But they proved to be adept at avoiding the PD, mostly by pure luck.

Finally, a man in town who had the rims stolen from his truck went to the store to buy new ones only to see his stolen set being put onto another truck. The body shop owner said he would give him his rims back if only he wouldn’t call the PD. The man agreed then called the PD. The PD followed the truck with the rims to a house and staked it out while they went for a warrant. They arrested one man as he drove away from the house and when they got the warrant went inside and found in excess of

$100,000 worth of stolen merchandize, most from The Island.

Then a short time later Islander Bryan Gulley was building a house on Playa del Rey and found much of his building material piled inside the garage. The police told him it had been placed there by burglars and they would return for it that night. The PD lacked the manpower to stake out the house so Bryan and his neighbor did. The plan was for Bryan to hide in the garage and wait while his neighbor kept watch from his window next door and notify him when the burglar showed up. Things went according to plan until the neighbor fell asleep and Bryan found himself face to face with the burglar in his garage.

Bryan turned the guy’s car into Swiss Cheese as the frightened thief tried to drive away on four flat tires amidst a river of leaking radiator fluid and motor oil no doubt having second thoughts about the direction his life had taken. He made his way to the oak motte behind the Pelican Club where his car squatted down and died and he ran into the brush for cover. What the fellow didn’t know was that the oak motte was home to a pod of coyotes who set up a howl at being disturbed.

A quick thinking policeman who was waiting for backup got on his loud speaker and said, “We have the police dogs here and if you don’t come out I’m going to turn them loose on you.”

So the man who already had a car full of holes now added the ignominy of surrendering to a pack of coyotes disguised as non-existent police dogs.

Combined with the 45 previous break-ins this was the last straw. Islanders were having to fight off burglars with their own weapons and something had to give. The result was the establishment of two full-time police beats on The Island in 2008 and the burglaries stopped. We still have regular burglaries of vehicles, often along the seawall, and a few random break-ins from homegrown burglary talent, but until this week we haven’t had a series of burglaries since then.

The recent desperados were not professionals and were not coming OTB to pillage. They had lived – may have still been living – on The Island and were stealing to feed a drug habit. The PD got onto them after the third burglary – it’s hard to call two a “string” – and devoted extra manpower to the area quickly. In the end it was good old fashioned police work by a beat cop – combined with an alert citizen - that caught them.

Since the establishment of Island beats the Island Burglary Season is hardly worthy of the name. There are many things we Islanders can complain about when it comes to our city; police protection isn’t one of them.

Dale Rankin

Island Police Blotter

Six year-old boy drowns near Bob Hall Pier – Stepmother arrested

Six year-old boy drowns near Bob Hall Pier – Stepmother arrested A six-year-old boy drowned at the Beach south of Bob Hall Pier Friday night. Laura Day, a 47-year-old Island woman, brought her unconscious 6-year-old stepson into the Emergency Department of the Bay Area Hospital at 6:18 pm. Attempts to revive the 6-year-old boy were unsuccessful.

Island Police Calls 13300 block SPID 1:28 p.m. Oct. 8 Theft over $500 13700 block Primavera 7:45 a.m. Oct. 3 Burglary of house

According to police reports Day said she watched the boy play in the water and let him take off his life jacket while he played in shallow water. The boy disappeared under water and surfaced face down in the water. She told police she rushed the 6-year-old boy to the hospital for treatment.

139800 block Jolly Roger 2 p.m. Oct. 6 Probation violation

The Corpus Christi Police Department initiated an investigation which led to the arrest Day (28-65) at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday on a warrant for Endangering a Child in connection with the drowning. The charge is a second degree felony.

The investigation in this case continues.

14100 block Whitecap 2:35 p.m. Oct. 4 Burglary of house

On Wednesday KRIS TV reported that Day had a criminal history which began in California under the name of Laura Lee Feist, where she was convicted of murder at the age of 17 and served six years of a 17 year sentence. According to the station she later pled guilty to bigamy in Maryland where she was using the name Laura Lee Bush, with the alias of Laura Lee Marsden.

The station also said she convicted in Maryland of insurance fraud, arson, and theft.

15200 block SPID 11:07 p.m. Oct. 5 Building fire 15300 block SPID 1:10 p.m. Oct. 8 Gasoline theft

15200 block Barataria 9 p.m. Oct. 6 Unauthorized use of a golf cart 15100 block Barataria 10:42 p.m. Oct. 8 Aggravated Assault with a deadly weapon/ family violence.

15700 block Finistere 7:30 a.m. Oct. 3 Burglary of house 14200 block Almeria 4:35 p.m. Oct 9 Arrest Warrant (Note: some of the home burglaries attributed to the man who was arrested have not yet been posted.)

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A Fine life

By Debbie Noble

Minivan Meltdown

by Daphne Fine A mama lives a great deal of her life in the car. Taxi season is unavoidable unless you’re a hermit, so you can fight it or you can learn to make the most of it – those are the only two choices.

Last Friday in carpool line craziness, my kindergartener decided it would be a great idea to open a golf umbrella right behind my head.

Trying desperately to close it while avoiding a car accident with a fellow Flour Bluff parent proved challenging.

Later I realized that somehow my son had managed to break the locking mechanism required to close the umbrella. Not aware of this at the time, however, I yanked it closed again and again to no avail, while the carpool monitor stared at me quizzically through the windshield.

I could feel the tension growing in the line, now stopped dead, while I got out of the car (umbrella first) on a beautiful sunny day, and continued my efforts.

Finally, exasperated, I opened the hatch and violently stuffed the open umbrella into the back of the van in full view of the watching world.

Oh sure, I plastered a smile over my frustration and joked with the monitor, but we all know what the parking lot was thinking. “Crazy mama at twelve o’clock.” If you were there, I apologize.

Of course most days aren’t quite that crazy, but the close quarters in my minivan tend to be a constant motherhood challenge.

It really started about two years ago when we began spending about an hour in the car together to get everybody picked up from school.

I just never know who’s getting in my car on any given day. I pick up the same kiddos, but it’s impossible to know which of multiple personalities will be joining us for taxi time.

Sometimes the motor mouth pops in the door – he/she is one of my favorites. I don’t have to ask any questions about the day. The mouth just keeps spilling, hardly coming up for air, until happily exhausted, it comes to a stop.

Other days the grouch climbs in, the effort a strain, schlepping the backpack in the door along with a foul attitude. Everybody in the van should give the grouch a wide berth, knowing the tiniest irritation may cause an eruption on the scale of Mount Vesuvius, wiping out everyone in its path.

Some days, what I call the water balloon rolls in, shoulders slumped, eyes downcast, about to burst. Barely making it until the door slides shut, the balloon pops and the tears pour out.

I love water balloon too. When he/she gets in the car, my chest squeezes tight as I listen to disappointment or hurt and then have the privilege of ministering comfort and consolation to the one my heart loves.

And then there’s the combination of any of these and a number of others I haven’t taken time to describe. For instance, check out this formula: motor mouth + grouch = recipe for minivan disaster.

My role in the minivan is varied. I am referee, counselor, comforter, disciplinarian, coach, nurse, cheerleader, teacher. Yes, I am minivan mama.

At first, I resented the time that my minivan stole from me – stole from my family. I wished for the homey comfort of my kitchen and den, and for wide open spaces to separate my kids when necessary.

But I am learning that minivan time with my children is precious time, because I am a captive audience for my kiddos. In the van, there are no dishes, no laundry, no distractions, no other responsibilities.

I alone determine whether to be fully engaged in that taxi time so pregnant with the potential of truly knowing my children, listening to their hearts, and loving them with my undivided attention. When I choose to make the most of minivan moments, seemingly insignificant daily trips combine over time to form one amazing family journey.

Maybe this is what Honda had in mind when they named my van. Odyssey – (def) any long, adventurous, epic voyage of discovery.

Port A Happenings Deep Water Aerobics Deep water aerobic classes are being held each week on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

They start at 1 p.m., at Community Park Swimming Pool [700 Clark Pkwy, off Ross Ave].

Cost is $1.50 per person, and is open to all.

Don’t forget our regular water aerobics held Tuesdays through Fridays, at 8:30 and 9:30a.m., and at noon.

Tot Time Tots in the area can spend time with other tots and parents at another new program from the Parks and Recreation Department.

Tot Time will be held at 9:30 a.m., each week on Tuesday and Wednesdays.

Bring your child to the Girl Scout hut, in the Parks and Recreation Department building at 739 W. Ave. A, on the corner of Cut Off Road.

Kids must be accompanied by an adult.

The couple was due to perform in September, but bad weather made cancellation necessary.

Bring a chair or blanket, any food or drink you desire, and come watch the sun set over the Corpus Christi Ship Channel to melodious sounds.

The POA and PIBA sponsored a Bond Public Information Forum on Wednesday, October 3 at Seashore Learning Center with city staff including Oscar Martinez, Assistant City Manager for Public Works and Utilities, and Dan Biles of Engineering Services. According to Mr. Martinez, the city staff provides these forums not to advocate for any position, but solely to inform and explain the specific bond propositions. In general, Bond 2012 is meant to protect our assets by maintaining and repairing what we already have in order to prevent more costly problems in the future.

At the very bottom of the ballot in November, you will find 8 Bond propositions for $89.7 million in projects for infrastructure and public facility improvements. The last bond program was $153 million and was voted on in 2008. You can vote for or against any of the 8 propositions individually. More detailed information on Bond 2012, including sample ballots, can be found at www.cctexas.com/bond2012. Brochures and information booklets are available at the POA office, Island Mail and More, and Seashore Middle Academy.

Mr. Martinez wanted to make sure that we understood the financial implications of the Bond Propositions. The first $55 million approved will NOT impact real estate taxes.

Propositions 1 and 8 are street related and will show up as less than $2 per month on utility bills, or just over $20 a year. The tax increase of all 8 of the Bond Propositions could be up to $19.27 per year on a property valued at $100,000. If you are over 65, disabled or have otherwise qualified for a tax freeze, your tax bill will not be affected.

Proposition 1, $55 million, is for street renovations. This is a separate project from the much discussed maintenance “street user fee”, which has not yet even been voted on by City Council. The “street user fee” would be used in the future for actual maintenance/upkeep of roads, so that they don’t reach the point where they need to be redone. In this first proposition, city staff analyzed the usage, condition, and safety of all major city streets (not those falling under state or county jurisdiction, such as SPID and frontage roads) to determine the worst streets in the city, no matter where they were or which district they were in. The top 14 streets are listed for renovation in the proposition. Several other streets in dire condition were added to leverage federal, state and county improvement dollars. In addition to road renovations, the plan includes ADA and signal upgrades.

For those of us on the Island, this first proposition includes work in the JFK causeway, including access road improvements and increased access to fire hydrants.

Proposition 2 includes maintenance and upgrades to fire systems and roofs at City Hall, which was originally built in the mid 80s.

According to Dan Biles, city engineer, when it rains in Corpus, it rains IN City Hall.

Proposition 3 includes repairs to city maintenance shops, such as the Solid Waste and Fleet Maintenance buildings.

Proposition 4 includes park improvements, based on the city’s new master plan for parks. In general, they want to maintain the parks that we have and make it easier and more economical to continue to maintain them in the future.

This proposition also includes improvements to aquatic facilities and tennis centers, and development of hike and bike trails. Proposition 4 includes irrigation and turf improvements to Billish Park on the Island.

Proposition 5 provides improvements, including roof repair, for museums and libraries.

Proposition 6 provides improvements, including roof repair, for the Health Department building and parking lots.

Proposition 7 improves the Vehicle Impound Yard and Garage.

Proposition 8 contains various economic development projects, such as improved pedestrian access downtown and at North Beach, and beautification at North Beach and the airport. Many of these projects also leverage money from other entities who will help pay for them.

In answer to a question, Mr. Martinez assured listeners that once all bond projects were completed, if any money was left over, it could only be used for projects in the same category.

For example, street money on streets, park money on parks. He also explained that most of the roads on the Island were better maintained and in better shape, relative to those chosen for renovation on Proposition 1, when asked why more money was not being spent on the Island.

In answer to the perennial question of whether to use Asphalt or Concrete, Dan Biles assured us that they would use the most efficient and/ or economical surface based on analysis of each road at the time of renovation. According to him, in most cases, either surface can be suitable if maintained properly. Concrete may be less expensive to maintain, but it also requires a different skill set for workers, so we have to make sure that we have properly trained road repair crews for both surfaces. While some Island roads may suffer from ground water issues, they are built over sand, whereas most Corpus roads are built over clay. Problems occur as the clay shrinks and swells, and 3040 years ago roads were built without the clay stabilization measures advocated by today’s staff soil experts.

Mr. Martinez also informed us that city staff would be recommending to city council to increase design standards for developers in neighborhoods, which should decrease future maintenance requirements.

Native Texans David and Barbara bring a unique approach to traditional and contemporary American folk music. Married for 38 years and musical partners for 13, they reside in Corpus Christi and provide the South Texas area with glimpses of the musical heritage that makes our musical past unique. Combining close-knit harmonies with a multi-instrumental approach, their songs wistfully echo the spirit of our country’s musical past in an honest and simple style. Elements of bluegrass, gospel, Texas folk and country all combine to provide a delightful blend of music that is as entertaining as it is artistic.

This series is a City of Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department event held April through October.

The Parks Department will begin its Winter Sounds free concerts in January. This series is held once a month in January and February, partnering with the Port Aransas Community Theatre. They are held at the theater.

Dates and bands will be announced closer to the events.

Yoga on the beach

Isaiah Akens and Sarah Krecklow bubble painting Cost is $1.50, and all supplies are provided.

“Playing and socializing for tots and parents, grandparents or guardians will provide interaction for the kids and stress relief for the adults,” said Parks and Recreation Community Program Coordinator Pam Greene. “At least, that’s the plan.”

For more information, contact Pam at 7494158 or pamg@cityofportaransas.org.

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Meet at 9 a.m., at the pavilion in the Preserve at the end of Port Street, in the Port Aransas Nature Preserve at Charlie’s Pasture.

Walk and Talk is not a nature tour, just an “out in the wild” casual walk. If we see nature that anyone attending can impart knowledge on, great. Otherwise, it is just a time to meet new people, get some exercise, socialize and get to know the preserve.

The walk will be held every other Thursday morning at 9 a.m.

Wear a hat or visor, use sunscreen and mosquito spray, bring some water … all the usual rules.

It is free and open to all ages. You can walk as far as you choose.

Sunset Sounds concert Grab some friends or family and head to the park for the last free concert in the Sunset Sounds series for 2012.

Friday, Oct. 12, from 7 to 9 p.m., David and Barbara Brown will serenade at the Patsy Jones Amphitheater in Roberts Point Park.

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Stretch in the sun, soaking up rays as breathing in ocean breezes at the next Yoga on the Beach.

Saturday, Oct. 13, at 8 a.m., meet at Horace Caldwell Pier, at the end of Beach Street.

Yoga instructor Nancy Myers will lead attendees through yoga exercises at no charge.

The free tutelage is provided every second Saturday of the month courtesy of the City of Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department.

Bring a mat or old towel that can be used on the sand.

Peddling in the Preserve Our biking in the Port Aransas Nature Preserve at Charlie’s Pasture continues on Monday, Oct. 15.

Meet at 10 a.m., at the pavilion in the Preserve at end of Port Street.

Bring bike and join others on a leisurely ride every other Monday morning biking along trails inside the Preserve.

This is not a race, and even novice riders can enjoy it.

The event is free, just a social way of getting exercise in the great outdoors.

Lifeguard Class WANTED: Lifeguards (Ages 15 Plus) - for American Red Cross Lifeguard Training.

Classes will be held 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays, Oct. 20-21 and 27-28, in the Girl Scout hut, in the Parks and Recreation Department building at 739 W. Ave. A, on the corner of Cut Off Road and at the Port Aransas Community Pool.

Learn lifesaving skills to help keep people safe in, on and around the water. The cost is $175 for complete course. Contact Bonney Maurer at 361-779-8388 to register.

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History continued from A1 we set up camp. The pass was open then, and the islands of Padre and Mustang were divided.

I don’t know what time we reached the pass; we took no clock with us. I didn’t want time measured out to me in minutes and hours.

sleep, we slept like exhausted children. For the most part, Viola busied herself about the camp, but sometimes she came and dropped down beside the camp chair where I sat for hours at a time fishing with my cane pole.

We gathered lumber the rest of the day to build a floor for the tent. Viola did most of the labor, for there was little strength left in my body.

When the sun was high in the heavens, we stopped long enough to eat the lunch Mother had packed for us. It had been many months since food tasted so good, and if the fried chicken was seasoned with a little Padre Island sand, neither of us noticed – or cared.

Gradually, the sun and the salt air worked their healing magic, and before many weeks passed, I felt the beginnings of strength returning to my body. The aches and pains lessened. The shadow of death lingered, but grew fainter.

By nightfall we were snug and secure. We ate a supper of bacon and pork and beans by the glow of our Coleman lantern. Viola had made a table from a small hatch cover the tide had carried in; our chairs were two nail kegs. She stacked some apple boxes, one above the other to make a cupboard for our supplies. The cots were set up, side by side, at one end of the tent.

We turned out the lantern, brushed some of the sand from our bare feet and crawled between the covers.

“I love that lantern,” Viola said sleepily, “It gives you time to get in bed before it goes out.”

I listened to the pound of the surf a moment before sleep overtook me. From the dunes behind us coyotes howled.

I awoke that first morning feeling refreshed and eager to face the day. I raised the flap of the tent to see the splendor of early morning on the Gulf. Nature was outdoing herself in

artistry. The sky, the water, and the clouds along the horizon were all tinted with color – mauve, rose and copper seeping through the gray. As I watched the sun break through to make a golden path across the water, Viola came softly on bare feet to stand beside me. I had everything. But for a limited time only.

The day and the ones following it flowed by; the hours came and went like the waves that broke against the sand, unmeasured and unrecorded.

We ate when we were hungry. When we were tired we rested; and when the time came for

Our appetites were enormous. In spite of all the fish we ate, our supplies disappeared rapidly.

Neither of us looked forward to the trip to town after more. Fish were plentiful in those days and would strike at anything – even a bare hook. I saw schools of redfish a mile long, their color like a river flowing through the Gulf. There were many other species of fish, and I think I caught some of them all. There were redfish, trout, drum, pompano, pike mackerel, golden croaker, whiting and many less important fishes. The bottom of the lagoon was thick with flounder which we gigged at night by lantern.

One cool night in October I caught five hundred pounds of redfish on my trotlines.

Early morning found us chugging across the causeway with our load. The fish sold for twenty-five dollars; then we bought supplies and more line and hooks and hurried back to our island as fast as the Ford would take us. After that, I fished commercially.

When the first norther’ whistled down across the dunes, we realized that we would have to have a stove to keep the tent warm. So the next trip to town we bought some stove pipe, a chisel and some hinges.

I took an oil drum and chiseled out a door on one side and hinged it on. For the pipe, I cut criss-crosses and flanged them out to fit snugly.

We filled the drum about a forth of the way up with sand for insulation on the bottom, ran the pipe up through a hole in the tent, and there was our stove. Wood was no problem. The tide took care of that, but cutting it became my chore. Viola tried it once, but swore off tearfully after a stick of wood flew up and hit her in they eye.

October 11, 2012

by Dale Rankin

So I’m sitting in the Oklahoma City Airport last week and I run into my friend Dave from San Antonio who has just flown in from L.A. How he ended up in Oklahoma City I don’t know exactly but he was not a happy guy so I don’t think it was on purpose. He went over to the American Airlines counter and said to the guy, “I need you to send me to San Antonio and my bags to San Francisco.”

“We can’t do that,” the guy said.

“Why not, you did it yesterday,” Dave said, and then stood there like he was waiting for an answer.

For reasons known only to the Airline Gods his flight from LAX had been routed through Salt Lake City and for some reason landed in Denver and he somehow ended up in Oklahoma City.

Things like this have a way of happening to my friend Dave.

One time on a dare he jumped off the roof of Mel’s Lounge in San Antonio onto a picnic table where six people were sitting. When he came to earth his full weight was brought to bear on one end of the table and the two people sitting on the opposite end of the bench seats were launched into the air and came down on top of the people sitting downstream from them and everyone including Dave ended up in a twisted heap of humanity that resulted in the quick arrival of an EMS unit.

“What happened here?” they wanted to know.

“Well, you see my friend Dave over there with the two busted ankles jumped off the roof and… oh, never mind.” That’s my friend Dave.

So anyway Dave decides that instead of negotiating with the airlines he’s going to rent a car and drive to Dallas, or San Antonio or someplace south of where he is. He finds three other guys who were on his Denver flight and persuades them to rent a car and head for Dallas. The last time I saw him he was leading his new friends toward the rental car counter and explaining that when they got to Dallas they

were going to Deep Elm to celebrate. Those guys had no idea what they were in for.

San Somethingorother I once got on a flight in Newark on New Year’s Day after staying up all night in New York City and changed my flight time without really looking at my ticket. I was headed to San Antonio and I settled into my seat and pulled my coat over my head for the three hour or so flight when I heard the pilot say, “Welcome to Flight 3093. We will touch down in San Diego in five hours and…” I called the flight attendant and showed her my ticket which said…San Diego. Oh man. I took a puddle jumper to LAX and ended up on a red eye back to Dallas with a bunch of drunk Ohio State fans who had been at the Rose Bowl. At noon the next day I stumbled off the plane in San Antonio and went to the ticket counter to see if I could get frequent flyer miles from flying across the country and halfway back but was denied. Sometimes you just can’t catch a break.

Gotta go This time I got an aisle seat next to two kids whose mother was sitting behind them and who leaned over every ten minutes and asked if they needed to go to the bathroom. By some unwritten rule of nature if you ask a kid ten times on an hour flight if he needs to go to the bathroom he’s going to go ten times. I got a lot of exercise.

All in all I gotta say flying out of the Corpus airport is a lot easier than most. There are no direct flights to anywhere except Dallas and Houston, but San Antonio is the same way and our local airport is a lot easier to get into and out of than that one. I turned my phone on when I landed and there was a missed call from Dave.

I didn’t call him back because I figured he was trying to get me to drive someplace, like Austin, and pick him up.

If I did that I’m pretty sure I’d be in New Orleans by now.

With my friend Dave.

Great Surf Day @ SoPac last Sunday Photos by Miles Merwin

Winter passed. A short spring merged into a long summer. By the next October, I realized that I had borrowed six months over my allotted time to live, and by leave of the Almighty I meant to borrow as many more as I could. I was strong again and seldom felt the touch of pain. Fishing was good, and if the proceeds in those days were not astounding, there was always enough for the things we really needed. Island living agreed with Viola. She was brown and healthy and as active as a ground squirrel.

Next time: The Rawalts move to Big Shell.

Peewee's Animal Shelter Peewee’s Animal Shelter is located at 1307 Saratoga and has been in operations since May, 1997. Peewee’s presently houses over 300 animals, including dogs, puppies, cats, kittens as well as, pigs, goats, rabbits and other barn animals. Peewee’s relies on donations only for its operation.

Shelter operations are accomplished strictly by donations. Peewee’s does not get any government, city or federal funding. Peewee’s helps those animals no one else will - the sick and the stray. The volunteers at Peewee’s work tirelessly to rehabilitate poor orphaned pets in the hopes that they will find new, loving homes. The dogs and cats are spayed/neutered, given regular heartworm preventative, and are on flea & tick prevention and medications as needed. Peewee’s does not discriminate due to age or health conditions of the pet. Please visit Peewee’s Pet Adoption World & Sanctuary at 1307 Saratoga Road. You can call them at 361-8884141 but they do not have staff to answer phones so please leave a message.

October 11, 2012 Photos by Miles Merwin

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Corpus Christi Chamber Music Society presents the 31st season featuring the world’s greatest ensembles. Chamber Orchestra Kremlin will perform at First United Methodist Church Saturday, October 13th. Check their ad in the Moon for future musical events.

Herbert Irrigation, Inc services North Padre Island and Port Aransas. Residential Backflow testing is $70 and that includes the city filing fee. They do new installations, repairs and backflow testing. They offer free estimates on new systems. Call 361-937-0912 Navy/Army Community Credit Union is offering 3.51 percent ATM refunds nationwide with their new liberty checking account. They have locations in Corpus Christi, Beeville, Kingsville, Portland and Rockport. Call them at 361-986-4500

Scuttlebutt’s Bar & Grill now offers fine cigars to go with their fine scotch. Enjoy their NFL Ticket on Sundays to enjoy every game being played on their big screen TVs and what better goes with football then their mild to wild wings.

The Island Moon Facebook posts up-to-theminute Island news. News and details about the burglaries appeared hours before it was on the news with input from Islanders at the scene.

We appreciate your posts like this one: Gail Shannon Morris: Wow- I had not heard about the burglaries. Thanks for keeping us informed Island Moon! We have now surpassed the 1000 friends mark. We love you guys!

Business Briefs

Dragonfly Restaurant reminds us it is that time of the year to start planning your Christmas party. The private banquet room will seat up to 50 very comfortably. They can customize a menu for your party as well. Also, they are now open at 11:00 for lunch instead of 11:30. They close at 2:00.

Coldwell Banker has three open houses Sunday, October 16th 2 – 5 pm. A three bedroom at 13853 Topsail for $289,000, a three bedroom new construction at 14126 Coquina Bay for $219,900 and in Flour Bluff zoned for horses a three bedroom on five acres that backs up to the Oso Bay.

Beach Club Apartments has a one bedroom unfurnished available December 1st for $800/ month. Call 830-626-9797 for more details.

Seaside Condominiums in Port A has a one bedroom unfurnished on the first floor available December 1st for $1100/month. Call 409-2211599 for more details.

Padre Island Animal Hospital has hair coloring available just in time for Halloween.

Look for the 25% off October grooming in their ad and get your pooch a cut and color. DogGone Days BBQ and Music Festival will be held Saturday, October 27th 5 pm – 10 pm. Jason Meadows & the Rockaholics will entertain at the event. There is still time to work on a costume for the dog and owner contest with a $500 first place prize.

The Taste of the Island will be held indoors at Port Royal Wednesday, November 7th. Tickets are $25 in advance and $35 at the gate and only 500 will be available instead of 800 because of limited space. Tickets can be purchased at Mail n More, POA office, Padre Isles Country Club, all banks and the American Bank in Port A.

Sweet Swirl Frozen Yogurt is having their grand opening/ribbon cutting Wednesday, October 17th at 5:30 pm. Check out their frozen coffee drinks and their home grown strawberries.

Paradise Limosines is offering a limited number of shuttle runs to the Taste of the Island at Port Royal. Call Tony at 877-LIMO to reserve your ride.

The Island Moon Newspaper and Corpus Christi Magazine are looking for experienced sales people. Their commission and bonus plan can have you making money TODAY. Call Jan at 949-7700.

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Chamber Orchestra Kremlin October 13, 2012 • 7:30 pm First United Methodist Church

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November 10, 2012 • 7:30 pm Richardson Performance Hall Del Mar College

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January 26, 2013 • 7:30 pm Richardson Performance Hall Del Mar College

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PINS cont. from A1 beginning step one,” said one official involved in the project.

If the project is finalized the park would include the seven miles of the eight miles of beach in Kleberg County. One mile of beach south of the county line would remain in private hands.

“We would move the entry cabin of the park up to a point right at the Corpus Christi City Limits,” said Buzz Botts, Educations Coordinator at PINS. “We would welcome having the park as our southern neighbor,” said David Coover, attorney for the family which owns the adjacent tract of land to the north. “The GLO land has essentially had no type of rules or law enforcement for decades. People drive over the dunes and across our land to get to the Laguna Madre. If that land becomes part of PINS they would police it.”

The tract includes what is referred to as the Fish Bowl where revelers have made a pass though the dunes to an open space behind the dune line which is free of vegetation. It is the site of frequent parties due to the lack of law enforcement in the area.

The Nature Conservancy is a private worldwide organization which works to preserve land in its natural state. The Texas branch is headquartered in Austin with an office in Corpus Christi. The PINS project is being handled primarily by the Austin office.

“If You’re Able Buy a Table” Saturday - October 27th 11am - 8pm Stop in at the Art Center anytime between 11am-8pm on October 27th to purchase a Wooden Tray Table -Hand Painted by Art Center Artists for $100 each. They are beautiful and each one will be a unique one of a kind piece of art! So come on by on the 27th and collect a treasure or two while helping the Art Center with Fundraising. The Port Aransas Art Center is a 501 ( C) (3) Non Profit Promoting Art & Education Island Style since 1996

Hooray for Habitat!

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Celebration of the Big Tree Unit at Goose Island State Park on Saturday, October 13 Come join in celebrating Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s acquisition of the Big Tree Unit at Goose Island State Park Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 with a day of wildlife interpretive programs and celebrations.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and The Nature Conservancy worked for several years to obtain funding to acquire the 80-acres located West and North of the famous Big Tree. An oil spill settlement provided the $2 million to buy the land known originally as Big Tree Ranch.

The land is important habitat for endangered Whooping Cranes and many other species.

The Celebration will be held at the Big Tree in the parking lot in front of the tree. The day will begin with a Bird Walk at 7:30 a.m.

Experienced guides will host two simultaneous bird walks on the new property. A Big Tree Bird Walk where you will meet at the Big Tree and bird the wooded area on the West portion of the property and a Shoreline Bird Walk where you meet at the Big Tree and bird the shoreline area on the east portion of the property. At 9 a.m., two Interpretive Programs will be held: Tour of the Big Tree Unit and History of the Big Tree.

Beginning at 11 a.m., a Ceremony will be held featuring the Director of State Parks for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Brent Leisure and The Nature Conservancy’s Land Protection and Easement Manager David Bezanson. Leisure will speak on the importance of this acquisition and conservation partnerships. Bezanson will speak about TNC’s role in obtaining funds to purchase the property.

Representatives from the Texas State Legislature and officials from Aransas County will explain the importance of this acquisition to Aransas County. At 12:30 p.m., a Tour of the Big Tree Unit and History of the Big Tree Interpretive Programs will be repeated. Bring your binoculars and mosquito protection, if needed.

Organizations in the Lamar area such as the Lamar Woman’s Club and the Lamar Volunteer Fire Department will be on-hand with light refreshments and some seating.

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Daddy’s Dyin’ Needs Help PACT announces the upcoming auditions for the comedy, Daddys Dyin”-Who’s got the will…by Del Shores, Directed by Emily E.J. Regier, who directed the very successful production of Desperate Ambrose earlier this year.

youth for this production...there will be a 1 Act Play by Laurel Woodward...Play a family night at the theatre, in Port A. If you would like to contact Daniel and get more information and pictures of the children, please call him at the school 361-749-1200 he is at the High School ext 120..

The play is set in a small town, in Texas, in anytime, USA. Dyin’ concerns the reunion of a family gathered to await the imminent death of their patriarch, who has suffered a stroke.

This is not a story of the demise of a father but rather a rebirth of the spirit of the family unit, it is fast, delicious having tense, funny touching moments, as well as characters you can care about.

Then we have...

Haunted Theatre The Haunted Theatre.....Oct 24-31st Project Graduation and the Port Aransas Community Theatre are joining forces to bring "The Haunted Theatre" to life, from Oct 24Oct 31st opens nightly at 8:00pm...til 10:00pm.

EXCEPT Friday Oct 26, Saturday Oct 27 & Wed. Oct 31st...will be open til 11:00pm

Needed are 4 women, 2 men over the age of 25 1 woman over the age of 50 and 1 man over the age of 50 these are all mature parts.

The Haunted Theatre will feature terrifying mazes, scream filled scenes and a journey into the haunted legacy of the Pact...according to Ken Yarbrough, who is coordinating this event.....

Production of the play will be all weekends and Fridays in January 2013. Rehearsals will begin on shorten schedule till November…for more information call E.J. at 505-629-1219 and leave a message..All auditions will be at theater located on 2327 Hwy 361, Port Aransas, you may also, call the theatre 361-749-6

To make this "fright raiser" a reality, the team is in need of many supplies,,& volunteers..... we are in need of lumber of any kind, including 2x4s, sheets of plywood, pallets, clear and black plastic sheeting, all colors of paint.. dolls, tree limbs, bush clippings, hay costumes, clothing and sheet, fitted or flat colored or white...

THEN we have…

Halloween Showcase Halloween Showcase, coming to the stage, on Oct 19 & 20 the show times will be 7:30 pm nightly.....the Port Aransas Marlin Drama Club, will be performing on stage. to entertain the whole family. Daniel Reyes, the Theatre Art Director has worked many hours directing the

To donate items or to sign up to be on a team, please call the theatre 361-749-6036 email pactdarlene@yahoo.comor Ken 361-332-8914 email Ken@Shaken-Stirred.com

Bees Getting M&M Fix

Since August, beekeepers near the town of Ribeauville, in the northeastern region of Alsace, have been reporting their bees are producing blue and green honey, according to Reuters. And they’ve traced the cause back to a biogas plant that processes waste from an M&Ms factory.

Bees are apparently picking up vibrantly colored, sugary waste from the plant, operated by the company Agrivalor some 2.5 miles away from their apiaries. A statement from Agrivalor that appeared in the French newspaper Le Monde said the company would clean its containers and store waste in airtight containers to prevent the bees from getting to it.

France generates 18,330 tons of honey per year, making it one of the largest honey producers in the European Union. In Alsace alone, about 2,400 beekeepers manage 35,000 colonies, which produce about 1,000 tons of the stuff per year.

However, France hasn’t been spared by the largely unexplained decrease in the world bee population in recent years, Reuters reported.

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Real Estate continued from A1 combination of features to encourage an offer.

That is why I was so enthusiastic, to see the pool in the canal. Suddenly, it opens up an option for those customers who fall in love with a home on a patio lot, but they absolutely want a pool, as well.

their “salt water” pool that is totally unique. It is reminiscent of the swimming pools I saw in the Cayman Islands that had been carved out of the coral behind older Cayman homes, but is no longer allowed. Maintaining the pool is not a problem for this homeowner who has a “pool servicing” company in addition to his “full-time” employer. With a heavy duty work schedule, I can see where “pool time” would be very beneficial. Being informed is a good thing.

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Once I saw the pool, I talked to Maybeth Christensen, at the POA office. I found out that the pool I had seen is the only one on The Island located in the canal. I stopped by the residence and asked for an interview with the homeowner. Apparently, if you move from Hawaii and you promise your family a pool, you have to figure out some way to make that happen. It starts with a design submitted to the POA for their approval, then a trip to the City of Corpus Christi to apply for a building permit. The next phase requires some patience.

The City of Corpus Christi must get permission from the Army Corps of Engineers (who control the canals) to allow the pool to be placed within the “dock” area on a “removable” design basis. Once the approvals are received and the permits issued it becomes a logistics problem.

Think of having your “fiberglass” boat sink behind your house. Voila, a new pool. For this homeowner he approached Gary’s Pool and Patio Store to actually make the “thickened” fiberglass pool to fit his slip area. Then, extra pilings were installed by Sun Set Marine and he built the frame to surround the pool. The final stage was having a crane place the pool in the canal from the “end cap” next to the street.

A Sea Doo was used to tow and maneuver the “pool” into the slip area. A final pier was installed and the frame was completed. Once filled with water, the homeowners now enjoy

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Custom built home with everything you want for waterfront retirement or a weekend special place.

Take a short boat ride to your favorite fishing hole in redfish bay, or take a relaxing dip in the pool, or fire up the rV housed in its own 640 sq ft garage with a 12X16 foot electric door. Kitchen appliances include Realty, LLC Wolf brand stove and a sub Zero refrigerator/ freezer. High ceilings in every room. Windows protected with electric storm shutters. Two Boat 575 E Goodnight • Aransas Pass, TX • lifts. Call for more details.

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WATERFRONT--Fortuna Bay’s finest! 3/2 penthouse with high ceilings, completely redone in style with stainless, glass tile, granite, quality fixtures throughout, sumptuous baths, attractive furnishings, storage closet, boat dock, community pool/ hot tub, tile/carpet. Ready to go, just move in or rent out--vacation rentals okay. Bring your boat. $164,900 Beach House Realty, Gail D. Spinn, Agent 2217 State Highway 361, Suite A-1, Port Aransas, Texas 78373

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Magnificent updates as well as wonderful waterviews! 4/2.5 salt water pool. Master down. Call Beth for more information! 7794943. 13757 Eaglesnest. $499,900.

(361) 949‐7077 or (800) 580‐7077 www.cbir.com

Customized house, superb canal location, upscaled kitchen w/granite counters + bamboo flooring, plantation shutters, abundant amenities. Dorothy 563 -8486. $445,000.

Fortuna Bay Waterfront condo 3-2 w/boatslip. Recently updated.

Furnished. Just bring your suitcase & enjoy. HOA pool, cabana & spa.

Call Cheryl 361-563-0444.

Sale Pending!

15422 Escapade 3/2/2 $189,900. 1600 sq.ft of living area. Granite countertops throughout.

All tile floors, ss appliances, great location.

Charlie 443-2499.

Extraordinary canal location and view– highly customized s/s kitchen with granite counters & much more.

Surprises abound.

Call Dorothy 563-8486.

New construction by Seaquist Homes. 4-2-2 on Punta Espada.

Open floor plan, split bedrooms, landscaped front yard, builder’s warranty. Call Cheryl 563-0444.

15401 Cruiser 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 car garage $198,000.

1305 sq.ft. Very nice inside and out. Located on a canal. Call Charlie 361-443-2499.

15905 Punta Bonaire $620,100. 3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, concrete saltwater pool, boat lift, too many extras to list.

Call Charlie Knoll 443-2499.

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Sale Pending!

Waterfront Townhome on Mingo Cay. 3-2.5-2 courtyard entrance. End unit. Tile down & carpet up. 2 covered patios, multi level decking. Cheryl 563-0444.

13969 Mainsail 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath upscale Energy Star compliant home with inground pool, hot tub, outdoor kitchen and much more. $279,900. Call Cindy 549-5557.

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Beautifully Updated 3-2-2 w/ multi purpose room. Split bedrooms. Gas stove. Tile & bamboo floors. Plantation shutters.

Large backyard. Cheryl 5630444.

15257 Capstan 3/2/2 well maintained stucco home. Large backyard w/mature trees & covered patio. Tile in kitchen & baths. $149,900. Call Jeremy at (361) 960-7873.

This two story home sits on over 1 acre of land. Water well with sprinkler system. Four bedrooms with four baths. 3 car garage.

Two living & 2 eating areas. Call Terry Cox 549-7703. $388,500.

Lovely Flour Bluff 1-story home on 1.3 acre corner. Spacious 4/3/2 w/2 living & 2 dining.

Circular drive & water well for yard. Call Pam Morgan 2158116. $343,700.

13853 Topsail $289,000 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 car garage, 1756 sq.ft on a nice canal. Tile roof, rock front and back yard.

Well maintained. Charlie 4432499.

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Sale Pending!

This Padre Island home offers three bedrooms, 2.5 baths with 2 living areas and is located on 3 lots. Open floor plan with over 3300 sf. Covered patio, pool & more. Terry Cox $399,000.

Exciting 2-story with great interior lot location. It is on a huge lot with unlimited potential & surrounded by PVC fencing. Call Dorothy @ 563-8486.

Reduced Price 15713 Cuttysark 3/2.5/1 lovely Island home. Large yard with room for a pool. Call Laura Wallace (361) 815-2116.

14945 S. Padre Island Dr. Corpus Chris�, TX 78418 (361) 949‐2131 (877) 269‐2131

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4/2.5/2 waterfront with extra parking. Vaulted ceilings, fireplace and wet bar. $267,500.

13541 Royal Fifth. Call Shonna 510-3445.

722 St. Lucy $154,900 3/2.5/1.

1624 sq.ft of living area. 2 living areas. All bedrooms up. Nice landscaping. Above ground pool.

Charlie 361-443-2499.

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New Construction by TwoSaam.

14126 Coquina Bay. 3/2/2 plus den/office. Granite countertops & tile floors throughout. $219,900.

Charlie 443-2499.

13917 Primavera bring your decorating ideas, paint & flooring samples. This 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath home is waiting for the right person. $149,900. Cindy 549-5557.

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15505 Palmira #A 3/2.5/2 $1600

Lakeshore Villas #24 2/2 $1150

15702 Finistere 3/2/2 $1400

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Leeward Isles #5204 2/2 $1200

13545 Catamaran stucco and tile waterfront home offers multilevel deck, boat lift, 2 living areas, 3 bedrooms and 3 full baths. $339,900. Call Cindy 549-5557.

3266 Roscher—zoned for horses, near 5 acres. 2 story home 3-2.52. Backs up to the Oso Bay, private beach, fishing pier, pool.

Cheryl or Mary Lou.

121 Gulfstream $209,900 Beautiful 1st floor unit, ss appliances/granite countertop. Updated furnishings. Easy pool/beach access. Call Shonna 510-3445.

6th floor side/front unit-long veranda-great gulf viewimmaculate-newer appointments.

Call Dorothy Ernst at 563-8486.

Waterfront Lots for Sale!!

Palo Seco $154,900 San Felipe $200,000 Cuttysark $189,000

Mystic Harbor one bedroom corner unit on water. Canal access. Tropical pool. Hot tub.

Security entrance. Sold furnished.

Call Cheryl 563-0444.

Gorgeous East facing waterfront lot with open views. Very wide intersecting canal + short distance to IC Waterway. 15014 Tesoro. $184,500. Ana 361-443-7771.

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