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October 9, 2014 Around The Island By Dale Rankin
editor@islandmoon.com Here we are in October already staring up at the Harvest Moon just daring us to reach out and touch it. Our Indian friends call it Full Blood Moon, Full Dying Grass Moon, and Full Big Wind Moon. It’s that last one that got the attention of the folks over at the Lakewood Yacht Club near Galveston and in 1987 the Harvest Moon Regatta was born. Houston has the third largest concentration of sailboats in the Continental United State and this weekend a large portion of them will come rounding through the jetties into Port Aransas for the Harvest Moon Regatta after an overnight sail from up Galveston way.
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Island projects
Design for SPID Water Exchange Bridge Released
The recent rains have us all doing the Skeeter Dance these days as the little buggers just keep buzzing around our ears. We’ve all broken out the Port A Perfume and hope for the best.
The drawings show a 48-foot wide span over the canal with a clearance of 14 feet, flanked by two 36-foot wide pedestrian paths each with 8 feet of clearance. Plans call for the bridge to span a canal which will cross under SPID at a point near what was formerly the 11th green on the former Padre Isles Golf Course; the exact location is now marked by a canal on the west side of the roadway.
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Vector Control has engaged but so far has not made it OTB so we’ve pretty much been on our own. They put out a sort of disclaimer this week basically saying, “Yea, we’re spraying, but don’t get your hopes up.” Here’s what they said: “The pesticide dissipates very quickly when it comes in contact with the ground, especially if there is any dew. Even then, the fogger only kills the mosquitoes that are actually airborne and come in direct contact with the pesticide at the time of the spraying, so it is not effective for any great period of time. Since the fog only kills the airborne mosquitoes, it is estimated the fog only kills one third of the total mosquito population.”
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Adopt-ABeach Cleanup Expedition
Sign-up Now For Four Wheel Fun in The Sun October 11 Competitive beach combing returns to Padre Island National Seashore, Saturday, Oct. 11 for the second annual Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup Expedition, a competitive, teambased, four-wheel drive beach cleanup for cash prizes.
OTB by any other name Speaking of OTB, you may have noticed some folks around town wearing tee shirts with OTB on them. At first we were excited because we thought Off Track Betting was coming but it turned out we were just thinking Outside The Box. The term we have been using for years to describe leaving our Island to make a grocery run has now been co-opted to refer to leaving downtown Corpus Christi and going Over The Bridge – but not to The Island – to North Beach.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then we’re all a-tingle. The good news this week is that autumn temperatures dipped below 90; the bad news is that so did the price of oil. So hang in there everybody, and say hello if you see us Around The Island.
By Mary Craft When autumn rolls around the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna head to the waters off of Ballantyne Cove, Nova Scotia for six weeks to gorge on herring before heading across the pond to the Mediterranean or south
to the relatively balmy waters of the Gulf of Mexico to spawn.
Once at the beach, they will break into eight teams of four members each and begin competing for cash
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So when autumn rolls around Port Aransas Captain Dee Wallace also makes the trip to Nova Scotia
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Community and Home Garden Tours Stop and smell the roses on October 18 By David Dunseth On Saturday, October 18 at 9 a.m. at Douden Park there will be an official opening of the recently completed 20-plot section of the community vegetable garden and a dedication of the entre 80-plot complex. The public is invited and encouraged to attend. It would be especially appreciated for gardeners with a plot to be present and express their appreciation to the people responsible for the installation and maintenance of the garden area. The community garden and the adjacent butterfly garden will be open with gardeners on hand to answer questions about growing plants. On this same morning from 10 a.m. -1 p.m. the Island Gardeners Club is sponsoring a free garden tour of the butterfly garden and six residential gardens. Homeowners and club members will provide information
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on the identification and cultivation of plants. Maps with the location of homes are available in advance at the POA office and on the tour date at each of the homes as well as the community garden. Also, signs will be posted on streets to direct attendees to the locations.
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These two events are an excellent, enjoyable opportunity for The Islanders to stop and smell the roses. So mark you calendars and we’ll see you there.
Adopt-A-Beach Clean-up a Success
Sign up now at http://www.cvent. com/d/h4qrhs/1Q. But hurry -- as of Friday, Oct. 3, only four spots remain available and reservations are required. Contestants will arrive at the Malaquite Visitor’s Center, 20420 Park Road 22, at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. They will then be loaded into four-wheel drive vehicles and taken to a remote section of Padre Island National Seashore.
The last time we saw Vector Control on The Island was last year when Riley P. Dog took matters into his own paws and from the sound of the Vector Control press release his spraying might have done just about as much good as theirs. Good luck everybody.
Captain Dee Goes for Bluefin in Nova Scotia
By Dale Rankin
Skeeter Dance
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Weekly
Traffic light at SPID/Aquarius intersection Ten years after voters approved bonds to build a water exchange bridge connecting the Island canal system to o Lake Padre, Packery Channel, and the Gulf of Mexico the city this week released designed drawings for the $8.3 million bridge. City staffers, with City Manager Ron Olson in attendance, told the Island Strategic Action Committee (ISAC) Tuesday night they expect final approval of the plans from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers within sixty days. However, no firm date for the start of construction or completion of the bridge was given.
The Port Aransas Art About is also this weekend so the town will be full of artists and sailors hopped up on moonlight, we ask you fellow Islanders, what could be more better than that?
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Fishin with Farah A7 Posing before cleaning the beach the Seashore Middle Academy Builders Club prepares to put on their gloves and hats. Story and photosy by Brent Rourk Sporadic rain throughout Friday evening on the island as well as high tides and water-covered beaches would ordinarily discourage most civic-minded volunteers from
A little Island history
The State Can Keep the Cannons – Just Give Me the Gold!
Editor’s note: This story is the latest in a series from the book Islands at the Edge of Time by Gunnar Hansen written about his visit to Padre Island in 1992. In the last issue Islander Gene (Frenchy) French had just discovered the location of the wreck of the Spanish treasure ship Espiritu Santo near Mansfield Pass. By Gunnar Hansen With two friends he dove on the site and found bronze spikes and four gold coins. Astrolabes, coins and other artifcts There had to be more buried recovered from Padre shipwrecks. under the sand. By now he “They said, ‘Frenchy you’re crazy,’ was convinced he had one of the I said, ‘Were the h--- do you think I 1554 fleet. The salvage would tak got this stuff? Do you think I salted more divers and more equipment the mine?’ Anyway, no one wanted – a diving boat and prop blaster to to finance me. So I said, ‘Well, to clear the sand away from the buried h--- with it, I’ll just do it myself. It’s treasure. Unfortunately no one would History continued on A5 invest the money he needed.
spending a Saturday morning cleaning our beaches, however, the turn-out last Saturday was fabulous according to local North Padre Island Kiwanis Club members who staffed
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A little Port A history
Mrs. Blackard and Board of Education
By Jackie Bales “You can come out now if you think you can behave yourself”, it was Mrs. Blackard, fourth and fifth grade teacher at H. G. Olsen elementary in Port Aransas. She was peering at me under her big wraparound desk where she sent me for time out. “What are you doing”, she had suddenly become very concerned. I could not speak. The answer was evident as I wiped the apple juice from my chin. Yes it was a juicy and crunchy apple. She franticly inspected the debris field. “Did you eat my lunch”? I didn’t consider that the question needed a reply. Yes, I ate the ham sandwich. I ate the corn chips, the apple and the moon pie. At the time I was just
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Pictured are Mike and Mary Ann Mulherin along with Jerry and Kathy Morgan in front of the Partheon in Rome September 29th.
The Island Moon and Islander Tim Anderson were back in Central Asia. Guess what day it is!
Ron and Elizabeth Rickman from the bluff took the Island moon to Maui Hawaii on our recent vacation September 24-October 1, 2014.
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A team of researchers from Texas A&M University at Galveston and the University of Houston is requesting assistance from local birdwatchers for a citizen science project.
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They are tracking the presence of birds in mangrove and marsh habitats. They are asking birdwatchers to report their sightings at several popular bird-watching spots in the Port Aransas area through a secure website.
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Find out more about the project and how to help here: http://www.tamug.edu/armitage/ CitizenScience.html Please feel free to share this request with any local bird-watching groups or individuals who might be interested in helping. Contact Anna Armitage for more information at armitaga@ tamug.edu.
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I am writing you to express my recommendation and endorsement for Mr. Brent Rourk who is currently a candidate for the Flour Bluff School Board of Trustees. In the school year 2006 – 2007, the Seashore Learning Center “transitioned” from an elementary school to a middle school offering grades 6 and 7 to their students. Mr. Rourk joined the faculty, along with myself and a few others, as one of the key “transition” educators, continuing a career long dedication to the education of our youths, serving as both educator and administrator. The following school year, Mr. Rourk joined the newly established Seashore Middle Academy where he continues today doing what most educators aspire to – being a world class teacher. I can speak directly to his unique understanding of our education system, the staff and faculty, students, and parents therein. He brings a life-long perspective and understanding which translates directly to excellence in the classroom and by extension, to other teachers and administrators with whom he worked. Mr. Rourk is a consummate educator and administrator. His students and fellow faculty members are all winners benefitting from his dedication to them and the pursuit of excellence. I am currently travelling out of state and have limited access to technology and must ask that you accept this endorsement electronically signed. Please feel free to contact me at the email and / or telephone number listed below for my acknowledgment of this missive. With Best Regards, John R. Sacchetti
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Huge is the negative impact on ‘prepared students’, who basically are from our community’s Padre Island, Flour Bluff, and Southside, as they are over-whelmed by the growing numbers of ‘un-prepared’ immigrant students that degrade the quality of their academic education. As noted by Texas Senator Chuy Hinojosa as to the immigrants coming across the border, “while we must aid and support those children and families because it is the just and compassionate thing to do, we cannot simultaneously ignore or neglect responsibilities to our own citizens and communities.”
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Due to their popularity the International Committee for the Conservation of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna declared in 2009 that there was a 72% decline in populations and controls were put in place, since then there has been some recovery. There are about a half dozen lobster boats at the Ballantyne Cove Marina that are rigged for this tuna each year and for the last six seasons Dee has had one of them because boats from this fish house catch the most and biggest of this breed over the years. Each year Dee comes back to Port A with a new fish story to tell. When I asked if they caught any other fish Dee said “We caught a pilot whale by accident - but that’s another story.”
Expedition cont. from A1 and prizes. The cleanup will last until 1:30 p.m. A BBQ lunch will be provided after and a good time will be had by all. The suggested donation for the event is $20 per person or $80 for a four-member team. Fourwheel drive vehicles will be provided by AdoptA-Beach and contestants must be 18 or older to enter. For more information on the Adopt-A-Beach Program call 877-TXCOAST or visit www. TexasAdoptABeach.org. You can also like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.
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Business Briefs Dragonfly Restaurant is closed until Monday, October 20th. Island Time Sushi & Seafood has Tuesday night $2 domestic beer and $2 nigiri which is a slice of raw fish over rice served with wasabi and soy sauce. Wednesday is ladies night with half price wine and $3 house bubbles. Chuckles Comedy Club will feature Tom Green this Friday and Saturday at 8 pm and 10 pm. The club is located next to Mesquite Street Pizza at 615 N. Mesquite. Tickets are $25.50 and can be purchased at the club website. Call 434-4290 for more info. Halloween on the Green Golf Scramble benefitting the Wounded Warrior Project will be held on Saturday, October 25th at Schlitterbahn. There will be a putting contest, costume contest, closest to the pin, longest drive, longest putt, and more. The after party and awards will be held at the heated swim up bar and pool. There is individual as well as team registration. Items and gift certificates are still being collected for businesses who would like to donate.
(2) also find and recruit ‘prepared students’ for placement on the central and future south campus whether they be Anglo, Hispanic, Black, Asian, or Muslims, immigrants or not; and (3) truly prepare bright students to transfer to TAMU-CC, a future ‘Emerging Research University’ with more graduate, professional, post-graduate research programs particularly since Del Mar graduates tend to stay in the community and become future leaders in businesses, professions, education, government, and civic organizations.
The 31st Annual Pig Party at Shorty’s in Port A is this Saturday with BBQ and live music starting at 2 pm.
The 2014 central campus bond total is $157 million. The expected 2016 bond issue is $170 million for a South Campus, which both Dr. Bob Ferguson and I as well as the PIBA, FBBA, and Southside Business Council call for an ‘academic campus’, but the administration proposes placing ‘un-prepared’ Remedial/ GED immigrants on that campus as well. Then, of course, we can expect a third $170 minimum bond issue in 2018 to replace the buildings to be torn down on the Central Campus. The money total is a half- billion dollars for which the tax payers are entitled to academic quality for ‘prepared students’ on both the Central and South Campus.
The Island Presbyterian Church Women’s Bazaar will be held Saturday, October 11th 9 am – 4 pm at 14030 Fortuna Bay. There will be a bake sale, arts & Crafts, BBQ and live music. A gold and silver buyer will be on hand. Call 949-8770 for more info.
The photos of surfers at the top of page 1 in last week's issue attributed to Jeff Dolan were labeled "Volcom Surf Contest." The photos were not taken at the Volcom surf contest.
where he and others troll for the Giant Bluefin, releasing all but one fish per year, which they sell to the Japanese market for sushi/sashimi. This year Islanders Eddie and Justin Aguilar also made the trip and Justin caught a 780-pound Giant Bluefin Tuna about a half mile offshore and it took an hour to reel it in. The world record is 1496 pounds and was caught in Nova Scotia in 1979.
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This record bluefin weighed 1,496 lbs. and was caught in Nova Scotia in 1979
by Mary Craft
The Del Mar College administration needs to: (1) accept responsibility to our community by placing all recruited ‘unprepared’ Remedial /GED students on the West Campus and restoring the central campus as a center for academic excellence for ‘prepared students;’
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The THECB Almanac confirms that the current administration has caused over the past four years through recruitment for Pell Grant purpose a large increase on the central campus of ‘un-prepared’ or ‘remedial’ students with math 686 to 1279, reading 419 to 1,619, and writing 395 to 1,598. Why? Money! Each one of the 1,600 unprepared recruited poor immigrant family students qualify for federal Pell Grants of $5,500.00 with $3,000.00 or $4.8 million total to the college and $2,500 each to the poor students for cell phones, un-healthy diets, and vehicles. Yes, there is an entirely different local population than fifty years ago with 11.3 illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America having come across the border. According to the census figures, the Texas population has increased between 2000 and 2010 by four million with minorities, especially Hispanics, accounting for nine of ten new residents.
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When I entered Del Mar College as a freshman, the college had a national level academic reputation to truly prepare students for upper-level under-graduate, graduate, and professional school. So, my entire high school debate squad went to Del Mar because of its reputation. But, debaters and many bright students no longer go there because Del Mar’s reputation has become a ‘sea of mediocrity’ having been swamped by ‘unprepared students’.
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The 40th Annual Rockport/Fulton Sea Fair is this weekend starting with opening ceremonies 4:45 pm at the Harbor Gate. There will be live music all weekend and Restless Heart will be playing in the Big Tent Friday at 9 pm. There will be lots of activites for children and adults as well as and crafts, food, Boat Show, Car Show and more. The Fair ends Sunday at 6 pm.
The 8th Annual Port A Art About will hit the streets on Saturday, Oct. 11th 2 pm – 7 pm. Sixteen local artisan, galleries and studios will host a public “Open House” with refreshments, music and displays of their art. Participants include Felder Gallery, Port A Glass Studio and Potters on Cotter. Brooklyn Pie owner Richard Perales is working non-stop to try and get the Island’s newest restaurant open by the end of October. He says he plans to start with just pizza and wings and then expand the menu gradually. You can advertise your business or service in the Moon classifieds for as little as $10 for 25 words and 20 cents a word after that. Call Arlene at 834-1382 or email her at moonclassad@sbcglobal.net. Chelsea Handler’s stand-up special “Uganda be kidding me” will be available for streaming on Netflix on Friday. Obviously, I’m a fan.
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Cleanup continued from A1 the Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Adopt-ABeach station at Balli Park.
Constant vigilance is the price we pay for clean beaches sponsors and volunteers expressed gratitude for the organizational efforts of the Texas General Land Office Coast Bend Bays Foundation.
200 volunteers arrived at Balli Park Nearly 200 enthusiastic beach combers reported to the Balli Park location and then donned plastic gloves and hats before scouring and cleaning the beaches from the Newport Pass Access Road to the Nueces County Line south of Bob Hall Pier. It was not easy access to many of those mile markers because the high tides had all but washed the beach away in places, requiring a 4 wheel drive or simply a hike along the dune line.
Schools provided lots of helpful hands Committed volunteers came from several places. School teams from Flour Bluff High School and Middle School, Seashore Middle Academy, and King High School provided young and eager clean-up crews who enjoyed lunch at the Pavilion after cleaning the beaches. Several crews came from Texas A&M and a large, dedicated contingent from Lyondellbase
Problems causing pollution are complex Texas A&M students. Photo by Brent Rourk returned again as they have for so many years. HEB also returned as did a growing Hospitality crew. Several couples, families and small groups of friends also appeared, happy to help out wherever they could, some driving their needed 4 wheel drive vehicles. Children 10 years old and senior citizens in their ‘golden years’ also attended, joining a growing group of volunteers who cared about the condition of our beaches and made the effort to help clean. In the end 209 bags of trash were filled by volunteers. The beaches once again, at least for a short time, appeared clean.
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Our beaches do not stay that way for long as heavy traffic, bad habits concerning taking trash or putting it in a proper receptacle, and currents that deposit pollution from many miles away from Corpus Christi Flour Bluff High School Students posed after cleaning the shores.
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What is needed is for all beach users leave the beaches in pristine shape, removing not only their footprints from the beaches but After earning their lunch, SMA students prepare to those of previous beach goers. chow down. Photo by Brent Rourk At some point humanity must understand that we cannot afford to pollute our Ocean Garbage Patch is reported to be hundreds of miles wide. It appears at times that we live land and water. in a giant waste pail where the harmful impacts But the problem is even more complicated are just beginning to be recognized, understood, when we realize that much of the trash that we and measured. How much damage will we find on our beaches washes on shore, swept create to our planet before it simply dies? from different areas of the Gulf, emptied into This is not a case of Chicken Little and the bays, dumped overboard, or simply thrown into Sky is Falling; this is a case of us perhaps doing the Gulf. Winds and storms also move debris into the Gulf or move it with currents onto too little too late. It will be interesting to see our beaches. No better point was made of this how nations attempt to cooperatively address pollution redistribution than when Corpus and the issues of water pollution, runoff, lack of Padre Island beaches found themselves lined recycling, use of plastics, lack of education, with garbage after hurricanes ripped houses lack of funding, and more at a time when efforts apart and sent the contents sailing to wherever are being made to restore and grow underwater reefs as well as to save marine ecosystems and the currents moved. species. This problem is not unique to the Gulf of In the meantime, a hearty thanks to the 200 Mexico. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans volunteers at Balli Park and all of the other each have their floating garbage patches that threatens animal life, including birds and much volunteers at the other Adopt-A-Beach locations of our sea life. Garbage washing onto many last Saturday. They gave their time and care and Pacific Islands is eaten by birds indigenous to made a difference. those islands or that use the islands as rookeries. Bird carcasses litter some of those islands. I have personally witnessed large, floating garbage slicks (mostly plastic, foam, and wood) flow down The Mississippi, The Nile, and The Yangtze Rivers, where they eventually found themselves in the mechanics of a hydro-electric plant or simply drifted out to sea. As the gargantuan Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch continues to steadily and dangerously grow (as do similar floating patches of garbage around the globe) to ominous sizes, our islands North Padre Island Kiwanis Club members prepare lunch. Photo by Brent Rourk and coasts are under siege. The Pacific
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been there for four hundred years and it’ll be there another four hundred.” Then in 1967 the Platoro people arrived. A treasure hunting group from Gary, Indiana, they were determined to find the three wrecks. They approached French. They had heard that he knew where some of them might be. He could take them right to a wreck, he said, but what was in it for him? Ten percent of whatever they found, they said. What Frenchy said to them was roughly equivalent to “go fly a kite.”
channel. Among the evidence for its presence were a two-real coin found in the sand dunes and an anchor of the type used by these ships found near the jetties.
Where is the third wreck?
The whole incident still haunted Frenchy. He had been so close to recovering a major treasure. And now it was not worth going after. He was disgusted with the state’s pigheadedness on salvage. Two men from the state had come to him once, he said, to ask if he would help find a certain wreck. He had offered them a deal. Put him on the research ship for a day and he would find the wreck. If he was wrong, they had lost a day. If he was right, though, he wanted the state to guarantee that the artifacts would remain in Corpus Christi. He also wanted full credit for finding the wreck. And he wanted 10 percent finder’s fee. “Well, they said, ‘We don’t give a finder’s fee.’ And I said, “I don’t give the information.’” Frenchy laughed Sections of crossbows found on sunken Spanish treasure bitterly.
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Forty-five days later one of the two divers who had examined the site with French told him that the Platoro group had a boat and six divers in the water on top of his wreck, less than three miles north of Mansfield Channel. Maybe the other diver had led them there. “There was not a thing I could do. The irony of this story is that to this day I have not heard or seen from the second diver, ever.” Platoro started removing the goodies. Soon enough, though, the State of Texas called a stop. The Espiritu Santo and all Texas shipwrecks, it said, belonged to the state. It would not bargain. The scavengers were to return everything they had recovered. Among the artifacts they returned was a gold bar. One gold bar. Frenchy laughed at that. “I know a lot of things about that wreck,” he said. “I know for a fact that over two million dollars worth of gold was taken out by plane, including a cross with emeralds all over it.”
Now he wanted a chance to find the third 1554 wreck. “I’ve got several readings,” he said. “It’s there. It’s still there.” The State of Texas, Smith said, was satisfied that the third wreck was under the stone jetties at Mansfield Channel.
The mistake the Platoro people made, Frenchy said, had been to let on that they were finding anything. “When they took the cannon out – they were such d--- fools – that’s when they laid
I know as well as the next fellow that tales of buried pirate treasure are generally not true and always exaggerated, but nonetheless, here is a list of pirate treasure said to be out there along our shores just waiting to be found. This list comes from the 1972 book, "A Guide to Treasures in Texas," by author Thomas Penfield.
“I’ve been watching these birds,” he said. “Some of them have legs that fold backwards at the knees and some of them have legs that fold forwards. That would make it very difficult to design chairs for them.”
I didn’t ask why Robert Bob was worried about such a thing. His Oklahoma Sooners lost last weekend and that makes people north of the Red a little crazy. One year after a particularly bad Sooners shellacking Robert Bob’s wife ran off with the house. Well, not exactly the house, actually the trailer house – a single-wide or French Fry in Oklahoma parlance.
“When I pulled up in my yard I noticed that something stunk,” Robert Bob said. “And I looked around noticed that the French Fry was gone and all she left me was the septic tank. If she had a shovel she would have got that too.”
“Somebody put a turn where a turn wasn’t supposed to be,” Cowboy Jim said, when he called back to TJ’s for a ride. When we got there the sheriff was there and Cowboy Jim was hiding in the weeds.
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Spanish coin found at PINS pointed to the pepper, the Santa Maria de Yciar. “That’s the one I want. Let me tell you what’s supposedly unaccounted for. I think there was fifty-three thousand pounds of precious metal and over two hundred thousand coins unaccounted for.” That was correct, Smith said. “I’d just like to have the freedom of going out there and just – I’d love to spend a week, a month, whatever, I guarantee you, I blow out a certain section, I’m going to come up with lots of stuff.”
“No.” “You think it’s somewhere else?” ‘I do not believe it’s underneath the jetty. It’s possible that it may have broken up. That is possible. If they really dredged it, where is it? Have you seen this material that they say they dredged up and got these coins? I haven’t. If it’s true, then it’s possible that the wreck could have broken up. But I’m telling you, Herman, you find a way to go out there and we’ll blow that thing out. I was just out there, just before summer. There are readings every time I go out there. What would be in it for him? I asked. He couldn’t take any of the treasure. “Nothing,” Frenchy said. He smiled. “Except one thing. If I hit it, I’’ll take what I can get and run with it. I’d be more than happy for the state to keep every artifact, every cannon, every anchor I can find – you give me the gold.” He laughed again. I believed him.
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Another year after the Sooners lost a bowl game my friend Cowboy Jim got so teared up that when he left T.J.’s Tavern which two miles down a gravel road, he drove his Ford pickup into a power pole and blew out the lights in half Island Moon of McIntosh County.
I got kicked out of two other places but that was okay because my humans left with me. Sometimes dogs get in and sometimes we don’t. I can’t Navalit out. Air Station Kingsville has recently figure
“Do you think the third wreck is under the jetty?”
After the state stepped in, its researchers found a second wreck. The San Esteban, which they named 41KN10 (41 is the official number for the state of Texas, KN the country, 10 the spot’s registration number with the state), lay in 20 feet of water, 1650 feet offshore, 2.5 miles north of the Espiritu Santo, 41 WY3. In 1972 they began excavating 41KN10. The third ship, the Santa Maria de Yciar, had been obliterated when Mansfield Channel was dredged in 1957. They were convinced that, impossible as the odds seemed, the dredge had ripped right through the wreckage. Either that or it had been buried under the thousands of tons of stone laid for one of the half-mile-long jetties that protected the
Pirate ships were the ultimate democracies since each man – and occasionally women – each got a vote about where to go next and only during battle did the Captain’s authority take over. It was essentially a parliamentary system with a vote of no confidence always available.
The only thing left now is to actually find it.
it. Humans are funny.
“Well, one thing’s for sure, it’s there. I’m convinced that you and I could go right to the wreck.”
it on the dock and that’s when the whole world knew.”
Our island has had its share, and I’ve always believed that pirate Jean Lafitte who was known to use our bays and inlets as hiding places founded the tiny town of Bagdad, just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville in the state of Tamaulipas. The place grew from less than a dozen souls to over 10,000 during the Civil War years when Mexican flagged ships went through the Yankee blockage with Confederate cotton bound for the mills of England.
• Gold buried in Kleberg County from a Spanish ship stranded 20 miles south of Padre Island's northern tip.
• A chest of gold and otheravaluables buried Foundation, International Falls, Minnesota. It was good week “Hey, at will leastsend yourthem wifeto didn’t drive off with My friends there me. Don’t along the Nuecesfor River on the Riverside we Island dogs. I There your French Fry,” I said,Falls. as the sheriff drove off. forget…hotdogs…International went to Stingrays up in Port Aransas where Ranch. Island t Don’t send to thesheriff cats. Stoopid catshat that was my friend Deb slipped me a good supply of “No,anything but the high took my • Money, pizza bones.jewels There and weregold a lotplates of belonging in my truck,” Cowboy Jim said. “Nothing just to Maximilian, humans yelling at former a little emperor square of Mexico, ain’t right when we lose.” Driver dumped Laguna thing on theinwall with Madre people just all off Flour Bluff notice And so it goes. Peninsula. dressed alike running around on
“Well, you me absolutely right,” Smith said. We don’t know where it is. We’ve never found it.” Maybe it was sitting out there.
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The stories we’ve been running about Gene French lately have thinking about pirates. It doesn’t take a lot to get me thinking about pirates. I mean, who besides Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t want to be a pirate?
• A Laffite fortune buried under a millstone on the northern tip of Padre Island. Gold, silver and jewels hidden by Hernando Cortez, later unearthed and reburied by Jesse James, near Three Rivers.
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• Payroll for Spanish soldiers buried on St. Frenchy placed two mint candies and a pepper Joseph Island's southern end. packed in a row on the table. “Well, there’s • Gold and ornaments for a Vera Cruz one, there’s one, and there’s one. Running cathedral buried on St. Joseph's Island north to south, this would be the San Esteban, opposite Rockport. the Espiritu, and the Santa Maria de Yciar.” He pointed to the mint candy in the middle. “This • A treasure chest buried on the west bank of is the first one right here that I went after. And A 6the Nueces River where the old Laredo-tothen that one,” pointing at the candy to the Goliad road once crossed. north.” But no one’s ever gotten to that one.” He Letters to Riley • Treasure belonging to a member of the Russian nobility hidden on the western side of Mustang Island. Treasure buried in sand dunes on MustangByand Padre islands. Riley P. Dog
(French’s friend Herman) Smith named a man – did Frenchy know him?
They had met when Smith was down island in 1985 looking for the camp the Spanish had set up during their original salvage attempt. Smith had told me about him. “A real dirtball,” he had said. The man had worked as a salvor, and Smith had paid him for information. He had said that while working for Platoro, he had loaded boxes from the salvage boat onto an airplane in the middle of the night. The boxes had been filled with gold bars, he said, and they were never seen again. Now Smith told this story to Frenchy.
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Airtales By Jason Towns The Port Aransas/ Mustang Beach airport finally reopened a few days ago after a month of closure for electrical improvements and fencing installation. It couldn't be too soon for us Island Aviators, but our September "deployment" to the Aransas Pass airport was very enjoyable, efficient (except for the daily ferry ride) and enlightening.
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By Sail Offcourse that can carry up to 5 passengers in far more comfortable seats than you'll find on any airline. Owners-- usually local corporations-- purchase yearly timeshares of the aircraft and use them as needed. If three or more passengers need a trip to the Dallas area, for instance, the cost works out to be less than three last-minute airline tickets; and most importantly with far less hassle. Such airplanes can also land at small airports-- allowing you to get much closer to your actual destination. The 421 is usually flown by Hintz himself but also supplemented by a couple of Island pilots you may know.
Only fifteen minutes beyond the ferry by car (and five minutes from Port A by air), Hintz is also in talks with several aircraft the McCampbell/ Porter airport is located dead center between Aransas Pass and Ingleside on Farm-to-Market Road 3512. A single 5000-foot runway sits on a vast amount of surrounding land all of which is managed by San Patricio County Commissioner Jim Price, whose office happens to be located on the property. Price offers landleases for aviation facilities at 8-cents per square foot on a 30-year term and a recent 400-percent rate hike at the Corpus International Airport is rapidly driving tenants his way. With this recent upturn, he has turned over much of the airport’s daily operations to Skye FBO, a company run by several energetic young folks who are multi-talented in all Lauren Taylor (left) a Certified Flight Instructor at things aviation.
the Aransas Pass airport, finishes a flight lesson with Under Skye owner Jeremy Islander Hannah Johns. Hintz' leadership, Aransas Pass is rapidly becoming the favored charter operations and expects to soon have stop for corporate and oilfield executives even more variety in potential airplanes and conducting business in Corpus Christi. He services. Hangars are being constructed all often refers to his field as one point in a over the property, essential in keeping planes “golden triangle” with the others being Midland out of our harsh coastal weather. Texas DPS and Houston. Premier private aircraft such has constructed a facility for its pilots and as Gulfstreams, KingAirs and Challengers helicopter and Orion Drilling Corporation frequent the airport weekly and their purchases recently doubled the size of its hangar. At only of several thousand gallons of jet-fuel allow him five minutes by air, private charter flights with to keep a happy staff even after the County gets pickup in Port Aransas to destinations of choice its cut. They earn it by simply making sure are feasible and likely to be available within the executives receive prompt service, rental cars, next few months. hotels and catering if needed, and by simply maintaining an orderly clean terminal building.
Early in the morning we prepared to get underway with scattered thunderstorms overhead and the wind being uncooperative. The Captain was in better shape after a night of rest but was still in no condition to face the weather out on the open bay. The weather channel called for clearing skies in the late afternoon with ten foot seas running. This was not going to be a pleasure cruise and would be a very rough ride out there which I dreaded and had my stomach upset just thinking about getting out there. Thank God for Dramamine and Prilosec!
Dead on the Beam I got my sailboat out of its berth and waited for the Silverton to pull up so I could tie off and climb aboard. Once aboard we headed out the breakwaters with my sailboat in tow. We were on the lee side of the Bay, the going was rough but we motored along rising and falling off each wave. The Captain had it in his mind he was headed to a marina across the bay that he had been to and liked very much. I did not think it was wise to head across the bay in such nasty weather but it was his boat and he was the Captain, so south west we headed with the waves hitting us dead on the beam. Anyone who has ever ridden in a Silverton knows they are heavily built but with design of the hull makes the yacht roll quite viciously. Driving from the fly bridge exaggerates this roll and makes your stomach feel like you are on a roller coaster. By the time we were halfway across, the waves were so big I was afraid that the jerking of the painter line would rip the bow cleat off my sailboat. I handed over the helm and told the Captain that I would meet him in the Marina. I hauled the painter line in and climbed aboard my sailboat, raised the main sail and jib and set a course to the southeast. It felt good to be on my sailboat as the sails take all the rolling out of the waves. Looking at my charts I calculated the vector for drift, current and wind for the channel to Davis Wharf Marina on the eastern shore side of the Bay. I had my autopilot set and was watching my course over ground on the GPS which had me sailing for the channel to get in. The Captain however was watching his compass and had a rather zig-zag pattern to his course. He would
at times get over a mile south of me and I wondered if he had changed his mind about the marina. That was not the case but rather he was not able to keep his course because of the rolling of the boat. That and he claimed that when I was in the trough of a wave at the same time he was that he could not spot my sailboat. Good thing we were out in the deep part of the bay as that can get you into trouble in the closer shallow shoreline areas. I had changed course with him to keep him in sight and when we got close to the eastern shore he motored up to me wanting to know which way he needed to go; he had overshot the entrance by three miles and I told him he needed to go north to hit the markers for the channel into the Marina.
Red Right Return When we got to the markers he wanted to know which side of the markers he needed to be on and I had to do my best Pirate imitation and go Red, Right, Return, the three “R’s”. With this we headed in the winding channel and it immediately got much smoother as soon as we were motoring in the shelter of the dug channel. With the marina in sight I lowered the sails and motored up to the dock and tied up quickly so I could help the Captain get secured to the pier. By now I was convinced that when we got to Virginia Beach I was going to part ways with this non-seaman-like Captain. I was however pleased to be off the Bay and in sheltered waters of this small but nice marina. The food was more like home cooking and the prices unlike the rest of the Eastern shore, not so expensive, but that was because it was out of the way and not a large dock. During the crossing of the bay all the antiques in the Silverton had been overturned and everything was scattered about. It looked as if a tornado had gone through the cabin and nothing was in its place. We set out setting the Cabinets upright and placing drawers back into their proper places. By now the clouds were breaking up and the sun was getting low on the western horizon giving everything a golden hue. I knew that things would be better soon and was ready to see my relatives as soon as we made it into Virginia Beach.
As our host for the month, San Patricio County happily provided Skydive South Texas with a hangar (complete with some requested improvements) and Skye supplied full-service fueling for our jumpships on a daily basis. The view for our skydivers was certainly different from Port A, but still pretty darn cool and 53 first time jumpers joined us there for tandem skydives. The only difficult part was explaining to them how to find the airport!
Jeremy Hintz rinses the Stearman Biplane before a demonstration flight. In the background are the Cessna A Dose of History 421, available on a time-share basis for private use, and Hintz has also attracted the pilots for the Texas State Troopers preparing to depart on famed Commemorative Air a helicopter mission. Force-- formerly known as the "Confederate Air Force"-- who keep a large fleet of vintage birds flying all over Texas. The local 3rd Coast Squadron, founded by legendary WWII lady-pilot Maxine Flournoy, recently completed a 7000-square foot hangar on the field and will open an aviation museum by next summer.
The squadron already provides a home to a beautiful 1943 Stearman N2S open-cockpit biplane which is immaculately restored and maintained in its original condition. The Stearman travels the state visiting airshows and other aviation events, but Hintz also frequently brings it to the Island and will provide rides to anyone over 12 years old for a nominal fee. Licensed pilots may also "sponsor" the aircraft and receive training and full qualification to fly it. I've done so and will tell you it's a worthy challenge-- and I'm not using either of those terms loosely! All proceeds from scenic rides to full sponsorship go directly to the CAF to maintain the aircraft. To inquire about a Stearman ride at McCampbell or even right here on the Island, go to www.thirdcoastcaf.org.
Fly the Friendly Skies For Islanders looking to own, partially own, or charter an aircraft, the McCampbell airport and Skye may also be something to look into. Yes, private aviation is expensive, but not so much as one might think. Skye currently operates a Cessna 421 twin-engine, pressurized airplane
Spread Your Wings If you're interested in earning your own wings, Skye also has a small flight school on the airport, complete with a classroom, knowledge testing center and basic computer simulators. You'll be introduced to a local instructor who will work with you and your schedule on a contract basis whenever you rent Skye's Cessna 172 trainer. Finally, the airport also has an onsite airplane mechanic and a full aviation electronics shop (known in the industry as "avionics"!) owned by Islander Dan Campbell.
Tides of the Week
Tides for Corpus Christi (Bob Hall Pier) September October 9-15, 2014
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As our Island grows and our own airport slowly takes steps toward expansion, the already fully functioning and rapidly expanding McCampbell airport is sure to play a major role on our economy in many ways. With its surprisingly close proximity to the Island, don’t be the least surprised if full airline commuter service were available within the next couple of years (ie American Eagle or Continental Express). Go visit sometime if you're interested in flight training, aviation history, charter flights or just out for a drive. More information can be found at the website mentioned above or at www.skyefbo.com
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Backwater Adventures On the Rocks
By Joey Farah Farah’s Fishing Adventures
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Life continues to rip along at a high rate of speed, and I have not been getting as much time outside as I typically do. A lot of windshield time bombing around south Texas lately has made me want to take a vacation sooner than later. But, oh well, at least I live in paradise, and there is plenty to be thankful for, right? Things could be worse.
One of my favorite moments is when I see fish feeding and chassing bait out of the water in a frantic pace, in the surf. This is mainly because I am on my surfboard and can just smile and keep paddling instead of trying to catch them. It is a sort of surreal moment that I can enjoy the beauty of what is happening before me. Being in the water swimming with them makes me just part of the liquid environment that they are playing in. As our big tides drop out in the next few weeks the surf fishing will become one of the best places to both hear your line scream out of the reel and catch your trophy game fish, and bring a few good eating fish home to the table. You can easily make this trip out with the minimum of tackle and trouble and with only a little time spent.
Cedar Bayou Cedar Bayou is continuing to ebb-flow into the Gulf and widen the channel drastically. The pass is a living, breathing entity since her shackles were freed a couple of weeks back. She’s putting her own curves and depths where she sees fit, and she looks prettier every time I see photos. Reports are coming in that there have already been huge schools of redfish staging at both ends and all in between. This will allow not only redfish, but also flounder and trout to migrate in and out of the pass to spawn and allow their larvae to land back in the estuary which they prefer. Hopefully this will also increase the blue crab population. Awesome!
The best times to fish along the beach is at HIGH TIDE, this is because the game fish chase the bait up into the first few guts closer to the beach angler. Research the lunar feeding tables and find when the high and low tides are happening. Key in on the times when they are peaking at the same time and fish before and during the peak. The first and last hour of the day is always good no matter what tide or current is going on. A quick walk along the beach chunking a silver or gold spoon will likely bring a bend in your rod from a nice speck, redfish, or Spanish mackerel. The Jetties in Port A and North Padre are a great place for a short walk. The rocks present a problem for many anglers hanging them up and breaking their lines. A top water lure danced over the rocks at first light is a given for a few blow-ups and a trout or two. Along the rocks is a small gut that transfers water along the edge of the jetty. This is where most of the flounder will be, a white soft plastic is almost irresistible to them when you bump it slowly over the bottom. The end of the rocks is always your best bet to throw far and streak your lures in quickly bringing strikes from Spanish mackerel. These are hard fighting fish that eat very well. They have sharp teeth so metal leaders will not break but you will not get as many bites as with #40lb leader.
These big snook are here but rarely caught. This one was on her last breath from red tide when I picked her up from the first gut a few seasons past. The time we spend on the edge of the ocean is magic. Take a few moments each week to remind yourself why we live and visit this place. Cast a line into the ocean and enjoy the edge of two worlds. You might even hook a fish. Keep those lines tight and your hooks sharp.
Nice trout just across the way along flour bluff shoreline this week. Feeding times have been right on with lunar tables.
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A few months ago, a good friend of ours, Cody Moravits, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. As an otherwise healthy 21 year old, we were all caught off guard by the news. As a show of support, a benefit fishing tournament is being organized to help offset the multitude of medical expenses that are sure to ensue as Cody works his way through chemotherapy treatment. The benefit is being sponsored by the Islander Anglers and Friends of Padre, as Cody is a member of both organizations. The benefit will be held October 24-25 at Marker 37 with a Captain’s Meeting Friday evening 5-8pm and the tournament award ceremony Saturday afternoon after the weigh-in from 12-3pm. There will be a silent auction, raffle, and food plates will be sold on both days. For those unable to fish the tournament, we still encourage everyone to come out and show your support for Cody. For more information or to register for the tournament, please visit http://islanderanglers.com/ benefittournament.php I will be out there frying fish and serving up some good grub, please say hi when you see me burn myself on the fryer.
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We are still several weeks from daylight savings, although the daylight hours after work are starting to pit against us. With the sun set occurring at 7:10pm, it doesn’t leave much time between sliding down the dinosaur back at the 5 oclock whistle and doing anything fun (or mowing for that fact) after work. Although this is really a great time of year to be out on the beach or on the boat, and I encourage my friends to continue to tease me with their fun pics while I remain chained to this desk. I’ll break free soon enough and I’ll see you On the Rocks.
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SPORTS Shoot the President
High School Football Player is also Homecoming Queen
Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon
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Mary Kate Smith may look like your ordinary high school student. A blue-eyed blonde, she obviously draws some attention from boys at South Jones High School in Mississippi.
But her story is one that’s rarely told. The high school senior is not only a homecoming queen; she’s the starting kicker for the school’s varsity football team, and a pretty good one at that.
So far, Smith has hit on all but one of her field goal and extra-point attempts. She’s a bright spot during an otherwise down season for the football program. She’s also a representation of just how much the game of football has trended away from what was once an all-male sport.
The 17-year-old has received a scholarship from Southern Mississippi to play soccer, but this hasn’t stopped her from acting like one of the boys on the football field.
By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon
Queen" after splitting the uprights on a game-winning field goal on the same night she was named Homecoming Queen. There is the well-known story of Erin DiMeglio, who in 2012 became the first female to play quarterback in the history of Florida high school athletics. Rebecca Green of Fuquay-Varina High School in North Carolina, attended workouts all summer and is hoping to play outside linebacker for the Bengals' JV team this year. I attended the Bengals' practice on the first day of contact and watched her go head-to-head with the guys. She took some of them to the ground.
Rebecca Green It is safe to say females are breaking onto the football scene like never before. At the same time, several forces are trying to hold them back. There are some skeptics who voice concern
It was July 4, 1976, Independence Day. The Philadelphia Phillies and the rest of the country were celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. They invited the President, Gerald Ford, to throw out the first pitch. At the time, Pat and Bob Bartosz lived in Philadelphia where he had been a cop. He was now a professional photographer, and Pat was a proofreader. They were also huge baseball fans. In fact they would later be hired in 1980 by Fleer Baseball Card Incorporated, to take pictures of professional baseball players for their sports cards. But on this day, Bob had asked and received clearance from the President’s Secret Service to be on the field taking pictures of the event for the Philadelphia Enquirer. Bob left for the ballpark early. He had not been gone very long when the phone rang and Pat answered. The president of the Gannett Company (a news service marketing company) would also be in attendance and would be on the field as a guest of President Ford during the throwing out of the first pitch. The Gannett Company wanted a picture of their president and President Ford together. This was before cells phones so Pat hurried to the ballpark to get word to her husband, Bob. Pat did not have clearance to be on the field so she wrote a note to Bob and
handed it to a policeman. He gave the note to the Secret Service. As soon as they read the note, the Secret Service whisked Bob off the field into the dugout where they frisked him briskly. The note said, “Bob if you shoot the President shoot the guy in back of him, too.” Wives, don’t you just love them? Andy Purvis Andy Purvis is a local author and radio personality. His newest book “Greatness Continued” in now available to order online at bn.com, Amazon, Google Books, Bookamillion, etc. You may also purchase all three of his latest books at the local Barnes & Noble Book store in Moore Plaza. All three books are also available in e-book format, Kindle, Nook, Apple I Pad and Kobo. Please visit www.purvisbooks.com for more info and leave a message in the guest section. You may also contact him at purvis. andy@mygrande.net and don’t forget to listen to Story Time with Uncle Andy on Tuesdays 5-6 PM and Dennis & Andy’s Q & A Session each Thursday night from 6-8 PM on ESPN 1440 KEYS.
Mary Kate Smith Homecoming Queen Mary Kate
Mary Kate said recently: “I love it…It’s a competition, so I completely know where all of that is coming from. I love winning. I hate losing. I love competing out there and joking about it afterwards. It’s a great atmosphere.”
In what could possibly be seen as an issue between her and other boys on the teams, it’s not that way. Smith enjoys the competitive fire and her teammates don’t seem to treat her much differently. It’s modern football in a southern state known for being anything but in tune with changes in American society in the past.
Smith made the decision to try out for the football team during the summer, knowing full well it was a long shot to make the team. But after she nailed a 40-yard field goal in practice, the coaches took note.
Mary Kate’s father Jesse Smith said recently: “He and his wife (Jennifer), are elated by how the community has embraced their daughter. “Here, in the South, where traditional values are very traditional, we were a little concerned about how well she’d be accepted,” he added. “We’ve been pleasantly surprised by the support that the community has shown her. We’ve got a renewed faith that things are equalized for her, and for girls like her.”
This is an interesting story surrounding a sport that has dealt with an image issue as it relates to how it has handled violence against women in the past. It’s also a story that goes to show us just how much we are all prepared for change in the modern world.
Mary Kate Smith-Kicker
While Smith will move on to Southern Miss as a soccer player, the imprint she has left on her community is much bigger than making a field goal on a Friday night. She’s someone other girls can look up to.
Dotson’s note: In light of the foregoing I thought that the Moon Monkeys would be interested in the following which was written August 19, 2013 by Zach Mayo for HighSchoolOT.com
Time to talk about girls playing football
The song "Anything You Can Do" from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun is a duet depicting a male and female attempting to outdo each other in simple tasks. The song has become a time-honored trademark of competition between the genders.
In the continuing battle for equality and supremacy, a real-life "anything you can do" situation has been taking place in the high school sports scene for years.
With more girls playing high school football nationwide than ever before, people should be more open-minded about the concept of female athletes in the sport.
According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, 1,804 girls in the United States played football for their high schools in 2012. That number is indicative of steady growth over time.
There are nationally-celebrated stories of girls taking on the task. In 2011, Brianna Amat of Michigan became known as the "Kicking
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over high school boys and girls in close quarters, sharing locker rooms and team facilities. Surely, though, boys and girls would never be changing in front of one another. This should be of no concern. Leave that logistical situation to the coaches to work out. Then there is my own personal experience, where I watched a girl get laughed out of a football interest meeting by an area athletic director after saying she wanted to try out for football. Let it also be said that this girl was much bigger and more athletic than I was at the time. This type of thinking by coaches, athletic directors and school boards is what needs to change. Title IX was created in 1972 as a way to increase the rights of female athletes. However, there is a piece of the text that has hurt girls' hopes of becoming football players. Title IX has a built-in "contact sports exception." The text blocks women from trying out for a sport only offered to men if the sport is a contact sport. While this once made football nearly impossible for females, the exception is being tossed out the window more and more as time goes on. Aside from the "contact sports exception," some school districts that are not quite ready for such forward thinking are trying to use Title IX to stop girls from putting on football pads, despite the fact that the legislation was written to benefit girls. Some say that because Title IX offers equal opportunity for boys and girls to compete in the same number of sports, it should not be a problem to say that girls cannot play football. I mean, they have plenty of "girl sports" to participate in, right? But there is no substitution for football, because there is no other sport quite like it. Who is allowed to dictate what a "boy sport" and a "girl sport" is? Is cheerleading a "girl sport?" Volleyball? Gymnastics? All three sports have high male participation in the high school, collegiate and professional levels. While there is certainly nothing wrong with these sports, there are some girls who would happily trade pom-poms for football pads and back handsprings for wind sprints and tackling drills. I am not saying we should have quotas. I am not saying coaches should have to bring girls onto their teams. But if a girl chooses to play the sport and she is good enough to make the team, her biological makeup should not stop her.
Former U.S. President Gerald Ford
Blackard continued from A1 thinking that I could use a cold carton of milk. The year, 1960 and I was nine years old; just one of a few ornery little wharf rats that inhabited this patch of sand. Mrs. Blackard taught the fourth and fifth grades in the same class room. While the girls seemed to be proper little ladies, she had to contend with the likes of Mickey Curry, Joey McCarty, Bruce Hendrix, Will Mayfield, Johnny Studeman, Yancy Gillespie myself and others. I was her special challenge and she always let me know that she loved me. At least she kept me close at hand on field trips and outdoor events.
Board of education Mrs. Blackard taught us whether we liked it or not. On extreme occasions she would take us to Coach Doyle Marek were he would introduce us to the “board of education” (it was eighteen inches long and four inches wide). She taught us math, science, art, music, history, and everything else that we didn’t want to know at the time. During her 39 years of teaching at H.G. Olsen, she taught three generations of students including my daughter, Cassi Bales and her boss, Skipper Lister, Superintendent of Schools.
Stormy I caught up with Mrs. Blackard and reminisced about the old days. She said “I would still be teaching if I had the energy”… She has plenty of energy for her humming bird feeders…
Marjorie Collins Blackard, 81, Rock Port, TX Marjorie Collins Blackard was 22 years old when she started teaching in Port Aransas. It was 1955 when she graduated from the University of Corpus Christi. She later received her Masters from A&I (both later became A&M). She is retired and living with her son Fredrick who was born in the middle of a raging hurricane so they called him Stormy. It was Hurricane Beulah in 1967. Stormy grew up to be a ferry boat captain. Stormy also became a race car driver like his father Blackie Blackard. They built their own cars. We all have one great teacher that defined our life and Mrs. Blackard was that for myself and hundreds of other students. She is the kindest and most inspiring person I have ever met. She is a living legend. One of many Island Legends that we will visit when we meet again. Same time next time.
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Just like Annie Oakley in the Broadway musical, female athletes want to show one thing: Anything boys can do, girls can do as well. Who are we to stop them? Another Dotson’s note: What do you think of girls playing on “all-boys” teams? A couple of years ago, a boy wanted to try out for the girls volleyball team (the school did not have a boys volleyball team); he was not permitted to do so. If you have comments/questions regarding “Sports Talk” articles, please call the Benchwarmers 560-5397 Weekdays, Mondays thru Fridays, 4-6 PM or contact me. Phone: 361-949-7681 Cell: 530-748-8475 Email: dlewis1@stx.rr.com
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Please consider Helping with the Padre Island Yacht Club LA POSADA Boat Parade on Sat. Dec. 13th, 2014 We need Boats as Toy Collectors to carry a marine and collect donated toys from parade viewers along the parade route in the canals. If you are available please call Nick at 618-889-9160or Doug at 361-589-4065. 2013 PIYC La Posada Boat Parade was in the top 20% of the entire United States in toy and fund collection. Over 4,500 toys were collected and $15,000 was raised! Please consider Helping with the Padre Island Yacht Club LA POSADA Boat Parade on Sat. Dec. 13th, 2014. We need Boats as Toy Collectors to carry a marine and collect donated toys from parade viewers along the parade route in the canals. If you are available please call Nick at 618-889-9160 or Doug at 361-589-4065. 2013 PIYC La Posada Boat Parade was in the top 20% of the entire United States in toy and fund collection. Over 4,500 toys were collected and $15,000 was raised!
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elping with the Padre Island Yacht Club LA POSADA Boat Parade on Sat. Dec. 13th, 2014. We need Boats as Toy Collectors to carry a marine and collect donated toys from parade viewers along the parade route in the canals. If you are available please call Nick at 618-889-9160 or Doug at 361-589-4065. 2013 PIYC La Posada Boat Parade was in the top 20% of the entire United States in toy and fund collection. Over 4,500 toys were collected and $15,000 was raised!
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Skip the Plastic is pleased to announce our October Bag Heroes, the founder and webmaster/owner of WWN Rockport. Please see the attached press release and photograph of the WWN Rockport's founder and webmaster/owner. WWN Rockport is a Partner of Skip the Plastic, helping to spread the word about responsible stewardship of the community and environment to their readers in the Rockport-Fulton area. In addition to helping inform their readers, Barbara Gurtner and Alicia have incorporated reusable bags into their daily lifestyles. We hope your media outlet will help to spread this positive message to your viewers, listeners and readers in your broadcasts, publications and websites. If you have any questions about Skip the Plastic or our Bag Hero program, please reply to this email or call me at the phone number below, Neil McQueen / www.skiptheplastic.org / 361-765-4445 Skip the Plastic is a project of the Coastal Bend Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation
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Tricks & Treats for Costumed Kids Candy, Popcorn, Toys & More... The annual Port A Art About will hit the streets of Tarponville on Saturday, Oct. 11th. Sixteen local artisan, galleries and studios will host a public “Open House” with refreshments, music and displays of their art. Wade Koniakowsky, an Ocean artist from San Diego, California, will be on hand at Felder Gallery where he often shows his work. Over at the Potter on Cotter, local artisan David Osborne will be giving live displays of his unique spoon carving, made from Texas wood. This is always a fun island event and a great way to see much of the art in our town. Gallery, Studio and Shop Locations
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Live Music by The Rockoholics Frozen Margaritas * Food * Fun * Prizes
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