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October 8, 2015
Around The Island By Dale Rankin editor@islandmoon.com The fish have gone from the Packery Jetties. They didn’t say where they were going but so far the fisherpersons hereabout have not located them. There are a few Spanish Mackerel still hanging around and even the occasional Red but for the most part our beachfront anglers are singing the blues. But heartbroken anglers are about the only Islanders with complaints this week as the great October weather has arrived and the beaches are beautiful. And if that wasn’t enough we got two-dollar gas. Who among us ever thought they would live to see two dollar gas again?
Happy ending We have a happy ending to report to a story we first reported here two weeks ago about our friend Harald who had his garage raided by a sneak thief who ran off with fourteen of his fishing rods. Harald tracked down the thief on craigslist and eventually the bad guy left Harald’s stolen items behind the Padre Island sign near the JFK Causeway along with several other rods and reels that didn’t belong to Harald. We ran a photo of the orphan rods last time and they have now been claimed. So everything is back where it belongs with one exception; the culprit, who is known to both the victims and the police, has lawyered up and so far has not been charged. So justice delayed has been justice denied.
Watch the neighborhood On the subject of sneak thieves, we have some currently working our Island. We check the police reports each week and the number of cars being burglarized has been increasing. That is not uncommon for us this time of year as the Island Burglary Season usually kicks off in September and continues through Christmas. Last weekend the peckerwoods were working the parking lots around the JFK Causeway looking for Yeti coolers and whatever else they could find in vehicles. Be aware that they are out there and don’t leave items in your car unless you want to have to buy them back on craigslist.
Rumble on 361 If you hear a rumble on State Highway 361 between Packery Channel and Port Aransas in the next few weeks don’t worry, it is just the Texas Department of Transportation installing rumble strips to warn drivers when they are headed into oncoming traffic. Work on the $60,000 project is set to begin on Monday, October 12, and will cover 14 miles of the Island Road where the strips will be placed along the centerline of the road. Work will begin at Zahn Road and move northward and is scheduled to be done by Friday, October 16. It will require limiting traffic to one lane and cause some delays but will only be done between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
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Way Cleared for Marina, Commercial, and Residential Development Around Lake Padre By Dale Rankin Late Wednesday the U.S. Corps of Engineers signed off on the 404 permit that clears the way for the City of Corpus Christi and the Texas Department of Transportation to finalize plans for construction of the Park Road 22/SPID Water Exchange Bridge. The permit allows digging of the 40-foot wide canal under the bridge which would connect Lake Padre Island and the open Gulf through Packery Channel to the existing Island canal system. This lays the groundwork for the proposed Island Walk Village on
the west side of SPID as well as the Marina Village on the east side of that road, and triggers the commencement of Barefoot Village residential development which will border both sides of Whitecap along the beach. “We expect to break ground for the Pathways at Barefoot Dunes development on Whitecap at the beach which includes townhouses and condos,” said developer Paul Schexnailder who is part of Gulf Shores Joint Ventures which owns the property.
What is the Future of the Seawall? By Dale Rankin
Schexnailder said that when TCEQ issues the 401 Water Quality Certification that gives final approval to the plan, which they are already familiar with, dredging around Lake Padre could begin within 150 days. He said developers will begin Island Walk Village, a residential community on Nemo Court, as soon as the canal is dug which is scheduled for completion within the next twelve months. “We are pleased to no longer be on hold,” Schexnailder. “This allows the
city to move forward with the city’s commitment with regards to the bridge.” The next step is up to the City of Corpus Christi and the Texas Department of Transportation which must approval final plans for the bridge, which city engineers told the Island Strategic Action Committee on Tuesday are 90% complete. “This is the final piece of infrastructure needed so the stage is set,” Schexnailder said.
Time to Taste The Island!
For the past few months a group of Islanders who own property on the Michael J. Ellis Seawall have been gathering to consider how to go about maintaining and repairing the aging 4200-foot structure that was rebuilt after Hurricane Allen in 1980. At stake is nothing short of the ownership and survival of the structure much of which is currently covered with sand and has spots where the cement is crumbling around rusting and exposed rebar. The question is how to fund its upkeep for the next generation. Currently there is no funding in place to repair it should a storm surge destroy it like Hurricane Allen did. There is even a question of whether or not it is included in the recently formed Municipal Management District (MMJD) that now has ownership of the bulkheads on Island canals under the auspices of the Padre Isles Property Owners Association.
“A few months ago the property owners along the seawall ask me to help them come up with a plan to make sure that the future of the seawall is secure,” said POA Executive Coordinator Maybeth Christensen. “We are in the early stages of figuring out what makes the most sense to accomplish that.” One of the most pressing problems is the accumulation of sand which currently covers most of the seven concrete steps which make up the Gulf-facing side of the structure. The sand began accumulating there when the Packery Channel was dredged in 2005 and the dredge sand was placed
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A little Island history
The date is Wednesday, October 21 and the place is Port Royal Resort for the 28th Taste of The Island. The event, sponsored by the Padre Island Business Association, will feature offerings from 25 restaurants from Port Aransas, Padre Island and Flour Bluff. Doors open at 6:30 and the event runs ends at 9:30 with valet parking available. Tickets are $30 in advance and $45 at the door.
“We expect a full house for the event,” said PIBA President Rick Sowash, “but we still need items for the silent auction.”
The Beginning of Island Development
Over the years we have accumulated a great deal of information in the form of pamphlets, flyers, promotional material and other memorabilia from the early development of The Island. The hope is that at some point we will have an Island museum to house it, but in the meantime we will begin running some of it in these pages. So here we go in no particular order…
The project is the first of several slated for that stretch of highway with passing lanes and lighting projected as part of $12 million worth of work now in the pipeline. Next week’s work may cause some short term pain, but the long term gain will be worth it on what has become a busy and often dangerous piece of road.
Million Dollar Inn brochure from the late 1960s- back when pools had diving boards
That’s all for now everybody, enjoy the great weather and say hello if you see us Around The Island.
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Apparently the Gulf of Mexico was full of giant fish in 1972
A sales agent gives a prospect the hard sell - undeveloped lots on the Island sold for less than $7,000 in many cases.
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Mission-Aransas Reserve wins big in Estuarine Photo Contest
Texas estuaries are beautiful and the MissionAransas Reserve Director, Jace Tunnell, captured some of the beauty in images that were awarded winners and honorable mentions in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2015 Estuary Photo Contest. There were over 130 submissions and our Reserve was awarded winning photos in the “Creepers” and “Play” category.
The contest was created to help promote National Estuaries Day, which is this Saturday September 26, 2015. You can view and download more of the photos at NOAA’s photo gallery. The Reserve is also hosting FREE education events this Saturday to celebrate National Estuaries Day. Come join us!
Abandoned Boats Removed
PIPOA Paid a commercial salvage company to remove the derelict sailboats from the ski basin canals and the main canal. They chopped two of them up and put them in dumpsters at the boat ramp by the POA Office. They also removed the submerged derelict sailboat from the Main Canal.
Cheech Marin stopped into Shorty's recently and took a pic with bartender Brian Underwood. Cheech said he was as old as the bar.
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Homecoming Homecoming was a blast! Last week was Spirit Week at Flour Bluff high school and each day we dressed up in a different theme, from Disney characters and patriots to tacky tourists and wild animals. On Friday, all the girls wore their huge mums and they boys painted their faces for Spirit Day, and the Homecoming game was quite the performance. The Hornets lost the game 34-36, but that didn't keep us from partying on Saturday at the dance! Everyone looked fantastic in their dresses and ties, and the school even hired a professional DJ and photographer to make the night all the more special. Flour Bluff really brought the student body together this weekend.
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This is my informal request to get the bollards temporarily removed from the beach road, just north of Whitecap Blvd Beach Access Road, until the repairs to Beach Access Road 3A are completed. This action would cost no money, nor any unnecessary labor, and would provide appropriate compliance with the Texas Open Beaches Act. The City of CC has wooden bollards blocking the beach road on the Gulf, and the unsafe and frequently unusable Beach Access Road 3A is the only access road to the entire 1.5 miles of CC managed beach, from Whitecap, to South Packery Channel. As you, Councilwoman McIntyre, mentioned 3 weeks ago in the Sept 8 CC Council meeting, CC Beach Access Road 3A is in such bad condition that your car, “bottomed out,” while trying to use it recently, and, “it really needs to be repaired,” to be used safely and effectively. I agree, and add that it is unsafe currently, and is completely unusable when it rains, as 2-3 feet of water blocks the entire road, forcing any daring and determined drivers to use the narrow and steeply-sloped sand bank. It’s about a 30 degree slope, which I predict will someday turn a vehicle upside down into the 2-3 feet of standing water in the road . . . that is, unless alternate beach access is provided, by simply removing the blocking bollards, until Beach Access Road 3A is repaired. It won’t cost any money, nor additional labor to simply remove and store the blocking bollards. That’s because the bollards will have to be temporarily removed anyway, when the repairs to Beach Access Road 3A are being made. The money for those repairs is already allocated, as part of the voter approved Bond 2012, and the repairs are currently listed as being in the, “design phase.” Temporarily removing the blocking bollards now is a no-cost solution to a very important City of Corpus Christi current street problem. Why not do so as soon as possible, please? Very respectfully, Bob Algeo Mr. Algeo, Thank you for submitting your informal request to temporarily remove the bollards just north of the Whitecap Beach Access Road. While your request to remove the bollards appears to be a simple solution, it is actually rather complex to comply with (we have obligations under state and local law to meet and any changes would require interaction with the General Land
Police I am very upset that it took CCPD "45 MINUTES" to respond to my desperate call yesterday morning! My husband and I were out garage sale-ing and we saw an elderly gentleman in a heavy wool sports coat with lime green tennis shoes cutting across a field on Gypsy. We laughed about the shoes. Then an hour later we saw him sitting on the corner of Whitecap and Caravel with a bag of prescriptions and a tablet. He looked dazed and confused. I called 911 at 10:55 am to report that this man needs help. We followed him with our flashers going until he nearly had reached the overpass at Cruiser and stopped and convinced him to sit down and rest. He told us he is 84 years old and had been up all night and didn't think he'd taken his medications and was just out looking for a tennis game! He said he lived at the end of the street with his sister but that she didn't want him anymore. Walter is such a kind man and went on to tell us his life story while we tried to stall him to wait for the police. I called a total of 3 times over 45 minutes and dispatch was very rude to me and said they will be there as soon as they could. When two officers finally arrived, at 11:40, Walter was all the way to SPID. They were quite rude to us and just kept telling Walter to get into their car and they would take him home. My husband shook the officer’s hands and tried to explain how concerned we had been for Walter's safety, but they wouldn't even smile or say thank you for staying with him! It breaks my heart to not know what will happen to poor Walter! But it hurts even worse that police officers have to be so hard these days. I know they could have thought we were crazy people too, but they should have been able to tell that we are genuinely caring people! Makes me wonder what would happen if I call the police in a true emergency here on the island! Can I survive a 45 minute wait for help? Nancy Rich
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Office – typically a lengthy process). The simplest solution is to fix Access Road 3A. Here is our plan: -
Short-term (to be completed by 10/22/15):
• Remove existing fill material (sand) from damaged areas of Access Road 3A • Replace existing fill material (sand) with road base material • Compact fill areas with heavy equipment • We will monitor and maintain this shortterm fix to ensure that the Access Road 3A is a functional beach access point until Access Road 3A is reconstructed -
Long-term:
• Beach Access Road 3A was part of the voter approved projects in Bond 2014 • Reconstruction of Beach Access Road 3A is scheduled to start in early Spring 2016 with the goal of completing construction by Memorial Day, 2016 (i.e. start of summer) We believe this plan will provide access to the beach and address your concerns. Best regards, Wes Pierson Assistant City Manager
(Re-re response from Bob Algeo) Thank you for your attention to this, Mr. Pierson, et.al; Please look at the picture (attached) of BchAccRd3A, after the last rains. Note that it floods, from side to side deeply. This may be helpful in realizing the higher grade needed to keep vehicles from using the 30 degree sand bank on the high side to get through. As for bollard removal; won't you have to remove the bollards, even when working on this Access Road as a temporary repair? I can't imagine vehicles being able to use it, during scraping, elevating, regrading, refilling (with road base material), leveling, compacting and the finish grading required for even a proper temporary repair, can you? Again, when Beach Access Road 3A is unusable, the only other beach access to that entire 1.5 miles of prime CC beach is the beach road itself - which is blocked by the City of CC, with bollards/posts. Wouldn't it be a violation of the Texas Open Beaches Act, to keep the beach road blocked, while the only access road is also blocked for these repairs? Thank you for your response, Mr. Pierson. Again, very respectfully, Bob Algeo
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Business Briefs House Hunters episode “Family Searches for Waterfront Home on Padre Island” will air Wednesday, October 14th at 9 pm. Now and Then Antiques inside Island Jewelers is now open, featuring antiques including cameras, lamps, records, furniture and more. They are located next to Scuttlebutts. JB’s German Bakery will be closed October 12th – 30th. They are taking their annual trip to Germany. The 10th Annual Dog-Gone Festival at the Animal Hospital will have the Spazmatics performing and the concert is $10 but the rest of the event is free. Catch the Spazmatics in their first appearance on the Island. Babes on Baffin Ladies Fishing Tournament at Bluff’s Landing Marina will be held this weekend. There are about 85 teams signed up. Their live fish are donated to the Hatchery in the Bluff to be used as brood stock or for the Kidfish ponds. Scuttlebutt's Seafood Bar and Grill will host their first annual Insanity Wing Championship on Sunday, October 11th. You must have already completed their in house Insanity Wing challenge to participate in the championship. They are still allowing challenges until October 9th. Stop by the restaurant for an entry form. There will be a cash prize and trophy. Schlitterbahn will have the Boogie Bahn ride open Saturday, October 10th 6pm – 10 pm with $5 admission. The Flashback Band will be entertaining at the Veranda that evening. Every Sunday the Veranda Restaurant has game day specials that include $3 appetizers and drink specials. The largest garage sale in Port A will be held Saturday, October 10th at the Port A Community Theater starting at 9 am. The theater is located 2327 TX-361. The rebroadcast of Ice Rays games will be shown on the local station CCTV at 5:30 pm on Mondays and Fridays. If you have any news buzz you can tweet me at padreeyelander on Twitter. I chose that name because besides being a Moon Monkey I am also an optometrist.
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Folks, this type of stuff needs to end. The ICW channel is NO PLACE for kayaks and wind surfers on a busy Saturday. Whoever organized this chaos this afternoon around noon should be ashamed of themselves. The next time i see this going on, the game warden is getting called. You all caused havoc on boaters having to weave around you all in the channel. Start using your heads people! Bird island/PINs has a area designated for windsurfing. Aaron Price Better check w/dept. of commerce about whose rights rule the ICW. Has to do w/tow boats for which the channels were created I am told. Greg Boss
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Honestly bud they have just as much right to be there as anyone else. Just like a scooter or a bicycle on a public road. Shane Jay And alot of them obviously were noobs. One guy ran right into a boat that was fishing off the channel. Aaron Price Nobody owns the waterways. People be alert and careful out there. Gypsy Raquel Green Regardless of their intelligence they can still use it and yes bicycles go on highways. You should see Austin. Shane Jay Free country. Weston Johnson
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Alexis Gray is a local islander who attends kindergarten at Seashore Learning academy. Recently she participated in a Premier Pageantry event "Sea Stars" here in Corpus. She won her age group, overall photogenic, and received the Community Hero award for having the most items donated to the Veterans Memorial Honor Guard in honor of the service that they provide. Today they went to the Cemetery and met with the guard to drop off the items. While
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there they gave us more insight to what they do and how valuable of a service they provide to honor Veterans and their families. These are truly a great group of selfless men who donate their time. Some have done over 800 funerals! From what I understand they are sending this information and some of the photos taken to the news stations and to a Texas Veteran magazine. It’s always nice to see locals doing well in the community!
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The sign on the Assembly of God Church said “Stop, drop, and roll won’t work in hell!” How could they possibly know that? The sign at the pawn shop down the street advertised a sale on Guns and Chainsaws. Somehow the Farley brothers came to mind. On the other side of Seminole, Oklahoma, I drove past the Church of Christ my father designed and it was where they had the service when we buried him. There was no choir and there were no musical instruments because in the churches where I grew up they weren’t allowed. Members of the congregation sang
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I’ll Fly Away, the preacher told the story of my father, less than a year away from sacking groceries after high school, piloting a B-29 headed for Saipan as part of the Allied effort to put 1000 bombers per day over Japan, and having to move aside on a runway to let the Anola Gay take off making the trip for the remainder of the planes unnecessary. Across town I pass the Holiness Church where friends attended, a windowless, mysterious place from whence wild tales of snake handling and speaking in strange tongues emanated and the preacher lived in an old camper. I passed the Church of Christ in the town of St. Louis, Oklahoma, where as a kid I took a burning cigarette to the eye from a church goer waving his arms while telling a story in the yard. It now has grass growing through the wooden floor after the congregation moved to the new sheet metal church building down the road. There is nothing to show by looking at the sad old building that once rang with songs and descriptions of hellfire and brimstone that had kids crying into their pillows at night from sheer terror that somehow was to be their eternal home. Outside of town I drove past the place where Sinclair Plant #20 used to be and where we lived in a company house across the gravel road. It’s now a bunch of concrete slabs and high weeds, the six-story cooling tower, the only man-made structure visible above the trees for ten miles in every direction is no more; it didn’t even leave a slab behind. As the only kid living in the oilfield camp part of the job of the unlucky fellow working the tower shift on Christmas Eve was to put on a Santa Clause suit and come knock on our door. I was always puzzled that guys I knew by name thought that just because I was a little kid if they put on a white beard and red suit I wouldn’t be able to figure out who they were. I never asked why Santa’s Helpers worked at Plant #20 because, hey, they brought toys so why mess things up; a worldview later flogged out of me by my first newspaper editor.
The wife of one of the plant employees slit her wrists and in a town with no police and no ambulance service the plant supervisor, my father, got a call from her informing him of what she was about to do. When he found her she told him a huge eye had appeared in the mirror and a voice told her to kill herself. That house is gone too with no sign of the human story that unfolded there; its residents scattered to the wind.
Brick house on the nation's boundary Then it was on to the dying and sad town of Maud where my grandparents lived in a tiny brick house on Broadway Street that still stands and a town which my cousins never left. Like many Oklahoma towns it was an oilfield boomtown that time has passed by; when I would visit in the summer it always reminded me of Mayberry with a barbershop on Main Street, three thriving banks, two grocery stores, and a beer joint called the Dew Drop where the Town Drunk (named Larry not Otis) hung out. The bank buildings are now full of old furniture left there for storage and long forgotten. The faded sign for the Dew Drop is still visible but the members of the Spit and Whittle Club that held court there and would buy me sodas are also scattered with the prairie wind. Broadway was the dividing line between the Seminole and the Pottawattamie nations and as such was the location of a strip of bars that rang with gunfire on a regular basis; long gone now and witnessed by no one left alive today. Where others see empty streets and buildings I see sidewalks full of people and streets so full of cars they had to park single file right down the middle of the street. Again the church where we attended, another wooden clapboard building, is now someone’s residence; the oil boomtown now faded and lacking a population large enough to support a congregation. Over the years someone propped up the rotting wooden walls with sheets of fake rock that make it look sad and obscuring the memories of hopes and confessions that once were alive within and offering up fervent prayers that carried the lamentations of the good people who filled the pews each Sunday morning and evening and Wednesday nights. A man sits at a rusted metal table out back and sips a Keystone Light. All these years later my mother and I are the only ones who remember these things. We drive around the red dirt roads and point out where things happened a lifetime ago and laugh and sometimes wonder what happened to the people we lived through them with. Most are gone now and the memories went with them; at least the parts of the memories we can’t recall. As I drove through this countryside last weekend it occurred to me that the past we remember is just that; a place and time that is no more except in our recollections; or as Merle Haggard put it, everything does change, except what we chose to recall. Or as Kurt Vonnegut said in Deadeye Dick: “To be is to do”—Socrates. “To do is to be”—Jean-Paul Sartre. “Do be do be do”—Frank Sinatra. And so it goes.
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Seawall continued from A1 along the beach in front of the seawall. In fact, the funding for Packery Channel was approved not as a dredging project but rather as a beach re-nourishment project for the seawall beach. In recent years property owners have requested that the city remove the sand, which over the years has accumulated as a result of poor beach management practices which have allowed the depth of the dredge sand to accumulate vertically rather than horizontally, making the beach “deeper” rather than wider as was intended in the original plans. Currently there is between four and five feet of sand accumulated at the base of the seawall on the city-maintained beach which eventually finds its way onto the seawall steps where removing it becomes the responsibility and an expense for the private property owners. “The problem is the result of the beach maintenance practices of the city,” Christensen said, “but the cost to remove the sand falls to the property owners. We have not been able to get the city to address the problem.” One of the issues which has arisen is exactly how decisions are made for management and future ownership of the structure. Of the 4200 feet of the seawall, about 2600 feet, all of the undeveloped frontage property, is owned by five large private holding companies. The Austin-based Forestar group which also owns the Tortuga Dunes development on Zahn Road, owns 1038 feet of the seawall, with another thousand-plus feet owned by Asset Development Corporation, Manti Resources, and a partnership which includes the owners of the Holiday Inn. According to rules set out for the Seawall Maintenance Committee, which was formed in the 1990s to clear up property lines after the seawall was rebuilt,
decisions require 51% approval of the seawall owners as defined by their ownership of linier feet. However, to place the seawall in a MMD (assuming it is not already in the existing MMD which owns the bulkheads) would require the approval of all of the owners including the ownership representatives of the existing structures. That plan is currently stalled due to the reluctance of some owners to cede their ownership due to concerns that it could move their setback lines further landward. That reluctance has stymied efforts by the Island Strategic Action Committee to aid in forming an MMD to hold funds for seawall repair, and further, to allow for a request public bonds to through FEMA for repairs after a storm event. Currently, with private ownership of the seawall, repair costs in case of a storm would require a special assessment on the seawall property owners, the same funding method used after Hurricane Allen. Changes to the Texas Natural Resources Code made in the 1990s guarantee public access to the seawall but place all costs on the property owners. The actual seawall structure includes not only the concrete portion of the wall, but also the connecting line wooden bollard structures which run south from the concrete structure to Beach Access Road 4 and northward to State Highway 361 near the Packery Channel Bridge. The situation is further complicated by the expected construction of new canals and bulkheads around Lake Padre which could also be part of a seawall MMD. “We are a long way from finding a solution,” Christensen said. “But we have started the process.”
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Wow. What a ride it’s been this past week folks! I’m not sure where to begin. Mack and his wife and Denise Hernandez organized our XXth class reunion, and we all met up at the Homecoming game Friday night. It was amazing to see everyone who turned out, and how they had “turned out”. In addition, there were a lot of folks at the game, and a lot of teachers that are still there or come for the games. It’s amazing how teachers can remember literally thousands of student’s names over the years. Without missing a beat! Too bad we lost the game in the last seconds, but we had a great time visiting and catching up. There were beach activities during the weekend that unfortunately I missed due to my sensitivity to red tide. But, I am going to make it a point to go to at least every Homecoming game that I can in the future. See you folks there.
By Joey Farah Farah’s Fishing Adventures This week has finally marked the change in fishing some have been dreading and others have been looking forward to. The croaker and piggy perch are just about all done and drifting with lures and live shrimp is paying off big. I am very ready and the last few days on the water have been excellent. Live shrimp can be hard to find at times or just too big so grab some Berkly Gulps and use them under a popping cork. They are incredible. They will keep you fishing instead of re-baiting. Drum reds trout and more will eat them. Thread a #2-3 hook through the bait and make long casts with carried popping. The croaker and sand trout run has started in the deeper areas of the Upper Lagoon and the surf. The action is crazy on small hooks and cut bait. We will go into good detail about this next week. This weekend I was doing some work at the marina and saw a police officer come in and block the ramp looking around for a boat. Not a good sign. As I neared , two boats raced in to the dock. A woman lay on the deck with no movement. I helped the fire department unload her and it was a horrible sight to see the injuries sustained from the boat propeller. Her life was taken in just seconds. Her friends stood crying without words, it was a tragic accident. They had not been drinking, they were not "hot rod'n"at all. The boat sheared on a turn into the intracoastal. We take for granted how dangerous boats can be. Turn off the engine when people are coming in and out of the boat in the water. Take the turns slowly and never hang over
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Local Island fisherman BUGS jumped on a trip to Baffin with some of his old friends from Austin and hammered and released trout from the rocks of Baffin and the Land Cut. This nice 27 trout was caught on live perch and released. the sides of the boat. I've called attention to individuals who believe racing their show boats under the JFK bridge and they scuffed it off, and continue to run by boats at high speeds. If they could see what I saw everyone would slow down. God bless that woman I know she is in heaven now, and peace to her friends and family.
And speaking of red tide (boo!), that takes us quickly to the bad news. That stuff is now moving along the Bayfront, around the edge of Corpus Christi Bay to Portland and coming in to Ingleside on the Bay. The latest and greatest from TPWD is that there’s a little in Galveston Bay near the entrance by Pelican Island, but then doesn’t pick up till it gets down to this area. Once at our bay system, however, it’s almost continuous to the border. I shudder to think if it goes off and gets sucked into Cedar Bayou and starts going rampant there again. The last big kill that occurred up there was when I was doing some work in San Antonio Bay and red tide came through and whacked everything, except for in the highest reaches of the old delta, where we discovered a tarpon nursery. Something so beautiful in the middle of a complete waste land. Seems to be a theme around here lately. I just got an update from our buddy in the valley Joe Vega, and he said that dead fish are washing up all along the beach down there from the north section all the way into Boca Chica and that aerosols are bad. I have to imagine it’s down there at Playa Bagdad as well. I wonder what the fishing camps do when the red tide comes calling down in those parts? Do they just sit there and breathe the fumes? Do they run inland? Be interesting to know. And I can
only hope that the red tide hasn’t invaded the Lagunas de Tamaulipas as well. I met Patrick and Augs out at Fish Pass this past Saturday, as I thought the aerosols might have subsided. Nope. The aerosol and smell of death hit me as soon as I opened the door of the truck. I’ll give it a 0.5 out of 10, and after about 20 minutes, my nose was running and my throat was scratchy. Despite the apparent death, there were dusky anchovies in the wade gut getting absolutely smashed by skip jacks and small jack crevalle. Birds were having a field day. There was the river of mullet next to the jetties, and a few Spanish mackerel bombing around. But that’s about all that was out there. Migrants. There were no snook or mangroves around the rocks. The water was gin clear. It looked amazing, but you got the sense that something is dreadfully wrong. Then I did a drive by at Packery north jetty a couple days ago, and again, 0.5 out of 10 on the aerosol scale. I only stayed about 20 minutes, so the effects weren’t that bad but still present. The water conditions were awesome, but with very little signs of life. Bummer. Well, this weekend is the CCA-Corpus Christi Babes on Baffin Ladies fishing tournament out of Bluff’s Landing Marina. There are something like 85 teams signed up, and things are getting set up already. Hopefully the rain stays away this year. This is a blast of an event, and the ladies have a big time. They also donate their live fish to the Hatchery out in the Bluff to be used as brood stock or for the Kidfish ponds. I’ll be out there Saturday afternoon at the weigh-in helping out what I can. Drop by and check it all out, and say hi if you see me standing around for a minutes.
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Officials Fumbled Key Batting Call At End Of Lions-Seahawks, NFL Admits By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: I believe it is time for an NFL report, so the first topic is about the officials “kicking” a call/rule. As I watched the end of the Seahawks-Lions game the other night, I was very surprised that there was no flag when the ball was batted in the end zone. All football officials very early in their career know the endzone batting rule is “a loose ball in the end zone may not be batted in any direction.” If a batting
the ball out of the end zone: Lions coach Jim Caldwell was asked about the call. "I'm not going to even go there. Talk to Blandino and the rest of the guys, they'll explain," he said. "What can you do? You're not going to cry about it that's for sure." It's the second time this calendar year the
Just Another Day At the Office By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon Legendary baseball announcer, Vin Scully, just announced that he will return one more year as the broadcaster for the Los Angeles Dodgers. It will be his 67th year behind the microphone. Imagine that. He started when he was 20 years old and just turned 87. I worked for the same company for 34 years, but that doesn’t hold a candle to the red-headed tenor’s run. Scully, a story teller if there ever was one, has seen it all. In the first week of June, 1989, Scully called 45 innings of baseball in 29 hours. He worked the NBC’s 10-inning “Game of the Week” in St. Louis on June 3rd, then the Dodgers’ network’s 22-inning game that very same night in Houston, then 13 more innings the next afternoon. Scully then flew to Atlanta and called an 18-inning game with the Braves on June 5th. It was just another day at the office for the old redhead.
in the morning. You’d better have at least nine at-bats, or I’ll be taking the kids to live with my mother.” Astros’ first baseman, Glenn Davis, actually did sleep in the clubhouse that night, but the story of the phone call above was made up. The Dodgers’ next-day starting pitcher, Tim Belcher, was the only Dodger that did not get into the game. He had stayed at the hotel. Dodgers’ third baseman Jeff Hamilton, who had replaced Hershiser, would get the loss. Houston won the game when Billy Doran singled, reached second on a Davis grounder, and then scored on a single by Rafael Ramirez. Can you imagine how the umpiring crew of Fred Brocklander, Bob Engel, Paul Runge, and “Dutch” Rennert felt? They did not have the luxury of spending some time on the bench every other half-inning.
This is the Bat--A Foul occurs, the covering official shall drop his penalty marker (flag). In the play in question, at least two and perhaps three officials should have seen the illegal act and dropped a penalty marker. The penalty for this foul is 10 yards and the down is repeated. In the play under discussion, the distance--instead of 10 yards, would have been no more than 5 inches (half the distance from the enforcement spot) which was the spot of the fumble, which was about the length of the football (by rule:10 7/8, to 11 7/16” unless “stretchgate” or “squeezegate” has occurred ) from the goal line. The second topic in this article concerns the many injuries which have occurred; do we need some rules changes?
Lions have been on the wrong side of a key officiating decision. In their playoff loss to Dallas in January, the Lions had an important pass interference flag against Dallas late in the fourth quarter picked up. "It's unfortunate, but you can't put the game in the referee's hands,'' Detroit's Johnson said. Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll was asked if his team caught a break. "Now that you look at it, we're fortunate on that one," he said. "The game wasn't over. It didn't mean the game was over. We just might have had to keep playing." It was three years ago when replacement officials credited Golden Tate with a disputed touchdown reception on the final play in nearly
The Non-Call Provided Another Memorable Monday Night Moment In Seattle. Seattle apparently received another Monday night break from NFL officials in the same end zone where the infamous "Fail Mary'' took place. With the Detroit Lions closing in on a touchdown, which could have capped an improbable comeback against the Seahawks late in the fourth quarter, the officials incorrectly gave Seattle possession after a Calvin Johnson fumble was batted out of the end zone by Seahawks linebacker K.J. Wright. The Lions trailed 13-10 with 1:51 left when Johnson lunged for the end zone from the 1 yard line, but Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor punched the ball out of his hands just short of the goal line. Wright then knocked the ball out of the back of the end zone, which is illegal, according to NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino. "We'll review all the angles," Blandino said on Monday Night Football. "On TV it looked like the Seahawks player intentionally hit the ball. That is a foul. The result of the penalty would give Detroit possession enforced at the spot of the fumble. With half the distance to the goal line, Detroit would have had a first down." "I have spoken to the referee Tony Corrente. He did not see that part of the play because that is not his area. The back judge Greg Wilson felt it was not an intentional act, that it was inadvertent," he added. Wright, however, admitted that it was an intentional act.
the same spot as Seattle beat Green Bay. Now it was Tate, playing for Detroit, on the opposite side of a strange play in the Emerald City. Detroit is off to its worst start since it also started 0-4 in 2010. "We can't change it now,'' Seattle linebacker Bobby Wagner said. "It is what it is. We won and we're going to move on.''
The officials ruled a touchback with no flags thrown. The Seahawks took over on their own 20. Russell Wilson subsequently found Jermaine Kearse for 50 yards on third down and Seattle held on for a 13-10 win to improve to 2-2 on the season. Detroit, meanwhile, fell to 0-4. Blandino said Wright should have been called for an illegal bat for hitting the ball out of the end zone. The penalty would have given the ball back to Detroit at the Seattle 1. He said the batted ball part of the play is not reviewable, even though the play resulted in a turnover. "The back judge was on the play and in his judgment he didn't feel it was an overt act, so he didn't throw the flag,'' Blandino said. "In looking at the replays it looked like a bat so the enforcement would be basically we would go back to the spot of the fumble and Detroit would keep the football.'' The latest NFL rulebook is pretty simple on what constitutes a penalty for illegally batting
The 22-inning game, which the Astros won 5-4 on June 3rd at the Astrodome, was full of wonderful, wacky events. Here are a few. Forty-four players were used during the 22 innings, but not one of them got more than three hits. John Shelby of the Dodgers went 0 for 10. Five players went 1 for 1. Orel Hershiser worked seven innings of three-hit, eight strikeouts, shutout relief and was still unhappy about being removed in the 21st inning, by manager Tommy Lasorda. Fernando Valenzuela played first base for the Dodgers. Pitcher Jim Deshaies pinch-hit for the Astros. First baseman, Eddie Murray, played third base for the first time in his career, for the Dodgers. Neither team scored a run from the seventh inning until the 22nd. There were only two stolen bases. The Dodgers’ hitters went 14 for 78, and the game ended at 2:50 a.m. Central Time. I tried to imagine how a phone call might have sounded if an Astros player were to have called his wife from the clubhouse around 2 a.m. “Honey, I’m still at the ballpark.”
“You’re shooting pool again, aren’t you?” “No! Honest! Turn your radio on. We’re still playing.”
Lance Dunbar’s night in New Orleans ended on a cart on Sunday. It appears his season did, as well.
“Look, I’ve got to go. I’m on deck to hit next. The Dodgers are taking Orel Hershiser out and replacing him with their third baseman.”
“He does a lot out of the backfield for us,” current Cowboys starting quarterback Brandon Weeden said. “Obviously we saw that last week, against Atlanta. He ran the ball with a couple of big runs, he’s electric.” Dunbar, 25, has been key for the Cowboys as they rely on a multitude of backs to take on the load previously shouldered by the departed DeMarco Murray. In that Week 3 game, Dunbar had 100 yards receiving on 10 catches. On Sunday, Dunbar had 54 yards rushing on only three carries. It appears Christine Michael, acquired in a trade with the Seahawks last month, may be called on to take more carries behind starter Joseph Randle. In Indianapolis, the news sounds a little better for quarterback Andrew Luck. After Luck missed a game for the first time in in his career on Sunday, the Colts star was at practice on Monday, albeit in a limited role. Dotson’s Other Note: For you Dallas fans, it appears that Dez and Tony will be back sooner than expected…can you hold out that long? Your comments, suggestions, questions and concerns regarding Sports Talk article are greatly appreciated, please call the Benchwarmers at 361-560-5397 weekdays, Mondays thru Fridays, 5-8 P.M.* or contact me. Phone: 361-949-7681 Cell: 530-748-8475 Email: dlewis1@stx.rr.com
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“Nobody plays baseball at 2 a.m. in the morning. Can’t you at least make up a decent story?”
Another ugly Sunday turned into another bloody Monday in the NFL in Week 4, and once again, some teams are scrambling to fill some big holes. And for the third time already, the most painful news comes from Dallas.
Vince Scully now prepares for the playoffs as his Dodgers have won the National League West Division. They will play the upstart New York Mets, winner of the National Leagues East Division, in a best of five series. Interestingly, some of us are old enough to remember that the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to the West Coast after the 1957 season to become the Los Angeles Dodgers and in 1962, the New York Mets replaced the Dodgers in New York City as their national league representative. What goes around comes around.
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Bloody Monday Week 4 Injury Updates & They Aren’t Pretty
Already with star receiver Dez Bryant (broken foot in Week 1) and starting quarter back Tony Romo (broken clavicle, Week 2), the Cowboys on Sunday night lost third-down running back Lance Dunbar to a knee injury. But unlike Bryant and Romo, it appears the Cowboys won’t be getting Dunbar back any time this season. According to NFL.com, Dunbar will miss the remainder of the season with a torn ACL and MCL in his left Tony Romo-On The DL For knee. Dunbar suffered the injury while being tackled returning Now the second-half kickoff at New Orleans.
"I wanted to just knock it out of bounds and not try to catch it and fumble it," he said. "I was just trying to make a good play for my team." You can't hit it backwards, and you can't intentionally, I guess, knock it out. But at the time, I wasn't thinking that. I was just trying to not mess up the game. So I know now."
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