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May 26, 2016

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Island Teens Train Wild Mustangs

By Dale Rankin editor@islandmoon.com

That buzzing sound you hear is not the refrigerator running it’s the buzzing of jillions of mosquitos taking advantage of the recent rains. We islanders have put a few extra moves into the Skeeter Dance this week as the little buggers have turned the evening hours into an ear-buzzing, Skeeter Dancing extravaganza! There’s probably a good reason why the Good Lord made mosquitos but we Islanders would be hard pressed to understand it in these watery times. If He had rested that day there probably wouldn’t be many complaints from our little sandbar. The city won’t be spraying on The Island for now. They’ve only got two trucks for the whole city and their frank disclosure to the city council this week was that while spraying kills about 30% of them by the next day they are back at full strength. It’s going to be a long Swatting Season this year folks. And speaking of water…the high water we have had hereabouts of late began migrating out Tuesday. For the past few weeks we’ve had about ten inches more of it in our canal system than we usually do this time of year. Island decks have been awash in high water for several weeks now. One advantage is that it is now possible to get small boats through the skinny water between Primavera and Carlos 5th Court on the back side of The Island. It’s still pretty skinny but if you can get up on plane you should be able to make it through ungrounded.

Whitecap Water Plant City planners this week unveiled early plans for revamping the city’s wastewater treatment system, not to be confused with the currently malfunctioning drinking water treatment system, at a cost of $220 million. They offered the City Council four options for approval and all four include keeping the Whitecap Wastewater Treatment Plant on The Island in operation. There had been talk of turning that plant into a pump station to move ah, product…from The Island OTB. This of course would have been the first reversal of such flow in recent memory and could have freed up the land around the plant for other types of development. That apparently won’t happen and The Island, likely not for the last time, will be left to deal with its own…stuff.

Political season We are coming into the political season and voter registration is up by almost 1000 voters since the last city elections two years ago. At 7154 registered voters a united Island vote will go a long way toward winning seats on the city council. Former Chairman of the Island Strategic Action Committee Greg Smith is expected to announce this week he will run for the District 4 Council seat being vacated by Colleen McIntyre.

Island growth The drop in gas prices and the subsequent drop in activity in the Eagle Ford Shale play hasn’t slowed the pace of home building on The Island. As of this week 65 houses are under construction on The Island and almost two hundred are in the pipeline. The price of oil hit a sevenmonth high this week, pushing up on $50 per barrel. We’ll see you at the HEB Thursday evening everybody as we get ready for the beginning of our 100-day tourist season. Here they come folks! We’ll see you at the Ski Basin. In the meantime say hello if you see us Around The Island.

By Dale Rankin According to the Bureau of Land Management there are more than 67,000 wild Mustang horses roaming public lands in the Western United States. Each year horse lovers around the state and country adopt several thousand of them out and train them for 120 days in preparation for a meet to see who has taught their new horse the most maneuvers.

Since 2007 over 6,700 Mustangs have been adopted through Mustang Heritage Foundation events and programs. This year two Islanders took up the challenge and are training two horses for the meet in Fort Worth in September. Grace Walsh and Travis Moore, 9th Graders at Incarnate Word Academy, each adopted two-year-old mares born in the wild into the Triple B Herd in Nevada in 2014 and work with them several hours each day. “We teach them basic skills,” Moore said, “Things like backing up, jumping into a truck, we can saddle break them but in the Junior Division we are not allowed to ride them in competition.”

Mustangs continued on A6

Hurricane Season Starts Wednesday. Change from El Niño to La Niña Could Cause More Active Season Somewhere in the vast Pacific Ocean a change is taking place that could have an impact on our Island in the next several months. The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season begins Wednesday, June 1, and Dr. Philippe Tissot, an Associate Research Professor at the Conrad Blucher Institute (CBI) in Corpus Christi, says that 2016 is likely transitioning from an El Niño to a neutral or La Niña season in the Pacific and La Niña years correlate with higherthan-normal tropical storm activity as compared to El Niño, which typically leads to fewer storms in the Atlantic.

Island United Political Action Committee Annual Meeting June 9 Island now has more than 7000 registered voters As much as 7% of the total votes in the November City of Corpus Christi elections could come from The Island. If past Presidential elections are an indicator of voter turnout about 100,000 voters will cast ballots in the upcoming November election cycle, and there are now 7154 registered voters on The Island. Getting those Island voters to unite behind candidates in races for the Mayor and council seats in the City

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The Climate Prediction Center at CBI in its May 16 update states that El Niño is still present but weakening and gives “about a 75% chance of La Niña during the fall and winter 2016-17. “We already had our first 2016 hurricane in January, which was a rare occurrence,” Tissot said. At present, predictions are for a “near average season” from most but not all forecasting groups. The Weather Channel predicts 12-13 named storms, including five to six

Hurricane continued on A3

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Island Water System is End of the Line

Irony of Ironies By Dale Rankin Last weekend crews from the City of Corpus Christi began opening fire hydrants on the Island as part of a plan to end the longest boil order in the city in recent memory. Island hydrants on the southern end of The Island represent the end of a thirtymile long water system and crews trying to move chlorine from the north end of the system through to the south end were draining Island hydrants as part of the effort. Even before the city began a series of boil orders in recent years water quality on The Island was a problem. The “stale” water caused by deadend water mains on Island fingertip streets was identified as a problem

Water continued on A9

Hydrant on Sea Pines

Work Begins to Improve Two Island Beach Access Roads Two Beach Access roads on The Island will get major makeovers after the Corpus Christi City Council this week approved engineering design contracts for $3.5 million worth of work. They are Beach Access Road #3A at the north end of the Michael J. Ellis Seawall, and Beach Access Road #2 just north of Fire Station #16 on State Highway 361. Funding for the projects comes from a 2014 Bond Election. The proposed improvements include replacing the existing Hot-Mix-Asphalt-Concrete (HMAC) with reinforced concrete pavement structure with required grading for drainage, slope and soil stabilization, pavement markings, and signage.

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Construction on both projects is schedule to begin in the fall, after the completion of the summer tourist season.

A little Island history

The Island Before Civilization Showed Up Editor’s note: In the past two issues we have included a story written about Padre Island in The Saturday Evening Post in 1948. The story was based around an Islander named Louis Rawalt who moved to The Island in 1925 and lived a life that would be impossible here now. As you will see from the stories he built cabins from material he found on the beach at several locations and knew The Island in a way that probably no one else ever will. He collected relics from over thirty sites on The Island and knew where all of the shipwrecks were to be found, including the Spanish gold ships from the 16th Century and when the Padre Island National Seashore was founded it was Rawalt who led the researchers around The Island and showed them ten sites which they studied as part of the due diligence for founding the park. Everything Rawalt found he documented; where he found the road traveled by the troops of General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War, the long-

gone Singer Ranch and numerous shipwrecks. Rawalt was a smart and educated man who studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Fortunately, Rawalt left behind an oral history as told to his friend Cash Asher and we will run it here in the next few issues. He called his story Island of Reprieve and it begins in a hospital where he was recovering from a mustard gas attack he suffered through in World War I.

The Island of Reprieve By Louis Rawalt It was the summer of 1925. I was seated near the desk of the chief surgeon in the Military Hospital at Chelsea. The bulky form of the surgeon was across the desk from me. He looked at me with speculative eyes. Finally, he said: “If you have any business that needs attention, you had better return to your home

Louis Raywalt and his son Charlie in the Satuday Evening Post in Texas and take care of it.” He leafed through a chart on his desk, “Prognosis, six months,” He looked straight at me. “A lot of them didn’t have any time left,” he said encouragingly. “I’ll do it,” I replied. “I’ll have to.” I rose and started for the door. I had expected his verdict, and had already made up my mind what I

History continued on A7

SMA Performs Season Ending Plays

May 26, 2016

Island Moon

Punctuates a Great Year for SMA Theatre By Brent Rourk

SMA Theatre 1 Class rocking the house at PACT

photos by Shannon Trial

Last Saturday, The Seashore Middle Academy Theatre 1 students performed 2 short and very entertaining plays at the Port Aransas Community Theatre (PACT), ending a long run of successes by outgoing SMA staff and Theatre teacher Ashley Knotts. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street opened the curtain followed by Whose Movie Is It Anyway, an interactive play involving the audience’s participation in guessing which movie was being shown. The talented group of students in the Theatre 1 class demonstrated their fine acting abilities, sense of timing, and humor. Director Ashley Knotts has directed 7 PACT performances and starred in several on the PACT stage, including Steel Magnolias and Annie.

Stellar performances and costumes by SMA actors. Knotts explained her love of theatre and of the many classes of SMA actors, “I am so grateful and appreciative to not just be an educator to these amazing students, but a part of their family as well. No matter where you go in life, and no matter whether you stay in contact with one another, remember this moment, this time together. When you are older, some of these moments will bring a smile to your face and I thank you one last time for allowing me to be a part of it all.”

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May 26, 2016

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Letters to the Editor

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Nueces County Legislative Delegation Statement on Corpus Christi Boil Water Advisory Senator Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, State Rep. Abel Herrero, & State Rep. Todd Hunter Continue to Monitor the Water Situation in Corpus Christi

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The ongoing Corpus Christi Boil Water Advisory is of critical concern to us. It is imperative that our families have water that is clean and safe to drink.

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As your state elected officials, our offices have been communicating with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the agency responsible for all aspects of planning, permitting, and monitoring the state’s water resources. Public safety is our top priority and we are committed to ensuring that our residents have access to a safe supply of drinking water. It is critical that our state agencies work together with local government, city officials, and community leaders to communicate and coordinate their efforts to resolve this issue quickly and protect our public’s health.

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Our offices will continue to monitor the water situation in Corpus Christi. We will work with local and state government agencies to provide any resources or guidance necessary to address the current situation and advocate for more training, better preparation, and a reliable plan of action to prevent future problems.

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I expect very little from my elected officials. Good roads, clean water, access to electrical power. Anything else is just gravy...no millions spent on downtown improvements, or 20 year plans. If you can't supply good roads or clean water. Resign. Now. Richard Beekman

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Hurricane cont. from A1 hurricanes and two to three major hurricanes (Category 3 or stronger) this season for the Atlantic Basin. The Atlantic hurricane region includes the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Tissot’s research focuses on the modeling of coastal processes. Projects include the study of sea levels, regional sea level rise and its impact, storm surge, littoral boundaries and inundation frequencies. Tissot and his team at the Conrad Blucher Institute (CBI) in Corpus Christi developed and implemented operational coastal models predicting water levels, water temperatures and currents to assist in the prediction of coastal flooding and navigation. The models have been used by the National Weather Service and local and state agencies. Research and models are often based on data from the Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network (TCOON) and NOAA’s National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON). Tissot teaches a graduate-level course in environmental forecasting and also develops, with his students, mobile apps to facilitate access to coastal and environmental data. A statement issued this week by the CBI states, “The northern Texas coast and the Coastal Bend are slowly sinking. As relative sea level is rising, the impact of small or faraway storms will increase significantly. It is important to consider small but increasingly frequent inundation (flooding) events for areas close to water levels such as North Beach and continue to build a more resilient community. Better prepared communities will also contribute to contain flood insurance claims and rates.” On Tuesday, May 24, the National Hurricane Center put the disturbance on the board -just over a week before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season on June 1. As of Wednesday afternoon the hurricane center said it was watching an area of rain and storms over the western Atlantic Ocean, northeast of the Bahamas. The disturbance, which is being caused by the combination of an upper-level trough of low pressure and a weakening cold front, is not expected to develop for a few days. As of Wednesday afternoon the disturbance was expected to move to the west-northwest and toward the Southeast U.S. coast. There has already been one storm this year: Hurricane Alex formed in January in the northeastern Atlantic and moved through the Azores before weakening. The next name on the 2016 list is Bonnie. So as the 2016 version of the Hurricane Season begins let’s prepare for the worse and hope for the best; that indeed it is not our Bonnie which lies over the ocean.

Padre Island Teen By Elizabeth Clark

Summertime These are our last few days of school, which means the last round of exams and major projects issued at the end of the six weeks. Seashore Middle Academy has Friday off, but for Flour Bluff, exam exemptions, which allow students to bypass semester exams, are getting us through the end of the year. Exemptions are issued to every student who has an A average and three or less absences, B students with two absences, and C students with less than one. These are perfect motivators for students to keep their grades up and their attendance in check, because if you receive one, you don't have to come to school during exam time! Many teenagers arrive around 10 o'clock in the morning and leave at 2:45 in the afternoon. With only a few hours of class per day, it feels like summer already! If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, email me at PadreIslandTeen@gmail.com.

POA Meeting Another meeting was held Tuesday night, an opportunity for the Island home owners to become better informed; we are advocating better attendance, more input, and a better informed public. The Board members are volunteers; more volunteers are encouraged to ascertain the facts, to lessen the misinformation that can be dispersed in the moments it takes to contact a neighbor. We are being asked to be involved, to take an active interest in how our tax dollars are being spent, to take the time to know those who are representing us and to express our views having learned the FACTS. Listening to followup discussions on what was perceived to be the solution to our questionable water, it became evident that all the facts were NOT known; communication between our local officials and the state were less than fruitful; the water boil that was mandated is now in question. The spiral affect of misinformation has been a very costly and inconvenient pursuit, one that has not proven to be a solution to a most valid concern. We may wish to avoid the mere thought of huge expenditures to replace pipes that are old, however the chemicals that are in use are eroding said pipes and the buildup of carsinogens within the pipes have become part of our drinking water. However uncomfortable we may be in recalling the hidden facts that were beneath the ground in Flint, Michigan, corrosive pipes do leach harmful chemicals into a water supply and can become a greater concern than anticipated. I am wondering if we could induce the educators at Texas A & M to join us in a discovery of what the current technology advocates? How is this situation being presented at the University? What has their research presented factually? Much needs to be learned by our current challenge; many facts must be unearthed to develop a plan that is based on the FACTS assuring our community of the best solution for a healthier environment. Respectfully, Barbara DeToto

Police Blotter As we went to press Wednesday afternoon the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating the case involving a man's body found in a plastic container on Padre Island National Seashore. According to Patrick Gamman, the spokesman for PINS, the body was discovered by a visitor Wednesday afternoon around 1 p.m., south of the bollards. He said the gray container looked like an industrial crate with no writing. The unidentified man's body was found with a life jacket in the crate. Gamman said it appears the crate may have been used as a boat. Because the body was found on federal land, the FBI is investigating the case. It's not known at press time where the body came from. The Corpus Christi Police Department responded to 836 calls for service and generated 190 reports for formal criminal complaints from 7:00 a.m. May 22 to 7:00 a.m. on May 23, 2016. The Corpus Christi Police Department responded to 847 calls for service and generated 229 reports for formal criminal complaints from 7:00 a.m. May 19 to 7:00 a.m. on May 20, 2016. The Corpus Christi Police Department responded to 816 calls for service and generated 198 reports for formal criminal complaints from 7:00 a.m. May 17 to 7:00 a.m. on May 18, 2016.

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Business Briefs Farmers Market will be extending the market four times a year with a permit for Billish Park. The first will be on Thursday, June 9th and they hope to fill the park with artists and crafters. The market will be at the Island Presbyterian Church Thursday, May 26th 4 – 8 pm with live music by the Rip Tones. A Waterfront Open House at 15341 Isabella will be held on Sunday, May 29th 2 – 4:00 pm. It is priced at $319,000 and is being shown by realtor/broker Mary Melick. For more info contact Mary at 949-7281. The Boathouse Bar & Grill is celebrating their 3rd anniversary with an all-u-can-eat crawfish boil for $17 starting at 3 pm on Saturday, May 28th. The Picklefish Band will play at 6 pm and Kinda Smooth Band at 10 pm. Friday there will be Duel DJs at 7 pm on the patio and 10 pm upstairs. Former Chairman of the Island Strategic Action Committee and local business owner Greg Smith is running for City Council District 4. He will have a meet & greet Thursday, May 26th 1 pm at the Admiral’s Room at Schlitterbahn and at 2:30 pm at Candlewood Suites conference room 9225 SPID. The Lyrical Bynge Band will be the featured late night entertainment this Memorial Day weekend at Mikel May’s Beachside Bar & Grill Saturday, May 28th. The Back Porch Memorial weekend headliners include Gary P. Nunn on Friday, Larry Joe Taylor on Saturday and Cruise Control on Sunday. Ray Wylie Hubbard will be playing at Palmilla Beach and Golf Resort on Saturday, May 28th 9 – 10:30 pm. General admission tickets are $20. The concert will be held on the lawn adjacent to the Black Marlin Restaurant. Bring your own blankets and lawn chairs. Beverage will be available for purchase. This concert is part of the 3rd Annual Summer Concert series. Doc’s Seafood & Steak Restaurant website has a live camera facing the Laguna. You can also check out their daily specials on the site. They have drink and food selections for happy hour weekdays 3 – 7 pm. They have the perfect location for events such as weddings, fishing tournaments, reunions, office parties, birthdays or club organization dinners. Port Aransas Community Pool is offering swim lessons for children 2 – 12 years old. Session 1 will be June 7 – 17 at 9:40 am or 10:30 am. Registration is at the pool and the fee is $8/session for Port A residents and $25 for non-residents The southwest style bank building built in 2011 at the corner of Flour Bluff Drive and SPID is being torn down to build a Corner Store. That’s just wrong – shouldn’t a convenience store be torn down to build a big beautiful building or is that just me?

Coyotes From the Island Moon Newspaper Facebook Page: Ryan Tina Bond Leahey Is there any way to find out information on what is going to be done to help these poor coyotes that have been run off their natural homes? They have nowhere to live anymore! They were run off for Schlitterbaun, now being run off for the marina/bridge project. They have no place to live and I feel the people that are in charge of these 'projects' should have taken them into consideration. They have lived out here way before us. If they were turtles everyone would have gone crazy with worry. But they are 'just' coyotes so no one cares. I think they should be re-located to the national seashore. Anyway, just wondering if it had even been discussed when talking about these 'projects'.

Island Police Calls 11600 block SPID (JFK Causeway) 4:50 a.m. May 22 Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon/Criminal Mischief $750$2,500 14200 block SPID 9:26 p.m. May 22 Alarm 14200 block SPID 8:30 a.m. May 22 Alarm 14300 block Caribe 7:49 a.m. May 17 Alarm 14200 block SPID 8:30 a.m. May 22 Alarm 14100 block Cabana North 11:03 p.m. May 19 Assault with injury 14400 block SPID 9:55 a.m. May 22 Theft from a building under $100 14600 block SPID 10:14 a.m. May 20 Assault with injury/Assault 14800 block Lighthouse 5:39 p.m. May 22 Alarm 13500 block Camino de Plata 9:42 a.m. May 19 Alarm

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Whether you are having guests over for a BBQ or going to one, sometimes coming up with a delicious side dish can be daunting. One main dish that I find to be a traditional staple is potato salad. However, if eating outside on a hot day, it might not be a good idea to set out a bowl of potato salad tossed with mayonnaise. One side dish I like to prepare that avoids this issue can be served with a sour cream, lime and chive dipping sauce. The sour cream sauce stays cold because it’s served in a bowl over ice, ready to use at meal time. When choosing potatoes for certain side dishes, keep in mind that not all potatoes deliver the same results. Here is why. There are several types of potatoes we can choose from. But there are 3 primary types. Starchy as in the russet potato, waxy as in fingerling and red potatoes. The most common potatoes we come across most often are Yukon Gold, Purple Peruvian.

The long white and russet are similar and contain higher amounts of starch with a low moisture content. The russet potato is rounder and has a brownish skin with a lot of eyes. In contrast, the long white is longer (hence the name) and has a thin, grayer skin. These are great potatoes for baking and will be lighter and fluffy when mashed. The fingerling and new red potatoes are the ones I prefer for roasting by adding bit of olive oil, a touch of salt, pepper, roasted garlic and tossing with fresh chopped herbs. The reds are also great for boiling and making into salads. These potatoes have such a thin light skin texture that you can actually eat them or smash them with the skin on. Be careful though, because the higher the sugar content in a potato the gummier they get. My trick is to add the butter when they are steaming hot and smash them right away. The colder they are the stickier they’ll become. This will ruin your dish. Therefore don’t make the mistake of cooling down your potatoes by adding sour cream before the butter. Melt your fat in them first. For this recipe I used red new potatoes. In order to roast them and get a crispy outer skin, I brushed them with olive oil and sprinkled them with salt and pepper. This allows for flavor as well as drawing out some of the moisture, so you can enjoy a crispy outer layer and a soft buttery interior.

Smashed Red Roasted Potatoes: 12 red new potatoes ¼ C of extra virgin olive oil (some for brushing, some for roasting pan) Kosher salt & fresh cracked black pepper 2 cloves garlic grated over potatoes or minced 1 stick of butter Bunch of parsley (1/2 for garnish and ½ for sour cream dip) Bunch of chives (1/2 for garnish and ½ for sour cream dip) 1 C sour cream 2 limes juiced Salt & Pepper to taste Dash of nutmeg Dash of cayenne Dash of granulated garlic Heat oven to 400 degrees. In a roasting pan add about a ¼ c of oil. Wash & dry potatoes and place in a bowl. Add remaining oil on to potatoes and sprinkle and coat a generous amount of salt and pepper on the potatoes. Add grated garlic and toss once more. Place potatoes in roasting pan. Bake for 30 minutes. Pull out of oven and add chunks of butter over potatoes. Place back in oven and roast an additional 15 to 20 minutes. You may test them with a knife of toothpick and if they come out clean and easy they are done. While potatoes are baking you can chop chives and parsley for garnish as well as make the sour cream dipping sauce. Place the herbs for garnish on the side and add the other half to a mixing bowl. Mix in the sour cream, and fresh lime juice. Salt, pepper, spices and mix well. Adjust spices to your taste and refrigerate. Once potatoes are removed from the oven, let rest about 7 minutes. To prepare for serving, gently smash the potatoes with a potato smasher or fork in the roasting pan and toss with the oil and juices of the pan. If pan seems dry, you can squeeze fresh limes or lemons over the warm potatoes to re constitute drippings. Place on a platter, garnish and serve. Serve the sour cream dip in a bowl over ice if placing it outside otherwise serve on the side.

Tip of the Week: For those that prefer a vinaigrette instead of sour cream, make the potatoes the same way and instead of making the sour cream dip, make a vinaigrette. Whisk together extra virgin olive oil, white balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and granulated garlic. You can use different herbs also. This dish is fun, easy and you can get creative by adding chopped bacon, sautéed chorizo, chopped green onions and the list goes on! Enjoy yourself, get creative, try new things and most of all have fun!!! Happy Eats!

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May 26, 2016

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Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin

It’s been quite the week around our little burg as we are now in what appears to be the final days of a weeklong, citywide water boil order which so far has resulted in the leaving of a city manager and the arrival of a media gadfly famous for pursuing a case in California in which a city water supply was contaminated with chromium. The timing of our water problem couldn’t be worse as it comes on the heels of the water problems in Flint, Michigan which are about as comparable to our situation as the chromium in California. Many of us have had the calls from friends in other cities and states checking to make sure we aren’t dead from drinking nucleartainted water down here along the border with Mexico; which though famous for producing water that is unfit to drink is apparently doing a better job right now than we are.

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At least that’s the perception. The reality, at least the best I can tell during this time of blame shifting and backfilling, is that our system isn’t that far from being up to par, in fact two of the areas of the city where low levels of chlorine were found two weeks ago were already getting new pipes installed. Another area along Ennis Joslin Road recently had a new line installed that greatly enhances the movement of water through the lines but only works if you open the valve – which someone forgot to do.

So what happened? So if our water system isn’t in so bad a shape how did State regulators from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality end up slapping us with a citywide water-boil order? While the answer to that question is about as clear as bilge water I believe there is one thing that can be said with a high degree of certainty – the citywide water-boil is punitive in nature. It’s a shot across the bow, a sign to city leaders that things have changed. I am hearing through the Austin grapevine that there was a “perception of arrogance” from the higher-ups in the city that they knew the answers to the problems and TCEQ should butt out. No one in Austin would say that on the record, but three said it off the record. It makes little sense to issue a water-boil order for Calallen which is a good fifteen miles upstream from where the low chlorine levels were found. A line of questioning by District 4 City Councilwoman Colleen McIntyre during a specially called Monday meeting of the city

of Corpus Christi is the task of the Island United Political Action Committee which will hold its Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn on The Island. IUPAC will be adding a new member, also taking nominations from the floor.

The IUPAC was formed in 2009 to increase the voting power of Island voters by uniting the combined weight of their votes behind candidates in city races. The candidates are selected through an open election process with each registered Island voter getting a vote. The schedule for that process and other details involved will be explained at the June 9 meeting.

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council was directed at pointing out that TCEQ called for the citywide order without necessarily following its own rules; and while that may give us some moral high ground as a city taunting a bully with a gun to your head might result in a mortal head wound. It is important to note at this point that the notice wasn't prompted by bacteria — E. coli — being found in the water like in July of 2015 when a water-boil notice was issued. It was a strictly discretionary call by TCEQ that oversees public water systems across the state. This was prompted by tests at sites around the city – first North Beach and then Flour Bluff – done by city crews which, according to city staff last week, showed chlorine levels of 2.5 milliliters per liter of water while TCEQ tests done shortly thereafter at the same sites showed only .5 milliliters – a level that triggers boil orders. The closed valve on the new system was blamed for the wildly different results, but that explanation didn’t come until after the waterboil order was issued. State regulators don’t like to feel like they are being played. But the elephant in the room may be found by looking at City Council agendas going back for more than a year. In several, in fact most of them, there is an item listed for discussion in Executive Session concerning negotiations with TCEQ over the city’s water system. Our city has known for at least that long, actually much longer, that a state-ordered overhaul of the water systems, both drinking water and storm drains is in order, and another $220 million for the wastewater treatment system. When it is all said and done it will likely cost taxpayers in the neighborhood of $1 billion to fix the systems in question. If state regulators decide city officials are dragging their feet maybe a citywide waterboil order was a wakeup call and running it up against a Memorial Day Weekend was – as our Spanish speaking friends would say – a little pelon. As we went to press with this issue, the water boil has been lifted. But any animosity between city and state staffs that might linger may mean our margin for error will remain slim. Sort of like the Double Secret Probation in Animal House. I suspect there will be some communication between the local legislative delegation in Austin and the leaders at TCEQ and tensions hopefully will ease. But the underlying lesson of this latest boil order may be that you catch a lot more boil orders with vinegar than you do with honey.

IUPAC continued from A1

Currently there are 7154 registered voters in precincts 40 and 81 which account for the vast majority of voters on The Island. There are also a small number of voters in Precinct 19 which includes Port Aransas who live on Mustang Island north of Fish Pass and are eligible to vote in Corpus Christi city elections.

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The IUPAC Board of Directors has also discussed asking members to endorse candidates in the Flour Bluff Independent School District Board races, which like the city races will be on the November ballot. Under the city system with three At-Large seats, Island voters, like those across the city, can vote in five of the nine city races; Mayor, City Council District 4, and three At-Large races. The Island precincts traditionally have among the highest turnout rates in the Nueces County,

traditionally over 80% in Presidential cycles. In 2009 the IUPAC was the first large group in the city to endorse Mayoral challenger and eventual winner Joe Adame and since that time the Island endorsement, and the large percentage of the total votes it provides, has become a coveted and much sought after political plum. Traditionally in non-Presidential election years only about 60,000 votes are cast countywide. In the last Presidential election in 2012 a total of 14,773 votes were cast in the race for the District 4 City Council seat with 3231 of those coming from The Island. Since that time the number of registered Island voters has increased from about 6000 to the current total of 7154, even as the number of registered voters across the county has held relatively steady. If those numbers hold for the November election, both countywide and Island turnout, The Island vote would be between 6%-7% of the total vote in citywide races, and about 30% of the total in the District 4 race. A united Island vote could be the determining factor in the citywide races in November, the process of selecting the candidates begins at the June 9 meeting.

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May 26, 2016

Island Moon

Beach to Bay 2016

Sailing with Phil

A Dolphin Show near the Historic City of Charleston Editor’s note: San Antonio attorney, former judge, and former San Antonio Mayor Phil Hardberger is an avid sailor who for many years kept his boat in Port Aransas. He chronicled his sailing adventures for the San Antonio ExpressNews and we reprint this article with their permission. By Phil Hardberger One day out of Charleston, we turned off the beaten path to seek out an appealing anchorage that we knew about from a previous trip called Steamboat Creek. A creek in this watery place is not like a creek in Texas. It is a mile across and runs for a few miles, but of particular interest is an old steamboat landing site, complete with an 1800s waiting building for the passengers.

America. He has built a magnificent city, and then rebuilt it after Hurricane Hugo destroyed large parts of it in 1989. Winds reached 130 MPH, and much of the city went underwater. More than 9,000 homes and motor homes were utterly destroyed. Mayor Riley was on the streets the day afterwards with plans for the future. Today Charleston never looked better. If anyone ever doubts America’s resolve, and the tenacity and courage of its citizens--have them visit Charleston. Charleston plays a major part in American history. South Carolina is one of the original thirteen colonies. Its leading citizens help create the United States--and almost destroyed it. And Charleston was at the center of both efforts. Five Charlestonians were delegates to the

Mustangs cont. from A1 The horses and trainers were picked at random and they met for the first time in Decatur, Texas, on May 14. Travis named his horse American Rose and Grace chose State of Grace. They train their charges before and after school each day.

It’s a six sided brick structure with a copper roof, all in good repair--very attractive. It is not a museum: no one is there. We anchored near it, and in the two days we were there, we saw no people. It was like being in a 200 year time warp. I expected to see the steamboat come in at any time, loaded with passengers from Charleston who were glad to be back home. But no, it was just us...and the dolphins. I wouldn’t have missed the show they put on twice a day for anything.

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While herds of wild horses consistently double in size every four years, there has also been a dramatic decrease in adoptions in recent years. In the early 2000s, nearly 8,000 horses were being placed with private adopters each year. Due to a number of economic factors, that number is now down to roughly 2,500 animals each year, compounding an already difficult management situation. The Mustangs who compete in the Extreme Mustang Makeover events in Fort Worth are wild mares and geldings typically ages 4-7 who have been living in BLM off-range corrals. The horses will compete in handling and conditioning, a pattern class and a combined leading and riding class. The top-10 competitors will then compete in the freestyle finals. “The type of things you can teach them depends on the horse,” Travis said. “We still have a long ways to go but we are making progress.”

Dolphins are friendly by nature and we had seen several in the creek during the day. But the real dolphin show took place at dusk and early in the morning, during low tides. There is a seven-foot tide in South Carolina, and it exposed long sloping mud banks. The dolphins would back up into the deep water, then charge full speed ahead, go up the mud banks, and slide back down on their backs, their bellies as pink as a baby’s bottom. Then they would swim back out and charge up their mud slide again. This was such a fun game that at times you’d have eight dolphins all charging and sliding at the same time. “Look at me; watch how far I can go” they seemed to say. And watch we did, yelling encouragement like fans at a Spurs game.

On to Charleston Charleston, S.C. was our next port of call. It is the most fascinating of cities. We stayed a week there, and could have enjoyably spent another week. Charleston doesn’t believe in term limits. The present Mayor, Joseph P. Riley, was elected Mayor in 1975. He is likely the best Mayor in

Continental Congress in 1774. And when the war came in 1776, Charleston was one of the first American cities to be attacked. The British wanted to control Charleston’s great natural harbor, and thus the Battle of Fort Moultrie, was joined in 1776. The Charlestonians, under the command of General William Moultrie, whipped the British and sunk several of their ships. Later the British would come back, and after a one-month siege Charleston was occupied by the British. Several Charlestonians, led by Charles Pinckney, assisted in drafting the United States Constitution. Pinckney also was the first person to propose a Bill of Rights. He and several other Founding Fathers now lie peacefully under the mighty oak trees of Charleston, their obligations to their country more than fulfilled. Charleston though, like many people, had a dark side. In 1861 they had the dishonor of firing the first shots of the Civil War. They trained their cannons on Fort Sumter, and began to fire. Fort Sumter was a U.S. fort that guarded the City of Charleston, so for the first time Americans were trying to kill other Americans as an organized effort. They, no doubt, thought they had grievances and that the War would be short lived. They were about as wrong as you can get. Four years later, half of Charleston’s able bodied men were dead or mutilated; their beautiful city lay in ashes and ruins. It took the better part of a century before Charleston regained its former prominence and beauty: a place of “grace and charm” as Rhett Butler said in Gone With the Wind. But it’s all there now, and we enjoyed it immensely.

May 26, 2016

History continued from A1 was going to do ---that is, if Viola would consent. I had talked to her about the long white sands of the Karankawa Indians, where I had gone as a child with my father on fishing trips. It was the only place I wanted to go now…remote, desolate wilderness of sand, whipped by the Trade Wind, set like a gem between the blue immensity of the Gulf of Mexico and the green shallows of the Laguna Madre on the Texas Coast. I had met Viola through her brother who was also a patient in the Chelsea Hospital. We were married in a few months. Vila was young, vital, beautiful, and accustomed to the cultured atmosphere of Boston. Would she catch the vision of Padre? Would she go there with me to spend the few months that that military doctor had given me to live? That night, I spun my dream to her, a dream of the primitive island, untamed and uninhabited. Her eyes sparkled as I talked. Jumping from the sofa, she hopped around the room. She kicked off her shoes and did a little war dance. “Padre, here we come!” she exclaimed. For the first time since that soul-shattering verdict of death, I faced the future with a degree of hope. From that moment my mind was turned from its dark remembrance of World War I, with its aftermath of destruction. The doctors had done their best. In one hospital I had relinquished a kidney, in another a part of a lung. Along the way I had lost my vitality and more than fifty pounds that normally covered by six-foot frame. So, travesty of a bridegroom that I was, I sat beside my wife and together we laid the groundwork for a strange future. I could see that this healthy, young wife of mine could not comprehend the fact that it was only to be an interlude, and I was thankful for her optimism. We took a train for Texas the next day. In Kingsville, we spent a few days with my people while assembling the equipment essential for living on an isolated island. The upper end of Padre is only twenty-five miles from Corpus Christi; yet then, it was considered inaccessible to all but a few intrepid souls who would risk their cars and their necks crossing the crude wooden causeway that snaked its way across the treacherous waters of the Laguna Madre. My father had been one of those who dared. Together we spent many days on the island before my martial peregrinations. While he sat on a box or log fishing with his cane pole at the edge of the great, rolling waters of the Gulf, I tramped the beach and prowled the dunes. Many times Pop laid his pole down, back out of reach of the tide, and came looking for me thinking I was lost. I was lost, but only in the newness of this ageless island. At times the beach, between the water and the dunes, was as clean as a whistle. It looked as though it had been washed and smoothed by a giant trowel with only huge driftwood logs jutting up here and there to break the monotony. Again it was covered with litter from the seas. Seaweed, shells, jelly fish, and the flotsam and jetsam from ships. Nothings seemed too small or insignificant for close observation. Back of the sentinel-like row of dunes, I found the happiest hunting ground of all when I came, one day, upon a flat where the wind had swept away the sand to reveal countless spear points and arrowheads. Then I was back in a lost century where breach-clothed Karankawas fought invading Comanches with their backs against the blue wall of the Gulf. I wandered through miles of course grass and over miles of blown sand, white and powdery. I stopped to pick up bits of pottery and examine strange, unnamable growths of vegetation. Curlews flew high over the swaying top of the sea grasses crying shrill warnings to their mates. Sand hill cranes waded the inland ponds and great blue herons clustered on the dunes. Occasionally, I saw the tawny form of a coyote watching me suspiciously from a distance. Jackrabbits leaped from clumps of grass, and I saw the dens of badgers and ground squirrels. I used to wish that I could explore every inch of the one hundred-thirty-two miles of the island; for Padre and Mustang were often joined together when the pass between them filled up with sand. Padre itself is one hundred-ten miles in length and varies in width from two to seven miles. This then, was the island to which I was taking my wife, and where I meant to spend my rapidly dwindling lifetime. Certainly Padre was not an island of story-book enchantment. Rather, it was a place of realities so stark and primitive that they gave an impression of unreality. The suns of long summers beat down on it with merciless intensity increased by reflection of sand and sea. Hurricanes periodically lashed its shores; huge driftwood logs and the hulks of boats rotting in the sand far above the normal tide line bore evidence of their force. In winter the blue Texas northers roared down across the plains and sent the sand swirling and drifting like snow in a blizzard. Next issue: The Rawalts move to The Island for good.

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Go For Broke Part II By Dotson Lewis heard someone shouting behind him. He turned around and saw a furious General Dahlquist, who often prowled the lines among his battalion commanders. “Why aren’t you up out of your foxhole?” Then Dahlquist strode toward Lieutenant Richard Hayashi, who was firing at the enemy from behind a tree. Dahlquist booted him in the rear and ordered him to move out.

Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: As promised, here is “Go For Broke Part II.” As I said before, I believe it is very important that as many as possible are told this story of dedication and sacrifice in the face of not only mortal danger, but racial bias. Every one of the enlisted men of the 442nd had friends and/or relatives imprisoned in the States while they were exposing themselves to mortal danger in defense of the United States of America. Thanks again to Duane Schultz, who is a psychologist and author of more than a dozen military history books, for his contributions to this article.

Soon after, Colonel Singles’s aide handed him the field telephone and said it was a call from Dahlquist. Singles yanked the wire out, knowing that if he talked to him at that moment, he was likely to say something that would get him court-martialed.

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Lieutenant James Boodry of the 442nd huddled with Lieutenant Bill Pye to plan their next move. A shell burst directly above them. Boodry was killed, the top of his head split open. Pye, with shrapnel wounds in his hands and arms, started toward the enemy. “If I have to get it,” he thought, “I’d rather get it now.” Shortly he was sprawled on the ground unable to move, one leg shattered by a German shell.

We ended last week’s article part I with: “Sergeant Bill Hull realized how bad their situation was when his battalion sent a 36man patrol back to the division headquarters to bring up supplies, and only five returned. The rest had been captured or killed.”

Here We Go: At 2:30 on October 23rd, 1944, General Dahlquist visited the headquarters of the 442nd to announce that their brief rest break was cancelled. They were ordered back on the line; their objective was to break through to the 1st Battalion.

Twelve men volunteered for a mission to the rear to bring up food and ammunition. As they moved out through the forest, a German shell exploded overhead, leaving two dead and the others wounded. When Private George Shigematsu regained consciousness, he heard someone laughing aloud. The sound annoyed him and he wondered who could possibly be laughing under these circumstances. Then he realized that he was making the noise; the explosion had torn a hole in his chest. Blood and air were bubbling from his lungs.

The Japanese American unit was four miles from the trapped battalion as the crow flies, but because of the dense forest with its hills and ravines, the distance was in reality closer to nine miles. German roadblocks had been thrown up on the few narrow, muddy trails. Mines had been laid in nearly every open patch of ground.

As the days passed, the soldiers of the Lost Battalion continued to maintain their position, “It was pitch dark when we started out,” Matt repelling repeated enemy attacks from all Sakumoto said. “Each man had to hold onto directions. The men kept their heads down and the backpack of the man in front because you General John E. Dahlquist counted their dwindling supply of ammunition couldn’t see him even though he was walking and food, aware that their situation was just in front of you. And it was drizzling and becoming increasingly dire. Nevertheless, as Lieutenant Blonder the mud was ankle deep. The mud was so sticky, it was hard to recalled, “we were not going to give up. The Germans demanded take steps. Worse yet, it was so very cold; our fingers were so surrender several times, but that was not an option. We were numb they were sore.” going to hang in there or die.” Sakumoto glanced up a hillside just as they were setting out The battalion was spread over an area approximately 300 by and noticed an area where the trees had been 350 yards on the barren crest of a steep, heavily cleared. He told his company commander that wooded hill. The men had dug deep foxholes it looked like a perfect field of fire for a machine and covered them with small branches and tree gun, but the officer insisted that the whole area limbs. Lieutenant Martin Higgins had assumed had already been cleared of Germans. That command and ordered every man to empty his was when they heard the sounds of German pack so they could pool their supplies. There voices on the trail up ahead, followed by the wasn’t much to go around. noisy bursts of enemy machine guns. They “We were always wet and hungry,” Sergeant made little headway that day. Arthur Rogers said. “Food was all we talked The next morning, two of the 442nd’s about” Sergeant William Bandoric recalled, three battalions—the 100th and the 3rd— “We talked about chocolate cakes and bacon and continued the attack under a furious artillery eggs and everything that our mothers and wives barrage. Not long after the fighting began, used to make for us back home. I remember Dahlquist sent a blunt message to Lieutenant once we spent a whole afternoon just talking Colonel Alfred Pursall, commander of the 3rd about flapjacks.” Battalion, demanding to know why he had not Water was also scarce. The only source was a yet reached their objective. But Pursall was muddy hole that was brown, dirty, and stagnant. occupied trying to keep his men alive while The Germans used it too, which meant the GIs absorbing unceasing German infantry and artillery attacks. had to crawl to the water hole only at night. They had to keep Casualties mounted quickly throughout the day and the rescuers using it even after an enemy soldier was shot dead and his body made little progress. The regimental commander, Colonel lay in the pond for several hours. It was all they had. Charles Pence, was under pressure from Dahlquist to renew the Throughout the siege, Lieutenant Blonder kept sending attack at 6:30 the next morning, even though it was clear that the messages. “Out of food and water,” he radioed on the 26th, “and Germans were reinforcing their already strong defenses. critically low on ammunition. Medical supplies next to nothing; The following day, the operation’s fourth, wounded need attention.” Dahlquist called Pursall early in the morning, The army attempted to resupply the men of demanding to know whether he had begun the the Lost Battalion by air. Beginning on the attack. “It’s so dark you can’t see your hand in 27th, the fourth day of their ordeal, when front of your face,” Pursall said. “I don’t want weather permitted, they fired 105mm shells to walk blindly into them.” filled with chocolate bars. But the shells “You’ve got to attack!” Dahlquist insisted. embedded themselves too deeply in the earth Once there was sufficient daylight, the to retrieve. At the same time, they loaded the Nisei did. To the right, the 100th Battalion, fuel drop tanks of P-47 fighter planes with commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Gordon food and other goods. Some of the tanks Singles, discovered that the Germans had landed behind German lines. (“The food withdrawn during the night, but only as far falling into our laps was most welcome,” one as the next ridgeline. By the end of the day, German soldier commented. “Even toilet Singles’ battalion had advanced a few hundred paper was included.”) yards and had paid a terrible price. Yet it could On October 28th, headquarters sent word have been worse: At one point, Dahlquist that troops were fighting their way toward ordered the artillery to concentrate their fire the trapped Americans: “Friends progressing on a particular set of coordinates. But, as Senator Daniel Inoye-Hawaii satisfactorily. Hope to see you soon. Bury the artilleryman Don Shimazu said, if they “had dead and mark well.” fired as ordered we would have hit the Lost Dotson’s Other Note: As my friend, the late Battalion and probably wiped them out.” Dick Derr would say: “Unbelievable!” Also a gentlemen whose Private Henry Nakada was in a foxhole firing at a German last name was Sherman was quoted as saying “war is hell.” sniper. At the moment the sniper stopped returning fire, Nakada Sherman had just marched through and laid waste to Atlanta (Georgia). Hopefully we will publish “Go For Broke Part III” in next week’s issue of The Island Moon. Therein, I plan to tell you about a friend of mine who was truly “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” When I met him, he was introduced to me as “Senator Inouye from Hawaii.” Your thoughts regarding this or any articles appearing in The Island Moon are greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading and commenting on Senior Moments. I can be reached at dlewis1@ stx.rr.com and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 Cell: 530-748-8475 Please Note: The next Veterans Roundtable Meeting will be Tuesday, May 31, 2016, 9-11 AM. Room TBA, Del Mar College, Center For Economic Development, 3209 S. Staples. All Veterans, their families and anyone interested in Veterans affairs, are invited. Coffee & Doughnuts are provided. Hope to see you there.

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SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon

Tommy John-The Arm That Changed Baseball By Dotson Lewis

four hours in 1974 now takes surgeons less than an hour.

Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: Frank James Jobe (July 16, 1925 – March 6, 2014) was an American orthopedic surgeon and co-founder of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic. Jobe pioneered both elbow ligament replacement and major reconstructive shoulder surgery for baseball players... The procedure has become so prevalent an estimated one-third of all major league pitchers have undergone it. Jobe also performed the first major reconstructive shoulder surgery on a big league player in 1990, which allowed Dodger star Orel Hershiser to continue his career. Jobe served as a special adviser to the team until his death. Reid Forgrave contributed to this article.

Jobe took a tendon from Tommy John’s right, non-throwing wrist (tendons in the ankle or hamstring can also be used) then sliced into John’s pitching elbow. He drilled holes in a few spots in the elbow, and then looped the new tendon through those drilled holes in a series of figure-eight patterns. During the long rehabilitation process that included range-ofmotion exercises, Tommy John’s tendon learned to act like a ligament.

The arm that changed baseball was determined one July evening at Chavez Ravine nearly 43 years ago, when a Los Angeles Dodgers ace lefty reared back, fired a sinker and felt his left arm go dead. Tommy John was 13-3 just before the 1974 AllStar break with a stellar ERA of 2.59, arguably the best pitcher on a Los Angeles Dodgers team that would go on to win the pennant. He had a 4-0 lead on the Montreal Expos when he threw a 1-1 sinker. The ball came out of his hand and nearly flew into the stands. It was the strangest and most painful sensation he’d ever felt in his left elbow. John threw another sinker. Same result. After pulling himself out of the game, John went to the trainer’s room at Dodger Stadium. The team doctor, Frank Jobe, took one look at John’s left arm and knew: John had torn a ligament in his elbow. This was bad. The accepted wisdom at the time was rest a bit, come back and you’ll be fine. But after a month of rest, John’s arm still hadn’t healed. When he tried pitching batting practice, he couldn’t get the ball to home plate. That was when Jobe proposed something radical: a surgery on John’s elbow that would take a tendon from another part of his body and string it where that torn ligament used to be. Jobe knew the concept was sound, knew these sorts of things could be done because of prior work with polio patients. Jobe also knew it had never been tried on a big league pitcher. The risks? Jobe was clear. If John didn’t have surgery on the elbow, he’d never pitch again in Major League Baseball. And if John did have the surgery, Jobe gave him a one in 100 chance of ever pitching again. Tommy John began to ponder the possibilities of life after baseball: He could work at a friend’s jewelry store in San Francisco. Or he could work at a friend’s car dealership back home in Terre Haute, Ind. Or he could become a baseball coach. When it came down to it, there was no choice. Tommy John was a pitcher. If the surgery didn’t fix his elbow, John schemed that maybe he could track down the old knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm and learn how to reclaim his pitching career while only throwing 60-mph junk. Pitching, after all, was what Tommy John knew. Since he was 8 years old, baseball was what he loved. “He looked around my office very seriously,” recalled Jobe, “He looked me in the eye and said, ‘Let’s do it.’ And those are three words that changed baseball.” One year and one day after the revolutionary ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction surgery that soon would bear his name, John took the mound in his first rehabilitation start. Thus began Act II in Tommy John’s sensational career: 288 wins — 164 of those after his surgery — more than 2,000 strikeouts, pitching in the big leagues until age 46 without missing a start from elbow pain. Tommy John’s second act paved the road for more than 200 and counting second chances for Major League Baseball players since then. Most are pitchers who’ve worn through the ligament in their throwing elbow from repeated use.

Dr. Frank Jobe-2008 Dodger Stadium “Afterward, it was basically: ‘Why didn’t I think of this before?’” Jobe said recently. “Sandy Koufax told me, ‘Why didn’t you think of this when I screwed up my elbow?’ When you look at it from a retrospective view, it was pretty simple. What was so great about it? It was great to have a patient like Tommy John, someone who understood what we were doing.” Not to mention a patient who worked his tail off to get back in pitching shape. As he was rehabilitating, John knew he couldn’t overthrow with this new ligament. So he started by throwing to his wife 30 feet away; he knew he wouldn’t whiz fastballs at her. Then he threw to his next-door neighbor. Then it was spring training, and he threw against a wall at Dodgertown, threw until he got tired. By All-Star break, his arm was starting to feel right again. And one hot summer evening in Pittsburgh, John decided to step it up a notch in a bullpen session, and he kept throwing and throwing, some 45 minutes. He felt good. The bullpen catcher told John his ball finally had some pop on it. That was when John knew this surgery was a success. “A lot of times we take baseball for granted,” John said. “That it’s always going to be there. I had it taken away from me. So if I got a chance to pitch again, I was not going to let it go without a fight.” Who knows what will come of the second chances for pitchers coming back from Tommy John surgery this season? But know one thing: It’ll take a heckuva run for any of these pitchers to beat the post-surgery accomplishments of this surgery’s namesake. Because after four decades, do you know who has the most wins for a pitcher who has undergone ulnar collateral reconstruction surgery? That record still belongs to Tommy John. Dotson’s Other Note: Although I never met Tommy John, I did get to watch him throw (pitch) in Chavez (Dodger Stadium) Ravine, back in the early 70’s, before he had the surgery. I did have the privilege of first meeting Dr. Jobe at a Sports Medicine Seminar in 1980. After that I saw and visited with him a number of times. He loved sports, particularly baseball.. Your comments, suggestions, questions and concerns regarding Sports Talk articles are greatly appreciated, please call the Benchwarmers at 361-560-5397 weekdays, Mondays thru Fridays, 5-7 PM, or contact me. Phone: 361949-7681 Cell: 530-748-8475 Email: dlewis1@ stx.rr.com

“I’m Through for Keeps” By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon It was Memorial Day, a Thursday, and May 30, 1935. The Baker Bowl, home of the Philadelphia Phillies, was packed with fans and the excitement of a doubleheader against the Boston Braves. There was also one other reason. A tall, overweight magician with a bat was taking his hacks in the batting cage before game time. At the age of 40, he was only hitting .183 and never seemed to look happy in a Boston Braves uniform, but batting average was not this fellow’s forte. The fans came to see him hit long and high, gargantuan home runs. That’s what made him different from the rest. He had started the 1935 season off with a bang by getting four hits in his first two games, including a home run. In fact, he was batting .400 after his first five games. Then it happened. He struggled with only two hits over the next month and was hitting .153 when he arrived in Pittsburgh with the team on May 25, 1935. That day would be an incredible day for the “Babe.” That’s right, George Herman Ruth, also called the “Sultan of Swat,” would go 4-for-4 with three monster home runs and six RBI’s. Just like in the movies, that would have been the day to retire; but he didn’t. Five days later, during batting practice in Philly, Ruth managed to get hold of several pitches which sailed far out into the daylight with homerun distance. He hit three balls so far out of the Baker Bowl over the right field fence, you could pick them up on your way home. Now, to be fair, the Baker Bowl was a small park by today’s standards, seating only 18,800. It had been built in 1887 in an urban area which only provided 280 feet down the right-field line and 300 feet to the right centerfield fence. In order to make it more challenging, a 60 foot high wall was built. Using the same thought process as Boston’s Fenway Park “Green Monster,” this wall became known as the “Baker Wall.” A large sign for the Lifebuoy Soap Company proclaiming “The Phillies use Lifebuoy,” hung on this wall. A story told by Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Joe Garagiola, tells that one day someone placed a smaller homemade sign on the same wall that said, “But the Phillies still stink.” The Phillies stopped using the Baker Bowl in 1938, but it survived another twelve years before being destroyed in 1950. Ruth had wanted to quit baseball earlier. He was tired, hurting and wanted to manage a ball club. The Braves had only won 9 out of 32 games and Ruth’s skills were fading fast. The Braves would finish with a 38-115 record, one of the worst in the history of Major League baseball. Not only did Ruth’s hitting stink, but his fielding was unacceptable. Ruth was supposed to be paid $35,000 for the year and promised a chance to manage the club in 1936, but owner Eddie Fuchs actually wanted Ruth to invest his salary in the team and had no intentions of promoting Ruth to manager. Fuchs was broke and had misled Ruth to increase attendance.

After that glorious day in Pittsburgh, Ruth never recorded another hit. Ruth struck out three times in Cincinnati before heading to Philadelphia. In what would be his final game, Ruth trotted to left field after hitting a weak grounder to first base in the first inning, for an out. With the bases loaded with Phillies, Lou Chiozza hit a soft liner to left. Ruth tried to make a shoestring catch, but failed. The ball rolled all the way to the wall. Three runs scored for the Phillies and, at the end of the first inning, Ruth tucked his glove into his back pocket and walked to the visitor’s clubhouse in centerfield. He was done. Ruth later told writer Bob Considine he had pulled a “charley horse” on the missed catch. The fans stood and applauded as he left the field. Only Ruth knew his time was over. Hal Lee

Babe Ruth replaced him in leftfield. Three days later, Ruth returned to Boston with the team. Before Ruth could meet with Fuchs to tell him “I’m through for keeps,” a reporter told the Babe he had been fired. And so, it was over. A baseball god in wool was through. Ruth never got to do the one thing he really wanted, to manage a baseball team. The question everyone asked was “How can Ruth manage a team when he can’t even manage himself?” Babe Ruth never played baseball again, but he will be remembered forever. Eddie Fuchs, a forgotten owner, lost control of the Braves when he was forced to sell the team to his partner, Charlie Adams, on July 31, 1935. In the world of baseball, Fuchs would never be heard from again. Andy Purvis is a local author and radio personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. com for all the latest info on his books or to listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books are available online and can be found in the local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be contacted at purvis.andy@mygrande.net. Also listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc.com 1230 AM, 96.1 FM and 103.3 FM. The home of the Houston Astros.

Some have called Tommy John surgery the biggest change in baseball since the development of the breaking ball. While that may be a stretch, the list of current major-league careers extended by the surgery is mind-boggling: Some 11 percent of active big league pitchers have undergone the surgery. In 2015 eleven major league pitchers and 2 major league catchers had the surgery.

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“It’s unreal, isn’t it?” Tommy John, now a 71-year-old grandfather of two living in New Jersey, recently told FOXSports.com. “It’s like when you go to Vegas, you’ve won $1,000 and you put the original money back in your pocket. Now you’re playing with their money. "That’s what I was doing in baseball. I was playing with the house’s money. I was doing what I had done my entire life, only this time I knew that it was the house’s money, and not my money.” Since then, the surgery has remained remarkably similar, except that what took Jobe

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