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The fifth annual ORIGINAL Texas Winter Market comes to the Aransas Pass Civic Center. The Civic Center is located at 700 W. Wheeler Ave. Aransas Pass, TX. Aransas Pass was chosen as the show site due to the great local shoppers and wonderful convention facility. It has also been said that a quality arts & crafts event would be most welcome in the area.

Vendors from around the state will show items such as candles, clothing, gourmet foods, jewelry, Texas handmade, art, gifts, handcrafted pottery, metal art, garden related gifts, and so much more.

Texas Winter Market I will be held on January 9-10, 2016 and show hours are 9-5 Saturday and 10-4 Sunday. This event is open to the public.

Admission to the show is $3.00; however, customers can save $1.00 on their admission by bringing a canned good or nonperishable food item (such as peanut butter, macaroni & cheese, rice, tuna, canned meats, etc.) as a donation to the food bank. Admission is good for all days and kids 12 and under are always free.

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Jake continued from A1

Jake loves the beach but he has an allergy that causes him to break out when he goes there and has to have three baths when he gets home so he doesn’t get to go as often as he might like.

Unlucky dog.

But Jake is a happy guy and likes to chase his rope so Dave and the neighbors fling the rope at the street sign in front of their house on Dasmarinas to see who can get it to hang up there; we Islanders will wager on anything. Jake loves the game because he plays Center Field and brings back the errant tosses – which are just about all of them according to Dave. Lucky Dog. But after a few years of this game Jake, like many jocks, who is now six started to wear down and blew out an ACL and had to have surgery on his leg and a metal plate was put in.

Unlucky dog.

Then two years ago Jake went off his feed and started losing weight. By the time Dave and Patti were able to figure out what was wrong Jake had lost 30% of his body weight and things weren’t looking good for Jake. But it just so happened that Dave and Patti’s neighbor knew a guy who knew a guy and Jake went off to San Antonio where they figured out what was wrong, a digestive problem, and before long Jake was back chasing his rope in the front yard.

Lucky dog.

Sciences school at Texas A&M, not to enroll just to get checked out, where the doctors knew something was terribly wrong but couldn’t be sure until they got tests results back which would take three to four days; but Jake was sinking fast and treatment couldn’t wait that long so the doctors there made an educated guess which turned out to be exactly right. Lucky dog.

In spite of not being able to find any sign of an open wound on him the doctors determined Jake had contacted a flesh eating bacteria which was in the process of killing him. They first thought they could save him by amputating his leg where the bacteria had started. But after seven separate surgeries they determined that the fast-moving bacteria had moved up his sciatic nerve and removing his leg wouldn’t stop the spread. Oh man, really unlucky dog.

But the good news was that the doctors had guessed right even before they got the test results back and the anti-biotics they had been giving him were working. Jake spent two weeks getting treatment at the university and now he is back on his Island playing with his rope with nothing to show for the wear and tear except a funny haircut.

“We thought about changing his name to Lucky,” Dave says.

The doctors still aren’t sure exactly how the bacteria found its way into Jake’s body; there were no cuts or abrasions, it could have come from him running through plants with sharp needles, or even from something as small as a sandbur.

“This disease in dogs is exceedingly rare,” Dr. Christi said. “This is the first case I can recall.”

No matter what, considering where Jake started and where he is today with Dave and Patti and living on The Island, you got to admit he’s one lucky dog.

Jake was back on his Island and a happy guy again until the Monday after Thanksgiving when once again he started losing weight. Pretty soon Jake couldn’t put weight on the same back leg where the plate was located but that didn’t seem to be the problem; plus he was losing weight again. It was a mystery and pretty soon things weren’t looking so good for Jake. Unlucky dog.

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All Combat Roles Now Open to Women, Part III

By Dotson Lewis

Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: For reasons unknown, last week’s article “Women In Combat Part II, began in mid-sentence. Here is the corrected first paragraph. The words which were omitted are underlined. Women are often great shooters but can’t run in 50-80 lbs of gear as long, hard, or fast as men. Military training is hard enough on men’s bodies; it’s harder on women’s. And until women stop menstruating, there will always be an uphill battle for staying level and strong at all times. No one wants to talk about the fact that in the days before a woman’s cycle, she loses half her strength, to say nothing of the emotional ups and downs that could affect judgment. And how would you like fighting through PMS symptoms while clearing a town or going through a firefight? Then there are the logistics of making all the accommodations for women in the field, from stopping the convoy to pee or because her cycle started, to stripping down to get hosed off after having to go into combat with full MOP gear when there’s a biological threat.

Changing Our Best Instincts: Protecting Women, Mothering Children

force with both physical and psychological scars.”

“We are dedicated to identifying and caring for those Soldiers who have sustained psychological and physical trauma associated with an Army engaged in a protracted war,” she said, adding that the war fighter does not stand alone.

Horoho commanded the Army Nurse Corps since 2008, when she received a rare two-grade promotion from colonel to major general. As Army surgeon general, she directs the thirdlargest healthcare system in the United States, behind the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Hospital Corporation of America.

The Army surgeon general’s impact extends far beyond the Army to the national and the international level, collaboration and partnership with other public and private entities on research, standards of practices, national leadership in areas such as brain injury, concussive disorders, mental health promotion and pain management.

It was reported that General Horoho earned this extremely important leadership position, not only because of her incredible past performance

We know that rape is a tool of torture for the already savage enemy we’re fighting. In one TV interview, a woman suggested that if women are willing to take that risk, we should let them. She also absurdly claimed that men are raped as much as women when captured, which is patently false. But the idea that men shouldn’t worry any more about women in battle goes against the very best primal male instinct. In every country from Canada to Israel where women are in combat (and in American units where women are in theater), the men will tell you they are more protective of the women.

It’s different from men’s protection of each other, and it distracts from mission completion.

The proWICs* would have men thwart this wonderful and thoroughly ingrained Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, the first nurse and first instinct. A world in which men don’t woman appointed, is sworn in as the Army’s surgeon feel a strong need to protect women general when they’re in the most dangerous and hostile of environments would and achievements, but more importantly her be a nightmare. These men would rightly be outstanding potential, as she will lead Medical called brutes.

Command and lead as the Army surgeon general, We’re also thwarting mothers’ nurturing her 28 years of experience and education will instincts. Women are already training to kill prove to be an inspiration for many others. and leaving their children to deploy, even “Army medicine,” Horoho said, “has a when they are the sole caregiver (turning care responsibility to all those who serve, to include over namely to grandparents). This sets a bad family members, and our retirees who have precedent and hurts children. There will always already answered the call to our nation. We be war and it’s bad enough for fathers to leave will fully engage our patients in all aspects of their children to fight necessarily; but to allow their healthcare experience at each touch point, mothers to choose this path over motherhood starting with the initial contact. We will make is bad for everyone. There are many noble the right care available at the right time by capacities in which women with children can demonstrating compassion to those we serve fight for this country, such as administrative and value to our stakeholders. The collective jobs stateside. We don’t need to deploy mothers healthcare experience is driven by a team to battle; we shouldn’t. of professionals partnering with the patient, focused on health, health promotion and disease The Career-Hungry prevention to enhance wellness.”

A small handful of high-ranking females One of Army medicine’s greatest challenges have instigated this policy change in order to advance their own careers. A female former over the next three to five years, she said, is Captain complains about women not being able managing the escalating cost of providing to be promoted to certain ranks, she claims that world-class healthcare in a fiscally constrained women aren’t getting proper recognition for environment. action in combat, and claims that it’s harder While deployed to Afghanistan, Horoho for them to get combat-injury-related benefits remembered asking a young medic how he from the VA. Regarding the latter, we know would describe Army medicine. “He replied, females are receiving combat-injury-related ‘We carry healthcare on our backs.’ Today there benefits; so if there are some who are not are young men and women willing to put their receiving them but should, the bureaucratic, lives on the line to protect the freedoms we inefficient, fraud-riddled VA should be enjoy as Americans. Thank God we have young confronted. Administrative changes could medics who are carrying innovative quality and certainly be considered to take care of veterans precision healthcare on their backs, regardless as we should – regardless of sex – for injuries of risk to personal safety. This is our privilege. sustained in battle thus far. As for recognition This is our honor, and this is why Army of action, this is also a bureaucratic aspect that medicine will face all challenges with strength, can be addressed through the chain of command resolve and dedicated focus,” she said. without changing the policies on women in She was among 15 nurses selected Sept. 14, combat units. And finally, as to rank, cry us a river. The military is about preparing for and 2002, by the American Red Cross and Nursing executing war, not advancing your career at the Spectrum to receive national recognition as a “Nurse Hero.” In 2007, she was honored as cost of readiness for war. a University of Pittsburgh Legacy Laureate.

The careerists are also on the hook for the In April 2009, she was selected as the USO’s double standard that we currently have for the “Woman of the Year,” and in May 2009, she sexes, which inherently lowers the standards became an affiliate faculty with Pacific Lutheran overall. Even if one standard is imposed, it’s University School of Nursing, Tacoma, Wash. likely it will be an overall lower standard. As Most recently, she was deployed to Afghanistan the Center for Military Readiness points out, “The same advocates who demand ‘equal as a special assistant to the commander of opportunities’ in combat are the first to demand International Security Assistance Force Joint unequal, gender-normed standards to make it Command. A member of the Joint Chiefs of ‘fair.’” Enormous pressure from Washington Staff says “She has incredible, impeccable is already on the military brass to fill quotas credentials.” “With Soldiers deployed, taking of race and sex; and the higher they get, the care of families, taking care of wounded more politically motivated the brass’ decisions. warriors -- exactly the kind of leader we want to Whereas imposing one higher standard would be our surgeon general,” he added. in fact result in fewer women serving in these Dotson’s Other Note: You make be thinking roles, the political pressure to prove diversity why did he include the Patricia Horoho in the will result in more unqualified women (and Women Combat article? If by this time you men) attaining positions for which men are don’t know where I stand regarding women more qualified. But go against the diversity in combat, here it is: Under no circumstances status quo dictated by Washington, and you can would I ever put a woman in”harm’s way.” But kiss your rank and career goodbye. The purges that being said, I believe that there are many have already begun. direct support duties that women can and will, The word “discriminate” has several willingly perform. One of the most critical is that meanings, including “to distinguish particular of General Horoho and those in her command. features, to be discerning; showing insight They were, and are, fantastic. I will never forget and understanding.”

We should absolutely the support and assistance we received in Korea be discriminating in our criteria for war from the “MASH” outfits. Unfortunately, in preparation, and the lives of our men in uniform some instances there were “put in harm’s way” depend on us taking an honest, discerning look and were combat casualties. Please call or Email at who adds to military readiness and who me with your opinion regarding the foregoing. detracts from it. We should absolutely not It’s great to hear that you read, and disagree open the combat units to the myriad problems or agree with what I write; thank you for your we face already with women deploying to the comments. Please call or Email. Phone: 361949-7681; Email: dlewis1@stx.rr.com theatre of war.

As a reminder, our next Veterans Roundtable Patricia Horoho Takes Oath As First Meetings will be Tuesday, January 12, 9-11 Nurse, Female Surgeon General AM, in Room 126, Del Mar College, Center For After her swearing in General Horoho said Economic Development, 3209 S. Staples. All “Over the past decade, Army medicine has Veterans, their families and anyone interested led the joint health effort in the most austere in Veterans affairs, are invited. Refreshments environments. As part of the most decisive and (Coffee/Donuts) are served…Hope to see you capable land force in the world, we stand ready there. to adapt. A decade of this war has left a fighting

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December 30, 2015

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Port Aransas Community Pool, 700 Clark Pkwy 361749-2416. Pool is heated and is closed on Mondays. Weather permitting, it is open all other days. Call 361-749-2416 to make sure it is open.

Open Swim: Tuesday through Sunday …1-5 pm.

Lap Swim/Exercise: Tuesday through Friday…8 am to 5 pm; Saturday and Sunday…Noon to 5 pm.

Water Aerobics: Tuesday through Friday…12 noon.

Deep Water Aerobics: Wednesday and Friday…11 am.

Home-school & parent water exercise: Wednesday…1 pm.

Total Body Aquacize: Tuesday and Thursday at 8:30 am and Saturday at 12 pm with AAAI Water Aerobics instructor Sally Jo Bartlett.

Home school classes are regular admittance price. All other water fitness classes are $2 per class.

No Water Aerobics will be held Friday, Dec. 18, and pool will be closed from 11:45am to 1:15pm. A Deep Water class will be held at 1:30pm that day only.

Closed New Year’s Day, Jan. 1.

Interval Training - Offered 7 am, noon & 5:15 pm on Mondays, Wednesday and at 7 am & noon on Fridays. Call certified instructor Karen Decker for place 361-9032-0901. High Intensity Training in short spurts for all ages/ levels. Work at own pace. $3 a class or $30 for 15 classes. Cash or check to COPA. For men & women. Bring mat & water. No classes Friday, Dec. 25 or Friday, Jan. 1.

Chair Yoga - Perfect for any men or women--any age or shape.

Great for beginners and seasoned yogis. Held in the Girl Scout hut, 10 am, Thursdays, by certified instructor Brittany Young. $2 per class paid to the City of Port Aransas [COPA]. Bring mat & water.

Breakfast with Santa - Saturday, Dec. 19, 9-10:30am. Free meal & Santa will be on hand for kids to talk to and for photos.

Sponsored by Parks & Recreation. It will be held at the Port Aransas Civic Center, 710 W. Avenue A.

28th Annual Port Aransas Tour of Homes The Port Aransas Garden Club will host its 28th annual Port Aransas Tour of Homes on Mustang Island Saturday January 30, 2016. The tour originates from the Port Aransas Community Center at 408 N. Alister Street Port Aransas.

Noon Year’s Eve Party – Wednesday, Dec. 31, 11:30 am, at Roberts Point Park Pavilion. Count down & toast New Year at noon. Music, free non-alcoholic drinks and cookies provided or bring your own. For those who don’t want to wait until midnight to countdown and those who want to do it twice!

Winter Walking Tours – Mission-Aransas Reserve partners with Parks & Rec for 1-hour, 2-mile nature walks. Meet at the pavilion in Nature Preserve at Charlie’s Pasture, at the end of Port Street. Tours have been changed to Fridays at 3pm beginning Jan. 8. Bring binoculars, camera & water. Wear walking shoes, sunscreen & mosquito spray.

The changes will mean that Bird Island Basin Campground fees will now be $5.00 per night. Camping fees can be paid at either the entrance station or through a new self-registration system located at the Bird Island campground. The system includes an upgrade to allow credit card use for paying camping fees. Users possessing an Interagency Senior Pass, or an Interagency Access pass for the permanently disabled, will be able to camp for half price ($2.50 per night).

Morning bus tours will be available for $25.00 per/person at 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM. There will be five homes on the bus tour. Your bus ticket also permits you to view those homes not included in the morning tour during the afternoon self-guided tours. Self-guided tours are offered between 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM. The self-guided ticket is $20.00 p/p and tour maps will be provided at the Community Center for all tours. Bus tours and self-guided tickets can be purchased at Susan Castor Collection, 1908 Hwy 361 and Gratitude, 316 N. Station Street after December 15. Tickets can be purchased via our website www.

PortAransasGardenClub.org using PayPal or on tour day at the Port Aransas Community Center. Bus tour tickets are limited to 90 per each tour, self-guided are unlimited. For ticket and other information call the PAGC ticket hotline 361-945-7306 or email portagardenclub@hotmail.com. Follow us at our website www.

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An “iron ranger” fee storage box has been installed in the campground for depositing the self-registration envelope during the camping registration process. This will provide a secure method of fee collection for camper use.

The fee for the boat ramp will not change. Boat ramp users will continue to pay the park entrance fee and purchase the boat launch pass at the entrance station. After paying the entrance fee of their choice (i.e. weekly or annual), ramp users may purchase either a $5.00 per day launch pass or an annual pass for $10.00.

Users possessing an Interagency Senior Pass or an Interagency Access pass for the permanently disabled will be able to launch for half price. ($2.50 per night or $5.00 per year) Visitors such as wind surfers, birders, kayakers and people fishing during the day, but not staying overnight in a campsite, will no longer need to purchase a Bird Island Basin Pass. The regular entrance fee for Padre Island National Seashore will now include the previously charged day use fee for the area.

Tickets, refreshments, raffle and silent auction items will be available at the Community Center during tour hours with doors opening at 8:30 AM. Port Aransas Garden Club is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 1964 to encourage interest in beautification of the city.

Proceeds from Club activities are used for landscaping, various civic projects in Port Aransas and scholarships for Port Aransas High School seniors

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Port A RPG Game Night - For 16 and older, high school and college gamers may play Pathfinder, Star Wars RPG and Mutants and Masterminds in a controlled environment. Every Friday and Saturday (not Christmas), 4:30 pm, in the Girl Scout hut inside Parks and Recreation building, 739 W. Ave. A. No charge to attend, but food is usually ordered if gamers want to eat while playing.

Birding on the Boardwalk – Guided birding tour for anyone, novice to expert, with local guide Nan Dietert at Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center at end of Ross Ave. Every Wednesday at 9 am. FREE!

Visitors to the norther portion of Padre Island National Seashore will get a break starting January 1.

This year’s tour features a diverse collection of nine homes as Port Aransas continues to grow in varied directions. From gated communities to architecture forward homes to beach properties to cottages to condos you will visit homes showing off island living at its best with remodeled and new construction exemplifying life at the beach

Candlelight Yoga…Relax & restore doing easy Hatha Yoga with certified instructor Lianne Thomas, at 7 pm, Wednesday, Dec. 30, at the Community Center, 408 N. Alister for.

Perfect for those who never tried as well as experienced yogi. $2. Cash or check made out to COPA. Open to men and women.

Bring mat & water.

Fees at Padre Island National Seashore Changing January 1

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By Ronnie Narmour ronnienarmour@gmail.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR… This is it folks, my last music column of 2015. To be exact, it’s the 266th one I’ve written since June of 2009 and, I might brag, without missing a single deadline. I can see my pal, Chris Jordan’s eyes rolling completely back in his head right now, “So what do you want, a medal?” Naw…. I’ll just keep plugging away here as long as they’ll have me. It’s time to thank my sponsors who have stayed with me month to month and year to year… Kip Shannon over at the Gaff and Glenn Martin (and previously Susan Powell) at the Back Porch have been with me since day one. JB Atkinson at Paradise Computer isn’t far behind. Not to mention Bron Doyle at Bron’s Beach Carts, Edwin and Amy Myers at Shorty’s and Giggity’s, Captain Billy Gaskins at the Island Queen, Jeff Miller at Keepers and Ashley Richards at the Drop Anchor…

THANK YOU!!! You guys keep me going and make it possible for all this magic to happen (Again, Chris is rolling his eyes.) But I mean it.

These fine people are pillars of our community and provide us with great services and venues for great entertainment. I hope you will frequent their fine establishments and take advantage of their superior services.

Kip and the boys get judgemental at the Gaff’s annual Black Eyed Pea-off pals, Preecher Williams and Billy Snipes, and we headed across the ditch. When we got there, I had a hard time figuring out what the place was. It was in the location that was previously home to the Rockin’ B Steak House across the street from the Rialto Theater on Commercial Street. When I walked in, the first thing I saw were like three dozen old accordions on one wall and dozens of vintage instruments: guitars, horns, basses, lap steels, violins and amps

Steve Earle with Chris Masterson on guitar played the House of Rock on May 10th.

Keep ‘em coming…

I saw many, many bands this year. Since it seems to be journalistically relevant to evaluate each year come the end of December, I’ll bite.

My favorite shows for 2015 were Shinyribs at the Back Porch, Steve Earle at the House of Rock, Joe Ely at the Black Marlin, The Dirty River Boys at Brewster Street, Uncle Lucius at the Back Porch, Roxy Roca at the Back Porch, The Uranium Savages at Shorty’s, The Rosellys at Giggity’s and Joe King Carrasco at Giggity’s. This isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy many of the local and regional shows all year, too.

Mike Milligan will play Giggity’s on New Year’s Eve. DO NOT MISS LIST

I don’t know what this place is…

New Year’s Eve…

That Captain with Blake Plsek, Matthew Beard, Marc Borde and Brent Wideman Kit Guterz and Tony Saracene with Bill Averach looking on, at the Music Emporium in Aransas Pass. Photo by Mitzi Webb.

(etc)… absolutely everywhere. It was a classic “shotgun” building (long and narrow) and there was a stage in the back and a bar in the front.

It still had the big commercial kitchen in the I was invited to a post-Christmas party in back from when it was a restaurant. It was like Aransas Pass this weekend by two friends of a museum or a very cool vintage music store in mine, Tony Saracene and Kit Guterz. In case New York… but it wasn’t. I asked Kip and Tony you don’t know these fellows, Kit has been a what the place was and they weren’t exactly sure fixture on the island for many years and played either. Evidently, it’s a work in progress where his array of instruments (tuba, accordion, fiddle, they can display their impressive collection of trombone, etc) at the Crazy Cajun for decades cool, old music equipment and instruments and and Tony is one of the finest slide guitarists record some music along the way. There were around. I loaded up the truck with a couple of my some of our local musicians and songwriters on hand, such as Tyler McCumber, Dan Brodhag, Bobby McDonough, Jamie Smith, George Hermes, Bill Averbach, Dave Ward, Jack Gant, Ray Summy and a lady named Michelle from New Jersey who played classical viola. It was a nice party. Mitzi Webb was there to provide the hostess/photographer duties.

We ate and pulled instruments off the walls and admired them.

Some of the guys traded a song or two. I think it’s OK that they don’t know what the place is yet. When they figure it out, it will be obvious to everyone.

But for now, it’s the Music Emporium and it’s a cool place Christmas party at the Music Emporium in Aransas Pass. to hang out.

Photo by Mitzi Webb.

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Uncle Lucius played an excellent show at the Back Porch on April 20th.

Clearly, Matt Hole, Ty Dietz, Ruben Limas, Picklefish, Duke E. Brown, Flatbroke, Lyrical Binge, Mike Milligan, Todd Dorn, That Captain, W.C. Clark, Aloha Dave, Selfie, Cruise Control, Scarecrow People and on and on, repeatedly put on great shows whenever and wherever they play and are true dedicated warriors hammering it out in the trenches, week after week. I salute them, one and all. It really has been another lively year of music on the Gulf Coast. I’m sure 2016 won’t disappoint us either.

Wednesday, December 30 Stevie Start @ Giggity’s Mike Ryan, Aaron Einhouse @ Brewster Street Scarecrow People, Arcade Hustlers @ House of Rock Thursday, NEW YEAR’S EVE Mike Milligan & Texiana Blues @ Giggity’s Something Silky @ Rockits Sing Along Piano Bar @ Brewster Street TIMELINE (Journey Tribute Band) @ Katz 21 Any Color You Like, Rated R, Modern Day Warrior @ House of Rock Friday, January 1 Flatbroke @ Giggity’s BLACK EYE PEA OFF, Billy Snipes @ The Gaff Ty Dietz & Tony Saracene @ Shorty’s Spazmatics @ Brewster Street

Sunday, January 3 Antone & the All Stars @ Giggity’s Monday, January 4 Open Jam w/ Selfie @ Giggity’s

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OK. It’s New Year’s so you get my “Don’t Drive Drunk” lecture. This year, I’ll be hopelessly sober so just call me and I’ll run you home. Or I’ll send a taxi. No problem. Call me. I don’t mind. The big show on Friday is at Giggity’s with Mike Milligan and Texiana Blues (Austin, TX). This band is perfect. Great to dance to. Lot’s of high energy blues. They’ll have a free champagne toast at midnight and enough party hats and noise makers to kill a normal man. Plus there’s no cover. Shorty’s doesn’t have a band going on New Year’s Eve. Over at the Gaff, owner Kip Shannon has told me in the past that he thinks NYE is for amateurs but New Year’s DAY is another story.

Join them for their 8th annual BLACK EYED PEA OFF. All entries are due no later than 4:00 and all proceeds go to the ARK. Shorty’s will have Ty Dietz and Tony Saracene on the 1st and Flatbroke will be at Giggity’s. HAPPY NEW YEAR’S EVERYBODY! Be safe out there. See you on the other side. Thanks for supporting live music.

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