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The voice of The Island since 1996 December 20, 2018 FREE Weekly Issue 766 The Island Moon Around The Island By Dale Rankin Inside the Moon www.islandmoon.com Island Christmas A2 A little Island history PIBA Mixer A4 Bunko Gals A18 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W A Flood of New Oyster Regulations Photo by Debbie Noble Seashore Happenings A11 Priorities cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 Th deadline for Display Advertising for our December 27th issue is December 21st at 5 p.m. The yips and wales of Island coyotes under the waxing moon have been the soundtrack of our little sandbar this week especially on the south end and around the spoil islands. For reasons known only to them the canis latrans population has been restless and noisy on the clear and calm nights of late. The funny thing is that when you hear the coyotes howl you can never be sure if it’s one coyote or a whole pack of them. Their song just seems to blend. There have been two sightings of late of the mythical albino coyote who is said to live on a spoil island with a snaggle-tailed companion whose tail was nipped to the point of barely being there as he was culled from the pack and the two refugees formed their own coyote pack on their little island sort of like Lord of the Flies… only coyotes. Coyotes held a special place in the lore of the indigenous people of the American Southwest and albino coyotes even more so. If anyone can produce a photo of the albino coyote we will gladly give you a free copy of the Island Moon. But whatever you do don’t shoot the albino coyote or the ghost of old Isatai’I the Comanche medicine man is apt to come aconjuring up out of the skinny water and nobody needs that. We had a report of a coyote snatching a dog in Port A this week while it was being walked by its humans. If you are out there walking the dog around dusk keep a sharp eye out as there have been sightings all over The Island this week. When the air clears and the humidity lets up like the last couple of nights we can see all the way across the Laguna to the red lights lined up on top of the wind turbines that define the far shore all the way down along the King Ranch. Their arrival there a decade ago caused a kerfuffle that has long since died away and now their long line of red lights are part of the scenery. When the winds let up early this week the calm and cool nights remind us all why we live here on our little island. The flickering of the Christmas lights on the calm water are the icing on the Island cake. New name for the CVB Paulette Kluge the CEO of the Corpus Christi Convention and Visitors Bureau announced at the PIBA lunch on The Island last week that the organization will now be re- named Visit Corpus Christi. It is a trend that many like organizations are following around the country. Typo of the Week Last week during the magic of the editing process our front page photo of Marines at La Posada Toys for Tots somehow got reversed which put their ribbons and medals on the wrong side of their chests. The last thing we want to do is insult our Marine friends who are out here helping us collect toys for kids. So the photo you see here is the way things are supposed to look. Suffice to say it is a mistake we will never make again (we hope) and we apologize for the mistake and hope to do better. Oyster rings are an inovative way of combining shoreline preservation and oyster production. State Representive Todd Hunter this week said that reviving the once thriving oyster industry on the Texas Gulf Coast is on his to-do list for the upcoming legislative session. So this week we take a look back at the oyster industry in the area over the years. Based on the shells found at some Karankawan campsites found on The Island it is likely they discovered the joys of oyster eating before Europeans arrived. But that said it didn’t take long after Texas statehood for the oyster industry to develop. The Texas Almanac tells us that in 1880 the only oyster shippers in the state were located in Galveston Bay and they were small operations. But the advent of the San Antonio & Aransas Pass railway into Corpus Christi and another at All Lit Up For Christmas Each year, the Mazoch family boasts one of the most impressively decorated homes on the Island. Photo by Debbie Noble Impact of Texas Legislative Session on the Coastal Bend Representative Hunter sets priorities By Dale Rankin The 86 th Texas Legislature convenes in Austin next month and District 32 State Representative Todd Hunter this week announced the issue he intends to push for the Coastal Bend. The session, by law, will run 140 days, but as Hunter pointed out this week, it is forbidden to take any votes for the first sixty days. “So that last of the horse drawn wagon trains can get to the state capitol,” Hunter said. Further it takes eighty days for the legislature to act on a particular piece of legislation, that leaves just 50 days to get things done. “It’s a crazy system,” Hunter said. “And many of my fellow members don’t even know those are the rules.” So as Hunter rolls into his tenth two- year term in January he has learned it is best to go in focused and with a short but set list of things he want to get done. During a legislative preview of the coming session this week he said that due to the recent election cycle the House is going through the first major changes in the body in ten years as Democrats picked up twelve seats and Republicans now hold 83 seats to Democrats’ 67. With that in mind here is the list of issues Hunter has in his sights. Education reform – Reworking the state’s education funding system has been a constant theme in the Texas Legislature for two decades as legislators try to strike a funding balance between more and less affluent districts. At the center of the debate is the so-called Robin Hood funding plan, so named because it requires districts with higher property values to subsidize districts with lower property values in an effort to equal out funding per student numbers. Passed in 1993 as a result of an earlier lawsuit in San Antonio challenging the funding system across the state, the Robin Hood plan, if nothing else, has been a full-employment act for attorneys as the lawsuits have been constant and currently there are lawsuits pending from districts on both sides of the divide. In a presentation this week outlining his plans for the upcoming session Hunter placed particular focus on the plight of the Port Aransas Independent School District which after Hurricane Harvey found itself under the Robin Hood plan still having put pay out about three-quarters of the property tax revenue it collected to other districts, even as the value of property in the city plummeted due to damage to hurricane damage. “We want to look at taxation and I’m all in,” Hunter said. “But you don’t get property tax relief without school reform.” In the past two years state money for Texas schools has been slashed by $5.4 billion with the tax burden for schools shifting from the state to local districts who are using local property taxes to fill the gap. In its preliminary budget request ahead of the upcoming session, the Texas Education Agency projected a drop in the state’s general revenue for public education by more than $3.5 billion over the next two years, in part because the revenue from local property taxes is expected to skyrocket. Hunter said that Governor Greg Abbott has put this issue high on his list for the session. Tax Reform – Some version of tax reform at the local level will likely make it to a house floor vote in the coming session. Abbott has already unveiled a plan to limit annual local governments’ property tax revenue growth to 2.5 percent per year. To increase revenue beyond that, governments would need approval from two-thirds of voters. Currently local governmental entities, from cities, to counties, to school districts, can raise property taxes up to eight By the numbers 86th Texas Legislature January 8, 2019 Tuesday, First day of 86th Legislature May 27, 2019 Monday, Last day of 86th Legislature (sine die) 140 Maximum number of calendar days for regular session. The Texas Legislature meets in regular session on the second Tuesday in January of each odd-numbered year. 31 members of the Senate 150-members of the House of Representatives 83 Republicans in House 67 Democrats in House 12 House seats switched from Republican to Democrat in November 2018 election mostly in the Texas House in the Dallas, Houston and Austin areas. $216.8 Billion Texas state government will spend over the next two years. $7,178 Amount spent for every Texas resident. Source: U.S. Census Bureau $106.7 billion General Revenue Spending $59.9 Billion Public Education $20.5 billion Higher Education $62.4 billion Medicaid $26.6 billion Transportation $5.2 billion Teacher Retirement System $4 billion Behavioral Health $.0.8 billion border security Source: Legislative Budget Board $600 Legislators paid per month $7200 Legislators paid per year $190 per diem for legislators $33,800 total compensation for regular session $41,000 total pay for two-year term 8 years of service qualifies an legislator for pension starting at age 60 Islander of the Week The Busiest Man on the Island Our friend Gus in the busiest man on The Island this week as he plays Santa Clause with late arriving packages. Gus has been delivering on The Island for years but during the Christmas rush he needs elves so UPS ships in helpers. Gus is a favorite of Island dogs because they know he keeps his pockets full of dog treats. For sliding down Island chimneys and keeping Island dogs happy Gus is our Islander of the Week! Around cont. on A4

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Page 1: Island Christmas A2 PIBA Mixer A4 Bunko Gals A18 …islandmoon.com/assets/766.pdfSeashell Santa Parade photos by by Debbie Noble Photo by Mary Craft December 20, 2018 Island Moon A

FreeFree

The voice of The Island since 1996

December 20, 2018FREEWeekly

Issue 766 The

IslandMoon

Around The Island

By Dale Rankin

Inside the Moon

www.islandmoon.com

Island Christmas A2

A little Island history

PIBA Mixer A4 Bunko Gals A18

27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W

A Flood of New Oyster Regulations

Photo by Debbie Noble

Seashore Happenings A11

Priorities cont. on A4

History cont. on A4

Th deadline for Display Advertising for our

December 27th issue is December 21st at 5 p.m.

The yips and wales of Island coyotes under the waxing moon have been the soundtrack of our little sandbar this week especially on the south end and around the spoil islands. For reasons known only to them the canis latrans population has been restless and noisy on the clear and calm nights of late. The funny thing is that when you hear the coyotes howl you can never be sure if it’s one coyote or a whole pack of them. Their song just seems to blend.

There have been two sightings of late of the mythical albino coyote who is said to live on a spoil island with a snaggle-tailed companion whose tail was nipped to the point of barely being there as he was culled from the pack and the two refugees formed their own coyote pack on their little island sort of like Lord of the Flies…only coyotes. Coyotes held a special place in the lore of the indigenous people of the American Southwest and albino coyotes even more so. If anyone can produce a photo of the albino coyote we will gladly give you a free copy of the Island Moon. But whatever you do don’t shoot the albino coyote or the ghost of old Isatai’I the Comanche medicine man is apt to come aconjuring up out of the skinny water and nobody needs that. We had a report of a coyote snatching a dog in Port A this week while it was being walked by its humans. If you are out there walking the dog around dusk keep a sharp eye out as there have been sightings all over The Island this week.

When the air clears and the humidity lets up like the last couple of nights we can see all the way across the Laguna to the red lights lined up on top of the wind turbines that define the far shore all the way down along the King Ranch. Their arrival there a decade ago caused a kerfuffle that has long since died away and now their long line of red lights are part of the scenery. When the winds let up early this week the calm and cool nights remind us all why we live here on our little island. The flickering of the Christmas lights on the calm water are the icing on the Island cake.

New name for the CVB

Paulette Kluge the CEO of the Corpus Christi Convention and Visitors Bureau announced at the PIBA lunch on The Island last week that the organization will now be re-named Visit Corpus Christi. It is a trend that many like organizations are following around the country.

Typo of the Week

Last week during the magic of the editing process our front page photo of Marines at La Posada Toys for Tots somehow got reversed which put their ribbons and medals on the wrong side of their chests. The last thing we want to do is insult our Marine friends who are out here helping us collect toys for kids. So the photo you see here is the way things are supposed to look. Suffice to say it is a mistake we will never make again (we hope) and we apologize for the mistake and hope to do better.

Oyster rings are an inovative way of combining shoreline preservation and oyster production.

State Representive Todd Hunter this week said that reviving the once thriving oyster industry on the Texas Gulf Coast is on his to-do list for the upcoming legislative session. So this week we take a look back at the oyster industry in the area over the years.

Based on the shells found at some Karankawan campsites found on The Island it is likely they discovered the joys of oyster eating before Europeans arrived. But that said it didn’t take long after Texas statehood for the oyster industry to develop. The Texas Almanac tells us that in 1880 the only oyster shippers in the state were located in Galveston Bay and they were small operations. But the advent of the San Antonio & Aransas Pass railway into Corpus Christi and another at

All Lit Up For ChristmasEach year, the Mazoch family boasts one of the most impressively decorated homes on the Island.

Photo by Debbie Noble

Impact of Texas Legislative Session on the Coastal Bend

Representative Hunter sets prioritiesBy Dale Rankin

The 86th Texas Legislature convenes in Austin next month and District 32 State Representative Todd Hunter this week announced the issue he intends to push for the Coastal Bend.

The session, by law, will run 140 days, but as Hunter pointed out this week, it is forbidden to take any votes for the first sixty days.

“So that last of the horse drawn wagon trains can get to the state capitol,” Hunter said.

Further it takes eighty days for the legislature to act on a particular piece of legislation, that leaves just 50 days to get things done. “It’s a crazy system,” Hunter said. “And many of my fellow members don’t even know those are the rules.”

So as Hunter rolls into his tenth two-year term in January he has learned it is best to go in focused and with a short but set list of things he want to get done. During a legislative preview of the coming session this week he said that due to the recent election cycle the House is going through the first major changes in the body in ten years as Democrats picked up twelve seats and Republicans now hold 83 seats to Democrats’ 67.

With that in mind here is the list of issues Hunter has in his sights.

Education reform – Reworking the state’s education funding system has been a constant theme in the Texas Legislature for two decades as legislators try to strike a funding balance between more and less affluent districts. At the center of the debate is the so-called Robin Hood funding plan, so named because it requires districts with higher property values to subsidize districts with lower property values in an effort to equal out funding per student numbers. Passed in 1993 as a result of an earlier lawsuit in San Antonio challenging the funding system across the state, the Robin Hood plan, if nothing else, has been a full-employment act for attorneys as the lawsuits have been constant and currently there are lawsuits pending from districts on both sides of the divide.

In a presentation this week outlining his plans for the upcoming session Hunter placed particular focus on the plight of the Port Aransas Independent School District which after Hurricane Harvey found itself under the Robin Hood plan still having put pay out about three-quarters of the property tax revenue it collected to other districts, even as the value of property in the city plummeted due to damage to hurricane damage.

“We want to look at taxation and I’m all in,” Hunter said. “But you don’t get property tax relief without school reform.”

In the past two years state money for Texas schools has been slashed by $5.4 billion with the tax burden for schools shifting from the state to local districts who are using local property taxes to fill the gap. In its preliminary budget request ahead of the upcoming session, the Texas Education Agency projected a drop in the state’s general revenue for public education by more than $3.5 billion over the next two years, in part because the revenue from local property taxes is expected to skyrocket. Hunter said that Governor Greg Abbott has put this issue high on his list for the session.

Tax Reform – Some version of tax reform at the local level will likely make it to a house floor vote in the coming session. Abbott has already unveiled a plan to limit annual local governments’ property tax revenue growth to 2.5 percent per year. To increase revenue beyond that, governments would need approval from two-thirds of voters. Currently local governmental entities, from cities, to counties, to school districts, can raise property taxes up to eight

By the numbers

86th Texas Legislature

January 8, 2019 Tuesday, First day of 86th Legislature

May 27, 2019 Monday, Last day of 86th Legislature (sine die)

140 Maximum number of calendar days for regular session. The Texas Legislature meets in regular session on the second Tuesday in January of each odd-numbered year.

31 members of the Senate

150-members of the House of Representatives

83 Republicans in House

67 Democrats in House

12 House seats switched from Republican to Democrat in November 2018 election mostly in the Texas House in the Dallas, Houston and Austin areas.

$216.8 Billion Texas state government will spend over the next two years.

$7,178 Amount spent for every Texas resident. Source: U.S. Census Bureau

$106.7 billion General Revenue Spending

$59.9 Billion Public Education

$20.5 billion Higher Education

$62.4 billion Medicaid

$26.6 billion Transportation

$5.2 billion Teacher Retirement System $4 billion Behavioral Health

$.0.8 billion border security Source: Legislative Budget Board

$600 Legislators paid per month

$7200 Legislators paid per year

$190 per diem for legislators

$33,800 total compensation for regular session

$41,000 total pay for two-year term

8 years of service qualifies an legislator for pension starting at age 60

Islander of the Week

The Busiest Man on the

Island

Our friend Gus in the busiest man on The Island this week

as he plays Santa Clause with late arriving packages. Gus has been delivering on The

Island for years but during the Christmas rush he needs elves so UPS ships in helpers. Gus is a favorite of Island dogs

because they know he keeps his pockets full of dog treats. For sliding down Island

chimneys and keeping Island dogs happy Gus is our Islander

of the Week!

Around cont. on A4

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December 20, 2018 Island Moon A 2

NEW CONSTRUCTION• 4 bedrooms• Beautiful kitchen• 2,128 sf• Come see!14842 Aquarius $315,000

Christmas: Island Style

Courtney and Jeremy doing Christmas Island style.

Franny Flynn made this Christmas ornament.

Pace and Nathan and their sand snowman.

Port A ChristmasSeashell Santa

Parade photos by by Debbie Noble

Photo by Mary Craft

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Moon MonkeysMike Ellis, Founder

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Contributing Writers

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Photographers

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Publisher

Dale RankinAbout the Island Moon

The Island Moon is published every Thursday, Dale Rankin, Editor / Publisher.

Total circulation is 10,000 copies. Distribution includes delivery to 4,000 Island homes, free distribution of 3,000

copies in over 50 Padre Island businesses and condos, as well as 600 copies distributed in Flour Bluff, 1,400 copies on Mustang Island and Port Aransas businesses.

News articles, photos, display ads, classified ads,

payments, etc. may be left at the Moon Office.

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And all Moon retail advertisers

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Letters to the Editor

Thank YouAs 2018 draws to a close, I would like to

thank each of our devoted volunteers, donors, members, partners, teachers, students, visitors and art patrons. It has been a whirlwind of a year! The Port Aransas Art Center underwent quite a few changes this year. We began establishing a professional development program, we launched a new website, instituted a new monthly e-newsletter, created new social media channels, and we welcomed new program partners. Thanks to everyone for their support, and for our success this year!

The year came to a dramatic conclusion with a new logo and "look." Created as an in-kind donation to the Art Center as part of the Hurricane Harvey recovery effort, a Texas A&M University Corpus Christi class from the Graphic Design + Visual Communications program spearheaded the project, which began on September 4. Final designs were unveiled during our November 28 Board meeting. We are so grateful to Texas A&M University for

this generous donation. To read more, follow this link to our website and a slideshow.

One of the Art Center's strong suits is providing top notch educational programming for adults and youth. If you visit our website, see the calendar of upcoming workshops. We look forward to welcoming the likes of Stephen Fisher, Judith DeShong Hall, Anna Lisa Leal, Lee Ricks, Kelly Schaub, Dee Teller and Michael Windberg for in-depth educational programs in the New Year.

Thanks again to everyone for making 2018 one of the best ever for the Port Aransas Art Center. Please accept my sincere wishes for a happy holiday and we look forward to seeing you in 2019!

Karen Winship Ridout

President, Board of Directors

Thank God It's Padre Editor’s note: This letter was written to Jim

Lago’s radio show after Islander Stevie was a guest on Monday.

Thank you for introducing us to Thank God It’s Padre

The song reflects our feelings exactly! We love the story of just how Stevie Start came here and how the song was written. We love the song and are waiting patiently for someone to make and sell TGIP T-shirt’s. I want a dozen!

Thank you!!!

Linda Sharlow, Padre Islander

Mea CulpaLots of folks wrote in this week about the

photo below (which was featured on our front page) being displayed in reverse. My fault. I thought the guys looked better the other way. Admittedly, I was looking at the men, not the medals. I sincerely apologize to anyone I may of offended, and assure you it was a pure oversight on my part.

Sincerly,

Your humblest of Graphic Designers

Abigail Bair

Did Ya Hear?

Business BriefsThe Mexican pottery for sale weekends at Island Mail Plus will be there for the last time this Saturday 9 am – 5 pm. They are selling everything including truck and trailer.

Island Italian now has happy hour 3 – 6 pm with exclusive appetizer for $5.99 that include cheese curds, chicken strips, shrimp cocktail, cheese ravioli and fried mushrooms. Draft beers are $3 and house wine $4. The South Texas Grassroots Band will be back Wednesday, January 2nd 7 – 9:30 pm.

Scuttlebutt’s is having a New Year’s Eve – Lighting of the Shark Party with live music, $1 jello shots, $2 Land Shark longnecks, $3 select pints, $4 Titos, Deep Eddy, Texas whiskey and $5 French 75 and Bellini Tinis.

Seashore Early Childhood Academy and kinder through 2nd grade at Seashore Learning Center should be in their new buildings and classrooms by January 7th.

N-House Appliance Repair can take care of most major appliances. Mention their ad in the classifieds to get a discount. Call 960-0911.

If your garbage collection is on Tuesdays it will be on the Saturday before the next two weeks. Collection will be on December 22nd and 29th.

The Stevie Start song “Thank God it’s Padre” will be available on CD by mid-January. You can enjoy Stevie’s singing every Sunday Brunch at Doc’s Seafood Steaks 11 am – 2 pm.

I wish everyone a safe and Merry Christmas and hope you get to spend it with your loved ones. I am fortunate to spend mine with my grandbabies right here on the Island and their Chicago grandparents will be down to enjoy them as well.

By Mary "Scoop" Craft

Life LessonsBy Abigail Bair

Horrible Holiday Humor

Q: What do you get if you cross Santa with a duck?

A: A Christmas quacker!

Q: What's the most popular Christmas wine?

A: 'I don't like Brussels sprouts!'

Q: What do you get if you eat Christmas decorations?

A: Tinsilitis!

-Got my wife a wooden leg for Christmas.

-Not her main present, it's just a stocking filler.

Q: Why would you invite a mushroom to a Christmas party?

A: He's a fungi to be with.

Q: What is Santa's favorite pizza?

A: One that's deep pan, crisp and even.

Q: What do you call a man who claps at Christmas?

A: Santapplause!

Q: Why does Santa like to work in the garden?

A: Because he likes to hoe, hoe, hoe!

Patient: Doctor, Doctor I'm scared of Santa

Doctor: You're suffering from Claus-trophobia.

Q: Why was Santa Claus’ help so down?

A: Because he had low elf-esteem.

Q: What goes "oh oh oh!"?

A: Santa walking backwards

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Around cont. from A1

Priorities cont. from A1

History cont. from A1

Andy Purvis loves sports.

Our friend and long-time Moon writer Andy Purvis got some attention in the Big Daily this week. Andy is a busy guy and aside from writing for the Moon he has written eight sports related books in recent years. Andy once described Mickey Mantle as “faster than electricity” and Andy’s fingers have been moving about that fast over the keyboards for years. Keep an eye out for his next book release party.

Sandwich dollar

We were walking down Commerce Street in San Antonio Saturday when a fellow walked up to our friend Rob and said, “Will you give me a dollar for a sandwich?”

I don’t know,” Rob said. “Let me see the sandwich.” As it turned out the fellow didn’t have a sandwich and he didn’t get Rob’s dollar.

Have a Merry Christmas everybody it’s been a banner year in many ways here on our little sandbar and we have much to be grateful for. It’s time to spend some time with the family as we roll on down toward the end of 2018. And say hello if you see us Around The Island.

Rockport. The 24the Texas Legislature began passing laws to protect natural reefs and help the spread of private oyster beds. By 1895 when the new laws were passed oyster production was 76,699 barrels to 123,709 barrels in 1902 valued at $123,000. The Texas oyster industry was on its way.

In 1999, a high-water mark for the industry, fishermen harvested 6.13 million pounds of oysters, not including shells, in Galveston Bay. But since Ike hit in 2008, the bay’s production has never topped more than 3.5 million pounds in a year. In 2016 fishermen harvested just 709,408 pounds out of the bay. While overall Texas still had a strong harvest in 2016, providing 3.1 million pounds of oysters to enthusiasts, that’s a far cry from the 1990s and early aughts.

Flash forward to the present day where the Gulf Coast region—composed of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—is the leader of America’s $217.2 million dollar industry, producing 44 percent of all oysters consumed in the country each year, with the bulk of that production coming from Texas and Louisiana. The Texas oyster industry itself has a $50 million impact on the state economy annually. But wetter weather conditions along the Texas Coast in recent years has hit the industry hard.

First, the Memorial Day Flood of 2015, Tax Day Flood of 2016 and late-May Floods of 2016 forming two consecutive years of historic flooding were major setbacks for public oyster reefs and the oyster fishery in Texas. In fact, in June of 2016 Galveston County declared a state of disaster for the oyster industry. And all that was all before Hurricane Harvey, the largest flooding event in United States history which dumped huge amounts of freshwater in the Galveston Bay watershed. While short pulses of freshwater can be beneficial to oyster reefs prolonged exposure to waters less that 5 parts per thousand salinity will surely result in death. From Galveston Bay to San Antonio bay and small systems in between the heavy rain fall took its toll on the oyster industry.

Prior to Hurricane Harvey, the State of Texas took action to offer public oyster reefs additional protections, some through legislation and others through fisheries management action by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Commission. Here is some of what they did.

House Bill 51 (HB51)

HB51 was passed during the 85th Legislative Regular Session in 2017 and signed into law by Governor Abbott. The original version of HB51 established a commercial oyster license buyback program, allowing willing commercial oystermen to sell their licenses back to the state of Texas, and required commercial oyster fishermen to have a vessel monitoring system on their boats. It also took steps to increase the minimum size of oysters harvested established commercial oyster license buyback program.

New TPWD Regulations

In that same year Commissioners for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) made broad sweeping changes to the management of the oyster fishery in a landmark decision with new regulations to offer needed protections for sensitive coastal areas and public oyster reefs.

But with all the stresses on the oyster population it’s not surprising that the quality of the Texas oyster has waned while the price has doubled over the past 20 years. In 2000 dealers paid an estimated $2.24 per pound for oyster meat at the dock. In 2016 they paid about $5.50, and as of December of last year, they were paying $6.20. Today prices are the highest the industry has seen since Texas Parks & Wildlife first started recording the annual rates back in 1972. Houston-area restaurants have increased prices accordingly: In 2004 longtime local food critic Robb Walsh wrote about enjoying Texas oysters at downtown restaurant Joyce’s for $6.95 a dozen. Today the same plate is $14.95.

Today there are still 557 commercial oyster-boat licenses and 465 oyster-boat captain licenses in Texas, numbers that are still considered too high. Controversially, Texas has also introduced a new measure requiring boats to be outfitted with vessel monitoring systems (VMS), which

use GPS technology to track boats and bust any that fish on closed waters or poach from private leases. But while these systems could be key to curbing overharvesting in the future, the state currently has no funding to utilize the new tool. That’s right: Texas requires the boats to have VMS, but can’t afford the satellite technology needed to operate it. Instead, the state continues to rely on wardens to hand out citations, but there are only 12 patrolling the waters between Galveston and Chambers counties, and they can’t be everywhere at once.

So the historic Texas oyster industry is struggling, and if the upcoming legislature takes up the challenge as Representative Hunters suggests they will have their work cut out for them. But they good news is that it is a problem that the Texas Legislature attacked and solved before the new weather patterns began dumping more rain on Texas’ oyster beds, so there is hope.

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percent each year without being subject to a rollback election. Not surprisingly the proposed limits are getting pushback from local governments including the Corpus Christi City Council. School districts could face a hard squeeze as cuts in state funding coupled with limits on local tax revenue increases could combine to whipsaw them from both sides. A proposal in the last session of the Texas Legislature that would have limited tax hikes to four percent per year passed through the Senate in Special Session but did not make it to a floor vote in the House.

Windstorm Insurance – A proposed ten percent hike in Windstorm rates after Hurricane Harvey was passed by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Board this year but died at the governor’s desk. The upcoming session looks to continue the ongoing battle between representatives from the panhandle and the fourteen Texas counties along the coast over who should bear the lion’s share of the burden for funding the system. Two sessions ago Hunter successfully lead the charge to reform the system , including an overhaul of how board members are selected, but the debate continues and will likely become more heated in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and flood events in the Houston area.

Hunter’s efforts in the upcoming session should be helped by the apparent election of new House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, a Republican from Angleton whose district is within the Coastal areas where hurricane and flooding damage was the worst.

Cruise ships – As he has done for the past two sessions Hunter this week emphasized that he is still pushing to make Corpus Christi a cruise ship port. He said the bottleneck currently is completion of the new Harbor Bridge project, but he said that even as the construction on the new bridge is underway he has been in contact with cruise ship operators to keep the process moving.

“While we are waiting on the bridge we can bring focus from the industry,” he said.

Hunter this week emphasized that aside from the direct financial benefits the industry would bring to the area it could also serve to grow hospitality curriculums at Del Mar College and Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Oyster industry – A revival of the once thriving oyster industry along the Texas Coast through expanding sustainable oyster farming could bring a multi-million dollar boost to the Coastal economy Hunter said. He said a decline in the Texas shrimp industry in recent years has left a gap that could be filled by oyster industry. In an aside Hunter stated a preference for Gulf shrimp, describing California shrimp as “bubblegum.”

“I believe there is way to bring the oyster industry back,” Hunter said. “We will work with Texas Parks and Wildlife to see what can be done.”

Live music – For three decades the Texas Music Office has worked to push expansion of the live music industry in the state but the Coastal Bend has largely been overlooked. Abbott appointed a new chief of the office in 2015 and Hunter was successful in getting the local Texas Jazz Festival recognized as the state’s official event. The push will be for the state to help grow the local industry.

Human trafficking – Fighting human trafficking in the state has been a familiar theme for Hunter in the past two sessions and he emphasized this week that he will push for stronger reforms in the coming session.

Suicide prevent – Hunters sponsored a round table discussion this week about ways to combat the growing suicide rates across the state. He said particular emphasis needs to be paid to the mental health of kids during catastrophic events like hurricanes.

“After Harvey we saw kids with symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,” Hunter said. “This is an area that has largely been overlooked and needs attention.”

Winter Beaches Ain't Half Bad!

December PIBA Mixer

Coldwell Banker and LifeFit Training Studio hosted December's PIBA mixer on

Tuesday. Photos by Debbie Noble

Photos by Debbie Noble

McComb Wins Mayor’s Race

Challenger Hall wins Island vote

Incumbent Mayor Joe McComb was re-elected in the Special Runoff Election this week by a 3649 votes out of 18,255 cast in the only race on the Island ballot.

Islanders narrowly chose challenger Michael Hall who received the endorsement of the Island United Political Action Committee by a vote of 728 for Hall to 687 for McComb. A total of 1415 Island ballots were cast.

Besides the Mayor’s race four Single-Member District seats were up for grabs with Everett Roy winning in District 1, Ben Molina winning re-election in District 2, Roland Barrera winning the District 4 seat, and Gil Hernandez winning handily in District 5.

District 4 councilman Greg Smith won re-election to his seat in the November General Election.

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Stuff I Heard on the IslandBy Dale Rankin

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The holiday season set me to thinking about all of the Christmases and

Thanksgivings I spent sitting in newsrooms over the years from Texas to Tulsa to Miami listening to police radios and taking phone calls from lonely often desperate people. I always wanted New Year’s Eve off so I could travel and I liked the double-time-and-a-half holiday pay so I often took the holiday shifts.

Thanksgiving

Working Thanksgiving was no big deal because there was always someone feeding turkey dinners to the homeless or the poor folks and they would take pity on the poor pikers working in newsrooms and deluge us with food. I must have eaten about a hundred Jimenez turkey dinners over the years sitting in empty San Antonio newsrooms with police radios squawking in my ears. Things were usually pretty dull until about three o’clock in the afternoon which was about the time somebody at the Big Family Gathering decided it was time to air some family grievances and once enough alcohol was poured into the mix the grievances were often punctuated with gunfire. We once ran a story about a fratricide that started over how someone carved a turkey and ended up with a brother bringing a knife to a gunfight. I always kept an afternoon crew circling downtown waiting for the calls to start coming in from the older neighborhoods bordering the city center where the trouble usually came from…”family disturbance at the Family Dollar! Shots fired!” I could never figure why Family Dollar stores were even open on Thanksgiving but for some reason, even on holidays Family Dollar stores seemed to attract domestic disputes. A Sociology major should do a study. As the evening wore on and celebrants left family gatherings for watering holes to watch football you wanted to keep a live truck in reserve for the ten o’clock show because there was likely to be some fuzz and wuzz.

Christmas

Christmases were different. On Christmas the police radios stayed eerily quiet most years. My theory was that the giving of gifts served to glaze over most family grievances and the would-be combatants were preoccupied with trying to stuff batteries into things or read instructions in Chinese on how to put a playhouse together. On Christmas Day you kept a close ear on the fire department radio because at some point there was a good chance there was going to be a Christmas tree fire or a house fire that started when somebody was burning wrapping paper in the barbeque pit. You might end up with a sound bite with a guy standing in the middle of the street in tears explaining how everything was going fine until Cousin Delbert started spraying WD-40 on the fire and the eve of the house caught. “I told him to stop but Delbert he don’t listen…”

It was also a good idea to keep an ear tuned to the sheriff’s radio frequency because there was a good chance given the feckless nature of the residents combined with the slim holiday

staffing at the jail some version of an uprising or the ceremonial burning of toilet paper was on the agenda. As the evening wore on there were usually a few families who celebrated Festivus for the Rest of Us and the Airing of Grievances would escalate into Feats of Strength ending with a police call but for the most part the calls that came into the newsroom were of a sordid and lonely nature. For people holed up in their homes alone the newsroom was a static target; if they called someone would answer and they would have a chance to unburden themselves concerning their lot in life. I always tried to be nice to them because I figured if I wasn’t their next call was the Suicide Hotline and I didn’t want that on my karma card. Besides, television is a fickle business and next year it might be me on the other end of the line. About every third call would be someone reporting that there was someone living in their attic and the police wouldn’t do anything about it.

“Have you ever seen them?”

“No, they hide when I look up there.”

“How do you know they are there?”

“I can hear them breathing.”

“Are you on any kind of psychotropic drugs?”

“No only Thorazine”

“Did you take it today?”

“No, I felt good today…”

“Well, you have to take it every day even when you don’t need it okay?”

Just having someone care enough to ask was usually enough to get them through but a few times I did call the PD and have them send a car around just to make sure but once in Tulsa I got an angry callback from a guy who accused me of siccing the cops on him and living in his attic. He knew where the station was, right next to the downtown bus station, and the station didn’t want to pay the security guard holiday overtime so I was on my own. The same day I got a call from a frantic lady out in one of the burgs who had walked into a food pantry at her church and surprised a fugitive murder suspect who had a small army of police officers searching for him for the last week. He had been hiding in a haystack and got hungry and instead of calling the police she called the television station. Believe it or not that happens a lot.

“Can you put him on the phone” I said, she was screaming so loud I couldn’t understand her.

“Put him on the phone???!!!,” she said and she hung up. I dispatched my crew to the pantry and gave them a fifteen minute head start before I called the PD…hey, it’s a competitive business. They missed the suspect but got sound with the lady who was still screaming. It was lousy police work but good television.

Given the deadlines I will probably spend some of my Christmas Day in the office this year but I doubt I will get too many interesting calls on The Island…now if we had a Family Dollar store…

And so it goes.

Q. What can I do when my boss steals my ideas, presents them to management and takes the credit?

A. It’s a very difficult situation when your boss claims all credit for your good work. Experts warn that if you complain, it’s not going to work out in your favor 95 percent of the time.

Experts suggest the following process:

• Avoid acting in anger. When you are angry, you are out of control and at a big disadvantage. Carefully consider your options and proceed carefully.

• Talk with trusted colleagues or mentors about what, if anything, you should do.

• Consider conveying your ides by email with copies to colleagues to create a paper trail and create transparency. Avoid presenting your ideas to your boss privately or presenting them in open meetings. Now days, 4 out of 5 professional workers work on multiple teams and many work for more than one boss. Ideas presented in meetings are usually discussed, tweaked, and refined to the point that original ownership becomes obscured. By writing an email summary of the meeting with copies to all attendees, you can claim ownership of the original idea.

• Ask yourself whether your manager is giving you recognition in other ways that compensate for your loss. Some managers feel your work is rightfully theirs to claim

credit for. In some cases, your manager may feel the idea will have a better chance of acceptance by higher management if they present it as their own. That could be true if you are a young inexperienced professional.

• Weigh the impact on your ability to reach your long-term career goals. If your long-term goal requires a successful tour in your present job, you may need to tolerate the boss’s behavior until you have that resume item checked off.

• If you raise the issue with your boss, do so in the context of a larger career discussion. Point out that for your career advancement, you need the experience and recognition of presenting your ideas to higher management.

• Ask neutral, no confrontational questions when discussing it with your boss. I am amazed at how many business professionals think they can confront their boss with push back on any issue and get away with it. In my experience, that never works.

• Model the behavior you’d like to see in your boss by giving credit to others for their good ideas.

If none of the above options work, it may be time to start a job search.

Bio: Ralph Coker volunteers with SCORE which provides free mentoring for small businesses and nonprofits

Help! My Boss Takes Credit For My Ideas!

By Ralph Coker

Ask Ralph

Tides of the WeekTides for Bob Hall Pier December 20 - December 27

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Remember when…

White Christmas 2004

Island snow 2004

Leaping Marlin in the Snow

Packery Channel was still under construction when the snow blew in.

Christmas Eve 2004 has to go down as a magical event as a beautiful light snow began falling in the evening and remained on the ground for most of Christmas

Day. Island kids of all ages made snowmen on the beach and we all ended up with a great story to tell about when we had a White Christmas on our Island. Everyone

who was around will always remember when…

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• Talk with your family about how you feel. Your family can help you. This does not mean you have to tell them everything, but let them know you’re feeling stressed.

• Be honest about your stress level and let your friends and family know your plans ahead of time, especially if you are planning to take some time during the season to relax and de-stress by spending time away from home, work or people that bring stress into your life.

• Set limits. Don’t join activities for longer than you can handle. You can choose when you want to be a part of the group.

• Take breaks. Go for walks, or set aside a place where you can be alone for a while. This can keep you from feeling overwhelmed.

• Get plenty of rest. You may already have difficulty sleeping, but do your best to maintain your usual bedtime or wake-up. Naps should be taken sparingly, as they may further disrupt your nighttime sleeping patterns.

• Keep up with exercise routines. If you normally do yoga, go jogging, or lift weights, try to keep up those healthy routines. These activities are all healthy ways to relieve stress.

• Fake it ‘til you make it. Sometimes people who are feeling depressed find that if they go through the motions, they just might catch themselves having fun. While the pain from the past hasn’t gone away, this is a chance to begin making new positive memories one step at a time.

One of the best tips to remember when coping with holiday stress is not drinking too much alcohol. Many people have a few drinks, thinking it will relax them, but instead, alcohol causes many people to have less control over their emotions and behavior. As a result, your symptoms may be worse or you may end up having problems with your family. For those who are in recovery from alcohol, the suggestion from family or friends to “have just one” can be a big challenge. Carrying a glass of ginger ale or cola with you can help sidestep those offers without you having to share your personal matters with everyone.

As always, the Veterans Crisis Line will be available throughout the winter holiday season including Christmas and New Year’s. The Veterans Crisis Line connects Veterans in crisis and their families and friends with qualified, caring, Department of Veterans Affairs responders, through a confidential toll-free hotline, online chat, or text. Veterans and their loved ones can call 1-800-273-8255 and Press 1, chat online, or send a text message to 838255 to receive confidential support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year. Support for deaf and hard of hearing individuals is available.

Dotson’s Other Note: The Veterans Crisis Line is available all year long even on Christmas. It is suggested that you insert the number into your phone contacts. Although you may not need to ever call them, you may find yourself in a situation where you’re calling to help someone else. I hope that the foregoing was worth your time. Thank you for reading and commenting on Senior Moments. I can be reached at: [email protected] and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 or Cell: 530-748-8475.

Please Note: The next Veterans Round Table Meeting will be Tuesday, January 8, 2019; 9-11 AM, 3209 S. Staples. All veterans, their families and anyone interested in veterans’ affairs, are invited. Coffee & doughnuts are provided. Hope to see you there. Also our Veterans Radio Round Table is on the air on KEYS AM 1440, 8 – 10 AM, Saturdays. The next show will air December 22, 2018. Please listen and call in. The listener/text line is: 361-882-5397…It’s your two hours, let us hear from you.

Hang in there/Have fun!

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Anecdotingly

By Abigail Bair

A Puppy for Christmas

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Seven years ago, I wasn’t in a terrific place. I had bombed what was supposed to be my meteoric assent to something more glamorous than Kansas farm life, and left Portland, OR for home without either pot or pedestal. I had an idea that I wasn’t supposed to wind up living in a tiny Kansas town with my parents, but there I was – flat broke, terminally depressed and creatively bankrupt. As Christmas loomed, I took a nose dive into despair so dramatically black that even Morrissey might have thought me “overly dramatic.”

To make things worse, one of our family’s dogs (a diminutive Welsh Pembroke Corgi named Quin), became ill with pneumonia and had to be rushed to the vet’s in the middle of the night. This was a near mortal-blow for me, because dog love was practically the only thing with any ability to make me feel better. I was terrified that Quin would die.

Over the next few days, I visited her as often as I was allowed to. She was a very sick little Corgi. Her tiny, labored breaths broke what was left of my heart.

On the wall of the vet’s office, there was a Xeroxed flier that read FREE BLACK LAB PUPPIES! Someone had gotten pretty serious with a Sharpie. I had noticed the posting on several previous visits because the enormity of the lettering bespoke a kind of attractive desperation. I hadn’t pulled any of the convenient phone number tags, off, though. We didn’t need another dog.

Now, I can’t account for what happened next. I have sort-of vague, fuzzy/magical memories of the entire process, but SOMEHOW I wound up dialing that number-that-I-didn’t-have-but-somehow-memorized while parked in the Alco lot. Then I drove blindly to a dairy farm somewhere out in the country, and the next thing I knew, I was standing in a barn with an elderly couple who looked just like a fat version of the people in American Gothic – pitchfork included.

There were 13 little black fluff-balls toddling around the floor, playing with arrant pieces of hay and generally getting happily filthy. I walked over and picked up a shy little girl. She wrapped both her tiny paws tightly around my arm as I held her to my chest, hugging me tight. “Can I have this one,” I asked, teary-eyed and probably glowing in an embarrassing way.

“Hell, you can have ‘em all,” replied the old gentleman.

“I may not get away with this one,” I replied. The implications of what I was doing began to dawn on me. I was going to get into BIG

TROUBLE for this. But it was too late. I had already fallen in love with my new dog.

Her name was Stadler.

We got into my car and drove off. She was still wrapped tightly around my arm with her head hidden in my coat. “We’re in deep trouble,” I warned her. “Mom’s probably going to throw us out and make us live in the camper. It’s cold in there. I hope you’re prepared for this.”

Stadler gave my hand a comforting lick and snuggled deeper into my lap for a nap.

“You’re really not taking this seriously. I have no way to even feed us if Mom decides enough is enough. You’re too young to get a job!”

The puppy began to snore.

I took her to the vet, got her the first round of shots and worming, checked on Quin, and then began the long trek home. I must admit, I took the scenic route – there’s something about imminent homelessness that warrants procrastination. The roads were covered in fresh snow, and for a short while a coyote loped in front of the car, refusing to cede the road.

I tromped through Mom’s backdoor, stomping snow off on the Merry Christmas door mat. “Mom?” I yelled, thinking I’d better just get it over with.

“In here,” the Rev called back.

I found her sitting at her beading table, intent on an intricate piece of work. “Um, Mom…so….um… I have something…” I began.

The Rev glanced up, saw the tiny pup clutched against my chest, and exclaimed, “AREN’T YOU THE PERFECTEST PERFECT” as she reached out for baby Stadler.

“What’s her name,” Mom asked as she cuddled the puppy.

“Stadler,” I replied. “You know like the other mean old guy who sits in the balcony on the Muppet Show?”

“His name is Statler, with a T,” the Rev corrected, “but Stadler will do just fine.”

The next morning (Christmas Day), I was in the kitchen making coffee when I heard a great noise from Mom’s bedroom. “Abigail Jane Bair – GET YOUR DOG!!!”

I raced to the scene, and there was tiny Stadler laboriously dragging Mom’s pants down the hall.

Stadler was definitely one of us. She always will be.

PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon

Senior Moments

Dotson’s note: I am concerned that some of you Moon readers may not be aware of the cause and/or effects of PTSD. Veterans who have been in combat are not the only ones who suffer from this killer affliction. Many civilians also suffer from this very serious mental disorder. There are some things that you may believe should not be discussed, but please read this, just in case. Thanks to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Bo Li, Ph.D. (CSHL), for many of the facts contained in this report. The photos are courtesy of rarehistoricalphotos.com and Luis H. Loza Gutierrez.

Researchers Find Brain Circuit That Drives Anxiety

Researchers have identified a neural circuit in the amygdala, the brain’s seat of emotion processing, that gives rise to anxiety. Their findings recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience, have revealed the critical role of a molecule called dynorphin, which they believe could serve as a target for treatment of anxiety-related disorders including PTSD. Very intense fearful experiences, especially those that are life threatening, are often “over-learned” and can lead to an unhealthy level of anxiety or to anxiety disorders. In the U.S. each year, the National Institute of Mental Health estimates that 18% of the adult population suffers from an anxiety disorder.

Helping Cope With Post Traumatic Stress Disorder During the Holidays

The winter holiday season is regarded by many as a wonderful time of the year. However, the holidays can be a painful reminder of past times when life seemed better. Large groups of family and friends are often part of the holiday festivities, but this and other things may be stressful for someone with PTSD.

Groups may tire a person out or make him or her feel overwhelmed. People may feel pressure to join family activities when they’re not up for it, or believe they must act happy when they’re not. People with PTSD may already find it difficult to get enough sleep or to relax and these added pressures can worsen those symptoms.

Someone with PTSD may be very sensitive to losses around the holiday. Veterans and military families, in particular, tend to remember at the holidays those who did not make it home from war. They may not know how to celebrate the holidays knowing those fallen heroes are no longer present. There may also be recent losses: the death of a loved one, an emotional divorce, or separation from one’s children. All of these circumstances may cause someone to feel melancholy about memories of holidays past.

Family and friends might ask the Veteran questions about his or her life or about PTSD. The person with PTSD may not feel comfortable answering these questions, but it is important that he or she keep in mind that their family may feel some of the same pressures, and may only be asking because they have a genuine concern for their wellbeing.

The holiday gathering may also be one of the few times family or friends are able to physically see the person with PTSD, and they may feel it is more appropriate they ask such questions in person rather than over the phone or online because they may think that is too impersonal. In either case, the person with PTSD has the power and right to not answer any questions.

Responding To Sensitive Questions

A polite way of handling these types of situations is by taking a few slow, deep breaths and calmly responding to someone, “I think it is nice of you to show you care by asking, but I’d rather not talk about that right now,” or “thanks for your concern, but I’m not comfortable answering questions about that.” Then take the opportunity to redirect the conversation. Ask that family member about work, their children, or their favorite sports team, and steer the conversation to safer ground.

Both people with and without PTSD can cope with holiday stress by following these tips:

Customer ServiceThis week I thought I

would cover something that is lacking in many industries around our area

and that is customer service. It seems that the worse you need it or the more valuable it is to us then the harder it is to get. Customer service in many professions is hard to find. This is especially true in medicine.

It is something that should be second nature to us but it seems in our communication age a text will suffice for personal interaction. On line communication is sometimes worse and we have to be careful how an email is worded as well, sometimes for lazy typists like me that can be a problem. In medicine the problem usually starts with the front desk or intake person. Sometimes it is the look on your face or the mannerism and attitude that is perceived by the customer. Many doctor offices and the hospital ER are very busy and the front office person is often times rude and instead of trying to assist the customer that is trying to give the facility business they just flat out make it difficult. This is done with numerous roadblocks, excuses and sometimes attitude. Mean while the doctors have no idea this takes place. This starts off a bad interaction or if the patient or customer gets irritated enough there is no business as the patient leaves and then leaves bad reviews or bad word of mouth. The intake person accomplishes their self determined job of eliminating work for her and the office and has no idea what damage it does to the business or practice.

In medicine the next step is the nurse or medical assistant that brings a patient back. Usually nurses are friendlier and genuinely interested in the patient but that is not always the case. If they are having a bad day or being unprofessional by talking loudly to other coworkers about personal issues while the patient is waiting for them. They also need to show a interest in the patient and have empathy for their situation. When they are rude the whole interaction goes down hill fast.

Lastly the interaction with the doctor is the most lasting impression that a customer or patient takes home. It is very important that the doc is not rushed, he or she needs to effectively listen to the patient. They need to take an interest, find out the patients expectations and try to meet them. Education about the condition is much appreciated and relieving the fears that brought them in to be seen in the first place. Getting patients test results in a timely manner and explaining them and helping to arrange after care with specialists, imaging or primary care is a daily goal. One of my colleagues that works here at TLC with me Dr Noe Soza believes that you should treat each patient like they were family and I could not agree more. That is the standard we try to meet here at TLC Complete Care ER Padre.

Don’t forget Breakfast with Santa this Saturday am 0930 am-1130 am at TLC Padre bring the kids it’s free. Have great holiday and remember to treat your customers like family. Doc Tom

Thoughts From Dr. Tom

Korea

WWII

When she was a baby, she was smaller than the size of a dinner plate.

Two weeks later, I realized that she was probably going to be the size of a dump truck. Her nickname is Truckasaurus.

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Whether you are spending the holidays at home with your family, entertaining, or visiting others during this time of year… you may want something fun and easy to bake. This recipe is sure to please kids and adults of all ages. I am certain that with all the cookies and cupcakes being served, this recipe will stand out and it won’t take all day to make.

Nutella is a creamy, hazelnut chocolate spread that is known by almost everyone these days. It’s great as a spread in crepes, served with fresh bread as a sandwich, drizzled over fruit, heck… I love licking it off a spoon!

Since most of us allow for a little cheating around the holidays, and we’re all busy running around grabbing last minute gifts as well as visiting friends or entertaining, this easy recipe comes to mind, because it’s easy, a crowd pleaser and super delicious!

You’ve read me bragging about puff pastry dough before, because it’s kept sealed in the freezer and when you need to make a quick appetizer or dessert, you pull out a pack and let it thaw for about 1 hour and in a few short minutes you will have made a delicious savory or sweet treat. This is especially handy when you’re in a time crunch. It’s available in the freezer section at your local grocers where you would typically find desserts and frozen berries.

Once thawed, the dough can be cut into circles, squares, or kept whole and layered. If cut into circles and or squares, then placed in a cupcake pan, you can push them down and form them into cups. Fill with a berry compote or savory meats and cheese, pop them in a preheated oven and BAM!!! You have a yummy treat! Layered whole, in a casserole dish, you can fill

each layer as you would a lasagna and have a dish that serves a crowd. For this recipe, you will need a baking sheet, and you will cut two Puff Pastry sheets into a Christmas Tree shape and make one inch slits along both sides and cut the bottom into a tree trunk. Removing the top layer and setting it off to the side, you will drizzle slightly warmed Nutella on the bottom layer, add on a top layer and twist the “branches. Once brushed with egg wash and baked, you will end up with a beautiful, crispy, chocolaty Christmas Tree that festive and delicious!

Ingredients:

1 Box Puff Pastry

very little flour to roll out dough

1 C Nutella

1 egg for egg wash

Powdered sugar for garnish

Any mistletoe or berries for garnishing the plate to make it festive

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Thaw dough on kitchen counter. Get your ingredients ready as well as a flour for rolling dough, rolling pin, spoon for Nutella, a knife to cut dough sheet into a tree, a cookie sheet, your egg wash and garnish for serving. Flour the counter top slightly and gently rollout two sheets of dough, individually. Keep all sides even, forming a rectangle. Place one on a cookie sheet, lined with parchment paper. With a knife, score the sheet into the shape of a Christmas Tree, including a trunk at the bottom. Open the Nutella and stir. If it’s fluid, you don’t need to warm for spreading. If it’s a bit too solid, spoon into a bowl and in the microwave, heat Nutella for about 20 seconds. This will allow for easy spreading. Spread to through the the pastry sheet and gently place the second sheet over it. Gently grab the first tree branch and twist upward and continue until the tree is done on both sides. Brush with egg wash and bake. Remove from heat and let rest for a few minutes. Place on a serving dish, sprinkle with powder sugar, garnish platter with holiday berries and serve. It doesn’t have to be served warm, it just tastes better.

Tip of the week:

If you want to get creative and use the same recipe but make a wreath, or use a cookie cutter to make individual ornaments, this dough is versatile and very forgiving once thawed.

The important thing is to Have Fun! Try New Things! Happy Eats… Enjoy!

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SPORTS

Discussion-College Football Playoff Expansion

By Dotson Lewis

By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon

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Dotson’s Note: The following is a compilation of a number of views regarding expanding the College Football play-offs to eight teams. Thanks to Trevor Woods, Andrew Vailliencourt, Mike Leach, Rob Mullens and Kirk Herbstreit for many of the facts contained in this report. Also thanks to Brian Blancor for some of the photos.

The College Football Playoff Is Great but It Could Be Better

Before the days of the CFP (College Football Playoffs), computer metrics were relied on to determine who the two best teams were. Those days are now over with a committee deciding who the top four teams are.

The current system is a step in the right direction. The criteria used weighs strength of schedule, head-to-head results against common opponents, conference championships, and crunch all sorts of analytics for the committee to come up with their top four.

The thing is, when you limit a playoff to only four teams, you’re bound to get the top four wrong sometimes. Sure, if they expand the playoff to eight, the ninth team will be bent out of shape, but there are many good reasons for the eight.

Many say that if they had a vote, the top four would have looked the same as what the committee decided on, but they wouldn’t have been sure if Oklahoma really was better than Ohio State, Georgia, or even Michigan.

Therein lies the problem, no matter how much objectively the committee vote on a top four, an underlying amount of subjectivity will always be there. Don’t take our word for it, committee chair Rob Mullens said there was division, deep debate, and things even got contentious during committee discussions.

If the debate is that heated between committee members, that’s a big issue, and the problem isn’t their fault, it’s the system’s fault. While the committee settled on a top four, we are sure they weren’t all happy with what the final eight ultimately was. That’s a red flag, a flag the screams “expand the playoff!”

OSU (Ohio State University) and Oklahoma both won conference championships, both had Heisman finalist quarterbacks, both have prolific offenses and weak defenses, both are 12-1. The Sooners loss was a little better than Ohio State’s, being a 3-point home loss to Texas opposed to Purdue spanking OSU 49-20.

The committee decided the loss to Purdue was enough to keep the Buckeyes out of the playoff, and put Oklahoma in it. But Ohio State also put up a ton of points against Michigan, winning 62-39. The Wolverines had the Number 1 defense heading into the game. Both OSU and Oklahoma won close games against inferior opponents throughout the season, and when you do an eye test and watch both teams, there’s no way of telling what team is better than the other.

Then there’s what is classified as crazy talk, and it came from someone who is respected in the football world, Kirk Herbstreit. After Georgia lost to Alabama in the SEC Championship Game 35-28, Herbstreit was adamant that the Bulldogs deserved to be the No. 4 team in the CFP.

We are sorry Herbie, but that just isn’t logical. Georgia is 11-2, and they shouldn’t get rewarded for playing Alabama close. Herbstreit says asks Chris Fowler how he can watch Oklahoma’s defense and tell him they’re a top 4 team, to which Fowler countered how can Herbstreit watch Oklahoma’s offense and tell him they aren’t a top 4 team. Fowler went on to say that the games played have to matter, and losses need to be punished, not rewarded.

In reality, Georgia’s 11-2 season wasn’t all that different from Michigan’s 10-2. Arguments can be made for this team being better or comparable to another team in the top 8, but none of these arguments are concrete. The debates lead to confusion, and that’s okay, it’s okay to not be sure who the best 4 teams are. It’s only a problem that they don’t know because they are in charge of selecting the 4 best teams. It would be easier finding out who the best 4 teams are by making the playoff consist of 8 teams.

Washington State coach Mike Leach summarized why the CFP is flawed, citing how every other level of college football has a bigger playoff than what we see in the FBS. We believe Leach is correct.

Give more teams a shot, just add four more. Think about if the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, changed their playoff to only feature four teams. Think about if the NCAA Basketball Tournament just made the tournament a Final

Four, March Madness would turn into March Blandness. If you really think about the CFP in comparison to those examples it’s a no brainer to expand the playoff, anything other than doing so would be a mistake.

Georgia coach Kirby Smart said that if his team wasn’t selected to the CFP it would be an injustice. Coach Kirby, we encourage you, Jim Harbaugh, UCF (University of Central Florida) coach Josh Heupel, and every other FBS coach to push hard and persistently to expand the playoff as quickly as possible.

UCF has won 25 games in a row, expanding the playoff would shut them up, as they’d have their shot as a top eight team to play Bama. “We want Bama!” they say. Expanding the playoff would give them Bama, and they’d shock the world or get beaten like a drum. Either way, it would be good television.

There are tons of reasons to expand, and not many to warrant keeping the playoff threshold at four. While the playoff won’t be expanding as early as 2019, it appears expansion will be coming sooner rather than later.

The structure of the playoff right now sets up the committee for failure. If Oklahoma gets demolished by Alabama, everyone will be saying how Georgia or Ohio State should have made the playoff instead.

Something like this has already happened. In 2016, the committee selected Washington at No. 4, and Ohio State at No. 3, only to see Washington lose to Alabama 24-7, and OSU getting embarrassed by Clemson 31-0. That was a year where it was easy to say (in retrospect) that No. 5 Penn State, No. 6 Michigan, No. 7 Oklahoma would have fared better than OSU and Washington. Not that those teams were more deserving to be placed in the top four, but after the fact it was clear one of the teams who were 5-7, might have played better against Alabama or Clemson.

Some years the CFP matchups will be better than others and competitive games will ensue. But when the games aren’t competitive, the fans start pointing fingers at the committee claiming they should have put Team Y at No. 4 instead of Team Z.

Expanding the playoff to eight wouldn’t be some heavenly type infallible system, but the types of debates we’ve been hearing would no longer exist. Only having four teams in a playoff already feels outdated, and to that we say get with the times, FBS.

Dotson’s other note: Well, you loyal Moon Monkeys who are college football fans, what do you think about four going to eight?

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Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon

I have always wanted to write this story but be as it may, it always became a bit too emotional for me. You see, sometimes we can be too close to something. So close that it feels wonderful and hurts all at the same time.

Oh, I tried and then all the memories rose up, my mind reeling, I would move on to something else, always intending to return. It’s been 33 years. Now that another season of NCAA basketball has started, I will try again to express my feelings.

I will never forget the following article that was written in the Albuquerque Journal on the morning of April 3, 1983. “Trees will tap dance, elephants will drive at Indy and Orson Welles will skip lunch before North Carolina State finds a way to beat Houston in the NCAA

College Championship Game, Monday night.” Sometimes we wish that time would stand still. Life unlike a snapshot is a gathering of fleeting moments in time. That was such a happy time for me, my brother Cliff, my family and millions of N.C. State fans.

I was born and raised in Raleigh, N.C. and my Mother, Edith Purvis, worked at N.C. State in the bookstore and athletic department for over 25 years. She knew Jim Valvano well and made sure we did too. My first love was college basketball not baseball, and my favorite athlete was N.C. State point guard, Eddie Biedenbach. I saw Eddie years later at the 2011 Final Four tournament with my pal, Coach Ronnie Arrow. I shook his hand and told Eddie he was my favorite player growing up and he turned to several others coaches and said, “See, I told you I could play.” He was also the first to give me an autograph.

I can’t count how many games my brother and I attended at William Neal Reynolds Coliseum, the home court of the N.C. State Wolfpack. The ACC was a great basketball conference and N.C. State had some history. In 1973, we were privileged to see Norm Sloan and the Wolfpack beat Tom McMillian and John Lucas of the Maryland Terrapins, in a nationally televised game on Super Bowl Sunday. The Wolfpack became the first team in the ACC to go undefeated in conference play, two years in a row. With great players like David Thompson, Monte Towe, Tom Burleson, “Mo” Rivers, Phil Spence and Tim Stoddard, N.C. State won the 1974 NCAA National Championship. The Wolfpack took down Bill Walton and the UCLA Bruins 80-77 in the semi-finals, and then ran by Marquette 76-64 for the championship.

When N.C. State coach Jim Valvano was asked how he planned to slow down the Houston Cougars at the 1983 Final Four, he responded, “We’re going to start guarding them when they get off their bus.” Jim Valvano was a one-man parade. He was an over-doer, an overachiever and an over-the-top kind of guy, but he was at his best as a basketball coach. Whatever he attempted, he was all in and in most cases successful. It’s hard to describe Jimmy V. He had that flash; that ability to light up a place. His hands were small; it was like shaking hands with a nine-year old. Jim spoke fast like an AK-47 and his voice sounded like a distant artillery barrage. When excited, he kept coming at you like sheets of rain in a windstorm. He looked like a guy with a lance going after a machine-gun nest. Jim once said, “Sometimes the only difference between being a college basketball coach and General George Armstrong Custer is that the coach has to watch the game film the next day.” Talking with Valvano gave you ammunition to go out and do whatever you set your mind on doing. Everybody who ever met Jim had a story about him. This one is mine.

He was the kind of guy you wouldn’t mind getting stuck with in a submarine. Jim was always an education to talk to. The gym just felt better with him in it. It’s true that Valvano never shied away from a camera. That was just not

part of his DNA. I’m pretty sure Jack the Ripper could have played for Jim Valvano. “Don’t let anyone steal your dreams,” he once said. I remember him with his head back, knee-slapping with laughter. Until his bout with cancer, the only thing Jim had ever hurt was his stomach from laughing. Jim always talked about love. Love for the game, for his players, and his family. “Love means you can depend on me,” said Valvano. He just might have been what basketball is all about.

With a record of 25-10 and a coach who refused to give up, the Wolfpack prepared to play against the 31-2, Houston Cougars. It was April 4, 1983, in “The Pit” at the University of New Mexico. Valvano had threatened to hold the ball, but instead went right at Houston. Valvano’s secret was to not let them dunk the ball, because that’s when they really got going. This strategy worked at first. At halftime, N. C. State was up 33-25 with 50 million viewers tuned in. The world of college basketball was upside down. Surely Houston would respond. Derek Whittenburg, Sidney Lowe, Thurl Bailey, Ernie Myers, Terry Gannon, Cozell McQueen, and Lorenzo Charles had played most of the minutes for Valvano during the season. It would be the same in the national championship game. With the score 52-52 with 1:42 minutes left to play, Valvano called a timeout and instructed his team to foul freshman Alvin Franklin of the Cougars. Who fouls in a tie game? Whittenburg committed the foul and Franklin went to the line with a one-and-one opportunity and 44 seconds left in the game. Franklin missed and N. C. State rebounded the basketball and called another timeout. Houston had played man to man the entire night but switched to zone and started trapping the ball handler. The Wolfpack was not prepared. With 4 seconds left and Derek Whittenburg, wearing #25 and 30 feet away from the basket, put up a desperation shot. There’s an old saying in basketball, “A shot is never too far away if it goes in.” Whether Whittenburg actually shot the ball or attempted a pass to Lorenzo Charles standing underneath the basket, it will be debated until the end of time. Everyone held their breath. The only guy who moved in the building was Lorenzo Charles who grabbed the ball out of midair and dunked it as time ran out. Madness, upset city, it’s a miracle, Cinderella was for real, team of destiny, it may never happen again, every sports page and magazine in the nation led with the impossible: N.C. State 54-Houston 52. Remarkably, neither Lowe, Gannon, nor Whittenburg turned the ball over the entire game.

If you have not watched the ESPN 30-For-30 Special about this amazing run by Jim Valvano and his Wolfpack of N.C. State, please do. Valvano taught his kids to dream. He told them at the beginning of the season that they were going to win the national championship and had them practice cutting down the nets once a week during practice. Valvano’s March 4, 1993 ESPY speech, “Don’t Give Up. Don’t Ever Give Up,” will live forever. God truly gave him words that night to give to us. Since 1993, nearly 200 million dollars has been raised to help fight cancer through the Jimmy V. Foundation.

It has been said that death may end a life, but it does not end a relationship. How true! A lot of laughter left the game when Jim Valvano died. Cancer had been getting to the foul line on him for years trying to score. Cancer finally dunked on Jimmy V. with no time remaining, on April, 28, 1993. It had been a little over ten years after Jim had cut down the nets in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I’m positive he died laughing or eating or both. My dad, Gordon Purvis died of cancer a little over one year after Valvano won it all, in July of 1984. My mother and brother have also left me behind. Valvano’s real message had always been the same as my parents, about love. Love each other. I miss them all, terribly.

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 [email protected]. 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 Astro

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The Traveling Moon Gets Around

The Island Moon travelled to Rhode Island and Massachusetts with the Lesinski Family. Pictured in front of Boston's Christmas tree near Quincy Market. Amanda is a licensed attorney with Lee & Lesinski and Erik is a local handy-man on the island. Elisabeth,

Michael, and Emily all attend Seashore Charter School.

The Island Moon traveled with Brian McCabe and his son Xander to his graduation from the University of North Texas in Denton! Very very proud of this young man.

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Seashore Happenings!

Construction is moving along at Seashore Learning Center, and teachers, students, and parents are all excited about the brand new facilities. Seashore Early Childhood Academy (SECA) and Kinder through 2nd grade at Seashore Learning Center (SLC)

should be in their new buildings and classrooms by January 7, 2019. The move will be a community wide effort, as everyone comes together to help teachers move over their Christmas break. Please consider donating boxes to help with the move, or check in

at the main office or on our SLC app or Facebook page on how you can help volunteer your time to make this a smooth and successful transition for our hardworking teachers

and students.

4th grade students at Seashore Learning Center took a field trip on December 13 to the Harbor Playhouse to see a showing of A Christmas Carol.

Students at SLC participated in many educational Christmas activities. 2nd graders had so much fun assembling gingerbread houses as they worked on how to writing.

Teachers at SLC were treated to a Christmas luncheon and gift exchange hosted by the Seashore Parent Association. Staff enjoyed a delicious meal and participated in a gift

exchange with many donations from appreciative parents. Teachers were so thankful to enjoy a break and time with fellow employees during this busy time of year.

Pictured left: Mr. Mui, one of our SLC parents, gave 4th grade students a

presentation on the topic of energy. The question and answer session gave students

a better idea of how we acquire energy and the steps we use to make energy.

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Police BlotterBrush fires

High winds are believed to be the source of two brush fires over the weekend. A downed power line caused a brush fire on Cartagena early Friday. On Thursday another brush fire broke out on Park Road 22 about eight miles south of Bob Hall Pier.

JFK wreck

A stalled vehicle on the southbound side of the top of the JFK Causeway caused a wreck and traffic jam about 1:30 p.m. Saturday

Motorcycle chase

A motorcycle chase that began in Port Aransas ended near Sea Pines Saturday as the rider struck a vehicle as he was pursued at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour by troops from the Department of Public Safety. The rider was transported by ambulance but his condition was not known at press time.

Stolen Packages

The remnants of stolen Christmas packages were found in Billish Park Wednesday morning. Their origin is unknown.

Island Police Calls

14000 block SPID Noon December 17 Shoplifting

14300 block SPID 11 a.m. December 17 Theft of metal

13900 block Sea Anchor 4 p.m. December 16 Vehicle theft

14100 block Bounty 10 a.m. December 16 Harassment

11500 block Gulf Beach 2 a.m. December 16 Fire

14000 block SPID 1 a.m. December 16 Shoplifting

14300 block Baybean 10 p.m. December 15 Burglary of a habitation

15300 block Bonasse 4 a.m. December 14 Breaking and entering

13700 block Suntan 11 a.m. December 13 Credit card abuse

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Members of the PINs Bunko Gals met at Island Italian for dinner, a gift exchange and a game of Left Center Right on December 11th. Here’s a pic of some of the members in

their Ugly Sweaters and Christmas attire.

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Stolen packages found at Billish Park

This chicken was spotted crossing Station Street. Why is still a mystery.

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The Great OutdoorsBy Jay Gardner

On the Rocks Backwater AdventuresBy Joey FarahFarah’s Fishing Adventures

Here we are sliding into the end of the year holidays, and I am way behind on many many things. Christmas gifts may be

a little slim this year, oops. Anyone have a box of Popsicle sticks and a glue gun I can borrow? Does anyone even remember doing that? Making Christmas tree ornaments? Maybe I’m showing my age.

As many of you have noticed, they have started construction across the lagoon on Laguna Shores Road. They are currently boring a new force main (sewer line) under SPID to the waste water treatment plant over off Jester Street. I am very aware of the project going on, and yet I continue to forget that the road is closed over there and continually try to drive down that road for some reason. Oops. Hopefully the City will use the add-alternative and re-pave that section (segment 1) on their way out of that job. Time will tell.

Some of you loyal readers may know that I was elected chair of the ISAC a week or so ago. The next meeting will be held I believe on January 7th, which is a Monday at the normal place. Deidre Williams will be giving another one of her talks on Packery Channel, which are always highly informative. Drop by and check it out if you’re interested. Please remember that members of the audience are not participatory, and the committee or presenter cannot answer your questions or engage anyone.

One thing that is gaining attention is the City planning on building a maintenance building next to the firehouse on Commodores for their heavy beach equipment. They are planning on parking their trash trucks and motor graders there at the facility, and then driving them across Commodores to the beaches north and south of Packery. They will have to drive their equipment either south on Aquarius to Whitecap, and then up Whitecap across PR 22

to the beach, or out Commodores and up and down PR 22. There are some folks that think that another location would be better suited, and it may be. Someone may have to get creative and come up with a piece of land that is owned by the City and above the floodplain. The original Packery Channel lease calls for a harbormaster building and maintenance facility adjacent to the current boat ramps, however that area is below the floodplain. You loyal readers will remember that the floodplain issue is what got the bathrooms modified from the six-pack items. We don’t need a bathroom 18 feet in the air, mainly because the ADA ramps could be seen from space and more than quadrupled the cost. Some good ideas and solutions would be welcome to this issue.

It’s that time of season and a handful of us went south to the ranch outside of Hebronville this past weekend. While the weather was beautiful, the birds did not cooperate and we spent a lot of time sitting around in the field chasing grasshoppers instead of shooting birds. Oh well, can’t win them all. Hopefully we will make it out to Roadkill’s ranchita in the coming weeks and have some fun. I encourage y’all to get out and enjoy the weather this weekend, looks like it’s going to be a nice one. Who knows, maybe there will be some boating involved (ahem! You know who you are).

Well, the boys made it to Grand Cayman. Bizzy indicated that it was a pretty bumpy ride going against the Loop Current. He says they “enjoyed” 10-15 foot swells on their way slogging south. They had to duck into Isla Mujeres for more gas and supplies as they weren’t making time as expected. However, they are tucked back into the Grand Cayman Yacht Club marina where we left out of in April, and I’m sure they are staying out of trouble. Drop me a line at [email protected] and maybe I’ll see you next week On the Rocks.

We are moving towards the last days of this year, and with that comes reflection. Where we have been, are, and where we are headed. In life, love, family, friends, business, and of course FISHING! Aren’t they all tied together and bundled into the ropes of our lives? The last seems to clear the mind and soul, clearing the picture of the right path we must take. Each week, I take a few min to sit down and tap out the words I throw into the ISLAND MOON, this is my reflection on all of those things in life. It is a rare time that I’m looking into myself, amidst kids, work and everything that goes with it. I hope that some of these words get some of the readers out and on the water, even if it’s just in imagination. Most probably my thoughts are read along the THINK TANK, secured in the privacy of bathrooms across our beloved Padre’ Island. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Tandem rigging lures and live bait is no new technique, but an old classic that has slipped away from anglers. The last few weeks as gamefish have settled in deeper holes with the colder water temperatures, this presentation has hooked more fish than any other. What comes to mind first for many is the old standard SPEC RIG, two buck tailed jigs tied together with

leader line. With a 30” piece of 30lb clear leader material I tie a 1/8-1/4 ounce jig head to one end. On the other I like a lighter 1/16th or even a weightless hook for my second soft plastic. The heavier jig should be on the bottom or longer end of the leader. Tie two over hand knots into one creating a non slipping loop to attach your main line. The short end should only be about 4” long. This will cast well and bring that heavy jig to the bottom, floating the second above. In shallow water I often tie two very light or weightless baits and dance them along creating a darting walking action that those big trout can’t resist! Colors of baits can be the same or exact opposite, testing for the best selection. I’ve been killing it with the DOA SHRIMP after I pull the hook out and rig the bottom hook with a 1/4 ounce jig head then the on top the normal suspending DOA SHRIMP with its standard

hook. The action brings fish to a reaction strike! Tandem swim baits have been equally effective as well. I like the smaller PADDLE TAILS because they have less resistance and fatigue on my hands and arms in a long day fishing. For shallow water a larger rat tailed jerk bait will dance back and forth on this rig. A bigger paddle tailed bait will create a lot more drag but can be slow rolled through

the water. Many, many times I feel the first fish strike then play that fish loosely so that other gamefish trout and reds will attack the second hook. Often anglers see second fish approach and believe they are trying to eat the first, most of the time they are trying to steal the bait from their jaws. A second lure created some exciting hookups! If you are having trouble tying this rig just purchase a cheap spec rig from anywhere that sells tackle and check it out then start experimenting on your own. I even have had great success with larger hard baits, top waters, and suspending baits. Give it a try this winter you will have the odds in your favor, twice over!

January brings some of our best fishing of the year, and a challenging weather pattern. Fish will be at their coldest and their metabolisms can be slowed down to a crawl. They have been following lunar feeding times to the minute. Increase your chances and confidence by watching those. Both the bait fishing and lure fishing is very good right now. If you have a day off and it looks present, give me a call for a day of learning and catching on the water. Jump into your new fishing year early, with a boost of exciting fishing.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! God Bless PADRE ISLAND!

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Rigging tandem baits is a classic technique that works, doubles are very common.

This big 29 inch redfish came from the edge of the ICW on A DOA 3

inch CAL SHAD, tandem hooked rig.

We SMOKED limits of trout behind the big wind this week on soft plastics along the KING RANCH SHORELINE.

Science and the Sea

Christmas Tree Worms Stay Spirited All Year

Christmas tree worms come in a wide variety of colors. Credit: Nick Hobgood, GNU Free

Families that celebrate Christmas will likely have a colorful tree lighting up their living room right now. But under the sea, millions of Christmas tree worms remain festive all year. Christmas tree worms, whose scientific name is Spirobranchus giganteus, have two spiraled crowns on their back that each resemble a tiny colorful Christmas tree.

These “trees” can be a single solid color but are also often multi-toned, with a second color gracing the outer tips of their spirals like garland. And these worms don’t restrict themselves to red and green. Some are a brilliant blue or bright yellow, while others might be white with orange tips, ruby with white tips, gold with maroon and white tips or any number of other combinations.

These colorful spirals help the worm breathe and catch food. The worms anchor themselves to coral and use the feather-like tentacles protruding from their spirals to catch tiny prey from the surrounding water and move it to the worm’s mouth. If the worm is startled, it retreats into burrows in the coral to hide from possible predators.

Over time, these burrows in the coral can reach 10 inches in length, providing a roomy hiding place for a critter that lives up to 30 years. These worms also help coral recover more quickly from bleaching events and protect it from predators. In fact, in perhaps a bit of an ironic twist, scientists have seen Christmas tree worms literally push away the feet of predatory crown of thorns starfish.

TPWD Seeks Public Input on 2019 Red Snapper Season

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) Coastal Fisheries Division is taking public comments on the 2019 red snapper season online through the TPWD website comment portal from Dec. 11, 2018 to Jan. 4, 2019.

Under an agreement between TPWD and the National Marine Fisheries Service that was signed in April 2018, TPWD can establish the opening and closing of the red snapper fishery in federal waters off the Texas coast for private recreational anglers fishing from their own vessels in 2019. The federally permitted for-hire sector, which allows recreational anglers to fish from charter boats or headboats, will remain in its current management structure set by the federal government under the agreement for 2019.

There will be multiple options presented for the 2019 federal red snapper season that combine fishing days in the spring and summer. Options include a traditional continuous summer season, seasons with different summer start dates and seasons that split fishing days between the spring and summer.

Below are five options for the 2019 red snapper season in federal waters. State waters will remain open year around and there will be no changes to bag or size limits.

Summer Season options

Option A: Summer season that would open June 1, 2019 and close Sept. 6, 2019 for a 97-day season.

Option B: Summer season that would open July 1, 2019 and close Sept. 16, 2019 for a 77-day season.

Option C: Split season with spring and summer dates including March 9, 2019 to March 25, 2019 and July 1, 2019 to Sept. 3, 2019 for a combined total 80-day season.

Option D: Split season with spring and summer dates including May 11, 2019 to May 28, 2019 and July 1, 2019 to Sept. 2, 2019 for a combined total 80-day season.

Option E: Summer season that would open May 24, 2019 and close August 27, 2019 for a 95-day season.

Ranch Crew.

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With December in full swing, it’s the perfect time for the residents of the Coastal

Bend join together to assist those less fortunate. In the spirit of the holidays, I wanted to take this opportunity to bring attention to certain efforts in our area that will benefit many families this holiday season.

Toys for Tots is a nationwide campaign, and has very strong roots and participation in Corpus Christi, Port Aransas and the Coastal Bend area. The initiative began in 1947, when Marine Major Bill Hendricks collected and donated 5,000 toys to children in their city. The campaign was so successful that Marine Reserve Units around the country began collecting and donating toys, under the shared objective to “bring the joy of Christmas to America’s needy children.” Since its inception in 1947, the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program has distributed over 490 million toys to more than 230 million needy children across the country. With a great military base, strong charity presence and generous-minded people and industry, District 32 is a great place for Toys for Tots to contribute to the children of our area. If you would like to learn more or get additional info, please visit their website at: https://corpus-christi-tx.toysfortots.org/local-coordinator-sites/lco-sites/default.aspx

Events are held around the area to promote the Toys for Tots holiday drive effort from the public, along with Marines from the local Naval Air Station who collect donations. The Catholic Charities of Corpus Christi is participating in the Toys for Tots program as well as a Christmas Food Baskets program, during which the organization distributed food baskets earlier this month.

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STATEToys for Tots and other Holiday Drives

The HEB Feast of Sharing is another holiday event taking place this season, which allows the community to participate in a spirit of holiday sharing. HEB hosts the holiday feast annually across the state. The Coastal Bend hosts a dinner in Corpus Christi at the American Bank Center on December 22 from 11 AM to 3 PM. According to the organization’s website, just one Feast of Sharing event equals: 3,000 pounds of sliced turkey, 2,500 pounds of cornbread dressing, 750 pumpkin pies, and 140 gallons of turkey gravy. For additional details, you can visit their website at: https://www.heb.com/static-page/article-template/Feast-of-Sharing

In addition to these two great organizations, there are many other charitable events in the area occurring this holiday season. As we prepare for a new year, let’s join together in helping the community and bettering the lives of those around us.

If you have questions regarding any of the information mentioned in this week’s article, please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or District Office. Please always feel free to contact my office if you have any questions or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if you would like to contact my office regarding constituent services. As always, my offices are available at any time to assist with questions, concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603).

- State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32

Rep. Hunter represents Nueces (Part) County. He can be contacted at [email protected] or at 512-463-0672.

POA News by Marvin Jones, President

News You Can Use As always, let me have

your thoughts. You can reach me at [email protected]

Holidays- The PIPOA wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. The Office will be closed on December 24 and December 25 for Christmas. The office will also be closed on December 31 and January 1st for the New Year.

Channel Markers- Mother Nature has temporarily stopped the marker installation. High wind, rain, and low tide have prohibited marker installation. Mother Nature Rules!

Litter Critter- The Litter Critter visit on Saturday, December 15, 2018, was another success. Five full dumpsters were hauled away by the City. The Litter Critter program has been a huge benefit to the Island. Again,

a big Thank you to Kelly McFadden’s Island Squad for picking up piles of debris from around the island. I spent two hours last Sunday driving around the Island and checking the new building sites, unmowed lots, etc. The Island is looking much better. Yes, there is work to be done, but improvement can be seen. Thank you one and all.

Rumor Control- There is a rumor going around that the PIPOA will raise CAM fees for 2019. This rumor is absolutely FALSE. There will be no increase in CAM fees for 2019. The only way CAM fees can be raised is by a vote of the entire membership. The PIPOA Board has no authority to raise CAM fees on its own. It continually amazes me about the number of completely false social media postings that create rumors.

Billish Park- It is wonderful to see families using the park!

Full Transparency and Disclosure

Candidates for Padre Isles Property Owners Association Board of Directors

The following are the candidates for seats on the Padre Isles Board of Directors in the annual election to be held at the March meeting. Ballots have not yet been sent to voting members.

Running in the March election, in ballot appearance order:

1. Kelly McFadden

2. Judith Cutright

3. Robert Algeo

4. Daniel R. Brown III

5. George R. Potter

6. Brian T. McCabe

One seat is vacant due to a resignation and, as required in the bylaws, will be filled by a vote of the current board members.

Seeking appointment to the vacant seat, in no particular order are:

1. Sandy Graves

2. Chul Kim McGuire

3. Daniel R. Brown III

4. George R. Potter

5. Alan Guggenheim

Christmas at Island Presbyterian ChurchIsland Presbyterian Church invites all our

neighbors and friends to join us on our Christmas journey and the celebration of the birth of Christ at 14030 Fortuna Bay Dr, Corpus Christi, TX 78418 (www.islandpresby.com). On Sunday, December 23, in addition to our regular service at 10:00 AM, a “Blue Christmas” service will be held at 4:00 PM. This service is for everyone, but it is especially focused on helping those who are struggling with the holidays “Blues”. Pastor Anne Kowalczyk will provide words of inspiration to help you get through these rough and rocky times.

On Christmas Eve we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ starting at 6:00 PM. A traditional Lessons and Carols service with Communion will be held; we will hear the scriptures prophesying the coming of the Messiah and the birth story, sing your favorite Christmas Carols, and as we prepare to go home to our own celebrations, we will light our own individual Christmas candle, turn down the house lights, and close with the singing of “Silent Night”.

The members and staff of Island Presbyterian church invite all of you to join them on their journey to Bethlehem and wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Laguna Shores Road Closure

Beginning Monday, December 17, contractors will close Laguna Shores Road, from SPID to Graham Road. The duration of this closure is two weeks, weather permitting. Knickerbocker Street will remain open for local thru traffic. Motorists are asked to follow the detour signs around the work area.

Third ‘Heart Your Park’ Day of Service at Suter Wildlife Refuge to Clear

Invasive TreesCorpus Christi Parks & Recreation joins NRPA

to promote the value of volunteering at local parks

We are looking for a few awesome residents age 13 and up to volunteer on February 9 at the Hans & Pat Suter Wildlife Refuge to participate in the Texas Adopt-A-Beach program. Volunteers will clear out invasive trees, pick up trash, repaint picnic tables and plant new native species.

The Corpus Christi Parks & Recreation Department is proud to partner with the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) to provide volunteer opportunities at public park lands across Corpus Christi. This is the third planned ‘Heart Your Park’ Day of Service event with the department.

Interested volunteers should register at http://register.ccparkandrec.com before January 25. All volunteers will get a t-shirt, water bottle,

and lunch for their time. The volunteer work day will last from 9 a.m. until noon.

“Corpus Christi Parks and Recreation is excited about the opportunity being provided by the NRPA and CITGO to engage our community in conservation. Through our efforts at the Oso Bay Wetlands Preserve and other nature sites, we hope to teach our residents how to best live alongside nature and wildlife,” said Sara Jose, preserve manager. “These projects will allow local volunteers to have ownership, familiarity and buy-in for the plants in our community green spaces.”

NRPA Director of Conservation Lori Robertson said her organization is proud to serve as the national leader for the “Heart Your Park” Day of Service.

Give the Gift of Play this Holiday Season2019 Beach Parking Permit Is Only $12!

Residents and visitors can enjoy our Gulf Coast beaches all year around because of the many months of warm and sunny weather. Our beach parking permits make wonderful holiday stocking stuffers for your friends, family and co-workers.

The 2019 Beach Parking Permits will be available for purchase starting Tuesday, December 18, 2018. They are valid from the day of purchase until December 31, 2019. Beachgoers can purchase their permit at a participating vendor before heading to the beach.

The permits are sold year-round at the following locations:

• Stripes

• H-E-B (Aransas Pass, Corpus Christi, Portland & Rockport)

• Walmart (Flour Bluff & Aransas Pass)

• Academy Sports (Corpus Christi & Portland)

• Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi/ ITT Department

• Corpus Christi Convention & Visitors Bureau

• Nueces County Padre Balli Park Headquarters Office

• Dick’s Sporting Goods

• CVS Pharmacy (Padre Island location only)

• TAMUCC (University Services)

• Central Cashiering at Corpus Christi City Hall (First floor)

• CC Cycle Plaza (Island and SPID)

• Circle K (Padre Island location only)

• Murphy Oil USA (Alice, Aransas Pass, Corpus Christi, Portland & Rockport)

The permit must be permanently affixed to the vehicle’s windshield. 100% of the funds from the permit sales are reinvested so that a clean and safe environment is provided for the enjoyment of all beach visitors.

For more information, please call the Corpus Christi Parks & Recreation Department’s Beach Office at (361) 826-3423 or (361) 826-8542, or visit www.ccparkandrec.com (BEACH

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Beware of Free Trial Offers this Holiday Season

By Kelly Trevino

Regional Director, Corpus Christi and Victoria Better Business Bureau

As you start wrapping up your last-minute gift selections this week, many of us may still be looking online for some quick-ship items. But, be careful with some of the ads you see popping up. A new study by Better Business Bureau (BBB) sheds light on some of those tricky free trial offers you may be faced with on social media, in search engines or even through email that trap you using deceptive tactics.

Many of these items tout miracle diet pills, the latest anti-wrinkle skin cream or the most advanced teeth whitening products, all you need to pay is a small shipping charge of around $1.95. If you don’t like the product, you can return it for free. However, many times that’s not the case, and the consumer ends up getting charged for the product even if they try to return the item, while also getting lumped into a recurring monthly charge.

The ad lures you in typically by appearing as a flashy news article or even using big celebrity names like Oprah Winfrey or Ellen DeGeneres. According to the report, those celebrity endorsements may be fake, and even identified as fictional in the fine print at the bottom of the website. However, that language is often difficult to find on the website.

BBB received around 37,000 complaints and scam tracker reports about free trials over the past three years. Average losses to individuals of these complaints is around $186. This is also a growing issue. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaints mentioning ‘free trial’ doubled between 2015 and 2017, with losses in cases over the last ten years totaling around $1.3 billion.

Many victims reporting these cases were female (72%), with the highest reports coming from the 30 to 39 age range. Around 30% of the ads were reported to come from social media, while others were found through email and sponsored content. Payment is often requested by credit card, and while credit cards do offer added protection, some victims found it difficult to get their money back because many of these

ads did include fine print, even though it’s size and location was often misleading. And while victims were often able to stop future charges, they often reported difficulty in getting ahold of the company altogether.

So, what should you do if you spot one of these ads?

• Research: Make sure to check the business out first at bbb.org. Read complaints and customer reviews from previous customers and see if there are any advertising concerns noted by BBB.

• Read the fine print: In many of these cases, consumers did not see or have the chance to read the fine print associated with the ads. Read any details associated with the ads.

And what if you feel like you’ve become a victim of a free trial offer?

• Contact the company: Try to get in touch with the company to stop any recurring charges, and get a refund if you think it’s necessary

• Contact your credit card company: Call the customer service number on the back of your credit card to complain to the bank to stop any future charges and see if there is an option to receive a chargeback.

• Complain: File a complaint with BBB at bbb.org or report the fraud at bbb.org/scamtracker, and submit the ad through BBB’s AdTruth website for us to review. Report it also to the FTC and the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

For more information on this study, please visit us.bbb.org/freetrial

Kelly Trevino is the regional director for the Corpus Christi/Victoria area of Better Business Bureau serving the Heart of Texas. Kelly is available for media interviews and speaking engagements. You can reach her by phone: (361) 945-7352 or email: [email protected]

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January, 4th

First Friday at Port A. Art Center

The First Friday exhibit opening will occur on January 4, 2019 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Come see what students of the Port Aransas Art Center have learned in their workshops

and classes! The Adult Student Show will be on view through January 25. As always, entrance to the Art Center is free of charge. Join us for food, fun, fellowship, post-holiday shopping and live music! Our thanks go to January sponsor Condominium

Consulting Management Services (CCMS, Inc.).Pictured above instructor Lee Ricks discusses the fine points of Watercolor

with Rick Tinnin.John Nixon on the Pollyanna

December PIBA Luncheon

Photos by Debbie Noble

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The Island Outdoors

By Stacey Kempf

When choosing what plants to grow in our yards, many of us may find ourselves aimlessly walking the aisles of a nursery or big box store picking plants to buy solely based on their color, size or required growing conditions. So it’s not surprising that when all is said and done, most of us feel like our yards are missing that extra something, and many times that extra something is texture.

A beautifully designed garden space will utilize a variety of textures through a mixture of both broad-leafed and linear-leafed plants, and it’s often times the latter that is overlooked. An easy way to add fine-linear lines to a garden space though is through the use of ornamental grasses. Not only do they provide a variation in texture, but they can also add appealing color, shape and movement to a landscape that can last throughout most of the year.

Ornamental Grass Options

A variety of ornamental grasses are available for our area, and here are a few examples of some popular options that can help to add interest to your yard.

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum ‘Rubrum’)

This particular heat-resistant ornamental grows striking purple to burgundy leaves and plumes. It grows anywhere from 3-4 feet tall, even in poor soil, and it prefers full sun to light shade. When it comes to planting, it can be used handsomely as background planting, hedge or stand-alone specimen.

To keep your fountain grasses foliage looking its best each year, it’s a good idea to cut it back in late winter before the new growth begins to show. Doing so can be easily done by tying the dead foliage up and cutting it back to 4-6 inches above the ground. The new foliage will then have room to emerge and show-off its stunning color.

Big Muhly (Muhlenbergia lindheimeri) a.k.a Lindheimer’s Muhly, Lindheimer Muhly, Blue Muhly

Big Muhly is a Texas native that grows to a stature of 3-5 feet tall. It offers a lovely grey-green to blue-green foliage that blooms out slender seed stalks in the late summer to early fall. It’s also drought-tolerant grass and will do its best in your yard when planted in full sun.

Due to its size, it can looking very appealing either as a stand-alone specimen or as a screen. Cutting Big Muhly isn’t necessary to keep it looking its best, but it does do well with a quick comb thru with a rake. This action will serve to remove old leaves. Another step you can take to keep up this particular grass is to break off old blooms when they dry out.

Dwarf Maiden Grass (Miscanthus sinensis ‘Adagio)

Growing 2-3 feet in height, this drought-tolerant grass has slender silvery-grey leaves that arch beautifully throughout the year. They bloom from late summer through the fall and their fuzzy blooms transition from a attractive pink to white with age.

This grass can handle our Texas sun, and it doesn’t mind our sandy soil and windy conditions either. Consider planting it in a group or mixed into a border with some broad-leafed perennials for a eye-catching visual effect. Also, Dwarf Maiden Grass is another grass that does well when cut back in the late winter. The same method used for cutting back purple fountain grass works well for this ornamental too.

Mexican Feather Grass (Nassella tenuissima) a.k.a. Mexican Wiregrass, Finestem Needlegrass, Ponytail Grass, Texas Tussock

This native grass is the shortest statured grass listed here, reaching around 1.5 feet tall. Its gorgeous silvery-green thread-like leaves and wispy white blooms create an enchanting display, and it looks particularly nice when planted in a group.

It will tolerate full sun to partial shade and grows best in well-draining soil. While it will go dormant in winter and periods of drought, it should not be over-watered. Watering once a week is typically adequate during drought conditions. Also, unlike other grasses, Mexican Feather Grass should not be cut back after winter.

Plant Now

This time of year is a great time to take your landscape to the next level by adding some texture to it with one of these or another variety of ornamental grass. So be sure to visit a local nursery and discover all the beautiful options that are available to enhance your yard.

Going OrnaMENTAL

IRS reminder: Deadline Dec. 31 for Most Retirees Who Must Make Required

Retirement Plan DistributionsThe Internal Revenue Service this week

reminded retirees born before July 1, 1948, that they usually must take distributions from their individual retirement arrangements (IRAs) and workplace retirement plans by Dec. 31.

The payments, called required minimum distributions (RMDs), are normally made by the end of the year. Those who reached age 70½ during 2018 are covered by a special rule that allows them to wait until April 1, 2019, to take their first RMDs.

This means that those born after June 30, 1947, and before July 1, 1948, are eligible for this special rule for 2018. If they wait until early 2019 to take that first RMD (up until April 1, 2019), it can be counted toward their 2018 RMD, but is still taxable in 2019.

The special April 1 deadline only applies to the RMD for the first year. For all subsequent years, the RMD must be made by Dec. 31. So, for example, a taxpayer who turned 70½ in 2017 (born after June 30, 1946, and before July 1, 1947) and received the first RMD (for 2017) on April 1, 2018, must still receive a second RMD (for 2018) by Dec. 31, 2018.

Types of retirement plans requiring RMDs

The required distribution rules apply to owners of traditional, Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) and Savings Incentive Match Plans for Employees (SIMPLE) IRAs. Roth IRAs don’t require distributions while the original owner is alive. RMDs also apply to participants in various workplace retirement plans, including 401(k), 403(b) and 457(b) plans.

An IRA trustee must either report the amount of the RMD to the IRA owner or offer to calculate it for the owner. Often, the trustee shows the RMD amount on Form 5498 in Box 12b. For a 2018 RMD, this amount is on the 2017 Form 5498 normally issued to the owner during January 2018.

An IRA owner must calculate the RMD separately for each IRA they own, but can withdraw the total amount from one or more of the IRAs. However, RMDs required from workplace retirement plans (like 401(k), 403(b), and 457(b) plans) have to be taken separately from each of those plan accounts.

IRS online forms and publications can help

The RMD for 2018 is based on the taxpayer’s life expectancy on Dec. 31, 2018, and their account balance on Dec. 31, 2017. The trustee reports the year-end account value to the IRA owner on Form 5498 in Box 5. Use the online worksheets on IRS.gov or find worksheets and life expectancy tables to make this computation in the Appendices to Publication 590-B, Distributions from Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs).

For most taxpayers, the RMD is based on Table III (Uniform Lifetime Table) in IRS Publication 590-B. So, for a taxpayer who turned 72 in 2018, the required distribution would be based on a life expectancy of 25.6 years. A separate table, Table II, applies to a taxpayer whose spouse is more than 10 years younger and is the taxpayer’s only beneficiary.

Though the RMD rules are mandatory for all owners of traditional, SEP and SIMPLE IRAs and participants in workplace retirement plans, some people in workplace plans can wait longer to receive their RMDs. Usually, employees who are still working can, if their plan allows, wait until April 1 of the year after they retire to start receiving these distributions. See Tax on Excess Accumulations in Publication 575. Employees of public schools and certain tax-exempt organizations with 403(b) plan accruals before 1987 should check with their employer, plan administrator or provider to see how to treat these accruals.

Find more information on RMDs, including answers to frequently asked questions, on IRS.gov.

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Ronnie Narmour caught these photos of Port A. Christmas art.

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on Friday and good reggae with the Chanklas on Saturday. And they have a big New Years Eve show with the King of TexMex, Joe King Carrasco. Giggity’s will have NO COVER and dinner specials and a champagne toast at midnight. And I saw that Keith Sykes (Memphis, TN) will be playing January 26. That’s a show NOT TO MISS. I’ll be talking about him a bunch when that show rolls around. This weekend. That’s about all the shows I see to pimp right now. Yall be safe out there and slow it down. There seems to be a cop on every corner.

♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫

A n t o n i o , TX) played on Sunday. Winter Texans are beginning to make their p r e s e n c e known. It won’t be long until the PA Rockers will take their residency at Bernies and the out of state plates are looming large in the IGA parking lot. I love this time of year. So far its been a cold rainy season but I’ll take that over lava like heat any day. Giggity’s has some good shows coming up. This weekend they have a fave of the Winter Texans,

the Bad Buoys

RIP Crawford Brown…

We lost another great man this week. Say goodbye to Sam Crawford Brown who lost his battle with cancer. He will be missed. I got really used to seeing Crawford every week playing with the Free Beer Band for the last seven years going back to the Tarpon Ice House days and then Giggity’s. Crawford played the big dog bass and could rip out a Bill

Monroe or Louvin Brothers song like nobody else. He was also the front man for my little gospel band, The Sandy Bottom Boys and has played in many roots and bluegrass bands in the area for many years. Crawford leaves a big hole is all our hearts. There will be a celebration of Crawford’s life on Thursday, December 27, at 2 PM at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, 622 Airline Road. I’ve asked his best friend and fellow band mate Steve Goldstein to write us a tribute here. It seems only appropriate:

I’m just as devastated as everyone by the sudden passing of my dear friend and band mate, Crawford Brown. We first crossed paths on August 29th, 2010 at a Sunday afternoon bluegrass jam at Heritage Park in Corpus Christi. There were a lot of pickers there and we didn’t formally meet that day, but I remember him and he remembered me. After a couple more jams, I was invited to join Crawford’s bluegrass band, GET OFF THE LAWN, to play mandolin along with Crawford’s brother Robert Brown, Ron Brister and John Worthy. Then, this past Sunday morning December 16th, Crawford suddenly left us. In the eight-plus years in between, Crawford and I became the two constants in the ever evolving cast of characters in THE FREE BEER BAND on Thursday evenings, first at the Tarpon Ice House, and now with Arnold Govella and Rusty Hicks at Giggity’s. We also played several two-piece gigs as MOONSHINE MARTINI and sang the glorious, traditional bluegrass gospel every Easter morning with THE SANDY BOTTOM BOYS. Crawford and I bonded musically and became great friends in the process. My wife Andrea and I were invited into Crawford’s home many times for Christmas Eve celebrations, dinners, jam sessions, and backyard movie nights where I finally got to see “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” for the first time. We’ve always been treated as family. I’ve been playing music since 1962 and have played almost 700 gigs with Crawford standing next to me, more than with anyone else since. Now and probably for the rest of my life, there will always be a void left in his absence. Thoughts and prayers for Crawford’s wife Jody, son Travis, mother Huie, brothers Robert and Jack, and the rest of Sam Crawford Brown’s family. It’s with a very heavy heart that I bid you a fond farewell, my Brother. I’ll miss your wisdom and sense of humor. I’ll miss playing “Friend of the Devil” and “Wicked Games” with you. I’ll miss you standing next to me with that big doghouse bass and your expressive, angelic voice. Peace. Steve Goldstein 2018

On the local front…

Just to state the obvious, it’s Christmas time everybody. I’ve been running around the island in my super cool Texas Red golf cart with garland and ornaments flying around everywhere. The other day I hooked up with some locals and all the guitars we could find and strummed our way around town until we busted in at Red’s Riviera with an impromptu jam.

By Ronnie Narmour

[email protected]

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GIGGITY’S RESTAURANT & BARLIVE MUSIC

EVERY NIGHT

Joe King Carasco NYE NO COVER!

The GaffPizza Beer Darts Belt sander Races

Those are the best kind. It was me and my adopted daughter Cheyenne, Janet Planet, Catfish and Sean Hunter. That’s a hand to deal to. On Saturday I made it to the Gaff’s annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Party with Mike Williams performing. And on Sunday it was the company party for Giggity’s, Shorty’s and Kody’s and we ran all over town on Edwin’s dime. I had my three wheeler and JJ rode with me standing up in the basket in the back and parade waving down main street as we went from bar to bar. We went from Kody’s to the 361 then Red’s then to Treasure Island where Linda Saad made us a flaming Bananas Foster. We polished off the night in the flats at Bernies and finally singing Christmas songs at JP’s Island Karaoke show at Shorty’s. All I remember is, we sounded pretty horrible. I can’t make this stuff up. I not sure there’s more fun to be had. I am loving this holiday season and the love in this community. So far, post girlfriend life is good.

Scattered shots…

Also last weekend the great Toman Brothers (San Antonio, TX) played Giggity’s on Friday and Todd Dorn and the Sea Drifters (San

LIVE MUSICFree Beer Band Every Thurs (7-10)

Bad Buoys Friday (9-1) Chanklas Saturday (9-1)

Antone & All Stars Every Sunday (8-12) Open Jam Every Monday (8-12)

Paul & Victoria Every Tuesday (7-10) 722 Tarpon, Port Aransas, TX

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Antone & the All Stars @ Giggity’s

New Years Eve, December 31

Joe King Carrasco @ Giggity’s

El Dusty;’s Tropicoso @ House of Rock

Timeline @ Brewster StreetCruise Control @ Rockit’s

Tuesday, January 1Paul & Victoria @

Giggity’s

Wednesday, January 2Magnus @ Giggity’s

Thursday, January 3Free Beer Band @

Giggity’sSam Riggs, Natalie Rose @

Brewster StreetFalco & the Wolf @

Rockit’s

Friday, January 4Retrovibe @ Giggity’s

Spazmatics @ Brewster Street

Clarissa Serna @ Rockit’s

Saturday, January 5Ulrich Ellison & Tribe @

Giggity’sSeattle Rising @ Brewster

StreetAnother Level @ Rockit’s

Sunday, January 6Antone & the All Stars @

Giggity’s

Monday, January 7Open Jam w/ Ray Summy

@ Giggity’s

Tuesday, January 8Paul & Victoria @

Giggity’s

Wednesday, January 9Billy Snipes @ Giggity’s

PA Rockers @ Bernie’s

Thursday, January 10Free Beer Band @

Giggity’sFlatbroke @ Rockit’s

Friday, January 11Selfie @ Shorty’s

Chanklas @ Giggity’sOddfellas @ Rockit’s

Saturday, January 12Aloha Dave & the Tourists

@ Giggity’sSing Along Piano Bar @

Brewster StreetSwagger @ Rockit’s

Tonight

Thursday, December 20Free Beer Band @ Giggity’sKyle Park @ Brewster StreetFalco & the Wolf @ Rockit’s

Friday, December 21Bad Buoys @ Giggity’sSplendiferous @ Brewster StreetFlatbroke @ Rockit’s

Saturday, December 22Chanklas @ Giggity’sCruise Control @ Rockit’sHip Hop Hooray @ Brewster StreetCruise Control @ Rockit’s

Sunday, December 23Antone & the All Stars @ Giggity’s

Monday, December 24Open Jam w/ Ray Summy @ Giggity’s

Christmas Day, Dec 25Paul & Victoria @ Giggity’s

Wednesday, December 26Jimmy Willden @ Giggity’s

Thursday, December 27Free Beer Band @ Giggity’sRandy Rogers @ Brewster StreetFalco & the Wolf @ Rockit’s

Friday, December 28Ty Dietz @ Giggity’sKevin Fowler @ Brewster StreetAlley Catz @ Rockit’s

Saturday, December 29Groove @ Giggity’sAnother Level @ Rockit’sJake Ward, Cameran Sacky @ Brewster StreetAnother Level @ Rockit’s

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Amy Myers and Antone Perez singing Christmas songs at Shorty’s.

An impromptu jam at Red’s

with Sean Hunter, Catfish

and Janet Planet.

Joe King Carrasco will play Giggity’s on New Year’s Eve.

Keith Sykes will play Third Coast on January 26th.

Linda Saad serves up a

yummy flaming Bananas Foster

cocktail at Treasure Island.

Mike Williams played the Gaff on Saturday.

The Gaff’s Ugly Sweater Party was last Saturday.

The Toman Brothers played Giggity’s on Friday.

Todd Dorn with Rusty Hicks and Woodie Lawson played Giggity’s on Saturday

night.

We lost a dear friend this week. RIP Sam Crawford Brown.


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