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GulfBreezeCystic Fibrosis Surf Camp

By Mike Murphy

In August, the Mauli Ola Foundation (MOF) road tour returned for a second

Surf Experience Day for persons with genetic disorders. Local pro surfer and owner of Texas Surf Camps (TSC), Morgan Faulkner, along with ten pro surfers on the MOF road tour made this event in Port Aransas a great success for the patients and families who were there.

Mauli Ola…..breath of lifeIn 2000, Ambry Genetics developed a breakthrough

technology for full gene testing related to the diagno-sis of Cystic Fibrosis. This technology is now used in national and global research by academic institutions, pharmaceutical companies and most of the major chil-dren’s and university hospitals. In 2007, Ambry Genetics cre-ated the non-profit MOF and since then Bobby Serna, Surf Experience Director, has coordinated over 50 events across the country and in Hawaii for over 800 Cystic Fibrosis patients.

The MOF was orga-nized to promote ed-ucation, awareness and increase research for genetic disorders. Funds are raised to support programs for kids and adults with life-threatening ill-nesses and disabili-ties through social events such as music concerts, sports events and Surf Experience Day events. The Surf Experience Day focuses on the connection be-tween surfing and Cystic Fibrosis to provide an enjoy-able option to help children with genetic disorders have a healthier way of life through natural treatments. Nu-merous professional surfers participate in each of the Surf Experience Day events as well as making hospital visits during their extensive road tours.

Therapy…..mental and physicalMOF Surf Experience Days were created to get kids

who have Cystic Fibrosis into the ocean water to ex-perience what a natural saline therapy can do for their lungs. The exercise and fun is fantastic and kids who

have Cystic Fibrosis respond very well to the salt wa-ter environment. The saline in the air and water breaks down the congestion that is in their lungs. This conges-tion requires frequent saline treatments in hospitals and daily medication. It has been determined that surfing can contribute to a healthier, more fulfilling life while hav-ing fun.

Professional surfers help each camper catch a wave, learn to stand-up on the board and ride the wave to the beach. Although some of the campers have initial reser-vations, most are comfortable after their first ride. Mor-gan Faulkner’s TSC provided surfboards and shade tents for the MOF Surf Experience Camps held at Port Aran-sas and Galveston.

Cystic Fibrosis…..patients and familiesTalking with the children diagnosed with Cystic Fibro-

sis was informative; their lives are full of constant chal-lenges to maintain the necessary treatments. Pulmonary and digestive treatments include inhalation therapy, nu-tritional enzyme and antibiotic treatments. Multiple dai-ly treatments at home are normal and extended stays in hospitals are also common.

This was the first time any of the kids have tried surfing. Jeremy Wingate, age 12, who did very well also enjoys football and river rafting. His parents Derek and Niki

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Fatal Crash in Port Aransas

Campers (orange shirts), families and pro surfers

vvvAnd other sea turtle news

from the National Seashore

By Donna J. Shaver, Ph.D. Division of Sea Turtle Science

and Recovery National Park Service Padre Island National Seashore e-mail: Donna_Shaver@nps.gov

Record numbers of nests from three sea turtle species have been found on North Padre Island during the last two years. The 126 Kemp’s ridley and six green tur-tle nests found this year, and the nine loggerhead nests found last year, are more than have been discovered for each of these species in a year since consistent record keeping of sea turtle nests found in Texas began in the early 1980s. However, some nests have likely gone un-detected over the years since turtle patrols were limit-ed in the state during the 1980s and 1990s, and during most years programs have been unable to extend patrols through the entire green and loggerhead nesting seasons.

Linda finds another nestTurtle patrollers Linda Reed and Andy Simmons locat-

ed the record-set-ting green turtle nest at the south-ern end of the Na-tional Seashore on August 19.

The previous annual record was five green turtle nests found in Texas during 1998, 2008, and 2010. Linda has found several Kemp’s ridley, loggerhead, and green tur-tle nests during her years of patrolling. The six green tur-tle nests found this year were all located at Padre Island National Seashore. Nesting could extend through mid-September, so more green turtle nests could be found this year.

Green and loggerhead turtles are listed as threatened species, and the Kemp’s ridley as endangered. Individ-uals from these three species tend to nest every two or three years, which could help explain the lack of log-gerhead nests this year. The loggerhead turtles that set the record here last year likely remained in the foraging grounds and skipped nesting this year. Hopefully they will return to our shores during 2012.

Last Kemp’s ridley hatchling releaseThe last Kemp’s ridley hatchling release on the Texas

coast for the 2011 was held at the National Seashore on August 19. About 450 people attended and watched 67 hatchlings scurry down the beach and enter the surf.

Thirty public releases of hatchlings were held at the National Seashore this year. This is more than during any other year since we began hold-ing public releases in the 1970s. More than 5,000 people attended this year, including local residents as well as visitors from out-of-town. Hatchling releases will resume in late-May or early-June 2012. The start date will depend upon when the first nests of the year are found. When Kemp’s ridley nests are dis-covered starting in April, their pro-jected release dates will be posted on the Padre Island National Sea-shore website www.nps.gov/pais.

Thank you to volunteersThis year, 123 volunteers helped

with the sea turtle efforts in the lo-cal area. We thank these very dedi-

cated individuals for their tremendous assistance with a variety of tasks. Collectively, they contributed thousands of hours of work. Volunteer Jenny Krouse alone con-tributed more than 1,000 hours. Sharolyn Linton, Bar-bara Threatt, Dennis Baker, and Glenice Baker round out the list of the five largest contributors of volunteer hours this year. We held our annual Volunteer Apprecia-tion Ceremony on August 18. Dozens of the volunteers and their family members attended. We were thrilled to have the opportunity to thank them for their hard work during this event.

Volunteers help us year-round, although most of their assistance is during the nesting and hatching seasons. We will hold a training session in a few months to prepare them to aid with cold stunning of juvenile green turtles, should it occur this winter. And, in February and March 2012 we will hold training for patrols to find, document, and protect nesting and stranded turtles found on the Gulf beaches. If you are interested in becoming a volun-teer with our project, please contact Cynthia Rubio, the Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery Volunteer Coordinator, by telephone at 361-949-8173, ext. 228 or by e-mail at pais_seaturtlevolunteer@nps.gov.

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The investigation continues into a fatal accident on Highway 361 in Port Aransas on Friday, August 19th. According to Port Aransas Police Chief Scott Burroughs a 2000 Mitsubishi Montero Sport SUV driven by 33-year-old Ruben Renteria was traveling North on highway 361 when Renteria’s vehicle drifted off of the right shoulder and struck a concrete culvert. The vehicle flipped end over end coming to rest on its roof. Ten people were inside of the vehicle in-cluding 8 children. Police say none of the children were wearing seat belts. Two children (pictured above) aged 9 and 2 died as a result of the crash another remains hospitalized. Renteria voluntarily submitted to a blood draw. Police say that the investigation continues and that no further comment will be made on the evidence or potential charges until the investigation is complete. The family and friends in the vehicle were from San Antonio headed to Port Aransas for the weekend. The accident closed Highway 361 in both directions for nearly four hours.

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zen fruit smoothies and that wonderful gelato. For those unfamiliar with this cool, creamy treat, David explains that gelato “has been around for over 400 years, con-tains two-thirds less fat than ice cream and tastes way better. Fruit based flavors (sorbetto) have no dairy in them, making them even healthier.” David attended ge-lato school in Baltimore, Md., where he learned to make gelato from a small family-owned Italian company. He makes Italian Gelato just as they do in Italy and uses the most up-to-date modern equipment available to ensure

the highest consisten-cy and quality. All ge-lato served at the Café will be made fresh just a few miles down the road at Coffee Waves Port Aransas. David says that aside from his two Coffee Waves shops, “no one else sells fresh made gelato on the Coast-al Bend. This unique product is just one of the things that make the Café a one-of-a-kind business, setting the standard for cof-fee shops all the way to Houston and San Antonio.”

With over 90 differ-ent gelato and sorbet-to flavors rotating on a weekly basis, Café

customers will never be bored of the sweet confection. Some flavors will be kept in stock constantly, due to popular demand, including: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, Butterfinger, stracciatella, mint chocolate chip, Fruits of the Forest, strawberry, no-sugar-added Strawberry, and many, many more. The special cinnamon flavor created especially for the Café’s August 17th grand opening is delicious. Ask for a free sample of this or any other ge-lato flavor.

But wait, there’s more! In addition to CoffeeWaves’ popular menu, C Bar has a full premium bar featuring microbrewery beer, an extensive wine list and super pre-mium liquor. “No one has a coffeeshop with gelato AND a full bar in the Coastal Bend,” David says. To combine all these delights, David serves fresh fruit gelato dai-quiris and piña coladas and coffee Bailey’s with gela-to. While the macchiato is the CoffeeWaves’ signature drink, David plans for C Bar to be famous for its mar-tini floats.

So C Bar’s smoke-free environment can accommodate the entire family, with drinks for the adults, non-alcohol-ic beverages for the kids and eats both sweet and savory for everyone. For those on the move, C Bar will put to-gether box lunch including a sandwich, chips, pastry and beverage.

David aims to make C Bar a social hotspot with a calen-dar of events including wine tasting nights, martini mad-ness nights, live music every weekend and special con-certs in the town square. What’s just a concrete pad right now will soon be a stage for outdoor concerts alongside the patio wine bar. David’s planning an end-of-summer Singer/Songwriter Festival and a major Folk Festival in 2012.

As for retail, David is teaming up with John Buerger of Big Shell Bikes to make “fat tire” beach bikes available for rental right from the Café. David also plans to have artisans offer handcrafted items from the Town Center shops.

With its white washed wood plank walls, blue floors and a soaring ceiling, the café echoes the architectural style of the Cinnamon Shore homes and offers an unob-structed view of the sunset from its tall front windows. C Bar Café is open to the public seven days a week from 7 a.m. to midnight, during peak season. For more infor-mation, visit www.cinnamonshore.com or call 361-749-0704. Or come to 165 Social Circle in Cinnamon Shore at 5009 Hwy 361in Port Aransas. I’ll see you there.

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along with brothers Evan and Blake drove from New Braunsfels.

Tori Bourland, age 11, her sister Winter and mother Krystal, drove from Austin for the event. Nathan Costel-lo, age 14, brother Cameron and mother Hollie also drove from Austin. Anthony Holloway, age 21, just six months after a lung transplant, was actively enjoying the surf during the event.

Overall the children remain positive throughout their

daily ordeals. Their attitude and the support of oth-er patients, families and treatment facilities are impor-tant. There are times when patients become non-compli-ant with their treatments; this often leads to more prob-lems often requiring hospital admission to help stabilize the patient for return to home treatments. The financial drain and often limited insurance coverage further com-plicates family matters.

Sharing the stoke…..not just surfing It is difficult to say who, volunteers or campers, has the

most stoke at these surf camps, everyone who participat-ed looks forward to the next MOF Surf Experience Day.

Another important aspect of the MOF is making vis-its to local hospitals and treatment facilities during the road trip. These visits allow many patients a chance to meet the professional surfers when they are otherwise unable to participate in the Surf Experience Day events. In addition to Port Aransas and Galveston, MOF Surf Experience Days are held in northern and southern Cali-fornia; Florida; the Carolinas; Virginia; New Hampshire and Hawaii.

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Jeremy Wingate enjoys one of his many wave rides

This girl was riding waves like a natural

C Bar Marks Milestone in Port Aransas

Could life in Port Aransas possibly get any better? Yes! David Bendett, owner of CoffeeWaves, has opened C Bar Café in the Cinnamon Shore subdivision. Not that CoffeeWaves Port Aransas is far away. It’s just a few miles down the road from my house. But the C Bar Café (which is open to the entire community, not just Cinna-mon Shore residents) is within walking distance! I can get a macchiato fix and mind my carbon footprint at the same time.

The café’s location is one of things that Da-vid thinks makes C Bar especially attrac-tive. “Once you get south of the Newport Dunes golf course, there isn’t any retail until you get to Cor-pus Christi,” he ob-serves. And David’s proud to be the first retailer in Cinnamon Shore. As a wholly master-planned New Urbanism develop-ment, Cinnamon Shore will feature a Town Center com-plete with shops, res-taurants, workspaces and gathering places, and C Bar Café is the first, a mile-stone for the mixed-used community. In fact, it’s the first of just about all of those together: it’s a shop, an eatery, a gathering place and, with the free wifi, can be a work-space.

C Bar offers the same menu items found in Coffee-Waves: organic gourmet coffees, artisan level espresso, fresh-baked pastries, assorted panini sandwiches, fro-

Plumeria in bloom Photo by Miles Merwin

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Culinary Adventures Hello Cookie!

By Diane Halferty TCA, ACF culinaryadv@aol.com

Let’s TacoThe word Taco is a generic word in Mexico like the

English word sandwich, In 1520, Bernard Diaz del Cas-tillo, who came to the New World with Hernan Cortez, wrote detailed chronicles about the lavish feasts held.

The first taco bash was a banquet organized by Cortez for his captain. He did not invent the taco however, as an-thropologists have found evidence that inhabitants of the lake region of the Valley of Mexico ate tacos filled with small fish, such as acosiles and charales long before this.

The first appearance of tacos in cookbooks, came in 1914. As of March 20, 2011, Tortilla sales for the past year totaled $240 BILLION dollars in the U.S. alone and many of those were used to make tacos.

Tacos can either have soft shells or hard shells, both have fillings of meat (or beans), vegetables and cheese. Soft shell tacos are the not crunchy ones – but are

flexible and moldable.

If I ever find a “sugar daddy” and can open my restau-rant, I will feature really yummy tacos. Forget those fast food yucky imitation tacos, and try some of these recipes that are sure to please family and friends. Tacos can be wrapped in foil then newspapers and transported to pic-nics, sporting events and other outings.

All recipes can be increased or decreased proportion-ately.

Chili-Spiced Steak and Grilled Onion Tacos12 Servings

1 Tablespoon vegetable oil, plus more for grill

2 Tablespoons chili powder, such as Ancho, Pasilla or Chipotle

2 Tablespoons light-brown sugar

2 Tablespoons soy sauce

2 Tablespoons fresh lime juice, plus wedges for serving

1-1/2 pounds flank steak

Coarse salt and ground pepper

1 large red onion, cut into 1/4-inch rounds

12 corn tortillas, warmed or lightly toasted

Recipe for Fresh Tomatillo Salsa below**

In a small bowl, whisk together 1 Tablespoon oil, chili powder, brown sugar, soy sauce and lime juice. Place steak in a 9x13-inch baking dish and cover with mari-nade. Turn once to coat steak, then cover dish tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.

Clean and lightly oil grill. Heat a grill or grill pan to medium-high. Remove steak from marinade and let ex-cess marinade drip off. Discard marinade. Season steak with salt and pepper. Grill onion and steak, flipping oc-casionally, until onion is lightly charred and steak is me-dium-rare, about 10 minutes. Place onion on a serving plate. Transfer steak to a cutting board, loosely tent with foil and let rest 10 minutes before thinly slicing against the grain. Serve steak and onion with tortillas, salsa and lime wedges.

** To make 1-1/2 Cups of Fresh Tomatillo Salsa: In a small bowl, combine 1/4 pound tomatillos, husks re-moved, diced small, ¼ Cup minced red onion and 1 ja-lapeño, seeded and minced (2 Tablespoons). Season to taste with coarse salt and let sit 10 minutes before serv-ing. (To store, refrigerate in an airtight container up to 3 days.)

Salmon Tacos 8 Servings

Salsa:1 Can (11 ounce) Mexi corn, drained

1 Cup cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered

1/2 Cup black beans, rinced, drained

1/2 Cup shredded carrots

1/2 Cup chopped green chiles

1/4 Cup diced red onion

2 Tablespoon(s) chopped fresh cilantro

Salmon:2 (about 1-1/2 pounds) salmon steaks, 1-inch thick

1 Tablespoon(s) jalapeno and lime flavored olive oil, or any favorite flavored or plain olive oil

1/4 teaspoon(s) salt

1/4 teaspoon(s) pepper

8 taco shells

Shredded romaine or iceberg lettuce for garnish

In a medium bowl, combine the salsa ingredients; set aside.

Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Brush oil over salmon steaks; sprinkle with salt and pep-per.

Cook salmon in skillet 3 to 4 minutes per side, for medi-um-rare. Remove from heat; let cool slightly then break up into chunks.

Spoon salmon into taco shells, dividing evenly; top with corn salsa. Garnish with lettuce.

Fried Potato Tacos with Chorizo and Avocado Salsa12 Tacos

3 potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-in. cubes

1-1/2 Cups cooked Chorizo Crumbles (sautéed chorizo, clumps broken up)

Olive oil for sautéeing

1/2 Cup finely chopped onion

12 6-inch corn tortillas

**Salsa (see recipe below)

Boil potatoes in salted water until tender (10 minutes). Drain. Sauté onions in olive oil (can use the same skillet you cooked the chorizo in)… until translucent. Add Cho-rizo Crumbles and potatoes. Cook and toss until potatoes are slightly brown. Fill warm tortillas with potato mix-ture. Serve with salsa.

**The salsa:

1 large avocado, peeled, pitted, diced

1 tomato, diced

1/4 Cup chopped onion

2 garlic cloves, minced

2 Tablespoons chopped cilantro

Juice of one lime

1/4 Tablespoon ground cumin

1/4 teaspoon pepper

1/2 teaspoon salt

Combine in a small bowl and toss ingredients.

Variation: Scrambled eggs can be added to the filling, if desired.

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Vitamin D, Hormones and the Solar System

While we chillax indoors attempting to beat the heat, we may be at risk of developing Vitamin D deficiency. One Monday morning as I reviewed all the lab results that slid in on the fax over the weekend, 100% of my pa-tients were Vitamin D deficient. Whoa, we are in sunny South Texas, what’s up with that? Seems the medical community’s message to use sunscreen, perch under the beachbrella, and totally cover our bods outdoors to pre-vent skin cancer has literally sunk in. Vitamin D is also known as Cholecalciferol, cholesterol being necessary for adequate Vitamin D synthesis from the sun. This is then converted into the hormone calciferol. These days recommended cholesterol levels are lower than ever and just may be depleting our Vitamin D and hormone levels along the way. But wait; don’t stop your cholesterol low-ering regimen just yet!

Old wattageBack in the 70s, my undergraduate curriculum offered

a mere blip on Vitamin D deficiency. The abbreviated point conveyed that this condition was mostly confined to third world countries (PC-developing countries) who lack the Vitamin D fortified dairy products we fortunate ones consume on a daily basis. People in these impover-ished areas suffer from rickets (brittle bones and skeletal deformities) plus really bad teeth. New pearls of lumi-nary wisdom have been discovered and attribute an ever growing number of chronic health problems to Vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D has always been known to be an essential component in maximizing calcium absorption in our body.

Research is shedding new lightOsteoporosis is the number one diagnosis that comes to

mind relating to this insufficiency. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with many cancers including lung, breast, colon, and prostate to name a few. A recent obe-sity study found 9 out of 10 of the severely overweight participants had a Vitamin D deficiency; that is HUGE, pun intended! Hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and pso-riasis sufferers have been discovered in large part to be Vitamin D deficient. Depression, chronic pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, PMS, gout, and bursitis have all been LinkedIn a Vitamin D deficit. People over the age of 70 become incapable of synthesizing Vitamin D from sun exposure and may suffer many ailments be-cause of it. Many autoimmune disorders such as rheu-matoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and lupus have def-inite connections to this deficiency. Persons with dark skin tone are more prone to Vitamin D deficiency as they are unable to absorb the sun’s beneficial components through their skin texture. Last year researchers found that 80% of an NFL football team were Vitamin D defi-cient. African American players and those who suffered muscle injuries had significantly lower levels. One of our prominent Moon Monkeys heard that Vitamin D supple-mentation would prevent hangovers. I have yet to run across any information on this but bet we could solicit a few characters at Farah’s watering hole as guinea pigs for some unofficial Moon data.

Basking in the North Padre SunI called my favorite Corpus Christi dermatologist; Dr.

Cathy Cole-Perez, to solicit her take on this and what she felt we could do to enjoy the sun without the well known risk. She states that she feels comfortable with

15 minutes of sun exposure without sun screen several days per week. Dr. Cole-Perez states this recom-mendation is reflected in her peer reviewed journals and reiterated by leading dermatolo-gists. Of course, if you have a personal history of skin cancer or are concerned about your own exposure, con-sult your personal physician or healthcare provider. Sun-screen use with as little as 8 SPF can decrease the ben-eficial absorption by 95%. According to Adams and Hol-lis in their bone and mineral metabolism textbook, 30 minutes of total body exposure of pale skin to sunlight without clothing or sunscreen can result in a dose of be-tween 10,000 and 20,000 IUs (international units) of Vi-tamin D.

What’s normal?Before you run down to CVS to pick up your D-dose, it

is important to determine your current Vitamin D level. The “normal” range is 32-100. That’s an awfully big box and many of my patients aren’t even in the bottom of it. I treat patients very aggressively to bring them up to an optimal and therapeutic range of 50-80 with a prescrip-tion-only weekly dose for 3 months. Lab values should be closely monitored on this mega dosing since vitamin D is fat or oil soluble and the body does not eliminate ex-cess as with water soluble vitamins such as C & B there-fore toxicity can occur. Ask your healthcare provider to check your Vitamin D 25-Hydroxy, the gold standard for determining deficiency. If you do not have insurance, this test can cost up to $275, (just another example of the astronomical cost of quality healthcare, don’t even get me started). For those of you without insurance cover-age, there are home kits available. This requires a mos-quito-bite finger-prick and results can be obtained within about a week for $60. I have these kits available in my office for the uninsured or anyone interested in checking their own level.

You are what you eatThe USDA’s current RDA (recommended daily require-

ment), circa 1968, has remained 400 IU per day despite tons of research over the last couple of decades proving Vitamin D3 1000-2000 IUs daily is most beneficial to prevent or treat the associated health problems. Most of our dairy products are fortified with Vitamin D, check the labels. Just looked at my skim milk label and it states one cup has 25% of the RDA, which we now know would be only 100 IU according to our outdated stan-dards. Based on the current epidemia, we are obvious-ly not getting enough in our food sources. The highest source on a list of dietary sources is cod liver oil, yuck! Mushrooms that are zapped with ultraviolet radiation of-fer a whopping dose of Vitamin D, who knew? No other plant sources were noted on the reviewed list. Fatty fish, some shellfish, egg yolks, butter and lard rank high on the list. Yes, those are some fatty, high cholesterol foods, not recommended.

Our best bet

Have your Vitamin D level checked and add a supple-ment to your daily routine if indicated, especially in the winter months. Or, do as I do, take advantage of our Pa-dre thermodynamics and head on over to Mikey’s beach in search of pearls to share while soaking up some warm hormonal rays.

Around Port ABeach Walk

Grab a bucket, bag or cup and come see what you can find on Port A beaches.

Friday, Aug. 26, is the free guided beach walk at 9am. Meet Shirley Fischer under the purple flag near Horace Caldwell Pier at the end of Beach Street in Port Aransas for an informative and entertaining stroll.

The up-to-2-hour walk will be between the pier and the jetties. Come for however long you want to participate.

All kinds of treasures may be found, and Shirley will help you figure out what each is.

The monthly event is courtesy of the Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department.

KPAB meeting

Keep Port Aransas Beautiful is eager to have more peo-ple come join the busy 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

The public is invited to come to the August meeting to

be held on Tuesday, Aug. 30.

Come to the William Ellis Memorial Library meeting room at 710 W. Ave. A, at 6pm and see what the group is up to.

Plans will be discussed for the Annual Appreciation Cel-ebration set for Monday, Sept. 12. This is when KPAB shows its appreciation to the community for help in their endeavors.

KPAB is a non-profit organization, whose mission is to promote public interest to create a cleaner, more beau-tiful Port Aransas through volunteerism and education.

The organization focuses on litter reduction, beautifica-tion and community improvement, to reduce/reuse/ recy-cle/rebuy and provides environmental education.

For more information contact KPAB Chairman Mike Secich at (330) 219-5991.

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/Low Time Feet Sunset VisibleF 26 High 4:00 AM 1.9 7:04 AM Rise 4:22 AM 13

26 Low 7:48 PM -0.1 7:56 PM Set 6:05 PM

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Texas Takes Another Step Forward In The Battle Against Human Trafficking

• A commercial sex act through the use of force, fraud, or coercion.

• Any commercial sex act, if the person is under 18 years of age, regardless of whether any form of coercion is involved.

Federally funded human trafficking taskforces across the country opened over 2,500 suspected cases of hu-man tracking between 2008-2010. This was based on in-formation entered into the Human Trafficking Report-ing System (HTRS). Approximately eighty-two percent were cases of suspected incidents which are defined as sex trafficking. Out of the 2,500 suspected incidents, over 1,200 of those incidents were involving adults and an excess of 1,000 were allegations of prostitution or sexual exploitation of a child. Eleven percent of the opened cases were classified as labor trafficking.

Currently, there are four regions throughout Texas that supply data to the HTRS. According to the data com-piled since 2007, 480 human trafficking victims have been reported in Texas. Out of the 480 victims, 189 were not United States citizens, 220 were Americans being trafficked domestically and 71 were from a country of origin that was unknown.

It is important to know that human trafficking is not ex-clusive to one segment of society. Human trafficking in-volves victims of all races, age groups, both males and females and United States Citizens, as well as non-cit-izens. Individuals seeking to force people in to human trafficking do not discriminate amongst their victims and often prey upon those who are most vulnerable.

As the discussion of the Human Trafficking issue moves forward, I will keep you informed. Please do not hesitate to call my offices if you have any questions regarding HCR 68. 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).

During the 81st Legislative session, I had the fortune to serve as the Chairman of the Judiciary and Civil Ju-risprudence committee. While serving as Chairman of the committee, I was shocked to learn of the human traf-ficking issue currently present within the State of Tex-as. It quickly became clear to me that this is an issue that Texas needs to focus on and strive to shutdown in all its forms. During the 82nd Texas Regular Legislative Session, I filed and passed House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 68, which was signed on June 17, by Governor Rick Perry.

HCR 68 officially requests that the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House create a joint interim study committee. The committee would be comprised of Texas House and Texas Senate members, who would meet dur-ing the interim to investigate and review the issue of hu-man trafficking in the State of Texas. It is important for the State of Texas to take a lead role in combating hu-man trafficking due to the state’s large geographical size, busy ports, as well as Texas’ location on the U.S./Mexico border along with three other states.

The U.S. State Department estimates that 800,000 men, women and children are trafficked across international borders each year by criminals. It is also estimated that approximately twenty percent of those individuals go through the State of Texas. Also, Houston and El Paso are listed among the “most intense trafficking jurisdic-tions in the country” according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, harboring, trans-portation, provision, or obtaining of a person for one of three purposes:

• Labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

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vin Gaye tune to the Beatles’ eerie Something into some hot Latin (Santana) and then maybe play a few soulful originals…then back to some major butt rocking blues, all the time scorching his guitar and singing like it’s his last dying breath. His face contorts with every note he plays, he’s like an open book. The soul that exudes out of this young man is infectious. He completely draws you in and owns that stage. V mentored with the late Chris Holzhaus who didn’t have one calm bone in his body. It shows. He’ll be back at the Porch on September 24th.

DO NOT MISS LISTHoR Blues Fest

The House of Rock in Cor-pus will host a “Blues Fest” on September 3rd. I’m not sure you can quite call this a festival but it’s definite-ly a good blues show they have planned. And, though this is a stretch from the usual heavier HoR fanfare, the lineup for this event is promising with a nation-al, a regional and three lo-cal blues acts. The line-up will include Guitar Shorty (Los Angeles, CA), Alan Haynes (Austin, TX), The John Cortez Band

(Corpus Christi, TX), Cathouse (Corpus Christi, TX) and Ernie and Tom (Corpus Christi, TX).

Guitar Shorty (born David Kear-ny in 1939) is a man who has been around. At the tender age of 16, Shorty spent a year playing with Ray Charles and recorded his first single on Cobra Records in 1957 under the direction of Willie Dix-on. He has played with blues greats such as Guitar Slim, T-Bone Walk-er, Big Joe Turner, Little Richard and Sam Cooke. In 1961, Shorty married Jimi Hendrix’ sister Mar-cia. His famous bother-in-law would often come to his shows and they were friends until Hendrix’s un-timely death in 1970. In his young-er, more agile years, Shorty was fa-mous for his onstage acrobatics,

amazing audiences with his somersaults and flips. He has two W.C. Handy awards with 13 CD’s to his credit and currently records for Alligator Records.

Alan Haynes’ resume reads like a blues player’s Who’s Who. He has performed with such blues greats as Ste-vie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds (with Jimmie Vaughan), Albert Collins, John Lee Hook-er, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Bugs Henderson, Gregg Martin, Joe Walsh, Le-roy Parnell, Willie Nelson, John Mayall, James Cot-ton, Denny Freeman, Austin’s Sexton brothers (Will & Charlie), Derek O’Brien, Doyle Bramhall II, and the great Johnny Winter (who he claims as a major inspi-ration). This influence can be heard especially in Alan’s passionate and throaty singing style. He’s opened for the Talking Heads, Muddy Waters, and Buddy Guy and has toured with Albert King and Bobby Blue Bland, to name a few. For six years in the 1990’s Alan was the house band at the legendary Antone’s Blues Club in Aus-tin, TX.

The John Cortez band, Cathouse and Ernie & Tom are all local talent. The Cortez band is a Stevie clone pow-erhouse trio who plays frequently in the Corpus area. I wasn’t familiar with the other two acts but HoR owner, Casey Lane, tells me, “Cathouse is a local blues band

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Three Chords and the Truth

Well folks, Labor Day Weekend is upon us and the season is wind-ing down. August brought us some great moments as the Back Porch continued to hit home runs. They recently hosted a totally awesome weekend of music on the 11th-13th that I thoroughly enjoyed with the

Bo Porter Band, the Sisters Morales and Miss Neesie and the Earfood Orchestra. All three of those shows were absolutely outstanding. Also, I caught the Ruben V and Almost Patsy Cline shows there last weekend. Ruben was on fire. I gave him a little ink, here. He de-serves it. We didn’t stay long for Almost Patsy Cline…it reminded me too much of the dances at the American Legion Hall that my parents used to drag me to during my youth. But, I am glad to see this music is be-ing kept alive (50’s, 60’s and 70’s C& W top 40…lots of Ray Price). They even played the theme for the old western, The Magnificent Sev-en. For some reason I kept flashing back to the old dancehall in San An-tonio, the Farmer’s Daughter. This band would be perfect there.

I also caught some of Suzi Bravo’s show at the Gaff last Saturday. Bra-vo’s band, Soul Revue, does S.A. proud. She’s got a fat B-3 blues and soul vibe going with some Etta James meets Randy Garibay for barbacoa and Big Red. Her slow blues really rocks! It showcases Bravo’s voice…patient and sassy. I hope we see her at SandFest again next spring! This is a good band!

Look for a big Labor Day Weekend line-up around the Coastal Bend: Larry Joe Taylor and Davin James will be at the Porch, The Jerry Diaz Trio and Sol Tribe will be at the Tarpon Ice House, and there’s a big show at Concrete Street with Randy Rogers and Pat Green. But, the really big news lately is the House of Rock’s mu-sic calendar. Michael O’Connor (w/ 40 lb. Dog open-ing) just played his CD Release (Devil Stole the Moon) there on the 19th. And, over this holiday weekend, they will be having the great Bob Schneider plus a very cool blues fest with Guitar Shorty and Alan Haynes. I’ll have the skinny on that for you as well. Plus, on the near horizon, the HoR will have none other than Hank Wil-liams III and I’ll tell you all about that. The LIVE MU-SIC TONIGHT box is jammed full of shows to check out, so get out there and support our live music scene. There’s plenty of it. But right now, time’s a wasting…let’s roll!

Ruben VRuben V (San Antonio, TX) blazed into the Back Porch

on August 19th. The word I keep coming back to with Mr. Ruben Vela is intense. He sings and plays every song with a super intense passion. He does a mix of what I call the good stuff. He’ll jump from a soulful Mar-

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Bob SchneiderBob Schneider (Austin, TX) will play the

House of Rock on September 4th. A genu-ine Austin phenomenon, Bob Schneider is a singer/songwriter who began his solo act in 1999, after years of leading three of Austin’s

most recognized bands: Joe Rock-head, The Scabs, and Ugly Amer-icans. Bob’s musical approach as a solo artist has proven as eclec-tic as the diverse musical styles of his former bands--a little bit singer/songwriter and a whole lot of bits and pieces of funk, country, rock, and folk. After 12 years as a solo act, Sch-

neider has a long list of accom-plishments he’s achieved while be-coming Austin’s darling. Among those are his 2009-2010 SXSW Austin Mu-sic Award: Band of the Year, Musician of the

Year, Song of the Year (Like Romeo and Juliet), Album of the Year (Lovely Creatures), Male Vocalist of the Year, and Songwriter of the Year. He’s earned an invita-tion to appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and has an amazing record for selling more than 15,000 self-released CD’s at just one Austin record store. Also, he used to date Sandra Bullock and is a total chick mag-net. His X rated songs and funky rhythms always draw sell-out crowds at every gig he plays in Austin (usually at Antones). You don’t want to miss this show. He usu-ally plays Brewster Street and I have a feeling this one at HoR will be down and dirty.

Hank William IIIHank Williams III (Nashville, TN), now and forev-

er more to be known as Hank3, will play the House of Rock in Corpus on September 12th. Williams, age 38, will release four (count ‘em- that’s FOUR) new CD’s on September 5th and embark on a 22 city tour begin-

ning in the South, going through Texas on to the West Coast and culminating in the Rockies. Once a defiant (and pissed-off) recording artist with the major Nashville label, Curb Records, Williams has now formed his own record company and is doing things his way. “I’ve been off the road for awhile, and I’m looking’ at two years of being full-on dedicated to go-ing out there and doing what we do,” said Hank3.  “That’s one of the reasons I want-ed to release all four of these albums at the same time, so I could just focus back on the touring again.”

Williams will be performing two-and-a-half to three-hour shows, opening with a Country set, followed by a louder, rowdy Hellbilly set, and finishing with a set fea-turing his new metal/doom band, Atten-tion Deficit Domination. All of the new

CD’s (Ghost to a Ghost/ Gutter Town, 3 Bar Ranch Cat-tle Callin’ and Attention Deficit Domination) were re-corded at The Haunted Ranch, Hank3’s home and re-cording studio outside of Nashville. The two disc re-lease, Ghost to a Ghost/ Gutter Town, is a straight shoot-ing 41 track County record flavored with his trademark Hellbilly sound, mostly all penned by Williams. The 9 track, Attention Deficit Domination, is a crunching, met-al world of the heavy and the slow, complete with his renowned, fundamental percussion. The 23-track Cattle Callin’ features Hank3’s driving guitar attack, with in-strumentation built around auctioneering calls…a little something for everybody.

And that’s the truth!

Live Music TonightFriday, Aug. 26th

Mike Blakely y los Yahoos @ Back Porch Five Card Draw @ Brewster Street Witness by Proxy @ Hooks B-B-Q Ray T & the City Crew @ Flats Lounge The Iguanas/Weak Day Boyz @ House of Rock Scarecrow People @ Executive Surf Club Acoustic Breeze @ Coffee Waves Sol Tribe @ The Gaff Better Angels @ The Wildhorse Saloon Ruben V @ Dr. Rockits Brian Winfrey @ Island Italian

Saturday, Aug. 27th

Dust Devils @ Back Porch The Ones @ Tarpon Ice House Hanna’s Reef @ Brewster Street Dave “Bottlehead” Miller @ Hooks B-B-Q Rodney Bowens & Jambonz @ House of Rock Flashback @ Executive Surf Club Stuart Burns @ Coffee Waves Ruben Limas @ Island Italian Green River Ordinance @ Wataburger Field Lyrical Bynge @ Flats Lounge Beltsander Races w/ Willie @ The Gaff Tiffany Kay @ The Wildhorse Saloon Chris Ruest @ Dr. Rockits

Tuesday, Aug. 30th

Open Mic w/ Rev. Fred @ House of Rock Scarecrow People @ Executive Surf Club Antone & the Atomic Blues Band @ Dr. Rockits Clarissa Serna @ Revolution Bar & Grill Adrian Taylor @ Blackbeard’s Too Bobby Carter @ Blackbeard’s

Wednesday, Aug. 31st

HOBO @ House of Rock John Eric @ Pelicans Lounge

Thursday, Sept. 1st

Emory Quinn @ Back Porch Cody Canada & the Departed.Stewart Mann & Statesboro Revue @ Brewster Street Free Beer @ Tarpon Ice House Mark Lozano @ Hooks B-B-Q Adam Hood & Brian Kean @ Executive Surf Club

Friday, Sept. 2ndCarol Elliott @ Tarpon Ice House

Jerry Diaz Trio @ Tarpon Ice House

Davin James @ Back Porch Wing Ding Chicken Wing Cook-

Off @ The Gaff Dave Bottlehead Miller @ Hooks

B-B-Q The Spazmatics @ Brewster Street

Trysum @ Executive Surf Club Dub Gideon @ The Gaff

Ray T & the City Crew @ Flats Lounge

Spark in the Dark @ Coffee Waves Dave “Bottlehead” Miller @ Hooks B-B-Q

Bar Nutz @ House of Rock Duke E. Brown @ Dr. Rockits

Sarah McQuaid @ Rialto TheaterSaturday, Sept 3rd

Larry Joe Taylor @ Back Porch Jerry Diaz Trio @ Tarpon Ice

House Two Rivers Trio @ Hooks B-B-Q

Oso Texas @ Brewster Street Blues Fest: Guitar Shorty/Alan

Haynes/John Cortez/Cathouse @ House of Rock

The Fossils @ The Gaff The Lavens @ Wildhorse

Get Off the Lawn @ Coffee Waves Lyrical Bynge @ Flats Lounge Max Stalling @ Executive Surf

Club Another Level @ Dr. Rockits

Sunday, Sept. 4thBob Schneider/Deadbeat Darling

@ House of Rock Randy Rogers/ Pat Green/

Josh Abbott/Whiskey Myers @ Concrete Street

Del Castillo @ Brewster Street Two Rivers Trio (noon) @ Hooks

B-B-Q Russ McGilvay @ Hooks B-B-Q

Sol Tribe @ Tarpon Ice House Kabomba @ Dr. Rockits

Thursday, Sept. 8thBrandon Rhyder @ Brewster Street

Bri Bagwell & the Banned @ Executive Surf Club Free Beer @ Tarpon Ice House

John Cortez @ Dr. Rockits

Friday, Sept. 9thThe Ones @ Back Porch

Periphery/Human Abstract/Textures/Contortionists/Buried Under Texas/

Fall @ House of Rock The Pictures @ Brewster Street

Mr. Mo & the Famous Unknowns @ Hooks B-B-Q

Get Off the Lawn @ Coffee Waves Ray T & the City Crew @ Flats

Lounge Time Pilots @ Executive Surf Club

Antone & the Atomic Blues Band @ Dr. Rockits

George Ensle @ Roberts Point Park

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