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December 22, 2016
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White Island Christmas!
By Dale Rankin As you read this the Winter Solstice has come and gone. Wednesday was the shortest day of the year judged by the amount of daylight. From here on out the days will be getting longer on our little sandbar and friends, that’s a good thing. One of the advantages of Christmas falling on Sunday this year is our OTB relatives will have to be back at work on Monday or Tuesday at the latest so stretching a two-day stay into a weeklong holiday/fishing trip with a free place to stay won’t happen. Fish and relatives…three days…you know the story.
Elephant in the room The elephant in The Island room this week has to be the water outage that left the city high and dry from late Wednesday night until Sunday. We’ve become accustomed to water boil orders hereabouts as there have been several in the past eighteen months due to fecal chloroform in the city’s aging water system but this one was different. When we hear that Indoline and Hydrochloric Acid have been introduced into the water supply that gets our attention. We’ll leave the detailed coverage of the event to the Big Daily and the television types since it changes day to day. The Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday took steps to register each of the industrial users around the city which have back-flow devices like the one which apparently failed and caused this problem, a move that probably should have been done long ago. We want to commend the new and current city council which in only its second week on the job had this gem dropped into their collective lap. Welcome to the briar patch guys. But the council dealt with it with directness, solidarity, and thoughtfulness that made the best of a bad situation. The new mayor didn’t run from the problem and his measured but straightforward approach, with the council literally behind him, was well received and appreciated by the citizens. From the looks of things this one wasn’t on the city, the source of the chemicals was a private entity which, according to the facts currently on the table, reported the problem to the proper authorities in a timely fashion. Now the challenge is to see that it doesn’t happen again.
By Dale Rankin Once upon a time in an Island not so far away on the night before Christmas as Island kids began to settle in for a long winter’s night a magical thing happened. A check that only Charles Dickens could have written and Mother Nature could have cashed found its way to the bank, the snowbank…on The Island. Our Island was covered with snow. A beautiful, soft blanket of pristine snow descended on our Island on Christmas Eve 2004 and stayed around long enough that more than a decade later we still remember where we were when we first saw it.
As the number of visitors to The Island continues to increase this problem is only going to get worse without vigilant enforcement. If you see someone driving in the dune call
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It was not long after dark that the first flakes began to stick and word went Around The Island that it was snowing outside. Even the kids put down their phones and ran outside it was so unbelievable, inconceivable that right here, on our little bar of sand in the Gulf of Mexico that we could have a White Christmas. If any Island kids were able to sleep that night at all, they awoke the next morning to a beautiful blanket of three inches of white covering their Island. It was something even the old folks had never seen before - a White Christmas on The Island! Some rushed to the beach and built fires so they could stay warm outside
while they watched The Island slowly become engulfed in snow, others like Island Moon founder Mike Ellis made snow angels. Only providence knows what thoughts were racing through the minds of Island dogs as for the first time in their dog lives they could run unbounded through Island parks without fear of sticker burs. It was a rarity described by the Weather Wonks as “a combination of the very low- latitude upper-level trough, and the deep cold air mass.” That is to say…snow. A coffee table book of photographs of the event has sold more than 70,000 books in seven printings since its release in October 2005. It was a dozen years ago, but any Island who lived through it still has stories to tell. Yes, Virginia, there was once a White Christmas on The Island.
How Did Santa Clause Get to be His Jolly Old Cherubic Self? And why he wears the Coca Cola colors
The story of Santa Clause, or someone like him, has been around for eons. But the jolly old red-clad fellow we see around today isn’t all that old. The Santa Clause we have today did not spring fully formed from a single Santa origin; the Santa we have today is a hybrid creation was shaped by many people from diverse places and times. The tale of Santa Claus, the mystery gift-giver, reaches back centuries. In
Dummies in the Dunes
As you can see from the Letter to the Editor in this issue from Islander David Pierce we continue to have a problem with knuckleheads driving in the dunes. Why anyone would think it is okay to drive a vehicle over grass-covered dunes is beyond our imagination but there seems to be a lot of Island visitors who feel that way. We say visitors because most Island residents, if not all, know that is simply not done. David had been fighting this battle for over a year now and is making some headway but there is still work to be done. The area south of Bob Hall Pier we all call The Bowl which began decades ago with a blowout in the dunes continues to spread out as four-wheelers keep the vegetation tramped down.
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previous incarnations, Santa didn’t have a red suit. His varied cultural roots included the fourth-century bishop of Asia Minor; a Scandinavian dwarf or goat; the white-robed Kolyada, a pre-revolutionary Russian girl who arrived atop a sleigh with accompanying carolers; and the many religious gift-bearers associated with the Magi. In each of these Old World depictions of Santa, his costume bears no sign of red. Here in the United States, the Dutch were primarily responsible for spreading the idea of Sante Klaas, who was based on one of their revered bishops. Sante Klaas gave form to the current myth of Santa and fleshed out his reputation as a gift-giver. However, the visual image was not honed until much later, when Coca-Cola created needed a way to boost lagging sales in the shadow of the Depression. At that time not only did Old St. Nick not always were a red suit, he didn’t even always have whiskers, must less white ones. Those additions sprung from the mind of an illustrator
hired by the Coca-Cola company, who cannily promoted a version of Santa garbed in their redand-white corporate colors. The relatively new Coca-Cola Company at the time needed to increase sales and turned to a fellow named Haddon Sundblom, of Sweden, who churned out a series of drawings showing the red and white, garbed Santa Clause who just happened to be drinking a Coke. But Sondblom’s drawing were based on what had already been accepted as the image of Santa. Drawings of a full-bearded Santas (and his predecessors), showing figures clothed in red suits (and hats) with white fur trimming, held together with broad black belts, were also common long before Coca-Cola's first Santa Claus advertisement appeared, as far back as 1906. But once Sondbom’s drawing, backed by the advertising budget of CocaCola, caught on in just a few years the image became accepted as The Santa Clause. And the rest they say, is Santa History. Dale Rankin
Packery Pointe Developers Get Extension Delay in work on Aquarius/SPID traffic light cited By Dale Rankin The developers of the Packery Point development which was the impetus for the installation of the new traffic light at the Aquarius/SPID intersection were granted a six-month extension this week on platting for their development which includes retails sites on the east side of the roadway. According to documents filed with the Corpus Christi Planning Commission last week the developers, Turner-Busby Development based in San Antonio, plan to create six commercial and one non-commercial lot at the intersection but final platting has been stalled due to delays in completing work there by crews
contracted by the City of Corpus Christi to reconfigure the intersection and install the traffic light. According to the documents filed this week with the city’s Planning Commission the latest completion date was set for December 15 but that date was not met.
passed without the work being done Turner-Busby began requesting and receiving extensions of the platting with the latest extension coming last
According to the documents the developers signed the original development agreement with the city in August, 2015, and paid money for their share of the project, $420,000, by September, 2015 and a completion date was set for October Work continues at the Aquarius intersection 2016. When that deadline Packary cont. on A4
Island by the numbers
Snowfalls in the Coastal Bend
It had been 86 years since The Island had a White Christmas; in 1918 one inch of snow fell on Christmas Day. But in 2004 three inches fell and stayed around long enough for us to take a lifetime’s worth of photographs. Snow covered the Coastal Bend from Galveston, to Brownsville and as far inland as Goliad and Victoria. The snowfall got heavier as it moved north dropping 1.5 inches in Brownsville and 10-12 inches in Victoria. For a little historical perspective, the last time Corpus Christi or the Coastal Bend received similar 24 hour snowfall totals was in February 1895 when a snow event the snow totals were nearly double (10-20 inches) those of the 2004; but it was not on Christmas Eve. Here is a history of snowfalls in the Coastal Bend, and it is a short one. Year
Date
1888
Jan. 15
Amount 1.0
1888
Jan.16
0.2
1895
Feb. 14
4.3
1897
Jan. 25
1.0
1897
Jan. 28
2.0
1897
Jan. 29
3.0
1906
Feb. 7
0.1
1912
Jan.12
0.1
1914
Feb. 25
0.5
1918
Jan. 11
0.4
1918
Dec. 25
0.1
1924
Dec. 20
0.1
1924
Dec. 21
0.2
1926
Jan. 23
1.5
1932
Mar. 10
0.2
1940
Jan. 19
1.6
1940
Jan. 21
0.1
1949
Jan. 29
0.2
1958
Feb.12
0.5
1967
Jan. 9
0.1
1973
Jan. 11
0.2
1973
Feb. 8
1.0
1973
Feb. 9
0.1
2004
Dec. 24
2.3
2004
Dec. 25
2.1
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The Lion King Jr A Huge Hit at PACT
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Costumes and Energy Wow the Full House Crowds
By Brent Rourk
In minutes it was as if the entire African Savannah emptied into the Port Aransas Community Theatre (PACT) stage, and it was repeated many times because for two weeks PACT in conjunction with Port Aransas Independent School District presented Disney’s The Lion King Jr. The stunning costumes, craftily created by a dedicated group of resourceful volunteers, drew looks and sighs of appreciation as different animals took turns filling the sparse but effectively used stage and set. In Director Ken Yarbrough’s last youth play, over 40 youth actors impressed the audiences with boundless energy, promising voices, and impressive choreography.
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amazing costume to showcase her song. The play ran quickly from there with animals taking the stage in pairs, groups and as a full ensemble. Each individual animal and each set of animals drew the eyes of the audience as the shapely and colorful costumes screamed with creativity yet with enough realism to make them identifiable. The large elephant and tall giraffes were more than memorable. Moving quickly, the musical revealed the story of Simba and his wanderings from a cub and the death of his father to his ascension as king. The costumes and lighting added immensely to the charm of the story and the energy of the cast. This was another fabulous play by PACT and by long time actor and director Ken Yarbrough that filled the theatre night after night.
Yarbrough was pleased with the performances stating in the program, “This has been a life changing experience. The volunteers, the actors, the production team have all been the absolute best to work with.”
Eleven dogs and their owners attended the PIDOG Christmas party hosted by Bev and Chuck Hoffman. Dogs and people enjoyed social time in the back yard, dog and people treats and a gift exchange. Submitted by Lyn Edler
Giving endless hours of time, countless caring and skilled volunteers backed the director, the cast, and PACT. Yarbrough was quoted as stating, “The Lion King Jr. we estimate will have had over 10,000 hours before the show even opens. Add to that another 2,500 or so being spent during the show’s run and breakdown and you have a new record set for volunteering at PACT as in Port Aransas. How do you begin to even thank people for giving that much of themselves?”
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Hideous Holdiay Humor Q: What does Santa suffer from if he gets stuck in a chimney? A: Claustrophobia! Q: Why does Santa have three gardens? A: So he can 'ho ho ho'! Q: Why did Santa's helper see the doctor? A: Because he had a low "elf" esteem! Q: What kind of motorbike does Santa ride? A: A Holly Davidson! Q: What do you call a cat in the desert?
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Coldwell Banker Advertising Jan Park Rankin Classifieds Arlene Ritley Production Manager Abigail Bair Contributing Writers
On November 17 at 3 p.m. I attended the Park Board Meeting and spoke about the help we need with CC Parks & Rec Beach Code Enforcement to patrol ALL of the Corpus Christi Gulf Beaches. Today Russell Armstrong
Mary Craft Jay Gardner
Q; Who delivers presents to baby sharks at Christmas?
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and Warren Monyelle (CC Parks & Rec) told me that they are now patrolling Newport Pass, Padre Bali Park and south to Beach Marker 252. Thank you for any help you had in this matter. Also today while on patrol CC Parks & Rec discovered on Nueces County Property (Newport Pass) a vehicle was stuck in the dunes. They passed this on to CCPD to respond but it took 4 hours for CCPD to arrive. The benefit of having CC Parks & Rec is obvious today when CCPD is working emergencies and cannot respond immediately. The compliance officer with Parks and Rec secured the scene until police arrived. CC Parks & Rec did a great job today. Unfortunately the driver of this truck was smart enough not to return to the scene. The truck was impounded. Again thank you and the Park Board for making our beaches a safe and fun place for all to visit. David Pierce
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Water I am 60 years old and have no vehicle. City policy for water distribution to citizens is restricted to vehicle owners only. Further policy allows only one case per vehicle. I rode with my neighbor to one of virus water distribution centers with proof I did not live with driver. I was horrified to have been denied water due to city policy of one case per vehicle. I was treated like I was trying to scam them out of water to drink. I find this policy to be a disgrace for a city that consistently has water issues. I’m sure no one will get any credit for days of service with worthless unusable water. This is another fine example city's use of your tax dollars! Personally I find this unacceptable and shameful for the city of Corpus Christi. Cheryl Bledsoe
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Thank you customers from Beals, Fallas and Michelle's Salon. We sincerely hope that you will help us next year with an larger amount of gifts.
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Michelle also took care of social networking while I did the footwork.
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Also residents from Brookdale participated in donating gifts. Michelle's Salon was our sponsor this year and her clients were very generous.
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On December 19, they picked up the gifts for all 387 seniors, the gifts will be distributed by Meals on Wheels with their Christmas Dinners. Thank You Meals on Wheels! We made our goal, with the help from you who purchased gifts from the trees located at Beals, Fallas, Michelle's salon.
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Thank you Island Moon to keep the article every week. In November the Corpus Christi Community Center issued us 387 names from needy, lonely and financially strapped seniors in our community.
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A: Santa Jaws Q: What says Oh Oh Oh? A: Santa walking backwards! Q: What goes Ho Ho Whoosh, Ho Ho Whoosh? A: Santa going through a revolving door! Q: What is Santa's favorite place to deliver presents? A: Idaho-ho-ho! Q: Why does Santa go down the chimney on Christmas Eve? A: Because it 'soots' him! Q: Who is Santa's favorite singer? A: Elf-is Presley! Q; What do you call Santa's little helpers? A: Subordinate clauses!
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Q: What do you get if you cross Santa with a detective?
A: A Christmas Quacker!
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A: Sandy Clause!
Q: What do you get if you cross Santa with a duck?
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Q; What do you call Father Christmas in the beach?
A: Nothing! It just waved!
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A: Santa Paws!
Q: What did the sea Say to Santa?
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Q: Who delivers presents to cats?
A: Santa Clues!
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Q: What do Santa's little helpers learn at school? A: The elf-abet! Q: Where do elves go to dance? A: Christmas Balls! Q: What do you call a frozen elf hanging from the ceiling? A: An elfcicle!
Island Foundation Hearing December 23 On December 23, 2016 at noon there will be a Public Hearing for the purpose of giving an overview of the financial accountability rating system, known as the School Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST). The purpose of FIRST is to ensure that openenrollment charter schools are held accountable for the quality of their financial management practices and that they improve those practices. The system is designed to encourage Texas public schools to better manage their financial resources in order to provide the maximum allocation possible for direct instructional purposes. Seashore Charter Schools received a rating of A-Superior.
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By Mary Craft mkay512@aol.com
Business Briefs The Marina Plaza on SPID on the Island is for sale for two million dollars. Mikel Mays Beachside Bar & Grill is bringing in the New Year with live music featuring the Now and Zen Band, party favors and drinks specials. There are $30 table reservations available after 10 pm with a bottle of champagne. The following restaurants that advertise in the Moon will be closed Christmas and Christmas Eve: Island Italian, Snoopy’s, Scuttlebutts, Surfside Sandwich Shoppe, Black Sheep Bistro/Barrel, Padre Pizzeria, Mikel May’s Beachside, A La Mode Gelateria, Dragonfly and Doc’s Seafood & Steaks. Brooklyn Pie will be closed Christmas and open Christmas Eve until 7 pm. Boathouse Bar & Grill will be open both days. New Townhomes on Leeward - James Dean Investments, LLC. last week gained approval from the City of Corpus Christi’s Planning Commission to plat lots for townhomes on .52 acres at the corner of Leeward Drive and Robla Drive. According to documents submitted to the city the development will consist of nine townhomes. No further information on the development was included in the submission to the city. Police officers were dispatched to Suntan and Aloha where they located a 25 year old wet male wrapped in a blanket. He had driven to the area to throw away some garbage and when he got back to his vehicle it rolled into the water. He stated that a citizen helped pull him out of the water. The officers discovered about ten feet of skid marks making it appear as if the driver of the vehicle attempted to brake. The driver was arrested for driving while intoxicated and the PD dive team was sent to recover the vehicle.
The 25 restaurants on the Island are: Doc’s Snoopy/Scoopy Scuttlebutt’s Padre Pizzeria Dragonfly Island Italian JB’s German Bakery Veranda Island time Padre Island Burger Co Brooklyn Pie La Palma La Isla Mesquite BBQ The Holiday Inn The Boathouse Rock n Roll Sushi Costa Sur Surfside Sandwich Cancun Bangkok Star Angry Marlin Mikel May’s Beachside Bar & Grill Black Sheep Bistro/The Barrel A La Mode Gelateria Merry Christmas y’all!
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the police and take a photo of them with your phone with the license plate on the vehicle legible. As our Chinese friends say, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
According to a letter written to city planners in November and presented to the Planning Commission last week: “Funding for the subdivision improvements under our development loan is conditioned on the completion of the traffic signal, so once we can confirm for our lender, our contractor may proceed with completing the subdivision improvements. Due to the delay by the City in this project, our lender has not been willing to release the funds for the subdivision impairments until the traffic signal improvements were completed.
The fisherpersons say the flounder are running, there are enough Whities in the guts to feed an army of Winter Texans – which is a good thing since they are marching this way as we speak – we’re headed down the homestretch of 2016 and it will be 2017 before we know it. Have a Merry Christmas everybody. Say hello if you see us Around The Island.
Our site work plans are complete and we are anxious to move forward, and we regret having to seek this extension, but the traffic signal project begun over two years ago is now nearing completion. We have been delayed many times already and want to get the work done, so we anticipated this will be the final extension.” At the outset of the project the stated reason for the need for the new traffic signal was a planned 105-room hotel at the site, however, two months ago a spokesperson for the project said the plans currently no longer include a hotel. According to numbers presented to the Island Strategic Action Committee by city planners the cost of the project has increased from the original estimated cost of $650,000 to about $1.2 million with the additional funding coming from taxpayers. The committee, which is an advisory committee to the Corpus Christi City Council, in its November meeting recommended that the light not be activated until traffic warning signs included the original agreement were in place. The signs which are to be placed on the approaching lanes of the JFK Causeway are to warn drivers approaching the apex of the bridge, which blocks their view, that there may be stopped traffic ahead. Citing the original agreement between the developer and city ISAC members said the sign which was being installed on an overhead beam on the Island side of the JFK did not meet the tenets of the original agreement and additional signage was ordered but so far has not been installed.
The Grinch who piddled on Christmas was ultimately forgiven.
BBB offers tips for buying and using gift cards By Kelly Trevino Regional Director, Corpus Christi Better Business Bureau option) in case the card is lost, stolen or there Giving gift cards are is a discrepancy with the balance. quick, simple holiday gifts. Whether you’re running out If you receive a gift card this holiday season: of time, out of gift ideas or simply don’t know Know the terms. When you get the card, what to buy from the recipient’s favorite store, a read the card for any conditions. Check for an gift card may be right for you. expiration date or fees. According to the National Retail Federation’s Check the date. If it appears that the value of holiday survey, more than 61 percent of your card has expired, or that fees have been consumers want gift cards or gift certificates deducted, contact the company that this holiday season. More than half of all issued the card. They may holiday shoppers plan to purchase an average still honor the card of three gift cards, and total gift card spending or reverse the is expected to reach $27.5 billion. Consumers fees. plan to buy gift cards to restaurants, department stores, and generic gift cards than can be used Obtain proof anywhere, such as those offered by Visa or of purchase. MasterCard. Ask the person giving you the Before you purchase a gift card, Better card for the original Business Bureau advises consumers: purchase receipt, or the card's ID number and Research before buying. The best place keep this information in a safe place. to purchase a gift card is directly from Use before you lose. Use your card as soon the retailer, whether in-store or online. as you can. It's not unusual to misplace gift Consumers can also research businesses at cards or forget you have them. Using them bbb.org to see a company’s BBB Business early will help you get the full value. Profile, which includes its history of complaints and customer reviews. BBB Treat your card like cash. If your card is lost recommends avoiding discount and online or stolen, report it to the issuer immediately. auction sites, as gift cards there may be You may not recover any of the value that counterfeit or stolen. was on the card. Some issuers will not replace cards that are lost or stolen, but other issuers Read the fine print. Fully understand how may, for a fee. You may need to show proof the card works. Find out if there are any fees of purchase and the ID number on the card. associated with buying or using the card and Most issuers have toll-free telephone numbers if any fees will be deducted from the card you can call to report a lost or stolen card. after it is purchased. Inspect the card before buying. Verify that protective stickers have not been removed and that the PIN Number on the back of the card is not exposed. Report any damaged cards to the store selling the cards. Provide a gift receipt with the gift card. Give the recipient of the gift card a gift receipt (or original if a gift receipt isn’t an
According to the documents filed with the Planning Commission the latest extension is the sixth granted for the project since the project’s original approval in 2008.
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Kelly Trevino is the regional director for the Corpus Christi/Victoria area of Better Business Bureau serving Central, Coastal, Southwest Texas and the Permian Basin. Kelly is available for media interviews and speaking engagements. You can reach her by phone: (361) 945-7352 or email: ktrevino@corpuschristi.bbb.org.
If You Can Read, You Can be a Star!
A koozie from the Back Porch was spotted in Chicago last weekend by the eagle-eyed Islanders who brought it.
The Biggest Trophies
The Port Aransas Community Theatre (PACT) announces NEW to the stage! Reader’s Theatre???
7 to 9 characters up to 25!! doubling roles can be done easily as well. Anyone can act the part at any age.
Reader’s Theatre is a unique opportunity for anyone to give dramatic reading a try. There are no costumes, no memorized lines, no set, no blocking. The characters sit in chairs with their scripts in hand. Remember Radio Show or Animated Film voice overs. The listener’s imagination, fills in the blanks. Reader’s Theatre can be rehearsed in three or four readings.
“Dixie Swim Club” written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope & Jamie Wooten. Is a hilarious comedy about friendship from five college swim team mates, a who reunite each Summer at the same Coastal Carolina beach cottage to catch up on each others lives. They deal with marriage, divorce, dating, children aging & illness. Five ladies at any age.
Pact is bringing Reader’s Theatre for those who have asked for a short, not a long committed long part, and a short period..Reader’s Theatre will only be 3 performances. “Our Town” Jan 20, 21 & 23rd, with Sally Jo Bartlett the director. “ Dixie Swim Club” Feb 3, 4 & 5. Tracy Tiffany the director.
Pact is going to do auditions for both plays the same nights. Jan 10 @ 6:00 pm & Jan 12 at 6:00 p.m. There will be assigned rooms for each play both nights. Just bring your smile, your best friend, spouse, or neighbor this is going to be a hoot!!! NO SPECIAL TALENT REQUIRED!
“Our Town” written by Thornton Wilder takes place in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. between 1901 & 1913 through the everyday live of its citizens. Will need anywhere from
For more information you may email Darlene, theatre manager @ pactdarlene1@yahool.com or website portaransascommunitytheatre.com
SeaWorld San Antonio and The Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network Announce an Expanded Partnership The Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network (TMMSN) and SeaWorld San Antonio have worked side-by-side for 30 years helping rescue and rehabilitate dozens of stranded and distressed animals along the Texas coast. New this year, TMMSN and SeaWorld San Antonio are expanding their public-private partnership with SeaWorld providing additional funding and resources including experienced SeaWorld animal care professionals and veterinarians dedicated to work with TMMSN.
The announcement comes at a critical time as January marks the beginning of the marine mammal stranding season, when winter weather, changing water temperatures and calving season can lead to marine mammals like dolphins and whales becoming stranded along our coasts. Please join these two organizations and local elected leaders as they outline how the expanded partnership will make a difference to the health and well-being of the marine mammal population along the Texas coast.
Cold Stunned Sea Turtle Season Begins When the water temperature in the Laguna Madre drops cold stunned turtles begin turning up along the back side of Padre Island. If you see a turtle that needs help call the volunteers at
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Alan O’Martin with his cold weather, high winds, rainy day Baffin Bay redfish. 25 minute fight, using great skill and patience, landed this 40-inch redfish. Pictures taken and released! Well done Alan!
Padre Island National Seashore. The numbers of cold stunned sea turtles found to date during the 2016-2017 cold stunning season in Texas are as follows: All were green turtles. Area Total Galveston Area/ Inshore
0
Lavaca/San Antonio Bay
0
Copano Bay 0
Fischer Phillips shot this buck in Dinero, Texas. It was a Boone and Crockett score 155, ten point.
San Jose Island
0
Mustang Island/Aransas Pass
0
Uppper Laguna Madre/ Corpus Christi Bay
13
Padre Island National Seashore Gulf Beach
0
Lower Laguna Madre
0
Boca Chica Beach
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Condition Alive 13 Dead 0 TOTAL 13 Thank you to staff and volunteers from the National Park Service, ARK, Sea Turtle, Inc., Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Sea World San Antonio, NOAA-Fisheries, Texas Sea Life Center, Texas Master Naturalists, Gladys Porter Zoo, University of Texas, Texas State Aquarium, other organizations, and private citizens for their help to find, document, rehabilitate, and release cold stunned turtles on the Texas coast this year.
December 22, 2016
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Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin below the left eye. It looked for all the world like she had been hit with a right hook and her boyfriend from Texas who was also included in the interviewing process was the chief suspect. I shall be telling this with a sigh
“Do you have any anger issues?” they asked.
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
“Well, not really but that’s the third time you’ve asked me that and I am getting a little tired of it since I’m not here for a job.” She turned down their job offer after a worker came running into the lunchroom and yelled, “We have a crisis is dry cereal,” and we both went back to Texas figuring never to hear back from either.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference Robert Frost
Wingo girls and sex slaves The road less traveled, or not traveled, was on my mind this week as I shivered my way around Chicagoland.
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I was a police reporter for the Murdoch rag in San Antonio in the early eighties when my girlfriend with the ink still wet on a PhD in Quantitative Psychology from U.T. Austin got a call from a headhunter offering job with Quaker Oats in Chicago. It wasn’t a job she was crazy about but it came with a free trip to Chicago so away we went. I took along a stringbook – a copy of stories I had published in various newspaper and magazines – and planned to drop by the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times while I was in town. I figured the chances of a reporter from a Murdoch paper and a degree from a university with more than two directions in it – Southwest Texas State – getting a job in a town with one of the best journalism schools in the country was slim to none and it didn’t help when someone pointed out that Northwestern had two directions in it too. Sure enough I got a cool reception at the Tribune, the morning paper of record favored by the old guard Democrats and never got past the front desk where I was met by the taciturn City Editor who was smoking a pipe and seemed amused by the cheekiness of a police reporter from a Murdoch rag in Texas making him take the elevator all the way down to the lobby. Where I came from City Editors rolled their own from a box of Kite tobacco with one hand while holding the phone to their ear with the other. He didn’t look like a fellow who answered the phone a lot.
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But it was a different story at the Sun-Times. Not only did the City Editor meet me in the lobby and accompany me upstairs, he brought along the Editor as well. “Man, they must really know how to treat reporters here,” I thought. “Big Time Journalism here I come.” But mostly they plied me with questions about how the San Antonio paper operated under Murdoch which greatly surprised me since we were not a paper known for our operational skills. It seemed odd. But it got even odder when both accompanied me to the Publisher’s office and we actually got in. If I went to the Publisher’s office at my paper it was with an appointment and/or to get a pink slip, but here apparently the Publisher wanted to meet cub reporters. What a deal! Maybe I should ask for more money.
Crisis in dry cereal! Meanwhile, over at Quaker Oats my girlfriend got a completely different welcome. The night before we left as she was opening a cabinet in our apartment the door came lose, we lived in the writer/student ghetto, and hit her right
But the next week when I got a call from the Sun-Times Editor himself asking me to come back for a second interview. It seemed strange, but hey, another free trip to Chicago so off I went and they offered me a job as a General Assignments reporter which was a pretty good deal since it was a day shift rather than my current 11-7 overnight shift and in a much bigger market at much better pay. That evening I went out to Rush Street with some reporters who said, “Are you crazy? This place is for sale, are there any jobs in Texas?” I turned down the job and went back to Texas still not sure what had just happened. I got my answer less than a week later when it was announced that Rupert Murdoch had bought the Sun-Times and its new publisher was coming in from the San Antonio Light, the local Hearst paper, Robert Page who I knew well. That’s why they took me to meet the Publisher; they thought I was a mole sent in by the San Antonio Murdochians to check out their operation. The timing was pure dumb luck. If I had known that I would have asked for a consulting contract and might have walked out with a pocket full of scared money! The editorial style of the paper changed quickly. Roger Ebert, the venerated Sun-Times movie critic wrote shortly thereafter: “On the first day of Murdoch's ownership, he walked into the newsroom and we all gathered around and he recited the usual blather and rolled up his shirtsleeves and started to lay out a new front page. Well, he was a real newspaperman, give him that. He threw out every meticulous detail of the beautiful design, ordered up big, garish headlines, and gave big play to a story about a North Shore rabbi accused of holding a sex slave. The story turned out to be fatally flawed, but so what? It sold papers. Well, actually, it didn't sell papers. There were hundreds of cancellations. Soon our precious Page 3 was defaced by a daily Wingo girl, a pinup in a bikini promoting a cash giveaway.” Longtime columnist Mike Royko defected to the Tribune, but garish headlines, Wingo girls in bikinis, holy men with sex slaves, and cash giveaways were staples at our paper. Murdoch sold the paper in 1986 to buy its former sister television station WFLD to launch the Fox network for $145 million in cash in a leveraged buyout to an investor group led by the paper's publisher, one Robert E. Page, and the New York investment firm Adler & Shaykin. As for me, well, my road taken was to a paper in Mexico City and eventually right here to the Island Moon. And so it goes.
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December 22, 2016
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Senior Moments
Lawrence Colburn Dies at 67
Anecdotingly ByAbigail Bair
By Dotson Lewis Special to the Island Moon How many of you what she would want me to do, and she would Moon Monkeys want me to do exactly what Hugh Thompson remember the names was doing.” Lawrence Colburn, Hugh Thompson Jr., and The Soldier’s Medal, awarded to Lawrence Glenn Andreotta? And how about the My Lai Colburn in 1998, credited him with providing massacre? Emily Langer contributed to this cover as Thompson evacuated the civilians. article. Colburn told PBS that he did not train his gun on his fellow Americans, and that he did not think he could have fired on them unless they shot at him first. The soldiers did not resist, and at least 10 Vietnamese were safely evacuated.
Lawrence Colburn (right) & Hugh Thompson-With My Lai School Children, 1998 Lawrence Colburn, an Army helicopter gunner who along with two comrades intervened in the U.S. slaughter of unarmed villagers in My Lai during the Vietnam War, an act of heroism for which he received the Soldier’s Medal three decades after the fact, died of liver cancer, December 13, 2016 at his home in Canton, Ga. Survivors include his wife of 31 years, the former Lisa Cale, and a son, Connor Colburn, both of Canton; and three sisters. Colburn’s fellow soldier, Hugh Thompson Jr., had died in 2006.
Later, Colburn returned with Thompson and Andreotta to the irrigation ditch, where they rescued an injured boy from under a mound of corpses. Colburn’s efforts on the ground with Thompson and Andreotta and their radio reports of the killings were credited with bringing about a cease-fire.
Lawrence. Colburn testified at courts-martial and other investigations into the massacre. Only one person, Lt. William L. Calley Jr., who contended that he was following orders
Lawrence was an 18-year-old Army specialist when he witnessed the massacre of hundreds of civilians in the hamlet of My Lai, in the Quang Ngai Province of South Vietnam, as it was underway on March 16, 1968. Nearly a halfcentury later, the killings stand out as one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. military history, as well as a tragic demonstration of the searing psychological effects of war on those called to fight. “The massacre was horrific, and the cover-up was horrific, and this kid did something special,” said journalist Seymour M. Hersh, who won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the massacre. “He’s as much of a hero as anybody I can think of.” Along with his pilot, Hugh Thompson Jr. and his crew chief Glenn Andreotta, set out that morning on a routine aerial reconnaissance mission. When the men spotted wounded civilians, casualties in U.S. ground efforts to root out the enemy Viet Cong, they dropped colored smoke to mark the victims’ location for
Lt. William Calley Jr. to take out the enemy, was convicted in the case. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Colburn was denigrated as a hippie for his testimony, particularly after his own court-martial later that year for possession of marijuana. “We’re not popular,” he told the Baltimore Sun years later. “The Army doesn’t admit mistakes.” Colburn initially received the Bronze Star Medal, a decoration recognizing valor in a combat zone. He regarded the award as indicative of the military’s denial about the My Lai episode, which did not involve enemy combatants at all. Shortly after receiving the Soldier’s Medal, honoring valor in action not involving hostile forces, Colburn and Thompson returned to My Lai to mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre. Glenn Andreotta was killed in action 23 days after events at My Lai.
Wrapped
I am not a fan of Christmas. The excessive materialism of the occasion really sinks my battleship, and that’s without mentioning that the holidays are the absolute worst time of year for the perpetually single. Without a date, there’s no way to deflect any of the traditional “slightly too merry” drunken co-workers, and every single family member feels like asking you about your prospects is an acceptable conversation starter (but get angry when you start talking about imaginary numbers). If I hear the line, “You should try match.com. My friend Whats-her-nuts met her husband on there. The internet isn’t teeming with dangerous weirdos anymore.” (Subtext: you’re so hard up that you should pay for dates with possibly not dangerous weirdos). (Implication: singleness is the reprehensibility equivalent of leprosy). Also, even though I’m the eldest child in my generation, I always get stuck at the kids table. Not that I mind too terribly – the kids have trucks to play with, and almost never talk about politics or ask you where your boyfriend is. Thanksgiving turkey is generally the magic elixir that turns me into a mad Madame Scrooge. I try not to bah too heavily because other people seem to really enjoy this time of year, but upon seeing yard art inflatable Yodas dressed as Santa Claus, I must admit the occasional, barely audible, humbug escapes. The Great Provider (my Dad) feels the same way I do – even though he never has to sit at the kids table, but the Rev (my pastor Mother) predictably has a different take. Sometimes, the G.P. and I can oppress her enough that we can nearly get out of celebrating – although historically we’ve had to literally skip the country fugitive-style to escape the seasonal bacchanalia. This year, however, my brother and his entire brood are descending from Hawaii, and my Aunt and her son and grandson are traveling from California. They won’t be arriving until New Year’s. Due to this seemingly salient fact, I really thought for a second that the G.P. and I would get our once-a-decade-no-Christmas-Christmas (without having to wear dark sunglasses and false mustaches on some Mexican beach). “So Mom,” I said to the Rev who had just explained the situation, “does that mean that we don’t have to have Christmas?” The G.P.’s eyes lit up in glee. He perceived immediately that the Rev was caught in a huge technicality. She couldn’t possibly expect us to do Christmas TWICE, could she? There was a pause so pregnant it seemed to be bearing quintuplets. “Of course we have to do Christmas,” the Rev exclaimed, “we’ll just have to do it twice because of the kids.” The G.P. deflated like a toad on hot asphalt. She got us. Twice. The Rev has a right to revenge, I suppose. One year, I gradually stole all the characters out of her manger scene and replaced them with toys from my niece’s room. The three Wise Men made way for Transformers, the camels and donkeys were replaced with small, pink hamster things (which festively wore floral hats and dresses), all the shepherds were replaced by a Mr. Potato Head, Mary and Joseph were GI
Joe and Barbie, and Baby Jesus (who I saved for last) was the tiny infant in the matroyshka (Russian nesting doll) placed lovingly in a dollhouse bathtub. I really thought the Rev was going to notice – the Mr. Potato Head was pretty glaring, and it didn’t help that the G.P. snickered every time he walked past – but she never did. Then my brother, his wife and their two year old son, Jovanni arrived. Kenia zeroed in on the manger scene with drone strike accuracy. “Oh look, Jojo,” she exclaimed, “Grandma has a nativity scene!” The Rev was happily buzzing around the house getting everyone settled in the family hive, and cooed something like, “Look at the cow, Jojo! The cow says ‘mooooo’.” Only it wasn’t a cow anymore. It was a weird hamster thing. A very befuddled Kenia (unsure if this was deliberate on the part of her motherin-law and not wanting to offend) carefully offered, “Kris, there aren’t really any cows, or shepherds, or anything…really.” The Rev, confusedly, bulldozed over to the manger scene to check. Clearly, Kenia was in error. Nope. My Mother doesn’t cuss often or blaspheme ever. On this occasion, however, she belted out in terms so stentorian they would have made a legionnaire snap to, “Abigail Jane Bair where in the *?!x@ is my Baby Jesus?!?” Baby Jesus was in the spoon drawer. That Christmas, I was sent outside to sleep in the camper…in Kansas. I’ve been preparing Christmas presents for the familial invasion for months. Finally, yesterday, I decided to wrap them. For 26 years, I have held the title of “World’s Worst Gift Wrapper,” and it appears that my reign will remain unchallenged in 2016. I went through four rolls of wrapping paper, two rolls of scotch tape and one roll of duct tape yesterday before finally completing the project. If I were to write a tag line to describe the mess it would be: “If you don’t think dog hair encrusted tape and really crappy origami are “Christmas-y,” then you’re really not going to like what’s happening at my place right now.” At one point, I taped myself to the rug, and then I pulled the tape off of my leg and the rug and used it to seal up my nephew Avery’s present. It was quite the hirsute piece of tape, and not just because of the rug. When I finally got the job done, I had a huge pile consisting of 10 shiny, crumply, occasionally square packages complete with the errant piece of duct tape for contrast. I hated every second of the process, except the part where the dog managed to track muddy footprints on the wrapping paper for my brother’s present. That was pretty funny. I stopped last night, briefly, at the Rev’s, and made the mistake of commenting that I accidentally messed with the kids by putting their very small presents in big boxes because that’s all there was in the garage (it’s bad – I put a 10oz Yeti cup in a furnace filter box). “I have small boxes,” said the Rev, “just bring them over here and re-wrap them.” It’s like she doesn’t even know me. May you have a Merry Christmas or Happy Holiday, if that’s your bag. If not, you're far from alone. This, too, (as they tend to say with dramatic sighs) shall pass.
The Gaff's Ugly Sweater Party Put the "Ugh" in Ugly
“Why they fired on those people,” Colburn said during his return visit, “I still don’t know.”
the U.S. medical units that they assumed were on the way. In the photo above, My Lai massacre survivor Do Ba places incense at his family's grave as Lawrence Colburn looks on during a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the killings. As the men continued their surveillance, they observed that the injured civilians were not being aided, and were instead being killed. “It became obvious to us what was happening when we lingered by one of the bodies that we’d marked,” Colburn said in an interview on the PBS program “American Experience.” “It was a young female with a chest wound, but she was still alive. We saw a captain approach the woman, look down at her, kick her with his foot, step back, and [he] just blew her away right in front of us.” “She was no threat,” he said. “There was no reason to do that.” Lawrence Colburn credited Thompson with taking the initiative to step in. “We were ready to face the consequences,” he said. “It was so obviously wrong. When you see babies machine-gunned, you must intervene.” Thompson first landed the helicopter near an irrigation ditch where women, children and the elderly were sheltering. Thompson approached a soldier standing over the group and ordered him to help the civilians out of the ditch. The soldier agreed but began executing the group after the helicopter took off, Colburn said. Later, from their air, Thompson and his crew identified a group of Vietnamese hiding in a bunker and a unit of U.S. soldiers advancing on them. Thompson again landed the helicopter and confronted the lieutenant, then called on Colburn and Andreotta for help. Thompson said that he would personally remove the Vietnamese from the bunker to safety, and that if the Americans fired on them, Colburn and Andreotta should shoot them. “The first thing I thought of was my mother,” Lawrence Colburn told PBS. “ ‘Oh my God, Mom, get me out of here.’ But, trying to think
Lawrence Manley Colburn was born in Coulee Dam, Wash., on July 6, 1949. His father was an engineer who worked on dams, and his mother was a homemaker. He joined the Army at 17. After his time in Vietnam, he worked in commercial fishing in Alaska, managed a ski resort shop and operated a medical supplies business. He said that for decades after the war, he dreamed about what he had seen at My Lai. Colburn saw parallels between the My Lai massacre and more recent events including the 2005 incident in Haditha, Iraq, where U.S. Marines who had lost a comrade to a roadside bomb were accused of killing two dozen Iraqi civilians. “I can also understand the guys in uniform,” he told a military publication in 2006. “I’ve gone out seeking revenge myself. When you see a buddy taken down, something primal inside you clicks, and you go out and take revenge. And it’s a vicious cycle.” These atrocities are “stark reminders to a weary public of what war does to people — both the victims and the perpetrators,” he wrote in an online commentary in 2012. “War destroys people.” Dotson’s Other Note: After working on the above article, I got to wondering what had happened to Lt. William L. Calley Jr.? To tell the truth, his is the only name I remembered from the “My Lai massacre.” His is quite a story, after I complete my research; I will fill you in on “the rest of the story.” Your thoughts regarding this or any articles appearing in The Island Moon are greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading and commenting on Senior Moments. I can be reached at: dlewis1@stx.rr.com and/or Land Line: 361-949-7681 Cell: 530-748-8475. Please Note: The next Veterans Roundtable Meeting will be Tuesday, January 10, 2017, 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 – 9 AM, Saturdays. The next will air January 7, 2016. Please listen and call in. The listener/text line is: 361-5605397…It’s your show. Hang in there/Have fun!
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December 22, 2016
TowBoatUS Comes to the Caribbean
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Island Moon on a Spoon
Harissa Crusted Crown Roast
New boater-assistance service opens on St. Thomas Capt. Robert Manley, a New Jersey native who has been running marine businesses in the Caribbean for the last 25 years, has opened TowBoatUS St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). “I’ve been towing boats and helping boaters ever since I came to St. Thomas,” he said. “The only real difference now is that I am working with BoatUS, which has great member benefits.” Now anyone who boats in the USVI or the nearby Spanish Virgin Islands can take advantage of 24/7 on-water assistance. Much like an auto club for boaters, TowBoatUS offers on water towing plans for saltwater boaters and anglers for just $149 a year which includes BoatUS membership. Boaters face costs that average $700 per towing incident – with some paying into the thousands out of pocket – when they don’t have an annual BoatUS towing plan. The maritime jack-of-all-trades Capt. Manley got his sea legs as a youngster fishing off the New Jersey coast. After several years running a demolition and construction business in his home state, he left the cold and snow behind and headed to the islands where he built marinas, ran fishing charters and boated for pleasure. “The sun and saltwater do me a lot of good,” he explained. Manley is well known locally from running Above & Below Marine Services, a company that offers a range of boat-repair and assistance services. His goal now, he said, it to let people know about TowBoatUS membership and benefits. “It’s well known in the States but new down here,” he said. To celebrate and share the news, TowBoatUS St. Thomas hosted a pig roast and decked out its boats with a Santa and snowmen for the island Christmas boat parade
this past weekend. Manley has also reached out to help with St. Thomas Yacht Club events. “Once people know about us, I know they will want our service,” he said. St. Thomas and the surrounding waters are vibrant boating areas attracting both locals and snowbirds who cruise south from mainland U.S. TowBoatUS St. Thomas is based at Ruans Marine in Banner Bay on the east end of the island. In addition to St. Thomas, it covers the islands of St Croix and St. John in the USVI and Puerto Rico’s Culebra and Vieques, known as the Spanish Virgin Islands. Culebra is just 12 nautical miles away, Manley said. “It’s lot closer to us than it is to mainland Puerto Rico. TowBoatUS St. Thomas has two bright red assist boats: a 29-foot Fountain powered by twin 150-hp outboards and a 33-foot Bertram with twin diesels. The TowBoatUS name is emblazoned in bright white letters on their hulls, and each are fully rigged for towing and salvage, with powerful pumps, battery jump packs, dive gear and extra fuel. Boaters can reach TowBoatUS St. Thomas by hailing on VHF channel 16, calling the company directly at 340-201-2820, by phoning the BoatUS toll-free 24/7 Dispatch Center at 800-391-4869, or via smartphone using the free BoatUS Towing App. More information can be found at BoatUS.com/towing or call 800-8884869. TowBoatUS St. Thomas is one of four BoatUS ports outside the mainland US. The others are located in Vancouver, Gulf Islands and Georgia Strait in British Columbia, Canada. TowBoatUS Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach can also assist boaters in the western Bahamas.
There's Never Enough La Posada
By Chef Vita Jarrin One of the most elegant yet easy dishes to make for the holidays, especially a Christmas dinner is a Crown Roast. However, because it looks so beautiful on TV or in magazines, it leaves us a bit intimidated to try it. These days, you can order a roast that’s already cleaned and tied, ready to season and bake. It makes for a beautiful presentation, as well as an amazing meal. The best part is … it doesn’t take hours in kitchen. The real magic with this roast happens by following the cooking methods and the times. Like most roasts, you start the oven on high and then reduce it to cook slowly at a lower temperature. This recipe includes an ingredient you may or may not have heard of or used before. Harissa. Harissa is a red pepper paste that originated in North Africa and is widely used in Tunisia, Libya, Morocco and Algeria. The main ingredients are roasted red peppers, serrano’s, red hot chili peppers, garlic and herbs. This may sound extremely spicy, but if used as a rub all over the roast, it only adds a hint of spice. If you’re still not sure, by adding a little honey to the Harissa will put you at ease. Serves 12 Ingredients: One 8 -9 pound pork crown roast, tied, bones frenched (cleaned) Ask butcher you may need to order 7 dried New Mexico or pasilla chiles, stemmed and seeded 2 dried ancho chiles, stemmed and seeded ½ Teaspoon caraway seeds 1 ½ Teaspoons coriander seeds 1 Teaspoon Cumin Powder Pinch of nutmeg 1 tsp. honey 5 large garlic cloves 3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil Kosher salt Black Pepper
NOTE***Prepare and cook a Stuffing of choice while meat is resting outside of refrigerator. Once the roast is done, add your cooked stuffing in the center of the roast piled high and roast under the broiler. Follow the directions below. Directions: Remove the pork from the refrigerator 1 hour before cooking. Preheat the oven to 425. In a medium bowl, cover the chiles completely with hot water. Let stand until softened, about 15 minutes. Transfer the chiles and 1/2 cup of their soaking liquid to a blender. Add the whole garlic cloves, the olive oil, honey, salt, pepper, coriander, cumin, nutmeg and caraway seeds. Blend until smooth. Transfer the harissa to a small bowl. Line a baking sheet with foil. Place the pork on the baking sheet and season generously inside and out with salt and pepper. Spread 1 cup of the harissa all over the roast. Bake for 30 minutes and then reduce the oven temperature to 350 and cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes longer, or until an instant-read thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the roast reaches 145. Remove from the oven and let the roast rest on the baking sheet for 15 minutes. Preheat broiler and fill the center of the roast with your stuffing. Drizzle any pork juices from the baking sheet over the stuffing. Broil until crisp on top, about 2 minutes. Transfer carefully to a serving platter and wow your guests. Slice the pork between the ribs and serve with the dressing. Pass the remaining harissa at the table.
Tip of the Week: To make this dish innovative and fresh, try switching the bread you use in your stuffing. Have you tried chopped bagels? Or how about Pretzel buns? Ciabatta bread? These thicker pieces of bread will absorb more liquid. So add more stock and or liquid in your recipe. But the change in bread texture will allow for a heartier presentation in the roast. The ideas are endless. Most importantly… Enjoy yourself, get creative, try new things have fun!!! Happy Eats!
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SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon
Dak Prescott vs Tony Romo
By Dotson Lewis
Special to the Island Moon Dotson’s Note: For most of this NFL season, the talk of Dallas Cowboy football fans is Prescott vs Romo. From what I have heard, it appears that they were about evenly split. At times the discussions get hot and heavy. What would you do if you were the Cowboys coach? Don’t tell me you would do what Jerry Jones says…that is not an option. If I had my druthers concerning all quarterbacks, I would bring Johnny Unitas back. With that in mind, while I was at it, I decided to rate the previous Cowboy quarterbacks and come up with my top five. Do you agree; if not them, who? Neil Paine and Shawn S. Lealos contributed to this article.
Dak Prescott Is Already Playing About As Well As Tony Romo Ever Has
Dak Attack! Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is sailing into uncharted territory for a rookie passer. All told, Prescott’s first ten starts were easily the best of any rookie signal-caller since ESPN began tracking QBR in 2006. Prescott has played so well, in fact, that he’s put the return of incumbent Cowboys starter Tony Romo on hold. Romo has been one of his generation’s
night against Tampa Bay, Dak Prescott went 32 for 36--the second-highest pass completion percentage ever in a game with 30+ attempts (just FYI: #1 is Rich Gannon in 2002, with 34 out of 38 passes completed). Not only has he produced one of the bestever records by a rookie QB, but he has also instantly played as well as Romo ever has. Now the only question is what he has in store for the remainder of Dallas’s schedule.
Dotson’s Top 5 Dallas Cowboys Quarterbacks Of All-Time 1. Roger Staubach --The number one spot on any list talking about the best Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks might end up in a debate between fans from two different eras. However, there is little doubt that Roger Staubach is at least in the argument as the greatest of all time. Staubach has a higher passer rating than Troy Aikman (83.4 to 81.6), the have the same amount of playoff wins (11) and they were both Super Bowl MVPs. Aikman won all three Super Bowls he started and Staubach only won two, but made it there four times. Overall, this is about the era of the fans in debate, but Staubach might edge out Aikman as the best of all time. 2. Troy Aikman -- Troy Aikman had more passing yards and touchdowns that Staubach and he is one of the most accurate quarterbacks in NFL history. He won three Super Bowls in four seasons and were as dominant as any team in the NFL. The fact that Staubach played less than Aikman and there were fewer games in the season at that time makes the total yards and touchdowns almost even. However, no one can discount that Aikman was one of the best playoff quarterbacks of all time. 3. Tony Romo -- Tony Romo has always been a great quarterback, but fans have never given him a break thanks to the fact that his mistakes always came at the end of the season, or in the playoffs, making it look like he was a big number quarterback who couldn’t win the big one. Of course, so was Dan Marino and Dan Fouts. However, before his last injury Romo had turned some heads. If he could have somehow led Dallas to a Super Bowl, his legacy would have been secured.
Tony Romo finest quarterbacks and one of the most efficient passers of all time — even after adjusting for the high-octane passing environment of the modern game. In terms of individual accomplishments, Romo has few quarterbacking peers. And yet, the case can be made that Prescott’s first twelve starts have been as good as any fourteen (consecutive) starts Romo made in his entire career. Prescott’s no mere game manager, either. In addition to ranking highly in QBR, he also ranks highly in stats that focus more on production — meaning yards, touchdowns and first downs. According to expected points added (EPA) relative to both the league average and the replacement level. Rather than riding his teammates’ coattails, Prescott’s play has been one of the driving forces behind a squad that ranks second in offensive EPA but only 14th in EPA on both defense and special teams.\ Prescott is hardly the only Cowboy having a
great season. Running back Ezekiel Elliott also leads the NFL in rushing yards, helping to power the second-best rushing attack in the league according to EPA. And, given his track record and what we know about his recovery so far, Romo would likely also be successful if he were slotted into Dallas’s lineup. (Though individual football players are often so interconnected with each other that it’s difficult to predict what will happen to the team when personnel changes.) But right now, Prescott has made just about as strong a case as possible that the Cowboys should stick with him going forward. On Sunday
4. Danny White --Speaking of Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks who couldn’t win the big one, the man who replaced Roger Staubach fit that to a tee. However, it wasn’t Danny White’s fault. White was a punter for Dallas while serving as Staubach’s backup and then moved into the starting role after Staubach retired. While White never made it to the Super Bowl, thanks in large part to the surging San Francisco 49ers, he did throw for over 20,000 yards and only made it through four seasons in complete health. He took over an old Cowboys team but played great with what he had. 5. Don Meredith -- It seems like one of the most iconic quarterbacks in Dallas Cowboys history is Dandy Don Meredith. While he may have achieved greater popularity when he was in the commentator’s booth on Monday Night Football, he was a solid hand in Dallas. He was with the Cowboys since their first season of existence, but didn’t become the full time starter until his third season. It took him five seasons before he helped turn the Cowboys into a playoff caliber team.
Cowboys Win Over Buccaneers Sunday Night Dotson’s Other Note: I waited until after the Tampa Bay vs Dallas game Sunday night to write this. Were you ever asked to stop talking about Tony vs Dak? Did you hear those who said you should stop worrying about the Cowboys offense? Well…the Dallas Cowboys notched their 12th win of the season, beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 26-20 Sunday night
thanks to big days from Ezekiel Elliott and Dak Prescott. Also add defensive end David Irving. Enough said! Your comments, suggestions, questions and concerns regarding Sports Talk articles are greatly appreciated, please call the Benchwarmers at 361-560-5397 weekdays, Mondays thru Fridays, 5-7 PM, or contact me. Phone: 361-949-7681 Cell: 530-748-8475 Email: dlewis1@stx.rr.com Have fun -30-
Are You Kidding Me? By Andy Purvis Special to the Island Moon He was just a regular Joe, the kind of guy who drinks beer from a paper cup, eats in his car, and sits in the upper deck. He was also a man who would say “good morning” and mean it. He was a joker, a prankster, a naturally happy guy, like a yellow lab running up to see you when you came home. He was Benny Hill with a flat top. That face was round like the rest of his body, with fat cheeks. His hair was cropped close, his eyes were sad, but he could smile all day. He was an absolute riot, who made you laugh, and a true storyteller if there ever was one. He more than likely led the league in talking football. During a segment on the Late Night with David Letterman, he said “As kids, we used to do a lot of very bad things growing up in the Bronx, but I can’t say’em on television.”
said Art. Interestingly, Art Donovan Jr. never had a desire to box. His father thought he was a sissy. Both his father and grandfather are in the Boxing Hall of Fame. Art Donovan received a football scholarship and enrolled at Notre Dame in the fall of 1942, but he was not happy about it. He had always been a Fordham Rams man. The Notre Dame Football coach, Frank Leahy, and Art did not get off to a good start. Donovan had gotten into a fight at practice with an offensive lineman named “Tiny” Thorpe. Donovan claimed Tiny had been “holding” him all day and there was going to be a fight if it did not cease. After the fight, Leahy told Donovan to shake Thorpe’s hand. Donovan refused and Leahy proceeded to tell Art in front of the whole team that he did not like or need his type around. In 1943, when the semester had ended, Donovan joined the Marines. There was a war on.
Spam Salvation
Art Donovan He referred to himself as an old broken-down, no-nonsense Marine tackle that played some football; others just called him “fatso,” which he eventually used as the title of his 1987 autobiography. In his book he claimed he was a light eater. “I never started eating until it was light,” he wrote. He was also scared to death of small creatures. He was never graceful and remained overweight most of his life. “I was always big,” he said. “I weighed 17 pounds at birth.” In a time where most players weighed less than 250 pounds, he was huge. Standing at 6’ 3” he played at 295 pounds with gusts up to 340. “I had a $2,000 weight clause in my contract,” he said. “We would weigh every Friday before Sunday’s game and I would be fined if I was overweight.” The story goes that he would take off everything for the weigh in, even his underwear. After being completely naked he would then make a big show out of taking out his false teeth before stepping on the scales. Some said he was so slow he couldn’t catch a bear in a phone booth, but actually he just looked slow. Just ask those who tried to block him; he was deceptively fast. He was a goodnatured guy, who put up with the fat jokes all his life. He was smart, owned natural strength, and was very quick for short distances, which was all that was required during his day. It has been said that his quickness made him impossible to trap at the line of scrimmage. Blocking this guy was tougher than sinking the Bismarck. He was funny and the kind of guy you might hear say, “It would save me a lot of time if the supermarket had an aisle marked, ‘unhealthy stuff.’” In his day, weight lifting was an Olympic event. “They talk about all this lifting weights and offseason training programs and I have to laugh,” he said. “The only weight I ever lifted during my career was a beer can, and I have no doubt I could play the game today.” He claimed he may have done 13 push-ups in 13 years of training camps. He also said, “I went to college to play football, not to study.” How refreshing is that? His statement would fit the description of most of today’s athletes. Every time he was asked a question, Art Donovan’s first response most likely was, “Are you kidding me?” Sometimes his answers were just another question.
The Bronx Arthur James Donovan Jr. was born at his grandmother’s house on June 5, 1925. His mother, Art, and eleven cousins had all been born on that same bed. His grandmother, Margaret Wall’s house was located at 252 East 292nd Street, Bronx, New York. Both sides of his family were from Ireland. They all lived in the same neighborhood. Art’s first home as a child was an apartment at 3001 Briggs Avenue. At the age of seven, they moved to 3034 Grand Concourse. Art would grow up in a tough neighborhood where every kid went to church, to school, and played stickball in the streets. Hanging out in front of the candy store wasn’t bad either. Art actually liked playing baseball more than football and spent many days at Yankee Stadium watching the Yanks play. Joe DiMaggio was his man. Eventually, Art attended and played football at Mount St. Michael’s High School. Donovan’s family on his dad’s side had a storied past. Art Jr. grandfather, Mike Donovan, ran away from home at age 14 and joined the Union’s Irish Brigade, during the Civil War. He fought with Grant and marched to the sea with Sherman. Later he became a bare-knuckle prize fighter. He fought bouts out West in front of legendary lawman, Wyatt Earp, and his sidekick, Doc Holiday. The lure of the ring and glory would lead Mike Donovan to fights with heavyweight champs, Jack Dempsey and John L. Sullivan. He would train “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, who eventually took the title away from Sullivan. After 70 fights, Mike retired to become the boxing instructor for the New York Athletic Club and also became Teddy Roosevelt’s personal instructor. In 1919, Granddad Mike Donovan died at the age of 71, but not until he had married Cecilia Butler and fathered 14 children including Art’s dad, Art Sr. For the next fifty years, Arthur Donovan Sr. would replace his dad at the New York Athletic Club. He would become one of the most famous boxing referees in the world. “My dad was called Joe Louis’s personal referee,”
When he told his father, Art Sr. shouted, “Kiss him goodbye, Mary, he’s going to get killed,” said Donovan. A month later, Art was on a train heading to Parris Island, South Carolina. After boot camp, he was assigned to the “San Jacinto,” an aircraft carrier stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. He saw his first action at the Mariana Trench and then became part of the invasion force, June 7, 1944, one day after D-Day. Instead of tackling Spartans and Boilermakers, he found himself shooting at Japs. For all his bravery in the war, Art may be remembered more for something he stole while in Guam. Art and a couple of his buddies were unloading cargo ships in preparation for the invasion of Japan, and they found a case of Spam down in the hold of a truck. No one claimed it, so they put it in their truck and carried it back to their tent. The next day, a young lieutenant called for a tent inspection and found the case of Spam. When asked where they got it, no one said a word. Finally, Art spoke up and said it was his. The next thing you know, Art was ordered to see the regimental adjutant, who happened to be Joe McFadden, the former quarterback for the Georgetown University football team. When asked why Donovan had stolen the Spam, Art said he intended to eat it. “Don’t lie to me,” said McFadden, “No one eats that crap.” Donovan told him, “I do; I like it.” Then McFadden asked him if he was from New York and if he was any kin to the famous boxing referee. When Art told him “Yes,” McFadden ordered him to eat the entire case of Spam in one week or he would be arrested. “I ate six five-pound cans of Spam in six days,” said Donovan. He was released from service in October of 1945, when the war was over. Art reluctantly returned to Notre Dame where Athletic Director, Moose Krause, told him there were no scholarships available, but that he could have a job in the kitchen to pay his expenses. Donovan now had the excuse he needed to return home. He enrolled at Boston College for the 1946 season. He became a standout football player and earned a bachelor’s degree from BC.
To the pros Four years later (1950), Donovan signed a contract with the Baltimore Colts of the AllAmerican Football Conference for $4,500 a year; on the condition he made the team. As a 26-year-old rookie, he left home in a new car with $45.00 in his pocket. When he arrived, there were 150 players on hand, each trying to make the 33-man squad. In those days, there were seven exhibition games played before the 12 regular-season games started. The Baltimore team did not play well nor survive financially, and Art left for the New York Yankees football team in 1951, coached by Jimmy Phelan. Art was kicked in the mouth during a game that season. He lost some teeth and his injury required stitches. Art got false teeth and decided to have a bar attached to his helmet as a facemask. In 1951, facemasks were few and far between. “Bobby Layne may have been one of the last guys in the league to not wear a facemask,” said Donovan. The Yankees football team was sold in 1952 and moved to Dallas, Texas. This team became known as the Texans, and Art signed a $7,000-a-year contract. On January 23, 1953, the Texans returned to Baltimore as the Colts. Weeb Ewbanks was hired as coach in January of 1954, by new owner Carroll Rosenbloom. “He was a chain smoker,” said Donovan about Rosenbloom. “He smoked three packs of cigarettes a game, one for the offense, one for the defense, and one pack for halftime.” “Weeb Ewbanks had a rule, if you can’t beat Donovan in the 40, you’re gone; just keep running, out of the stadium. As far as I recall, I never beat anybody,” said Art. Art Donovan was elected to his first Pro Bowl in 1954. Donovan claimed that Ewbanks made him a Hall-ofFame football player. The following year, Art’s contract increased to $12,000 a year; he was on his way. Buzz Nutter, a Colts center who played with Art, said, “One man alone could not knock Artie off his feet.”
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December 22, 2016
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The Traveling Moon Gets Around
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Our publishers, Jan and Dale Rankin took the Moon to Chicago this week, where Jan's son Walt happily terrified his mother by sitting on glass 110 stories or 1353 feet above the ground.
Coldwell Banker Island Realtors Collect Toys for Flour Bluff Children
Here’s a picture of the Coldwell Banker Island Realty agents and staff with all the Christmas presents for the Four Bluff kids.
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