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CCMAGAZINE

LITTLE

FREEIt Dont mean Nothin if it aint

AUGUST 2013

MCNELLYS DAYS ARE NUMBEREDTHE RANGERS FACE AN UNWELCOME TRUTH

STARS SHINE IN CC

CARRIE UNDERWOOD

BAG FEE VOTECC COUNCIL TO VOTE AUGUST 20

DRUG TESTINGA BAD IDEA FOR HIGH SHOOL STUDENTS TOO

ON THE DUNES CHAPELSECRETS OF PORT A

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

The plastic bag campaign has finally got something to happen city council will be voting on a fee program August 20th unless they dont which might also happen Im not looking forward to adding another layer of forms and hassle to our city but Im so tired of seeing plastic bags stuck in trees on dunes and floating n the gulf that Id accept a complete ban of the things

I know a lot of people have a lot of money invested in the way things are right now but the secret to good government is to take those people into account and still move forward The Corpus Christi bag ordinance as it looks today is definitely trying to take the interests of everyone into account Large grocery operators might even come out ahead at the end of the day with the provision that says they can keep five percent of the bag fees they collect As Colleen McIntyre Council Member for District 4 pointed out the five percent administrative fee kept by merchants acts as a perverse incentive generating income on a per-plastic-bag-used basis that didnt exist before So stores using plastic bags and charging a dollar per transaction get five cents back- when youre talking about five cents for every person who buys groceries in the city each day it might add up to an incentive to use more plastic bags not less

Ill tell you what Im really excited about though Comedian Steve Trevino will be filming his second Showtime special right here at the American Bank Center on September 21st Steve has graced the cover of CC Magazine before but this time hes invited us to be the program for the show- meaning well be devoting the entire September issue to Steve Trevino and everyone who goes to the show on the 21st will have a CC Magazine put in their hands on their way into the arena Thanks Steve for inviting CC Magazine to share in your success We cant wait to see the show

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Jeff Craft

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LettersDear Mr Vinson

The article you wrote ldquoLarge Sodas and Crack Pipesrdquo should be printed in the New York Times No one has stated the case for legalization of drugs better than anyone except for Attorney amp Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz whose book ldquoOur Right to Drugsrdquo was published a number of years ago It would seem you might have read it since many of your arguments are almost verbatim to the book Although much of Dershowitz argument is based on our constitutional right to own property (Drugs here defined as property) he covers the fundamental reason our government sees fit to criminalize mood altering substances and that of course is money The bureaucracy the government has created to control drugs is a richly ingrained aspect of the American economy Think of the number of prisons which have been built to house the thousands of mostly poor black or Hispanics who have little opportunity in devastated neighborhoods except to sell and use drugs to give them at least a dream of a life The big time operators the Cartels the billion dollar organizations who feed off the poverty of those mentioned above rarely if ever get caught and those who do have powerful armies of soldiers to kill off witnesses and hire powerhouse attorneys if they ever get to trial

Now consider the city state and federal taxes needed to pay the growing number of prisons guards medical staff probation officers and their staffs Which serve the enormous number of prisoners who are incarcerated spend time in prison then released back into the same depraved environment and therefore are soon re-incarcerated

It has been estimated that since the so called ldquoWar on Drugsrdquo was established in the 70rsquos under president Nixon the government has spent over one trillion dollars to end the ldquodrug problemrdquo but alas today drugs are purer cheaper and more available especially to young people (children) than ever before in history

Our government is not stupid They know that the best way to control anything whether it be alcohol drugs or prostitution and gambling is to legalize it make it available under controlled conditions and tax it

Thereby you take the profit away from the criminal element that runs the drug scene at present But they also know that deconstructing the massive programs created to stop the drug problem will take a far more imaginative creative and brave government they we have enjoyed in a long long time

Thank you for your willingness to speak out I salute you

Michael Rodi (age 71)

PS it is also a fact that many people who are legitimately in pain go on suffering because their doctors are afraid to prescribe pain alleviating medications Too many of these people resort to illegal purchases or at the end of hopehellip suicide

RE Is Citgo a Ticking Time Bomb Citgo is only one of many older refineries on the port The same conditions exist at Flit Hill and Coastal These are post World War 2 refineries These are places where CAT CATCHERS (CFCU) Reversals can and do happen Reversals occur when 1300 degree gas oil goes into the regenerator which is where fire fed catalyst is heated This is where most major refinery fires have started

On the subject of HF Alkylation Hydrofloric is a dangerous acid where calcium is the only neutralizer It burns skin until it reaches bone The most dangerous chemical in any and all refineries is an HF alkylation catalyst called aluminum alkyl (look it up) Then ask yourself how it is transported (truck) Same as HF acid coming down I-37

As a former employee of Citgo and Valero I can tell you Valero has a hydrogen unit that converts natural gas to pure hydrogen It heats natural gas to 1700 degrees at 1500 PSI if it blows yoursquoll feel the ground shake in San Antonio

I flinch when a local news station describes an incident at a refinery Such as a fire stared in a heating unit (Therersquos supposed to be a fire in a heating unit not a blast) It started because of an overheated tube (regular maintenance can stop this) a positive draft (operators can spot this if they are paying attention) flange leak (worn outseal) etc

Valero has two flares one is sour (H2S SO3) and they are routinely fined by the EPA (not TCEQ)

Bill Isaacson

Endless War on Drugs

Our August Bag Heroes at the Texas Sealife Center on North Padre Island are helping to spread the word that reusable plastic bags are the way to go As Amanda Terry Director of Rehabilitation at the center knows sea turtles eat the bags and birds get them wrapped around their feet Turtles that ingest bags often die and impaired birds often cannot fly or find food

On making the switch to reusable bags Amanda tells us ldquoWildlife is affected by plastic trash more than people think If there are less loose plastic bags then therersquos less of a chance of animals ingesting them and becoming entangled in themrdquo

We salute the Texas Sealife Center for the service it provides to injured sea animals and helping to raise peoplersquos awareness about the dangers posed by plastic marine debris

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Bag Heroes

Bag ItAugust 23 2013

ldquoBag Itrdquo the movie at Bay Jamminrsquo Cinema Series Cole Park Amphitheatre Volunteers are needed to man table at event and hand out customer service guides and tattoo children Any and all environmental groups are encouraged to set up tables More event information can be found at facebookcomcleancity or facebookcomCorpusPride

06Carrie Underwood

The 2013 South Texas Academic Rising Scholars (STARS) Extravaganza will be featuring five time Grammy winner Carrie Underwood With over fifteen million albums sold Carrie Underwood has truly cemented herself in the music world and with her most ambitious album to date called Blown Away she has surely wowed fans yet again

08Duded Up Like a Barb Wire Drummer

McNelly and his troop of Rangers try to clean up for polite society then promptly return to the bush

15Drug Testing High School Students

Another bad idea brought to you by the War on Drugs Now local schools want to demand bodily fluids from our children to prove theyre not using drugs

16Little Chapel on the DunesPerched solidly on top of the tallest dune

in the city of Port Aransas stands The Little Chapel on the Dunes When its chief designer and builder Aline Badger Carter envisioned a small chapel on the island in the 1930sthere was no ferry service to Mustang Island nor causeway connecting Corpus Christi to North Padre Island or Mustang Island It remains the oldest consecrated church on the island As you carefully climb the 22 sand and rock steps from the street to the top of the dune the little chapel comes into view

04 Letters

11 Sports

14 Rumors amp Lies

19 Dining Guide

20 Art Scene

21 The Lenz

22 The Canvas

Mayor Nelda Martinez is supporting a proposal to require that businesses using plastic bags charge a fee of either 10 cents per bag or $1 per transaction According to city staff the fee will bring in $13 million in the first year that can be used for education campaigns cleanup efforts or to reduce residential garbage collection fees

CC Council to Vote on Plastic Bag Fee





Bag Heroes



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The Stars Align for

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CARRIEUNDERWOOD

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TThe 2013 South Texas Academic Rising Scholars (STARS) Extravaganza will be featuring five time Grammy winner Carrie Underwood With over fifteen million albums sold Carrie Underwood has truly cemented herself in the music world and with her

most ambitious album to date called Blown Away she has surely wowed fans yet again Blown Away was released on May 1 2012 and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 with the first week of sales at an amazing 267000 copies The eclectic fourteen song album is a vast array of emotions from heart break and revenge to get on your feet anthems all while staying true to that guitar laced country sound This album remained at number one for a second week becoming Carrie Underwoodrsquos first album to spend two weeks at the top of the billboard charts

The STARS Student Scholarship Fund relies heavily on the support of corporate sponsors organizations and the community in order to support the ambitions of young and promising students to attend the college of their dreams Since the formation of the Stars Scholarship Fund in 2002 Stars has since awarded nearly $19 million dollars in college scholarships and assisted 9199 students in achieving an education through these scholarships This yearrsquos extravaganza will be the 11th that is held right here in Corpus Christi and just like the year before Stars strives to be better than the last With past artists such as Blake Shelton Lady Antebellum and Sugarland Carrie Underwood will have no problem exceeding expectations

This yearrsquos headliner Carrie Underwood first made a name for herself when she won the fourth season of American Idol in 2005 Since her success on Idol Carrie Underwood has gone on to become a multi-platinum selling recording artist along with winning sixteen Billboard awards six Grammy Awards and seven American Music Awards Carrie Underwood even began to try her hand at songwriting which got her nominated for a Golden Globe Award for best original song Her debut album which was released shortly after her win from American Idol in 2005 rapidly became the fastest selling debut country selling album in Nielsen Soundscan history Carrie Underwoodrsquos past albums have been no stranger to emotion in her songs while also showing Carriersquos amazing vocal range Her most recent album ldquoBlown Awayrdquo also includes 8 songs of the 14 that were co-written by Carrie herself and it is this album that is said to be her most ambitious album yet because it explores a darker side of the human spirit With some emotional tracks about cheating and revenge the entire album is not full of a dark and sinister side The album also explores the power of moving on from a lost love the pleasures of hometown living but does not forget the upbeat sound we have all come to expect from Carrie Underwood Her Blown Away international arena tour was announced on May 1 2012 which included the Royal Albert Hall in London which sold out in 90 minutes The second leg which kicked off at the beginning of this year has become a huge success not only in the United States but internationally as well Carrie will also be welcoming special guest Chase Rice Chase first became a household name after he was a contestant on the Survivor Nicaragua and placed second Since then he has gone on to release two albums Country as Me and Dirt Road Communion and he most recently co-wrote the number one hit single ldquoCruiserdquo by Florida Georgia Line

The Stars Extravaganza will be held on Thursday September 5 at the American Bank Center Arena and floor seating will be reserved for Stars sponsors 100 of the proceeds earned by sponsors goes directly into scholarships for the students in South Texas to reach a higher level of education For inquiry into becoming a sponsor for the 2013 Stars Extravaganza or for more information on the Stars Scholarship Fund visit wwwStarsScholarshiporg

For more information on upcoming events visit wwwAmericanBankCentercom American Bank Center is

Corpus Christirsquos premier event center Find us on FacebookAmericanBankCenterTwitter AmericanBankCtr and Instagram

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By Kristen Bily

CARRIEUNDERWOOD

08

CC History

DUDED UP LIKE A BARB WIRE DRUMMER

Editors note This is the latest in a series of stories based on the book Taming the Nueces Strip written by Texas Ranger George Durham who was part of a troop of Rangers headed by Captain LH McNelly who formed the troop to stop raiding in the Nueces Strip between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers in early 1875

After the release of King Fisher the Ranger company began to unravel McNellys consumption had left him weak and unfi t for Ranger service While he was recovering in the Menger Hotel in San Antonio most of the Rangers were moved to the frontier town of Oakville located about halfway between Corpus Christi and San Antonio on the old stage road which is now IH 37 About the only thing left in Oakville these days is Vanns Barbeque and an historic marker to hearken back to its colorful and violent past

Plenty of bad whiskyAs Durham put in on his arrival in 1876 Oakville

was a wide place in the road about twenty-fi ve miles west of Beeville In fact the wide place in the road wasnt any too wide but it was populated well with saloons and a store or two It was well named as it was in a big mott of Spanish and Live Oak and there were maybe a dozen houses or shanties stuck off in the brush

Its population came and went At least some of them went Quite a few others never made it any further Plenty of bad whiskey always seems to make plenty of bad tempers But it was not then and is not now the business of Rangers to referee or stop private man-to-man squabbles and fi ghts If theres a local law thats their business if there is no local law they fi ght it out

John Wilsons dinner invitationThe Rangers camped about half a mile outside of

Oakville to await further orders Durham met a man named John Wilson who was living in a shack along the Nueces River One day while Durham was visiting him and fi shing Wilson swigged from a bottle of bad tequila While Wilson was frying up the fi sh a man named George West rode up a man who now has a town named after him

At the time West owned about half of Live Oak County including the water they were fi shing in He allowed no hunting or fi shing on his land and made this known in a forcible manner

Cant you see the signs he asked Then he turned and saw Durhams Ranger badge

You draw pay from the state to enforce the law and here you are breaking the law

Misher the tipsy Wilson said thish here Ranger ketched me fl at-footed breaking the law about fi shin he was kinda nuff to let me cook up what Id ketched afore haulin me offta jail Im right sorrowful and Im gonna give you part of em back Im gonna let you git down an eat part of em I got cooked

I dont eat fi sh West stammered I dont eat fi sh and turn loose of my horses reins

As West turned to look at the Ranger Wilson fi red one shot

Shucks he said I mished I never mish a hat at this distance

West got down off the horse and ate the fi sh

Veneer of CivilizationWhen Durham got back to camp his Sergeant was

agitated

The Captain wants me to fetch you and two others to San Antonio for duty We need to be there by noon tomorrow

They rode out without rest and headed across Buck Pettus country then Wilson County where they struck the San Antonio road and headed north They arrived in San Antonio before noon and left their horses outside the Staacke Building which still stands near Alamo Plaza and walked over the Menger Hotel where McNelly was healing from his illness

Get some new dudsYou boys wait outside the Sergeant said Ill

report to him

When he came back he said Captains not stirring around much What he wants fi rst off is for us to all get some new clothes Dont go around in those work clothes Get coats and wear them Find a barbershop and get a shingle and have your boots shined

San Antonio was an amalgam of frontier Army post old Mexican village and the beginnings of a modern city which manifested itself in dance halls burlesque theaters the Longbranch Saloon on Main Plaza and a large gambling houses at the corner of Soledad and Commerce where King Fisher was shot dead less than a year later The Jack Harris Gambling House and the Silver Dollar Saloon were where the high rollers hung out The talk the day that Durham arrived was of politics and outlawry A bank at Gonzales had been robbed the stagecoach to Austin had been held up cattle were being stolen and King Fisher was the man most associated with it

Duded up like a barb wire drummer Durham found his way to a tailor named Pancoast

and got a new suit of clothes then on to the Lucchese shop for some new boots By the time he was fi nished he was duded up like a barb wire drummer In fact it was in Main Plaza a few years later where Bet A Million Gates dressed much like Durham was

Military Plaza San Antonio 1875

By Dale Rankin

McNellys Rangers Try to Look Respectable Fooling Nobody

that day put up a square of barbed wire and challenged stockmen to bring in their wildest bull where he would pen it and hold it It was this demonstration that brought barbed wire to the South Texas plains

But on this day Durham and his new store-boughts made their way back the Menger for inspection by their Captain He went into the room where McNelly was in bed and looking none too good from his illness

By doggies it looks like hes planning to get married McNelly said Dont spend all your money son Save what youve got left You probably wont have a job with the state much longer

Why Durham asked is it something Ive done

Yes McNelly said You carried out my orders and I carried out the orders of Governor Coke and now they claim the Governor had no right to give me those orders So theyll likely throw the Governor out in the election and us with him

Durham saw an era of Texas history coming to a close before his eyes All he could picture was his Captain a year before leading his Rangers into a fi ght aboard his stallion Segal in the fi ght at Palo Alto twirling his pistol chamber and reading scripture to a dying bandit

Theyre saying McNellys outfi t was a bunch of brutal killers who never did take a prisoner he was told by his Sergeant and wouldnt let an outlaw surrender I reckon the captain wanted to dress some of us up and let folks see we were human

The human Rangers were now ordered back to Oakville They were going to take another crack at King Fisher

Back to the brush After leaving McNelly in the Menger the Rangers

were headed back to Carrizo Springs to take another crack at arresting rancher and Border Lord King Fisher The talk around San Antonio was that all of the stolen stock moving from Central and South Texas into Mexico was going through Fishers Ranch outside Carrizo Springs

Enhanced Interrogation TechniquesLieutenant Lee Hall had been named the new

commander of the Ranger troop In McNellys

absence Lee ordered the men to take 25 men and head into King Fisher country and round up anyone they came across The Rangers were given ten minutes to get ready to ride out of San Antonio and after two days of hard riding and spending the night in a cold camp in the brush they arrived in Carrizo Springs

In short order they had fi ve prisoners and after using their signature enhanced interrogation technique hanging a prisoner by the neck to a tree limb he told them where to fi nd the camp where the latest bunch of stolen horses were being kept The mans name was Noley Key and he told them to head for a camp near the west end of Espantoso Lake where Fisher and his men were moving a herd of stolen horses from East Texas through to the Devils River in the next few days

He also told them that King Fisher had left a couple of days ago with a herd of about 150 stolen steers for delivery in West Texas Unknown to the Rangers until later Fisher had stopped overnight at the Maverick Ranch located at the headwaters of the Medina River Key told the Rangers there would be about six or eight men holding the horse herd and the Rangers rode to a point about half a mile from the bandit camp and dismounted The bandits had a sentry out and he fi red a shot narrowly missing Ranger Seargent Armstrong Armstrong answered with one shot and the sentry fell dead The Rangers rushed the camp and the fi ght was on There were seven men around the fi re and fi ve Rangers

One-Eyed JohnThe Rangers charged with their repeater rifl es fi ring

wild and the bandits did the same with their pistols Four bandits went down in the fi rst few volleys and the three still on their feet were wounded A Ranger by the name of Boyd confronted a bandit well known to the Rangers from previous encounters His name was John Martin and he was a big Kansan who was listed in the book of Texas outlaws as One-Eyed John Martin had worked the border between Kansas and Missouri as a bushwhacker before coming to Texas He was known for his skills with a knife

One-Eyed John had emptied his revolver and was now backing toward the brush brandishing a knife Boyd leveled his rifl e and fi red but it jammed One-Eyed John

charged and Boyd pulled his Bowie Knife The other Rangers watched Their creed was that once a Ranger was fi ghting man-to-man the rest stayed out It was the Rangers fi ght to win or lose

One-Eyed John outweighed Boyd by a good fi fty pounds but that made him slower than Boyd and he was also hampered by a bullet wound through his hip Boyd was cut but not badly injured and worked his way around Martins left side where he couldnt see He came up behind Martin and Durham who was watching the fi ght said that when he drove the blade of his Bowie Knife home the Rangers could hear bones crunch Both men went down in a heap in puddle of six inches of water Boyd attached himself to the bigger mans back and held on

The fi ght went on for over a minute and fi nally Boyd stood up but Martin

09

In a 1900 horse race in England Gates won $600000 on a $70000 bet which rumors escalated to over $1 million and conferred on him the nickname Bet-A-Million

A compulsive gambler he once participated in a marathon poker game on a train journey from Chicago to New York After a week of nearly constant play (meals were taken at the poker table) the match ended with about half a million dollars changing hands

Gates career began with a trip to San Antonio Texas in 1876 when Isaac Ellwood hired him as a salesman for the Washburn-Moen barbed wire company and a dramatic demonstration with cattle penned into Military Plaza

He later started the Southern Wire Company of St Louis Missouri which merged with the wire company of William Edenborn to form Braddock Wire Company from which Consolidated Steel and Wire Company was organized in 1888 With the help of Chicago attorney Elbert Henry Gary he created a monopoly in the US wire industry in 1898 with American Steel and Wire Company which was sold in 1901 to J P Morgan in a deal (also negotiated by Gary) to become part of the new US Steel conglomerate

Gates was a founder of the The Texas Company which became the Texaco oil company He became infl uential in the development of the city of Port Arthur Texas when he took over the Kansas City Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad in December 1899 after he forced it into bankruptcy along with its previous owner and Port Arthur founder Arthur Edward Stilwell

John

Bet-A-Million Gates

For an idea of downtown San Antonio in those days visit Alamo Village in Bracketville Texas Built by James Happy Sheehan the

Alamo Village was built for the movie Alamo starring John Wayne and has been used for at least a dozen movies since then

Their creed was that when a Ranger was fi ghting man to man the rest stayed out

It was his fi ght to win or lose

didnt Boyd was taken to the doctor where it was determined that ldquothe knife wounds hadnrsquot found a hollow spot The Rangers took stock of the bandits One lived about thirty minutes and when he died that tallied seven of them dead Only four of them could be identified one of the dead was the informant Noley Key who was shot while trying to escape

The stolen horses stampeded during the firefight and not a single one was recovered The Rangers made a sweep of the brush from the camp and twenty two bandits were rounded up and they began the 35-mile march back to Eagle Pass

One of the Rangers managed to get a dispatch off by telegraph which was printed in the San Antonio papers the next day This would distress McNelly but he and the Rangers all knew he was destined to be fired anyway The state blamed the expense of treating his illness and keeping him in the Menger Hotel - about $200 per month - but everyone also knew the real reason was that once he had cleared the organized bandit gangs from the Nueces Strip his brand of justice was no longer politically expedient Every now and then you had to let some bandits surrender or the rest had no reason to do anything but fight to the death which was fine with McNelly but now some of the bandits like Fisher had lawyers King Fisher was rounded up three more times but the Rangers never made a successful case against him

But McNelly wasnrsquot done yet The Rangers were ordered to DeWitt and Karnes counties north of the Nueces Strip to quell the most violent feud in Texas history In the past five years more than 150 people had been killed without a single indictment Things were so bad that the judge in that area with the unlikely name of Judge Pleasant had not been able to hold court in five years for fear of his life The feud was centered in the town of Cuero

Next Time The Taylor Sutton FeudWhat became known as the Taylor Sutton feud had

begun as a disagreement between two men Buck Taylor and Bill Sutton It all started in 1868 when Taylor drove a herd of horses to East Texas for sale He had collected the stock from several horsemen and when he got to the sale the horses brought to him by Sutton turned out to be stolen and caused Taylor much trouble When Taylor returned to Cuero he told anyone who would listen that Sutton was a horse thief - fighting words then and now Bill Sutton shot and killed Buck Taylor and Taylors friend Jack Chisholm

It turned out that a man by the name of John Wesley Hardin was related to the Taylors and came over from his home in Gonzales and killed Bill Sutton and three black reconstruction police who tried to arrest him It was the beginning of a career as a gunfighter that would leave more than twenty five men dead before Hardin was captured by Rangers in Florida went to prison and eventually became a lawyer in El Paso where he was shot to death over a poker game

After the killing of both of the men who the feud was on in earnest By the time the Rangers were called in it had been going on almost ten years When the local doctor Philip Brazell was dragged from his house in the middle of the night and killed in front of his twelve year old son who saw recognized the murderers and was killed too

Judge Pleasants had seen enough He called in the Rangers

This 1865 photo is hanging on the wall of the Cavalier Room in the Menger Hotel

The Menger is a story in itself Located directly across the street from the Alamo it opened in 1859 and in the days before refrigeration a cave that ran under the hotel and then under the Alamo served as cooler for beer and its famous mango ice cream It was the gathering place for Teddy Roosevelts Rough Riders when they trained in San Antonio and still has a bar there named for them It was also Captain Richard Kings home in San Antonio when he left his ranch and the suite where he died is now named in his honor and his ghost is said to walk the halls It was the gathering place for Confederate officers on their way to Mexico to fight for Maximilian after the Civil War and it was a favorite stop of President Bill Clinton who would leave his motorcade waiting out in Alamo Plaza while he went inside for his mango ice cream

Construction begain on the hotel in 1858 when German immigrant William Menger expanded his boarding house business as an adjunct to his brewery Immediately successful construction on

The Menger Hotel

The Menger Hotel Today

a 40-room extension was started before the initial building was completed in January 1859

By the 1870s the Menger was the best known hotel in the southwest The hotel is mentioned several times in the works of O Henry and hosted Ulysses S Grant in 1880 It hosted Theodore Roosevelt at least three times most notably in 1898 when he used the bar to recruit men to join his cavalry unit the Rough Riders who would fight in Cuba during the Spanish-American War

The Menger was San Antonios most popular hotel throughout the 19th Century Other notable guests have included Robert E Lee Dwight D Eisenhower Mae West Babe Ruth Oscar Wilde Lillie Langtry Cornelius Vanderbilt and William McKinley

The Menger also holds the unofficial title of The Most Haunted Hotel in Texas The Menger claims to host 32 different spirits including Richard King and Sallie White a maid at the Menger who was murdered by her husband and buried at the hotels expense

Every WEDNESDAY 500 to 700 pm

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D O W N T O W NC O R P U S C H R I S T I

W E D N E S D A YE V E R Y W E E K


505 South Water Street At The Village Shopping Center ( Tango Tea Room)

Market Manager Isaac Nolte (972) 523-7217

EAT LOCAL amp BUY LOCAL

12

Corpus Christi Council to Vote

on Plastic Bag Fee August 20

Plastic bags are the third most common kind of litter Unlike bottles or cigarette butts plastic bags fl y around the city and the bay harming wildlife damaging fi sh populations and giving visitors the impression that our once pristine beaches and wetlands have become little more than a landfi ll

13

The Proposed OrdinanceBusinesses using plastic bags will be required to

register with the Solid Waste Department

Businesses will be required to collect an environmental recovery fee of either 10 cents per plastic bag or one dollar per transaction The business must decide which fee to collect when it registers with the Solid Waste Department

If a business collects less than $250 per month in plastic bag fees it can remit the fees to the solid waste department quarterly If it collects more than $250 per month fees must be paid monthly

Businesses may keep 5 of the bag fees they collect as an administrative fee

Violations

First violation A written warning notice shall be issued to the business that a violation has occurred No fi ne shall be issued for the fi rst violation

Second Violation $100 fi ne

Third Violation $200 fi ne

$500 fi ne for each additional violation in the same calendar year

Fees collected under this Ordinance will be used for the following purposes

bull Giveaways of free reusable bags

bull Public education on reducing plastic checkout bag use

bull Hiring of more code enforcement offi cers and other City employees to enforce this Ordinance and other litter ordinances of the City

bull Cleanup programs of shorelines storm drains streets parks and dumping areas

bull Reduction of the residential solid wastegarbage pickup charges

bull Payment of the administrative fee to participating retailers

Green Star ProgramBusinesses who are Green Star Certifi ed may charge

half the fee for plastic bags (5 cents per bag or 50 cents per transaction)

To participate in the Green Star Program businesses will prepare a work plan that accomplishes the following

bull Demonstrate a 60 reduction in plastic checkout bags provided to customers

bull Provide trash receptacles outside the business for customer use

bull Perform daily cleaning of parking lots rear loading docks areas around dumpsters and adjacent public areas where trash accumulates

bull Put up signs at store entrances and checkout stands encouraging customers to use reusable bags

bull Display reusable bags at the entrance to the business

bull Maintain a training program for employees at checkout counters to encourage the use of reusable bags

Businesses which become certifi ed in the Green Star Program shall be required to continue to comply with the above standards as a condition of maintaining certifi cation

M ayor Nelda Martinez is supporting a proposal to require that businesses using plastic bags charge a fee of

either 10 cents per bag or $1 per transaction

The bag fee initially appeared on the agenda for the May 28th meeting but Mayor Martinez delayed the item because City Attorney Carlos Valdez asked for more time to investigate how a lawsuit against the city of Austin regarding its ordinance on plastic bags Martinez put the item back on the council agenda July 30th after the ordinance was given a thorough legal review including new language in the ordinance that would protect Corpus Christi from the kind of lawsuit that held up the Austin ordinance

According to city staff the fee will bring in $13 million in the fi rst year that can be used for education campaigns cleanup efforts or to reduce residential garbage collection fees

At-large council member Mark Scott expressed opposition to the ordinance saying This is disturbing Im disturbed at what this might communicate to the public which is We dont care what you think We know whats best and we intend to make it happen

Mayor Martinez dismissed claims that the public hasnt had input in the process saying

it was one of the most transparent and long-lasting initiatives

Scott also said he was concerned that the city has not considered other options that would not cost consumers Martinez however said research in other cities has proved that educational campaigns are ineffective

At-Large councilwoman Lilian Riojas said she wanted to see more of a strategy about litter in general not just plastic bags Citing the very low number of litter citations issued by the city despite an obvious litter problem

At-Large councilman David Loeb expressed concern that money raised through this program be used to reduce garbage collection fees

District 4 council member Colleen McIntyre supported removing the fee completely for the Green Star Program

Theres little incentive for a business to join the Green Star program because it takes just as much effort to collect a nickel as it takes to collect a dime and theyre actually reducing the additional revenue they would get from the administrative fee

The city council is scheduled to vote on the ordinance Aug 20

N

by Kyle Hoelscher

Notice whats not there- Nowhere does it say unless we really want to or does not apply if you are an enemy of the state It doesnt take a constitutional scholar to see that any ldquowarrantrdquo granted in secret giving

blanket access to the electronic papers and effects of everyone in the country is illegal It may take a while for the law to catch up with itself so in the meantime you might want to learn how protect yourself

Before the Snowden leak I might have laughed off anyone suggesting the government was actually logging every phone call and email It just seems so wasteful Are we to believe that there that many terrorists out there

The problem with labels like ldquoterroristrdquo is their vague nature After September 11 US law enforcement and intelligence agencies were given super-constitutional powers to combat the threat understandably believed to have been posed by Al Qaeda and its affi liates Now those powers have creeped into territory where they can be used against almost anyone arrested for any reason

Dangerous Vegetarians

The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act a federal law enacted in 2006 defi nes anyone going into a slaughterhouse and taking pictures of the sausage-making process as a terrorist Irsquove met a few animal-rights activists in my life and while they arenrsquot the best folks to have at a barbecue none of them struck me as dangerous to national security How is it that the laws intended to protect us from Osama bin Laden et al are being used against vegans Whorsquos next Sooner or later itrsquos going to be you or at the very least itll be me

Rumors amp LiesWhos Paranoid NowBy Charlz L Vinson

Cvinsonccmagonlinecom

What if I were to write a column praising the actions of this years Enemy of the State Eric Snowden I know the fi rst amendment says I can but the fourth amendment isnt looking to healthy right now so whos to say anyone will respect the others Even if you believe ldquoSnowden is a dropout a loser a hacker and un-Americanrdquo he was someone who could easily have had access to your private communications without you knowing about it

Is it reasonable to believe that contractors like Booz Allen Hamilton who have been tasked by the NSA to sift through our data only hire the most honorable and honest people available Given the contractors incentives it seems more likely that thousands of high-level security clearances have been given to people who have no reason to have them

And they laughed at me when I sent the fi rst column in an encrypted email

Whether Snowden is a self-aggrandizing geek who betrayed his nation or a brave young man following the dictates of his conscience doesnt matter If you want to go deep down the rabbit hole I heard one report that Snowden was actually put in place by his former employers at the CIA who wanted him to expose the NSA program as part of an interagency squabble

Now ask yourself what else might they be doing right now that we dont know about yet

The right of the people to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated and no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause supported by Oath or

affi rmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seizedAmendment IV United States Constitution

14

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15

The Tyranny of Good Intentions

Flour Bluff ISD will start rolling out random drug testing for its students soon Any student that participates in extracurricular activities will be

forced to give a urine sample so that the school can chemically examine them for criminality In theory the intention is good to keep kids off drugs In reality it will only further deteriorate student privacy damage the future of at-risk youths and waste your money

First letrsquos touch on the issue of student privacy The random urine examinations will be performed on junior high and high school students So we are not talking about the very small children We are talking about young adults (high school) and puberty age kids (middle school) These kids are at the stage where we should be teaching them responsibility individuality and life skills This drug testing furthers none of that It only serves to teach them that the government can do what it will They learn that the government doesnrsquot need suspicion to test you for drugs They learn that itrsquos ok for the government to punish and embarrass you for the wrongdoing of others They learn that rights are subject to the whim of school administrators and government policy This is exactly the opposite of what these children should be learning Itrsquos this sort of conditioning that leads kids to grow up and choose the welfare offi ce instead of the employment offi ce They will be learning the lesson that the government controls their lives not them The government will watch out for their well being not them

Of course this is all done under the great umbrella of the War on Drugs And this type of urine testing is going in at many schools across the state The idea is this if we test for the drugs then the kids will stop using the drugs But like all other good intentions of the drug war it is applied in the exact wrong way Instead of doing a harm reduction approach they opt for a punishment approach School administrators keep emphasizing that they are trying to help the kids make good decisions but they are giving no incentives to do so nor are they teaching them how to make good decisions when it comes to drugs They are teaching them that if you smoke pot (which is by far the main drug that kids will be caught for) then you will be kicked out of extra curricular

programs

What the drug warriors donrsquot like to hear

are statistics because statistics almost unanimously show that the drug war policies

are fundamentally broken And this fi rst statistic is pulled directly from the Corpus Christi Caller Times in their issue on June 23 2013 where they wrote a very positive account of this drug testing and failed to talk about how much of a failure and waste these programs are To quote from them ldquo34 percent of students at schools that use testing said they would defi nitely or probably use substances again compared with 33 percent at schools without such programsrdquo A study from the Journal of Youth and Adolescence agrees with those fi nding A study by monitoringthefutureorg also agrees A review of research consistently shows that there is no change The only sources that put drug testing in a good light are government agencies but even they cannot cover up how useless the programs are since the quote above comes from Institute of Education Sciences a

government agency Non-biased research shows the kids will keep using drugs testing or no

The real thing that keeps kids off drugs is the extra curricular activities themselves Giving students a place to go after school that is safe and welcoming is the only thing that has shown to have any positive effect on drug use by youths Students who only have a drug using parent at home latch key kids or otherwise at-risk youths have few options They end up being sucked into a culture of drug use and criminality and it is no surprise that they grow up and get pulled into the criminal justice system Many times they donrsquot even get to grow up and they get pulled into the school-to-prison pipeline (an article for another time) Random urine examinations only create one more barrier for these students The kid who has experimented with marijuana in the last few weeks will merely decide to opt out of benefi cial programs like band or sports They will decide to abandon an environment where there is camaraderie and safe fun Instead they will head over to their buddyrsquos house where they will simply sit around get high and eventually get into some trouble As many readers know I have no issues with people sitting around and smoking pot but I do not want children doing it The best way to keep children off drugs is to keep children active participants in things like after school programs and extracurriculars

A fi nal issue is the money that will be wasted on this useless program Flour Bluff will spend $25000 per year on this program When we here federal budget numbers in the billions we forget about small sums like $25000 But letrsquos put this in real terms What could you do with $25000 Now for those with kids what could you do for your children with $25000 What do you think a school could do with an extra $25000 They could upgrade computers buy new books have laptop or tablet rental programs

upgrade their wireless infrastructure give teachers a much needed raise fi x school equipment or improve

school lunches This list could go on and on and on and I donrsquot even

have a child in a school Parents could think of 100 more ideas to do with $25000

Instead this money will go down the toilet along with the future of many at-risk youths who choose to ditch extra curriculars Wersquoll fl ush the lives of students who fail their urine test These kids will be kicked out of extra curriculars These kids will be labeled drug addicts for the rest of the time they are students They will be forced into drug classes that will further alienate them from the student populace and get them closer to a life of addiction In general the students will be humiliated as a group and learn a damaging lesson regarding the power and nature of government At the end of this whole process there will be no fewer drug users in Flour Bluff schools than before the testing started

If you have children in Flour Bluff schools I ask that you attend a PTA meeting and put a stop to this Your children are not wards of the state They are yours They are not political tools that can be drug tested whenever Stand up for your children you are their example too As a parent if you allow this to happen to them you teach them that its ok to allow this to happen to others If you have further questions you can always email me

by Kyle Hoelscher

DrugTestingat School

Rumors amp LiesWhos Paranoid Now

PPerched solidly on top of the tallest dune in the city of Port Aransas stands The Little Chapel on the Dunes When its chief designer and

builder Aline Badger Carter envisioned a small chapel on the island in the 1930sthere was no ferry service to Mustang Island nor causeway connecting Corpus Christi to North Padre Island or Mustang Island

It remains the oldest consecrated church on the island As you carefully climb the 22 sand and rock steps from the street to the top of the dune the little chapel comes into view Though the Chapel is small in size it is huge in color and spirit A visit to this heavenly chapel has brought thousands of people a sense of joy comfort and spirituality It is still without electric lighting or air conditioning and open windows and an open front door permit a comforting Gulf breeze and welcome the sounds of local shore birds to soothe and inspire the soul It is during a moment like this that the images in the frescoes come alive and the spirit connects with more powerful forces

The Carter Family and the Chapel

Henry Champe Carter (1861-1948) was a well-known attorney judge and former president of the State Bar Association of Texas Henry met Aline when she was 16 years old It was rumored that Carterrsquos son Goodwyn was courting Aline Henry allegedly told his son ldquoIf you donrsquot marry her I willrdquo Henry and Aline were married in San Antonio in 1915 when Aline was reported to be 20 years old Within a few years Henry and Aline had a family of three sons Henry Champe Carter Jr Frank Joseph Carter and David Paul Carter

Aline was an avid Episcopalian She performed volunteer work in jails on a continual basis taking time to teach and mentor prisoners During the

Christmas holiday at their 27 room mansion in San Antonio Aline would ldquoentertain protestant orphansrdquo according to her son Frank Carter now a 93 year old resident of Port Aransas

Aline customarily wore long fl owing white gowns a white wide-brimmed hat a white bow and white socks and shoes which together gave her appearance of an angel Coupled with her strong Episcopalian beliefs and her loving and giving demeanor she was considered to look like and act like an angel Aline had been referred to as the lsquoLittle Angelrsquo by a national magazine that revealed her visits to jails with books and fruit baskets where she would teach the Bible and astronomy The Little Angel could be seen in her white fl owing gowns and dresses walking

to The Little Chapel to pray or meditate or fi nd inspiration to work on her poetry Aline originally referred to it as the Chapel of Eternal Light She loved the way the morning light burst through the east facing windows and how the afternoon sunsets lit the chapel through the west window

Carters Purchase Land in Port AransasThe Carter family still lived in San Antonio in the

1930s and began to vacation and retreat in Port Aransas Texas The family would travel to Port Aransas for one month during the summer and rented a house on Avenue B owned by the Fair Family of Dallas Texas Goodwyn Carter purchased the acre of land in Port Aransas on which the Little

Chapel and the Carter House now stand for about $3800 in 1938 and quickly the Carters built a humble home there The current address of the Chapel is 207 11th Street in Port Aransas At that time according to son Frank Carter ldquoThere werenrsquot many homes on the islandrdquo

Build a ChapelAline had the idea of building a chapel on the

island (the Carters already had a chapel in their San Antonio mansion) so not long after they built their house they began construction on a modest chapel perched on a high dune on the adjacent lot Frank states that there was no other church on the island at that time and that Aline built the church for the children of Port Aransas From that high dune a person had an impeccable and unobstructed view of the Gulf along the eastern shore of the island

Flagstone from the Hill Country

The chapel fl oor was constructed out of fl agstone that Frank remembers ldquowas taken from a quarry in the Hill Country in Texasrdquo Frank recalls that his family

22 Sandy Steps

By Brent Rourk

The Little Chapel on the Dunes

16

A tile in the altar steps is detailed with a hand-painted fl ower

collected the heavy flagstone and brought it down each time they visited The beautiful stone had to be loaded from their car to a shrimp boat and then to Port Aransas San Antonio artist Ethel Wilson Harris assisted Aline in supervising the chapelrsquos construction throughout the process Ethel made some tiles and had them built into the modest Chapel altar Within a year the white stucco chapel was completed and the ldquoWhite Angelrdquo dressed in her flowing white gowns could be seen using it for her prayer service and meditation retreat Before long Aline began having regular Bible studies for the children of Port Aransas Aline would let locals know that she was in Port Aransas and those folks would let their children know that the ldquoWhite Angelrdquo was going to have Bible studies Sometimes her chauffeur Henry would pick up the kids and transport them to the Chapel

Bible Stories and Ice Cream

The children would climb the dune and enter the modest Chapel at that time painted a stark white inside and outside Children would patiently sit on the flagstone floor or mats and attentively listen to the White Angelrsquos Bible stories After Bible study the children would all walk to the Carter residence and happily eat ice cream and cake incredible treats for isolated island children back in the 1930s and 1940s Frank Carter contends that the cake and ice cream were a major factor in how well-attended Bible study was With a wry smile he shares that Aline firmly disputed his claim about the ice cream being the reason that children attended Bible study Alinersquos Bible study continued for almost 10 years until hard times hit the island

God and Science

Aline continued to use the Chapel for Bible study as well as for the spiritual benefit of herself and her family She was also vigorously engaged in studying and sharing her love of astronomy one of the many miracles that helped explain the wonder of God instead of opposing God Her unwavering beliefs in the union of science and God were clearly distilled during an age when both were seen as oppositional or mutually exclusive belief systems Although Aline was a ldquowoman of prayerrdquo according to Frank she maintained that ldquoscience was a process of discovering the work of Godrdquo She had an observatory built in their family mansion in San Antonio and several locals delighted in being able to scan the skies from the Carter Observatory Aline died in 1972 at the age of 80 She did not live long enough to see the addition of the frescoes in the Chapel however she would no doubt be pleased that the Chapel has been maintained by the family and shared with the world She left a legacy of love generosity kindness and an exceptional Little Chapel on the Dunes

Frank and David Carter Frank Carter has had a special relationship with

The Little Chapel on the Dunes As a teenager he was there when it was built and assisted his family in selecting and hauling the flagstone He attended the Bible classes in the Chapel along with two of his brothers and several local children in Port Aransas He was living in Port Aransas when the Chapel was painted and helped care for the Chapel for many years and even now he keeps a concerned eye on it He understands why the Chapel is so popular for weddings and why people wish to take tours and is proud to show it off himself sometimes

His last surviving brother David recently passed away in San Antonio in the same family home he was born to in 1921 David had an active role in maintaining and preserving the Chapel David Carter like his daughter Marline Carter Lawson perceived The Little Chapel on the Dunes to be a beautiful and valuable landmark Marline recounts her fatherrsquos wishes in that regard ldquoDavid wanted to be able to share The Chapel on the Dunes with the people of Port Aransas He knew that his mother Aline would have liked it if everybody could see it and have some access to itrdquo

Marline recounts the time when David and the Port Aransas Museum met to discuss how the Chapel could be made available to the public David agreed that it should be shared so he favorably and readily approved the Museumrsquos desire to become another active caretaker and to share it with the public

David was particularly fond of Alinersquos words about the Chapel that can also be heard in a video on the website wwwChapelonthedunescom and is also played for visitors at the Chapel The video narrated by Aubrey Keating Carter daughter-in-law of Aline Carter offers insights into Alinersquos life and the glorious Chapel

Vandals The war ended and the Carters still owned homes

the Chapel and property in Port Aransas but times were still tough for many people It was difficult for the Carters to manage their home the Chapel and rental properties from San Antonio and soon the Chapel fell into disrepair Frank admitted that it was challenging to maintain the Chapel and that the once beautiful Chapel was a mess The ground had been littered with refuse and bottles by vandals Frank remembered that ldquoThey threw stuff all over and you would not believe what kind of mess it was They did everything and it smelled awfulrdquo In fact the smell inside the Chapel was over-bearing and horrific and Frank felt compelled to do something to stop further damage

Serpents Frankrsquos son Vinton James fancied himself as

an amateur herpetologist and loaned his snake collection to the Chapel after Frank had the Chapel and grounds cleaned ldquoWord leaked outrdquo that there were poisonous and dangerous snakes in the Chapel In fact purposely included in the resident collection were an 11 foot python named Marathon a couple of copperheads and a couple of rattlesnakes Frankrsquos idea to place snakes in the Chapel worked and once he put the word out the vandals halted their Chapel visits

Frescoes in the Chapel The Little Chapel on the Dunes was initially painted

white inside and over the years the bright white paint gradually yellowed a result of natural fading and minimal maintenance Vandalism had also left its sad mark on the walls Further layers of dust had hardened on the walls making the walls dull and unattractive The inside needed restoration after years of virtual neglect Enter artist John Cobb who met up with Frank Carter in the 1970s

Cobbrsquos Background

Initially Cobb studied art at the Texas School of Fine Arts from ages 7-12 His family then moved to the Coastal Bend He graduated from King High School and found a very inspiring teacher there Later Cobb went to attended both the University of Texas and the Rhode Island School of Design At Rhode Island Cobb ldquohad a great winter season water color course with Dean Richardson This set me on course to do large-scale watercolorsrdquo He graduated in 1983 from St Edwards University

John approached Frank Carter about painting the inside of the Chapel In 1978 he began a series of frescoes that presently cover every inch of the inside of the Chapel He did not accept any money for his work and saw his gift of the frescoes as a part of his own spiritual journey

John thinks that Frank Carter might have paid him a dollar which would make it a commissioned work of sorts but Cobbrsquos work at the Chapel fused deep spiritual connections and meanings and his own place in life Cobb also wished to reveal in an innocent way some kind of new life within himself like a child John claimed that perhaps the painting in the Chapel ldquomight possibly deliver me from a real sense of abandonmentrdquo His inspiration for painting it was mainly the altar inscription ldquoI Am the Light of the Worldrdquo

The carter family did not dictate the content or the style of the paintings and Frank Carter according to Cobb ldquonever seemed too worried about the content of ideas too muchrdquo Though Frank and John had different beliefs backgrounds and experiences they had a positive and supportive relationship With the content and style left largely to Cobb he went to work in ldquotwo major stretches and a few intermediate occasionsrdquo

Frescoes ndash Stay or Go Not too many years ago the idea surfaced that The

Little Chapel on the Dunes should be repainted all white on the inside covering forever the colorful and imaginative frescoes During a rededication in 1998 celebrating one of the Chapel renovations David Carter threw out the question of whether or not Cobbrsquos frescoes should be whitewashed over so that the inside walls could return to their stark white original color Guests at that rededication ceremony were given the opportunity to vote on the fate of the

Aline Carter the White Angel built the Little Chapel on the Dunes

17

walls back to their simple white or leave Cobbrsquos more colorful frescoes as they were The crowd of revelers voted as requested The majority overwhelmingly favored leaving the colorfully painted frescoes as they were The frescoes survived and the lsquowhite wallrsquo idea died John Cobb still travels from his home in San Antonio to the Chapel periodically to touch-up or brighten up the frescoes

Cobb an Austin Texas resident for years hopes that after people view the frescoes they consider that ldquoThe wildest and most wonderful things can be formed of circumstances when God has a hand in helping you No work can accomplish what He does for us we would be glad most of all when we were closer in His directionrdquo Cobbrsquos style according to him ldquohas become more mature serious and complete I recently did another chapel consisting of 23 panels It is a touring work and most recently was in Tyler Texasrdquo Cobb presently works with Valley House Gallery in Dallas where many of his works are displayed and sold

A Strange Wedding in the Little Chapel on the Dunes

A young lady contacted the Carter family about

getting married in the Church on the Dunes According to Frank the lady said ldquoI want to warn you now that it is unusualrdquo however she offered no further explanation and the Carter family did not prompt her for more information or what she meant by unusual When the wedding day arrived a large crowd assembled and waited for the lsquobride-to-bersquo to arrive The church was overfl owing and the crowd waited patiently outside Finally the bride resplendently dressed in a white wedding gown boots and spurs rode up the dune on a white horse where she found her groom anxiously waiting During the ceremony some folks laughed and smiled enjoying the event The bride-to-be asked Frank if she could open one of the windows so that she could allow the horse to stick its head in the window Frank obliged and the young lady placed her hand on the horsersquos head through-out the ceremony After the ceremony she took off down the dunes on the horse leaving the groom stunned and the onlookers startled The assumption was that the young lady had actually married the horse An old horse shoe rests in one of the alcoves inside the Chapel The story

goes that it is a horse shoe from the very horse that the young lady married Hard to tell if it is or not and those who might know arenrsquot telling It does make for a good story though and the horseshoersquos peculiar presence makes every visitor wonder about its purpose and history

Tours of the Little Chapel on the Dunes

Pepper Pendzinski is the kind of person who nearly always has a wide and warm smile Her sense of humor and positive outlook on life radiate from her as if it were a permanent aura She sees events and situations as opportunities and blessings an outlook that requires signifi cant positive resolve faith and confi dence Those

qualities help make Pepper one of the effective Port Aransas Museum Board Members They also make her an ideal tour guide of the Little Chapel on the Dunes which she does on the fi rst and third Fridays and Saturdays of each month For an informative and awe-inspiring tour of the Chapel contact Pepper at 361-749-3800 Visit their website at wwwportaransasmuseumorg

The Future of the Little Chapel on the Dunes

The Little Chapel on the Dunes is a treasure a small yet powerful monument to the strength determination fortune and desires of Aline Carter She succeeded in building a haven that still becomes one with nature a place where peace and beauty dwell and a place to reconnect with God or onersquos own spirituality Nestled on a high dune it still overlooks some of the Gulf of Mexico It still offers tranquility and a place to ldquolisten for the whispers of your Godrdquo and if a visitor listens carefully the cries of birds and sounds of surf still serenade The Chapel remains a ldquosanctuary of peace and inspiration for all who seek and wonderrdquo as the Chapel was originally intended according to Alinersquos daughter-in-law Aubrey Keating Carter

Elvis or Archangel A colorful image resembling Elvis Presley is prominently painted on

the ceiling Is it Elvis An archangel Danielrsquos vision of a monster Or something else not yet discovered

Even the ceiling of the chapel is entirely fi lled with Cobbs artworkThe inscription on the altar reads I am the light of the world

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A Few Items Of NoteArtArtArtArtArtArt SceneT

HE

Main Gallery High in FiberWorks by Paula Gron Alicia Ross Dianne Berman

Erika McIlnay Ashley Thomas et al

Art Star Gallery Stop Making Sense

Gerald Lopez amp Claudia Wafer

Hot Spot Gallery CLOSED

415 D Starr Street


3618876834

KSpaceContemporaryorg

Hours Wed-Sat 11a ndash 5p

Free Admission

First Friday ArtWALK

August 2nd ndash 530pm to 9pm

Expecting Marilyn Alicia Ross

K Space Contemporary

100 Shoreline Blvd


Tel 3618846406

Fax 3618848836

ArtCenterCCorg

Art Center of Corpus Christi

Hours 10a ndash 4p

Tuesday through Sunday

CLOSED Monday

Admission is always FREE

Check the website for art camp and class information amp registration

The Independents Show 2013Works on display through July 12th

First Friday ArtWALKAugust 2nd ndash 5pm to 7pm

Opening reception for Clay Studio Group

Annual Affi liated Group Exhibit juried by Claudia Reese

Works will be on display through August 27th

Claudia Reese Solo Exhibition

Claudia Reese started Cera-Mix Studio in 1981 location on Tumbleweed Trail in Austin Texas She creates beautiful dinnerware tile sculpture fountains water catchments systems and gardens all around

NEXUSAffi liated Group Exhibit of 8 TAMUCC Art

Department Graduates

Annual Souper BowlBUY A BOWL FEED A FAMILY

Friday August 30th

Hundreds of one-of-a-kind ceramic bowls are hand crafted by the Barry Brown Clay Studio for this collaborative Food Bank fundraising event at the Art Center of Corpus Christi For just $20 you can pick your favorite bowl choose a delicious soup and support your community Art Center and Food Bank

Go here to get your tickets httpwwwartcenterccorgeventssouper-bowl

100 N Shoreline Drive


361-881-8325

studiocgallerycom

Studio C GalleryHOURS

Mon 10am - 3pm

Tue - Sat 10am - 4pm

Owned by a group of well-recognized local artists Studio C Gallery is situated within the Art Center of Corpus Christi on the bayfront overlooking the marina Studio C Gallery houses a variety of high quality wearable functional decorative andor gift-able works of art created by talented Texas artists

ldquoLong Tall Sallyrdquo Debbie Cannatella

Barry Brown Clay Studio100 N Shoreline Drive


Located inside the Art Center of Corpus Christi The Barry Brown Clay Studio is open to the public for classes and available for studio use by members only The Clay Studio Group is a volunteer organization that maintains and runs the studio

Treehouse Art Collective309 North Water Street Suite D


3618824822

TreehouseArtCCcom

Hours

Tue-Sat 11a ndash 8p

Sunday Noon to 6p

Free Admission Always

First Friday ArtWALKAugust 2nd 530 ndash 9pm

Featured Artist Cliff Welty

Fine art paintings by noted Texas painter Cliff Welty Join us for art music refreshments and FUN

Cliff Welty

Art Museum of South Texas1902 N Shoreline Blvd


Tel 3618253500

Fax 3618253520

artmuseumofsouthtexasorg

Hours

Tues - Sat 10a to 5p

Sundays 1p to 5p

Closed Mondays amp Holidays

Admission

Adults - $8

Seniors (60 and older) - $6

Active Military - $6

Students (13+) - $4

Free to all members children 12 and under and TAMU-CC students

Free Admission every First Friday in honor of ArtWALK

Greg Reuter For the Record

14 July through 29 September 2013

Experience nature like never before Exhibition organized by Greg Reuter and Deborah Fullerton AMST Curator

A Noble Pastime from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Exhibit runs through August 25th 2013

The hunt comes to life with representations of hunting expeditions displays of game and portraits of animals and the hunters

Check the museum website calendar for lots of fun family and adult events throughout the month

Creative Connections GalleryThe Merriman-Bobys House

Heritage Park

1521 North Chaparral Street

Corpus Christi Texas 78401

361-883-ARTS (2787)

CreativeConnectionsCCorg

Wednesday ndash Saturday 11a ndash 3p

or By Appointment

Always Free Admission

First Friday ArtWALKAugust 2nd 6p ndash 9p

Featured Artist Ed Portis

The gallery is showing two simultaneous exhibitions by local photographer Ed Portis The Culture of Boats and Mexican Culture Both exhibitions approach familiar subjects with a fresh eye Works on display through August 28th

First Saturday and SundayNEW HOURS

Ed Portis

Tango Tea Room505 S Water Street Suite 545


3618839123

Hours

Mon ndash Tue 10a - 8p

Fri amp Sat 10a - 1030p

Sunday ClosedFirst Friday ArtWALK

August 2nd 530 ndash 9pm

New featured artist each month First Friday drummers dancers and street performers

Art music poetry fabulous food and shopping all in one

Downtown Corpus Christi Farmers Market Every Wednesday 5-7 pm featuring local growers and crafters

LenzTHE Grow Local South Texas Classes Tango Tea Room

21

Admission

Adults - $8



Students (13+) - $4



Island Moon Artwalk amp Beach Market Mike Ellis Beach

Exposing Local ArtistshellipBy Georgia Griffi n

Paula Gron is evolvinghellip

CanvasThe

some of Paularsquos works have a humorous twist to them Take for example the punning piece titled Spring Cleaning with springs as basket stakes or the pearls and mop strands in Domestic Goddesshellip you get the idea

ldquoYes Irsquom a big chucklehead We always have humor going on around here Itrsquos just about being a charwoman My husband still works full time so he pretty much expects me to do it all which I donrsquot blame him for but being the charwoman (doing the groceries the meals and the cleaning) I had to make a comment about that

ldquoThen the piece thatrsquos called My Toothbrush [is] because I had to go get braces because of a jaw problem in my old age I literally got these braces taken off when I turned 60 which was phenomenal to me It turned out I wasnrsquot even the oldest person whorsquos gotten braces before I thought Irsquod set a record

ldquoIt came from collecting some brush handles Itrsquos hard to fi nd old scrub brushes but the scrub brush kind of did relate to my charwoman role You can take the brushes (bristles) out of all the holes and yoursquove got holes ideal for putting stakes in to weave on Thatrsquos how that started Thatrsquos a traditional technique for things with kids in camp just give them something that has holes already and the stakes already in there So I had these handleshellip and that handle looked like a toothbrush to me Building it with metal was the

PPaula Gron is a delightful Mid-Western transplant who has been putting down roots in Corpus

Christi for the last 8 years Hailing from Ohio originally Paula and her husband Jack Gron (sculptor and TAMUCC Chair Department of Art) spent 20 years in Kentucky where they raised their daughter

Armed with a major in Graphic Design and minor in Illustration she embarked on a 30-year commercial career in those symbiotic disciplines all the while developing her other artistic interests ldquoI started because Irsquove always sewn and was interested in fi ber I did seriously play around with basketry I took classes in the 80s but did coiling techniques before then so this basketry craft and exhibition thing kinda started right around rsquo76 or so I started showing pretty seriously in the 80s Irsquom evolving

ldquoI am probably evolving into being more of a fi ne art fi ber artisthellip a fellow exhibitor said ldquoOh yoursquore really not a basket maker you should call yourself a fi ber artistrdquo So I have to quit calling myself a basket maker but I was always into the functional craft and did learn basketry traditionally I learned all the traditional techniques but at the same time that I was interested in basketry I was taking some weaving classes I like loom weaving but I always wanted to take that thing off the loom and make it three-dimensional Irsquom defi nitely not a yardage weaver I abandoned the loom eventually and just went back to the basketry pure basketry techniquesrdquo

Pure basketry meets the now retro 35mm negative rolls

ldquoI was looking for something that I had multiples of because I just wanted to explore ithellip I didnrsquot want to mess with a reed that gets wet again and if you have reed too yoursquore kind of drawn to do something more traditional with it Itrsquos a little restrictive I keep seeing a lot of work out there [by] artists that do multiples or just repetitive they just have a lot of the same materials ndash something odd ndash you know I did like recycling and just playing with it to see what happens with stuff I have that commercial background and then I have a commercial craft background you could say now Irsquom doing more fi ne art Irsquom moving into a fi ne art directionrdquo

As you can see by the accompanying photographs 22

next movehellip I thought well this would make it great Irsquoll do it all white like your teeth and Irsquoll put these little things these little braces on it but I got to a point where it was hard to work with the metal after a while Thatrsquos when I put the little roots in there that were like my aching roots of my teeth

ldquoNow Irsquom trying to explore I mean granted I donrsquot really have that much time to work on my artwork but I am just trying to explore something that moves me Like I said I come from that commercial worldhellip Irsquom not used to doing work thatrsquos for myself ndash just making art for artrsquos sake Wow Thatrsquos a new concept Irsquove met a lot of great watercolorists here and they just watercolor Irsquom like wow ndash thatrsquos an idea ndash I donrsquot have to watercolor for a client I can actually just watercolor for fun So I did I did explore that for a while and I still need to get back to that Irsquove got so many things I want to do but just donrsquot have the time for it Just playing with materials is a good idea too Playing and experimenting seeing where it goes Any artist should do that if you can afford the timerdquo

Time is a recurring theme in our conversation A very busy woman I donrsquot think grass gets time to grow under Paularsquos feet ndash in addition to working on fi ber creations in her home studio she still occasionally takes graphic design and illustration clients On top of that when possible she also likes to pass on her 30 years of experience and knowledge

You can contact her for lessons through her website SculpturalBasketrycom or keep an eye on the courses offered at the Art Center of Corpus Christi ndash Paula is planning to offer a weekend class there this fall

Paula also shows her work at various galleries but like many artists she wishes there were more venues available ldquoIrsquod like to see Corpus Christi develop







downtownhellip it still looks pretty much the same way it did 8 years ago when we moved here but therersquos more activity Therersquos defi nitely more activity People come out for ArtWalk

ldquoIt could be too much developmentrsquos going on in the whole South Sidehellip itrsquos kinda late in the game so many other cities have the same problem I donrsquot know

but um but there are people who do want art spaces and art galleries A friend of mine started with friends the little Studio C down there in the Art Center Now they have to charge artists a monthly fee to get in there which is a shame but itrsquos risky Itrsquos nice to see that people are still willing to take the riskrdquo

Galleries are a risk Art is a risk Creating fi ne art with unusual media like fi ber can be a big risk If lsquofi ber artrsquo is a term yoursquore unfamiliar with donrsquot feel alone Fiber art is sometimes called textile art but that term is a bit too specifi c because it encompasses materials beyond textiles ndash it is literally any artwork constructed with or including fi ber as a major element Processes vary widely and can range from sewing amp stitching to weaving amp basketry The end results can be traditional like quilting or contemporary like Paularsquos sculptural basketry Fiber is something of a slowly rising star in the world of art media that is fi nally coming into its own

Paula Gronrsquos work is being featured in the very successful group show High in Fiber at K Space

Contemporary alongside other notable fi ber artists Alicia Ross Dianne Berman Erika McIlnay Ashley Thomas etc presenting an amazing spectrum of works in fi ber Catch the show on this monthrsquos ArtWalk or any time before it closes on August 24th ndash yoursquoll be glad you did

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I know a lot of people have a lot of money invested in the way things are right now but the secret to good government is to take those people into account and still move forward The Corpus Christi bag ordinance as it looks today is definitely trying to take the interests of everyone into account Large grocery operators might even come out ahead at the end of the day with the provision that says they can keep five percent of the bag fees they collect As Colleen McIntyre Council Member for District 4 pointed out the five percent administrative fee kept by merchants acts as a perverse incentive generating income on a per-plastic-bag-used basis that didnt exist before So stores using plastic bags and charging a dollar per transaction get five cents back- when youre talking about five cents for every person who buys groceries in the city each day it might add up to an incentive to use more plastic bags not less

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The Gourmet Pizza




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415 D Starr Street


3618876834



Free Admission





100 Shoreline Blvd


Tel 3618846406

Fax 3618848836

ArtCenterCCorg


Hours 10a ndash 4p


CLOSED Monday













Friday August 30th





361-881-8325

studiocgallerycom


Mon 10am - 3pm









3618824822

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Sunday Noon to 6p





Cliff Welty



Tel 3618253500

Fax 3618253520


Hours


Sundays 1p to 5p


Admission

Adults - $8



Students (13+) - $4











Heritage Park



361-883-ARTS (2787)



or By Appointment






Ed Portis



3618839123

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21

Admission

Adults - $8



Students (13+) - $4






CanvasThe

































Plant

Tours

Availa

ble C

all 2108040390


361-883-9123





Closed Sunday

















22 Sandy Steps

By Brent Rourk


16





God and Science





















17
















The Gourmet Pizza




produce available







4228 South Alameda








Gi

20


HE






415 D Starr Street


3618876834



Free Admission





100 Shoreline Blvd


Tel 3618846406

Fax 3618848836

ArtCenterCCorg


Hours 10a ndash 4p


CLOSED Monday













Friday August 30th





361-881-8325

studiocgallerycom


Mon 10am - 3pm









3618824822

TreehouseArtCCcom

Hours


Sunday Noon to 6p





Cliff Welty



Tel 3618253500

Fax 3618253520


Hours


Sundays 1p to 5p


Admission

Adults - $8



Students (13+) - $4











Heritage Park



361-883-ARTS (2787)



or By Appointment






Ed Portis



3618839123

Hours









21

Admission

Adults - $8



Students (13+) - $4






CanvasThe

































Plant

Tours

Availa

ble C

all 2108040390


361-883-9123





Closed Sunday




God and Science





















17
















The Gourmet Pizza




produce available







4228 South Alameda








Gi

20


HE






415 D Starr Street


3618876834



Free Admission





100 Shoreline Blvd


Tel 3618846406

Fax 3618848836

ArtCenterCCorg


Hours 10a ndash 4p


CLOSED Monday













Friday August 30th





361-881-8325

studiocgallerycom


Mon 10am - 3pm









3618824822

TreehouseArtCCcom

Hours


Sunday Noon to 6p





Cliff Welty



Tel 3618253500

Fax 3618253520


Hours


Sundays 1p to 5p


Admission

Adults - $8



Students (13+) - $4











Heritage Park



361-883-ARTS (2787)



or By Appointment






Ed Portis



3618839123

Hours









21

Admission

Adults - $8



Students (13+) - $4






CanvasThe

































Plant

Tours

Availa

ble C

all 2108040390


361-883-9123





Closed Sunday
















The Gourmet Pizza




produce available







4228 South Alameda








Gi

20


HE






415 D Starr Street


3618876834



Free Admission





100 Shoreline Blvd


Tel 3618846406

Fax 3618848836

ArtCenterCCorg


Hours 10a ndash 4p


CLOSED Monday













Friday August 30th





361-881-8325

studiocgallerycom


Mon 10am - 3pm









3618824822

TreehouseArtCCcom

Hours


Sunday Noon to 6p





Cliff Welty



Tel 3618253500

Fax 3618253520


Hours


Sundays 1p to 5p


Admission

Adults - $8



Students (13+) - $4











Heritage Park



361-883-ARTS (2787)



or By Appointment






Ed Portis



3618839123

Hours









21

Admission

Adults - $8



Students (13+) - $4






CanvasThe

































Plant

Tours

Availa

ble C

all 2108040390


361-883-9123





Closed Sunday

20


HE






415 D Starr Street


3618876834



Free Admission





100 Shoreline Blvd


Tel 3618846406

Fax 3618848836

ArtCenterCCorg


Hours 10a ndash 4p


CLOSED Monday













Friday August 30th





361-881-8325

studiocgallerycom


Mon 10am - 3pm









3618824822

TreehouseArtCCcom

Hours


Sunday Noon to 6p





Cliff Welty



Tel 3618253500

Fax 3618253520


Hours


Sundays 1p to 5p


Admission

Adults - $8



Students (13+) - $4











Heritage Park



361-883-ARTS (2787)



or By Appointment






Ed Portis



3618839123

Hours









21

Admission

Adults - $8



Students (13+) - $4






CanvasThe

































Plant

Tours

Availa

ble C

all 2108040390


361-883-9123





Closed Sunday


21

Admission

Adults - $8



Students (13+) - $4






CanvasThe

































Plant

Tours

Availa

ble C

all 2108040390


361-883-9123





Closed Sunday



CanvasThe

































Plant

Tours

Availa

ble C

all 2108040390


361-883-9123





Closed Sunday

















Plant

Tours

Availa

ble C

all 2108040390


361-883-9123





Closed Sunday


361-883-9123





Closed Sunday

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