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[Gib]

Whom ever is responsible for getting pier into shape, THANK YOU.

I apologize for not posting yesterday as I said I would. I was not near the computer.

Thursday night, all lights working, new water valves, and trash picked-up. What a difference!!

Now, if we can do something about the glass bottles, drunks, and people who throw cast nets right over your bait, not once, but twice. They then have the audacity to say sorry about that.

Go throw your nets were people are not fishing. This idiot was trying to catch trouts, reds, etc. and telling everyone he was after bait.

Ended up with abot 18 between two of us.

Once again, thank you to those who did the leg work and the one(s) who put the foot down to get things in order.

[The Trash Heap]

Check out his column in the C-T June 12 for an explanation of the trash, and be sure to send him a LTTE for his work on getting a response to your complaints about the lights. Mike's Da Go To Guy.
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[bellyup]

There is no reason for trash and people need to pick up after themselves.

Your $3 spent aint sh!t. We need to carry out more than we bring in and let the pigs know they are pigs.

[The Trash Heap]

Hey, TIGHTLINE, I didn't intend to steal your thunder when I forwarded your complaint. I haven't fished off Bob Hall since before it was last rebuilt, and the last time I sat foot upon it was to collect an injured bird more than 5 years ago. Anyway, here's Mike Baird's report.

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Mike Baird/Caller-Times

County Parks carpenter Tom Buchanan (left) and Pablo Gonzales, maintenance foreman, replace the photocell that controls the lighting on Bob Hall Pier after several lighting fixtures were rewired.

Troubleshooter with Mike Baird
Beach bathrooms will get makeover; let there be light on Laguna Shores

June 12, 2006




Nueces County beachside parks are getting new restrooms; some residents on Laguna Shores Road are tired of being in the dark; and the city fixed a homeowner's leaky waterline.

Corpus Christi resident Trip Howse e-mailed a complaint to the Troubleshooter about Padre Balli Park. "My children needed to soak their feet in Lysol because they used the restrooms," Howse said. "I'll go to South Padre next time."

The 30-year-old bathrooms will be demolished early next month, said Blake Pettis, county parks director. Both Padre Balli Park and I.B. Magee Beach Park in Port Aransas will have portable toilets for about six months while new restrooms are constructed, he said. The county is spending about $280,000 for the replacement restrooms, which will be built in the same location, Pettis said.

Other areas of the park also are undergoing work, including pier floodlights, showers and park benches.

Johnny French, a local retired biologist, said he noticed several burned-out lights and full trash containers during a recent fishing outing on Bob Hall Pier.

"Lights are burned out, trash containers were full of beer cans," French said. "Who receives the three bucks I paid?"

There is a $1 per person admission fee and a $1 per pole fee at the pier.

Seventy-two percent of fees go to Nueces County, 38 percent of which is passed on to the state for care of state-owned coastal lands. Concessionaires get the remaining 28 percent for their operation costs.

County crews work to maintain the two beachside parks daily. However, the usual trash receptacle maintenance crew has been pulling extra duty - working to repair broken waterlines at a nearby campground during the past two weeks, Pettis said, meaning the receptacles haven't been emptied as often.

The electrical problems were being remedied last week as an electrician repaired wiring for the six dysfunctional floodlights. The county park's carpenter, Tom Buchanan, and the maintenance foreman replaced a photocell in the electrical breaker box that controls automatic lighting of the pier floodlights. Buchanan also rebuilt some of the rinse showers along the beach and lowered the picnic table seats that were too high.

For help with a problem contact Mike Baird at 886-3774

or bairdm@ caller.com
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The Trash Heap Has Spoken!
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