While waiting yesterday at City Hall for the clerk to prepare the paperwork for our temporary license plates I happened to look at a display inside a large glass case. My eyes were just scanning about when something very familiar caught my attention. In the center of this display was a large poster with a photo of the Corpus Christi Bayfront. Then I remembered the many times in the last fortysome years that I had watched indifferently to local TV news stories about Corpus Christi and its sister city in Japan. I'm certain that the name of Yokosuka had been referenced each and every time, but the name never registered in my memory. Why would it? Well, here we are... in Corpus Christi's sister city, Yokosuka. You just never know.
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The high school on the Yokosuka base is Nile C. Kinnick High School, "Home of the Red Devils". Its enrollment fluctuates between 500 and 600 students, grades nine through twelve and their lunch period is from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. I was in the area of the Navy Exchange around this time and saw a great number of high school-aged kids in many of the fast food establishments. This got me to thinking. Is the campus a closed campus? In a fashion, the base the high school is located in is closed. It was just an odd thought I had. I might have too much time on my hands.
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While walking through a construction site on base I did a double-take on this sign. It is directing pedestrian traffic to use a protected path as a sidewalk so as to avoid the work area. The best I can figure is that there is no L in the Japanese language..., thus we have Side Wark.
