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12/05
Committee for Persons with Disabilities
December 5th, 9:00pm
- Prepare to Takeoff and Run the Runway @ CCIA
- 2018 City Thanksgiving Holiday Schedule
- Financial Services Department Awarded Top Recognition
- A partir del 1 de Diciembre se aceptan solicitudes para programa Operation Heat Help
- Free Community Safe Digging Seminar
- Learn How to Make Tamales This Holiday Season
- UPDATE: Operation Heat Help Applications Accepted Beginning December 1
- Holiday Cooking Tips for Properly Disposing of Fats, Oils and Grease (FOG)
How did Corpus Christi Texas get its name?
In 1519, on the Roman Catholic Feast Day of Corpus Christi, Spanish explorer Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda discovered a lush semi-tropical bay on what is now the southern coast of Texas. The bay, and the city that later sprung up there, took the name of the feast day celebrating the "Body of Christ."