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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Coast Guard Day—the Alaska Way!
It was a cool 65 degrees as Kodiak celebrated Coast Guard Day, Saturday, August 2nd. A large family style cookout was held in the helicopter hangar complete with hamburgers, hotdogs, bratwursts, chicken and all the sides. Many children activities were stationed inside the hangar such as moon bounces, a batting cage, inflatable obstacle course, face painting, balloon pop and the ever popular balloon animals. Static displays of the C-130 and H-60 Jayhawk let many small children climb aboard and pretend to be Coast Guard pilots and aircrew. Oversized trike races were entertaining to watch. It almost looked like the child would fall off if they leaned the wrong way! Since Kodiak is known for the rain, most of the activities were held indoors. I’m sure Elizabeth City had hot sunny skies grace them on Coast Guard Day! All in all, it was a great festive day with many people in attendence. And the great part was the Air Station had Monday, August 4th off as well. I mean, it is officially Coast Guard Day!
