Author: Erin Garza-Granados

As a foster kid in the Region 11 district, Nueces and surrounding counties included, you would only be considered one out of over 2,000 kids. You would have the clothes on your back — and a trash bag for your belongings. Amy Mintz, professor of Child Development/Early Childhood, wants to change that. She creates a project every semester in which interns within the program have to participate. In the months leading up to the introduction of this project, the sad reality that foster kids face was brought to her attention, making her interest reach far beyond to taking action. “This…

Phase one gets approved for the new Southside campus The Board of Regents unanimously voted to proceed with the South Side Campus Master Plan at its Aug. 14 meeting, giving the go-ahead for phase one of construction. The plan includes construction of the Main Building/Library, STEM (science building), Culinary Institute and Central Plant, along with a 1,200-space parking lot. The $101 million project would include about 280,000 square feet. The campus includes a community garden for the Culinary Institute, greenhouses for science programs and outdoor space for architecture programs. Del Mar Provost Beth Lewis welcomed principal architect Phillip Ramirez from…

Second-year cadets attempt to meet requirements in final Fifteen men and one woman from Del Mar’s Regional Fire Academy experienced the heat of finals unlike most other students, as theirs involved real fire. The second-year students tested their skills and extinguished a burning car, dumpster fire, propane cylinder, gas leak and a spill fire as part of their requirements. Student Kelsey Grottie, 23, was the only girl left in the program at the end. “I joined this program after my career in physical therapy didn’t go as planned,” Grottie said. “We started the program with four girls and as the…

Sisters injured in car accident share their story with class Third-year nursing students recently received more than a normal 8 a.m. lecture as professors Catherine Duggan and Floyd Green brought in guest speakers to turn the lecture into a real-life situation. As the students ventured into the complex topic of spinal injuries, Eden and Brittany Elkins were there to lend a helping hand and describe the 2002 accident that changed their lives. “The last thing I heard was my dad’s fiancée yelling, ‘Babe watch out!’ as the truck headed toward us,” Brittany, now 24, said at the April 16 presentation…