Author: Erin Garza-Granados

Campus

These students are on fire

Erin Garza-Granados

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…

Campus

Nursing students gain new outlook

Erin Garza-Granados

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…

Community

Student’s sad story sheds new light on bullying

Erin Garza-Granados

14-year-old tells about being picked on because of illness As 14-year-old Michael Collins began to speak at a bullying prevention event, he didn’t expect to steal the hearts of everyone in the audience. Michael was born with vertebral defects, anal atresia, cardiac defects, trachea-esophageal fistula, renal anomalies, limb abnormalities and Poland syndrome. His illness causes the right side of his body to be under-developed, giving him a smaller arm that he calls his “lucky fin.” Michael faces many challenges, one of the biggest being that he didn’t start speaking until he was 6 years old. Having to defend himself was…

Campus, Community, Entertainment, Movies

‘Las Tesoros’ film inspires students

Erin Garza-Granados

DMC hosts screening followed by Q&A with filmmakers Del Mar College shared the story of four women and their struggle to make it in the male-dominated mariachi industry for Women’s History Month. The March 28 of the award winning documentary “Las Tesoros de San Antonio: A Westside Story” took place in the White Library and was followed by a Q&A with the director Jorge Sandoval and editor/producer Robb Garcia. “The project was a beautiful and inspiring experience,” Sandoval said of the seven years he spent making the film. The film, which follows the lives of four mariachi women making their…

Entertainment

Tesoros of San Antonio make a legacy

Erin Garza-Granados

Mexican-American Studies program to host film screening Del Mar College and the Mexican-American Studies program will be screening “Las Tesoros de San Antonio/A Westside Story” to continue the celebration of Women’s History Month. The event will take place from 1-3 p.m. March 28 in the White Library, Room 514. The screening of the award-winning film will be followed by a Q&A session with the director. Director Jorge Sandoval explored the lives of four female artists and took interest as they did the impossible of their time and took over the Mariachi industry, a male-dominated place. “The message of the film…