Del Mar, community mourn loss of Hector ‘Coach’ Salinas
DMC Regent, lifelong educator was 76 Del Mar College Regent Hector Salinas died Friday morning, college President Mark Escamilla confirmed. He was 76. Salinas was elected to an at-large seat on the Board of Regents in 2018 and his term would have run through 2024. He previously served on the Corpus Christi Independent School District Board of Trustees. “Our community was a better place with the passion and dedication to education that Regent Salinas demonstrated,” Escamilla said in a campus-wide email. “His wisdom, leadership and caring nature will be dearly missed by the Del Mar College family.” Salinas was a…