Category: Community

Campus, Community

Social Forum at Del Mar College seeks to build community and support sustainability

Gabriella DeSequeira

Bring your friends and an open mind to Del Mar College this Saturday for the Social Forum. From public speakers to a trash fashion show, this event is a day-long opportunity to create bonds within the Coastal Bend community and to focus on environmental issues. The Social Forum will take place Saturday, Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Retama Room on the second floor of the Harvin Center at Heritage Campus. Lunch will also be provided downstairs from noon to 1 p.m. for participants and attendees. Texas Rising and For the Greater Good are hosting this…

Community

KadabraCon takes over Corpus Christi once again

Val Cantu

The multi-genre fandom convention KadabraCon returned to Corpus Christi on Sept 26-28. What was touted as bigger and better than last year’s offering ended up being on par with, or even below the previous year’s offerings. Events scheduled throughout the weekend included an opening ceremony, anime trivia, dance competitions, Q&A sessions, and even a watch party for “Knights of Guinevere.” There was a haunted house on the show floor, complete with a fog machine and sound effects, in addition to a gaming area that hosted multiple tournaments. Fans of series like “Arcane,” “The Amazing Digital Circus,” and “Hazbin Hotel,” among…

Community

Share your Christmas Food Drive back to help community

Micaela Calderon-Stewart

The Coastal Bend Food Bank and KIII-TV are once again teaming up for the Annual Share Your Christmas Food Drive on Wednesday, Dec. 10, to ensure families across the Coastal Bend have food on their tables this holiday season. From 5 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. donations will be accepted at the Coastal Bend Food Bank located at 5442 Bear Lane and KIII-TV studios located at 5002 S. Padre Island Drive. Now in its 38th year, this community tradition collects nonperishable food and monetary donations that provide meals to families across its eleven-county service area each holiday season. As the cost…

Campus, Community

Valdar’s Market partners with the Coastal Bend Food Bank for SNAP application event

Micaela Calderon-Stewart

Students at Heritage and Windward campuses received application assistance applying for SNAP food benefits and the Healthy Texas Women program during a two-day outreach event in partnership with Valdar’s Market and the Coastal Bend Food Bank’s Social Services team.  “Our goal is to inform and help as many students as possible with information on resources and application assistance,” said Viviana Flores, Social Services lead.  The outreach event was held on Sept. 23 -24. But for anyone who missed the event, there will be other opportunities. With the continued partnership between Valdar’s Markets and the Coastal Bend Food Bank, the Social…

Community

Help Fill Empty Racks at the Food Bank this Holiday Season

Micaela Calderon-Stewart

The Coastal Bend Food Bank is calling on the community to help fill their empty racks this upcoming holiday season. According to Bea Hanson, executive director of the Coastal Bend Food Bank, they have seen a 20% increase in new neighbors seeking food assistance and anticipate a continued need through the end of the year, making holiday food drives more vital than ever.  “Our racks are emptying as quickly as they are filled,” says Hanson. “Each donation received, whether it’s a can of vegetables, a jar of peanut butter, or a box of stuffing, it makes a world of difference…

Community

Corpus Christi Swings Again: Texas Jazz Festival Celebrates 64 years of Free Music and community

Miranda Stewart

The sounds of saxophones, drums, and a lot of laughter will once again fill Heritage Park this weekend as Corpus Christi hosts the 64th annual Texas Jazz Festival, the longest-running free jazz festival in the country.   Founded in 1959 by members of Del Mar College’s Jazz Club, the event began as a small campus concert, but then quickly grew into a citywide tradition celebrating the culture and creativity of jazz music. The festival’s success led to the establishment of the Texas Jazz Festival Society, which now organizes the three-day celebration each October.  This year’s festival runs Oct. 17–19 in…

Community, Entertainment

Review: TAMU-CC’s ‘Electricidad’ a devastating retelling of Greek tragedy

Paul Farias

TAMU-CC’s latest play, “Electricidad,” is not for the faint of heart. It is a vulnerable look into a family, a series of crumbling facades, and repeating the cycle of abuse under the veneer of Los Angeles gang life. The nine-person cast provides a series of spirited performances that draws the viewer’s eyes as often as they approach the viewer directly. The play, directed by Marco Munoz, is an adaptation of Sophocles’ “Electra” placed in 2000’s LA. The story revolves around the titular Electricidad looking to right the wrongs of her mother Clemencia’s murdering of her father, enlisting the help of…

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Former DMC graduate goes to International World Championship of Chess boxing

Chandler Carroll

Two competitors enter the boxing ring, lace up their gloves, and play chess? Three minutes later, the board comes up and it’s time to throw real shots at each other. This is a sporting event that confuses most, but is a dream competition for one student in Corpus Christi. Edward Green is a 32-year-old Del Mar graduate and current student at Texas A&M University-Kingsville who has found his way into competing in one of the most niche sports in the world, chess boxing. Green will make his first appearance for Team USA during an international chess boxing tournament held in…

Community, Featured

Bringing home the gold for Del Mar College

Chandler Carroll

“I was expecting a bum rush, I was just thinking that this is gonna be a dogfight in the beginning.” Boxing is a sport of toughness, determination and endurance. To become the best, you must be willing to continuously trade fierce blows and outlast the strongest of competitors. Through years of training and dedication, 28-year-old Kennedy Contreras did just that as she turned dreams into reality on March 29 in Macon, Georgia, becoming the first woman in Texas to win a championship title at the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association’s National Tournament. Originally from Midland, Texas, Contreras’ boxing journey began…

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14 years of commemorating Aztec rituals

Lola Ponce

Local indigenous group Kalpulli Ehekatl Papalotzin celebrated their 14th anniversary with a two-day event surrounded by other Kalpulli members from across Texas and Mexico. The groups’ gatherings incorporated traditions dating back to Aztec (Mexica) celebrations. The events began April 4 with a traditional sacred sweat lodge known as temazcal, which originated with the indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica. The term temazcal originates from the Nahuatl language from the words teme (to bathe) and calli (house), or from the word temazcalli (house of heat). As each member arrived, they placed a lava rock on a mount that heats the stones until they…

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