Category: Community

Campus, Community, Education

$500 Ivory Moore Scholarship

John Maldonado

$500 Ivory Moore Scholarship 21st Century African American Student Deadline: February 1, 2019 Texas Association of Black Personnel in High Education (TABPHE) is offering scholarships for African American community college, undergraduate, and graduate students. Two Year Institution Undergraduate Scholarship: $500 Four Year Institution Undergraduate Scholarship: $1,000 Graduate Scholarship: $1,000 Applicants must be currently enrolled in school full-time (12 undergraduate hours/9 graduate hours) and must have at least a 3.00 overall GPA. Application requirements must include: Current transcripts from all colleges or universities attended. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted but, if selected, official transcripts are required within 10 days of notification…

Community, Entertainment

‘Holiday Calendar’ predicts love, destiny

Sam Gutierrez

Netflix recently released a romantic holiday original, “The Holiday Calendar,” directed by Bradley Walsh, who also directed several Hallmark films such as “Christmas Festival of Ice” and “Christmas in Angel Falls.” The movie is about a photographer, Abby Sutton, who was a given an antique Christmas calendar but little did she know, it was a magical calendar that predicted her future. The calendar is like a wooden dollhouse that had 25 doors that opened every day until Christmas, revealing an object of her future, leading up to her destiny. Josh Barton, also a photographer, has been a longtime best friend…

Community

The Blue Ghost is haunted

Mark Garcia

Lexington beings scares and screams for Halloween Since being decommissioned as a naval aircraft carrier in 1991 and her arrival in Corpus Christi in June 1992, where she now operates as a floating museum, the Lexington Museum on the Bay has become a popular tourist attraction in Texas. But in recent years during October, visitors have had an added event taking place on the Lady Lex to explore and experience, the annual Haunting on the Blue Ghost haunted house, sponsored by Castle of Terror productions. The event marked its seventh year in operation this October, and proved highly popular with…

Campus, Community

Opportunity flies sky high

Patrick Luce

GIS Day looks at technology, its use in multiple fields Students and members from the community participated in the 20th annual Coastal Bend GIS Day at the Center for Economic Development. GIS has to do with mapping and the geomatics portion of it is land surveying, or as instructor John Nelson, explains “it’s a science of where.” Geospatial technology is like a big umbrella and GIS is a part of geographic information system, an application used in many fields from archaeology, anthropology, geology, surveying, construction trades and others such as emergency management. “The goal is to inform students, faculty and…

Community, Entertainment

‘The Wall’ documentary to be screened

Colby Farr

Panel discussion will follow film The Corpus Christi Caller-Times will host a screening of the documentary “The Wall” at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at 7 p.m. Wednesday. “The Wall” is a USA Today Network documentary film that looks at the challenges of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The film is a compilation of footage captured by journalists while reporting for an award-winning multimedia series titled “The Wall.” The series was reported on by various news outlets of the USA Today Network including The Arizona Republic and the Caller-Times and won a 2018 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting. “I think…