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Community

Four decades of selfless sacrifice

Julieta Hernandez

Couple dedicate lives to helping colonia residents Lionel Lopez remembers the night in 1974 that would put him on a course that would occupy the next 40 years of his and his wife’s lives. On a cold, raining night in 1974 during his days as a firefighter, Lionel Lopez responded to a call for an elderly woman suffering from a heart attack in one of the Nueces County colonias. He was made aware of the freezing interior of the unkempt home and the unstable surroundings she was living in. “She was an elderly lady and we got her out, and golly…”…

Campus, Community, Food

Center for Early Learning’s goal: delicious, nutritious

Jonathan Garcia

The Center for Early Learning at Del Mar College is part of a new program to help the children eat delicious yet healthy food. The college has announced a sponsorship of the Child and Adult Care Food Program through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Division. Melinda Eldrige, director of the CEL, has helped to make sure the criteria is met to be able to provide the children the meals. “The meal patterns are very particular as far as what we have to meet,” she said. Eldrige stated that it balances that they are focused more on whole…

Community

Vocal Vikings make the rounds

Sam Ervin

Speech team competed at, hosted events last month The Vocal Vikings, Del Mar’s speech and debate team, had a busy February. Throughout February, the team competed at three tournaments in different cities, while also hosting the local and annual Speech on the Beach. On the first weekend, the team headed to College Station to compete, where team member Katy Babbit earned a fifth place award in poetry. The following weekend they traveled to Tyler, where Hunter Frost faced the top debater in Texas as a semi-finalist and came within just one point of winning. On the third weekend the team…

Campus, Community

Culinary students creating delicacies

Nomaan Khan

Program holds weekly meals for real-world practice While many students get stuck repeatedly looking at pages of text, some at Del Mar College get to learn by stirring and cooking up food. The Del Mar Culinary Arts program prepares students with a passion for food to become professionals in the food industry. “We’re trying to build future chefs. We train our students to ultimately become executive chefs in their own respective fields,” said Chef Israel “Izzy” Villanueva, culinary arts instructor. Villanueva said the program at DMC is very diverse, with students who range from 16 to 60 years old. Some…

Community

School district tightens security

Valerie Rossel

Aransas Pass high school pushes safety after bomb threat Aransas Pass schools plan to bring in more officers and make other security changes after a series of threats to the high school and an elementary school in the district. The high school was evacuated on Feb. 23 after a bomb threat was discovered written on a wall. That followed two other threats at Charlie Marshall Elementary School in recent days. Joey Fuentes, whose daughter attends school in Aransas Pass, frantically parked and ran to his daughter, who was waiting outside the school, to give her a hug after hearing about…