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Go West for freebies

By Midori Allen / Associate editor Del Mar College West Campus offers free services by students for faculty, staff and students. Some services are even offered for the general public. Author Meagan Falcon The reporters and the editors of The Foghorn News are students at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas. The Foghorn staff has a passion for writing and informing the public on the important issues happening locally and nationally, but most importantly what is happening on and off the Del Mar College campus.

Buc Days on the bayfront returns with a bang

Foghorn file Mayor Nelda Martinez leaps into the bay as part of dunking the mayor to kick off Buc Days. Live music, a tailgate party, rodeo, carnival and a parade for the family will be the highlights of the annual Buc Days festival, which runs through May 1. Buc Days, held on the Corpus Christi bayfront, began in 1938 and is the longest running event in the city, with over 45,000 people attending each year. The rodeo includes features the world’s top cowboys and cowgirls competing against one another for the title. The Buc Days Rodeo has become one of…

Del Mar College culinary student cooks the competition

AJ Willingham’s lemon olive oil cake took home the golden ticket this year at the Texas Food Championship.  Willingham, baking/pastry major who competed for the first time, practiced by making a lemon olive oil cake with lemon curd, pistachio mascarpone cream topped with a pistachio crumble, all of which sits on top of a blueberry compote.  According to Willingham, since this was her first time entering any baking competition her biggest challenge was just being in an unfamiliar setting. “Just being there and doing it in a different setting than where I’ve been practicing,” Willingham explained of the change. The…