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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…
Foghorn earns honors
Journalism students win 50 awards at annual conference Del Mar College journalism students attended the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Conference in Dallas to compete head to head with colleges all over the state, bringing home a total of 50 awards including Two Year College Reporter of the Year. The annual spring event features competitions and live contests in newspaper, general magazine, radio and television. TIPA, which is the oldest college press association in the nation, honors students from across Texas who have a passion for the free press. Many of the students who received awards are reporters for the Foghorn…
Port Aransas right to put safety first
For families, Spring Break is the time to have barbecues, take their kids camping or go to the beach. College students and minors consider it a week free of homework and tests, but full of fun, alcohol and parties. But now that Port Aransas has a Spring Break drinking curfew from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m., some of those people will have to either make other plans or accept the time frame limits. Students and beachgoers might consider this a terrible rule that prevents them from celebrating a week they look forward to every year. Why not celebrate the week…