South Texas Stories – Corpus Christ, All-American City

Katie Babbitt kbabbitt@foghornnews.com Students can find healthy foods and a variety of people when they stop by Corpus Christi’s Farmers Market during spring break. The market has several locations and can be found at different times of the month. About 20 to 25 vendors are usually on hand at each market. Visitors can find homemade goods, fresh vegetables and produce, food trucks, soaps, candles and even live music. People from all walks of life, usually 200 to 400 people per location, frequent these farmers market and many bring their pets. A big reason a lot of people frequent the market…

Congressman Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, met with local veterans and elected officials Feb. 23 to raise awareness and discuss the unmet needs of veterans suffering from or who have died from exposure to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. “During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, there were about 250 open-air burn pits that were used to destroy everything that needed to be discarded,” Castro said at the Burn Pits Town Hall in downtown Corpus Christi. “Our service members were not too far away and were inhaling these fumes.” Service members who were in close proximity of the noxious fumes experienced…

[slideshow] Omar Perez / Chief Illustrator Manifested within every human physique is the adamant and infinitely remarkable spirit of the fighter. Ocean waves crash onto the pier in a crushing, violent display. Crisp winter air briskly cuts through the grass and drowns out the mechanical noise from nearby roads. Few could be seen strolling or jogging down the renovated bicycle lane in this type of weather. Author Webmaster