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College Relations / Del Mar College Free annual concert features ensemble performances and sing-alongs for an evening of musical memories for all ages The thought of sleigh bells and snow is not typical of South Texas. During the Del Mar College Music Department’s “Holiday Spectacular,” audience members can expect some winter wonderland memories and a few surprises. The free performance is this Thursday, Nov. 29, in the College’s Richardson Performance Hall on the East Campus on Ayers Street. Author Webmaster

Poetry series aims to inspire new writers

  Oklahoma poetry legend Dorothy Alexander will hold a poetry reading at Del Mar College on Nov. 1. Alexander, born in 1934 in the middle of the Great Depression to a family of farmers, has created six collections of her own poetry since 2002 including “The Dust Bowl Revisited” and “Rough Drafts.” Her poetry covers her childhood as an Okie dirt farmer’s daughter to a career as a lawyer and then judge. She has curated regular poetry readings at Beans & Leaves Coffee House, Individual Artists of Oklahoma, Full Circle Books and other venues. Alexander finds inspiration for her poetry…

My life as a surgical technologist

By Laura P. Ortiz / Guest Columnist I don’t recall exactly how and when I received my calling to go back to school and become a surgical technologist, I just remember that when I got it, it was a physical hunger, an emptiness that constantly consumed me. The more I thought of having a career in which I assisted surgeons in surgical procedures the hungrier I got. Thirteen years ago I was accepted and graduated from the surgical technology program at Del Mar College. I worked as a private surgical technologist with a local orthopedic spine surgeon for five years,…