Author: Edward Green

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Corpus Christi police’s most anticipated upgrade

Edward Green

The Corpus Christi Police Academy is growing. Cadets will soon leave behind their current 8,000-square foot building on Corona Drive for a new 34,000-square foot facility on Del Mar College’s Oso Creek Campus. The academy had been at the location, a former shooting range, for about 40 years. “During the late ‘90s, early 2000s, they had plans for creating a public safety training academy. They did it in phases, and phase one was the outdoor range, and that’s all we ever got to,” Senior Officer Travis Pace stated. Pace was a training instructor with the academy for 17 years. Pace…

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DMC student helps train others at local MMA gym

Edward Green

The dimly lit gym echoes with the familiar sounds of people working out. The pops of people hitting bags and pads, the struggling grunts of coaches and students grappling on the floor while having instructions called out to them.  The humid air is heavy with the smell of sweat, as fighters are gearing up to spar one another with controlled intensity. In this mix is Del Mar College physical therapy major, Colt Gillis. Gillis is a former Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter and is currently a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) coach who is no stranger to this feeling of controlled chaos.…