National Hispanic Heritage Month

Absolutely.

So I think, you know, as much as we can make a transition to our guests, I think one of the things that happened in this time period, and, you know, we tried to promote as much as possible, was National Hispanic Heritage Month, which actually goes, calendar-wise, goes across both September and October.

And we have a very special guest to talk about that, but in a invite our Hispanic families into Catholic schools, not just during Hispanic Heritage Month.

We want them all year round, obviously.

But, you know, going off of the heels of that, we wanted to talk to a very special guest.

And so I really applaud our principals that had that welcoming heart to the initiative and that are still, you know, trying to help as many families as they can to afford Catholic education and to enjoy it and to feel like, you know, they are really an important piece of this big puzzle of Catholic schools.

And so, Maria, one of the things that we celebrated recently is the contributions of our Latino brothers and sisters in the U.S. And so at NCEA, you came up with this very cute little topic.

And I think we can't let the show end without you talking a little bit about how NCEA celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month on their sueños, isos, and successes.

But what was watching was to me is just a solidarity.

One, thank you for doing that during Hispanic Heritage Month.

It was a proclamation for honoring independent Latino media.

So, again, Northside Magazine, who does thousands of papers across Northside.

So I guess they thought they'd give it another shot.

I wasn't having it.

Do your own Hispanic Heritage Month resolution.

They

So there was a proclamation brought to the commissioner's court by Elisa Simmons to recognize Hola Texas, Northside Community Magazine, and the 817 podcast during...

Hispanic Heritage Month.

Yeah.

All Latino led independent media outlets.

He was on the LULAC episode.

He went up and he rejected the proclamation, saying, if we're not getting honored together, it's not an honor at all.

And then Matt Krause was like, hey, hey, we're still in favor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

And then Gabe from Northside Community got up there and was like, we see right through you.

The North Ender Science Team also won overall first in their month competition for the North Shore Science League, and there's going to be more competitions every single month.

And the Hispanic Heritage Month has been a great success with flags posted on Main Street at NAHS with music in the morning announcements and food during lunch.

And also, we have DECA getting ready for their district's competition.

For this, it means planning mentorship programs.

So in late January, early February, people started noticing that Google had started removing things from their calendar.

Black History Month, Women's History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pride Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, and Jewish American Heritage Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, National American Indian Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Well, things like Columbus Day, which I thought was gone already, but all right.

Well, here's back.

And President's Day remain.

Yeah, so we watched it with the actors and directors, which is really cool Ben Affleck is in it Kerry Washington And they were there in the audience.

There was a lot of, it's Latino Heritage Month, so there was a lot of the Latino media and influencers, creators, actors in the building.

So it was really cool to see old friends and

new faces.