{"id":294081,"date":"2026-09-25T23:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294081\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:28:10","slug":"erie-va-celebrates-hispanic-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294081\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie VA celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Friday, the Erie VA Medical Center celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month in its own unique way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The center hosted several guest speakers to share personal stories about Hispanic heritage, honoring its rich history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Those at the celebration enjoyed live music and presentations meant to honor the resilience and service of Hispanic veterans and the community as a whole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Such a rich culture, such rich traditions that we want to bring to the forefront. Also celebrating the stories, celebrating the stories of many who didn&#8217;t have that voice or didn&#8217;t have that confidence to come out and talk about their heritage or even talk about their struggles, and now they&#8217;re talking about their resilience and how they&#8217;ve overcome that,&#8221; said Ricardo Escajadillo, Whole Health Program coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 to October 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, the Erie VA Medical Center celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month in its own unique way. The center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,15043,118127,2129,121781],"class_list":["post-294081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-va-medical-center","tag-hispanic-heritage","tag-hispanic-heritage-month","tag-rich-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}