A Message From Chairman Frank Fuentes

The last few months of this year are proving full of excitement, positivity and progress.

The USHCA recently hosted dignitaries from the great state of Coahuila Mexico and our sister city Saltillo in our home city of Austin. Numerous meetings, sincere, meaningful and insightful conversations were had. Coahuila’s Governor Manolo Jimenez Salinas shared his thoughts that “we strengthened ties of cooperation, promoted investment opportunities and reaffirmed Coahuila’s commitment to economic development and collaboration with Texas”. Saltillo Mayor Javier Diaz echoed Governor Salinas’ sentiments that we are “strengthening the relationships with our sister cities through a close collaboration in development, investment attraction and the ties between Coahuila and Texas”. We are poised to further these commitments and further mutually beneficial and productive relationships between our countries, states and cities.

To further the positivity, the USHCA proudly presented our community during Hispanic Heritage Month with Corazon Latino 2025 - A Celebration of Heritage held at the end of September. The event, hosted at the Oswaldo AB Cantù Pan Am Park Hillside Theatre, attracted more than 5,000 attendees who mixed and mingled throughout the event often while listening to the amazing Latino music artists who performed during the event. Our community event was free to all attendees. The many attendees took advantage of the free medical services offered as part of the event. Somehow listening to the amazing music provided by Ricardo Castillon, Lukas Bloom, Lucky Joe and Grupo Siggno definitely made for a more joyful visit for the health services offered.

We, as a community and an association have much to be thankful for this past year. As we approach the holiday season, as for numerous decades past, our members have held our youth and our community as priorities of the season. For more than 20 years, the USHCA has conducted its annual bicycle drive to provide wheels (whether 2 wheel bikes with or without training wheels or 3 wheel tricycles) to our children in underserved areas. We have traditionally raised donations of new bikes or contributions earmarked to purchase bikes which have provided this special Christmas gift to 1,000 children annually. I ask each of you to remember our community commitment and giving spirit in helping us minimally meet or hopefully exceed the goal of 1,000 new bikes for this year’s program. The need remains significant and our hope is to gift to as many young ones as possible.

Thank you all for your support and continued commitment to making the USHCA, our city and our community the best we can be.