[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 149 (Tuesday, September 24, 2024)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E960]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MRS. ESMERALDA HETRICK

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                            HON. SCOTT PERRY

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 24, 2024

  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, I'm honored to recognize Mrs. Esmeralda 
Hetrick for her continuous, tireless and dedicated service to the 
community--and for earning the Estamos Unidos Lifetime Achievement 
Award.
  Esmeralda Hetrick was born in Texas as one of six children--where 
they lived on welfare and government assistance--but fortunately had an 
amazing mother that instilled integrity, values, hard-work and a strong 
belief in God in her children. She was the first in her family to 
graduate post-secondary education earning a bachelor's degree and an 
MBA. Esmeralda married in her twenties but her late husband, Max's 
tragic death left her a widow and single mother with a five-year old to 
raise. She then moved to Pennsylvania in 1988, where she's found her 
home.
  Esmeralda worked as a Health Equity Consultant for an insurance 
company where she influenced corporate strategy, product development, 
and healthcare disparity issues, while leading the community outreach 
and small business minority procurement of the company. Her expertise 
enabled the insurance company, to tailor effective messages and ad 
campaigns to inform the community of their healthcare options. Perhaps 
most importantly, she mentored disadvantaged Pennsylvanian students to 
help create future leaders. Mrs. Hetrick also owns an English and 
Spanish newspaper, La Voz Latina Central of PA, and is the personal 
talent manager for her husband Graham S. Hetrick, a Dauphin County 
Coroner who has a TV show ``The Coroner--I Speak For the Dead.''
  Her continuous community efforts garnered media attention and 
positioned her as a go-to spokeswoman in Pennsylvania--earning her 
selection in the 2005 YWCA ``Women of Excellence'', her selection in 
the 2006 Harrisburg Magazine's ``Movers and Shapers'', a feature story 
in 2009 in the first Issue of ``Women Connect--Connecting Women All 
Over the World'', and the Jefferson Award Medal for Public Service in 
2006, 2007, and 2009. She is also just the third person to receive the 
Estamos Unidos Lifetime Achievement Award--an award serving for serving 
the Latino Hispanic community for at least 15 years--it's certainly 
well-earned.
  Mr. Speaker, I'm honored and privileged recognize Mrs. Esmeralda 
Hetrick for her tireless service to Central Pennsylvania in her myriad 
roles, and her earning of the Estamos Unidos Lifetime Achievement 
Award. Her dedicatIon to family, community, and country is the standard 
by which we should all be judged--and I wish her contInued success in 
all her endeavors.

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