The Philippine Cultural Center of Virginia will celebrate its 25th anniversary this Saturday.
Along with the “silver jubilee,” local Filipinos are celebrating a legacy of community organizing that goes back more than 50 years in Hampton Roads, said Cynthia Romero, chairman of the Council of United Filipino Organizations of Tidewater.
The Council oversees the Philippine Cultural Center in Virginia Beach. The Center, which opened in 2000, was the culmination of years of fundraising to house the numerous Filipino organizations in the area…