by Susan Palmes-Dennis
The Fil-American Community of the Carolinas (FACC) promises a bigger, better Gala Night next month and advised those wishing to attend to buy tickets now while supply lasts.
“Let this gala night on Oct. 25 be a uniting factor among us here at the Carolinas,” FACC president Malette Aquino-Oliveros told me.
She said weekly meetings are already in full swing in preparation for the event. In between are the continuous text messages among the officers to meet the gaps in between days.
Preparations for the registration, reception and program at the Embassy Suites 5400 John Q. Hammons, Dr. Concord, North Carolina 28207 are underway, Oliveros said.
The theme for this year’s event is “Then and Now” or “Ganoon kami noon, Ganito kami ngayon in Tagalog,” Oliveros said.
She said the FACC is looking at the past to use it as a map for finding its direction in the future. “The growth of our community is something to look as it has really grown through the years,” said Oliveros, who held various FACC positions in the past.
I learned that the FACC has the Gala Night as its signature event, the in the words of past FACC president Dr. Nini RB Bautista. The Gala Night is a three-hour festive event for Fil-Americans and their guests who were regaled with food, dances, songs and other entertainment.
Oliveros said the gala night would also pay tribute to members “who had gone before us, like the late FACC president Dell Amor.”
She hopes that the Gala Night would help build unity among Fil-Americans in the Charlotte, North Carolina area and all over the US.
This year’s Gala Night is the 27th to be held ever since the FACC was organized in l988 by spouses Lita and Rudy Joaquin . Tickets are priced at US $55 and sold by the FACC 2014 officers.
“Tayo na mga kapamilya sa Carolina (Let’s all go fellow families in Carolina) :)))) and show off your pretty evening gowns and tuxedo suits or barong,” said Kay Onquillo-Antone, FACC 2nd VP.
(Susan Palmes-Dennis is a veteran journalist from Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental, Northern Mindanao in the Philippines who worked as a nanny and is now employed as a sub-teacher and a part-time teacher assistant in one of the school systems in the Carolinas.
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