The nation’s oldest Latino organization has approved a local chapter in Southwest Washington.
The Southwest Washington League of United Latin American Citizens No. 47013 holds its first organizational meeting Aug. 13, tentatively at Washington State University Vancouver, 14204 N.E. Salmon Creek Ave.
The session is open to the public.
The new chapter is one of 900 LULAC councils nationwide. More councils are expected to be founded in the Pacific Northwest in response to the region’s growing Latino population, according to the national LULAC.
In Washington, the number of Latinos has surged by 71 percent to nearly 756,000 since 2000. They now represent more than 11 percent of the state’s population of 6.7 million.
