Daily News | Diego Castellanos, remembered as the Mr. Rogers of Philly’s Puerto Rican community, dies at 88
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“Without his program, Puerto Rican culture would have gotten lost somehow,” said the Rev. Bonnie Camarda, a friend and director of partnerships for the Salvation Army of Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware. “Who has a television show for 50 years, other than Mr. Rogers? I think he was the Mr. Rogers for our community.”was something of a one-man passion project, with Mr. Castellanos serving as producer, host, booker, and showrunner, with little to no staff and no permanent office at the station.
“He wanted the community at large to know about our community, and that couldn’t happen if it was just a Spanish-speaking program,” said friend and famed Philly salsero Jesse Bermudez. “It had to be the way Diego did it, and people began to catch on to the Latino community. It was perfect.” “How do you nourish communities? When you present things that can help other people, that other people can learn from, that can make people happy, it is nourishment,” said Bermudez. That, he said, is what Mr. Castellanos always focused on with. He was also a former New Jersey National Guard service member, a licensed pilot, a musician, author, host of the Philadelphia Puerto Rican Day Parade broadcast on 6ABC, and, above all else, a lifelong educator.
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