Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Dear family and friends, a while back, I send out a "Call Out" to all chamorros living in San Diego to patronage our Chamorro International Market in Chula Vista. Today, I am happy to say, the store has remained open because the chamorros found out about the store and started to shop there. I am VERY HAPPY to announce the Pete and Vivian Cepeda (best their hearts) have decided to keep the store going. In addition, they are expanding their product
lines as mentioned here. I am now writing to everyone in my address book to further spread out the news. Many of us have family, friends, mailes, pares etc.... here in southern california
and elsewhere in the mainland. It is in that vein that I write to each of you in the hopes that you will pass the word to all Chamorro living nearby or visiting here in San Diego County to visit the store. I want to do what I can to support the efforts and the sacrifices that the Cepedas have made to meet the needs of our people. Pass the word around and do stop by for
a visit. We may run into each other, and meet long lost friends.
I know I buy all my regular items such as coconut milk, diago, salon pilot crackers, lemon powder etc there. I love the fact that we have access to our kinds of food without waiting for someone back home to send it, like the lemon powder. It is actually cheaper to buy it from the Chamorro Market than, buying it and mailing it
from Guam.
Have a great day everyone. Si Belle
----- Original Message -----
From: Jjcepeda5@aol.com
To: belle11@cox.net
Cc: fsalas@adelphia.net ; Jjcepeda5@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:20 AM
Subject: Dankulu na si yuus ma'ase
Hafa Adai Annabelle and Frank,
We would like to thank you both for sending out an e-mail to all our
Chamorro families about our store. Both of you have brought business to our store and we have to say Dankulu na Si Yu'us Ma'ase.We have some new items that have arrived. Just to let people know, we are an international store. 20% of the items are from Guam and 80% are Korean and Japanese products. Our latest items are: Tamales Giso,Tamales Mendioka, Manha Titiyas, Apigigi, empanada, pugua and 671 root shirts.These are our newest items. Additionally, other items we have been selling are as follows: Chorizos Pakpak,Portuguese sausage, lemon powder,achote seeds, achote powder, rice cracker, donne dinanche, navy and crab biscuchu, saloon Pilotcrackers/cookies,kimchee base, kimchee, diago, cheese curls, asparagus biscuit, pickeled papaya, eggs, pickles, mango, the latest malafunkshun CD (#3), license plates that says (Hafa Adai or Chamorro), stickers, plaques, kingcar, blacktea, mr. brown, assam milktea, coconut juice. These are the following items we have available. We have mentioned that we may be selling
our store, but at this time we are currently still open. In the event, we are no longer operating in National City we will be selling these items at our restaurant. Anyone who may be interested to know where our restaurant is located the address is: Islander Grill, 3645 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92103. Our contact # (619)297-3929 or you can e-mail us at jjcepeda5@aol.com. Our address to our store is:1235 Highland Avenue, National City, CA 91950. Contact #(619)477-9695. We open daily-Monday-Saturday:10:00a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Sunday:10:00a.m. to 6p.m. Again, Dankulu, Dankulu na si yu'us ma'ase .
P.S. Annabelle, pls. send copy to Frank Salas.
We are having trouble sending to his e-mail. Thank-you.
Sincerely,
Pete
and
Vivian
Cepeda