January 12, 2001--SuperMarket Coop e-Update #25
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Here I am, back in the office and ready to start the New Year with a bang!

Team coverage in my absence went really well, only one tiny glitch. A very special update written by Chilo Villarreal, meant for the 21st week, for technical difficulties, did not go out. Chilo, as a Rural Coalition Board Member and active SuperMarket Participant from Mexico, has some wishes and
thoughts to share, so please continue on to read her message. You will find both the English and the Spanish versions below.

By next week I will fill you in on all the project updates and details. Until then, Happy New Year and don't forget to order your Fall River Wild Rice chips in time for your Super Bowl Parties! The case is a steal and you can choose half Garlic and half Natural. Follow this link for more information.

In cooperation,
Rebecca Bond
SuperMarket Project Manager

Here is Chilo's update in Spanish, the English follows.

Teniendo tan cerca la Celebracion de Navidad queremos desearles a tod@s que en estas fiestas nos encontremos con muchos signos de Fe, Esperanza y Amor para continuar nuestros trabajos de cada dia en el proximo ano 2001.

En nuestras noticias semanales queremos desde Mexico por primera vez platicarles las utimas novedades. En los primeros dias de Diciembre estuvimos en Las Vegas cuando les deciamos a las personas que ibamos a ir alla tod@s se reian y no nos creian que ibamos a reuniones de trabajo pues se piensa que en Las Vegas solo hay juegos y shows pero tenemos que compartirles que precisamente alli logramos hacer unas cadenas de vida es decir establecer relaciones concretas entre organizaciones para apoyarnos y seguir caminando juntos. Estas cadenas, fueron hacer en una de las organizaciones de Mexico salsas de chile para venderlas junto con los chips de California sobretodo para los SuperBowl de Enero y la otra cadena fue que el P. Randy de HOME esta dispuesto a colaborar con ORNI para empacar y distribuir sus cactus que pondremos en la pagina WEB al tener los permisos de importacion para Estados Unidos.

En la Red de Artesan@s elaboraron unos nacimientos muy bonitos con los materials que ellos usan en sus casas: Waries, Corteza de arbol, tambores, decorandolas con los elementos que se encuentran en una casa Tarahumara, ollas, escaleras, waris, animales, plantas pensamos que el ano entrante podremos vender bastantes en nuestra pagina WEB.

En este boletin tambien queremos darle las gracias a Cleo pues lo hemos sentido muy cerca de nosotros y de la CR. Con responsabilidad como se caracterizaba el sigue haciendo su trabjo de preocuparse por los que queria y trabajaba con.

Estimados companer@s de Supermarketing esperamos que juntos logremos traer Paz y Prosperidad a cada una de las familias de nuestras organizaciones, que cada dia logremos hacer realidad el telar de la vida y la historia donde nosotr@s hagamos realidad un mundo mas humano y solidario para tod@s.
Chilo

Being so close to Christmas we want to tell to everybody that we hope on this holiday that you found lots of signs of Faith, Hope and Love to make your work stronger each day in 2001

For the first time this up-date is coming from Mexico and we want to say some of the good news that we have. In the first days of December we went to Las Vegas to the IAC Symposium and Supermarket design team meeting. Everyone who heard about it could not believe we went there to work because they think that Las Vegas is just gambling and shows but we want to share that we also made some Chains of Life. This means that we got two very concrete actions between organizations for next year. One was to make chili salsa to complement the California Wild Rice Chips and to sell them together for January Superbowl parties. The second is that Father Randy from HOME is willing to pack and send the cactus from ORNI that we are going to put in the WEB page when we have the permissions to import them.

The Red de Artesan@s de Tarahumara made some Nativity Scenes from the Birth of Christ in Waries, Wood and Drums. They are very pretty because they are decorated with the things they have in their houses like pots, waries, plants, animals etc. For next year we would like put them on the WEB page
and hope to sell a lot.

In this update we also want to thank Cleo because we have been feeling his presence very close to us and the RC. With responsibility as usual he is doing his work keeping care of his beloved ones.

Dear friends and members of Supermarketing we hope that together we can bring Peace and Prosperity to each of the families and groups that we work with, that each day we strive for a life and a history where the world is more humane and united for everyone.
Chilo

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