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I received my Southwest Voice today and noticed an article about a former employer of mine, Mexicali Restaurants. The grocery store Santos and Trinidad had actually belonged to my grandfather first. He left town to travel through the valley with farmworkers as a labor contractor before Cesar Chavez came around. He did this as the workers came through his store in the mornings to get food for lunch, and wait to be picked up and taken to farms. He heard the stories of how workers could not control how they were treated.  My grandfather asked Santos and Trinidad to run the store for them while he traveled. He told them they could keep the profit as their earnings until he returned.  Santos and Trinidad put everything they had into not just running the store, but making it the best store around. They wanted to show my grandfather, when he returned, just how much they respected him for allowing them this opportunity, and how responsible and dependable they were.  ...
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