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"Got Chocolate? Over 8,000 turn
out for chocolate festival"
from the Sierra Star in Central
California posted on October 13, 2004
The vender booths lined both sides of Golden Oak Drive, filled
with everything from kettle corn to pure maple syrup, barbecue beef
sandwiches and pomegranate jam.
Classic cars were showcased as well, while the children seemed
entertained by a bounce house and a dunk tank.
In the center of it all, off a little to the right side in a huge
white tent, was the chocolate.
Thousands of Mountain Area residents and visitors turned out for
the sixth annual Wild Wonderful Chocolate Festival in Oakhurst
Saturday, organized by the non-profit Wild Wonderful Women.
“We’re very pleased,” said Wild Wonderful Women co-founder Marie
Lane, wearing a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup apron. “We’ve had people
from Texas, San Diego and Oregon. This is a spectacular event and it
grows every year. We’re 100 percent non-profit. We have fun and we
do good things for the community.”
The proceeds for the festival are distributed throughout the
local region in the form of scholarships and other donations.
The featured hit for Saturday seemed to be the chocolate, with
vendors selling everything from chocolate cookies to truffles.
A steady stream of attendees made their way to a pair of
chocolate fountains, with one pouring out dark chocolate, and one
pouring out white chocolate.
Chocolate lovers could purchase strawberries, marshmallows,
cookies, pretzels and dried apricots and place them gently
underneath the fountain.
“It’s been overwhelming,” said Ken Rose, owner of California
Chocolate Fountains, making his first appearance at the festival
this year. “We always bring more than enough (chocolate) wherever we
go, although today will be one of the close days. There’s been a
line of 20 people at a time today non stop.”
Greeting people at the fountains was festival queen Brittany
Protzman, 13, of Oakhurst.
Nearby, volunteers from the Bass Lake Elementary School were
selling caramel apple boats drizzled with chocolate.
Christian Wick, 9, fresh off a soccer game, was eager to help
customers.
“It’s sort of fun putting on the caramel and stuff,” he said.
In addition to the booths and the chocolate, organizers sponsored
several contests throughout the day, including one counting M&Ms.
Laura Siakovich-Inshaw, 4, joined forces with her mother to make
a guess of 3,121 M&M’s that filled a tall glass jar, just about as
big as Laura.
The guess was just 15 off, but good enough to win the jar and the
candy.
“She can barely carry it,” said Laura’s mother, Stacy. “She’s having
a blast.”
Organizers said it was unclear the exact turnout of the festival,
but estimated the number of those attending topped last year’s total
of 8,000. The total amount raised was also unavailable as of Monday.
“It’s a truly wild, wonderful day,” Lane said. “Everybody loves
chocolate.”
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