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Seven-year-old Zyana Gendreau lives right down the street from the store. She and her sister decided to take a walk and found themselves wandering through the antique shop. “This is so cool,” she said.
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“It’s really nice in here,” said longtime resident of Mason Deborah Heady. “Every time I come in here I could spend four hours if I wanted to.”
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Lynda White is a resident of Okemos and visited Maple Street Mall for the first time during the extravaganza. “It was just such a beautiful day out, and we had to go out and do something fun,” she said.
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Ann Hall enjoyed the milk chocolate nutty truffles as she shopped for spring décor.
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Judy Bryan enjoyed her first Chocolate Extravaganza and made sure to have her husband give the treats a try as well.
Maple Street Mall celebrated its ninth annual Chocolate Extravaganza during one of the warmest weekends of 2017 so far.
“We always do it the weekend after Valentine’s Day,” said Barbara Streed, a longtime employee of the store.
The store has different events throughout the year where vendors bring in the treats, but this is the one event where the free chocolates are provided to the customers courtesy of the employees.
“Everyone’s in a good mood when they come in, the event couldn’t have gone any better,” Streed said as she rearranged the candies and grabbed one for herself.