Pink House Chocolates

AS THE WORLD OF CHOCOLATE TURNS Time just keeps moving forward. The knee-deep snow is almost completely forgotten, the austerity of Lent has passed us by, it’...s gradually getting warmer out, .and (thank you, thank you, thank you) the pandemic restrictions are lightening up, In our busy little city, life as usual is starting to come back with special activities just about every weekend so far, at a pace not seen in more than a year. Yes, yes, I know this weekend is Mother’s Day weekend, but next weekend, . Well... next weekend, Saturday May 15th is the date for the Monongahela Main Street Program’s World of Chocolate Tour, a great reason to come to Downtown Monongahela and circulate. Almost 30 downtown shops are participating in some way. Some will hand out cookies, some will have in-store drawings for special chocolate items, Hog Fathers will have chocolate cake on the menu, Italian Village Pizza will be offering up Italian donuts (zeppoli, otherwise known as fried dough) drizzled with chocolate. Candelore's Barking Beauties will have Sarris chocolate treats for the humans, and also, courtesy of Candelore's, there will be carob treats for the dogs. Snowy’s Chocolate will make an appearance at Sweets by Mrs. C., and there are rumors of shops selling, handing out, or raffling off chocolate pizza, chocolate-covered wine bottles, chocolate-covered pickles for the daring ones among us, and many other chocolate-themed items. For the little ones, there will be chocolate-brown balloons and a coloring table with a chocolate-themed coloring book page, complete with special crayons in many different shades of brown. For the casual Saturday shopper, here’s the routine: In each participating store, or at our central station near PNC, between 10AM and 3PM (while supplies last) you will be handed a map and a list of the participating stores. If you make a purchase in a participating store, you will receive a golden ticket with a stub allowing you to enter the drawing for the grand prizes. Take this stub to the Chocolate World’s Epicenter at the corner of West Main and Third Streets, and there you can place it in the bowl for the drawings. There will be prizes from some of the many different chocolate companies that surround our city. Grand prizes include baskets of chocolate from Pink House Chocolates and Sarris Candies (is your mouth watering yet?), and there will also be a basket full of chocolate-flavored breakfast items so the lucky winner can start his or her morning in a chocolate-flavored mood. Attached are some photos of the Pink House, a quaint, house-sized chocolate-shop, no more than a 10-minute drive from Downtown Monongahela. Pictured in the first image is Zoe Marsh of Pink House holding a basket of goodies they prepared for our event. Many thanks to Pink House Chocolates owner Debbie Sargent, one of several very gracious sponsors for Monongahela’s first-ever World of Chocolate Tour. We’re just tickled pink to have you as part of our event. TAN / MMSP

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