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How sweet it is: Chocolate Walk for Charity returns to downtown Oswego · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: How Sweet it Is? Chocolate Walk for Charity returns to
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  downtown Oswego. Written by Eric Shelkoff, This article is being
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  read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  Those attending Saturday's ninth annual Chocolate Walk for Charity in
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  downtown Oswego will have the chance to satisfy their sweet
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  tooth while helping an organization that aims to make sure
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  school age children do not go hungry. Organized by the
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  Oswego Downtown Association, the event will run from ten am
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  to two pm. The Oswego Downtown Association is an arm
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  of the Oswego Area Chamber of Commerce. This year's event
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  benefits Blessings in a Backpack, a nonprofit organization that mobilizes communities, individuals,
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  and resources to provide food on the weekends for school
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  age children across America who might otherwise go hungry. Chocolate
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  Walk for Charity has become a popular event. More than
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  two hundred people attended the event last year. We're expecting
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  about the same this year, said Kelly Rice, a member
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  of the us WeGo Downtown Association. She owns Imagination Print
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  and Amp Design in downtown Oswego and is co owner
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  of the Scoop ice cream shop, also located in downtown Oswego.
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  We have up to two hundred and fifty tickets available.
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  We still have some left, Rice said, An Oswego chapter
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  of Blessings in a Backpack recently started. She said they're
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  at a couple of st three to eight schools right
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  now and looking to get in some more. Rice said
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  both Imagination Print and Amp Design and the Scoop will
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  participate in Chocolate Walk for Charity along with other downtown businesses.
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  Imagination Print and Amp Design will have chocolate covered roses
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  for our chocolate item, she said. The Scoop will be
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  giving out chocolate ice cream. There will be different flavors
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  that include chocolate in the ice cream. You kind of
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  have a variety that they can choose from. Tickets are
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  twenty six dollars and fifty say it said person, which
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  includes a one to fifty service fee. For more information
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  and to buy tickets, go to Oswegoddowntown dot org. Twenty
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  five businesses will participate in this year's Chocolate Walk for Charity.
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  The event also serves as a way to introduce people
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  to businesses in the downtown. Every year, someone comes in
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  and says I have never been here. I didn't know
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  you were here. Rice said, it's a great way to
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  get exposure and to get people into the shops and
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  see what our downtown has to offer.