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Friday, February 10, 2017
Volume 13 • Issue No. 6
How Chocolate Became Tied To Valentine’s Day Heart-shaped boxes filled with decadent treats are coveted gifts on Valentine’s Day. Chocolate lovers typically have a favorite type of chocolate, whether it’s creamy filled truffles or chocolate pieces with fruit or nut fillings. The tradition of gifting chocolate is anything but new. Chocolate and other sweet treats have been offered for centuries as prized gifts. Even ancient Aztecs and Mayans celebrated chocolate and saw it as a hot commodity. Drinks made of cacao beans would be given as presents to people of high status. Chocolate also would be offered to the gods as a token of appreciation. Cacao
beans were even used as a form of currency at one point. During the 17th century, chocolate consumption grew considerably across Europe. Chocolate houses cropped up in London, and the French elite often indulged in chocolate. Chocolate’s popularity continued to grow, but the dessert was not linked to Valentine’s Day until nearly 200 years later. In the mid1800s, an enterprising individual named Richard Cadbury was looking for a way to make chocolate even more popular than it already was. He sought out a method to make drinking chocolate more palatable and created
“eating chocolates.� These chocolates were packaged in decorative boxes. Eventually, Cadbury
saw the benefit of putting images of cupids and roses on the boxes. Cadbury even designed choco-
late boxes in the shape of hearts that could be saved as mementos. These chocolates soon became intertwined with Valentine’s Day celebrations. On the other side of the Atlantic, Milton Hershey dabbled in commercializing chocolate as well. Hershey began as a caramel maker, but experimented with covering the caramels in chocolate in 1894. Hershey would go on to develop one of the most successful brands of chocolate in the United States, which included the famous Hershey bar. In 1907, Hershey launched production See CHOCOLATE page 2...
Beckett Wins Geographic Bee School Competition SOUTH BERWICK Beckett Barlow, a grade 5 student at Marshwood Great Works School (GWS) won the school competition of the National Geographic Bee. The school bee, at which students answered questions on geography, was the first round in the 29th annual
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National Geographic Bee. The second place finisher was fifth grader, Luke Nelson. Fourteen GWS students participated in this national competition. Kiersyn Boyle, Colin Barker, Tyler Hussey, Ella Bogh, Lucy Brogan, Shannon Pino, Teagan Kennedy, Chyanne Simms, Stella Case, Luke Nelson, Sarah Galvin, Beckett Barlow, Hayden Wakefield. Thousands of schools around the country participate in this competition. The school winners, including Barlow, will now take a written test. Up to 100 of the top scorers on that test in each state will then be eligible
to compete in their state Bee on March 31, 2017. All state champions are then eligible to win the national championship and its first prize, a $50,000 college scholarship, lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society, and a trip to the Galapagos Islands. The national competitions will be held May 15-17 in Washington D.C. Everyone can test their geography knowledge by downloading the GeoBee Challenge, National Geographic app, with more than 1,000 questions culled from past bees. The National Geographic Society is one of the world’s larg-
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Lanigan Bridge Progress Report KENNEBUNK If you've driven through Dock Square lately, you've noted the progress that's been made on the Lanigan Bridge in recent days. In the weeks ahead, even more changes are coming. They include: This week: Traffic flow will change to the other lane of the bridge as more work is done on the other side, especially in the vicinity of the Clam Shack. The pedestrian bridge will be built, though it won't be open
to foot traffic just yet. February 10: The pedestrian bridge opens. There will be a ribbon cutting and celebrate. March 6 (pending approval by town officials): Ten days' worth of 24-hour-a-day work commences as bridge demolition gets underway. This is also the start of the 45-day full closure period. There will be signs indicating detours, as well as those reminding visitors not to block driveways and that businesses are open.
March 11-13: The in-water pier demolition takes place with the tides, which will include nighttime work.
April 19 (tentative): Bridge reopens to traffic (one-way). May 25 (tentative): Project complete.
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