Contest Family gets night at Algonquin, plus free pass on Princess of Acadia

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Derwin Gowan
Telegraph-Journal

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ST. STEPHEN - Logan Burke spent a sweet afternoon in St. Stephen Friday.

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Derwin Gowan

Logan Burke, 10, pulls up a freshly dipped chocolate with a macadamia nut centre at the Chocolate Museum in St. Stephen Friday while his sister Meaghan, 8, watches. Logan won 40 pounds of Ganong Bros. chocolates in the Sweet Ferry Deal Chocolate Promotion.

The 10-year-old from Quispamsis came to town to pick up the 40 pounds of Ganong Bros. chocolates - eight five-pound boxes - that he won this summer in the Sweet Ferry Deal Chocolate Promotion.

Hand dipper Carla Appleby showed him how to make chocolates the old-fashioned way - dipping macadamia nuts into a molten pot of chocolate one at a time, setting each down on a tray with a swirl on the top.

Logan, his sister Meaghan and parents Rob and Jo-Ellen Burke toured the Chocolate Museum, then stayed the night at the Fairmont Algonquin Hotel in St. Andrews.

The family plans to use its free pass on the Princess of Acadia next year.

Logan's mother found out about the Sweet Ferry Deal promotion this summer online while looking up prices and other details for a trip to Nova Scotia that did not come about.

Bay Ferries, which operates the Princess of Acadia that runs between Saint John and Digby, N.S., sponsored the contest along with Ganong Bros., the Chocolate Museum and the Fairmont Algonquin, It was open to children 13 and under who put their names in from June 27 from Aug. 28.

They could enter online or on board the Princess of Acadia. All entrants got a free pass to the Chocolate Museum plus a certificate for 10 per cent off at the Ganong Chocolatier retail shop in the old factory.

Logan's name was drawn for the big prize: a lesson in dipping chocolates, a night at the Algonquin with breakfast in the morning for four, a round trip on the Princess of Acadia - and half his weight, a full 40 pounds, in Ganong Bros. chocolates.

The four partners put the promotion together for the first time this year. They will likely do it again, Debbie Rathwell of Bay Ferries said Friday.

The family removed jewelry and donned white smocks and hairnets before entering the chocolate-dipping room.

Someone asked if Logan planned to share that 40 pounds of chocolates.

"A little bit," he said, with Meaghan, 8, listening. She starts Grade 3 Tuesday.

What did he intend to do with the candy?

"Eat it," replied Logan, who will enter Grade 6.

"I don't think he can visualize how much 40 pounds of chocolate is," his mother said.

She suggested reserving one box for his dentist.