The Grand Opening of the Outdoor Friday Market was on a warm summer day and hundreds of people may have passed through before it ended. There were 14 stalls clustered beneath the cedar trees and around the edges of the parking lot. I did not go inside the hall, which is always packed with tables. This was also the first of this summer’s live music performances at the adjoining Village Commons.
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By Louis Belcourt, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Black Jaguar Chocolate, a fine chocolate company located on Cortes, was named a World Finalist at the International Chocolate Awards.
Scott Patterson and Emilie Laskie, owners and founders of Black Jaguar Chocolate, began making chocolate direct from the source where they lived in Nicaragua, and moved to Cortes during the pandemic and brought their business and their connections to the source of the cacao beans with them.
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