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Kenyetta Oliver, winner of the Maple Run Emporium First Saturday gift basket. POTSDAM -- Kenyetta Oliver, a senior at SUNY Potsdam, was the winner of the drawing for the Maple Run Emporium First …
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Kenyetta Oliver, winner of the Maple Run Emporium First Saturday gift basket.
POTSDAM -- Kenyetta Oliver, a senior at SUNY Potsdam, was the winner of the drawing for the Maple Run Emporium First Saturday Gift Basket during the annual First Saturday event.
First Saturday celebrates the first Saturday when students from SUNY Potsdam and Clarkson University are back in town. With “Passports” in hand, they visit shops and businesses to receive a sticker and enjoy the special offers “for students only” on that day.
Oliver, a 22-year-old psychology major from Brooklyn was happy to receive the big basket of maple treats and told Maple Run Emporium owner Mary Hilton that the only maple product she’s ever tasted was maple syrup.
“We don’t really have syrup in Brooklyn the way you do in the North Country,” Oliver said.
Maple syrup was included in the gift basket along with an assortment of maple candies, nuts, tea, jerky, crackers, pepper, soap and lotion.
The two products Oliver said she was most looking forward to tasting were the maple caramel corn and the baconluxious bar – a maple, bacon, and chocolate treat.
Oliver lives on campus and said she would share the basket of goodies with her roommate and friends.
Having completed the majority of her studies at SUNY Potsdam, she has attended previous First Saturdays noting that this year’s event had a larger turnout than in years past. “A lot of people came this year,” she said. “Some businesses ran out of stickers, which they said never happened before.”
Maple Run Emporium participated in First Saturday for the fifth consecutive year since it opened in 2011.
“It was definitely the biggest and best First Saturday I’ve ever had in the shop. It was busy, it was fun, and it was just great seeing so many students in here having a good time,” Hilton said.
Oliver said she had visited Maple Run Emporium on several occasions prior to First Saturday and shared her impression of the specialty shop, saying, “It’s nice. It smells good. And it’s peaceful.”
Maple Run Emporium, 49 Market St., is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Info: 274-0102, info@MapleRunEmporiums.com or www.MapleRunEmporiums.com.
