Valley High School teacher Rod Malone recently put up signs outside his economics classroom reading "Chocolate Warehouse" and "Owner Desperate."
He and the school's German Club ordered 270 boxes of chocolate this fall as part of a Christmas fund-raiser to pay for eight of the club's students to go to Germany during spring break.But the supplier misunderstood the order and Malone got 273 cases containing 15 boxes each, for a total of 4,095 boxes of candy. That's more than four for each of the 900 residents in Hazelton and neighboring Eden. It amounted to almost 2,400 pounds of chocolate.
Students took the candy to athletic events and sent boxes with their parents to sell at work in Twin Falls. Eventually, Malone said, students sold about 120 cases before the company picked up the extras Wednesday.
"It's a big relief to me and to the superintendent," Malone said with a laugh. "We were starting to get really worried."