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Sweet taste of spring at maple festival

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The First Taste of Spring Maple Syrup Festival kicked off Saturday in Essex, Ontario .

The festival has been a fixture for 42 years and is tied to First Nations history and Francophone history.

It takes 40 units of sap to make one unit of syrup, says volunteer Janet Cobban .

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formal

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English

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