File Photo Guests peruse the delights at a previous Chocolate Extravaganza held at Temple Shalom.

WHEELING — Temple Shalom will give the chocolate lovers throughout the Ohio Valley the opportunity to satisfy their sweet tooths Sunday. And in doing so, they’ll help the synagogue continue its mission to show its love to the community.

Temple Shalom’s 33rd annual Chocolate Extravaganza will be held from 1-3 p.m. Sunday at the synagogue. Once again, more than a dozen local chocolatiers will display their wares for the chocoholics of the region to choose from. Proceeds from the event will go toward funding Temple Shalom’s community outreach projects, like the interfaith Thanksgiving and 9/11 Memorial Service, and youth programming.

“It’s the community in terms of the breadth of the chocolatiers who participate, and it’s the community, our friends and neighbors who participate on the first Sunday of May every year,” he said. “But it’s also that our Temple Shalom is so committed to the betterment of our wider Wheeling community.

“We are, and have been for 176 years, deeply engaged in the well-being of this city and of this valley,” he said.

Vendors this year include Baked, Domino’s, Fat Apple Bakery, Figaretti’s, Hangover BBQ, Chef & Company, Oglebay Park Resort, Sarris, The Cheese Melt, Valley Cheese, Sweet Abe’s Bakeshop, the West Virginia Northern Community College culinary group, the Wheeling Park High School culinary group and the Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack.

Along with a wide array of chocolate treats, guests also can enter a cake raffle to win one of 10 cakes donated from the community. Dozens of door prizes donated from community members also will be given away.

“We feel very supported by the wider Wheeling community,” Lief said. “And the Jewish community of Wheeling has been an active part of the Wheeling community for nearly two centuries. We live as part of a community larger than ourselves, and our Jewish values direct us to try not just to better our own lives, but better the world we share with everyone else.”

Not only can people attend the Extravaganza to snag their sweets, but those who can’t attend can purchase tickets ahead of time and Temple Shalom members will select chocolates for them to pick up later.

Tickets are $20 each. For more information on having chocolates picked out and saved, call Temple Shalom on Friday at 304-233-4870.