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The Baked Bear to give away 300 ice cream sandwiches at Gilbert opening March 17

The Baked Bear, a San Diego-based chain of ice cream sandwich shops, will open its third Valley location at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 17, at San Tan Village in Gilbert.

The first 300 people in line will receive a free ice cream sandwich.

The Baked Bear offers a choice of 12 different flavors of ice cream sandwiched between a choice of 12 kinds of fresh-baked cookies.

The chain made its Valley debut in Scottsdale in 2016 and added a downtown Tempe location later that year.

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