Come indulge in free ice cream with a good cause. More than 1,350 Cold Stone Creamery locations are gearing up now for the World's Largest Ice Cream Social, an annual nationwide fundraiser that benefits the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
This year's Ice Cream Social would take place from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at store sites in Kansas and Missouri, including the Lawrence location at 647 Mass. Free ice creams would be served, and all donations are welcomed
A 5-year-old Amityville girl was seriously injured last evening after she stepped into the street from behind an ice cream truck and was struck by a passing car near her home, police said.
Vanessa Fernandez had purchased an ice cream treat from the truck, stopped on the north side of West Smith Street and the Route 110, and was crossing to the south side where she lives when the accident occurred about 6:30 p.m., Amityville police said.
Dean Foods Co. of California, LLC that makes Albertsons brand "chocolate" ice cream at a Buena Park plant, said today that the product is being willingly recalled as it can contain tacit almonds.
The ice cream is packaged in a two-piece, 1.75-quart container with a cover, which identifies the product as "Rocky Road" and a container that identifies it as "Chocolate" ice cream.
The ice cream in fact inside the container could be "Rocky Road," that contains almonds that are not listed as an ingredient on the label of the container, this the company reported.
A bicyclist selling ice cream was struck and killed last Wednesday while crossing the Caltrain railroad tracks in Redwood City, authorities said.
The San Mateo County Coroner recognized him as Redwood City resident Elias Mecina Vazquez, 63.
Authorities said he crossed the tracks in an area outer area of the crossing gates, which had come down as the northbound train was approaching.
The incident occurred about 5:30 p.m. where the tracks cross Chestnut Street, said Caltrain spokesman Jonah Weinberg. ANN ARBOR, Mich., -- It's very important that a baby's primary taste of solid food should be something nutritious such as rice cereal or pureed carrots, not ice cream, say U.S. researchers.
"There is a tremendous problem today with childhood plumpness in the United States, one that medical researchers and physicians are trying to address face-to-face by identifying the factors that are contributing to this epidemic," says Dr. Julie Lumeng, a developmental and behavioral pediatrician with the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.
Lumeng says it very significant to keep sweets out of a child's diet when an infant first learns to eat. Hedgehogs with a taste for ice cream could consume the snack without getting hurt after a top fast food company changed the way it provides the food.
The company changed the design of the cups the snack was served in after complaints that hedgehogs were crowded inside and getting stuck.
Some of them died as they couldn't get out after going in for leftovers.
The new design means customers would have to take off the lid to get to their ice cream. |
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