Ice Cream

SOUTH FORK - Sally, the horse, makes vanilla ice cream. Clomp, clomp, clomp. The white horse, turned cream-colored by the dirt of work, walks slowly up a treadmill with wooden planks. She walks and stares back at all the U.S. 127 yard sale shoppers, who have stopped to muse over her. Sydney Weaver, a Mennonite, and his wife run the ice cream stand at the junction of Ky. 901 and Ky. 510. The treadmill was an invention of Weaver's father. He made the first one to turn ringer washers for clothing.

For Generations Center staff and volunteers, there is one event they look forward to all year. The annual ice cream social and luau is not only a fun event for participants, but is an important fundraiser for senior home meal delivery programs and other in-home services. “We appreciate our followers that come along every year. It's for everybody. We dance, we have a lot of fun,” Liz Ashcraft, Generations Center Advisory Council member, said. She, along with other Advisory Council members, organizes the event annually, which typically raises about $500.

CRAB ORCHARD - LuAnn Braley of Crab Orchard has won an ice cream social for her entire neighborhood, enough for 100 people, courtesy of Edy's ice cream. She and neighbors will get to enjoy their Edy's Slow Churn Light ice cream Saturday when it is delivered to her doorstep. Braley was one of 1,500 entries chosen from more than 15,000 nationwide. For the second year in a row, Edy's asked ice cream lovers all over America to nominate their neighborhood for an ice cream social by submitting an essay on why Edy's should salute their neighborhood.

Ruckel's Restaurant in Eubank has found a market for its new ice cream flavors, but not the one manager Darlene Litteral expected. "It's been the adults who like it," she said of the 24 new flavors the restaurant began selling, which include such offerings as German chocolate, amaretto, and black cherry, among others. "We thought it would be the kids, but the adults are loving the coffee and pina colada flavors. " Litteral, whose parents own Ruckel's, said the restaurant is one of 28 in Kentucky to have these flavors of ice cream, which come from a Canada-based company.

JUNCTION CITY - Diamond King has not surpassed the 31-flavor mark, but she has stirred up quite a few batches since her family bought an ice cream maker in June. "My dad, he loves ice cream. My mom got an ice cream maker just to try it out," says Diamond, a 14-year-old freshman at Boyle County High School. "We've made blueberry waffle cone, peach, banana and chocolate. " Mostly Diamond and her parents, Ricky and Sonya King, sample scoops of the latest flavor, but Diamond is going to up the ante and make several gallons for a mini-festival her church is having to offset the town's loss of Railroad Days.

Dear Editor, Here we go again - in a recent police blotter there was a complaint about an ice cream truck driver. Last summer, I complained about an ice cream man because he was trading ice cream for pictures drawn by children. The worst part was he would only trade if they put their name on the pictures. I contacted everyone I could think of in the city, from the health department to the police chief. Not one person knew who the company was or anything. Nobody monitors these businesses coming into our communities and targeting our children.

The approach of the neighborhood ice cream truck is a sound of summer and music to kids' ears, but the technique allegedly employed by one vendor has set off alarm bells for a Danville parent. Beth Hayes, who lives on Waveland Avenue, grew suspicious last month after her 6-year-old daughter and friends came home with the happy news that the local ice cream man was giving away his treats for free. "They were so excited. They said, 'We don't have to pay for ice cream anymore!

Virginia Hensley has had her Dolly Madison ice cream maker for more than 20 years, but it's mostly been used in the last five years. That's when she found a recipe for ice cream that didn't involve cooking anything on the stove. Hensley, office manager for dentist John Robertson, probably located the recipe in a Southern Living magazine that came to the office. The recipe, which called for instant pudding, was a big improvement over the ones that came with her ice cream freezer.

The Danville fire chief is hoping all of Danville and Boyle County will have a hard-core hankering for some ice cream today. Mike Thomas, and all area firefighters, want the public to have several scoops for a charity event to support the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, as well as the local Christmas toy drive. Baskin-Robbins' 2,700 locations will sponsor a "31 cent Scoop Night" to benefit the NFFF. Singer Eddie Montgomery and his wife, Tracy, be will on hand to meet with customers and scoop ice cream along with firefighters.

LIBERTY - Casey County Community Early Childhood Council will celebrate “Week of the Young Child” April 15-19 with several events taking place.  Schedule of events include: Monday through Friday - Kindergarten and preschool registration. Registration forms can be obtained by calling: Jones Park Elementary School, (606) 787-1217; Liberty Elementary School (606) 787-6961; or Walnut Hill Elementary School, (606) 787-0045. The council will give away a free children's book for every registration submitted.

Casey County marks 'Week of the Young Child' LIBERTY - Casey County Community Early Childhood Council will celebrate “Week of the Young Child” April 15-19 with several events taking place.  Schedule of events include: Monday through Friday - Kindergarten and preschool registration. Registration forms can be obtained by calling: Jones Park Elementary School, (606) 787-1217; Liberty Elementary School (606) 787-6961; or Walnut Hill Elementary School, (606) 787-0045. The council will give away a free children's book for every registration submitted.

Downtown Danville will have a locally-owned hot dog and ice cream eatery by March 1. Captain¿Franks Hot Dog Emporium, located at 127 N. Fourth St. next to Subway and across from the Boyle County Courthouse, will feature not only plenty of pork and beef options but alternative choices for people who prefer not to eat meat. Owners Jonathan McWilliams and Shane Burris, both 1995 Boyle County High School graduates and Danville residents, are life-long entrepreneurs ready for a new challenge.

The most recent Sunday edition of The Advocate-Messenger carried an interesting perception of Danville from 1930-1940. The information centered on the Swiss Sanitary Milk Co. that was located on the corner of Main Street and Wilderness Road. The building remains in place and has been unoccupied for decades. None among us, however, who lived here during that time frame, will ever forget the famous corner of delights. A surprise revealed in the article was that in 1937 this 'nook on the corner' sold 39,000 gallons of ice cream and ices to those who entered the spick and span parlor of pure caloric and cataclysmic sugar.

One of the important jobs you have as a parent is to help your child to become a responsible person. You can begin teaching responsibility to your child with “the little things,” such as asking him to put silverware on the dinner table, to put away his clothes or to fold washcloths while you fold towels. At times, you can create a game with your child in order to teach responsibility to him. One way to do this is to ask him to pick up toys from the floor and then have a race to see which one of you picks up the most toys.

My husband told me last week that one of his co-workers asked him if we had any weekend plans. He said that, yes, he did in fact have plans - “I'll be trying to keep Rachel out of jail.” In case you haven't seen me in person lately, I'll explain. Something about pregnancy (can I blame it on the hormones, please?) has made me a bit more, I'll say, assertive. I would like to think that, as a general rule, I'm pretty easy to get along with. In school, I didn't have trouble playing well with others.

Mission conference begins Sunday Landmark Baptist Church, 1223 Iron Works Road, will host its annual mission conference Aug. 5-8. Sunday services are 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday-Wednesday services are at 6:30 p.m. Speakers will be Jerry Sexton of Bearing Precious Seed Ministry and missionaries Brian Cone, Jon Stammen, Joshua Amaea, Rey Martinez, Arnold Alagao and Danny Flick and evangelist Terry Schooley. Church hosts BBQ dinner fundraiser There will be a barbecue dinner fundraiser at Winchester Community Church, 125 N. Franklin Ave., today from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Dinner includes pork barbecue sandwich, potato salad, baked beans and cole slaw for $6.50.

For Generations Center staff and volunteers, there is one event they look forward to all year. The annual ice cream social and luau is not only a fun event for participants, but is an important fundraiser for senior home meal delivery programs and other in-home services. “We appreciate our followers that come along every year. It's for everybody. We dance, we have a lot of fun,” Liz Ashcraft, Generations Center Advisory Council member, said. She, along with other Advisory Council members, organizes the event annually, which typically raises about $500.

100 years ago - 1912   The anniversary of the final battle of Malvern Hill was held in Harrodsburg under the auspices of the local United Daughters of the Confederacy. The dedicatory services were in connection with the marking of the graves of 32 Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Perryville and died in the Union hospital in Harrodsburg. The Rev. J.G. Hunter, of the First Presbyterian church, and a member of Morgan's Cavalry during the Civil War, said a prayer, and several of the most popular Southern songs were rendered by a male quartet.

HARRODSBURG - The seventh annual Kentucky's Fort Harrod Beef Festival will take place on June 1 and 2. The popular festival will start at 5 p.m. Friday, June 1, and will feature vending booths - both food and crafts; set up of grill-off teams; a wine and cheese tasting party; a live band featuring “Soup Bone;” a burger and sauce competition free to the  public for tasting; and numerous other activities.   Saturday, June 2,  activities will feature a signature “beef grill-off,” an event that kicks into gear early in the day. Cooking teams will compete to produce the best brisket, steak and ribs, with all meat coming from Critchfield Meats of Lexington.