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A pleasantly surprised Shirley Brock (right) expresses her thanks to the crowd at the Sulphur Springs Senior Citizens Center Thursday afternoon at the Ice Cream Freeze-off. Brock was chosen as the first-place winner for her caramel crunch homemade ice cream. Charlotte Baxter (center) of Carriage House Manor and Linda Mobley of At Home Healthcare presented her with a framed certificate and $25 gift card to Brookshire’s. -
2018 Ms. Hopkins County Senior Mary Ivey enjoys a bowl full of homemade ice cream at the Senior Ice Cream Freeze-off Thursday afternoon at the Sulphur Springs Senior Citizens Center. -
Hillis Bass makes notes about her favorite flavors before tossing her chips in to vote at the Ice Cream Freeze-off. -
Ty Smith with True Hearts and Hands Hospice scoops up his chocolate covered strawberry ice cream for Jerry Gregg at Thursday’s Ice Cream Freeze-off. -
With a giant bowl of homemade bubble gum ice cream, Britney Brantly of Hearts and Hands Home Care gets ready to serve another scoopful. -
Sulphur Springs Senior Citizens Center Executive Director Karon Weatherman (right) addresses a packed Senior Center just before the official kick-off of the Ice Cream Freeze-off Thursday afternoon. To her left are Teresa Mathews (center) of 1st Choice Home Health and Mary Ann Stevens of Rock Creek Health and Rehab. -
Michael Foster readies to taste a scoop of snicker-doodle ice cream from Angela Price of the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office. Price earned an honorable mention. Staff photos by Jillian Smith
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Sulphur Springs Senior Citizens Center hosted its annual Ice Cream Freeze-off Thursday afternoon with plenty of cool flavors for chilling out on a sweltering summer day.
With 18 flavors from which to choose, the Center was packed with young and old looking to cast votes for their favorites.
“We had a great time at the Senior Citizens Center…at the annual Ice Cream Freeze-off,” Karon Weatherman, executive director of the Center, said. “Everyone had some really delicious flavors.”
The event was free and open for the public to attend and enjoy a taste of as many flavors as they liked. Each person was given three poker chips, which the attendees then placed in bowls set in front of each ice cream freezer to indicate their favorite. The winners were then determined by the number of poker chips in their bowls.
Taking the top prize this year with a framed certificate and $25 gift card to Brookshire’s was Shirley Brock for her caramel crunch ice cream. Brock said she was surprised at the win and accepted her award with happy tears.
“I didn’t expect that,” she said afterward.
Coming in at second place was John and Mary Ellen Little for their cherry ice cream. They were awarded a $20 gift card to Brookshire’s and a framed certificate.
Third place, with a $15 gift card to Brookshires and a framed certificate, was awarded to Jennifer Scroggins of Angels Care Home Health for her butter pecan ice cream.
All Brookshire’s gift cards were presented by Linda Mobley of At-Home Healthcare.
Honorable mentions were presented with framed certificates and Sonic $10 gift cards provided by Carriage House Manor’s Charlotte Baxter. Award-winners included:
• Marcie Gammill of Abacus Home Health with banana nut,
• Tina Cox and Richelle Johnson of Rock Creek with cherry vanilla,
• Shelby Roman of Hopkins Place with cantaloupe,
• Angela Price of Hopkins County Sheriff ’s Office with snickerdoodle and
• Stacey Wetzel of Sulphur Springs Imaging Center with peaches
and cream.
Other flavors included: blueberry lemonade, cherry nut, chocolate covered strawberry, cookies and cream, pear crunch, lemon ice, vanilla, bubble gum and dulce leche.
“If you didn’t come,” said Weatherman, “you missed a great time and some wonderful homemade ice cream.”