August 12, 2008                                                                                                                    

For immediate release. Please announce the following not-for-profit event:

F.O.R. Invites Community to an Old – Fashioned Ice Cream Social and Story Telling Gathering

Can you remember sitting on top of your parents hand cranked ice cream freezer on top of an old quilt to hold it down as it got harder and harder to crank? Or was it your job to add the salt or more ice as it melted? On those hot summer days, nothing tasted better than ice cream you and your family and friends made. The stories everyone told were pretty good, too. But today, with Wii’s and game boys and Ipods, do your kids even know where ice cream comes from? Maybe your can give them the same sweet summer memory you enjoyed on Saturday, August 23, 2008, when Friends Of the River San Bernard  will dish out an old fashioned ice cream social at the  F.O.R Community Center (20450 C.R. 510 B in the Holiday Shores Subdivision, Brazoria) from 5 p.m. until the last story is told.

Anyone owning a hand crank (or electric) ice cream freezer and a great ice cream recipe is asked to bring their freezers and ice cream mixtures (and completed home made ice cream)  to the F.O.R. Community Center to make and enjoy home made ice cream - and memories for the community. There will be plenty of friends to taste test everyone’s offerings and plenty of youngsters to sit atop the hand cranked freezers hoping for the first taste of the finished product. F.O.R. will provide the ice for your freezers, but please bring the rock salt if you need it.

F.O.R. has also been out talking to some of the river’s old timers – or people with stories of the old days on the river – to come out to regale the community with their stories. There’s no lecture this month – just this social outing. If you like home made ice cream, good stories, good company – or you just haven’t seen the F.O.R. Community Center yet, make plans to attend!

This is just another way to give back to the community. As the summer winds down, what better way to pass a sultry summer evening than by making and eating ice cream and “dishing” with your friends?

  For more information or a map to the center, see the Community Center Tab on www.sanbernardriver.com .  You may also contact Pat Webb, Community Center Committee Chairman at 979-964-4503 or pat@sanbernardriver.com.