ICE CREAM: A co-worker shared this ice cream contest with us, and it was too fun not to pass along.
Yuengling’s — yes, the same company that make beer — is giving away a year’s worth of ice cream to the winner of its “Free Ice Cream for a Year” contest.
Yuengling’s Ice Cream is celebrating its one year anniversary of returning to the ice cream market.
The company’s website indicates it first opened a dairy around 1920 because of Prohibition. Yuengling’s, a family-owned Pennsylvania company, stopped selling ice cream in 1985 and resumed in 2014.
The company produced 10 all-natural ice flavors, as well as two seasonal flavors: pumpkin roll and peppermint crunch.
The company is holding the contest because it is so happy about all the ice cream it sold in 2014. To take part, people need to share their favorite Yuengling’s ice cream flavor on one of the company’s social media sites, and on Feb. 2, four randomly chosen participants will win 52 coupons for free ice cream.
So if you’ve ever wondered how much is a year’s worth of ice cream, the answer is “52 containers.”
The rules are on Yuengling’s website.
TREES: On the topic of gifts, the Arbor Day Foundation is giving 10 free trees to anyone who joins the Foundation any time this month.
New members will get two Sargent crabapple trees, three American redbuds, two Washington hawthorns and three white flowering dogwoods. The trees, which will be between 6 and 12 inches tall, will be shipped between Feb. 1 and May 31. Planting instructions will be included.
The giveaway is part of the foundation’s Trees for American campaign.
To join the foundation, people can send a $10 donation before Jan. 31 to TEN FREE FLOWERING TREES, Arbor Day Foundation, 100 Arbor Ave., Nebraska City, NE 68410. Pennsylvania residents can become members online, too, at arborday.org/january.
Arbor Day is celebrated on the last Friday in April in Pennsylvania, as it is in most states. For anyone who is interested, the state tree is the eastern hemlock, according to the Foundation.