GANNETT NEWS SERVICE A frozen sweet treat made in the Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker is a hit with children. Ingredients are placed in a plastic ball with a metal container inside. The ball is shaken and passed around until the contents are frozen.
Photos by Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES Michelle Kettler finds plenty of business as a driver for Stan's Ice Cream in the Quad-Cities.
Larry Fisher/QUAD-CITY TIMES — Longtime Whitey's employee Bernice Mason pulls a batch of cookies out of the oven. They will be used to make Chippers, or ice cream sandwiches.
Larry Fisher/ QUAD-CITY TIMES Actor John Ratzenberger shares a laugh with Penny Klingler, of HC Duke & Son, during a break in filming for the Travel Channel show “Made in America.” A crew is taping a segment on the East Moline company, which makes ice cream freezers.
First-grader Alicia Wunderlich, 7, from Thomas Jefferson School in Milan, Ill., samples some Funny Yummy Monkey shake at Whitey's on May 29. The flavor was created by Tawyna Hambly's class. The concoction, a chocolate banana-flavored shake with vanilla wafers � was the winning recipe in Whitey�s 75th Anniversary Summer Shake Contest. It was one of many suggestions entered in the contest, hosted by Whitey�s in partnership with Junior Achievement of the Heartland. (Larry Fisher)
Dave Laesch, a 4-H volunteer, shovels a bucket of ice into one of six John Deere engine-powered ice cream makers at the 2009 Farm Progress Show. (Herald & Review)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ben Cohen, center, and Jerry Greenfield, right, founders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. serve ice cream to Washington, D.C., residents on Tuesday to kick off a federal budgets priority campaign and to introduce a new flavor from the company that bears their names.
GANNETT NEWS SERVICE The Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker is a new way to make homemade ice cream. The plastic ball has a metal container inside, and makes creating a sweet frozen treat fun.
John Schultz/QUAD-CITY TIMES Willfred Henley with Kirby Tent Service of Orlando, Fla., secures one of the last remaining tents to go up at the TPC at Deere Run golf course in Silvis, Ill., as the John Deere Classic gets ready for tournament week.
Louis Brems/QUAD-CITY TIMES Peg Wilczynski of Moline has her eyes Saturday afternoon on an orange sherbet ice cream cone at the Whitey's Ice Cream Store on 41st Street in Moline. Ice cream vendors report brisk business during these hot days.
Genevieve Ring, 4, and her sister, Jamie Pamperin, 13, of Davenport eat an ice cream treat at VanderVeer Botanical Park in Davenport, Iowa, Monday, June 15, 2009. (Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES)
Sarah Navarro buys a cooler full of dry ice Tuesday at Whitey's in Moline from Scott Larson, retail sales manager at Whitey's. Whitey's kept busy this week selling dry ice while it was without power. Power was restored to the business this morning, preventing, what Whitey's owner Jon Tunberg called "the Quad-Cities' biggest ice cream social." (Larry Fisher/QUAD-CITY TIMES)
Genevieve Ring, 4, and her sister, Jamie Pamperin, 13, of Davenport eat an ice cream treat at VanderVeer Botanical Park in Davenport, Iowa, Monday, June 15, 2009. (Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES)
Krista Weets slides lids into a machine that is packaging Sgt. Camo ice cream at Whitey's in Moline Thursday. Proceeds will go to veterans groups. (Jeff Cook/Quad-City Times)
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