{"id":1629,"date":"2014-07-15T14:32:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2014-07-15T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:32:40","slug":"national-ice-cream-month-win-ice-cream-for-a-year-in-santa-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"National Ice Cream Month — win ice cream for a year in Santa Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ice cream and espresso at Mission Hill Creamery<\/p><\/div>\n

To celebrate National Ice Cream Month, there is a delicious Downtown Santa Cruz<\/a>-sponsored contest with a grand prize of free ice cream for a year!<\/p>\n

One winner receives 50 gift certificates for free ice cream \u2013 so the idea is to use one per week. To be exact, the prize is \u201capproximately\u201d one year of free dessert.<\/p>\n

How you play: visit one of the five participating venues and pick up an Ice Cream Month punch card. The venues are the Penny Ice Creamery, Pacific Cookie Company, Mission Hill Creamery, Marini’s Candies and Cold Stone Creamery. Through July 27, have your card punched every time you order a treat from one of these sweet places.<\/p>\n

Then, on July 27, visit Mission Hill Creamery at 3 p.m. for a special event. Vice Mayor Don Lane (the \u201cVice Cream Mayor,\u201d he even has an ice cream tattoo!) will present a special Vice Mayoral Proclamation. Anyone who has a completed Ice Cream Month punch card (ten punches) will be entered in a raffle for free ice cream. You must be present to win. If you have eaten enough ice cream by July 27 that you have more than one punch card filled out, each one of these counts as a separate raffle entry.<\/p>\n

Follow the Downtown Santa Cruz Facebook page<\/a> to learn about featured ice cream flavors every day. You don\u2019t have to eat that particular flavor to get a punch; it\u2019s just another highlight of ice cream month in Santa Cruz. Not to whet your appetite or anything, but Sunday\u2019s featured flavor was Macapuno (baby coconut) at Pacific Cookie, Saturday\u2019s was Oreo Overload at Coldstone, Friday\u2019s was Ricotta Fig at Mission Hill, and the 4th of July highlighted the flavor The Great Morgani at Marini\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s featured flavor? Blackberry Sweet Corn at The Penny Ice Creamery. Mmmm, I can taste it already…<\/p>\n

Remember — since National Ice Cream Month is July, we are halfway through already. You better get eating!
\nLocations:<\/strong>
\nMission Hill Creamery, 1101B Pacific Ave.
\nThe Penny Ice Creamery, several locations including original downtown branch, 913 Cedar St.
\nPacific Cookie Company, two locations including downtown, 1203 Pacific Ave.
\nMarini’s Candies, two locations including downtown, 1308 Pacific Ave.
\nCold Stone Creamery, 1129 Pacific Ave.
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