Wow, the Arts Council of Tuttle hosted the Tuttle Ice Cream Festival on July 4. This is an event that was held in Tuttle from 1992 until 2018 and then it stopped. The chamber started it and the city took over at some point and then ended it after the 2018 year. Then the downtown businesses had an Downtown Ice Cream Social in 2023.

So Bennett asked the council if we would try to host it because he loved it as a kid and he wanted today’s kids to experience that too. We said sure, we can look at that for 2027, and then he reminded us that this was the 250th anniversary of the nation and so we just went ahead and did it. We did it in two months.

It was smaller than before, but we had the event, like 25 vendors, food trucks, Braum’s ice cream, games, entertainment, ice cream eating contests, parade, and the Ice Cream Princess pageant. It was a great way to restart things. We’re planning to do it again next year!

Anyway, that’s been taking up a lot of my time, and I’d guess I will need some recovery time too.

Oh, and I don’t think I mentioned earlier that Rena left the Deborah Harris Agency and went to another agency and only kept some of her clients and I was not one of them!