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I was searching around YouTube the other night and found a bunch of videos that some of our customers had uploaded that I had never seen before. I thought I would put them up on our blog so you could take a look at these YouTube Videos also. Little Jimmy’s Italian Ice is a fun and easy business that nearly anyone can do.

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Marius and family are keeping their fellow Texans cool with Little Jimmy’s Italian Ice. He has a really nice push cart setup and does a great job selling his Major League baseball helmets filled with Little Jimmy’s Italian Ices. Marius works alongside his father and brother- a true family business.

Click here to read full story: Enjoying some last-minute fun before school starts.

Excerpt:  “At the South of the James Market at Forest Hill Park, Mark Abernathy from Little Jimmy’s Italian Ice of Carytown served the masses. It was the busiest day all season, and by noon, Abernathy had already sold more than 125 ices.

Sydnee Voigt, who is visiting her grandchildren from Brazil, was among his customers. Pina colada and watermelon ices went to the kids. “We’re just going to spend Labor Day together as a family,” Voigt said.

As for Abernathy, his plan after work: Head down to his boat on the Chesapeake Bay.”

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EMILY C. DOOLEY TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Published: September 6, 2009

When Rick and his wife sold all of their Little Jimmy’s Italian Ices at their Maryland events this August, they took it to the road and drove to our offices in Elizabeth, NJ. Since we are open 7 days a week in the summer, we had them resupplied in no time and back on the road within an hour to get them back in business.

Attached are pictures from Elvisfest – what an experience!

The Elvisfest was Friday night from 4pm-10pm and Saturday from 11am-10pm. We did a total of $1800 in sales for the two days. This was a great venue for Little Jimmy’s because it was hot & the people were congregated in the same area. Free samples definitely worked. If they didn’t buy on the spot, they came back as the day got hotter! They were selling hard lemonade at the beer stand and we sold lemon ice for $1 a scoop to add to it! Elvis even came to visit us!

DeAnn & Pam, Michigan

When was the last time you had fun working? Watch Larry and company in action in the state of Washington having fun with their customers while making money selling Little Jimmy’s Italian Ice.

Check out Little Jimmy Live in Action at the Jersey Shore this summer at Funtown Pier in Seaside Park, New Jersey.

Click here for a full slide show from Jersey Shore Concessions at the Jersey Shore.

Demonstration of a typical shopping mall setup of Little Jimmy’s Italian Ice and Pushcarts – Notice the steady line of customers

All manner of vendor varieties set up shop at Ypsilanti Township’s Lakeshore Family Festival over the Fourth of July weekend, but perhaps none were younger than those from the Ypsilanti Boys Preparatory Academy.

During Friday afternoon, 10-year-old Keyshaun Wyatt-Morris and 11-year-old Amir Osborn sold Italian Ice from a “Little Jimmy’s Italian Ices” cart the school had bought, which the students were running with guidance from their headmaster, Lawrence Hood.

The business is a small part of an unconventional school curriculum which Hood, and those parents who send their children to the school, believe is giving their kids an edge on education as they grow up.

“This helps show them what it means to be in business for themselves,” Hood said of the Italian Ice cart.

Osborn said it his first taste of a real world operation, and he is learning a lot from it.

“You have got to be professional with people,” Osborn said.

The school first opened its doors two years ago inside the Ypsilanti Free Methodist Church, but has since moved to a new building on Walnut Street where 50 kids in the preschool through seventh-grade ages are now enrolled.

“Our parents really love the program,” Hood, who has only used word of mouth as marketing and advertising, said. “To go from five students to 50 students in a couple years with no advertising kind of speaks for itself. We don’t cater to one type of student – some of our students are at-risk and some are gifted and talented. We have the whole gamut, and our at risk students have had great success.”

Wyatt-Morris said he saw his grades go from B’s and C’s in public schools to A’s and B’s at the Ypsilanti Boys Preparatory Academy because the classes are more engaging.

“We really go above and beyond what they teach in other schools,” he said. “We have karate class instead of gym…classes that show what makes a man.”

Students dress in a shirt and tie, take karate instead of physical education to learn more about self-discipline, take piano lessons, and Osborn and Wyatt-Morris wrote their own business plans before applying what they learned to the real world with their Italian Ice operation.

Students also prepare themselves for the future in an intensive digital arts program that includes graphic design, video editing and music production.

The six-week “Passports To Manhood” through the Boys and Girls’ Club immersed the students in the digital arts, and Hood believes his students have received valuable preparation for growing fields.

“It’s a pretty unique program,” he said and added that it was such a success that it will be part of the curriculum for the next school year.

Students at the Academy also participate in community service programs once week. In a program through the University of Michigan, students visit with elderly people who have dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and do arts and crafts and music classes.

“It goes really, really well,” Hood said.

The students get their fair share of math, science and reading, but Hood believes it’s the delivery that affords them an opportunity to blossom where a traditional environment may not.

“Some students who come here have behavior problems, but once they get here their setting is really different and expectations are different and they respond really well,” Hood said. “The lessons are designed as a more hands-on approach, and with them being engaged in activity and learning throughout the day we see less opportunity for outbursts.

“Basically, they’re learning everything they need to know to become successful young men.”

For more information, contact Lawrence Hood at 1-734-330-4466.

Tom Perkins is a freelance writer for the View/Courier. He can be reached at trperkins@gmail.com.

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