! KEITH O'CONNOR NATE BLAIS
Smokin'
Scoops
"When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.”
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he proverbial phrase refers to lemons, which are sour, and then turning them into something sweet like lemonade, and in life translates into encouraging optimism in the face of adversity. For Jon Goodhind, he made ice cream, but not your grandfather’s ice cream. Goodhind’s job was a casualty to COVID-19. When trying to figure out what was next in his life, he wanted to do something different.....to bring something completely different to West Springfield and to Western Massachusetts. And he set out to do some research. "One of the things I learned is that nitro ice cream was very popular in Florida and California and in some parts of Connecticut, but not in this region. The location we are in now, which was once an ice cream shop, was vacant and the landlord and I took it over and eventually opened Smokin’ Scoops last June,” Goodhind said. GOLOCALMAGAZINES.COM 13
