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I'm not picking favorites, but the summer issues of WALKER always feel special to me. I became editor while the summer 2015 issue was in production. We were wrapping up the third year of the magazine, and it felt like the time to shake things up a little. That cover — taken underwater with a GoPro by kids at the Dotson Baptist Camp swimming pool — remains one of our wackiest. I smile every time I come across it. This year, we've been shaking things up again as we move toward the magazine's 10th anniversary in the fall. Readers will notice several layout changes in this issue, including our first color From the Vault and a different look and placement for our event pages. However, the stories are still the same in that we put the best of Walker County front and center. Our cover story is on Shannon Daniel, a professional cowboy. In his early years, Daniel was told that it wasn't possible to be anything other than an amateur, but he didn't let that stop him from working toward his goal. After three decades of chasing glory in the rodeo arena, Daniel is ready to take a step back, but he has one last dream he wants to see realized. Kellye Bowen knows a thing or two about chasing dreams. After seeing her high school team's chance at a state championship slip away, Bowen spent 14 years waiting and working. As a coach, Bowen found herself back in contention for a state title and this time the story had a happier ending. As we plan for the future of WALKER, we're still taking a look back at some of our favorites stories from the past 10 years. In this issue, we once again highlight Jones Dairy Farm, which recently received the prestigious designation of being an Alabama Century and Heritage Farm. Finally, we have a profile on Hunter Miller, a Bevill State Community College student who has been making knives since he was 14 years old. Whether you're reading these stories by the pool, under a shade tree or somewhere else away from the heat, I hope you enjoy them.
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Photos taken from the archives of the Daily Mountain Eagle
Bull Building Supply / April 13, 1996
Bull Building Supply's annual crawfish boil was a muchbeloved event in the area for nearly two decades. "We cooked 3.5 tons of crawfish, 800 pounds of potatoes, 800 pounds of Polish sausage and thou sands of ears of corn," coowner Bobby Bull said in a Daily Mountain Eagle story announcing the store's closing in 2017. "We did that for 19 straight
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years and that was so much fun. Our customers helped us put it on." The 6th annual event, dubbed the Crawfish Crazy Cookout, included not only free crawfish for customers who stopped by but a virtual reality fishing game as well. Customers stood in line for nearly 30 minutes to load up their plates.
Throughout the '90s, crowd estimates hovered around 10,000 for the event, which also served as a fundraiser for area nonprofits. In 2009, more than 17,000 people were in attendance. Proceeds that year went to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. Bull recalled that the crawfish boil began when a local painter, Reuben Paul, brought back some crawfish from his native Louisiana around the time that the store moved from its downtown location to Highway 78. "On a Saturday morning, we cooked it out back and people ate it. When they came in, we would send them back there if they wanted some," Bull said. "When we moved up here, I thought maybe it would be a good idea to have a promotion and set up vendors.” Bull continued, "It became an event. We had some people come from as far as Florida, planning their vaca tions around it. It was a great selling period for us, too, as we would run sales. It was just a big hit. But, to tell the truth, it got to where it was overwhelming. The last year we had it, we had 17,000 people here throughout the day. It just got to be a lot." The decision was made to suspend it in 2011. The week end it would have been scheduled that year was the week that the April 27 tornadoes hit, Bull said. "I always sweated the weather every year, and had to postpone it one time in 19 years," he said. "But if we had done the 20th, it would have been the year those torna does devastated the area. We were without power for three days." SUMMER 2022 A PUBLICATION OF THE DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE
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The Jones home before renovations.
Jones Dairy was operated for many years by Lester Jones and his wife, Lillian.
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On May 17, the Jones Dairy property in Jasper became the sixth in Walker County to be designated as an Alabama Century and Heritage Farm. The presentation was made to members of the Jones family at a Walker County Farmers Feder ation meeting by Bob Plaster, as sistant commissioner of the Alabama Department of Agricul ture and Industries. "Since the Century and Her itage Farm program began in 1976, the department has recog nized over 700 farms in Alabama," Plaster said. Century farms have been in the same family continuously for at least 100 years and are currently used for farming activities. Her itage farms must have been used as a family farm for at least 100
years and possess historical signif icance, including at least one structure standing for 40 years or more. For both designations, farms must be at least 40 acres. The property has been in the Jones family since Dudley and Leanna Jones bought it and started the dairy in 1916. Jones Dairy remained open until 1976. It was operated for many years by Lester Jones and his wife, Lillian. When the dairy incorporated in the 1960s, each of the Jones children — Thomas Elliott Jones, Loretta Jones Bailey, Franklin LaNue Jones and Glenda Jones Williams — acquired
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a stock interest in the family business. In its early days, up to 20 em ployees kept the dairy operating around the clock, and they were milking as many as 180 cows per day. The dairy's Jersey cows, known for their rich milk, sup plied product for the distribution company of FlavORich while Deep South Creamery in Jasper made frequent visits to the dairy for its Holstein milk. For approximately two dec ades, some of the milk was bot tled onsite and delivered locally to residential house holds with the familyowned milk trucks. The family home was built in
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1927 and expanded in the 1940s. It was restored by Mi chael Williams and Chris Wil liams, two of the grandchildren of Lester and Lillian Jones, in 2015 and 2016. The next effort will be to re store the milk house and feed mill that sit on the property. Today, lifesized replicas of a Jersey and a Holstein cow pay homage to the property's dairy farm heritage. Today the property serves as the home base for Jubilee Jones Farms Inc., which was estab lished in 2018. From late spring to early fall, a variety of vege tables as well as flowering plants are sold on the property. This year's crop includes corn,
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Bottom right, A portrait of Lester Jones is clearly visible from an attic window, giving the appearance that he is still keeping watch over the farm.
peas, green beans, squash, cu cumbers and tomatoes. There have also been several requests to plant a pumpkin patch after last year's was a success. The produce is generally sold at a roadside stand set up near the inter section of Old Birmingham Highway and Jones Dairy Road. Jubilee Jones Farms is also a ven dor at many of the local fall festivals. "We are doing this in memory of our grandparents who we deeply loved and who were such pillars of the Walker County community, but we also want this sight to be a showplace to provide preservation of the familyowned dairy industry in Alabama," Michael Williams said when the farm was profiled in WALKER Magazine in 2017.
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If you give Hunter Miller a piece of Damascus steel and some tools, he can make a oneofakind mas terpiece. The sophomore Bevill State Com munity College student started knife making when he was around 14 years old and has continued to ad vance his craft over the past few years. It all started when Miller was 2 or 3 years old and made an ordinary trip to Walmart with his father. That's when a Swiss Army knife grabbed his attention and became the first knife he owned. "Some people like shiny things. Some people collect playing cards and different stuff, but I like knives," Miller said.
"I've always had a passion for knives." His father, Adam Miller, had a few knives for general use while Hunter was growing up, but he didn't nec essarily collect them as a hobby. For Hunter, that was a different story. Hunter Miller was a typical boy. He played baseball and basketball in junior high school and played base ball during his freshman year at Cor dova High School. He started taking agriscience in high school, which was taught by Jared Aaron, his father's friend from high school. Miller was also a member of the Future Farmers of America and was always involved in
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"The more I've made, I've gotten better at understanding the blade geometry and how they work," he said.
outdoor activities, especially hunting. Around the time Miller entered high school, he decided to take his lifelong love of knives to the next level and see if he could make his own knife. He said the first one didn't turn out so well, but he had better luck with a second knife that he made for his grandfather. "It was a little bit better. It was ac tually sharp. The first one couldn't cut butter," he said with a laugh. His first few attempts at knife mak
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ing were done on a screenedin patio at his home. "There would be wood dust every where. After that, dad built me this table and put it at the back of our house," he said. Eventually, Miller would move his knifemaking workshop to a building owned by one of his grandfathers. Miller kept experimenting with knife making, and his agriscience teacher even offered to purchase one of his knives.
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Most teenagers would have wanted video games or mo bile devices for Christmas, but Miller said he was asking for metal, hammers and tools to continue his newfound hobby. "I just kept making more," he said. The pastime soon turned into a small business and Miller was selling knives as fast as he could make them for people that he knew. Miller specializes in hunting and kitchen knives and can craft every thing, from the shape of the blade to the handle itself, particularly steel handles. "The more I've made, I've gotten better at understanding the blade geometry and how they work," he said. He typically uses high carbon steel and Damascus steel to craft knife blades and sometimes orders pre made handles; however, he has to piece everything together. Every knife that Miller produces is unique and not massproduced like storebought knives. Miller described the types of steel he uses for knife making and how he crafts a blade. "High carbon steel is just one ho mogenous piece of steel. Damascus is more than one layer and piece of steel. It's different kinds and they're all welded together and forged out and molded into one bar," he said. "Then it's folded and stacked and creates the layer patterns. It's a chem ical process that will oxidize it." Miller said he especially enjoys
At right, Miller displays a piece of Damascus steel, used in the crafting of some of his blades. using his forge. "For me, that's where the life comes in the knife at," he said. Miller now has his business, Miller Custom Knives, and has sold his knives at trade days held at Tannehill Iron works Historical State Park, at a local holiday market, and this year's Walker County Arts Alliance Art in the Park event. He continues to do individual sales and takes cus tom orders. He can be reached at 2055304335.
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Miller is on an ambassador scholarship to Bevill State and secured another scholarship while he was a senior at Cordova High. The other scholarship was through the local chapter of the National Wildlife Turkey Federation for $1,000. Miller had to write an essay about how con servation has impacted his life to be considered for the scholarship. "My greatgranddad, his name is Clifford Miller, he was actually the game warden in Walker County for 36 years. So hunting, it's in all of our blood, really, in my family...just conservation," he said. Miller went on to win the state Turkey Federation schol arship and ultimately won $3,500 in total from the feder ation. He was asked if he would be willing to donate a knife to be auctioned off at the local Turkey Federation banquet this past February, and he happily obliged. "I made it special. I could've just given him one that I had already made, but I wanted it to go along with the Turkey Federation," he said.
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Miller said he took a desert ironwood handle and placed some decorative mosaic pins in it, along with a pin in the shape of a turkey. A Damascus blade was made and at tached to the handle, which was placed inside a leather sheath that Miller stamped into a scale design. He finished the leather sheath with a shotgun shell button as another special touch.
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The knife was ultimately sold at the banquet for $950. "I was $50 less to repaying my first original scholarship, so somebody next spring will be able to get that money from my knife to help pay for some of their college," he said. "It was really special for me." Miller continued, "Knowing that, through my actions, another kid that might not have been as privileged as me could have a really good scholarship — and that might be the difference that they go to college or not — that little motivator, that meant the world to me." Miller continued to make knives during his first year at Bevill State, and the nowsophomore was accepted into the college's summer nursing program. He wants to follow in the footsteps of his mother, Candace Miller, to be a nurse. His father is a fireman, so Miller will be caring for people, perhaps in the most difficult times of their lives, just as his parents have. Miller said he is enjoying his time at Bevill State. He likes the smaller campus atmosphere and how the teachers can remember everyone's name. He's also been actively involved in campus life during his time as an am bassador. "You're not really just a number here. That's what I really like," he said. "There's a sense of community and family, and that's probably my favorite thing about being an am bassador here is you get to see that more." His goal is to work as a nurse and potentially own a knife shop one day. "I've had a pretty good upbringing and I'm thankful, blessed, to have had everything that I've been able to get in my life," he said. "Most of it isn't from me, it's from the people that I've had [in my life] to help me get there."
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Worth the wait:
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Curry had never been this close to a state volleyball championship. With one set out of the way, the Yellow Jackets were closing in on the 2007 state title match behind star player Kellye Bowen. Leading late in the second set against Briarwood Christian, Curry’s dream fell apart when Bowen, the team’s state record holder in kills, went down with an ACL injury. “If we had won, that would’ve sent us into the final. We were up, and I tore my ACL,” said Bowen, then Kellye Jordan. “That was rough. We were close. After (the injury) happened I was thinking, 'unh uh.' I stayed in there two more plays, but I couldn’t do it.” From there, Briarwood Christian took control, eliminating Curry and earning a spot in the Class 5A cham pionship match.
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Bowen would have to wait another 14 years — a span that has seen her transition from decorated high school athlete to SEC volley ball player to highly successful coach — to get that elusive state championship. Now the Spain Park High School coach, Bowen guided one of the top teams to ever come through the state in 2021. The Jaguars dom inated the competition all year long, going 474 and winning the Class 7A state championship. How good were the Jaguars? The team swept its way through the playoffs, winning its final 28 matches and closing the season as the No. 5 team in the nation. “That first year we were 924. Now here we are,” Bowen said. Spain Park reached its first ever championship match in 2020, losing to Hoover. It was a win over Hoover in the regional finals that served as a wakeup call for the rest of the
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competition in 2021, behind star player Audrey Rothman, who signed with Florida State. “That was probably the most in tense game as far as emotions, just because it’s always Hoover and Spain Park. That was a lot of fun. It was really close. That’s what you always want in a great match. The feeling was surreal. I couldn’t have drawn it up any better. Our setter put it on top of the net where only a 64 girl could go get the ball. Audrey went up and got it and put the ball down. It was mag ical because you don’t get teams like that very often.” Though she’s a championship winning coach, Bowen wasn’t al ways sure about making a return to the court in a new role. “I tore my ACL twice in high school before I went to Mississippi
State. I was trying to figure out, 'Do I want to do physical therapy?' I spent half of my high school career doing that. It was between that and coaching. I just felt led that I was supposed to help kids in some way, and that’s the avenue that I went with.” One month after graduating from Mississippi State, where she started 43 matches during her career, Bowen began her high school coaching career, taking over the St. James High School (Montgomery) program in January 2012. After tak ing the Trojans to the Class 4A State Volleyball Tournament in backtoback years, she took over the Spain Park volleyball program in 2014. The progress was gradual. The Jaguars crossed the 20win barrier in 2017 and won nearly 30
matches in both 2019 and 2020 before breaking the mold in 2021. Now that she’s got her first championship, Bowen is looking to keep her program at the top. “There are a lot of books written
Now the Spain Park High School coach, Bowen guided one of the top teams to ever come through the state in 2021.
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on how to be successful and how to get to the top. There aren’t a lot written on how to sustain success. If there is a book on something like that, I’m buying it,” she said. “There have been a lot of growing pains from 2014 to now. We haven’t always been at the top. It was well worth the growing pains. You are always finding ways to do things better. When you fig ure out how to connect with your kids, that’s the most in fluential part and how you get the best out of them.” Bowen is married to former Mississippi State pitcher Ricky Bowen. Both are members of the Walker County Sports Hall of Fame. The couple has a son, Russ, 7. It all started at Curry for Bowen, who established the state record with 2,697 career kills on the volleyball court and helped lead the team to its first berth in the Elite Eight in 2007. Back then the Yellow Jackets played in the school’s old gym. “I remember no air condition ing, lots of sweat, lots of fun and lots of hard work. That made me into the person that I am today,” Bowen said of her time at Curry. “That’s back when they used to have coaches that pushed you. I grew up probably as one of the last groups where coaches could be like that. I’m really thankful for that.” At Curry, Bowen was coached by Karen Atkins on the volleyball team from her fresh man to junior seasons. Saige Beaty was her basketball coach as well as her volleyball coach
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It all started at Curry for Bowen, who established the state record with 2,697 career kills on the volleyball court and helped lead the team to its first berth in the Elite Eight in 2007.
during her senior season. Mike Myers was her softball coach. “I was very blessed to have a group of coaches that loved the game and made me come out of my shell. I was extremely passionate about what I did. I was able to turn that into a col legiate career and then into a coaching career.” Her coaches remember the young player as a talented, goaloriented athlete. “When she was in the 9th grade, I asked her what her goals were, and she said, ‘I’m going to play volleyball in the SEC.’ I said, ‘OK. Let’s get to work,’” said Atkins, who is now the volleyball coach at Gulf
Shores High School. “She didn’t need me or anyone else to reach that goal. She had mani fested that dream long before she came to Curry High School.” “Kellye was always willing to put in the extra work,” Beaty said. “If she had a bad night, she would either stay after the game or come early the next day to work. Also, she would al ways rise to any challenge. The bigger the game, the better she performed. She was a kind of player that all coaches want and always think about having the opportunity to coach. You al ways knew Kellye was going to do great at whatever she chose
to do after high school. I’m proud of all of her accomplish ments on and off of the court. She’s a great coach and an even better person.” Atkins was watching online as her former player won that first title. "Kellye is doing a remarkable job at Spain Park. I have always tried to go support her when they play in those big postsea son games. I hated to miss her first state championship. I was watching live here in Gulf Shores and I was going crazy when she won,” Atkins said. “I sent her a text immediately and told her how proud I was of her and her team. I am very proud of Kellye. I always have been and I know she is just getting started. She is great at what she does and she is a winner.”
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Art in the park Walker County Arts Alliance / May 7
The Walker County Arts Alliance's 17th annual Art in the Park was held in Jasper's Gamble Park. The juried art show, which draws artists from around the Southeast, had not been held since spring 2019 due to the COVID19 pandemic. // Daily Mountain Eagle photos by Ron Harris //
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For years, Shannon Daniel had one dream — to become a professional rodeo cowboy. Today he is the only person he is aware of in Walker County to cur rently be a cardcarrying member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. "You have to earn the right to have a professional card. I'm the only one in Walker County. There's probably only 25 at the most in the state of Alabama who have a profes sional card," Daniel said. Now Daniel, a Jasper native who has been competing in rodeos for 35 years, has one last dream. He wants to cap off his rodeo career by being at the 2023 National Finals Rodeo when it is held in Las Vegas in December. That opportunity is only afforded to the cowboys who
end the rodeo season in the top 15 in their respective event. To date, Daniel's best year on the circuit was in 2005, shortly after he earned his PRCA card. For a time, he was in the top 30 in roping. He also competed that year at Cheyenne Frontier Days, which bills itself as the largest outdoor rodeo and western celebration in the country. After having worked his way up from high school rodeos and ama teur events to the biggest stage he had reached yet, Daniel never saw the setback that was coming. "I was up early. I ran my first calf. I roped him and when I stepped off, I tore my groin, tore it from the bone.
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“I pushed on through, but I couldn't even walk back to my horse. The pain was excruciating," Daniel said. It was three months before Daniel could ride a horse and a year and a half before he felt comfortable enough to rope again. Daniel once traveled to events all over the United States, but now he competes primarily in the PRCA's Southeastern Circuit and the South eastern Professional Rodeo Associa tion. In the latter, he was ranked 10th at the end of May in team rop ing/heading. Daniel grew up watching his father, a coal miner, compete in am ateur rodeos. He followed in his father's footsteps but also held onto a dream that was wholly his own. "He had a fulltime job and a family. He wasn't able to compete like I choose to. When I was 13, I said, 'I'm going to be a professional cowboy.' That's all I ever wanted to do," Daniel said.
Daniel entered his first rodeo at 15. "It was in Opp, Alabama. I had a 102 fever. I got on my first bucking horse and my first bull that night. Of course, I bucked off, but I was hooked after that," Daniel said. Daniel was a bull rider in his teens, but wisdom came with age and he turned his focus to calf rop ing and team roping before starting the process of turning professional. It began in the early '90s with ap plying for a permit through the PRCA. It would take Daniel until the early 2000s to earn the required amount, $2,500, at PRCAsanc tioned events to qualify for a pro fessional card. The most he has ever won at a single event is $3,500. "It was in Perry, Georgia. I won that in a matter of about 23 sec onds. That was good money that day," Daniel said. For Daniel, being a professional cowboy means competing 10 months out of the year. He has three different jobs, two of which involve caring for horses, to help him pay the bills and cover the cost of competing in rodeos. He also works as a vet tech at Farmstead Veterinary Medical Center.
Daniel grew up watching his father, a coal miner, compete in amateur rodeos. He followed in his father's footsteps but also held onto a dream that was wholly his own.
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One rule that Daniel lives by is "never gamble your grocery money because you will go hungry," which is why he also seeks sponsorship money to supplement his personal expenses on fuel and entry fees. His newest sponsors are Body Oasis and Becky Jones, Realtor. "You're not a paid athlete in ro deos. You have to win what you get. It takes the pressure off to know
that the sponsorship money is going to be there, and you're going to be able to get down the road no matter what," he said. In recent years, as his 50th birth day neared, Daniel started thinking about retirement. There isn't a firm end date. He feels good about his chances of competing on the national stage again.
Top left, Shannon Daniel competes at the Southeastern Livestock Expo Rodeo in Montgomery. Bottom left and center, Daniel with his son, Brannon.
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He's got the horse he wants. He's still seeking sponsorships and a few more good rides. When it's all said and done, he'll start living in the truth of a Cody Johnson song: "Dear rodeo, I'd like to think you miss me too, but I know you don't. Oh, but that won't change the past, and that don't change the truth. I'm still in love with you."
One of Daniel's jobs is working as a farrier.
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Track and Field Day Kiwanis Club of Jasper / May 17
The Kiwanis Club of Jasper hosted its Track and Field Day for special needs kids from Jasper City and Walker County schools. It was the first time the event had been held in three years. // Daily Mountain Eagle photos by Ron Harris //
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owners: Michial and Gina Tittle
THE SUGAR SHACK IN DOWNTOWN JASPER WAS CREATED FOR FAMILY. history: Michial and Gina Tittle and their daughters, Mikenzi and Morgan, al ways loved going to Snobiz to spend time together while enjoying a sweet treat. So, they decided they would make their own place where people could come together to hang out and enjoy an afterdinner snack. In August 2017 the Tittle family did just that. The small summer shop
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has been a hit ever since. At first the Sugar Shack sold mainly snow cones, ice cream and milk shakes, but now they have added hotdogs and nachos to the menu. They have also added a mobile called "The Sugar Shack Too" that brings the sweets to schools, events and anywhere that needs a cold snack added to the fun. The Sugar Shack usually opens about the beginning of March or
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whenever it starts getting warm, and it stays open until about October. During the fall they sell less ice cream and shaved ice and mainly stick to hot dogs, nachos, and pop corn. They also sell hot chocolate during Christmas parades. The business' clientele has grown since that summer of 2017, and they greatly appreciate all their customers who have stuck with them through out the years.
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