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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2015-05-20, Page 1The Lucknow Se www.lucknowsentinel.com n ti n st50 HST included PM40064683R07656 el Wednesday, May 20, 2015 Big Bison Artist's Largest Project Personal Bests Madill Athletes Excel Iucknowsentinel.com Get all of your news, sports and more. Serving Lucknow and surrounding area Valerie Gillies/Lucknow Sentinel Dustin Pennington -Fritz was on duty at the newly opened ice cream parlour, "What's the Scoop" in Lucknow. This business venture is a summer employment project for Drian, Dustin and Raelyn Pennington -Fritz. May 6, 2015. Budding entrepreneurs serve up summer What's the Scoop - Ice Cream Parlour & More The Grand Opening of the newest business in Luc - know took place as What's the Scoop - Ice Cream Par- lour & More started serving the public on Saturday, May 2, 2015. Lisa Pennington's chil- dren have been saying that their mother should open up a business in her vacant building on the corner of Bruce Rd. 1 and hwy 86 ever since it became vacant. There had been ice cream for sale from the site several times over the years in the past. It was decided that it should become an ice cream parlour again. Although Darian Pen- nington -Fritz, the eldest of the group at age 13, came up with the idea for ice cream, it will be Dustin, age 12, and Raelyn, age 10, who will be the operators of What's the Scoop with Dar- ian as a worker to help them. This is their first busi- ness. Their mother, Lisa, will be supervising and car- rying the business adminis- tration end of things, but the kids are the ones who will be doing the day-to-day operations to learn about running a business. She explained that their agreed upon business strategy is "going for a good-sized serv- ing for the price to make it worthwhile for customers to come in:' Dustin explained, "We only have 9 flavours of ice cream now, but there should be more." The young entre- preneurs are looking forward to bringing in new flavours. They also serve slushies and are on the Huron -Kinloss Ice Cream Trail. Raelyn wants to add activities for kids in the summer. Some ideas are bingo, crafts, movie day, story time, nail painting and whatever else she can come up with to keep kids busy during the summer. She will run the activities herself, while her brothers will be concentrating on the food service. The Pennington -Fritz team are happy with the response for their Grand Opening. A lot of people, mainly tourists, browsed through the newly opened Lucknow/Sepoy Vendors' Market that rents the other part of the building, then came over to the What's the Scoop side. What's the Scoop with be open evenings 7- 8:30 in May and June, as well as Sat- urdays and Sundays 1-4 pm and 6:30-8 pm to allow a break for the new Submitted Brother and sister Dustin and Raelyn Pennington -Fritz run their new business, "What's the Scoop - Ice Cream Parlour & More", in Lucknow. Their older brother Darian will be helping, as well. May 6, 2015. entrepreneurs to go home for their evening meal. In the summer there will be tables outside for customers to enjoy their treats. Sum- mer hours may change as the family summer sched- ule is determined to accom- modate other activities and as the response for different times that customers are around are determined. Drop in to What's the Scoop for a double treat, the ones for sale and the thrill of seeing three enthusiastic entrepreneurs take on their first business challenge. *y. Groups Pitch In A Cleaner Lucknow Personal Bests Madill Athletes Excel Iucknowsentinel.com Get all of your news, sports and more. Serving Lucknow and surrounding area Valerie Gillies/Lucknow Sentinel Dustin Pennington -Fritz was on duty at the newly opened ice cream parlour, "What's the Scoop" in Lucknow. This business venture is a summer employment project for Drian, Dustin and Raelyn Pennington -Fritz. May 6, 2015. Budding entrepreneurs serve up summer What's the Scoop - Ice Cream Parlour & More The Grand Opening of the newest business in Luc - know took place as What's the Scoop - Ice Cream Par- lour & More started serving the public on Saturday, May 2, 2015. Lisa Pennington's chil- dren have been saying that their mother should open up a business in her vacant building on the corner of Bruce Rd. 1 and hwy 86 ever since it became vacant. There had been ice cream for sale from the site several times over the years in the past. It was decided that it should become an ice cream parlour again. Although Darian Pen- nington -Fritz, the eldest of the group at age 13, came up with the idea for ice cream, it will be Dustin, age 12, and Raelyn, age 10, who will be the operators of What's the Scoop with Dar- ian as a worker to help them. This is their first busi- ness. Their mother, Lisa, will be supervising and car- rying the business adminis- tration end of things, but the kids are the ones who will be doing the day-to-day operations to learn about running a business. She explained that their agreed upon business strategy is "going for a good-sized serv- ing for the price to make it worthwhile for customers to come in:' Dustin explained, "We only have 9 flavours of ice cream now, but there should be more." The young entre- preneurs are looking forward to bringing in new flavours. They also serve slushies and are on the Huron -Kinloss Ice Cream Trail. Raelyn wants to add activities for kids in the summer. Some ideas are bingo, crafts, movie day, story time, nail painting and whatever else she can come up with to keep kids busy during the summer. She will run the activities herself, while her brothers will be concentrating on the food service. The Pennington -Fritz team are happy with the response for their Grand Opening. A lot of people, mainly tourists, browsed through the newly opened Lucknow/Sepoy Vendors' Market that rents the other part of the building, then came over to the What's the Scoop side. What's the Scoop with be open evenings 7- 8:30 in May and June, as well as Sat- urdays and Sundays 1-4 pm and 6:30-8 pm to allow a break for the new Submitted Brother and sister Dustin and Raelyn Pennington -Fritz run their new business, "What's the Scoop - Ice Cream Parlour & More", in Lucknow. Their older brother Darian will be helping, as well. May 6, 2015. entrepreneurs to go home for their evening meal. In the summer there will be tables outside for customers to enjoy their treats. Sum- mer hours may change as the family summer sched- ule is determined to accom- modate other activities and as the response for different times that customers are around are determined. Drop in to What's the Scoop for a double treat, the ones for sale and the thrill of seeing three enthusiastic entrepreneurs take on their first business challenge.