February 2003
2003 Scooper Bowl® set for June 10-12
It may be better to give than to receive, but there will be a lot of both at the nation's largest all-you-can-eat ice cream festival, the Scooper Bowl, which will take over Boston's City Hall Plaza, June 10, 11, and 12.
In hot competition at all other times, 10 of the Northeast's top premium ice cream companies become fast friends for the annual Scooper Bowl, to be held June 10, 11, and 12 on City Hall Plaza. Baskin-Robbins, Ben & Jerry's, Brigham's, Double Rainbow Gourmet Ice Cream, Élan, Edy's Grand Ice Cream, Garelick Farms, Good Humor/Breyer's, Häagen-Dazs, H.P. Hood, and Kemps will contribute and serve 12 tons of ice cream to help raise more than $100,000 for cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through the Jimmy Fund.
For six months leading up to the event, representatives from the 10 ice cream companies attend planning meetings. They work together to determine who is providing volunteers, to plan the setting up and breaking down of their booths, and arrange the transportation of all the ice cream from its point of origin to City Hall Plaza. And they share a lot of laughs and camaraderie while they are doing it.
"For Boston, the Scooper Bowl is a tradition," says Mike Andrews, chairman of the Jimmy Fund. "It's a tradition of good works for the ice cream companies as well. It's inspiring to see them all working together to raise funds for cancer research.
The nation's largest all-you-can-eat ice cream festival is open for business from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. Volunteers will serve more than two million scoops of ice cream to 50,000 visitors during the three-day event. Live music, games, clowns, balloon artists, and ice cream eating contests make the Scooper Bowl a real party. Thirty-six different flavors will be served at all times. Patrons have consumed more than 200 tons of ice cream in the last 20 years.
The Jimmy Fund is a major fundraising arm of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. It is the official charity of the Boston Red Sox.
Admission is just $5 for adults, $3 for children ages 3-10, and free for children under age three. For more information about the Scooper Bowl to benefit the Jimmy Fund, call (800) 52-JIMMY or visit www.jimmyfund.org.
