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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
This Beloved Texas Ice Cream Brand Has Been A Freezer Staple For Generations
If you're a Texas native, Blue Bell is the brand of ice cream you most likely have in your freezer. Even your grandparents might've grown up eating Blue Bell because this beloved ice cream brand is more than 100 years old. Originating in 1907 in Brenham, Texas, Blue Bell started as a farmers' cooperative called the Brenham Creamery Company that made butter and sour cream out of leftover dairy from the surrounding farms. By 1911, the creamery began producing ice cream in a hand-cranked metal can surrounded by cracked ice and it was delivered by horse and carriage to customers who had to gobble up this cold commodity the day it arrived. By 1919, management changed hands, and the collective of farmers elected E.F. Kruse, a college-educated teacher who turned down a job as school superintendent to become the creamery's CEO. It was Kruse who changed the name to Blue Bell after a wild flower that grows around the region in 1930. Blue Bell survived the scarcities of World War II and began mass producing Blue Bell ice cream in the 1960s, when it became a household name not just around Brenham, but around the entire Lone Star State. Today, E.F. Kruse's grandson Paul Kruse is the CEO, and his children are following in their father's footsteps to make Blue Bell a family business for a fourth generation. Read more: 15 Vintage Pie Flavors No One Remembers Anymore Blue Bell Is As Popular As Ever Despite a few hiccups like a 2015 recall due to a listeria outbreak, Blue Bell has remained a beloved brand in Texas and beyond. You can find Blue Bell factories and ice cream sold in 24 states; if you live in one, check out our ranking of 20 popular Blue Bell flavors. Blue Bell also offers unique flavors that cater to each specific state or region. For example, Blue Bell created a wildly popular key lime ice cream flavor for Floridians, and there was a limited-time flavor that mixed ice cream and Dr Pepper sherbet since the soda originated in Waco, Texas. While new popular ice cream brands like Häagen Dazs, Van Leeuwen, and Ben & Jerry's have taken the country by storm, Texans still have a special place for Blue Bell in their hearts. For Texans growing up in the '90s, no birthday party was complete without individual-sized cups of homemade vanilla or Dutch chocolate to scoop out with wooden hourglass spoons to accompany a slice of cake. Whether part of public-school field trips or pit stops on a family road trip between Houston and Austin, kids and adults alike look forward to visiting the Blue Bell Creamery in Brenham, Texas. Blue Bell guides walk visitors through the factory to observe the mass production of ice cream, ending on a sweet note at the onsite scoop shop where you get a free cup of your favorite flavor. Read the original article on Tasting Table. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Unisys Takes Meaningful Steps to Remove U.S. Pension Volatility and Accelerate Path to Full Removal
Management invites investors to webcast to discuss benefits of recent capitalstructure transformation BLUE BELL, Pa., July 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys (NYSE: UIS) today announced it will host a conference call on Thursday, July 24, 2025, at 2 p.m. EDT to provide an update on its recent debt transaction, $250M discretionary pension contribution, and subsequent changes made to its asset allocations within its U.S. Qualified Defined Benefit Plans. Management will discuss how these actions support the acceleration of its pension strategy by meaningfully reducing its pension deficit, contributions, and volatility. The call will be led by Mike Thomson, chief executive officer and president, and Deb McCann, chief financial officer. The event will include a live question-and-answer session. Investors who wish to submit questions ahead of the event can do so by emailing Investor@ The live, listen-only webcast and accompanying presentation materials will be available on the Unisys Investor Relations website at Investors may also join the call by dialing 1-844-695-5518 (domestic) or 1-412-902-6749 (international) and referencing the conference passcode: Unisys Corporation Call. A replay of the webcast will be available shortly after the event on the Unisys Investor Relations site. Additionally, a telephone replay will be accessible from two hours after the call until August 6, 2025, by dialing 1-877-344-7529 (domestic) or 1-412-317-0088 (international) and entering the access code 3247701. About Unisys Unisys is a global technology solutions company that powers breakthroughs for the world's leading organizations. Our solutions – cloud, AI, digital workplace, logistics and enterprise computing – help our clients challenge the status quo and unlock their full potential. To learn how we have been helping clients push what's possible for more than 150 years, visit and follow us on LinkedIn. Forward-Looking Statements Any statements contained in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on current assumptions, expectations and beliefs of Unisys and involve substantial risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results and the timing of events to materially differ from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, risks related to market and other general economic conditions, and other risks detailed in filings Unisys makes with the SEC from time to time, including under the heading "Risk Factors" in Unisys' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 and its most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2025. Unisys assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. RELEASE NO.: 0717/10007 Unisys and other Unisys products and services mentioned herein, as well as their respective logos, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Unisys Corporation. Any other brand or product referenced herein is acknowledged to be a trademark or registered trademark of its respective holder. UIS-C View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Unisys Corporation Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
CTV News
28-06-2025
- General
- CTV News
At 100, this globetrotting Catholic priest still bakes pies, enjoys opera and performs daily Mass
The Rev. James Kelly laughs during an interview at his apartment in the Normandy Farms Estates retirement community in Blue Bell, Pa., on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao) BLUE BELL, Pa. — Throughout his remarkable lifetime, the Rev. James Kelly has baptized thousands of people, married thousands more, ministered to the sick in hospitals, and traveled the world extensively. He became friends with an opera superstar and, yes, even with a saint. The longest-serving priest in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of his ordination and his 100th birthday. He's grateful to have reached these milestones, but nearly didn't after experiencing a health challenge last year that required life-saving surgery. He feels God gave him some extra time and tries to make each day count. 'The Lord was wonderful to me to give me the health and the strength and the energy to travel, to meet beautiful things — God was always giving me surprises,' Kelly says. Born on Jan. 7, 1925, in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Roxborough to a devoutly Catholic family, Kelly's path to the priesthood seems ordained from the start. He loved attending church. Other children dreamt of becoming athletes, doctors, firefighters. He wanted to be a priest. 'When I was four or five years old, I'd play Mass,' he says, laughing, as he recalls that his parents were his first congregants. 'I always had a little altar in my room, and I'd have a glass, and some flowers in there, and I'd make a vestment, put a scarf on, and have some candy, and give Communion to everybody.' Kelly wakes up at dawn to celebrate Mass at the retirement living community that he now calls home. He listens to opera. He bakes pies. Memories, parachute jumps and climbing a bridge to save a life Sitting in his room, Kelly flips through a photo album detailing his journey. He smiles with every page turn, pointing to black-and-white photos of him as a toddler and milestones as a Catholic — his baptism, confirmation and ordination as a priest. 'I turned down Hollywood!' he says, laughing as he points to the portrait of a dapper, young priest, his hair slicked and flashing a wide smile. He also points to the photo published by a Philadelphia newspaper of the time when he climbed in his Roman collar to the top of a bridge and dissuaded a man from jumping to his death. 'Nobody would climb there, so I climbed up — it was 400 feet high. It was a bitter cold day,' he says. 'I was able to talk to him and break him down emotionally, so he wouldn't jump. I told him, 'What's your grandchild going to say one day: Papa, why didn't you take me fishing?'' He points to other photos of the many ceremonies he proudly led during his 19 years as pastor of Saint Pius X Parish in Broomall, Pa., about 10 miles (16 kilometres) west of Philadelphia. There are images of him during a vacation in Mexico when he made a parachute jump. Or that one time, when he visited the majestic Iguazu Falls on the border between Argentina and Brazil, which he recalls as one of the most beautiful sights of his life. 'Everywhere you turned, there was a rainbow, there was a mist … the water gushing forth and spray and the colors," he says. 'It was, as the kids would say, awesome.' Imagination, friends and being grateful for the simple pleasures Imagination, he says, is one of his favorite words, recalling that he wrote his college thesis on it. 'Jesus used his imagination to teach,' he says, in what became an example when he prepared his own sermons. He treasures other memories, such as traveling to more than 100 countries and meeting Saint Teresa of Kolkata, also known as Mother Theresa. Kelly says the two became friends over the years after meeting in Philadelphia and running into each other at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The centenarian also shared the time when he took a group of blind children to a live performance of his friend, acclaimed soprano Joan Sutherland. 'I've been fortunate to meet some of the most magnificent, good people in this world, and they've been most generous and gracious to me,' Kelly says. These days, he enjoys simple pleasures: the taste of cherries, a beautiful song, or his favorite meal — roast chicken with mashed potatoes, fresh string beans, and corn on the cob. He loves learning and often attends lectures on music, art history and Egyptology at the Normandy Farms Estates retirement community where he resides in Blue Bell, Pa. His apartment is decorated with a painting of the Virgin Mary that he drew with chalk, a portrait of his mother, and a note signed by the late Pope Francis. On his bedside table, he keeps an image of Carlo Acutis, the Catholic Church's first millennial-era saint. Kelly is inspired by Acutis, who died at 15 in 2006. Especially Acutis' devotion and how he used his computer skills to create an online exhibit about scores of eucharistic miracles recognized by the church over centuries. The ritual of a humble daily Mass and the secret to a long life Every morning, he wakes up without the need of an alarm clock and says the same prayer: 'Lord, what surprise do you have for me today?' 'I hope it'll be a nice one that I'll love and enjoy. I never know, but I want to thank you for whatever happens today.' After a cup of coffee, he celebrates Mass in his apartment for a few residents of his community. 'When I moved here, I never thought I was going to have a private chapel!' Kathleen Quigley, a retired nurse, quipped after a recent service. 'I just love my faith, and he's such a stronghold of faith that it's wonderful for me to have. I just come right downstairs, have Mass, we talk, he shares his food.' Kelly once ministered to large congregations, but he feels the daily Mass in his living room is as important. 'It's not in a beautiful chapel or church. But it's here that I can offer my love and efforts to the Heavenly Father,' he says. After the final prayer, he always remembers to be grateful. 'That's all I can say — two words: thank you. It's wonderful that I have another day, and I might be able to eat some delicious cherries today, and meet people, new friends," he says. 'God knows what surprises I'll encounter today.' His secret to longevity? 'I drink lots of milk,' he says, laughing. 'And I say lots of prayers.' Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP's collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. Luis Andres Henao, The Associated Press
Associated Press
25-06-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Ganado pitcher heads Texas 2A all-state softball team
LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) — The Blue Bell/Texas Sports Writers Association Class 2A all-state softball team, distributed by The Associated Press: FIRST TEAM Pitcher: Saylor Bures, Ganado; Destiny Garza, Sundown; Kyleigh Benton, Riesel Catcher: Brynly Gregory, Sundown First base: Emily Grandgeorge, Beckville Second base: Kennedy Guardiola, Riesel Third base: Kodi Rhodes, Crawford Shortstop: Landri Pick, Riesel Outfield: Camry Jourden, Sundown; Brenley Kelso, Holland; Charlea Padilla, Italy DP/DH/Flex: Graci'Ann Adair, Como-Pickton Utility: Breigh Gregory, Sundown Player of the year: Bures Coach of the year: James Harp, Ganado ___ SECOND TEAM Pitcher: Sidney Castillo, Woodsboro; Kennadi Cummins, Clarendon; Rylee Spivey, Kerens Catcher: Kalyn Benavidez, Ganado First base: Araceli Ibarra, Sundown Second base: Nayleen Morin, Sundown Third base: Hadlee Hrabel, North Hopkins Shortstop: Tandie Cummins, Clarendon Outfield: Kaidance Godbolt, North Hopkins; Rylee Daniels, Honey Grove; Taelynn Oden, Colorado City DP/DH/Flex: Lauren Springfield, Shiner Utility: Addison Young, Bremond ___ THIRD TEAM Pitcher: Emma Follis, Stamford; Jolie Mann, Skidmore-Tynan; Taylor Smith, Weimar Catcher: Jazmyn Hernandez, New Deal First base: Raizel Chaparro, Riesel Second base: Olivia Ramirez, Italy Third base: Ruthie Mein, Martin's Mill Shortstop: Emry Jourden, Sundown Outfield: Laci Holt, Ganado; Teeley Salazar, Martin's Mill; Reaghan Benton, Groveton DP/DH/Flex: Kyla Stanick, Ganado Utility: Abigail Dial, Simms Bowie
Associated Press
22-06-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Melissa teammates head Texas 5A all-state softball team
LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) — The Blue Bell/Texas Sports Writers Association Class 5A All-State softball team, distributed by The Associated Press: FIRST TEAM Pitcher: Hailey Nutter, Barbers Hill; Elisa Maes, Melissa; Lindsey Dubberly, Hallsville Catcher: Hutton Adrian, Melissa First base: Delaney Vannoy, Leander Rouse Second base: Kailee James, Walnut Grove Third base: Kennedy Bradley, Melissa Shortstop: Caigan Crabtree, Melissa Outfield: Hope Miles, Hallsville; Madalyn Davis, Lake Creek; Finlee Williams, Melissa DH/DP/Flex: Libby Ford, Hallsville Utility: Jordyn Booe, Pflugerville Weiss Player of the year Crabtree and Maes Coach of the year: Cassie Crabtree, Melissa ___ SECOND TEAM Pitcher: Macie Bryant, Barbers Hill; Maddison Ruiz, Lake Belton; Sara Wiggins, Lake Creek Catcher: Giada Farias, McAllen First base: Preslie Clopp, Texas High Second base: Aybrie Corona, Barbers Hill Third base: Madi George, Leander Rouse Shortstop: Kynleigh Ball, Georgetown Outfield: Rachel Grundei, Leander; Ava Ellis, Burleson Centennial; Gracie Brewer, Lake Creek DH/DP/Flex: Scarlett Guerin, Leander Utility: Chesney Davis, Lake Creek ___ THIRD TEAM Pitcher: Jorja Fuentes, Rio Grande Valley; Olivia Buettner, Denton Ryan; Lindsey Hooker, Walnut Grove Catcher: Madelyn Hickey, Burleson Centennial First base: Hailey Serrano, Carrollton Turner Second base: Laney Galloway, Lake Creek Third base: Ella Berlage, Walnut Grove Shortstop: Taylor Bilderback, Midlothian Heritage Outfield: Miranda Orso, Lake Creek; Savannah Barrientos, Barbers Hill; Chloe Aldrich, Friendswood DH/DP/Flex: Gabriella Sandoval, Elgin Utility: Mykaela Samuels, Amarillo
