Velvet Ice Cream Supports Breast Cancer Awareness, Research Year Round

UTICA, OH, October 04, 2012 (Press-News.org) While October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Ohio-based Velvet Ice Cream has pledged its support of the cause throughout the year. Velvet Ice Cream will donate a portion of the annual sales of its Vanilla Lovers Trio to the Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research. This favorite flavor comes in a specially marked package that endorses the cause with its signature pink trim. Velvet's donation of yearlong proceeds from Vanilla Lovers Trio will be presented to the Stefanie Spielman Fund later this fall.

"The fight against breast cancer is intensely personal for our family," said Velvet Ice Cream President Luconda Dager. "Both our mother and our sister, Joanne, who works beside me here at Velvet, are breast cancer survivors, and as a fourth-generation family- and woman-owned business, we are committed all throughout the year to supporting this important cause," Dager said.

Millions of breast cancer fighters, survivors and those honoring someone they have lost to breast cancer will paint the country pink to mark breast cancer awareness month in October. This is Velvet Ice Cream's fifth year donating $5,000, making a total contribution of $25,000 after this year's donation.

The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center's mission is to eliminate cancer through research and education. The Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research at OSUCCC-James offers funds to support research for breast cancer; Velvet Ice Cream is one of its contributors.

Velvet Ice Cream is located in Utica, Ohio, situated on the perfect combination of wooded countryside and rolling, pastoral farmland. A family-owned and operated business for nearly 100 years, Joseph Dager founded Velvet Ice Cream 1914 and four generations of Dagers have since run the company. Velvet produces more than five million gallons of ice cream every year from its headquarters on the 25-acre grounds of Ye Olde Mill.

Ye Olde Mill also houses an ice cream and milling museum, a restaurant, playground, picnic area and catch-and-release fish pond. Named by Frommer's as one of America's 10 Best Ice Cream Factory Tours, Velvet's Ye Olde Mill welcomes 150,000 visitors each year for tours, tastings and events. The annual Ice Cream Festival (May 25-27, 2013), group tour experiences and school learning field trips are among the many draws to Ye Olde Mill, which is open to the public May 1-October 31.