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Anthem mom creates memories with ice cream truck BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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ome childhood memories are so special they deserve to be shared and relived with the next generation. For Anthem mom, Stacee Foxx, one of those sweet memories was stopping by the ice cream truck once a week after school and walking home with her friends. Seeing local trucks were rare in her area, Foxx found her own vintage ice cream truck, and started Just Chillin’ Ice Cream. She brings the indulgent treats and future memories to kids. “After school, [when I was younger]
we’d stop at the ice cream truck, get ice cream and walk home with our friends,” Foxx said. “It was an experience, and I feel like kids these days don’t have enough of those types of experiences. It takes doing something over and over again to make it that repetitive experience and childhood memory. I really wanted to give them that.” Once Foxx purchased her truck, she organized routes. The owner of a fellow local ice cream truck, Bright Angel, mentored Foxx. She then decided to fill a void and became the “after-school ice cream truck.” Seven years later, Foxx’s routes have remained mostly unchanged,
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and she regularly visits elementary schools. Just Chillin’ Ice Cream rolls up at Gavilan Peak Elementary on Mondays, Anthem Elementary on Tuesdays, Canyon Springs Elementary on Wednesdays and Diamond Canyon Elementary on Thursdays. Once the after-school crowd quiets down, Foxx drives through the nearby neighborhoods. On Fridays, she drives through Arroyo Norte. Foxx has regulars, too, like Hayden Marks, who has visited the Just Chillin’ truck with his dad every Tuesday for years. “They developed a special bond,” said Hayden’s mom, Sharon.
“She’s not just the ice cream truck girl. She’s pretty much his friend. Every week he says, ‘I have to see Stacee, I have to see Stacee,’ and if he doesn’t see her after school, he sits by the window waiting to hear her music to make sure he sees her.” Foxx doesn’t just deliver treats to Hayden. Before COVID-19, she occasionally allowed him to help serve customers. While he was having a blast, she was also teaching him math by counting the money and dealing out change. Hayden loves his ice cream, but,
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