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Anthem mom creates memories with ice cream truck
BY ALLISON BROWN
Foothills Focus Staff Writer
Some 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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Vet hospital: ‘Your other family doctor’
BY ANNIKA TOMLIN
Foothills Focus Staff Writer
deeming her hometown of Phoenix too sunny. “I worked with a great veterinarian
Dr. Kirstin Young has always loved tak- up there,” Young said. “I decided that I ing care of animals, so it was a natural fit wanted to come back to Arizona and at for her to open a clinic, Daisy Mountain the time my mom was living in Black Veterinary Hospital. Canyon City and my daughter was prob-
“I tried asking my mom about when I wanted to become a veterinarian, but it’s always been something that I’ve known,” said Young, an Anthem resident.
“She said it was probably around seven that I was saying that I was going to take care of these guys when I get older. From that day forward that was all I ever wanted to do.”
In February, the clinic relocated to a bigger space in the same shopping center. Daisy Mountain Veterinary Hospital is now fully staffed with veterinarians.
Young said with a laugh that her mother was a “very good en- Dr. Kirstin Young has 25 years’ experience as a veterinarian and abler” for her veterinary ambitions. They opened her own general practice clinic, Daisy Mountain Veterinary Hospital, in February 2013. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Kirstin Young) always had a “menagerie of animals” at the house. ably five years old.”
From stray cats, mice and rabbits, to Young knew Black Canyon City didn’t guinea pigs, hamsters and a pot belly have a proper play area for her daughter. pig, Young was constantly surrounded Her mother suggested they take a trip to by animals. an Anthem park.
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just like Foxx said, his parents are happy to relive some of their childhood memories.
“My husband grew up in New York, so the ice cream truck was more around his neighborhood,” Sharon said. “Just the sound of the music and she has an actually old-school ice cream truck … it’s nostalgic for us and brings back memories. Obviously, my son loves the ice cream truck, but we do, too. It brings back memories of our childhood.”
Her most popular items are the traditional bomb pops and ice cream sandwiches, but Foxx said most adults tend to go for what they always got as a kid. They give their kids suggestions based on their favorites. She also has “a little something for everyone,” with gluten-free, sugar-free, dairy-free and peanut-free options.
Foxx’s old-fashioned truck is charming, but as an antique, it requires many repairs. It was nearly totaled in a crash in early 2020 when the brakes went out. Fixing the truck was expensive, but Foxx said the community supported her.
“Someone I didn’t even know created a GoFundMe for the truck,” Foxx said. “Somebody else that I didn’t know created a whole page for people to get updates on my repairs and to offer support in any way they could help me.
“So many people were so generous, even with just their words, it lifted me up during a hard time. It was incredible, honestly.’
Stacee Foxx started her own ice cream truck, Just Chillin’, to give kids a sweet childhood memory
to look back on. (Photo courtesy of Just Chillin’)
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tains there I just had this feeling of ‘this is home,’” Young said. “This has some just amazing aura about it. That was when I decided I was going to make the transition here and call Anthem home.”
Two years later she moved to Anthem and opened Daisy Mountain Veterinary Hospital in February 2013.
“We are just truly a general practice clinic,” Young said. “I love animals, but I also love the people that are attached to them. That’s why our motto is ‘your other family doctor.’”
The hospital is equipped to do everything from wellness exams and dental care to surgeries and vaccinations.
“One of the best parts is that no two days are ever alike,” Young said. “You just don’t know what is going to walk in the door next or what your next appointment is going to be.
“Being able to meet and connect with so many different people as well as their pets — and obviously puppies and the kittens.”
During the past year, Young has tried her best to balance her clients and her staff’s safety.
“It’s definitely been challenging and frustrating for our clients as well as us,” Young said about the pandemic year. “Trying to do what we can to make sure that I’m keeping my staff safe but also trying to continue in a way that I can have people be coming in with their pets.”
Young explained that while several clinics switched to curbside-only appointments, she did not want to do that.
“It’s been really, really busy, which is a good thing but is also frustrating in the way that I can’t help everybody like I would want,” Young said. “But the clients have been amazing, and we are so thankful for that.”
In turn, Young supports and gives back to the community. “I’ve been practicing now for 25 years, and I’ve always worked with rescue organizations,” Young said.
Since she opened her clinic, Young has worked with Anthem Pets.
“I also work with two other rescues routinely: one is Rescues Angels out in New River and the other is called Chiquita Chihuahua Rescue,” Young said. “I don’t think I would be able to work if I couldn’t do some kind of rescue work as well.”
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Corcoran Platinum Living expands to Anthem
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Collective Real Estate and its 20 agents recently joined Corcoran Platinum Living.
This move marks Corcoran Platinum Living’s arrival into Anthem.
Collective Real Estate was founded by Tracy van Ravensway, who led the charge in increasing the firm’s annual sales consistently year to year. She said previous collaborations with Corcoran Platinum Living encouraged her decision.
“We’re so excited that Tracy and her group decided to become a part of Corcoran Platinum Living,” said Jay Macklin, broker/owner of Corcoran Platinum Living. “From the first time I spoke to Tracy, I knew she was a quality broker and someone that I would love to be around. She embodies our core belief that ‘the size of the circle you give through is proportionate to the size of the circle you receive through.’”
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