Next month, “Lazy Dog Chocolateria” will be opening up at 111 Mill Street in downtown Grass Valley — a more visible home for Lazy Dog ice cream.
All those delicious ice cream bars, chocolates and other sumptuous Debbie and Bob Petersen creations. They include Bailey’s Irish Cream, Oreo Cookie Peppermint Stick, Sidecar Scooter and more.
The familiar pink ice cream truck, which sells some of the most popular ice cream around and has a cult following like In-N-Out burger.
They have been selling their ice cream out of a vintage pink Chevrolet at the Fowler Center during the summer.
Some of their ice cream have been sold at the Mill St. location (home of the Wild Plum Sweetery) but now the store will have their signage.
They also sell ice cream at certain performances, such as the recent Willie Nelson concert at the Fairgrounds.
The Petersons opened a candy shop — Confectionately Yours — in Nevada City in the early ’80s before selling their treats on the road.
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Now this is good news!
Lazy Dog rocks and the Peterson’s are such wonderful people. This is a bit of Karma payback. Remember a few years ago when Howard Lavine of the Downtown Association (DTA) booted Lazy Dog out of the Thursday Night Market… for selling drumsticks no less!
The owner of the now closed ice cream and candy store on Mill Street started this; he was a member of the Downtown Association board at that time. He complained about Lazy Dog selling drumsticks. Howard Lavine tried to toss out Lazy Dog based on some DTA Market “rules” that did not even exist. The community responded, showed up in mass at the next DTA meeting and stopped the madness. All this was covered in The Union and the stories are still on line to read and fact check this insanity.
It’s sad that some in the DTA and a few business owners in OUR downtown fail to understand that downtown belongs to the community, not them. Newsflash, taxpayers have invested MILLIONS into fixing up OUR downtown. Lately we have a few downtown business folks trying to kill off the Thursday Night Market. Newsflash, the downtown Market is not about you, it’s about OUR community and OUR downtown!
Instead maybe the DTA and some of these business folks could start cleaning up downtown. Downtown Grass Valley has never looked so dirty and trashed as it does now. Sadly downtown is filthy. Trash, dog crap, cigarette butts, empty vodka and malt liquor bottles are piled up all over downtown. The sidewalks are filthy, the parking lots trashed and drunken; drug-using bums have been allowed to take over downtown, the Safeway parking lot and our parks.
So how do you like those new, black trashcans in downtown? Each one cost many thousands $$ a piece to buy and install. Check them out, they are filthy, some in need of repair and no one seems to clean them… not a nice message to send to tourists and visitors. No wonder more and more folks are going down the hill to spend their money.
And what about all the taxpayers money spent on that downtown Grass Valley “IPhone App”? Remember this one? So how much taxpayers money was spent, what promises where made, how many shoppers and visitors used that “App” and where is that “App” now and where is all that taxpayers money now? Who is responsible for this one?
Things have been going down hill fast around here over the last couple of years. Read the newspaper and the Police Blotter to see just some of this. Why have drunken, drug using, drug dealing bums and transients been allowed to take over downtown, our public parks and our shopping centers? Crime has gone through the roof around here and not one word out of the Grass Valley City Council about all this!
Our community disserves clean and safe neighborhoods, downtown and public parks… we do not have these anymore and no one at City Hall is saying a thing about these matters. It’s time for change and it’s time to clean up our town!
Over that last couple of years I have been emailing, calling, meeting with and begging some City Council members and the Chief of Police to help address this stuff… but no action and things keep going downhill. I have asked time and time again that they reach out to the community, to communicate and discuss these issues. Nothing, nada, zip.
So very soon I’ll be launching a website on these Grass Valley issues, complete with 100’s of photos and very specific information and documentation.
Since our elected representatives on the City Council and the Chief of Police have failed to address these issues and have refused to reach out to our community to discuss them it’s time for the members of our community to send a big message to them that our children, our seniors, our community deserve clean and safe neighborhoods, a clean and safe downtown, clean and safe shopping centers and clean and safe public parks…we don’t have them now but we will!
I’ll soon be launching the Clean Up Grass Valley website to shine a light on all this.
It’s one thing to say you love Grass Valley, but actions speak louder than words. Sadly se don’t even have words out of City Hall, much less action.
That’s… “It’s one thing to say you love Grass Valley, but actions speak louder than words. Sadly we don’t even have words out of City Hall, much less action”.
Steve, your on the right track but the good ole boy boat in this county is not very big and they don’t let many in. As you can see the handful of long time downtown property owners with faux business’s and the DTA will not let go of their control.
Looks like they finally were able to run Ray Diggins out and Thursday Night Market will not be what it was with him running it. Many usurpers around just look at my Thursday Night Market Live show from last year.
Oh and by the way “Gweedo’s” last name is Levine