Posted: 10.05.2011

It's not just dairy farmers and cows at World Dairy Expo - there was a pastor from Florida that got in on the action Tuesday during the first day of the show.

Pastor Clinton Bush, founder of City Kidz Ice Cream Cafe in Jacksonville, FL was presented a special award for his organization's ice cream entry in the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest.  Pastor Bush founded City Kidz Ice Cream in 2006 to foster financial literacy in inner-city communities.  The group provides young people the opportunity to work in a dairy manufacturing plant and learn how to pursue career paths.

Pastor Bush accepted his award, and then watched as 15 young people who helped manufacture their "Philly Vanilla" ice cream entry, all received special merit certificates.

The World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest - sponsored by the Wisconsin Dairy Products Association - had over 700 entries this year.  It's the only contest of it's kind in North America.  This year there were 74 classes for ice cream, cheese, yogurt, fluid milk, cottage cheese, whey, sour cream, butter, etc.

Twenty-six judges evaluated the 705 product entries during a mid-August week at Madison Area Technical College.

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