{"id":12385,"date":"2019-01-31T20:48:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T02:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=12385"},"modified":"2019-03-20T15:46:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:46:21","slug":"bringing-everything-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2019\/01\/31\/bringing-everything-together\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bringing Everything Together’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If the thought of chocolate, peanut butter, pretzels and Reese\u2019s Peanut Butter Cups makes your mouth water, then you will love Yarnell\u2019s Ice Cream\u2019s flavor made specially for the #MySearcy Small Business Revolution. The flavor was developed by two Yarnell\u2019s employees who wanted to celebrate Searcy\u2019s newfound fame from the television show \u201cSmall Business Revolution: Main Street.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitch Evans, vice president of sales and marketing at Yarnell\u2019s Ice Cream, came up with the flavor\u2019s name which encapsulates the ice cream\u2019s goal into a simple title: Bringing Everything Together.<\/p>\n

Evans noticed how the community was coming together for this revolution, and he wanted Yarnell\u2019s to be a part of the celebration. He brought together multiple flavors into one to showcase Searcy\u2019s coming together as multiple businesses into one, unified community.<\/p>\n

\u201cYarnell\u2019s is too big to be considered a small business, but we still wanted to be involved with the community,\u201dEvans said. \u201cWe saw everyone else becoming involved, and it was just like everyone and everything was coming together for one purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The flavor was available for tasting at the pep rally welcoming the producers of \u201cSmall Business Revolution: Main Street\u201don Thursday, Jan.17. LizHowell, Harding University\u2019s vice president of alumni and parent relations, was one of the participants who was fortunate enough to try a scoop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe combination of all the flavors just comes together. Absolutely perfectly. They nailed it,\u201d Howell said. \u201cI did not expect it to be that good, but it truly exceeded my expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Howell echoed Evans by emphasizing that the ice cream flavor did a fantastic job of showing how Searcy was coming together for this iconic chain of events. Howell was present to see Amanda Brinkman, host and executive producer of \u201cSmall Business Revolution: Main Street,\u201d and her reaction to Yarnell\u2019s new ice cream flavor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could see Amanda, and I could tell she was genuinely touched by the ice cream,\u201d Howell said.<\/p>\n

Junior Cooper Longley experienced the community-binding flavor the same night and said that even the taste-testing of the flavor brought the community together.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll the people in the community were there trying the flavor with us too,\u201d Longley said. \u201cI looked around and noticed the difference between the people and how we were all eating the same ice cream flavor. It was a great representation of the idea that Yarnell\u2019s was aiming for with this ice cream.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The community agrees the ice cream flavor is revolutionary in taste and in its metaphor for the community\u2019s diversity. Unfortunately, Evans said the special ice cream is not currently for sale because of the costliness of the materials required to combine multiple flavors into one.<\/p>\n

This one-time event serves as a reminder of how everyone has a part in the creation of a community, especially in small town Searcy, Arkansas.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Deluxe’s Small Business Revolution visit their website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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