I can't find any mention of it on their website yet, but there was an article in my local newspaper that the Rita's Water Ice franchise is launching an online video contest for magicians. The top prize is $1000 and free ices for a year. Magicians wishing to enter the contest should send a short video of their performance to www.ritasice.com (http://www.ritasice.com) before the July 31 deadline. The public will view and vote on the videos online. The contest promotes Blendini, a mix of frozen custard, Italian Ice, and cookie pieces, that is eaten with a spoon.

All,
I am the PR Manager at Rita's Water Ice. On behalf of everyone here, I would like to apologize for not having the link to The Great Blendini site up when you visited. We were testing the link and it has taken us an extra day to ensure that everything is up and ready to go.

I am so glad that you are interested in participating in The Great Blendini Contest!

The link is now live and you can now submit your video! Please visit our site at www.ritasice.com to enter and click on the magician in the middle of the screen.

Please contact me with any questions. Again, thanks for your interest and I apologize for any delay.

Best of luck!
Kelly Banaszak
PR Manager, Rita's Water Ice
k.banaszak@ritascorp.com

Thanks for letting us know, Kelly. I hope the clowns and magicians here will come up with some great videos for your contest. ;)

If anyone here enters, please let us all know so we can check out your entry and vote:)