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Visit This Wakefield Slush Pop-Up, Help Individuals with Disabilities

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A slush from the Visit Wakefield Slush Pop-Up that helps individuals with disabilities

INspire Cafe has opened a Wakefield slush pop-up to refresh the community and create opportunities for individuals with disabilities.

 

A bit of backstory, for starters. Bitty & Beau’s opened a coffee shop location on Main St. in Melrose back in 2021. The radically inclusive chain has made headlines for their practice of staffing their shops with people with disabilities. It’s a win-win for the communities they operate in: residents get a good cup of coffee, and people with disabilities get valuable work experience. That second part is so important: unemployment numbers for workers with disabilities are staggering.

 

Sadly, the Bitty & Beau’s Melrose location closed back in March of 2023. An announcement from the company shared in this report from WCVBย reads: “We are grateful for the hard work and dedication the employees in Melrose have demonstrated over the past year and a half and hope that our mission has inspired other businesses to consider hiring individuals with disabilities.”

 

It certainly did.

 

Visit This Wakefield Slush Pop-Up, Help Individuals with Disabilities

Here comes INspire Cafe, which is a program of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Stoneham & Wakefield. “INspire Cafe is a workforce development program that provides meaningful employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.” You see where this is going, right?

 

As the Boys & Girls Club of Stoneham & Wakefield shared on this press release: “This temporary establishment will provide a unique platform for employees to showcase their abilities, engage with the community, and gain valuable customer service experience.”

 

Full disclosure: my oldest works for BGC Wakefield, so we see firsthand on the regular the good that the organization is able to do in the community. The Pop-Up is just the latest example of that. We paid a visit a few weeks ago and were served refreshing slushes with a smile. You should visit, too. You’ll find the Pop-Up on Main St. across from the Galvin Middle School. Hours are listed below.

 

Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 12pm-8pm
Wednesday: 12pm-8pm
Thursday: 12pm-8pm
Friday: 12pm-8pm
Saturday: 11am-5pm
Sunday: Closed

Adam 12 is the Program Director of Boston's ROCK 92.9, heard weekdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. He's been flexing his encyclopedic rock knowledge in New England for over 2 decades, both on-air and online, at WBCN, WFNX, Boston.com, and indie617. At ROCK 92.9, he keeps you in the know on the big stories from the Boston music scene and writes about great places to eat, drink (beer), and to spend time outdoors in and around Boston.

Here's a List of Del's Locations in Massachusetts

I thought you could only get Del’s Frozen Lemonade in Rhode Island. Turns out there’s a few Del’s locations in Massachusetts.

 

Here’s the funny thing. When you visit the Del’s website, the first thing you see is the Del’s logo and, in all caps: STOP AT THE SIGN OF THE LEMON. And that’s exactly what I did. I was taking an alternate route home from work earlier this summer to avoid traffic. Said alternate route took me down Mass. Ave. in Arlington. That’s where I saw the sign of the lemon.

 

Here’s another funny thing. Before pulling over and parking on a side street so I could run across Mass. Ave. and grab a frozen lemonade and a small popcorn, I had never in my life had a Del’s. I knew of the storied history of the beloved Rhode Island item only through Narragansett’s Del’s Shandy, which is a favorite summer beer of mine.

 

Having the genuine article for the first time was even better than quaffing a pint of the Del’s-inspired beer on a hot summer day. It was beyond refreshing, with it’s slushy consistency and bits of frozen lemon pulp dancing across my tongue as spooned and slurped with my straw. And you know how you get that melted bit at the end of a slush or a Slurpee? With a Del’s, you’re getting lemonade. Divine.

 

Here’s a List of Del’s Locations in Massachusetts

Apologies if this isn’t news to you, but since it’s news to me, I’m guessing there are more people that need to get wised up. I’ve laid out the spots in Massachusetts where you can get a Del’s Frozen Lemonade and all the other goodies they sell at Del’s stands. As summer wanes, don’t let it fade away fully without making a refreshing trip.

  • Arlington

    1050 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington

    The first Del’s Frozen Lemonade was actually made almost 200 years ago! Great Grandfather DeLucia created it in Naples, Italy back in 1840.

  • North Attleboro

    80 N Washington St, North Attleborough

    Great Grandfather DeLucia would carry snow into nearby caves in the wintertime. He’d insulate the snow with straw so it would still be there in the summertime.

  • South Attleboro

    775 Washington St, Attleboro, MA

    When summer would arrive, the lemons on his lemon tree would be ripe. He’d mix the lemon juice with sugar and snow and…voila! Frozen lemonade!

  • Somerset

    1624 Grand Army of the Republic Hwy, Somerset, MA

    Grandfather Franco DeLucia brought his fatherโ€™s recipe to America in the early 1900s. His son Angelo worked on a machine to make the frozen lemonade consistently delicious.

  • Fairhaven

    21 Berdon Way, Fairhaven, MA 02719

    In 1948, the first Delโ€™s Frozen Lemonade stand opened in Cranston, Rhode Island. Mobile units were rolled out statewide shortly thereafter.

  • Martha's Vineyard

    15 Circuit Ave, Oak Bluffs, MA

    Angelo’s son Bruce has worked to grow the locations all over Rhode Island and into Massachusetts. And his daughter Stephanie is now in the family business, too!

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