Ice Cream Festival: Eat it before it melts!

Quiana Grant, right with Cafe Gelato in Newark hands a waffle cone with gelato to Kai Politza (8) of North Wilmington at the New Castle Ice Cream Festival.

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Steven Beachum Jr., 6, of Newark enjoys a cold treat at the New Castle County Ice Cream Festival.

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Brigida Rodriguez and her grandson John Shockley, 3, both of Bear, enjoy the New Castle County Ice Cream Festival.

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New Castle County Executive Thomas P. Gordon, center, talks with Kimoko Harris and Angela Harris of Wilmington at the New Castle Ice Cream Festival.

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Festival goers wait in line for ice cream out side The Ice Cream Shoppe at the New Castle Ice Cream Festival.

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A armadillo from the Brandywine Zoo was on display at the New Castle Ice Cream Festival.

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Quiana Grant with Cafe Gelato in Newark scoops gelato at the New Castle Ice Cream Festival.

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Sarah Meloro, right with The Ice Cream Shoppe in Wilmington serves ice cream to Connor Reynolds (8), Haylee Reynolds (6) and Kayla Reynolds (9) from Middletown, N.J., at the New Castle Ice Cream Festival.

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Angie Knoll, of Bear, and her granddaughter Gianna Howard, 3, of Wilmington, look at the New Castle County Police Department's Mounted Patrol Unit at the New Castle County Ice Cream Festival.

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